Break Everything by Slipstream77

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Title:  Break Everything
Author:  Slipstream77
Spoilers:  Through episode 4x03
Characters:  Peter and Neal
Pairings:  None
Warning:  None
Summary:  Peter and Neal hadn't seen each other for six weeks. Surely they had some catching up to do. And a few things to learn along the way . . . .


Why rec'd?  For starters this is a story with Peter and Neal just sitting around talking and interacting with each other, which I love.  Besides that this story is excellent.  The author captures Peter and Neal perfectly and this feels like missing scenes from an episode.  The author also adds a nice little back story for Peter and Neal's flight home and Neal returning to June's.  Everything about this story is so very much them and very enjoyable.

Link to story:  http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8377224/1/

Fade Away by vpen1729

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Title:  Fade Away
Author:  vpen1729
Spoilers:  Up to episode 4x06
Characters:  Neal, Ellen, Mozzie, Peter, Elizabeth, Kate
Pairings:  None
Warnings:  None
Summary:  "You know, for some reason, every great con man in the world needs to master the game of pool at some point in his life." Even the great Neal Caffrey had to come from somewhere. The story of how a dingy pool hall and an old grifter put a young boy on the path to becoming one of the greatest cons in the world.

Why rec'd?  I think that what I enjoyed the most about this story is how everyone is very in-character. The story is weaved so that everything that happens is basically cannon. It's completely plausible that this is what actually happened to Danny Brooks, and it explains why and how he became Neal Caffrey. Plus, Neal (Danny) as a smart and conning boy in the pool hall is something we all want to see, right? ;-)

Fade Away