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Title: It Must Be Now - Master Post
Author: elrhiarhodan
Artist: treonb / Art Post
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, David Siegel, Diana Berrigan, Theodore "Mozzie" Winters, Theo Berrigan, Sara Ellis, Clinton Jones, Matthew Keller; Peter/Elizabeth (Past), Peter/Neal (Past), Neal/Keller (Past), Peter/Neal
Word Count: ~60,000
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Major Character Illness
Beta Credit: pooh_collector, sinfulslasher
Summary: In this alternate universe, the story opens as Peter and Elizabeth's marriage ends. Peter tries to move into a new life, but finds himself haunted by his past - a relationship with Neal Caffrey when they were both students at Harvard - and a future that might come to an end far too soon.

Author’s Note: Many, many thanks to my alpha readers theatregirl7299 and miri_thompson, who provided an endless bounty of encouragement.

Even more thanks to my wonderful and talented artist, treonb, who created the beautiful and evocative promo video.

Title from the Annie Lennox Song "Oh God (Prayer)", which TreonB used in the vid.

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"" (Watch on YouTube)

( It Must Be Now - Part One )
( It Must Be Now - Part Two )
( It Must Be Now - Part Three )
( It Must Be Now - Part Four )
( It Must Be Now - Part Five )
( It Must Be Now - Part Six )
( It Must Be Now - Part Seven )

Title: It Must Be Now - Part Seven-A of Seven
Author: elrhiarhodan
Artist: treonb / Art Post
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, David Siegel, Diana Berrigan, Theodore "Mozzie" Winters, Theo Berrigan, Sara Ellis, Clinton Jones, Matthew Keller; Peter/Elizabeth (Past), Peter/Neal (Past), Neal/Keller (Past), Peter/Neal
Word Count: ~60,000
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Major Character Illness
Beta Credit: pooh_collector, sinfulslasher
Summary: In this alternate universe, the story opens as Peter and Elizabeth's marriage ends. Peter tries to move into a new life, but finds himself haunted by his past - a relationship with Neal Caffrey when they were both students at Harvard - and a future that might come to an end far too soon.

Author’s Note: Many, many thanks to my alpha readers theatregirl7299 and miri_thompson, who provided an endless bounty of encouragement.

Even more thanks to my wonderful and talented artist, treonb, who created the beautiful and evocative promo video.

Title from the Annie Lennox Song "Oh God (Prayer)", which TreonB used in the vid.

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( It Must Be Now - Part Seven-A )

Title: It Must Be Now - Part Five of Seven
Author: elrhiarhodan
Artist: treonb / Art Post
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, David Siegel, Diana Berrigan, Theodore "Mozzie" Winters, Theo Berrigan, Sara Ellis, Clinton Jones, Matthew Keller; Peter/Elizabeth (Past), Peter/Neal (Past), Neal/Keller (Past), Peter/Neal
Word Count: ~60,000
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Major Character Illness
Beta Credit: pooh_collector, sinfulslasher
Summary: In this alternate universe, the story opens as Peter and Elizabeth's marriage ends. Peter tries to move into a new life, but finds himself haunted by his past - a relationship with Neal Caffrey when they were both students at Harvard - and a future that might come to an end far too soon.

Author’s Note: Many, many thanks to my alpha readers theatregirl7299 and miri_thompson, who provided an endless bounty of encouragement.

Even more thanks to my wonderful and talented artist, treonb, who created the beautiful and evocative promo video.

Title from the Annie Lennox Song "Oh God (Prayer)", which TreonB used in the vid.

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( It Must Be Now - Part Five )

Title: It Must Be Now - Part Three of Seven
Author: elrhiarhodan
Artist: treonb / Art Post
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, David Siegel, Diana Berrigan, Theodore "Mozzie" Winters, Theo Berrigan, Sara Ellis, Clinton Jones, Matthew Keller; Peter/Elizabeth (Past), Peter/Neal (Past), Neal/Keller (Past), Peter/Neal
Word Count: ~60,000
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Major Character Illness
Beta Credit: pooh_collector, sinfulslasher
Summary: In this alternate universe, the story opens as Peter and Elizabeth's marriage ends. Peter tries to move into a new life, but finds himself haunted by his past - a relationship with Neal Caffrey when they were both students at Harvard - and a future that might come to an end far too soon.

