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The Farraday Cage by Gloria Lancaster (PG)
Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Author`s LJ: n/a
Author website: n/a
Why this must be read:
This is another story that, like my previous rec "Paper Cranes," illustrates the ease and inevitability of the Jim/Blair relationship. The Sentinel wasn't a show where you watched and saw clues that hinted that the slash pairing of the moment secretly liked each other (or could possibly get together someday.) It was a show where you could really see them having that kind of relationship *right now*-- a relationship with all the love, teasing, tension and struggles of a marriage.
In The Farraday Cage, Gloria writes from the POV of a Blair who got together with Jim very early on in the run of the show:
It took, what, all of five seconds for me to decide to go for it. I think you just know when someone is interested, or available, or interested in becoming available, don't you? Tall, well built, military hard-ass attitude? What's not to want? So I took a deep breath and gazed up at him through my lashes and, when he didn't mind being gazed at, I threw a pass: which he caught very neatly.
It's a no-strings relationship, very casual (although a perceptive reader will notice more than a hint of unreliable narration.) Then something happens to shake Blair out of his complacency, and he has to grow up a little, maybe a little faster than he would have otherwise. (Perceptive readers who are also fans of the X-Files may notice something about the 'something' that comes between Jim and Blair. *grins*)
Bonus Rec: Tom, also by Gloria Lancaster. Just a snippet; the author calls it a "very silly lighthearted story, with no redeeming features whatsoever." As a Jimbabe, I just gotta say. A character that looks like this acting like Jim does in "Tom?" Bring. It. On.
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Author`s LJ: n/a
Author website: n/a
Why this must be read:
This is another story that, like my previous rec "Paper Cranes," illustrates the ease and inevitability of the Jim/Blair relationship. The Sentinel wasn't a show where you watched and saw clues that hinted that the slash pairing of the moment secretly liked each other (or could possibly get together someday.) It was a show where you could really see them having that kind of relationship *right now*-- a relationship with all the love, teasing, tension and struggles of a marriage.
In The Farraday Cage, Gloria writes from the POV of a Blair who got together with Jim very early on in the run of the show:
It took, what, all of five seconds for me to decide to go for it. I think you just know when someone is interested, or available, or interested in becoming available, don't you? Tall, well built, military hard-ass attitude? What's not to want? So I took a deep breath and gazed up at him through my lashes and, when he didn't mind being gazed at, I threw a pass: which he caught very neatly.
It's a no-strings relationship, very casual (although a perceptive reader will notice more than a hint of unreliable narration.) Then something happens to shake Blair out of his complacency, and he has to grow up a little, maybe a little faster than he would have otherwise. (Perceptive readers who are also fans of the X-Files may notice something about the 'something' that comes between Jim and Blair. *grins*)
Bonus Rec: Tom, also by Gloria Lancaster. Just a snippet; the author calls it a "very silly lighthearted story, with no redeeming features whatsoever." As a Jimbabe, I just gotta say. A character that looks like this acting like Jim does in "Tom?" Bring. It. On.
