Apache

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Sentinel Fanfiction
Title:	Apache
Author(s):	Shedoc
Date(s):
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Genre:	gen
Fandom:	The Sentinel
External Links:	Online here.
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Apache is a Sentinel story by Shedoc.

Reactions and Reviews

Shedoc is one of two writers (to my knowledge) who has taken Blair's line from Seige (I flew Apaches in Desert Storm) and written a story about it. (I Flew Apaches in Desert Storm by Debra Baschal was recced here in 2004)

Where Blair is outed in Debra's story by someone from his past turning up, in this one he is outed when a TV programme about Desert Storm shows Blair as a helicopter pilot for a medi-vac crew...

Not only does this story show Blair's strength, it also shows what is basically his low self-esteem. A nicely-paced story interspersing Blair's story with the reactions of his friends in Major Crime during the commercial breaks. But, late on in the story, it's Daryl who has what has to be one of the best lines in the story, at a dramatic point where the program is interrupted by one of those breaks.

There are two sequels, one direct, the second a snippet based on what seems to be a throwaway line at the end of the first story.

The author of this story admits that she got her ideas of Desert Storm and the Air Force from movies, so it's understandable that there were certain aspects of this (even though I'm just as ignorant) that I found less than plausible (specifically, the fast promotion to a certain rank) but it was interesting and almost believable in other respects. What if Blair really had flown Apaches in Desert Storm? The plot device by which this was revealed was really rather clever, I think, and I liked the way everyone's phones went mad with people ringing up about it. But I simply can't believe that Blair would really have such a fragile ego that he would react that badly to the revelation -- even if he was half-delirious with fever....