Jim and Pam on familiar ground. Spoilers (perhaps) up to mid-Season 4.
::attempts to approach you in a cool, collected, un-Kelly-like fashion::
::probably fails::
So, uh, hi. First off, I have the biggest fanfiction crush on you in the history of all fanfiction crushes ever. I decided to start posting here after I read Talk and Prelude (erm, particularly Talk, hence the penname).
Second, thank you so much for finishing this story. I've read each of your stories repeatedly, and I was in the habit of forgetting that this one wasn't completed. Something of a letdown, yes, but then I'd just go read Talk again, and everything would be better. Or at least, you know, smuttier. Same difference?
Again, like everything else you've shared with us here, shows that you have a remarkable gift for language, phrasing, and characterization. The tension and humor are perfect. It floors me every single time I read your work. You should either be writing for the show or letting us know when your novel comes out.
Congratulations on your new little one. I'm sure life is hectic, but do drop in now and again, okay? If it would be of any help, know that you have a willing collaborator. Plus, I'm pretty sure that, working together, we could seriously make NanReg faint. And that would be awesome. :)
Author's Response:
Thank you Talkative! I've been away for a while, so I'm afraid I had no idea that someone liked Talk enough to take a pen name based on it. What an amazing compliment, to go with all the other pretty compliments you've paid me here!
I've just read Shotgun Wedding, which well deserves its pretty blue ribbon. If you can guarantee that NanReg will do some comedy fainting, I'd love to collaborate with you on a story some time.
Hey, you. I came in here to read (& re-read) the rest of your stuff after my third pass through "Feeling Green..." and I came across this. It's great - I love how you're handling Pam's confusion. There are a million little possibilities for what she was thinking/feeling during season two, aren't there?
This needs finishing. I will totally sic NanReg on you.
Author's Response: This is SO OLD, haha. I never got back in the mood and never figured out where to take this next. I was still testing the Jim/Pam waters at this point. Maybe I\'ll come back some day =)
"I’ll take forever to decide to act and then do something totally impulsive." My stars! It's Jim in one sentence. Someone get this lady a Dundie. Enjoying this thoroughly. Keep going.
Author's Response: Thanks! Ooh, my own Dundie. Now that would be cool.
Moxie, this is marvelous. Thank you so much for adding another installment. The dialog is pitch-perfect Jim and Pam through and through. Please don't stay away for so long next time.
Author's Response: What kind remarks - thank you, Talkative - it's very appreciated!! I hope I can get back into the routine of writing more again, soon too. :-)
Intriguing idea, Emily. I'm looking foward to what comes next.
Author's Response: Thanks! I was really excited about the idea, so I'm glad that others are enjoying it!
“Were you reading one of your smutty novels while I was out?”
No, Jim. She was reading some of Wendolf's fic. Yowza. Oh, and -
"I was sure, in a way that made me breathless and squirmy inside, that he’d use it the way he did everything: cleverly and gently and subtly."
Jim Halpert in three adjectives.
I need a cigarette.
Sweet Jesus, keep going. Please don't make me beg. It's so degrading.
Jim, Pam, and a series of bedroom conversations.Oh, callisto, that's absolutely darling. Thank you for it. Jim's relationship to - um - ambition is a tricky thing to tackle. I'm wrestling with it right now myself. Not fun, but I think you did a really wonderful job with his ambivalence here. Please keep going.
Author's Response: Ah, thank you Talkative. \"Darling\" - what a nice adjective. :) I\'m wondering how they will tackle it on the show but you can bet Pam will be there to help him along the way. Glad you like it...thanks for reviewing!
These are really making me happy, Nightswept. So sweet, funny, and impressively in-character. Keep it up!
Author's Response: Thank you! I\'m so glad you\'re enjoying them.
Don't take this the wrong way, but... you should go for that job.
What would have happened if Jim had taken that job in Maryland after all? Season Two angst - spoilers for Halloween through Email Surveillance, then goes AU from there.
I'm glad to hear that the updates on this one will be coming quickly. I'm really looking forward to reading it. I think you're doing a particularly nice job with S2 hardcore crush Jim.
