I'm glad they had a sufficiently awkward Schrute Farms experience, but also that their wedding is still there. Also, I'm glad Jim knows he's more a cheerleader than a critic for her art, but also can see its changes (no prettiest of all the art...)

Author's Response:

Yes, two city-slickers out on the farm, that's always a fun time. I really liked Dwight and Angela's wedding on the farm, so I've stolen it. Jim is indeed aware of his shortcomings and he will not utter those hated words, I promise you!

Thanks for dropping reviews all the way while catching up! It's really nice to see.  

He only has to invite Dwight if Dwight gets hit over the head! But that was adorable, and June 10 wedding is exactly what I was hoping you'd do!

Author's Response:

I loved making the turnabout or "How the turntables have..." as we like to say in this fandom. I'm glad to hear we were on the right track with the dates, although I'm sure you've noticed by now that this story has a habit of upending those canon tropes and flipping them on their head where it suits me!

Thanks for stopping by to review! 

Hey, timing of holidays aside, this was lovely.

Author's Response: Well, thanks! I'm glad you liked it. It's nice to see you catching up!

Nice way to keep things moving along for sure. The tour of Dwight's farm was fun. Glad they found a good location there at the end. The rest, yes was a little choppy, but it serves the purpose of getting us ahead in the plot line.

Author's Response:

Dwight's farm was really fun to envision, so I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it! Like I said in the note, I knew it was choppy, but we've got things to do and places to be! We gotta keep our roll on! 

Thanks for always consistently reviewing, I love hearing back from you! 

From the chapter title alone I’m already excited for this one...
“Jim was convinced that Dwight had given them bad directions on purpose as revenge for the years of office pranks” Honestly that wouldn’t be Dwight’s worst idea.

Bless Pam & Jim and their very city-folk reaction to the smells of a working farm.
Hahaha, the graveyard. I can literally hear Pam saying that.
I love all the terrible locations they visit before they get to the one that works.

It’s very sweet that they’ve crossed that line to consummate the marriage (well, proposal, close enough). That’s some pretty impressive self control on both sides that they’ve got to this point without getting that far.

“It was a good thing that he didn’t intend to ever do it again” I feel that. Although it was also my husband’s excuse for every time he went all groomzilla (it’s totally a thing, trust me...) on me and wanted to spend an obscene amount of money on something ridiculous...

I think this chapter worked! It’s hard to move a story forward over a period of time without some chunks of exposition. It was a nice balance here, especially with the more detail during the Schrute farm scenes.

Author's Response:

I was thinking of Dwight and Angela's wedding planning woes when writing this chapter, I couldn't help thinking Dwight might have a little fun with Jim and Pam in his own way.

 The city slickers on the farm bit was by far my favourite part of the chapter to write, I'm glad you liked it. And the cemetary if we recall from The Initiation has... other connotations.

Was the ridiculous thing Sumo suits? Because my brother had sumo suits at his wedding and it actually we surprisingly well.

I'm happy to hear the chapter flowed well enough for you, thanks for dropping by to review! 

HA HA HA. I hope they have their wedding at the beet farm. That's fantastic. lol.

Author's Response:

I'm glad that tickled you. I'm fairly certain I'm committed at this point, but we'll see!

Thanks for reviewing! 

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Ooooh wow loved it!! I'm sucker for a little bit of drama

Author's Response: I'm glad you liked the chapter, thanks for dropping by to review!

So I'll admit I went back through "Pam 6.0" to skim though the Pam and Roy stuff in there. It's just been awhile since we've seen him so I figured it would be good to get a baseline of everything.

Despite everything, going out with Katy and the "chick from wings night," it seems Roy still hasn't gotten over Pam. Now I'll grant you that Pam's great. It just seems an interesting tack to take. I'm thinking when he saw the ring back on her finger he had hopes of something re-starting. But then of course his inner selfish child flares up and he gets the pepper spray he so rightly deserves. Nothing wrong with that.

