Fruit of the Vine
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| Title: | Fruit of the Vine |
| Author(s): | Aristide |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | 132k |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | The Sentinel |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | here, and here on AO3 |
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Fruit of the Vine is a Jim/Blair story by Aristide.
Notes
Disclaimers: Not mi--... zzz....Rating: NC-17 for language, m/m sex, and general lack of censorship; thank goodness.
Summary: Events transpire, followed by smut. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Acknowledgements: Huge thanks go out to Karen for courageously hurling herself into the wild world of beta, and to Bone for being both my Rock and my Hard Place. This story is dedicated with love and knowing nudges to the Powerhouse Women of the RSM.
Author's Notes: Another pop-tart, folks, although this one could possibly be considered angst-frosted. Also, this is not my usual sort of thing-- this story was kind of an experiment for me, to see if I could do a few things I haven't tried before. Sentinel is just such a... flexible place, ya know? Anyway, if you don't like it, please blame my delusions, and not my betas. [1]
Reactions and Reviews
Totally and completely hot.[2]
Why this must be read: If for no other reason than because you'll never look at fruit the same way again. Slow, sweet seduction interrupted by a dose of angst, and topped off by a welcome reconnection, Fruit of the Vine is as hot as the weather Jim and Blair try and find relief from.[3]
Blair comes home to the loft to find that Jim has zoned while having sex with a woman. When Jim realizes that he can't enjoy anything pleasurable, Blair offers him a substitute. R: I thoroughly enjoyed this story, because it was so intensely erotic in a way that I haven't seen in a long time- even when they weren't having sex!!! It was also thought-provoking. GREAT SEX SCENE!!! XD [4]
Fruit of the Vine has forever changed the way I look at strawberries. It's unseasonably hot in Cascade. The guys have fruit for dinner to cool off. Blair helps Jim let go of his senses and really enjoy, with intense results. After some twists and turns in their relationship, Jim comes to the understanding that he doesn't need Blair because of his senses. He just needs Blair, period. Truly beautiful.[5]
One of the most intriguing themes in Sentinel erotic-fic is the consideration of what effect Jim's heightened senses would have on his sexual experiences. The various treatments of this range from the humorous to the scorchingly HOT, and Aristide deftly navigates the water between the two, adding just enough angst and introspection to give this story real resonance.This story deals with Jim's senses in a unique and highly erotic manner, and the character development is superb -- this is a story in which you feel the emotions and the sexual tension, and the relief and satisfaction for the reader when the story reaches its climax (yes, pun intended) is simply luscious.
Aristide has a wonderfully descriptive style, and the dialog is fabulous as well. Plus, you'll definitely leave this story with a new appreciation for strawberries.
So, go read Fruit of the Vine, you know you want to; here's a taste to get you started:
"...you were just another partner to me, you know? A cop and a roommate, and I thought that I'd screwed things up for good, but then I figured out what I needed, and once I figured that out I was glad that I did what I did, because now I don't need a single, goddamn thing from you, except for you to love me." [6]
After reading Fruit of the vine by Aristide, I'll never look on strawberries the same way again. Or on Jim's Sentinel abilities, for that matter. This story has been around for a while, I'm just a little slow.[7]
I discovered Aristide fairly late in the game, but I made up for it quickly--within 24 hours of reading Fruit Of The Vine, I'd read every other story she and her friend Mairead Triste (her alter-ego) had written (both TS and HL). And they're *all* good, but these two impacted me the most when I read them. Fruit Of The Vine is long, shimmering, liquid, and sweet--it's like necter, so exotic it's almost otherworldly, even though it's really very down-to-earth. The Dragon--well, let me put it to you this way, when a writer writes a 200KB story, and you read it all at one stretch late at night, and at the end you sit frozen in awe and terror for a half-hour, and you have to think very very hard about turning the lights off to go to sleep for the next *week*...it's probably a good story.[8]
For the hottest, sexiest, JUICIEST Sentinel story you will EVER read, check out "Fruit of the Vine" by Aristide. And have your SO standing by, trust me. For the downright scariest TS tale on the net, read "The Dragon," co-authored by Mairead. After all that adrenaline, go to "Solitary Creatures," for a pure, sweet, wonderful J/B first time. And finally, check out "It's All In the Wrist" for a DS fic that starts out ROTFLMAO funny and winds up where-the-heck-did-my-SO-get-to hot.Welp, I think I've rambled on enough. So what are you still standing here for? Go to the House of Slack and read some fic, fergoshsakes.
Calico Jane >^.^< (never miss an opportunity to tell other people what they think) [9]
This story can be summed up as Fruit!smut. Really, incredibly hot Fruit!smut. Oh, and a plot involving Blair finishing at the academy, Jim zoning out during sex with the downstairs neighbor, and a heat wave. But mostly Fruit!smut.[10]
References
- ^ Slash City
- ^ Merrin Recs: because life is way too short to read bad slash
- ^ 2005 Rec 50
- ^ ScarletFBL's Sentinel Recs
- ^ Fiction by the Sea Recommendations
- ^ a 2003 rec at Crack Van
- ^ the flambeau factory: recommendations 1999
- ^ Recommendations by Janette
- ^ Slash Sluts Multifandom Recs Board: House of Slack, Archived version November 2000
- ^ "Fanfic Rec: Fruit of the Vine (The Sentinel: Jim/Blair)". Archived from the original on 2023-02-13.