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elrhiarhodanTitle: The Whole and the Sum of the Parts of Peter Burke
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elrhiarhodanRating: Mildly NC-17
Fandom: White Collar
Characters/PairingsNeal/Peter
Spoilers: None
Summary: A Week at Work with Peter, through Neal’s Eyes
Warnings/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~900
Disclaimer: I own nothing - but if I did…
Un-beta’d…all mistakes are mine.
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One of Neal’s favorite pastimes is daydreaming about the sexiest parts of Peter.
On Mondays, it is usually his hands. Neal starts with Peter’s palms, which are hard but smooth. In combination with long fingers, those palms are perfect for stroking his cock. Neal likes the feel of Peter’s smooth, dry hand dragging up and down the sensitive skin of his dick, and sometimes even better when Peter stroked him through is briefs. Peter keeps his hands well maintained – no ragged cuticles or jagged nails to scratch at sensitive skin when applying lube or stretching him or reaching for his prostate. Peter has a slight callous on the inside of his middle finger of his right hand, a relic of the years spent writing reports instead of typing them (or having someone else type them). He can make Neal come easily, just by rubbing that callous up and down his cock.
Tuesdays, Neal usually decides that Peter’s wrists and forearms are the sexiest. Elizabeth had a picture of Peter straddling a chair with his arms crossed over the back, sleeves rolled up. When he’s supposed to be reviewing mortgage fraud files and boring cold cases, Neal recreates that photo in a sketch in his head, leaving Peter’s body and face in outline, just mentally drawing Peter’s wrists and forearms in obsessive detail. Sometimes, and not only on Tuesdays, Peter takes off his jacket and rolls up his sleeves. If they are in the conference room with other agents, Neal sits there with his legs tightly crossed. Given how often Peter rolls up his sleeves, even on chilly days, Neal's pretty sure that Peter knows that he's trying to contain his erection.
Peter’s shoulders star in Neal’s Wednesday X-rated matinees. Neal doesn’t like guns, period. Full stop. But Neal likes how Peter’s well-worn leather rig clings so lovingly to those broad shoulders. Neal doesn’t daydream about being tied up with those leather straps, or Peter, shirtless, wearing just the holster. There is just something about seeing Peter in the holster, his button-down shirt and ugly tie that is just so damn sexy. Maybe the artist in Neal just appreciates the way the brown leather straps perfectly frame Peter’s pectoral muscles, separating them from the deltoids. Before Peter, Neal was never a biter during sex. But when he’s riding Peter’s ass, Neal likes to bite down on the apple of Peter’s shoulder as he’s coming.
Thursdays are for dreaming about Peter’s torso. Despite the deviled ham and Sugar-Os, Peter is in remarkably good shape for a man on the inside line to 50. While morning runs and pick-up basketball account for a general level of physical fitness, Peter puts in some serious time at the gym at the Federal Plaza office, workload permitting. Neal also goes to the gym, but not on the same days or at the same times Peter goes. At least, not after the first time seeing Peter do crunches. It’s too difficult (not to mention dangerous) to use any of the equipment when you’re sporting an erection hard enough to crack rocks. Although Neal cheerfully admits to impulse control problems, he can maintain a certain level of discipline when he knows he’ll be getting to the prize soon enough. He can tongue-fuck Peter’s navel until the man is mindless. It’s small payback for the times that Peter seduces/not seduces him in the office.
Fridays are the best days of the workweek, and on Fridays, Neal worships Peter’s face. Mornings start with his strong neck, solid jaw, and expressive but firm lips. Neal can watch Peter sip his coffee for hours – Peter’s lips pursing when taking a drink, his throat gently convulsing in a swallow, his tongue licking the coffee residue from the rim of the cup and from his lips. To Neal, it looks like Peter’s giving the coffee cup a slow, exquisite blow job. By mid-day, Neal focuses on Peter’s nose, eyes and forehead. Not as overtly sexy as his lips and tongue, but Neal often (and more than just on Friday afternoons) believes these are the sexiest parts of Peter. Sharp wit and fierce intelligence, appreciation and attraction shine out of those eyes. On Fridays, Neal will sit across from Peter, in his office, in the conference room, and watch Peter’s face, imagining them fucking without moving.
Neal’s daily admiration routine gets seriously disrupted one Monday morning. He sits in Peter’s office, admiring Peter’s hands (just as if it were any Monday) when those hands reach into a jacket pocket, pull out a pair of narrow framed bifocals and place them on Peter’s nose. Peter’s wrist gives a little twist on the sidepiece, to better adjust the fit. All of a sudden, everything shifts a few degrees from center, and to Neal, it is as if all of the air had been sucked out of the office. He can’t breathe or make a coherent sound, just a small, helpless whimper. Peter looks at Neal over the rim of his glasses, only to see Neal bite down on his wrist, hard. Without a word, Neal exits Peter’s office, walking awkwardly down the stairs, through the bullpen and into the men’s room.
