White Collar Fic - And They Called it "Puppy Love"

Title: And They Called It "Puppy Love"
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Diana Berrigan, Theo Berrigan, Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke (Implied Peter/Neal, Peter/Elizabeth/Neal)
Word Count: ~2600
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Excessive schmoop. Also: Puppies!!! Babies!!! Babies and puppies!!!
Beta Credit: sinfulslasher, theatregirl7299
Summary: A timestamp for Origin Story, or How Much is that Doggy in the Window. Worried about him, Diana takes Theo for a visit to Neal at his apartment on a Friday night after work. Neal isn't home, but there's a blue-eyed puppy hiding under his bed.

Author’s Note: Written for angelita26, as part of my Timestamp meme. She asked for a story where when Neal gets stressed or sick, he reverts back to puppy form. Perhaps it happens when an unexpected person is around to see it (Diana, maybe?)

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( They were fighting again, but about what, Diana wasn’t sure. She could see it in every line of Neal’s posture, in the tightness in Peter’s jaw. The pre-operation meeting this morning was all but overwhelmed by the unspoken currents of anger between them. )

Thirty Day Photo Meme - Day 8

Day 8 - A Photo Of Something Artistic


Personal Collection
September, 2010
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For almost twenty-five years, I’ve been collecting a type of porcelain often referred to as “Noritake”. It was manufactured by a Japanese firm in the early part of the twentieth century (I could recite chapter and verse, but I’ll spare you). You might recognize the name as a brand of dinnerware (there’s a lot of Noritake given as wedding china), I collected “fancyware” – pieces that were either decorative or served a function unrelated to dining, like these humidors. I consider them artwork. Not museum-quality, but artistic nonetheless.

What is interesting (at least to me) is that I purchased one as part of a set and the other as a stand-alone piece, thinking that they were identical, planning on reselling one (it has a little chip on the inside of the lid), but to my surprise, when I put them side by side, I realized that they were not identical at all!

What is also interesting (and probably only to me and fellow collectors), is that the backstamps (the origin marks) are different – one is from an older series, but which is which? I don’t have the slightest clue from the photograph.