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[Oct 14] [Beetlejuice] What He Sees in Her
Title: What He Sees in Her
Day/Theme: 14. the girl in question
Series: Beetlejuice
Character/Pairing: BJ/Lydia
Rating: PG
She was pretty enough, in her own morbid way. Dark hair, dark eyes, dark clothes. A little out of place in the small, rural town, but nothing that remarkable. She was polite and good-natured enough for most of the local yokels to overlook a weird fashion sense. She was from the distant big city anyway. No telling what passed for normal there. Poor girl couldn’t help being a little strange, growing up in that place.
So what was it about her that kept the most powerful poltergeist known to the Neitherworld in a steady orbit? She wasn’t beautiful or desirable enough to have it just be his baser instincts, not when there were ghouls and succubi a-plenty who wouldn’t say no.
She wasn’t powerful enough to have appealed to his ambition. She had the Sight, sure, but that by itself wasn’t enough to draw him. Whatever fire burned within her, it drew him like a giant, black and white moth.
Maybe he was flattered by her admittedly unhealthy interest in him. Maybe there was an angle he had noticed that pretending to befriend the little breather would be to his advantage. Maybe it just fun to string her along. Whatever it was, it distracted him from a centuries long goal to be free of the Neitherworld. Technically, he was out. He was loose. What he wasn’t, was taking advantage of that.
It had his parole/probation/exorcism team scrambling to figure it out. They were trying to anticipate his next move, and he just wasn’t making any. He came when summoned, was banished with only good-natured complaining when he wore out his welcome, and well, just haunted the girl. It was out of character, and to those who had spent most of their afterlives trying to contain him, a little spooky.
(Sequel to the last one.)
Day/Theme: 14. the girl in question
Series: Beetlejuice
Character/Pairing: BJ/Lydia
Rating: PG
She was pretty enough, in her own morbid way. Dark hair, dark eyes, dark clothes. A little out of place in the small, rural town, but nothing that remarkable. She was polite and good-natured enough for most of the local yokels to overlook a weird fashion sense. She was from the distant big city anyway. No telling what passed for normal there. Poor girl couldn’t help being a little strange, growing up in that place.
So what was it about her that kept the most powerful poltergeist known to the Neitherworld in a steady orbit? She wasn’t beautiful or desirable enough to have it just be his baser instincts, not when there were ghouls and succubi a-plenty who wouldn’t say no.
She wasn’t powerful enough to have appealed to his ambition. She had the Sight, sure, but that by itself wasn’t enough to draw him. Whatever fire burned within her, it drew him like a giant, black and white moth.
Maybe he was flattered by her admittedly unhealthy interest in him. Maybe there was an angle he had noticed that pretending to befriend the little breather would be to his advantage. Maybe it just fun to string her along. Whatever it was, it distracted him from a centuries long goal to be free of the Neitherworld. Technically, he was out. He was loose. What he wasn’t, was taking advantage of that.
It had his parole/probation/exorcism team scrambling to figure it out. They were trying to anticipate his next move, and he just wasn’t making any. He came when summoned, was banished with only good-natured complaining when he wore out his welcome, and well, just haunted the girl. It was out of character, and to those who had spent most of their afterlives trying to contain him, a little spooky.
(Sequel to the last one.)