Out of Sight, Out of Mind//A Beetlejuice Fanfiction

||Chapter Twenty Five|| The Beginning of the End

"Lydia, Lydia, calm down. Is everything okay?" asked Barbara, sitting herself down next to the crying teenager and holding her close. Lydia rested her head against Barbara's shoulder and sniffled quietly. Barbara wiped a few stray tears from the teenager's eyes and ran a hand through her hair a few times. Lydia seemed to be calming down. Eventually enough to tell the Maitlands and Betelgeuse what had happened. "What happened??"

"I- I had another one of those visions. This time it was Delia getting possessed. And this time I was there as well." Lydia started crying harder that time, Barbara beginning to run a hand up and down Lydia's back.

"It's okay, sweetie, it's okay," Barbara said softly, looking over towards Adam and Betelgeuse with worry.

All three deceased began to fear that this was going to lead to something bad and they didn't want that fear to be a reality. Adam and Betelgeuse moved to sit down on the couch with Betelgeuse summoning the Handbook again. He flipped to the bookmarked section they had been reading through earlier and handed it over to Adam.

"Here's something on mediums and mediumship," said Adam, looking from Barbara to Betelgeuse to Lydia back to the Handbook. Everyone else looked down at the Handbook as well, all equally as curious. As he read on, Lydia started shaking her head rapidly and pulling harshly at her hair. Barbara looked over at her with a look of concern and Adam halted with his reading.

"Had another vision, Lyds?" asked Barbara knowingly. Lydia stopped and turned her head to look at her.

"Yeah. This one, both my dad and Delia got possessed."

"You experiencing anything besides constant visions?" asked Adam.

Lydia nodded. "I've been hearing voices. They don't sound anything like you guys or Beej or my dad and Delia, but I've been hearing voices. Started after I experienced the first of my visions."

Adam nodded, turning his attention back over towards the Handbook and closing it. I think it's time we met up with Lydia's dad and Delia in New York City. Tell them what's been going on with Lydia." He put the Handbook down and stood up, followed by everyone else. That seemed like a great idea.

"Lydia, can you text your dad and Delia to let them know that we'll be there soon?" asked Barbara.

Lydia nodded and pulled out her phone, quickly checking to make sure it was morning (which it was). She pulled up the message app on her phone and sent quick texts to both her dad and Delia. Delia responded first, sending a thumbs up emoji a crystal ball emoji, and a gemstone emoji. Lydia's eyes widened and Adam and Barbara looked to her with looks of concern.

"Lyd, is everything alright?"

Lydia held out her phone and Adam and Barbara looked at the text on it's screen. "This text! I saw it in my vision of my dad getting possessed. The emojis were in the exact same order as they are here! Now I'm really worried."

Another text popped up on her phone, a simple "okay" from her dad.

Adam and Barbara looked at each other, quietly speaking and Lydia started to pace around the attic with a hand rubbing through her hair. She bit her lip as she tried to think and prevent herself from getting any more visions. Betelgeuse focused his attention over to the Maitlands and went over to join them. Stopping pacing, Lydia joined her deceased pals as well and they looked at one another.

"You guys all ready?" asked Barbara, summoning a couple suitcases for Lydia and handing one to Adam. Barbara turned her attention to Lydia. "Lydia, we'll talk to your dad about the visions you're having, 'Kay?"

Lydia nodded. "Kay."

Adam turned to Betelgeuse. "You sure we'll be able to walk around New York without any Sandworms out to get us? I mean, if and whenever - we'll be walking around for more than a few minutes. And, before I forget, is there anything in the Handbook that would make us visible to other living people?"

Betelgeuse handed the Handbook for the Recently Deceased over to Adam and he flipped through it, bookmarking the page when he found the exact spell he was looking for: a spell that would make him, Barbara, and Betelgeuse visible to the living for a week and a half at the latest.

"There. That should do it!" Adam announced as he made the Handbook disappear into thin air and turned to face everyone else. "Lydia, what was the address of the hospital Charles and Delia are at?"

Lydia, after finding the text, read off the hospital's address, and her deceased pals nodded in unison.

Adam and Barbara each placed a hand on Lydia's shoulders and Betelgeuse placed a hand on Adam's, thinking of the address Lydia had read off earlier and in a flash of light, the four of them were teleported off to the hospital in New York.