White Collar Ficlet - Safe House (WC100 #13 - UNIT)

Title: Safe House
Prompt: White Collar 100 – #013: Unit
Author:  elrhiarhodan 
Rating:  R
Characters/Pairing: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Reese Hughes, and reference to Mozzie
Fandom:  White Collar
Spoilers:  Reference to 1.04, 2.03, 2.07
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: 300 Exactly!
Summary: Our Heroes Need Someplace Safe, Preferably in the Five Boroughs. Continues the Danger Series, set in Paladin ‘Verse. Picks up immediately after Oxygen

THE DANGER SERIES:

TARGET | HUNT | CASE | FILE | BACKGROUND | INTERROGATION | WITNESS | HOME | HOME 2 | FAMILY | FAMILY 2 | TEAM |

( WC100 - #013 - UNIT - Safe House )

White Collar Ficlet - Safe House (WC100 #13 - UNIT)

Title: Safe House
Prompt: White Collar 100 – #013: Unit
Author:  elrhiarhodan
Rating:  R
Characters/Pairing: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Reese Hughes, and reference to Mozzie
Fandom:  White Collar
Spoilers:  Reference to 1.04, 2.03, 2.07
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: 300 Exactly!
Summary: Our Heroes Need Someplace Safe, Preferably in the Five Boroughs. Continues the Danger Series, set in Paladin ‘Verse. Picks up immediately after Oxygen

THE DANGER SERIES:

TARGET | HUNT | CASE | FILE | BACKGROUND | INTERROGATION | WITNESS | HOME | HOME 2 | FAMILY | FAMILY 2 | TEAM |

( WC100 - #013 - UNIT - Safe House )

White Collar Ficlet - Examination Day (Wee!Mozzie)

I'm publishing this on my journal only.  From the prompt "Mozzie - Crystalline"  from gyzym , who was running out the door.

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Mozzie was twelve years old the first time that he successfully forged a signature.  It was for the application to take the entrance examination to the Bronx High School of Science, and his legal guardian was the sixth foster family he had in the last four years.  There really shouldn’t have been any issue about him taking the examination, except that he was going into seventh grade, not ninth. He was two years too young and the system that firmly believed in social promotion also eschewed academic promotion.   But Mozzie knew that if he had to do two more years of basic math and science, he’d go quietly insane.  And being insane before his pubic hair grew in was not a good thing, in his mind.

So, on examination day, Mozzie showed up at the testing high school with his “signed” permission slip, the appropriate quantity of No. 2 pencils (sharpened), and a blue pen for the essays.  The multiple choice questions were pretty generic, basic algebra and geometry, and the science questions were surprisingly elementary as well.  There was a fair amount of English and Social Studies questions, which were also way too easy for a twelve year-old who had read almost the entire 800 and 900 sections of the local library.*

The essays were fun, but also a little too easy for his tastes. Really, the only thing that surprised him was the “free essay”.    He had to stop and think for a minute about what to write.  He knew he needed to be careful and not give away too much, but the natural vanity of a genius overcame the ingrained habit of hiding his light under a bushel.  For the next hour and a half, Mozzie filled three blue books writing about the difference in the crystalline structure of diamonds and cubic zirconia.**

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*References the Dewey Decimal System - 800 is Literature, 900 is History
**Cubic Zirconia was invented in the early 1970s, and would have been big news right around the time that Mozzie was in Junior High School.  I had first thought of using Moissinite, but that had not been reproduced synthetically until the early 1990s.  Also, I have no idea if there is/was a free essay on the entrance examination.

White Collar Ficlet - Examination Day (Wee!Mozzie)

I'm publishing this on my journal only.  From the prompt "Mozzie - Crystalline"  from gyzym , who was running out the door.

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Mozzie was twelve years old the first time that he successfully forged a signature.  It was for the application to take the entrance examination to the Bronx High School of Science, and his legal guardian was the sixth foster family he had in the last four years.  There really shouldn’t have been any issue about him taking the examination, except that he was going into seventh grade, not ninth. He was two years too young and the system that firmly believed in social promotion also eschewed academic promotion.   But Mozzie knew that if he had to do two more years of basic math and science, he’d go quietly insane.  And being insane before his pubic hair grew in was not a good thing, in his mind.

So, on examination day, Mozzie showed up at the testing high school with his “signed” permission slip, the appropriate quantity of No. 2 pencils (sharpened), and a blue pen for the essays.  The multiple choice questions were pretty generic, basic algebra and geometry, and the science questions were surprisingly elementary as well.  There was a fair amount of English and Social Studies questions, which were also way too easy for a twelve year-old who had read almost the entire 800 and 900 sections of the local library.*

The essays were fun, but also a little too easy for his tastes. Really, the only thing that surprised him was the “free essay”.    He had to stop and think for a minute about what to write.  He knew he needed to be careful and not give away too much, but the natural vanity of a genius overcame the ingrained habit of hiding his light under a bushel.  For the next hour and a half, Mozzie filled three blue books writing about the difference in the crystalline structure of diamonds and cubic zirconia.**

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*References the Dewey Decimal System - 800 is Literature, 900 is History
**Cubic Zirconia was invented in the early 1970s, and would have been big news right around the time that Mozzie was in Junior High School.  I had first thought of using Moissinite, but that had not been reproduced synthetically until the early 1990s.  Also, I have no idea if there is/was a free essay on the entrance examination.