all my stumbling phrases never amounted to anything worth this feeling...

Title: the heart is hard to translate
Characters (Pairings): Rachel Turner, Sara Ellis, Neal Caffrey, Diana Berrigan (Rachel/Neal, Sara/Neal, Diana/Christie)
Rating: PG-13
Total Word Count: 538
Spoilers: Till Season 5
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: A peek into the hearts of a few characters.
Author's Note: This is a challenge that involved putting your music library on shuffle and writing drabbles for the respective lengths of the first five songs. For Challenge 29 - Do The Shuffle - at writerverse. Title from All This And Heaven Too by Florence + The Machine

Belly Up - Maria Mena
Rachel/Neal, 96 words.

( we lie belly up in the pool of us )

Goodnight New York - Vienna Teng
Sara/Neal, 119 words.

( goodnight, goodnight, may you be always heartbreaking )

The List - METRIC
Neal/Rachel, 103 words.

( all dressed down to catch a whiff of the buzz )

Nothing But The Water (Pt 2) - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
Diana/Christie, 114 words.

( i have tried to find my way, to make it through to a better day )

Phir Na Kehna (Crazy in Zanzibar mix) - Sunidhi Chauhan and Kumar Sanu
Sara/Neal, 106 words.

( dil deewana aaj kho jaaye toh )

Title: Someone To Rely On
Characters (Pairings): Diana Berrigan, Neal Caffrey, Mozzie.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1190
Spoilers: 5x02, for Diana's plotline.
Warnings: Vague descriptions of assault, a little blood.
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: How Diana lost her hearing and found something far more precious.
Author's Note: Title from Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen (originally by Keane, but I'm listening to her version). Set post-S5 in a vague no-kidnapping AU.
For Day 3 of halfamoon, for the prompt Lost and Found, Diana losing her hearing and finding something far more precious (why does this look like a c&p of my summary, MAYBE BECAUSE IT IS). Remember that little commentfic I promised to expand? This is that. Never say I never carry out any of my promises (I DON'T THO). Except research happened in between, so there are differences. And my writing style has gone wonky again (WHY CAN IT NEVER STAY STRAIGHT, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M DOING ANYMORE), so yeah.
Which also makes this for the 'loss of hearing' square on an hc_bingo card Which has now gone into amnesty. Sigh. Anyhow.
Clearly, I'm in a weird mood.
I hope this gradually increasing word count thing isn't a holding pattern, or I may just be totally screwed.


( "Something's wrong," Mozzie says when Neal picks up the phone. )

Title: When All Else In You Turns And Runs
Characters (Pairings): Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Diana Berrigan
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~1850
Warning/Content Note: Presumed dead [not a spoiler]
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin’s brainchild. Not mine.
Prompt: Because the myth is not supposed to retire / We'd rather it lit itself on fire / Or overdosed in a four star hotel
Summary: Neal has to leave New York. He absolutely cannot stay.
Author’s Note: Set post-anklet. The prompt and the title are both from Vienna Teng's Love Turns 40.
For Challenge 24 - August Table of Doom - at writerverse

I feel like you should know that words aren't coming all that easily to me. I'm struggling against them, for the most part. And I have this weird block about posting writing as of late. But this fic happened relatively easily, and I want to share :)

ETA - OMG, you guys! kanarek13 made me art for this fic!! And it's beautiful! Look :D

( clicky for art!!! )

( Neal's a bit of a legend. As much as Peter tries to play it down, he knows that, it's true. )

Title: Come Find Me (I Will Be Disappointing)
Characters (Pairings): Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Diana Berrigan, Clinton Jones. (can be read as Peter/Neal if you like)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100x8, exactly.
Spoilers: None, I think.
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin’s brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: Neal finds it hard to believe that he's interesting by himself, without the facade. Peter begs to differ.
Author’s Note: Title from Save Me by Seahaven.
This drabble series fills 8 prompts from whitecollar100
Prompts filled, in order of appearance, are #183 - Follow, #148 - Soft, #111 - Scowl, #120 - Sing, #113 - Yawn, #134 - Bent, #185 - Drift and #169 - Erase.

( Neal's noticed recently that Peter looks at him a lot. Not any of the obvious culprits (like the curvature of his butt) but seemingly irrelevant things (like the dot of mayonnaise at the corner of his mouth). )

Title: The Other Face
Characters (Pairings): Neal Caffrey, Diana Berrigan
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~800
Spoilers: Minor for Countermeasures (S02E13), Vague for In The Wind (S04E16)
Warnings: Headslaps.
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin’s brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: Diana's one invisible weapon against Neal Caffrey’s charms was gone.
Author’s Note: Title's from the song 'Again & Again' by Holly Brook
Finally, another fill for my hc_bingo card. This one's for the prompt 'Corporal Punishment'.

( Diana cradled her mug of coffee, enjoying the warmth in her hands, as she reflected on what might just have been one of the stupider mistakes of her life. )