Date: December 20, 2011 02:13 pm Title: Chapter 6
Still interested and still loving every damn minute of this story.
I grinned so hard when Pam decided to go surprise Jim,and I couldn't believe it when Karen was sitting on the sofa, but phew, she's just a friend. You had me there for a second. Jim coming to Scranton was such a nice idea, and them going through her art books was such a lovely touch. She needs someone like Jim in her life to help her see just how awesome she is.
Ohh when Pam asked Jim to stay, I was SO proud of her. That was such a brave move for her :)
Author's Response: Aw yay thanks! I'm glad you're still liking this! You know what a struggle it's been! I definitely needed Pam do go see him, even if it was to get scared about seeing Karen and leaving, and because he saw that she did that and left, he knows he has to wait it out a little bit more. It's in the undertone that I'm hoping to create, but if not, then that's what I'm trying to do lol I'm also trying to make her find other ways to be brave and trying to make her more sure of her art, because on the show, the things that she made for her art show, and the way she stood in front of her paintings, she didn't seem confident at all. I feel like Jim gave her that confidence - which is why she went to Pratt. So, yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. And I have to keep reminding myself of that lol I'm so happy that you're enjoying, thanks so much for EVERYTHING! xx Happy Holidays! xx
Date: December 20, 2011 02:10 pm Title: Chapter 6
Ooh I swear if you're having him lie to her about Karen...grr! Poor Pam drove all that way to find a girl in his apartment. I can see why she'd react the way she did though. Thanks for an update. They seem to be getting pretty close now. The merger will be quite conveniently timed if you decide to go that way, or maybe as Jan's original plan had been we can think of a reason to put Pam in Stamford if you wanted to go AU.
Author's Response: :) I hadn't thought about going AU with it, but that could really work too without changing my ending point. I'll give that some thought, thanks! Thanks so much for that, I really appreciate the insight! My reasoning for having her drive all the way there only to find Karen there was to have him see how Pam's making an effort, and that she's upset that he'd have another woman in his apartment, mainly so Pam isn't just laying it all out there on the line so soon... basically because I think she needs just a little more confidence and she needs to know that he's in the same state. I'm hoping to continue this one soon, once the holidays pass. Thanks so much! :) Happy Holidays! xx
10 [Report This]Date: December 03, 2011 03:08 pm Title: Chapter 1
i love this story!! it's so in character and it's perfect. can't wait to see chapter 6!
Author's Response: Thank you so much! Thanks for joining us here, and I hope to hear from you again! That it's in character makes me sigh with relief. I always worry about that. Thanks so much! :)
10 [Report This]Date: December 03, 2011 04:51 am Title: Chapter 5
I've been a bad reviewer lately, so let my apologize for that. I love this story and I love how you incorporated Pam teaching Jim how to drive stick.
Author's Response: I've been just as bad at replying to reviews lol I'm sorry it takes forever. I'm so happy that you're liking this story. I get so nervous every time I post a new chapter that it's being dragged out too much. I just love incorporating little things like that, glad you enjoyed it! :) I'm trying to work on the next chapter today but I can't tear myself away from reading, so hopefully it'll be updated soon. :)
Date: December 02, 2011 01:25 pm Title: Chapter 5
It seems like these days I am always behind in reading and commenting. I too am appreciating the sweetness of this story. I always imagine their connection to be so strong that it would be hard not to fall right back into their banter. I am loving this and can't wait for more.
Author's Response: Thank you! I imagine it like that too. That they can be mad at each other but still love one another. That's what I adore about their relationship. Even I. Season 2 whenever things got awkward they were still able to get back to their banter. I'm happy to hear youre still enjoying this. I hope you'll like the rest!
Date: December 01, 2011 11:13 am Title: Chapter 5
I'm loving this story. I wonder how you're going to work this out! Keep'm coming!
Author's Response: Thanks! That means a lot! I've been wondering if everyone was still liking this story. I have a plan, and ... you'll see lol More on the way soon, thanks so much for the encouraging support! :)
10 [Report This]Date: December 01, 2011 10:32 am Title: Chapter 5
So many other stories have Jim and Pam losing their temper with each other, and as much as I can sometimes see that have happening, this is what I imagine their talk to be like.
