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Neal thought he’d said goodbye to New York and his life there. But he finds himself being a bundle of nerves, when three years later he returns to meet his namesake. And to think, he’d once claimed to Peter that it was pointless to get nervous.
Written for Fedora Flash Fiction’s December prompt: Bundle
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- Part 11 of Fedora Flash Fiction 2025
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"I wasn't the only one, you know."
"The only one what?"
"The only one who saw the good in you."
It matters to Peter that Neal knows this. It matters to Neal that Peter understand that, in a way, he really was, and how much it really meant to him.
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春天的冰雪啊，是怎样丢盔弃甲，怎样摇摇欲坠，正如我感到脸上那个属于骗子的笑慢慢地，沿着风和悬铃木的哗啦作响滑落下去，像月亮消失在水里，然后再也不剩什么。假的，真的。都成为裸露的。
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When given an assignment at school, Neal Burke does what he thinks is the obvious thing. Neal Caffrey does not see it coming.
Neal tilted it to different angles, studying it like a foreign object. “What is this?”
“It’s a trusted adult sticker.”
“What… is a trusted adult sticker?” The title was pretty self-explanatory, but Neal was still trying to wrap his mind around it.
Neal looked at him funny. “Uh, it means you’re an adult and I trust you.”
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Mozzie shows up at Neal's apartment after 4x16 to apologize.
"I’m never going to understand what it’s like to resent your family. To be glad they’re not around, or to want to keep them out of your life, on the other side of some impenetrable wall. But I know that was your reality, and I couldn’t imagine it possibly being right, so I pushed you to give him a chance, because you were living my fantasy and just turning it away and… I’m sorry. Because you were right."
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Peter Burke is in the middle of a chaotic emergency room, watching helplessly as his partner Neal fights for his life after a serious injury. With Neal’s condition getting worse and questions piling up about what happened, Peter is left overwhelmed and unsure of what will come next.
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"It was my mom and Ellen and I, and they changed my name to Danny Brooks. My mom told me my dad died a hero, and... I grew up envying this man that I never even knew. I wanted to follow in his footsteps. In a way, I guess I did."
"No, you didn't. You're not a killer."
"Only because you were there to stop me."
Recent events have dug up Neal's old fears that he might have gotten his childhood wish to turn out like his father. He still hasn't forgottten the day he pointed a gun at Fowler, a gun he stole with the intention of killing Fowler, and came mere moments from pulling the trigger.
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“‘You’re insubordinate’ and ‘you’re a con, and it’s who you are and all you’ll ever be?’ You’re telling me you didn’t mean a word of that?”
Neal and Peter talk about their fake argument in 3x4.
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Like Diamonds In The Sand (We Remain Forever Young) by Deathpetal
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009)
04 Jul 2025
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When Neal's services are rented to a high risk party for a jewelry company during Fashion Week, he meets a model. They never even get to talk, but she makes him think things. Things that Peter would rather he did not. Things that change one's life irrevocably. And Neal will never be the same again.
For Fedora Flash Fiction's July Prompt: Display
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- Part 7 of Fedora Flash Fiction 2025
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Neal’s point of view when he has to lie to Peter.
I do not approve of anyone using AI on any of my works, thank you.
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Neal hadn't realized Danny Brooks' old journal still existed. But apparently it did, and though he isn't sure how he feels, touching the remnants of a past he tried to erase, he can't look away from it. And then he discovers the list he made as a teenager, detailing the family he wished he had in a perfect world.
Slowly, Neal begins to realize that after all his years drifting from place to place, he finally has the family that young, hurting, naive Daniel Brooks always wanted.
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In response to Neal's needling about whether Peter could have made different life choices and ended up rich, Peter asks Neal if he would do anything differently if he could go back.
Neal really doesn't know how to answer.
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After Peter decides not to use Neal as a partner in his cases anymore because of recent events, Neal tries to get him to reconsider.
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After Rebecca is arrested, Neal is exhausted. He's had to keep more secrets from Peter in the last month than he's wanted to in a long time, and it's taking its toll. Peter knows he's being lied to and doesn't trust him, and Neal feels the only way to stay in Peter's good graces is to keep lying, and the downward spiral has been slowly destroying them both.
Neal decides to end the spiral, and if it lands him behind bars, so be it.
He just wants to be completely honest, if only to prove that he can.
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(Or, after 5x11, Neal comes completely clean about everything that happened in season five, the good and the bad that Peter never fully learned, and both of them are better for it.)
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3 of White Collar (3SF 2025) by RavenLilyRose for raisedbymoogles
Fandoms: White Collar (TV 2009)
12 May 2025
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any, any, I've gotten older now, I know / how to take care of myself / I found a deeper well
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- Part 10 of 3 Sentence Ficathon 2025
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Sometimes you can't have everything.
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February 24th. Wednesday. Kate’s birthday is in twelve days.
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Even as he catches the knife and saves the girl, Neal feels sick to his stomach. Because Luc Renaud, from what he understands of him, will not take Keller’s failure well.
He knows now: he’s lucky to have such a forgiving and non-violent handler as Peter.“You want me to be happy,” Neal finishes for him, tasting the words like they’re strange. Because—because they are. They make no sense, not strategically, mathematically, formulaically—
“Yes,” Keller agrees, nonetheless.
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in which Neal understands Keller a little better, and Keller’s handler is a little crueler.
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“It was Collins. I tried to run early on, ’n he clipped me in the leg.”
“Clipped you?” Peter mutters skeptically. “Neal, the way you’re limping, the trajectory must’ve been—”
Jesus. Peter Burke and his everlasting, immortal skepticism.
“I rushed him,” Neal lies. As he does, he hides his wince. This has to be one of the most poorly thought-out lies of his life. This could get him in deep shit. “I tried to take his gun, knock him out. He retaliated.”
Peter’s quiet. The plane rocks. Mild turbulence stirs Neal’s leg; he grits his teeth. The crystal blue out the window mocks him like a diamond he can’t swipe.
“Why are you lying?” Peter asks, at last.//
Peter finds out the specifics of Neal’s gunshot wound after Cape Verde.
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“God-damnit, Neal, where is it?” Peter almost shouts, and Neal senses the activity in the bullpen halt completely. He steps back, trying to hide the tremble in his hands, wishing he hadn’t left his hat on Peter’s desk, wanting something to hide the emotion on his face—
He pushes the door closed on the two of them numbly, exhales shakily, and lets a part of him go up in smoke when he flattens the look in his eyes and meets Peter’s. “I didn’t steal it, and I don’t know where it is,” he lies, straight to his handler’s face.//
After the U-boat fiasco and Adler’s death, Neal decides to confess the location of the treasure to Peter. It doesn’t go as planned.