White Collar Fic - A Life Less Ordinary - Master Post

[elrhiarhodan]

Title: A Life Less Ordinary – Master Post
Author: elrhiarhodan
Artist : sexycazzy
Art Post: Check it out!
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R with NC-17 Moments
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Satchmo Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Other Male Characters, Peter/Elizabeth, Peter/Neal, Elizabeth/Neal, Peter/Elizabeth/Neal, Peter/Elizabeth/OMC (past).
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Reference to prior emotional, physical and sexual abuse, rape
Word Count: ~28,000
Beta Credit: coffeethyme4me
Summary: In an alternate universe, Neal Caffrey is not the world’s greatest con artist, forger and thief. He’s a veterinarian. Peter Burke may still be the world’s greatest FBI agent, but his career in on hold. He was shot, point blank, six times and his recovery has been slow – but aided in part by the yellow Lab he and Elizabeth have adopted.

Peter and Elizabeth have a very special marriage – they have, on many occasions, let others into their life and their bed. But during Peter’s recovery, it’s been just the two of them.

Neal and Peter meet, the attraction is instant, and it’s the same when Elizabeth and Neal meet, too. While the Burkes want to make Neal part of their lives, Neal has a past, one that still has the power to hurt him.

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Part One: On DW | On LJ
Part Two: On DW | On LJ
Part Three: On DW | On LJ
Part Four: On DW | On LJ

Comments

[pooh-collector.livejournal.com]

I can't read this until tonight, BUT I CAN'T WAIT. I think you are my holiday angel gifting me with wonderful fic.

[elrhiarhodan]

D'aaaaw.

Thank you so much!

I hope you enjoy it.

[sinfulslasher]

Oh, for crissakes, this is the first time I get online today (and it's already evening for me) and I check my flist and see this and have the instant urge to binge-read the whole thing!

I NEED THIS FIC IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW. *happy flails at mere plot idea*

This is sooo going to be my reward for finishing my advent fic tomorrow! *wibbles impatiently*

[elrhiarhodan]

Awwww, thank you!

Go, go finish your fic, then read!

[sinfulslasher]

Easier said than done, trust me. *despairs* *glares at Muses* *despairs some more*

Fair warning, there might be some last minute panicking being sent your way via PM or email tomorrow. Eeek. /o\

But! Nice reward is waiting for me. :D

[ultracape.livejournal.com]

So I saw this posted early today and decided to wait until after I finished my work to just sit, relax and savor. I definitly savored and I already copied it into my Kindle to savor again and again.

I loved Mozzie's take charge attitude with Neal and the way you weaved the the cannon mythology into your own. Keller as a dirty F.B.I. agent was absolutely perfect.

I also could feel that if Keller weren't already dead, well, I can't see Peter killing someone not in the line of duty but Keller would not be happy about encounter.

It's also very believable that Neal would be so afraid, not only for himself but for any potential partners.

Thank you for writing the story.

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you so very much for your lovely and very thoughtful feedback.

When I first conceived this story, Matthew Keller wasn't dead and had come back to hurt Neal. There was going to be a very tense moment with guns and such, but I decided to take the story in a different direction - make it more about recovery than pain.

[lauracollared.livejournal.com]

omg I am dumb and didn't realize all the parts were posted at once! AAAAAHHHH time to read more tonight!

[elrhiarhodan]

No problem - you were too enthralled to see the continuation links :D

And I to tend to post over successive days - but because this was a BB, I had to post all at once.

Hope you love the rest.

[lauracollared.livejournal.com]

Haha, yep! (And the conference keeps me tied up --- sadly not in a good way ;p)
I will read the rest tonight! Yay!

[ivorysilk]

This was wonderful--I read it all in one sitting, and it was moving and involving and filled with angst and emotion. Lovely.

[winterstar95.livejournal.com]

I have to say this is an amazing fic and I am so glad that you went ahead and finished it. It is fresh original and Neal's hesitation and pain are just so 'in the gut'. I hope you revisit this verse at some time and gives us more. Really a lovely fic.

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you so much - for your initial read and cheerleading and coming back to this and reading the rest.

And yes, the next part is already in my head - because it needs its sexietiems.

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you so much - I've agonized over this story for well over a year. I was concerned that it was too a/u - that people wouldn't want to read a story where Neal wasn't a criminal.

[meeni (from livejournal.com)]

i really enjoyed reading it..

the pain and the recovery..the instant attraction,hesitation was delight

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you so very much - this fic does have so many of my favorite things.