These continue to be totally riveting. Each one encapsulates something so true about each character, yet is so understated and nuanced. Looking forward to more!

Aw. Especially liked the sketch where she wrote 'all in' and the one where Jim gives her art supplies. I'm a big sucker for fics that acknowledge Pam as an artist, and I especially love the idea of Jim recognizing this in her. He would. Now, if only they'd go there on the show. Nicely done!

Author's Response: Thank you so much! And especially for pointing out your favorite parts!

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Adding to the chorus of babyfic converts - this was terrific. Everyone's voice was so present - especially Pam and Jim - and with the quickest strokes. It was almost like an impressionistic painting, actually.

Loved how Jim was so loving and still funny. And Pam was...Pam (not easy, even with 2X the words.) This was a gem:

And I'll have you know the next summer games are in London, not my uterus

Well, you restored my faith in babyfic and almost made me think it would be nice to be pregnant again. I said almost.

Definitely intriguing. And very well written. As nej points out, the challenge will be to keep this in-character and recognizably based on the show...I do think you can go pretty far afield in terms of plot (or there'd be no fanfic), so I'm looking forward to seeing where you take this.

Author's Response: Going ooc is a big concern. I'm hoping attention to detail and fabulous betas will help.  Thanks for the compliments and support.

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I hope you will continue this as a series (although, I have to admit, I hope Karen doesn't hang around too much longer - I like her, just not as a triangular wedge!). Really interesting insights into her and her perceptions of Pam, Jim, etc. She's still so sketchy on the show, that it's nice to be able to 'read' her a bit more and this definitely helps flesh her out.

Author's Response: I really love Jim and Pam, to the point where I have completely driven my friends crazy. One of the things I love about the Office is its ability to draw its characters so realistically, to have them do things we hate yet still be forced to recognize that they are things the characters WOULD do. I felt like so far Karen has really been set up as Jim's love interest and I wanted her to be more of a complete person. Somehow as long as she isn't a completed character  the whole situation makes me uncomfortable, either because its too easy for the writers to discard her as a casualty in the JAM force, or because they still have the freedom to write her in a way that could alter the line of the story as we have seen it so far.  I  think I would feel better if I could really get my mind around Karen as her own person, who may be compatible or incompatible with Jim for reasons completely separate from Jam.  I guess its like getting into the mind of the enemy?

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Okay, I can admit it now. The correlation between Jim's recent shirt color choice and Pam's dress actually has occured to me. But, I never thought of turning it into a story! Amazing. I love the rythm of this - how each section starts with a color. And the part about her making/applying his Halloween costume made me melt a little...I miss 'them.' Lovely, lovely. And glad I'm not the only one nutty enough to see (imagine?) the subtext in an oxford cloth shirt.

Author's Response:

LOL!  It is the very first thing I thought of.  Great minds colette! ;) 

I miss them too.  Last week was not nearly enough.  MORE PLEASE????

I'm so very glad you liked it.

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Okay, she's got him in her fancy new apt., they're drinking wine, all cozy....very sweet. Now bring on the shameless smut you promised, sister!

 both of them remembering the moment that had been as seismic as a tectonic shift

Excellent line, that. Shake and Bake, Mannequin...so funny.  Hooray for assertive Pam and receptive Jim too. You really have a way of maintaining the characters, and always keeping it so fun to read.

When I first saw the title of this, for some reason I read 'Patrick Swayze' and thought, what now? Three-way Dirty Dancing? That was quite a dream. And, I have to say, in your stories you really have a flair for describing Jim, um, taking care of his own business (I've alluded to it in stories, but you really flesh it out quite effectively..yeah, yeah, TWSS.) Anyway, any chance this can become a recurrent dream? Can't wait to see where you go next!

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This chapter made me ridiculously happy - and, no, it's not just the drugs talking! You made both their feelings of being excited, nervous, wistful at unexpectedly having time together so real. Could really see Jim's face as he watched her skate, too - that adoring look he gets. And needless to say, Sasha should win a medal - and not just for Olympic skating.

Great kid-speak too...especially loved when she says We already went around like twenty-eleven times. (At around that age, my youngest told me something she wanted cost 'a buck three-eighty' which has been our term for any unclear price ever since, and this really reminded me of that.) Anyway, great ending...can't wait for the next chapter. Best medicine I've had in a while!

Ah, the origami doves of love. Now I have this lovely image of Jim smiling at Pam during the 'awards' in OO, as those doves were unfurled behind his head. Mmmmm.

I like that you had Karen take the news with grace and that Jim and Pam are full-throttle infatuated now that they've pulled the trigger (as well they would be.) 

And, am I reading too much into this: at the beginning when she mentions him 'distracting' her that morning, and he says: Twice....was there a shout-out there to his confession to Michael in The Convention (she said no...twice)?  Looking forward to the next chapter, but will be sorry to see it end.

Nope, does not disappoint. Love me assertive, passionate Jim.  We're not talking right now. And then another Hi from heaven...nice flashback there. He sure knows how to greet a girl.

Speaking of heaven, alert the Vatican, because they need to start considering Pam for sainthood. Can't wait until Jim does the right thing re: what's her name (oh, yeah, Karen) and they can finish what they started. You made it SO vivid that neither can he. (But seriously, what would Angela say about the way you've sullied this traditional Xmas carol...you hussy!)

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I know this one was a challenge, but you pulled it off with aplomb. I like how you worked so many iconic Jim-isms into Karen's perplexed description of him - and how they just don't jibe with her. Yet make total sense to Pam. Also loved the image of Pam brushing up against him 'accidentally'... and him 'not noticing.' Uh, huh. Sure. Karen's going to clue in, no doubt...if only I trusted it to happen in as reasonable a time frame on the show as I do in your able hands.

Author's Response:

Thanks colette.  This one was really difficult - because I - like Pam - can't bring myself to think of Karen as an out and out villian (nor should I).  I wanted to show how she's smitten w/Jim - and clearly likes him more than a little - but how she's just not quite the match Pam is for him.  I hope that came across.

And - yes.  There are no "accidents."  ;)