Date: March 19, 2007 08:06 pm Title: Chapter 2
True Love - choosing misery for herself over causing Jim misery. So true.
Author's Response:
Isn't it, though? Although unfortunately, I'd say that right about now (on the show), they're choosing to make themselves miserable -- and us in the process! :o)
Thanks for the review!
Date: March 19, 2007 08:03 pm Title: Chapter 1
Oh God, the elevator analogy sounds like something the bank I work at would come up with. Seriously, they told us to wear our nametags to the mall because the CEO had hers on in Dillards and someone asked about the bank. So yeah, that is painful.
I liked Jim reflecting on the warmth in Karen's eyes.
And I was so excited to see a story from you tonight. So unexpected. And so finished. I need me some instant girl7 gratification :) Onto chapter 2!!
Author's Response:
Heh - I took that straight from a customer service thing at the hospital I onced worked for (which was, truly, hell on earth). And yeah - so short, so finished...so unlike me, eh? :o)
THanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 07:50 pm Title: Chapter 3
Perfect. First - I loved how in the first two chapters you switched back and forth between their two POVs but then the last chapter they kind of merged together. And I especially love this line:
"Oh?" The fact that she'd referenced the time when he'd been in Stamford caught him off guard; it was in the realm of the things they didn't mention - like Casino Night, those moments on the deck of the Booze Cruise, it was just too raw; it was one of those wounds he'd long since accepted would never heal.
I just love your writing - you never disappoint! Thank you!
Author's Response: Thanks so much! I generally like to write in an omniscient point of view so that we're privy to what they're both thinking, but at times I find myself drifting too much into one character's head. So here I figured I'd do alternating, then both together. Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 07:47 pm Title: Chapter 3
"Seriously, if I owned these characters? John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer would re-enact the confession and kiss in my living room every honking day, while I would clap my hands and squee like a jackass. :o)"
I love your disclaimers because there always seems to be a bit of hilarity there. :) This was a beautiful story, with such sweetness at the end. And actually only three chapters!
Author's Response:
I'm sorry, but at the sight of your user name, I found myself seized with the urge to sit you down and give you a good talking-to about courage and honesty and not wasting freaking TIME. :o)
I'm glad you appreciate my disclaimer efforts - I always try to make them funny, because it seems like such a blah thing to have to do (though I fully understand why it's necessary). But honestly, if I owned these characters, I wouldn't be sitting around writing fanfic! :o)
Thanks for reviewing!
7 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 07:42 pm Title: Chapter 1
If only... if only... if only Pam and Jim could realize how lucky they are (and find a grassy knoll near the office)...if only Girl& could get a job as a writer for The Office. Ah well, a girl can wish, right? Thanks for sharing this!
Author's Response:
Hee - loved your "if onlys." I staunchly refuse to believe that the writers won't give the people what they want by the end of this season. THEY MUST....or I will go insane. :o)
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 07:09 pm Title: Chapter 3
Oh, girl7, I love your view of the world. This is a happy place. Happy thoughts.
I like how Pam sort of backs into talking about Casino night, and how it seems almost accidental.
Thanks.
Author's Response:
Oh yes - my Jim/Pam world, however angsty it may be sometimes, generally always ends up being a happy place. I'm sort of pathetic that way. :o)
Thanks for the review!
Date: March 19, 2007 06:35 pm Title: Chapter 1
I really enjoyed that, girl7. A moment caught off guard, and Pam spilled it all. It really worked for me!
Author's Response: I'm so glad you liked it! I keep thinking that, while we're all expecting it to happen in this hugely important moment with pomp and circumstance, it may well happen in an ordinary, quiet way, you know? Thanks for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 06:13 pm Title: Chapter 3
Ok I'm lame for reviewing twice, but I just re-read and had to point out this line:
He'd approached her there because he just couldn't not; it had been instinctive, natural - much like the pull he felt toward her always had been.
LOVED that, and this?
I'm really lucky just to be sitting here next to you.
