AN: One normal night for the whole Firefly family.
Thanksgiving!
Ruggsville, Texas
For once, the whole clan of the Fireflies were together. They finally got a letter from one guy that was estranged. Baby decided to read it for her family.
"My dear and precious family." Baby begun only for everyone to be quit. "Sorry for missing Haloween. I hope you're all doing well. I'll be back soon, as soon as everything is done. Sorry if I went out. Please don't miss my share. Thanks and wait for me please! Forgive me!"
"Is that all?" Emily asked Baby who shook her head.
"P.S. I missed ya'll!" Baby red as Mother Firefly shook her head...
"Yep! That's everything!" The matriarch confirmed.
"So, he'll be here soon?" Otis asked Baby who nodded.
"Why would he send a letter if it wasn't the case? Besides, all of you are thankfull?" Baby asked her family who smiled.
"You bet!" Rufus cut to the point as he went outside, probably fixing a car up...
"Hey what's new?" Cutter arrived as he saw everyone in the living room..
"Well, a certain guy sent us a letter!" Emily replied as the patriarch took the letter and red it...
"I see! He's comming definitely on thanksgiving!" Cutter replied as Otis raised an eyebrow..
"How did you know old man?" The wraith asked the clown who shook his head...
"He didn't appologize for missing it!" Cutter smiled as Otis palmed his face...
"No really, he didn't!" Baby added fuel to the fire...
"Shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck!" Otis cursed to himself as Emily rolled on the ground with laughs. Even Rufus laughed at his brother's broken record mode. Cutter and Gloria shook their heads...
"Anyways, tomorrow is thanksgiving kids, so... Yeah, we'll help each other makin' one big dinner." Cutter announced as Otis sighed and looked at RJ who nodded...
"I'll get the turkeys!" Rufus exlaimed as he got the keys of his truck and soon, Emily and Baby walked with their brother to his tow truck.
"Praise the Lord they went out Tiny!" Otis said only for his brother to shrug and turn on the TV while watching something that was interesting alongside his eldest brother and Grandfather. While the three were bored out of their wits, Cutter and Gloria discussed a few recipies for thanksgiving. Cutter secretly doubted the youngest son would be home, but he won't break his dear daughters hearts. Baby was sensitive as she was, and Emily, while have the temper of an enraged starving Tyrannosaurus Rex, she was usually the sweetest girl he ever met.
"Say Johnny, remember when Baby took yer car for a spin?" Eve taunted her husband who laughed sadly...
"They totalled it to the point where I needed to buy another one, but I have to admit, that I was livid for the reckless driving, not the fact that they drank a LOT of whiskey, nor totalling my car, but for... I can't bear the fact that they were saved by a fuckin' miracle!" The big man confessed..
"You ground them till Haloween!" Eve protested.
"They deserved it! When I saw how they crashed, I swear that I almost died. Hell, even Otis shouted at the top of his lungs. Tiny was crying his eyes out. I live for my children, and I can't think of losing them..." The clown confessed, "So, for scaring the shit out of me, they deserved it! But, at least I allowed the boys to interract right after dinner, no?"
"You sure did cutie pie. The reason why I married you is because you never descriminated between them..." Eve admitted as the bearded man smiled. That night, their door was locked. Not even a totally drunk Otis would dare to barge in!
While their family was indeed bigger, they were better. They had one dry haloween where someone was estranged. They actually saved his booze and decided to save their remaining ones to the day he comes back, stopping at one bottle each...
Meanwhile, Rufus beaten up someone black and blue for saying that he was a 'Turkey fucker', something he regretted when the big guy punched his lights out, who was witnessed by a certain duo of bounty hunters...
"Did he just knocked his teeth out, Rondo?" A big guy of 6'4 asked his moustached partner who laughed his ass out..
"He did knock his brain out Billy Ray!" Rondo replied as he waited for the man to wake up.
The tall guy was decent enough to leave the money in the man's pocket as he carried the turkeys, strapped the cages to his truck and drove off. The Unholly two decided to NOT mess with the livid guy.. Not that he have a bounty on him so...
