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Karen as Jim's BFF?! Yes, please!!!

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God this is so good. I never read fics that aren't mainly canon/set at Dunder Mifflin, but this is a fantastic exception and I couldn't help myself. I hope you continue this at some point in the future.

Author's Response:

Oh, I’m so glad you found this story and that you like it! I know it’s been forever since my last update but I promise that I haven’t forgotten about this one and that the next chapter will very much be worth the (already too long) wait!

Thank you for reading! 

I hope you will update soon! I love this story!

I'm obsessed with this fic! I really hope you are still writing!

I vaguely remember there was once a mafia JAM fic I read in some distant life...

But seriously, this was really good. I'm a little worried that Jim and Pam now have asymmetric information about Helene's thoughts, but I suppose it's not really JAM if you don't have plates flying in the air with the potential to crash down ala The Secret or Beach Games. I still really enjoy this world, and I'm glad we got Betsy in this chapter. She's awesome.

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I’ve been dying to read this all day (stupid work) and finally got the chance and literally couldn’t tear my eyes away. I am SO CAPTIVATED by this world and these versions of Jim and Pam! It all read as si believable and real and I just know things aren’t going to always be this easy for them, and I am so excited to read more.

And girl. That tiny, sweet, mostly for show kiss killed me. And then HIS TEXT and his SOFTNESS and just. Mafia Jim could give me concrete boots and send me to sleep with the fishes and I’d say thank you.

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COL- “I forgot how to write” -LEY. That was so good! Everything about their situation is so intense and exciting and this chapter flowed with the last like it was all written in the same time period. The Jam chemistry is real and that whole scene in the backyard was very entertaining and cute. And the way you ended it? So sweet. Love Jim just letting her sleep. Your writing is as good as ever and I can’t wait for the next chapter!

Yeay!!!!! This story is back. It’s so much fun. I’m really looking forward to Jim’s brothers reacting to this. So great you updated

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AH. I'm so happy you updated this!

I am very much here for more-clever-than-anticipated Helene and Betsy, and of course no matter the universe Pam and Jim can't quite manage to communicate well. The banter around the kiss was *perfect*.

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I was SO STINKIN’ EXCITED. To see this updated, you have no idea. I love Mafia Jim so much.
I am quite literally entranced by this story and of course, your writing is flawless. You make it seem so effortless to have this underlying tension while having them still be very much in character but also realistically in this unviverse. The threats they face, while not shown implicitly, still fill the atmosphere with their violence. The way you have shaped Jim’s character is so very on par with how I see him and I love the little nuanced ways we get to see that.
Anyway, you know I’m absolutely terrible at reviews but, Coley, this story is such a masterpiece.

Hello. Hi. I am SO excite.
“For too many years, I saw it.” Okay, so Helene is more perceptive that I gave her credit. I love that she’s challenging Pam on this. It’s such a mother move.
If she has to make out with Jim to prove something to her mother, I’m not going to be mad...
You’re throwing me into remembering why I love this version of Pam so much. She’s got that extra bit of Fancy New Beesly sass and she shows it in spades here with the way she handles Helene.

“Jesus, look at him. Think he’d switch places with his brother? I’d marry him in an instant.”
“See, about that…”
I want to copy this whole entire thing and be like this, this is my favorite. But that would be insane, but like *this*, this is it. It’s perfect. Same, Penny, same.

“You’re prettier than Katy.” Finally someone gets it. Sign me up to team Betsy.
Why does Pam giving tea as her drink of choice do something to me? It’s fine. It’s the most simple of canon choices and I love to see it so much.

“I’m not just saying that because you’re the first girl he’s ever brought home to meet me.” Oh stop. Do I love Betsy? I think I do. It’s such a contrast to Helene.

“Pam had to bite back a laugh over the fact that she’d found herself on the receiving end of two women with knives that evening and Jim’s beloved security was nowhere to be found.” Coley. You write the words so well. I love this tinge of humor. It’s perfect.

Damn. It’s so good. That little slip from Betsy with NYU and Pam just acing it.

Oh. Oh. Okay. I got the mother wrong, but still the same brilliant, delightfully trope-y plan.
“Just wait until my mother isn’t watching.” PERFECT.

OH. You’re just going to put that final line in there and assume we’re okay. It’s fine. I’m fine. Everything is fine.

If we’re still here?! Coley. COLEY. It goes without saying, but I will always be 110% here for anything you do.

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Hey Sunshine.

That's it. That's the review. Cause you've done this again. Left us with a cliffhanger (what the hell, Helene?!) after the turmoil of that jewelry store conversation (amazing!), Pam's flirting (terrible!), and Jim's whole Ring Test (brilliant!!).

And the way Jim handled himself at Helene's was perfection.

You masterfully slip in all of these moments when Pam lets herself toy with the idea of Really Liking him and it's completely normal that I'm YELLING at my phone while I read this. I'm so excited about this entire fic and where you keep promising to take these big plans. Please please don't make us wait another 8 months. *please*

Look, Sunshine.