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Paths That Wind
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Paths That Wind |
| Author(s): | Charlotte Frost |
| Date(s): | 4/22/06 |
| Length: | 108k, 58 pgs |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | The Sentinel |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | online here |
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The Paths That Wind is a Jim/Blair story by Charlotte Frost.
Summary: "The fourth season never happened, and Jim and Blair's lives change in a way they never expected."
Author's Comments
I started this at least two years before it was published, before I announced my retirement in November 2004. It was a spiritual story that I wanted to do. I had the “hospital” stuff written at the time I retired. I figured the story would never be finished. But as I ended up continuing to write, and since I didn’t lose those scenes in a hard drive crash (where I lost many other partially-written stories), it kept bugging me and I wanted to finish it. In the end, I wasn’t happy with how it jumped so much time between scenes, but I still felt compelled to post it. At times, I’ve felt I should apologize for how it’s written, but I still wanted it to exist. Well over a year later, the "reason" for this story became apparent. A lawyer I was friends with started telling me about an idea he had to begin an extremely high-level, secretive philanthropic organization. We weren't able to hash out the details of whether or not there could be a place for me, but as I drove home after that meeting, I wanted to cry at the beauty of his idea. Human beings can be so incredible sometimes. When I finally got the nerve to re-read this story many months later, I was astounded to realize how similar the Ellison Enterprises idea was to the idea my lawyer friend had. I had totally forgotten about the suggestion for employment that Steven had presented to Jim and Blair. Still doesn't change the fact that the it was an atrociously-plotted story, but now I know why it exists.[1]