elrhiarhodan: (S4 - Mozzie (Confetti))
[personal profile] elrhiarhodan
Title: Here Be Dragons
Author: [livejournal.com profile] elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Mozzie (Friendship)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers:
Word Count: ~700
Beta Credit: None
Summary: Neal goes looking for Moz and is rather startled to discover his friend has a roommate, of sorts.

A/N: Written as comment fic for [livejournal.com profile] attackfish, back in September, for the Tropes Meme. Prompt at the end of the story.”

__________________




Neal finally tracked Mozzie down in Friday, his personal favorite safe house.

It had been more than a week since he'd seen or heard from him, and he'd become worried about his friend. It wasn't like Moz to go for more than a day or two without showing up at his apartment and helping himself to the best bottles of wine.

Normally, Friday was out of his radius, but he explained to Peter, who called it into the Marshals, after extracting a promise to tell him what, if anything was going on. Peter considered Mozzie a friend, too. If it wasn't for the fact that it was date night with Elizabeth and there was pot roast in the oven, Peter would have gone with him.

In retrospect, it was a good thing that Neal breached the confines on the "abandoned" warehouse near the Gowanus Canal without him, because what he found was fairly inexplicable, even by “Mozzie” standards.

Neal let himself into the warehouse and found his friend on his hands and knees, eye to eye with what looked like a small and very blue dragon, complete with slowly flexing wings. Neal blinked and shook his head, thinking to clear his vision. Maybe it was a kinetic sculpture. Or some rare and exotic stuffed toy. Or a hologram.

Because it couldn't be a real dragon.

He must have made a noise, because the dragon looked up, gave a squawk (complete with a tiny burst of flame) and fluttered awkwardly up to the rafters.

"Moz?"

"Damn it, Neal - do you know how long it's going to take me to get Cedric down from there? Do you know how long it's taken me to get him to trust me? You’ve ruined everything and now I've got to start from scratch."

Neal looked from Moz to the thing perched on an iron cross beam, the blue of its skin slowly changing to match the surrounding colors. As he watched, it became nearly invisible - only the slight motion of its wings gave its position away.

"What the hell is that?" Neal was getting just a little freaked out.

"Watch your language - it's just a baby."

"A baby what?" Neal was afraid to hear the answer.

"What does it look like? A baby rhinoceros?" Moz gave him that face. "A baby dragon."

Neal took off his hat and examined the inside lining, wondering when it got so worn. Anything to avoid thinking about what he just saw and heard.

Moz circled around the floor of the warehouse, collecting an odd assortment of things – a hard case with Cyrillic lettering stenciled on in (Soviet military surplus, most likely), a set of keys and cigarette lighter.

Neal watched as his friend started up a scissor-lift and raised it to the rafters. He had exchanged his horn-rimmed glasses for a set of infrared goggles (the contents of the case) and was scanning the area where the baby dragon had disappeared. Mozzie must have spotted the creature because he held out his arm and of all things, began to flick the cigarette lighter.

Neal gasped as Moz staggered back, crashing into the safety gate, his arms suddenly fully of a blue baby dragon. The scissor lift descended slowly, giving Neal time to adjust his world view. By the time he was face-to-face with Mozzie’s new friend, he pretty much accepted that there really were dragons flying around. And for some reason, it now seemed perfectly rational that Moz, of all people, would have one.

Moz stepped off the lift, the dragon wrapped around him and peering at Neal like the shy child it was.

“Neal – you’re not going to tell the Suit about this, right?” Moz was worried about the strangest things.

“No – I don’t think I am. Peter may be broad minded, but this is not something I think he’s really ready to know about.”

FIN


Prompt: Accidental baby acquisition. No one said it had to be human.

Date: 2013-01-25 02:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leonie-alastair.livejournal.com
I wonder how big dragons get?

Sweet ficlet.

Date: 2013-01-25 03:03 pm (UTC)
kanarek13: (Default)
From: [personal profile] kanarek13
Awww, a baby dragon :D And I totally agree that Moz would have one :D Awww. Love this :D

Date: 2013-01-25 03:16 pm (UTC)
ext_955120: (Default)
From: [identity profile] dizzydrea.livejournal.com
I could so totally see Mozzie having a baby dragon for a pet. My only question is: what's he gonna do when Cedric... erm... grows up?

Date: 2013-01-26 11:46 pm (UTC)
ext_955120: (Burke's Seven)
From: [identity profile] dizzydrea.livejournal.com
Okay, bizarreness here. I replied to this comment on my iPhone while I was at Peet's Coffee this afternoon, but the comment is apparently lost in the ether. /shrugs/ LJ is strange sometimes. Of course it doesn't help that, when I commented, I didn't realize I wasn't logged in at the time, so it's probably showing up as some random anonymous comment.

