10 [Report This]Date: October 02, 2007 02:44 pm Title: Chapter 22: This Is Forever Here Within Our Hands
Thank you
Author's Response: You're welcome -- thank *you* for reviewing! :o)
Date: October 02, 2007 01:40 pm Title: Chapter 22: This Is Forever Here Within Our Hands
Oh my. girl7 never disappoints.
We can't have canon Jam together and not have fanon Jam together now, can we?
The angst is lovely, but the happy is just the whipped cream on top of the chocolate pudding. Yum.
Author's Response:
I'm, like, nearly two months late in responding to this, but I didn't want to just leave it hanging. :o)
So glad you enjoyed this, and thanks for all the reviews -- you rock!
Date: October 01, 2007 09:50 pm Title: Chapter 21: Love Will Come Through It's Just Waiting For You
I've been a lurker here for quite a while and have anxiously waited for each of the chapters of this story. I LOVE IT!!! I'm so sad that it is about to be over...but I cant wait to see how it ends! It is utterly perfect! I love the way you have portrayed JAM and the addition of Jonathan. I could totally picture him as Jim's brother. UPDATE SOON! I've been checking by often to find the next installment! :)
Author's Response:
Well welcome! I'm always happy to hear someone say he/she has come out of lurkdom because this is such an amazing community. That said, I'm glad you're enjoying this; I've had so much fun writing it that I'll be sad to finish it in some ways. :o)
Hope you enjoy the next chapter, too! Thanks for reviewing --
Date: September 28, 2007 07:48 pm Title: Chapter 21: Love Will Come Through It's Just Waiting For You
Yay for dinner and second chances! Jonathan is just adorable and such a shipper. Wouldn't we just die if a Jonathan gets mentioned on the show? Especially in some connection to Jim? I mean, if we can have a squirrel on the premiere, anything's possible, right?
Author's Response:
Listen, I think I would pee in the floor if Jim turned out to have a brother named Jonathan. I would absolutely just pee myself. Hee. And yes -- Darryl and the squirrel, too too cute!
Thanks for reviewing!
Date: September 28, 2007 11:41 am Title: Chapter 21: Love Will Come Through It's Just Waiting For You
I lurve Jonathan! "Yeah...I'm so not coming over for dinner." BWAH!
You KNOW I cannot wait for the dinner scene, right? OK.
Author's Response:
Hee - so glad you're enjoying Jonathan! I could just imagine him saying that (or rather, Scott Foley saying that, I guess, heh).
Dinner scene is written and posted - hope you enjoy it! (BTW - LOVE the October calendar!)
Thanks for reviewing --
Date: September 28, 2007 06:11 am Title: Chapter 21: Love Will Come Through It's Just Waiting For You
So late last night, after seeing the premiere, I stopped by here and found this update. Talk about the cherry on top. What can I say at this point other than I can't stop smiling? (And, speaking of the premiere - is Pam really sure Jim shouldn't bring her a 'baguette?')
Author's Response:
Okay, your baguette comment made me laugh harder than it really should have. :o) Glad you enjoyed this - hopefully the next chapter will also leave you (*cough*) satisfied & smiling as well. :o) (And no, I can't stop smiling after that premiere either!)
Thanks, as always, for reviewing!
Date: September 27, 2007 11:10 pm Title: Chapter 1: Content to Compromise
The wait is killing me... i love it, but it's killing me. Slowly.
Author's Response: Gah - in catching up uon review responses, I saw that I neglected to thank you for this one! I'm so sorry -- and I really appreciate the feedback! :o)
Date: September 27, 2007 10:17 pm Title: Chapter 21: Love Will Come Through It's Just Waiting For You
Oh, Pam, you need to go for it already!
Great job as usual! I can't wait to see what happens at dinner :)
Author's Response: Heh - I second that emotion. :o) Thanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: September 27, 2007 09:27 pm Title: Chapter 21: Love Will Come Through It's Just Waiting For You
loving the build up!!! Can't wait for more ;-)
Author's Response: So glad you're still enjoying it! :o) Thanks for reviewing --
Date: September 26, 2007 12:23 pm Title: Chapter 20: Too Scared To Know How I Feel About You Now
i've already written a review (or added this story as a favourite, whatever), but i have to chime in again to say what a pleasure this is to read. i'm definitely hooked, but beyond that, it's a masterfully told story. i think sometimes writers take the easy way out, but you complicate every situation to the nth degree which makes it so real. i'm loving this painful story you've got going. can't wait to see how it turns out!
