Penname: girl7 Real name:
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if i let these days go by by unfold Rated: K [Reviews - 19] 9
Summary: Post season four angst. Spoilers through the finale. There’s a ‘Welcome Back, Pam!’ party the first Monday in September, after she gets back, after she spends a week off transitioning back to life in Scranton, after.
Categories: Future, Jim and Pam
Characters: Jim, Jim/Pam
Genres: Inner Monologue, Oneshot
Warnings: None
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 1280 Read Count: 2936 ePub Downloads: 1
[Report This] Published: June 23, 2008 Updated: June 23, 2008
Reviewer: girl7 Signed
Date: July 01, 2008 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

Grr, I wrote a review, but the internet ate it.  Let's try this again....

Your stuff is predictable only in the sense that I know I'm guaranteed an excellent read; that it'll be lovely and succinct and spot-on.  While I hope we don't see things go in this direction on the show, I definitely think it's a realistic take on the possibility of how it would be if they did go this way.  (Did that make sense?  I'm so exhausted that nothing has made sense to me all day, lol.)

In any case, a great read -- fantastic, just as all your stuff is.  Thanks for this!

August by Colette Rated: M [Reviews - 55] 33
Summary: The Brooklyn Bridge, a tiny elephant, dim sum, ancient Mayan princesses. Your basic Sunday in New York.
Categories: Jim and Pam, Present
Characters: None
Genres: Romance, Weekend
Warnings: Adult language, Moderate sexual content
Series: None
Chapters: 3 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 4546 Read Count: 12546 ePub Downloads: 4
[Report This] Published: June 25, 2008 Updated: June 29, 2008
Reviewer: girl7 Signed
Date: July 01, 2008 Title: Chapter 1: Over The Brooklyn Bridge

Big contented sigh.

This was simply lovely; you capture here the essence of why I have no worries about season 5.  Love the fact that they're enjoying exploring the city together; love it even more that they sometimes don't leave her apartment for the entire weekend. :o)

Off to the next chapter....



Author's Response: Absolutely no worries. And I think there are plenty of things they'll explore together (no, not just that!) So glad you dropped by, girl7!!

Reviewer: girl7 Signed
Date: July 01, 2008 Title: Chapter 2: Fortune Cookie

Wow.  This chapter is the very essence of what you do so well; you offer up these tightly woven, succinct pieces that are simply atmospheric.  ...I'm fairly certain that's not a word, lol, so let me clarify: Reading this chapter, I was totally caught in the feel of it: could picture the rickety little place, the steam rising off of the food, Jim's expression at the waitress's "how to" (hee), and maybe most enjoyable of all, the electricity between the two of them.  Really, I was so caught up in this that when the chatper ended, there was this moment of almost disorientation for me -- as in, oh yeah, I'm sitting here in my office, not in the restaurant with Jim & Pam....

All this rambling to say: Excellent work, my friend!

And there's another chapter...?  Awesome!



Author's Response: Word or no word...I'll take 'atmospheric' ;-) It's great that you felt so caught up by this - I really wanted to express that sense of specific place and character, but it's always so hard to know whether what you see/hear in your head is what's coming across on the page. So hooray for that! And, thank you, my friend! (I get one more review? Wee!!!)

Reviewer: girl7 Signed
Date: July 01, 2008 Title: Chapter 3: Ancient Mayan Princesses

Gah, so many amazing things about this chapter!  Loved the description of the little girls, particularly given that I have twin nieces around that age, and they would totally react the same way in that situation.  If I so much as kiss my husband on the cheek, it elicits squeals and giggles.  ...Um, from them, not him, lol.

And as usual, you write the heated stuff such that it radiates a frisson, yet never breaks the illusion that this is Jim & Pam -- recognizable characters, not two people who bear little resemblence to those we know so well. 

The e.e. cummings poem was like a little dollop of whipped cream on the top of a totally delectable dessert.

Thanks for writing this -- such a treat to read!



Author's Response:

Ah, come on...I bet Mr. girl7 squeals and giggles too.

As you know, writing steamy scenes believably in-character is always a challenge (cause we never actually see them that way. Dang.) So I'm especially glad you found them recognizable here. (I know exactly what you mean about smut where the characters are simply Jim/Pam doppelgangers.) And, I think I first read that poem in college, and it's stayed in my head ever since. Glad I finally figured some way to use it, lol. Thanks, doll...always love hearing from you!

consequences of a disaster you can't see coming by bebitched Rated: K+ [Reviews - 9] 6
Summary:

“Oh god. I’m that girl, aren’t I? The stupid love interest that’s just a distraction until May sweeps.”  

Jan gives Karen some perspective by a fountain in New York City last May.

Written to the prompt of "hardcore self-destruction."