They decided to thank him if they crossed path with him. As the guy who'll be known later as the chicken-man didn't say shit to them. Billy told Rondo that he'd "Ripe him a new asshole!" if he told them shit...
The drive home, Baby asked her two sibling what they think about their estranged brother, if he'll come back. It was thanksgiving's eve, and he wasn't home yet.
"I dunno Baby!" Rufus replied as he thought how his brother was the most mysterious one.
"I know he'll be back. He promissed us..." Emily replied as she sighed wistfully.
"I honestly doubt, I mean it's too good to be true..." Baby replied as they soon, on their way home, found a roadside accident. While RJ would go out, Emily gave it a good look before...
"They're all dead!" Emily summerised as she watched the amount of damage that happened to the car...
"Don't say that, we made it out alive, didn't we?" Baby asked her sister who giggled...
"I say we call the pigs and tell'em..." RJ begun only to hear in the distance the unmistaking sirens...
"Let's go home!" Baby said as they continued their drive. If they waited a little bit, they'd see two red slitted eyes stalking in one of the trees above...
'Guess I'll walk home then!' The stalker thought...
The next day...
Emily and Baby for once, did their best preparing the thanksgiving meal. The turkeys were already put down by Otis. Cutter however was preparing a few things for the dinner. Tiny and Grampa spent the time watching TV as Cutter told them to leave the two alone until the dinner. The old clown was preparing a few games for a post-dinner night, Otis was searching for a TV. After an hour, he found it and installed it in the dinning room.
"Seriously? Why not RJ?" Otis complained as Cutter sighed...
"Because your brother is doing the chores, because it's his day off, and because it will help you out a bit to be present downstairs!" The patriarch said to Otis as he glared one last time... "And because he didn't give my car's keys to his sisters while they were drunk!"
"Oh please, I told Baby to wait until I gave her my surprise. How was I supposed to know?" Otis replied as the Captain sighed...
"Alright fine! Just forget it! It does ya a bit of help man!" Cutter replied as Otis finally installed the TV and went out, fuming...
The clown tried to forget about the evil albino for a while... He did. Otis decided to just chill out. It was about an hour before dinner. RJ was soon seen, right in time as everyone assembled on the table...
"One thing I'm not thankfull for, is that there's one missing person!" Cutter begin as he sighed, "But anyways, let's begin..."
"I can't believe he missed yet another holiday!" Baby exclaimed as she sat down.
"Worry not Baby, I think it's still early, no?" Emily told her sister who shook her head.
"He missed four things!" Mother firefly told them, "Something bad must've happened."
"I dunno, I can expect him to go down in hell and come back for all I know.." Otis added his two cents as Tiny went and woke up their Grandfather.
"Anyways, I hope he'll be back!" RJ said as he missed the closest thing to a friend he had...
"I'm back!" The voice of a certain someone arrived. He arrived wearing a hookey mask, two boots, a pant and a trench coat... A very long trench coat... But one thing that stood out his now longer hair and thicker beard... And that damn fedora...
"You gotta be kidding me!" RJ said the first as he took notice of his brother's eyes... They were slitted like always..
"What the holy miss Molly happened to ya?" Hugo asked the tall guy who shook his head 'No'...
"Okay, can you take your mask off?" Baby asked her brother who removed it... And his face was absolutely like he left, except thinner, a bit thinner...
"Now I've seen all!" RJ said. Miller blinked once, twice before he smiled...
"Do you know how much I missed you?" He said only for Emily to throw a knife at him which he caught effortlessly..
"Do YOU know how much you missed?" The short girl almost yelled at her brother who sighed...
"I know!" His reply was curt and he looked at her apologetically..
"The important thing is that yer finally here!" His mother replied and he grinned at this as Otis and Tiny lifted their hands in a quick wave... Baby however was quit...
"You're okay Baby?" Miller asked his sister who shook her head as Cutter sighed...
