The Awakening by Keira Marcos
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Title: The Awakening
Author: Keira Marcos
Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Blair/Jim
Betas: Ladyholder & Kelly
Status: Complete
Word Count: 69,152
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.
Download in PDF format through my Yahoo Newsletter
| Part One | Part Six |
| Part Two | Part Seven |
| Part Three | Part Eight |
| Part Four | Part Nine |
| Part Five | Part Ten |
Characters
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 Megan Connor (Actress: Anna Galvin) |
 Sentinel Markus Jergins (Actor: Shamar Moore) |
 Guide Thomas Howard (Actor: Brian Austin Green) |
 Sentinel Daniel Jamieson (Actor: Josh Duhamel) |
 Guide Chad Moore (Actor: Brian Buckley) |
 Alpha Sentinel Heath Edwards (Actor: Michael T. Weiss) |
 Alpha Guide Marie Edwards (Actress: Andrea Parker) |
 Sentinel Jacob Summers (Actor: Channing Tatum) |
 Guide Elizabeth Arnold (Actress: Natalie Portman) |
missfae said
On my way out the door, but this sounds like an outstanding read. I will start it as soon as I return… hugs. to you.
Shaz said
I enjoyed this as much as I did Sentinels of Atlantis it has some similar points as the SofA but it seems to be an entire separate universe as while it might concevabley work time wise as SGA starts 2004 while Sentinel was in the second half of the nineties so discovering a empathic sentinel would work timewise but I would say a different uni as the bonding is differnet but more importantly in this uni a Sentinel who is online seems to be more sensitve as they do not usually survive more than a year unbonded and as for the Guides the sexual thing is differnt as well.
I would actually love to see a Sentinel Atlantis version of this Universe as well imagine ROdney coping with what a Guide in this universe has to or the Story of how John came on line in this universe did it happen in Afganistan or in the sloitude of the Antartic or posibly it happened in Afganistan and Antartica with the limited senorary input of the endless ice let him keep control or something After all Rodney wouldn’t be in the American database as he is Candian or possibly Rodney was Latent and came online in Russia when John did in reaction.
Looking forward to all your stories
including the new Sentinel of Atlantis you mentionioned you are working on
Shaz
Gadfly said
Loved it!! Great characterisations and an excellent story that is just begging for many, many sequels to be written (am willing to beg!)
inalaska2 said
i am confused. i belong to your yahoo group. i got the email that you had updated (!!!), and followed the email link here. this page says i can download in pdf format, but when i click on that, it takes me back to the yahoo group. and when i click on the link for this story in the last message, it brings me back to here. what am i missing?
Keira Marcos said
You can either read the story in HTML starting with part 1 underneath the link to my yahoo group OR you can go the file section in my Yahoo group and download the PDF to your computer.
inalaska2 said
uhhhh, i guess i am still missing something because i can’t find the file section in the group. am i in the right group?
keirasworld · Keira’s World
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/keirasworld/message/18
where is the file part? its not listed on the left side as it is in other yahoo groups i belong to.
Keira Marcos said
It’s in the side menu right under the “message” area.
Click here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/keirasworld/files/
inalaska2 said
sorry to be a bother but i still cant get to it.
it won’t let me access that area as i am “not a moderator.”
Keira Marcos said
I’ve reset the section. Please try again and let me know. Sometimes Yahoo sucks a big one.
inalaska2 said
YES!
Marchann said
Wow, this was a great read. I would love to see another case in this AU. I am off to read some more of your fanfiction. Thanks for your hard work om making this such a well worked story.
Shaz said
You know with the NID out there and Carson’s groundbreaking Gene therapy techniques that were all done before they left for Altantis only not used due to the FDA so had to wait until Altlanis and out of their control to test on a human
How long do you think it would take the NID to steal the techniques and start expeimenting with the Sentinel and Guide genes possibly combining them and then it they hit a ATA without knowing with one of the unknowing test subjects
That would be an interesting plot
Shaz
Margaret said
PS In re hashbrown casserole; are you Southern or just really like Cracker Barrel?
:>9 I just had to ask! *g*
Keira Marcos said
I’m so southern it hurts to hear me talk, sweetie.
Margaret said
No problems, here hon! I’m from the grand ole state of Mississippi! We’ll be Southern together!
Levi said
I was just wondering if you could recommend any sentinel stories. You have me addicted. I actually loved this story more than any of your Stargate Atlantis stories and I love your Stargate Atlantis stories.
yinka wills said
Woah.
I’ve just spent the last 3 or so hours, on Good Friday (an Easter public holiday in England) reading this.
As a long time Sentinel fanfic reader – now moved on to Stargate Atlantis and Criminal Minds- I thought I’d pretty much read all there was to read in this fandom.
Fabulous story and a great spin on the characters of Jim and Blair. Love fics where Blair is strong in his own right, and I like that you don’t feminize any of the male characters in slash pairings you write.
Great, great story, plot, pacing. Just wish the little girl could have been rescued in time.The death scene and aftermath were… incredibly powerful.
