This White Collar/Chuck crossover features Bryce and Neal as twins and this collection of stories comes third (update-wise). The first collection is 'Spies vs Cons' and the second is 'CIs vs Agents'.
Copied from the intro to 'Spies vs Cons'
What would happen if Neal had a twin? There have been times when people have been found innocent of a crime because they couldn't prove which twin did it. As for how Bryce is alive, lets say Orion saved him (where was Orion while his son was fighting the Ring? Seriously?)
Basically, I'm going to write White Collar/Chuck crossovers featuring twins Neal and Bryce (Neal is older). Most will be one-shots which can stand alone (I hope). They will vary in length. Additional stories will be added at random. Feel free to post prompts of what you want to see; no guarantees though.
Just a bit of background info: unless otherwise stated for the prompt, Neal and Bryce both grew up in Witsec as Danny Brooks and Bryce Brooks. When they were fourteen, their mother remarried; a nice man with the last name 'Larkin'. The three Brooks family members took the last name 'Larkin', henceforth known as Danny/Neal Larkin and Bryce Larkin. Later, when Neal learned the the truth about his birth father (he's a murderer and is still alive) he left and became Neal Caffrey. Bryce stayed and went to Stanford as Bryce Larkin.
FnF - Family and Friends
From Guest:
Do you think you could do an opposite version of this, the various tentative, deeply personal moments when Neal or Bryce do tell the others in a moment of sharing? Like, they're not forced to reveal the truth because the other is hurt or something, but they tell the people in their lives because they want to; because they love them/trust them?
Notes: The thief Chuck talks about is loosely based on Kaitou Kid who is the main character in the Magic Kaito manga and turns up in Detective Conan (both works by Aoyama Gosho)
Bryce told Chuck after only a few months. Chuck was the kind of guy who people instantly trusted bit it still took Bryce a few months to realise that it wasn't a cover, it was just Chuck. He was someone trustworthy.
"Hey, want to meet my brother?" he asked Chuck one evening when he knew Neal was nearby.
"I didn't know you had a brother," Chuck commented in surprise.
"That's because I never mentioned him," Bryce said, thinking, 'and with good reason.' He didn't think Neal was a good match for Chuck, friendship-wise, as Neal's friends were a little less law-abiding and not at all trustworthy.
Bryce didn't like the path his brother was travelling and thought it was a waste of Neal's skills. But, he figured that Chuck should know a little more about him. Bryce knew a lot about Chuck's family and friends but hadn't shared much himself.
Chuck was bouncing with interest.
"When do I get to meet him?" Chuck asked.
"Whenever you want," Bryce responded and he wasn't surprised when Chuck suggested as soon as possible.
Neal agreed to meet them at a cafe on campus and was already there when they arrived. Bryce knew they turned a few heads when he and Chuck walked in and sat down across from someone who looked a lot like him.
"So, you're Neal, right?" Chuck glanced between them and babbled, "you didn't switch on me, did you? I haven't been talking to Neal all day or something?"
Neal burst out laughing and Chuck's face went red as he wondered if he said the wrong thing.
"No," Bryce said to Chuck while glaring at his twin.
"Aw, come on, Bryce, you know that's a great idea."
"It is?" Chuck cheered up and Bryce felt it prudent to pull his brother away from the table.
"Don't," he said, "no talks about cons, tricks or schemes. Not around Chuck."
"Really?" Neal questioned.
"He's a good person, Neal. He doesn't need to know about cons and tricks and schemes."
"Then, how's he supposed to recognise them if I use them on him?" Neal questioned, "I'm sorry but that seems like a good way to be a sucker."
Bryce had a number of responses to that, things he had said before which he knew had no impact on Neal's behaviour.
"Hey, are we going to eat?" Chuck questioned innocently as he came up with a menu in his hands.
"Sure," Bryce responded with a smile.
