Date: September 08, 2007 04:50 pm Title: Chapter 15: It's All Right, I'm Okay; I Think God Can Explain
Woo hoo new chapter! But sad chapter. Pam is kinda jerking him around too much as his bro so helpfully pointed out. Right now I'm having a difficult time feeling sorry for Pam. She seems selfish and I'm having kinda a hard time empathizing with her. But great chapter and I'm looking forward to the happy. I'll definitely keep refreshing tonight in the hopes of another chapter. Yeah for football season!
Author's Response:
Oh yes - Pam is TOTALLY jerking him around (don't think that went unnoticed....).
So glad to hear youi're willing to stick with this, however frustrating it may be (and seriously, I KNOW how frustrating it is!).
Date: September 08, 2007 04:49 pm Title: Chapter 15: It's All Right, I'm Okay; I Think God Can Explain
" so I may post another update in a few hours."
This is me begging. :) I love the AU ending of this story-I can't wait to read more.
Author's Response: Ah -- will update ASAP, I promise! :o)
Date: September 08, 2007 04:25 pm Title: Chapter 1: Content to Compromise
Gah! Are you writing right now? If you're reading this review, STOP and start writing!
Author's Response:
Hee - that review has left me grinning like a jackass.
...And yes! I'm writing...will get back to it. :o)
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: September 08, 2007 04:09 pm Title: Chapter 15: It's All Right, I'm Okay; I Think God Can Explain
Oh, I hope you update this again tonight because I'm really excited as to where this is heading. Great work!
Author's Response: A review -- yay! (I'm always ridiculously excited to post a chapter and wait for reviews...total geek, I know.) Glad you're still enjoying this -- I'll be working on it, so hopefully I can update soon!
Date: September 06, 2007 08:24 am Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
I love that song, too.
At any rate...GAH! Bad girl7, bad! You're making me hate Pam, and I was never a Pam hater. I don't think I could watch the show if they had gone this route. And yet I'm compelled to keep reading (you'd better get to the promised happy ending quickly dammit!) because it's so well done. Like the pain of Battlestar Galactica's relationships. All I know is that if Pam's behavior was in the real world, violence comes next. Either suicide or a crime of passion but she has crossed a pretty offensively serious line and I don't know that I could forgive her if I was Jim.
Author's Response:
Yeah, that song is an old one that mysteriously appeared in my i-pod shuffle, and it really seemed to fit.
It's interesting to hear you say that you're glad the show didn't go this route -- I hadn't thought about it that way, but now that you mention it, I completely get why they had her back off at so many crucial moments (his mentioning their "first date," her freakout in "The Fight," etc.). While I kind of hated her at those times for being cold to him (though I was put off by his calling the roof thing a date -- I did think that was a bit pushy of him), I see now that they had to rein her in. Interesting.
But yes, she's crossed a line here -- though Jim sort of let her cross it, because she told him the deal. In any case, I'll make it better, I promise! ....And yes, Pam will make it up to him and earn his forgiveness. :o)
Thanks so much for reviewing this so faithfully; I really appreciate your feedback!
10 [Report This]Date: September 04, 2007 03:31 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Oh my goodness, what a heartbreaking chapter. I had tears in my eyes the whole time. I can't wait until the next chapter.
Author's Response:
Like I said to the reviewer below...I'm never sure how to respond to someone telling me a chapter made her/him get teary-eyed -- because as a writer, it's terrific to hear something like that, but at the same time, how mean is it that I'd respond, "Yay - so glad I made you cry!" :o)
I really appreciate your review!
10 [Report This]Date: September 04, 2007 01:03 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Ugh, I'll pass on the Queen, this chapter makes me want to cry. That was the most heartbreaking sex I ever want to read. This whole story is beyond amazing and I'll definitely be tuning in for each chapter.
Author's Response:
Heh, so Freddie isn't quite your bag, no? I never know what to say when reviewers say a chapter made them want to cry -- because my initial instinct is to be happy that the reader felt it, but at the same time, it feels mean to say, "So glad I made you feel like weeping!" :o)
In any case -- glad this moved you, and I so appreciate the review!
Date: September 04, 2007 06:16 am Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Edge of my seat! More more more! Love the drawn out angst (thanks for the advance warning)!
Author's Response:
Heh - glad the warning made the angst more bearable! (And, uh...more angst to follow before the happy ending.)
