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

[doubleoohbaby]

Well. I can survive behind the scenes.

[hexappeal]

You can hang out with me. There's not much to do other than hang around. Just don't feel like you have to stay because I am.

[doubleoohbaby]

I want to be with you, darling. Just without all of... this. [Jerking his head towards the rest of the table.]

[hexappeal]

I know. I'm not secretly trying to entrap you or anything. I really do mean it. It's just a day, anyway. If you want to leave early, it's no difference. I'm still thankful for you and I'll still see you tonight.

[doubleoohbaby]

Mm. I'm sorry. [He's not trying to be a grumpster. It just kind of happens.]

[hexappeal]

[In a quiet, sing-song voice that lacks obnoxiousness and is meant to reassure him:] Jaaaaaaaaaaames. Don't apologize, either. If you aren't feeling it, you aren't feeling it.

[It's better than that first year, the one where she and John got drunk and were singing. It was awful.]

[doubleoohbaby]

[A soft grunt, possibly of appreciation. At least she's not nagging him to be super cheerful, because they both know that's not going to happen. He'll make more of an effort for Christmas, he can promise himself that much, but this? Shouldn't even be a holiday. It's a waste of a day.]

I think I'll leave Thanksgiving to the Americans.

[hexappeal]

[The meaning behind it, she thinks, is important. But that can be dealt with on any day. But Zatanna is that person who really only cares about Halloween, anyway, so her opinion is of little importance.]

Alright. Don't cause too much trouble in the meantime.

[doubleoohbaby]

You know me, darling. Always trouble free. [That manages to get a smirk out of him, because lol, as if he is ever free from trouble. When there is none, he'll make some.]

[hexappeal]

Right, right. I'm sure everything'll go swell, in that case!

[Just so long as he doesn't ruin it for Ned, she approves of his merry-making.]

[doubleoohbaby]

Perfectly. I can behave myself when needed. [Not.]

Will we have some of the evening together?

[hexappeal]

He's set to have this open until one in the morning and doesn't currently have anyone else working here. If you're good with that late, we will.

Otherwise I'll just go home and crawl into bed.

[doubleoohbaby]

One? Oh, for... yes, fine. Late is fine. Just come crawl into my bed at the end of it. [That's so stupidly late. He'll probably just have to go home and play on video games all night or read or something.]

[hexappeal]

I suppose I can't argue. [Another thing about her and relationships: sometimes she likes to sleep alone, in her own bed. Usually after a long night when she knows she'll either have a difficult time sleeping or wake up a little grumpy. He's going to have his hands full the morning after.]

Do you want me to wake you up?

[doubleoohbaby]

[James loves his alone time too, but after having to spend a whole day with Zee and sharing her with other people? He wants proper cuddles, okay :|]

I'll still be awake. On the off chance I'm not? Yes, wake me.

[hexappeal]

[Ah, he really knows how to make a gal feel special. So romantic!]

So you don't find someone asleep beside you and stab me in the middle of the night?

[doubleoohbaby]

You know how I get about people surprising me.

[Seriously. No one ever plans a surprise party for Bond, because he'd walk into the room and shoot everyone. Ruins the party mood.]

[hexappeal]

Should I call before I come over, then? I don't want to gently shake you and nearly be shot at.

[She'll do it, anyway. She can protect herself.]

[doubleoohbaby]

Might be an idea, darling. I really should be up anyway. [He can be quite the night owl when he needs to be.]

[hexappeal]

Alright. I can do that, then. [She feels a bit bad. :(]

[doubleoohbaby]

I look forward to it, sweetheart.

I'm not expected to stick around for socialising after dinner, am I?

[hexappeal]

You can leave whenever you want.

[doubleoohbaby]

And you'd be happy with that?

[hexappeal]

Don't say it like that. You make it sound as if I'm looking to be rid of you when you're the one who wants to leave.

Is it so hard for you to not argue?

[doubleoohbaby]

I didn't mean it like that! [Fuuu, arguing about arguing. His life.]

I just don't want to leave if you want me here.