FIC: The Ties That Bind, 1/8

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Title: The Ties That Bind, 1/8
Author: sahiya
Disclaimer: Not mine! They belong to Jeff Eastin and USA
Wordcount: 6200 this part; about 50,000 overall
Rating and Pairings: PG-13; Sara Ellis/Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke/Elizabeth Burke
Summary: How Sara Ellis became part of Neal Caffrey's family.
Notes: As usual with a long story, a number of people have contributed along the way. Thanks first of all to via_ostiense, who read as I wrote and forgave any number of problems while doing so. She's also done (is doing!) an awesome beta job at the end, as well, slaying my ellipses and dashes. Thanks also to fuzzyboo03, without whom my grammar would suffer terribly, and to lionessvalenti, who has come in as a pair of fresh eyes at the very end to assure me that I'm not mangling Sara's character terribly.

Finally, thanks go to aria, who said, once upon a time in season 3, that while Sara was an awesome character, the writers had not done much to make her part of Neal's family. A lightbulb went on in my head, and I realized that that was what this story was really about.

I'm not really going to try and hold to a posting schedule, but be assured, the whole story is drafted. Chapters should go up sooner than later.

Chapter One

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