Exquisite, Chapter 15

Title: Exquisite
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: None.
Summary: Neal is finding a place for himself, both at the Bureau and in Peter and Elizabeth's life. Unraveling the mystery of the music box might ruin everything -- but that's a risk he has to take.

See Exquisite Master List for previous chapters.

( They found Mozzie almost before they knew he was lost. )

Fake cut takes you to the fic at Dreamwidth.

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I am coping much better today. Possibly because most of the office is out of the office, so it's me and four other people all of whom work on another floor. Also, ball bearings have yet to re-intrude on my life.

In the awesome news department, my ridiculous Torchwood/Discworld/Nero Wolfe/Lord Peter Wimsey/Harry Potter/SGA/Jeeves & Wooster/Sherlock Holmes ode-to-the-common-sidekick crossover The Royal Society has been translated into Russian, which I think is pretty cool. I can't read Cyrillic, but it looks damn impressive.

You'd think, given I haven't posted since yesterday afternoon, I'd have more to say, but that's pretty much OH BUT WAIT

HAVE SOME BONDAGEY FANFIC

That's right, Exquisite is back. I'll be posting a chapter a day from now until next Wednesday, which will get us all caught up with season two. And season three starts in a little over two weeks, so my timing is...well...exquisite. :D

If you're unfamiliar with the fic, I now have a masterpost for it that links all chapters and explains a bit about what it is.

Picking up where we left off at the hiatus...

Title: Exquisite, Chapter 15
Fandom: White Collar
Rating: NC-17 (language, sexuality)
Warnings: None
Summary: Neal is finding a place for himself, both at the Bureau and in Peter and Elizabeth's life. Unraveling the mystery of the music box might ruin everything -- but that's a risk he has to take. (Peter/El/Neal)

( They found Mozzie almost before they knew he was lost. )

Fake cut takes you to the fic at Dreamwidth.

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This one elderly woman has been calling me all day because my desk number is the number of a company she worked for in the 1970s who apparently still have some of her 401K. She's actually managed to make contact with the company, but every time she gets confused, she calls me.

Last time she called, she was confirming an area code of a phone number someone else gave her.

"Is it 773 or 312? When I call 312 I get a busy signal."
"Well, ma'am, the best I can do is suggest you try 773."

While I was on the phone with her -- Phone #1 -- both Phone #1's second line and Phone #2's first line rang. And the UPS guy got stuck in the (broken) door, which was just as well because he prevented the food delivery guy from entering until I'd dealt with the Epic Telephones.

I knew I shouldn't have said I was coping better. Since then, it's been like some kind of industrial stress test only instead of a car it's my ability to deal with chaos.

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Okay, for those of you playing along at home with my origami shenanigans, if you do attempt to do today's "offering stand", you should know that when they say "flip the paper over" between steps one and two, what they actually mean is "do not flip the paper over". The square base should be folded so that the flaps of the blintz base are on the outside, not the inside.

This little tip brought to you by Sam, who spent twenty minutes shouting PAPER DOESN'T FOLD THAT WAY at his origami calendar. Physics and I are not friends.

It is a pretty cool little doodad, though. The whole "box with wings" concept is neat enough, but what you can't see is that the "box" doesn't extend all the way down -- it actually is a box on a sort of stand.

And yes, I did run through a number of jokes involving "box" and "go down" before I decided to rise above juvenile humour.

(Box with wings, hahahaha.)