the ups and downs of next to you (Angela & Oscar)

[dollsome]

Title: the ups and downs of next to you
Pairing: Angela & Oscar
Spoilers: Spans from early on (pre-series? You decide!) to Speculative Season 5 Land
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,747
Summary: Four times Angela wants to move away from Oscar, and one time she's glad that she's where she is.
Author's Note: Thank you to musical_junkie for the excellent prompt, and to my

Comments

[vega_ofthe_lyre]

Oh, you. You must stop tearing apart my poor shippy little heart with the awesomeness! McFreaky or McPreppy. ♥

[dollsome]

Oh, but tearing hearts is my specialty! Or ... something!

Thanks, buddy. <3

[katiemariie]

This was a delight to read. I must say I'm quite fond of your Oscar and his facial expressions. We need more Oscar!face on the show.

[dollsome]

Thank you! :D

And, man, MORE OSCAR IN GENERAL. That is my season five request.

[musical_junkie]

Words cannot describe.
Firstly, I haven't read Office fanfiction in FOREVER, and now I have an overwhelming urge to go on ffnet and read every one I can find. I'd nearly forgotten how much I love this show.

This was just too awesome. I love five things fics way too much.

Why is it not Thursday yet?????

[dollsome]

Aww, thank youu! :D I am really, really loving writing Office fic again. I missed it far more than I knew!

And, yes, come on, Thursday! Or, well, I will settle for Monday and How I Met Your Mother. Yay, new TV at last!

[musical_junkie]

Oh, Monday. I am DYING for some HIMYM.
Did you see the clip they played on Ellen when Neil Patrick Harris was on? Can you say legen...wait for it...dary?

[dollsome]

Yes! I saw it! Oh, God, I almost DIED. I sort of felt like I hallucinated it. It's all of my dreams come true at once! It's -- it's--

Tomorrow is going to kill me. Like, either my geology test is going to get the job done, or I will survive 'til HIMYM and then, bam! Perish of bliss. True story.

[jesshelga]

This would all be so much easier if he would only give up men. She thinks it wouldn’t be hard at all to compile a list of women from church who might be interested in seeing him socially. He’s very nice, all in all: intelligent, responsible, good-looking, dignified. Why, some of them - for instance, that Lillian Merchant, just divorced and obviously desperate, and whose lemon squares for church picnics have always been almost flavorless altogether - would be lucky to have him.

The way you manage to capture the essence of Angela in this one paragraph--the good intentions and the backhanded, painfully unbending assessments of people and how the two pieces of her heart create the person she is--is beautiful and yet so LOL.

I loved how their relationship grew in between those little vignettes too, how it grew from LOUD TYPING to hand holding. It was really, really, really...great.

Also: the Kelly cameo. Outstanding. Kelly Kapoor: Insider correspondent for the Scranton branch.

[dollsome]

Thank you so much! ♥ ♥

And, haha, Kelly was not even supposed to talk in this, but then Michael mentioned Grey's Anatomy and THERE SHE WAS. It would have been cruel, I think, to silence her.

[crackers4jenn]

TRUE FACT: this was the most delightful, perfectly portrayed piece of Angela fiction, EVER! No joke, I literally get a THRILL when I see you posting new Office fic, and having this one be Angela AND Oscar? You don't even know how hard I glee! Like, I know I should unabashedly favor your Toby/Pam stuff, but in all honestly, OSCAR-AND-ANGELA FTW!

Just! Every little Angela thought was so spot-on! ARE YOU ANGELA? ARE YOU? I think you might be! The continuation of Oscar hating Angela's baby posters! Kevin and Accounting.com! Lillian Merchant, potential suitor for Oscar?! Love!

AND OKAY, I MIGHT'VE GASPED FROM PURE JOY AT THE GEORGE/IZZIE LINES. Hahahahahahaha! Best insert of a 'ship into fanic ever! EVER!

You're my hero. The end.

[dollsome]

THANK YOU MUCHLY. :D Man, I have a lot of fun writing Angela, always. I think I just might be her a little bit. It comes freakishly easily. (Although I cannot fathom not loving the gays. But she loves the gays too! Or at least one of them! So there! However, not loving Kelly = incomprehensible.)

And the George and Izzie mention may or may not have been there largely for you, my friend! I'm so suave. Like cheap shampoo.