Crossing my fingers and hoping this posts. Seven Kisses
Alex and Jim
Kiss of Compulsion
Blair is stunned and nauseated when he sees Jim, his Jim, kissing Alex on the beach, the spectacular sunrise blossoming behind them.
His eyes follow the tall, graceful sentinels as they fall to their knees in the sand, their lips locked together.
Resentfully, Blair watches Jim fucking her with his mouth; he hates seeing his killer seducing Jim. He wants to stop them from passionately devouring each other like they were the only guests at a king’s banquet. He wishes he weren’t such a beggar, grateful for the crumbs of Jim’s attention and touch.
- He's never been given Jim’s kisses.
Jim and Alex
Passion Flower Kiss
Jim moves in a daze, taken over by a primal instinct he loathes; walks into the Temple of the Sentinels where Alex, beautiful, dangerous Alex, waits for him. Taking no chances, she shoots him with a dart that brings darkness.
Later, drugged and helpless, Jim can't stop the kiss she forces on him, which feels torrid and lustful, no innocence here to sweeten the touch between them. Jim’s senses cross into synesthesia; the kiss smells like a sickly-sweet tropical flower that lures in its prey before devouring the hapless victim.
Fearing for his sanity, Jim begs Incacha for his help.
Alex and Jim
Fiery Kiss of Redemption
Looking at Alex with the nerve gas canister in her hand, Jim begs her to realize she's on the wrong path for a protector of the people. She is a Sentinel, but one in whom something has gone terribly wrong.
Still, redemption could be possible for this Twisted Sentinel; and he appeals to her to change.
He offers himself as a bridge for shared visions that could baptize this woman into a decent human being. Jim holds her hand and they kiss; but Alex’s senses tumble her into a holocaust of pain that brings insanity instead of insight and remorse.