Awesome. More Jim and Blair fics, please!
Now, if only I could persuade you to get into writing Criminal Minds, with Hotch/Reid as the pairing, my joy would be complete.
Happy Easter,(if you celebrate it)
Yinka
Keira Marcos said
I have to say that if I wrote Criminal minds it would be Morgan/Reid — I just don’t think Hotch is sexy. I mean I like his character but I wouldn’t pair him with Reid.
Shadow said
Oh, do you think you might ever write that? I would love to read it!
Also, I’ve seen mention that you’ve ben writing for a number of years. Do you happen to have any older fiction in other fandoms that we can find elsewhere or even some published works we can hunt down? I love you’re writing style. And I absolutely love this Sentinel fic. I just reread it for the third time…. Have you ever had an interest in Due South?
Keira Marcos said
No– all the finished fan fic I’ve written is up on the website. Fan Fic became a hobby for me a couple of years ago but I never posted anything until the last year.
I’ve never watched Due South but I’m very tempted to write Reid/Morgan for Criminal Minds. It might end up as part of my new SGA/Criminal Minds/Sentinel Fusion. I think Morgan would make a great Sentinel — as you can see I’ve cast the actor that plays him in my Awakenings story.
Shadow said
*Is ecstatic with the possibility of such a crossover*
I think that would be wonderful. Morgan certainly fits the bill and I would love to see him paired with Reid. Their personalities are complimentary. Plus Reid reminds me a bit of Blair.
If you’d like to watch Due South I can see about posting some of the series on Megavideo.com. If I can figure out how. ^_^ I’d offer to send you the DVDs, but sometimes I’ve found that people consider the offer offensive, so I thought megavid was a good compromise.
It’s a wonderful series and a wonderful fandom. I thought you might like it because its style reminds me of your writing. Plus one of the main characters, Benton Fraser is very Sentinel like even though in this universe they don’t technically exist. He has a deaf half-wolf named Diefenbaker that reads lips in English and French and his byline is: “I came to Chicago on the trail of the killers of my Father and for reasons that don’t need exploring at this juncture, I remained attached as liason with the Chicago Police dept.” I think I messed it up some, but that’s the gist. My favorite seasons are those involving the second Ray(Season 3&4 in Canada and Season 3 in the US version). He has a more engaging dynamic with Fraser. It’s a universe where anything is plausible for th simple fact that Fraser’s involved with it, point in case, Ray K(Second Ray) and Fraser used fire extinguishers as jet packs in order to escape a sinking ship. Because it was them, it worked. There was also buddy breathing involved (a kiss/exchange of air). Paul Gross, the actor for Benton Fraser (And producer for some seasons) encouraged the fanfic, even slash writing and found people’s interest in such intriguing. Oh, dear. I seem to have run on for a bit. Sorry. Hope you don’t mind.
Alexkenobi said
Yes Please Keira
I absolutely love your stories and i can so see the pairing of Morgan and Reid working. I cant wait to see what you come up with next .. i practically camp on your site waiting for updates.
djaddict said
OMG! You added pictures!!!
Much love!
theshadowpanther said
HOMG Pictures. Damn Blair looks HOT. Ow. -fans self- Absolutely love Heath as well. *Hee* One final squee for Daniel Jamieson/Josh Duhamel and then the absolutely *cute* pairing of Jacob Summers and Elizabeth Arnold and I’ll shut up now. *squees quietly*
Tempest said
I had finished reading a fic at 1 o’clock in the morning and was planning to go to sleep when I decided to read The Awakening a little while. Needless to say, it is now 4:15 in the morning. I could not stop reading this fic.
This is actually the first Sentinel only fic that I’ve read, although I have read numerous crossover fics with the Sentinel. I gotta admit, it was totally worth it.
Do you have any recommendations for Sentinel Jim/Blair fics? Or even a link to your favorite Sentinel fanfic group? If so, would you mind sending a few of those links my way? I’m very interested in reading more Sentinel fics.
Oh, by the way, I really loved all your fics, — at least I hope I’ve read every fic you’ve written–, I’ve read Sentinels of Atlantis twice, and the What Might Have Been series twice as well. I look forward to further updates.
Stef said
Ooh, pictures! Thank you!
I’m about to start reading this for what I think is the third or fourth time. I just finished reading your SGA “What Might Have Been” series for the sixth time. Yeah, I love your stories that much. I’ve been exhausted from going back to school and having to get up at 4:30 every day to commute there, and even though I haven’t felt like reading much fanfiction, your stories just make me feel so wonderful in the afternoons once I get home. It’s like I said in a comment to another post: your stories are like the written version of comfort food for me. They have a great combination of angst, drama, and humor, so they feel more plausible and realistic, which helps me connect to the characters and the stories even more.
Thank you for everything that you do, and please don’t ever stop writing. I’m very much looking forward to more of all of your series.
