Elizabeth Burke didn’t want to see Neal Caffrey. Initially, right after they rescued her from Keller, Peter said she wasn’t up for visitors. She spent a day and a half in the hospital. Longer than typical for the broken arm and bruises she’d gotten trying to fight off Keller. It was probably mostly so the FBI could clean up her ransacked home and ( Read more... )

Three pops and Peter Burke went down. A red puddle immediately formed beneath him, dark and spreading quickly.

“Go!” Peter yelled, from the ground. Diana grabbed Caffrey by the arm and shoved, finding shelter behind the concrete construction barriers.

“Peter,” Neal whispered, shoulders jerking as if to go towards him.

“Caffrey,” Diana said. “ ( Read more... )

A lot of people assumed Neal had been horribly abused in prison. They usually guessed his good looks and youth would have made him a target. Neal rarely corrected them. No one needed to know that the Caffrey charm worked on inmates, too, or that the prison staff had been attentive to their jobs and didn’t tolerate much violence of any kind. Prison ( Read more... )

( Balk No Call Safe )

Neal Caffrey is still afraid of her. Sara doesn’t know how personal it is. Four years in prison may have convinced him that he doesn’t want to go back, but he doesn’t show much deference or caution to the FBI agent who holds his leash.

Peter, Sara likes. She doesn’t understand how he stands Neal’s constant preening and lying, or the occasional ( Read more... )

Title: The Trouble We Make Vs. The Trouble We Take
Author: vain_glorious
Fandom: White Collar
Wordcount: ~9,500
Rating: PG-15
Genre: Gen
Warning(s): Mild violence
Prompt(s): I am pretty sure this came from a prompt at CollarCorner, but now I can't find it.
Notes: Set some time after Point Blank.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Summary: El looks a lot like Kate. Kate's enemies ( Read more... )

“Peter, I didn’t do this.” Neal sat tensely in the chair, arms held together like he was still handcuffed even though Peter had taken them off.

“I believe you.” Peter cast an eye suspiciously back at the two-sided mirror where the other FBI agents were. He’d asked for privacy out of professional courtesy, but he thought they were listening. They ( Read more... )

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Title: Prodigal and True
Author: vain_glorious    vain_glorious

Fandom: White Collar
Wordcount :~5,000
Rating: PG-13 ( Read more... )

Neal Caffrey slipped through the warehouse door, holding the handle as it swung shut. It made a whispery sound as it closed, but no one else was there to hear it. The lights were on, which was kind of strange.

The entire interior stood illuminated before him.

It was very, very shiny.

Neal had to force himself to move and get to work.

He’d ( Read more... )

“Package for Agent Peter Burke,” the pockmarked bike messenger said.

The real Peter Burke was in the conference room, at a meeting Hughes had barred Neal from attending with a cranky “Out, Caffrey!”

So Neal had taken up residence at Peter’s desk, snacking on pistachios and accumulating a passive aggressive pile of shells he was going to store ( Read more... )