
Categories: Jim and Pam, Crossover
Characters: Jim/Pam, Other
Genres: Romance
Warnings: None
Challenges: Overheard
Series: None
Chapters: 1 Table of Contents
Completed: Yes Word count: 961 Read Count: 9423 ePub Downloads: 0
YAY! I adore that it was Mulder who was so invested. Ah, what a dual shipment of shippy goodness.
Author's Response: Thanks, belsum! So cool that folks are still finding these almost 3 years later :)
Aw, so sweet. I love the Mother-Daughter moment at the end. I had to blink back tears of my own!
Author's Response: Thanks belsum! I'm so glad you liked it!!!
Oh my god I effing love Angela!
This was so much fun to read all at once right now. It was almost like a review of the entire season; I could get a sense of which episode had just aired before you wrote each chapter. I honestly don't think I could pick a favorite. I hope you keep it up!
And I want to hang out with Oscar and Gil, too!
Hee! So much fun.
Pam's awaiting the "Merger" (based on promos but mostly unspoiled).
Oh wow, lis. Now I'm even more excited for tonight!
Author's Response: I'm too busy to be writing fic today, bel! I just couldn't sit still until I got this out!
Oh I love that! My dad still calls my mom by her maiden name, too. *wipes tears out of eyes*
Author's Response: That's so sweet! It makes me happy to think she'll always be Beesly to Jim!
Wow lis. When you gave me the teaser that you were writing a story about how Pam was like an egg, well, I had no idea where you were going. That was amazing. I think it's possibly the most sophisticated one you've written yet. I love the device of looking at the show from a viewer's perspective through their daughter. It's something I've never encountered before. And "see you tomorrow, I love you" is effin' hilariously genius!
Author's Response: Thank you. The idea came to me when I was...um, peeling eggs. Hee. I wanted to use the egg thing but finding a way to put it into Pam's mouth was tricky, and I thought that explaining it to her kid was the only way it didn't seem contrived. I'm glad you liked it!
I've been reading this piece so that I can read your new 12 Days one. (I'm a completist like that.) I had intended to just leave a comment at the end but I had to thank you for this portrayal of Karen. It was so real and sympathetic and NOT bitchy and kind and understanding but still totally in character. I never read anything like it back during this time in the series and I haven't read anything like it since. Well done!
Lovely. I must say I didn't expect them to end up at a Star Wars marathon when I started this story. But the extended journal gift is amazing.
Love the guilty and stupid explantion; so real. And that Pam truly likes Karen as a person. But best of all? That list! Hilarious!
My New Year's movie is Trading Places. Kind of a different feel there....
Hee, just slightly. I think Pam probably does feel pretty dumb right about now, don't you?
Thank you, as usual.
A "talking head" from Pam that we'll never see. Takes place directly after "Back from Vacation".
Gah! Oh man, lis, you're killing me!
I'd love to "hear" her talk about Dwight, um, comforting her.
Speculation for S3 and a whole lotta wishful thinking. Pam's trying to be gracious about Jim's relationship with Karen - but she's had enough - and tells (shows) him so.
Gah! That's the end?! I need more! Waaaah!
Ahem. That was really nice. Still in Pam's voice even through the fury--quite a trick.
Yay! Standing ovation!
Author's Response: Awww thanks belsum!
Wow. Just wow. You have each one of their voices so perfectly down. I don't even know if I could pick a favorite because they're all so real. (And poor Roy!) I'm very impressed. And sniffing back my own tears.
Author's Response: Awww, thank you! It means so much when I make people cry! (Aaaand that didn't come out right.)
Beautiful, poignant. Very lovely. Sure hope Jim doesn't end up flat and different. Yikes.
And woohoo! Chris and Allison! We're now immortalized in fic!
I randomly picked "Christopher" and then couldn't resist. :)
I think Jim has come back flat and different- but I think she will re-inflate him soon. Or something that makes sense. Heeee.
Wow. Sweet and adorable and heartbreaking and real and, and...why can't this really happen?! Beautiful. Love Jim's acknowledgement of his own ability to think on his feet as an impediment to his finally hooking up with Pam.
And now I want strawberry cake. Dammit.
Pam begins to get used to the fact that Jim needs her advice on things whenever he and Karen fight.
Wow. So many amazing details. Their unconscious game of soda tab hockey really caught me. I love that in many ways, the Jim/Karen relationship paralleled the Pam/Roy one, only sped up. And the ending has such a variety of meanings. "She knows" can be countless things. Lovely.
Minor grammar nitpick: "Karen gets up storms over to Jim's desk and slams a key on top of it" - I think you need either a comma or an "and" between up and storms. Hope you don't mind--I can't not see those things! :-)
I like this because it's almost like an alternate history. In that respect, you could go on in this alternate direction or leave it as a one-off.
Also--"balancing was stupid" is effing brilliant!
Brilliant! Genius! Shiny! I'll be in my bunk!
And really, I'm surprised I didn't get fired. I haven't been forced to supress laughter like that in a long time! I'm so printing this out for the mister to read.
Yay! I'm glad you found it shiny. 'I'll be in my bunk' is a favorite line around my house but couldn't seem to work it into this part! Maybe next time.
Thanks belsum!
Just my take on how I'd like to see Karen find out the WHOLE truth!!
Spoilers/speculation through "Traveling Salesmen"
I really liked this one. So many emotions! Poor Roy, poor Pam, poor Jim, poor Karen. I liked how the truth was forced out rather publicly. And I always love Kelly as a Cupid/plot device. Heh. Interesting that you left things quite unresolved at the end. How long before Jim remembers that he forgot the details again?
Oh sweet--you went with Meredith instead of Kelly! I think it worked really well this way.
I like that Karen got hung up on "best friend" instead of Pam's engagement. That feels very real. I'd love a part 2: does Karen dig for more details? From Kelly this time? Michael? Does she confront Jim? Pam? I just don't think she'd keep this inside of her.
He knows she smiles behind her book when he gets up, stands behind her, puts his hands on her shoulders and tells her that she brings balance to the force.
That last aside was so perfectly in Dwight's voice I could actually hear him saying it in my head!
I love Dwight/Angela so thanks for this little insight into just how they manage to click.
when did everything get so complicated?
And boy did things just get a whole lot more complicated! Dang! Nice work.
I had to write something about what went on in Jamaica.... and then I had to add part II, from Michael's perspecive.
Not 100% confident in how well part II works, but I'll throw it out there. Feedback is awesome.
Jan/Michael is my favorite show couple and I thank you so much for this beautiful story. I loved all of Jan's internal asides. I always say that Jan can make Michael be a better man; it was nice to see Michael make Jan be a better woman. I'd love another chapter.
This actually brought tears to my eyes! I think it's a wonderful companion piece to the Jan POV. So sweet that Michael was that concerned about doing something wrong and ruining his fairy tale.
she’s so beautiful and sophisticated and Jan
Such a perfect line. And the repetition of describing Jan's attributes as being so Jan was lovely.