Got me a little choked up. Seriously, you are so good at taking this scenario and having it play out in all different ways, all that are totally plausible and enjoyable. Thanks for keeping me entertained during the hiatus :)
Author's Response:
Oh yes, you are terribly lame for reviewing twice - don't you ever do that again! ;oD I'm totally kidding - I love hearing what moves people the most.
And yeah, lately I keep thinking that those two really should take a step back and realize that they're so, so lucky to be in the same room again. I remember wondering how Pam could even do a single talking head at the beginning of the season, because I kept thinking, isn't she just devastated? Terrified because, for all she knows, she'll never see Jim again?
Gah. I'm so glad they're in the same office again, at least. Big sigh.
Thanks again for reviewing, and for your kind words - means a lot coming from a writer who blows my mind every freaking time!
8 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 05:54 pm Title: Chapter 3
I seriously love the 2nd half of this last chapter. I can really see them on the hill so vividly. I am also a big ol' sappy softie. It is very well written, thanks for sharing!
Author's Response:
I'm glad you could picture it so clearly, Crystalized (love your screen name, BTW); I'm from the south, and I realized as I was describing that scene that this was Scranton, Pennsylvania in February - so they likely would've been freezing their butts off. :o) But I decided to go with it anyway. :o)
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 05:25 pm Title: Chapter 3
Hehe, remember the time I told you you should try and write something I don't like? This wasn't it my friend ;) Love love loved the email at the end!
Author's Response:
Let me tell you, sister, I could say the same thing to you! I finished reading your latest almost half an hour ago and my head is still spinning. It was just terrific - you astound me with your ability to come up with such original material - takes me breath away, I swear.
Thanks for the review (and the terrific story)!
10 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 05:05 pm Title: Chapter 3
This was just lovely. You set the scene outside so beautifully- I could feel the warmth. Now, if only I could feel Jim's lips...
Author's Response:
That comment about feeling Jim's lips has left me snickering like a ten year-old boy...or Michael Scott. :o) I'm really glad you liked it!
Thanks for the review --
10 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 04:36 pm Title: Chapter 3
I read the story thinking nice sweet things about how someday we might get to see re-connected Jim and Pam. Then I came to the end of the story and the email. And I seriously got a lump in my throat.
Author's Response:
Oh...yay for lumps in the throat! But seriously, I hear you on missing the connection. I'm holding out hope (because I just can't bear not to, at this point).
Thanks for being so great about reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 04:33 pm Title: Chapter 3
oh, how easy it could be, hmm??
I never get enough happy Jam endings, especially from you!
Author's Response:
Well it'd be pretty damned easy if Jim would have just gone to her apartment as planned, Karen and her threats be damned, and just admit to everything!! Wait, that's your fic. :o) (Can I just say for the eightieth time how freaking awesome it is? You are making this hiatus actually bearable, I swear.)
Thanks for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 04:29 pm Title: Chapter 3
Eeeeh! Happy story. Well, both happy and sad. HAPPY ending, though. Very happy ending. Makes me happy. They CAN do it over again! Why does neither realize this? I hate the show writers sometimes. Seriously.
Author's Response:
I'm glad it left you with a happy feeling, because I know I piled on the angst through a lot of it. :o) And yeah, I hate the show writers sometimes, too - which makes me doubly angry, because I also trust them implicitly, so then I get even more frustrated. (Oh the angst of this comedy...)
Thanks for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 04:23 pm Title: Chapter 3
So romantic. The email at the end was a beautiful touch to end the story. As always, your work is just perfectly written and beautifully told.
Author's Response:
I'm really glad you liked it - I debated about the email, but I didn't want to leave it at her just walking away. I am constitutionally averse to writing stories wherein Jim and Pam don't end up together in some form or another by the end (though I've done it a few times....)
Thanks, as always, for everything!
Date: March 19, 2007 04:18 pm Title: Chapter 3
Ok, you actually guilted me into signing up with this site and I'm not sure how I feel about that. But the story was awesome, as usual!
