The Mountie Who Fell to Earth
| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | The Mountie Who Fell to Earth |
| Author(s): | Josephine Darcy |
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| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | The Sentinel/Due South |
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| External Links: | at AO3 |
 Cover art by Rike | |
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The Mountie Who Fell to Earth is a Sentinel/due South story by Josephine Darcy.
Reactions and Reviews
1999
One of the stories from the Sentinel 'Slash Virtual Season.' A Due South crossover. You don't have to read the other SVS stories; this can be read as a stand-alone....Why you should read this: Moose, possessive mating (not involving moose), snow, death, and a double helping of hotties. The best Due South crossover so far, with reliable characterization and a respectable plot.
What might throw you off stride: There's not just plot; there's a lot of plot. That is, some scenes strike me as the kind of obligatory stuff you might fast-forward through if you were watching actual canon. But of course, (a) it's a damnable struggle to make any cop plot fresh and engaging these days, and (b) that's why they call this the virtual season. [1]
2007
Okay, I'll just come out and say it: the beginning of this story is overly jokey about DS canon and the plot is preposterous. Then again, this *is* a crossover featuring DS and it was written for a Sentinel audience, and the jokes do give you a quick background into DS. Plus, they're hilarious. And the plot features Blair getting kidnapped, so it's not too implausible.This isn't the first DS/TS crossover I've read, but it's definitely the most entertaining. Jim and Blair are wandering in the Cascade mountains when they run into Fraser and Ray. Three minutes later, a dead Mountie falls from the sky. Of course, Jim and Blair are put on the case and, of course, Fraser and Ray decide to help.
What I like best about this fic is the way it compares and contrasts four distinctly different (but with a surprising number of similarities) men, while at the same time exploring both Jim and Blair's new relationship and the beginning of an affair between Fraser and Ray. There are the usual hints that Fraser might be a sentinel, but Josephine is careful to point out that even if Fraser is a sentinel, he and Jim have very different abilities (how often does *Jim* go around licking things?) Bonus: *Jim* gives *dating advice*. Ha! [2]
2016
Summary: While Jim and Blair are helping another department with an investigation in the woods outside Cascade, they meet up with Benton and Ray, who are also on official business. Benton is scheduled to meet a fellow Mountie and, precisely on time, Leftenant Fontaine shows up--by falling out of a plane without a parachute.
While they transport the body to the nearest Ranger station, they theorize who might have wanted him dead and why he had sacred artifacts in his possession. Jim and Blair also suspect that Benton, whose sense of taste, hearing and sight are quite acute, might be another Sentinel.
Reccer's Notes: It often seems that just about every fandom has co-opted the Sentinel/Guide trope without any canon basis. Due South already had Benton displaying several heightened senses in the show, so it makes it funny (and more logical) to speculate that he might indeed be a sentinel.
This was originally written as part of the Sentinel Slash Virtual Season, although it can be read as a standalone story. Time frame is post-series for TS and sometime after Vecchio has left with Stella and Ray K doesn't have to pretend to be Ray V for dS. Enjoy. [3]