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elrhiarhodanTitle: It Might Have Happened Like This
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Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey (Neal/Kate)
Spoilers: None, Reference to concepts from Season 1
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~400
Summary: An alternative theory of just how Neal got his hands on an empty bottle of ’82 Bordeaux
A/N: No beta. All mistakes are mine and mine alone.
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There are crimes, and then there are Crimes.
Stealing a Raphael - even if it wasn't a famous one like "St. George and the Dragon" is a crime (with a lower case "c"), using a $10,000 bottle of Chateau Petrus Pomerol '82 to make sangria is a Crime, one of the very highest order.
Yet that's just what those idiots did. They raided Daddy's wine cellar, grabbed a "bottle of red, a bottle of white" and went back to the party. The morons and dumped the contents into a punch bowl, added about a half-pound of sugar, a bunch of fruit, and some more sugar - because it wasn't sweet enough - and then proceeded to get plastered. Mummy and Daddy just paid the bills, apparently - they couldn't bother to attend.
Neal watched - his face carefully schooled against any sort of disapproval. He was only the hired help here - a waiter for these rich kids' graduation party (actually, he was here to case the place – Moz had gotten a lead on a set of very rare Roman coins. They’d be back another time for them).
They finished the sangria, and the kids went back downstairs for more wine. Neal wondered what their come up with next, a bottle of '82 Screaming Eagle? Thank goodness, no - Neal didn't think he could stop himself if they did that. This next bottle was another French Bordeaux - also '82, but thankfully not of the same quality as the Petrus. This one was probably worth about $700 - $800, and these little jackasses treated it as if it were boxed wine.
Inevitably, the evening ended - and while he had to stay and help with the clean up detail - he got stiffed. No tip, no payment for overtime. Just his $5.75 an hour for what? Watching a bunch of stupid rich kids behave like animals.
There was a bag with garbage - there were several, actually - but the one that was handed for him to take out contained the empty bottles for the lesser Bordeaux and the Chateau Petrus.
This changed the whole complexion of the evening. He'd sell the empty Petrus bottle - it was worth about three grand, maybe more, to the right person. The Bordeaux - that he'd keep. Kate would appreciate the irony.
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Author:
elrhiarhodanFandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey (Neal/Kate)
Spoilers: None, Reference to concepts from Season 1
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~400
Summary: An alternative theory of just how Neal got his hands on an empty bottle of ’82 Bordeaux
A/N: No beta. All mistakes are mine and mine alone.
There are crimes, and then there are Crimes.
Stealing a Raphael - even if it wasn't a famous one like "St. George and the Dragon" is a crime (with a lower case "c"), using a $10,000 bottle of Chateau Petrus Pomerol '82 to make sangria is a Crime, one of the very highest order.
Yet that's just what those idiots did. They raided Daddy's wine cellar, grabbed a "bottle of red, a bottle of white" and went back to the party. The morons and dumped the contents into a punch bowl, added about a half-pound of sugar, a bunch of fruit, and some more sugar - because it wasn't sweet enough - and then proceeded to get plastered. Mummy and Daddy just paid the bills, apparently - they couldn't bother to attend.
Neal watched - his face carefully schooled against any sort of disapproval. He was only the hired help here - a waiter for these rich kids' graduation party (actually, he was here to case the place – Moz had gotten a lead on a set of very rare Roman coins. They’d be back another time for them).
They finished the sangria, and the kids went back downstairs for more wine. Neal wondered what their come up with next, a bottle of '82 Screaming Eagle? Thank goodness, no - Neal didn't think he could stop himself if they did that. This next bottle was another French Bordeaux - also '82, but thankfully not of the same quality as the Petrus. This one was probably worth about $700 - $800, and these little jackasses treated it as if it were boxed wine.
Inevitably, the evening ended - and while he had to stay and help with the clean up detail - he got stiffed. No tip, no payment for overtime. Just his $5.75 an hour for what? Watching a bunch of stupid rich kids behave like animals.
There was a bag with garbage - there were several, actually - but the one that was handed for him to take out contained the empty bottles for the lesser Bordeaux and the Chateau Petrus.
This changed the whole complexion of the evening. He'd sell the empty Petrus bottle - it was worth about three grand, maybe more, to the right person. The Bordeaux - that he'd keep. Kate would appreciate the irony.
