Pam and Jim just started dating, and Pam’s curious about Jim’s romantic past. He pretty much knows all about hers, such as it is, so it seems only fair.
Jim and Pam are CIA agents assigned to break a Scranton element of a smuggling ring. "Stamford" is a cover for Jim being recalled to Langley after confessing his feelings for Pam, but now he's coming back. And he has to recruit Dwight as an asset.
NOW COMPLETE. Set in AU S3. Spoilers through S3.
Jim and Pam's first date and the ensuing weekend. Set after The Job. My second attempt at taking on the topic.
Final edit 11/11/17: Broken into shorter chapters. Now with 75% less cringe, 100% more realism, and a bit lighter on the smut than before.
After the events of beach day, Pam decides that desperate times call for desperate measures. She only has three days before Jim has his big job interview and she's got to do something to show him why he should stay right there in Scranton.
Just a sexy AU about how the time could have been different.
Spoilers from season 3 especially Beach Day and The Job.
A MILLION THANKS TO LADAMA FOR THE STORY ART. It's amazing and so are you.
A response to this challenge "Get Jim & Karen together/apart in 55 words". Jim and Karen's (and Pam's) relationship in 6 55-word parts.
Like many high school sweethearts, Jim Halpert and Pam Beesly were sure nothing could ever break them up. And, like many high school sweethearts, life after graduation proved too much for their relationship to bear and they ended up going their separate ways. When their paths cross again 10 years later, old feelings are stirred up, but will Pam and Jim have a second chance at first love?
4 [Reviews - 3] It’s not as if she’s never seen his desk without him sitting there, because of course she has. He’s stayed home sick, made occasional—if unexciting—use of his vacation days, gone on sales calls — she knows what the office looks like when the shape of him is missing, when she glances up and there’s an absence where the slope of his shoulders is supposed to be.
As she settles in that first day of his absence, hangs her coat and takes her seat, Pam lets herself miss him as a coworker and as a best friend and that’s it. Work will be work, with or without Jim Halpert.
But that’s a lie, because of course it is.
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A series of one-shots retelling season 3 from Pam's perspective