White Collar Fic - Taking Half a Sick Day (Is Better Than Needing a Whole One)

[elrhiarhodan]

Title: Taking Half a Sick Day (Is Better Than Needing a Whole One)
Author: elrhiarhodan
Rating: PG
Fandom: White Collar
Characters/PairingsPeter Burke/Neal Caffrey(And implied P/E/N)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: None
Word Count: ~3000
Summary: Neal gets sick…it happens. Peter needs to take care of him.

A/N: For the lovely usakeh, who properly and very quickly identified five opening lines on the Song Lyrics meme I have running at my Journal. This was supposed to be a ficlet, but since I also owed her a sick!Neal story from way back when, I decided to go for it with all thrusters engaged.

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( It’s Monday morning, and after a low-key weekend spent fighting off a sore throat and a bunch of aches and pains, he knows he should call in sick, but that would mean explanations and Peter would undoubtedly bully him into going to see a doctor. )