Trivial Pursuits by Comfect
Past Featured StorySummary:

The Office meets Parfumerie/She Loves Me/Shop Around the Corner/You've Got Mail. Pam and Jim meet earlier in life in AOL trivia chatrooms without knowing who each other are. 

In addition to the above-mentioned sources, also owes a lot to a number of fics on this site, most notably Expressions in Emoticons and the Love-Song of Squirrel McPants. 

Now Complete: AU, starting before S1 (and thus also a Prior Meeting), running into S2.


Categories: Jim and Pam, Present, Past, Episode Related, Alternate Universe Characters: Dwight, Jim, Kelly, Oscar, Pam, Roy, Toby
Genres: Angst, Childhood, Drunk Pam/Jim, Fluff, Holiday, Inner Monologue, Romance
Warnings: None
Challenges: Prior Meeting, Instant Messaging
Challenges: Prior Meeting, Instant Messaging
Series: None
Chapters: 32 Completed: Yes Word count: 32205 Read: 44967 Published: December 01, 2017 Updated: December 26, 2017
Aftermath by Comfect
Author's Notes:

Pam comes home.

 Standard disclaimer: I do not own the Office, the other stories this is based on, AOL, or the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Penguins. 

MorganLaFey: worst. date. ever.

MorganLaFey: ugh

MorganLaFey: hi

 

Pam was surprised and pleased to find WScranton8 online. She really hadn’t expected it, but some blind instinct had driven her to sign online after she stormed back into the house. She felt that anger start to dissipate when she looked at her Buddy List and saw his name. She couldn’t really talk to her mom or dad about this; not after calling them to pick her up. So humiliating! But Scranton was different. He’d understand. She could talk to him, maybe.

 

WScranton8: um, hi.

WScranton8: what happened?

WScranton8: are you ok?

 

She smiled at the screen. Of course he was concerned for her. He was there for her. He was always there.

 

MorganLaFey: yeah

MorganLaFey: it just really sucked

WScranton8: and you were so excited

MorganLaFey: exactly!

MorganLaFey: such a letdown

MorganLaFey: like, I thought it was going to be just the two of us

WScranton8: wasn’t it?

MorganLaFey: no!

MorganLaFey: I get there and his idiot brother is sitting next to him

MorganLaFey: and he just looks over and says hi and goes back to staring at the ice

WScranton8: ice?

WScranton8: like in his drink, or what?

MorganLaFey: oh!

MorganLaFey: the date was at a hockey rink

WScranton8: how eccentrically romantic

WScranton8: did he rent it out for the two of you? was his brother there to run the zamboni?

MorganLaFey: for a hockey game, dork

WScranton8: wait, you like sports now?

MorganLaFey:…no

WScranton8: ?

MorganLaFey: he does. and he asked. so I went.

WScranton8: I have heard that is how these things usually work, yes

MorganLaFey: and it sucked

WScranton8: ok hopefully not that part

MorganLaFey: they spent the whole time screaming at the players and the refs and whatever

MorganLaFey: and cramming hot dogs into their mouths

MorganLaFey: and we didn’t really get to talk or hold hands or anything

WScranton8: aww

MorganLaFey: and then he forgot me

WScranton8: ?

MorganLaFey: I went to the bathroom

MorganLaFey: and when I came back they weren’t there

MorganLaFey: and I had to call my mom for a ride

WScranton8: wait what what what

WScranton8: I’m sorry, I just can’t imagine anyone forgetting you

MorganLaFey: well it’s too bad you weren’t there :-P

MorganLaFey: I could have used a friend

WScranton8: I’m sorry?

MorganLaFey: forget it

WScranton8: …ok

WScranton8: so, when’s date #2?

MorganLaFey: shut up :-P

WScranton8: :-)

End Notes:

Poor Jim. He's going to wish he'd saved this chat log. Or will he? 

Another couple chapters around the start of Pam's relationship with Roy and then there will probably be a time-skip forward a few years to hit another couple major life events for our protagonists. Let me know what you think; I'm very interested in your feedback from jellybeans and reviews to bathroom graffiti and messenger pigeons. 

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