WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
AN: This is going to be a truly ambitious project on my part. This is a crossover times 3. I am going to combine NCIS, White Collar, and Supernatural. I will be using elements from my established series to help me along. "The Cop and The Con", and "The 'Under' Series" are their names. If you read something and are really scratching your head over it, it most likely comes from those series. I also used the part about how Tony, Sam, and Dean met from "They're Like Buffy—On Steroids," my NCIS/SPN crossover.
Thanks you to ncismom for her excellent beta skills. All mistakes are mine.
Things were coming together at the worst possible time. Tony was supposed to be coming for a visit this weekend and the Winchesters were in town looking for something cursed; the kicker was, they didn't know, exactly, what it looked like. So, of course, it was taking them longer to find it. Plus, Neal was working long hours on a case with the bureau.
Neal couldn't help himself. He kept playing the scenario of Tony, Dean and Sam meeting and, in every single one of his versions, it turned out bad. Neal knew Tony would have no problem putting his friends in jail.
Neal was anxious, and it had nothing to with their current case. Peter couldn't help but notice.
"Neal…what…what is it?" Peter asked.
Neal started to shake his head, but then he decided to tell Peter everything. "Tony's on his way; he's coming for the weekend. He…he didn't call to tell me first, and I…I kind of already have house guests."
Peter nodded. He had an understanding with Neal and with the Winchesters. Agent Burke would not go looking for the Winchesters; however, if they crossed his path, all bets were off.
Neal knew Tony and Peter were very much alike in their approach to their job. Peter was lenient only because of the help Sam and Dean had given him and El. Neal also knew that if Peter was completely honest with himself, he was lenient because he liked Sam and Dean. He knew that they were not cold-blooded killers. Neal was aware that was something that Peter would never admit to him.
Neal had not had the opportunity to see Tony in action, not as he had with Peter. But Neal knew Tony would be fair. Tony had been a good cop, detective, and then, finally, a federal agent. He had moved up in his occupation and Neal knew that that was, in large part, due to the fact that Tony was incurably honest and incredibly well suited for his job.
"When is Tony due to arrive?" Peter asked. He enjoyed the agent's visits and was thrilled to hear that Tony was in town. He would have to call El so that she could invite him over for a visit.
"…sometime this afternoon. June is going to call when he gets there," Neal stated.
"And your guests won't be gone by then?"
"I don't think they are even close to whatever it is they're looking for." Neal mused. "They were up late last night doing research."
"What are they looking for?" Peter wanted to know.
"A coin."
"A cursed coin?" Peter mused.
"Kind of…it grants wishes , but then the wishes go south. People get too much of a good thing, I guess." Neal explained.
Peter chuckled. "Too much of a good thing…? How is that a bad thing?"
Neal shrugged. "No idea. But, apparently it is. That's how their last enchanted coin case worked. Who knows with this one?"
"Who pays them for this?"
"Nobody."
"Then how do they have the money to go all over the country 'helping people'?" Peter asked.
"Dean is an excellent pool player and Sam has a poker face." Neal offered.
"They're not that good."
Neal chuckled. "They are very enterprising young men, Agent Burke."
Peter nodded. "I'm sure that they are, Neal. I'm very sure that they are." He paused for a moment. "But, back to Tony. Just tell him to stay at a hotel this visit."
"He'd want to know why." Neal countered.
Peter thought for a second. "Tell him…." He thought some more, still nothing.
"Ha, not easy is it? He's an investigator, Peter. He knows me. He'll know I'm trying to hide something."
Peter looked at Neal for a moment. "And he's not going to notice how nervous you are right now?"
Neal agreed. "I get it, Peter. I just wish he would have called first. I would have told him that this was a bad weekend. I'm just…I'm going to be working all weekend. Sam and Dean are going to be in and out, and Tony will be there by himself."
"Well, that's the easy part. Bring him along on the investigation. I'm sure Director Vance will let us borrow him for a day or two. El will want to have him over for supper. That'll keep him occupied." Peter suggested.
"Yeah, thanks, Peter." Neal answered. "You'd do that?"
"I like Tony. So do Diana and Jones, I think even Hughes likes him."
Neal knew that Hughes liked Tony. He knew that Reese had pulled Tony aside on a number of occasions when Tony had been visiting. Reese had regaled him with stories from his short stint with NIS, as NCIS was called back in the day.
Reese, of course, didn't know about Sam and Dean. He would have not tolerated his agents in any sort of relationship with known criminals, like the one Peter had with the Winchesters. He would deplore agents and criminals consorting in any way that was not regulated and monitored by the agency.
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Tony arrived in town at 7 p.m. He took a cab from the airport and arrived at June's place just as Neal was getting home from work.
"Tony, man I wish you would have called. It…it's been a long week." Neal informed him. "We're still working a case and probably will be all weekend. Peter did say you could tag along, if you want to, that is."
"That would be great." Tony said, enthusiastically. He loved watching Neal at work and he knew that Neal and Peter made a great team. However, he noticed something else. Neal seemed nervous. Neal kept looking around as if he expected somebody. "What is it?"
"Nothing." Neal stated.
"You, a first-rate conman… nervous. Oh, it's something." Tony observed.
"Look Tony…."
"You never act like this when I come around. You're hiding something."
Neal didn't know what to say he just knew that he had to come up with something. "It's the case, Tony. We're getting close to the end of it here. It's been a long couple month's work. If things go south now…."
Tony nodded, he definitely understood that. You had to be in it and on your game at all times. Tony knew that whatever was bothering Neal had nothing to do with the case he was working on. He and Neal both thrived on the action and the danger. They got a charge, kind of like, Tony imagined, the high one gets from illicit drugs. No, their work energized them, challenged their intellect and their skill, but it didn't make them nervous.
Tony nodded as he walked around the living room of the conman's place. Tony then went out onto the balcony. He noticed a couple of beer bottles on a patio table, along with a wine glass. Neal occasionally drank a beer. Peter drank beer, but he probably brought his own, knowing the con didn't routinely stock it. Tony considered that Women usually drank wine on dates and his friend had an excellent palate and therefore, an excellent wine selection. He could not see Neal inviting a date over and offering them beer, and, most definitely, not two beers. That was the mystery. Who were the two beer drinkers and did they have anything to do with the way Neal was acting?
TBC