White Collar fic: Exigency

Title: Exigency
Fandom: White Collar
Word Count: 5000
Pairing: Neal/Sara
Notes/Warnings: Sequel to my earlier 4x16 tag Contingency; this won't make much sense if you haven't read that one. See also the warnings on "Contingency". There is an additional, mildly spoilery content warning for this story that you can read at the AO3 endnotes.
Summary: Set post-4x16; spoilers! In London, Neal does what needs to be done. This is for my h/c bingo square "Mistaken Identity". Many thanks to frith_in_thorns for looking this over for me!
Cross-posted: http://archiveofourown.org/works/951349

( Exigency )

Pallas cat

I think we can probably agree that most wild cats have a certain mystique about them -- a sort of feral, alien grace and dignity.

And then there is the Pallas cat, aka the manul, which essentially is the opposite of that. (Links go to Google Image Search.) It is definitely appealing in its own way, but it's probably the cutest, silliest-looking wild cat in the entire family Felidae.