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Secrets series by dbw (PG-13)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: none
Length: 46K words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dbw
Author Website: A Feast for the Senses and at AO3
Why this must be read: Because it gives us an enticing answer to the question “just how much do we really know about Blair Sandburg?”
In the tv show, it’s Jim who often keeps secrets; between his covert ops days, his memory suppression and his natural reticence, he’s full of ‘em. But, of course, since the show is titled “The Sentinel” and not “The Anthropologist”, a lot more of Jim’s background eventually gets revealed. With Blair… not so much.
In this series Blair is hiding lots of secrets and he has to do quite a bit of tap-dancing to keep those secrets from a sentinel. And it starts right from the get-go; he’s already trying to distance himself from Jim after he learns that Jim is ex-military:
Blair sat back in his chair and stared at the phone as if it were a coiled rattlesnake ready to strike. His brain kept telling him that this was a huge mistake. Why, oh why, when he'd finally found what he was looking for, had the Sentinel turned out to be not only a cop, but ex-military as well?
He really wasn't interested in having the guy poking around in his life. He shouldn't get involved with Detective Ellison. Involved. He snorted. Yeah, that was a good one. As if the uptight cop would ever try to see past the clothes and the hair to the real Blair Sandburg. And if that didn't happen, well, involvement was so far out of the picture that it wasn't even in the same studio.
No, the guy would never see Blair as anything other than a, what was it he'd called him? Oh yeah, "neo-hippie witch doctor punk." He sighed. Just as well. So long as the detective saw Blair as an eccentric college student, well, he wouldn't get real curious.
This is what fanfic does best; it fleshes out the characters through glimpses of what they might be doing off-screen. It lets us get into their heads. Although many of these “interludes” are directly related to the episodes, DBW warns us that it is an AU, so don’t expect exact connections.
These were originally posted ten years ago and under the pseud Deborah Wright, a name with which veteran readers might be more familiar. I find them just as enjoyable and interesting today as I did when I first read them years ago. I hope you do as well.
Secrets series
Feedback makes the world go ‘round. Giving some will make you and the author feel great!
Pairing: none
Length: 46K words
Author on LJ:
dbwAuthor Website: A Feast for the Senses and at AO3
Why this must be read: Because it gives us an enticing answer to the question “just how much do we really know about Blair Sandburg?”
In the tv show, it’s Jim who often keeps secrets; between his covert ops days, his memory suppression and his natural reticence, he’s full of ‘em. But, of course, since the show is titled “The Sentinel” and not “The Anthropologist”, a lot more of Jim’s background eventually gets revealed. With Blair… not so much.
In this series Blair is hiding lots of secrets and he has to do quite a bit of tap-dancing to keep those secrets from a sentinel. And it starts right from the get-go; he’s already trying to distance himself from Jim after he learns that Jim is ex-military:
Blair sat back in his chair and stared at the phone as if it were a coiled rattlesnake ready to strike. His brain kept telling him that this was a huge mistake. Why, oh why, when he'd finally found what he was looking for, had the Sentinel turned out to be not only a cop, but ex-military as well?
He really wasn't interested in having the guy poking around in his life. He shouldn't get involved with Detective Ellison. Involved. He snorted. Yeah, that was a good one. As if the uptight cop would ever try to see past the clothes and the hair to the real Blair Sandburg. And if that didn't happen, well, involvement was so far out of the picture that it wasn't even in the same studio.
No, the guy would never see Blair as anything other than a, what was it he'd called him? Oh yeah, "neo-hippie witch doctor punk." He sighed. Just as well. So long as the detective saw Blair as an eccentric college student, well, he wouldn't get real curious.
This is what fanfic does best; it fleshes out the characters through glimpses of what they might be doing off-screen. It lets us get into their heads. Although many of these “interludes” are directly related to the episodes, DBW warns us that it is an AU, so don’t expect exact connections.
These were originally posted ten years ago and under the pseud Deborah Wright, a name with which veteran readers might be more familiar. I find them just as enjoyable and interesting today as I did when I first read them years ago. I hope you do as well.
Secrets series
Feedback makes the world go ‘round. Giving some will make you and the author feel great!