Miracles of Life

Fanfiction
Title:	Miracles of Life
Author(s):	D.L. Witherspoon
Date(s):	160K
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Genre(s):	gen
Fandom(s):	The Sentinel
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Miracles of Life is a Sentinel story by D.L. Witherspoon.

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This is one of those stories, where upon hearing the summary you think they must surely suck, and then it turns out that they don't. Alex is pregnant, Jim is the father, in the end he and Blair raise the kid. It is not my favorite thing for a TS plot, and I'm not too keen on stories with the heroes raising kids (which is why I didn't like the sequels as much), but the first story has a compelling scenario that deals with the implications of the "mating instinct" the two sentinels displayed in canon during S2. It has some of the weaknesses most of D.L. Witherspoon's stories share, though, for example the inane exposition dump with some bare bones character basics at the beginning, which is extremely redundant in especially fanfic.

I can see why the author thought that some people wouldn't like this post-Sentinel Too story. It is a challenging idea. But they say that conflict, and resolving conflict, are what make a good story, and this one has enough emotional conflict to feed a bullpen - and enough resolution to bring out the smiles. Very good. The state of Alex is chilling and cheering, both, and the Jim and Blair interaction was very good. Addendum: this story was nominated in the 2000 Cascade Times Awards in the Epilogue category. This won the 2001 Cascade Times Awards in the Epilogue category. And was nominated in the 2002 Cascade Times Awards in the Missing Scene category.