1 [Report This]Date: April 27, 2021 10:16 am Title: I will be OK
Annnd now I'm crying again. 😭
Author's Response: I’m sorry! Thank you so much for reading and commenting!
1 [Report This]Date: April 27, 2021 10:14 am Title: I am very special
Last chapter I cried, this one I'm laughing all the way through! Same old Jim. 😂😂
Author's Response: I tried to imagine what their life would be like. Thank you!
1 [Report This]Date: April 27, 2021 10:00 am Title: I know what I am
Oh my goodness lol!!
Author's Response: Happy to make you smile!
Date: October 09, 2020 08:57 pm Title: I will be OK
Ooooof. This is hard to read even if it does come at the end of a happy, well-lived life together.
Author's Response:
Sorry! I sort of felt bad coming back after all this time just to, you know, do this to them. But it always bothered me that this story didn't feel finished, and it just sat in my brain until I wrapped it up. I think they lived happily ever after, and that whichever of them survives the other would take a lot of strength from those years together.
Thank you for enduring all of these many chapters. I hope you enjoyed them!
Date: October 09, 2020 08:54 pm Title: I am very special
Oh, my. Risky, Jim - but you know your wife! And I guess he did always have a thing for moms - soccer moms, NASCAR moms, grand-moms...
Author's Response: I loved thinking of those two having a full life together full of laughter.
Date: October 09, 2020 08:52 pm Title: I am an adult
I'm choosing to adapt this to Cece's eventual wedding.
Author's Response: I'm honored to be in your head-canon! I very briefly considered going back and changing the kids' names, but I am much too lazy and I would most certainly miss some and then it would be a mess. But we'll pretend that Lucy is CeCe, for sure!
Date: October 09, 2020 08:51 pm Title: I can accomplish anything
This is in some ways a tension that I wish Season 9 had explored more going the other way - the idea of two spouses who start in more or less the same place, support each other doing more and one of whom ends up growing way more than the other does feel like a recipe for unpleasantness, and I'm glad you were willing to dig into it.
Author's Response: Thank you! It can be tough to feel supportive when someone else's success just seems to highlight your own lack of progress. That hurts in friendship and I imagine it would be that much worse in a marriage, especially with the fear of being left behind.
Date: October 09, 2020 08:47 pm Title: I am beautiful
Awwww Jim. A+ husbanding.
Author's Response: Time passes, but Jim Halpert remains perfect. Ha.
Date: October 09, 2020 08:46 pm Title: I choose you
Whoa. That's a powerful way to bring back THE DRESS.
Author's Response: I took a swerve away from fluff with this one, but these two can never drift too far apart to make it back, at least in my fic! And THE DRESS! I loved pulling it out of her closet.
1 [Report This]Date: October 09, 2020 08:43 pm Title: I know what I am
This is very cute almost-smut! And a really fun way to stick to the overall theme.
Author's Response: The closest to smut I ever got. Just not my cup of tea, but I admit to having a great deal of fun with this one. :)
1 [Report This]Date: October 09, 2020 08:42 pm Title: I am happy
*SQUEE*
Author's Response: I loved their real wedding...but it was a lot of fun to imagine it before it happened, too. Thank you for the squee! :)
1 [Report This]Date: October 09, 2020 08:41 pm Title: I managed while you were gone
You know, it's always struck me that so many fics from this era had at least Pam and usually Pam and Jim leaving Dunder Mifflin not too long after they got together - I know it didn't happen like this, but it actually still feels like a pretty natural progression of their story.
Author's Response: It did feel like a natural way for Pam to continue her growth, even if it wasn't in the cards considering that the show took place in The Office. Heh. But I also did feel like, for Jim especially, the job was the place they could be together. Once they had a real relationship outside of work, either or both of them could be free to leave and keep their connection intact.
Author's Response: It did feel like a natural way for Pam to continue her growth, even if it wasn't in the cards considering that the show took place in The Office. Heh. But I also did feel like, for Jim especially, the job was the place they could be together. Once they had a real relationship outside of work, either or both of them could be free to leave and keep their connection intact.
1 [Report This]Date: October 09, 2020 08:39 pm Title: I trust you not to leave me
This is exactly what that summer felt like for them - complete with them using their relationship to mess with Dwigt.
Author's Response:
We missed so much of their early days, but I definitely tried to catch some of that heady new-relationship energy. And messing with Dwight is how they flirt, so...ha.
1 [Report This]Date: October 09, 2020 08:39 pm Title: I changed for me
SHE WORE THE RED BLOUSE. You slay me.
Author's Response:
Ahhh, you got to this one. I mean, this was a decade in the making. Fun!
My friend, for whom I wrote this piece originally, loved the red blouse enough to look it up and try to buy it online, so it was a given...but it also seemed like the exact right thing for their first date!
Author's Response:
Ahhh, you got to this one. I mean, this was a decade in the making. Fun!
My friend, for whom I wrote this piece originally, loved the red blouse enough to look it up and try to buy it online, so it was a given...but it also seemed like the exact right thing for their first date!
