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"Peter Burke is an ordinary guy, a by-the-book guy, a sweatpants, desk job, mows-the-lawn-on-Saturdays guy. He was a rule-follower all his life, until Neal Caffrey showed up and casually turned everything sideways, but this has always been the one rule that was so ironclad it was impossible to break it. It isn't that he has some kind of a rigid policy about not cheating on El; it's that the notion of cheating on El has genuinely never occurred to him. An incomprehensible, alien thought. To say Peter Burke had a rule about fidelity would be like suggesting a horse has rules about not flying. Things are either in our nature, or not.
This is why, for seven years, for all that time, until just this very moment, today, Peter Burke didn't know."
_________________________________Post-finale. Two years after the worst day of Peter Burke's life, he arrives home to find a very-much-not-dead Neal Caffrey in his living room, and suddenly the heavy aching thing inside his chest he's been too dumb to figure out on his own since the day Neal walked into his life begins to make sense. (Thanks to El, who's one step ahead of him, and sees no reason why everyone can't play nice and share.)