What if Pam went to Australia instead of getting married.
Categories: Alternate Universe, Past
Characters: Jim/Pam
Genres: Fluff
Warnings: None
Completed: No
What if Pam went to Australia instead of getting married.
AU. Jim's at corporate. Engaged to Karen. But what happens when he gets a new redheaded green-eyed secretary?
Disclaimer: I own nothing. All rights to NBC. But if I did, well let's just say this show would've been on HBO or showtime.
It’s strange how life changes. How suddenly, everything isn’t about you anymore.
Pam has no idea how her life got so messed up. She has no idea how she let it go on for so long. But now, she has a reason to get out. A reason to survive. A reason to change her life. She's going to do right by this little girl. She's going to make sure that her life is better than anything Pam ever had.
New feelings, old fears, new challenges, old habits.
*title and story from Temporary Home by Carrie Underwood*
How Jim and Pam might have grown up together if they'd met in Kindergarten.The Memoirs of Pamela Beesly.
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This will be a series of self-contained chapters (oneshots) exploring various "what ifs" pertaining to episodes spanning seasons one through three. Each chapter will examine how things would've gone differently if either Jim or Pam had responded to a given situation the way that (most) fans had wanted or almost expected them to.
For example, the first chapter focuses on how things would've happened differently if Jim had confessed during those twenty-seven seconds of silence on the booze cruise when we were all holding our breath and hoping he would.
Among the other chapters I have mapped out: What if all the reminders of Jim in "Gay Witch Hunt" had provoked not a small, sad smile from Pam at the end of the episode, but rather, had motivated her to take action -- drive to Stamford to see him for the first time in four months? Or what if Jim had responded to Pam's text in "Diwali" via a post-Jagermeister phone call? What if Jim had walked in on Pam crying at the end of "Back From Vacation"? (...You get the idea.)
Again, though, each chapter will be confined to an episode, so it will essentially be a series of oneshots that are unrelated to each other.