Cascade Olympia by Corbeau - NC 17

[patk.livejournal.com]

Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: unknown
Why this must be read:

Basically three things happen in this story: Our guys try to watch TV, have sex and chase a perp. I know, I know, this doesn't sound very intriguing but believe me, it's way more entertaining than it sounds. Because...It's set past TSbyBS, Blair is a cop and Jim's partner and exactly at this point I start to love this story because there's nothing between those two that separates them. They're real partners here, in love, in life, at the job. No guilt-trip coming from either of them, no blame-games played, no deep wounds to overcome anymore. It's practically set after the - admittedly - necessary healing-process which has to happen after TSbyBS. But when the story takes place, they're over it and I love it because this is simply too seldom in TS-fandom.

It has action, humor, two intelligent and hot guys who are perfectly on ease with each other and act as equals. No knuckle-dragging caveman Jim accompanied by "hold-me-I'm-so-scared" Blair, no, they're simply our canon-guys. Well, aside from being lovers, of course.

It's a "feel good" fic all around, something I sometimes really need between all the "how do we overcome our problems"-fics. The whole thing is written in a light handed way that puts a permanent smile on my face right from the start.

And I simply can't resist a story where Blair admits that "Major rituals always make me horny as hell" - this sounds so Blair-like, it could be a canon-line.

Cascade Olympia

Comments

[rhyo.livejournal.com]

That was a sweet story that I hadn't read before. It's almost a shock to see a happy Jim, and I love the line where he tells a teasing Blair that he's laughed more in the 14 months they've been together than he laughed in his whole life before that.

They've settled in together, as you say in your review, partners in all things.

[patk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, "the guild-ridden, beating himself up over all the things he did wrong, will never be happy again"-Jim some fics show us was never seen in the series. He did feel guilt over things he did wrong, but he also moved on if he couldn't change his wrongdoings anymore. The suicidal Jim-type some fics have just isn't our canon-Jim.

We saw him laugh, have fun, going camping, watch TV and going to the occasional party. All in all he enjoyed his life in a healthy way as much as the next guy (well, as soon as Blair more or less fixed his sense-problems) without dragging himself from guilt-trip to guilt-trip and you know what - I like that.

Canon-Jim is a healthy, intelligent, reasonably sensible man with the one or other problem caused by his upbringing and his experiences (and show me one person who has absolutely *no* such problems) but overall pretty normal, not the guilt-ridden, suicidal mental wreck some stories paint.

And I simply love stories that show us this Jim.

Pat

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