samecgh | Chuck/White Collar

It had been three weeks since the agents had left and everything had gone sort of back together. Sort of because the first week, there was a new man following Neal and later he found out it was Orion, Chuck's dad whose paranoia rivaled Moz's, which he didn't believe was even possible. He wanted to run tests on Neal, nothing bad just concerning the fact that the Intersect version he had in his head somehow came from a cobbled version from Bryce's head who didn't download it standing at the center point. When he ran his tests, he figured that the Ring had pieced it together right and he wouldn't have to worry about much. (“Just don't lose the Governor for significant periods of time. In fact, why don't I send a few more your way in case you tend to lose or break them often?” “It's fine, I really don't... Peter, stop laughing.”

The second week, Beckman showed up on the conference TV while Peter and Neal were working on a new case. Her announcing herself to them would have been funny if both of them hadn't jumped a little at the fact the woman had somehow gotten on the TV in the FBI conference room. She informed them that while they couldn't have Neal transfer over to the CIA (Peter argued for an hour before Neal told her he hated guns and wouldn't be able to kill someone, quite possibly even if someone's life depended on it so Neal stayed with Peter with a few new precautions and rules) they did want a separate handler for Neal so if he flashed on anything, it would be run through the proper channels. The handler would be coming from DC the next week to set up; she finished the one sided conversation by putting the FBI logo back on the screen when Lauren walked.

So when the day they were supposed to meet Neal's CIA handler came, both walked out for lunch, claiming that they may be out longer talking to a few witnesses. Beckman told them they were going to meet in front of a diner, someone would ask what the meaning of malum lupus meant. Peter translated it to Bad Wolf. When Neal heard that, the Intersect tried bringing up everything on Bad Wolf. Except there wasn't anything. All the files the Intersect tried to bring up were all deleted and corrupted with a virus. The only thing he could get out of it was a picture of a woman, a man in a pinstriped suit and UNIT stamped across something.

“UNIT?” Peter asked, again.

“Yeah,” he snapped, “Like the last three times. What's is it with UNIT? You had Sarah and I use it as a codeword.”

“Yeah, and I didn't think it would come back to bite us in the ass,” he mused, “UNIT is the Unified Intelligence Taskforce. They work with the UN over global threats.”

“Global threats?” he questioned.

“I don't know much about it. The one and only time I dealt with them, we were investigating some stolen property. They took over, saying something we were finding was a danger to the world and they had the right people to deal with it.”

“That had to hurt.”

“Hughes had no control. Bancroft had no control,” he confided, “Diana was still with us at the time and said she's seen them a few times in action. Jones mentioned running across them while he was with the Marines.”

Peter tried not looking around while Neal played with his phone. “Peter, you're conspicuous,” he said.

He didn't respond and Neal almost wanted to try calming him down, but he was at a crucial part of what he was working on (navigating a small little box around a thick maze was hard with the small navigational arrows). Instead, he didn't notice the new person when someone called out, “Petey.”

Peter looked in surprise as his former mentor ended up walking down the street toward them. “Phillip,” he greeted, standing up to shake his hand. “Neal,” he motioned, “This is my mentor, Phillip Kramer. You're still with DC Art Crimes?”

“Yep, waiting for the pension to kick in,” he confessed, “Listen, you wouldn't happen to know the translation of malum lupus, would you?” Peter and Neal shared a look. “Damn, I didn't know it would be you, Peter. Let's go find something to eat and I'll explain what will happen.”

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Author's note: I am a nerd and a geek ~~(and now a Gleek)~~ so I had placed references throughout the fic.

Sadako (the Sushi place) – the little girl from Ringu

Mike, SJ and Benton – characters from Doctor Who, Mike Yates and John Benton were UNIT, SJ is Sarah Jane Smith, companion

Harold Saxon – from Doctor Who, the Master, the last alias where the Master used it to take over the world (Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords)

Afona Cân – River Song in Welsh (Afon, really, but that didn't sound right)

malum lupus – Bad Wolf in Latin

I didn't realized with the aliases and the assassin that later on my brain would crossover with Doctor Who, so it's kinda weird.

Thank you for reading.

Chuck/White Collar - Epilogue

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