Penname: Colette Real name:
Member Since: July 22, 2006

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Summary: Nobody knows... or do they?
Categories: Jim and Pam, Future
Characters: Ensemble
Genres: Humor, Romance, Workdays
Warnings: None
Challenges: Nobody Knows
Series: None
Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 7388 Read Count: 15928 ePub Downloads: 2
[Report This] Published: July 21, 2006 Updated: August 08, 2006
Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: August 06, 2006 Title: Chapter 5: Chapter 5

Very clever and fun - especially liked Creed's perspective (love his reference to 'the young salesman with the hair.')

 



Author's Response:

Thank you!  Writing from Creed's perspective flowed easily out of my head (oh, that's scary thought!)

Summary: This is a somewhat longer fic, beginning with Casino Night, covering the aftermath of it beginning with what happens right after the confession and the kiss. I've also tried to flesh out Roy just a bit, to hopefully show the more sensitive side of him. This is heavy on the angst at the beginning, but I promise that the last two chapters are nice and smutty (and fluffy/funny). Would LOVE feedback about what works and what doesn't here!

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. No money is being made from this work. No copyright infringement is intended.


Categories: Jim and Pam, Future, Episode Related
Characters: Jim/Pam
Genres: Angst, Fluff, Humor, In Stamford, Inner Monologue, Romance, Steamy, Wet Pam/Jim
Warnings: Adult language, Explicit sexual content
Series: None
Chapters: 13 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 79384 Read Count: 57964 ePub Downloads: 57
[Report This] Published: July 26, 2006 Updated: July 26, 2006
Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: July 28, 2006 Title: Chapter 13: Chapter 13

Lord.

I thought I'd just read the first couple of chapters and finish it later...but couldn't stop until the end. Not only steamy, but the dialogue is really well done, and that's not easy to pull off with these characters. Really great read.

Author's Response: Listen, I am so impressed with your stuff that I take this as an enormous, enormous compliment - thank you so much!

Seasons by xoxoxo Rated: T [Reviews - 153] 129
Summary: Past Featured StoryA year in the life of Jim and Pam
Categories: Jim and Pam, Future, Episode Related, Present, Past
Characters: Jim/Pam
Genres: Angst
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 10 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 14304 Read Count: 38337 ePub Downloads: 9
[Report This] Published: July 26, 2006 Updated: August 06, 2006
Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: July 27, 2006 Title: Chapter 2: Summer

Thanks for such a speedy and wonderful new installment - I love instant gratification (maybe why all my stories take place AFTER Pam has come to her senses!)

Especially liked Jim's part - so poignant, funny in the right places - really sounds like I imagine his inner voice would. Please keep going!

(Re: your response to my previous review - so great to hear that from someone whose stories I've admired so much. Inspires me to maybe give a third one a go. I may have to stop working all together at this rate!)

Author's Response: OK twist my arm - I'll keep going. (PS: If you don't write a third (or fourth or fifth one) I'm going to stalk you until you do. Wow. Did not mean that to be creepy. But I'd really like you to write more. LOL!) PPS: Work is underrated. ;)

Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: July 26, 2006 Title: Chapter 1: Spring

Clever way to pull-off a non-wedding...definitely leaves me wanting more (nothng makes me greedier than a good story.)

Author's Response: I\'ll try and feed your greed as fast as I can. I need to say again I LOVE your stuff. Like - so much I want to marry it. LOL! Thanks for reading.

Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: August 02, 2006 Title: Chapter 8: Winter

Perfect. So true to the characters...they really should let you write the actual show. I'm not kidding.

Author's Response: Do you think they'd let me have an all JAM special??? 'Cause in that case I'm totally in. LOL! Thanks for the amazing compliments but I'm just playing around. I can't even begin to match wits with those writers. Truly.

Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: July 29, 2006 Title: Chapter 4: Thanksgiving

Lovely...seriously. You're doing such a great job of maintaining a bittersweet tone. Also of making small details so evocative.

It's about 95 degrees here today - and I'm really looking forward to Christmas.

Author's Response: Thank you...seriously. I'm hopeful that I've been able to strike a balance that feels real and not over the top angsty. It's hot here too. I'm wishing for snow. ;)

Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: August 02, 2006 Title: Chapter 7: Valentine's Day

Great ending to this chapter - really liking the story. Very absorbing.

By the way - great minds must think alike - check out my story from a while ago (Winter's Eve)-suffice to say she REALLY likes dark chocolate in that one!

Author's Response: Um. I remember all too well how much Pam (and Jim) enjoyed dark chocolate in your story. I had Jim buy her chocolate in another story too...Moments I think. And then? Also dark. :) Is there any other kind???

Summary: Past Featured Story“Respect? Respect? I know what respect is. Do you want me to spell it out for you? R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Okay, find out what it means to me—”
Categories: Jim and Pam, Future
Characters: Ensemble, Jim/Pam
Genres: Humor, Romance, Workdays
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 6 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 10919 Read Count: 18722 ePub Downloads: 7
[Report This] Published: July 28, 2006 Updated: August 16, 2006
Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: July 30, 2006 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

You did a great job of capturing the whole gamut of characters...and I only hope that reading this toughens me up for what I think we can expect next season. Melissa must be stopped.

