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Title: Choose Wisely – The Secret History of Neal Caffrey
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar, Kingsman
Rating: NC-17 (for mature themes, language)
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey (White Collar), Harry Hart (Kingsman), Merlin (Kingsman)
Spoilers: Slight character spoiler for Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~3100
Beta Credit: None
Summary: Harry offers Neal a choice - a once in a lifetime opportunity. One that Neal has no intention of turning down.

A/N: Slight character spoiler for Kingsman: The Golden Circle

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(  Harry hadn't expected to enjoy this so much. No, that is a lie. He'd hoped that the reveal would satisfy his inner drama queen, but he hadn't realized just how much he'd been looking forward to seeing his quarry cornered. )

Title: The Slow Burn of Anger
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: The Flash (2014)
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Cisco Ramon, Harrison Wells, Barry Allen, Harrison/Barry
Word Count: ~5500
Spoilers: None for current season, takes place shortly after S1.07 (Power Outage), but mentions events displayed in S1.17 (Tricksters)
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: theatregirl7299
Summary: Part Two of The Seduction of Barry Allen. Harrison Wells is having a very bad day, and takes his anger out on Caitlin, Cisco and Barry. But Barry – being Barry – isn't the type to give up on a friend. Until he has no choice.

Author’s Notes: I still haven't finished watching Season One – so there are probably more than a few inaccuracies in canon. See end notes for an explanation for one very story-spoilery canon inaccuracy.

To my White Collar friends who might be intrigued, this pairing presses all of my Neal/Adler buttons big time. A quick primer on Barry and Harrison can be found here.

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(  The first piece had been played. The hint of vulnerability underneath a firm hand of control. And Barry Allen responded so beautifully it took his breath away. )

Title: If Nothing is Given, Then Nothing is Required
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Satchmo; Peter/Elizabeth, Pre-Peter/Neal, Neal/Kate
Word Count: ~5000
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Reference to possible hard drug usage
Beta Credit: None
Summary: Set very early in Season One, between Pilot and Flip of the Coin. Peter and Neal are still feeling their way through their very complex relationship, when Peter gets a call from the Marshals. In the wee small hours of the morning, Neal crossed out of his radius three times and the Marshals want to know why. So does Peter.

Author’s Note: Written for runthecon, from a tag from pooh_collector, "In the Bathtub". I do have to admit, this probably isn't what Pooh was expecting. But then I remembered an exchange between Tim and Matt in the March 2010 Webcast. See endnotes for the exact quotation.

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( The buzzing feeling that was taking over his brain had become an all-to-common sensation since he'd retrieved Neal Caffrey from Sing-Sing on a sunny afternoon a few weeks ago. )

Title: Orchestration – Second Movement (Allegro)
Author: elrhiarhodan
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairing: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Reese Hughes
Fandom: White Collar
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta: sinfulslasher
Word Count: ~3600 (Work in Progress)
Summary: A White Collar A/U set in 18th Century Vienna. Neal is a composer struggling with the orchestration of his greatest work, and one of the most scandalous ever written. Peter Burke, a wealthy English nobleman, has come to him with an intriguing offer – to fund the production of that opera. But Neal is wary and becomes even warier when he's summoned to the Burkes' quarters by Lady Elizabeth Burke.

Earlier chapters: Orchestration – Prelude (Andante) | Orchestration – First Movement (Adagio).

Author’s Note: Written for my dearest friend, theatregirl7299, on the occasion of her birthday. She has been waiting so patiently for me to continue this work-in-progress and eventually, I just may finish it. Eventually.

I hope you have had a wonderfully special birthday, my friend.

Additional author's notes at the end.

Artwork by kanarek13




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( Neal handed the card he'd received to the footman who guarded the door to the Burkes' quarters and waited while the man went to find out if he'd be admitted. )

Title: Weep to Break the World – Part Two
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Reese Hughes, Diana Berrigan, Clinton Jones, Neal Caffrey, June Ellington, OMC; Pre-Peter/Neal, past Neal/Kate
Word Count: ~14,000 (two parts)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Mention of canon death of canon character
Beta Credit: sinfulslasher
Artwork: kanarek13
Summary: An A/U riff on Pilot, where Neal is not successful in his attempt to break out of prison. Peter goes to Sing-Sing to deal with the fallout. It is, once more, the start of a very beautiful friendship.

