Jim and Pam have 24 hours together before he leaves for Stamford. A lot can happen when you're on borrowed time.Oohh, I'm loving it so far. This was my favorite part:
But she’s full of surprises tonight and gingerly takes mine in her own. And with a gentle tug, she’s walking beside me instead of following behind.
Can't wait for more!
10 Aww, really sweet. I love this
10 Such a good chapter! Can't wait for more!
10 Eeeee!! Did Pam hear Jim refer to her as his girlfriend?
10 Oooohhh, the kiss was so amazing! I love the way you described it:
it’s so heartbreakingly real that I don’t even breathe as I kiss her once, twice, and then it’s an uncountable series of them, one right after the other in quick, stolen succession. They’re never more than a breath apart before they’re happening again, each more urgent and passionate than the last.
And:
when I catch her bottom lip with my teeth, when she kisses the corner of my unshaven jaw and it sounds like sandpaper, when I push her head to the side with my nose so I have better access to her cheeks
I can just hear that sound of her kissin his sanaper jaw, and I love the picture of him nudging her face with his nose so he can kiss her cheeks.
*shiver*
10 Aww, cute!
Author's Response: Thanks!
9 There are so many E-Mail Surveillance fanfics out there (I've written two myself), and they all have kind of the same prremise, but they're still all different from each other. You did a really good job of creating this moment between Jim and Pam that is unique, and sad and angsty and sweet at the same time. I got all teary-eyed, too, when he kissed her forehead. Good job on your first fic!
Author's Response: Yeah, I was kind of reluctant to go with Email Surveillance since so many great ones had been done on the same premise already, but I had this scene in my head and it just seemed to fit with the atmosphere and opportunity of that episode the best. Thank you!
10 Haaa!! This is so awesome! You really captured Andy here. Great job.
Great Depression AU.10 OMG, YAYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The expanded version! I'm so excited to read this! *Onto the next chapter*.
10 Oh! I had never caught the fact that the medal and the note in 1945 had been from Jim! Wow. I don't know how I missed that.
Author's Response: :D
10 Aww, so we'll never see these chapters of "Hope" published in a real novel form? That's too bad. This is truly one of my favorite stories of all time (and I mean, including every novel I've ever read), and I love the addition of the chapters that hadn't existed in the original version.
But I'm looking forward to reading what you will end up publishing in novel form.
Thank you for posting this back up on the internet with the added chapters. I will continue to read it over and over.
Author's Response: Thanks, Puff -- maybe I'll have good news about the novel in the next year.... :)
10 Sorry, I'm leaving you like a million reviews in a row. But I wanted to say I love that we find out that Pam and Jim did have their happily-ever-after. I know if was eluded to in the original version with Jim showing up on the farm again, but I love the small details you've added about it.
Author's Response:
My pleasure :)
10 Ok, let me tell you how emotional this story makes me. I know I've reviewed this about 7 times since the first version that was up, but I keep seeing more layers every time I read this, and keep thinking of more things to say about it.
I have read the whole thing through two or three times, and once in a while I come back and re-read some of my favorite parts (which is at least one per chapter, so I often get sucked in and re-read most of the story), but I feel so crazy because even the smallest sweet moments in this story totally make me cry every time. I think it's because I know the ending and how Jim and Pam lost each other for twenty years and then found each other again and got to be together for thirty years. That's the best ending for a story I've ever read. So anyway, the happiness of that thought just makes every sweet moment between them that much more sweet. Yesterday I wanted to read the carnival scenes again, but I couldn't remember what chapter it was in, so I kind of started searching around in different chapters, and kept coming across all my favorite parts, so I ended up spending way too much time at work reading through the story again. And then praying that no one would come into my cubicle to see me with the tears and the hiccups. I've learned that there are some chapters I really can't read at work because they totally make me sob, like when Roy asked Jim to leave, and then when Pam found that Jim was gone. And the chapter with the miscarriage is so touching, that one gets to me too.
