Rec of the day

insta-rec!
The Right Way to Fall by Sholio (White Collar)
AU/friendship; 20757 words; characters: Neal, Peter, Elizabeth (Elizabeth/Peter)
Summary: AU in which Neal has survived his reckless art-thief career mostly because he has a literal guardian angel. (Guess who.)

There are some writers who make me read fic in fandoms I'm not even in. AU fic, even. AU wingfic. This sounds like a cracky premise if you look at the header but Sholio plays it straight and the result is a beautifully characterized friendship story (with a very cool heist plot). Man, I'm trying to describe it without sounding completey sappy but that story really touched me. Left me with a big, big smile too.

fanart: Eliot, fighting on a scaffold (now in color)

I'd planned to work on the rest of my Bingo line first, but this sketch was sitting there and inking and coloring it was too tempting...

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