Room at the Top
| Sentinel Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Room at the Top |
| Author(s): | Joandarck |
| Date(s): | |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | online here, Archived version |
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Room at the Top is a Sentinel story by Joandarck.
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The classic going-undercover-and-pretending-they're-gay thing? Like anything else, it can be done, and then it can be done well.This is well-done, indeed. I like the equally clueless Jim and Blair. Joandarck's got a deft hand.
“Blair, not in the mood to strip down around strangers some of whom might be trying to kill him in a few hours, staked out a chair by the hotel pool and tried to take notes on some seminar reading while Jim did laps, although he watched him sometimes, trying to see if he had a better sense of underwater spatial relationships than the other swimmers. One time Jim popped up at the near edge of the pool to ask what time it was, and caught him staring. Off-guard, Blair stammered and took too long to find his watch, and Jim cocked an eyebrow and then blew him a big smacking kiss before ducking underwater and kicking off again.
Blair flushed and hid behind his book, wondering how many people had seen that – all the awkwardness of PDA in an inappropriate social milieu and he wasn't getting laid – and starting to resent getting dragged out on this case anyway, just because he happened to live with another man, as if every guy he knew hadn't had male roommates at some point, and most of them still did. Grad students just couldn't afford to live solo most of the time. It was only from the hypernormative masculine viewpoint of your typical police department that – he shut his book. "I'm going for a walk," he said loudly." [1]