Jim and Pam meet during their sophomore year of college. They’re at different schools, but somehow, they just might make it work. Modern day college AU.
I love that they both feel out of the other’s league. i felt that.
1 Our first kiss was soft and sweet and exploratory, but this one is slow, deep, dare I say loving, but I don’t want to put words in his mouth. My tongue is already there.
OH MY GAWD
AND THEY ARE AT THE GAS STATION
IT’S THE CUTEST
Author's Response: That is literally my favorite line in the story so I’m so happy you commented on it! Thanks for reading! 💗
“And I think Ryan is taking a gap year, but he’s acting like college is beneath him, so I wonder how many “gap years” he’s actually taken.“
random but i loved this
1 “ And I’m sure life continued on around us and the world continued to spin, but I’ll never know, because in that moment, my entire world was in my arms.”
🥺🥺🥺
This is just the sweetest most adorable fluffy fluff. They are just precious.
“You made me your lock screen” is the cutest thing ever, I cannot
Daaaaamn they really fucked in her parents’ house 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
1 Props for writing such a great Dwight.
1 “It’s all come down to the Pacific showdown,” Pam says in a deep announcer’s voice. “Jam versus Mark and Erin—”
“What’s Jam?” I interject.
“That’s our ship name.”
“Oh. Dork,” I mutter under my breath.
oh my GOD you went there, lol
You’re such an OC girl and I love it. This fic has made me so nostalgic for college (CSUF alum)
1 I'd never read this before and saw the John Mayer song title and thought, "Well now I simply HAVE to."
(First of all I can't believe we both Rick Rolled our readers in our fics. I love that about us.)
*“But Jim, you didn’t ask me. You assumed I would do it. You told me and then really gave me no choice but to go along with it. And how does it make me look if I tell you not to pursue your dreams, especially when you’ve already made the decision to pursue them? Hi, Rock. Meet Hard Place. I’m either the bitchy wife that holds you back or I suffer at home and I hate both of those options.”*
YES. This was perfectly articulated and why poor s9 Pam never stood a chance.
Nice work, would have loved if they'd resolved things this way and much sooner.
Jim’s been visiting reception five (or 10, or 15…) times a day for years. It turns out it’s become a reflex, and one it will take some work to get rid of now that Pam sits next to him. She’s got a plan, though. (Also: the story of how Jim lost his virginity.)1 THIS IS PERFECT
Author's Response: YOU ARE FAR TOO KIND.
Thanks for taking the time to read and review!
Before Roy can propose to Pam, a new face shows up at Dunder-Mifflin.1 Excited to start this one! Pam actually seems to be taking control over the situation with Roy and not letting him walk all over her, which I enjoyed.
Author's Response: Glad to have you here. It was a lot of fun to bring out a Pam who is a lot more assertive with Roy.
Ooh nice twist!
* Roy sighed and hung his head for a moment. “No of course not. But come on! He wanted to see your pictures? No guy would willingly do that unless he’s trying to get some tail.”
Pam arched an eyebrow at him. “So, all the times I’ve wanted you to look at what I’m drawing, you’re only doing it because you’re trying to get me in bed? Is that what you’re saying?”*
This made me lol.
Glad that Pam dumped Roy because he was so awful in this chapter I would have been seriously concerned if she didn’t.
Author's Response: It's a not-so-guilty pleasure of mine. Dumping on Roy. Hopefully I set it up as to why he is the way he is and why Pam dumps him. She doens't need an overgrown man-child in her life anymore.
1 * “Hey Pam,” Toby had approached the table.
“Yeah?” She looked up and tried to keep her voice even.
“It’s just if you and Roy aren’t in a relationship anymore, you’ll have to update your disclosure form.”*
Omg, NOT NOW, TOBY!! (channeling Jim) seriously though Toby, pick a better time lol
I love the way you write Darryl. I can hear Craig delivering those lines. Bravo!
