Title: Too Little, Too Late by arianna (R)
Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Categories: post-canon, angst, hurt/comfort
Length: Epic (~56,000 words)
Warnings: n/a

Author on LJ: caarianna 
Website: http://www.arianna.hidden-muse.com/index.php

Review:
Post TSbyBS, Blair turns down the badge for all of the usual reasons (not wanting to carry a gun, media attention, issues with being a stated fraud). Just when he's about given up, Orvelle Wallace shows up and gives him a second chance: a job as a director of a newly opened community center. Now Jim and Blair just have to mend fences -- hopefully before the local gang manages to make good on its threat to take Blair out of the picture.

As is pretty well known by now, I'm a huge sucker for TSbyBS fics. This is an especially good one, with Blair moving on in a way that is rational, but which isn't necessarily the way that Jim had planned. I like the idea that Blair is capable of standing on his own two feet and that he doesn't need Jim to pick up the pieces, and I also like the fact that Jim is emotionally mature enough to accept this fact and also to accept that he has some amends to make. You also have a fantastic storyline involving the community center, with a great collection of OCs that don't get much screentime, but which are memorable nonetheless. Mix in most of the members of Major Crimes (all of whom are awesome), some major suspense thanks to the local gang, and plenty of hurt/comfort (especially in the latter half of the fic) and you have a great post-series story that should appeal to everyone.

Too Little, Too Late