25 days in! And only 90 fandoms left out of my original list of 100 ;)

Another thing that's surprised me as I've gone through this exercise is how long it's taken to get to a fandom where the pairing is clever thief/the only cop who could ever catch him, given how archetypal it feels? And yet it doesn't turn up that often.

Even in White Collar, a fandom where that is the entire emotional core of canon, surprisingly little of the fic actually concentrates on the period before he was caught! (...this may just be bitterness because I just spent an hour looking for a fic about before he was caught that I am sure I remember and I cannot find. It's probably right there on AO3, I just can't match what's in the headers with what I remember. Oh well.)

I mean, a setup of the con man/art thief/forger who is brought out of prison to be a consultant to the only FBI agent who ever came close to catching him (and only caught him in the end because he let him) is already an EtL dream so I guess I'm not too surprised fandom mostly stuck to the canon period!

This is a fandom where I'm spoiled for choice but here are some absolute standards from it. They're all Neal/Peter/Elizabeth (Con man/FBI agent/agent's wife) stories because White Collar fandom is all in for the OT3, as they should be!

• And anyone who's ever had a heart (7265 words) by Liviapenn
  Fandom: White Collar
  Rating: Mature
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
  Additional Tags: OT3, Threesome - F/M/M, Pre-Canon, Post-Canon, Yuletide 2009
  
  In which Peter's wife isn't the only one who needs to sneak in to Peter's hospital room to make sure that he'll be okay.



• Always Starts the Same, with a Boy and a Girl (21428 words) by lightgetsin
  Chapters: 1/1
  Fandom: White Collar
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Neal/Elizabeth, Peter/Elizabeth, Neal/Peter, Neal/Peter/Elizabeth
  Additional Tags: AU, Law Enforcement, Threesome, Pre-Canon
  
  In which Elizabeth meets Neal first.



• Contractual Obligations: A Love Story in Three Traffic Lights (56664 words) by shaenie
  Fandom: White Collar
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
  Relationships: Peter/Neal/Elizabeth, Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
  Additional Tags: Threesome
  Series: Part 1 of Contractual Obligations
  
  In which they carefully negotiate the complicated waters of a con artist, an FBI agent, and Elizabeth Burke making it work.



• Never Leave A Trace (16664 words) by copperbadge
  Chapters: 3/3
  Fandom: White Collar
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  Relationships: Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke/Neal Caffrey
  Additional Tags: References to Suicide, Magical Realism, Alternate Universe, Explicit Language
  
  In which Neal gets out of prison, and then goes back in undercover - but this time Peter's with him. And nobody gets out of prison the same as they went in.