The JAM wedding at Schrute farms? Why not? It's a uniquie twist I'll give you that. Thing is I feel they could have some fun with it. They're the paying couple so they could really lean into the whole "customer is always right" schtick to insist there are as few Dwight inspired oddities as possilbe.

Kelly was fun with her gushing over things and I also liked the change that Jim and Pam insist on signing the paperwork rather than let things trail off. Good way to call back to canon but still keep things new for this story.

As an aside the best way to deal with pepper spray is flush out the affected area as soon as possible with warm water and then a long hot shower with a mild soap as soon as possible. There are wipes available that can take away some of the sting so those can work too.

Author's Response:

I had to do a re-read too, to make sure that I kinda had the tone right for the Roy obtuseness. My thoughts being Katy and wings night chick were honest attempts to move on, but they wouldn't put up with him when the cards were down and Roy misses that about Pam. Too bad Pam stopped putting up with him too. I didn't start the chapter thinking that this is the route it would take, honestly it was going to be a bit more awkward banter and a defeated Roy, but then this happened and I felt like it could work. I agree, Pam is great. 

The arrangements at Schrute Farms will definitely be fun, just I hadn't planned the location and that's where the chapter took me and it was just all sorts of ironic. Dwight played a part in the formation of their friendship, so it's funny that he gets to play a part in their wedding as well.

Jim's not going to let Toby have those forms slide, they're engaged! I'm glad you liked that change. Kelly is of course the primary source of office gossip, followed closely by Phyllis and then Angela. I also felt like she would totally listen in on everything that goes on in HR for the ammunition. 

Thank you for the pepper spray aside, that bit was actually a subtle nod in my mind to your great story This Thing Called Life! I re-read that a little while ago and for some reason the cleaning wipes stuck with me. Too bad that Pam didn't get that same advice.

Thank you for the kind and constructive feedback as always! I for one am happy that Roy may never need to be seen again, unless of course he crashes the wedding. I don't think I'd be that cruel to his character though, Dwight probably has a spud gun just for such occasions. 

Oh yes please! The Fun Run call out moment, but for their engagement!

The Injury is such a wonderful episode. Your retelling of it through this lens is bringing me such joy. Jim putting Michael on speaker, Dwight running off to the rescue, “you forgot your bumper.” Oh, it’s so good.

I love that Pam is wearing the ring and no one notices. It’s crazy. Of course they should only invite anyone who notices. It’s foolproof.
Jim wanting to set a date quickly is perfection.

Concussion Dwight is an angel. Bless Pam for sending Angela along in her, uh, official safety officer capacity. That’s so sweet.
Oh, sincere concussion Dwight and his well wishes.

I can get past the sense of foreboding that June 10th brings after having a chuckle about Jim having to invite Dwight because of his own rules. A perfect end to the chapter!

Author's Response:

So happy that you liked the fun-run call-back, that was really fun to write.

I'm glad you liked the different perspective on this classic episode, that means a lot to me. Most of my writing for the phonecall with Michael was pretty much 'shot for shot' though as I re-watched this episode for research.

Is it really that crazy though? Everyone's mental image of Pam at this point is the perpetually engaged lady, so like, they'd have to do a spot check and be like, hey wait, Pam and Roy broke up a while ago and that's a different ring! I think people will figure it out pretty quickly though, Pam is hiding her ring in plain sight. Jim and Pam may have to revise the discovery/invitation rules ;)

Glad you liked the safety officer detail, I was sad for Angela on my re-watch when she had to distance herself to in her mind safeguard their secret relationship, so having Pam give her that excuse was my way of making up for it. Concussion Dwight is of course his canonical overly-affectionate self there, I just couldn't not have him be the one to notice. We'll have to see how much of the day he remembers next time.

I'm so happy to yet again be able to flip one of the JAM angst trope/moments on it's head, June 10th is going to be fun if I ever get around to actually writing it. Writing a wedding seems scary though, might just have to have Pam go misty-eyed and say it was perfect. Yes, I so wanted the rule to come back to bite Jim in the butt, so I'm glad that got a chuckle from you.

