Sadly, I am not an author of any persuasion (unless writing program descriptions and email correspondence to program participants counts as fiction -- which, I suppose, some days it does) but I am an avid reader and a huge fan of "The Office." I'll admit, I was such a huge fan of the original UK version that I procrastinated about watching the US version for far too long. Thanks to my BFF Kate (who is a writer, and a darn fine one IMHO) that has been rectified and I'm now a true blue fan, one who is desperately in love with the fictional character of Jim Halpert. I am equally smitten with the Jim/Pam pairing so finding this veritable fountain of JAM fanfic is just marvelous! 
What if Pam confronted Jim a little sooner than on Beach Day? A S3 AU angst-fest, complete with uneaten pizza. Spoilers up to/around Business School....
8 Wow mox, that was INTENSE. I just found this story and much like the brilliant "Squirrel" I am addicted to the way you write Jim and Pam -- even when there is angst. I think you've really fleshed out the evolution of their relationship in this 'verse very believably and sweetly. I think it is very understandable that with all of the confusion and misconceptions and hurt feelings that they might be a little hesitant with one another despite the strength of their feelings.
And honestly -- what is not to love about a chappy full of lovely JAMmy fluff capped off with a little Jim self-lovin'? Although how Pam can keep herself on that couch and out of Jim's bed are beyond me -- her self-restraint is clearly MUCH stronger than mine would be in her shoes. SIGH.
Can't wait for breakfast! (Or perhaps some late night lovin'? Hmmm? Maybe??)
MEMBER'S CHOICE - Katy and Jim are still dating during Jim’s “Email Surveillance” BBQ. When Pam sees them together it lights a fire under her.Woo hoo! Thank the dear lord! It was so nice to FINALLY read what the appropriate response to Roy's lame-ass "proposal" to set the date should have been. Roy is such a schmuck and so NOT Jim Halpert that it's almost painful.
I love reading the Pam side of the JAM "crush" in a way that actually makes her aware of how much she gets from Jim that she's not getting from Roy -- and also, the awareness that Jim isn't just the better man, he's the sexier man too! You've done a lovely job taking Pam through the stages necessary to realize that marrying Roy -- with or without Jim in the picture -- would be a mistake.
Love this story -- looking forward to more!
8 Steamy and sweet and fabulous -- just the perfect sort of ending for your lovely story! I think what I love the most is how being with Jim has liberated Pam, not just sexually (although who could blame the girl) but emotionally as well. It's made her more demanding and demonstrative and that is absolutely wonderful.
Closing the tale with the "up in Jim's room" line was a really nice touch. Bravo!!!
Author's Response: Yeah, I think we all need to be \"liberated\" by Jim ;-) Sexually, emotionally -- whatever it takes! Anyway, thanks for your comments -- I really appreciate you taking the time!
8 This was so lovely! Just the right amount of fluff to get us through the cold nights until April 10th. I loved so many little moments in this piece that paint the picture of their life together. It's utterly believable and so charming and sweet. You did a really marvelous job! I particularly enjoyed the grocery shopping scene and Jim's gift of tiny bubbles. :-)
Oh, and your description of spam was absolutely spot on. BLECH.
Keep up the great work!
Author's Response: Thank you! Spam = not of the good, agreed.
Jim and Pam are Jim and Pam, only...not really.JAY-SUS. I don't even think "GUH" covers it. I don't know when it happened, but this is now my favorite piece of AU crack!fic EVER. Ever, ever, EVER. I don't know how you've done it, but I'm totally obsessed with this story. Sad but true.
Before I dive into what is sure to be a novella of a review, I have to tell you that you so thoroughly .... DEMOLISHED my brain after I read this the first time yesterday afternoon I had to seek a specialist to reconstruct my mind and then take a 24 hour sabbatical before I could come back and write something remotely coherent.
I think I've probably read this chapter about five times now -- it's by far my favorite in this already amazing story -- and I think the thing that really gets me is how urgent the whole thing feels. Urgent and poignant and almost out of control in the best way possible. Just....GUH. WOW.
She wonders if this is because she apologized. Or maybe because their chemistry is ridiculous. Or maybe it’s just that his penis could hear her calling out to it all weekend and now it’s just answering, responding…ok this is just an insane train of thought. OK, that made me laugh my ass off. I loved the call back to her "penis" mantra and the way this moment so clearly shows how she is starting to spiral out of control.
