Soul Shadows, by Danae (G)

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Fandom:THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Jim and Blair
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author website: Wesv's cat House

Why this must be read: A bizarre series of murder-suicides draw Jim and Blair into investigating a hundred year old murder that has strange and serious repercussions for their relationship.

Half an hour later, Jim turned the truck into the driveway of the Radcliff house, his headlights illuminating the rear-end of Blair's Volvo. He frowned and got out of the truck, slamming the door. He made his way up to the house. The yellow police tape on the front door was unbroken. The garden was where Jim had found him  earlier when he disappeared. He circled the house and stepped  over the broken-down fence.  As he came out of the clump of overgrown bushes into the garden itself he froze, his heart in his throat.

"Laid out all nice on a bed of flower petals. You think he's just sleeping," he quoted from his strange dream.He forced himself to take another step towards the nightmarish scene before him. Blair was there, still and silent, lying in a bed of flower petals in the middle of the garden. Jim swallowed in an attempt to get his heart back where it was supposed to be so that he could talk. "Blair?" No answer came. "Blair? Answer me, damn it." Still no answer and Jim's temper took over. He stomped quickly over to his Guide and grabbed him by the shoulders, shaking him hard. "Sandburg! What the hell do you think you're doing?!"

Blair's arms came up in a weak attempt at self-defense. "What?" the younger man asked sleepily.

Jim tapped him on his cheek. "Wake up Sandburg. What the hell are you doing here?"

"I live here.."

Very angsty and very dark; an interesting case story  with a powerful mystic theme.  If you're looking for a tale with reincarnation, ghostly possession and murder from beyond the grave, this is the story for you. (o:

Soul Shadows; part one, part two, part three, part four.