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Thanksgiving Day

Eda groaned as another needle went into her skin before she removed it and threw it in the trash with other discarded needles and EpiPens before struggling to walk to the door to open up shop as she started pouring a bottle of whiskey as the door opened with Luz walking inside. "Am I late?" "Nah now just help me polish some of this stuff and clean the floors, that'll be all kid."

"Eda you're starting to worry me," Luz said with concern seeing the needle marks on Eda's arms and neck. "It's not your problem kid just do your job." "You need to see a..." "I don't need help!" Eda screamed before slashing at a table as her nails had turned almost claw-like." "Eda..." Luz slowly backed away just as Eda saw her hand and quickly hid it. "It was nothing... it just happens sometimes." "It doesn't seem norm..."

"You want to keep this job or not?" Luz then stayed quiet and said nothing while cleaning the shop as Eda then left for a "break" before heading outside the alleyway and approaching Boscha and the rest of the banshees. "Where's Mort?" Boscha simply pointed to him as he was smoking. "Hey, I need more of you know..." "Five grand." "FIVE? Last time you said it was..."

"Do I see your sister with you? No? thought so now hurry up or just leave." Eda growled under her breath before walking away and coming back with a paper bag which she handed to Mort who looked inside before taking it and handing Eda a few vials and a box of needles which she took and put in her safe.

"Kid you know what just take the day off or something it's the holidays... sorta" "Realy?" Luz asked as Eda simply gave Luz a handful of hundred-dollar bills. "Now go and I don't know get a turkey or something." "Eda this is.." "Don't mention it." "Maybe you should join me and my mama for that annual Wayne Manor food drive thing."

"I'll think about it." Luz then left and headed to her home. "Hey, mom guess what? My boss gave me a bonus... pay..."

She then remembered that her mother was still on her shift at the asylum. "And your busy like always..."

Arkham Asylum

"Tired Camila?" One of the nurses said to her as the two were filling out paperwork as Camila drank from a water cooler. "Where do they even come from?" "Beats me and hey don't you have your daughter to take care of?" "I never miss a thanksgiving dinner with her." The two slowly talked as a pair of yellow eyes watched them from inside the walls.

Wayne Manor late that evening

"Hey uh... thanks for the suit Miss Noceda." "Please anything for the now who got my daughter a job," Camila said as she had let Eda take her husband's old brown suit which she had put on with a red bow tie while Luz and Camila had casual clothing. "You know there's no dress code right?" "Hey, dress to impress am I right?" "Eh..." They along with a few other civilians slowly walked into the manor along with a few of Gotham's elite citizens with the Blight Family.

Soon one by one, families were slowly leaving with bags of donated food as Eda and the Nocedas waited. "To think one person managed to have everything brought to him on a silver platter." "Ugh, never trust someone like that, they're always crazy wackjobs." "Eda!"

Eda simply huffed and shrugged as she noticed Alador next to Odalia. "Ugh blights you can never be friends with one unless you have their kind of wealth and pow..." She stopped mid-sentence after hearing a violin playing before grabbing a martini from a servant and simply eating the olive and putting the drink back as she approached the small band playing to see a few simple civilians in clothing playing odd instruments with one of them holding a violin playing it softly. "Rainstorm?"

"Hey, Eda it's almost..." "Let her be Luz, I think she's found someone important." Luz and Camila then left Eda who was slowly approaching the band. Camila and Luz were handed about two bags of thanksgiving food and a full turkey before they accidentally bumped into a man causing the bags to rip open. "I am so sorry..." Camila then stopped after seeing who she was talking to Gotham's son Bruce Wayne.

"Mister Wayne, Dois Mio, it's such an honor to meet such a nice man." "Pleasures all mine madam." "Luz, come here, I'm sure you've heard about Bruce Wayne right?" Luz simply took one look at him. "Yeah... wow you are... so different than what the photos on the paper and TV."

"Nice kid you have there." Camila chuckled a bit."Well, she takes mostly from her father, God bless his soul and others like him lost before Batman showed up." "Yeah... yay..." Luz said sarcastically and nervously chuckling. "Well, I hope the two of you enjoy your thanksgiving."

"Of course as same as you and your adopted family as well." Luz and Camila began to leave when Luz was shoved to the floor as Camila grabbed the man's shoulder. "Excuse me but I believe that you should..." Camila then stopped mid-sentence after realizing who she was talking with quickly dropped to her knees as a small crowd gathered as Luz was confused.

"Mama?" The teen slowly tried to get past the crowd and soon saw her mother muttering as she was kneeling to a man in his late 60s with smooth slightly grey hair and a large claw-like scar on the right side of his face. "Don Falcone, por favor, forgive me." She pleaded before slowly reaching for his hand and slightly giving it a smooth gentle kiss with her lips as Carmine Falcone looked at her. "You Nocedas always apologetic for your actions, shame it couldn't help your amore," Carmine said before his bodyguards moved Camila away from him as a few mutters came out of the crowd.

Meanwhile, Eda was trying to talk to the band that was now leaving in a small van as Eda ran up to them. "RAINE!" One of them stopped and turned around wearing a single earring on their ear with dyed light green hair. "Eda?" "Hey back off!" One of the other instrument players said threatening Eda with a playing bow. "Make not look scary but this is still sharp enough to strangle you!"

"Katya it's alright and please stop with that will you?" "Sorry." The woman said packing her instrument. "Sorry about that Eda..." "Hey, I'd probably do the same but with a chainsaw or something..." Raine laughed a bit before pulling out a card from their coat pocket and handing it to Eda. "We can talk again later if you want to." "Yeah, that'd be great..."

Raine left with their small band inside a minivan as it drove away while the Nocedas walked to her with Camila having a face of shock and terror as she could barely speak and only mutter. "Mama, what's wrong?" "Nothing Luz, it's nothing I'm just glad that..." Camila then stopped as small tears came out of her while Eda and Luz helped her get into Eda's car as they left the driveway.

Clawthorne Home

Eda had dropped off Luz and Camila at their small apartment before driving the car back to her family home which was a medium home built near the riverfront by her family ancestors since their arrival into the new world and was once part of the founding families of Gotham. She slightly opened the door, walked into the dining table seeing her mother putting a single plate on the table. "Mom..."

Her mother Gwendolyn looked at her. "Sweat flea?" "No mom... it's me, Eda, remember? Your little trouble maker?" Gwen didn't answer as Eda sighed before placing the food on the table as the sound of tires came up to the driveway to which Eda then looked outside to see a large black car standing outside as Eda slowly pulled out a gun from her handbag before stopping after seeing who it was.

"Lily?" "Edalyn just open the door." She did and was in utter shock by her sister's facial changes. "Your..." "Alive? It surprised me as well but here I am. Now let's just ignore it and just eat with mother shall we?"

"Yeah sure..." Eda said with a slight concern about her sister's slight calm tone to what had happened to her as they started eating while Lilith simply looked at the meat she was given before taking out a small plastic container with red liquid which she poured over her slice of turkey. "Mother, by the way, another lawyer arrived earlier this morning but I told him we weren't interested in another offer so I made him leave."

"I keep telling them we don't want to sell this land and Lily how did you get rid of him?" Eda asked knowing very well about her sister's crimes with working for Carmine Falcone as Lilith gave her an answer Eda wished she hadn't heard.

"You see my sauce?" "Yeah what about it?" "It's not cranberry sauce sister, it's not cranberry sauce," Lilith said before dunking a slice of turkey into it and taking a small bite as Eda could only watch Lilith eat the turkey dunked in human blood.

Yeah might change this to mature just to be safe