White Collar Ficlet - Evocative

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Title: Evocative
Author: elrhiarhodan
Rating: G
Fandom: White Collar
Characters/Pairings Neal Caffrey
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~400
Summary: There is no stronger pull on memory than a scent, an aroma from a time now forgotten.
A/N: For a prompt from gyzym: Neal, Cinnamon.


( When Neal was a little boy, before everything disappeared, before everything was lost, his favorite scent in the world was cinnamon. It made him feel happy and safe and loved.  )

White Collar Fic - Lived Unbruised (we are friends) - Sequel to Evocative

[elrhiarhodan]

Title: Lived Unbruised (we are friends)
Author:  elrhiarhodan 
Rating:  G
Fandom:  White Collar
Characters/Pairings Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke/Elizabeth Burke
Spoilers: Offhand references to episodes in Season 1 and Season 2.  Major spoilers for 2.09
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~8000
Summary: Friendship isn’t about distance and boundaries and keeping safe. It can be messy and painful and difficult.

A/N: I didn’t intend to write a sequel to the Evocative ficlet, partly because I knew that there wasn’t an easy resolution to Neal’s pain, and partly because I don’t like making myself cry. But the story kept haunting me, and I ended up with this, which is over twenty times longer than the original story (which clocked in at less than 400 words).  The title is taken from a line in the song “Sigh No More,” the title track to Mumford & Sons’ debut album.

A huge debt is owed to gyzym , not only for the original prompt, but for her guidance, handholding and cheerleading.  I couldn't have finished this (or maybe even written it) without her support.  It goes without saying that feedback and concrit are loved and adored.
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( Neal doesn’t precisely hate the smell of cinnamon. Or he really doesn’t want to think it’s hate. Hate implies commitment, it implies weakness, it implies that something as insignificant as an aroma has power over him. No, Neal just doesn’t like the smell.  )