Go (Sentinel story)

Fanfiction
Title:	Go
Author(s):	Francesca
Date(s):	19 June 1999
Length:	7352 words
Genre(s):	Slash, Angst
Fandom(s):	The Sentinel
Relationship(s):	Jim/Blair
External Links:	Go on Speranza's Fiction Go on AO3
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Go is a Jim/Blair story by Francesca.

A Chinese translation exists on AO3: [中文翻译]Go by bicyclecrazy.

Author's Notes

All right, look: most of you who know my work know that I mostly write these snappy little first times. Plus that whole Nature thingy. But see, when you're constantly writing snappy dialogue, all this angst just starts to well up and rot your brain. And then one day you wake up and put on black clothes and Depeche Mode and think — "Must — Write — Shameless — Angst!!" And then afterwords you feel sort of sweaty and ashamed, and you think, "What have I done? Should I even post this?" And then you think, "Oh, hell, it's written, I'm gonna post it — maybe someone else is in a black clothes wearing, Depeche-mode-listening, shameless angsty kind of mood."

So here. For all the angst sluts out there—from that other part of my brain, where one-liners fear to tread...

Warning: NOT REAL FUNNY.

Reactions and Reviews

Now it's Jim's turn.

Blair's been geared up to get kicked out of the loft for years now, but he always assumed it could come during a fight or after the dissertation or maybe after he made a particularly bad mistake. He didn't expect Jim to ask him to leave on a beautifully sunny day, right before offering to fix him breakfast. In fact, Blair's so thrown by the circumstances that he doesn't even argue, just finds a new place and moves in and is so distracted by the sudden change in his life that he doesn't notice that Jim is acting very strangely...

Speranza has three paragraphs of warnings at the beginning of this story but don't let those scare you away. She deals with a serious subject matter here (and one that I'm surprised isn't brought up more often), but not in such a way that it's too dark to read. Suspenseful and wonderfully angsty, with great characterizations and a very intriguing premise, Go is a good fic if you're looking for a short story with substance.

You know, I don't believe I've found anything you've written that I haven't really liked This one however, is going to be one of my favs. It shows how deep Jim is and how hard it is to live with enhanced senses. I have Asperger's and can somewhat relate.