Author's Response:
You know, it's really a relief to hear you say you think it's a good thing that I don't take the "easy way"; I worry that I put them through too much hell sometimes. :o) But with this AU thing, Pam made so many disastrous decisions and acted so recklessly that I think there's just no way around them having to really work to get through it all.
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: September 25, 2007 07:18 pm Title: Chapter 20: Too Scared To Know How I Feel About You Now
Another wonderful chapter. I'm so sad it's ending so soon-I've really enjoyed the ride!
I really liked this chapter, with them creeping their way towards one another again. You gotta love how Jim would still help her move. What I really love about this path the story has taken is that it allows them to some extent get back what they have always had: they not only love each other, they like each other.
Author's Response:
Listen, it's kind of alarming how sad I'll be to finish this; it has been so much fun to write. Glad you're still enjoying the pacing -- them taking small steps back to one another. I really think that's how it would have to be with those two.
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: September 25, 2007 06:31 pm Title: Chapter 20: Too Scared To Know How I Feel About You Now
I can't even express how wonderful this story is and how much I'm enjoying it.
My heart was racing through this whole chapter! I can't wait for more!
Author's Response:
I'm so glad you're enjoying it; it really has been such a pleasure to write!
Thanks for reviewing --
10 [Report This]Date: September 25, 2007 04:12 pm Title: Chapter 20: Too Scared To Know How I Feel About You Now
Ugh, this is just KILLING me! Again, so well written. Jon with the champagne, nice. I can't wait for the next chapter but I really don't want it to end.
Author's Response:
Hee - I always feel guilty for thinking, yes! when a reviewer says something like that ("This is KILLING me!"), but it is in a way what I'm going for, I suppose. (What can I say? I am an angst whore, apparently.)
Glad you liked the detail with Jon & the champagne. I'm well aware that he treads a fine Mary Sue-esque line, but I really love the idea of a foil for Jim who's so similar in a lot of ways, but is able to be relatively objective; I also love the idea of Jim having a brother with whom Pam is close, someone that she'd confide in a little bit. (And I have searched and searched through my own psyche, yet am unable to locate what it is that makes me have such a penchant for this scenario, LOL.)
In any case - I pulled back on including Jonathan in fics for a while, for fear of overload or overkill or just too much, but reviewers seemed to really respond to him. So here he is.
And, uh, the champagne - while his grandest gesture - will not be his last. :o)
Thanks for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: September 25, 2007 01:13 pm Title: Chapter 20: Too Scared To Know How I Feel About You Now
omg. why are you a genius? fantastic build up, I love how the tension just pulls like taffy. fantastic.
Author's Response:
Why are *you* a genius?? (Said in tones of Dwight to Phyllis in The Dundies -- "Why were *you* in there?!") Seriously - so appreciate the review (and the simile you so casually tossed out there -- awesome, I'm telling you!).
THanks again for the review, and hey, give Eliott a kiss for me, would you? Like, a big kiss.... :o)
Date: September 25, 2007 08:25 am Title: Chapter 20: Too Scared To Know How I Feel About You Now
This fic is just perfect. You've captured their voices and kept them completely true to the characters, which is an impressive feat since this is territory Jim and Pam have never really tread into before. I like the drawn-out mistrust on Jim's part; it feels like when the happy ending gets here, they'll have earned it.
On a more personal level, I really owe you. I've been reading fics set after/during season 3 and feeling like the whole relationship has just been cheapened to a point of no return, and reading this made me like it again. Thank you!
Author's Response:
It's always great to hear that a reader finds their voices authentic, but it's even more so with this one since it's so out there in terms of all that has happened between them. It's also nice to hear that you're enjoying the drawn-out mistrust; it's one of those things that I've been pestering my beta about -- "Is this believable? Is it believable that he'd be in love with her, sense that she's feeling something for him, but still not be willing to trust her?"
