8 [Report This]Date: January 06, 2007 11:33 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
I'm so glad you're continuing this because it's one of my favourite series' - and one of the first I truly loved after beginning to read Office fic.
She tried to bottle the feeling inside of her, but the top wouldn’t stay on and it spilled back out of her until she was empty again, nothing but glass.
Loved that line.
Date: January 06, 2007 04:46 am Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
she imagines his words are clouds.
Oh god what a beautiful line. I love this chapter so much I want to have sex with it [/Dr. Cox] You continue to amaze and delight me. Thanks. Can't wait to see what you write when Oscar comes home.
Date: January 05, 2007 02:32 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
How had I never read this series before? I loved it! What a great idea. Can't wait to read more!
Date: January 05, 2007 01:13 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
Loved it! You caught Pam's sadness so well...
10 [Report This]Date: January 05, 2007 12:24 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
Oh, this made me cry. So sad! I love it.
8 [Report This]Date: January 05, 2007 06:14 am Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
Oh I'm really so glad you updated this- it's definitely my favorite series ever.
She wants to say that it’s because she loves him more than she’s ever loved anything and she helps him, because he’s her best friend and if she can’t have him as more, than she’ll take him like this.
That line just perfectly articulates what Pam must be going through right now. Ugh, it just breaks my heart. Seriously, this is a comedy we're watching, right??
Date: January 05, 2007 05:51 am Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
This is just so delicate and beautiful and really nails the pathos of this episode. Especially love your first and last lines - he's a shadow/his words are like clouds. Perfect images to describe how she feels his huge presence in her life by his absence and how nebulous/ungraspable the things she really needs from him have become. So, so sad.
Date: January 05, 2007 05:26 am Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
Killing me. You - and the two of them. I really didn't expect Pam to lose it, but I was (oddly) glad to see it.
And now I feel so much better.
And this???
She tried to bottle the feeling inside of her, but the top wouldn’t stay on and it spilled back out of her until she was empty again, nothing but glass.
Amazing.
Date: January 05, 2007 03:38 am Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
His hand’s between her shoulder blades and it makes her want to tell him that she’s so incredibly lonely all the time, that she woke up on Christmas morning and when she moved her leg over, the sheets were like ice and she isn’t sure how she’s kept breathing.
That just - broke my heart. It's so unbelievably sad, this image, the entire situation she's in - it's strange how the roles've reversed, now - and just the other day I was thinking about Office Christmases and I was filled with so much sadness for her, crap, it's just freaking sad.
And I adored how she was thinking she'd just take what she gets, because that's exactly what Jim had seemed to do, before.
And finally I love that Jim finds her, because it nagged at me the way it was Roy [although he's growing on me]...stupid freaking Jim, stupid Pam; I'm just hoping the pay-off is goood.
Brilliant as always, things like broken pieces of glass; everything put together is just about beautiful. I was sad before but this has cheered me up a bit. ;) Thank you.
Date: January 05, 2007 01:10 am Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
So lovely and sad, especially the part about taking him however she can get him. I'm liking how they're reversing roles a little.
Date: January 05, 2007 12:40 am Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
::sigh:: if only he'd noticed this. Ugh, this just breaks my heart. Good work.
Date: January 04, 2007 11:05 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
Oh, thanks for writing this again! I love this series!
Date: January 04, 2007 09:52 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
Love that she never looks at him, then has to sense him in other ways.
Lovely final line.
10 [Report This]Date: January 04, 2007 09:44 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
Are you kidding me?? Just today I was thinking, "Wow. It's been awhile since Unseen was updated. I hope she still plans on continuing with it. And then I come in here and it is!
And what a beautiful update it was. Seriously. I had covinced myself that I was okay with this episode, that everything was going to be okay and then I come and read this and just want to bawl my bloody eyes out. You capture Jim and Pam in this way that is just so breathtaking and heartbreaking all at the same time. Like, I feel Pam. Her desperation just falls off the page (screen).
You're killing me. Truly. And I Love it.
Date: January 04, 2007 09:39 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
Aww...I missed "unseen"! And this chapter is (as always) fantastic.
Date: January 04, 2007 09:10 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
I loved this, especially so soon after the episode! My favorite line: "Even though the edges are jagged..." Great stuff, and one of my favorite series.
9 [Report This]Date: January 04, 2007 08:48 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
His hand’s between her shoulder blades and it makes her want to tell him that she’s so incredibly lonely all the time, that she woke up on Christmas morning and when she moved her leg over, the sheets were like ice and she isn’t sure how she’s kept breathing.
This line is just so incredibly heartbreaking. I'm so glad you added this for this episode because personally, I feel like Pam was a bigger person than I could ever be for what she said to Jim in the breakroom.
And I'm so glad you wrote that Jim noticed she'd been crying, because I'd hate for Pam to have to cry and not have Jim try to comfort her. What you've written here is just perfect.
Date: January 04, 2007 08:43 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
This just ripped my heart out: he’s her best friend and if she can’t have him as more, than she’ll take him like this -- that just so summed up the show for me -- except that I think that her crying, letting the lid off of her emotions, is the genie that can't be put back in the bottle. And it might get messy, but the only way out is through.
And how the HECK did I miss this story before tonight? -- clearly I have a lot of reading to do!
Date: January 04, 2007 08:24 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
That was beautiful and just captured Pam's sadness so well.
Date: January 04, 2007 08:15 pm Title: Back from Vacation: A Mirror or an Echo
This was so worth the wait, and every bit as consistently...mind-blowing as your other installments have been. My favorite line: "She tried to bottle the feeling inside of her, but the top wouldn’t stay on and it spilled back out of her until she was empty again, nothing but glass."
That could be a blanket statement about Pam's entire life over these past few years.
I expressed my hope in one of the threads on TWoP that it had been Jim who'd found Pam crying (as opposed to Dwight); a few posters very logically (and rightfully, IMO) pointed out that the writers wouldn't have gone such an obvious, expected route.
Reading this, though, makes me realize that they could have done it (had Jim find her) and done it well - as you have here.
Excellent, excellent work. I hope you continue this.