Like he wanted her. Like she was killing him just by existing. Like if he had his choice of any woman in the world, in that moment, he would’ve chosen her without a single thought. She wants that look. She covets it. She wants to push him up against the wall and run her hands over him until that look is burned onto his face forever and every time she so much as glances at him he looks at her that particular way. And...just...DAMN. That is it. To me, in one paragraph, you have summed up that thing that makes Jim's love for Pam so compelling to the rest of us. It's that LOOK. Because who wouldn't want to relish that look, drown in that look, swim around in it until it permeated every fiber of your being?? Just GENIUS.
Jim walks in a room and she has a level four nervous breakdown and turns into some kind of spastic jungle animal who can‘t decide whether she wants to eat him or sleep with him. Or something like that. This, paired with her description of that "tightly coiled thrill" that rolls down her spine from that old "Jim Magic" was so sizzling and perfect and hilarious in the way that these feelings for Jim have completely robbed her of her ability to be reasonable or rational. Plus, totally hilarious!
“Yeah,” he tells her firmly, “It was,” and she has no idea what that means. I cannot wait until she knows EXACTLY what that means. It also leads me to ask the question: will we get an opportunity to see any of this from Jim's perspective? I'd like to think that in some ways he's just as confused and out of control as Pam is -- the only difference is that he's decided he likes it that way and he's embraced it.
And now, the kiss. OH. MY. FRAKKING. GOD. It was just .... flnjk&%cioyha!^&ahd;@ ... my brain is starting to become unstable again. It was hot and steamy. It was intense. It was emotional and moving and elemental and just....WOW. I love beyond words that the kiss was spontaneous and unplanned and 100% Jim's inability to fight his feelings for Pam. And the way you incorporated that into the reality that the public would forever have a piece of a moment that was so terribly personal and intimate was so perfectly accurate (in this 'verse) and simultaneously heartbreaking.
And this moment: He kisses her like he’s sorry and like he’s concerned and like he’s in love with her, and she’s completely dying inside because she thinks she‘s been dreaming about somebody kissing her like this her entire life and she‘s sure she‘ll be remembering this kiss forever even though it might not be meant for her, really meant for her, because she doesn‘t even know who she is anymore. Sheer perfection.
I don't know how on earth you are ever going to top this chapter but I can't wait to see you try -- because I have no doubt that the next installment will be just as mind-blowing.
YOU. TOTALLY. RULE. (Is there a rating higher than a 10?)
OK, you know what? I give up. I'm completely out of words and ways to tell you how much I love this story and what an amazing writer you are. Big, huge, gushy love. AH-FRAKKING-MAZING. But really quickly before I go? These two moments just about made me lose it for good:
she feels one side of her mouth pull up in a half smile and she thinks her grandmother would call her ‘smitten’ at this point, but, god look at him. Of course she’s smitten.
He pulls her fast around to face him and he slides his fingers through her hair and he bends down low and presses his already open mouth against hers and she thinks he tastes like chocolate this time and she thinks she’s going to die. He’s going to kill her with this shit.
Aw, frak it. I lost it anyway....Excuse me while I go get something to wipe my brains up off the floor and sew my head back together.
Ok, I'm going to admit it -- my love for this story has officially reached the level of pathetic obsession. Why? Because it's been THREE WHOLE DAYS since your last update and I don't know what to do with myself. You've spoiled all of us with your 12 hour turnaround on chapter postings so what else can we do but mourn when a whole 72 hours passes without an update????
SIGH.
Oh well. Guess I'll just have to go back to the beginning and read all 18 chapters again, won't I? :-)
10 *THUD*
I'm dead. So, so, so VERY DEAD.
More later when my brain starts to function again because right now there is so much emotion and fabulousness in this chapter I've lost the ability to function.
WOWZERS. Again I ask: can we get a rating on here higher than a ten? Like maybe a zillion? That sounds about right to me.
10 You know, if I keep reading your fic I'm eventually going to ensure a complete lobotomy -- because every time you post a new chapter, there is an explosion in my head and I lose a chunk of brain function from the intense amazingness of it all. WOW.
These last two chapters were so good and hot and sweet and sexy and romantic and erotic and emotional that I could be here all night quoting them. So I won't. Instead, I'll highlight what I consider to be the two best parts:
He’s just so…earnest, sometimes. He’s so good looking and earnest and he’s like a chocolaty bad boy with a delicious soft peanut butter center. He’s a rebel who’s actually a hero who’s actually just total eye candy. I loved this because it's like Pam is finally seeing, REALLY seeing, all of Jim. Good, bad or indifferent, it's all of what makes Jim Jim and what makes her want him and love him. And you did it in a way that was both humorous and sweet.