Thank you so much for reviewing! 

If I recall Office Ladies, didn't Jenna say she was feeling sick during the filming of this episode? If so was that the reason Pam's feeling under the weather here? Nice tie in.

The Doc crew (Greg as the head guy, again nice tie in) showing the footage of them like that was fun. Lots of fun references to canon. Not only Fun Run but Weight Loss as well. Nice job there.

Concussion Dwight is a hoot just like always. Kind of fun that he's able to connect the dots about Jim and Pam. I also like how Pam tried to get Angela in on taking care of Dwight. That was a nice touch.

This may be the first time I've looked forward to a June 10th wedding date for Pam. Granted there's a HUGE much better difference there so that's great. Also after only a week or so of being engaged Pam has a wedding date. Yet another reason why Jim is just so perfect for her. Well done there.

Great fun in this chapter. As always looking forward to more.

Author's Response:

There were a few reasons, the main one being that I wanted a plausible way for no one to notice that she was engaged yet, because I wanted Concussion-Dwight (than fiend!) to be the first to get a clue. Secondly, yes I did recall from office ladies that Jenna was sick around this time, but to be honest with you I couldn't remember which episode it was exactly, so if I did manage to get it right I'll chalk that one up as a win for my swiss-cheese brain.

I'm glad you liked that... JAM-packed interview ;)

Pam without her head stuck in the sand riding out a failing engagement is a kind and caring creature, so of course I made her clued in to Angela's worry over Dwight. In canon it was an indirect telling to Oscar, here it was her getting Angela to go to the hospital with Dwight. I'm glad you liked that detail. Concussion Dwight was a hoot to write, here's hoping that some of the bond remains after he's recovered.

I'm so happy I could turn the June 10th wedding date on it's head, that's what a lot of this story and it's prequel have been it seems.

Thanks as always for your feedback and kind words! 

This was such a lovely and wonderful chapter!!

Author's Response: Thanks for stopping by to review! I'm happy to hear you liked this one, it was definitely a stretch of my writing ability.

Oh antsy Jim. I feel for him. Fun (?) fact: the first time my husband tried to propose to me he kind of crashed an airplane (on the ground, it’s fine) and it took him another month to actually attempt it again. It’s a whole thing. Anyway, I’ve gotten vastly sidetracked, but I find antsy Jim all kinds of endearing and believable. It’s a bit of a nerve wracking thing!

I hate that Pam’s insecurities are so flared by all of this. It completely makes sense, but it’s still tough to see.

YES. A Booze Cruise proposal and I am living! Oh, this is so incredibly adorable and sweet.
I love, love, love that you’ve injected little moments of levity and humor in this too - “maybe a splash” “I thought your mom had cancer or something.”
It’s so great!

I was wondering if you’d have them announce it on the boat and I’m kind of glad you didn’t. I was worried there would be a hint of Roy conflict at the end, but it’s so much sweeter without it.

Author's Response:

Uhm, excuse me? Crashing an airplane. I just needed to let that one settle for a hot minute. Ok, moving on, thank you for that personal insight you just made my day, I'm glad you empathized with Jim here, it was tough to write. I'm sorry that I had to pull out the pam-securities, but it is one of her defining character traits unfortunately, I'm just happy that I'm writing fluff and I got to immediately affirm her.

I'm happy you liked the proposal, having never been a part of that in my life, it was a challenge to write. The added splash - I couldn't not. I had the image in my head of this all happening while Micheal was making his "This ship is sinking" bit, and it just stuck with me. Pam is understandably a little put out about the amount of stress Jim caused her in being nervous leading up to the proposal, so I had to throw that bit in there too.

Jim and Pam really are the camo-couple right now aren't they? I'm going to have to challenge that in The Secret equivalent chapter I suppose ;)

Thank you so much for your kindness and encouragement, your reviews always mean a lot to me.