Have you ever put any serious thought into quitting your job, leaving your family and friends, and just sitting in a cafe and writing this story for a week? I would be happy to pay for any coffee or soda you drink.

I am anxiously awaiting more Jim with Cece time. :)

Oh WOW... O H WW OO WW !! THis chapter is just all sorts of amazing all over the place! Before I say anything else I have something inside of my that is just trying to burst out and I don't think I can contain it any longer so just excuse me for a moment... RoyisadickRoyisadickRoyisadick! WHEW There! I feel SO much better! Not that that little outburst shows my feelings on any particular character or anything....

So anyhow, first and foremost... I would NEVER take HannaHalperts threats of oming to your house to 'make you write' very seriously. I think the worst that would happen if she showed up at your door is that she would braid your hair or paint your toenails... maybe volunteer to make your husband dinner? Hey, maybe you WANT her to come to your house!!!! (When you're done with her please send her to MY house to make MY husband dinner! ) Okay, seriously....

This chapter truly was ALL sorts of amazing and it was up before I expeted a new chapter so I think it seems that the 'red bull that keeps you up until the weee hours of the night writing' is REALLY keeping you writing and jusdging on this chapter it has you all sorts of inspired too!

I have to say, a queston I had last chapter that was answered in this one but I still don't quite get is, why is it that Jim knew when he took Pam and Cece for lunch {breakfast?} that they would be coming to his house for a dinner party that night, so why didn't Jim say something about it to Pam? Was it just that he got caught up in being with her and soaking her in and learning about his baby daughter and just being with them so he really didn't think about it OR was he thinking that if he told her she would make up an excuse to get out of it and with Adele she probably wouldn't, something like that? It's just something I thought of last chapter when he called her about going to eat I thought for sure the dinner party would come up and was surprised when it didn't. Also, I am anxious to see if we will see any change in Pam's behavior around and toward Gerry Halpert. This is the first time (unless I am mistaken) she will be seeing him since finding out how horribly he trampled her privacy (I mean really, a PI watching you buy a pregnancy test so you go and tell your son first off that she is pregnant which may or may not be true and second all sorts of made up garbage about her for the simple reason of getting him away from someone that you have deemed as not good enough for him!!!) and also since finding out that he KNEW who she was and kept it from Jim, thereby keeping him from Cece's birth all because he decided she wasn't good enough for Jim. I can't imagine that she could possibly just treat him as if nothing has ever happened.

Okay... I think that's all out of my system finally! I have to say, I was rather sirprised at Adele's lack of curiosity about just why Pam would have been out with Jim. I will admit, and you know that I haven't been quite as taken by Adele and just don't trust her as much as others seem to, but things like her just reaching out and taking Cece from Pam and saying that she's going to go change her this time, doing these things without asking like, hey, can I take her for a bit? or How about if I change her this time? it just kind of gets my back up, I can't help but think that really, the Anderson's are NOT long time friends of Pam's, yes, they were there and helped her when she needed help, but then again, like I've said before, they owe her a FAR bigger debt and I think that kinda gets forgotten. I think it's easy to forget that none of this is what Pam wanted, what she signed up for. She went along with the story because Joe begged her to saying that the truth would kill Adele because she was in suh fragile condition. They credit Pam and the baby for Adele's return to health so in my eyes at very least the debts cancel each other out but then again, beause of the deal Pam made, she couldn't acknowledge her sorrow, despair and greif over Jim, she had to be careful about everything lest Adele find out and mostly she had to pretend that the love of her life was not the father of the life growing inside of her. As I have said, the Anderson's debt to Pam is FAR greater than her's to them, giving her a place to stay, food to eat and clothes on her back. She had to pretend a whole life that had to be very painful for her. Okay... that's kinda one of my favorite rants here and it just sorta got away from me... SORRY! So anyhow, it just kinda gets me that Adele just seems to have this bit of a posessiveness when it comes to Cece that just gets under my skin. It's the kind of ownership, for lack of a better word, that only belongs to the mommy and the daddy so in thinking about it, I'm wondering if at some point this will become a real issue with Jim. I know it would be a real problem for me if I were him and I saw it.

