Category: The Awakening

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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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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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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