He's playful and animated, quippy and sexy, and always, always just a little bit dark. He kisses her in a way that makes her feel like someone else, like she's just... more than herself, and she's not sure if that's a good or a bad thing, but it always feels perfect.
Such a good sentence. It makes you go "Aw, honey. NO! Bad thing!"
Anyway, great story. Made me like Karen but not Karen/Jim, so, exactly right.
"She looks away, and gives the start button on the copy machine a good smack as she wonders why she feels guilty spying on the man she’s sleeping with comfort another woman."
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She looks away, and gives the start button on the copy machine a good smack as she wonders why she feels guilty spying on the man she’s sleeping with comfort another woman.
Oooh. I've totally been there. The moment when you realize you're standing in the way of something better. Brutal. Very good.
And Karen getting a clue? I'll drink to that!
Ryan kind of wishes Jim had stayed in Stamford. Seating arrangements make an already odd situation even weirder. A sprinkling of Jam with Ryan and Kelly on the side.
10 Ryan swallows. “I could ask you the same thing.” He looks him directly in the eye before walking out of the room, door clattering shut behind him.
I love when Ryan is a vicious. I loved this whole story, especially the visual Pam Pong, the pitch perfect Ryan and Kelly, and Dwight with another Lost reference. Yay!
It's odd that being in love with the same person seems to have brought them even closer together. Pam and Karen the night of the Christmas party. Spoilers through A Benihana Christmas. I think you've captured them both, and that awesome energy Benihana they had. I love the way you're skating the edge of slash- it's intriguing. I'd love to see it continue, in either or both directions.
“Sorry about that,” he says, “I didn’t mean to make you…wait.”
So perfect! This whole story feels very real, that perfect dying of little deaths this show does best. And I love drunk Pam.