elrhiarhodan

Like all the fannish nerd that I am, I signed up for yet another round of hc_bingo. Although I'm not as much of a hurt/comfort junkie these days, HC Bingo holds a special place in my heart - I came into fandom the same year that Hurt/Comfort Bingo launched. Getting a card is a bit of nostalgia for me.

Don't think I'm going to aim for a blackout with this one (yeah, yeah - that's always my mode of operation, a blackout or nothing). The diagonal from Exhaustion in the lower left to Estrangement in the upper right looks promising.

Prompts are always welcome - White Collar, The Flash, Flash RPS/RPF, and for a bit of nostalgia, Inspector Lewis.

loss of vision	resurrection	dystopia	assault	estrangement
phobias	archaic medical treatment	cursed	body / mindswap	dub-con
accidental mating for life	Stockholm syndrome	WILD CARD	vehicle crash	food poisoning
nausea	major illness or injury	medication	allergic reaction	prostitution
exhaustion	group support	hypothermia	motion sickness	invisibility

Why do I do this to myself? Because I'm a sheep?

trapped together	caught in a robbery	de-age	hostile climate	lacerations / knife wounds
self-harm	confession in desperate situation	learning to be loved	alien abduction	bites
shipwrecked	coma	WILD CARD	loss of job / income	CPR / rescue breathing
possession / mind control	first transformation	Stockholm syndrome	minor illness or injury	atonement
undeserved reputation	job-related trauma	scars	loss of vision	pneumonia

I'm actually very pleased with this card. For the last few rounds I've played, I've gotten mostly the same stale set of prompts and was very reluctant go give it another go. But my brain's kind of dry and inspiration's thin on the ground, so I thought I'd give it another try.

Your ideas and prompts will be most deeply welcome. White Collar, of course - almost any ship can sail in my fandom, but you know I'm hardcore Peter/Neal. I've been dipping my toes into MCU, but mostly CA:TWS and Avengers.

Been thinking about doing another three-sentence meme, or maybe the A/Us I haven't written meme to get me started. What say you?

Title: The Strength to Dream Is All That Remains - Part II - A Wonder(ful) Years Story
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Reese Hughes, Jack Franklin, OMC, OFC, Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey, Jack Franklin/OFC
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Discussion of HIV/AIDS, expressions of homophobia, sexist appellations
Word Count: ~12,200 (two parts)
Beta Credit: coffeethyme4me, theatregirl7299 and jrosemary
Summary: In the aftermath of the events first told in Heaven for the Hunger, Poison for the Pain, where Neal might have been exposed to HIV/AIDS, Neal’s colleagues rally to him, they have his back and make it known that he’s very much part of the team.

This story also ties up some loose ends in It's Life That Just Sharpens the Blade and What Doesn't Bend, Breaks.

Author's Notes: Written for the lovely angelita26, who asked me to write more of the story from Heaven for the Hunger, on my Timestamps Meme. Now, technically, a timestamp is a short outtake of a much longer story, but not in this case. The original fic was 2000 words, this one is six times longer.

Fills the "Coming Out" Square on my Trope Bingo Card, and the "Wildcard" square on my Love Bingo Card.

Title from Dougie MacLean’s “Hearts Can Never Hide”.

Go To Part I: On LJ | On DW

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(  Reese Hughes never wanted a shot of whiskey more than he did right now. It wasn’t even the whiskey, but the oblivion it promised. )

Title: All The Little Things That You Do (Wonder(ful) Years)
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey (Peter/Neal)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Unremitting sick!fic, schmoop, fluff, food
Word Count: ~750
Beta Credit: theatregirl7299, who also suggested the title.
Summary: Set during their undergrad years at Harvard, Peter continues to care for Neal as he suffers from pneumonia.

A/N: Written for my Timestamp Meme, where my most talented friend, kanarek13 asked for some more cuddles after Delicious Soup. Also a fill for the “Hugs” square on my H/C Bingo card, the “Chosen Family” square on my Trope Bingo card, and the “In Sickness and In Health” Square for my Love Bingo Card.

