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Here are the prompts (I miscounted, so there are actually 152!). I've arranged them in broad categories, to be posted on each day of the first week of January 2011, after the New Year festivities, but hopefully before the start of the new season.

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WARNING: THE PROMPTS WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE SECOND SEASON OF WHITE COLLAR.

Monday 3 January: Neal

Furious that he abused her trust & used her dog in his runaway scheme, June kicks Neal out, at least temporarily. Not wanting to tell Peter & Elizabeth, and with Mozzie unavailable, Neal tries living homeless within his anklet's permitted radius. Optional spin: This means he takes up life as a prostitute.
Neal becomes convinced he has the Touch of Death: close association with him is *really bad* for people he cares about. He fights with Peter & refuses to work with him, tries to get assigned to an agent he hates, and insists on seeking out all his old enemies and getting buddy-buddy with them. ivorysilk
Someone starts sending Neal mementos: pictures of him & Kate, little reminders from cases he's worked with Mozzie (page of a book, matchbook cover from a bar), always with an index card with block letters (printed, not written) saying WAIT.
Neal decides he needs to take over Mozzie's place in the underworld, acting as go-between among several groups that he has no intention of telling Peter about.
Neal decides he needs to be punished for letting Mozzie & Kate get killed. He starts on a self-destructive behavior streak that includes drugs, prostitution, BDSM, and incredibly risky crimes. whiplash
A man who raped Neal in prison is out on parole and looking for his "little buddy."
Neal decides to pull out all the stops to get the info he wants; he becomes a high-end rentboy to politicians & gov't operatives to get access to their files.
genderbent-by-magic!Neal not being very different from Neal-as-usual.
A curious unavailability of female Feds or CIs results in Neal getting sent in under cover... as a woman
Neal gets an offer from a well-known business that deals in copies of famous arts for exclusive clients.
Four years have passed and the Feds offer Neal a regular job, providing he gets a college degree.
Asexual!Neal
Neal has to be rushed to a hospital outside his radius.
5 times Neal won a CI-off elf
What if Neal ends up shooting Fowler in Point Blank and has to go back to prison? Would prefer it to be Neal-Peter centric but non-slash.

Tuesday 4 January: Neal & Moz (& Peter)

Mozzie recovering, refusing to eat hospital food. Neal makes him delicious soup, El brings him banquet food. Maybe his girlfriend comes back from California to help him recover. Neal reads to him - something sweet and schmoopy.
Finding the perfect gift - Mozzie + Neal friendship: Mozzie finds the perfect gift for Neal. Is it some rare and beautiful art object he gets a hold of, does he make the gift himself, or is it a favor he does for Neal?
How did Neal and Moz meet? forestgreen
Four years down the road, Neal is free. What does he choose to do?
Neal is a vampire, and Mozzie was his donor. With Mozzie unavailable (in my head, that's temporary), Neal needs to find a new donor.
While comforting Neal (cue as much smut as you care to insert), Peter & Elizabeth discover some very disturbing things about Mozzie & Neal's relationship. forestgreen
Mozzie is rushed to a hospital, maybe in time, and while everyone's caught up with that, Neal is kidnapped.
Neal visits Mozzie in the hospital. Mozzie insists Neal has to get him *out* of there. Neal helps him "escape" because that's better than Mozzie climbing out of a 4th story window in his condition. steeleblue
Peter discovers Mozzie's secret stash of tapes from the days Neal worked in the porn industry.
Going through some of Mozzie's possessions, Neal discovers that Mozzie had a son.
Going through some of Mozzie's possessions, Neal discovers that Mozzie had a son. And the son is being raised in an orphanage to which Moz was secretly donating funds; Neal decides to track him down & adopt him.
Going through some of Mozzie's possessions, Neal discovers that Mozzie had a son. And the son is about Neal's age; they meet & sparks fly.
Going through some of Mozzie's possessions, Neal discovers that Mozzie had a son. And the son is a teenage punk involved in a dangerous gang; Neal decides to rescue him.
Going through some of Mozzie's possessions, Neal discovers that Mozzie had a son. And the son's mother is a politician who's been using son's connection to Mozzie to maintain ties to the underworld.
Going through some of Mozzie's possessions, Neal discovers that Mozzie had a son. And the son is rookie employee at FBI building with no awareness of his father; Peter & Neal discover his identity at the same time through different methods.
Peter gets an FYI package from (presumed-deceased) Mozzie explaining how he met Neal.
Mozzie's memoirs are published, detailing several unsolved crimes and outing several big-time criminals. Neal is notably entirely absent.
Neal gets a letter from Mozzie telling him of Mozzie's hidden feelings.
Over the course of a couple of weeks, Neal receives a cluster of "if you're reading this, I'm already dead" letters, containing impossibly contradictory information. Each is plausible on its own, but no two of them can be correct.
"Neal: I am your father."
Mozzie has one final scheme he wants Neal to complete.
Neal receives a packet of clues: a couple of keys to lockers or safety-deposit boxes, a book with highlighted passages, a notepad with scribblings, and so on, all wrapped up in butcher paper marked with grease pencil that says "DO THIS FIRST!!!"
Mozzie expected to find Neal at his bedside when he woke up. He doesn't quite know what to do with the fact that there's a Suit there too. (gen)
Peter spends a few days behind bars (framed for something or undercover, whatever), Neal comes to visit and brings Mozzie as Peter's lawyer. (gen)
Some minor disaster leaves The Greatest Cake unstaffed on a busy day with orders to fill. Mozzie and Neal and whomever else strikes your fancy must step into the breach and be bakers for a day. Wacky hijinks ensue. steeleblue

Wednesday 5 January: Peter & Neal

Neal is a robot (who comes with GPS tracking built right in). Mozzie, Kate and Alex are robots as well, but unlike them, Neal's been reprogrammed by the FBI to be loyal to Peter personally or the FBI, and that music box contains the secret that will set him free.
Neal decides he needs to be punished etc. and demands that Peter be the one to punish him.
Neal decides that Peter needs to be punished, and he's the man to do the punishing. Peter agrees.
Neal's number one rule has always been that no one in his crew hurts anyone or allows anyone to be hurt during a caper. Ergo, it's sitting very badly with him that his crew has been slowly picked off now that he's trying to go on the straight an narrow. (Peter/Neal)
Peter actually wants Neal to see the department psychologist/psychiatrist after everything that's gone on. He'd make it a condition of Neal's work release, but he isn't sure Neal wouldn't rather go back to prison. (Peter/Neal)
Peter realizes Neal needs a vacation and manages to get them a week away somewhere, alone (Peter/Neal)
It's a month before the tracker comes off for good. Neal starts scheming to do something that will get his sentence lengthened, because he isn't sure Peter will keep him on after he's released. (Peter/Neal)
Baddie who harassed/threatened Neal in prison gets out and decides he wants to make good on those threats. Neal is kidnapped and Peter freaks the eff out because he knows about their history and what the bad guy intends to do to Neal. Cue badass!Peter kicking ass and taking names to get Neal back. Aftermath h/c Neal/Peter would be awesome. maerhys
Neal taking some absurd risks or volunteering himself for something dangerous/painful because he thinks no one cares or would miss him if things go wrong. Neal/Peter please.
Peter/Neal established relationship. Peter decides Neal is too thin and tries to fatten him up :D Looking for something light and fluffy, humorous would be good too.
Neal has a rare food allergy no one knows of. He accidentally consumes the allergen then tries to hide the effects from everyone. Of course Peter isn't fooled and takes Neal in hand just before his condition gets worse. Lots and lots of h/c would be totally epic!
Pairing: Neal/Peter or Bromantic Gen Prompt: Neal and Peter are both skilled con artists and thieves with extensive knowledge about art and art history. Neal is also a skilled forger whereas Peter has to relies on hiring other forgers and then pulling off the con or heist himself. Neal likes to limit his connections and is known to plan the heist, forge the piece, pull of the heist, and even occasionally fence the piece himself. Peter is known as a fair man and those that he hires, though he rarely hires the same person twice, always get a fair cut of the final profits. They only know each other by reputation and have never met, but one night, they both stage a heist on the same museum on the same night and cross paths. They were going for different pieces and after they both switch their forgeries with the real thing; they cross paths again on the roof. This first meeting sets off a period of time where they both research and "stalk" each other as if the other were a potential mark. This culminates in a second meeting. Somehow, they end up working together and, as in the show, their partnership strengthens and develops. The take the white collar crime world by storm, pulling off elaborate heists and cons by playing to each others' strengths. Of course, the FBI is chasing them, but together they weave and turn, always steps ahead of the FBI. tl;dr version: Peter and Neal and both con artists/thieves. They meet during a museum heist. They "stalk" each other. They meet again. They partner up and become a well oiled, adrenaline fueled con machine that are always eluding the FBI.
Peter is sent to a conference outside of New York, Neal accompanies him and they both get into the middle of an actual case there, accidentally.
Peter and Neal are having an affair, but Peter (maybe unintentionally) makes Neal feel like a whore because he continues with his strict treatment of Neal outside the bedroom. Some other guy shows up and begins to romance Neal(possibly for nefarious purposes)resulting in a crazy jealous Peter.
Peter/Neal or gen, casefic where they go undercover together pretending to be smugglers of fine art.
Peter/Neal, Neal pursues a relationship with Peter and tries to address all the things he believes are standing in the way (trust, etc), but Peter can't admit that it's not Neal's fault, it's his own issues (he's not ready for whatever reason). Happy ending please:)
Peter harasses Neal to go back and finish high school.
Neal needs to go to a funeral/wedding/whatever outside his radius. Peter accompanies him and discover Neal's family.
Neal/Peter(/El): dressing Peter
Neal/Peter(/El): In your dreams or that was unexpected
Neal/Peter(/El): missing scene in the swanky apartment from Company Man
Neal/Peter(/El): bad!marshal holding Neal's tracker key and how Peter makes it up to him

Thursday 6 January: El & Peter & Neal

Wintertime in New York. Peter, Elizabeth, and Neal go ice skating at the Wollman Rink
Sunset years - Peter, Neal and Elizabeth 20 years from now
Neal loves Elizabeth and Peter, but despite their doing everything to make him feel wanted, he still feels like an outsider. When he learns that Elizabeth and Peter are childless, not child free as he had thought, he feels compelled to offer to surrogate. (Neal is non-op ftm trans gender, or mpreg is common, or a magical fairy gave him a female reproductive system, it doesn't matter.) Your choice if it's an angsty h/c with Elizabeth and Peter talking him out of it and making him feel included in a way he understands, or if it's a happy fluffy baby fic/pic/other.
After the events of Season 2, Peter & Elizabeth comfort Neal. (Is this a prompt? This could be its own fest.)
Elizabeth comforts Neal for his various losses and winds up pregnant. Peter's sterile from a childhood case of mumps; he'll know it's not his.
Peter is kidnapped & tortured; Neal & Elizabeth have to put him back together while hiding the fact that he's damaged.
Peter/Neal(/EL) "I never say no to coffee"
Peter/Neal(/El) "Running just annoys him." - El could have told him that years ago.
Peter, Neal, El + FOOD = OT4. These are characters who eat, who have a connection to food. amy1705
AU where Neal is an art student and Peter and Elizabeth are class models. None of them know each other at the beginning of the story. And yes, they model naked.
Elizabeth imagines Neal and Peter kissing, with her in the middle
Bodyswitching (feel free to throw in Elizabeth and make it a three way switch)
OT3 kidfic (that is, the three of them make/have a baby). Any permutation; baby in a basket! Pregnant!Elizabeth! Pregnant!Neal?! calvinahobbes
kid!fic - so what's it like growing up in a household with two dads and a mom?
El(/Neal/Peter): life is what happens when you're making other plans
El(/Neal/Peter): the sights Elizabeth has seen on her "vacations" and the conversations (she and Peter have with each others' pictures/they all have) while she is away
El(/Neal/Peter): negotiating a poly relationship amy1705

Friday 7 January: Moz and El & Peter (& Moz)

Wing!fic - but it's Peter that has the wings.
pre-show: El watches Peter obsessing over Neal
Elizabeth accidentally travels back in time, after touching a mysterious object Peter has confiscated as evidence. She finds young Peter, who hasn't met young Elizabeth yet, and enlists his help in finding the magical thingy again, so she can go back to her own time. Will she seduce him? Will he recognize young Elizabeth when he meets her?
While searching for Mozzie's hideouts, Peter discovers... Mozzie. Healthy, whole, normal (for Mozzie)--with no memory of the past year or two. He knows Neal but doesn't recognize Peter, and is incredibly uncomfortable with A Suit trying to contact him.
Mozzie's ghost attaches itself to Peter. Nobody else can see Mozzie, but he's always around.
Peter's bosses decide he's bungled this one badly, and needs some time off while they decide what to do with him. He's benched, Neal's reassigned, Fowler's locked up, and Elizabeth is away for business. He starts going a bit crazy.
Elizabeth overreacts to the news of Mozzie's death--she becomes terrified of being alone. She won't leave the house without Peter or Neal, and sometimes freaks out if she can't see at least one of them.
Moz survives, but is missing a couple decade's memories. As soon as he sorts out that Peter's FBI, he becomes convinced that he must be Peter & Elizabeth's slave, because that's *always* his relationship with Suits. Peter starts digging into his past to find out where this came from.
Elizabeth plans a birthday party for Neal and everyone, including Mozzie shows up.
Mozzie isn't a single person; he's an experimental clone-set; there are dozens of Mozzies in New York. At night, they hook up to a telapathy device to share memories; they know everything about recent events except for the last few hours.
Mozzie's a werewolf; non-silver bullets hurt but can't kill him. However, the shapeshifted murderous rampage he goes on, triggered by pain & shock, is going to be really hard to explain.
Mozzie was royalty in a small European country; he was hiding from his family more than anything else. When he disappears, they come looking for him. amy1705
Two different wives and a husband from Boston show up to claim Mozzie's body & inherit his property. Each of them has a will & other valid-seeming paperwork.
Mozzie had several "in case of my death or disappearance" messages arranged. (This could be its own fic fest.) Some possible sub-prompts: forestgreen
A large cluster of sensitive gov't info gets sent to Wikileaks with Mozzie's fingerprints all over it.
Several apparently-unrelated storage units containing records blow up simultaneously.
Three different criminal groups who owe Mozzie favors come looking for his killer.
Neal buys Peter a gift.
Mozzie Haversham meeting a female version of himself.
8 Days a Week: Mozzie's safehouses

Saturday 8 January: Minor characters and non-character specific

Amnesia: Your character does not know who they are, but has to fake their way through a typical or atypical day because of plot rocks.
There's a unicorn loose in Central Park. What dastardly villain could have stolen and transported this endangered and very dangerous species, and why?
"You can leave your hat on."
Family isn't (just) what you get by birth, family is what you make it. myystic
First time (Peter sees Elizabeth, Peter kisses Elizabeth, Peter sees Neal, Peter catches Neal... you get the drift)
"I didn't know you could ride a horse."
While the show exists in an alternate reality where Manhattan is a magic land of sun-drenched colour, I'd love to read something set in a dirty, slushy, bone-chilling New York winter. oper_1895
Kate/Fowler - Angry, humiliating sex - Kate's domme, or at least the one doing the humiliation.
Peter topping Jack Franklin. He's been reinstated into the NYC WC division, but he's still got to work his way back into Peter's good graces.
Hughes and Bancroft having lunch, discussing the Peter/Neal situation.
Satchmo and Bugsy. A pair made to take on the world.
Diana and Alex have angry sex, Christy walks in on them.
Undercover as a couple: Clinton and Diana have to go undercover as a couple at a glitzy event, wearing sexy, elegant clothes, flirting and dancing. Maybe they're even forced to make out to preserve their cover, but don't include that if you're not into the dubcon/noncon thing :-) One-sided attraction, or Diana willing to be a bit bi-flexible for a man who pings her the right way are both good. You can substitute Lauren Cruz for Diana if you like the prompt but feel uncomfortable with the pairing.
June and Byron: some backstory.
Helping with a case: June accidentally gets involved with a case. She decides she may as well help, and she turns out to be good at it.
Lauren never told anyone, but she can see the spirits of dead people, and sometimes communicate with them.
Neal slips into a deep depression, and nobody can snap him out of it until June takes charge.
Fowler, of all people, winds up comforting Neal... by letting Neal beat the shit out of him and then brutally fuck him.
Mozzie recovers at June's place. They discover they have a lot in common.
Girl's night: While Peter & Neal are on a case, June & Elizabeth get together for some fun.
June is kidnapped, almost certainly for harboring Neal; Peter & Neal have to find & rescue her.
Because of Neal's recent rule-breaking, June is put under a spotlight, and some scandalous elements of her past come to light.
Alex tries to visit Neal when he's not at home, and runs into June instead. They have a long conversation about Neal's character flaws, and wind up being good friends. Maybe more than friends.
Jones always gets the dirty work.
I'd love to see something where Kate and Alex rigged the whole Music Box thing (though not because they loved and then were scorned by Neal), and only a tranquillizer gun was used on Mozzie (The alternative is unthinkable!). Also, everyone is awesome and brilliant, and Peter cooks a roast.
It turns out that Alex is the "Big Bad" - she's the one who always wanted the Music Box, after all - Neal has to deal with being completely conned and the fact that he had such bad judgment that he trusted her (as much as he trusts anyone who isn't Peter.)
Jones POV on Peter and Neal's secret relationship and a jealousy he can't quite explain. Author can choose who Jones is quietly crushing on - Peter or Neal. Or both ;)
Neal and Diana spend time together--they do a stakeout in the van, they go shopping for Christie's birthday present, they get stuck in an elevator when the power goes out in the FBI building, etc.
Cindy: In her grandmother's footsteps
June: a glorious past
5 cons June has been involved in
June's POV on the scene with Mozzie and Diana
Diana meeting up with Cruz to exchange tips or more; any 5 things
Diana/Christy, how was your day honey?
Diana: any 5 things

Sunday 9 January: Crossovers

[Lie To Me]: Neal fools Cal Lightman
[a sci fi/fantasy show]: Let your character meet aliens or supernatural creatures from your favorite sci fi or fantasy show. How do they react to learning their world view was wrong? Are they scared or curious? Maybe they could save an innocent bystander from being attacked by the crossover character, or save the crossover character from being attacked by fearful and angry bystanders.
[Dr Who, Star Trek]: A blue box appears in the park seconds after the end of 2.9. The Doctor grabs Mozzie & whisks him aboard. Something comes up & the Doctor gets busy, and Mozzie wakes up alone in the Enterprise's sickbay. He's convinced the whole thing is a drug-induced hallucination designed to get him to reveal information.
[Lone Gunmen]: Neal needs info about who set Fowler up. Who better to ask about government coverups than three geeky reporters living in a warehouse? Besides, Frohike & Mozz go way back.
[SPN]: Sam & Dean have come to NY to find a lead on an artifact; their usual connection for places to hide (Mozzie) is missing, so they come to Neal. steeleblue
[Highlander]: Mozzie discovers he's an immortal--and now that he's been through his first death, people will be after his head.
[Law & Order: CI] New York's Finest find Mozzie's body & start investigating his murder. As much Cop/FBI tension as can be packed into a fic. Bonus points for Neal seducing Bobby Goren.
[Burn Notice]: Vacation time--Peter is ordered to take some downtime, so he, Elizabeth & Neal head to sunny Miami to clear their heads. Michael Westin recognizes Nick Holden and promptly drags him into a heist.
[Harry Potter]: Mozzie had an emergency potion he always carried with him for these situations. He never quite *trusted* it, but figured you could never have too many backup plans for trouble. He drinks the Draught of Living Death.
[Warehouse 13]: Mozzie had an artifact someone told him would save his life--once. He triggers it.
[Harry Potter]: Going through some of Mozzie's possessions, Neal discovers that Mozzie had a son. And the son is a wizard attending Hogwarts.
[Law & Order]: Going through some of Mozzie's possessions, Neal discovers that Mozzie had a son. And the son is a suspect in a L&O case.
[Men in Black]: Going through some of Mozzie's possessions, Neal discovers that Mozzie had a son. And the son is an agent with the Men In Black.
[Babylon 5] Marcus Cole and Mozzie being BFFs on Babylon 5. Extra points for Moz the lurker.
[Leverage] (bonus for double OT3 action!) - The Leverage team is in town to right a wrong; Neal and Peter are already on the case; will the two groups learn to work together?
[Chuck] I was watching the show and suddenly this plot bunny jump out of nowhere. It's a White Collar/Chuck crossover and I'm not much of a writer so hopefully one of you'll pick it up. A international heist in NY caused Peter and Neal to get involved with a certain corporate giant, which happens to be trading governmental secrets with a terrorist organization. Bryce Larkin is working undercover as one of their operative. Now, Peter have two Neal's to deal with. Oh, my! I'll let you guys have fun with the details....... Smut scene is optional (although appreciated and will be rewarded with sugar goodness). Just have fun.
[Cop shows] Considering what a large proportion of other tv shows are centered around law enforcement, I'd love to see xovers with other cops who have *almost* caught Caffrey in the past.
[Inception]: For a case, Neal has to teach Peter how to share dreams.

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