Toddler Beetlejuice and Babysitter Charles
“It is only going to be for a few hours Charles you can do this for me” Delia encouraged her fiance the half demon toddler pulled on her legs with an adorable pout his ears slightly down and his tail wrapped around her leg as well. “Nooooooooo gooooooooo” He whined, he didn't like being babysat by Charles as much as Charles didn't want to babysit him. “Are you sure Delia, I don't think this is such a good idea, I'm sure you could ask his friend you know that green woman-” “Tina!” Beetlejuice explained happily. “She's busy Charles it will only be a few hours. You two will be fine.” The red hair woman bent down to face her adopted toddler. “I'll be back in no time Juicebox. Only 3 movies that's not long at all! And if you're a good boy I'll make sure to bring you a nice gift okay?” Sniffling Beetlejuice gave her a big hug. “Otay mama”
So there they were Charles and Beetlejuice staring at each other. It wasn't that they hated each other. Since he started living with them it was clear he would never hurt Delia and would listen to her, mostly. “Sooooo what do you and Delia normally do together?” He asked awkwardly. He wished that the Maitlands would babysit instead, but when Delia asked them they were already helping Lydia with her school work. He would love to help her instead, but she insisted that Adam and Barbara help was more since it was a Halloween project. “Cuddle” Was the first thing he said before he glared at the man. “No wan fowm yoo.” Charles hummed. “How about a movie”
In the end he put on The Nightmare before Christmas one of Beetlejuice's favorite movies. Now that the half demon had a movie he could probably get some work done. He decided to work in the kitchen where he could still hear the tv. Finally the movie ended and the adult man went in to put in another movie. And there he finally saw, finger paint all over the carpet “What did you do! Look at this mess!” He shouted causing the toddler start to tear up. “Makin' picshure for Mama” Big fat tears now rolling down his face as he covered his head, he was seriously afraid he was going to get hit. “Shit” Charles said, he forgot how Delia made it clear never to raise their voices around Beetlejuice due to his past. “Look I'm sorry, I just was surprised” Sniffling the toddler rubbed his eyes. “How about we put your picture in the kitchen to dry and clean up?”
So Beetlejuice helped clean up his mess, making sure to stay out of arm's length from Charles. Once they were done cleaning he decided it would be a good time to feed the demon child. He made him a simple peanut butter and jelly sandwich, nothing as creative as Delia normally made. But, Beetlejuice still happily ate it. “Juice juice juice!” He chanted happily, it seemed like he was over the yelling already. “Okay okay okay” Charles said pouring some apple juice in a sippy cup.
“Missh mama” Beetlejuice said pouting as he looked out the window, getting his dirty, jelly and peanut butter hand prints all over the window. “I'm sure she misses you too” Charles said as he grabbed one of the demon's hands to wipe them clean like Delia always did, it got him scratched . He forgot Delia always warns Beetlejuice before just taking his hand. It wasn't bleeding luckily, cleaning both his hands he sighed it wasn't the brat's fault. He wiped the window as well.
With everything there was still about 2 and a half hours before his fiance came home. “What do you want to do? Watch another movie?” Beetlejuice shook his head. “How about you play in the backyard?” Charles suggested that caused the half demon's tail to wag. “Yah!” Grabbing his laptop he released the toddler. Of course the backyard was fenced and the backyard was pretty nice. Beetlejuice knew not to mess with Delia's garden when she wasn't around. It was one of her rules.
Unlike Delia, Charles didn't bother trying to tell Beetlejuice not to eat the bugs he found. He knew it was a loosing match that even Delia never won, so why would he bother? The only 2 people Beetlejuice would almost always listen to was Delia and that green skin friend of his. Almost 2 hours past, he had been able to get a lot of his work done and keep a pretty decent eye on the half demon brat.
He thought it had been fine, but when he realized just how dirty Beetlejuice ended up, he knew Delia wouldn't be happy with him at all. “Okay bath time” Charles said firmly. “No! No! No!” The toddler yelled. Shooting past him. Bath time was always the hardest even Delia struggled with it and even though he would end up liking the bath it was hell getting him into the tub.
Charles chased the hell spawn but with his floating ability and speed it was far too much for him. He got Lydia and the ghosts to try and help. But they couldn't catch the toddler ether. They had thought maybe they would tire him out. However they were the ones that broke first. When the door open Beetlejuice flew straight towards it. Crashing right into Delia. “Mama!” He squealed hugging her.
“My my my you looked like you had fun” She smiled looking at the exhausted ghosts and humans. As Delia held the squirming bouncing half demon “Uh huh! Lotshah fun! We we we watched ah moovie and I made a picshure for oo and Chawlesh made lunch and and pwayed outshide-” “I can see that” “and we pwayed chashe” He happily babble not even realizing Delia was taking him to the bathroom for his bath.
40 minutes later Delia finished giving her demon son a bath and put him down for a nap. “Thank you for watching him” She kissed her fiance on the lips. “It was no problem” Charles lied.