White Collar Fic - Nothing WIll Remain - Part One of Two

Title: Nothing Will Remain – Part One of Two
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Clinton Jones, Mozzie, (Peter/Neal)
Word Count: ~16,700
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: miri_thompson, coffeethyme4me
Summary: A near-canon A/U, where Neal Caffrey isn’t a forger and thief, but young Wall Street wizard who legitimately worked for Vincent Adler. He’s just out of prison, having served four years for investment fraud. He finds a job as a bookkeeper for Elizabeth Burke, Peter Burke’s ex-wife. Elizabeth and Peter have remained on excellent terms, and El wants to set Neal up on a blind date with him. But that’s not going to work as Neal’s past and Peter’s caseload collide.

Author’s Note: Written for my sweet friend sinfulslasher for Day Four of my 2013 Fic-Can-Ukah meme, for the prompt “I Was Meant to Be Someone Else”. She said “writer’s choice, but I love me some Neal angst.”

I should also note that Fic-Can-Ukah stories are meant to be short. In the original prompting post, I even said 300-500 words, knowing full well that most of these would be between 1000 and 3000 words. I was brainstorming with my enabler in chief, theatregirl7299, and she suggested that Peter and Neal are set up on blind dates with other people, but end up falling for each other. I didn’t think it quite met the prompt, but I loved the blind date idea. Next thing I knew, I had the makings of a massive fic on my hands. Seriously, if I didn’t have all the other fic-can-ukah stories left to write, this might just have ended up at 100k.

Title comes from the Oysterband song, “Someone You Might Have Been.”

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(  “El, I don’t want to go out on a date with your ex-husband.”  )

White Collar Fic - Nothing WIll Remain - Part Two of Two

Title: Nothing Will Remain – Part Two of Two
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Clinton Jones, Mozzie, (Peter/Neal)
Word Count: ~16,700
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: miri_thompson, coffeethyme4me
Summary: A near-canon A/U, where Neal Caffrey isn’t a forger and thief, but young Wall Street wizard who legitimately worked for Vincent Adler. He’s just out of prison, having served four years for investment fraud. He finds a job as a bookkeeper for Elizabeth Burke, Peter Burke’s ex-wife. Elizabeth and Peter have remained on excellent terms, and El wants to set Neal up on a blind date with him. But that’s not going to work as Neal’s past and Peter’s caseload collide.

Author’s Note: Written for my sweet friend sinfulslasher for Day Four of my 2013 Fic-Can-Ukah meme, for the prompt “I Was Meant to Be Someone Else”. She said “writer’s choice, but I love me some Neal angst.”


(  “The Suits are digging through your life, you know.”  )