"A long story, but I almost lost both of my daughters..." He filled the blank and for once Miller almost shed a few tears... Almost if he was still human... But that day he lost everything, even his humanity, even his name as John Doe... He was reborn as a monster, but he would be his own monster...
Nodding, the heavy builded guy sat down and glanced at each and everyone of them. While he saved most of his money at a few banks in Switzerland, he kept, usually, a bit of pocket change. Not this time though...
So, they turned on the TV and ate their dinner. At the end, they all begun saying their thanks.
"I'm grateful that I have a big ass family!" Cutter begun.
"I'm grateful that Earl won't bother us again!" Mother Firefly was smilling at the memory...
"I'm grateful that we have something to pass my last months..." Hugo said.
"Well, I'm grateful that living here isn't that boring." Otis said.
"Grateful that Tiny is feeling better!" RJ said, surprising many...
Tiny was mute, he didn't even needed to say, but his family could look at how he looked at their faces and smiled.
"I'm thankful that I didn't lose Emy." Baby said as Emily smiled at her sister...
"I'm grateful to have you as my family!" Emily said as Miller was quite...
"Go one son! Say it!" Cutter said as Miller sighed...
"Thanks for dinner guys! Now, you made my one and only wish come true, for that I'm thankful, and this is more than I deserve!" Miller said as he went out and pulled his last cigarette before he lit it...
Emily jumped at Baby who raised up and almost hugged the life out of her big sister before she whispered...
"I'm thankful for that suspension.." Emily said as Baby giggled.
"What's his problem?" Cutter asked Gloria who shook her head..
"I have no clues? Who knows?" Gloria begun as she sighed, "I mean he went for a whole season at least, almost a couple of seasons...
Five minutes later, the subject of their confusion was kinda.. Ashamed?
"I missed a birthday, and almost something that put my two sisters in danger, and Halo-fuckin'-ween, and you want me to have no excuses? I do have one : I almost, legitimately died on a raid. I did that thing, I pulled that sucker off, but I needed to sell the whole thing and fast. I did made a few bank accounts, and it wasn't that hard, but the hard part was selling it out and fast. The last ton however, shit hit the fan. I got shot and ambushed. I had ONE pistol, and somehow, I managed to pull off all the bullets after I shot the fuckers to death. It was an extermination, so I had to find a way to hide that thing. Fortunately, I found someone who wanted to sell a LOT of titanium, and I traded him, I lost about 10% but hey, I'm still alive." The ex-merc confessed.
"So let me get this straight, you stole twenty tons of gold, sold nineteen, then traded the last ton for titanium, then what you did? You went to war with how many?" Baby asked her brother who asked about a few beers, and a whiskey bottle. RJ gave him his Haloween share that he kept to this day, somehow...
"I owe ya 200 bucks!" RJ reminded his brother who laughed...
"Wish I can pay for now bro... Unfortunately, I don't have a single cent on me currently!" The heavy guy confessed before he added...
"I was in a deep shit it seems, so I kinda surrendered, got killed in prison, and walked out of the morgue. I was a dead man walking. However, before I died, I left the big ass account on the safest nation ever, in a deposite box. I needed to get out, break in and break out of the prison, and somehow I managed, but it was known as the Haloween massacre..." The heavy man confessed...
"Yeah I remember now, they said something about someone claiming he was the suspect, and the het died off, so, how did you manage to get out of there?" Baby asked yet again..
"Heh, the only thing I was after was a fucking key. I asked politely if there's a dead prisoner who had a key on him. They said the cruel word and then, well, I pulled a fucking M2 from it's stash and assaulted the motherfuckers. They're ALL dead! All of the staff, they atribitued it to a prison breakout. Hehe, why the fuck not leaving them free? I mean, freedom is the best, usually..." He confessed as Otis for once, felt genine fear for his life...
"How many prisoners did you release?" RJ asked as he grinned...
"Why it's each and ever fuck who deserved his freedom. Some were left to rot, some I killed. Well, Killed before the whole thing happen. They told me that they had their gratitude for me, and I told them one thing : Make something out of yerselves, be nice and decent and you'll repay me!" He confessed as all of them raised an eyebrow at him.
