fancake

Fandom: The Sentinel, X-Files, dueSouth, Stargate: Atlantis, Monk, Highlander, Benson, Quantum Leap, Numbers, CSI, Psych, Bones, The Equalizer
Characters/Pairings: Er. Who isn't in it? It does focus on Jim and Blair from Sentinel.
Rating: Teen/Mature
Length: 295,062 words for the main stories, plus the detours (don't know how long those are)
Author Links:

dasha_mte

dasha

dashamte at Area 52 and a lot of other places--google is your friend.
Theme: novel length, crossover, complete AU

Summary: If Blair's washing out of the guide program, who's taking care of Jim?

Reccer's Notes: There are two tropes that you see in Sentinel fic all the time. (Well, more--it's a kind of cliche fandom--but these are two of the biggies.) AUs where Sentinels are known to the public, and crossovers wherein characters from other fandoms are Sentinels and Guides, too. If you are looking for rec lists for either type of fic, the Imperfections series will be the first one anybody points out to you. (This despite the fact that the stories are scattered all over the place.) These stories are awesome, go read. Lots of long, plotty goodness; lots of angst; lots of warm fuzzies. I regularly re-read the entire series. Yes, those are a lot of fandoms, but it actually isn't that overwhelming when you divide them up across 300k words.

Story Links: The whole series at skeeter63 (link was down recently but is now up again), Imperfections at AO3 (Main stories), Detours (side pieces) at squidge.org
Also, most of these stories are up multiple other places, if these links ever go down, google them!

beatrice_otter

Fandom: The Sentinel/Stargate: Atlantis/CSI/due South/X-Files/Monk/Highlander/Psych/Numbers/Bones/Benson/Numb3rs/Quantum Leap
Pairing: Jim Elliosn, Blair Sandburg, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, lots of others.
Length: 295,062 words
Author Links:

dasha_mte,

dashamte,

dasha_mte, http://soulcake.skeeter63.org/dasha.html, http://tslibrary.skeeter63.org/authors/auth-dasha.htm, 852 Prospect, Area 52
Theme: novel length stories, crossovers, superpowers

Summary: If Blair's washing out of the guide program, who's taking care of Jim?

Reccer's Notes: The Sentinel wasn't that great a show, but it had a really cool premise that fanfic writers have been using to great ever since. The fandom has always had a lot of AUs where Sentinels are a common/accepted part of life, and a lot of crossovers/fusions where characters from other shows/books are Sentinels or Guides. This is, bar none, the best such story I've ever read. I love the details of a world where Sentinels are normal. Unlike a lot of Sentinel-AUs, this world feels like it could be the real world. The story is gripping, the characters are well-written. Don't let the massive number of fandoms freak you out: over almost 300k words, it's actually not that bad. Dasha knows every world and every character, and melds them seamlessly into the world she has created. I re-read this series frequently.

Oh, and if you read the main stories collected here and still want more, there are other stories (she calls them "Detours") which you can find by searching through her LJ and going through the sites above. (I think that's all her main archives and all the places she has Imperfections stuff, but I wouldn't swear to it. Seriously, her fics are scattered all over the place and it is very frustrating because I love her stuff, but it's very hard to keep track of. I wish she'd put it all up at AO3!)

Story Links: Imperfections Series