White Collar Fic - Happily Ever After Isn’t For Guys Like Us - Part I of II

Title: Happily Ever After Isn’t For Guys Like Us - Part I of II
Author: elrhiarhodan
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairing: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Diana Berrigan, Mozzie, OMC, Peter/Elizabeth/Neal (OT3)
Fandom: White Collar
Spoilers: Specifically S3.04 - Dentist of Detroit; S3.10 – Countdown, allusions to other S3 episodes.
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~13,000 (Both Parts), ~6,000 this part
Summary: Set four years after Neal’s anklet is off, someone from Mozzie’s past shows up, and it could change everything.

Author’s Notes: Written for the lovely and generous damietta for her Queensland Flood Relief bid last January (she wanted case fic). This is so long overdue I don’t even know how to begin to apologize. Part II has been posted.

Beta Credit: My awesome trio of flying buttresses, coffeethyme4me, rabidchild67 and jrosemary. All mistakes are mine and my alone, and of course, your feedback is greatly appreciated.

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( It was a Sunday and the Upper West Side cafe was filled with locals enjoying their morning java. )

This Just Hurts My Brain and My Soul

I found this by way of Erastes' blog this morning.

Apparently GLBT people do not exist.

Linda Harvey, an anti-gay activist and lobbyist on behalf of Mission America, has announced that “there is no proof that there’s ever anything like a gay, lesbian, or bisexual or transgendered child, or teen, or human.”

“There are no such humans,” she added.

Following this quote through the various news sites and blogs that have picked it up, a lot of the comments say things like "she's never be on the internet, she's never been to [name of big city], etc."

I think what she's really saying that there is not there there is no such thing as GLBT people. She's saying that they aren't human.

It's 2011, why does this shit still happen?

And why am I not surprised that it does happen, either. Earlier this week, 14 year old Jamey Rodemeyer committed suicide after being bullied for over a year with taunts about his sexuality. The young man had even posted to the "I Gets Better Project" on YouTube.

You can listen to Harvey's appalling statement on Right Wing Watch.

This Just Hurts My Brain and My Soul

I found this by way of Erastes' blog this morning.

Apparently GLBT people do not exist.

Linda Harvey, an anti-gay activist and lobbyist on behalf of Mission America, has announced that “there is no proof that there’s ever anything like a gay, lesbian, or bisexual or transgendered child, or teen, or human.”

“There are no such humans,” she added.

Following this quote through the various news sites and blogs that have picked it up, a lot of the comments say things like "she's never be on the internet, she's never been to [name of big city], etc."

I think what she's really saying that there is not there there is no such thing as GLBT people. She's saying that they aren't human.

It's 2011, why does this shit still happen?

And why am I not surprised that it does happen, either. Earlier this week, 14 year old Jamey Rodemeyer committed suicide after being bullied for over a year with taunts about his sexuality. The young man had even posted to the "I Gets Better Project" on YouTube.

You can listen to Harvey's appalling statement on Right Wing Watch.