White Collar fic: Port in a Storm

[sholio]

Title: Port in a Storm
Fandom: White Collar
Word Count: 5600
Summary: Section Chief Corinne Brauer of the FBI's DC office is having a very strange day. Set after the end of season five; spoilers for 5x13. Outside POV with Neal, Elizabeth and Peter.
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Comments

[zou2]

I so love this. Please do a follow up. I always love to see our boys through the eyes of a third party. This was wonderful and Corrine was cool.

[sholio]

Thank you so much! ♥ ♥ ♥ I'm really delighted people seem to like Corinne; she was an interesting character to write, and I liked getting her POV on our boys.

[sg_lab]

This was such a lovely outside look of these guys. When Corinne told Peter about Neal stealing her watch repeatedly and giving it back and he said it meant Neal liked her, I had a sudden memory of reading a question in some magazine asking why a friend's cat head butted her in the legs. The answer-'he likes you'. heh.

I really thought you did a great job of showing the relationship between Neal, Peter and El from Corinne's pov. Sometimes this format doesn't give me a satisfying show of the main characters from an original character, but you really did a good job of that.

[sholio]

Thank you so much! Heh, I think that's a very apt comparison. :) Neal is very catlike in many ways.

[aqwt101]

This was wonderful. So loved their mutual love and care there.

And I've didn’t realize how much I missed mischievous Neal. I think him repeatedly stealing things from Corinne was probably one of my favorite part:D Well, right after the image of Neal being draped first on El and then on Peter. Awww ♥ And Neal's need to find Peter and relief after hearing his voice ♥ Liked that Peter knew Neal didn't run and Neal didn't sound unhappy on a prospect of going back to NY, and El was ready to protect Neal from Corinne. All the notes in Peter's file were great. And I really liked Corinne, too.

And, like with your other post-5x13 fic, I find myself longing for more. I just realized that of course Peter would visit El in DC, and maybe he could sometimes bring Neal with him, too... Lots of possibilities.

Thank you for writing this.

[sholio]

Thank you! ♥ I love mischievous Neal too, and I enjoyed writing him like that. I'm really happy you enjoyed this. ♥

[pipilj]

I adore your fic. Loved that Corinne was an empathetic agent. Little bits like Neal pickpocketing her watch repeatedly and Neal's reaction on seeing the Burke's. It was fun reading an outsider POV on the relationship coupled with the notes from the FBI.
But Corinne had always believed that it was not just intelligence and courage that made a good agent, but also heart. Compassion. Caring. In her nearly three decades with the Bureau, she'd met quite a few empathy-impaired agents, and not nearly enough whose biggest flaw was caring too much.

It was very clear that Peter Burke was about as emotionally compromised by his CI as it was possible to get.

And it was equally clear, to Corinne at least, that neither one of them would change it for the world.

made me go all aww.

[sholio]

Thank you very much! ♥ I liked writing Corinne as someone who's sympathetic to our boys but still a little too tough to be entirely taken in by Neal's innocent-looking eyes. XD

[kanarek13]

Oh, thank you so much for this treat ♥ It was such a wonderful surprise to wake up :D

[sholio]

Thank you so much! Your comments are always lovely. ♥ ♥ ♥ I'm so delighted you enjoyed this! I haven't written much outsider POV in this fandom, but it's always fun to depict our boys through a stranger's eyes. They really ARE very strange when viewed from the outside. XD *cuddles them*