She briefly wonders if she should be more level headed about this, but it’s like for the past two weeks someone has been stretching her taut like a rubber band and now finally they’ve pulled just tight enough and she wants so badly to snap. I swear to god, if that isn't the best damn description of UST, I don't know what is. An absolutely fucking brilliant description of such a terribly delicious feeling -- it slays, it kills, it makes your readers want to kill you for ending the chapter there.
But not. 'Cause we need more. Like stat.
Anyway, as always I bow to your brilliance and beg you to put us out of our misery with hot and sweaty JAM sex really, really, REALLY soon.
Pretty please? With tall and gorgeous naked Jim on top?
10 You know what? Right now I say "funny schmunny -- who needs it"? Because when you write I don't care. You make me kind of like the angst. Kind of want it. Kind of welcome it. It's unhealthy (I'm sure) but it's just too damn good for me to care. So at first I was all "la di da" with the silent snarking they were engaging in and enjoying the comfortable lack of comfort they were experiencing and then you hit me with this:
And he’s in love with her in that gut wrenching kind of way. In the way where if he looks her in the eye for too long she’s definitely going to figure it out, so he looks away and he nods and he stares down at his coffee like that will maybe quiet down his insides, which at the moment are all twisted up and battling between wanting to kiss her and wanting to tell her too many things that are way too honest for a casual Wednesday cup of coffee.
Which? Just...GUH. Eviscerate a girl, why don't ya?
And then I keep reading and this part hits me like a line drive to the head, and I realize I only thought that first bit was the best bit in the whole story but really, it's this:
“Pam,” he starts, soft, solid, and he thinks he’s about to say something good because he thinks it should steal the breath from her lungs. He thinks that even the air should pause to listen to him, to stare at him in shock, and he feels something inside of him vowing to be a good man and he feels like handing that over to her. Like giving that to her because she’s already made him so much better than he is.
And I'm like weeping on the floor. Dead. From all the amazingness.
I love that you threw this whole curve ball in there about Pam's dad that makes her innate hatred of Jim and her overwhelming desire to never want or love someone too much so understandable and so tragic at the same time. And then you have Jim actually having a moment of clarity, recognizing the hurtles he's got to clear and confident that he can be the kind of man her father never was. It was so wonderful and moving and I just loved every word of it.
And then stupid Graham showed up and ruined EVERYTHING. I hope Pam tells him to go drown in some Earl Grey so she can get back to the important Jim stuff.
You're going to kill me again in the next chapter, aren't you? (SIGH) Oh well. Guess I'm just a glutton for punishment! :-)
Author's Response: Oh my god why are your reviews always so amazing?!?!?!!? Seriously you knock reviewing out of the park EVERY time!!! Thank you so much for all of this detail. I really was nervous about this part of the story because up until now it's been pretty light-hearted and comedic and now we're getting into the real meat. So basically this review totally put my fears to rest. You rock the house, and the casbah, consistently ;-) Thank you thank you thank you!!!
I'm two chapters behind in reviews so I'm going to keep this one simple:
She thinks housecats are for frightened women, and she swears to god she isn’t going to be scared anymore.
This line? It kind of makes the entire chapter while simultaneously kicking the collective asses of so many other fics in its innate awesomeness.
10 Hey there! Sorry for the delay on my Ch. 26 review but this one just knocked my socks off and I needed some time to collect my thoughts before posting. Can I just say that, in one way at least, your Pam and I are so much alike it is scary:
“Oh, god, you’re crying,” Heather greets, rolling her eyes and pushing her way into Pam’s living room like she owns the place, and Pam sighs and kind of tosses her hands out to her sides in response.
I can't tell you how many times I've lived this scene with my BFF -- sometimes over a guy, but just as often over a silly TV show or a movie or some crazy fanfic I've become obsessed with (*wink*) -- her rolling her eyes at my overemotionalness and me shrugging because I've learned there's just no helping it.
Now if only I could become more like Pam in the having-hot-monkey-sex-with-deep-emotional-undercurrents with Jim kind of way. SIGH.
Although we've gotten glimpses inside Pam's head during this tale, it's cool to see her through the lens of her nosy best friend because you know she sees things that Pam isn't entirely prepared to think or examine or feel.
