Continued from Peter -- Strike (http://elrhiarhodan.livejournal.com/218920.html?thread=6668072#t6668072)
Mentions of child abuse:
I. Neal had never been able to figure out the puzzle of Peter Burke; how someone could be so self-assured, but still display vulnerability, how anyone could be so suspicious but caring of others, but he doesn't think too long on it, or try to put the pieces together, because he doesn't really think it's important.
II. Then one night, on a rare evening when Peter allows himself to drink a little too much, they start talking about fathers, and he tells Neal about the dark years of his father's alcoholism, and of the bruises and broken bones he'd explained away to the world -- and Neal wonders why he'd never figured this out before, and then he realizes that the only good con Peter could truly pull was the one that surrounded his family.
Neal -- Daddy issues Two sentences
Mentions of child abuse:
I. Neal had never been able to figure out the puzzle of Peter Burke; how someone could be so self-assured, but still display vulnerability, how anyone could be so suspicious but caring of others, but he doesn't think too long on it, or try to put the pieces together, because he doesn't really think it's important.
II. Then one night, on a rare evening when Peter allows himself to drink a little too much, they start talking about fathers, and he tells Neal about the dark years of his father's alcoholism, and of the bruises and broken bones he'd explained away to the world -- and Neal wonders why he'd never figured this out before, and then he realizes that the only good con Peter could truly pull was the one that surrounded his family.