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( Weep To Break the World, Part Two )

Title: Orchestration - Prelude (Andante)
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Reese Hughes, Mention of Neal Caffrey, Alex Hunter, Peter/Elizabeth
Word Count: ~1400
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: None
Summary: The prequel to Orchestration - First Movement (Adagio), an A/U set in Vienna, Austria, in the lat 18th century, around the time of Mozart. Neal is an impoverished and struggling composer who has written a rather scandalous libretto, La Rivalité des Cygnes, an opera that can never be publicly produced. Peter Burke, a wealthy second son of an English noble, and his wife, the Lady Elizabeth, may have an offer for him.

Author’s Note: Written for my dear friend, theatregirl7299, who has been waiting so patiently for me to continue this work-in-progress. She prompted me for it on my recent Timestamp Meme

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( Peter Burke, second son of the Earl of Brooklynd, liked for people to think he was a man of simple tastes, simple thoughts. )

Title: We Rise Where Shadows Fall – Part Five
Artist: Nioell
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mozzie, Clinton Jones, Lauren Cruz, Kyle Bancroft, Original Characters; Peter/Neal, past Neal/Adler, past Peter/Elizabeth (marriage of convenience), Peter-Elizabeth friendship
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~41,000
Beta Credit: coffeethyme4me, miri_thompson, theatregirl7299.
Summary: Neal, a former employee of Vincent Adler – and the only person from Adler’s organization to serve jail time – has agreed to help the FBI find Adler. Peter Burke, the case agent assigned to the Adler case, is worried about Neal’s safety and doesn’t trust the Marshals, so he’s keeping him close at hand. The attraction between the two men grows as they learn about each other and everything comes to a head when Neal finally shares a devastating secret.

Title from the Oysterband song, “Rise Above”.

Written for Round One of the wc_reverse_bb.


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(  They made it down to the street before Neal burst out laughing. “I can’t believe Stan was really that stupid.” He had to lean against the building to catch his breath. )

Title: We Rise Where Shadows Fall – Part Three
Artist: Nioell
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mozzie, Clinton Jones, Lauren Cruz, Kyle Bancroft, Original Characters; Peter/Neal, past Neal/Adler, past Peter/Elizabeth (marriage of convenience), Peter-Elizabeth friendship
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~41,000
Beta Credit: coffeethyme4me, miri_thompson, theatregirl7299
Summary: Neal, a former employee of Vincent Adler – and the only person from Adler’s organization to serve jail time – has agreed to help the FBI find Adler. Peter Burke, the case agent assigned to the Adler case, is worried about Neal’s safety and doesn’t trust the Marshals, so he’s keeping him close at hand. The attraction between the two men grows as they learn about each other and everything comes to a head when Neal finally shares a devastating secret.

A/N: When I first set this up for posting, I apparently lost count of the number of chapters - there are only five, not six.

Title from the Oysterband song, “Rise Above”.

Written for Round One of the wc_reverse_bb.


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(  Peter realized his mistake almost as soon as they’d entered the consignment shop, what with the hushed and genteel atmosphere, the sign in elegant script offering help with fittings by the store’s on-premises dressmakers and tailors, and of course, the discreet price tags. )

Title: We Rise Where Shadows Fall – Part One
Artist: Nioell
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Mitchell, Mozzie, Clinton Jones, Lauren Cruz, Kyle Bancroft, Original Characters; Peter/Neal, past Neal/Adler, past Peter/Elizabeth (marriage of convenience), Peter-Elizabeth friendship
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~41,000
Beta Credit: coffeethyme4me, miri_thompson, theatregirl7299
Summary: Neal, a former employee of Vincent Adler – and the only person from Adler’s organization to serve jail time – has agreed to help the FBI find Adler, who disappeared over half a decade ago. Peter Burke, the case agent assigned to the Adler case, is worried about Neal’s safety and doesn’t trust the Marshals, so he’s keeping him close at hand. The attraction between the two men grows as they learn about each other and everything comes to a head when Neal finally shares a devastating secret.

A/N: Continues the story that began in Nothing Will Remain, the near-canon A/U, where Peter is an FBI agent assigned to locate Vincent Adler. He had discovered that a former employee of Adler’s, Neal Caffrey, is his ex-wife’s book keeper. Neal had been reluctant to assist the FBI, but eventually agrees to help them. This story picks up immediately after the prior story ends, but you don’t have to read that story to understand what’s going on here.

