roll away your stone, i'll roll away mine; together we can see what we will find.

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CHARACTERS: Peter Burke and Neal Caffrey
LOCATION: Room 013 » 074
WARNINGS: You'll cry tears of blood. No, um, talk about not too pleasant things with Peter and Neal. I'll warn of the exact things as they come up.
SUMMARY: Once upon a time, Neal Caffrey was on the Tranquility without Peter Burke. Neal made some very bad life choices and was changed. This is the story about how he tells the one person he really does trust in the world about them.
NOTES: Takes place after the jump and everything hurts pretty much.


[ eleven months or jumps as neal and everyone had told him. eleven months and neal hadn't seen him once beyond maybe a dream and figment of his imagination. just the idea of it makes peter sick to his stomach, makes it twist and makes him feel almost like he let neal down. their relationship is supposed to exist in a way that is supposed to have him be the rock, the specific thing that is supposed to be there to say not do something or to just pull him back when he's going down that wrong road. ( if the looks of some of the passengers gave him any ideas, oh, he senses neal went down that road because peter was never here to stop him. and peter has to hold back the growl he feels build within him with regards to that. )

eleven months and neal is almost clinging to peter's pant legs and peter can't help but be quietly pleased about it. it shouldn't be that hard to keep track of him if neal is staying in his sight like with such ease. but the downside, because isn't there always something that goes wrong with their partnership; the downside comes with how neal calls him Himself before peter has to shake him and tell him that he's actually peter burke. not whoever Himself is. when neal finally realizes it, they don't talk about it. they don't talk about it because i'm covered in blue goo, shower and then we'll talk about it later and peter would normally let it go but eleven months is a long time and peter wants to know what's happened and why tyke had reacted the way she did to neal being around peter like he was. so he says my room and there's no questions because it's not up for negotiation.

they finally get there and now they're in the room and peter waits until neal is sitting on one of the beds and he finds himself sitting on a chair after putting his various items from the other bed and he moves it to be sitting right in front of neal before he speaks. ]

You said we'd talk, now talk. [ and then. ] Big events first and then the other details. Eleven months is a long time.

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[ it's still a little much, the enormity of having peter here; neal says the right things and makes the right faces and he follows close to peter because if he breathes wrong this will be another vision-- no, hallucination. another moment where poor poor neal caffrey cracks and goes a little crazy, talking to a man who isn't there.

so he fusses with his cuffs, unbuttoning and rebuttoning and smoothing the fabric, staring down at the wrist his nanite tattoo is on intensely before buttoning everything again and looking up. ] Broad subjects there, Peter.

[ he's stalling. ]

Anything a little more specific?