I was a little bit torn about this category. After all, many stories have a part in it in which Neal or Peter is hurt or ill. But there are some in which the illness is a main theme, so I suppose they deserve their own category.
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Sadly, there aren’t many stories which deal with this theme, yet, although it’s really an interesting question. It’s not like the FBI has to employ Neal after the four years are over. And would Neal even want to stay when he is free to roam the world again? What could his future career choice be?

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This time around I will skip the explanation why I decided to recommend a story. Episode Tags and Missing scenes tend to be short; every explanation would just spoil the story. Let’s just say that every story in this list is either so realistic that I consider them canon or so creative that it deserves some recognition.

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Sometimes you watch an episode and somehow wish that it happened a little bit different. Or you are just playing with the “what ifs”. So here’s a small collection of stories about how things could have been if something went down a little bit differently.

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In the fandom there is a tendency to speculate about Neal’s past while Peter’s past is mostly written about in close connection to the show. I think everyone has their own idea about his childhood and how he became such a talented criminal, and even if “Forging Bonds” and “What Happens in Burma” surely threw over a lot of theories, it’s always fun ( Read more... )

The most well-known take on this theme is called “Front Man”, written by our estimated White Collar writers themselves. The situation which Neal is in leaves a lot of room for abuse. It’s not surprising that ff writers like to explore this theme; some give Peter a darker shade, but most of them go for a different agent who oversteps their bounds.

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I thought a long time whether I should add this category to the list. After all, I’m certainly not interested in every fandom out there. But in the end I decided that it would be a shame not to mention some of them. (Don’t be surprised about the lack of Leverage Fic, sadly most of them are slash or too short for my taste. No Chuck either, for now)

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Although the three main protagonists of White Collar are Peter, Neal and Mozzie, the show makes up for it with a lot of female side characters. I want to take a look at the development of those seven characters by analyzing nine episodes which were important in establishing them.

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