Can you imagine how absolutely wild it must have been for Eliot’s students in The French Connection Job? Like, you come to this overpriced class that you don’t really care about and your teacher is a 5’5" angry wall of muscle who can spin a knife faster than you can see and tosses your phone in the water when you text during his class. But he only looks physically pained and moves on from the geek grinning over the laser so he’s probably not gonna kill you? Probably?
He’s a hardass, though, like the ultimate of hardasses and he has definitely killed before, so, you know, be careful.
But then you glue a unicorn horn ice cream cone to a plate and he physically crumbles like he cannot believe you are this stupid.
Oh and he and the geek definitely know each other. Only someone you care about could physically embarrass you that bad at your work. And the geek clearly knows something you don’t because he will propose the stupidest ideas just to get Chef Scary Guy to growl in his face with a knife and stay grinning the entire time like he knows he’s safe.
Okay, so maybe this chef’s actually a marshmallow? Like a crusty one, but sometimes you’ll do something right and his face will just light up with pride and you get this wave of relief. So maybe he’s gruff for show and wouldn’t actually hurt anyone.
Then opening night comes, and it’s chaos, and at one point a guy walks in and without looking up Chef Scary Guy tells him to leave if he isn’t gonna help. And almost faster than you can watch the guy is out cold on the ground and Chef is stepping over him shouting that he needs a medium steak and you don’t have the time to process this cause it’s the dinner rush. This happens two more times. There are three guys unconscious in the corner of the kitchen and the man who put them there is patting you on the shoulder and beaming with pride at how you roasted those veggies and just …
Wild. Absolutely wild.
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