For a Male Guide series by Jayed (gen)

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

Before I wash and fuel up the van (truck) for the next driver, I'm offering a really long story for your enjoyment -

Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: gen
Length: 159950 words
Author on LJ: Not known
Author Website: At Brothers in Arms, here
Why this must be read: - In a world where Sentinels are all male and almost all Guides female, the occasional male Guide is born. In addition to being guides themselves, male guides are often 'guidefinders'; that is, when they see them, they know which sentinels and guides 'match'. When seventeen-year-old Blair comes online as a guide, he is kidnapped by the army, and presented to four unbonded army sentinels.

This is a long and very satisfying read as the four sentinels set out to take Blair back to Cascade, Jim and Blair bond and get to know each other properly and Blair's Guidefinding skills are tested. They meet understanding and prejudice, some of it almost casually unthinking.

The story is in 12 linked parts (the last two numbered 11a and 11b). Although it's open-ended enough for more to be added, it does seem to have reached a fairly natural conclusion; the reader isn't left wondering 'So what happens next?'

Edit - the links aren't currently working, but if you change the number in the URL from 1 to 2 to 3, etc, the parts will come up.

For a Male Guide

You can also find it here

Comments

[alynt.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to give a heads up that I've only recently heard that Jayed will probably not be adding any more to the story. I'll go ahead and take the In Progress note off for now. It does read as complete, as you say.

Lyn - Brothers In Arms webmistress

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

OK, I'll change that. I wouldn't have been sorry to see more of it, but it probably had come to a natural conclusion. Thanks for letting me know!

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

Lyn, the link to part 2 isn't working. Or 3...

[stargatesg1971.livejournal.com]

I've really enjoyed this months recs, thanks for such a diverse variety of fics!! I've not read this one either so I'm looking forward to taking a look at it :D

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

Glad I've introduced you to some new stories :-)

[starhanyou.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get Chapter 2 to come up at Brothers in Arms, so I found this link:
http://www.squidge.org/peja/cgi-bin/viewstory.php?sid=41236

[annieb1955.livejournal.com]

All the links are working fine for me, Sheila. Unless you mean the links at the bottom of each section, which we're in the process of removing from all the stories on the site anyway as they keep reverting back to the old tvheaven site. As to the last two parts being numbered wrongly, that's just the way they were sent to us. I think Jayed just lost track of where she was up to as she wrote the series over a fairly long time frame.

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's the links at the bottom of each section. I didn't think the last two were numbered wrongly, just numbered as two parts of one segment. Anyway, with luck everyone will be able to find all the parts now!

[annieb1955.livejournal.com]

I've just taken those links off the bottom of each part. I am actually working my way through all the stories on the site and removing all of those. As you can imagine it's a big job as we have a lot of stories archived there. For some reason they just keep reverting back to our old site and neither Lyn nor have been able to come up with a way to stop that. It means that you have to use your browser's back button instead to go back to the index page. Sorry for the inconvenience of that :(

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

And now that it's into August I can't edit the page again. Oh. well, with luck people will manage...

[annieb1955.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they'll work it out. You gave excellent instructions in the first post anyway about just changing the part numbers

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Dang. Now I feel like I should try to put more of this up. I have notes for additions that got bogged and lost. Thank you for the kind comments and especially for the rec.

J

PS Thanks Lyn.

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see more of it! (But call this gentle encouragement, not demanding.). It's well worth the rec!

[annieb1955.livejournal.com]

Yes, you should write more of it, Jayed ;)

[unbelievable2.livejournal.com]

I'm falling behind on my reading a lot, so ill be saving this lovely long fic for later, but thank you so much for all the great recs throughout July!
:))