(Also, love the origin story of the groobah)
Author's Response: Yeah not a great time Toby. Probably why he never really had a chance with her. Not great with timing that one. Glad you liked Darryl. I figured if anyone was going to get through to Roy it would have been him. It was fun to add the fluffy bits too like the groobah.
1 GET IT, PAM
This has been a delightful way to spend my afternoon. Fluffy and wonderful. I could read an entire fic with sommelier George (who, incidentally, I pictured as Tony from L&tT anyway, haha)
Looking forward to the er, resolution. ;)
Author's Response: I'm delighted you spend the afternoon exploring this and left such wonderful reviews. George was a lot of fun to write, but now I'm kicking myself that I didn't directly put Tony from L&tT there. It should be a lot of fun with what I have planned for the last chapter. Thanks again for your comments.
1 This was just delightfully fluffy and romantic and I loved it all.
*Izzy just smiled at her friend. “Good thing you two are so adorable together. Makes all this bearable.*
Well isn’t that just Jim and Pam in a nutshell.
*Reverently Jim reached into the teapot to pull out the small velvet box resting within. “I know it’s only been a year since our first official date. I also know that was the last first date I ever want to go on.”*
This is such a great line. And how you pulled in the teapot and everything was so sweet.
Lovely ending for a lovely story!
Author's Response: Thank you. I had a ton of fun writing everything. I've heard of JAM fans using teapots in proposals, so I figured it would be fun to add that element in here. Glad you liked it. Jim at his best is a romantic and I loved leaning into that. Glad to have you here for this one and that you liked it so much.
Pam and Jim had many missed opportunities but fate still brought them together. On Valentine's Day they realize the first missed opportunity was much earlier when they were just 13 years old at a mutual friend's Bat Mitzvah. An AU like story based in canon.
No copyright infringement intended. All I own is a love of these characters.
1 “Ok, first of all, we agreed there were certain names not to be spoken in this bed."
This made me laugh out loud.
You know how much I love when Pam shows her care and concern for Michael! This is great, excited to read the rest.
Author's Response: I’m thrilled you are reading and enjoying this. Because I love the insights you have and love the way you write, I’m very excited to get your thoughts on my little fic. Yes, I too have a soft spot for the Pam/Michael relationship but I take it Jim was a little less tolerant of it especially when it was “brought to bed with them”. Thanks for making me smile too with your review.
"In retrospect, his inability to keep her from penetrating his every thought was just another confirmation to Jim, that no matter what they were always meant to be together; that a more powerful force was at work. It was not really in his nature to have such a strong conviction about a concept such as kismet, he didn’t usually believe in signs, or ghosts, or horoscopes. The supernatural was something to enjoy on television or the movies, it didn’t exist in real life. He never once avoided a crack for the sake of his mother or wasted more salt over his shoulder because he was clumsy enough to spill some in the first place. But of his destiny to be with Pam, of that he was sure of."
Oh my god, I LOVE this. Slightly related: it's not really clear in canon (other than a church wedding and a christening which I assume were both Pam's or Pam's parents idea?) if Jim is religious. Do you have a take on this?
Author's Response: Thanks so much. It’s funny it’s been a bit since I wrote this story that when I started reading your review I was like “wait did I write that? But it came back to me as I got to kismet and the whole thing about ghosts was meant to be a nod to the Halloween episode late in the show where Pam talks about having seen a ghost and Jim is kinda appalled by it. In response to your question I think they both were raised with religion and had faith and attended church from time to time. (Interesting fact the last name is in fact Hebrew and there have been a few fics that have featured a Jewish Jim) as many (not all) young single folk I think they probably didn’t go often until they had children and they re-embraced as they would want to also raise their kids with faith. But that is just my take. So the next few chapters are flashback. Long ago flashback so no Michael but the end will have more of him. Hope you enjoy the cream filling. Oh and thanks again for the review
1 "It wasn’t so much that she thought the guy was anything special. He was cute in a dorky kind of way, with an unkempt thatch of hair, very much in need of a trim, a wrinkled dress shirt that seemed a little big on him and a dimpled smile that screamed troublemaker."
