O-o-o-oh Jim. Glad you're noticing your own reactions; hope you're capable of parsing them...

Author's Response: Thanks! Haha - I think it's fair to say this sort of triggers something in him, but he's not quite there yet... 

I don't hate you. But I think I hate your Jim a little. Because he folded. Again. Without even thinking about what he's actually said. It's a very bleak S3 version of Jim (and maybe a little of when they made Athleap Jim a dick too) so it's in character--just the weakest parts.

Author's Response: Ooh so I'd not really thought as much about Athleap Jim while I was writing this...but yeah, he was a real dick at that point. He really doesn't come off great when he's cornered in an argument. And yes - I did come to the realisation that to make Jim into a version of the S1-2 Pam/Something Borrowed guy in this, I've made him pretty useless. But I think he can have some of the same tendencies as Pam on the passivity and self-delusion - I've just sort of leaned into them quite a lot here, lol.  

So I really enjoy how you use elements from both season two and season three here in a really productive way to make your own AU make perfect sense. I love what you did with the place.

Author's Response: Thank you very much! I'm really pleased you think it worked - although it is definitely easier when a lot of the excellent material is already there, haha. 

Again Jim is way too passive here but I do get it in this case because Pam is asking him to be. But I really do think you've latched on to the weakness in Jim's character in a really interesting way. I really really enjoy this fic. Despite not usually being a connoisseur of angst.

Author's Response:

Thanks so much! That's really lovely to hear haha - I don't know that I was totally intending for it to be quite this angsty when I first started writing, but... 

So I did go back and forth a bit on how quickly Jim would want to act if he was in this scenario. I think his instinct would've been to break up with Karen immediately - I think he's passive up to a point, but once he's realises he wants something he goes for it - but yeah, I also think he doesn't like making things difficult for people. I couldn't have seen him voluntarily carrying on with something like this for several weeks though, which is sort of the timeline in Something Borrowed.  

Yeah honestly Karen deserved that. I am very much rooting for these folks. That should not be a surprise given that we are on a Jim/Pam site but I'm rooting for specifically your versions.

Author's Response: Ah, thanks very much :) And yeah, she sort of had it coming...

I'm really glad you had Pam go to Paris. I'm really glad that Karen is professional Karen here. And Michael is very in character.

Author's Response: Thanks very much! I did feel like Pam needed to do that after everything that happened in college. And I pretty much loved writing every moment with Michael haha, so really glad he seemed in character! 

Absolutely loved the whole fic. Thanks for writing it.

Author's Response: Thank you so much! And thanks so much for reading and taking the time to leave reviews - I really appreciate it, I've loved reading all of them! :)  

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Ah, this is an excellent start. Great cliffhanger too!

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Ahhh great ending! Very nicely done. Actual communication, what a concept.

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Well this is up to your usual standard, and don't think you're getting more compliments than that out of me for one chapter.

But that is a high compliment.

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Oh dear no. Pam! Choices!

But seriously, nice setup. Interested to see how your au goes!

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Damn. Great use of their different characters with the changes in circumstance. Love how you're making Pam push in a Pam way not a Jim way.

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Ouch. This is a good version of Pam and her inner monologue. Points for homeostasis!

Author's Response:

Thank you so much. I am so glad you liked my work and you left reviews for each of my chapter. I hope you liked the 3rd one as well :)