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One True Guide by Bluewolf (Gen)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: None
Characters Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg, OMC
Length 12700 words
Author's Warning None. Gen
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bluewolf458
Author's website: Bluewolfen's Bothy | Her page on AO3
Summary: Written for Give & Take, for the prompt 'Jim is in Search & Rescue with his guide. Then a new helicopter pilot, Blair, arrives.'
Why this must be read:I enjoy AU's where Jim and Blair meet under different circumstances. Jim is kind of heartbreaking in this, as he's learned to settle for contentment, not happiness, and for a guide who is friendly, but not friends. There are small things that say a lot about this Sentinels Are Known universe, such as Sentinels are forbidden to drive because of zones, much like people with seizure disorders aren't supposed to drive after having a seizure. Jim chafes under that rule but accepts it, as he accepted switching careers from Police work to Search and Rescue, and expecting to be alone the rest of his life.
Bluewolf writes in a very matter of fact style, and yet I found some lovely lines. My favorite phrase is at the end of the following sentence.
“What happened - or didn't happen - before that is spilled milk, water under the bridge... life on the mountains of the moon."
The way the story is structured also subtly emphasizes Jim's isolation, as the two times he goes out with his guide, Mark, for a rescue mission, we are only given glimpses into the lives of the people they are searching for in the woods. They drifted into his life, they drifted out of it. There's very little real human connection, until a new helicopter pilot reports for duty.
* * *
The loft was a place to come back to in the evenings - and not always then, if a search was prolonged - and to relax in on his days off, and a weekend of patrolling, keeping an eye on visitors to Cascade National Forest, followed by a SAR call-out, meant he had had no chance of making a grocery run since the previous Thursday.
The small Mom and Pop store a block away that he normally frequented would still be open, but he was disinclined to go out again. Instead, he checked the freezer, knowing that although he didn't have much in it, he did have some pre-cooked meals; often when he cooked he made two or three times as much as he needed, and froze what was left in individual freeze-and-microwave containers. He checked what was there, selected a container of macaroni cheese, and slid it into the microwave.
As he ate, he watched something on television - two minutes after it ended, he was completely unable to remember anything about it. He washed the dishes, then automatically checked the contents of his backpack, replacing the trail mix he had eaten the previous day, showered, and went to bed.
One True Guide by Bluewolf
Pairing: None
Characters Jim Ellison, Blair Sandburg, OMC
Length 12700 words
Author's Warning None. Gen
Author on LJ:
bluewolf458Author's website: Bluewolfen's Bothy | Her page on AO3
Summary: Written for Give & Take, for the prompt 'Jim is in Search & Rescue with his guide. Then a new helicopter pilot, Blair, arrives.'
Why this must be read:I enjoy AU's where Jim and Blair meet under different circumstances. Jim is kind of heartbreaking in this, as he's learned to settle for contentment, not happiness, and for a guide who is friendly, but not friends. There are small things that say a lot about this Sentinels Are Known universe, such as Sentinels are forbidden to drive because of zones, much like people with seizure disorders aren't supposed to drive after having a seizure. Jim chafes under that rule but accepts it, as he accepted switching careers from Police work to Search and Rescue, and expecting to be alone the rest of his life.
Bluewolf writes in a very matter of fact style, and yet I found some lovely lines. My favorite phrase is at the end of the following sentence.
“What happened - or didn't happen - before that is spilled milk, water under the bridge... life on the mountains of the moon."
The way the story is structured also subtly emphasizes Jim's isolation, as the two times he goes out with his guide, Mark, for a rescue mission, we are only given glimpses into the lives of the people they are searching for in the woods. They drifted into his life, they drifted out of it. There's very little real human connection, until a new helicopter pilot reports for duty.
* * *
The loft was a place to come back to in the evenings - and not always then, if a search was prolonged - and to relax in on his days off, and a weekend of patrolling, keeping an eye on visitors to Cascade National Forest, followed by a SAR call-out, meant he had had no chance of making a grocery run since the previous Thursday.
The small Mom and Pop store a block away that he normally frequented would still be open, but he was disinclined to go out again. Instead, he checked the freezer, knowing that although he didn't have much in it, he did have some pre-cooked meals; often when he cooked he made two or three times as much as he needed, and froze what was left in individual freeze-and-microwave containers. He checked what was there, selected a container of macaroni cheese, and slid it into the microwave.
As he ate, he watched something on television - two minutes after it ended, he was completely unable to remember anything about it. He washed the dishes, then automatically checked the contents of his backpack, replacing the trail mix he had eaten the previous day, showered, and went to bed.
One True Guide by Bluewolf