Author's Response: Oh I know, and for the longest time I thought that they really did yell at one another. But the more I've written and the more I've watched the episodes over again, I don't think they raise their voices to one another at all. No matter how mad they are with one another. I'm glad you like my take on things with this story, because I think that while they were really angry and hurt, they also love one another so much that they wouldn't raise their voices.
10 [Report This]Date: December 01, 2011 10:31 am Title: Chapter 4
He showed up!!!!!!!!!!! From now on in my head this is what happened.
Author's Response: Wouldn't it have been nice if he had shown up? I really think that had she not cut him off on the phone, this is what would have happened. Glad you agree! Thanks so much for taking the time to review! I really appreciate it.
10 [Report This]Date: December 01, 2011 10:28 am Title: Chapter 3
Thank you for writing this. It's really nice to see a different spin of what could have happened between seasons 2 and 3, and you seem to know what we all want. At least I hope you do haha!
Author's Response: LOL Thanks! I'm definitely writing this the way I wish it would have happened. I'm so happy that you like this! More on the way soon! :)
10 [Report This]Date: November 30, 2011 09:13 pm Title: Chapter 5
You made me cry...
Author's Response: :( I'm sorry! If it helps, I cried a little while writing the last part.
Date: November 30, 2011 03:52 pm Title: Chapter 5
Danielle, I absolutely loved this chap. It made my little heart go pitter pat :) Their reconnecting, their speech patterns and gestures all felt so organic.
“I’d never lie to you, Pam,” his voice low and serious as he stared at her. That right there gave me chills.
I'm excited for your next update. I just really want to see how you have them fully reconnect. Can't wait :)
Author's Response: Thank you so much Nancy! I'm planning on showing lots more of their attempts to reconnect, and I'm fighting the urge to wrap it up sooner than I planned. I love when you pick out a line like this, it means more to me than you know. Thank you so much, more is definitely on the way. :)
Date: November 30, 2011 03:20 pm Title: Chapter 5
This was sooo good, I don't even know where to start. The way you have Pam admit she's mad at him, but they're just talking it out, no raised voices etc is exactly how I saw it here. And how you have Jim so proud of Pam's new found independence is perfectly in character.Everything about this story is amazeballs.
Author's Response: Thank you so so much! I can't thank you enough for the support and encouragement. It keeps me going, that's for sure. I hoped that Pam's independence seemed realistic, and I thought the Niagara thing fit in pretty good there. I'm so happy you liked this chapter. You know what a struggle it was for me to get done, so thank you for this. I wanted to do something where they don't yell at each other. I don't think either of them yell. (tell that to the other stories I've written lol) Anyways, thanks so much. More on the way. I've already started the next chapter, even though this one doesn't seem to be hitting it out of the park for many others. :)
10 [Report This]Date: November 22, 2011 11:07 am Title: Chapter 1
oh and BTW PS... SOOOOO glad that this one is low angst!!! Sometimes we just need mostly good things! :o)
Author's Response: Yeah, it's low angst (aka, no Karen) I wanted to write a story where they're not mad at each other, and I thought this would be a good spot for it had she not cut him off, you know? Anyways, thanks, I'm happy you're enjoying this story! :)
10 [Report This]Date: November 22, 2011 11:05 am Title: Chapter 4
Oh Danielle.... Such lovely, wonderful writing, as always. I owe you another apology, and a big one. I am SO sorry that I am behind in reviewing both of your current stories. They are both so fantastic and you certainly deserve better than me always getting here late. In all honesty, I did just go through what has to be the most painful month of my life. My medications were all messed up, even ended up overnight in the hospital again. I honestly do have good intentions. I come to this page with the new/updated stories on it intending to get through all the reviews and I'll either write one or be half way through one and feel horrible or realize that what I'm saying makes no sense (when does it ever????) So I end up with just the review I've written or deleting the half review and promising myself I'll come back later. I SWEAR I'll make it through this one this time. I hope you don't mind, I'm going to combine my chapters 3/4 review into one. If I didn't, I'd probably NEVER catch up! Oh and quickly... thank you for the nie things you said in response to my last review for this story. I admit, I saw you had responded to all the reviews but mine and I wondered if I had said something or whatever to upset you. Then you came and responded to more but still not mine and wow was I paranoid. I must have read that review a dozen times trying to figure out what I could have said that would have made you just skip it. I was SO freaking relieved to find that you had responded to it and it was just an oversight. I was sure I MUST have done something wrong! OK... onto this awesome story...