Michelle said
ya know, ive never actually seen an ep of The Sentinel….but i was curious…a lot of authors who write in the SGA fandom write for TS also….so i went to Wikipedia to get the basic gist….and i found a few website archives….and im pretty much in love with this Fandom now……Jim/Blair only though….im picky about my ships.
i read the SGA Sentinel fic before i did any of that though…..and IN LOVE!!!
also: The Awakening…is like your best work todate. yay you!
Booffra said
I’ve just re-read this story for the 4th or 5th time, and just thought I should let you know how much I love it! I can’t remember how I found your fic, but it’s all fantastically written and so easy to immerse myself into. I can’t wait for any new stuff you produce. Love you. Booffra
entish-fan said
I downloaded The Awakening from your Yahoo site when you posted it and just stumbled across the fact that you posted PICTURES OF THE CHARACTERS! They are great, it helps me visualize the story even better when I’m reading it.
This story was so great that you got me hooked reading other TS fanfics and now I’m taping the episodes as they play on the Sci-Fi channel, which only seems to be one day a month
, just so I can see for myself what some of the stories are refering to. *sigh*
I’ve never watched Criminal Minds, but if you start writing in that universe I’ll probably get sucked into that too!
Thanks I love your writing style, you always make my day when I read and re-read your work.
You are truly amazing.
valendith said
First of, I really like how you portray the workings and the social structures of the Sentinel/Guide society and the integration in “normal” society complete with the reactions of the “mundanes”. And I also find it very well written how you keep the partnership between Sentinel and Guide equal, I’ve read enough stories, where it wasn’t so…
PS: I just noticed that there is an error in part eight of “The Awakening”: first the PR-person of the PD is called Ms. Holmes and later on she is called Ms. Dennison, maybe you should fix that. I even checked the pdf-File on Y!groups, and the error was transfered to that to…
Sorry if I’m nitpicking, but that part threw me and ich re-read it a couple of times to see if I missed something…
Keira Marcos said
I don’t correct errors in my fic once it is posted but thanks for reading.
marli said
Oh Keira, i’ve only see than you’ve make faces on names like as I had asked !
Great choices of actors, thanks a lot.
Minako said
Please, please, please another sequel. Heath should be tortured more by Jacks universe! I loved that line among many others. Though I know that you have alot on your plate but anything on the backburner?
Keira Marcos said
Not for this. I actually wrote it a very long time ago. I would like to revisit this AU but it won’t be for a long while.
chrisking2005 said
*sighs happily*
I just read this (again) tonight, after seeing a rec on one of the LJ coms.
It’s just as good on the umpty-umpth reading as it is in the first.
Damn, you’re good.
*waves my Official Geriatric Fangirl pom poms for you*
lahgategirl said
I just finished reading the entire story and I have to say that I loved it! I really liked the way that you wrote Blair and Jim and how their relationship progressed. Thanks for sharing and writing.
slashaddict said
So good… I liked the way you portrayed the prides and the relationship between the Sentinels-Guides… another great story!!
EmruasCat said
I actually read this a while back, close to when you first posted it. I’m now addicted to Sentinel fanfiction, and you are one of three fanfic authors who can take credit for this. I bow to you in thanks – and my body cries from lost sleep, as I find staying up and re-reading your tremendously awesome work more entertaining.
bluecimmers said
Shoot. I’m not sure how I found this story, but I’m sure glad I did. I’ll be rec’ing this on delicious.
Regarding grammar/spelling errors; I often don’t see ‘em, but my friend can’t avoid them. (It’s a superpower and a fatal weakness, both at the same time.) I was recently in the ER, and he glared at the sign behind my head and growled “I can’t believe they misspelled ‘hospital!’”
Keira Marcos said
LMAO. I worked for Wal-Mart in my sordid youth. The month of December the store put all of these signs wishing the customers a happy holiday season– except the they mispelled “happy”.
Louise Cornwall said
While I am definitely enjoying your Atlantis stories, I LOVED this one. I have read it at least 3 times in the 2 weeks since I found it. You are a better writer of The Sentinel world than the show’s writers were! Please, please, please write more!! (Beg, grovel – I’ll even send chocolate if you tell me where!)
Just, Awesome!
Oh, and I live in Alaska, too, alaska2 — the part closest to British Columbia, Southeast Alaska (Juneau, the capital, to be precise). So, does Alaska have their own pride? Are they not connected to the rest of the Pacific Northwest? Just cause the maps leave us off doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have Sentinels – especially since we are a great place to live in quiet solitude and come online!
Keira Marcos said
Oh. I definitely think that Alaska would have it’s own pride and probably it’s own Alpha Sentinel Prime just because geography would make any other circumstance problematic. They’d need their own confined heirachy to help keep the peace among prides. I imagine there would be urban and rural prides– stretched out over the entire state. That’s really exciting to think about actually all of that beautiful wilderness and a Sentinel with his Guide. I think you’ve given me a plot bunny.
Louise Cornwall said
Happy to oblige!
Margie said
Wow! This is a wonderful story. You have a fresh take on Jim and Blair and captured their essence in your new world. I hope you write more in the TS fandom. When Elizabeth and her Sentinel actually got together I was actually tearing up. Lovely.
Thanks for writing and sharing.