Ficlet: "A Small Crime" (TSCC, Ellison/Sarah)

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I really am working on a proper fic about James Ellison, complete with theology and stuff. But the porn battle is a crazy enabler, so instead I've written more Sarah/Ellison porn. Something of a follow-up to this. Ficlet here at the Porn Battle, and below for archival purposes

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Yay! That was sort of the lightbulb moment for me, too. I was trying to figure out if such a relationship was even viable, psychologically, and James was fairly easy. He's sort of the moth to Sarah's flame, and even if he resents her and doesn't quite trust her and sometimes thinks she's wrong, she still compels him very strongly. But Sarah: what about James might draw Sarah in? And I think it's this. He doesn't have all of Derek's insurmountable baggage (and don't get me wrong, I think that Sarah/Derek is all kinds of hot, but I also don't think it could ever work in any kind of even moderately healthy way), and he isn't as vulnerable as Charley because he's already as doomed as he's going to get. And he's doomed from his own choices--not from anything that Sarah has done. That, I think, makes him "safe" in Sarah's mind. Not that she'll ever really trust him, I think, but he might give her the space she needs to let her guard down just a little bit, now and then.

Of course, I don't imagine the show itself will go here in the least, but a girl can dream, right? ;)