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Title: WildPeace - Chapter 13 - Not Even the Peace of a Cease-Fire
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
Rating: Mature
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn (Kal Cahill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ben Kenner), Original Characters
Pairings: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Word Count: ~7,500 (this chapter) / ~62,300 (total)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Timestamp for Modern A/U, Fanwork of Fanwork, part of WriteStuffLee ’s Yooperverse

Summary: Kal and Ben are in Dublin, meeting with Kal's money people, who tell Kal that the lawyers for his father's estate need to see him. Kal can't imagine why. His father's been dead for more than twenty years. What Kal finds ends up reshaping his whole world, and although the journey is difficult, it's filled with wonderful people - a family Kal barely knew he had, a friend long forgotten, and at the end, some complicated truths

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Chapter Summary: The last letter that Kal reads nearly destroys him - it sends him spiraling into grief and pain and wanders out into New York, walking alone with his memories.

Chapter Thirteen on AO3

Title: WildPeace - Chapter 11 - I Know that I Know How to Kill

Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
Rating: Mature
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn (Kal Cahill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ben Kenner), Original Characters
Pairings: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Word Count: ~6,000 (this chapter) / ~36,200 (total)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Timestamp for Modern A/U, Fanwork of Fanwork, part of WriteStuffLee ’s Yooperverse

Summary: Kal and Ben are in Dublin, meeting with Kal's money people, who tell Kal that the lawyers for his father's estate need to see him. Kal can't imagine why. His father's been dead for more than twenty years. What Kal finds ends up reshaping his whole world, and although the journey is difficult, it's filled with wonderful people - a family Kal barely knew he had, a friend long forgotten, and at the end, some complicated truths

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Chapter Summary: Ben and Kal are back in Manhattan, and Kal is back to reading his father's letters. And no matter how many letters he reads, he's no closer to understanding his father..

Chapter Eleven on AO3

Title: WildPeace - Chapter 8 - Let It Come
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
Rating: Mature
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn (Kal Cahill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ben Kenner), Original Characters
Pairings: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Word Count: ~2,600 (this chapter) / ~30,200 (total)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Timestamp for Modern A/U, Fanwork of Fanwork, part of WriteStuffLee ’s Yooperverse

Summary: Kal and Ben are in Dublin, meeting with Kal's money people, who tell Kal that the lawyers for his father's estate need to see him. Kal can't imagine why. His father's been dead for more than twenty years. What Kal finds ends up reshaping his whole world, and although the journey is difficult, it's filled with wonderful people - a family Kal barely knew he had, a friend long forgotten, and at the end, some complicated truths

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Chapter Summary: Kal and Ben arrive in New York and discover the luxe life at the Four Seasons Central Park. But as luxurious as it may be, Kal has work to do - uncovering his father's truths, as bitter as they may be.


Chapter Eight on AO3

Title: WildPeace - Chapter 6 - Without the Big Noise of Beating Swords
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
Rating: Mature
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn (Kal Cahill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ben Kenner), Original Characters
Pairings: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Word Count: ~2,900 (this chapter) / ~22,000 (total)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Timestamp for Modern A/U, Fanwork of Fanwork, part of WriteStuffLee ’s Yooperverse

Summary: Kal and Ben are in Dublin, meeting with Kal's money people, who tell Kal that the lawyers for his father's estate need to see him. Kal can't imagine why. His father's been dead for more than twenty years. What Kal finds ends up reshaping his whole world, and although the journey is difficult, it's filled with wonderful people - a family Kal barely knew he had, a friend long forgotten, and at the end, some complicated truths

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Chapter Summary: Finally, Khalil what he came to Rosehill for. And wishes that it was never found.



