OMG, if there's anything worse than confiding in the world's worst confidant, it's have a Dwight Schrute know your deepest secrets. Can't wait for the next chapter.

Author's Response: Especially if you are Dwight's #1 enemy :)  Thanks for your review! I appreciate it.

This was wonderful, and very very believeable as the way that it went down that night. I laughed at the idea that they'd decided not to tell Michael where they lived, and I really loved this line, because it's so true:

Yeah. You heard me. I swear. The guy is clueless in ways Michael never was."

Great job.

Author's Response:

Thank you!  I was hoping it would ring true and I'm so happy you thought so.  I gotta admit - the first 4 lines were added on after I uploaded.  I was trying to think how Pam got home and realized there was no way Michael wouldn't have weaseled his way in.  Anyway - thank you so much for the review.  I really appreciate it!

Man, I can't sleep because I've got a snotty old cold and reading this just put a big smile on my face. Nobody writes Jam banter any better than you do. Thanks for putting the backstory to that awesome picture. Well done. (Who knew Jimpert would be a yard Nazi?)

I'm usually not much for AU's but I'm enjoying this. Please continue.

Author's Response: Thank you so much!! Another chapter is on the way soon!

I just read all of this in one sitting. You've done a wonderful job making me feel Jim's devastation in this unthinkable scenario. I thought the scene with Jim's brothers was especially well done and it felt very real. Mixing in the memories is effective because when something like this happens, well, that's what your mind does. But enough with the rational analysis - truth is, I'm a mess, dammit. My eyes will be red all day.

I missed the last chapter, I've been out of town. Though it deals with the unthinkable, I am really enjoying this story because it is well written, especially in the sense that it's not overdramatic rendition of how Jim would cope, but a grittier more real look at how he would deal with this situation.
Please keep going, I'm looking forward to Jim gradually healing as much as possible, and I love his interactions with their daughter. She's his saving grace.

I am deeply in need of some explanation of what Jim's thinking in his current predicament, and this really filled the bill. Nicely done.

Author's Response: I\'m glad that you enjoyed it! Thank you.

Oh man, that was really really good. Seriously. Wonderful job. Too many good passages to mention, but this exchange actually made me tear up - it's expressed so cleverly and beautifully, because you know it took Jim long while to finally get truly secure and not be afraid Pam would "disappear" again:

“Not true. This is just lovely, Beesly,” he remarked. “Very flattering.” His voice was teasing, but there was something soft and open in his eyes that made her stomach flutter. She held his gaze for a moment too long, until that increasingly familiar panic she couldn’t fully explain made her tear her eyes away and reach for the ‘delete’ button with a grin.

He pulled the camera away and easily held it up out of her reach, shaking his head as he clucked his tongue in reprimand. “No way. You have to send this to me.”

“I’ll think about it,” she said tartly. “May I have my camera back please?”

Jim’s smile faded. “Promise,” he insisted quietly.

His expression, so unexpectedly serious and almost sad, made her heart jump into her throat and her mouth go dry. She nodded, frowning up at him, anxious to erase the melancholy from his eyes. “I will,” she promised.

“All right then.” He smiled, handing the camera back to her, and suddenly he was Jim again and she could breathe.

Gold.

Author's Response: Thanks jazzfan! I liked that scene myself, so nice to see how it resonated. I just love season 2 angst (knowing that it all ends up in a happy ending, that is). And those pictures we saw on their desks were just dying for a backstory, so. Glad you liked it! Thanks for reading. :)

This hit me in the grief bone and I'm going to pick out the same paragraph as Ms. Hoo, because it is that good:

I know you, Pam…I know that the smile you’re wearing will last you the day. But please don’t forget that I gave you that smile. I own it. Don’t share it with him. Don’t do that to me…please.

At that point, Jim had to be content with such little things. This made me ache for S2 Jim all over again, and I'm glad to know how it all turned out.

Author's Response: Thanks, jazzfan! I\'m chuffed you liked it. I do so love S2 Jim.

Nicely done. I'm no Karen fan, but you made me feel sympathy for her and really highlighted the impossible situation she was in. I always thought that Jim's simple "Yes" in that episode was, in many ways, the one most important pivotal scene of the season.

Author's Response: Exactly the point of the story! Thanks, I\'m so glad you liked it! And I agree -Jim\'s \"yes\" (not yeah or mhm, but YES) was one of the top three...I\'d list them as being \"yes,\" \"I\'m really glad I\'m with Karen,\" and \"There were a lot of reasons to call of my wedding, but the truth is that I didn\'t care about any of those reasons until I met you.\" They just all capture those feelings so perfectly. Of course, I LOVED the ask-out, but those three mean more, I think.

It's hard to write "happy" but you've done a great job with that here. Anxiously awaiting the next chap, as always.

Now THAT was good. And fun. And sweet. And sexy. Drunk!Jim is adorable, and I love it when Pam....ahem...overcomes her hesitant nature. Awesome chapter.