I'm still really enjoying this! :) It's an interesting part of canon to explore, and I haven't seen too many recent fics that have gone into this part of Neal's life, now that we know more about Ellen and his past. I really like the way that you handle Neal and Mozzie during their freewheeling con artist days. It's very them.
You know, one thing this fic made me think about is Neal's comment to Peter in season 3 that even Mozzie doesn't know the whole story of his past (the WITSEC and Ellen part, specifically). I don't think it had really hit me before that Neal would have had very good reasons, at least early on, for not telling Mozzie that he'd spent his entire childhood being monitored by the feds and might conceivably still be on their radar. Mozzie would have been out of there so fast he'd have left a shadow imprint in the air like a cartoon character. It's interesting to think that Mozzie's really changed a lot too, looking back on how he was around the FBI in the first season or two, versus his relative comfort level with them now.
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Date: 2013-07-29 01:44 am (UTC)You know, one thing this fic made me think about is Neal's comment to Peter in season 3 that even Mozzie doesn't know the whole story of his past (the WITSEC and Ellen part, specifically). I don't think it had really hit me before that Neal would have had very good reasons, at least early on, for not telling Mozzie that he'd spent his entire childhood being monitored by the feds and might conceivably still be on their radar. Mozzie would have been out of there so fast he'd have left a shadow imprint in the air like a cartoon character. It's interesting to think that Mozzie's really changed a lot too, looking back on how he was around the FBI in the first season or two, versus his relative comfort level with them now.