Author’s Note: Many, many thanks to my alpha readers theatregirl7299 and miri_thompson, who provided an endless bounty of encouragement.

Even more thanks to my wonderful and talented artist, treonb, who created the beautiful and evocative promo video.

Title from the Annie Lennox Song "Oh God (Prayer)", which TreonB used in the vid.

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( It Must Be Now - Part Three )

Title: It Must Be Now - Part Two-A of Seven
Author: elrhiarhodan
Artist: treonb / Art Post
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R (Chapter Two - NC-17)
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, David Siegel, Diana Berrigan, Theodore "Mozzie" Winters, Theo Berrigan, Sara Ellis, Clinton Jones, Matthew Keller; Peter/Elizabeth (Past), Peter/Neal (Past), Neal/Keller (Past), Peter/Neal
Word Count: ~60,000 Total
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Major Character Illness
Beta Credit: pooh_collector, sinfulslasher
Summary: In this alternate universe, the story opens as Peter and Elizabeth's marriage ends. Peter tries to move into a new life, but finds himself haunted by his past - a relationship with Neal Caffrey when they were both students at Harvard - and a future that might come to an end far too soon.

Author’s Note: Many, many thanks to my alpha readers theatregirl7299 and miri_thompson, who provided an endless bounty of encouragement.

Even more thanks to my wonderful and talented artist, treonb, who created the beautiful and evocative promo video.

Title from the Annie Lennox Song "Oh God (Prayer)", which TreonB used in the vid.

Note for Part Two – Because of LJ's entry size limitations, Part Two is in two parts. The link at the end of this entry will take you to the conclusion of this chapter.

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( It Must Be Now - Part Two-A )

Title: The Miracle of Love (In This Heartless World)
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R (with some NC-17 moments)
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth (Mitchell), Diana Berrigan, Christie, Sara Ellis, OMCs; Peter/Neal, Elizabeth/Mozzie, Diana/Christie
Word Count: ~5500
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: sinfulslasher
Summary: A Wonder(ful) Years story, set on the morning after their thirtieth high school reunion, as first mentioned in the original Wonder(ful) Years story, and detailed in The Chaos of Our Lives (When Tomorrow Comes). Peter and Neal have brunch with their old friends and before they head back to Manhattan, they go visit Peter's childhood home, and find something unexpected.

Author’s Note: Written for my dearest pooh_collector, who selected "The Geography of Home" and a timestamp for The Wonder(ful) Years for the fourth night of Fic-Can-Ukah.

Title from the Eurhythmics song of the same name.

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( Peter rolled over, mildly uncomfortable. This wasn't his bed. These weren't his pillows. He stretched and encountered a warm body. But this was his husband. )

Title: One Hundred and Six Ficlets – Three Sentence A/Us
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: G through NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Sara Ellis, Clinton Jones, June Ellington, Mozzie, Reese Hughes, Diana Berrigan, Satchmo, Bugsy, Vincent Adler, Matthew Keller, Gordon Taylor, Byron Ellington, Bradfor (Ford) Tolman; Peter/Neal, Peter/Elizabeth, Peter/Elizabeth/Neal, Peter/Mozzie, Neal/Keller, Neal/Adler, Neal/Mozzie, Neal/Sara, Mozzie/Keller, June/Byron, Mozzie/Sara
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Non-Con, Dub-Con, Murder, Animal Sex (not beastiality), Death of canon characters, Power Imbalance, Coercion. Possibly others – if you are easily triggered, proceed with caution
Word Count: ~9000
Beta Credit: sinfulslasher
Summary: Last May, I did a three-sentence A/U prompt meme, where I asked readers to give me an A/U prompt and a pairing or character. The challenge was to write a complete story in three sentences. All told, I filled 106 prompts. Some of these are tiny tags to existing fics, others are clearly the start of something major.

