Flash Fic: Just One Small Favor (Equalizer, All in the Family, PG-13 for racial epithets)

[jeriendhal]

McCall parked his black Jaguar along the street in the Astoria section of Queen, along a line of small shop fronts. Shrugging his black overcoat in place, he strode through the door of the bar, which sat underneath a sign that simply read "Archie's Place". As he had planned, it was just after opening and there were no customers inside yet, though the barman, a short, heavyset, balding man was already behind the bar.

"Mr. Bunker?" McCall asked in a clipped tone, pulling out a card from his coat's inner pocket and presenting it. "I'm Robert McCall. My friend Mickey said you might be in need of some assistance."

The barkeep squinted at the card and compared it to the one he fished out from the front of his white shirt. "Yeah, Mickey said he'd talk to youse." He ignored McCall's outstretched hand. "He didn't say nothin' about youse bein' a faggoty English guy though. What're supposed t' be, James Bond's grandpa?"

McCall ignored that, recalling Mickey's warning Archie is kinda rough around the edges,but he's an okay guy. "He said you were having some problems with the Mafia?"

Bunker nodded. "Yeah! I got dagos running all over the place, threatening to torch my bar! It was bad enough when they burned up Chang's laundry. They're nice folks, even if they are chinks. Took over the place when that loudmouthed darkie Jefferson moved uptown."

"Yes, Mickey told me. Why don't you tell me what happened exactly, everything you can recall." McCall sat down at the bar and prepared to take mental notes, all the while thinking, Mickey, you're going to owe me for this one.

The End

Comments

[seawasp]

You're very sick. I like that about you.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Thank you, sir!

[allah-sulu.livejournal.com]

I loved it.

I also find it amusing that this guy is a bigger fan of the Jeffersons than Archie Bunker...

[estokien.livejournal.com]

So it worries me a bit that my main thoughts were, wait, I don't think Archie owned the bar until the All in the Family sequel, Archie Bunker's Place, also some of Archie's speech seems off, maybe, "They're nice folks, for a buncha chinks. I don't think he'd use the word darkie either, but I forget what he did use, slang has changed a lot since then.

But that's a lot of nitpicking for such a short piece. ;->

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Well, he'd probably use the N word, but I was trying to avoid that. Thank you though.