Driving Rain
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| Sentinel Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Driving Rain |
| Author(s): | Linda3 |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | 168K |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | online here |
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Driving Rain is a Sentinel story by Linda3.
Author's warning: "This story contains a few bad words."
Some Art
some art for this story by lupe lei
This is an illustration for Linda's AU story Driving Rain. I'm really enjoying it. There is just something about a "it was a dark and rainy morning" story that grabs my imagination, especially one so well done. This type of story-oriented illustration is the kind I most enjoy doing. Fortunately when I need to find a particular set up and pose for Jim and Blair, I can usually find a good reference picture at Starfox's Mansion. [1]
Reactions and Reviews
I’m a sucker for different meeting AU’s and this one is a delight. It opens with Jim driving back to Cascade from a police convention and picking up a wet, bedraggled Blair who is hitching back to Cascade from a dig. Most of the story is set in the truck as they get to know one another during the long journey. It is set during The Switchman case and the author weaves familiar elements from the pilot episode into this different setting. Blair gradually realises Jim is a sentinel and Jim doesn't the take the idea well (which incidentally involves Blair getting soaked in the rain again just in case that image was fading for anyone *g*)The friendship develops quickly and we see a very protective Jim worrying about Blair's health and forcing cold medicine on him. I like the way the story segues gently into canon, ending with Jim and Blair heading to Simon's office to seek an observer's pass.[2]
Now that this is actually finished, I can review it properly. This is an alternative universe story which proposes that Jim meets Blair in a different way. This is unusual for an AU, because it actually feeds itself back into the mainstream version of TS history by the end of it. However this has in common with some other AUs that I've read, where there seems to be a need to make Jim uncharacteristically protective of Blair (that is, more so than Jim would normally be with a stranger) due to the instinctual non-reasoning Sentinel/Guide bond which apparently slips into place as soon as they meet. This story didn't do it to the same degree as some others, but still, since I feel that it's more about friendship than instinct, it doesn't sit easily with me. But I like this anyway, this has got some good scenes, and a very plausible setup. I like seeing the developing relationship, and, yeah, it's fun watching Jim look after Blair. And fun seeing Blair in action, brain humming like a dynamo. Addendum: nominated for favourite alternate universe story, 2001 Cascade Times Awards [3]