This challenge was sent in by Kelly.
What if Jim and Pam's roles were reversed? What if Jim had been the one engaged while Pam was single and in love with Jim the whole time... How would that have played out?Write a story with Penny Beesly or Larisa Halpert (or both!) in a central role. Here are a few ideas: Keep it in canon and write their take on the Jim and Pam "will they won't they" era, or write the first time Penny met Jim or Larisa met Pam. Go a little canon divergent and have one of them visit the office one day and see first hand what their siblings are always complaining about. Or go full AU, maybe a high school fic where Pam and Larisa were best friends, or modern AU where Penny knows Jim and helps set him up with Pam.(check out the counterpart challenge: Mamas and the Papas )
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I was reading a book, and I loved this quote:
ed I miei sogni usati, Ed I bei sogni miei, tosto si dileguar
Now all my past dreams, my beautiful dreams, have melted at once into thin air.
Hopefully someone can do it justice.
With JKras getting ready to play CIA analyst-turned-secret-agent in Jack Ryan, I think many of us are craving some "Jim Halpert is actually a spy" fic. So, write a story where Jim is a secret agent and an unsuspecting Pam finds out and gets caught up in the plot. Or flip the roles, maybe shy quiet Pam is the spy and Jim discovers her double-life. Whether you chose to keep it mostly realistic like Jack Ryan and the Bourne movies or go full cool-gadget sexy-globetrotting James Bond style is up to you!
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Suggested by nomadshan.
Branch Wars. Pam likes the mustache. Jim obliges. 100 words.
The children of Dwangela and Jam meet and fall in love. Could Jim really stand it if his little girl married Dwight K. Schrute the 4th? Could Angela live with bridemaids wearing green dresses at the wedding? Pure chaos ensues in the houses of Schrute and Halpert.
This challenge was submitted by flonkertonxx.
What would happen if Jim and Pam were going on one of Michael's crazy trips and got stranded somewhere with all of their fellow Dunder Mifflinites?
What did Dunder-Mifflin employees do for work as teenagers or during college? Did Jim have a paper route? Did Dwight sell beets door to door? Did Angela ever work at Hot Dog on a Stick? It's summertime...go get a job!
This challenge requires writers to create an alternate ending to season 2. Instead of having a casino night, Michael decides to hold a talent show as a "fun-raiser" and emotions start to run high.
This summer, rumors circulated that the members of the British cast were going to be on the US version. I would love to see a fic where the two casts interact. Maybe Tim/Dawn give Jim/Pam advice. Or Gareth and Dwight could be butting heads. How about David Brent vs. Michael Scott?
This challenge was sent in by tishblossom.
Members of the documentary crew are big Jim/Pam fans, and even though they are required not to interfere, they've even started asking leading questions like the one they asked Jim at Phyllis' wedding. The challenge: The camera crew plainly sees what Jim and Pam don't, and what Karen refuses to see, and they decide to give them a push in the right direction. But they have to do it while still remaining in their role of unobtrusive observers, at least enough to keep their jobs. How would the camera crew be instrumental in getting Pam and Jim together?
Write a story in which you incorporate the five following elements in a meaningful manner:
1) A waterfall
2) Leather gloves
3) Salsa
4) A zebra
5) A ten-year reunion
Suggested by BeckySue.
A winter storm hits Scranton and its surrounding areas. What do the people from the office do when they can't make it in to work? Who makes the effort to actually go in and who just waits for the ice to melt? Most importantly, what are Jim and Pam up to when Jack Frost comes knocking on the door?(It's up to the author who they want to follow on the snow day.)
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We already know Pam was an art nerd and Roy was the football star. Jim played basketball and was "sooo dorky!" but is there more that we don't know? Did Jim have a "Pam" before Pam? How did the jock end up with the art freak? And why in the world is Michael the way that he is?
"I did not love the dialogue. Or the character. I took the role to impress a receptionist - who will remain nameless."
Let's see some stories about the making of Michael's magnum opus - Threat Level Midnight! We are of course especially interested in the Jim and Pam part of it (how did Jim get roped it? Did Pam help with his make-up? How did the filming of this scene go?) but any stories about the making of are welcome!
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