In Florida, the family was all together inside a motel room watching a vintage movie. Until the phone rang.

"Turn that down!" Celestia ordered as she picked up the phone. "Hello?"

As Celestia was listening, she was astonished that they figured out where Flash is.

"They know where Flash is."

"Where?"

"He's in Smallville."

"Smallville?" Everyone yelped.

"Where Superman lives?" Snips asked.

"Yes!"

Celestia continued on the phone.

"He's scared; he's not a troublemaker." She said on the phone. "He used your credit card to check into the Plaza Hotel."

"Do they have him?" Sombra asked.

"Is he there? No, they're still looking. We’re on the next flight out. Thanks."

Celestia is informed by airport security that Flash is on the run in Smallville.

"We're going to Smallville, move it!" She ordered.

The others shout approval; everybody scrambles to pack.

"He ran away from the hotel when they questioned him about the card. He must be so scared, Sombra." Celestia said in worry.

"I wonder if he'd know enough to go to my brother's place." Sombra said.

"Aren't they in Paris?"

"Maybe they have a house sitter."

"I thought you said they were renovating."

Meanwhile in Smallville, Flash was looking for his Uncle Mac's house. He looked at the booklet and see's his address, which was right in front of him.

As he walks right in...

"Hello?! Uncle Mac! Aunt Sugar Belle!" He called.

He looked around to see that the house was completely empty and abandoned.

"Anybody home?! Hello! Anybody home? It's me, your favorite nephew, Flash! Uncle Mac! Aunt Sugar Belle!"

Now Flash didn't know what to do now. So, he walked around the streets with creepy people. He walks pass and bumps into them.

"Watch it, kid!"

"You looking for someone to read you a bedtime story?"

Then he sees a taxi drive by.

"Taxi!"

He raced into the car.

"Boy, It's scary out there." He breathed.

Then the driver with a scared face turns his head towards him.

"Ain’t much better in here."

Flash rushes out of the car and runs into the park.

"I don't ever want to take a vacation like this again." He told himself.

He pulled out a packaged cookie, unwrapped it, and munched into it.

"Meow!"

He turns to see a cat standing on the rock he was sitting by. he decided to feed it to it. Then more came.

"Where did you come from?" Flash wondered. " I don't have enough for everybody. How hungry are you guys? You guys ate all my food.

Suddenly came the same woman who he saw at the park yesterday. Flash screamed, as he tried to get away, he noticed his leg was caught.

He tried to pull it out as she got closer and closer, but then she took his foot and pulled it right out. Then Flash ran off.

But then he stopped. He turned around and goes back.

"Look, I'm sorry I screamed in your face. You were trying to help me, right?" He said to her. "I'm Flash Sentry. Your cats are real nice. I’ve seen you before. You had cats all over you. At first, you look scary, but when I think about it, it's not so bad. They must like you to be all over you."

Still, she stayed silent.

"If I'm bothering you, I can leave. Am I bothering you?" Flash asked.

"No." She finally said.

"Good. I'm not a pain in the butt?"

"No."

"Will the cats come back on their own or do you call them?"

Then she comes to Flash.

"Give me your hand." She said as he puts crumbs in his hand.

Then he spills it on the ground. Then the cats come like a group of pigeons and ate them off the ground.

"This is great!" Flash said. " It's pretty cold out. I'd sure like a cup of hot chocolate. How about you? My treat. I'd hate to spend Christmas Eve in such a park. Can we go someplace warm?"

"Yes. I know a place." She said.

"Wait, I don't even know your name."

"I'm Selina...Selina Kyle."

At an orchestra rehearsal, Flash and Selina were watching from the balcony area.

"Nice music. This place is great." Flash said.

"I’ve heard the world's great music from here." Selina said. "Ella Fitzgerald. Count Masie. Frank Sinatra. Luciano Pavarotti."

"Do you bring your friends here?" Flash asked.

