New Sentinel fic - -The Couch

[t_verano]

Title:  The Couch
Length:  3900 words
Rating:  R. Slash.
Pairing:  Jim/Blair

This one has been muttering at me for weeks to just finish it, already; I'm finally kicking it out of my house in self defense so I can work on Moonridge stuff in peace.

Many, many thanks to janedavitt for beta reading this. I so much appreciate your help in making this better,

Comments

The Couch

[kayjay206]

Oh, yay! Well done!

I've really enjoyed seeing you play with drabbles, but it's so nice to see another longer story! Great Blair-voice as always, and Jim's conflict comes through as well, from Blair's not always reliable perceptions. He's so ready to believe the worst instead of hope for the best, poor thing!

Re: The Couch

[t_verano]

::hugs you:: So happy to see you back! Miss you when you're not around, and hoping RL lets you stay for awhile. (A good *long* while would be cool. :-))

So happy you liked this! And it is a relief to finally write something longer again -- I was getting worried about being stuck in drabble and snippet mode. I love the really short stuff, but it's a whole different thing to write, and it's not the *only* thing I want to write.

Blair's not always reliable perceptions -- that's certainly true here. And I'm glad what's going on with Jim came through, since *Blair* certainly took the long way around to see it. *g*

Thanks for reading and the feedback! ::okay, one more hug, since I haven't been able to do that for a while :-)::

[starwatcher307]

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Oh, wow! Nicely done; the Blair ramble/panic was excellent.

So maybe he was saying enough. Maybe they both were.

Yep. "Friends. With potential." And what a lot of lovely potential. *g*
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[t_verano]

Thank you so much! Writing Blair rambling and grumbling and panicking is a highly addictive pleasure -- and one which I can get quite carried away with, so it makes me very happy when it works for other people (and not just me, giving Blair free rein).

And potential, oh yes. I do believe they'll be doing something with that potential... *g*

[sara_merry99]

See, it's wonderful stories like this that ensure I'll never be able to stay away from Jim and Blair for more than a few months. :D

Just fantastic! Loved Blair's mental wanderings and the slow agonizing passage of time. Loved Jim's virgin sofa. Loved the ending.

Just wonderful!!

What an icon!

[roslynsmuse]

As for you, Ms. Verano, as soon as I saw this early opener of a line:

“You’re a menace in bed, Sandburg. I’m tired of the thrashing octopus routine; take your sixteen arms and legs downstairs.”,
I knew we were in for a classic solitary journey into insecurity.

The way you have Blair cultivating language requires Noam Chomsky to develop entirely new ways to do tree diagrams of semantic structure. I'm sure he would salute you if he read fan fiction.

(Yeah, he was a linguist before he made politics his thing. Now we all know how old I am.)

Grand read! Back to my sofa (no adjectives applied, thank you very much!).

Roslyn

Re: What an icon!

[t_verano]

(I love Sara's icon, too. :-))

You're making me laugh too much here! Noam Chomsky, heh. (I'm just glad all I have to do is listen to Blair talk to himself in my head and write it down -- and *not* have to figure it all out formally -- because I'm pretty much an "Okay, this is probably a noun -- so hey, *that* must be a verb, right?" and "Grammar and style rules? Huh? No way, man!" person.)

So very glad you liked this. Thanks so much for reading and saying such lovely (and tickle-me) things! And my own personal sofa gets no adjectives, either. (Except it just did, I guess. ::frowns:: No *indiscreet* adjectives, anyway. :-))

[t_verano]

So loving your icon -- perfect!

Totally delighted you enjoyed this! It was fun to write, but very slippery and worrisome for a long while, and I'm so happy it worked for you.

Thank you so much for the very kind compliments ::hugs you, beaming:: And there have been so many wonderful TS fics posted recently (and we keep getting wonderful new writers, yay!) that I almost feel like the calendar has morphed into some sort of elongated Christmas. So *glad* you'll never be able to stay away for *too* long. Jim and Blair would just miss you too much. :-)

::is *so* thinking of walls right now. Walls and Jim and Blair and Sara...::

[arrow00]

Okay, how much do I love it that Blair can identify texts with the skin of this thigh and that his tea is being too damned *sarcastic*?

A lot.

[t_verano]

The identifying-texts-by-feel thing was such a last-second thought -- "I bet Blair really could..." -- and it makes me happy to hear that it works. :-) And it was just so *handy* that passionflower is an herb used to help people sleep; I couldn't *not* use it. (Blair like this is just a trip to write; I have way too much fun doing it, getting carried away...)

Thanks so much for reading and commenting -- I've really happy you enjoyed this!

[janedavitt]

I love your Blair to bits in this because you never write him perfect, flawless, or angelic and he's so much more interesting your way.

Discovering just how much the pit he's in was dug with his own hands is a lovely, subtle reveal.

And the end is just... guh.

Breathing a little faster.

I don't know why that line has such an impact but it really, really does.

[t_verano]

::hugs you for the beta (and for making and sharing this icon, which is adding considerably to my daily Guh! -- just thought I should mention that, since I think it every time I see it :-))::

I love how you describe this -- Discovering just how much the pit he's in was dug with his own hands -- that's so very much what I wanted to show, but to fully reveal only at the very end.

And the more I write, the more I want to be able to write Blair *in* an interesting, more rounded way. At least sometimes. When I can. Hopefully. *g*

"Breathing a little faster" has that same impact on me, too. (I'm glad it's not *just* me. :-))

Thank you again! ::smooches::