"Why you didn't tell them something else?" Cutter now asked and his son smirked..
"I was after a single fucking key, and I got it! So yeah, I went to the bank the next day, got a few bucks, or rather, all of the money I needed, and kept the one thing I needed inside my coat's interior pocket... So yeah, I have a LOT of cash. But we better NOT withdraw until something worth it happen!" The ex-merc confessed...
"Okay, how did you know about the twenty tons of gold?" Emily asked her brother who smirked...
"I have my ways!" He told them, "I have my ways..."
"Hey I owe you two hundred bucks!" RJ told his brother who laughed his ass off...
"You gotta be kidding me! You know I can't do it yet!" Miller replied only for RJ to reply...
"Don't care, gimme my money!" RJ replied.
"I told you I will RJ, just not now!" Miller almost exploded from laugh..
"Man fuck you!" RJ replied smilling.
"Fuck me? No fuck you asshole!" Miller then lunged at his brother, and soon a brawl was born...
Otis tried to hold his laugher until Baby kicked him gently. The two then jumped on their siblings, aiming for each other while swearing and cursing as RJ kinda asked for their help... And soon it was so chaotic that the only one appart the parents who was shying away was Tiny...
"Johnny do something!" Gloria asked her husband who shook his head.
"What can I do? Bash their balls in or stuff my boot all up their asses?" Cutter replied and he paid attention only to see that all of them were NOT trying to hurt each other, it was kinda fun to watch them brawl without causing any harm to each other until...
"LETGOYADAMNSNAPPER!" Miller cried in pain as Emily bit him on his forearm, making all of her siblings stop the fight, shocked...
"Did she just..." Otis asked in shock as Baby bit her thumb...
"She did stop an instoppable beast!" Baby replied...
Emily soon let go and Miller grumbled about a cruel joke moch to the amusement of one RJ...
"Fine! If I get it I'll be inside, happy now?" Miller replied.
"Much! It was fun!" RJ laughed even more as his brother poured some alcool on his wound...
"I swear that Emily's a lil'turtl'snapper!" He grumbled even more as it stinged him...
"Ok, playtime's over!" Cutter said and with ONE glare, all of the siblings stopped their fight and insults...
"What was the great idea?" Gloria glared at RJ who kinda shrunk...
"I don't owe him, it was a joke Mom, but I needed to get him going... We never stood a chance, yet he let us last that long." RJ replied as Emily laughed...
"Of course he'd do!" Emily replied.
"Well I kinda missed the big bastard being here..." Otis confessed.
"And I missed the ghostly bastard to be honest." Miller replied.
"So I guess Gordon Miller and John Doe are dead?" Baby asked her brother who sighed...
"Yeah, John 'The Terminator' Miller is born..." He replied.
"John Miller, huh? Have a ring on it!" Cutter replied as the heavy guy laughed...
"Sure!" RJ admitted. While he wasn't always talkative, he does always get to the point. That mock brawl was to make his brother feel better..
"Anyways, Emily got suspended from school!" Baby continued the stories as they kinda gave their estranged brother some beers, and a whiskey bottle which he graldly accepted with gratitude..
"No shit?" The heavy guy lit a cigarette as he begun listening.
"She stabbed a girl with a pencil. I guess she is really my cute little sister..." Baby confessed as Otis jumped in...
"And you remember how boring this haloween? Just drinking and a few cheap ass costumes? I mean, we got no rabbits!" Otis complained as Cutter laughed...
"Maybe it's better to chill out man!" Cutter said as he shook his head...
"So, er, the pyre is always working?" The estranged guy asked.
"You bet!" RJ replied. He made sure it always works...
"Good! Always use it after a fucking kill! We never know if and when!" Miller replied seriously...
"Okay! I love it. No proofs, no fuck ups!" Hugo said and Miller admitted, he really respected the old man.
Two hours later...
Miller was tipsy by the time he shugged the whiskey down. While the alcool won't last, and he'd wake up with no hang overs, he admitted it was a great feeling...
