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Neal leans against his desk behind Peter, chaining paper clips together and looking a bit pleased to be fought over.
“It’s out of my control on this one, Burke,” Hughes says, “They’ve gone through the proper channels, I can’t override it any more than you. If Wirth and Iyengar say they need Caffrey on their case, they get him. It’s as simple as that.”
“But Neal works in White Collar.”
Yes, but he can be reassigned to meet needs. We have as much a right to him as any division does.”
“That’s ridiculous.”
“Don’t worry about it, Hughes,” Neal chimes in; he drops the line of paper clips down into a pile below his hand. “Peter’s just worried that I might have too much fun over in Organized Crime and decide to never come back to him.”
It's been three months since Neal ran. Now Peter is hoping that Special Agent James Wirth knows something that he doesn't.