But yesterday, I ended up re-reading through so much: about the time when the photo was taken of them, and Jim's birthday gift to her, and them sleeping in the same bed during the storm with the comforting and the holding, and Pam giving Jim some of Roy's old shirts for Christmas, and the stolen kisses, and the lovemaking, and the song! Oh, the song that Pam heard him play on his guitar the first day he got there, and then later teaching her how to play it, and that it was revealed that Jim composed the song in honor of her when he first met her, and then 25 years later, Pam humming it while hanging up the laundry to dry, and Jim joining in on the other side of the sheet. The continuity of that through the story is perfect and sweet.
And Jim and Pam's relationship in this story seems so innocent and pure. It's a strange thing to feel that way because it eventually came to Pam cheating on Roy with Jim, which isn't so innocent, but the feel of their relationship and love for each other just seems so pure, and I think that's why even the sweet moments between them make me cry like a baby.
And I really love the conflict in Pam's mind about loving two men at the same time. She still loves Roy so much, but at the same time, she's so in love with Jim. It was something I couldn't really grasp the first time I read it, but now the depth of that gets deeper every time I read it.
I'm really sad that you're not going to publish this story. I know you don't want to be thought of as a Romance writer. but what about after your first book is published? I'm sorry, I just love this story and would love to have a softcover, hard copy version of this story to be able to hold in my hands and read.
You probably think I'm a total stalker reading this story so many times and reviewing almost as many times. But I'm just so attached to this story, and it brings out such an emotional response in me that I have to keep telling you so.
10 Ooohh, this is so good! I especially love the end when Jim finally goes to Pam, and she just understands him, and they have this unspoken language, and he's so comforted by her and her home that he can fall asleep on her couch.
Oh and I love the part when she comforted him by running her fingers through his hair, too.
Author's Response: aw thanks, yeah I love that too. So great to explore that connection they seem to have and the way that Jim was fighting it. Glad you liked it ;-) (and I always love running fingers through the hair, so romantic for some reason)
This is my first story, so please dont throw rocks at me. So I decided to do the 55 word challenge. This is set sometime during Season 2.
8 Good first fic!
Author's Response: Thanks so much! :)
Fluff inspired by Jim's turn as a vampire in Season 3's, "Business School".
9 Very cute.
Author's Response: thank you!
Just a short little blurb about Pam's emotions now that we've seen Fun Run.
10 Oh, this is so beautiful!
Author's Response: thanks PuffingNoise! Glad you liked it.
First date. Anxiety and hope and terror and euphoria.
Last chapter is up! New beginnings, new rating.
10 Ooohhh, so sweet! I love the part when he ducked his head to her neck and smelled her. And then when she weaved her fingers with his.
10 Oh, there's more!
This chapter was so perfect! I love the picture of the way they're sitting together at the table, angled towards each other and so close.
10 Wow. You're so good at the sweet, intense moments between them. I loved when she started getting teary-eyed when he wrapped his arms around her when they kissed, and he seemed to know why, and just kissed her again. That brought tears to my eyes.
And then when he asked what he did to inspire her kiss, and she said she just wanted him to know how she felt-- wow. So perfect.
10 I need more!!! I think this is the best first date fic I've read yet. I just love the mood you set between them-- so much love and electricity and hopefulness, with a little awkwardness thrown in. In this chapter, I loved when Jim sighed her name before they kissed. And then her combing his hair back to his old hairstyle. And then her saying she didn't want him to go home yet. I hope there's more coming. *adds to favorites*
Author's Response: Puffing (or is it PN?), you are so awesome! Your reviews made my day. :) I've posted an update, but the story's not quite done yet. I'm not being coy, I swear! :)
10 Eee, wonderful!
Author's Response: Hee, thank you! :)
10 Aww, what a sweet moment!
Author's Response: Thanks. This was going to be a "5 things about Pam" fic, but I don't know, the other 4 vignettes just never happened. Maybe I'll try to expand on it someday.
MEMBER'S CHOICE TOP NOMINEE - Jim and Pam must interact in network sponsored live chats to promote their documentary. Angst (and maybe some smut) ensue.
Story now complete.
10 Eeeeee!! They're in the same chat rooooom! I can't wait for more!!
Author's Response: I'm so glad you are excited. I'm excited too. I'm having a lot of fun writing this. Thanks so much for your review.
Eeee! They talked to each other in the chatroom! For hours! This story has so many possibilities! I can't wait for more!
