TURKEY DAY AT THE PIE HOLE II

[onetouch]

WHO: Ned and Digby and you and you and you and all your closest friends
WHERE: The Pie Hole pie restaurant and bakeshop
WHEN: Thanksgiving Day, November 22 8am - November 23 1am (he'lll stick around for any stragglers tho)
WARNINGS: Shouldn't be any...
SUMMARY: Ned invites the whole City to the Pie Hole. He and Zatanna are cooking and baking everything (there are meat and meatless options), but feel free to bring a favorite from home!
FORMAT: quick/spam; make your own threads for your own people or table. on open threads estimate the time of arrival.
NO ONE IS EVER LATE!!!!!

[From the outside, the Pie Hole hasn't changed much, though the window is draped in elaborate snowflake-shaped lights, but inside is a whole other story. Zatanna has made quite a spectacle of the place, a huge banquet hall filled with long and short tables for enjoying your meal with any number of friends. And the decorations are outrageous. Ned's Christmas decorations, which were already over-the-top have all been magically enhanced and Thanksgivingsized like little crystalline pumpkin baubles and overspilling cornucopia on each buffet table, lined up in front of the kitchen. Ned is firmly putting his foot down this year: no one is to enter his kitchen but Zee or himself.

He'll be serving regular pie menu as well as breakfast (frittatas) until twelve noon at which point there will be an hour or two for people to arrive and mingle. The food will be out by 1:30-2 pm and dessert to be served at 3 pm. Ned just wants everyone to have a great day so come in and make yourself at home!! There are a few kegs as well if you all didn't listen and byob...]

Comments

[fortuna_lector]

[Barbara smiles gently at him. It's good to see Tim getting out, even if he doesn't look happy about it. It's a hard time of year, for everyone feeling the loss of their home especially, and the various Bats and Robins were too prone to brooding alone anyway. Herself included, of course, but at least she knew enough to recognize the problem and try to do something about it.]

Hey. Happy Thanksgiving.

[red_robin]

[ He offers her a sad imitation of a smile. ]

Hey. Back atcha.

[fortuna_lector]

[Yeah, she sees that, but she'll pretend she doesn't. Instead, she lifts a hand and gestures, waving it to encompass the elaborate setting.]

Impressive decor, don't you think? Not exactly what I was picturing for a restaurant Thanksgiving.

[red_robin]

Yeah, it's really something, actually. Just for Thanksgiving, especially.

Imagine what it might look like at Christmas.

[fortuna_lector]

[She doesn't want to think about Christmas. Thanksgiving was one thing - her father so often had to work during it that spending it alone, or at least without him, was no big deal. But Christmas was for family.]

It'll be impressive, I'm sure.

But I'm not sure Christmas is a holiday to spend with the whole City.

[red_robin]

[ Tim's never been big on holidays either way. Since his dad died, it's...and then Bruce disappeared, and...

Yeah, fuck holidays. ]

No. But some people don't have anywhere else to go, or anyone else to be with.

That's kind of what the owner told me.

[fortuna_lector]

Well, I wouldn't say that applied to you. Or me, for that matter.

Even if it's not exactly what most people mean by family.

[red_robin]

I guess so.

I don't know, I don't feel very...connected, you know? Far as I know, Bruce disappeared again. All I really have is you. And...Stephanie, I guess.

[ He doesn't sound very certain. ]

I hate holidays.

[fortuna_lector]

[And why is she not surprised about Bruce? Disappointed, though. She never even got to see him.]

It's not no one - that's a start. More than some people have.

[She shook her head and gave him a knowing look.]

You're not alone there either, whatever they say about 'Christmas cheer'.

But now that you're here, at least try to act like you're having a good time. Even better if you actually do.