Chapter Six on AO3

Title: <https://archiveofourown.org/works/52834123/chapters/134332867>WildPeace - Chapter 4 - Let It Be
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
Rating: Mature
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn (Kal Cahill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ben Kenner), Original Characters
Pairings: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Word Count: ~3,200 (this chapter) / ~15,300 (total)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Timestamp for Modern A/U, Fanwork of Fanwork, part of WriteStuffLee ’s Yooperverse

Summary: Kal and Ben are in Dublin, meeting with Kal's money people, who tell Kal that the lawyers for his father's estate need to see him. Kal can't imagine why. His father's been dead for more than twenty years. What Kal finds ends up reshaping his whole world, and although the journey is difficult, it's filled with wonderful people - a family Kal barely knew he had, a friend long forgotten, and at the end, some complicated truths

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Chapter Summary: After that lovely dinner, David breaks out the really good whisky. Of course, Kal and David get drunk and really get to know each other.


Chapter Four on AO3

Title: WildPeace - Chapter 3 - The Wolf and the Lamb
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
Rating: Mature
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn (Kal Cahill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ben Kenner), Original Characters
Pairings: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Word Count: ~3,700 (this chapter) / 12,100 (total)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Timestamp for Modern A/U, Fanwork of Fanwork, part of WriteStuffLee ’s Yooperverse

Summary: Kal and Ben are in Dublin, meeting with Kal's money people, who tell Kal that the lawyers for his father's estate need to see him. Kal can't imagine why. His father's been dead for more than twenty years. What Kal finds ends up reshaping his whole world, and although the journey is difficult, it's filled with wonderful people - a family Kal barely knew he had, a friend long forgotten, and at the end, some complicated truths

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Chapter Summary: After a rocky start, Kal gets to know his Irish family. Not just his Cousin David, but the entire Monstrous Regiment.

And he likes them.

Of course he does.



Chapter Three on AO3

Title: WildPeace - Chapter 1
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - The Phantom Menace
Rating: Mature
Characters: Qui-Gon Jinn (Kal Cahill), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ben Kenner), Original Characters
Pairings: Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi
Word Count: ~5,100 (this chapter)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Timestamp for Modern A/U, Fanwork of Fanwork, part of WriteStuff ’s Yooperverse
Summary: Kal and Ben are in Dublin, meeting with Kal's money people, who tell Kal that the lawyers for his father's estate need to see him. Kal can't imagine why. His father's been dead for more than twenty years.

What Kal finds ends up reshaping his whole world, and although the journey is difficult, it's filled with wonderful people - a family Kal barely knew he had, a friend long forgotten, and at the end, some complicated truths.


Author’s Note:

Three years ago, I found an amazing story, Ever Since Happiness Called Your Name, and it became my perfect fanfic. I have read it so many times, I can recite parts of it. I was lucky enough to meet WriteStuff, the amazing author of this amazing story, and even luckier to become friends with her, amazing person that she is. For the last year or so, we have spent many hours each week (or day) talking about Kal and Ben and their lives. They are quite real people to us now.

One of our conversations centered around a comment Kal made at the end of Beyond the Rightness and Wrongness of Things, when he's talking about his relationship with his father. He seems so facile about it, and I just called bullshit, and said I'd like to write a timestamp exploring the truth of what really happened between Kal and his father. This story is that.

WriteStuff was not only my cheerleader and alpha-reader, but she was a critical reader too, making sure my vision of Kal and Ben stayed aligned with hers, but she also gave me amazing freedom, too. Working with her and her creations and George's (well just barely George's now) has been an honor.

The title of this story is borrowed from the poem by Yehuda Amachai, Wildpeace, which is reproduced in the endnotes.


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Chapter Summary: Chapter One - Twenty-three years ago, Robert Cahill left behind a large wooden crate as a legacy for his son, Khalil. It’s only just been found. Fate and good luck, two things the Irish have in abundance, seem to be smiling on Kal - he and Ben are in Dublin just at the right moment in time.

