Tales from Gotham

Introducing Scarecrow

"Help! Help! HELP ME PLEASE"! The house is woken to a loud banging at the door and the scream that sounds like that from a little boy. The house is dark and everyone had passed out in the living room. Eddy gets up, still has his glasses on and walks to the door. He opens it "Please Sir! They are after me! Help me"! the little boy with long black hair runs into the house. Everyone is alarmed and get up and Penguin switches on the light. The boy slams the door shut. 

The whole house looks at the kid. "What are you running from" Edward asks. "Who are you" Penguin asks. The Monsters! They are after me, Fish has Hugo Strange and she wants him to cure her but to do so he has been experimenting on the rest of us, and I just cant take anymore" He says. I already had to deal with my fathers injections and still have nightmares"! he says. They hear marching outside and it walks past the house. They all wait in silence. "I think they left" He says. Edward looks at Penguin "Should we let him stay"? Edward asks. "Why should we"? Penguin asks. "Oswald hes only a boy, and knowing what god awful strange did in Arkham to you and the rest, do you really want to let them happen to another? Have you no Empathy"? Edward asks. "Fine, but you are going to work, and dont cuase any trouble, we already have Edward for that" Penguin says as he starts walking towards his room "Im going to bed" Penguin says. "Hey!" Edward says at Penguins comment about him. 

"Thank you so much" The boy says. Edward goes up to the boy and smiles "You are okay with us" He says patting his shoulder. Edward leaves and goes to his own bedroom. "You can sleep on the couch for tonight, we will figure out somewhere for you to sleep tommorow" Barbara says. She kisses him softly on the forehead. "Night honey" she says. Victor walks up to the boy "Dont wake up the boss Oswald, he gets super cranky but he probobly wont hurt a child" Victor says and smiles. "Good night" Victor says walking to his room. Everyone goes to sleep till the next morning. 

Next Morning:

Edward comes out early in the morning wearing green socks, a light green tshirt, and long dark green swearts and light green socks and walks out of his room yawning. He sees the little boy get up when he walks into the living room. "Good morning, sleepyhead" Edward says with a smile. "Hello Sir" The boy says. "Whats your name? Im Edward" He says crouching on his knees and putting his hand out to shake. The boy sits up and shakes his hand "I im Johnathan Crane" the young boy says to Edward. "Would you like to help me cook breakfast, I usually cook for the house" Edward says. The boy simply nods. "Good! you can be my little helper'" Edward says with a smile. Johnathan follows Edward into the kitchen. 

Edward pulls out all the ingredients and puts them on the kitchen counter. He pulls out some steaks, some bacon slabs, a giant carton of about 32 eggs, and a block of cheddar cheese, and some butter. Edward pulls out the pans, a wisque and spatula. "Now, I going to need you to first cut the cheese in half and grade half of it into a container and then I going to need you to break 12 eggs into a glass bowl under the cupboard" Edward explains. The boy nods "right" he says and he pulls out the materials and starts grating the cheese as Edward first starts cooking the bacon and puts it in a big wooden bowl, and than cooks the steak and puts it in the bowl. The boy had finished grating the cheese. Edward switching the bacon and steak to the counter the boy is at and says "Take out the steaks, and chop it into pieces" he says. "Right" the boy says taking a knife and starts expertly chopping up the steak into tiny pieces. The Boy had cracked up all the eggs and Edward takes the broken yolks and wisques them. 

Edward pulls out six plates. Edward drops some butter onto the pan and lets it melt after turning on the fire. It melts and he pours the egg in. "You know you are pretty good in the kitchen"Edward says as Johnothan had just finished cutting up the steak into bits. "T Thankyou" John said. Edward laughs "We have too many cooks in this house" Edward says with a laugh. He takes some bacon and cracks it in his hand dropping in the crumbs, and than grabs some of the steak and drops it in too and flips over the egg and lets it finish cooking. He does this about six times and puts an omlet on each plate and puts forks on each of the plates. "I Ill do the dishes"! Johnothan says. "Really? Thats terribly kind of you John" Edward says with a smile and pats his head softly "You are a good boy Johnny" He says with a smile. Johnothan is filled with pride. That was the kind of attention he wish he would have recieved from his father. 

Barbara had comes out of her room "What smells so good, Oh is Johnny helping you cook! How sweet"! She says wrapping her arms around John and pulling him into a hug. "Your such a good little boy" She says with a smile and kisses his head. "I hope you did a good job" Barbara says. 20 minutes later Penguin comes out, and Victor shortly after. Victor is shirtless and wearing long look black pants and barefoot. Penguin is barefoot too, his hair is a mess, and he is in long purple silk pjs. Penguin walks up to the boy as Barbara lets go of him. Penguin gives him a curious look. "Im Oswald Cobblepot" Penguin says. "Good morning boy" he says. "Good morning... Mister Penguin" he says. "You know who I am"? Oswald asks. "Everyone knows who you are sir" John says. "Good, then you know what im capable of" Penguin says with a smirk. "But I wont hurt you" Penguin says patting his head softly and walks to the couch and sits down. Johnothan is suprised by this. "See, Penguin wouldnt hurt a kid" Edward says with a smile. Victor sits down on the couch too and turns on the tv and flips to the news. Edward serves everyone food and Barbara and Edward decide to stand at the counter on opposite sides of the counter eating food. "Where is Jerome"? Edward asks. 

"Oh, he went out to do something, hell be back soon" She says as they eat breakfast. As she says that the door opens. Jerome comes in "Hey! Miss me"! Jerome asks as he is holding a bottle. Penguin looks up at him "Where you go"? Penguin asks. "Oh, I brought you a gift Mister cobblepot" he says holding a very exspensive Champagne. "You know I love a drink in the morning, Thank you" Penguin says walking up to him taking it and nodding. Jerome was wearing a loose red sweater and a black tank top under and long blue jeans and sneakers. I also go some clothes to change into "Jerome is also holding plastic bags and a overnight bag. He drops the bag by the couch and pulls out drinks and goes to the kid and gives him a tea. "Hope you like it" Jerome says with a smile and puts out his other hand to shake "Put it there pal"! He says with a smile. 

The boy shakes his hand "You can call me J" Jerome winks at the boy. John smiles at him. Jerome sits with Penguin and Victor and sits back "What you guys watching? News again? You guys are so boring sometimes" Jerome says with a smile. "Oh Barbs, I bought you a fireball!" Jerome says as he takes a can out of the bag and tosses it to Barbara. Barbara catches it. "Oh I love these! Thank you Jerome. "No problem Doll" he says. She snaps it open and and starts drinking it. Johnothan puts the can down on the counter "Thank you" he says shyly. He starts doing the dishes as everyone was served and starts eating and eats after he does the dishes and puts them in the dish rack and sits on the tall chair next to the bar as he eats his food quitly. Barbara and Eddy start talking about stuff that been happening with them, and Jerome, Victor, and Penguin are talking about politics as Jerome mocks certien articles and news reporters. Johnothan observes this curiously as he snaps open his tea and drinks some. "This was going to be a interesting house to stay at" he thought to himself.