Author's Response:
Did I really guilt you into it? I'm sorry! (Well, sort of....) Trust me when I tell you that this is a happy place. [/Jim]
Thanks for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 04:15 pm Title: Chapter 3
Um... wow. This is the most brilliant post-Casino Night Season 3 fic I've read. The way you handled Pam talking to Jim... direct but still scared... perfect! Yay. Thanks for writing this - it was excellent.
Author's Response: Man, that is quite the compliment! (There are so many amazingly talented authors out there that it never fails to surprise me.) So glad you liked it - thanks for taking the time to review!
10 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 04:12 pm Title: Chapter 3
the release was simply overwhelming; with a sudden, startlingly clear conviction, the realization hit him: It's all right now; it's going to happen.
Yes! Very well done. I can totally believe in Jim's sense of relief when this hits him. It's a great counterpoint to
it was one of those wounds he'd long since accepted would never heal.
I think I have enjoyed this more than anything I've read by you, and that's saying a lot! Thanks very much for sharing it.
Author's Response: Oh wow - I'm really glad you liked it so much. I've said it before, I know, but whenever an author I really respect gives me positive feedback, it really means a lot - so thanks again.
Date: March 19, 2007 04:11 pm Title: Chapter 1
I never realized how completely simple and perfect it would be for Pam, in all her FNB goodness, to say something like "I'd handle it much differently". It makes so much sense. And because of that, I absolutely love this. Well done!
Author's Response:
Thank you so much! You know, I'm like the queen of angst (and melodrama, though I try to keep that in check as much as I can). As I was thinking about the moment we're all waiting for, I just kept going back to how much I'd like to see her do it in a really quiet, understated moment. The obvious thing would be for it to happen at an event like Phyllis's wedding (and I was one of the people who was just so sure something would happen there), but...I don't know; I kind of think it could happen in a quieter kind of way, if that makes sense.
Thanks for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 04:08 pm Title: Chapter 2
Once upon a time, I wouldn't have had to ask;
now the silences were dangerous, because they housed the relentless echo of all the things that had been said: I'm in love with you. I can't.
Brilliant lines, both of them. I am enjoying this story more and more.
Author's Response: Oh - I love it that you're reviewing each chapter; thanks for taking the time to do that. And yeah, I can't help but think that, much as they're still not saying, surely what they have said must haunt them both every time they're alone in a room together (which apparently isn't too often....)
10 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 04:05 pm Title: Chapter 1
I really like the way you've drawn the Jim/Karen relationship here. He's half in love with her, for good reason. It's hard to see how he could have hung on with her this long if there wasn't something in Karen he could love. And then his being unnerved by Pam's look...just so good. I like it that you've given him a real dilemma here. Thanks!
Author's Response:
I'm glad you found it realistic. Much as I love the fics where we get a glimpse of a darker side to Karen (one that I think the writers on the show have hinted at of late), I also like to try to consider the ways in which it might just be plausible that Jim would still be hanging on with her. (Because unfortunately, I don't think the show gives us that.)
Thanks, as always, for the review! Oh, and still dying for the new piece you hinted at yesterday on TWoP....
Date: March 19, 2007 04:04 pm Title: Chapter 3
OH MY GOD.
No, seriously, I'm speechless.
(well, not really, but you get the idea)
At the beginning I totally did NOT expect that ending. Angst!! Wrapped in a candy fluff shell!
God, it's awesome.
Thanks SO MUCH.
*HUG*
cheers.
--Lex
Author's Response: Really? I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for being such an awesome, awesome reviewer/supporter; you're the best!
10 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 03:55 pm Title: Chapter 3
The cursor keeps blinking at me and I can't think of anything except "Yay!" and "Sigh." and "Please let this happen soon on the show." Love everything you do and this (short and sweet) really hit the spot...
Author's Response: Thanks so much for reviewing and giving props on TWoP! I'm not usually good at keeping it short, but this one I was determined to just write and then leave it alone, for god's sake. :o) Thanks for the review!