The prompts range from crossovers and fusions to historical a/us to some very creative and challenging scenarios. Thank you to everyone who left prompts for me, I hope you have a chance to enjoy all of these again.

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(  One Hundred and Six Ficlets )

Title: Coda
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Sara Ellis (Neal/Sara)
Spoilers: General Spoilers for Season Four, Season Five
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~1000
Beta Credit: None
Summary: Timestamp for my Neal/Sara fic, Prelude, Sara plays the cello and tries to forget the regrets she doesn’t want to admit she has.

A/N: Written for a prompt in my recent Timestamp meme, for reve_silencieux, who asked for the next scene. It’s not precisely the next scene, but the story from Sara’s point of view.

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( Sara’s not a woman who lives her life filled with regrets. She’s lost too many people and she knows that if she dwells on those losses, the grief will overwhelm her. )

Title: Four Tiny White Collar Ficlets, Three Sentences Each
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar, White Collar-Suits Crossover
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Sara Ellis, Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Mike Ross, Neal/Sara, Peter/Elizabeth/Neal, Neal - Mike
Word Count: ~250
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: None
Summary: As it says on the label, four tiny ficlets of three sentences, each. Written for the Three sentence fic-a-thon still going on at caramelsilver's journal.


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( Four Ficlets )

Title: Red Velvet - Part Nine of Nine
Notes: See Master Post - On LJ | On DW


( Neal was standing with June in front of a large canvas that normally hung on the wall in the Ellington mansion’s second floor library. )

Title: Red Velvet - Part Seven of Nine
Notes: See Master Post - On LJ | On DW


( After a mild autumn, it looked to be a ridiculously cold winter. Thanksgiving Day had been an unseasonable seventy degrees, but by that Sunday, the temperature dropped to 35 and kept dropping. Now, a few days before Christmas, it just might end up being the coldest December in almost twenty years. Peter just hoped that the skies would stay clear and dry. It could snow for days, but only after the New Year, when he’d be out of New York. )

Title: Red Velvet - Part Five of Nine
Notes: See Master Post - On LJ | On DW


(  By the time Peter was able to get to Neal – he had to stop and shake hands with more people than he wanted to – the crowd had shifted again. The collection of beautiful young things had been whittled down to just two. A short, dark-haired man with an aggressively pugnacious attitude and a tall redhead who looked vaguely familiar. )

Title: Red Velvet - Part Three of Nine
Notes: See Master Post - On LJ | On DW


( El had wished Neal luck when he left the bakery that evening. After the contracts came through, after they’d both read and signed and sent them back, Neal just looked at her with those puppy dog eyes, just waiting for her to give him permission to go see Peter. )

Title: Red Velvet - Part One of Nine
Author: elrhiarhodan
Art: kanarek13 Art Post:
Fandom: White Collar
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Diana Berrigan, Elizabeth Mitchell, Reese Hughes, Clinton Jones, Mozzie, June Ellington, OFC, OMC, Peter/Neal, Neal/Elizabeth, past Neal/Sara, past Neal/Keller, past Neal/Kate, past Neal/Gordon, Mozzie/Elizabeth, Reese/Elizabeth, Mozzie/Gina (off camera), Mozzie/Sallie (off camera), implied Mozzie/Gina/Sallie (off camera)
Rating: R
Word Count: ~70,000 (Complete)
Spoilers: None
Beta Credit: miri_thompson
Warnings: Situational depression, grief, mention of HIV/AIDS, other STDs
Summary: Elizabeth Mitchell’s company, "Desserts After Dark," delivers fine cupcakes and pastries to the eclectic elite of Kings County (Brooklyn). Peter Burke, former FBI agent and one of the senior partners in the accounting firm of Hughes, Burke, is the bakery’s most loyal customer. But it’s not all fluff and cream cheese icing when he falls for Neal Caffrey, the Chief Baking Officer of Desserts After Dark. Peter has some serious issues from his past to deal with, and their road to happiness isn’t guaranteed.

