BB had a show to finish, but Neal could get a head start. He dressed in black tie, fixing his shirt and heading to the party he'd pinpointed as a possible job site. It didn't take much to get inside, and soon he was walking into the main room of a stuffy country club on the outskirts of London. He was gratified to see that a couple of women turned to stare as he passed by; he tipped his hat a few times before going for a drink. He figured that the champagne would be awful, and was pleasantly surprised when he detected Chateau Rothschild. Not bad at all. This party might work out all right.

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daniwithani 2011-10-02 11:11 pm UTC (link)

Dani had come to the party with her father. It was the birthday party for the man he'd replaced, and as such, he was obligated to go. Her mother hadn't wanted to, what with being eight months pregnant with twins, and Annie had been out with Jae-sun. Dani had voluenteered to come, especially since she had a pretty new dress to wear and Ezio had stayed late at work. She saw someone familiar across the room and laughed a little to herself. Walking over, she changed course at the last second so that she could sneak up on him. She pressed her fingers into his lower back, leaning over to hiss in his ear. "I'm onto you, Caffrey." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-02 11:17 pm UTC (link)
	Neal froze, as he usually would when it felt like someone had a gun at his back, but then he felt fingers. And he knew the voice. "Dani?" He turned around, amused. "Fancy meeting you here, as they say." She looked lovely. Elegant and well turned out. (Reply to this)

	daniwithani 2011-10-02 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	"Where else would I be tonight? Someone has to wheel my father home when he finishes drinking. It's why I'm only having Shirley Temples." She wrinkled her nose, sipping her drink. Her dress was pretty, but still not as stuffy as most of the other womens' there. And she'd gleefully worn higher than usual heels on purpose. "I know why you're here. Have fun, my father will love it." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-02 11:36 pm UTC (link)
	Neal raised an eyebrow. "Your father?" Why was he here? Had he had the same idea? It was weird. Still, all Neal could do was shrug. "Is your mother not here, then, or did you come with the Signor?" He'd taken to calling the Italian that; to call him by his first name still felt weird. (Reply to this)

	daniwithani 2011-10-02 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	"It's the birthday party of the man my father replaced. My mum normally would've come with him, but she's very, very pregnant with my sister and I. So I'm Dad's 'date'." She used liberal air quotes, smiling to herself. "You know, you two would get on. Cons of a feather and all." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-02 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	He'd forgotten about the future-kid angle, even though BB was one. "So wait, your father is the man who this party is being given for?" How the hell had he missed that? Neal shook his head. "I actually was just casing tonight. Getting leads on rich and fancy people." Still. (Reply to this)

	daniwithani 2011-10-03 12:00 am UTC (link)
	"Mmmhmm. And don't worry, Dad's doing the same thing." She squeezed his hand and took him by the arm, guiding him toward the back of the room. "Dad finds it hilarious that half of these people are supposed to be his friends, and he'll have four watches by the end of the night." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-03 12:24 am UTC (link)
	Neal let himself be taken, laughing at the idea of her father fleecing the same people. "Seems like a good thing." He did wonder about her father. He'd be curious to see what kind of a man this guy was, and how did he cope with having daughters pretty close to his own age? (Reply to this)

doubleup 2011-10-03 12:29 am UTC (link)

Dean sighed as he leaned against a marble column with a beer in his hand. Some guy was chatting with him about yachts and their maintenance and Dean was slowly but surely contemplating ways to terrify the man so he could flee. Salvation came in the form of his youngest daughter who had a fancy looking guy on her arm. Dean just walked away from the boat guy to meet Dani. "Hey, kiddo, you just saved my life." "What, from Bartie? Oh, he's a twat, I could've told you that. Neal? After you and Dad finish becoming total chums, could you please take everything that man has? We'd be much obliged." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-03 12:35 am UTC (link)
	"With pleasure." Neal chuckled. The guy looked easy to take from. He turned to the other man, the bored-looking one with the shock of brown hair. "You must be her father. I'm Neal Caffrey. I ... go out with Dani's ex, I guess." There really wasn't any other way to introduce himself. "Apparently we share a profession, or at least an avocation." (Reply to this)

	doubleup 2011-10-03 12:38 am UTC (link)
	"Dean Winchester, and Dani's told me about you. You're the one with uh... what's her name, the bendy twisty friend - " "BB," Dani muttered, her voice tired but fond. "Yeah, thata one. And you're a hunter too?" His hazel eyes went wide when he looked at Neal. "No, you can't be, you look way too normal." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-03 12:48 am UTC (link)
	"No, not a hunter." Neal shook his head firmly. "I could never do that. I'm a thief." He could never do what Dani had done the first time he'd met her. He wasn't that type. (Reply to this)

