The Holiday

[old_saint_nick]

Christmas as a celebration has been through many changes throughout history. It has absorbed aspects of other winter celebrations over the years, and many accuse it of now being nothing more than crass commercialism

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[great_swimmer]

Arthur spent it alone in the depths of the ocean.

[mrs_dibny]

Yeah right. His cell phone starts to buzz.

[great_swimmer]

He answered the phone. "Hello."

[mrs_dibny]

"You're not working through Christmas, Hanukkah, and whatever it is you and Diana do - are you?"

[crusaderinacape]

The police radio hadn't rang with more than a petty theft in the last four hours. But that wasn't the point. It had been barely weeks since Gotham had faced the brink of death and it still had weeks yet to recover.

Batman sits on his favourite rook- next to the gargoyle by the window of his father's old office, at the now defunct Gotham Central Hospital building. In the gargoyles hands is a thermos of coffee, black as the sky on a moonless night. Batman sips from the 'Worlds Greatest Detective' mug in his own, mutely listening to the thrum of static from a usually cacophonous radio frequency.

[titansleader]

Dick lit down, with a mug of hot cocoa. He doesn't say anything, just straddles another gargoyle. After making sure hte cocoa was balanced on it's head, he flips up into a handstand.

[crusaderinacape]

Without looking away from the bottom of his mug, he mutters, "Show-off."

[titansleader]

Dick grinned at Batman, and slowly shifted his weight until he was balancing on one hand, holding it for a minute before flipping back down to crouch on the gargoyle, taking a sip of cocoa as he settled.

[trigon_jr]

Christmas Day.

Eddie stands in a graveyard, in front of a tombstone, with small bundle of roses in one hand. On the tombstone reads Marlene Bloomberg. Sister, Aunt, Loved One. Eddie places the roses at the base of the tombstone.

"It's the best I could get you, Aunt Marla, but I hope you like it." He smiles, sadly. "I didn't make it in Hollywood, but I'm a superhero now, see? A real one, just like Danny. I've even got a place to stay, Titans Tower. Can you believe it?" The tombstone stays as silent as ever. "I wish you were still here though. I wish Danny could see me, then he'd be proud of me. I hope you're proud of me too, Aunt Marla." Eddie kneels in front of Marla's grave and says a little prayer. "I've got to go now Marla. I need to go give a gift to a new friend of mine. I think you'd like her. Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah."

[blue_blackbird]

Raven watches from a distance. She transported him here but he wanted to go to the grave by himself, which she understands.

She kneels to meditate and clear her mind, but today she thinks of her mother and Azar, missing them and not being able to dismiss the loneliness.

[trigon_jr]

"Alright, I'm done now." Eddie calls out to Raven as he approaches. He pulls a little square case wrapped in blue with a red bow stickered to the corner.

"Here, I got this for you, for Christmas."

[blue_blackbird]

She opens it.

"Evan -es- ants?" She's been dead awhile. Probably a good thing she can only get the Daredevil movie on DVD as a director's cut.