"They don't cover it at Miss Shannon's either, but I have a couple of friends here who know a lot about it..."
Her eyes widened more as she listened, her eyeliner only exaggerating the effect. If this Beetlejuice was from a quantum universe, there was a chance he was different in good ways. She tried to keep the things she was learning at the front of her mind: that everyone was here because they had something that would help, that it was a new start for everyone, that it wouldn't do anyone any good to judge each other. But most of all, that they needed to share what they knew. So as they kept talking, she kept walking, trusting that he'd follow her to her favorite Catching Up spot where they could sit and have a snack once they got there. (He'd forsaken a perfectly good churro, after all.)
"The other you turned into a giant snake and dropped Dad from the second floor landing. Then you tried to marry me to get out of... something you never explained. Because Barbara tamed a sandworm and rode it straight into the living room. You were the one who got eaten, no one got stabbed with Delia's art, and ... I never met your mom. Why, was she worse than you? That would explain a lot."
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Date: 2019-12-08 11:07 pm (UTC)Her eyes widened more as she listened, her eyeliner only exaggerating the effect. If this Beetlejuice was from a quantum universe, there was a chance he was different in good ways. She tried to keep the things she was learning at the front of her mind: that everyone was here because they had something that would help, that it was a new start for everyone, that it wouldn't do anyone any good to judge each other. But most of all, that they needed to share what they knew. So as they kept talking, she kept walking, trusting that he'd follow her to her favorite Catching Up spot where they could sit and have a snack once they got there. (He'd forsaken a perfectly good churro, after all.)
"The other you turned into a giant snake and dropped Dad from the second floor landing. Then you tried to marry me to get out of... something you never explained. Because Barbara tamed a sandworm and rode it straight into the living room. You were the one who got eaten, no one got stabbed with Delia's art, and ... I never met your mom. Why, was she worse than you? That would explain a lot."