December 26th: Together - 300 words - Joyous Kwanzaa! Unity is your theme today. :)
Fandom: The Sentinel
Warnings: Spoiler for Season 4, Episode 8 'The Sentinel by Blair Sandburg'
Disclaimer: I don't own The Sentinel
In it Together
He was found out, done for. The criminals now have information about his sentinel powers and his fellow cops and coworkers don't trust him. Naomi just had to meddle with Blair's life and leak his thesis. He knew it was a bad idea.
Jim sighed over his coffee mug and almost threw it against the wall when, yet another detective threw him a dirty look.
"Ellison, office now." Captain Simon Banks called out bringing out desperation in Jim. This was it, he was going to get fired over this. Simon couldn't cover for him all the time and this was the camel's back.
"Sit down Jim, we need to have a little talk." Simon perched on his desk as Jim closed the door and sat down looking anywhere but at his captain.
"Jim, you had to have known this was goi-" The clattering of his office door swinging open caught him off guard.
"Captain! I'm sorry to intrude, but Simon turn on the TV, now!" Joel Taggert puffed, his breathing ragged, from trying to get here so fast.
Simon eyed Joel but eventually turned and picked up the remote, bringing the television to life.
Jim didn't know what to expect, but his jaw dropped at what he saw. Blair! Sandburg was on TV, in front of reporters, standing at a podium and admitting to falsifying his thesis. That it was all lies, that he made it up and sentinels didn't exist.
This was academic suicide; his career was over. Jim had to look away, to force the tears not to fall. Blair was doing all this for him, so he would still have a life, a job that he loved doing.
Simon kept one eye on the TV and one on Jim.
"Well, it seems the issue is resolving itself."