Month: March 2009

The Awakening – Part Six – Ten

Reading Time: 125 MinutesTitle: The Awakening Author: Keira Marcos Fandom: The Sentinel Pairing: Blair/Jim Betas: Ladyholder & Kelly Rating: NC-17 (for sex, violence, and very adult themes) Warnings: Foul language, male/male sex, violence, murder, blood, discussion of sexual abuse and violence against minor characters, and various other things you might suspect in a story about a Sentinel Cop and his Guide. Mean!Carolyn. Selfish!Naomi. Summary: Detective Jim Ellison doesn’t want a Guide. What he wants is peace and quiet and maybe for his ex-wife to disappear. Dr. Blair Sandburg, a successful profiler with the FBI, has nearly given up on finding his Sentinel. Then the night came where one’s pain drew the other across the country – neither will ever be the same. Disclaimer: I don’t own them. I don’t pretend to. I won’t make money off of them. I rarely spend my time doing things that actually make money—much to my husband’s utter dismay. * * * * – PART SIX “What are you doing?” Blair looked up from his computer screen and blinked. “Cross checking police employment records with registered Sentinels and known dormant Sentinel records from the Center. It’s slow going; and could be for nothing. We can’t know for sure that the man actually grew up in the area and records from back then aren’t in the Centralized system yet. Also, I can’t very well requisition the employment records for every police department in the country—as much as I would like to.” Jim nodded. “Did you know…

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The Awakening – Part Seven

Reading Time: 31 MinutesPART SEVEN Blair leaned against the wall and watched Henri pace a few feet away. “Was it all that you hoped?” Henri turned and looked at him. “I… I really didn’t understand.” “And now that you do?” “I don’t know how he survived without you. I know… I mean I know he was… you know for months before he went to New York. Most of us guessed it.” Henri looked away. “It makes me… I’ve seen Jergens and Howard in the field… I’m an asshole for what I thought.” “Working in homicide on an everyday basis can’t be a great circumstance for a Sentinel-Guide pairing. Murder is an intimate and invasive crime.” Blair paused as his cell phone started to ring. He plucked it from its holster on his belt and checked the caller ID. He grimaced but flipped it open. “Dr. Sandburg.” “Blair, where are you? I’m in your building in New York—the doorman told me you no longer live here?” “Actually, I live in Cascade, Washington now, Naomi. I sent you an email several months ago letting you know.” Blair walked a few paces away from Henri and leaned against the building again. “Why on Earth would you be back in Cascade? Didn’t you get enough of that city when you went to school at Rainier?” Naomi demanded. “Wait, did you take a teaching job? That’s fantastic!” “No, I didn’t take a teaching job. I’m actually working with the Cascade Police Department.” He winced at…

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The Awakening – Part One – Five

Reading Time: 150 MinutesTitle: The Awakening Author: Keira Marcos Fandom: The Sentinel Pairing: Blair/Jim Betas: Ladyholder & Kelly Rating: NC-17 (for sex, violence, and very adult themes) Warnings: Foul language, male/male sex, violence, murder, blood, discussion of sexual abuse and violence against minor characters, and various other things you might suspect in a story about a Sentinel Cop and his Guide. Mean!Carolyn. Selfish!Naomi. Summary: Detective Jim Ellison doesn’t want a Guide. What he wants is peace and quiet and maybe for his ex-wife to disappear. Dr. Blair Sandburg, a successful profiler with the FBI, has nearly given up on finding his Sentinel. Then the night came where one’s pain drew the other across the country – neither will ever be the same. Disclaimer: I don’t own them. I don’t pretend to. I won’t make money off of them. I rarely spend my time doing things that actually make money—much to my husband’s utter dismay. * * * * – PART ONE Detective Jim Ellison could label his good and bad days based on whether or not he ran into his ex-wife before he had his first cup of coffee. The best days were when he ended up at a crime scene at the ass crack of dawn and didn’t see the office until after lunch. Four months after their divorce had finalized, she’d been offered a job in Major Crimes. Thank God divorced still equaled a personal relationship or he might have found himself partnered with the woman. It wasn’t…

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You’re Where I Belong – Part Three

