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May 20, 2010 21:55

I'm so sorry for how vague this search is, but I'm at a loss ( Read more... )

*recs, character-related: cheating!blair, character-related: cheating!jim

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magician113 May 21 2010, 20:20:09 UTC
Are you saying that you faintly remember a story that follows the song plot? Or are you saying you'd like to know *if* there are any stories that follow the song plot.

If you're remembering a story you've read already, which guy did the cheating? There is a Cheating Jim tag here. I don't think there's a Cheating Blair category, although I know I've read at least one where Jim suspects Blair is cheating.

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willow_fae_20 May 21 2010, 22:15:12 UTC
I guess I'm wondering if there are any stories out there that follow the songs plot.

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magician113 May 22 2010, 01:02:41 UTC
I sort of remember the song so I went to the lyrics link Raine provided. So, it sounds like the guy got caught, he feels guilty, his lover leaves and then he wonders whether what he did was so bad that he deserved it. LOL. No, I don't remember anything along those lines. But you might want to try Polly Bywater's Forget Regret series. She wrote part of it for Sentinel Thursday and describes it as her "Jim Cheats" story.

She then offered a Moonridge challenge to have people write a sequel to it. I wrote it up and provide all the links for the original story and sequels on Crack Van last year:
http://community.livejournal.com/crack_van/4076097.html

It's also in one of the posts here as part of the Cheating Jim tag. There several other good ones to read, including Boundaries by Jane Davitt and Mab wrote a series of drabbles. If I can think of anything outside of what's already been recced, I'll get back here.

Enjoy.

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willow_fae_20 May 22 2010, 01:22:49 UTC
Thanks. I didn't mean for this request to be so difficult. I'll take a look at your suggestions.

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magician113 May 22 2010, 03:56:27 UTC
LOL, my philosophy is "you don't ask, you don't get". How are you to know what's out there if you don't ask? It's just that I haven't found a lot of cheating stories period, much less specific ones.

It might be because we see Jim as an upright kind of guy, so cheating doesn't immediately come to mind. And yet, there are instances in canon where, if he isn't exactly cheating, he certainly is not taking the moral high ground. And with Blair, it's just hard to find a "not nice" Blair story anywhere in the fandom! Can't tell you why not since there's plenty of really way out there stories. But loyalty, or lack thereof, between the guys doesn't seem to generate a lot of fic.

Good luck with your search.

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