White Collar Fic - We Shall Come Home - The World is Getting Stranger

Title: We Shall Come Home – The World is Getting Stranger
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Reese Hughes, Original Characters
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~3,300
Beta Credit: None
Summary: A timestamp to my first epic story, We Shall Come Home (AO3 link to complete story). In the original story, Peter and Neal had been transformed into dogs and had to make their way back to civilization. Towards the end of their journey, they’d become separated and Neal was terribly injured – to the brink of death. But love – Peter’s love – saves him in the very last heartbeats of his life. This is the story of what happens immediately after that final scene.

A/N: A thank-you gift for my dear friend, kanarek13, for all of her hard work illustrating my Big Bang story (and for everything else she does). Back in June, when I did a timestamp meme, she asked for a small timestamp to We Shall Come Home: "Right after Neal was turned back, he was so weak and lying nekkid in Peter's arms, I'd love to see some caring and protective Peter there, after all, he got his Neal back.”

Title from the Oysterband song, “We Shall Come Home”.

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(  Peter couldn’t take his hands off of Neal, he was afraid that if he lost that contact, he’d lose Neal forever. It wasn’t entirely a foolish thought – he could still feel the magic in the air, it made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. )