Failure to Thrive

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Fanfiction
Title: Failure to Thrive
Author(s): Legion
Date(s): 17 July 2001
Length: ~35000 words
Genre(s): Drama, Angst
Fandom(s):
Relationship(s): Jim/Blair
External Links: Failure to Thrive on Author's website
Failure to Thrive on AO3 (locked to registered users)

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Failure to Thrive is a Jim/Blair story by Legion. It was originally posted to 852 Prospect and later imported to AO3.

Author's Summary

A year after Blair becomes Jim's official partner, things aren't working out too well - for either of them.

Author's Notes

The usual - no money, no harm, no foul, no infringement, etc, etc, etc.

As always, this can't be done without patient beta's. Thanks Maig and Vik!

Once upon a time, a long time ago, I was chatting with *someone* who mentioned the concept of "failure to thrive," wondering how a sentinel would be affected by it. I've forgotten who, and if I've stolen your story idea, I sincerely apologize, but this just *insisted* on being written.

Reactions and Reviews

A Jim centric story with a Blair POV. Legion takes a Sentinel fanfic cliche (Jim needing to anchor his sense with Blair and that Blair can't leave him without dire results) and makes it believable.

This pushes one of my "button": Blair angst and Jim suffering. There's plenty of it, weaved into a skeleton plot that is interesting as a catalyst for the real plot : the bond between Jim and Blair and its consequences for both of them.

This is one of my favorite Legion's stories. I like the medical thread in this story. It makes the results of Blair's and Jim's actions believable in fictional context.

Since Legion has not been rec already I'm really happy to be able to suggest this story. In the same genre, Twenty-one days pushes the same buttons.[1]

References

  1. ^ 2004 comments at Crack Van