bluecastle | snippet, White Collar -- Topsy Turvy

So I'm turfing out Evernote and thinking about getting back to using it to keep things more organized. (I seem to be all about the organization lately. Is it because Spring is coming?) Anyway, I found this little bitty thing, and thought I might as well post it and move on as I don't think I'm ever going to do anything more with it, although there is always more OT3 to contemplate!

What Peter discovers eventually is that Neil's perfect image is just as much of a con as everything else in his life. On the surface he comes across as a neat freak. His clothes tailored, just so. He always looks unrumpled, even at the end of a long day. But his pockets are always full of crinkled receipts and candy wrappers, paper clips and spare change.

Peter would not have expected this. Neil's jail cell was neat as pin, and his room at June's looked like it had been spit shined every morning.

But now Peter knows that Neil turns dresser drawers topsy turvy, and drops damp towels on the bathroom floor. Now all their CD's are all in the wrong cases, but Neil says he knows where they are, so "stop fussing."

And when left to put the dishes away, well, he'll stick them in the nearest cabinet, or in the first open shelf. El finds canned goods inside the mixing bowls, or silverware stuck in a coffee mug.

For Neil has no image to maintain here. There is no pretense to uphold. Here, he is simply home.

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