A little change :: Cleverfox

[KingCrowley]

FBI agent Peter Burke and CI Neal Caffrey were currently on their way to a new research lab downtown. There had been suspicions that some employees were using the technology down there to start an illegal drugs farm. They didn't have many leads so for now they were just going to scope around and see what they could find.

"No." Peter said quickly, smacking Neal's hand away when he went to turn over the music station. "My car, my music." he let him know. Once they got there, Peter pulled up and walked inside with Neal, flashing his FBI badge to the security guard before walking through the glass double doors.

Once he and Neal were alone, Peter turned to face his young CI with that stern look he was familiar with. "Neal, don't touch anything...we don't know what we're dealing with here, you got it?" he asked and once Neal agreed, begrudgingly or not, Peter lead the way down to the testing room which had all kinds of labelled serums.

Peter turned his back on Neal and started looking around.

[CleverFox]

Neal wasn't sure what was going on with the research laboratory but he thought that looking around might at least be amusing if nothing else. So he didn't complain as he sat in the car with Peter though he did get tired of the man's music, Neal reaching over to change the station. Only to have his hand promptly smacked away by Peter, the young man looking sort of stunned as Peter said that it was his car and his music.

"That was uncalled for," Neal told him as he rubbed the back of his hand.

It didn't take them long to get to the lab and Neal followed along as Peter lead the way inside after flashing his badge. "Yea yea, I know the drill," Neal said when he was told not to touch anything. He followed along and down to the testing area, his blue eyes shifting around at the various vials that were there, the aging thing catching his attention.

Walking closer he read the label and a roguish grin spread across his face at that point, the young man picking it up while Peter's back was to him. "Hey Peter, I've got a riddle for you. What's the one way I can do what I want and not go back to prison?" he asked, holding up the vial and downing the contents as soon as Peter turned his back on him.

A few seconds later Neal crumpled to the ground, coughing and sort of clutching at his chest. His eyes rolled back in his head and he lay on his side, panting as he tried to breathe. The process itself only took a few minutes and Neal became aware of the fact that he seemed to be swimming in a sea of oversized fabric.

Mainly because where the young convict had once been there was now a five year old Neal Caffrey.

[KingCrowley]

Peter was busy inspecting a truth serum, looking it over from all angles when suddenly Neal started talking, and of course Peter turned round to give him his full attention. He chuckled a little at Neal's riddle. "Go on then Neal, humour me." he answered before his grin dropped and his eyes widened. "Neal!! Don't drink that!" he barked before the man of course downed the contents of whatever was in the vial.

When Neal fell, coughing and spluttering, Peter rushed over and dropped down beside the man. "Neal!" he barked, cradling his head with one hand. "Neal, Neal!" he pulled out his phone and was about to dial 911, his heart beating wildly inside his chest - when suddenly...something bizarre happened. Peter dropped his cell and his eyes widened when he gazed upon a five year old version of his CI.

"What the?" he asked, throat dry. He picked up the serum Neal had drank and frowned, "De aging? NEAL!" He barked at the child and then scooped him up, sighing when his clothes no longer fit him. The FBI agent reached down for Neal's shirt and used it as a sort of blanket to wrap the child in. "Neal! That was a seriously stupid thing to do!" he scolded, tone harsh.

Only because he'd been so scared Neal was going to die...and now this had happened.

[CleverFox]

Neal thought the de-aging thing looked interesting to say the least so he asked his question of Peter and then downed the contents of the vial despite his handler ordering him not to. He ended up falling to the ground and sputtering, the stuff effecting strongly for a few moments before it started to take effect and he found himself shrinking.

Wide blue eyes looked at Peter as the man picked him up after barking out his name, that causing him to jump and he got a bit teary eyed when he was told that it was a stupid thing to do. "Stops yelling at me," the child told him, his gaze focused on Peter and he didn't like the fact that the man kept snapping at him and yelling at him.

"Can't send me back to prison now," the little guy added as he looked at Peter, trying to gauge just how mad the man was with him. Of course he was thinking that this was temporary and a joke, he didn't realize that the experimental stuff didn't have a way to reverse it currently.

[KingCrowley]

Peter sighed deeply when Neal told him to stop yelling at him. "Oh uh uh. You're in big trouble, Neal." he answered, though how the hell was he meant to punish his CI now? He couldn't cart his ass off to jail (not that he would have done if he was an adult anyway), he couldn't make him sit and do paperwork like he normally had to do either. Peter was lost in thought and rose a brow when Neal said he couldn't send him back to prison now.

"This is serious Neal." he frowned and felt a headache coming on. "I told you not to touch anything for a reason. I dunno what I'm gonna do with you yet...but you are not getting off the hook with this one." he told him and carried him around the room, looking for some sort of reverse effect.

There was none.

