Meme - Ask Me about A/U's I'll Never Write

[elrhiarhodan]

Okay, my flist has spoken, and the overwhelming winner of the Help Me Pick a Meme post was the "A/U's I'll Never Write" meme. Which is not a completely accurate title, since I've played this meme before and ended up writing complete stories for quite a few of the suggested A/Us.

So, here goes:

Give me an A/U and I'll write a few paragraphs about a story that I may or may not write.

Fandoms are White Collar, White Collar, and yes, White Collar. My brain isn't working well enough for any solo A/Us for my peripheral interests at the moment, but I will entertain crossovers with Lewis, Sherlock, Skyfall and Star Trek: AOS, so long as the primary fandom is White Collar.

And if you'd like, repost on your own journal and I'll play there, too.

Comments

[ultracape.livejournal.com]

Forgive me. I've never been quite sure what a meme is but here goes:
James Bennett was an F.B.I. agent instead of a cop. However Neal's mother tells him that his father was innocent and it was the corrupt F.B.I. that set him up. Neal becomes an F.B.I . agent in order to destroy it from within. However right out of Quantico he's assigned as a probie to Peter Burke.
or
Kate was really Peter's daughter from an earlier marriage.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

That first AU? YESSSSSSS

A Mission of Vengeance

[elrhiarhodan]

Neal hated guns. If he had his way, the Second Amendment would be stricken from the Constitution, no one would be able to own even an antique dueling pistol, and the world would be a much safer place.

But he couldn’t have his way and guns were a fact of life. They had to be. He was about to become a Special Agent of the FBI.

Just like his father. James Bennett died in a hail of bullets, a mob hit set up by his fellow agents because he tried to expose their collusion with the criminals they were supposed to be arresting.

Neal loathed everything about the Bureau: its image as the upholder of justice and the supposed incorruptibility of its agents. He knew better. His father died because the Bureau was riddled with corruption, its agents paid (and paid well) to look the other way as heroin and cocaine flooded into the country, as tons of firearms were sold to mobsters who waged their own private wars, uncaring of the death and destruction they wrought upon the innocent.


But Neal was careful to keep his cynicism hidden. The face he presented was the perfect mirror of the ideal agent-in-training: enthusiastic, loyal, patriotic. It wasn’t all that hard – Neal was intelligent and he had a gift for reading people that was almost uncanny. In more reflective moments, he wondered if he would have been better off becoming a criminal.

No – that wouldn’t work. He’d never be able to avenge his father’s death from the wrong side of the law. He had names – supervisory agents, partners, undercover agents – men and women who betrayed his father and were paid well for that betrayal. It was going to take years, Neal knew. Years of working at menial tasks, years of probationary service and then working his way up the ranks. Getting assigned to OPR was his ultimate goal – he’d have access and authority to see his justice done.

There was no statute of limitation on murder, and the murder of a Federal Agent in the prosecution of his duties was a capital offense.

His friend Moz, a Renaissance man and paranoiac (if those two qualities didn’t cancel each other out), was fond of dropping quotations and bon mots. When Neal was assigned to the White Collar division in New York, Moz simply said, “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”

Neal had no choice but to accept the assignment, which was considered an even better plum that a berth in the FBI offices in D.C. New York might just be a field office, but it was the largest and most prestigious. And Peter Burke, his supervisory agent was a legend. Even the most cynical of the higher-ups said that Burke embodied the FBI’s motto – Fidelity – Bravery – Integrity.

Neal was looking forward to taking down that legend, exposing the man’s flaws, his weaknesses. No one, especially an FBI agent with as much power as Burke had, was incorruptible.

Re: A Mission of Vengeance

[ultracape.livejournal.com]

Wonderful, Oh, this is terrific. Thank you, thank you. I love it. You sure you won't write this?

Re: A Mission of Vengeance

[elrhiarhodan]

I have definitely put this one my list of stories I need to write.

Thank you for the awesome prompt!

Re: A Mission of Vengeance

[sinfulslasher]

Ohhhhh! Such a wonderful set up! Yes, it did say set up. No, I'm not greedy. *g*

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[leonie-alastair.livejournal.com]

Ooooh! This needs more. *grabby hands*