“That’s how this sort of thing is supposed to happen, though, sweetie, because fate doesn’t want to give you time to think too hard. Which is exactly what you’re doing with the weeping and the wailing, by the way,” she points out and Pam considers that, thinks that maybe she’s right and thinks that maybe she should relax into things. Maybe she should accept her feelings instead of questioning them.
See? BFF clarity right there. Also this?
“You cannot let him wander off, Pam, you should tattoo your name on his ass or something,” she declares.
WORD.
And there are just no words for how adorable and wonderful the last scene between Jim and Pam was. After the intense roller-coaster ride we've been on with these two over the last 25 chapters it was really lovely and heart warming to just see them teasing and enjoying each other.
So. Would it be tacky for me to beg for an update now? Because I heart this fic so much I feel like I'm perpetually overdue for a hit. Pretty please? *SIGH*
OK. I'll go reread it from the beginning and try to be patient. But it won't be easy!!
10 Theres about a zillion things I want to say about how amazing this story and this chapter are, but the only thing I can get my head around is how the end of this was so lovely and beautiful and tender that I'm actually crying. Seriously.
I'll write more when I'm more coherent, promise. But for now just know that you've really managed to create something vibrant and real and honest and just .... brilliant. It's fucking brilliant and that -- as they say -- is that.
I'm off to smile and sigh and cry some more....
So I missed the first two chapters of this somehow but boy am I glad I dove in for the third! Yeah, it does closely resemble crack!fic, but it's really REALLY good crack!fic.
I kind of love this idea that these two people aren't exactly who we see every Thursday but somehow, somehow they are still drawn to eachother -- even if they deny it, even if they can't admit it to themselves. It makes a strange sort of cosmic sense, don't you think?
Anyway, I'm SO intrigued by this story and the little hints of true feelings starting to seep through that I can't wait to see where you take this and when the walls will start coming down. Most excellent!
Author's Response: totally cosmic, I agree. I'm so happy that you gave this a shot and that you're liking it!! Thanks for reviewing.
OK, so I only thought you'd killed me before. But now? So dead they'll have to bury me twice. Maybe three times.
I don't know how you do it. I spend every chapter lately balanced on this delicate point between hilarity and agony. It almost defies description!
This chapter was particularly hilarious in the beginning. Pam's entire inner monologue of becoming more like Whitney or Anne Heche had me laughing hysterically! This line: "It isn’t a huge deal, but god she feels that ticking time bomb inside of her like let out a .2 second warning whistle before it just explodes, and she throws her hands into the air like shrapnel in defeat." I just loved because that description painted such a vivid picture in my head -- almost akin to those old Warner Bros. cartoons where someone would get so angry their head's would become angry steam whistles? That's what I kept seeing in my head and god did it make me laugh!
But then all the sudden in the midst of all my laughing Pam throws down a verbal grenade and BOOM! Pam's emotional shrapnel is flying through the air, piercing Jim right through the old heart. *sigh* How is it that no matter who Jim starts out as I end up feeling sorry for the poor woobie? He's trying so hard (and yeah, only for a day -- I know) but he's TRYING to be someone other than the guy he's been, the guy he's not so proud of, and Pam's just blown all of that right out of the water. And I kind of have to feel bad for Pam too because he's thrown her game off so far, she doesn't know if she's coming or going.
I hope beyond hope that Pam will be going after him to apologize. But if not, I still can't wait to see the fireworks when they next come face to face! Keep up the amazing work my dear -- we'd be lost without your rapid updates!
Hello, my name is Alli and I'm an addict. This is my first meeting and...what? What did you ask? What am I addicted to? Well, um...cigarettes? No, not that. No, it isn't alcohol either. No, no drugs. It's, ah, um....OK it's fanfic. But not just any fanfic! It's got to be stablergirl fanfic.... Kidding? Um, no, no, I'm not kidding. Well, just read "I just want to be famous" and it will all become clear. Seriously! *sigh* Look, can we just move on to someone else? I'll share later -- mmmkay?
Honestly, I think you could update this fic like once an hour and it wouldn't feel fast enough! There were SO many moments in this fic that made me laugh out loud, I couldn't begin to list them all. This part though is perhaps my favorite:
Except she kind of misses the hostility. She kind of liked the hostility.
Ok, wow, dysfunction, party of one?
I thought that Jim bringing her a beef 'n cheddar was a really sweet gesture with the added bonus of unnerving her even more than he already had. I adored how undone Pam's become now that Jim's being nice to her. Go Jim! And her final request for him to go back to being rude and selfish and egotistical made me snort with laughter. Totally brilliant!
