Patrol
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| Sentinel Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Patrol |
| Author(s): | Jael Lyn |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | ? |
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Patrol is a Jim/Blair story by Jael Lyn.
Reactions and Reviews
At the end of TSbyBS, Blair is offered a detective's badge and a place in Major Crime. Stories that have him accepting and becoming a cop usually go with this scenario. This story takes a more realistic view of Blair's situation; the Union objects to his getting a detective's rank without having spent time as a Patrol officer.This results in a bad situation (for Blair in particular) that just keeps getting worse and worse and in many ways more and more convoluted. Skilfully mixed with the main theme are subplots. One involves the problems Jim, temporarily partnered with Megan, is having with his senses; another, the way Blair's Patrol partner is manipulating their Captain; while a minor one, with the Patrol Captain avoiding the Public Affairs Officer, adds a light touch.
Jael Lyn is an extremely good writer, whose stories never disappoint. I count this as one of her best.[1]
Angsty and full of misunderstandings and h/c, just like I like it! [2]
The author thanks members of the Sentinel Angst list, for their comments enabling her to improve this story, and it shows. This shows more polish than some of her earlier long stories. The setup for the whole thing was well done; no vicious powerful person with an axe to grind, trying to separate Our Heroes, no, it was the police union! And Simon's eventual solution was great! McMillan as Blair's new partner was perhaps too much of a straw man, but the laxity of Cantor, the Captain of Patrol, was plausible. (This one and Blitzkreig makes me wonder if the author has a lot of experience in wrestling with bureaucracies.) I did a double-take at one point, because I started getting two characters mixed up, because their names were so similar - one was McMillan, and the other was called Miller; both cops in Patrol. I liked how Sandburg tried to fit in, didn't complain, but that his true worth was noticed by those who gave a damn. It was an interesting thing to have Jim not notice his zone-outs, though the idea that Jim needs to have Blair with him when he works, or his senses gradually get out of control, is pure fanon....Addendum: nominated for favourite drama story in the 2000 Cascade Times Awards.[3]