Fic: Company of strangers

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Title: Company of strangers
Author: marieincolour
Characters: Neal, Peter, El
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating:
Word-count: 5000+
Spoilers: Spoilers for Neal's childhood (a little)
Disclaimer: I don't own White Collar or The Boxer (where I found the title).
A/N: I wasn't going to post this until I was done posting the chapters to my journal, but I need motivation, and this is it.
This doesn't follow the timeline in the show, and I've switched things around (and invented) to suit me. Please don't kill me.

Summary: This is an AU where Neal is a teenager, Peter arrests him, things don't go so well, and then hopefully they get better.

He thinks about old post-mortem photographs, where the only faces that appear clear are the dead ones, because the shutter takes too long for living people to stay still. That's how he feels, like everyone else is still in front of the shutter, and he's screaming his head off.

Part 1 can be found here

Part 2 can be found here