65 Photographs by Sara (NC-17)

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Fandom: SENTINEL
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Author on LJ: sara_merry99
Why this must be read:

This is one of those stories I somehow didn't know about until this year's LMFA awards, but which blew me away when I did. After the dissertation, after leaving Cascade, Blair thumbs through an album with 65 photographs, which fans will recognize as the number of episodes the show ran. As he turns each page, the memories that well up ring absolutely true, while never falling into fannish cliches.

I suppose I have to admit to myself that the first photo sort of gives the tone of the whole album. I mean, when I collect photos of my life with Jim there's an awful lot of crime and violence involved.

So the first photo in the album, from the first couple of days we were together, is of my injuries from the Switchman's explosion on the bus. I wasn't badly hurt, just a few cuts, an embedded piece of glass or two. Nothing major, but evidence all the same.

Joel took them right there in the ambulance before the EMTs treated me. He was surprised when I asked him for a copy, but I explained it was to document my activities for my diss committee and he had it printed for me without any further questions.

So, like I said, in a way it sets the tone. Me injured.

My mother would say that it sets the tone in another way. I'm injured and Jim is nowhere in sight. But she's not looking closely enough. I can see his shadow there, cast on the back wall of the ambulance next to Joel's. He never left while I was being treated. He even made the other cops who needed a report come to him until EMS cleared me to go.

So Jim there quietly hovering over an injured me. Not saying a word but not leaving either. Definitely the foundation of our relationship.

65 Photographs

Comments

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Again with one of my most favourite fics!

(We should go on holiday together. We seem to have a lot in common ::G::)

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! I'm just hoping I can come up with some fics you don't know and blow your mind. :)

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yeah! I hope so (though, be warned, I've read an awful lot of TS fics ::G::)

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Damn, and I'd hoped to do a month of mostly classics and a couple noted new stories. Now I've got a challenge! (But then again, I do have almost a thousand stories in my Sentinel favorites spreadsheet. Let's see if I can find one or two gems you haven't found yet...)

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Classics are good! Nothing wrong with the classics (o:

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! This is one of my favourite fics, too! I love it!

I have a whole bookmark folder "LonelyBlairAwayFromJimInLoveWithHim" and this is most definitely in it! *g*

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

There is nothing like a good reread! =>}

New fic is wonderful, too! *g*

I'll be watching your recs for sure! Oh yeah! =>}

[gardendoor.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, definitely one of my favorite themes...

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh my YES!!! I've got quite a little collection of them in my bookmarks that I take out, dust off and reread from time to time. =>}