Framed and Punished
By peppe1951
Summary: Peter is out of town for a few days and Neal is put in the custody of Reece Hughes…and when evidence points to Neal Hughes takes over. Warning: The story contains non-consent punishing of an adult; if you don't like, don't read.
Disclaimer: White Collar belongs to USA; I only write about it.
This is an AU story where corporal punishment is an allowed manner of punishment for CIs.
Chapter 1
"Now I'm only going to be gone for a week; surely you can stay out of trouble that long," Peter asked Neal as he was putting files into a briefcase. A case of Peer's had finally made it to court and he was required to be there. The original crime had begun down south with it ending up in New York City where Peter had solved it.
"Peter, I'll be fine," assured his CI and friend, Neal Caffrey, "what could go wrong?"
"That's not reassuring Neal," replied Peter, "with you it seems that trouble always tends to end up at your door. Oh, and before I forget it while I'm gone you will answer to Hughes for any inconsistencies you might find yourself in, so I would watch yourself; you do remember that Hughes has a heavy hand when dishing out licks."
"I'm not likely to forget that Peter and I will be on my best behavior," Neal assured the older agent.
"Well, here is my own incentive for your good behavior. If you stay out of trouble El and I will accompany you to the Broadway Musical of your choice on my return but if you aren't you can expect double what Hughes gives you," Peter promised sternly.
Neal grimaced at the later but brightened with the promise of attending a museum of his choice, "then be prepared to go to the Theatre Peter; I haven't been to one for a long time."
Before Peter had time to remark his boss, Reece Hughes entered and asked, "Are you ready?"
"Yes, sir, just reminding Neal to be on his best behavior while gathering all of my files," replied Peter.
Hughes looked over at Neal a moment before saying gruffly, "You step one foot over the line while you are in my charge and I won't hesitate to take you to the back interrogation room and wear your butt out…are we clear?"
"Yes, sir. I won't do anything to cause you to punish me," Neal assured the lead agent.
"Make sure that you don't and until Burke returns you will be working on cold cases," he ordered as Neal nodded and returned to his desk.
"Sir, about Neal…"
"Don't worry Burke, I'll take good care of your boy; you just go and testify so we will have one more criminal off the streets," Hughes said with a smirk.
It had only been a couple of hour after Peter had left and Neal was bored. He hated cold cases as much as he did mortgage fraud cases. He looked up from the one he was reading when he noticed Agent Fuchs enter with someone following at his heels and recognized the gestures the second man was exhibiting…this was a recent released con and wondered what was up.
"Jones, who is he?" Neal asked the agent in a low voice.
"Oh, that is out new CI, Thomas Jenkins; he's a white collar criminal like yourself. He's going to have Agent Fuchs as his handler," Jones replied as he returned to cold case files.
Agent Fuchs and he didn't get along and if he had his way Neal would have a constant sore backside. It all started when Neal used his name as part of a joke and had called him Agent Fucks and the agent had overheard. Neal had paid for the comment once Peter had heard; and he had apologized afterwards but the Fuchs had only stared at him and walked away. He knew he had an enemy with that Agent. He had only been back reading when he was called to Hughes office.
"Caffrey, meet Jenkins. He's our new CI and like you has made a deal to work out the remainder of his sentence. As you can see he is also equipped with a tracking anklet. His desk will be next to yours. I want you to show him around and explain the rules to him as well as the consequences if he screws up…dismissed," Hughes said s both Jenkins and Fuchs looked on.
"Sir, is Caffrey the best one for the job…I don't want him to lead my man down the wrong path," he asked as he glared at Neal.
"He's the best one for the job; he has learned what will happen if he screws up in fact he is very knowledgeable with the consequences of his actions, aren't you Caffrey?"
"Yes, sir…if you will just follow me and we can get started," Neal said to Jenkins as he hurried from Hughes office.
It hadn't taken Neal long to show Jenkins around or to explain his duties and what was expected of him but he found it quite embarrassing to admit how he was disciplined when he disobeyed Peter and how Jenkins would most likely be reprimanded if he too misbehaved. "It really up to your handler how he handles your misbehavior…Peter is old school so he relies heavily in the manner that he was taught as a young boy," Neal explained as he sidestepped the actual manner.
It hadn't taken Jenkins long to figure it out, "He spanks you?" he shouted with disbelief.
"He takes his belt to me," corrected Neal with his face burning with embarrassment, "it is an allowed method for dealing with CI's," he added.
Jenkins smiled with a wolfish grin and said, "then I had better not misbehave," and walked deep in thought to his desk. He had heard of Caffrey and his solve rate when he had made his deal. In fact he was told that Caffrey was the best
CI the White Collar department had and implied that if he wanted to stay he would have to be just as good or he might be sent elsewhere even back to prison.
As soon as Agent Fuchs was handed a case needing his CI, Jenkins began his plan on getting rid of Neal. Fuchs was excited about the case and soon had his team plus Jenkins working hard on it. It was an art fraud case. It was fortunate that they even had it because if Burke had been there he would have naturally received it; another reason that Fuchs didn't like Neal. He blamed Neal for all of the cases his team received that were not to his liking on Burke and his team especially Neal and this time mace a comment within Neal's hearing about it.
"Now Hughes will see a real team in action; we have just been handed a premier case from the MET," Fuchs boasted making sure Neal hard every word. He so infuriated Neal that he replied with,
"We'll see; I wonder how long it will take them to find the manner of entry…something I would have no trouble in locating."
Jenkins smiled to himself…this would be the perfect time to leave something of Neal's at the museum for Fuchs to find and quickly noticed an ink pen on Neal's desk that he stole the next time Neal got up for something. He made sure he was wearing gloves before putting it in his pocket.