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[Dec 2] [Beetlejuice] Good Influence
Title: Good Influence
Day/Theme: 2) make him tame so he can live in peace with the world
Series: Beetlejuice
Character/Pairing: BJ/Lyds
Rating: PG
Everyone on the Other Side knew he wanted out. They didn’t know why. They didn’t care why. Juno knew him better than anyone dead and she was worried about what he was capable of if he ever was completely unleashed on the world of the living. She had spent centuries making sure that all his loopholes were stitched closed and all creative interpretations of the laws crushed flat.
So, it came as a surprise to many of her staff when she called off the majority of his surveillance. It didn’t make any sense. His forays into the living world set off red lights all through the veil. It got a little easier for him to slip through every time. Another generation or so, and he might not even need the child to call him through. If anything, Juno should be tightening the reins, they argued, not loosening them.
Tight reins had never stopped Beetlejuice though, and Juno knew it. It was like trying to catch a striped eel with your hands; the tighter you squeezed, the easier he slipped out of your grip, leaving a coating of something slimy. The child could handle him though. Without even trying, the girl talked him down and brought him to heel and had him behaving. Behaving badly, Juno had to admit, but doing little real harm.
Every now and then, she’d see the gleam of mad power in his eyes or his grin and wonder if she had been wrong, but then the girl would whine or better yet, laugh, and he would rock back on his heels, even in midair, and change his tune to please her. Whatever leash the mortal child had him on, she didn’t yank it, but he was careful to stay close anyway.
The girl wouldn’t be a girl for much longer, Juno knew. Being mortal meant that sooner or later, Beetlejuice wouldn’t have to leave the Other Side to visit her. Hopefully, by then, she would’ve been a good enough influence that it wouldn’t matter. Hopefully, by then, he would be a good influence on her in the afterlife.
Because the last thing I need is two of them, Juno thought, rolling her eyes, and then she was gone, leaving only the faint scent of cigarette smoke.
Day/Theme: 2) make him tame so he can live in peace with the world
Series: Beetlejuice
Character/Pairing: BJ/Lyds
Rating: PG
Everyone on the Other Side knew he wanted out. They didn’t know why. They didn’t care why. Juno knew him better than anyone dead and she was worried about what he was capable of if he ever was completely unleashed on the world of the living. She had spent centuries making sure that all his loopholes were stitched closed and all creative interpretations of the laws crushed flat.
So, it came as a surprise to many of her staff when she called off the majority of his surveillance. It didn’t make any sense. His forays into the living world set off red lights all through the veil. It got a little easier for him to slip through every time. Another generation or so, and he might not even need the child to call him through. If anything, Juno should be tightening the reins, they argued, not loosening them.
Tight reins had never stopped Beetlejuice though, and Juno knew it. It was like trying to catch a striped eel with your hands; the tighter you squeezed, the easier he slipped out of your grip, leaving a coating of something slimy. The child could handle him though. Without even trying, the girl talked him down and brought him to heel and had him behaving. Behaving badly, Juno had to admit, but doing little real harm.
Every now and then, she’d see the gleam of mad power in his eyes or his grin and wonder if she had been wrong, but then the girl would whine or better yet, laugh, and he would rock back on his heels, even in midair, and change his tune to please her. Whatever leash the mortal child had him on, she didn’t yank it, but he was careful to stay close anyway.
The girl wouldn’t be a girl for much longer, Juno knew. Being mortal meant that sooner or later, Beetlejuice wouldn’t have to leave the Other Side to visit her. Hopefully, by then, she would’ve been a good enough influence that it wouldn’t matter. Hopefully, by then, he would be a good influence on her in the afterlife.
Because the last thing I need is two of them, Juno thought, rolling her eyes, and then she was gone, leaving only the faint scent of cigarette smoke.