Come Do the Happy Dance With Me!

Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places is FINISHED!!!!!!!!!!

Honestly, I didn't think this moment would ever happen, but I was going to do everything possible to make it so. When I put the story on hiatus again in early December, I'd planned on writing the rest of it during my vacation between Christmas and New Years, but that didn't happen. The muse - at least for this story - kind of packed her bags and went on walkabout.

I don't know if it was Promptfest, or the ficlets I wrote for Purimgifts, or the silly little WC100 drabbles, but something came unstuck. The muse came back, and she brought me presents.

I've always known how I wanted the story to end, but between canon and my own changed feelings, it was hard to find the path to that ending. But I knew that I had to do it, I had to finish this story that so many people have read and taken the time to let me know how much they've enjoyed it.

With that important goal in mind, I opened up the file a week ago Wednesday and just started writing. The floodgates opened and the words just poured out. About 21k in a week, including the nearly 7k I wrote on Wednesday. I finished the epilogue yesterday afternoon and have sent the story to my awesome, devoted and all-around fantastic human being and beta reader, sinfulslasher.

When she finishes her work on it and I go back over it, I will start posting the new chapters, week by week. There are five more chapters, plus the epilogue. But in the interim, since this will be a lengthy process and I can't promise when that will be completed (hopefully in a few weeks, but maybe a month or more), I'm going to start putting the chapters up on AO3 - probably two chapters a day, Monday - Friday, until the AO3 version is current.

I am relieved that it's done, and more importantly, I am very happy how the rest of the story came out. I hope everyone who's been following it will be just as happy.

Thank you.

White Collar Fic - Things Are Not What They Seem

Title: Things Are Not Quite What They Seem
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~1200
Beta Credit: None
Summary: An A/U where Peter is a retired FBI agent, and his friend and former mentor, Reese Hughes, has talked him into running for the Congressional seat that he's going to be vacating. Peter hires political consultant, Neal Caffrey, to help him navigate the shark-filled waters of fundraising.

A/N: Written for kanarek13's Photo Prompt 74, during the White Collar Meet Up in D.C., September, 2014. We'd just finished watching "Need to Know" and this was inevitable. The prompt is under the cut.

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