White Collar Ficlets - Four Tiny Ficlets, Three Sentences Each

[elrhiarhodan]

Title: Four Tiny White Collar Ficlets, Three Sentences Each
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar, White Collar-Suits Crossover
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Sara Ellis, Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Mike Ross, Neal/Sara, Peter/Elizabeth/Neal, Neal - Mike
Word Count: ~250
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: None
Summary: As it says on the label, four tiny ficlets of three sentences, each. Written for the Three sentence fic-a-thon still going on at caramelsilver's journal.


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Fandom: White Collar
Pairing: Neal/Sara
Prompt: "Continental drift"
Prompted by: harmony_lover

Sara knew that what Neal said to her on top of the Empire State Building wasn't real, but she carried that feeling with her all the way to London. For three months, she nurtured the hope that maybe there was something beyond that conman's smile. But hope couldn't survive in silence.


Fandom: White Collar
Pairing: Neal/Peter/El
Prompt: "Loved by both of them"
Prompted by: scripps

His life had been rich, filled with amazing adventures, moments of great danger and times of fear. He'd experienced love in so many shapes and forms, he'd lost count. And yet, the grandest adventure, the moment of greatest danger, when he felt the most fear, was discovering that he was loved by Peter and Elizabeth and that he loved them, too.


Fandom: Suits/White Collar
Pairing: Mike/Neal
Prompt: "Intelligence"
Prompted by: scripps

It had always been a competition between the two of them - who was smarter. Mike insisted that he won, simply because he hadn't gone to prison. Neal just smirked and said, "Not yet."


Fandom: White Collar
Pairing: Neal/Sara
Prompt: "Truth"
Prompted by: saoirse7

He owed it to her and Neal was a man who needed to pay his debts, even when it took half a lifetime and a trip halfway around the world. Twenty years since they last saw each other, Neal tracked Sara down in a plush hotel lobby in Singapore where she was sharing a drink with a man old enough to be her father and he had no compunction about interrupting them, especially not after seeing her eyes light up when their gazes met. Neal dropped to his knees, took her hand and said, "Repo, you were always the one for me."

Comments

[sahiya]

I love these!

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you so much. If you haven't yet, you should check out the little fic-a-thon. Great stuff written, and a lot of excellent prompts to play with.

[joy2190.livejournal.com]

All great, but glad you kept the proposal last. Perfect ending!

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you!

I hadn't any plans when I picked the order for these - I put them in the order I wrote them. Just happy serendipity that the fake proposal was first and the real one last.

[daria234.livejournal.com]

These are great.

LOLOLOLOLOL on the Neal/Mike banter.

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you! It's such a great meme, isn't it?

[sinfulslasher]

Saw this and thought, "Oh cool, tiny tidbits of Elr goodness to quickly enjoy!" but then I looked a bit more closely at the header and saw...Mike Ross?!

You wrote Suits fic?! *brain explodes*

AND IT'S BRILLIANT AND PERFECT AND SO IC FOR BOTH BOYS!!!

Also loved the OT3 one. So bittersweet. *smishes them all*

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you so much!

Yeah, I wrote for the first and most likely, the last time, Suits fic.

[dizzydrea.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeee! You wrote Suits fic!

I've always had this picture in my mind of Neal and Mike chatting it up at a party, each giving the other a knowing smirk. You captured that beautifully in so very few words.

These were all just wonderful; complete stories even though they're only three sentences long. Honestly, I can't choose a favorite (though I'm sure you can tell which way I'd lean, if I did).

Well done, m'dear!

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you! I probably would never have written this, if not for the prompt - because as soon as I saw it, I had the whole thing in my head. All three sentences.

Thank you again!

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I love this kind of challenge, and all of these were neat-- complete little vignettes, despite the brevity!

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you so very much. Considering how wordy and verbose I've been of late, being about to write these short ficlets is a triumph for me.

[snowdrop3100.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

I am always amazed at how much story and emotion can be put into just 3 short sentences.
Really liked the way the "fake" proposal (which felt everything but fake when I watched the ep) and the real proposal worked as bookends.

Thank you for sharing.

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you so much. I really appreciate your comments, particularly how I have told a story in 3 brief sentences. That's a triumph for me, since I haven't been able to tell a story in less than 2k, and more often than not 5k or 10k, in the last few months.

[love-82.livejournal.com]

These are all great! I especially like the suits one. :) And the proposal at the end.

[elrhiarhodan]

Thank you so very much! These were a lot of fun to write.

[kanarek13]

I'm finally on my catching up spree *hugs*

All 4 are simply delightful, tiny masterpieces ♥ I can't even pick a favorite one, I'm just gonna tacklehug all of them :D \o/

[elrhiarhodan]

*Tacklehugs you right back!*