Can I tell you, I LOVE that you are redoing this and leaving me with a different ending to a frustrating situation. I know there's plenty more story to go but already this is so much more fulfilling than what we got on the show!!
I love love love Pam waking up and her first thought is about wanting to tell Jim about her dream. You can see that after one phone call things are already so muh better because the lines of communication are open again! I had to laugh at the thought of her taking a picture of Ryan at his desk with her cell. I just kept wondering exactly what Ryam would have thought had he caught her taking it. SO Jim to not accept the first try, of course I think this was probably more in the interest of keeping things going with Pam than really thinking it was an old picture. I was glad that she asked him about IM and that he signed on right away. I've always pictured them as IMing a lot throughout the workday before and after season 3. I think Jim really had two things he wanted to accomplish with pushing for the, can't think of the name of it but the chat where they can see each other. Of course I think he is certainly interested in her artwork and there is no doubt that he not only would have been overjoyed that she was taking classes, but he also would have pushed to see the work she has done first to support her and let her know how much he believes in her and second because he really enjoys what she does and really does want to see it. I think his second reason for wanting that type of a chat is that he had gone far too long without seeing her and he wanted to see her again. He was probably also a little curious to see if she had changed any with her being away from Roy. I also enjoyed in the IM where he commented that Micheal's not so bad. I think it shows that Jim was really missing Scranton, including Micheal.
I really like the thought of Pam going home and fixing herself up for the chat on the webcam. (Saw the name in there so now I know!) She certainly wanted Jim to see her at her best!
I just love this
'
If there were such a thing as Cloud Nine, he would have bet anything that he was somewhere near the seventh of that series.'
That was such a neat way of saying the was he was feeling. You know, where it says here about him knowing he should be angry at her, I don't think that Jim ever really realized probably until they were together and were able to talk things out, just what he did to Pam on Casino Night. He put her in suh an impossible situation and though I love the thought of her giving into him that night and them living happily ever after, I truly believe that had she told him that night that she loved him, broke up with Roy immediately and they had started dating, I believe that relationship would have been doomed. First off, it would have been just wrong for her to treat the end of such a long relationship so carelessly and somewhere in the back of his mind, Jim would have always known how wrong what she did to Roy was. Even if it was for Jim's benefit. Also, I think that after being in a relationship for nearly a decade, one that started in her mid teens when she wasn't even an adult, Pam NEEDED time to figure out who she was. She needed to be able to be out on her own and take are of herself. To have not had that time would have been, IMO, a disater. I think also Jim just didn't get the way he shook up all the pieces of Pam's life and then took off leaving her to reassemble them without two of the main piees, Roy as a fiance and Jim her best friend. He certainly didn't get that Pam had a right to resent and be angry with him for starting this chain of events and then removing himself leaving her without her best friend and chief source of morale support as she went through the most difficult time in her life. It becomes very apparent just how much he doesn't understand what Pam went through or the role he played in the pain she suffered when he was wondering about what she could mean with her comment about not being able to take another kick to the gut.
I just really like the cnversation they are having as they are going through her artwork. I like Jim saying he still considers the Scranton Office building to be his also, again showing IMO that he is missing Scranton. Then I like their discussion abput Diwali and him encouraging her to go. I was glad when he went for it and asked her about the guy she had gone on that date with. I think that we must both think the same that Micheal's comment to Pam about having fun on her date would have stuck with Jim for a long time and made him a little crazy. It's so great to see Jim asking the things he wants to know rather than let the questions fester inside him and drive him crazy I LOVE Pam's reply that there's no one in Scranton that she wants to date. It's a shame that she didn't take it farther and say or in Pennsylvania for that matter. I hear there's one in Conneticut for me. Of course Pam is NO WHERE near that brave yet.