"That's a con smile," Neal whispered conspiratorially as he past him walking back to the seats. Bryce sighed because, it was. He didn't like smiling like that or using his skills in conning. They would lead him nowhere good; unless he decided to be an officer or something which he didn't think he was suited for.
"So, Neal, do you like Zork as well?" Chuck asked as soon as Neal sat down.
"Zork?"
"The computer game I used to play," Bryce explained with less enthusiasm than he had when he first spoke to Chuck about it. Chances were that Neal didn't even know what computer games he played.
"Right, where you'd stare at text on a screen for hours for no reason," Neal commented towards Bryce.
"Better than reading numerous books about police work."
"Police?" Chuck questioned, asking Neal, "do you want to be a police officer?"
"No," Neal denied quickly and stubbornly. Chuck was surprised at the response.
"Then why read books about police work?" he questioned, "unless you wanted to mess with the police?"
"Mess with the police?" Neal questioned.
"Yeah. I read this story once which had a criminal who would send calling cards to the police before stealing things. He was also friends with the head officer's daughter. One time, he even dressed up as her to throw him off so that he could escape."
"Really?" Chuck had Neal's interest.
"Yeah. He wooed a princess with his magic tricks so that he could steal from her. She knew this and actually let him because she was amazed and grateful for his company."
Bryce really wanted to stop this kind of talk as he had a feeling Neal would take all this to heart but, his best friend and his brother were getting along which was more than he could have hoped for.
"Hmm... if he had a princess, why steal?" Neal questioned and Bryce found himself nodding in agreement, wanting to hear more.
It was after Neal got drugged while investigating 'Hearts wide Open' that he made a phone call to ask Bryce for permission to tell his handler about his twin brother. What he had told Peter was true, he did trust the agent. However, this terrified him, worried him and made him feel like he was betraying Kate. Choosing this life tethered to the feds and New York over her.
Bryce talked him down from his frantic ranting and said that it was okay for him to tell Peter about him. That the agent was a good guy and probably wouldn't use the knowledge to hurt him. If he did... Bryce left the threat hanging. While Neal wasn't a violent man, he knew different methods of torture as well as the far more effective ways of systematically destroying someone's life without laying a hand on them. Bryce didn't need to finish the sentence for Neal to know all the different ways he could destroy Peter Burke.
Even so, it wasn't until Peter told him about meeting Kate that Neal finally told him. He asked Elizabeth if he could come to dinner, brought wine to go with the fish she was cooking and sat down at the dinner table with a smile on his face and a photo in his hand.
"What do you have there?" Peter asked, his sharp eyes not missing a thing.
Neal placed the photo on the table and pushed it across to Peter. Elizabeth made an interested noise and asked if she could look as well. Neal nodded as she placed the dinner plates down on the table and then leant over Peter's shoulder to see.
The photo was one to two young dark haired and blue eyed boys. One was wearing a fireman's hat and the other a police hat. They were both smiling the same smile on the same face.
"That's me," Neal said, pointing to the boy in the police hat. "And that's Bryce."
He moved his finger so that he was pointing to the boy in the fireman's hat.
Peter's jaw dropped and Neal was certain he heard a squeak. In comparison, Elizabeth looked over the moon.
"Twins?" she questioned him excitedly. Neal nodded.
"Twins?" Peter echoed in a horrified tone. Neal nodded again.
"His name is Bryce and yes, we're twins." He paused and then added, "I'm surprised that you didn't already know since there was that whole the FBI investigation into me and all." Really, he wasn't surprised that Peter didn't know about Bryce. The CIA probably shielded him.
But, the jab found it's mark and Peter shot him a glare.
"Honey," Elizabeth said in warning, "it's nice that Neal is sharing something of his past with us, isn't it?"
"I guess," Peter grumbled, "but know I have to worry about another one."
"Bryce is an upstanding citizen," Neal emphasised, "and, at the very least, not your problem. I think he's currently somewhere in the west coast."
"Give me a heads up if he ever comes to New York," Peter said, placing the photo back on the table. He didn't take his hand off it though. "I'd like to meet him."