wc_women_fest | Prompt round one

Round one of the Awesome Ladies of White Collar prompt fest is now open!

Before we begin, I just wanted to remind everybody to be respectful, fills for prompts should be posted as a reply to the prompt, or linked in a reply to the prompt.

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sahiya has set up a collection on AO3 for the fest. Posting fills there is encouraged, but not required.

Please read the rules carefully, and post any questions you have here. And most importantly,

Have fun, everybody!

This round is now closed to new prompts. (But not to new fills!)

MASTER LIST:

Fic:

15 Minutes out of Her Day by (

leonie_alastair)
Prompt: Elizabeth, not messing around (

yeomanrand)

Back Home by

attackfish
Prompt: Diana - Diana and Jones spend a boring night in the van on surveillance, and end up swapping work-related stories and memories.(

ozqueen)

Champagne on a Saturday Morning by

sahiya
Prompt: Sara - a rainstorm, a bottle of wine, and Neal. (

ozqueen)

Halls of Justice by

attackfish
Prompt: Neal/Sara AU - he's the insurance investigator and she's the clever art thief who slipped through his fingers.(

lionessvalenti)

Knife's Edge by

yamx
Prompt: Elizabeth & Kate AU - Confrontation (and Kate has a pretty damn good excuse) (

lionessvalenti)

Like Silk by

aleanorblack
Prompt: Sara - silk. (

ozqueen)

Remembering by

destinyjadams
Prompt: Sara - What we know about Sara's backstory is pretty sad; her parents are dead and her sister disappeared years ago. I'd like to know more about where she came from and how she became who she is. Sara/Neal for preference, but it doesn't have to be shippy. (

sahiya)

Spaces by

attackfish
Prompt: Sara - Sara and Neal do domestic in their own way. (

sahiya)

Stakes of the Game by

daria234
Prompt: Elizabeth, Sarah, June, and Cindy, Girls' poker night gets cutthroat. (

yeomanrand)

Tempered by

attackfish
Prompt: Sara - silk. (

ozqueen)

Untitled (Explicit) by

daria234
Prompt: Sara, Alex: "Did you really think I'd prefer him over you?" (

elrhiarhodan)

Untitled by

destinyjadams
Prompt: June - the first pocket she ever picked (

lionessvalenti)

Untitled by

vesperwhisper
Prompt: Kate, June: Take care of him for me, please. (

elrhiarhodan)

Untitled by

vesperwhisper
Prompt: Kate - my makeup may be flaking (

lionessvalenti)

The Way it Starts by

attackfish
Prompt: Alex - Fast cars, money and sunshine. (

ozqueen)

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It started with the music box.

She graduated, left home, loose footed, and at loose ends, She flitted from job to job, stuck at the bottom rung at all of them, watching idiots succeed. She had always thought that there was something special out there for her, something she would be fantastic at, something where she would never have to listen to anybody tell her what she could and couldn't do.

She fell into looking for her grandfather's box because she had nothing better to do. She was holding down a job. She hated it, but it kept her in canned soup and instant coffee. Some nights, Alex stared at the computer screen and wished the man had died without opening his mouth and telling her it was all real.

She learned to break into places, pick locks, slip into windows, slip out again so that one day she could take it. She hung around fences and thieves for crumbs about it's whereabouts. And the first time someone asked if she wanted in on a job, she said no, but the second time she didn't hesitate.

And the next thing she knew, she was in Italy with the rag top pulled back on her stolen car and the sun pouring in around her.

And an idiot behind her short a lot of money, and an idiot partner short his take.

Oh, thank you so much! I'm having such a rotten day, it was such a lovely surprise to see this! :) I loved it! I love fics with back-story and this was such a gorgeous glimpse into how Alex got to where she is. Thank you so much! ♥

No, thank you! I love your prompts.

This is so brilliantly Alex!

Thanks, I'm a little leery of writing her since the season 2 finale. I just don't know what to do with her.

Yeah, me neither. I don't know if we're going to have her back - perhaps they think they don't need her now that Neal has Sara. But yeah, I don't know what to do with her either. I never really warmed to her to begin with, though I didn't really object to her in any way, but then her little speech about lost treasure at the end of the ep gave me ooky feelings. I understand that he was her grandpa and that's how she thinks of him first, but she so clearly didn't have a clue about any of the other implications.

Ooky feelings: this is it exactly. It's not so much that she loves her grandfather, or that she's willing to make off with the treasure. She's a thief, and a very selfish human being, and I can see it of her, and of Neal, who is able to ignore the moral ramifications of something unless it's shoved in his face. Her characterization in the season finale though typifies what's wrong with this whole arc. It's not the premise, it's the way none of the characters say, react to her telling them that her grandfather fought for Hitler in WWII. She had no hesitation in saying it. It's like it was just another conflict and they were just the guys on the other side. The way they write Alex in that episode makes it clearer than anything else that the writers just don't get it.

Yes, exactly. I mean, I study German literature and speak German and have lived in Germany, and I understand very well that it was very possible to serve in the army without being a member of the Nazi Party, and there was also a pretty hefty draft going on; if you were male and able-bodied, you served, whether you believed in what Hitler was doing or not. But even knowing all of this, the way it was handled didn't work for me at all. Alex would have grown up and been educated in the U.S., and I can't believe that she's so ignorant of history that she wouldn't have at least complicated feelings about it. *sigh* Writer!fail.

This is why in real life, I find out that a German or Austrian of that age fought in the war or was in the Hitler Youth, I'm like "Yeah, and?" At the end of the war, there were twelve-year-olds being pressed into service. There are Nazis, and I mean actual members of the party, in my family tree, which is even more awkward than it might otherwise be, because we're Jewish, so I've been in the situation of explaining about my dad's family and my step grandfather's family. It's always awkward. It wasn't awkward for her, which is Writer!fail.

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