I know this is probably my least eloquent review to date, but surely you know by now how much I absolutely love this story. 'Cause I do -- to distraction! I'll be checking back rediculously soon just hoping for an update.
Hope you are enjoying your visit with your family! And the next time they tell you that you are typing too loudly just explain that your fans NEED you. (We really do!)
Happy Easter!
Gah! I mean, thank the dear and fluffy lord that there was a Chapter 12 update -- and so quickly! -- but I'm DYING for more Jim/Pam interaction. Like literally dying. Expiring. Coming to the end of my ability to shuffle the mortal coil. Got it? DYING!
I mean, Jim's plan is brilliant and I have to give him major props for finally recognizing what it is about himself that is so off-putting to Pam and realizing that he's got to cut that crap out if he wants to have a shot in hell. So kudos to him! But seeing him put the plan into action will be SO delicious.
OH -- and I LOVED really getting to know alterna Dwight (who does kind of resemble Rainn Wilson in my estimation). I particularly enjoyed how he ribbed Jim about his thing for a "prostitute" and then his nonsensical dating advice to get Jim's attention and then how he was quietly supportive of Jim's pursuit of Pam. Something tells me he knew Jim had a thing for Pam before Jim did. :-) And is it silly how tickled I am by the thought of the two of them hanging out and playing Mario Kart?
Well, I suppose that despite my impending demise, I can at least rest assured that an update will be coming shortly because as you've told us (not to mention demonstrated thoroughly) that you don't sleep. For that, I am kind of ridiculously grateful right now.
It's kind of crazy how much I've grown to love this story. LOVE IT. Can't wait for Chapter 13!
OK, this line was so freaking hilarious that I laughed so loudly, I scared my 90 lb dog enough to make her jump off the bed:
"Fertilize her or get all beef ‘n cheddar on her or whatever."
Girl, you are too damn funny for words!
And hey -- I know you just posted like a zillion chapters in a row but I'm so sad there aren't more because now I'm TOTALLY dying for one of them to make a move so they can have some strange heart to heart about why they've always been at odds and why they can't stay away from eachother and blah, blah, blah fluffcakes of love and....well, you know. Happy JAMmy goodness!
You know a story is good when every time you read a chapter you can't help but to keep glancing at the little scroll bar on the right side hoping to god that it won't get to the bottom as quickly as you fear it will. Alas, I'm enjoying this so much that I pretty much feel like it moves too fast with every chapter!
Waiting with baited breath for the next installment!
“Stay,” she requests simply, smiling, and she swears his eyes widen in shock. “Hang out with me,” and god it’s like she’s saved herself and doomed herself all in the same breath.
OH MY GOD. Sucker punch to the solar plexus! I did not see that coming but holy hannah I'm gonna sound like a fangirl now...
SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!
*Sigh* I totally love this story!
OK, so I'm like crazily behind here (and seriously, you musn't ever sleep b/c I feel like I didn't check the "most recent" list for 48 hours and you've posted like half a novel -- what gives?!?) and I was just going to wait until I got to the most recent update to post a review, but two things in this chapter made me laugh so damn hard I just had to say something:
"She’s turning into some sniveling fan who wants him to sign her boobs or something."
"she’s running and all of a sudden her left right left right turns into penis penis penis penis and her cheeks are red and she’s sure it’s from the run and she’s penis penis penis penis and when she finally gets to her driveway and she’s finally slowing her pace and definitely not thinking about Jim’s penis she looks up and he’s standing there on her porch."
Bwaahahahahahahah!!!! OMG!!!
*THUD*
That's me hitting the floor after rolling out of bed from laughing my proverbial ass off. You so completely rock!
OMG!!!!! A new Chapter?????
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!!!!! WOOOOO HOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
That is all for now. :-P
Damn that stupid chick!!! Damn her and her stupid tongue all to hell!! If I could get my hands on her ficticious ass, I'd totally kick it all the way to Poughkepsee. Or Timbuktu. Or someplace like that -- you get my drift.
Pam, whatever you do -- don't take this moment at face value. We fans of this particular story are BEGGING you to give the guy the benefit of the doubt.
I just adore this eager, tense, happy, goofy, unnerved Jim. LOVE him on so many levels. ...she tries again, and she looks down and laughs at herself, shakes her head at herself, tucks an errant strand of hair behind her ear and it makes him itch to reach up and do it for her. Wow, this is all…new. I mean, how charming is that? I love how completely off-kilter his own feelings and responses have made him, like he doesn't even know himself anymore.
