Empaths

Fanfiction
Title:	Empaths
Author(s):	ne'ichan
Date(s):	26 October 2004
Length:	64KB, 11,532 words
Genre(s):	slash, AU
Fandom(s):	The Sentinel
Relationship(s):	Jim/Blair
External Links:	Empaths at 852 Prospect Empaths at AO3
Click here for related articles on Fanlore.

Empaths is a Jim/Blair story by neichan, archived both on 852 Prospect and in their AO3 Collection.

Summary:

"An anthrololgist and Empath is consulted about a military project."

Reactions and Reviews

[read_mercutio]
Blair gives a lecture. The whole story is only the lecture, yet it feels like more and it's very moving. In this universe, guides are considered animals and are bought and sold and live in cloistered harems, swathed in protective clothing and veiled, not to be seen or touched by other's eyes. Blair is an unusual one, in that he's allowed to study and to sometimes travel, although for travel he's sealed into a cell and must remain there. For this lecture, his owner did not go with him and a temporary owner/sentinel has been assigned to him who touches him every so often to maintain Blair's abilities. His lecture is about a culture where the women are all sentinels and the men are all empath/guides and their social structure. It becomes clear during the lecture that the people he is giving the lecture to are going to steal the male empaths and take them as guides. And that they don't intend to return him to his barely-a-sentinel-at-all owner. Blair's not that disappointed with ending up with Officer Ellison, his temporary sentinel. Nothing actually happens in the story -- it ends when the lecture ends. But it's perfectly lovely in its own way.