Forces of Light and Darkness

Fanfiction
Title:	Forces of Light and Darkness
Author(s):	Java Head
Date(s):	March 10, 2002
Length:	93.3 K
Genre(s):	gen
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Forces of Light and Darkness is a Sentinel story by Java Head. it was archived (with other fics by the author) at Wolfpup's Den.

Reactions and Reviews

I started this story with positive expectations; I have in the past liked stories which were parallel-universe with a bit more of the fantastic, in the mold of Susan Foster's universes (CiceroCat's stories spring to mind). It did start promisingly, with Blair thinking that he feels awful because he's got the flu, but the reader knows There's Something More Going On... Unfortunately, the good ideas didn't last. I found the rest of the story unoriginal, hard to believe, full of cliches and lacking subtlety.

"Oh dear, there's this noise I'm hearing, it *must* be Blair's heartbeat."

"Oh dear, I'm feeling a wave of anger pounding on me."

"Oh dear, there are wierd things happening to both of us, this *must* be connected."

I'm sorry, I just found all that completely unbelievable. It didn't help when Jim took it all too calmly. That didn't feel Jim-like to me. Other people have done much better treatments of the psi power of Empathy, which made me feel that this was just clumsy. I did like the bonding scene, though again, other people have done it better. So... what do *you* think?