	doubleup 2011-10-03 12:51 am UTC (link)
	"Ahha," Dean grinned. "I've had to do my fair share of that in my time. But my wife, she's the really good one in the family. Well, and Dani's older brother, he's a hacker, he does the technological thing with computers and stuff." "And how very proud we are of him," Dani teased. She smiled and ruffled her father's hair, causing him to humph faintly. (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-03 01:02 am UTC (link)
	Neal instantly kind of liked the guy. "So wait. It's you, your wife and Dani and her brother? Or didn't you say you had a twin?" He asked Dani, chuckling. A con artist and a hunter. "Your family life must be interesting. You replaced this ... shipping guy?" (Reply to this)

doubleup 2011-10-03 01:06 am UTC (link)

"Yeah, Bela's my wife, Robbie's our oldest son - and there's two of the adult one now for some twisted reason - " " - probably god punishing you for being a slut," Dani interjected. "For God punishing me being a slut," Dean continued. "Then there's Annie who's the older twin, and Dani here who's the youngest." He took his daughter in a headlock, making her crouch a bit so he could noogie her. "Friggin' Sasquatch genes, you get those from your uncle. He let her up when she went limp, pretending to die, causing him to hold her weight up. "Okay, Danielle, Jesus you're heavy - no offense, just you went limp - " (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-03 01:17 am UTC (link)
	Neal laughed loudly, shaking his head. "She'd hit me for that. Practically threatened to when she heard I was dating her ex." Only sort of. He just liked messing with Dani. (Reply to this)

	doubleup 2011-10-03 01:21 am UTC (link)
	Dani stood up and fixed her hair. "Oh, I'll only hit you if you end up hurting her. She'll hit you too." Dean winced. "They both hit hard, too, and I've been bitchslapped by demons." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-03 01:28 am UTC (link)
	"I know she'll hit me." Neal meant it. "Can I get anyone champagne? Is it your doing that the bar is so much better at this party than most, Mr. Winchester?" (Reply to this)

	doubleup 2011-10-03 01:31 am UTC (link)
	"Nah, that's Dani. I just made sure they had beer." Dean chuckled and shook his head, holding up his own Aussie dark ale. "Want one?" Dani sighed and shook her head. "Dad, you and Neal play nice, I'm going to go see to all of the publicity and mingling that you don't want to do." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-03 01:50 am UTC (link)
	Neal kissed Dani's hand, just to be polite. "I'm glad you're doing well, and you really do look lovely." When Dani headed away, he looked back at Dean. "She's a really nice person. She's actually been pretty nice to me; she could have been a whole lot meaner to me when I started seeing BB." (Reply to this)

	doubleup 2011-10-03 02:01 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, she could be a whole lot meaner to you just because. She's part of my family, we're good at being assholes." Dean fished through his pockets, finding two watches and one wallet that didn't belong to him. "You want a Rolex? I have one." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-03 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Neal flashed his own. "Thanks, but I'm covered." He held up one diamond necklace of negligible quality, chuckling. "I haven't made a whole lot of scores tonight yet, though." (Reply to this)

doubleup 2011-10-03 02:23 am UTC (link)

"Well, if you want, we can go mingle." Dean cocked his head to the side. "Dani!" She reemerged a moment later, blinking. "What, Dad?" Dean smiled, wrapping an arm around her shoulders. "Come on, let's mingle, all three of us." Dani rolled her eyes, pulling a wallet out of her cleavage and putting it into Neal's pocket. "Sometimes it occurs to me we have some messed up family traditions." (Reply to this)

	classicratpack 2011-10-03 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Neal laughed. "Hey, there are worse." He didn't elaborate; he still didn't want to talk that much about himself. There wasn't any need. Instead, he stuck his hands in his pockets and went up to a woman. He smiled and struck up a conversation. In about three minutes he had her ring. (Reply to this)

	doubleup 2011-10-03 02:44 am UTC (link)
	Dean followed suit with that woman's husband, nicking the cash out of his wallet. Dani followed suit with that man's daughter, grinning and walking away with her bracelet and her phone number. When they regrouped, she smiled at Neal. "It's good to know I still have it, you know?" (Reply to this)

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