Categories: Other, Past, Episode Related
Characters: Jan, Karen
Genres: Angst, Humor, Oneshot
Warnings: Mild sexual content
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 641 Read Count: 2595 ePub Downloads: 0
[Report This] Published: June 27, 2008 Updated: June 27, 2008
Reviewer: girl7 Signed
Date: July 01, 2008 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

First of all: really cool premise for this!  Second of all: well-executed!  Seriously, this was fantastic from start to finish; I love the way you characterized both Karen and Jan here.  They're recognizable humans with flaws, as opposed to the stereotypes that sometimes pop up in fiction.  I also like it that you articulated Karen's awareness that she was complicit in the whole mess, but that it wasn't so easy to see that (much less do the "sensible" thing) when she was in the middle of it all.  I've always sympathized with all three members of that triangle - Jim, Pam, and Karen -- but I've also thought that they were all pretty much equally complicit in why things dragged on the way that they did. 

Anyway, just a terrific job here!

The Parking Lot of Redemption by Too Late Kev Rated: T [Reviews - 22] 19
Summary:

What if Pam had a different response during the Merger to Jim's overture in the parking lot?


Jim: Oh, nothing. I just feel bad. I feel like things were a little weird today... or something.


Categories: Jim and Pam, Episode Related
Characters: None
Genres: Inner Monologue, Oneshot
Warnings: Other Adult Theme
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 634 Read Count: 3808 ePub Downloads: 1
[Report This] Published: July 08, 2008 Updated: July 08, 2008
Reviewer: girl7 Signed
Date: July 11, 2008 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1

Okay, I've got so much work to do that I have no business reading fanfic, but I had to take a break and read a quick oneshot...and I am so glad I did.  This is absolutely perfect -- says so much in so few words, with not a false note in it.  I could hear Pam's rushed together words (and yes, I think if she'd spoken up, she'd have said exactly that: "Before, when I said coffee I meant a date").  Jim's response was perfect, too -- initially freezing, maybe deciding whether or not to let down the walls.  And when he said, "Yes"...?  I actually gasped a bit. 

Finally, the way you re-worked the "I just think I should tell you...." line is absolutely brilliant.

Love this -- thank you!



Author's Response:

I find too nowadays, that I'm looking for "complete" and I'm looking at the number of words.  A short one-shot more often gets the read!

I'm glad you took the chance and liked it! :)  In my mind there are  many times and in many ways that Pam could have turned things around in S3, and the earlier she did it, the less it would take.  If on that day, she'd made her coffee request clearer, I think it would have made all the difference.

Poor Jim on that day, really.  It was so difficult to come back, and she greets him with that big hug, but her coffee request seemed like "Hey, old friend, let's catch up and be juuuust like we used to be!  Then we can braid each other's hair!"  And then to get that "What do you mean?" when he was (initially) trying to be mature and talk about the weirdness... it made for a pretty bad day, I think. 

There were some fics written after that where Jim is basically driven right into Karen's bed by that parking lot scene, and I thought those were pretty spot on.  (Hey, maybe you even wrote one of those.  They were gooood.)

Anyway, I think in real life, Pam might have done something like this.  It isn't a huge act of putting herself out there.  It's not "I'm in love with you," it's "this is what I meant in case you didn't understand, now I'm embarrassed."  Nothing near what Jim did; an adult female could probably manage this much.

I was thrilled when I thought of Jim saying that line to Karen.  It's sort of a nice parallel to what we saw.

Thanks so much for reading and reviewing, girl7! :)

Apres by callisto Rated: M [Reviews - 80] 39
Summary: Past Featured StoryThis will be a series of one-shots that take place after an episode, in no particular order, for as long as I continue to have ideas.
Categories: Jim and Pam, Present, Past, Episode Related
Characters: Jim, Pam
Genres: Angst, Drabble, Drunk Pam/Jim, Humor, Inner Monologue, Romance, Weekend, Workdays
Warnings: Adult language, Moderate sexual content
Series: None
Chapters: 11 Table of Contents
Completed: No Word count: 12593 Read Count: 40682 ePub Downloads: 2
[Report This] Published: September 15, 2010 Updated: May 09, 2013
Reviewer: girl7 Signed
Date: May 09, 2013 Title: Chapter 11: paper airplane: faith, hope, and love

What the what?! How did you do this? Here's what you've done (and why I'm all flailing): 

 1) You've captured both of their voices here. 

2) You've given us a truly realistic portrait of their marriage in its "broken" state.

3) You've established so beautifully just how connected they are even when they're feeling disconnected. 

4) You've brought them back together in a believable, relatable way (that's also sexy - bonus points!).

5) And you wrote this most fantastic line: " I’m away half the week and when I’m there, it’s like she…isn’t."

Oh wow. Just wow. Thank you for this, my friend!