AN: This is my first double drabble and was was written for the Discord server monthly prompt "Oh look! My will to live ... it's gone"


Devious Diana

"Damn it Caffrey!" Peter felt his will to live rapidly depart as he stared at the grainy black and white, night time photo of Neal Caffrey, clad all in black, exiting a building holding a poster cylinder in his gloved hands.

"How long have you known?" Peter asked.

"A few months. Mozzie loves telling Theo stories and one day Theo was being especially difficult, challenging. Mozzie was flustered. He forgot the nanny cam phone app transmits sound as well as video."

Peter tapped the photo. "Where was this taken?"

"Marseille, four days ago." Diana placed another photo, face down, on Peter's desk. "This one leaves no doubt," she warned, slowly removing her hand.

Peter flipped the photo. His jaw dropped, a cascade of unreadable, conflicting emotions flashing across his face.

"I think giving your boss a heart attack might be a disciplinary offence," Peter growled.

Diana smiled. "Mozzie has the original. He flies in tonight."

Staring at the colour photo, Peter smiled himself. Neal smiled back at him, now holding an unfurled painted family portrait of the three Burkes and Satchmo. Written in large letters across the poster tube, lying at his feet, was "Happy Birthday Peter."


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