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Beetlejuice looked up at them, teary eyed. Suddenly, his mouth unzipped.

"I believe this was a favor from my beloved mother. She has cleaned up my sorry act and made me presentable, and we should all be grateful." The voice was his, but the words most certainly weren't. The zipper zipped shut again, and Beetlejuice looked between them before sobbing again.

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Beetlejuice was whimpering behind the zipper. His typical happy, green hair color leeched into a sickly, sad purple. He had a guess who was behind this.

The demon ducked back into the fort and sat with his knees pulled up to his chest. He hid his face in his knees and cried into them. She would never leave him alone! She always had new ways of ruining his existence!

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So I decided to have him unable to talk, because its both funny and sad. And now he can't eat bug

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"Hm?" He ran a hand over his hair, which was slicked back and...clean? Almost as soon as he did, poof, his suit was sparkling, and his shoes were polished.

"What the fu-" Beetlejuice started, but made a strangled sound as a zipper appeared over his mouth and zipped it shut. He let out a muffled yell and tried to unzip it, but it wouldn't budge.

Suddenly, his face was shaved and no longer stubbled, he smelled like expensive cologne, and lastly, four iron cuffs appeared, one for each wrist and ankle.

"Mmhmmh?" He looked at Ash, then to Lydia, a look of scared confusion on his face.

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The sizzling and the amazing smell woke Beetlejuice up. He stood and stretched, then pawed his way out of the fort. He shifted back and rubbed his eyes, still a little groggy.

"Morning, sunshine!" Riff Raff was cooking something in a skillet over the barrel. "Who wants hash browns?"

The skillet was piled with chopped potatoes, peppers, onions, and sausage, and it smelled like heaven.

"Come on Lyds!" Beetlejuice urged.

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BJ frowned. This kid had a hell of a memory. He struggled to remember where the hell he was going with that idea before he started to just wing it. While they made a nest for her, he put on a whole production, rapid fire changing from hero to villain, and making voices. Finally, when Lydia was asleep, an exhausted but happy Beetlejuice shifted into his cat form to squeeze into the space above her head. He curled up, purring, and dozed off.

Images of chains and red stilettos haunted his dreams, quickly turning them into nightmares. Catjuice whimpered softly, twitching. He was running, fighting off tentacles and trying to hide from the shrill voice of his mother. He could never hide...could never get away...

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He totally acts out the voices too

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Imma make it super tragicomedy

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As the night carried on, BJ and Lydia getting to know their new friends better, the fire died down. Everyone slowly disappeared off to their own spaces. Finally, Beetlejuice asked where Lydia would be put up at.

"There's a spot over there. It'll have to do for now," Iggy pointed to a nook with old filing cabinets for walls, plywood as a roof, and a blanket curtain for a doorway. Beetlejuice gathered up a few blankets and pillows from the gang's supply and headed over there.

"Wanna make a fort like we used to at the foster home?" He asked, grinning at the fond memories. A tiny Lydia crawling into a cave made of blankets strewn over a chair, tea parties with plastic food, and staying up past bed time to read comic books and watch tv.

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So you know how in the second season the big monster possessed Will? What if instead of that, BJ's mom decides to ramp up the whole 'curse' thing to the nines, and BJ is suddenly forced to be clean, polite, and well behaved? And Lyds has to go back to Hawkins with Iggy and Ash to open the portal thing, go to the Netherworld, and confront her to fix it?