Author's Response: Thank you, Talkative. I really enjoy reading your stories so it's a pleasure to hear from you. I should be updating pretty fast - at least daily - on this one. Thanks for reading and reviewing :)
Kells, this is great. It's so touching and so spare. And this - "He thinks it’s funny that they handle these things so differently. She makes small changes, one at a time, to get where she’s going, while he jumps forward with both feet without really thinking about how he’s going to land. He discovers that these differences, once frustrating to him, probably balance them out a little" is spot-on. Well-said. And Jim's "No, no. You should have. Really." made my toes curl. So there's that. :) Please keep updating regularly.
Author's Response:
Oh talkative! I love your writing so it's such a great feeling to get such a kind review from you! Especially the toe curling :)
Thanks for reading and reviewing!
Don't you hate it when the chapter tries to kill you? I'm glad to see that you've emerged victorious - this is a fun story and I've been waiting for it to come back.
I love how you've written the characters (seeing Jim happy with his professional life is so strange, btw) and that little bit of steam at the end was a great way to start the day.
You also manage a nice balance between showing and telling, between what they're thinking and what they're doing. It's a difficult thing to do sometimes (esp. with Jim, in my opinion, as there tends to be a sizable gap between his thoughts and his actions), but it comes across very well here. Nicely done!
Author's Response: Yes, it drives me crazy when the chapter just turns on you like that ;) I know it's strange to see Jim happy professionally, and I wanted to emphasize it here because I really wanted them both to learn how to be happy apart before they were happy together. Sounds cheesy and very Dr. Phil-like, I know, but there it is. Thank you so much for the kind words - I love hearing from you - you are one of the authors on here that I truly admire. Thanks again, Talkative.
Irish, this is a really wonderful story. I'm impressed by how in-character everyone is and I really love Pam's reaction to Ryan's arrest. THank you for sharing this.
Author's Response: Thank YOU for reading it. I\'m glad you enjoyed!
Oh, this is a wonderful story, tunette. Great concept, well-crafted prose, excellent characterization. So many funny lines, but this -
Make this AU, Greg, and face my wrath.
- cracked me up. I'm dreading having to go back to my summer '08 stories to relabel them AU. I wonder how many happy thoughts we'll have to think to stop it?
Author's Response: Thank you so much! I prefer to think really depressing thoughts but NOT say them out loud, because then they will come true.
Oh. Hi.
Don't mind me.
I'm just reviewing again so I can give this puppy some stars. And and and -
"He has that reoccurring dream, or rather nightmare, wherein the camera crews come back and Paul and Jen, the heads of filming, cheerfully tell him they’ll no longer need the confessional interviews because they’ve got magical cameras that can read minds."
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Author's Response: Many thanks again. Feel free to review as many times as possible. ;)
Ow ow ow ow...
Hurts so good. I hope you're wrong. :)
This? Right here? Adorable. I always thought it interesting that Pam does seem to have a lot of sympathy for Dwight when it comes to Angela. Guilt over how things went down with Jim? Hopeless romantic? Who knows. But this made me laugh. Thanks for sharing it.
Dammit, Colette. I knew this was going to happen sooner or later. I'd keep posting parts of No Stairways Just Stairs and then you'd show up, being all awesome and... why are you so awesome, anyway? This is really fantastic - sweet and simple and sweaty. I figure if we all keep writing them happy and engaged enough happy and engaged residue will build up and it'll just happen. Right? Right.
Um, if you go check out my latest installment, there's a little present in there for you. Just a little one. It's pink and waterproof.
Author's Response: Dammit Talkative! It's an honor and privilege to have our fics posted side by side ;-) And yes to willing an engagement into being...let's all concentrate - maybe it will be like Jim moving the coat rack. I absolutely will checkout your latest chapter, as soon as I have a minute. Pink and waterproof? I'm intrigued. Many thanks!
I'm sorry to be using the reviews section for this, but, lisa, did you just say "Jimpiter"? Have you been hanging onto that, or did you just come up with it? Either way, I'm scared.
Author's Response: Well, personally, I'm thinking of setting my next story entirely on Jimpiter...kind of like Atlantis for fan girls ;-)
"He sighed faintly, then as if driven by some unconscious self-protective instinct, moved his hand from where it was flung over his head to his belly, wrapping it loosely around his early morning erection."
Good God. I can't - I can't even speak. Such a mental picture.
This chapter was great, Colette. I'm really looking forward to the next one.
Author's Response:
See now, Jim holding that spring roll in his hand brought that mental picture right to Pam's - okay, my - mind. Calling Dr. Freud.
Glad you're still enjoying Talkative. This is a fun one to write. Thanks much!
