Staring Contests and Other Games by awesome/badhairdays, (M)

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Fandom Category: Hawaii-50
Pairing: Kono Kalakaua/Steve McGarett
Fic Title: Staring Contests and Other Games
Author: badhairdays/awesomehairdays
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7443872/1/Staring_contests_and_other_games
http://archiveofourown.org/works/281560
Rating/Warning(s): M, Season 1
Genre: Humor, romance, introspection, silliness.
WIP?: Complete!

Why This Must Be Read: I love hairdays' Kono voice. It's wry, clever, and the author does an amazing job of telegraphing that it's not a 100% reliable narrator without breaking the narrative or the mood. The author also does a fantastic job of populating the piece with small oc's who are fully-formed people with smart, good reactions to the bucket of crazy that is Kono and Steve and KonoandSteve. (FYI, check out all of the author's stuff because it's ALL fabulous and keeps the same wry, evil tone present in this.)

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White Collar: The Ties That Bind, by sahira (M)

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Fandom Category: White Collar
Pairing: Neal Caffrey/Sara Ellis (with a side of Elizabeth Burke/Peter Burke)
Fic Title: The Ties That Bind
Author: sahira
Link: On AO3 HERE
Rating/Warning(s): M
Genre: Hurt/Comfort
WIP?: Yes, though apparently the fic is finished, it just has to be posted - and updates are every couple of days. It's currently at 25,000~ words and we're about halfway through.

Why This Must Be Read: Because the character voices are spot on. I love Sara/Neal so, so much. Sara is so wonderfully fleshed out in this fic, and I love her rather reluctant friendship with Elizabeth as everyone tries to deal with the aftermath of Neal being shot. The characterisation is just lovely, lovely, lovely.