Author's Note: My deepest thanks to angelita26, who made an innocuous comment in the wcwu chat one evening about the custom painted dessert delivery van she had just seen in her neighborhood. One thing lead to another and the next thing I knew, I had the start of my White Collar Big Bang story.

theatregirl7299 and miri_thompson also deserve extra-special recognition. Not only were they heroic alpha and beta readers, they gave me flawless story advice, held my hand, wipe my brow and listened to me whine about this for half the summer. I can’t thank them enough.

A special shout out to rabidchild for her help with cake.

Many more thanks to all of the ladies of the nightly chats who’ve cheered me on and helped me over the bumps. You’re the best!

And very special thanks to my wonderful artist, kanarek13 for the cover and all of the incredible banners and icons. Her creative talent is without peer. Please remember to go here and tell her how awesome she is.

Of course, I don’t own White Collar or the characters portrayed therein. White Collar is the property of Fox Television Studios and USA Networks

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( He shouldn’t do it. He knew that. It was becoming a habit. An addiction. And while he could reason with himself that there were worse things to be addicted to than red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, there were better things, too. Like carrot sticks and celery and cucumber, or maybe fresh kale.  )

Title: Fortune's Just a One-Night Stand – Master Post
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Diana Berrigan, Clinton Jones, Vincent Adler, Daniel Picah, mention of other canon characters in minor non-canon settings.
Pairings: Peter/Neal, Neal/Daniel, Peter/Adler, Adler/Neal
Spoilers: None
Cover Art: kanarek13,
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Prostitution, rape, Domination/submission, dubious consent, fuck-or-die scenario, use of gender-specific insults
Word Count: ~56,000
Beta Credit: jrosemary, theatregirl7299 and hoosierbitch
Summary: In some alternate universe, Peter Burke is a wealthy and bored financial advisor and discovers that one of his clients, Elizabeth Mitchell, is using her event planning business to launder profits from an escort service catering to the wealthy gay elite in New York. Instead of turning her in, he asks her to hire him. Neal Caffrey has been recently released from a four-year sentence for bond forgery and learns that his girlfriend, Kate has married his old boyfriend, Matthew Keller and they’ve taken off for parts unknown. Determined not to return to prison, Neal turns to his friend, Mozzie, for help. Moz knows a guy – or in this case – a gal who’s willing to hire Neal. As an escort.

A/N: Written for my very dearest friend and writing partner, coffeethyme4me, for Round Three of the wcpairings fic exchange. It’s been hard writing this without my writing partner’s sage and candid advise, but my friends jrosemary and theatregirl7299 have given me stellar advice and very strong shoulders to lean on. And I also much credit all of the wonderful writers at the wcwu chat, for their loving support when I kept crashing and burning through different story ideas.

ETA: I can't believe I forgot to thank someone so dear to me - hoosierbitch - who stepped in as Porn Doctor Extraordinaire! Thank you, sweetness, for all your help.



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Part One: ON LJ | ON DW
Part Two: ON LJ | ON DW
Part Three: ON LJ | ON DW
Part Four: ON LJ | ON DW
Part Five: ON LJ | ON DW
Part Six: ON LJ | ON DW
Part Seven: ON LJ | ON DW
Part Eight: ON LJ | ON DW

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Title from the Oysterband song, Street of Dreams

In my dream the world was silver
Underneath a magic moon
In my dream I lay there waiting
You came naked to my room

In my dream I lay there waiting
You came naked to my room
Woke up sweating, arms all empty
Three o'clock in the afternoon

Every day the world goes faster
Turning faster than it seems
Let's not talk about tomorrow
Leave me here on the street of dreams
Leave me here… on the street of dreams

Walk right by me in the gutter
Lying here outside your door
I look up and see your beauty
Burning up and wanting more

Luck is far away as moonshine
Every deal a shaky hand
Fame is just an empty bottle
Fortune's just a one-night stand