Roy... oh ROY!!! YOu know... I KNEW earlier in the story his part went away just FAR too easy. I just knew he's the kind of snake that simply doesn't die that easy. Just grows a new head and keeps at it. You know, Pam has turned him ans his offers down how many times now? She's made it very clear that she isn't interested in ANYTHING but friendship and what does he do? Goes and get all possessive! Oh and here I'm simply talking about after Jim left the house, the dinner party... that's a whole different story! So, I guess that Roy is one of those guys that need to be cut off completely, you can't even give them friendship because what it seems to me now is that while Roy would seem to act like he accepted what Pam would tell him, that she wasn't interested in more than friendship, he hung around, working on wearing her down in ways that she didn't even realize that she was, thinking that at some point she would be worn down enough, lonely enough, desperate enough and convieniently, there he would be. In the times when they had some words he was carefully trying to ruin Jim, or her prception of him, whatever with things like 'he's never coming back!' and 'what do you think he's going to do when he finds out you've been hiding her from him? He's going to take her from you!' What Roy NEVER could forsee is that Jim, a man who I'm sure in Roy's mind was his sworn enemy, would walk through the front door of his home, invited in by his own mother, and have a tight grip back on Pam's heart far before Roy had any idea that anything was even happening. THAT makes me oh so happy! So, I had to laugh at Roy, thinking he could forbid Pam from seeing Jim again! Clearly at this point Roy is thinking along the lines of Pam maybe just having some interest in dating Jim so Jim being competition for him, little did he know what was coming! I didn't think Pam had really said it, I thought it was what she thought so you are BRILLIANT in that she didn't even realize that she had said out loud that Jim was Cece's father! I mean, SOMEONE had to know (other than Jim's dad beause he's do anything he could to keep it a seret!!!) in order for this lie to finally start being torn down and Jim and Pam being able to emerge with Cece, from under it. I cannot tell you just how much I adore your twist on the bar scene, complete with Roy breaking something, showing Pam just what a moron he really is! LOVED how the first thing after all that is that Adele tells them they are going to a dinner party at the Halpert's that night!

Sooo.. Roy Roy Roy... planning all afternoon to stake his claim on Pam that night by hurting Jim, going right to Jim's heart and letting him in on not only the fact that Jim missed out on all that stuff, but also that Roy was there for it. He also seems to be trying to hint to Jim by going in and putting his arm around Pam, talking about when 'they' first brought Cecelia home and I had to laugh when Roy said 'she's a big girl now!' ROFLMAO!!! Of course she is... she's what, two weeks old now? Your typical two week old is now back at what they weighed at birth so yeah Roy, real big girl. I DID love how Pam was seeming to try and make it clear that this was Roy and now her. Shrugging his arm off, not adding to his crap, trying to change the subject. Pam knows, and Roy knows too that the things Jim missed were because of Pam and the choice she made, such a jerk move of Roy to use what Pam did to hurt Jim with what he missed. I cannot even begin to tell you just how much I LOVED Jim pulling Pam to another room to get himself together, reassure himself and give them a moment alone, just the three of them! Your description of that kiss absolutely gave me chills! So so awesome! The way he pulled Pam and Cece in, gethered them close to him.... :::sigh::: I love Jim Halpert! :::shakes self from Jim induced haze::: Oh as I was saying... so this also gave Pam the opportunity to clearly explain Roy's behavior to Jim, which is so wonderful that THAT was able to happen before there was a new misunderstanding to come between them1 i just sighed with happiness and contentment when Pam said, Jim... she's yours and then when he came back with 'I know, I just needed to know that your mine also.' For Jim it all begins and ends at Pam. Nothing makes sense to him without her and if Roy is going to try some macho ploy to stake a claim, Jim just needs to know that Pam is right there beside him and that Roy is doing nothing more than blowing smoke and trying to hurt him. I cannot emphasize enough just how brilliant you are to have given them this time together to collect themselves and really, gain strength from each other before anything really gets going.

