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peter_burke (peter_burke) wrote in omega_reality,
@ 2010-11-08 13:56:00

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*complete, 2010 11, dead: leon vance, dead: neal caffrey, dead: peter burke

RP: Peter and Neal
Who: Peter Burke and Neal Caffrey
Where: New York
When: 8 November 2010
Summary: Neal is definitely up to something

Things had been tenuous at best since everything had come to a head with Fowler and then things had gone so wrong with Mozzie, it had left things even more tense than usual. It had taken some finagling to keep Caffrey out of jail for a second time - if he'd gone back this time Peter was pretty sure he wouldn't have been able to get him out again, tracker or not. So he'd gotten creative, and with the help of Jones and Diana, they managed it.

Of course that just meant Peter got to dole out punishment as he saw fit since Neal escaped any other sort of retribution for that little stunt. Peter had shortened his leash, giving Peter a one mile radius, and kept Neal on paperwork duty for the most part, only bringing him in on cases when there was no other choice.

Today was one of those days when there was no other choice, they needed Neal's connections and Peter wanted to end this case sooner than later - so it meant bringing Neal on board.

"Look this is important, don't go screwing around, and don't make any stupid mistakes." He was going over last minute details with Neal as they headed out, the elevator taking them down, things had been getting good before - they were working on becoming partners, real partners and not just an FBI agent and his consultant, and then Fowler had shown up again and it was like starting over again - though with a lot more added baggage. Elizabeth had heard him vent about it often enough, and she'd made suggestions too as she always did, but things were still tense. And Peter was having a hard time finding that line between special agent and friend.

The carriage finally stopped and the doors slid open, and Peter continued his briefing on the case, reminding Neal again of things he knew well enough all ready, it was only when they were outside that Peter started catching on to the fact that something was wrong here, something was different but he couldn't put a finger on it. "Caffrey, whatever you're doing, whatever you're planning, stop it now." Peter warned him, that had to be it - he really was too intuned to Caffrey these days, he spent too much time with the man.

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_caffrey
2010-11-08 09:41 pm UTC (link)

Neal was excited to be out of the office, not that he was letting it show much. He'd been on paperwork duty for what seemed like forever and while he didn't mind it when the cases were interesting, Peter seemed to be deliberately giving him boring cases to write up.

Really, didn't the man know he had a low boredom threshold?

He raised his eyebrows at the accusation, giving Peter his best innocent look. "Really, Peter, you need to stop thinking the worst of me, I'm not doing anything."

Neal paused for a moment. "Besides, if I was planning anything I'd be far more discrete."

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peter_burke
2010-11-08 10:01 pm UTC (link)

"Of course you're not." Peter rolled his eyes at the look Neal gave him. He really was good at that sort of thing, and it was probably what had helped him for so long, thankfully Peter was still unaffected by it.

Peter glanced around them, things were different - small things, the front of shops were different, makes of cars that rolled down the street in front of them were unfamiliar. He frowned looking up and down the street and then stopped when something over the line of buildings caught his eye.

"Please tell me you drugged me." Peter couldn't take his eyes off the pair of twin buildings that loomed over them. "This is part of a not so subtle plot on your part, right? Some new trick." Because Peter was not that agent who started seeing things, like buildings he knew to have been destroyed.