1 [Report This]Date: February 16, 2019 12:33 pm Title: Chapter 3
So sweet. So bittersweet. So lovely.
9 [Report This]Date: August 01, 2011 08:14 pm Title: Chapter 3
So terrific. And it made me cry.
10 [Report This]Date: April 12, 2011 09:29 am Title: Chapter 3
I've only recent;y started reading Jim/Pam fanfics, and already I've read this story 3 times. Great job.
10 [Report This]Date: October 21, 2009 08:51 am Title: Chapter 1
I've been digging through some of the older fics and I came across this gem! I think you should pack up MrGirl7 and the newborns and go write for the show. You would've written an awesome wedding episode for them and you would've made season three a lot more bearable! ;)
Date: August 13, 2009 12:23 am Title: Chapter 3
awwwww! that was a great mini-story! nice job!
Date: February 13, 2008 04:32 pm Title: Chapter 3
Awww. Love the ending! :D Great fic.
Author's Response:
So glad you liked it! This one was weird in that it just all of a sudden came to me, and I dashed it out in about an hour or so -- which NEVER happens. Usually I ramble on for days and days and chapters and chapters....LOL. :o)
Thanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: June 01, 2007 09:40 am Title: Chapter 3
I think your author's note was as inspiring as the story itself. If I had it my way, I'd have JK and JF in my livingroom (well, JK anyway) reenacting....pretty much anything....and the whole clapping and squeeing like a jackass would follow suit. Fantastic story, btw.
10 [Report This]Date: May 05, 2007 08:38 pm Title: Chapter 3
Ooooh, poor Pam! Telling him without any hope, without any expectations. Even the kiss didn't convince her- she thought she was kissing him good-bye. That's so...so Pam. I can see something like this happening- their reunion being in reaction to one of the myriad weird things in the office.
You write beautiful sentences. This part is my favorite: with a sudden, startlingly clear conviction, the realization hit him: It's all right now; it's going to happen.
Love!
10 [Report This]Date: May 05, 2007 08:32 pm Title: Chapter 2
A silence fell - the kind of silence that once had been comfortable between them, in spite of all the things they hadn't said; 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. Wow. Oh, wow. This is a stunningly beautiful passage. I was going to read straight through and leave one comment, but I had to stop because...I'm breathless. I love the determined, matter-of-fact Pam you've created here. She's sad, but she's not moping around. She's just real. And Jim's desperate attempt to ignore that Karen's not right for him is just heart-rending and also real. You've nailed it as usual. (TWSS?). Off to chapter 3!
Date: April 05, 2007 08:27 am Title: Chapter 3
YES! Great story! :)
7 [Report This]Date: March 26, 2007 06:51 am Title: Chapter 3
oh, if i owned those characters. i would kick jenna out of the way, and make john rehearse it with me. but thats just me :)
and i so loved this story. short, and just amazing. and, happy. and like, everything.
Date: March 26, 2007 06:46 am Title: Chapter 1
hum, if jiggling legs, moving on thier own accord, is a sign of an anxiety attack, i must have them nearly daily... cause my legs do that all the time.
10 [Report This]Date: March 23, 2007 08:09 pm Title: Chapter 3
First, I am absolutely shocked that this is only 3 chapters! However, it is amazing. Just amazing. I love how they have the unspoken "no talking about BC, CN, or the afteraffects" and how Jim sat with her even though he knew he shouldn't and that Pam just finally told him something but in her own Pam way. Amazing.
Date: March 21, 2007 12:58 pm Title: Chapter 3
I loved this, but I feel weird because its by you and i feel it should continue for at least ten more chapters, lol. I'm proud you could do this lovely little three chapter peice. My favorite things abotu this fic were how anti-climatic the whole 'i love you'/we should try again thing is. And the name of the speaker, that made me giggle...
Author's Response:
I know - what got into me? (I'm working on "Only" again, and in re-reading the older chapters, I kept snorting because in just about every author's note, I said that there would only be a few more chapters -- and here we are thirty six or more chapters later....)
Thanks for reviewing!
Date: March 21, 2007 10:27 am Title: Chapter 3
wow very impressive complete fiction but then all your stories are very impressive. Great job but I missed the wine induced smut. :)
Author's Response: Hee, gothkona. I'm thinking there's something to actually posting a finished story; I've gotten a lot of positive feedback about it. :o) And I'm about to go out and have a margarita on my deck, so maybe it'll induce some naughty fic. :o) Thanks for the review!
8 [Report This]Date: March 20, 2007 06:06 pm Title: Chapter 3
Was a treat to be able to read a complete story in one sitting - and this was so natural, just a perfect, no-frills for them to figure everything out.
(I love that Karen was actually paying attention to Peggy - just shows how wrong she is for Jim)
Author's Response:
Thanks so much! Yeah, it's totally unlike me to be able to keep it short and to the point - and I was surprised at how much I liked doing it that way, actually. :o)
Thanks, as usual, for being the most consistent and awesome reviewer on the planet!
Date: March 20, 2007 02:23 pm Title: Chapter 3
wow, you did it in 3 chapters. nice! short and sweet. awesome. lovedd the email. and peggy philpot-phillips? priceless!
Author's Response: Three chapters - who'd have thunk I'd be capable of such? :o) Much as I enjoy writing the long, drawn out ones, I really liked the experience of writing this one. Thanks so much for the feedback!
Date: March 20, 2007 04:03 am Title: Chapter 3
Good build in this one too - Peggy Philpot Phillips is the perfect lightening rod for the differences between Karen and Pam/Jim. Lots of great small touches that say so much - just their eyes catching at the meeting, or how painful the silence is between them now, when it used to be so comfortable. And I like that when you have Pam tell him how she feels, it's almost incidental...like it just comes out, not because of any melodrama, but just because it HAS to and they finally have a private quiet moment where it CAN. Jim's final email: made my heart skip a beat. Damn right he CAN.
