White Collar Fic - The Wonder(ful) Years - Master Post

[elrhiarhodan]

Title: The Wonder(ful) Years
Author: elrhiarhodan
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: G - NC17
Characters/Pairings: Neal Caffrey, Peter Burke, White Collar stunt casting throughout (non-canon uses of canon characters)
Spoilers: None
Warnings/Enticements/Triggers: Bullying, verbal abuse of a child, threat of sexual abuse of a preteen child, parental abandonment, blackmail, extortion, consensual sex between older teenagers.
Word Count: ~28,000
Summary: School Years A/U centering on the friendship between Peter Burke and Neal Caffrey, from the time they are in kindergarten through their senior year in high school. For the purposes of this story, all of the characters are roughly the same age (Peter is a year older than Neal). The setting is middle class suburban New York (Westchester County), circa 1970–1983.

A/N: Written for rabidchild67’s KidFic Fest on the whitecollarhc comm.

Beta credit: coffeethyme4me - words cannot express how much I owe, this story owes, to this fabulous woman. Very simply, it wouldn’t have been written without her sage advice, unstinting support and endless bounty of affection. All mistakes are mine and mine alone.

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Chapter 1 - At the Playground
Chapter 2 - Dodge Ball
Chapter 3 - Little League (Warning: Childhood abandonment issues, threatened sexual abuse of a pre-teen)
Chapter 4 - Rubick's Cube
Chapter 5 - Part 1 - Under the Bleachers
Chapter 5 - Part 2 - Under the Bleachers (Content Notice: Consensual sexual relations between teenagers)
Epilogue - At the Playground