Neal's Comeuppance

By Peppe1951

Summary: Neal tries Peter's patience one time too much with his disobedience; this time Elizabeth takes an active hand along with Peter in teaching Neal why he should obey Peter. Warning: Disciplining of an adult. Don't like? Don't read! Disclaimer: White Collar belongs to USA; I only write about it. Takes place after Vital Signs

A/N: This is my first entirely White Collar fan fiction story...all the others in this series have been crossovers with NCIS which can be found either at the NCIS section or the White Collar crossover section.

Chapter 1

"Brrring….Brrring," the phone next to the bedside rang waking Peter, who looks at the clock and sees the time…2:30. "Hello?" he answers tentatively and then with an explosive, CAFFREY! Do you know what time it is?"

He is listening while Neal tries to explain the fix he is in before Peter explodes again, "I told you to NOT go there…what part of no do you not understand…yeah, I'll be by…and Neal you had better be there when I get there because if you aren't I will spank you on the spot when I do catch you!"

"What has Neal done this time?" asks Elizabeth, Peter's wife.

"Gotten himself in more trouble. Ever since he helped June with getting her granddaughter placed back on the kidney transplant list he feels he can do anything. Our latest case deals with another scam, this time they are milking senior citizens in nursing homes and he has decided to cut some corners in gathering information on those doing the milking," explained Peter as he hurriedly got dressed.

"Where is he?"

"At another one of the nursing homes gathering information on the suspected head doctor in the scam and once again security has been called and he's playing hide and seek with them…I've got to rescue him yet again…bye," he added as he left vowing that this time he was going to come down hard on Caffrey.

Neal was at the rendezvous location when Peter arrived and without any trouble this time was able to make a clean exit. "I hope that at least this time you were able to gain entry without having a tape recording it," barked Peter.

"Yes, I made sure that the security cameras weren't recording me entering this facility," replied Neal.

"Then what alerted them this time?"

"One of the nurses caught me riffling through Dr. Campbell's files and called security," replied Neal, "but I got what I was looking for," he added hurriedly as he caught the expression on Peter's face.

"You know we can't use that information in court?"

"Yeah, but it does give you some names to look into," Neal replied.

Peter took a deep breath before letting it out slowly as he tried to reign in is temper once again and took the proffered sheet of names. "I'll give them to Jones tomorrow to get background checks but for now go to bed and I'll meet you at work later today," he ordered as he left Neal off at June's.

By the time he returned it was 3:30 and he returned to bed in hopes of getting a bit more sleep before he had to face Neal again. He would have to have a talk with him again about his after hours' activities in hopes that it would take this time.