How sweet and SO Jim that when she is having a tough time with showing him her 'real' work, he is able to ease the tension by doing a silly drawing of his own and helping her along. Am I right in thinking that the boy and girl in the picture are supposed to represent a young Jim and Pam? That's just what I had thought when Pam said about adding a baseball cap and some freckles. Oh and I LOVE that the art show that at this point is still a ways in the future, is already mentioned.
I love how Pam then starts catching Jim up on all things DM Scranton, I think it shows here again with Jim wanting to know all about what's going on, that he misses Scranton. LOVE Phyllis Vance, Dunder Mifflin. That made me really laugh! I really like that Pam has enough faith in Jim to tell him about Dwight and Angela without getting a promise not to tell first but I really like that she does insist that he is not able to use that. I think that because Jim really is a good guy at heart and lets face it, his pranks are harmless, so I don't think he would have ever used that anyhow. I think he would realize that THAT would be playing with people's lives. I LOVE though how Jim then makes the connection that it was Angela in Dwight's bed at the convention.
I love the thought of when Jim lays down in bed at night rather than have what most would put forth as what he would think of about her while in bed, (Did that make sense??? I Know what I mean, really!) he is thinking about something as simple and as sweet as having his arm around her at the movies. :::contented sigh:::
Poor Pam! After such a wonderful night, getting to have a video chat and actually SEE Jim and I am sure feel like some things are getting worked through. She certainly knows he wants to keep up communication since he was the one to mention being on IM the next day. But poor Pam's day goes to heck from the start and doesn't look like it wants to rebound but what's this? Even when he isn't there Jim saves the day with his package by first getting her out of Micheal's office to sign for it but then by the package it'self. So sweet and Pam HAS to be starting to realize that Jim's feelings haven't changed. I just LOVE that Jim sent her that! (Bet she ends up using that cookbook to make him dinner!!!) It's wonderful that Pam calls Jim to let him know she got the package and reveals her lousy da and Jim is right there, the way he always was, making it better for her. I an just picture their conversation... hear their voices.
Then she goes to Diwalli and I almost had tears of joy when he came! It became clear to me that he was doing the order form onsolidation early so that he's be able to get out of Stamford, meet Pam at Diwali and give her that hug she needed.
Oh Danielle I just cannot wait for more. I hope we'll hear all about them at Diwalli and I'm wondering if since he traveled do far to get there, maybe he'll go to Pam's for the night and they'll get a hance to REALLY work through some stuff. I am really really excited for more, I can't wait to see what you come up with.
This is absolutely fantastic! I just, I can't imagine having the imagination so wonderful and able to keep coming up with new and fresh ideas. I CAN tell you that I am SO SO thankful for you... and your imagination! (oh and your mad typing skillz!!! )
Keep up the awesome work!!
Author's Response: Thank you so much for this! I again am so sorry I missed your review, I don't even know how it happened. I've got to say that when I replied to everyone's reviews I was all proud of myself like, oh yeah replied to everyone, woohoo! And then I was reading them over a few days later and noticed that I completely missed yours somehow. I would never intentionally do it, and do not fear you never say anything that I'm offended by at all. :) Anyway, you bring up a great point. How Jim just lays in bed and just wants to do simple things like take her to the movies. What I'm trying to show there is how he wants her for her, not for a roll in bed and then that's it. I've read so many stories where all Jim does is fantasize about Pam in bed doing ... you know, that stuff. And I'm sure he did, and those stories are well told, no slight to anyone, but I think that if he's so in love with her, that isn't all he's thinking about. He wants to spend days with her when all they do is pay some bills and go out for dinner, and whatever else normal couples do. So that's why I went with a simpler not so steamy way for him to be thinking right there. I think at this point in the story, Pam does know that Jim's feelings are still there. She has a lot of doubts though, that I'll touch on if I can make it work to sound original, otherwise I'll find some other way to do it. I don't want to spoil what I have planned, and I'm really hoping it's not completely transparent, but I think it would take time for them to build their friendship back up, to regain the trust that they lost in one another. I think still, even over that summer during the way things actually went, I think it took time then too, to get back to where they were. I can't thank you enough for the lovely review, it's really a bright spot in my day. I really appreciate it so much and I'm thankful for you and all of my readers and reviewers and supporters. Thank you. More of this soon. I hope you enjoy it!