Oh god, I adored this description. Wonderful.
Author's Response:
Oh yes Jim was Jim long before she knew him, or we knew him. His pranks were basic and childish - it would be a while before they would become more sophisticated (and some of them stayed as basic and childish as salty coke).
So glad you are enjoying this.
Jim and Pam work adorably as thirteen year olds. You really made all of this work so well.
Author's Response:
Well thank you - I do owe a lot of credit to my son - he let me bounce ideas off him and he even discussed writing his own version of the story (but lost interest soon after) - I do hope it came off as a meeting that had an impact but not enough to actually remember that they'd met years before for a blip in time and that their Pamness and Jimness came through.
Just a little side note here - this all came about from my first fan fic here and ever--a very primitive and very long first date story and not my finest work--but had a few nuggets like the Bar Mitzvah Michael wanted to throw himself.
Thank you kindly.
1 "But mostly at the moment she felt sadness because she knew she would miss him terribly. Foolish, immature, and narcissistic Michael who she often wanted to murder and who had sometimes made her life a living hell but was also one of the most caring and kindest people she’d ever known."
This was so lovely. I really enjoyed the way you connected all the seemingly disparate stories, and brought it back full circle. Great job!
Author's Response:
Thank you so much - this seems to be something in your wheelhouse so to hear this from you is a true compliment.
I am curious - since originally I had no epilogue - I thought it was pretty apparent how it came full circle in the last chapter but quickly learned it didn't - had you picked up on the ending in the last chapter or did you need the epilogue to fully understand?
In the end I am glad I wound up with the epilogue since it gave me a chance to write more Michael/Pam and I loved writing their goodbye. I even cried a bit.
I happen to be in the middle of a chapter where something referenced in the last chapter makes an appearance so its like Kismet you reading this story now.
Anyway Thank You for bringing life back to this story - it was one I had a whole lot of fun with and when they fall into the archive they are missed and the buzz that goes along is missed too. It sounds like you've written a whole lot before so I think you might get that. So thanks for bringing some hum back for me.
And thanks too for becoming part of MTT - you are a very welcome addition around here.
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The MTT Noobs finally figured out how to collab. 10 chapters of what occurred during the hiatus of S4. Answers to Jam's First Holidays together.
*Jim frantically put his hands together in a “v” shape yelling, “PIZZA SLICE! PIZZA SLICE!”*
LOL
You really captured the atmosphere so nicely in this chapter.
*“Well, what if I don’t want your germs?” she smirked.
“I think we passed that exit a looooong time ago, Beesly.”*
Okay, this was great. I really loved their banter in this one. And the whole bit at reception was great!
*As badly as he wants to be inside of her right now, he wants her to have this. Wants her to feel this desired, this loved. He can wait, he could always wait for her.*
I loved this line. Way to end this fic with a BANG! (heh)
Great job, ladies! :)
“I don’t know who that was, but I need to see a lot lot more of her.”
Yes to this.
This chapter was indeed chaotic but in the best possible way. Drunk Pam is amazingly hilarious and extra boyfriend points for Jim for taking care of her pukey self. That's true love.
This was so funny, I loved "DJ Vu," lol... perfect. And look at you, with your teeny weeny bit of angst in the middle. *insert Ron Swanson gif*
*“A repeat of Valentine’s Day would be just fine,” she said instead, blushing and looking down at the floor of the car.
Jim let out a chuckle. “We can have a repeat tonight if you want.”*
Aw, good for them.
1 Damn. DAMN. Girl, you can write smut.
I can say without a shred of uncertainty that Roy definitely did not give her the greatest Valentines Day sex of her life.
*Pam lifts her head from against his chest and looks up into his eyes. She can tell they’re thinking the same thing. They usually are.*
GREAT button. This was fantastic.