I got to thinking about this as I was sitting there, sipping my coffee. What I wouldn't give to see the look on Peter's face when he finds out that Mozzie has a full grown dragon that he's using as a blast furnace for his glass business. Now that would be funny.

And welcome back to the land of the living!

Date: 2013-01-25 03:21 pm (UTC)
embroiderama: (White Collar - Neal)
From: [personal profile] embroiderama
Oh wow, that's adorable! Mozzie should totally have a baby dragon.

Date: 2013-01-25 03:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabidchild.livejournal.com
That's just too fucking aDORable!

Date: 2013-01-26 07:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rabidchild.livejournal.com
There's no reason he shouldn't either...

Date: 2013-01-25 03:51 pm (UTC)
angelita26: (Matt!Laugh)
From: [personal profile] angelita26
Of course, Mozzie would somehow get a baby dragon! That makes perfect sense. And I loved Neal's reaction to it - it was very Neal. He took a moment to think it over and then accepted it. I adore him so much.

Thank you for sharing!

Date: 2013-01-25 06:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] traintracks.livejournal.com
Awww, Mozzie goin' all Hagrid. ;-) I love the detail of the cigarette lighter!

Date: 2013-01-25 07:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] florastuart.livejournal.com
Awwwwwww, Mozzie! If anyone would find a baby dragon, it would be Moz. :) And Neal's reaction is wonderful. This is adorable!

Date: 2013-01-25 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ultracape.livejournal.com
Oh, I don't know, I mean, what's one more little oddity for Peter to deal with in his non-relationship with Mozzie?

Very funny.

Date: 2013-01-25 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladyrose42.livejournal.com
Now we need the unicorn for Neal or maybe Elizabeth!

Date: 2013-01-30 08:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] love-82.livejournal.com
Yes, that would be Rainbow Sparkle Sunshine. It is a favorite of mine.

http://blackfic.livejournal.com/63794.html

Date: 2013-01-25 11:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] daria234.livejournal.com
:) so cute

and OF COURSE Moz is the guy to have one. That's the kind of dude he is :)

Date: 2013-01-25 11:53 pm (UTC)
ext_1374973: (Default)
From: [identity profile] miri-thompson.livejournal.com
Lol! Time will tell, I suppose, whether Moz has the dragon or the dragon has Moz. :D

Date: 2013-01-28 03:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] treonb.livejournal.com
Very cute! Mozzie would be the one to keep a dragon and actually know what to do wit it. I wonder what Neal will come up with to tell Peter.

Date: 2013-01-28 06:01 pm (UTC)
leesa_perrie: two cheetahs facing camera and cuddling (Mozzie)
From: [personal profile] leesa_perrie
Oh, this is sweet and so like Mozzie! And Neal, so adorable and so him!! Would love to see Peter's face if he saw Cedric!!!

Love how your mind works - the prompt doesn't say anything about the baby being human, so why not a dragon?! :)
Edited Date: 2013-01-28 06:02 pm (UTC)

Date: 2013-01-28 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morganslady.livejournal.com
OMG this is too cute.. Mozzie with a dragon...

Date: 2013-01-29 04:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hurinhouse.livejournal.com
ha! another conspiracy mozzie can now prove. i see moz as a liberator of all things scaled. :)

i love that cedric matches neal's eyes.

Date: 2013-01-29 05:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] pjna3.livejournal.com
I love this! Mozzie with a baby dragon. *nods* Makes perfect sense to me! Can't wait to see Peter's reaction. I can already her his long-suffering sigh... :D

Date: 2013-01-30 08:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] love-82.livejournal.com
This was cute! Of course Mozzie would have a baby dragon.

As for Peter's reaction, I think it would be great if he already knew about dragons and was more worried about what Mozzie was going to do with the dragon then that it actually existed. That was one of my favorite things about [livejournal.com profile] lionessvalenti's unicorn story. That everyone knew unicorns existed but Neal. :)
Edited Date: 2013-01-30 08:38 am (UTC)

Date: 2013-02-05 06:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] love-82.livejournal.com
Oh yes, I've saw it. I love that video! It fits them so well. :)

Date: 2013-02-04 05:42 pm (UTC)
saphirablue: (Neal)
From: [personal profile] saphirablue
DRAGONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *___* *flails*

♥ ♥ ♥

Thank you!

Date: 2013-02-04 05:52 pm (UTC)
saphirablue: (Default)
From: [personal profile] saphirablue
Yes. :) One of the best Dragon characters out there... :)

Profile

elrhiarhodan: (Default)
elrhiarhodan

June 2025

S M T W T F S
12 34 567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
2930     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jun. 10th, 2025 04:25 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios