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I've Pushed To Get Through (PG)
Title: I've Pushed To Get Through
Rating: PG
Fandom: White Collar
Summary: Neal's gift is everything he wished for, back when he was seven years old and dirt poor. It's also the reason he's alone, why people turn on him, why people want to use him, and why people leave him.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Content: Hurt/comfort, AU, superpowers, pre-series, character origins, friendship, gen.
Author's Note: I was rereading a bunch of White Collar fic the other week, and when I came across Five White Collar AUs Sam Didn't Write by
copperbadge/
sam_storyteller, I got grabbed so hard by the fourth one, The Comic Book Caper, that I had to expand on it. You don't have to read it to understand this, but you should. It's only a couple of hundred words, and it's the Peter angle, so you'll appreciate this better because of it.
Much thanks to
tree00faery,
tjs_whatnot and
copperbadge for the lovely beta reads. You guys are awesome.
Spoilers for Season One (with specific references to 1.01 Pilot and 1.07 Free Fall) and 2.11 Forging Bonds, but goes AU thereafter for Neal's backstory. Yes, I wrote something that is already jossed, but hey, they have superpowers, so it's an AU anyway.
The references that might sound vaguely familiar are to The Pink Panther. I still don't know how Jeff Eastin & co got through an entire episode about a pink diamond, cat burglars and framing someone else for the crime without a single crack about The Pink Panther.
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Rating: PG
Fandom: White Collar
Summary: Neal's gift is everything he wished for, back when he was seven years old and dirt poor. It's also the reason he's alone, why people turn on him, why people want to use him, and why people leave him.
Disclaimer: Not mine.
Content: Hurt/comfort, AU, superpowers, pre-series, character origins, friendship, gen.
Author's Note: I was rereading a bunch of White Collar fic the other week, and when I came across Five White Collar AUs Sam Didn't Write by
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Spoilers for Season One (with specific references to 1.01 Pilot and 1.07 Free Fall) and 2.11 Forging Bonds, but goes AU thereafter for Neal's backstory. Yes, I wrote something that is already jossed, but hey, they have superpowers, so it's an AU anyway.
The references that might sound vaguely familiar are to The Pink Panther. I still don't know how Jeff Eastin & co got through an entire episode about a pink diamond, cat burglars and framing someone else for the crime without a single crack about The Pink Panther.
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I think on one hand, luck would be awesome, but on the other, it really wouldn't. For example, just because you're lucky, doesn't mean the people around you are, which would make for difficulties in long term relationships or friendships. By the time you get to the end of the story, Neal's so used to people walking away from him that he really doesn't trust that Peter won't change how he behaves towards him. Mozzie's resilient, and has stuck around, but Mozzie's an aberration in general, so Neal doesn't necessarily expect him to behave the same way as everyone else. Peter, however, has his picket fence home life, and his straight down the line moral code and his defender of the law job, and Neal doesn't see how someone like that can just accept someone like himself, whose gift is uncanny and kind of defiant of all kinds of natural laws of probability, etc, never mind what is 'fair' and 'right'.(See Peter's reactions to Neal in the first episode in particular: "This is not the way it's supposed to go, you get caught, you do your time." and "What I do equals certain things in life... not cappuccino in the clouds... because I'm not supposed to.") It's easy to believe that Peter would resent that, especially if he didn't have the emotional connection to Neal that he does, even before they start working together. But he doesn't, because he knows that Neal has no control over his x-gene status, no more than he does over his own, which stopped him playing professional sports. (You can't tell me Peter didn't resent his own x-gene status because of that, for a while, before he got into Quantico.) So instead of resenting Neal, he just goes, "huh, makes sense," and moves on, because Neal is still the same person Peter knew before.
Wow, apparently I had lots to say about this, LOL.
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I think my super power needs to be grace. I'm 46 and still end up with bruises that I scratch my head about.
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