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Leave It by Rachel Martin (R)
Fandom THE SENTINEL
Pairing pre-slash Jim, Blair, and OFC (female soldier)
Length Part 1 is 9,889 words and Part 2 is 7,143 words
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rachel_martin64
Author Website not known
Why this must be read:
The time line for the series has always driven me crazy. At the beginning of the series, Jim has been a cop for five years. In those five years, he recovers from his 18 months in Peru, has R&R in Bali and meets Lila, goes to the Academy, spends the requisite time as a uniformed police officer, makes detective, meets, marries, and divorces Carolyn, works in both Vice and Major Crimes, establishes himself enough to work alone and call his own shots, and becomes Simon's trusted friend. All in five years. The mind boggles.
But even more boggling is that while he must have spent at least 10 years as a soldier, we hear so very little about this time in his life. Certainly he doesn't tell the kind of stories from his time as a soldier as he does about his earlier years as a cop, such as the story he tells Drennan about seeing his partner get shot or about Quinn killing Brody.
Jim as a soldier, in extreme conditions, covert ops, etc., just fascinates me. I love Soldier!Jim stories. This story, "Leave It", is one of the best of this genre. Jim is competent, conflicted, disillusioned, and pretty sure he is going insane because he is seeing and hearing things that he really shouldn't be able to see or hear.
Blair shows up and stumbles into a very bad situation and the chemistry between them is there, but offset with Jim being focused on everything else but this annoying American hippie kid who Jim has to get safely out of the jungle.
This story is intense, realistic, gritty, sad, and one hell of a ride.
Leave It
(The link will take you to Part One. You can get to Part Two by clicking the link at the end of Part One.}
Pairing pre-slash Jim, Blair, and OFC (female soldier)
Length Part 1 is 9,889 words and Part 2 is 7,143 words
Author on LJ
rachel_martin64Author Website not known
Why this must be read:
The time line for the series has always driven me crazy. At the beginning of the series, Jim has been a cop for five years. In those five years, he recovers from his 18 months in Peru, has R&R in Bali and meets Lila, goes to the Academy, spends the requisite time as a uniformed police officer, makes detective, meets, marries, and divorces Carolyn, works in both Vice and Major Crimes, establishes himself enough to work alone and call his own shots, and becomes Simon's trusted friend. All in five years. The mind boggles.
But even more boggling is that while he must have spent at least 10 years as a soldier, we hear so very little about this time in his life. Certainly he doesn't tell the kind of stories from his time as a soldier as he does about his earlier years as a cop, such as the story he tells Drennan about seeing his partner get shot or about Quinn killing Brody.
Jim as a soldier, in extreme conditions, covert ops, etc., just fascinates me. I love Soldier!Jim stories. This story, "Leave It", is one of the best of this genre. Jim is competent, conflicted, disillusioned, and pretty sure he is going insane because he is seeing and hearing things that he really shouldn't be able to see or hear.
Blair shows up and stumbles into a very bad situation and the chemistry between them is there, but offset with Jim being focused on everything else but this annoying American hippie kid who Jim has to get safely out of the jungle.
This story is intense, realistic, gritty, sad, and one hell of a ride.
Leave It
(The link will take you to Part One. You can get to Part Two by clicking the link at the end of Part One.}