Um. Why did I post this even though I haven't finished MLO? Because I'm a bad person. Eh.

So, I wanted to try my hand at the whole tie between movie and cartoon version thing. Yeah, it's impossible. So sue me, it's fun. And I really like the idea of Lydia and Beetlejuice going from enemies to best buds – it's cute. Admit it. And I love Lydia. She's just so...Lydia. She and Beetlejuice go well together, huh?

Disclaimer: I don't own Beetlejuice or its characters.

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One year.

He had been gone for an entire year, and she could finally assume he wasn't coming back. She would never, ever have to see him again. He would never terrorize her family.

She could breathe again.

Lydia didn't know why the looming anniversary of her almost-marriage mattered so much. She didn't know anything about the Neitherworld's bureaucracy – he could still be there, waiting. Or he could have just decided she wasn't worth his time...she doubted it, though.

It just seemed like the kind of thing he would do – suddenly pop into her life, laughing his I'msocrazy laugh. Happy anniversary, you bitch! And she would scream like a banshee, but no one would hear...and when he was finished with her he would go after Barbara and Adam, and maybe her parents for good measure. He had liked dramatics...and what better way to be ironic than to kill her on their (not) anniversary?

What worse way to die than by the hands of someone you thought was gone, listening to his stupid, morbidly terrifying jokes?

But it was over. Everything was over. Logic didn't have any business here, not where he was involved. And certainly not where she didn't want it.

It was the day after their anniversary. Her life was finally right side up.

One week before he came back, and flipped it right the hell back over.