Title: Fortune's Just a One-Night Stand – Part Seven
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Diana Berrigan, Clinton Jones, Vincent Adler, Daniel Picah, mention of other canon characters in minor non-canon settings.
Pairings: Peter/Neal, Neal/Daniel, Peter/Adler, Adler/Neal
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Prostitution, rape, Domination/submission, dubious consent, fuck-or-die scenario, use of gender-specific insults
Word Count: ~56,000
Beta Credit: jrosemary, theatregirl7299 and hoosierbitch
Summary: In some alternate universe, Peter Burke is a wealthy and bored financial advisor and discovers that one of his clients, Elizabeth Mitchell, is using her event planning business to launder profits from an escort service catering to the wealthy gay elite in New York. Instead of turning her in, he asks her to hire him. Neal Caffrey has been recently released from a four-year sentence for bond forgery and learns that his girlfriend, Kate has married his old boyfriend, Matthew Keller and they’ve taken off for parts unknown. Determined not to return to prison, Neal turns to his friend, Mozzie, for help. Moz knows a guy – or in this case – a gal who’s willing to hire Neal. As an escort.

PART SIX - ON LJ | ON DW

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( Peter pushed open the door of the Mitchell Premier Events storefront and nodded to Yvonne, Elizabeth’s long-time and long-suffering assistant. Her boss was with some clients, but Peter wasn’t going to leave and come back. He needed to talk with her and he was prepared to wait, all day if necessary. )

Title: Fortune's Just a One-Night Stand – Part Five
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Diana Berrigan, Clinton Jones, Vincent Adler, Daniel Picah, mention of other canon characters in minor non-canon settings.
Pairings: Peter/Neal, Neal/Daniel, Peter/Adler, Adler/Neal
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Prostitution, rape, Domination/submission, dubious consent, fuck-or-die scenario, use of gender-specific insults
Word Count: ~56,000
Beta Credit: jrosemary, theatregirl7299 and hoosierbitch
Summary: In some alternate universe, Peter Burke is a wealthy and bored financial advisor and discovers that one of his clients, Elizabeth Mitchell, is using her event planning business to launder profits from an escort service catering to the wealthy gay elite in New York. Instead of turning her in, he asks her to hire him. Neal Caffrey has been recently released from a four-year sentence for bond forgery and learns that his girlfriend, Kate has married his old boyfriend, Matthew Keller and they’ve taken off for parts unknown. Determined not to return to prison, Neal turns to his friend, Mozzie, for help. Moz knows a guy – or in this case – a gal who’s willing to hire Neal. As an escort.

PART FOUR - ON LJ | ON DW

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(  “Your meeting with Elizabeth go okay?”  )

Title: Fortune's Just a One-Night Stand – Part Three
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Diana Berrigan, Clinton Jones, Vincent Adler, Daniel Picah, mention of other canon characters in minor non-canon settings.
Pairings: Peter/Neal, Neal/Daniel, Peter/Adler, Adler/Neal
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Prostitution, rape, Domination/submission, dubious consent, fuck-or-die scenario, use of gender-specific insults
Word Count: ~56,000
Beta Credit: jrosemary, theatregirl7299 and hoosierbitch
Summary: In some alternate universe, Peter Burke is a wealthy and bored financial advisor and discovers that one of his clients, Elizabeth Mitchell, is using her event planning business to launder profits from an escort service catering to the wealthy gay elite in New York. Instead of turning her in, he asks her to hire him. Neal Caffrey has been recently released from a four-year sentence for bond forgery and learns that his girlfriend, Kate has married his old boyfriend, Matthew Keller and they’ve taken off for parts unknown. Determined not to return to prison, Neal turns to his friend, Mozzie, for help. Moz knows a guy – or in this case – a gal who’s willing to hire Neal. As an escort.

