Typical entitled Roy thinking that he can just order Pam around, and expect her fall in line. 😡
I have a feeling that we haven’t seen the last of him because if he had no problem trying to man handle Pam in a public place then he would have no problem doing the same or worse in private.
Thank goodness Darryl was there to make Roy step back which goes to show what kind of coward Roy truly was. He was weak when it came to guys who were the same size or bigger than him.
Pam should get a restraining order against him, or at least make a complaint agains Roy with Toby for making the office a toxic work environment.
Pam was smart to take her money from her account so Roy wouldn’t be able to use it against her.
I like how Pam is seeing Jim in a new light.
I was kind of hoping that when Pam said she was going to take a shower that Jim might see her with only a towel on just to see his reaction. 😂
Please update soon!

Author's Response: This Roy may be bad, but he's not THAT kind of bad don't worry. But yes he needed taking down a couple pegs. And yes Pam is doing everything to separate herself from him at this point. 

Since she's free of that she's also free to see Jim not only as her best friend, but maybe something more. It'll be fun to see. While the shower idea would have been fun, I don't quite see them at that stage, just yet. Remember Jim just recently had a good discussion with Sam on what it means to be a Good Man. He's still trying to figure that out and live up to it.

Thanks as always for your review.

Really nice to see this back and with a little holiday dish. I'm not sure why but before I started reading the story, the notes made it feel like it was complete...I'm glad I had that wrong, because our heroes are not a supercouple yet as I assume they are headed now that Pam is free and once Roy finally gets the message

Speaking of heroes and Roy, I appreciate the two styles of heroes who came to her rescue - Dwight with his pepper spray at the ready and Jim with his more sensical approach, though I'm sure he would have jumped in with some muscle if things got to the point he needed to.

OK, I can relate to the gas/electric stove thing. Not sure which direction you might have gone (if you did have a change recently) but I went from gas to electric unfortunately and almost 12 years later I'm still not happy about it. Grrrr.

So gotta say I love how Jim/you framed the empty apartment as a blank canvas. I caught a little hint of a AU Jim -maybe this one's past life was in the military with the bed making.

The last line was also lovely. "Taking a breath, she made the first brush stroke in her new home."

Nice job and happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

Author's Response:

We still have a couple more courses of this meal before we bid them adieu. We are headed in much nicer directions though. I'm sure this Jim would have stepped up had anything more physical gone down. Good thing for all involved it didn't have to come to that. 

We went from gas to electric in our recent move. Pro and cons with both but cooking seems fine from my end.

Jim knows Pam. Thus he's able to talk to her in ways that are a lot more meaningful than what she's been used to. I think this Jim probably seen a few to many movies combined with he's trying his level best to make Pam smile about the bed making. Still it's fun to thing of other possibilities.

 Thanks as always for your comments. Happy Holidays to you and yours.