1 [Report This]Date: October 09, 2018 11:23 am Title: I will be OK
This is so beautiful and touching. I love how you captured highs and lows in their marriage throughout so many years. And you came back to finish it (so touchingly achingly wonderfully done) makes it even more perfect. Thank you for this.
Author's Response: No, no-- thank you! Jam-fic was a huge part of my life for a while, and it always bothered me that I had never wrapped this one up the way I wanted to. I am delighted that anyone is still discovering it. You've made my day.
10 [Report This]Date: March 17, 2017 12:59 pm Title: I will be OK
Wow. It was so fun to revisit this entire thing after so many years. And then to get the final gut-punch. Beautiful, but now I'm crying at work.
Author's Response: I'm sorry. I love you. Happy birthday? Hee.
Date: March 16, 2017 12:29 am Title: I will be OK
The update made me read the whole thing! It's a great idea and the latest chapter was just so sad, (but good!).
Author's Response: Thank you! I wrote most of it a loooong time ago but I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Date: March 15, 2017 10:39 pm Title: I will be OK
Wow, this hurt! Jim's comment about getting and outfit for a job interview, guh, right in the griefbone! Thanks so much for returning and completing this piece, even though it was bittersweet ending it was definitely fitting. You're not rusty at all (and at the risk of mixing metaphors, if you can find anymore JAM in that jar I'd definitely be happy ;) )
Author's Response: Aww, thanks! It felt good to dip my toe back it...we'll see!
10 [Report This]Date: March 15, 2017 10:30 pm Title: I choose you
Wow, definitely interesting to read this and see how you were actually pretty close to their S9 storyline with this chapter, how the 2nd kid and the advancing careers were straining them but then they went back to their roots to remind themselves how much they loved each other and how much they had gotten through already.
Author's Response: I think every couple goes through these issues (married 19 years myself, so I feel qualified to say so). But they love each other way too much not to fight through. Thanks for reading!
Date: March 15, 2017 07:06 pm Title: I will be OK
Did not expect this ending -- broke my heart! Beautifully written though.
Author's Response: Thank you! Sorry about your heart! :)
Date: March 15, 2017 04:13 pm Title: I changed for me
Lis, you are the rarest of writers, a fanfic author who comes back years (or a decade) later to complete a story. Kudos to you.
I reread the whole thing and all the reviews. My visits to MTT nowadays are infrequent, but I enjoy reliving that part of my life. It made me quite nostalgic, seeing all the old posters' names. And I remember you from the old TwoP boards.
That said, what a fitting conclusion to your story of their life together. I think that when it was happening in real time on the show, it would be hard to imagine either of them as a bereaved spouse. But it is part of life and you wrote it realistically, and it completed the story. Thank you for doing that.
Author's Response: Oh, thank you! I'm not sure what drew me back, but I did the same thing-- re-reading and just remembering this special time. We all shared something beautiful through this show and what we created because of it. I'm honored to still be part of it in a tiny way.
Date: July 16, 2008 09:04 am Title: I am very special
OMG, I didn't even know they made that. *snort* perfect, but oh so wron!
Author's Response: Yeah, WRONG is definitely the word for it. But I couldn't let Jim pass it up!
10 [Report This]Date: July 16, 2008 09:02 am Title: I am an adult
Okay, so I am rereading this before I read the last chapter, but, I have two being late for a wedding stories. So I was at a wedding, and they told a story of another relative who was 2 hours late for her own wedding (she was the bride). She made a good point, they wouldn't start without her. So, when we were on the way to the wedding, and we realized bride needed to eat lunch, we had no qualms about stopping. Bride hungry - bride gets what she wants!
This brings like a whole different side to the wedding. I wasn't allowed in while friend was getting married (only maid of honor and mom were), so its like, wow. Its, all... crazy wedding craziness!
And, when I saw friend and her father walk down the aisle. And when they did their dance at the reception... totally near tears. I heart dads.
Author's Response: Dads are good. And weddings are even better!
Date: September 19, 2007 05:26 am Title: I am very special
It's no fair. You win at the short and sweet (or angsty acutally) stories and now you've done a multi-chapter fic to perfection.
I hate you. [/pam]
Love the idea of them happy and together so far in the future. And the image of their kids and grandkids all around? So sweet. Yay you!
Author's Response: Yay, me! I am very, very fortunate to have such kind, generous readers/commenters. And I would TOTALLY not say that I'm winning any awards against you- maybe a tie, but not winning. Thank you!!
Date: September 18, 2007 08:38 am Title: I am very special
Hee! That picture on the shirt you linked is brilliant.
I really like that you didn't make any sort of catty comment about the ex-wife. It was just matter-of-fact. And I also like how Angela and Kevin are referenced by their full names. I think that's realistic. Jim and Pam may still know those people but the first-namers in their lives are their family. Subtle, and maybe you didn't intend it, but effective. And it's nice to see them as empty-nesters, but still Jammy!
Author's Response:
Sadly, divorce is just a fact of a lot of lives; it seemed realistic to me (and probably broke Pam's heart when Jamie went through it). And yeah- in my story, Pam left DM years ago, so these wouldn't be people she'd see or think of often. I'm sure they both refer to Dwight as just "Dwight", though. Heh.
Thank you so much!!