After watching The Sentinel reruns this evening, I've been hit with a desire to read pre-series fic. Fic that takes place while Jim is still in Peru, holding the Cholpec Pass with his native militia and waiting for that relief unit to show up
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If you can't find anything The Sentinel, you might try a John Scalzi novel. Most of the protagonists have Sentinel like powers and sooner or later they always end up trying to hold a "pass." :)
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John Scalzi's all right, it's true, but the very first TS episode includes a whole 5-10 minutes set in "5 years ago". The Jim Ellison that comes out of the jungle with an army of natives at his back in order to greet a shocked-silent army ranger . . . those 10 seconds are so intense and show that so much happened in those 18 months in the jungle. I want to know! I need to know more about what happened, how he survived, what he did, how he got so laser-focused and serious. Since SciFi did not provide more episodes with that kind of flashback, I'm desperately seeking fanfic ( ... )
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(In part because I want it now, and in part because I'm not up to writing the trauma of burying 7 men in an 8-man team and then carrying on with the mission.)
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