After All

You may be looking for the Forever Knight story "After All" by Amanda Berendt.

Zine
Title:	After All
Publisher:	AMC Press, then Requiem Publications
Editor:
Author(s):	Candy Apple
Cover Artist(s):	TACS
Illustrator(s):	TACS
Date(s):	1999 (online), 2003 (print)
Medium:	print
Size:
Genre:
Fandom:	The Sentinel
Language:	English
External Links:	story online
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cover by TACS

After All is a 200-page slash Sentinel novel by Candy Apple and art by TACS.

It has a sequel, Shadows of the Past, and is part of a series: These Two Hearts.

It is part of the "Best of the Net" series.

It was first published by AMC Press in February 2003. In 2018, it was reissued in print and PDF by Requiem Publications.

Summaries

From the distributor: "When Jim rescues Blair from a physically and sexually abusive relationship, he discovers his real feelings for his partner"

From the distributor: "Best of the Net #9, a novel by Candy Apple. This is the first in the "After All" series of stories. The rest will follow. Jim tells Blair he can't return love the way Blair wants, and Blair leaves the loft to find a new life away from Jim. What he finds is a dangerously abusive relationship which nearly kills him. But Jim has come looking for him, takes him to safety, and together, they find a way to fight Blair's abuse, and the consequences of it."

Reactions and Reviews

There is no excuse for domestic violence - Jim rescues Blair from his brutal lover. One of the most heart-wrenching stories I've read so far.

I loved so much about this fic. It was like something I totally would write in LOTR fic as a wild AU in which Frodo is with a bad man and Aragorn has to save him. Yep. In fact I have probably written that story countless times. My main complaint was weepy!Blair and therapist!Jim throughout. I simply had to skim past all their long, long dialogues and get back to the action. Story line was awesome and the bad guy was deliciously wicked.