Date: November 19, 2011 01:08 pm Title: Chapter 4
This is the cutest story of what could have been. I'm so happy he showed up. This one just makes me smile.
Author's Response: Thanks so much KH! I'm going for a relatively low angst level so far, I'm happy to hear you're liking it! thanks so much for the feedback, it really means a lot! :)
Date: November 18, 2011 08:59 pm Title: Chapter 1
*giggles and claps* He showed up! Also loved the reference to the art show ahead of time. If this thing gets as far as the art show I'm going to love how (I hope) it's so much different with Jim there instead of you know who. But I will miss Michael being there. I mean he'll still be there I'm sure, but our real hero will save the day rather than our completely unexpected hero.
Author's Response: Hehe! Yeah, he did! I wanted this to be like... okay the episodes are the episodes, what could have happened had they started talking again, and I really think that he would have shown up instead of getting drunk in Stamford. I'm so happy you like this! My ending point is a little sooner thank Business School, but the epilogue is up in the air as for time frame, so you never know... :) Thanks so much for taking the time to share your thoughts, it really means so much! :) More on the way after the holiday!
10 [Report This]Date: November 18, 2011 02:38 pm Title: Chapter 4
OMG. Firstly I'm sorry that this is how most of my reviews now start, but you seriously kill me each and every time you update.
Pam's reaction to his package was so so so cute, especially because she was having such a bad day. When she said she needed a hug, and then compared to his gift like the hug she needed, I think I actually melted and turned in to goo.
THEN you finish it with him texting her like that and showing up...
“I know I’m a day late. But, you said you needed a hug.”
*thud*
Author's Response: LOL Had to do it! I can't have them that far apart for too long, but you'll see what I have planned as the story moves along. I'm having a lot of fun writing it, and I can't thank you enough for your helping me along the way with it. A toned down conversation was all I needed to make this chapter work, so thanks for that advice! I'm really happy you liked this chapter and are following this story! More on the way soon, I promise. As soon as this pesky holiday is out of the way. :) xx
Date: November 18, 2011 11:56 am Title: Chapter 4
Squuuuuuuuuuuuuuueeee! He showed up! He showed up! You little stinker ;)
Author's Response: Hehe! I know, he did! He just couldn't help himself. ;) Happy you liked it! Lots more on the way!
Date: November 15, 2011 07:26 am Title: Chapter 1
I don't think I have read anything similar. I wonder where you're going to take this one! can't wait to read and find out!
Author's Response: Thanks so much! I'm happy you're reading and enjoying. More on the way, hope you like how it goes. :)
Date: November 14, 2011 10:53 pm Title: Chapter 3
Oh, a cliffy. Can't wait for your next update. I hope they start talking about their feelings in this web chat.
Author's Response: Thanks, glad you liked this and hope you enjoy the update! I am taking baby steps with this story and I hope my end point makes sense when I get there. Glad you're still liking this, thanks for staying with me :)
Date: November 14, 2011 08:08 pm Title: Chapter 3
Yay for another new chapter! Can't wait for the next one. I'm not too patient and want him to jump in the car right now. But I'm glad you're stronger than me ;) Excited to hear what she gets and thinks about his package! And what a perfect ending line - no one in Scranton, not no one on Earth.
Author's Response: Thanks so much, I'm really happy you liked the chapter! I'm really impatient too, but I'm trying to convince myself that it has to be a slow build. They can't just jump right into something without reconnecting first. And hopefully my end point is one that makes logical sense. Thanks for sticking with me, more will be on the way soon! :) Hope you liked the latest update.
Date: November 14, 2011 08:01 pm Title: Chapter 3
You. Are. Evil. You know that, right? How could you just end the chapter right there? Please update soon. :(
Oh and some constructive feedback: I still like your characterization. You can feel the awkwardness and tension between the two of them. I really hope this continues until the branches merge because I'd love to see how they react to the news! :)
Author's Response: LOL I know, I'm trying for the title "queen of cliff hangers" hehe Hope you like the update. Thanks for the feedback, the characterization is really important to me so it's so great to hear that it's coming out the way it's supposed to. Thanks! :)
10 [Report This]Date: November 14, 2011 11:33 am Title: Chapter 3
I really love this story. I love how the both so anxious about the pending webcam talk and how Jim resolves to press her. I can't wait to see if he does what he says he's going to do.
