Unfit for Society Recs

Crossovers

White Collar/Batfamily

Shift Work by laydowntoearth
They used to enjoy sharing the role of Neal Caffrey among the entire family.

Sadly, now that Neal has been arrested and is on a tracking anklet, that isn't possible anymore.

Or is it? This is a lot of fun!

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X-Men/Batfamily

flames, flames on the side of my face by lembeau
Jason decides his X-Men friends can't meet his Batfam friends. <333

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

charm/blade by BeatriceEagle
Any hope Mai had of killing her crush ended the day that she made a wrong turn on the way back from the privy and stumbled across Zuko practicing with his swords. The sword was not Mai's weapon, let alone the dual dao, but she knew blades, she loved blades, and Zuko, with his shirt off and the firelight glinting off his sweat and the dao alike, was a blade. Really sharp (sorry!) look at Mai and why she makes the choices she does.

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The Expanse

Emersion by Northland
Drummer and Avasarala have an interesting conversation. Oh gosh, I'd love to see these two interact and this story delivers.

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White Collar

Super Heroes Make Great Con Artists by hurinhouse
When Neal gets de-aged to about 4 years old, El and Peter take him in. This is adorable.

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White Collar

The Bond Forger by zoicite
Hot, funny and sweet Diana/Lauren. Neal really is a master bond forger! *g* And I would totally watch the Diana/Lauren & Jones show.

Clint Eastwood's Best Move by OnYourMark
Peter catches Neal trying to learn how to fight via movies, so he steps in to teach him. Utterly hilarious.

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Dark Angel

This Tired World Could Change by ranalore
Original Cindy has always allowed for the possibility that the right guy might tempt her to give bi a shot. It's just that she's pretty sure Alec MacDowell has never immediately leaped to anybody's mind as "the right guy" for anything legal, let alone non-destructive. If what they're doing here can be described as non-destructive. Original Cindy's withholding judgment for now. Really nice, drama-free Original Cindy/Max/Alec threesome. Gets Cindy's voice just right.

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The Hunger Games

Those Who Wait by wisteria_
Lovely, quiet look at Katniss and Peeta, slowly healing in the aftermath, from Peeta's POV. Makes the epilogue a little easier to believe, I think.

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White Collar

Foursquare by innie_darling
Someone from Neal's past catches up with him, but it's okay, El's got the situation well in hand. Adorable, with some great Mozzie bits, too.

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Crossovers

Discworld/The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Ill-advised Skeletal Exchange Programme by meridian_rose
"So, this Halloween. It involves Otherworldly creatures terrifying normal people while you stand around singing songs about it?"

"Yes! Only you make it sound so wrong," Jack complained. "And I just don't stand around." He puffed up and posed dramatically. "I am the Pumpkin King!"

Susan wasn't impressed. Jack visibly deflated. Hee! This is delightful.

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The Good Wife/White Collar

A Lady and a Gentleman In Black by hederahelix
Sharp, well-observed story of the time Kalinda assisted Special Agents Burke and Barrigan on an investigation, with lots of nice UST simmering between Kalinda and Diana.

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Indiana Jones/Casablanca

Indiana Jones and the Standard of Dishonour by vomit_bunny
Indy gets stuck in Casablanca. Really fun crossover.

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Narnia/No Reservations

No Reservations: Narnia by Edonohana
Recced everywhere, and for good reason. Perfectly nails both canons with wit and sharp-eyed detail. I'm crammed into a burrow so small that my knees are up around my ears and the boom mike keeps slamming into my head, inhaling the potent scent of toffee-apple brandy and trying to drink a talking mouse under the table. But is it really the boom mike that's making my head pound? I know for sure that my camera man doesn't usually have two heads. I have to face facts. The mouse is winning.

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Crossovers

Supernatural/Glee

Something Wicked This Way Hums by like_a_raven
In which Dean accidentally joins New Directions, gets a girlfriend, and finds a hunt. Adorkable. (timelines are jiggered so Dean's a teenager at McKinley High in the narrative present.)

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Supernatural/White Collar

Unorthodox Methods by captanddeastar
AU in which Sam finishes law school, joins the FBI, and is assigned as Peter Burke's probie. Adorable. "Neal, this is Sam Winchester, our new probie. Sam, this is Neal Caffrey. He's a… consultant."

"Neal Caffrey?" Sam repeats, looking back and forth between them. "Not… the Neal Caffrey we read about at Quantico? With the Death Mask of Hatshepsut… and the, uh, Three Palaces robbery, and the forged—"

"I can't take sole credit for the Three Palaces," Neal says modestly, "I had a lot of help," and Peter holds his breath, because this would be the moment when it either all goes to hell, or—

"Wow, what a cool idea, to have you helping out!" Sam enthuses, shaking Neal's hand to within an inch of its life. "I can't wait to see you in action!"

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Leverage

Survival by Eliot by sullensiren
Wicked cool multimedia story about the Leverage team helping people survive the zombie apocalypse.

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The Middleman

The Prurient Pollen Pollutant Proposition (The Classic Mirrorverse AU) by thedeadparrot
Mirrorverse!MM/Mirrorverse!Wendy! eee! Wendy is totally a bitchin' bad guy. *hearts*

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White Collar

When You're Good to Mama (The Grateful Remix) by hoosierbitch
Fantastic look at what Neal does for June, and what it costs, and how he learns to live with it. "There's a difference," she says, when he tries to kiss her. "Between being pragmatic and being cruel." And June has been many things in her life, but cruel is not one of them.

