What Happens When You Throw Out the Rulebook

By RascalFlattsS

Disclaimer: Do not own White Collar.

Summary: What if Peter hadn't arrived in time to save Neal from Navarro's wrath? HUGE SPOILER ALERT for "By the Book". And of course, plenty of Neal Whumpage! (Because really, it wouldn't be a RascalFlattsS White Collar story without some sort of Neal Whumpage, would it?)

Don't worry; I am still working on Crime of the Century. In the meantime, thought I'd throw in some Neal Whumpage.

Neal Caffrey leaned against the wall, listening very carefully to what Navarro and his friends were saying. He inched closer so that he could hear better while still remaining hidden.

Neal listened to them and sense that their conversation was coming to an end. Neal started to move away from his hiding spot when his cell phone started to vibrate.

The talking stopped immediately. "Someone's here," said Navarro. Neal heard the scuffling of chairs and the sound of footsteps moving forward towards his hiding space.

Neal cursed softly. He cursed Mozzie for getting him into this situation and he cursed himself for listening to Mozzie and agreeing to go into this place blind. But mostly he cursed whoever was texting him as they had given him away and were most likely going to get him killed.

Neal ran forward, moving towards one of the doors. He felt his cell phone vibrate once again, but Neal ignored it. He moved through the door and shutting it quickly behind him. He fumbled with his lock pick, working quickly to lock the door behind him.

Neal smiled as he succeeded locking the door, just as Navarro reached for the door handle and turned it. Neal smiled faded when he and Navarro made eye contact through the glass. Neal could feel the hatred and anger just rolling off the other man. Neal turned and moved for the ladder that would lead him to the roof.

"He's going for the roof," said one of Navarro's men.

"Not if I can help it," said Navarro. He pulled out his gun, pointing his gun at Neal and fired.

Neal heard the shattering of the glass and he tried to hurry faster up the ladder. However the bullet was faster than Neal. Neal screamed in pain as the bullet hit him in the leg. Stars danced in front of his vision and his vision swarmed. His grip failed and Neal fell off the ladder landing backwards on the floor.

His head smacked against the floor. Neal groaned. He started to sit up but two of Navarro's men grabbed him and pulled him up off the floor. They held him up. Navarro walked up to Neal. He reached into Neal's coat pocket and pull out Neal's cell phone.

"It seems you have two unread messages," said Navarro. He hit one of the buttons, "This is from your friend Mozzie who is asking what is taking you so long. And this is from Diana." He looked up at Neal, "Whose Diana? Your girlfriend?"

"Something like that," grumbled Neal. Navarro ignored him and opened Diana's text message.

"Call Agent Burke ASAP," said Navarro slowly. Neal groaned. He was in serious trouble now.

"Who is this Agent Burke?" asked Navarro. He punched Neal in the stomach. Neal groaned. "Who are you? FBI?" Neal remained silent. "WHO ARE YOU?" Navarro screamed.

"Screaming at me isn't going to make me tell you," said Neal sarcastically. Navarro punched him in the face. Neal blacked out for a moment. When he came to, he saw Navarro holding his FBI badge.

"Neal Caffrey," read Navarro, "Consultant for the FBI." He paused, "The famous Neal Caffrey. I heard you had become the Feds' errand boy, but I had no idea."

"Navarro?" one of his men called, "Luis picked up police attractive on the scanner. The FBI is on their way."

"Clearly on they're on their way to bail Caffrey out of trouble," said Navarro.

"What should we do with him?" snarled one of the men holding Neal, "Leave him?"

"Of course not!" said Navarro, "That would be rude to leave our new friend here." He reached forward and patted Neal's check, "Besides I have plans for the great Neal Caffrey."

"Oh goody," said Neal sarcastically.

Navarro shook his head, "Now Caffrey, you need to play nice." He walked forward and struck Neal across the head with the butt of his gun. Neal felt an explosion of pain.

"I have big plans for you Neal Caffrey," said Navarro. That was the last thing Neal heard before he slipped into unconsciousness.

Sorry for the short chapter. This just seemed like a good place to end-plus I have to go to work tomorrow.

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