Searching for a Jim-centric fic

[tanndell]

Hi, I'm very new indeed to the Sentinel fandom, just downloaded and watched all the episodes about a month ago, and then mainlined all the available fic in about three weeks. Now there's a fic I want to reread, but where I read it is a total blur.  If I remember the details correctly, Jim and Rafe are investigating a house that turns out to be a

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[magician114]

Ah, one of the side effects of sucking up too much fic at once -- the stories all blur together and you can't remember that one terrific story you want to re-read! I think that's happened to every reader when they discover a new fandom.

Sorry the story doesn't sound familiar, but welcome to TS. It's a fun fandom with lots of good writers to keep you here.

[tanndell]

Thank you very kindly. I should have learnt from what happened with Due South, and Starsky and Hutch, and Magnificent Seven, but nooo... Also, I'd just like to say that your lj was one of the primary sources for my mainlining so thanks for that as well.

[magician114]

Also, I'd just like to say that your lj was one of the primary sources for my mainlining so thanks for that as well.

That is so cool! Thanks for letting me know. Now that I've read some of the other posts, perhaps you might have some luck going back through the TS Newsletter? Since so many people read it recently it might have been listed there. Here's the site:

http://community.livejournal.com/ts_newsletter/

From the additional info it really doesn't sound slash, does it? So another source might be going to Cascade Library and checking the What's New Page. Perhaps with the Santa lookalike villian it was posted recently.

With so many people having read it, someone's bound to remember.

[magician114]

Thanks for the link to the TS newsletter and I will check it out. Somehow I don't think it's a particularly new fic, but I'll check the What's New pages anyway

[gritsinmisery]

Augh -- I just read that one m'self; I've been hitting several websites and can't remember where, though.

Additional info, for those w/ better recall:

Body of unknown child found in a yard -- Jim goes door-to-door in the neighborhood conducting interviews and absolutely goes crazy when a genial, Santa-Claus-looking guy answers the door at one house. Goes through the guy's trash and finds a teeny-weeny clue that is enough for a search warrant (remember kiddos: in the U.S., once it's in the outside trash bin, it's no longer private property!) insists on Blair and Rafe not coming in on the search (because of the flashback reason tanndell mentioned) and even tries to keep Simon out of the hidden room where the bodies are kept.

The title may or may not include "Blessed Protector", but that's essentially the mode Jim slips into trying to keep everyone else from seeing the carnage. I don't think it's at 852 but I've been all over the last few days. AO3? ASR3? Somebody's private website, mebbe?

Anyway, I hope the extra details helped.

[tanndell]

Yes thank you, that's exactly the fic I was thinking of. Thanks for the extra details, maybe it'll ring a bell for someone somewhere and thus stop me from having to go through every TS tag on the interwebz and end up gibbering in my room sticking straws in my hair.

[franscats]

I read this story recently and it is driving me crazy that I can't remember the title, author or where I found it. But I can add to the information.

After they find the serial killer, Jim interrogates him and gets the man to confess to a lot of murders. Then Jim begins to exhibit post traumatic stress - something Blair was expecting because he believes sentinels are hardwired to ignore their emotions and that can only go so long before something snaps. Blair says something about out in the jungle tribal sentinels had no time to handle emotional issues and so they had mechanisms for suppressing them.

At the loft Jim has nightmares dreaming about his past. Blair gets him to talk about a time in the army when someone he cared about died along with children in a mine field. The only survivor was a goat. I think that is the same story.

[tanndell]

Thanks for the extra info.. You're spot on about the fic and that's awesome... but it seems like this may be the Jimmy Hoffa of fics, everyone knows all about it, but nobody knows where.

[amejisuto]

I hope you find this because it sounds really great.

[tanndell]

Hee... I love how my first post re: sentinel is apparently the fic that the world (including me) forgot... I hope I find it too, and thanks for the response

[mab_browne]

This is desperately frustrating me because I've read and enjoyed this story too - I'm sure it's an older story. There's the Yahoo Group TS Storyfinders. I might enquire there, if no-one else has already done so. :-)

[tanndell]

I'd be very grateful indeed if you did ask the Yahoo Group, before it drives me completely batty. Thank you

[mab_browne]

Waste Places by Virg Vaughn, courtesy of Marley on TS Storyfinders. :-) I knew that I'd go 'duh' when I found out who it was, and I was so right. It's slash, but not explicitly so from a very fast skim read.

http://www.852prospect.org/archive/archive/1_2000_drama/wasteplaces.html

[tanndell]

YAY!!! You are fantastic... Thank you so much!!! Also thanks to Marley on TS Storyfinders. *seal claps at you forever*