It was late in the night, almost the witching hour, but not quite. The Maitlands had watched Beetlejuice rummage through their room. He found stuff they didn't even know they had. He took the things he found and shoved them into a relatively empty corner of the room opposite of the Maitland's well-made bed.

Once everything was to his satisfaction he jumped on the pile of trash he had collected. There was a crash and Barbara hoped it hadn't awakened the living downstairs. The couple were still standing at the center of the room; awkward in their own space. Beetlejuice looked over to them. "I figured I'd take the floor instead of the bed, and I just made myself at home." He wiggles his hips a little for emphasis.

Adam shook his head, but didn't say anything he just walked over to their bed and got in it. Barbara followed a little behind Adam. Ghosts didn't need sleep, but the bed was comfy and sometimes it was nice to sleep.

The Maitlands (more specifically the lightest sleeper of the group, Adam) found out Beetlejuice snored, like a lot. So in a fit of frustration in the mid-to-late hours of the night Adam flicked on his light and picked up his book, 'A Guide For The Recently Deceased.' And flipped to page 248, Chapter 14 'The Care and Keeping of Demons.'

As Adam read he learned a few things about Beetlejuice. A demon was a product of a woman who died pregnant with the baby. The process was excruciating, because for the woman to move on she would need to give birth to the deceased child. The gorey details were spared, luckily for Adams poor mind, but he got the picture.

Apparently this process made the child half-human under the principle that the pregnant woman's womb sort of acted like the box in the Schrödinger's cat experiment. The baby is neither alive nor dead, and when it comes out it is a demon. Adam thought that it didn't make sense, but he had only been dead for a few years so he figured the book would know better and kept reading.

Demons need most things humans do. Sleep, food, and love. (Due to the nature of a demons birth most mothers neglect the third necessity.) They are, however, more powerful than humans or ghosts in that they can conjure, shape-shift, and in rarer cases float. Adam put down the book and looked over to Beetlejuice.

The demon was hovering over the floor by about four centimeters and still snoring. Adam noticed large bags under the demons eyes that got deeper as the Demon tossed in his sleep, snorted, and gurgled. He turned back to the book. It was the last page of the chapter and it read in basic terms that demons were very powerful and shifted its basic form based on whatever it felt at the time to represent what it thought it's worth was. Adam thought that was a little saddening. At the very bottom of the page there was a yellow Warning box.

'If a Demon has a nightmare try to calm them, and if all else fails, RUN!'

Adam was confused but quickly found out why.