Dead Shadow: Beetlejuice Fanfiction Story

Chapter 10: A Vision of A Shadow Screaming

"You let go!" Beetlejuice accused her while he once again almost suffocated her with his embrace. "You're smarter than than, Lyds, you knew how dangerous that had been!"

"I couldn't just stay in your arms forever," she told him. "My parents are in trouble."

"Were," he corrected her.

Were. Were. "I was in trouble. I was gagged, I couldn't call you."

Yeah. He knew it all. His look said it all.

"I didn't make the shot for dad, did I?" She had to know. BJ didn't want to answer. "Please! I can already put things together, so just tell me!"

"Chuck calls you, Lyd," BJ said simply. "He's calling you from your house, with your mom, where they are haunting for 125 years."

"So, I took the shots and failed, and they killed me."

"No," he corrected her.

"I killed them, and I killed myself, because I killed them?" She started to waver.

"No, no, no! This was so stupid, you were supposed to get this all slowly. Lyds, you are with me because you are on the verge of becoming a dead shadow," he admitted. "I'm using soooo much juice to just try and keep you out of there."

"Dead shadow?"

"When you plummet to when you die, and relive it over and over again. It doesn't stop. You can't change it, you can't change the outcome or say or move or do anything else. It's the same thing, your death, over and over for eternity!" he warned her. "It's a hell, and you . . . y-y-you . . ."

She already became that. "I was there, behind the gun." He didn't say anything. "I'm sorry," she apologized, "but I had to know."

"I know," he admitted. "I know you, Babe, of course you had to let go to know one day. I'd have done the same thing, and even sooner."

"Who was that person?" Lydia had to ask. "Do you know?" Yep, that look too. "Are you doing something to them?"

"I am legally doing things for the Neitherworld," he told her. "Was. I can return without any kind of summoning now."

"Which is a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible idea thing they never should have allowed!"

Huh? Donnie?

Finally, but late. "You were beyond a little late," BJ complained to him. "I actually call for my brother, for the first time in how long? It's been months since I called you!"

"The longer between the kills, the better your sanity," Donnie said.

Oh, he just had to say that. Now Lyds was staring at him.

"What does he mean by kills and sanity?" she asked.

"Tattletale." He couldn't even talk to his brother in private. "She fell again, real deep."

"I had to know," Lyd said again.

"Oh, no, don't ever do that willingly," Donnie said as he approached her closer. "Really, if you get stuck, you'll be sent to the afterlife and Beetlejuice will-"

"Stop yacking!" Beetlejuice threatened him. She didn't need to know everything.

"Beetlejuice will what?"

"Take your place as a dead shadow," Donnie of course had to say. "Trapped in a nightmare forever. You must be very cautious. Good thoughts. Don't let go of any ghost helping you."

"Until when?" she asked.

"Oh. Forever I should think," Donnie answered. Oh boy, he wasn't helping things at all.