Title from the Oysterband song, “Rise Above”.

Written for Round One of the wc_reverse_bb.


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(  “I’ll help you.” Neal said the words – he hadn’t thought about them before speaking, but now that he’d spoken, it felt right. Like the first right thing he’d done in a very long time.  )

Title: Nothing Will Remain – Part Two of Two
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Clinton Jones, Mozzie, (Peter/Neal)
Word Count: ~16,700
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: miri_thompson, coffeethyme4me
Summary: A near-canon A/U, where Neal Caffrey isn’t a forger and thief, but young Wall Street wizard who legitimately worked for Vincent Adler. He’s just out of prison, having served four years for investment fraud. He finds a job as a bookkeeper for Elizabeth Burke, Peter Burke’s ex-wife. Elizabeth and Peter have remained on excellent terms, and El wants to set Neal up on a blind date with him. But that’s not going to work as Neal’s past and Peter’s caseload collide.

Author’s Note: Written for my sweet friend sinfulslasher for Day Four of my 2013 Fic-Can-Ukah meme, for the prompt “I Was Meant to Be Someone Else”. She said “writer’s choice, but I love me some Neal angst.”


(  “The Suits are digging through your life, you know.”  )

Title: Caught in the Tide
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke (Peter/Neal)
Spoilers: References to events in the first three seasons
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~800
Beta Credit: None
Summary: When he first made his deal with Peter, Neal thought he could leave any time he wanted to. He discovers that it isn’t so easy.

A/N: Written for angelita26, for her prompt on my recent Prompt Me meme. Her prompt is at the end of the story.

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( He felt more like Michael Corleone every damn day, but unlike that fictional character, he didn’t resent the tug of the current.  )

Title: The Complicated Heart
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, June Ellington, Peter/Elizabeth, Peter/Neal, (eventual Peter/Elizabeth/Neal)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: All the UST you could possibly want, plus "Undercover In a Gay Bar".
Word Count: ~2100
Beta Credit: coffeethyme4me
Summary: Kissing Neal Caffrey is a gateway drug. Or maybe it's kissing Peter Burke that's the drug. Whatever… Peter and Neal want and are tormented by thoughts of what they cannot have.

A/N: Written for my dearest and most talented friend, kanarek13, for her entry on my recent Prompt Me Meme. Her prompt is at the end of the story.

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(  “Kiss me”  )

Title: Close Your Eyes and Think of Me (call out my name)
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Diana Berrigan, Clinton Jones, Reese Hughes, Mozzie, Sally, Peter/Elizabeth, Peter/Neal, Peter/Elizabeth/Neal
Written For: White Collar Big Bang, Round 4
Disclaimer: I do not own White Collar or its characters.
Spoilers: Minor references to events in Judgment Day, Wanted
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Physical Hurt/Comfort, Serious Injury, Separation, Loneliness, Angst, UST
Word Count: ~28,600
Art Credit: kanarek13, and you can find all of the fantastic art for this on her Journal.
Beta Credit: coffeethyme4me, rabidchild67
Summary: After the anklet comes off, Neal decides he needs to leave New York. He’s too much in love with Peter to stay, and Peter is too conflicted about his own feelings to try and convince him not to leave. Neal ends up in Montreux, Switzerland, and discovers that freedom his meaningless without anyone to share it with. Before he can go home, his life is changed in an instant, and the changes are terrible and permanent.

Author’s Notes: This story began as an idea I had well over a year ago. I had even posed the question to my flist on where it should be set. Many thanks to elainasaunt for her suggestion to set it in Montreux, which worked perfectly.

Writing physical H/C doesn’t come naturally to me, so I’ve had a lot of cheerleading along the way. First and always, when it comes to laying on the hurt, is rabidchild67, she helped me sort out some of my issues early on, and even though this story sat for a long time, her words of wisdom stuck with me. Also very special thanks to both dmk0064 and arsenicjade. These ladies are also H/C queens who helped me get the wheels of this story going after it stalled in a great fit of uncertainty.

Of course, it goes without saying that nothing would have been written without my cheerleaders and dearest friends, jrosemary and coffeethyme4me. Their encouragement made everything possible.

