Dead Shadow: Beetlejuice Fanfiction Story

Chapter 13: Neitherworld Has A Better Idea

Carter Adler heard something fall behind him. He ignored it as always. A month ago, he had to go to another funeral. Brady's. Things got worse once investigations opened up about the Deetz' family from Pleasant Pines because of Rebecca Beckett. She knew Brady was there along with 'friends', but she didn't know which ones.

While the 10k was helpful, he had been ready to just get out. He had hoped that getting away, saving the money and getting some other job for a little while would drain the guilt from him? It didn't.

Worse. The guilt had eaten at Duncan and Brady. Brady went crazy, but he was the idiot that bought a haunted house for his future with Rebecca. She stated Brady just went nuts. She was so distraught from the whole thing, that she quit school all together when it turned out she was pregnant.

They had wanted to start a family early he guessed. So, Duncan and Brady both went crazy and got themselves killed. He knew Duncan ran out into the road at night, and Brady apparently kept hearing voices and tried to stab Rebecca with a knife.

When he went to the funeral with Finley, he warned him not to believe in anything he heard. Voices. Strange sounds. He believed that Lydia's friend Betty Juice was trying to scare them into some kind of insanity.

Carter didn't really believe in ghosts, but he believed Finley. The way they took out Lydia had somehow triggered her friend to go insane and start hunting them down somehow. Betty Juice never got her hands dirty though.

It was hard to tell what was Betty Juice's antics, and what was his own guilt. Carter never had to hold a gun, make any real big plans, or even see any of the aftermath. Getting Delia and Charles Deetz to the upstairs balcony required another person. Brady and Finley couldn't do it alone and leave Duncan to handle Lydia. Duncan was on lookout and agreed to take care of the mess with his knowledge of cleaning stuff.

Carter needed money to continue going to school, his family was in debt, and his grandfather was in need of surgery. He needed money and his friends knew that. They knew he needed money and that he'd never roll over on his friends.

All he had to do was be there, help getting Delia and Charles Deetz into position, and he was gone. He waited in another room until it was time to leave again.

He heard something else fall again and tried to ignore it. After that, he couldn't concentrate on school anymore. Even if he didn't have to kill anyone, he helped them get in position and he kept the secret. It really did eat at him.

He gave most of his money to his grandmother and parents out of guilt, telling them it was his savings and he wasn't doing well in college anymore. He got his own little place and his own little job. Just, trying to move on.

As far as he knew, Rebecca didn't even know he was involved.

He saw a paper next to him with spilled ink that spelled out killer. He just moved it out of the way. He stood up and went past the bathroom. He saw murderer on a fogged up window in the bathroom where the water had been turned on. He just erased it, checked the tub, and ignored it.

Neither guilt or some girl's tricks were going to make him lose his sanity. He was young still, and he could rise above this mistake. Finley had the same problems, but they both agreed to ignore everything. Even voices they heard, as Finely was convinced Betty Juice could fake throwing voices which ended up getting Brady in the end.

She was really good at holograms and magic tricks, but Carter believed that's all it had been. Nothing he saw or heard would change that.

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Neitherworld

This was . . . "Hm." Miss Second Chance crossed her legs behind her desk chair. The Mayor Maynot had visited her, letting her know that some opinions had changed. Or more than likely, they saw potential in the tragedy.