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Welcome to MTT! This is sweet. I can’t say it’s really my headcanon that Pam is bi, but I could totally see Jim reacting like this - supportive and onboard with shared celeb crushes.

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I’m always delighted to see another take filling in the blanks and the aftermath of the job. In particular, I really liked your Karen chapter. I think Karen had so much more potential than we really saw in the show. Your characterization of her felt very believable - the break up was definitely sympathy inducing, although completely inevitable also.

I think you did a great job coming up with the prank ideas! I could totally imagine Jim giving those a go and causing Dwight all sorts of angst. Your phone call between Pam and Jim, with the Dwight twist earlier on was also a nice touch.

“I’m not much of a lottery player, I prefer to waste my money on unnecessary overnight trips to NY and expensive, non-refundable plane tickets I don’t use.” This line had me laughing.

I’m curious to see your take on what’s to come!

Author's Response:

Don't know how I missed this review earlier but thanks so much for your review.

I never did feel sympathy for Karen until I wrote her and then my heart was breaking for her even though I am 100% Team Jam. She had to have seen the writing on the wall - look closely at Women's Appreciation -she was in heavy denial. 

I got into this for the Jam fluff and the missing 3 months of new love but I'm enjoying coming up with the more comedic stuff too (although a little more taxing on the brain) and have lots more coming up. 

There's something so satisfying hearing from others who can appreciate the little nuggets from the show and share in the love for it. Thanks for that.

I hope I am doing justice to your views on how their first date and beyond goes. Thanks again for joining me on the journey and for sharing your thoughts. 

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This does not bode all that well... Lovely writing. You’ve built a whole lot of tension as to what’s wrong with Jim. I have my fingers crossed it’s nothing too terrifying...

Author's Response: I guess you’ll just have to keep reading and see!!

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This story was a whole lot of fun! Larissa was lovely. It felt very light and fluffy despite the premise. I’m glad everything worked out okay - in terms of Larissa’s injury and JAM. Very, very sweet!

Author's Response: Thank you, Jenna! I may have given Larissa a quick recovery just to put Jim in a headspace where he was ready to be with Pam, and also so we could see some of Jim and Larissa together because I love writing their relationship. Haha but I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for reading!!

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“he would turn up his thermostat a few degrees” This right here is real romance.

Oh. This is so very sweet. The way they’re clinging to each other at dinner. You paint the way they’re both so grateful to have made it to this point so nicely.

“Jim, not yet, I’m so full,” This is real life all over. I love that it shows how comfortable they are with each other.

“Jim was holding her hand while going down on her” Oh my god, romance is alive and well. This is adorable.

“She tried to rip his shirt open all at once, but she wasn’t quite strong enough for that” I love this comedic beat. It’s so, so great.

Wow. You really went from steam to pure sweetness just like that. I loved Pam’s reassurances at the end. Just lovely.

Author's Response: Wow, thank you so much! What a kind review!

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“Maybe Peter Pan and Wendy, except he was the one who grew up and left.” Oh wow. I am in pain.

“she could still feel the buzz of the needles on her skin. That’s what it felt like. All summer and all fall” I love this description. Like a whole lot. It’s perfect.

“will you put it on for me?” YES PLEASE.

Oh. Oh. This is so damn beautiful. The image of Pam in the cardigan, vulnerable and exposed and so trusting of Jim to right the wrongs of the past.

BT. Holy god. You are so, so good at the smuts. It’s so very sincere and sweet and blisteringly hot all in the same breath.

Stop. That ending. So very perfect. I can’t even begin to deal with how wonderful this whole thing was.

Author's Response: I love that Peter losing Wendy line in the song and KNEW I had to find a way to work it into the chapter. I’m so glad you liked it! Thank you so much, JB!

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DC, I just -
WOW.

“When Pam dresses like that, she looks like someone who fell into a lost and found box while leaving a wild night at a bar. After being struck by lightning.” I love this so very much because same. There are people who can pull off that effortless look and there is me.