Chapter One on AO3

Title: See Me Once, See the Way I Feel
Author: elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan / elrhiarhodan
Fandom: Kingsman (Movies)
Rating: PG-13
Characters Harry Hart | Galahad, Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, Merlin (Kingsman), Jamal (Kingsman), Ryan (Kingsman), Victoria Winslow (RED/RED 2), Ivan Simanov (RED 2), Rottweiler (Kingsman), Michelle Unwin, Daisy (Kingsman), Chester King, Original Characters, Percival (Kingsman), James | Lancelot (Kingsman), Charlie Hesketh
Pairings: Harry Hart | Galahad/Gary “Eggsy” Unwin
Word Count: ~35,905
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Expressions of Anti-Semitism
Summary: Harry Hart, Director of Acquisitions for the Lepidopteral Catalog at the London Natural History Museum, is on his way home one Sunday afternoon, and encounters a lovely young man selling a rare collection of butterfly books in an antique fair. Of course he has to stop and take a look, and it doesn't take a scientist to see that this young man is as rare and special as the books he's selling.

Eggsy's a young man working hard to support his mum and baby sister, but the three jobs he's working at barely help make ends meet. A lucky encounter with a posh gent who just happens to want to buy an old set of books he's got might just give him a way out of a live of endless poverty.

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Author’s Notes: Written for binary_sunset for the 2019 Age Gap Exchange. They had asked for gentle lepidopterist Harry in an academic setting - this is close to that and I hope you like it. I'm also a trifle embarrassed at the length of the story - 36k in one go is a lot of words, but every time I tried to make it shorter, I only ended up writing more.

I didn't tag this as a crossover, but Victoria and Ivan are characters from RED/RED 2, and my head canon is that whether the story is canon-adjacent or AU, Victoria is the only woman Harry's had sex with (and if canon-adjacent, other than on a honeypot or within mission parameters).

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See Me Once, See the Way I Feel - Read on AO3

Title: Where the Old Ghosts Play
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: The Flash (2014)
Rating: PG
Characters: Barry Allen, Earth-19 Harrison Wells (HR Wells)
Pairings: Implied Barry Allen/Iris West (canon relationship), Implied (more than) Barry Allen/Harrison Wells | Eobard Thawne, Implied Unreciprocated Barry Allen/Earth-2 Harrison Wells
Word Count: ~3600
Spoilers: Episode Tag for S3.16 - Into the Speed Force
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Non-Canon Death of Non-Canon Character
Summary: Set immediately after the events of Into The Speed Force, Barry doesn't go to Cisco's, but decides to bunk down at S.T.A.R. Labs, where he has a strange and painful late-night conversation with the Labs' permanent resident, HR Wells.


Author’s Notes: I've had a very hard time getting a handle on HR Wells. He's annoying, but at the same time, intriguing. We have no real clue as to his motivations - unlike Harry or EoWells, and despite the massive amount of words that come out of his mouth, we still don't know why he's here. The scenes with Jesse have given me a hint, and this story explores certain ideas. Please pay attention to the tags for this one. If you need more detail, please see the end notes.

There is also the tiniest hint of a crossover. If you know about my other fandom interests, you'll pick up on it.
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(  Barry tells Iris he would stay at Cisco's, but he doesn't.  )

Title: We Followed an Unlikely Star
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Original Characters, Peter/Neal
Word Count: ~4000
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Mention of death of non-canon characters, non-canon death of canon characters, reference to attempted sexual assault of a minor
Beta Credit: sinfulslasher
Summary: Peter and Neal, after nearly thirty years together, finally tie the knot. But they could not have gotten to this moment without remembering the ones who gave them the strength to love.

Author’s Note: Written for pooh_collector, for the first night of Fic-Can-Ukah 2016, for the prompt "On the Eve of the Wedding". Please keep a full box of tissues handy.

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(  “And now, by the power vested in me by the State of New York, I now pronounce you married. Go ahead, kiss each other already.” Mozzie, naturally, couldn't help but conclude the ceremony with the tiniest bit of snark. )

Title: We Stumble, We Falter (but we're no different from anyone)- Part One of Two
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: The Flash
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Earth-2 Harrison Wells, Joe West, Jesse "Quick" Wells, Wally West, Cisco Ramon, Barry Allen, Iris West; Harry/Joe, Wally/Jesse, Barry/Iris, mention of Cisco/Hartley/Caitlin
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: Total ~12,500 (this chapter - ~6,000)
Beta Credit: theatregirl7299, @timeforalongstory
Summary: Set about five years after The Silence Between the Birdsong, Joe West and Harry Wells are in a relationship that is much more than casual. Harry, however, is having some difficulty accepting that his brilliant daughter is going to be building her own life with the man she loves. Joe, who has never been shy about expressing his feelings for this difficult man, is the voice of common sense.