...But I just kept thinking that for her to have done what she did to him (i.e. sex then forget it), it'd have really hurt him & could take a while. Plus, drawing from season 3 -- I think that he sensed all season that all he had to do was say the word and she'd be his, but he was hesitant because of the hell he probably went through trying to move on from it.
A big rambling digression there - sorry. :o)
As for your last comment -- thank you so much, wow. I know what you mean; I've heard a lot of people say the same thing about season 3 cheapening the relationship a little, and I can see that point of view. I do think the writers made a few mistakes (though I was never one of the people threatening to jump ship or getting furious every week -- I was more like the cautious optimist, LOL). So to hear you say that this sort of redeemed their dynamic means a lot -- because truly, one of the reasons I write as much as I do about them is that the dynamic the writers have created (to say nothing of the two characters themselves) is simply amazing. I just love it.
Anyway - thank you so much for reviewing!
Date: September 25, 2007 06:06 am Title: Chapter 20: Too Scared To Know How I Feel About You Now
Ow, girl7, rip my heart out, why don't you? Love the door-frame tapping. And rebuilding. But hating that Jim still can't trust Pam. Ouch.
Author's Response:
I'm sorry! I'll make it up to you, I promise. (This story has made me feel like a cad in some ways - I find myself saying in review responses, "I'm sorry; I'll make it up to you. I didn't mean it, baby - please!" LOL)
Yeah, the rebuilding was a smidge challenging to write because...well, for one, I'm an impatient girl, and I do believe if I were in Pam's shoes, I'd have long since tackled him and two, I now know what John Krasinski looks like with a shirt off damn.....
Sorry - digressed a little there. :O)
Thanks so much for reviewing!
Date: September 25, 2007 06:03 am Title: Chapter 20: Too Scared To Know How I Feel About You Now
One more chapter? Oh, Jim, you're not going anywhere. Grab him, Pam! Haul him back in!
Looking foward to the conclusion of this wonderful story so that I can print it all out and savor it in its entirety. Yay for another girl7 saga!
Author's Response:
Heh heh - spoken like a true Hussy! ;O) (I'm sorry - did that make you feel unwelcome? LOL)
Yeah, I'm actually a bit sad that there's only one more chapter (which says sad things about me, I'm sure, but that's neither here nor there, hee). It's been such a treat to have you loyal guys coming back and reviewing every chapter - means a lot to know people are still with me! ;O)
Thanks for reviewing! (And thank you also for your beautiful icon over in the forums -- makes me go all melty....)
10 [Report This]Date: September 25, 2007 05:51 am Title: Chapter 20: Too Scared To Know How I Feel About You Now
What will break the impass? Can't wait to find out.
The way you write, I really FEEL this couple. Thanks for helping bridge the gap between seasons so beautifully.
Author's Response:
Spoiler alert - it'll be Dwight and his spud gun! LOL - I'm kidding, totally kidding. [/Pam]
You are more than welcome for the entertainment between seasons; I'm really thrilled that you're enjoying it, seriously. I've had the best time writing this one.
Thanks again!
10 [Report This]Date: September 23, 2007 04:17 pm Title: Chapter 19: We're Strange Allies With Warring Hearts
What a perfect song choice for this stage in Jim and Pam's relationship. Your writing style is magnificent and while I'd like nothing more than to see them acknowledge their feelings to each other, I think it's more real that they're still cautious right now. Spot on writing as always girl7.
Author's Response:
Yay - glad you liked the chapter title! That one's been swirling around on my list, and I kept bumping it back. (I tell you, picking the chapter titles for this thing has been one of the more surprising challenges, as there are so many excellent little snatches of lyrics that fit so well.)
Also glad that you're enjoying the pacing of this -- because for one thing, I had no idea how to proceed after the whole one-night stand thing. (Gee, that makes it sound like *I* had a one night stand with Jim, no? Heh, if only....) Anyway - yes, I didn't think it'd be realistic to have them just go right back to the way they were before, but honestly, I had absolutely no frame of reference.
