White Collar Comfest 2012
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Yes, I know the results of our last poll meant that the next fest is supposed to be about Freak Accidents, and I promise that will kick off July 1. But with Whump-a-Palooza still in full swing, I thought we might all like a little palate cleanser from all the angst and pain!
So let your fluff flag fly, people. Comfort food. Smoochies. Nursing someone through a bad cold. I’ll take puppies, kittens, bunnies, full-contact cuddling. Let us have it – we’ve got two weeks.
Detailed rules for our fests can be found here, but these are the highlights:
• One prompt per comment
• Warn for triggers
• Use the subject line!
• Graphic arts are, of course, welcome
• Use the word “FILL” in your fills (helps me to keep track for the fill posts)
• Feel free to post to your LJ and link here
• Be nice. Have fun.
Questions? Leave a comment below.
This fest will last until July 1, but – as with all our commentfic fests – we never really close them down.
So prompt away, fellow Comfortniks….just remember to come back and fill a few, too!
Master List for this challenge
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Public praise and hugging :)
Date: 2012-06-18 11:48 pm (UTC)Peter (accidentally) upsets Neal at the office by some sort of demeaning remark/whatever in front of the team. Neal is disheartened and refuses to be much help until Peter agrees to make it up to him by showing the team how highly he values Neal with lots of public praise and a (possibly comically awkward) public hug!
Preferably gen for this one although anything is ok, with Peter genuinely wanting Neal to feel better and valued, not just doing it because Neal is sulking!
Peter is a cuddle monster; Slash or OT3
Date: 2012-06-19 12:21 am (UTC)Re: Peter is a cuddle monster; Slash or OT3
Date: 2012-06-22 10:03 am (UTC)Re: Peter is a cuddle monster; Slash or OT3
From:First Kiss
Date: 2012-06-19 01:10 am (UTC)Author can go as far as he/she wants - but it has to be the first kiss.
Fill: Four Times Peter and Neal Almost Kissed Before They Finally Did 1/5
Date: 2012-06-19 03:02 am (UTC)“Come on, Jonesy!” Neal laughed. “Give it a whirl!”
It was stupid, really. The team had decided to go out for drinks following the final bust in an antiquities smuggling case that unearthed a rash of stolen Egyptian art, and they were due to blow off some steam. Drinks at the bar had turned into pizza at Famous Original Ray’s (as opposed to Ray’s Original Famous), and that had turned into nightcaps at Neal's. Which had naturally devolved into a game of Spin the Bottle.
Neal couldn’t really say whose idea it was – probably Blake or one of the Whips (Peter’s name for the whippersnappers that annually joined the team). But he’d located an empty bottle of Pinot (OK, so he emptied it down his own throat so they could use it), his coffee table had been set aside, and he found himself sitting cross-legged on his rug watching avidly as the bottle spun around and wobbled to a drunken stop. Pointing at Diana. For the fifth time.
“I’m beginning to think this thing’s rigged,” she protested, but gamely accepted a close-mouthed kiss from Clint.
“Quit beefing,” Neal chided. “Spin away!”
Her spin landed on Neal. “That’s the second time it’s landed on me. Doesn’t that mean a French kiss?” he asked. She gave him a murderous look. “Usually?”
She smiled and leaned forward, and though there were no tongues, she did open her mouth and suck on his bottom lip for a few seconds. When they parted, Neal couldn’t keep his eyes off her full lips for a full 20 seconds.
“Wow,” Clint breathed, clearly wishing he’d gone for the open mouth too.
“My turn!” Neal announced, breaking the spell. He spun the bottle and it came to a stop on – no one – the gap in the group between Blake and the new girl, Jessica-or-something. “Aw, looks like a miss!” Neal said.
“Oh no it’s not,” Clint said, pointing at Neal's apartment door, where Peter stood with his hands on his hips.
“Peter!” Diana laughed, beckoning for him to come over.
“What’s going on?” Peter asked, trying for his best glower but getting nowhere with his inebriated subordinates.
“Spin the Bottle,” Neal answered. “My spin landed on you.”
“There will be no kissing. No kissing for you,” Peter said soberly.
“Buzz kill,” Neal accused.
“Shouldn’t you all be getting ready for the debrief tomorrow at 8:00 am?” Peter said.
“8:00 am?” Neal protested.
“Douche chill!” Diana muttered under her breath and Clint laughed out loud.
“You want me to make it 7:00?” Peter said, and this time he had his best Dad Voice on. The party broke up soon after.
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From:Peter cradling Neal in his arms
Date: 2012-06-19 02:05 am (UTC)Re: Peter cradling Neal in his arms
Date: 2012-06-19 02:06 am (UTC)Re: Peter cradling Neal in his arms
From:FILL: Stardust
Date: 2012-06-28 01:58 pm (UTC)Stardust (http://dmk0064.livejournal.com/42873.html)
Re: FILL: Stardust
From:I need some Neal/Jones!
Date: 2012-06-19 02:39 am (UTC)warm snuggling
Date: 2012-06-19 06:25 pm (UTC)I prefer gen.
Fill: Afternoons and Afghans (1/1)
Date: 2012-07-23 05:05 pm (UTC)~~~
Peter picked up the remote to fast-forward through some commercials and looked over at Neal where he sat on the couch. “Don’t you think you’re being a little melodramatic about this?”
“I can’t help it that I’m cold.” Neal pulled the afghan tighter around his shoulders and shivered like he was making a point.
