FIC: Tribulation; Fandom: White Collar

[laesmeralda]

Title: Tribulation (1 of 3)
Author: Esmeralda (laesmeralda)
Fandom: White Collar
Dramatis Personae: Neal Caffrey/Peter Burke
Warnings: Season 1 Finale spoiler
Rating: R to NC-17
Disclaimer: This is a work of impure fiction.
Feedback: Responses, including constructive criticism, are welcome.
Original Date: Written March 2012
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Comments

[laesmeralda]

Yay! Glad you like it so far. Your opinion very much matters.

Despite canon Elizabeth being a hopeless girly-girl, she's presented as wise and independent. That's a decent foundation for what I have in mind. I've not yet looked at fandom for this show--figured I'd write this out before I see what others are up to. But the promo photos... these people have to know what they're doing to us.

[laesmeralda]

Came out? *dies from luv*

This is how much I'm not in the fandom. Yet.

I suppose that kinda kills the angst for some people. Not me, I have a good imagination.

[nynine]

As many times as I've seen it written about, the scene of Kate's death is terribly affecting here. You make it so clear that Neal knows there isn't a prayer of saving Kate; he's "standing between this world" and her, wanting more than anything else to throw himself into that ball of fire and die with her, wanting for Peter to say, "If you have to, go." I always took it that Neal was just unthinkingly trying to get to the woman he loved. But the view you present, unless I'm reading it wrong, fits Neal's over-the-top way of loving, even though not one person in ten thousand would sincerely react that way.

[laesmeralda]

Thank you so much for your thoughts. I appreciate the detailed response and knowing that it had the desired emotional impact.

You're reading it as I meant it. And yes, it isn't a common trait for a person to have sincere emotional "depth of field" like this. Your proposed statistic fits the world, I think, in that the truly sexually-and-emotionally bi are rare, perhaps more so among men, but I read Neal's canon character that way (the show writers just don't ask, don't care).