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

Title: Don't Let This Line Go Slack
Characters (Pairings): Elizabeth Burke, Sara Ellis, Peter Burke (Elizabeth/Peter)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2064
Spoilers: Till at least 6x01
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: Elizabeth's move to D.C. has her off balance.
Author's Note: For runthecon, for the prompts 'New Beginnings' and 'Last But Not Least'. Unbetaed, written in a hurry, a little shit. Title from Transcontinental, 1:30 AM by Vienna Teng.
AU from end S5 in which Rachel is arrested but Neal isn't kidnapped, because I don't need that chaos going on in the background. I think I finished this just in time just a teensy bit late only because I dropped this little Neal+Sara plotline I had in my head. And it's still only half a story. Ugh.
I haven't posted a proper fic here in ages. I forgot how fidgety things get when you try to align things to the centre. Oh, commentfics, you are so simple and I adore you <3

( She has only three framed pictures of Peter. )

Title: Wanderess
Characters (Pairings): Sara Ellis
Rating: PG
Word Count: 631
Spoilers: For S04E16
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: With nowhere to anchor herself, Sara gets lost.
Author's Note: Written for Challenge 9 - Picture Prompt - over at writerverse, for this picture. Title from Hurricane by Halsey. Written in a bit of a hurry, sorry about that.

Part of the Amis Amants 'verse. For more in this verse, click here.

( Among Sara's recent practical purchases had been a pair of sneakers. )

Title: Cuddle Me In
Characters (Pairings): Neal Caffrey, Sara Ellis (Neal/Sara).
Rating: PG
Word Count: 234
Spoilers: Mild spoilers for S04E16
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: I love you, left unsaid.
Author's Note: Title from Ed Sheeran's Kiss Me. This is for Challenge 8 - True Love - over at writerverse. Set just before S04E16.
This was meant to be an apology to sheenianni for breaking her heart, except that it's kinda low on the fluff factor. But you already knew that I'm not capable of writing non-angsty fic.
Part of the Amis Amants 'verse. For more in this verse, click here.

( It's quiet. But the silence is weighed down by so many words Neal has left unsaid over the past few hours. )

Title: North Light Comes
Characters (Pairings): Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, Elizabeth Burke (Peter/El).
Rating: PG
Word Count: 1169
Spoilers: Vague for S3 & 4. Minor reference to S05E04.
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Author's Note: Set post anklet, ignoring S6. Written for Challenge 14 in the current Writerverse phase. Title is a lyric from Overcome by Better Than Ezra.
This is basically proof of life. Posting from phone, I apologise for any mistakes in advance. Will tag + xpost + edit this on Monday, because phone.
This is a (very short) sequel to When All Else In You Turns And Runs, in which Neal has essential tremor, restricted to his right hand during this fic and the previous one. I'm fairly sure that that fic is in my masterpost, for anyone who wants to read it before this.
This is not the first time I've written a drunk/dazed Neal on the Burkes' doorstep. I think he's adorable when he's a little loopy and craving affection. Recurring theme, will try not to repeat, etc.
Can you tell that it's late and I'm a little loopy myself?


( Neal shivered as he paced across the length of the Burkes' doorstep. )

Title: the one who's always and never alone
Characters (Pairings): Neal Caffrey
Rating: PG
Word Count: 104
Spoilers: Vague for S6 finale
Song prompt: Girl With The Red Balloon - The Civil Wars
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: He's surrounded by people and it still hurts.
Author's Note: This is a repost for tagging purposes - this was originally posted as part of Five drabbles (+ a little extra), but is also a S6 tag, and since I don't want that entire post in my S6 finale tag tag, I'm reposting this.
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( Neal has learned that being alone has nothing to do with being around people. )

Title: Songbird
Characters (Pairings): Mozzie
Rating: PG
Word Count: 570
Spoilers: S03E11 (Checkmate) (a little of Mozzie's background), S06E06 (Au Revoir)
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: Moz retreats to his trailer in the woods.
Author's Note: Originally written for Elr's promptfest IX. This has been expanded by 200-ish words.
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( Moz retreats to his trailer in the woods. )

Title: Absolutely Not.
Characters (Pairings): Diana Berrigan, Mozzie, Theo Berrigan
Rating: PG
Word Count: 361
Spoilers: 5x02, Diana's plotline.
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: Diana's son is not going to be a con man.
Author's Note: This is for Day 4 of halfamoon, for the prompt Fight, the battle between Diana and Mozzie. Prompted by leesa_perrie, thank you! It's not that great :/ Ah well. It's fic. I wrote. That's good.
Seeing as it's day 6 now, I'm behind. Oh dear.


( "My son is not going to be a con man." )

Title: Not This Time
Characters (Pairings): Neal Caffrey
Rating: PG
Word Count: 350
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: The only real thing wrong with Neal is that he's young. And that's something time can always cure. Will he let it?
Author's Note: The summary is a modified version of this prompt from comment_fic (which tigriswolf, the prompter, mentioned is from Jack Schaffer's 'Shane'). I thought of the title because of a lyric from Christina Perri's Butterfly, and then immediately heard Taylor Swift singing "Not this time" (from I Know Places). Music. *sigh*. This is for Challenge 16a at writerverse. I see this as set in S2, after Countermeasures, but you can read it however you like :)

( Neal's been in a dance with time ever since he ran away from home. )

Title: Alive, Back From The Dead
Characters (Pairings): June Ellington, Neal Caffrey (June/Byron)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 766
Spoilers: Vague till somewhere in season 2, I can't pinpoint an episode.
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: June wants to remember more than she does.
Author's Note: Panel Three of the This Love triptych. An expansion of part of this commentfic, written for percygranger. For the 'forced to face fear' square on my hc_bingo card. Title from Taylor Swift's This Love.

( That love they had, it was precious. )

Title: Night
Characters (Pairings): Neal Caffrey, Sara Ellis (Neal/Sara)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 304
Spoilers: Vague till the end of S4
Disclaimer: White Collar is Jeff Eastin's brainchild. Not mine.
Summary: It wasn't the first night they'd laid awake like this, with only the other for company.
Author's Note: This was written way back when for fandom_stocking, for love_82. I have no clue why I didn't post it here before. Set in London. Post anklet.
Part of the Amis Amants 'verse. For more in this verse, click here.

( "You're scared," Sara said. )