Author's Response: I agree. Thank you for the feedback ; )

After the Fall by girl7 Rated: MA [Reviews - 113] 80
Summary: This was inspired by the recent spoilers we've gotten (but is purely speculation on my part). Picks up three and a half months after Casino Night, and will extend (hopefully) to Jim's return to Scranton, incorporating the new girl in his life...for a while. ;o)
Categories: Jim and Pam, Future
Characters: Jim/Pam
Genres: Angst, In Stamford, Inner Monologue, Steamy
Warnings: Adult language, Explicit sexual content, Mild sexual content
Series: None
Chapters: 15 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 79604 Read Count: 105719 ePub Downloads: 36
[Report This] Published: August 01, 2006 Updated: August 04, 2006
Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: August 01, 2006 Title: Chapter 3: Chapter 3

Very sweet scene - and nice to see someone appreciating Jim in the manner to which he ought to be accustomed..looking forward to seeing how this unfolds. (BTW, so far the 'smut' factor seems pretty mild, so no need to worry....though smut never worries me at all!)

Author's Response: Thank you so much! Yes, that's what I was going for: someone who was the antithesis of Pam just in the sense that she really does appreciate him and tells him so. That's the only way I could realistically see him getting involved with someone else so soon. And yes, the smut factor is very low on this one so far.

Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: August 04, 2006 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

Yikes...glad to see I'm not the only one who went over to the dark side this week! (But maybe this chapter should have an 'MA' rating too - and I only mean that in the nicest way.)

BTW - I wrote a whole passage in my latest chapter (soon to be posted) that talks about Jim making Pam a morning-after omelet - and other omelet related activities...now after seeing your story I'm going to have to go back and change it. Rats. Loved your story all the same!

Author's Response: No, don't change it! Keep it in! I can't wait to read your latest -- and thanks for the feedback!

Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: August 02, 2006 Title: Chapter 7: Chapter 7

This is seriously good - with a mini cliffhanger in every chapter. Please keep it coming!

Summary:

This is essentially my take on the "unseen" challenge. I've written a couple of these, and I originally thought I'd do one for every episode, but I'm thinking that's too ambitious for me -- especially when someone else has already done it so perfectly. But for what it's worth....

Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. No money is being made from this work. No copyright infringement is intended.


Categories: Jim and Pam, Episode Related
Characters: Jim/Pam
Genres: Angst
Warnings: Adult language, Mild sexual content, Moderate sexual content
Series: None
Chapters: 36 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 130778 Read Count: 162446 ePub Downloads: 81
[Report This] Published: August 01, 2006 Updated: September 11, 2006
Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: August 03, 2006 Title: Chapter 5: Chapter 5: "Basketball"

Got half way through this before I realized I'd read it before - just as captivating the second time!

Love your description of P's reaction when J ran by her on the court ('She absently caught herself tilting...') I always thought she looked almost drunk on him in that shot. Can't blame her.

Author's Response: "Drunk on him" -- wow, YES. Exactly. And I think her expression pretty much summed up all of our thoughts: Damn. :o)

Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: September 11, 2006 Title: Chapter 36: Chapter 36: Gay Witch Hunt (sort of - not really)

Holy shit. (Pardon my French, but there are no English words.) Parts 33-36? Devoured in one sitting. And 'At Last' - on the living room floor?  That T rating definitely went M there, and gloriously so. Yum. I seriously don't know what to say, other than you are a force of nature, pounding these stories out, one great one after another.

Author's Response: Yay!  Thanks so much - I'm glad you liked it!  This is what happens when I spend a day drinking wine and writing.  I'm really glad you liked it, though! 

Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: September 07, 2006 Title: Chapter 31: Chapter 31: Casino Night - part II

Would asking for Casino Night Parts 3, 4, 5...be too tall an order? So riveting - a great emotional ride. Bravo to the whole series.

Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: September 05, 2006 Title: Chapter 29: Chapter 29: Conflict Resolution

Wow. It's 8:30 am, and after reading this, I think I need a drink too.

Seriously, this was really effective - you so captured the impending sense of doom and devastation Jim could feel in his worst moments as the wedding approaches. Very dark, but very well done. The part where she holds him and he sleeps with his head in her lap was especially moving. So so sad.



Author's Response:

I am so glad you liked it!  I know it was really dark - darker than they'd ever go on the show because it probably wouldn't even be remotely plausible - but....I don't know; I like exploring the tragic undercurrent between these two.  Mainly because I believe they'll have a happy ending.  And cause it's fun. :o)

Yeah, when I was writing about him sleeping with his head in her lap, I was thinking, wow, what I would not give....

Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: September 02, 2006 Title: Chapter 26: Chapter 26: Performance Review - part I

Once you end a chapter with a cliff hanger, it's incumbent upon you to update (new Fanfic Rules of Conduct, section 14A.3.1.) Seriously, please do!

And coincidentally, I'm also finishing a chapter in which Pam gets some unequivocal advice from an unlikely source - though in a v. different context - so maybe we're starting a trend...I like it!



Author's Response:

Listen sister, your wish is my command. :o) 

I have GOT to go read your fic now!  And I love it that we keep having these parallel ideas -- flatters me to think we may think alike!

Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: August 31, 2006 Title: Chapter 24: Chapter 24: The Injury - part II

Wow, an old favorite book I hadn't thought about in ages...works perfectly too. And I love the idea of a  literate Jim...really makes sense to me. All in all, a deliciously angsty read.

Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: August 18, 2006 Title: Chapter 12: Chapter 12: "Email Surveillance: Part II"

I'm now totally convinced that you're trying to kill me. These are so addictive - please keep it up...can't go too long without another fix. Thanks!!!

Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: August 14, 2006 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1: The Pilot

Really, really liked these last two scenes. The one with Mrs. Beesly was so touching - you had Jim being so Jim, so poignant and quietly soulful.

 Interesting too, because I'd often thought that a rich vein to follow (on the actual show) re: the drunk Dundies kiss, would have been the idea that people only lose their inhibitions when drunk, but don't say/do anything they don't really mean on some level.

Thanks for the great update!



Author's Response: Thanks, as always, for that great feedback!  And yes - drunken people don't say things they don't really mean.  (I'm looking at you, Mel Gibson.  Sorry -- couldn't resist!)

Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: August 15, 2006 Title: Chapter 8: Chapter 8: "The Fight"

Stopped by here to see if there was anything to help me procrastinate from work and stumbled on this...and now I feel like I'm in a trance, so forget working...

Just exquisite. You really capture the Jimness of Jim. And I love what Pam says about how hard it is '..being us, I guess.' Please make many more of these!

Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: August 24, 2006 Title: Chapter 20: Chapter 20: The Carpet

This one was especially good (plausible or not - hell, it's all made up stories anyway!) The quiz was such a clever idea. Amazed that you can be so prolific and still produce such good stuff (as I sit here, struggling to find the time and inclination to finish one damn story that's been cooking for 2 weeks plus!)



Author's Response:

You are so sweet!  And listen, it's not a good thing that I'm writing this much -- seriously.  I'm procrastinating on a hundred other things that I need to do for "real" life.  I'm telling myself that when I finish all the episodes, I will STOP writing the fan fic - but it's so damned much fun! 

Thanks as always for the feedback - and I can't wait to read your story!

Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: August 17, 2006 Title: Chapter 9: Chapter 9: "The Christmas Party"

Wow. You are soooo good at doing their dialogue - the scene in the bar was masterfully done. I could vividly hear them and see them. Funny and touching too.

Love the conceit of having Pam see Jim through another woman's eyes too - I actually have a story started that sort of goes there as well (though in an extremely different way/context) so this was especially inspiring! More!!!

Jim Capsule by proposals Rated: MA [Reviews - 15] 17
Summary: Pam's not sure what it is about being in Jim's car that drives her crazy.
Categories: Jim and Pam, Present
Characters: Jim/Pam
Genres: None
Warnings: Adult language, Explicit sexual content
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 1945 Read Count: 5482 ePub Downloads: 2
[Report This] Published: August 04, 2006 Updated: August 04, 2006
Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: August 04, 2006 Title: Chapter 1: Jim Capsule

Let me be the first to say WOW. This was very...moving...and also really well written. Impressed with the way you (and our little Pam) cut right to the chase. Well done (both of you!)

Author's Response: Thanks! That means a lot, because I love your writing. =]

Summary: Jim gets a late-night visitor.
Categories: Jim and Pam, Future
Characters: Jim, Jim/Pam
Genres: Angst
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 1910 Read Count: 2647 ePub Downloads: 0
[Report This] Published: August 04, 2006 Updated: August 04, 2006
Reviewer: Colette Signed 10
Date: August 04, 2006 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

This is beyond sweet. Loved the last line. Really touching.

Author's Response: Glad you liked it! Thanks for reviewing.

When by xoxoxo Rated: M [Reviews - 74] 64
Summary: Past Featured StoryCould be kinda in response to The Injury challenge.  Jim suddenly has a lot of time to contemplate and reminisce. 
Categories: Jim and Pam, Present, Past, Future
Characters: Jim/Pam
Genres: Angst, Fluff, Humor, Married, Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Workdays
Warnings: Moderate sexual content
Challenges: Injury
Series: None
Chapters: 7 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 10661 Read Count: 29541 ePub Downloads: 13
[Report This] Published: August 07, 2006 Updated: August 13, 2006
Reviewer: Colette Signed
Date: August 08, 2006 Title: Chapter 1: In the beginning...

Terrific, as usual.



Author's Response:

Thank you!