Author's Response: He's going to need to press her in order for the end of the next chapter to come to fruition, so stay tuned for that. It won't be in a mean way, though. I don't like a mean Jim. I'm so happy to hear that you love this story! So much more on the way :) Hope you've been writing!
Date: November 14, 2011 08:12 am Title: Chapter 3
Awwww, MAN! That went by way too fast! I'm enjoying this slow build up. While this is AU, it feels very realistic. They're taking baby steps. Should I maybe be a little excited about Diwali? ;)
Author's Response: Thanks Nancy! I'm glad you're enjoying this story, I know it went by fast, it's funny because this chapter's longer than the first two chapters too lol Um, I do have plans for Diwali... you'll just have to wait till the next update to find out heh heh heh :) xxx
10 [Report This]Date: November 14, 2011 01:07 am Title: Chapter 2
Okay, how is it that I could SWEAR that I had reviewed the second chapter of this and yet somehow I just apparently... haven't. I have these wonderful intentions and all. THen again, weird things are happening to my reviews, like when the computer lost the whole long one I wrote for you, not sure if it was for this story of your other. Then, I swear I wrote a long review for that latest chapter of Dedeen's Set Fire to Ice. After I posted I added a comment I remembered that I had wanted to say originally and when I saw the length of my review I was surprised. I had thought I had been typing a lot more and that the review would have been a lot longer. I sometimes HATE rereading my own reviews because I cringe at all my typos. I'm a horrible typist who has never learned to type correctly and also, my keys stick a fair amount I I am often missing letters. I wasn't until days later when something about the review caught my eye and I was shocked and startled to find out that it was cut off like about mid thought and remembering what else I'd had to say in that particular one I KNOW it only poster half of what I actually typed out, if that much. I still want to finish that one, I know I had made a lot of points and now it bothers me that I keep thinking them but they don't really have a voice. (my goodness! Does THAT even make sense?!?!?! UGH!!) Anyhow, so it is NOT inconceivable to ME at least that maybe the computer just swallowed my whole review of your second chapter here, whole and now it's just gone. I agree, not likely but any more I think anything van really happen!
Okay so chapter two was another amazing chapter. It seems to me that in this one Pam is very much trying for a bit of courage and bravado while Jim tends to usually stick with his old fallback of deflecting with humor.
I really like what Pam had to say about the summer. First, for some reasone, not even really sure why,but I like that Pam is the one that started the ball rolling by asking about his trip to Australia. I sense that it was a purposeful move so that he would ask her how her summer was and she could tell him and hopefully help him to understand just how hard it all was. I'm wondering if she is hoping that he'll be able to read between the lines where it's letting him know that it isn't that she didn't want to call him. It's more like she was so overwhelmed with things collapsing in on her, trying to make a new life, adjust to her new norm and find out who she really was, she just really wasn't able to call him at that point. I'm not sure that Pam even realizes completely just why she couldn;t, was it fear of rejection? Fear of what he would want from her? Of his anger? Was it just too much after all she'd already done... I think she probably wasn't quite sure which of those it was or if just maybe it was bits and pieces of each of them.
I like how when Jim asks Pam about her summer and she says interesting, he just really obviously wants to hear about what went on. Here is where I am totally enjoying honest Pam. I love the ways you find to explain what went on and help describe it. I really love the expalination and can totally imagine it being true, that Pam found art classes in Scranton and was really proud of herself pretty much for it because there, she could take these classes and I think one element is she can prove to herself that the doubts that Jim put in her mind back in Boys and Girls about Roy and what Roy wants for Pam, she could erase all that by telling him about these classes and him being excited and proud for her because after all, this wasn't like spending every weekend for some time in the city away from each other along with a two week stretch at the end. Instead, Roy played exactly into the fears Jim had made surface in Pam's mind about Roy and the real reason why he didn't want her to take those classes. I think it was then that she knew that although this whole breakup was years and years overdue, it at very least should have certainly happened after the whole internship blowup because she should have opened her eyes then rather than living in denial.