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: September 03, 2007 06:00 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
You weren't kidding when you warned about the angst, wow. This was so incredibly tragic, but I will follow this tale where ever you weave it. Looking forward to the next update!
Author's Response:
Hey, when I say angst, I mean angst, sister! ;o) I really appreciate hearing that you'll stick with it even through the dark stuff -- I can promise that I'll work it all out. :o)
Thanks so much for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: September 03, 2007 10:50 am Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Yet again, you awe and inspire me.
Author's Response: Oh, wow -- thank you so much! :o)
Date: September 03, 2007 05:02 am Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
If I didn't know there'd be an AU happy ending, I'd be concerned for my sanity...because my craving for this story must be symptomatic of a pathological masochist tendency, LOL. I just hope by the time Pam comes to her senses, there's something left of that poor decimated boy. And of me. This is the very definition of uber-romantic...love as something equally terrible (in the most elemental sense of the word) as it is wonderful. Bracing myself for more (a few more angsty chapters? Have mercy!)
Author's Response:
You are completely sane, my dear; it's just that John Krasinski plays angst so well that we're all driven to seek it out for Jim whenever we can. :o) So glad you're still enjoying this, in spite of the darkness -- the light's coming, I promise. :o)
Thanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: September 02, 2007 11:32 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
I should hate having to go through this tunnel first but I can't, because even the parts I don't want to read are done so well I can't deny it. I am so glad you warned us, though!
Author's Response:
Thank you so much -- seriously. I worry about how dark this one has gotten, so it's good to hear that you're enjoying the ride...sort of, LOL. (Happy ending guaranteed, I promise! ...That sounds like a "massage parlor" slogan, doesn't it? Hee.)
Thanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: September 02, 2007 11:17 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Oh, dear God. Why don't you just sit on my legs and repeatedly punch me in the gut?
I mean that in the good way, of course. You do angst, and you do it very well. This made me want to cry, and scream at Pam, then just take Jim (and his bare chest, OMG) all away from her if she wants to be that way. hee
So your job is done is what I'm saying. Excellent.
Author's Response:
Okay, the first part of your review made me burst out laughing. ;o)
I promise to make it up to you (though not as much as Jim and his bare chest probably could, but that's neither here nor there....LOL).
Thanks for reviewing!
Date: September 02, 2007 11:15 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Girl7, you are taking angst to a new level! Such heartache & love; the way you describe it is positively visceral. Post again soon!
Author's Response: So glad you're enjoying the angst (because good god, this is angsty, I realize - hee). Thanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: September 02, 2007 11:11 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Wow...this just keeps getting better. Great job!
Author's Response: Thank you so much, Jenn!
Date: September 02, 2007 09:48 pm Title: Chapter 1: Content to Compromise
i was pronounced dead a few moments ago.
Author's Response:
Oh my god! :o) I'll revive you soon, I promise; you'll just be on life support for a few chapters....LOL.
Thanks for reviewing!
Date: September 02, 2007 08:53 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Thud. Can't type. Am on floor. Dead of broken heart.
girl7 always rips our hearts out before delivering the happy shiny Jammyness, right?
Date: September 02, 2007 08:53 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
even this thing has been AU from the very beggining, for me this chapter is where it gets really Alternate. Maybe it is because I have never been in this particular situation, but what she seems to be doing is sort of the height of cruelty. Stringing him along only to deny it later. And not just with alliances and yogurt lids any more. Really stringing him along. But of course, this exquisite type of torture and back and forth is what makes your fics REALLY good. So, keep going, and I will keep squeeling every time its on the Most Recent List.
Date: September 02, 2007 08:51 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Another beautiful angst-filled chapter! Agghh! I wish Pam would just grow a pair! What's so great about Roy anyway? Jim is everything a woman could ever want! Cant wait for the next chapter!
Date: September 02, 2007 07:18 pm Title: Chapter 14: There's No Chance For Us; It's All Decided For Us
Wow. That really just tears at the heart. I like that Jim is finally pleading his case, while still knowing that pushing her too much will just drive her away. I think it's really important for her to be flat out told at this stage that she can't go back to how things were, with Roy at home and Jim her best friend at work. You do such an awesome job of capturing Pam here. She's just so overwhelmed by everything, I think largely because she really feels the power of her own choices right now. I'm not sure she's ever been the one holding the cards in her life. Now she's really holding all the cards, with both Jim and Roy. And when you're not used to this and passive to begin with, you don't even really want to be the one holding all the cards.