A/N: Written for Ladyofpride's Harrison Wells Appreciation Month. I was lucky enough to get a chance to write Harry interacting with both Jesse and with Wally West, but this is first and foremost, a Jarrison fic with all the Jarrison feels I could manage, and then some.




(  We Stumble, We Falter (but we're no different from anyone) - Part One )

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Title: A Knotted Cord Untying – Part Two of Two
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: The Flash (2014) (fusion with "Ed")
Rating: PG-13 (for language, mild innuendo)
Characters/Pairings: Earth-1 Harrison Wells (Original Harrison Wells), Earth-1 Tess Morgan, Earth-2 Harrison Wells, Joe West, Barry Allen, Cisco Ramon, Caitlin Snow, misuse of various characters from the television series, "Ed"; Harrison Wells/Tess Morgan
Spoilers: 1.17 (Tricksters), All of Season 2, especially 2.09 (Running to a Stand Still), 2.10 (Potential Energy)
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~11,000
Beta Credit: theatregirl7299
Summary: Time is not a looped ball of string. Time is not a straight line. Time might be a tangled knot, unless time is simply an illusion.

Or, what happens when Harrison Wells finds a copy his biography at the annual Stuckeyville Library Book Sale.

See end for additional (and spoilery) notes.

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(  Harry muttered to himself as he wrote and erased yet another set of calculations. It was too quiet, but whatever music he played annoyed him. He found himself wishing for company – Snow or Ramon or Barry. He'd never admit it, but they impressed the hell out of him. )

Title: Like a Line in the Sand
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: The Flash
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Joe West, Harrison Wells (Earth-2)
Spoilers: S2.06 – Enter Zoom
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Graphic mention of violent child death
Word Count: ~1300
Beta Credit: None
Summary: An episode tag to the end of Enter Zoom. Joe has a much needed conversation with Harrison Wells about a good parent's responsibilities to their children.

A/N: Inspired by Wells' monologue at the end of S2.011, Potential Energy (but no spoilers), my first attempts at writing both Joe West and Earth-2 Harrison Wells.

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(  Joe doesn't hate many people. Hate is a bad thing for a cop – it leads to mistakes, often fatal ones. He might hate what some people do, but hating the person who did them is rare. )

Title: The Magic Between Us - Part Two of Two
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Reese Hughes, June Ellington, Byron Ellington, Original Female Character, Neal Caffrey, Ford Tolman, David Siegel; June/Byron, June/Ford, Peter/David, Neal/Unnamed Male Character (past), Neal/Kate (unconsummated past), Peter/Neal
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Canon death of canon character (long-term unspecified illness), non-canon deaths of canon characters, internalized homophobia, expressions of homophobia, gunshot wound, references to 9/11, talk of suicidal behavior.
Word Count: ~15,000
Beta Credit: sinfulslasher
Summary: Peter Burke, a young FBI agent, meets June and Byron Ellington during an investigation of a series of mortgage fraud cases. They take him under their wing and become his surrogate family. During his first visit to the Ellington mansion, he sees a magnificent portrait of a young man and becomes captivated. June and Byron invite him to spend Christmas Eve with them, and he begins to notice something wonderful about the portrait. For a little while, it comes to life. For almost twenty-five years, Peter spends Christmas Eve with the Ellingtons, and each year, he grows closer to the man in the portrait.

A/N: Inspired by kanarek13's artwork – or more accurately, the concept that Kanarek told me about, which set my brain whirring. I had the basic idea of this story plotted out before she finished the piece. I'm only sorry it's taken longer than I'd planned to finish it.


