Crossing the Line (Sentinel story)
| Jim/Blair Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Crossing the Line |
| Author(s): | Mab Browne |
| Date(s): | 28 June 2005 |
| Length: | 20500 words |
| Genre: | Slash |
| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | Crossing the Line on AO3 |
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Crossing the Line is a Jim/Blair story by Mab Browne.
It is a sequel to Cloudbusting.
Author's Notes
Well, this is the longest thing I've ever finished and posted (and more on that in a tick) This is such a piece of *fanfic*. It's such a piece of TS fic. We have at least two ficathon cliches: the government finds out about Jim, and their family and friends think they were a couple even when they weren't. What a pity neither of those is my prompt. :-( We also have Sentinel and Guide (with capitals) and gratuitous use of a blooper reel quote.And it's such a piece of generic slash romance - men madly emoting (if only to themselves sometimes), deathless love despite The Obstacles Which Stand In Their Way...And the angst. I'm almost ashamed. Almost.
Originally I did a couple of once over lightly paragraphs to cover the scene in Cloudbusting where Jim and Blair finally come face to face again after all these years. Audra Rose found that a little confusing, and on reflection I agreed with her. Only problem was that once I started addressing that, the only fix I could find was to rewrite the whole scene from Jim's pov. This may not have been Miss Rose's intention *g* but it certainly made the story longer. So I'll apologise for any sense of repetition.[1]
Series
- Cloudbusting
- Crossing the Line
- Coastal Shelf
- A Short Storm in Phoenix
- Breathing
- Taking What You Can Get
- Confidential Arrangements
- Father to the Man
Reactions and Reviews
"Crossing the line" and it's no disappointment.The first few pages overlap with the end of "Cloudbusting" but is told from a Jim POV, which makes the sequel not only longer but actually better, since it enhances the understanding of the different situations of Jim and Blair and the emotions involved. After that, the story line develops further.
Very well done characterization, according to the circumstands the guys find themselves in, an action scene at the beginning that is way more than a simple description of who shoots whom, a story full of emotions, given to us in an unobtrusive, very "manly" voice. She approaches the topic "one sentinel, one guide" in a way that doesn't make me cringe (like other "bonding"-fic sometimes) and is pretty much how I would our canon-characterized-guys expect to handle it. And a Brackett who is as malicious that it's a pleasure to read it.
If you liked Cloudbusting, you will most likely like Crossing the line too.[2]
[duplicate review of the one at Crack Van, but with this added]: Some might find the references to Blair leading a somewhat promiscuous life after Jim vanished/Blair left but he has his reasons for it and I found it simply human to think that way. Not to mention that it makes that one line Blair says when they come together for the second time all the more heart wrenching. It's in no way a sappy story and if you liked Cloudbusting, you will most likely like Crossing the line too. I really hope Mab will write a third part of this story.[3]
References
- ^ So now I really have to write the ficathon story, Archived version Posted 28 June 2005.
- ^ Comments by patk, Archived version at Crack Van. Posted 4 July 2005.
- ^ from a rec at TS Fresh Air, Archived version