Numb3rs/White Collar Fic: Cut and Run
Written for whitecollar100 Challenge #054 - Sweat
Crossposted to n3crossovers
Title: Cut and Run (Sequel to Rounding Up the Pursuit Curves)
Series/Universe: Red, White and Two
Pairing/Characters: Neal, Billy, OC
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 300
Spoilers: Man Hunt (Numb3rs), Bottlenecked, Payback (White Collar)
Summary: Things get too hot in Hartford and Neal has to cut and run
Notes/Warnings: Read the disclaimer on my LJ
He'd been right not to stay in Hartford too long. The call came in as he was on his way out of town: Agent Cooper looking for him. Neal was grateful both that he'd paid off his temporary landlord well enough that he'd never spill and that it was the FBI who had come closest first. If he had to be caught he'd be much better off with them than with Matthew.
Matthew had persisted with the taunting messages, so much so Neal all but broke into a sweat every time a new voicemail or text came in.
Sometimes it was a picture of where Neal had been a few days earlier, sometimes a list of what he was going to do to torture Neal when he finally got to him.
Neal understood it was all just to psych him out, but whenever he mentioned Peter and Elizabeth...
Neal shuddered, feeling a chill despite the heater being on in the car.
There had to be a way to turn the tables on Matthew, to get him on the run instead of Neal. But right now all the cards were in Matthew's favor: he'd planned this, he'd found Neal's weak spot in the Burkes, he had all the resources at hand.
Neal was cut off from Mozzie and Peter and having been in prison for four years he didn't have any recent contacts left he could truly rely on.
"Damn you, Keller," Neal muttered as his cell phone went off again. It didn't seem to matter how many he ditched; Matthew always found him again.
Neal fought the urge to look, focusing on the road ahead of him.
It was a couple hundred more miles to Delaware and he needed to stay sharp.
It wasn't just his life depending on it.
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Crossposted to n3crossovers
Title: Cut and Run (Sequel to Rounding Up the Pursuit Curves)
Series/Universe: Red, White and Two
Pairing/Characters: Neal, Billy, OC
Rating: PG13
Word Count: 300
Spoilers: Man Hunt (Numb3rs), Bottlenecked, Payback (White Collar)
Summary: Things get too hot in Hartford and Neal has to cut and run
Notes/Warnings: Read the disclaimer on my LJ
He'd been right not to stay in Hartford too long. The call came in as he was on his way out of town: Agent Cooper looking for him. Neal was grateful both that he'd paid off his temporary landlord well enough that he'd never spill and that it was the FBI who had come closest first. If he had to be caught he'd be much better off with them than with Matthew.
Matthew had persisted with the taunting messages, so much so Neal all but broke into a sweat every time a new voicemail or text came in.
Sometimes it was a picture of where Neal had been a few days earlier, sometimes a list of what he was going to do to torture Neal when he finally got to him.
Neal understood it was all just to psych him out, but whenever he mentioned Peter and Elizabeth...
Neal shuddered, feeling a chill despite the heater being on in the car.
There had to be a way to turn the tables on Matthew, to get him on the run instead of Neal. But right now all the cards were in Matthew's favor: he'd planned this, he'd found Neal's weak spot in the Burkes, he had all the resources at hand.
Neal was cut off from Mozzie and Peter and having been in prison for four years he didn't have any recent contacts left he could truly rely on.
"Damn you, Keller," Neal muttered as his cell phone went off again. It didn't seem to matter how many he ditched; Matthew always found him again.
Neal fought the urge to look, focusing on the road ahead of him.
It was a couple hundred more miles to Delaware and he needed to stay sharp.
It wasn't just his life depending on it.
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