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"Yeah, this demon's had enough watching the paint dry to last the next eternity," Beetlejuice said. He flattened himself down and rolled himself up like a poster, then tossed himself through the window. The demon popped back to shape inside the basement.

"Wow, look at all this nerd shit. I missed this little guy!" He flew over to a painted figuring and reached for it.

"Hey!" Nate quickly ran over and snatched it before the demon inevitably broke it. He turned back to Lydia. "So...when are you coming back? Everyone at school thinks you moved away or something. And we thought Beetleboost was dead."

"That's not my name, but thanks for trying," Beetlejuice was now laying on the DnD table, playing with the little figurines.

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A week passed. Charles kept Lydia up on her online homeschooling, and Beetlejuice helped her practice with her powers when Chuck wasn't around. But the two of them could only be cooped up for so long. After all, Lydia had spent most of her life stuck in a cell, and Beetlejuice liked to think of himself as a free spirit. So when Lydia suggested sneaking out to visit the Maitlands and the boys, BJ was all over the idea.

He hadn't seen those two, adorable, incredibly boring and sexy cinnamon rolls in too long! But, first, they went to visit the boys. With Beetlejuice summoned, he could just pop them over to Nate's house, where they'd be playing DnD like they did every Wednesday night. The demon put them right outside the little window and leaned down to peak in.

"Nerds ahoy!" He called, seeing the two boys at their DnD table.

"Wha?" Nate looked up. "Hey, it's the demon car salesman! He's back!" Nate jumped up and ran over. "Is Lydia there too? You guys are okay, right?!"

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Do we wanna do a time skip then? Or wait a bit?

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BJ would also totally blow it out of proportion like always.

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Maybe he tries to ground her?

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So what should Chuck do that makes Lydia and BJ run away?

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"You think you got this power thing from your mother?" Charles asked.

"He's not big into the whole 'strange and unusual' thing, is he?" Beetlejuice floated behind Lydia.

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"She had a lot of pagan books and wiccan stuff around the house. I never really bought into it, but your mother was her own person. She was big into crystals and auras and that kind of thing. But I don't see what that has to do with this?" Charles looked at her, confused.

"You know, they used to burn people for that shit back in day," Beetlejuice said off handedly.

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"Well, your mother was into some odd things, but she never had powers like this. Not that I knew of, anyway." Charles frowned, thinking back.

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What did we end up deciding her source of her powers were? Is she drawing them from BJ? Is it like a "born with it" kinda thing?