Fire and Flames

S6(e16)

I sat at the diner with sweets tabitha Archie and Cheryl

"Percival has started construction which is bad news for us specially, if it's not an ordinary train that he's building. Cheryl you called it" archie says

"A ghost train which would grant him dominion over the souls of the living and the dead" Cheryl says

"Which we can't just run around saying" I say

"Most of Percivals crew used to work for you archie can't you convince them to quit" tabby asks

"No way a lot of these guys haven't worked in months they'll take whatever they can get even if they're being exploited or abused" Archie says

"Which gives Percival the upper hand" tabitha says
"Which means fangsy is in for it" I sigh worried about him sweetpea runs my back
"He knows how to handle himself and he knows we got his back if it comes to it plus he has the connection" sweetpea tries to reassure

"For the moment he has the upper hand but now that he's got a crew he's breaking all the promises that he made to get them to sign up he's also 100% anti union" Archie says

"Of course he is unions literally unite people and United people are more difficult to control and Percival as we know is all about control" tabitha says

"And tweed" Cheryl says

"He's trying to break the workers spirits their resolve a lot of these guys have spent most of their lives working union jobs" Archie says

"Only if we could find them some permanent jobs in riverdale that they won't feel the need to work for Percival" I say

"Instead of finding them all jobs maybe I can do some old fashioned agitating remind them that Percivals values are the exact opposite of their own that he doesn't care about them we might be able to get them to vote to unionize" Archie says

"So that instead of quitting the workers would strike" tabby says

"So work on the railway would stop this could work I'm in" sweetpea says

"And once again we're in a battle for the towns soul what exactly can I do? Sing Bruce Springsteen covers? No thank you dua lipa or bust" Cheryl asks

"Ah no Cheryl but the blossoms and the Pickens have a long history of working together" Archie says

"For which I am deeply ashamed" Cheryl says

"Are there any family records or documents that you could raid for damning evidence we could use against Percival?" I ask

"As a matter of fact a friend and I are currently in the process of cataloguing the blossom archives I'll let you know if I find any dish or dirt ave" Cheryl says

'Thank you' I mouth

"Now can I please go" Cheryl asks standing up leaving

"And Archie if you really want to rally support against Percival one of my waitresses heard that Percivals apparently making his crew pay for their own coffee so why don't we head down there in one of my pops trucks and you know innocently hand out some free cups of joe" tabitha says and I smile

"Suggest they start hanging out here the headquarters of the resistance" I say

We get pops truck and go over there handing out coffee when I seen Frank pissed walking over i whistle to get Archie's attention "in coming" I mumble handing out a cup to fangs

"Cup of coffee uncle Frank it's free" Archie says

"This is against company policy" Frank says

"Calm down Frank we're just stopping by to let everyone know about a new special we're having at pops in honor of our new location" tabitha says