"Shut up! We didn't film ourselves!"
"Hi, Pam's grammaw. Sorry you had to find out like this."
She hits him.
A lot can change in a year, but for Pam and Jim, that year might be their sweetest yet. Unexpected life events challenge them to grow and become what the other one needs most.
An AU story that follows Pam and Jim through a year in their relationship starting with the engagement and ending with their marriage.
The Office meets Parfumerie/She Loves Me/Shop Around the Corner/You've Got Mail. Pam and Jim meet earlier in life in AOL trivia chatrooms without knowing who each other are.
In addition to the above-mentioned sources, also owes a lot to a number of fics on this site, most notably Expressions in Emoticons and the Love-Song of Squirrel McPants.
Now Complete: AU, starting before S1 (and thus also a Prior Meeting), running into S2.
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*
A series of Season 5 episode related stories.
77 [Reviews - 196] 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.
What if Pam refused to let Angela drop her off at home after the Dundies?
“I want to go to Jim’s,” Pam said, interrupting Angela’s thoughts.
Angela felt as though her head might pop off and land in one of her cup holders. Would the depravity of this night never end?
This is somewhat of a departure from my last few fluffy stories. This one will be kind of dark, so be warned.
Post- The Job. Jim and Pam's new relationship is tested.
Update - finished! Sorry it took so long.
Jim's first barbeque was a success and so he decides to have another. Someone breaks into the liquor cabinet and things... take interesting turns.
Jim/Pam smut with a pretty hefty (for me) plot, but LOTS OF DRINKING! Which is always fun.
FINISHED!!!