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( June stood at his bedside, elegant as ever in Chanel and as implacable as Juno. )

Title: Testing Silence
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Clinton Jones, Diana Berrigan, Mozzie, Ellen Parker; Peter-Neal, pre-Peter/Neal, Peter/Neal
Word Count: ~4300
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Brief reference to intentional humiliation of students by a teacher, reference to underage (16 and 17 year olds) sexual activity, nothing explicit.
Beta Credit: sinfulslasher
Summary: Set very early in the Wonder(ful) Years 'verse, four vignettes of Peter and Neal's life in junior high and high school.

Author’s Note: Written as an extra day (Day 9) for my Fic-Can-Ukah meme, for pooh_collector, who picked the prompts, "There is always one more silence" and requested a fill in the Wonder(ful) Years 'verse. I also promised not to write super-sad death/dying fic for her, even though this prompt really could have gone that way. Instead, she'd getting super-young Peter and Neal.

Many thanks (again) to my creative co-conspirator, kanarek13, who provided the lovely and spoilerly artwork for the end of the story.

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( Before he started seventh grade, Peter had thought he'd love English class. All the new books they'd get to read and talk about, even learning about silly things like grammar and sentence structure, too. His mom had explained that that stuff was really like baseball rules. Sometimes they didn't make a whole lot of sense (like the in-field fly rule or tagging up before going from third to home), but they were important anyway. )

Title: Words Will Have to Do
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Joe Burke (OC), Cathy Burke (OC), Amy Grainger (OC), Jack Franklin; Peter/Neal, Jack/Amy
Word Count: ~6100
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: sinfulslasher (who knows just how awesome she is).
Summary: Set in The Wonder(ful) Years A/U in the very late 1990s, Peter and Neal are facing a work-imposed separation. Neither man is happy about it. But there's such things as air mail and email and even international cell phone service, so just because they're apart doesn't mean that they can't stay in touch.

Author’s Note: Written for the sixth day/night of Fic-Can-Ukah, for tjs_whatnot who picked "I am writing you from a far-off country" – Neal/anyone, or gen.

Many thanks to theatregirl7299 who gave me the suggestion for this story.

Also, this isn't late. The sixth night of Chanukah doesn't end until sundown, and I've got plenty of time.

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( Neal watched, stony-faced, as Peter packed. “It's not fair.”  )

Title: Traditions
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, unborn Neal Burke, Peter/Elizabeth
Spoilers: S6.06
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Reference to canon death of canon character. Discussion of religion, religious practices.
Word Count: ~650
Beta Credit: miri_thompson
Summary: Elizabeth wants to have a party for that?

A/N: Written for purimgifts 2015 and posted anon to AO3. This story celebrates a character that might be Jewish (and is Jewish in my head canon).

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(  Truthfully, Peter really hadn't thought all that much about it.  )

Title: Baggage Claim
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Elizabeth Burke, Neal Burke, Peter/Elizabeth
Spoilers: S6.06 - Au Revoir
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~1000
Beta Credit: None
Summary: Neal's coming home, finally.

A/N: Written for Promptfest IX, for aragarna's prompt, "Peter – Love".

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(  It had been a long, strange journey. One filled with anger and mistrust, with wild (and no-so-wild) accusations. With bravery and sacrifice and cowardly selfishness, too. )

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: The Chaos of Our Lives (When Tomorrow Comes) – Masterpost
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: R
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie, Elizabeth Mitchell, Diana Berrigan, Christie, Sara Ellis, Peter/Neal, Moz/Elizabeth, Diana/Christie
Word Count: ~11,800
Art: Artwork by the amazing and generous kanarek13, and all of her artwork is on this art post. Please leave feedback!
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Allusion to emotional and physical child abuse
Beta Credit: miri_thompson, coffeethyme4me, theatregirl7299
Summary: Set in the Wonder(ful) Years ‘Verse, this story picks up immediately after the epilogue to the original story and the little Moz/Elizabeth ficlet, An Enviable Distraction, at the gang's thirtieth high school reunion. Old childhood traumas are revisited and wounds are healed.

