A/N Originally I was gonna write a book with this but I just haven't gotten far enough with it. Anyway I was watching White Collar and decided to make this a fanfic with some of my own characters.
Disclaimer: I don't own White Collar. But I do own Addison and any other character that isn't from White Collar.
Preface
Addison looked at the security scanners of the grocery store. She reasoned that as long as you could get the unscanned barcode over the security scanner then you were in the clear.
The main problem with the theory was that she really couldn't be sure because she didn't know anyone who wanted to try it (except herself, of course).
She sighed and started towards the exit with the unscanned bottle of pop in her hand.
A second later bad country music came blaring out of her pocket, attracting a lot of stares and causing her to jump nearly a foot in the air. Not bothering to check the caller ID because she was pretty sure she already knew who it was, she answered the phone with the standard hello (just in case it wasn't who she thought it was).
"Hi! So what'dya think of your new ringtone?" her sister's perkier than usual voice coming out of the speaker.
Addison almost retorted with something extremely rude before realizing that doing so would be like just like egging her eight-year old sister on. Instead she replied with, "Rachel it didn't affect me one way or the other. Now, why did you call?"
"Mom wanted to know what's taking so long with the groceries? Cause it was only supposed to take you like thirty minutes. I mean, come on! My stomach is eating itself from the inside out!"
"Sorry, the store's pretty crowded." Which was true, except the real reason she was taking so long was because she had been walking around the store aimlessly trying to get up courage to try her crazy plan at stealing the bottle of pop. "Anyway, tell mom I won't be longer than ten more minutes.
She heard her sister start to moan on the other end of the line and shut her phone muttering, "And for some strange, unfathomable reason I love the little girl. Can anyone tell me why?"
Addison made one more pass around the store before actually walking up to the security scanners. As she did she switched the bag of groceries that she had paid for to her left hand and the bottle of pop, which she hadn't paid for, to her right.
She walked straight toward the security scanners and, when she got close enough, casually threw the bottle of pop into the air with a little spin on it like she had just gotten bored. She continued through the scanner and a couple of inches beyond it before catching the bottle again with a smirk on her face.
She looked down at the bottle for a moment with amazement because she heard no alarms or people rushing to stop her from leaving the store. Then, she whispered almost inaudibly to herself, "Maybe it's possible that not all thieves get caught."
It would have been best if she had checked around her before stealing because, as she walked off, a Caucasian man with brown, wavy, semi-slicked back hair and at least half of a branch of the FBI after him was watching her while knowing exactly what she had just done.
Sorry it's short but this is only the preface if you like it review or favorite it and I'll write some more though beware cause if I do write more there's gonna be a time jump. Oh yeah, in case you missed the hint this story is set before Neal goes to jail.