PART TWO - ON LJ | ON DW

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( For the first time since they’d met, Peter pitied Neal Caffrey. He’d known Daniel Picah for well over a decade, and the man had gotten worse as he got older.  )

Title: Fortune's Just a One-Night Stand – Part One
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Diana Berrigan, Clinton Jones, Vincent Adler, Daniel Picah, mention of other canon characters in minor non-canon settings.
Pairings: Peter/Neal, Neal/Daniel, Peter/Adler, Adler/Neal
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Prostitution, rape, Domination/submission, dubious consent, fuck-or-die scenario, use of gender-specific insults
Word Count: ~56,000
Beta Credit: jrosemary, theatregirl7299 and hoosierbitch
Summary: In some alternate universe, Peter Burke is a wealthy and bored financial advisor and discovers that one of his clients, Elizabeth Mitchell, is using her event planning business to launder profits from an escort service catering to the wealthy gay elite in New York. Instead of turning her in, he asks her to hire him. Neal Caffrey has been recently released from a four-year sentence for bond forgery and learns that his girlfriend, Kate has married his old boyfriend, Matthew Keller and they’ve taken off for parts unknown. Determined not to return to prison, Neal turns to his friend, Mozzie, for help. Moz knows a guy – or in this case – a gal who’s willing to hire Neal. As an escort.

Masterpost - ON LJ | ON DW

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(  Peter sat down at his dining room table, loosened the silk bow tie and the first stud on his collar. He rolled his head back and forth, wincing as the joints popped. The motion did nothing to ease the tight muscles or the incipient headache. )

Title: More, Please
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, with appearances by everyone else.
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Food, glorious food!
Word Count: ~800
Summary: Neal has a very practical avocation, and for his week off, he’s going to indulge himself unreservedly. Everyone else gains at least five pounds.

Title and warning from the classic musical, Oliver!

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(  He liked to cook, perhaps even more than he liked to paint. Painting was always fraught with tension - creating versus copying. The objective versus the subjective. Modern interpretation or classical execution.  )

Title: Happy Birthday, Sara Ellis
For: MMOM - Thirty (One) Dirty Words 2012 - Prompt 017 - Thighs
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters: Sara Ellis (Peter/Neal)
Spoilers/Episode References: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: 300 Exactly
Summary: Sara enjoys her birthday present.

( The package arrived with the early Fed Ex delivery and sat on her desk for a few hours before she had time to look at it. )

Title: Another Country
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, June Ellington, Sara Ellis. P/E/N, Peter/Neal
Spoilers: 2.14 – Payback, 3.16 – Judgment Day
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~9200
Summary: Despite the address, Paris is not his home. But it could be with the right people.

A/N: Thank you to rabidchild67 for the idea to set this in Paris, and to give me a connection back to June. Thank you to elainasaunt for the information about the 7th arrondissement in Paris.

Cheerleading and Beta credit: coffeethyme4me. Words really cannot express my gratitude to this lovely woman – I was stalled so many times I didn’t think I could finish it. She held my hand, encouraged me and made this story what it was. Thank you, dearest.

One final note. There have been quite a few excellent fix-it and episode tags for Judgment Day, including this one - The Mended Heart, by my pal rabidchild67. There are a few similarities between her fic and mine. Other than RC’s original suggestion about setting this in Paris, we didn’t collab or confer at all. There’s a reason why RC is my braintwin.

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(  Neal stretched in well-pleasured satiation and encountered a hard, muscled leg. Not surprising in a bedroom filled with the scent of sex and clean sheets. But it was time to leave. He tossed back the covers and got up. )

Title: At The Bottom of an Empty Box
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Sara Ellis, Neal Caffrey, Sara/Neal
Spoilers: S2.15 - Power Play
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~660
Summary: Sara’s been getting unmarked packages for almost all her adult life, and each one breaks her heart a little more.

( The boxes arrive like clockwork - one on her birthday, one on the day before Christmas. )

Title: The Scent of Ocean Fog
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Sara Ellis, Mozzie
Spoilers: None, Post Countdown
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~1000
Summary: Moz wants to see Sara, but NYC is off limits for him these days. They meet on a foggy October afternoon in the little hamlet of Remsenburg, a few miles from Westhampton. Sara takes the meeting, she has a question for Mozzie, too. Written for Day One of the Eight Days of Fic-can-ukah, for attackfish. Her prompt is the title of this story.

(  For Sara, there were a very few people in her life who would be worth a nearly two hour train ride and thirty bucks on a suburban cab’s meter. Moz, oddly enough, was one of them. )