I think this worked very well, especially given the fact that these two shows are told in quite different ways. This seems simple but very much in both their voices. Bravo.
For some reason, I think I like the Jim POV part the best. :D
His manner was easy, charmingly awkward. Chuck would like him, he thought with an inward pang he tried his best to ignore. Awwwwwww. Poor Ned. He needs a hug. *hugs Ned*
He was a good listener, though. Almost like a bartender, but better. A bartender with pie. I love the glimpse into Jim's thought process here and how he just says out loud what he thinks. And its awesome. Funniest moment to me (aside from Olive being scared by Ned's suggestion that he might be beside her throwing his voice).
"She's probably my best friend." He used to think it was a cop-out, a way of saying what he wanted to without actually saying it or a lie he told himself so he wouldn't think about what he couldn't have. But sitting across from this piemaker, he decided it was always the most important part of the truth. What was even closer to the truth, at least as things stood now, hurt enormously to admit: "Or she was." "And that's the problem?" "Yeah." LOVE this. God, I love Jim Halpert.
But maybe just as important to tell her were the simplest things, what happened to him day after day to make him laugh or smile or marvel, things he'd been wanting to tell her for months, as they happened. He knew he'd lost a great many of them to time, circumstance, and memory. But if he could find a way to get close to her again, he told himself that he would remember as many as he could. Awwwwwwwww. I like the idea of him telling her a bunch or random funny stuff as a way of making up for lost time. *squishes Jim*
THANK YOU! I love it. My two favorite tall smitten boys together talking about their smitten-ness. :D
I think I liked the Jim POV part best, too. These boys just kept getting more and more serious as I wrote, but the cute never left entirely. I think that would be impossible.
I like the idea of him telling her a bunch or random funny stuff as a way of making up for lost time. You see that every so often in season three, where one or the other of them remembers something that happened that they wish they'd been able to share. I find that the saddest thing about them being apart, the day-to-day silly stuff.
I'm glad you liked the emo boy mish-mash--especially since I'd've never thought of writing it if it wasn't for the convergence of your (ok, and my!) new obsessions. :)
I think this worked very well, especially given the fact that these two shows are told in quite different ways. This seems simple but very much in both their voices. Bravo.
For some reason, I think I like the Jim POV part the best. :D
His manner was easy, charmingly awkward. Chuck would like him, he thought with an inward pang he tried his best to ignore.
Awwwwwww. Poor Ned. He needs a hug. *hugs Ned*
He was a good listener, though. Almost like a bartender, but better. A bartender with pie.
I love the glimpse into Jim's thought process here and how he just says out loud what he thinks. And its awesome. Funniest moment to me (aside from Olive being scared by Ned's suggestion that he might be beside her throwing his voice).
"She's probably my best friend."
He used to think it was a cop-out, a way of saying what he wanted to without actually saying it or a lie he told himself so he wouldn't think about what he couldn't have. But sitting across from this piemaker, he decided it was always the most important part of the truth.
What was even closer to the truth, at least as things stood now, hurt enormously to admit: "Or she was."
"And that's the problem?"
"Yeah."
LOVE this. God, I love Jim Halpert.
But maybe just as important to tell her were the simplest things, what happened to him day after day to make him laugh or smile or marvel, things he'd been wanting to tell her for months, as they happened. He knew he'd lost a great many of them to time, circumstance, and memory. But if he could find a way to get close to her again, he told himself that he would remember as many as he could.
Awwwwwwwww. I like the idea of him telling her a bunch or random funny stuff as a way of making up for lost time. *squishes Jim*
THANK YOU! I love it. My two favorite tall smitten boys together talking about their smitten-ness. :D
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I like the idea of him telling her a bunch or random funny stuff as a way of making up for lost time. You see that every so often in season three, where one or the other of them remembers something that happened that they wish they'd been able to share. I find that the saddest thing about them being apart, the day-to-day silly stuff.
I'm glad you liked the emo boy mish-mash--especially since I'd've never thought of writing it if it wasn't for the convergence of your (ok, and my!) new obsessions. :)
And look: finally, a Jim icon!
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