Date: March 14, 2007 04:48 pm Title: Chapter 1
Sigh.
That was wonderful. I'm all girly-girly squeeing here. SQUEEE!
Thanks! :)
Author's Response: If I made you squee, my work is done! Thanks so much!
10 [Report This]Date: March 14, 2007 04:48 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh my god oh my god oh my god. I'm already frustrated because I know I won't be able to articulate how amazing this is. You joked on TWoP that it wouldn't live up to the hype -- and I already had high expectations anyway -- but this is just stunning. Absolutely stunning. So real - god, so amazingly real. I love the way you've written them both here - Jim so fed up and almost broken; Pam desperate and just putting one foot in front of the other. Achingly erotic, too, when she follows him into his bedroom. No, wait - first when she unbuttons his shirt to look at his ribs - oh my god! Seriously...I actually could envision a moment like that happening on the show (her looking at the ribs, not what came after - heh). And as for the smut - so real, so sexy, so them. Because we don't see that side of them on the show, sometimes it's hard to really go with a fic and picture it (and I don't mean that as a skeevy little perv, but in terms of characterization). But the way you've written this is so real. I just can't say it enough -- I could absolutely believe it would happen this way with them. (And him telling her to say his name? Oh my god.)
I'm sure this review is rambling and absolutely incoherent; I wish I could be more articulate here. Suffice it to say that this is my favorite thing that you've written - which is saying a lot. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this is my favorite fic, period. Wow.
Speechless over here, my friend. Excellent, excellent work.
Author's Response: I'm overwhelmed, girl7...really, that is just an amazing thing to say. And you zoomed in on the image that actually inspired the whole story for me - her nervously but almost courageously unbuttoning his shirt (and that was before I even realized how steamy it was going to become.) As usual, you always get exactly the heart of what I want the story to be about. So appreciate it...and this lovely, too generous, review.
10 [Report This]Date: March 14, 2007 04:44 pm Title: Chapter 1
YES for the real maple syrup. I know where that comes from. :)
YES for ‘Just you and me,’ he quietly concludes.
YES for He’d been her shock absorber, provided a soft landing for years
And most of all YES for She doesn’t know if this should be happening yet
This has been building for years. They don't need to be coy. Thanks for making it so real, so luscious, so them. As always, Colette, a superior job.
Author's Response: Ah, the syrup...can't slip anything by you, NEJ! You know your feedback always mean alot...so happy your thought it felt real - never know how it will come across when you write steamy stuff. Thanks as ever, for your wonderful, exuberant review!
10 [Report This]Date: March 14, 2007 04:41 pm Title: Chapter 1
i love it!!!
Author's Response: I thank you!
Date: March 14, 2007 04:40 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh, sweet merciful god of fanfic. This is beautiful....mmmmmmmmmm YES! Scary, and angsty and romantic and hot. Perfect.
Author's Response: Wow, Maybe Once...all those things? I am cyber blushing! Thank you so much - posting steamy stuff makes me nervous, so I really appreciate it.
Date: March 14, 2007 04:25 pm Title: Chapter 1
love it!
Author's Response: Thanks much!
Date: March 14, 2007 04:20 pm Title: Chapter 1
wow colette. Simply wonderful. Great job!! This is the cutest line:
‘What? You were an idiot for being in love with me?’
Great job again! I love it!!
Author's Response: Well, thank you WildBerryJam. So glad you liked...and re: that line - Jim would break the tension by saying something funny, I think (just so she knows she didn't crawl into bed with some stranger!)