Oh this was just great.  Hot and touching and I would totally be OK with this happening on the show.... a girl can dream right?

Awesome chapter and I am awaiting more to come! (twss?)

Well I don't have time for 50 reviews, haha, but does one suffice?

I can just imagine Michael trying to take over at a boot camp and totally get shot down.  And the part when the guy was like Bam! I laughed out loud so hard! 

I can honestly see all of this happenening on the show.  I'm like watching it in my head while I'm reading.  Awesome job!  (Also: I loved the competitiveness between Jim/Pam, it's been lacking this season!)  Can't wait for more!!

oooh yay! I can't wait to see what old Pammy has to say to our boy! Great chapter, can't wait for more!

that no matter what they feel for each other, they just weren't meant to be together.

Ouch.  This is so heartbreaking and true to life, but it's great! I can't wait for more

Wow.  Athena that was not sucky at all!  It's so powerful and I'm so glad that Pam is slowly working her way back!  And I love that you're having Jim trying to be there but just can't figure out how b/c tehre really isn't a whole lot he can do.  And Becky is totally right after all.  He's not always the white knight in armor.  Anyways, love it and cannot wait for more.

Oh and one little tiny detail, there was a part up in the middle when you're describing Becky and you say she had a small waste, I think you mean waist.  Waste is like garbage.  Forgive me if I misinterpreted the line, but yeah :) Just thought I'd point it out for ya!

But seriously, sucha  great job!

Oh my god, if this happened on the show I would cry so much.  Seriously.  But I liked this for a story idea.  Continue please. ;)

OH this is really starting to get good! not that the other chapters weren't, but especially now!  Pam forgetting Jim and then sharing the bed?  Ooooh snap! I can't wait for more! Great job

oh man just when I think you can't make it any better, you do!!  I love the whole backstory with Pam and her mom and the moment between Jim/Hank.  Wow.  You are just knockin' each chapter out of the park! I can't wait for more! :)

ooh!  This is so good! I loved the british christmas special and this is shaping up very nicely!! :) Jim singing is always a great thing!  I can't wait for more!! 

haha this was just too great.  I loved that Michael does the James Brown hot tub impression. Wow.  You've really honed alll their voices extremely well and the ending? So fluffy, it was just what I needed! Thank you! This was just awesome!

Author's Response: Thnaks wbj...I just couldn't resist adding a dash of fluff at the end.  Glad you enjoyed it.

ooh ooh I hope Karen joins the circus!! haha

Oh man if only this could happen on the show! I would leap around for days.  Anyways, love, love loved it! Great job at capturing a good tone here and making a believable storyline that i could only pray gets shown on tv (it won't be we can dream right?) Great job! :)

oh you have no idea how excited I was to see you started this!  I like how you have set up the Jim/karen dynamic because I really think the show was trying to show us the struggle Jim will be having soon.  His face and the way you described the fire scene was perfect! I can't wait to see where you're going :) Yet again great job girl7!

Author's Response:

I'm telling you, it is freaking me out that there are actually people who are happy to see that I posted tonight! I don't know...somehow I envisioned all the Office fans wandering around in a catatonic state or something.  :o) Really, though, it's thrilling to hear that. 

And again - love to hear that it wasn't just me who picked up on the Jim/Karen sweetness (though I must admit to being heartily annoyed by it at first - no matter how much I love Karen/Rashida Jones). I do think they're setting Jim up for a difficult decision (not really comparable to Pam's - ten years is really an incredibly long time), but definitely a situation I don't think he'd ever envisioned.

That said, though, I really have never wavered in my conviction that the writers will give the people what they want.  Granted, I could be living off in the happy vodka-soaked muffin land they talk about sometimes in TWoP, but...let's just say that if I was a betting woman, I'd bet the farm that this season will end with Jim and Pam mutually agreeing that they'll be "more than that."  If not immediately, then sometime soon (like, say, September, when it's premiere time).  :o) 

Thanks for the review! 

oh man, fasterthansnakes, I totally love you right now.  This is exactly how the finale should go and I would be a very happy pereson. 

This was so raw with emotion and just dawesome.  And the ending? He's too busy? hehe great! Love, love, loved it! :)