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(  Peter left Neal sitting and dozing in the old club chair, one of his mom’s afghans wrapped around him. The heat was turned all the way up, but Peter wasn’t taking any chances. He went back to the kitchen to check on the soup. )

Title: Three Pitched Balls
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Satchmo, Peter/Neal (Peter/Elizabeth/Neal)
Spoilers: 2.03 – Copycat Caffrey, 3.15 – Stealing Home
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~3500
Beta Credit: coffeethyme4me, theatregirl7299, and jrosemary
Summary: Set in the Paladin ‘Verse, Peter tells Neal about the choices he’s made in his life. He has no regrets. Neither does Neal.

A/N: Writter for today’s Peter-Centric whumpfest on whitecollarhc: Peter Burke and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Also, fills the "Loss of Identity" Square on my H/C Bingo Card.

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( Even with all the bad times between them – the broken trust, the anger, the perceived betrayals, Neal wouldn’t change his past, Peter’s past for anything. His life wouldn’t be worth living without Peter in it, defining him, making him better than he could ever be without him. And all because of a tiny rip – a minuscule separation of muscle and tendon and bone.  )

Title: y0u11b3s044y p3t3r (You'll Be Sorry, Peter)
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~750
Summary: Set sometime between “On Guard” and “Countdown,” Peter snoops and finds something he wasn’t meant to see. Or maybe he was?

A/N: Happy birthday to my very dear friend, jrosemary (aka miri_thompson). I wrote this for you in some long-ago promptfest, and never published it on my journal. I wanted to give you something new and fresh, but my brain is still refusing to turn over. I didn’t want your day to go uncelebrated, so I found this and I hope it brings a smile to your face.

Also: Let's mark this for the "Humiliation Square" on my H/C Bingo Card.

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(  Peter hated doing it, he knew that the data he collected would be legally inadmissible, and when he installed the keystroke logger on Neal's laptop he felt like he had just killed a puppy.  )

Title: The Waking Nightmare
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar/Grimm
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke (Implied Peter/Elizabeth/Neal)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~500
Summary: A fusion of White Collar and the world of Grimm. Neal starting seeing things that can’t possibly exist, and Peter and Elizabeth are not who he thought they were.

A/N: Based on a snippet I had written for nieseryjna, who asked for WC/Grimm - Neal Wants it All to be a Bad Dream, for a Prompt Me meme I did back in June, 2012. Significantly revised and expanded for hc_bingo, Round 4, for the prompt: hallucinations.

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(  All Neal wanted to do was wake up from this twisted nightmare where his friends had become something out of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and there were monsters roaming the paths of Central Park. )

Title: I Have Missed Your Sighs
Author:  elrhiarhodan
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairing:Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie. Peter/Neal/Elizabeth
Fandom:  White Collar
Spoilers: 3.04 - Dentist of Detroit, 3.07 - Taking Account, 3.10 - Countdown 
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Slightly angsty crack. Or is that slightly cracky angst?
Word Count: ~3800
Summary: Future fic, but not the Vinegar Hill continuum. Moz and Neal have had a falling out, and Peter wants to heal the breach. Something goes very, very wrong. For my Hurt/Comfort Bingo Card - Abandonment Issues.

Beta credit: The superiorly awesome rabidchild67.

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( Hunting down a professional paranoid was never a good idea. )

Title: Such Happy Little Clouds
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: G
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, June, Elizabeth Burke
Pairings: Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
Spoilers: Mention of Agent Kramer from S3.10
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Fluff, sick fic.
Word Count: ~1600
Summary: Neal gets sick, stays home and takes his medication. Peter comes to check up on him and is a little surprised. Fill for my Hurt/Comfort Bingo Card – Taking Care of Someone

( Warm and fluffy fic this way. )

Title: The End of My Heart's Endeavor
Author:  elrhiarhodan
Rating:  R
Characters/Pairing: Clinton Jones, Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Neal Caffrey (deceased)
Fandom:  White Collar
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: References to non-canonical death of canon characters, suicide.
Word Count: ~3600
Summary: Ends the story which began in Stepping Out Into Oblivion. Clinton brings Peter the news.

