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elrhiarhodan ([personal profile] elrhiarhodan) wrote2010-10-03 04:30 pm

White Collar Ficlet - Safe House (WC100 #13 - UNIT)


Title: Safe House
Prompt: White Collar 100 – #013: Unit
Author:  [livejournal.com profile] elrhiarhodan
Rating:  R
Characters/Pairing: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Reese Hughes, and reference to Mozzie
Fandom:  White Collar
Spoilers:  Reference to 1.04, 2.03, 2.07
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: 300 Exactly!
Summary: Our Heroes Need Someplace Safe, Preferably in the Five Boroughs. Continues the Danger Series, set in Paladin ‘Verse. Picks up immediately after Oxygen

THE DANGER SERIES:

TARGET | HUNT | CASE | FILE | BACKGROUND | INTERROGATION | WITNESS | HOME | HOME 2 | FAMILY
| FAMILY 2 | TEAM |

Peter didn’t argue against the protective detail while he was in the hospital, which was mercifully brief. After two hours on oxygen, his breathing returned to normal, although his voice was raw and he had some trouble speaking. Which made arguing with Hughes difficult. He wanted to go back to the house and oversee the arson investigation, and Hughes wanted him and Elizabeth and Neal (yes Neal) in an FBI safe house - somewhere in upstate New York, under constant watch.

Peter had endured two weeks of protective custody after the shooting, and he wasn’t going that route again, but the fact that these bastards were targeting his home, which meant that El was now in danger gave him pause. Neal, too.

“Reese, we can’t go into hiding. El has a business, Neal and I have work to do.” Peter didn’t mention that the two of them had their own investigation they were conducting. But there was something resigned about his attitude. Then Neal caught his eye and Peter nodded at him to continue.

“Sir, I may have a better solution than heading into Back-Of-Beyond, NY.”

Hughes gave Neal the stink eye and Peter wanted to laugh. He grew up near Back-Of-Beyond and knew just how appallingly boring it was.

“Does your solution involve a certain paranoid individual who may or not be a licensed attorney and who may or may not have connections with organized crime in Detroit?”

Neal didn’t reply directly. “He may be paranoid, but that doesn’t mean that people haven’t been out to get him. He’ll keep us safe.”

Peter wasn’t sure that Hughes was going to go for this, but it was almost an ideal solution. So long as they weren’t staying in a storage unit.

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