I adore how honest Pam continues to tell him about cancelling the wedding, the nightmare of the prolonged chicken or fish? period of her life. Having to temporarily move in with her parents, get a car start taking those art classes and then her own apartment, even voicing her frustrations about the white walls.
I also love how this all leads Jim to a flashback of early in their telationship. How it reminded him that way back then he had needed to learn to edit himself and speak on half truths. I also like how you use this as an opportunity to do something that you are the master at, fill in parts of their backstory. You help guide us along so we can see exactly how they got to where they are.
I was feeling a bit frustrated with Jim here. I felt like Pam had really opened herself up and gave him a glimse into her summer and he didn't really share much except for surface stuff. I mean, he couldn't share how tough it was moving away? All he had to say was about big name carsand big houses? Seriously Jim? Even when she throws hm a bone and says that it doesn't sound like his kind of place he just says it's a good change of pace
It's really wonderful though that even though Jim isn't opening up with her, Pam continues being honest and I just adore ths next part. Well, not the part where she shares about Micheal and Oscar, though that's fine. I sense in some ways Jim would like to keep it to 'safe' talk like that but Pam is ready to be honest and is going to share. I just love what Pam has to say about having to figure out who she was without that other person to share it with and Jim automatically assumes she means Roy and comments that they were together a long time. I sense she steals his breath when she tells him that Roy was only part of that. She made it somehow sound as though it was (and of course we KNOW it was) more significant that she had to learn to do things without her best friend. WHat I like about that comment was that it was a nice gentle reminder of how with all these changes in her life, she certainly could have used her best friend to help her cope and get through, but she didn't even have that any longer and it was another hurdle in the mountain of hurdles that she had to climb.
I will say, I'm being a bit hard on Jim here (maybe partly because I'm glad that there's a story here where Pam is being the more honest one and also where it's really putting out there and showing all Pam had to do, on her own, once Jum blew her world apart with his words and then simply left her with all the pieces) I do like that Jim is the one to bring up them remaining in contact after this and tells Pam that he likes to hear thigs first hand.
This chapter is closed in such a reat way, Jim, being Jim, so much wants to see Pam's artwork. I maybe sense a little that missing seeing her art may just be one of the things he misses the most about Pam. For Jim Pam IS art so of course he would just so very much want to see how it's been coming, especially since she is taking these classes. I love that Jim so much wants to see her artwork, and her as well I'm guessing, that he can't help but suggest doning a chat face to face with the webcams. I love that they make plans to do just that the next night before finally ending the call.
Such a contented fwwling when reading about Jim's night of restfull dleep and then oh so Jim to be working on convincing himself that this is nothing even though you know that he suspects that maybe just maybe this is the beginning of EVERYTHING.
I sighed in contentment when th last sentence was about Jim at Target getting Pam the kind of hooks she CAN use on the walls and a quick and easy cookbook. (Maybe he's hoping she'll make something in it for him. I KNOW I am! )
Just a fabulous job expanding on your idea Danielle. You make it sound so real and make me believe that it really could have worked like this. Had they only not had that small misunderstanding that neither were willing to correct. Had one been brave how Pam was here it could have changed so so much. I just can't wait to read what else you have in store for us.
Okay.. ontp the new chapter you posted. I promise I'll work hard to get that review in tomorrow.
Another piece of impossibly brilliant work. I just can't wait to see what else you have in store for them. I can't wait to be able to watch them begin fetting closer. I just can't help how much I adore just how perfectly you write them! So SO great! Can't wait to read more!
Take care T~
Author's Response: I am so sorry I missed this review when going through my replies! I just noticed that I had missed this, I apologize, I know how much energy it takes from you to review, and I feel so bad that I missed seeing this. Yes, this story is another variation on Pam being the bolder one and Jim being the dense one who sort of sits back and waits patiently instead of running off and trying to move on. I don't want to spoil the story for you so I don't want to say too much, but the angst level of this is going to be at a low. I am so happy you enjoyed this chapter and I'm hoping you've enjoyed the others. Reviews sort of just stopped for it so I'm hoping it's not a let down to everyone. Thanks so so much for taking the time to review, it really means so much to me that you're enjoying this story. Thank you! More on the way soon! :)