"Brilliant." Peter groaned and looked at Neal. Damn the kid was cute. "Looks like you're stuck like this for now." he told him before carrying him out of the lab altogether. "The owner of the lab's on holiday abroad but the minute he gets back I'll see what he can do." he then carried Neal to the car and got him in the back seat.

Then he had an idea of how to punish him for this one. "Put your seat belt on, we're going back to the Bureau, and you young man, you're going to get a good spanking for this."

[CleverFox]

"I don't want to be in trouble and it's not a big deal Peter," the little boy version of Neal told him, the little guy shaking his head slightly and then looking at Peter when he said that it was serious. He looked around as he was carried around the lab while Peter looked for something, the child pushing at Peter's chest and then pointing to the ground.

"You can let me walk," he said, sort of surprised by how different his voice was.

Once again Peter started to sort of rant at him and Neal groaned softly as he said, "You worry too much, it'll be okay." He looked around as he was carried to the car but he didn't protest, the little one going for the seatbelt but then stopping short when Peter told him that he was going to get a spanking.

"No, Peter, you can't do that...and we can't go back to the Bureau...I don't even have any clothes," Neal protested, shaking his head.

[KingCrowley]

"If you didn't wanna be in trouble, Neal, then you shouldn't have disobeyed me and done something stupid." Peter scolded and looked around for a serum that might just reverse the aging effects. But there was none and Peter gave Neal a firm look when he said he could let him walk. "And risk you getting your hands on another serum? No." he answered simply before carrying him out and to the car.

He eventually decided on giving Neal a spanking when they got back to the Bureau, not that the thought hadn't crossed his mind when Neal was an adult either. Sometimes he was basically just screaming to be taken over the knee and spanked good. He paused when Neal said he couldn't do that.

"You got no legal guardian. You're in my care, you're in big trouble and spanking's legal in this state. So yeah, I think I can, little boy." he answered firmly and then thought. "Good point...maybe we should go shopping first..." he wondered. "Seat belt, now." he ordered as he started the engine.

[CleverFox]

Neal couldn't help pouting at Peter when the man told him that he shouldn't have disobeyed if he didn't want to be in trouble, the little boy blowing out a huffed breath in response to that. He went on to tell his handler that he could walk and he gave Peter a look when the man made the comment about him getting his hands on something else.

"Like I'd do that," he said though that didn't work out for him really.

Not that he'd expected it to honestly.

Once he was in the car and Peter made his spanking announcement Neal told him that he couldn't and shook his head when the man argued with him. "No Peter you really can't," he said, shaking his head again though he did put his seatbelt on when Peter told him to again and made the comment about shopping.

That was a reprieve at least.

"Just...no kiddie clothes Peter," he said despite his current appearance and the more childlike impulses he was having. The thing about the serum was that the behavioral effects took longer so Neal was gradually going to become more childish as time went on.

[KingCrowley]

"Neal, keep arguing with me over this and you'll find yourself with an even sorer bottom than I planned on giving you. I suggest you quit it." Peter scolded right away when Neal once again told him that he really couldn't. He then realized Neal didn't have any clothes and it wouldn't be fair to just carry him on through the Bureau naked as the day he was born, no...he wouldn't do that to Neal.

"I have to put you in kid clothes Neal, you're a kid and nothing else is gonna fit you." Peter answered, sighing softly when Neal said he didn't want to wear kiddie clothes. Once the kid had his seat belt on, Peter pulled out of the parking lot and headed to the nearest Target. He couldn't leave Neal in the car....

Peter got out and wrapped Neal up in the shirt again, and it covered all of him besides his face and little foot. "C'mon let's go see what they got." he said, carrying him inside and going to the clothes section. He found a pack of little undies for a dollar and put them in the basket, as well as a few pairs of socks. "Okay....you like, black and blue stuff right?" he asked, looking through the blue shirts while also holding Neal in the other arm.

"How about something with stripes?"

[CleverFox]

"Stop threatening me," Neal said when Peter told him that he was going to have an even sorer bottom than the man already planned on giving him, the little guy not appreciating that one. He was smart enough not to keep up the argument however and so he dropped it at that point in favor of pointing out that he didn't have any clothes.

When Peter mentioned taking him to shop the pint sized CI said that he didn't want kids' clothes, a frown appearing on his face when Peter said that nothing else would fit. "Then I dunno get formal kids clothes or something...not any of that cartoonish stuff...or anything that looks babyish," he said, thinking Peter could still find him dress shirts and slacks even if he was the size of a four or five year old.

When they reached the store and he was wrapped in the shirt Neal said, "You can leave me...I won't steal the car." That didn't work and he ended up carried inside, the boy looking at Peter as he was questioned about the clothes. "Um, sure blue and black is good...I prefer solid colors though," he said, looking around and noticing that they were getting looks from other shoppers.

"People are staring," he said in a whisper.