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The Middleman

Blame it on the French by monimala
"Uh, I hate to interrupt your hero-sidekick banter, Dub-Dub, but did you and Sexy Bossman miss the part where we're supposed to *have sex*?" Her voice rose at the end of the question, and MM actually winced, like he was a dog hearing a particularly shrill whistle. "I have to have sex with you both or *die*," she emphasized. "Which is very indicative of a grossly patriarchal society, I might add."

Aliens make them do it! With Lacey along for the ride. Funny, hot, and sweet.

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Sports Night

Another Second Time Around by laurificus
"You've probably made lists of them. In a book. An indexed book. An indexed book, in which all even-numbered pages are allocated to you, and odd-numbered ones to me. That, my friend, is the kind of person you are, and you are going to come into my home, and you're going to make schedules for all the cleaning activities, and an ordered system by which we will choose which TV programs we watch, and you'll start alphabetising things. And I will wish for death. And death will not come, Casey. Death will purposefully stay away, simply because it, too, is enjoying my pain and suffering."

Casey needs to crash at Dan's for a few days. Dan's not thrilled, but they work it out in the end. With adorable banter, because that's what they do.

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White Collar

Classic, in Progress by tzikeh
"I… it's a tuxedo. It fits. I like it."

"Go put it on," Neal said. Peter opened his mouth to reply, but before he could make a sound, Neal held up his hand. "Go and get it and put it on and come back down here and show me."

Peter snorted. "So you can mock it like you mock my best suit?"

"Your 'best' suit is a travesty." Again Peter opened his mouth, and again Neal held up his hand. "Peter, there are a very few, very specific things that I do better than almost anybody. This is one of the only ones left that I can still do and remain a free man."

Adorable and bantery. Neal and Elizabeth convince Peter to buy a new tuxedo.

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White Collar

The Notorious B.I.G. (Junior) by innie_darling
Adorable bantery casefile that reads like an episode.

Provenance by tigs
Four years and three days after their arrangement becomes official, Peter and Neal sign their names about fifty different times on the bottoms of a whole ream worth of papers, Jones cuts Neal's ankle tracker for the last time, and Neal is officially a free man. Wistful and lovely and in character.

The Zombie Story by giglet
Peter and Neal fight zombies while El pwns in Brooklyn. Plus, a coda.

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Leverage

the christmas eve job by hardlygolden
"Saint Nicholas is our patron saint," Parker says, again, more insistent this time. "No," he says, and then – fainter – "How, why, what, oh my god?", trailing off into nonsensical protest. Parker often has that effect on him. "Think about it," she says, swinging her legs from where she's perched on the kitchen counter. "I don't know, Hardison," Eliot says, smiling lazily. "Girl kind of has a point. I mean, breaking into houses while people sleep? Stealing their milk and cookies?" He tssks loudly, and there is no way Eliot should be able to look like that and sound like someone's grandmother in the same second. *sniffle* Wonderful story in which the team steals Christmas for some kids.

Deck the Tree with False Blossoms by ishie
"We could always go for an Ocean's Thirteen," Hardison suggested. "No one understands what happened in that movie anyway." The crew tries a con without Sophie. Needless to say, things do not go as planned, but she handles that with aplomb. Adorable.

Your head's a dead tomato splot with moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch. by Smercy
Absolutely adorable! Hardison holds geek Christmas and makes Eliot and Parker watch Firefly. *hearts*

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Leverage/White Collar

Yin by therienne
Peter sends Neal into an undercover situation that is way more complicated than either of them bargained for. Awesomely hilarious crossover with Leverage. See also, Yang by therienne: The other half of the story. Parker convinces Hardison and Eliot to do a job while Mom and Dad Sophie and Nate are away. ♥

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White Collar

And anyone who's ever had a heart by Liviapenn
After that she'd made Peter's new obsession a bit more of a priority. Before seeing the picture, she'd just slotted Neal Caffrey in as one more thing Peter's brain couldn't let go of, and amusing yourself while your spouse hunted down the greatest international art thief of the age was certainly classier than being a football widow. She'd never been concerned about it, not really. After seeing the picture, well. She still hadn't been concerned, but she was maybe a little more... cognizant of the possibilities. And that meant doing her own research, being a little more available for Peter to bounce ideas and hypotheses off of, that sort of thing. Of course the problem with learning more about Neal Caffrey was that the more you learned, the more you liked him. Peter definitely did. Elizabeth even suspected sometimes that Peter maybe admired him a little. / She's not sure how to feel now that she knows that it's mutual. Absolutely wonderful OT3 story.

It's the Thought That Counts by misura
Neal gives Peter and Elizabeth a Christmas gift. Amusing banter ensues. Gets the voices exactly right.

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Crossovers

Iron Man/Dollhouse

Succession by amonitrate
Brilliantly creepy Iron Man/Dollhouse crossover.

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Psych/Supernatural

(Fear) The Reaper by baylorsr
"It's a fortress, Dad," Shawn said. "For the zombie apocalypse," Gus added eagerly. "Well, that's no good," Henry said. "Boys, a zombie fortress needs to be unbreachable. Zombies are unresting, unflagging, untiring undead machines with only one goal: to eat your brains. You think this flimsy construct is going to stop them?" Shawn and Gus stumble over some zombies. Sam and Dean show up to help. Hilarity ensues.

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White Collar/Leverage

Accessories by halcyon_shift
"You know it would never work out between you, right? I mean, you're a hacker and she's..." / "She's a TrackerPAL Mark Three," said Hardison with a trace of wistful longing. "I've never seen one of these up close. She heavy?" / Good humor fled under cover of darkness. "Like rocks in my soul." Hee! Perfectly voiced Leverage/White Collar crossover. I would love to see the Leverage crew meet up with Neal Caffrey.

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