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[broken__records]

Title: Balloons or No Balloons
Author: broken__records
Characters: Karen/Jim
Word Count: 460
Rating: T
Summary: Saturday mornings are spent with sun and sweat pants and her living room couch.
Author's Note: Because sometimes I really want Jim and Karen to be happy together. Title from Janet by the Format.

Comments

[dollsome]

Awwww, Jim and Karen. This is just wonderfully domestic and lovely, and oh, the last line crushed my soul a little bit. Or possibly a lot.

I have this big problem where I honestly seriously actually love them together.

[sweet_seventeen]

Awwww. The last line! Damn. How deceptive, but in the most perfect way. It really set off the tone of the story; how it feels right and even looks wonderful at first, but when you look closer...ow! lol. Great job. :D

[uptheapples]

See, you're still brilliant, even when you write Jim/Karen fic.

[dudski]

Oh, my. This was just so wonderful and lovely, it's moments like the ones you wrote that make me wish they weren't so doomed, because they'd do the whole settled, domestic thing so well.

This part, in particular:

Sometimes she pulls the top of the paper down during commercial breaks and when his face is revealed, he raises his eyebrows in inquiry and she says, “Hey,” and he smiles, “Hey,” and then the paper flops back up and he shakes his head, laughing to himself.

It may be the cutest moment ever written. I'm serious.

[biftec]

Love love it, this little glimpse into their lives when we don't get to see them. Sweet and perfect and heartbreaking all at once.

Because sometimes I really want Jim and Karen to be happy together.

Me too.