Far from oblivious to Neal’s daydreaming gaze, Peter leans back in his chair and allows himself a small smile of satisfaction at seeing Neal finally crack.
Payback’s a bitch.
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Date: 2010-03-22 09:25 pm (UTC)yeah, I'm with Neal on this one: immediately and entirely broken in the best way possible.
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Date: 2010-03-22 09:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-22 09:35 pm (UTC)Loved this, very fun!
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Date: 2010-03-22 09:49 pm (UTC)I love the tone you maintain throughout this, like, it's just ~observation~, artistic curiosity and whatnot, until right there at the end.
Delightfully sexy.
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Date: 2010-03-22 09:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-22 10:56 pm (UTC)Now I don't have to. ^.^
It's wonderful to see some fics that dedicate themselves to looking at how lovely Peter is. He's not as 'pretty' as Neal -- his good looks are more masculine. I love your descriptions of Peter.
My favorite day of the week? Wednesday. Peter's shoulders = sexy, no doubt about it.
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Date: 2010-03-22 11:49 pm (UTC)It's Peter's gaze I love the best
Date: 2010-03-23 01:44 am (UTC)But Neal gets the entire delightful package including the package so his catalog was lovely to read.
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Date: 2010-03-23 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-23 04:35 am (UTC)Lovely descriptions of him. And his forearms...*drool*
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Date: 2010-03-23 06:12 am (UTC)That aside: this was lovely and artistically sexy. <3
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Date: 2010-03-23 11:59 am (UTC)Just beautiful! <3
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Date: 2010-03-23 03:46 pm (UTC)You really captured the experience of being completely in love and lust with someone here!
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Date: 2010-03-23 05:13 pm (UTC)Oh, yes: hands, wrists, forearms and the rolled up sleeves of a dress shirt. Guh!
Guh, again!
Peter is such a MAN.
OMG. Peter. In. Glasses.
*dies*
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Date: 2010-03-23 05:48 pm (UTC)Great job! <3
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Date: 2010-03-23 05:54 pm (UTC)I love how Neal's thoughts start out so elegant and end up so lascivious. Not that I blame him, and the last part is just absolutely perfect!
Ps. that Peter at the gym!fic needs to happen. Like, soon. ;p
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Date: 2010-03-24 12:16 am (UTC)I TRIED. I REALLY TRIED.
OH MY GOD THE SHOULDER HOLSTER AND THE LEATHER STRAPS AND FDJFDSGDJGK THE GLASSES AND THE OBSESSIVE MENTAL SKETCHING OF THE ARMS AND THE CHARACTERIZATION AND I CAN TOTALLY SEE NEAL DOING THIS.
...shit, I need to control my capslock button. BUT YOU WIN THE INTERNET, THE END.
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Date: 2010-03-25 12:10 am (UTC)I'm happy because I've made a good choice and it was so enjoyable.
I can just picture Neal watching Peter with lust in his eyes and Peter knowing about it but not saying anything.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
(ps: sorry 4 the unrelated icon. I'm new 2 the fandom so I haven't got a white collar one:P)
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Date: 2010-03-25 03:24 am (UTC)all of the descriptions were absolutely so vivid and i could picture everything in exquisite detail.
and the end PETER IN GLASSES omg I WOULD DIE TOO, NEAL.
<333
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Date: 2010-03-25 12:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-25 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-25 01:01 pm (UTC)Even if it's just a few strategically placed straps.
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Date: 2010-03-25 01:02 pm (UTC)Then the shower.
Mmmmm
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Date: 2010-03-25 01:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-25 01:08 pm (UTC)Anyone want to do a fanmix of Peter and What a Mighty Good Man for me?
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Date: 2010-03-25 01:09 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-03-25 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-25 01:17 pm (UTC)I've said it before - Neal is undeniable gorgeous, but Peter really reaches inside of me.
Re: It's Peter's gaze I love the best
Date: 2010-03-25 01:18 pm (UTC)Lucky, lucky Neal.
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Date: 2010-03-27 01:35 am (UTC)OOooh... PLEASE write that!
Date: 2010-05-10 09:19 am (UTC)Please, sweaty!Peter at the Gym...
All this time, I thought it was PrettyBoy!Neal for whom I lusted... Peter, though, has definite charms... esp. the way you write him.
Oh, and put your fic on AO3 so I can Bookmark it, okay? I see you have a username there, but nothing posted yet, and for some reason I can't get the "Bookmark off-site stories" thing to work for me... ::pouts::
Been re-reading all your Paladin-'verse fic, but the "chronological order" ISN'T... The supposed "first" in the Chronological listing has a reference to a "oprevious" story in the Notes at the beginning, for instance... So I'm re-reading in order-of-posting instead.
Re: OOooh... PLEASE write that!
Date: 2010-05-10 04:10 pm (UTC)As for my master list...the reference to the previous story is more that it takes place in the same 'verse as the story I had written earlier...not that the plot took place earlier.
Anyway - I am delighted that you've found my writing and are enjoying it.
I'll probably write a sweaty Peter story someday, it's on my list.
Elr.
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