Author's Response:
Yeah - why can't they just have a moment all alone on the show? Just one? Because I really think that, given more than ten minutes entirely alone, they'd have to just say what needs to be said. Surely.
Glad you liked it - and did I mention I loved your latest? Talk about terrific small touches and the images they convey.... :o)
Thanks, as always, for the review!
Date: March 20, 2007 03:20 am Title: Chapter 3
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)
This is in no way part of the story but you do realise that if you owned these characters we'd all probably make you record them re-enacting all that every honking day so that we could all scream like jackasses?
Just making sure.
Anyway, I loved this - Pam's confession was so Pam - as much as I would love her saying it aloud, I'm in love with you, this - this is courageous, honest, and completely Pam. Not all the way there, but getting close. [I'm getting a TWSS from this one, too; what a gutterhead I'm becoming!]
And I loved that last e-mail, because that's Jim - not saying it out loud, because Karen is still there, after all, but still telling her, because Pam should know.
And finally: I love the stark contrast between Karen and Jim/Pam, seen most obviously in their reactions for Peggy Philpot-Phillips.
Lovely, as always, maybe a little better because your promises were founded this time and you didn't leave us hanging!
Author's Response:
Oh listen, moofoot - if I owned them, I'd so open my home to all of you. Every day at 4:30, we'd have them re-enact it so we could all clap and squee. And on Thursdays, it'd be a sort of choose-your-own adventure, where we'd all take turns making them act out whatever scene we want to see. (Wow, it's disturbing how quickly that popped into my mind.)
I'm glad you liked it -- and you know, while I've written Pam saying, "I'm in love with you" many times, I never can get it to ring quite true for me. (I've seen other authors do it and make it work, though.) So this time, I was really trying to just imagine it as I think it might play out on the show.
And while I would love it all to be nice and neat - read: Jim having broken up with Karen well before any advancement with he and Pam - I also think it just might not be as plauisble that way.
Glad you liked it - and thanks for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 10:43 pm Title: Chapter 3
I love the idea of Jim's email to Pam. This whole 'don't talk in front of Karen' thing sucks! But I like how you dealt with it.
Author's Response:
Yeah, doesn't it kind of suck? I'm lame, but I'd love to see another moment like the one in Back From Vacation, but where it's Jim who finds Pam crying in the hallway (though Rainn Wilson officially made me love him in that scene)...just to force the whole thing to a head. Grr.
Thanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 09:42 pm Title: Chapter 3
I always throughly enjoy your stuff but I read it not only for pleasure but because you write so well that I hope I can improve just by reading your work. Your take on Pam's inner thoughts here is interesting and one I hadn't quite thought of before. And of course the concluding email is nifty. Thanks for all you give.
Author's Response:
Wow - what a great thing to say; thank you so much. I'm really resisting the urge to go off on a Michael Scott-inspired spiel about nifty gifties. :o)
Seriously though - thank you so much for taking the time to read and review!
Date: March 19, 2007 08:51 pm Title: Chapter 3
So much fic to get to, so little time. But honestly, I had to read yours before bed, and get my happy JAM fix. Loved the quiet honesty from Pam. I know lots of people are hoping for a big loud fight between Jim and Pam with lots of tossing around of hurt feelings, but I think it will be more like this. Pam quietly admitting the error of her ways on CN, telling Jim that she loves him, that she realizes that he's with Karen now, but that she just needed him to know, once. Heehee. How many nanoseconds would it take for Jim to decide who he should be with?
Sorry for rambling, but you know I'm one of your biggest flans!
Author's Response:
You're one of my biggest flans, eh? Then (wait for it....) maybe I should take you into custard-y. (I'm sorry but I laugh like a total nut every time B.J. says that in the pilot; it's such a bad joke, but his delivery kills me.) Anyway, I hear you on the quiet moment thing - while I'd sort of love a good fight with some yelling and honesty (that ends in a hot, desperate smooch -- what?), I'm inclined to think more and more lately that it might be something less dramatic.
And yeah, there would be nothing but smoke left where Jim stood if Pam confessed - he'd be off that fast to go get rid of Karen. Was that mean? [/Pam]
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: March 19, 2007 08:26 pm Title: Chapter 3
Speaking of clapping hands and squeeing like a jackass... that is exactly what I did when I finished reading this.
All this angst has got to be pushing someone (Pam) to break and take some freaking action. That's what I take from your story. You. are. awesome.
Author's Response:
Heh - I made you clap and squee? Really? Wahoo! (Glad to know I'm not the only one who does that while reading fic - both Moxie and Colette's stuff has had much the same effect on me today.)
And you, my dear, are awesome for being so generous with your feedback (and the time it takes to leave it)!
10 [Report This]Date: March 19, 2007 08:24 pm Title: Chapter 3
sadf;as;dfeiortuoewrt!
(I hope a keysmash is an acceptable response.)
Author's Response: It is a totally acceptable response, yes, so long as there's punctuation in it...and there is. :o) Seriously - thanks!!
Date: March 19, 2007 08:10 pm Title: Chapter 3
Okay, I haven't read it yet, but I laughed out loud at your authors notes at the beginning. Just because if you image that actually happening...pretty effing funny.
Oh, that was just so good. I love her having this place to go and he found her there. Loved her confession. And the email. That was a good fix, Thank You!!! You are so my fic dealer.
Author's Response:
For some reason, I always feel compelled to make the disclaimers funny (or to try to, anyway), and I have no idea why that is. :o)
So glad you liked this, really - and you are such an excellent customer that I'm happy to be your dealer!