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Oh Danielle.... Such lovely, wonderful writing, as always. I owe you another apology, and a big one. I am SO sorry that I am behind in reviewing both of your current stories. They are both so fantastic and you certainly deserve better than me always getting here late. In all honesty, I did just go through what has to be the most painful month of my life. My medications were all messed up, even ended up overnight in the hospital again. I honestly do have good intentions. I come to this page with the new/updated stories on it intending to get through all the reviews and I'll either write one or be half way through one and feel horrible or realize that what I'm saying makes no sense (when does it ever????) So I end up with just the review I've written or deleting the half review and promising myself I'll come back later. I SWEAR I'll make it through this one this time. I hope you don't mind, I'm going to combine my chapters 3/4 review into one. If I didn't, I'd probably NEVER catch up! Oh and quickly... thank you for the nie things you said in response to my last review for this story. I admit, I saw you had responded to all the reviews but mine and I wondered if I had said something or whatever to upset you. Then you came and responded to more but still not mine and wow was I paranoid. I must have read that review a dozen times trying to figure out what I could have said that would have made you just skip it. I was SO freaking relieved to find that you had responded to it and it was just an oversight. I was sure I MUST have done something wrong! OK... onto this awesome story...

Can I tell you, I LOVE that you are redoing this and leaving me with a different ending to a frustrating situation. I know there's plenty more story to go but already this is so much more fulfilling than what we got on the show!!

I love love love Pam waking up and her first thought is about wanting to tell Jim about her dream. You can see that after one phone call things are already so muh better because the lines of communication are open again! I had to laugh at the thought of her taking a picture of Ryan at his desk with her cell. I just kept wondering exactly what Ryam would have thought had he caught her taking it. SO Jim to not accept the first try, of course I think this was probably more in the interest of keeping things going with Pam than really thinking it was an old picture. I was glad that she asked him about IM and that he signed on right away. I've always pictured them as IMing a lot throughout the workday before and after season 3. I think Jim really had two things he wanted to accomplish with pushing for the, can't think of the name of it but the chat where they can see each other. Of course I think he is certainly interested in her artwork and there is no doubt that he not only would have been overjoyed that she was taking classes, but he also would have pushed to see the work she has done first to support her and let her know how much he believes in her and second because he really enjoys what she does and really does want to see it. I think his second reason for wanting that type of a chat is that he had gone far too long without seeing her and he wanted to see her again. He was probably also a little curious to see if she had changed any with her being away from Roy. I also enjoyed in the IM where he commented that Micheal's not so bad. I think it shows that Jim was really missing Scranton, including Micheal.

I really like the thought of Pam going home and fixing herself up for the chat on the webcam. (Saw the name in there so now I know!) She certainly wanted Jim to see her at her best!

I just love this

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If there were such a thing as Cloud Nine, he would have bet anything that he was somewhere near the seventh of that series.'

That was such a neat way of saying the was he was feeling. You know, where it says here about him knowing he should be angry at her, I don't think that Jim ever really realized probably until they were together and were able to talk things out, just what he did to Pam on Casino Night. He put her in suh an impossible situation and though I love the thought of her giving into him that night and them living happily ever after, I truly believe that had she told him that night that she loved him, broke up with Roy immediately and they had started dating, I believe that relationship would have been doomed. First off, it would have been just wrong for her to treat the end of such a long relationship so carelessly and somewhere in the back of his mind, Jim would have always known how wrong what she did to Roy was. Even if it was for Jim's benefit. Also, I think that after being in a relationship for nearly a decade, one that started in her mid teens when she wasn't even an adult, Pam NEEDED time to figure out who she was. She needed to be able to be out on her own and take are of herself. To have not had that time would have been, IMO, a disater. I think also Jim just didn't get the way he shook up all the pieces of Pam's life and then took off leaving her to reassemble them without two of the main piees, Roy as a fiance and Jim her best friend. He certainly didn't get that Pam had a right to resent and be angry with him for starting this chain of events and then removing himself leaving her without her best friend and chief source of morale support as she went through the most difficult time in her life. It becomes very apparent just how much he doesn't understand what Pam went through or the role he played in the pain she suffered when he was wondering about what she could mean with her comment about not being able to take another kick to the gut.

I just really like the cnversation they are having as they are going through her artwork. I like Jim saying he still considers the Scranton Office building to be his also, again showing IMO that he is missing Scranton. Then I like their discussion abput Diwali and him encouraging her to go. I was glad when he went for it and asked her about the guy she had gone on that date with. I think that we must both think the same that Micheal's comment to Pam about having fun on her date would have stuck with Jim for a long time and made him a little crazy. It's so great to see Jim asking the things he wants to know rather than let the questions fester inside him and drive him crazy I LOVE Pam's reply that there's no one in Scranton that she wants to date. It's a shame that she didn't take it farther and say or in Pennsylvania for that matter. I hear there's one in Conneticut for me. Of course Pam is NO WHERE near that brave yet.

