Title: with a feeling skill I paint my hell
Fandom: White Collar/Chuck
Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Sidney.
Warnings: pretend the timeline works
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 190
Point of view: third
There is a great deal about Neal Caffrey that Peter doesn't know. Some of it he has guessed, some refused to even consider, and some he'd never suspect.
Neal Caffrey has never been connected to Bryce Larkin even though they have the same face. They went their separate ways for college, and only they know their names from before then. Neither of them graduated highschool, but there is no record of that anywhere, either.
Bryce is a superspy and Neal an ex-con, and they've kept track of each other. Whenever Bryce has to lay low, he visits his twin and they switch in and out for a few days. It'd be easy as breathing to slip the tracker, but that's not the game.
And when Neal feels his brother's death, he leaves New York. He'll miss Peter and El and all the rest, and he doesn't even let Mozzie know he's going. Bryce kept weapons stashed all over the country and he made sure that Neal learned everything he did when it came to being dangerous.
Someone somewhere killed Neal's brother, for good this time. And someone somewhere will pay.