“Only once had he said, “And no Jim,” Perceptive Roy. That alone gives us all the backstory for this particular Jim and Pam...

“For seven minutes in heaven. I would’ve picked Karen.” Oh DC. When I say I laughed. Of course in the world she would pick Karen. I’m not going to lie, I would read the version where she had picked Karen too. This alone would have identified this chapter as yours! (Your beautiful, distinctive writing aside).

I don’t generally love college AUs and yet I’m going to need the whole 20 chapter version of this...

Author's Response: Aw, JB, thank you!! I showed a lot of restraint here with Karen. (It was so hard to do that though!) I think college AUs can be tricky; I'm so glad that you enjoyed this one though. :)

“At least now she knew that all of her dramatic flairs were inherited and not just learned by being in close proximity to Kelly every single day.” I love this. It’s such a great line and so very true of divorced adult parent drama...

“from underneath his black baseball hat” Well. This is a visual that I’m not mad about.

That’s what this collection was missing - a sex swing reference!

“I can’t explain it. I just really feel strongly that you and I should have sex in there.” The man raises a very valid point.

“Lovemaking” I —

““You can’t divorce me.” How did you go from sweet, to hot and heavy to making me want to cry in the space of seven seconds?!

“we could take this treehouse” Wow. Now I really am crying.

On. The. Registry. COLEY.
Okay, okay and the perfect blend of humor and teasing to bring it all home. I love this. It’s absolutely gorgeous.

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Me? Putting off reading this all day because I knew it would kill me dead? More likely than you think...

“she chased the high again by turning left instead of right, towards him instead of home” Oh. Okay. This is how I know right out of the gates that this is going to destroy me.

“he had the audacity to leave her there with it, her bare feet burning in the sand; the pieces of who they were and who they never would be, scattered around her like confetti” That’ll do it. My god. The imagery. I am dying.

“Regret is a ghost that will never leave you” DAMN. Isn’t that the truth...

“pulling out of her things previously left in the shadows” I —

“"I don't want you to let me go and this was never over." Oh. It’s fine. I’m fine. I’m not overwhelmed with emotion to the point of tears or anything.

"I wore this because I hoped you would see it today." This was 1000% how I wanted Beach Games to end, holy god.

“This is a show not tell thing” DEAD.

I’ll. Buy. You. The. Whole. Damn. Car. Are you kidding me?! This was so amazing. I remain in awe at the way you string words together to create the most vivid pictures. Please write all the things forever.

Author's Response: Jenna! Thank you so much! I'm kind of glad the car line worked. I was afraid it would fall flat but I had to have him say *something* there at the end. Thanks for your always awesome review. :)

“the way fate wound through their lives, leading them to the inevitable moments where signs and choices collided at the frayed edges” Oh my god this is going to be so good. Honestly. I can’t get over the phrasing of “wound through” because it’s so very in keeping with the song without just shoving lyrics in.

“He nearly choked” Hard same. Get it, Pam.

“you would be the last one he would sacrifice to the natives." Like. This is Jim and Pam smut and yet somehow you’ve perfectly captured Pam & Dwight’s relationship as well as the Jim/Pam/Dwight dynamic.

“Their mouths sank warmly together, tangled tongues and lips” How do you do it?! How is even your smut still so poetic and gorgeous just like literally everything you write?! I am in awe.
Seriously. Seriously. Seriously.

“to see him stuff the discarded article into his pocket” Shut up. This is so good.

“palpable desire written in the way his exposed forearms flexed against the worn wood on either side of her body” Bored. Girl. The way you take the simplest thing and describe it into the most vivid picture will never not blow me away. I love this line. I love this line so damn much.

A. Dentist. Appointment. Holy god.

“the fibers of their past twisting together” This is perfection. Actual perfection.

“She eyed him with an exhale, "With my life but..." Uh, this is the most relatable of any line ever.

THE BOAT. Holy shit.
I’m —
“"It's not as cold as I remember." I... DEAD. So dead.

“her need to drive the apparition haunting the place away” I. LOVE. THIS.

“"I hope so." Oh. Okay. Count me down as dead again.