“I know, I know. I’m sorry I made you go on a stake-out in the cold.” Peter sighed. “But we’ve been inside for half an hour, and you’ve had hot coffee. Plus, I gave you both of the afghans El’s mother sent us for Christmas. How can you still be cold?”
Neal shivered again, looking honestly miserable. “I can’t help it; when I get cold I stay cold.”
“Forever?”
“Feels like it.”
“Well, I can’t imagine why you like New York so much then. I mean, the winters.”
“I usually found a good reason to be somewhere else during the winter. The Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the South Pacific. Texas. Whatever.”
“And now you’re stuck here with me instead of in a nice, warm prison. Is that what you’re telling me?”
Neal shook his head. “God no. Prison was f-freezing.” He frowned and shivered again. “I couldn’t get warm for days sometimes.”
“I guess that’s what happens when you try spending your winters in the Mediterranean once too often.”
Neal just shrugged and drew his feet up onto the couch in front of himself. He adjusted the afghans to make a cocoon around himself and shivered again. Peter tried to stifle the twinge of concern and unreasonable guilt he felt, but it wouldn’t leave him alone to focus on the game he’d recorded, so he got up, found another blanket and took it over to Neal.
“You’re not getting sick are you?”
“I don’t think so.”
Neal looked paler than normal, so Peter reached into his cocoon to feel his forehead and found his skin cool to the touch. “How can you still be this cold?”
“Just another one of my special talents.” Neal flashed a weak smile, but it didn’t make him look any less miserable.
“Okay, give me a minute here.”
Peter dug in the hall closet until he found the little heater fan he and El had used to heat the bedroom when the furnace went out a few years earlier. He plugged it in and put it a few feet away from Neal, cattycorner to his end of the couch. Before turning it on, he sent up a quick prayer to the gods of electricity that it wouldn’t blow the circuit, but a moment later the lights were still on and warm air was blowing from the fan. Since he was already comfortable with the temperature, Peter pulled off his sweatshirt, leaving just his t-shirt and jeans, and started loosening Neal’s bundle of blankets.
“Hey,” Neal complained.
“Relax, you’ll be warmer in a minute.”
Peter sat down next to Neal, crowding him into the corner of the sofa, and pulled the covers around to enclose them both. He wrapped one arm around Neal’s shoulders then turned up the TV so he could hear it over the hush of the fan. Neal held himself stiffly for a minute, as if he were fruitlessly trying to avoid touching Peter when they were sitting hip-to-hip. Slowly, he relaxed and grew heavier against Peter’s side.
“How are you so warm?”
“I’m just a warm-blooded kind of guy, I guess. Are you defrosting any?”
“I think I’m starting to get warm.” Neal stifled a yawn. “And sleepy.”
“Go ahead and nap if you want. El told me to make you stay for dinner anyway.”
“Mmm, thanks,” Neal hummed groggily, and when Peter looked over he was smiling. Neal let his feet drop back to the floor and balled up a corner of the blanket to serve as a pillow.
“Do you want me to move so you can stretch out?”
“Stay,” Neal said, and then he was out. Peter shifted a little and decided his spot was perfect for watching the game. He didn’t mind being Neal’s electric blanket, not just this once.
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From:Buried alive (Peter & Neal, gen)
Date: 2012-06-20 04:10 pm (UTC)Neal/Sara, Peter
Date: 2012-06-20 05:43 pm (UTC)Neal gets hurt on a case and needs to be taken care of. Sara assumes that she'll be the one doing it (despite, perhaps, her own misgivings about her ability to do so), but Peter is used to being the one to look after Neal when he's hurt and finds himself unexpectedly jealous and maybe a little possessive. Somehow they work things out to everyone's satisfaction and Neal gets exactly what he needs (and then some, maybe).
I'm fine with canon pairings gen or poly on this - whatever the author wants!
Re: Neal/Sara, Peter
Date: 2012-06-20 06:48 pm (UTC)Re: Neal/Sara, Peter
From:Exhaustion trope
Date: 2012-06-22 06:11 pm (UTC)Gen is peachy, P/E/N is also acceptable. :-)
Peter and Satchmo
Date: 2012-06-22 07:19 pm (UTC)Please? :-)
Neal: Comfort after tragedy
Date: 2012-06-25 12:38 am (UTC)It's the anniversary of Kate's death, and the folks in the office show Neal their support in little, thoughtful ways. Maybe it's his fave cupcake at breakfast, or a shoulder-squeeze, but Neal's feeling the love, and it makes his sad day bearable.
Gen is what I'm thinking, but if you like teh slash, go for it.
Everybody: Go-karts!
Date: 2012-06-25 12:41 am (UTC)More Neal/Jones! Come on!
Date: 2012-06-25 12:53 am (UTC)Still more Neal/Jones. lost treasure
Date: 2012-06-25 12:55 am (UTC)One more? Please? Neal/Jones cuddling for warmth, pre-slash
Date: 2012-06-25 12:58 am (UTC)They're trapped inside a freezer or somewhere else cold (the!wilderness!) and must cuddle together for warmth. This leads to talk of feeeeeeelings. And smoochies. If you can throw in the classic oh-noes-he's-hypothermic-and-he's-not-waking-up scare, I'll buy you a puppy.
Camping
Date: 2012-06-25 06:23 am (UTC)Neal and June h/c
Date: 2012-06-25 10:11 am (UTC)Post-Abuse Comfort, Gen
Date: 2012-06-25 09:05 pm (UTC)Diana is Peter's work wife
Date: 2012-07-06 07:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-23 08:51 pm (UTC)