A very special thank you to kanarek13, who created all of the lovely art you see here – the cover, the banners and the icons.

Title from the Carol King classic, You’ve Got a Friend.

Part One On DW | On LJ
Part Two On DW | On LJ
Part Three On DW | On LJ
Part Four On DW | On LJ
Part Five On DW | On LJ
Epilogue On DW | On LJ

Title: Keeping Vigil
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Lewis
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Robbie Lewis, James Hathaway (pre Lewis/Hathaway)
Spoilers: Life Born of Fire
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~500
Summary: Robbie keeps watch.

A/N: No beta, written for kendermaus for this prompt on my meme (DW). This is my first Lewis fic. Be gentle, please.

(  Lewis scrubbed at his face. He was bone tired, weary beyond words.  )

Title: Orchestration - First Movement (Adagio)
Author: elrhiarhodan
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Moz
Fandom: White Collar
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~1400 (Work in Progress)
Summary: A/U set in 18th Century Vienna. Neal is a composer struggling with the orchestration of his greatest work. Peter Burke, a wealthy Englishman, comes to him with an intriguing offer. A prequel to this story, written three years later, can be found here: Orchestration - Prequel (Andante).

A/N - Written for a prompt left for me by the wonderful daria234, and while this is a work in progress, it is her birthday, and I wanted to write something just for her on this auspicious occasion.

No beta - all mistakes are mine and mine alone. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

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( Neal tossed the quill on the desk, not caring that ink splattered all over the blotter and the dozens of half-filled sheets of staff paper.  )

Title: The Smartest Man I Know
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke. You don’t need slash goggles to see Peter/Neal in the future
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Ovid, Socrates and Plato, Castrati, Carmina Burana and Rem Koolhaus. Victoria Regina and Lesbosians. Things that will never be mentioned in the same fic at the same time ever again.
Word Count: ~1200
Summary: Peter thinks Neal is pulling a fast one on him. Peter may be right. These are two very clever men.

(  Peter was listening with a half an ear as Neal was holding forth in the Conference Room on a most unusual subject  )

Title: New York, New York - It’s a Helluva Town – Part IV – In Dappled Sunlight Off Of the 79th Street Transverse
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Neal Caffrey, New York City (Peter/Elizabeth, Peter/Neal this part)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Private sex acts in public settings
Word Count: ~2000 (this part)
Beta Credit: None
Summary: Kink Meme Prompt Reply: El has a kink. She loves to have dirty sex in public places and Bad!Peter is always willing to indulge her. The hire Rentboy!Neal for a frolic. Extra points for dirty talk and sex in a really refined place like The Cloisters or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Double bonus for Peter in leather. I couldn’t manage to get Neal as a male prostitute, the story kept turning into something that kelly_girl wrote (In Between the Lines) a while back. So, we’ve got Dom!Peter, SexFairy!El, and Sad!Neal all set to have sex...on a bus, in a museum, in the park...

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(  Elizabeth clung to Peter and Neal as they made their way out of the Egyptian wing, back across the Great Hall, through the European Decorative Arts galleries. When Neal stopped at the display of horological instruments, and Peter had to bodily drag him away, she laughed. Neal was like a magpie, almost congenitally attracted to pretty, shiny things.  )

Title: New York, New York - It’s a Helluva Town – Part II – In the Dendur Pavilion
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Neal Caffrey, New York City (Peter/Elizabeth, Peter/Neal this part)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Private sex acts in public settings
Word Count: ~2600 (this part)
Beta Credit: None
Summary: Kink Meme Prompt Reply: El has a kink. She loves to have dirty sex in public places and Bad!Peter is always willing to indulge her. The hire Rentboy!Neal for a frolic. Extra points for dirty talk and sex in a really refined place like The Cloisters or the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Double bonus for Peter in leather. I couldn’t manage to get Neal as a male prostitute, the story kept turning into something that kelly_girl wrote (In Between the Lines) a while back. So, we’ve got Dom!Peter, SexFairy!El, and Sad!Neal all set to have sex...on a bus, in a museum, in the park...

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(  Neal loved the airy, glass enclosed pavilion that housed the ancient stone temple. He also loved that the building was a gift from the Egyptian government – preserved for everyone when it otherwise would have been lost to the new gods of progress.  )