He wonders if anybody has ever looked at him this way, all shining and happy and enjoying his company. He figures probably not. He thinks she looks at him like that because she really sees him. He thinks she knows him, somehow. God you have a way with words!
He’s got all of this kissing dancing around in his head and she’s charming and intelligent and so different from the other women he usually surrounds himself with and she looks at him in that certain way. He thinks he’s going to spontaneously combust from wanting too much from her before the night is over. GUH. How do you do THAT???
And my favorite part: He chuckles as she walks away and heads inside, glancing at him over her shoulder and tossing him a wink and he’s a goner but he’s not sure he cares…at all. He lights a cigarette and shakes his head, wondering if he should be concerned by the fact that everything seems different now. Brighter. Better. Full of Pam. Amazing -- JUST AMAZING!! I wish I had some better way of articulating what it is about your writing that just kills me.
OH, and can I go to the magical place where it's "Jim Jim totally Jim all of the time"? 'Cause I'd like to live there.
Amazing as usual dear Stablergirl. Hope we'll have another udpate soon b/c your woefully addicted readers will be desperate for more in a matter of hours. What can I say -- we're crazy like that! :-D
OH. MY. GOD. Every time I think I can't possibly adore this story any more than I already do, you hit me with chapters like this. I mean, I'm going on about my day like "lah-di-dah ... oooh! Stablergirl updated! Peachy!" and then, two paragraphs in it's like
WHAM! Line drive to the head. GAH!
I don't know if I somehow missed the Ch. 15 update or if God just really likes me today and you posted both 15 & 16 back to back -- either way, it's ALL good. Hooray for updates!
My favorite moment from both chapters were the kind of similar realizations he had about what he'd like to be for Pam -- these two sentences were the ones that KILLED:
"He sees for a second in his mind’s eye the person that he maybe could be if she would stick around, if she would say things like this and look at him the way that she does in her weaker moments, the way that she is right now." I kind of adore this because it is almost an inversion of canon in that in the real realm of The Office, it's Jim that gives Pam that kind of support and strength. I think it is pretty great the way you've turned the tables and given that strength to Pam and that weakness and insecurity to Jim. Brilliant!
"He wants to do things for her, to be things for her, to be in her life or to just be near her life or to just be a part of something that she’s proud of. " That one just stabbed me right through the heart I loved it so much!
And I swear, the way you handled the Casino Night events was like a sucker punch to the solar plexus. I mean DAMN girlfriend -- that was some amazingly heartwrenching stuff! And now I'm on freaking tenderhooks waiting for the next Chapter and Pam's response to Jim's declaration....and, well, Jim's response to Jim's declaration. DELICIOUS and DIVINE!!!!
Imagine Jim’s confession on Casino Night never happened and Pam actually made it down the aisle on June 10th . . . only to say “I don’t”.How do you do it? This chapter was equal parts sweet and hilarious! Of course Jim is too good a man to be ruled by his penis -- because he was right: if he wants something with Pam beyond the gratification of one (amazing) night, he's got to be patient. Power to Jim!
The hilarity, of course, comes straight from the penis' ... uh ... mouth? I couldn't help but guffaw as it taunted his desire to be a chivalrous gentleman. But I think even Mr. Happy will eventually have to agree that in the long run, being strong was the right decision.
Can't wait to see what further revelations you've got in store for us!
You're seriously killing me here my dear wendolf. KILLING ME. What happened to my totally and utterly logical suggestion for breezing right through this trip?!?! *SIGH*
Well, although it didn't end in the happy, fluffy smut I was pushing for, I still loved it. Scott the guide was adorable and hilarious and a very welcome touch in this chapter which, I suspect, you knew would make all of your loyal readers feel about as sad and lonely as poor Jim. He was a much needed ray of sunshine. :-)
My two favorite lines were (as if you couldn't guess):
His heart was completely AWOL, left back in Scranton like a forgotten pair of sunglasses. That kind of crushed my little heart with it's sadness. Poor Jim and his AWOL heart!
He thought about calling Pam every day, several times a day, and the constant urge made him feel like somewhat of an addict. Like he needed a Pam fix. And I think this is a sentiment that most of us can relate to. Sometimes it is unhealthy to be this addicted to someone, but in Jim and Pam's case it just illustrates how meant to be together they truly are.
Note to Jim: get thee to an airport and get yourself a Pam fix STAT!
Beaut of a job as always!