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Wear You Down -- Karen/Andy. PG. 9700 words. Karen's having a bad summer, and Andy's there. (August 19, 2007)
How Pam Beesly Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life -- Pam/OC, Jim/Pam. PG. 7400 words. Set in the last half of season 3. (May 7, 2007)
Warning: Dangerous Undertow and Strong Currents -- Jim/Pam. NC-17. 4100 words. Part 7 of the Warning Labels series. (March 25, 2007)
Why Mark Wasn't That Upset That Jim Moved to Stamford -- Mark, Jim. PG-13. 1200 words. The Saturday basketball game is getting out of hand. (February 19, 2007)
The Funny Thing About Destiny -- How I Met Your Mother crossover. Jim Halpert/Ted Mosby. PG-13. 6500 words. Jim and Ted get married and have babies. (February 13, 2007)
"What? No!" Ted said. When he looked at Jim, Jim looked a little weirded out.
"Again?" Jim said.
"He's kidding," Ted said, and got up. As he passed Marshall on the way to the bathroom, he hit him in the stomach. "Shut up, Marshall." Caution: Objects May Be Closer Than They Appear - Jim/Pam. NC-17. 4000 words. Set during Email Surveillance; the fourth installment in the Warning Labels series, which has as its premise that Jim and Pam were having secret sex all along. The first three segments are here: one (Halloween, by honey_wheeler), two (The Fight, by honey_wheeler), and three (The Client, by Kyra Cullinan). (December 7, 2006)
The Semiotics of Concealment - Jim/Karen (Jim/Pam, Jim/Jan). R. 2200 words. (November 30, 2006)
Five ways Pam almost finds out Jim's crush on her, and one way she does - Jim/Pam. PG. 700 words. (September 4, 2006)
Way Back When and the People We Were - Gil/Toby, PG, 382 words. Toby goes to his high school reunion. (August 19, 2006)
Crossing the Line: Rules for the Modern Workplace - Jim/Pam. NC-17. 4400 words. Post-"Casino Night". Pam can't find her keys. (August 3, 2006)
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Things Jim Can't Remember - Jim/Mark, Jim/Pam. NC-17. 1700 words. John Madden Football at 2 a.m. (July 23, 2006)
Mark blinks, caught off guard enough that he misses a tackle and Jim's player gets all the way to the thirty yard line before Mark's defense takes him out. "Shit, man," Mark says. "Shit." Five Games of Truth or Dare Jim and Pam Never Played - Jim/Pam. PG. 6300 words. Co-written with Kyra Cullinan. (July 20, 2006)
"So you must play it a lot, then," Jim says smoothly, swiveling casually in his chair. In Case of Flash Flood - Pam/Toby. PG. 750 words. Pam updates the emergency contacts. (July 12, 2006)
O*F*F*I*C*E - Canon pairings. PG. 4700 words. An Office M*A*S*H AU. (July 6, 2006)
Pack Up Your Bags, It's Never Too Late! - Jim/Pam. PG-13. 11,100 words. Co-written with Kyra Cullinan. (June 19, 2006)
"Don't call me that," Karen says, more out of habit than anything, because this is maybe the twenty zillionth time they've had this exchange over the past five years. Andy must be thinking that too, because after a second they both laugh. When she looks up from his bloody knee, he's smiling at her with that doofus smile he has and she's struck by a strange rush of affection for him. Dumb old Andy.
It was one Friday night too many sitting at home by herself, watching 13 Going On 30 on TBS and eating Cheez-Its straight out of the box for dinner that did it. It's funny how being depressed about your life choices can drive you right into making even worse choices, but that's pretty much why she got back together with Roy, and that's pretty much why she's now at a party in a crappy apartment in Carbondale where there's a bottle opener built into the side of a kitchen cabinet, the avocado countertops look like they haven't been cleaned since 1971, and one of the bedrooms has a giant mural of a chicken skeleton painted over two walls in red and yellow.
"When she opens the door the January cold is sharp even through her hoodie, and Jim's standing on the steps rocking back and forth on his heels, looking flushed, his coat unbuttoned. Behind him, a taxi is pulling away from the curb."
"Whatever," Mark says, and shoots from behind the three-point line. The ball ricochets off the hoop and bounces sadly towards the other side of the gym. Then Mark has to go sign a release form for the documentarians to show his image in every media known to man, including some not yet invented. Holograms of Mark will be shown playing basketball in the year 2525.
"Wow, look at you guys," Marshall said, wandering into the room eating dry cereal out of a box. "Hey Ted, did you drink yourself gay again?"
Walking out to his car, he scuffs his feet through the fallen leaves, thinks about Pam's white sneakers. Jim thinks he's never felt so wide awake as he has this fall -- his heart is pounding, all the time.
Jim takes the job in Scranton mostly as a favor to Jan. It feels like moving backwards -- at least in Stamford he can pretend like he's a different person, that moving to a different place and getting a minor promotion was like an entire personality overhaul.
When Mark meets Pam at Jim's barbecue, he can't think why her name sounds so familiar until he suddenly remembers that she's the one Jim's totally in love with, and he says, "Oh, Pam! Right! Jim's totally in --" and then stops himself just in time, and lamely finishes, "-- the backyard. If, um, you were looking for him."
From: Jim [jhalpert@dundermifflin.com]
To: Pam [pbeesly@dundermifflin.com]
Date: Oct 12, 2006 10:12:41
Subject: Dwight thinks that we did something to his car. Go figure.
1. I hate when Jan's in the office and I have to pretend to do work.
2. Dwight tells me he was up late last night because he had to take Mose to the hospital due to a beet related injury, but refuses to discuss details. Speculation on said beet related injury is cordially requested.
3. Is Michael still reading our email? Should I not have just typed that, since he's probably searching for his own name? Uh oh. This email will self-destruct after you've read it, right?
4. I have reached new levels of boredom previously unknown to mankind. In a minute I might have to start selling paper. Jim takes another sip of beer, and the game starts playing again, and as Jim's quarterback starts to run the ball downfield, Jim says, "I told Pam I'm in love with her."
"Truth or Dare?" Dwight interjects. "That is so lame. That is a game for little girls."
She updates her own information first, takes a blank form. She's back to being Pam Beesly, and her emergency contact is her mom, and it's like it's 2005 again, like maybe Jim still works here and she's 26 and life hadn't quite yet become this tunnel she can't get out of.
Korea's always either too hot or too cold, though maybe that's just the tents and the boredom and nothing to think about but the weather and the war. And he'd mostly rather think about the weather. Today is too hot. July's ornery that way. Pam's on a lawn chair in the shade outside the Swamp, in shorts and a halter top, a thin sheen of sweat sticking her dog tags to her collarbone. She's dragged a foot locker out in front of her, and is slowly dealing out cards that have gone soft and dirty at the edges from too much use.
Out the windows, he sees Pam getting out of a cab, wearing glasses and a grey hoodie, looking groggy. For a second, it reminds him of girls in college, at 8 am classes, when it was too early for contacts and nobody could bring themselves to get up more than ten minutes before class started. Ben turns the camera to follow Jim's look, finds Pam, then swivels back to look at Jim, who suddenly finds the ticket counter really interesting.