Future fic, but with some imagined back-story for Jim as well.
10 I love do-overs :) This was a great Jim/Pam conversation--you balanced his and her reluctance really well.
Author's Response: Who wouldn't love them, when they involve Jim? Glad you liked it!
Pam makes a choice.10 This was fantastic! You used such a great analogy to get Pam's essence across in so few words, which served to make it more powerful. Particularly loved the line about her "matching her breathing to his" at the end.
Author's Response: Thank you so much! I appreciate it!
10 grinning like an idiot, yet again. this was adorable--loved the no dialogue ending. there are so many times when the JAM is so angsty & complicated, it's nice to have an easy happy scenario every once in a while :)
Author's Response:
You gotta have some fluff to balance the angst :) Thanks, yippee!
Jim and Pam don't know that someone is listening at a crucial moment.
Heee! Loved the Kelly POV :)
Author's Response: Thanks!
10 My poor little reader's heart is so confused! They way that you wrote this really made me so excited & happy for Jim & Pam, and then so sad for Roy. Love the way you portrayed both sides...and loved that you had Jim proposing at Chilli's :)
Author's Response: Thank you! That mix of happy and sad is what defines the show for me, so I'm excited that you thought I caught some of that feeling.
Jim and Pam are a couple. He asks a question. She contemplates.10 ooh, love the sweet, sexy banter. this was a perfect balance of all sorts of stuff--really fun to read!
Author's Response: Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
Response to the Overheard challenge. A couple has an important conversation at the bank. 10 Ha! Loved the twist at the end, though this whole story is a great balance of sadness for Pam & Roy and happiness for Pam & Jim. Loved the Pam/Roy conversation.
Author's Response: Thanks for the review. Glad the balance worked - I tried to be delicate to all parties involved.
Someone has to take up the slack...10 Loved this! Perfectly captured the funny/sadness that is The Office. And, of course, captured Phyllis's wonderfulness :)
Author's Response:
...captured the funny/sadness that is The Office.
Totally what I was going for! Thanks for the review!
The ten minutes between Jim's confession to Pam and the kiss in "Casino Night", plus the moments immediately after the kiss.
10 Aww so lovely. You captured the feeling of that moment really well :)
"Pam would have laughed if it hadn't been so funny." The weekend after Casino Night.
Yipes, I could totally see this happening. You had heir voices down really well and the ending...I gasped out loud. So so sad, but in that good angsty way :)
Author's Response: Thanks so much for your review!
10 Love that you're writing a not-so-happy future for Jim & Pam. It feels real--particularly Jim's insecurities. Can't wait for the next chapter.
Author's Response: I hate putting Jim through all this again but bad things do happen to good people.
10 Still so good...though my heart is taking a beating :) Can't wait to see how you write their discussion.
Author's Response: Done! Let me know what you think.
10 You wrote this conversation really well. It's so Jim-like to keep telling her that everything is OK. I like that you had her coming to terms with her problems here though. Glad they're back on a (relatively) happy path!
Author's Response: Thank you! I figured Pam might learn to face her problems as she gets older. She's not very good at it now!
10 Aww yay for happy endings!
Author's Response: After that beginning even I needed a happy ending!
Sometimes you double check to see if you can hear a dial tone.
Then again...sometimes you might be too distracted to bother. ;)
10 Heeee! I love Mrs. Beesly and I love this fic...so much fun to read :)
Author's Response:
I love her too. Pinning almost every last hope on that woman so she'd better deliver. ;) Glad you liked it yippee.
A hot night and a moonlit lake. That should do it. Oh, and a prank on Dwight.
Heee! Yay for fun banter & hot underwater make-out sessions. As always, love the way you write these two :)
Author's Response: Yay! Thanks, yippee ;)
10 good lord. i...that was...yowza.
so much of the hotness and feeling in your stories comes from the way that you write the non-smutty (well, maybe the not-100%-smutty) parts that are in turns funny & sweet. the way you write the banter, etc. adds so much...and just makes the smut that much hotter.
yum.
Author's Response: Wow, thanks for that, yippee!
Absolutely adorable. Made me grin from beginning to end :)
Author's Response: Hee hee! Glad to hear it. :)
This is a continuation of The Secret. Maybe he thought she was pretty enough. Maybe he liked that she was plain. Maybe he loved her.10 Oh Pam. She has such a strange mix of feeling insecure & enjoying her power over Jim--I think you got her perfectly.
Author's Response: Thank you. I think the only way Pam could NOT see that Jim is in love with her is her own insecurity. At the same time though I think she taunts him to see if there is a sign that he could look at her that way--torturing Jim.
10 Oh Pam. She has such a strange mix of feeling insecure & enjoying her power over Jim--I think you got her perfectly.
10 awww. so like pam to be completely in denial...until something happens to physically shake her out of it!
Author's Response: Hee. I could totally just see her freezing up right before she walked down the aisle. That would be interesting. Glad you liked it and thanks for reading!
Some musings from Pam, post-angst. Just for fun.10 Love love love. All of these little moments combined have turned me into complete mush. So sweet, so sexy, just all around perfect!
Author's Response: That's so sweet of you to say - thanks!
10 Oh wow...so good, so painful, so tricky! I really loved this--I totally glossed ove the subtle signs at the beginning so the ending was definitely a punch to the gut. Nice to see Jim happy, but so true that he would probably carry thoughts of Pam around with him forever.
Author's Response: thank you!! that is exactly what i wanted to happen to the reader when they read the subtle signs -- gloss over them and not realize. you hit the nail on the head for your last comment!! i totally agree and that was, once again, what i was going for. =)
For the Caught Red Handed and "Nobody knows" Challenges. Sometimes you're so distracted that you get careless and what you think is a big secret isn't such a secret at all. :)10 Yay yay yay. Loved every moment in here and that each of the vignettes so perfectly fit each character while maintaining the Jim/Pam dynamic. This just made me all kinds of smiley :)
Author's Response: I love making people smiley. My work is done. :)
There are secrets even the closest couples don't share.
10 I've said this before--but you have such an amazing ability to pack an emotional punch in a short space. Loved both of their "unsaid" things--they each seemed to fit the characters so well--but Pam's just made my heart hurt. It does feel real though that she would continue to have those doubts and I love that you wrote about them.
Author's Response: Thank you so much. I'm so glad it felt real to you.