elrhiarhodan

Title: Regrets On An Alien Shore
For: MMOM - Thirty (One) Dirty Words 2012 - Prompt 001 - Weehawken
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Peter Burke, (Peter/Neal)
Spoilers/Episode References: S3.03 – Deadline, S3.16 – Judgment Day
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: 300 Exactly
Summary: Peter can’t sleep, and occasionally finds himself across the Hudson, in New Jersey.

A/N: My bestie, coffeethyme4me prompted me for Weehawken. Just because. And Weehawken is the place that photographers love – it provides a perfectly unobstructed view of the West Side of Manhattan.



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He’s taken to driving around New York when he can’t sleep, which are most nights now. He hates leaving their bed, but he can’t stay beside El when this pain, this guilt consumes him.

It isn’t becaue he wants Neal. Elizabeth understands that. She shares the desire, too. It is that everything that happened is his fault. If he hadn’t brought in Kramer in the first place…

The demons drive Peter out of bed, so he drives himself. Some nights he circles the block, some nights he finds himself on the other side of the City, parked in front of June’s. He can see the light on upstairs, her silhouette as she haunts the vacant space.

And sometimes, Peter ends up on a different shore. Jersey is a strange and alien place, but there is a spot people gather to watch the setting sun gild the City with its magic light. In the small hours of the morning, it’s bereft of people, a perfect place just to sit and not think.

He can’t help himself, his fingers drifted across his groin, and he palms his cock through his fly. Not so much stroking but a gentle squeeze, imagining what Neal’s hands would feel like, what he’d do to his body. What he’d allow Peter to do to him.

They had been so close. He is sure that the parole board was going to grant Neal’s commutation. They would have celebrated with cake and sex. Finally, after two years of lust and longing, they’d have consummation. But Kramer and his vendetta made that impossible.

So Peter parks in this lonely spot, touches himself and thinks about everything he’s lost. He touches himself and worries about Neal, worries that he’ll never have Neal back. That he’ll never have the chance to touch Neal again.

FIN