The other thing about it is that I'm an impatient writer at times -- anxious to get to the "good" stuff, so I whined a lot to my beta, Starry Dreamer, over this last chapter (sending emails along the lines of, "Gahhhh, this is boring to write!" ...which it actually wasn't; it's just that I've had the ending envisioned for such a long time that I'm eager to get to it.)
Anyway, thank you so much for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: September 23, 2007 04:04 pm Title: Chapter 19: We're Strange Allies With Warring Hearts
Like sweet torture. It's amazing how truly you write their voices. I love it and you have really made me miss the show a little less. What kills me, is that once the season starts, you'll probably be posting less, and I'll have to depend on the show to make me miss *you* less...
Author's Response:
Okay, so that review almost made me cry --- such kind words. Thank you so much, seriously. It's hard to articulate, but truly, I began writing fanfic without intending to show it to anyone on earth (let alone put it on the internet!). So to hear that people are interested in what I've written and are enjoying it is just beyond wonderful.
As for my writing less when the premiere rolls around, all I'll say is this: There have been a few points when I've thought, well, I'll probably stop writing now...and it hasn't happened yet. :o)
Thank you, seriously, for your thoughtful words!
Date: September 23, 2007 03:15 pm Title: Chapter 19: We're Strange Allies With Warring Hearts
I'm sad to see the end of this coming, but I'm excited to see Jim and Pam actually coming back to each other, better and together. Great job as usual.
Author's Response:
Ha - you think you're sad! I was sitting here earlier thinking, oh now...what am I going to do this weekend? LOL...such a dork, I know.
In any case, thanks so much for your review (well, all your reviews, actually!) :o)
Date: September 23, 2007 02:55 pm Title: Chapter 10: Doors You Opened I Just Can't Close
That's a very intriguing idea, to think that they have so much more history that we know about, especially when it includes all the stuff you added. Very well done. Off to AUland!
Author's Response:
It's funny you mention that -- because it was the kernal that spawned this whole story. I was fascinated with the idea that maybe something had happened between them years before the cameras came, and that's where the story came from.
Thanks so much for reviewing - hope you have fun in AU land! LOL
Date: September 23, 2007 02:29 pm Title: Chapter 19: We're Strange Allies With Warring Hearts
Another great chapter. I love them slowly feeling their way in this. The interactions with Roy are interesting, especially with Roy knowing Pam's feelings more than Jim does. He has to be even more puzzled than he was in The Negotiation at Pam not actively going for it with Jim after all this. I think this whole AU scenario is interesting, as I think the lack of cameras might make them even less apt to be open, with no one constantly calling on them to open up about their feelings and their relationship, especially Pam who seems to have so few confidantes.
Author's Response:
As usual, you offer an insight I hadn't even considered! It is weird that Roy knows more than Jim does, huh? I have to admit that I've wanted to do more with Roy here; I tend to write him sympathetically because I really love what they did with him in season 3 (well, except for that whole, "I am gonna kill Jim Halpert" thing, hee). Or maybe I just have a soft spot for David Denman (definitely that!). In any case, I'd really like to tie up the loose ends between Pam & Roy, but I'm not sure I've got it in me before Thursday. :o)
All this rambling to say: Thanks so much for yet another insightful review; you rock!
Date: September 23, 2007 02:23 pm Title: Chapter 19: We're Strange Allies With Warring Hearts
I am loving this AU version of this story more and more. I have been reading it from the beginning and am always a little excited when I see that a new chapter has been posted.
I can't wait for the conclusion.
Author's Response:
So glad you're enjoying it! It's really strange to realize that this AU version -- which has spanned so many more chapters -- is so different from the original ending I had in mind. Still, though, I'm so glad people wanted me to write it, because it's definitely been a challenge -- albeit one I've totally enjoyed.
Thanks so much for reviewing!
10 [Report This]Date: September 23, 2007 02:22 pm Title: Chapter 18: And Fate Has Led You Through It You Do What You Have To Do
I just sat and read all the way up to this chapter, and I completely love this! You're such an amazing writer, you captured all of their feelings perfectly. Amazing job! Off to the next chapter!
Author's Response:
Holy cow, you read it all in one sitting? Are your eyes bleeding? :o) I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed it; lord knows I've had a ball writing it.
Thanks for taking the time to review!