"Is something wrong?" asked Peter as him and Reese entered his office. He glances over at Neal still sitting in a chair in Hughes' office, surprised Neal hasn't wandered closer in hopes to overhear something or entered the hall in hopes to make it look like he was stretching his legs. Neal being still was way too weird for him. "I really don't feel Neal knew about the gun nor had any idea Keetes would be there or even that Mozzie would shoot in self defense."

"I agree, Peter. No charges are going up against him, nor will he be returning to prison." said Hughes with his usual serious tone. "Just with his probation and the marshals and what happened and the gun being there...they are refusing to let him live there if he wants to continue his work-release deal. Even without his knowledge, the history of the place has come up along with the gun."

"What?" said Peter. "June has given him a comfortable and spacious home for the...let's be honest, pennies practically the government is willing to pay for his living arrangements. And she genuinely cares about him. Hell she treats him as if he was a son."

"I do realize that Peter and this honestly isn't my call and is above my head as well as yours." said Hughes, with a sigh. "Neal will have to seek other arrangements despite how we all feel. There is the hotel you set him up with originally as an option."

"I attempted to stay there myself when we were upgrading our wiring...it's not a good place for anyone to stay." said Peter, wondering when he had started getting so defensive of Neal. He did shudder at the memory of the hotel, the dog, and the lack of a TV. "Go check it out for yourself."

"Trust I believe you, but where in New York City within his radius could he get a place for $700 a month?" asked Hughes. "I can tell you, basically no where."

Peter sighs, wondering what to do. "Well I had planned for him to stay with me until he made a recover anyways." said Peter. "What if I was willing to rent a room to him? We have our third floor that we barely use."

Hughes starts to laugh until he realizes Peter is serious. "You would really want Caffrey to live with you?" he said. "And what would Elizabeth say?"

"Honestly, she would probably hang me from the tree in front of our townhouse if I didn't at least consider it." said Peter with a dry laugh. "I would have to actually make sure she's okay with it, but the question becomes would it violate anything?"

"I mean it is at least a deviation from standard procedures, but what part of your partnership with him hasn't been." said Hughes, pondering.

"There is a few months before Neal will be out of the leg cast. We could even fix up the third floor and call it an apartment." said Peter, thinking about the legal side. "Then I would technically just be a landlord and it should be fine if he lived there considering."

"True, true and it could be argued you have had the most profound effect on him since he's been out." said Hughes. "Question is would Neal be okay with it?"

"I mean his choice is that or the hotel." said Peter. "Run it through the channels to make sure it would all be above board and I'll talk to Elizabeth tonight."

"I will do and we both probably have a few favors we could pull to make it work as long as it's done right." said Hughes. "Bring it up Caffrey to hear his thoughts as well and I will let you know when I know for sure." Hughes takes a deep breath. "I need to go check out the stake-out schedule - take him home and let him rest."

Peter wanders back to Reese's office, wondering how to even bring this up to Neal later. When he had finally agreed to Neal's deal, he had never figured he would end up living with the con man.