Words of Wood

Title: Talking in Code
Characters/Pairing: Neal, Peter; Gen
Word count: 1500
Content Notes: Spoilers up to the end of season 5.
Other Notes: Written for an anonymous prompter on collarcorner. Also fills the "nightmares" square on my hc_bingo card.

Summary: Neal drops by Peter's house late at night. (Set post-cliffhanger resolution.)

( The knock at the door startled Peter into looking up from his paperwork )

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Title: Adverse Conditions
Characters/Pairing: Neal, Peter; Gen
Rating: G
Word count: 2500
Warnings: None
Notes: Written for anodyneer's fandom_stocking. Also counts for the "broken bones" square on my hc_bingo card.

Summary: H/c floof. Peter breaks his ankle, and Neal's there to help.

( Neal wouldn't have said he had any particularly strong feelings on snow )

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Title: Teamwork
Characters/Pairing: Neal, Peter, Diana; Gen
Rating: G
Word count: 1800
Warnings: None
Notes: This is a fic for winterstar95, because she should have all the fic right now. *HUGS* (Also I know this was her prompt, but I can't for the life of me find it!)

Summary: Neal's current situation was one he wouldn't usually class as terrible. He was part-submerged in freezing river water, yes, but there was a ladder. He was on the ladder, even, clinging to it with a hand that was steadily going numb.

( Teamwork )

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Title: Sleight Out Of Hand
Author: frith_in_thorns
Characters/Pairing: Neal, Diana, June, Peter; Gen
Rating: T
Word count: 9000
Warnings: None
Notes: This is my SandyAid fic for leonie_alastair, horrendously late! I really apologise, and hope you enjoy it.
I'm using this as my wild card square (smoke inhalation) in hc_bingo. Thank you helle_d and sholio for advance reading!

Summary: An FBI agent, a CI and an ex-con infiltrate a party. Only one comes out.

( Neal could practically hear Peter refrain from telling them that this wasn't a game. )

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Title: Keep your feet on solid ground
Characters/Pairing: Neal, Diana; Gen
Word count: 1400
Warnings: Spoilers for 5x01, although actually set in the between-season gap
Notes: The idea for this came out of a chat with sholio. It fills the "bruises" square on my hc_bingo card.

Summary: Diana and Neal have a rather overdue conversation.

( Read more... )

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For the 2013 White Collar Big Bang.

Title: Hold With All You Have
Characters/Pairings:Neal, Peter, Diana, others. Gen with mild Peter/Elizabeth, Diana/Christie, and Diana/OFC.
Rating: FRT
Word Count: 32,500
Spoilers: Plot points from early season 4.
Warnings: This is an apocafic, dealing with a pandemic. Quite a few warnings are included in that, including disturbing descriptions, violence, a lot of general background death, and death/implied death of canon characters. (Specifically: Christie's death is described; Satchmo dies off-screen; other characters including June, Jones and Hughes have unresolved fates.)
Author's Note: This fills the "apocalypse" square on my hc_bingo card. It is also very much the longest story I have ever sat down and written. I very much hope you enjoy it!
Beta: sholio, florastuart and helle_d, who were all wonderful and extremely patient with me. Thank you so much!
Art: The amazing art is by sholio. Please let her know how awesome she is!

Summary: A lethal epidemic rips through New York. In the aftermath, Neal, Peter and Diana must work together to survive, and to search for those who left the city before lock-down. And after they have to keep on surviving.

On LJ: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 | On DW | On AO3




( Hold With All You Have )

Title: Lighthouses
For: doctor_fangeek in the wcpairings fic exchange.
Characters/Pairing: Neal, June, Peter; Gen
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 4000
Warnings: None
Notes: Thank you to florastuart and helle_d for reading this and encouraging me!
I also totally stole the inspiration for this fic from these two prompts on the feverfest meme. (Which is to say, yes, this is yet more cliche sickfic. You have been warned.)

Summary: There are still some things about Neal that Peter doesn't quite get. But June does.

( Lighthouses )

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Title: Safe To Shore
Characters/Pairing: Neal, Peter, Diana; Gen
Rating: PG
Word count: 2000
Warnings: None
Notes: For sholio's prompt of drugged!Peter over on whitecollarhc's Comfest.
This fic contains about my usual amount of context. Which is to say, not a lot.

Summary: Neal and Diana make a good team. Especially when it comes to unexpected situations, like looking after their boss.

( Safe To Shore )

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This one requires some explanation first.

Fallen London has a serial killer, Jack-of-Smiles. Although actually Jack isn't any one person — someone becomes Jack as a result of picking up an extremely bloodthirsty semi-sentient knife. Then they lose their mind and go on a killing spree, with lethality varying between "throat cut but will recover from being dead very soon" to "sliced up into a lot of little pieces".

…I was rather obviously going to write this fic sooner or later. I am even less good at writing things which aren't angsty hurt/comfort in this 'verse than I normally am.

Title: Jack-of-Smiles
Author: frith_in_thorns
Characters/Pairing: Jack, Peter, Neal, El; Gen
Rating: T
Word count: 2300
Warnings: This is very dark. Graphic violence and character death which is non-permanent
Notes: Claiming for the Serial Killers square on hc_bingo.
Thank you to sholio and helle_d for persuading me to post this!

Summary: The knife is in his hand and it tells him his name. Tells him to let no one get in his way.



( Jack-of-Smiles )

This is officially a 'verse now. sholio and I have written over 10k words of this between us so far. It's so much fun.

Title: A Game of Croquet
Characters/Pairing: Neal/The Affectionate Devil, Peter
Rating: PG-13 (There is flirting, but that's all.)
Word count: 1500
Warnings: I don't think so.
Notes: Neal is such a good fit for the "An Intimate of Devils" storyline.

Summary: Croquet is a genteel sport. Conversations, on the other hand, are fair game for cheating.


( There is no sun, of course, but the gas-lamps glow cheerily above the green lawn. )