Bored. This was incredible. It’s such a beautiful song and concept and the way you took it and made it your own/JAM was amazing. I can’t get over the way your mind works because I never would have thought of this idea of making new memories in places of past significance. I am just so, so blown away.

Author's Response: Thank you so very much, Jenna. You know how much I adore you and your reviews. d84;a039;

DC, holy shit. This so hot right off the bat. The early days of dating are truly a treasure trove - you think you know someone, but there is so much more to know. This captures that so very well.

“This is who we are now.” So, so good.

“You’ve seen the guy, right?” Jim gets it.

The way you write married life is so very real and so very perfect. I love their coded conversation and time just disappearing.

““Thank you for lying.” This whole exchange. Both ways. Just perfect.
“I won’t turn down bread sticks.” I —

“In a million years, Pam will never tell Jim that he has Dwight to thank for tonight.” Oh my god. This line. It’s amazing.

The humor running through this is just so perfect and I want to list literally every example, but I am exercising some self-control and only listing my top dozen or so... Gems such as:
“pre-pregnancy clothes that are still being rude”
“I’ll just be in the kitchen. Alone. Trying not to think about what I didn’t see.”
“Good thing there’s a nurse nearby.”

Pam feeling a little ridiculous at the end is just so in keeping with how I imagine her character would be and I appreciate it so much. DC, you are a gift and the justice you did this song (which seemed the least smuttable) was truly incredible.

“she has swaying isn’t dancing echoing so loudly in her ears” Oh. Oh. Oh. I see how it is. You’re going to destroy me & I am SO here for it. “start to manifest the touch of his earbud”

“--So predictable comma Beesly--that they could flip this entire situation into a joke” Okay. This is amazing & so very true. I love how revealing this is of how far they’ve fallen from what they once were.

“It’s the first time she’s had him alone in so long that she has to make this count” My heart. I just ache reading this.

“in a way that she hopes will leave a mark so that she has something to remember him by” Wow. This BROKE me.

“So give me a reason not to,” Oh. My. God. “standing on the edge of a cliff, just waiting for him to push her off.” The justice you are doing to this song. I —

“she will be left alone on the pavement again, her heart shattered with the pieces scattered and no one to pick them up” AG, when you do angst you do it so, so well.

Oh hard yes to a coat closet.

“Let Karen Filippelli see it.” This line is straight fire.

“letting him take out his pent up aggressions on her in a coat closet is a lot cheaper than therapy.” Ain’t that the truth.

“the soft pop of their lips parting a soundtrack that she will put on repeat for weeks to come.” This hits SO hard.

“less than gently directs her lips in the dark to the place that Pam marked on his skin” Holy god. This is absolutely gutting. You know that thing I said about you doing angst well? I... just. It’s so raw and real and so utterly heartbreaking.

Damnit, AG. You’re a genius. A second coat closest to rebuild my shattered heart?! Perfect ending is so very perfect.

“Sometimes though, she still wanted to close herself down for ten minutes. And he let her.” Hello healthy adult relationship. This comparison to Roy is so very simple and so very good.

“she got so fixated on the Are we doing this right? that he had to slow down and remind her that this was the most right thing in his life.” Oh. OH. I’ve never thought of it like this, but it makes all the sense in the world. It fits so well with both their characters.

Oh my god. This list of sounds that become their song. Fuck me. It is the sweetest thing & I will make no apologies for how hard I sob over it.

“Pull over.” Yes. This is the only logical follow through after THAT. Get it Pam.

“Our song. Say more nice things. What else?” It’s fine. I’m fine. I can deal with the way you switch from super sweet to super hot and it just works. Skills.

“I hope that one never makes it to the radio. My mother would be mortified.” And now we’re just dialing the humor up to 11. AG, how are you SO good at this?! It’s amazing.

I mean, I know I’m already just a little bit married, but I would legitimately pay you to write my vows after reading Pam’s lyrics. I’m sure there’s a business venture in that...

The b-side. Dead. So dead.
I love everything about this!