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Heh, it's funny you should ask that--yes, actually. Somewhere, in some comment, I mentioned the idea of Neal pulling a job just to see Peter, and Peter not showing. That idea had HUGE support, and I'm halfway through the fic, which is heavy on the Kate and even heavier on the Mozz.

Here, have a cookie!

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"It's a stupid job," Mozzie tell him, when he's done explaining. Kate nods, absently, without looking up from her book, and Neal scowls at both of them.

"You know," he drawls, "it's no use being a criminal if you don't, occasionally, commit crimes."

Mozz peers at Neal over the top of his glasses; Neal, knowing perfectly well that he's blind as a bat without them, waves his hands around. As expected, Mozz makes a face and pushes them back up--he hates the blurs.

"Being a criminal," he says sternly, and then he pauses and amends "being a successful criminal depends on knowing there's no use in trying for things you know you can't do."

Neal smiles. It's his best smile, the one he usually uses to charm his way into whatever he wants. It has never worked on Mozzie--there are other, stranger ways to charm Mozzie, usually involving the threat of blackmail and/or denying him dinner--but it never hurts to try.

"I'm Neal Caffrey," he says. "I can do anything."