Title: Don't you hate when this happens?
Author: Ultracape
Rating: G
Characters and/or Pairing: Neal and Peter (Gen)
Warnings: Unbetaed
Spoilers: None.
Word Count: ~300
Summary: A great mystery from Neal's past is revealed.
A/N: at end
Neal dropped the newspaper he was reading and stared up at the bullpen with the look of a man who had just had an epiphany but with a self satisfied grin on his face. “So that’s why,” he mumbled, a little too loud for Peter who was bringing him a case file to peruse, not to hear.
“Nothing,” Neal said and quickly grabbed at the file to cover the article he was reading hoping that Peter wouldn’t notice his uncharacteristically clumsy attempt at hiding the evidence.
Hope died quickly with his smile as Peter took back the file and grabbed the newspaper, looking for the article Neal must have been reading.
“I don’t see anything here related to any forgeries, robberies or frauds that you allegedly might have had anything to do with,” he said scanning not only the page he thought Neal had been reading but the previous one and the next one just to be sure.
Neal leaned back and grinned up at Peter, “Actually, there is one crime on that page that I am most certainly guilty of and will confess to you with out any advice from my lawyer.”
Peter took another look and still did not see anything related to such a crime. Finally he dropped the page, “Okay, Caffrey, ‘fess up if. What did you do?”
Neal pointed at the headline his grin getting even wider and brighter, “Men Kicked Out Of Festival in Saudia Arabia For Being Too Handsome.”
Peter starred at the headline in disbelieve. “What? And what if anything does this have to do with you?”
“I could never figure out how come they would never let me into the country,” Neal laughed. “Now I know.”
A/N: When I read this article, I thought of only one person and simply could not resist.
http://www.mandatory.com/2013/04/16/men-kicked-out-of-festival-in-saudia-arabia-for-being-too-handso/