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this is truly amazing 🥺

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Great chapter, I love the way it's evolving!

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This premise is really strong, I can't wait to read the rest!

What a great ending.

Honestly, I’m glad Jim didn’t propose. Even though they’re great together, I think that they need to spend some time living together before they jump into marriage.

I’m glad Pam got the job! That’s huge for her, seeing as Danny was controlling and didn’t believe in her having a job since many women were looked down on in that time period for having jobs. Good for her.

Well done, as always.

BlindManCassidy

Author's Response:

Thank you so much! I’m so pleased you like the ending - and yeah, I was sort of going with the idea that people proposed sooner back then, but I’m with you on that maybe being a bit sooner than is comfortable…so I did want to go to with the job thing instead!

Thank you so much for reading, and as ever for all your lovely reviews throughout this: they’ve been so great to read, and I really appreciate it :) 

I feel an urge to cry right now because it's so pure and sweet, and perfect... and so, so them. I love everything about this, and I desperately need another 20+ chapters story about their life in Austin. Thank you so much for writing this amazing story and for sharing it with us! Thank you

Author's Response:

Aw, thank you so much! I’m so pleased you’ve enjoyed this, that’s amazing to hear :) Thank you very much for reading, and for taking the time to leave such lovely reviews - I really appreciate it! (I could also probably quite happily write another 20+ chapters about their life in Austin, but….I may need to come up with an actual storyline first, lol). 

Returning to the small farm town where they were happy to find themselves again! Perfect. Only way to bring this one to a close.

I don't know. Plot seems pretty well done, I just enjoyed the way you tied up the lose ends with Jim and Pam here - rediscovering themselves and making the decisions they'll need to make for their life together and just being together again. It's just all very sweet.

ANYHOW. As usual, you blew this one out of the park and should probably be shopping things to publishing houses as opposed to smiling down on us with your work, but I am VERY much looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.

Author's Response:

Ahh, thanks so much! So I have to admit I was briefly considering a different ending where Jim moved back to Austin and then realised he was missing Pam and came back…but then I figured enough with the angst. And yeah, I felt like they both needed to go back for closure. So I’m really pleased you thought that worked! 

That's a fun way to wrap this all up. Jim dropping everything in Austin to be with her tracks well. He's spent years kind of drifting through life. Then after everything he went through with Pam there's no more drifting. There's only facing fear and doubt to be with the one woman who makes it all worthwhile.

But you're right. They've grown past their childhood home. While nice to reconnect with their roots for sure, they're bigger people than that right now. Really glad to bring that out.

Love the idea of dual surprises that both also got a bit off-kilter. Still it's all very sweet. They've got each other and now they're set to move on through life with each other. Loved it.

Another remarkable story from you. It was a ton of fun following along with this one. Can't wait to see what comes next.

Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat

Author's Response:

Thanks so much! Also, I’m not sure that your reviews are meant to be making me feel emotional, but the drifting and the one woman who makes it all worthwhile - yes and yes 😍 And yeah, I did want that growth for them, I’m really glad you liked that part! 

I was just thinking that this Story should go on forever, and then I saw that there might only be one chapter left :(
Could we have a sequel?

Author's Response: Haha, thanks so much! (and sorry). I've not currently got a sequel planned, but I have really enjoyed writing this universe so wouldn't rule out ever doing one...

Just have to tell you again how much I've loved this. I've been engrossed from chapter one. The characters are so well done and it is such a unique intriguing story. I am going to be very sorry when it is over.

Maybe...there will be a sequel in the future?

Author's Response: Ah, thank you so much! That's so lovely to hear, I'm really glad you've enjoyed it :) Thanks very much for reading, and for taking the time to review. I'm not currently planning a sequel, but wouldn't rule out maybe doing one in the future! 

Got me going there for a minute thinking Robert was going to walk. Danny shows his true colors here. A coward who in the end only thinks of himself and only sees people as how he can use them for his own gain. People are objects to him. Pieces on a chess board to move around and play with. So especially when Pam shows up and confronts him he's left with nothing but his fear.

Really glad that Jim grilled him there. Must have been great for Jim to let out some of that tension. That Danny seems to have no idea how to even respond to Jim's interogation just proves how much of a weasle Danny really is.

Love that Oscar is the voice of reason here. Having to deal with an incompatant Sherrif like that must have been rough. Especially when said Sherrif throws Jim in too. Then to bring in the FBI? Yeah, Roberts going away for a long time.

Nice quick wrap up there with the trials to get it all done and out of the way. Then of course Jim makes the right decision. He's not running or hiding anymore. Love it love it love it.

Can't wait to see how it all wraps up.

Author's Response: Thank you so much! And haha no, I definitely wasn't going to let Robert walk...but yeah, Danny is pretty much a coward in this. I briefly considered dragging the trial out, but then I figured the Beesleys had gone through enough (also, not actually sure how I'd write a courtroom drama). Thanks so much for your review! :) 

Wow.

I have never been more satisfied in my life than to see how deer in headlights Danny was. I’m really interested to see how he tries to worm his way out of this one, especially when he realizes that Jim and Karen have it all on record. It must have been so satisfying for Pam to finally get the answers she wanted, to finally confront this man who’s ruined her family.

Although, I can imagine that it’s a little bit sad, too, letting go of something that she’d had for so long and fully understanding just how bad of a person she almost married.

Question; what did he mean when he said that he never let Robert get to Pam?

Anyways, well done. Well done.

Author's Response:

Ah, thank you so much! That Danny scene was actually deeply satisfying to write, so I'm so pleased you enjoyed it :) And yeah, I think still not easy for Pam even if there must be some satisfaction there. The next chapter hopefully answers your question a bit too...

Thanks so much for reading and taking the time to review!  

I don’t know how you do it. Another amazing chapter!
What a rollercoaster. From intimate talks between sisters, fluffiness with Jim, and the edge-of-your-seat plan, it was perfect. I was hoping it ended as it did.
Many jellybeans!

Author's Response: Ah, thanks so much! I was slightly struggling to balance the plan with some quieter moments, especially between the two sisters, so I'm so glad you liked it :) 

I continue to really enjoy your use of Pam's unique touch with Michael throughout this story. She'll be good as their cartoonist.

There were two absolutely terrific lines about their relationship here I really wanted to highlight: "...he tries to work out when anything has ever felt this right. He’s not sure it has, since he left her all those years ago. So maybe the problem was never moving to Austin. Maybe it was just moving away from her" and then “I think that when you’re in love with someone, you should be completely yourself.” Very Jam-my and gorgeously written. I also thought you effectively drew out something that gets short shrift in canon, which is that the models Pam has for relationships turn out not to be the best, and that leads her into some unhappiness.

The plan sequence was really well-written. Very tense. And I appreciate you giving Pam the chance to hit Danny where it hurts: in his paint job.

We really get a good look at the Danny underneath the performer here, and yikes. Not much there. You can see how much he's convinced himself he's doing the right thing under the circumstances - he's so effective at sales he's managed to sell himself. There's someone who's going to get what he deserves.

Author's Response: Thank you so much! I'm really glad you're enjoying the Michael and Pam, they are a lot of fun to write. And really pleased you enjoyed those lines! And yeah, I'm always so interested in how Helene and Bill's relationship might have influenced Pam's approach to Roy in canon. Hehe, Danny's paint job did have it coming. I'm sort of trying not to make Danny an entirely 2D villain here, but...yeah, I don't feel like his character does have much substance. Thanks so much for the review!