Reading Time: 27 MinutesPART THREE The party seemed out of place but neither John nor Rodney had it in them to deny the rest of the family the time especially when Sebastian seemed to get a little more excited as each guest arrived. John had no clue why there were five different kinds of cake and Sean blamed ‘the women’ and wouldn’t say which ones exactly. There was a stunning amount of food, beer, and people in his house and he found himself moving from group to group with McKay talking to them. “When did this become our life?” Rodney asked as they extracted themselves from a group of scientists from Area 51 and started towards the freaking President of the United States who was chatting with the Prime Minister of Canada and Sebastian. “The President is in our house.” “I know,” John said with a sigh as he pressed his hand against the small of McKay’s back and urged him across the room. “It’s insane. Good afternoon, sirs, I hope you’re enjoying the party.” “Always a pleasure to be in Colorado, John,” Henry Hayes said with a little laugh. “Your son is an amazing asset to have—he’s caught me and Jean up on all of the gossip about the majority of the people in this room. I think he’s smarter than the man I have in charge of the CIA.” “Of course he is,” Rodney muttered. “And don’t even think about trying to recruit him.” He held out his…

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You’re Where I Belong- Part One

Reading Time: 26 MinutesTitle: You’re Where I Belong Author: Keira Marcos Banner Art: FanArts Series Betas: Ladyholder & Anomaly Series: What Might Have Been Series Order: 9 Summary: After a wedding on Mars, John and Rodney face a hard situation with Sebastian and it will rock the foundations of their family. Pairing: Sheppard/McKay Rating: NC-17 Spoilers: None Warnings: Wedding on Mars, filthy language, general sappy romance, and heavy discussion of past sexual abuse (not lurid), family therapy, death threats Categories: Slash, Established Relationship, Alternate Universe, Contemporary Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended, seriously. I don’t own them. I don’t pretend to. This is just for fun. Don’t sue me—it would be a waste of your money. But, hey, these words are mine so don’t steal them and say they are yours. * * * * – The day John Sheppard had walked back into his life remained one of the best in his life. It had been several weeks after the Atlantis expedition had returned to Earth and Rodney hadn’t seen half the personnel that had survived in person. They’d been sequestered, protected from the political maneuverings of the IOA. Jack O’Neill had been vicious and unapologetic in his defense and sheltering of them—both the military and civilian personnel. Debriefings had been careful, controlled, and rigidly monitored by seasoned SGC personnel and hostility from the IOA had been met with stalling tactics on a level few on Earth had ever seen. Colonel John Sheppard had emerged from the process as the…

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You’re Where I Belong – Part Two

Reading Time: 36 MinutesPART TWO “NO! Don’t! Don’t touch me!” Patrick Sheppard jerked awake in an instant, decades of military training making him reach for his gun without hesitation. He was in the hall way seconds later, facing a few of security personnel and his son, David. They were all grim faced and standing in front of the suite of rooms that belonged to Sebastian. “What the hell?” he demanded. “Frost did a sweep of the rooms and then let Jennifer in,” David murmured and then lifted away from the wall where he was leaning, a 9mm still grasped in his hand as the door opened. Declan Frost slipped out of the room and shut the door. “Nightmare.” He leaned back against it briefly. “Night terrors, sir. Dr. Keller is with him.” Patrick shared a glanced with his son David and then took a deep breath. “He hasn’t… John didn’t mention this.” “This is the time he’s been without them since… well since he found them,” David murmured. “And he slips into their rooms a lot—sleeps curled up between them.” “I heard him like he was in the room with me,” Patrick snapped. “There is a monitoring system in his room—it responded to something he was screaming and activated the house wide intercom.” Patrick stared at him for a few seconds. “Excuse me?” “McKay had him say words like ‘no’ and ‘stop’ in different tones when he installed the internal security. Sebastian also has a safe word he can call…

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Hashbrown Casserole

Reading Time: 1 MinutesLadyholder asked a question and I can’t deny it– I love hashbrown casserole. I’d eat it at every meal if it wouldn’t make me the size of a barn. Receipe: 10.25 oz. can condensed cream of chicken soup (you can use onion soup here and skip the minced onion later) 8 oz. Colby cheese – grated (or cheddar) 1/2 cup melted butter OR margarine 1 sm. onion – minced 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. black pepper 2 lb. bag frozen shredded hash browns      -Spray a 13″ X 9″ X 2″ baking pan with non-stick cooking spray; set aside. -In a bowl, combine soup, cheese, butter, onion, salt, and pepper. -Gently fold the potatoes into the mixture and pour into prepared pan. -Bake in a 350 degree oven for 35-40 minutes, until heated through and top is browned.   I got this off a website years ago and it’s the best thing ever!

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