As suspected, she found Jim being held captive in the Fortress of Boritude, Karen’s secret lair in the suburbs of Stamford, Connecticut. At first Pam wasn’t sure how to get inside but then she whipped out her tried and true wide, happy smile and just walked in through the front gates. Karen’s henchmen were so blinded by the sheer wonderfulness of it that they couldn’t make out who it was, only that a bright light had passed by them and that they felt at one with the world.
Pam heard Jim’s screams for help and followed them to a large room with a skylight where he was being held, bound head to toe and upside down, dangling over a pit full of starving a capella singers who clawed upward trying to reach him.
Karen was on the side of the pit, operating a winch which she used to lower Jim down another few feet every time he defied her. It was unmistakable that it was Karen even at a distance because she had Jim’s desk super-glued to her rear end. Pam was secretly impressed, she had no idea Karen’s bottom was so strong as to be able to hold the desk in mid-air like that.
“Unhand him!” Pam leaped out from the shadows, her saber raised.
“What? DCMP?! Where did you come from? How did you get in here? Why didn’t my guards stop you?” Karen was more surprised than if Jim had kissed her in public.
Pam raised her eyebrows. The room shook a little as tectonic plates shifted due to the adorableness. “That’s the most lines you’ve had in a row all season. Congratulations.”
“Thanks,” said Karen, like a Volvo.
“Now you’re back to monosyllabic! Ha!” Pam twirled her saber, much like a cheerleader would if any cheerleaders were as cute as Pam.
“Arghh!” Karen let go of the winch to clench her fists in frustration. Jim slid down another foot, closer to the starving a capella singers who slavered and growled as they harmonized the lyrics of “Kiss the Girl."
Turning her attention back to Jim, Karen screamed at him like a quarterly report. “Say it finally, and I’ll let you go. Say that you will work harder on selling paper so we can have a vacation!”
Jim was scared and worse yet his wig was starting to slip off which concerned him more than the singers in the pit below. “But I want to prank Dwight. And tease Andy. And grow my hair longer again. Who knew my ears were this big?”
Karen turned the winch and lowered him some more. "Make money so we can take a trip!”
Jim’s mind raced, he had to find a way out, if only so he could live to give Pam the cold shoulder another day. “I’m a drunk driver,” he blurted out, sounding much like a small town paper salesman who inexplicably has two of People magazine's most beautiful women in love with him.
Karen started grinning and tearing up with joy. She quickly turned the winch in the other direction, lifting Jim back up to safety. “He’s just so cute, I have to bundle him into the back of my car.” She unhooked Jim and started dragging him towards the front gates. “Don’t come near me,” she snarled at Pam, like a coffee break. “Or that desk you want so badly gets it.”
DCMP laughed, like world peace. “It’s no use, Karen, that desk attached to you is not his real desk. It’s his Desk of Estrangement. His Desk of Love is still back at the office.” DCMP then flashed a wide, happy smile but Karen was immune, protected by her Cool Bangs. “The bangs can’t save you,” said Pam, like a Brownie selling cookies. “The powers that be have decided the next paragraph will be angst-free.”
Karen screamed in frustration as Pam grabbed Jim and raced him out the front gates, smiling at anyone who got in their way. Karen followed but as she reached the parking lot she saw the DCMP-mobile driving away. It stopped at a school crossing and twice swerved to avoid running over bunnies but she knew there was no chance of catching up.
Karen shook her head. “That was lame, using lack of angst like that," she said, filing cabinetly.
On the grass nearby sat Kevin, playing with dingos. "That wasn’t lame, that was strategy, mate," he replied, bit partly.
"Oh, shut up."
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