( Clinton Jones had never expected to step into Peter’s shoes – at least not for another decade. But that’s what happened.  )

Title: Stepping Out Into Oblivion
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Pairings:
Spoilers: All of Season 3, to date
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Death of major canon characters, suicide.
Word Count: ~1200
Summary: Neal is in prison for the rest of his life. Peter comes and pays one final visit.

(  Neal looked out the small window. The wall was thick and he could barely see the sky. He got a sense of light, and nothing more. Maybe it was better not to look at all. )

Title: The Door is Always Open
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Spoilers/Episode References: S1.14 – Out of the Box, S2.16 – Under the Radar through 3.04 – The Dentist of Detroit
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~ 5000
Summary: Peter wonders if he’s taken the wrong approach with Neal, Neal wonders if he’s going to make the biggest mistake of his life.
Beta credit: rabidchild67

(  It was nearly 11 o’clock at night and everyone was long gone. Peter sat in his office, the light from his monitor was the only break in the darkness. )

Every once in a while, I need a weekend off.  I mean, I love my RL friends - I love doing things with them, but sometimes, I really just need to chill.  I know I should be working on the MFNL.  I need to come up with a cover first, and work on some of the Convention News, the Frank Lloyd Wright tour, the eBay report.  But I find have little interest in doing any of that.

So, I spent most of yesterday and today sitting in Starbucks and writing White Collar fic.  Not porn...sadly.  Just fic.  (Porn comes later).  And it's not like I need to sit in Starbucks...I've got a perfectly lovely office, outfittled with perfectly lovely monitors and desk lamp and comfy chair.  But for some reason, the creative juices flowed better in an uncomfortably hard chair, surrounded by noisy coffee machines and the O'Jays playing way too often (it seems that Motown is incessent in Starbucks these days...except for about 5 mins yesterday when Mad World played).  Maybe it's the lack of pleasant distractions, like Hulu and the three Jeremy Brett SH DVDs from Netflix, or the workbench or the ... whatever.

The iPad and new bluetooth keyboard (small enough to keep in my glovebox) are perfectly fine for writing.  So long as I'm not at a table that rocks.  I'll be very happy when the new software with multitasking comes out...I'd like to be able to keep some chat windows opened.  Oh, well.  Nothing in life is perfect.  Except my iphone. 

Anyway...

Got my hair cut yesterday.  After years of spending a fortune at a high-kick salon, a few months ago, I tried the place adjacent to the Korean nail salon I get my mani/pedi's at.  You know what...I've been getting the best hair cuts and colors of my life.  For like a fucking quarter the price, and without the snobbish attitude.  The cut on Saturday was perfect, except that for some reason, I got hair clippings where hair clippings should never go (okay - TMI).

Watched the new episode of Burn Notice earlier this evening on Hulu.  I think this is the strongest season start ever.  And actually got something done while watching.  I've had this bracelet on the "WIP" pile since before I went to Arizona in early February. 

(I have to say, the 50mm f/1.4 is going to be my favorite lens - the bokeah is like heavy cream.)   It's two-count peyote using new size 11 Japanese Toho rounds - two strips for the band, joined with vintage nickel plated Czech size 15 charlottes.  The "butterfly" is simply two pieces made using peyote stitch with beads increasing in size from 11 to 8, all bordered in round nickel-plated size 11s.  The clasp is a cop-out.  After months of searching for something a little more elegant, I ended up just using a .5" snap.  (Stop me if this makes no sense to you) 

Oh well, I wanted it done and off my desk, and it is.

What else?

Not much.  Will continue to work on fic for a few more hours.  It's the backstory for my Kink Bingo X - it will fill the center "wildcard box" - I hope.

Everyone should enjoy the rest of their Sunday night.  Have some Chinese food, watch the replays of World Cup soccer.  Write some porn.  Or just do something you're good at.  Even if it's kicking back and doing nothing.

Very best to all of you.

Elr.

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Title: Fear of Flying
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey
Spoilers: Out of the Box
Warnings/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~2300
Summary: Dealing With Unexpected Consequences of Year Old Damage

A/N - Thanks to hoosierbitch  and gyzym for their concrit and support.  This wouldn't have gotten written without those two fantastic people.
( Fear of Flying )