Five Reasons Michael's Glad He Picked Carol (Michael/Carol, Michael/Denial, Michael/Jan)

[dollsome]

Title: Five Reasons Michael's Glad He Picked Carol
Pairing: Michael/Carol, Michael/Denial, Michael/Jan
Spoilers: Season 3, up to Initiation (if you squint)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 2,113

Comments

[greenfish]

OMG. Your Michael voice is spot-on. Unbelievable. And awesome, because Michael is awesome! I also love that your pairing was Michael/Denial because ... yeah. Hilarious.

So many great things:

“that blouse is just - with your eyes? - wow. Where did you - never mind, never mind, I’ll just ask Dwight”

Nice... I always figured that Michael had given Dwight the job of figuring out what Jan wore and everything about her just in case he ever had to buy her something, you know - for her birthday, or maybe a boss's day gift, or something, you never know.

... but occasionally they’ll schedule dinner or a movie that they (both of them. Mutually) usually just don’t have time to get around to.

LOL. I about died when I read this because I imagine that Michael really isn't dating Carole anymore but he's convinced himself that she's just really busy and Carole's too nice to tell him that she doesn't want to date him anymore, so she just postpones plans, hoping he'll get the hint.

And yes, I absolutely think Jan has this love/hate relationship for Michael and she's spending more time than necessary in Scranton, and not just because Michael's incompetent but because she's drawn to him in a way that just makes her crazy. Oh, man, I hope you'll write a "Five Reasons Jan is Glad She's Not Dating Michael" story. Seriously.

[dollsome]

Thank you so, so much! What great feedback.

I can't help but suspect that Michael is definitely playing up his and Carol's relationship to be more than it is, especially around Jan -- in one of the deleted scenes from Gay Witch Hunt, he says that they've been on seven dates in three months, and that just doesn't seem like the steamiest of relationships! Oh, Michael.

I totally agree with what you said about Jan's feelings for Michael; the poor woman's got it bad and she's not happy about it in the slightest. I suspect I'm going to wind up doing a companion piece from her point of view pretty soon -- the idea is just far too irresistable.

Thanks again!