I couldn't help but wonder if Betsy has some inkling about things. I wondered if she had laid that picture out on purpose or maybe, after having noticed the resemblence between Jim and Cee in the hospital, it sticking out strongly enough in her mind that she even mentioned it to her husband later, maybe she got out that picture after that to maybe tell herself how silly she was being, only to see that the similarities are even more striking than she had remembered.

Roy... he had NO idea what he was walking into with the grilled cheese omment. He's trying again to hurt Jim but I have no doubt that Jim made Pam the grilled cheese for their first date because it was his favorite food, and he probably, actually I'm sure there's NO DOUBT that even if he didn't tell her that the night of the date, she certainly had learned it in the six months they shared so he was able to dish it right back to Roy in asking his mom if she had those because it's his favorite food. I'm sure that all brought up memories to Pam of their first date as well! I can't say how much I love that Jim doesn't even give it a second thought when he insists that he help Pam get Cece set up in the other room. I was so happy when Jim realized that the others had to be giving him weird looks but he realized he just didn't care. Sounds to me like a man that is ready to let people know how things REALLY are, letting the chips fall where they may. (Just as long as two of those chips, the ones named Pam and Cecelia, land right with him!) I think you take that frame of mind and add Roy continuing to push at Jim and the situation and why is it that I have a feeling that this is going to turn into quite some dinner party? Dinner party from hell perhaps? I just think there are too many variables, Jim and his dad, Pam and Jim's dad, complete with the knowledge of what his dad has done, Jim's dad and Pam... complete with the knowlwdge that he would STILL like to keep Pam away from Jim and hmmmmm maybe Roy is a viable alternative in his mind, then there is the secret of Jim and Pam's relationship/Cece's paternity, the secret that Joe, Roy, Pam and now Jim have from Adele, Roy's annimosity towards Jim, Pam certainly being at very least annoyed and probably plain ole ticked off at Roy... there is enough dynamite in that room to destroy at least Philly, probably all of Pa! I DON'T KNOW, i get a feeling that at dinner maybe a lot of things may start unraveling and a lot of carefully held secrets may come to life. Oh and I get a sneaking suspition that Roy is going to take a swing at Jim but with no Dwight there complete with pepper spray, he may connect. Can I ask a favor.. PLEASE... if that happens just please let Jim get in at least one or two REALLY good hits!

I cannot wait for the next chapter... YOU BETTER BE WRITING!! Oh crap... I just channelled HannahHalpert! That being the case, I'll show up at your house too. She's said she'll bring pizza, I guess I can bring pop. Any preference? Then while she braids your hair and paints your nails, I'll give you a back massage and sharpen your pencils, okay? (NOW... I think we should threaten to show up at her house if she isn't busy busy busy with the next chapter of HER story! )

Silliness aside... this story just continues to get more and more amazing. You have kept it yours and so unique while being amazingly in character and the bits you borrow from the show slide in and fit as if that's where they came from in the first place. I think you should considere getting a patent on your mind! It is so creative and unique, you don't want to run the risk of someone else claiming it as their own! Thanks again for sharing your creativity and hard work with us. Just amazing!

*hugs*

Ahhhhh, I totally got goose bumps when he kissed her. Do you know how rare that is? That was just so beautiful and amazing.

I wanted to strangle Roy, I really did, but I love how Jim got the last laugh in this chapter. In yo face, Roy!

Jim stealing some time time alone with Pam and Cece made me go all gooey, and this line, this line KILLED ME DEAD:
“I know,” he said against her lips. “I just…I needed to know you’re mine too.” < that was just so.... what's a word that means more awesome than perfect? Cos that is what it was :)

My threat is still out there, If you aren't writing, I will come to your house (shall I bring pizza?) and make youuuuu!

BEST CHAPTER YET :)

Happy New Year, Dedeen!  He walked up to her and kissed her again. This time she recognized his kiss - hungry and ardent. For a moment, her worries melted away in the warmth of his lips. “I know,” he sad against her lips. “I just…I needed to know you’re mine too.”  Guh.  Love it.  Sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see how this dinner party plays out ;)

Awesome, awesome, awesome! Terrific chapter. So glad they kissed. And I love seeing Jim in daddy-mode.