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by Thamiris
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The Sentinel
Out of context, the story's title looks
rather ominous, and makes me think of bill collectors or women with PMS.
In context, though, it evokes the most delicious images of Jim and Blair
dancing around the beginnings of a relationship, which they do here in
a story where a decidedly horny Blair suggests a sexy way to make the month's
rent. I realize the 'dancing' is a cliche, but I'm stuck for another
word to describe that unstable giving a little/taking a little flirting/bond-forming
thang they were doing throughout the story. Whatever it was,
it gave the story a wonderful grittiness. Instead of a twu-luv Cinderella
and Prince Charming (ever notice how that abbreviates to PC?) narrative,
her fic's got this rough reality to it because Jim and Blair never meet
easily, and their relationship's that much more interesting for it because
while you can predict the actions of a charming PC hero, you never know
what a bad boy will do--and that's Blair here. Oh, he's charming,
but edgy and slutty, and that made every word between the two of them steamy
and wet--did I mention it was delicious?
The whole thing flowed, too, had
a perfect cadence that wasn't just the believability of voice, and the
conjuction of fic and canon. Her sentences had rhythm (More
dancing cliches! Run!). Going back for another look, I think
that comes from the syntactical timing: she'd string clauses, then
jerk short for the punchline. Here's a bit: "More
worrisome was the possibility that Jim would follow up with her--he is
a cop, after all, and apt to scent a trail of deceit with his well-tuned
nose. He never checked up on any of my stories, though. Funny thing."
Anna underlines the final line with its brevity, making a reader stop,
too, and think about the implications of Jim's refusal to check Blair's
rent-boy lies. Love that. It all made for
a lovely read in a fandom that doesn't usually grab me.
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