It is almost feeling as good as when Bones drew out the ‘will they won’t they’… sooo very wonderful to hear background to these cherished moments. It is almost as enjoyable to get right to the edge of finding out and then see how you move away at the last second!
ONWARD :)

Author's Response: Thanks. We had to have some tension release at this point in the story. All the "will they find out," everything was going up and up. So we'll have a nice time with the bonus gifts. Glad you liked this one. 

Oh SO many tidbits of catchable things! Weaving in the hair plugs, the Secret Santa and giving us the backstory to Dundies!!!!! All so good!
Is the proposal station a 7-11?! Now I must find out!

Author's Response: Glad you caught a bunch of the details in this one. Always great fun to put those in there. No, I don't think the proposal station is a 7-11. From what I remember it was just a generic gas station storefront they built. It was already the most expensive shot they'd created, why add more cost by paying for the rights to use a name brand?

FABULOUS CHAPTER!!!!!! Loved it! And I would have loved chatting with you in the ER while you came down from the call!

Author's Response: Thank you. They've since torn it down, but at the hospital where I used to bring all my critical trauma patients, the social workers desk was right across the hallway. It was always great to stop there and chat after calls big and small. Glad you enjoyed this one.

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhh…. Wow……
Just, wow, I love the passion for your work and the amazing details you shared. The beauty of a well run, working together crew, the steady mind, not panicking, but keeping the scene safe and calm to do your work. That was just… wow…

Author's Response: One of the biggest and most important lessons I learned during my initial EMT training was, "it's not my emergency." I'm not the one having the emergency so why should I come in all worked up? Walking into a scene rather than running, talking slowly, it all helps especially on the high stakes calls like this one. I very much enjoy being able to share about my profession so I'm glad this chapter, and the next one landed so well with everyone.

I adore the way their names came out, how sweet and intriguing! And I think it is the simplicity of the life-path that is most compelling. As the reader, you can see yourself doing all of these things from chat rooms to awkward proms and even the space we all went through with nicknames or different spellings of our names.
Well done :)

Author's Response: Thanks. I had to get them to Pam and Jim eventually. Also start them down the path that will take them from these teenagers to the adults we see in the show. Still there's always something compelling about our formative years. Things that will always stay with us.

Sad & emotionally difficult chapter for sure. The constant hits Pam takes from Roy being the sad oaf he is. Good set up for the last line, that is for sure!

Author's Response: Pam said at the beach she shouldn't have been with Roy but she didn't care about any of the reasons till she met Jim. I wanted to explore that a bit, which sadly yes a bunch of hits for her. Though things will start looking up from here.

Woah… got me with all the good feels of spending time with Jim & Larissa (we all do love her as the sibling sooo much!) and then made me snort laughing over the hole in the wall… my childhood home had a similar one at the bottom of the stairs because I rode my tricycle down it!
And then…. Oooof….. that is a rough end. Better use of the ‘defidrulator’ though… haha! Had Safety Training aired when you wrote this chapter??? The hilarity of Michael not knowing how to use one is well noted in your correct Paramedic procedures ;) I have more faith Jim will live.. haha!

Author's Response: Larissa, and Penny, are intended to be the voice of reason that both Jim and Pam need from time to time. Glad you're enjoying them in those roles. The incident where Jim cracked his head open was based on an experience from my own childhood on my own sister's birthday. I didn't start writing this story until several years after the whole series had ended. Though according to Jenna and Angela, the "Safety Training" episode has actually saved a few lives because people remembered to do chest compressions to the beat of "Stayin' Alive," like how they demonstrate in the episode. We'll stay with this particular story arc for the next few chapters. Buckle up, it's going to be a shocking good time.

Okay… I want to be in THAT room to put my two cents in with Packer and Roy! Man… Packer was an ass in canon but you BROUGHT IT with that back/forth. And poor Pam with all the ‘is that why’…. Oh my word. But then you bring us back out of it with the amazing call back to both the hot sauce AND the yogurt?! WELL DONE. And TWO MISSES with the finding out who they are to one another?!?! MARVELOUSLY DONE!!!

Author's Response:

Not a great start to the day for sure. Good thing Pam has a Jim around to help keep the from really getting bad. At least for now. Ah, you've stumbled onto my nefarious plan of them not quite figuring out who they were back in high school. Insert evil laugh here. 

This was probably my favorite chapter so far. Perfect blending of ‘what if’ space that we never saw while hitting all the notes we knew of!
Jan as an air carrier is such a brilliant description!
Their banter back and forth, giving us the backstory to Jim’s best/worst date scenario was just fantastic!

Author's Response:

This is more of the leaning into the off camera times we may have heard about in canon. I also wanted Jim and Pam's reunion to be angst free so they can rediscover their innate connection even if they don't recognize each other from high school. 

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On my second read..since I decided I should enjoy and lurk 🤣
Now I can officially say how well you pulled me in to this story. Couldn’t wait to read the next chapter!

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I love this! Just getting around to more reading time and I am DOWN for the start of knowing the ‘Jamie & Morgan’ series!!!! I love the ‘fixing’ or better explaining of things that happened in canon!!!!!!!

Author's Response: Thanks. I've always found it fun to go in between the lines and scenes of the show. Add in what might not have been seen on camera that effected what we did see. Glad you liked it.

What a fantastic story!!!
I adore the playfulness, the vulnerability and the willingness to be PARTNERS.