How sweet and SO Jim that when she is having a tough time with showing him her 'real' work, he is able to ease the tension by doing a silly drawing of his own and helping her along. Am I right in thinking that the boy and girl in the picture are supposed to represent a young Jim and Pam? That's just what I had thought when Pam said about adding a baseball cap and some freckles. Oh and I LOVE that the art show that at this point is still a ways in the future, is already mentioned.

I love how Pam then starts catching Jim up on all things DM Scranton, I think it shows here again with Jim wanting to know all about what's going on, that he misses Scranton. LOVE Phyllis Vance, Dunder Mifflin. That made me really laugh! I really like that Pam has enough faith in Jim to tell him about Dwight and Angela without getting a promise not to tell first but I really like that she does insist that he is not able to use that. I think that because Jim really is a good guy at heart and lets face it, his pranks are harmless, so I don't think he would have ever used that anyhow. I think he would realize that THAT would be playing with people's lives. I LOVE though how Jim then makes the connection that it was Angela in Dwight's bed at the convention.

I love the thought of when Jim lays down in bed at night rather than have what most would put forth as what he would think of about her while in bed, (Did that make sense??? I Know what I mean, really!) he is thinking about something as simple and as sweet as having his arm around her at the movies. :::contented sigh:::

Poor Pam! After such a wonderful night, getting to have a video chat and actually SEE Jim and I am sure feel like some things are getting worked through. She certainly knows he wants to keep up communication since he was the one to mention being on IM the next day. But poor Pam's day goes to heck from the start and doesn't look like it wants to rebound but what's this? Even when he isn't there Jim saves the day with his package by first getting her out of Micheal's office to sign for it but then by the package it'self. So sweet and Pam HAS to be starting to realize that Jim's feelings haven't changed. I just LOVE that Jim sent her that! (Bet she ends up using that cookbook to make him dinner!!!) It's wonderful that Pam calls Jim to let him know she got the package and reveals her lousy da and Jim is right there, the way he always was, making it better for her. I an just picture their conversation... hear their voices.

Then she goes to Diwalli and I almost had tears of joy when he came! It became clear to me that he was doing the order form onsolidation early so that he's be able to get out of Stamford, meet Pam at Diwali and give her that hug she needed.

Oh Danielle I just cannot wait for more. I hope we'll hear all about them at Diwalli and I'm wondering if since he traveled do far to get there, maybe he'll go to Pam's for the night and they'll get a hance to REALLY work through some stuff. I am really really excited for more, I can't wait to see what you come up with.

This is absolutely fantastic! I just, I can't imagine having the imagination so wonderful and able to keep coming up with new and fresh ideas. I CAN tell you that I am SO SO thankful for you... and your imagination! (oh and your mad typing skillz!!! )

Keep up the awesome work!!

Author's Response: Thank you so much for this! I again am so sorry I missed your review, I don't even know how it happened. I've got to say that when I replied to everyone's reviews I was all proud of myself like, oh yeah replied to everyone, woohoo! And then I was reading them over a few days later and noticed that I completely missed yours somehow. I would never intentionally do it, and do not fear you never say anything that I'm offended by at all. :) Anyway, you bring up a great point. How Jim just lays in bed and just wants to do simple things like take her to the movies. What I'm trying to show there is how he wants her for her, not for a roll in bed and then that's it. I've read so many stories where all Jim does is fantasize about Pam in bed doing ... you know, that stuff. And I'm sure he did, and those stories are well told, no slight to anyone, but I think that if he's so in love with her, that isn't all he's thinking about. He wants to spend days with her when all they do is pay some bills and go out for dinner, and whatever else normal couples do. So that's why I went with a simpler not so steamy way for him to be thinking right there. I think at this point in the story, Pam does know that Jim's feelings are still there. She has a lot of doubts though, that I'll touch on if I can make it work to sound original, otherwise I'll find some other way to do it. I don't want to spoil what I have planned, and I'm really hoping it's not completely transparent, but I think it would take time for them to build their friendship back up, to regain the trust that they lost in one another. I think still, even over that summer during the way things actually went, I think it took time then too, to get back to where they were. I can't thank you enough for the lovely review, it's really a bright spot in my day. I really appreciate it so much and I'm thankful for you and all of my readers and reviewers and supporters. Thank you. More of this soon. I hope you enjoy it!

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OMG. Firstly I'm sorry that this is how most of my reviews now start, but you seriously kill me each and every time you update.

Pam's reaction to his package was so so so cute, especially because she was having such a bad day. When she said she needed a hug, and then compared to his gift like the hug she needed, I think I actually melted and turned in to goo.

THEN you finish it with him texting her like that and showing up...

“I know I’m a day late. But, you said you needed a hug.”

*thud*

Author's Response: LOL Had to do it! I can't have them that far apart for too long, but you'll see what I have planned as the story moves along. I'm having a lot of fun writing it, and I can't thank you enough for your helping me along the way with it. A toned down conversation was all I needed to make this chapter work, so thanks for that advice! I'm really happy you liked this chapter and are following this story! More on the way soon, I promise. As soon as this pesky holiday is out of the way. :) xx