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An Alternate Route by Ophite (Mature)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Blair Sandburg/Alex Barnes Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg
Length:39k
Author on LJ Unknown
Author's website: Ophite's Site via theWayback Machine
Why this must be read:
Ophite wrote this story in 1999, and it's one of the first in the genre of Sentinel/Guide bonding. She put a note at the end of her story giving permission for other writers to use the story as they wished, and Susan Foster incorporated the storyline into her GDP series.
The story is well written, and explores what if Alex and Blair had met first, and Alex decided she wanted Blair as her guide? She terrorizes him to gain his compliance, but he reaches out to a detective in Major Crime for help. The hook? He can explain why the detective's senses have become hyperactive.
The story is angsty and the bonding is more on the physical side than soul side, and more predominately shows the sentinel's need for the guide.
Blair does everything for Alex: helps her plot her crimes, is her whipping boy and sex slave. He's learned to do what he needs to in order to survive, and for Jim's part, the feelings he's experiencing regarding “Pet” Barnes are disturbing, even as he feels hopeful that his senses can be controlled .
1998
His face was still as he studied the information on his computer screen. His heart didn't skip and race, his breathing remained slow and regular. No sign betrayed his rising excitement. Three long years in the service of a paranoid sociopath had eradicated most such lapses in his self- discipline. Here was an opportunity for escape if he had the courage to take the gamble. With a flick of his finger he calmly returned to the main personnel index and pulled up yet another file and skimmed it while considering James Ellison.
The guy was a cop, which had pros and cons. On the plus side it wasn’t very likely that the guy was as crazy vicious as Alex. At least nothing in his police or military records would lead a person to think that. Not by all accounts the most personable guy but then a Mr. Sweetness and sunshine wouldn’t be much use against Alex. The covert ops stuff was a definite plus. On the negative side as a cop he would be bound to work inside the system, rules about how someone may be approached, jurisdictions...
And then, too, was the other problem, how to approach Ellison. He would have no reason to trust a stranger. However he did it, it needed to be done soon.
An Alternate Route by Ophite
Pairing: Blair Sandburg/Alex Barnes Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg
Length:39k
Author on LJ Unknown
Author's website: Ophite's Site via theWayback Machine
Why this must be read:
Ophite wrote this story in 1999, and it's one of the first in the genre of Sentinel/Guide bonding. She put a note at the end of her story giving permission for other writers to use the story as they wished, and Susan Foster incorporated the storyline into her GDP series.
The story is well written, and explores what if Alex and Blair had met first, and Alex decided she wanted Blair as her guide? She terrorizes him to gain his compliance, but he reaches out to a detective in Major Crime for help. The hook? He can explain why the detective's senses have become hyperactive.
The story is angsty and the bonding is more on the physical side than soul side, and more predominately shows the sentinel's need for the guide.
Blair does everything for Alex: helps her plot her crimes, is her whipping boy and sex slave. He's learned to do what he needs to in order to survive, and for Jim's part, the feelings he's experiencing regarding “Pet” Barnes are disturbing, even as he feels hopeful that his senses can be controlled .
1998
His face was still as he studied the information on his computer screen. His heart didn't skip and race, his breathing remained slow and regular. No sign betrayed his rising excitement. Three long years in the service of a paranoid sociopath had eradicated most such lapses in his self- discipline. Here was an opportunity for escape if he had the courage to take the gamble. With a flick of his finger he calmly returned to the main personnel index and pulled up yet another file and skimmed it while considering James Ellison.
The guy was a cop, which had pros and cons. On the plus side it wasn’t very likely that the guy was as crazy vicious as Alex. At least nothing in his police or military records would lead a person to think that. Not by all accounts the most personable guy but then a Mr. Sweetness and sunshine wouldn’t be much use against Alex. The covert ops stuff was a definite plus. On the negative side as a cop he would be bound to work inside the system, rules about how someone may be approached, jurisdictions...
And then, too, was the other problem, how to approach Ellison. He would have no reason to trust a stranger. However he did it, it needed to be done soon.
An Alternate Route by Ophite