Jim, Pam...and a partridge in a pear tree. There are 12 days of Christmas - there will be 12 chapters of this story.
I can just see Sasha going, "Duh, Jim." after that last line. Or maybe that was me. ;) Nice correlation for swans!
Author's Response:
Oh she did. Glad you heard it too. :)
Thanks!!
9 No! Yes! What?
Now I'm all flustered. She kissed him!
And duck, duck, goose? YES!!!
But before that, the Awkward on the couch, and then the bigger Awkward outside? Just yay, Krissy. Great chapter.
She totally did!!
The geese thing was awful. Just awful. When ABC aired I almost went with Dwight's little Christmas offering but then I was inspired.
Oh the Awkward. Will it ever end?!?
Thanks so much though. I was all kinds of nervous about this one.
9 Pam. WTF?
Hee!! Love her glee in this chapter, 'cause YEAH.
"Let me in."
Um, hot?
Yeah. Umm...uh huh.
and...yeah. :)
OMG he kicked her door closed!
I think I just... you know... a little.
*hurries off toward "tomorrow night"*
Not to..you know...like freak you out but um...me too.
I have this little list and DeterminedImpatientTurnedOn!Jim sort of tops it.
8 mmm :)
Author's Response: hee! :)
8 He leans against the counter, crossing his feet at the ankles. He looks at her over the rim of his mug. "So I can watch you leave."
Hee. And the doves. Yay.
I had this discussion with my best friend last night at dinner - she's well aware of my obsession but only has a passing interest in all things re: The Office. She was saying that it'll get boring if (WHEN) Jim & Pam get their acts together and I was like - NO! Cause we'll really only see them at work and there'll be all these little moments and I almost cited that one before I realized it hadn't really happened.
But now - it totally HAS TO.
8 "Time to raise the bar Beesly."
And we have our slogan for season 3, folks.
Also: partridge in a pear tree? Definitely a euphemism.
;)
Lovely fic...
heehee!
TOTALLY.
Thank you muchly Shan - for unleashing your inner fangirl to tell me so. :) It was a lovely way to start the New Year.
7 I love that song - nice use of it here :)
10 Your repeated elements are perfect here. I'm in Love with your prose - you give us just enough to discern the context. Ah, beautiful.
8 Lovely. I'm reading a lot of good, darkish, angsty fic today, and yours was really good. Nice work :)
9 Because like the yellow line at his feet, there are boundaries and lines not to be crossed.
This is gorgeous. Nice work :)
She’d understand if she knew, he thinks.
Jim, Jim, Jim. If she knew, you wouldn't be getting any!
Love that Jim confides in Toby, at least to some extent. I wonder if he's fooling Toby at all? And this line is perfect:
He likes the things that he can see outright, things he doesn’t have to reach in too far to find.
Great voices here...
Somehow she doesn’t think he would ever miss the toilet. He probably puts the seat down, too, when he’s done.
St. Jim! I love it.
And PamXRoy = ouch. :)
Love here that Pam's nitpicking her apartment, then we get to see the tree through Karen's eyes, and it's really pretty. Great metaphor for how Pam sees herself, I think.
You're building good anticipation here - good tension.
He wants to make a joke about her boots, badly, but he holds it in.
Hee. And I bet he won't have to feel obligated before he compliments Pam :)
Oooo, nice setup! And good voices for Jim, Pam, and Karen.
8 You've made a nice progression with these chapters. The connection between Jim and Pam is palpable. I'm glad I get to read this in one shot!
8 Yay for the admission! And for the glimpse of TiredBreakup!Jim we saw in Booze Cruise.
8 Wow, yeah, that look from Casino Night, the one that said, "Come on, please don't do this." Nice.
8 Great metaphor with the painting.
And then... mm. 'Bye, sweater.
8 I'm still in last night's clothes, you're in your pajamas, and we're both hung-over. It's the way I've always planned it, Pam.
Nice. Lovely fic :)