For those who are unfamiliar with this ‘verse, it is an A/U where Peter and Neal and Moz and Elizabeth and Diana were friends since elementary school, and it follows their lives (mostly Peter and Neal) from childhood in the 1970's and '80s through to the modern day.

Written for kidficstory, and based on the prompt “I have a confession to make” selected by my dear pooh_collector for my 2013 Fic-Can-Ukah meme.

Author’s Note: In the original story for this ‘verse, Christie is occasionally mentioned as a friend of Elizabeth and Diana’s, but she never makes an appearance. The Christie in this story is not the same person.



Part One - On LJ | On DW
Part Two - On LJ | On DW

Title: Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot?
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, Neal Caffrey, OFC, Peter/Elizabeth, Neal/OFC
Word Count: ~3000
Spoilers: Vague spoilers for S5.09 - No Good Deed
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: None
Summary: Another year comes to an end, and Peter is filled with regrets for wounds that haven’t healed, and may never heal. He doesn’t know that he has reason to hope.

Author’s Note: Happy New Year to all my dear friends in the White Collar fandom. I wanted to end this year on a happy (or at least, less angsty) note. It was difficult when listening to the Dougie MacLean version of the famous Robert Burns song, but hopefully I’ve succeeded.

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( Satchmo, old and so gray around his muzzle that his face seemed white, was slow to move these days. Peter’s heart always seemed to skip a beat in the mornings when the old boy didn’t lift his head at the sound of his footsteps coming down the stairs. )

Title: The Circumstance of You and Me – Prequel to Nothing Will Remain - Part Two of Two
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke, nee Mitchell, Reese Hughes, Neal Caffrey, Original Female Characters, Original Male Characters, Peter – Elizabeth friendship, Elizabeth – Neal friendship
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: References to the events of 9/11 in New York City, reference to the death of a non-canon character.
Word Count: ~14,000 total
Beta Credit: miri_thompson, coffeethyme4me
Summary: In the near-canon A/U, Nothing Will Remain, Peter and Elizabeth had been divorced for years, but remained very close friends. This is the story of how they met, forged an unbreakable bond, and why, when Peter is gay and is not in the closet, they got married. This story can stand alone, but the experience will be richer if you’ve read the other fic.

A/N: Written for the 2013 White Collar Hurt/Comfort Advent over at whitecollarhc. And I guess it's now official (if it wasn't apparent before) that there is a "Nothing Will Remain 'verse". When you write 30k for two stories in less than three weeks, it's pretty clear that there's a 'verse in the works.

Title from Oysterband's "Only When You Call."

Part One – On DW | On LJ

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(  Peter looked up from the New York Times crossword puzzle as El made her way into the living room. He was worried about her. She’d been suffering from nearly constant headaches for months now. She’d lost a lot of weight too. )

Title: Hope For the Future
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: G
Characters/Pairings: Mozzie, Diana Berrigan, Theo Berrigan, Reese Hughes
Word Count: ~1600
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Beta Credit: miri_thompson
Summary: Mozzie is delighted to spend the day with his little namesake, Theo Berrigan, and they go for a walk in the park. Mozzie’s brother joins them. A light-hearted addition to my Unusual Relations series that started with Kinship Analysis and continued in Old Haunts.

Author’s Note: Written for the fifth night of Fic-Can-Ukah for my friend, algeiban. Her prompt was "The World Before You Were Born" and she simply let it be ‘writer’s choice.’ The title is from a quotation by Nelson Mandela, Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

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( Moz arrived at the She-Eagle’s nest at the appointed time. Not a minute early, not a minute late.  )

Title: Kinship Analysis
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: PG
Characters/Pairings: Reese Hughes
Spoilers: S4.06 - Identity Crisis, S4.12 – Brass Tacks
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~1200
Beta Credit: jrosemary
Summary: With nothing else to do, Reese Hughes decides to solve a mystery in his own past.

A/N: Written for the Adoption square on my Love Bingo Card. My dear friend, kanarek13 created cover art for this story for fandom_stocking 2013. It’s under the cut.

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( Retirement doesn’t suit Reese Hughes.  )