[Fic][White Collar] I Say Our City is Small and Teeming with Ghosts

Title: I Say Our City is Small and Teeming with Ghosts
Fandom: White Collar
Prompt: Suicide Attempt
Medium: Fic
Wordcount: ~3000
Rating: T
Warnings: Suicide attempts and suicide in backstory. Spoilers through 4x04 "Parting Shots" of White Collar.
Summary: The Witness Protection Program has never had a fatality among any of the witnesses who follow the rules. It's going outside the rules – contacting people from your old life, trying to settle unfinished business – that gets you in trouble, but Ellen's been hiding for 30 years, and it's not as though she's got much left to lose.

You say sometimes you wake and wait
for the god of loneliness to leave you alone.
I say our city is small and teeming
with ghosts and there are no seasons
for hiding.

– "Match", Brynn Saito

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