I think that might be the angstiest chapter of them all, but I loved every word...
Date: September 02, 2007 06:54 pm Title: Chapter 1: Content to Compromise
This promised happy ending better be freaking happy because you're just breaking my heart here!
And I swear that was meant to be a compliment, despite how it sounded. And aAs much as it hurts me to read it, you write angst remarkably and painfully well.
Author's Response:
Heh -- I promise: the proportion of my angst to happiness is always balanced; it's just a kind of delayed gratification. LOL.
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: August 27, 2007 11:08 am Title: Chapter 13: Here It Comes Now, Sure As Silence Follows Rain
Gah! All they'll ever have? You wouldn't dare! This is AU! I demand a happy ending! :-)
I love the constant references to possibilities in the first half of this chapter. It was such a nice motif. And good for Jim, finally calling her out on her shit. And she noticed! Yay!
Author's Response:
LOL -- yes ma'am, miss belsum (or mr.)! I will give you a happy ending; I promise! (Seriously -- I'm heaping on the angst in such an enormous pile that I'd feel genuinely guilty if I didn't make up for it somehow....)
Thanks, as always, for reviewing!
Date: August 27, 2007 05:58 am Title: Chapter 13: Here It Comes Now, Sure As Silence Follows Rain
Woa. Need to catch my breath here.
Ideally, of course Pam would have stopped to think how she'd be hurting Jim and herself by leading him down this path...but (thank god) people/characters don't always behave in the most considered, healthy way, especially in the heat of the moment (emphasis on heat, girlfriend!) - and you've vividly colored Pam as running on hurt and hormones and confusion here, so I buy her letting it go this far. The test for me is that regardless of the circumstances she's recognizably Pam. But oh, Jim - your last line breaks my heart for him in 1000 ways, with surgical precision.
all pretenses just gone....
That's exactly what this feels like. I must be a glutton for punishment, cause I can't wait for more of this ;-)
Author's Response:
As usual, your review sheds insight on what I've written in such a way that I'm left sitting here deep in thought, mulling it over. So glad you appreciated the inherently flawed-ness of this chapter; I was actually a little surprised by the vehemence of some reviews in Jim's defense. (Totally appreciated them -- and the reactions, because that's what we're after right?) But I saw this as just Pam completely screwing up and being human, while Jim is doing the same -- knows she's not going to be his, but still he doesn't stop himself.
But at the same time, even if I weren't the one writing this story, I'd read a scene like this one and know that they'll end up together -- because I don't think these two would be capable of just one night, no matter their intentions.
Anyway - thanks, as always, for the review; you rock, my friend!
Date: August 26, 2007 04:44 pm Title: Chapter 13: Here It Comes Now, Sure As Silence Follows Rain
Here I was thinking these AU chapters would be somewhat happier! But you do the angst so well, it's not like I'm complaining :-) It's so sad to me that Pam still can't think of leaving Roy, even after he's cheated on her. I think it makes sense, though, because she really does love Roy. But man, it's frustrating! I like the concept that Pam just wants to know what it's like to be with Jim "once." But, I bet that just once is not going to be wholly satisfying! I hope so at least :-)
Author's Response:
Heh -- nooooo, the AU chapters are all about the sex and the angst and the drama, baby! :o) (I will make it all right, though; I promise.)
Glad you found it plausible that Pam wouldn't be able to even conceive of leaving Roy, because that's really the way I perceive her -- even after all this with Jim, I think she'd still be so scared (maybe even MORE scared).
Thanks so much for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: August 26, 2007 03:49 pm Title: Chapter 13: Here It Comes Now, Sure As Silence Follows Rain
His words seem to trickle over her in a cold shock as she realizes in an instant the magnitude of all she's done to him: the way she's encouraged him to fill the emotional void Roy leaves, even though she knows what it costs him to do so; the way she's deliberately pretended not to see that he wants her, because doing so would mean that she can't safely keep indulging her own attraction; the way she's given him just enough to hold onto, a smattering of small moments that are sufficient to convince him that there's a chance.
Perfect. So spot on. The rest of the chapter was fantastic too.
Author's Response: Wow, thanks so much -- seriously. This was a hard chapter to write, and I get the sense that it wasn't a picnic for people to read either. :O) I appreciate the feedback!