Positive

[nyxelestia]

Title: Positive - Prologue
Rating: PG-13
Chapter Word Count: 2700
Cumulative Word Count: 2700
Warnings/Content: Mentions of pregnancy, occasional swearing
Characters/Pairings: Peter, Neal, Diana (mentions of past Kate/Neal)
Beta: None
Summary: "Peter Burke found Neal barely eight hours after he broke out of prison, sitting in the empty apartment,

Comments

[aleanorblack]

Kate's pregnant? I will say this is an interesting concept. You put a new twist on Neal and Kate and the whole show. It's good so far.

Would you believe me if I said that I actually like Kate?
The way this fandom..."likes" Kate, this was a shocker. I was wondering if there were anyone who liked her. (Personally, I have no problem with her. Just didn't understand the heat. *shrugs*)

[nyxelestia]

Yes she is. Glad you like it so far. :)

And I've actually not noticed any heat (that said I've only been in the fandom since about November). It seems more like a general apathy towards her to me. Did I miss something?

[blade_and_roses]

Oh I like this! Hope you continue it at some point -- it would make the whole first season differently interesting.

And you're not the only one who likes Kate. We never DO get a clear answer as to whether or not she's leading Neal around -- everything she does could be interpreted two ways, either a master plotter maneuvering him for her own gain or someone trying to do the best she can when trapped in a horrible situation. And as someone pointed out to me, the other day after the finale, we keep forgetting that Kate isn't Neal -- she probably has nowhere near his skills and so maybe the mess things turned into was not really all her fault.

[nyxelestia]

Yeah, gotta hand props to the writers for the way they worked her into an eternal mystery. Despite the presence of a pregnancy/baby, I do hope to keep to the tone of the show.

[angelqueen04]

Ooh, now this is an interesting concept! I like this idea, that there is even more going on with Kate that launched Neal to make an escape and whatnot. Very intriguing!

Would you believe me if I said that I actually like Kate?

Honestly? Sure. I was never really that invested in her either way. I was far too into watching Peter and Neal's BFF-ness, because they were so much fun.

I know Peter never seemed to like her in canon, thought she was using Neal to get what was left of the many things he'd stolen/forged, and you played on that really well here in the prologue. My own impressions, though, were that of someone just trying to survive. She worked for Adler and had it pretty good there, but when he pulled his scheme, she lost everything. She seemed to be attached enough to Neal at that point to go into a life of crime with him, learning the tricks of the trade that he (and Mozzie) taught her

[nyxelestia]

I've been having fun in the fic outline twisting around the events of the seasons to fit this twist. ;)

And I love the mystery of Kate, how Neal is so desperately in love with her an Peter really doesn't like her. In that area, I'm playing up canon with this fic. As for anything else, well...

[rabidchild]

Awesome! Thanks for answering my prompt - and so imaginatively too. Poor Neal, and it really does make his urgency to find her even more important. Wow - knowing what happens makes it all so tragic, doesn't it? I love this - if you continue, i'll be a very avid reader of it.

I like Kate too, for the record. The writers did her no favors when they "answered" all our questions in Forging Bonds. We still don't know her motives, we still don't know what t he hell she was thinking in clearly aligning herself with and trusting Adler, and I really do want to know if she was leading Neal on or looking out for him.

[nyxelestia]

You're welcome! It was such an intriguing prompt, I couldn't resist. :)

I don't think the writers will ever 'answer' the Mystery of Kate, or ever even intended to - much better for ratings to leave her up in the air rather than set her in stone in one direction or the other. I'll be honest, I don't have much intention of giving an answer here...but who knows ;)

[elrhiarhodan]

Love this - I really can't wait for more.

It has sparked so many ideas!

[nyxelestia]

Thank you!

And I hope those ideas prove as fruitful for you as they have for me. :)