"I haven't got many friends. I'm like the cats I care for." Selina explained. "Back in Gotham, people pass me in the street. They see me but they try to ignore me. They prefer I wasn't in their city."

"Wait, you're from Gotham? What are you doing here in Smallville?"

"Oh, I thought I'd take a little vacation from...it's hard to explain." She didn't want to reveal who she truly is.

"It's like that with my family. I'm like the pigeon of the house, just because I'm the youngest."

"Everyone fights for position. Everyone wants to be seen and heard."

"I guess so. I'm seen and heard pretty much. But I get sent to my room a lot too. I wasn't always like this. What were you like before?"

"I had a job. I had a home. – I had a family."

"Any kids?" Flash asked.

"No. I wanted them." Selina answered. "But the man I loved....we had differences. I could've married him but...we all had differences. And sometimes differences don't match up with a relationship. So, we broke up. That broke my heart. When the chance to be loved came along again...I ran away from it. I stopped trusting people."

"No offense, but that seems like sort of a dumb thing to do."

"I was afraid of getting my heart broken again. Sometimes you can trust a person....and then, when things are down, they forget about you."

"Maybe they're just too busy. Maybe they don't forget about you, but they forget to remember you." Flash told her. People don't mean to forget. My grandfather says...if my head wasn't screwed on, I'd leave it on the school bus."

"I'm just afraid if I do trust someone, I'll get my heart broken."

"I understand. I had a nice pair of Rollerblades. I was afraid to wreck them, so I kept them in a box."

"Do you know what happened?"

"I outgrew them. I never wore them outside. Only in my room a few times."

"A person's heart and feelings are very different than skates." Selina giggled.

"They're kind of the same thing."

"If you won't use your heart, who cares if it gets broken? If you just keep it to yourself, maybe it'll be like my Rollerblades. When you do decide to try it, it won't be any good. You should take a chance. Got nothing to lose."

"Little truth in there somewhere." Selina said.

"I think so. Your heart might still be broken, but it isn't gone. If it was gone, you wouldn't be so nice."

"Thank you. Do you know it's been... ...a couple of weeks since I’ve talked to anybody?"

"That's okay. You're good at it." Flash smiled. " You're not boring. You don't mumble or spit. You should do it more often. Just wear an outfit with no cat poop on it."

They both laugh.

"I have been working very hard at keeping people away. I always think I'll have a lot of fun if I'm alone, but when I'm alone, it's not fun." Selina said.

"I don't care how much people bug me; I'd rather be with someone than alone." Flash replied.

"So, what are you doing running around the streets alone on Christmas Eve?" Selina asked. "Did you get into trouble?"

"Yeah."

"You did something wrong?"

"A lot of things."

"Did you know that a good deed erases a bad deed?"

"It's late. I don't know if I'll have enough time to do enough good deeds to erase all my bad ones."

"It's Christmas Eve. Good deeds count extra tonight." Selina replied.

"They do?"

"Of course they do. Think of an important thing you can do for others and go do it. Just follow the star in your heart."

"Okay. It's getting pretty late. I'd better get going. If I don't see you, I hope everything turns out okay."

"Thank you."

"Tell the Cats I said goodbye."

"Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas."

"If you need somebody to trust, it can be me. I won't forget to remember you." Flash told Selina.

"Don't make promises you can't keep." She reminded him.

As Flash left, Selina went over and opened her box, revealing a latex suit with a cat mask.

Meanwhile, Flash was walking down the streets, hearing the Christmas carols playing. Then he looks up at a kid who is looking out the window giving a sign language saying "Merry Christmas".

Then he remembered something...

"All the money in the registers Mr. Pear is gonna donate to the Children ‘s Hospital."

"At midnight tonight, we’re hitting Duncan ‘s Toy Chest."

"You can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas." Flash said to himself.

Then he ran all the way back to his Uncle's abandoned house for a plan.

Author's Note

Trivia:

.Selina a.k.a Catwoman was mentioned a part from "Batman: Hush" where Batman and her had a difference of wanting Hush dead.