Note: takes place sometime after Neal comes back in season 4, Peter's still working evidence

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Jones frowned as he stared down at Neal, the young man was now being allowed visitors, but he looked pale and lifeless…he looked small. Jones snorted, he never imagined that he'd call Neal Caffrey small, after all the conman was usually anything but.

Letting out a sigh, Jones collapsed into the chair by Neal's bed and closed his eyes, allowing memories to wash over him.

After Neal had fainted, the paramedics had wasted no time loading him into an ambulance and speeding away.

Questions were screamed at him, as they questioned him about the anklet, the known injuries, allergies and other questions he could barely answer. He had however, gotten permission for them to remove the anklet and even that small job made him feel helpful.

After that it had become an insane amount of worrying and waiting.

Waiting for them to push Neal into the hospital, waiting while Neal was in surgery, waiting for Peter's new boss to let the poor man out of work, just waiting, and he hated it.

He had tried calling Peter as soon as Neal had entered surgery, but the man wouldn't answer his phone and Jones was sure that the new boss was too blame. He felt almost sick when he left a message to inform his boss that his partner was hurt and hospitalized.

Letting out another sigh he sank down lower into the chair and stared at the clock. It would be about an hour, before Peter would emerge from his work station and he secretly hoped that Neal wouldn't wake up before then. After all he'd promised the conman that Peter would be there for Neal and Jones wasn't sure what he'd say to Neal if Peter wasn't there.

'Sorry Neal, but Peter's still at work and couldn't make it,' oh yes that would make the kid cheer up for sure. Sighing, he turned away from the sight and rested his head in his hand.

He'd made other calls of course.

First he'd called Hughes, well second if you didn't count Peter. During the call Jones had explained the reason for Neal's suddenly lack of anklet as well as asking him to see if he could get word down to Peter. It was becoming clear though that Hughes probably didn't reach Peter.

He'd called Elizabeth next, figuring that maybe she could help get a hold of the little guy as well as Peter. She'd panicked as soon as Jones had said the words Neal and hospital in the same sentence, and before he could stop her could hear the sounds of her car door slamming and engine roaring. She was at the hospital in ten minutes and Jones decided to ignore the fact that she must've broken numerous laws to arrive so quickly.

Elizabeth had in fact contacted the little guy and Jones wasn't really sure how that went, all he knew was that she left the room to do it.

He'd briefly thought about calling Sara Ellis, knowing that she and Caffrey had a history, but he didn't have the woman's number. Luckily for him, Elizabeth had taken care of that as well. He was beginning to see why Peter loved that woman, she seemed to pick out the problem and take care of it before anybody even realized the problem was there and it was remarkable.

Jones's last call had been to Diana, who after some convincing told her that everything was fine and that she didn't have to cancel her date plans to come down. She had come down anyway. Jones also knew for a fact that the woman was currently interrogating some doctor about Neal's condition. He smiled at this, but it dropped when his eyes once again fell on Neal.

"You really are a pain," he groaned and stared at the sleeping man. "I swear half the state is going to show up at this rate. Elizabeth's here, Diana's here, I'm pretty sure Sara's on her way and don't even get me started on the little guy. Just an hour ago he tried to convince me that he was a doctor so that he could bust you out, something about them pumping you full of nanobots or whatever, but don't worry about that. I promised that I wouldn't let that happen, but I still think he's sulking around outside somewhere." He ran a hand over his face. "Agents from the office keep popping in and out too, mostly on lunch breaks, but I didn't realize how popular you are. Pretty sure I even saw Ruiz and he's not even in our division," shaking his head he sighed. "Pretty sure that the only one who isn't here is—"He stopped, Peter's name dying on his lips. The one person he had promised to Neal that would be here wasn't and the guilt of that wrapped around Jones like a blanket.

He was still grasping to the hope that maybe Neal wouldn't wake up before Peter could arrive, that the con would remain peacefully oblivious to the fact that his best friend was unreachable in his time of need. Of course, Jones couldn't be that lucky.

Neal awoke groggily and slowly, hands reaching up to mess with the small tubing attached to his nose.

"No, no, Neal stop," Jones commanded, grabbing Neal's hands and pulling them away.

"Stop it Pe'tah," Neal's voice floating through Jones ears and guilt crashed down around him.

"No, Neal it's me Jones."

Neal blinked, his eyes confused, "where's P'ter?"

Jones bit his lip, he wished for Elizabeth or Diana, he wasn't good at this sort of thing.

"I couldn't reach him, Neal I'm sorry, but—"

"Neal!" Jones was cut off suddenly by a panicked voice and he turned in shock as Peter flew through the door. The older man looked like he'd been through a hurricane, he was wet, rumbled, and his eyes were wide with panic. "Oh my—how did this happen?!"

Neal's eyes lit up instantly and he smiled, "Hey buddy!" He said happily, reminding Jones that the previous drugs in the con's system had been replaced by new ones. "Guess what it was like when I broke into the hospital, but this time the needle was this big." Neal held up his hands and spread them apart in an obvious exaggeration and Peter sighed.

"Forget he said that."

"Already done," Jones declared and Peter shot him a thankful look.

"So what happened?"

Jones shrugged, "honestly? I have no idea. From my understanding he was kidnapped, threatened, and drugged. At one point he was punch pretty badly in the stomach, probably multiple times, since it caused internal bleeding, but nothing too serious. He kept mumbling about how they wanted him to do something, but he said he wouldn't. I'm pretty sure whatever happened was similar to what happened with Wilkes, minus the hostage. Which probably explains why Neal wasn't as….um…corruptive this time around," Jones finished, with slight hesitation.

Peter groaned and let a hand wash over his face, "you see what happens when I'm not around you watch your back?"

"Eh not your fault Butch, 'sides CJ was there."

Said agent glared at Caffrey, who just smiled innocently.

"Well with that I'm going to go make sure that Haversham isn't trying to liberate more hospital patients," Jones stood and watched as Peter raised an eyebrow. "Long story, let's just say that he had a tool for detecting nanobots."

Peter snorted and Neal's eyes were wide, "Mozzie is here? He hates hospitals, wouldn't stop shaking last time."

Peter shot a look at Jones and the dark man smiled, "don't worry it's already forgotten."

Peter nodded his thanks and took his spot in Jones's chair.

"While you're at it will you make sure that Diana doesn't give that doctor outside PTSD?"

Jones nodded and smiling walked out the door. Everything was going to be fine.

THE END

For now I consider this story complete, in fact it was never meant to be more than a chapter long, but it became too long to be a one-shot so I split it

I know some of you were wondering why Neal was kidnapped in the first place and were hoping for that to be explained in detail, but it just didn't seem to work right. Especially since I wanted this just to be from Jones point of view and if the story went on any longer I would have to switch points of view to allow it to flow.

But for the readers who are still confused, Neal was kidnapped because they wanted to use him to make forgies and pull cons and what not. Much the same as Wilkes did (as stated above)

It's a plot line that I've become really obsessed with and my next story will focus more on that and will be multi-chaptered, instead of just a drugged Neal and Jones's relationship with Neal (which was the focus of this story)

Thank you for reading and for all the lovely reviews and I hope that you will look forward to more of my stories