Eventually after the car crash incident at the bridge, Barbara and Adam returned to their house, soaken wet and they held each other's hands, but the fireplace was on and the cuckoo clock was going off. "Perfect way to start our vacation this way.." Barbara muttered grimly as they walked into the living room.

"Well, you'll feel better when you're dry, honey." Adam said soothing his wife softly and rubbed her arm gentle, as they stood in the living room and looked to his wife. "Abe? We're home!" Barbara called out to her son, which in return niether parent heard their son say anything back to them, Adam assumed he was asleep somewhere in his room or the attic. "He must be taking a nap."

"That fire wasn't burning when we left."

"How's your arm?" Adam asked concerned and worriedly as he looked down to her right arm, he rubbed her arm soothingly and comfortingly. "I don't know. It feels frozen." Barbara told Adam as  they both sat in front of the fire and held their hands to get some warmth and not feel frozen. The fire combust a little which made the two jump slightly until adam noticed something on Barbara's fingers and he picked up Barbara's hand to see her finger's burning as she blew out the fire but the weird thing is that it didn't hurt her.

"Come on, I'll make some coffee and you get some wood for the fire." Barbara said softly, trying to figure things out and why the fireplace didn't burn her hand or why her arm felt frozen until Adam stopped in his tracks and stared out in confusion as he begun to notice that something is off.

"M-Maybe we should just take things extra slow. Do you remember how we got back up here? I'm gonna go back down to the bridge and retrace our steps. Maybe even find Abe." Adam then stepped off his porch only to find himself in a sand desert planet with a monster looming within the sand, he heard some growling as the monster was heading for him but then Barbara grabbed him back as it was now midnight but it was sunset when he left. "Oh, you saved my.."

"Two hours." Barbara exclaimed worriedly as if she been doing a couple of things for the last two hours, Adam looked around in awe and in confusion but he chuckled softly before he frowned and stared at his wife in confusion. "Oh, Barbara, you are not gonna believe.. what?"

"That's how long you were gone!" Barbara explained drastically and rather quickly before dragging her husband by his hand and took him into the living room where she took him infront of the living room mirrior where they had little horse statues everywhere on the ledge of the fireplace.

"What is going on?"

"I have to show you something." Barbara says before they stood infront of the living room mirrior and Adam was slightly confused by what Barbara was telling him, but then Barbara grabbed a horse figurine and moved it infront of the mirror back & forth. Adam realised that he nor Barbara had no reflections in the mirrior.

Barbara sighed before placing the horse figurine back down on the ledge and she turned to look at adam. "There's that, and there's that." Barbara said gesturing a book on the stand by the chair, which Adam looked at and grabbed the book, as he then read the title of the dusty book. "Handbook for the Recently Diseased."

"Deceased" Barbara corrected her husband, Adam then gave the book another look and corrected himself on saying the title of said book. "Deceased." Adam said correcting himself.

"I don't know where it came from. Look at the publisher." Barbara suggested softly, motioning him to read the title as she never remembered getting a book like that. "Handbook for the Recently Deceased Press." Adam read.

"You know what? I don't think we survived the crash." Barbara admitted fearfully and afraid softly as she fidgeted with her hands and gave her husband a look, as did adam, realisation begun to set in and had hitted him right in his face. His eyes widened and his shoulders slumped.

"Abraham..." Adam muttered softly, placing the book back on the small table stand and his hand went through his hair as barbara gasped and she covered her mouth before shaking her head and she let out a saddened sob. However the sound of the front door opening, caught their attention and they turned their heads to see Abraham walking into the living room, wearing an funeral outfit and a mournful look on his saddened face and he slumped down into the armchair and sighed softly, he sniffed slightly as he stared at the fireplace.

Barbara and Adam crouched down before Abraham, before Barbara took his hands into hers and Adam placed a hand on his shoulder. Abraham sniffed, his eyes filling with tears and he let out a shakey sigh and looked out the window. "Why did you have to leave?" Abraham muttered softly before standing up and he headed up the stairs before closing his bedroom door, his parents watched as they felt anguish and pain at their son's mournful state.

They went to their bedroom and Adam was reading the handbook while Barbara paced nervously & anxiously, she fidgeted with her fingers once again as Adam read through the pages of the book. Barbara wanted to comfort her grieving son. "I hate this. I hate not being able to comfort our son. Just, can you give me the basics?"

"Well, this book isn't arranged that way. W-what do you wanna know?" Adam questioned softly with an raised brow and barbara sighed as she then looked at Adam and gave him a questionable look. "Well, why did you disappear when you stepped off the porch? Are we halfway to Heaven, halfway to
Hell? And...how long is this gonna last?"

"Well, I don't see anything about Heaven or hell. Th-this book reads like stereo instructions. Listen to this, "Geographical and Temporal Perimeters. Functional perimeters vary from manifestation to
manifestation." Oh, this is gonna take some time, honey." Barbara huffed and groaned before falling down onto the shared bed with Adam, Abraham was starining into the fireplace then looked out of the window mourningly and hurt by the loss of his parents but what the three Maitlands didn't know was that somepeople took interest on them, deep under ground in a place called the Nietherworld.

"Damn Sandworms. Thirteen percent, huh? Well, I better find a job. Let's see. Business section." Beetlejuice mutterd while he shooked his head slightly before opening the newspaper to the business section and saw that two new arrivals had arrived into the nietherworld. "Oh. Ooh-la-la. What
do we got here? The Maitlands, huh? Left their son alone too. Cute couple. Look nice and stupid too. My sister's gonna love this as well." Beetlejuice cackled before standing up from his recliner and walked to another room, which looked like a ruined penthouse sweet and his sister was sitting infront of the mirrior.

"Hey, sis, look what i found in the paper, you're gonna have a thrill with this new arrivals." Beetlejuice smirked before slamming the newspaper down on the table near his sister, who used cigerette holder and blew out some smoke and lifted the newspaper before inhaling it slightly and smirked as she leaned back in her seat. She had wore a silk nightgown.

"Well, we'll give those maitlands, something to celebrate and even help their little dilemma. We may have finally found a way to return to the land of living. Yessssss, their naviety in death might just the opening we've been waiting for.." Lilith laughed softly and obnoxiously with an chaotic yet mischevious glint in her eyes, as she burned a hole into the maitland's picture with her cigarette holder, she then inhaled a big puff before blowing the smoke out and she throwed the newspaper away.