The Office: disjointed [One-Shot]

[falulatonks]

Summary:
Brief introspection set to numbers; thirteen parts to The Job.
Rating: G
Status: Complete [one-shot]
Spoilers: Spoilers up to The Job.

Author's Notes:
I've been sitting on this for over a year, and then I rewrote two parts (ten and eleven) and frankly a lot of this has a lot more significance for me, from the numbers to the incidences

Comments

[mrsevilpigeon]

That was really well done. The whole thing had a lovely feel to it and there were some especially potent lines in there.

Two bits that really impressed me:
"If he looks at their time spent together as a relationship of a hundred days, he would say that nineteen days are spent talking about Dwight. Eleven about the people at work, in general. Two days go to the time they spend with people they're romantically linked to. Sixteen about the people they aren't romantically linked to - family, friends. Seventeen days about small things, silly things. Twenty-seven about them, together or separate. Four about dreams. Four days would be spent silent. They stay together because of those four days. And all the rest." (I read that part three times in a row)

and

"It's four months away from a ten year anniversary when she takes off the ring the last time. She is tired of the scars."

[falulatonks]

Thank you so much. :D calculator was the first word I came up with, and then I realised I could tie that in with the opening sentence - calculator watch. And it worked out! I'm glad (read: overjoyed) that you liked it.

[falulatonks]

Aw, thank you!! I really loved your fic so it really means a great deal to me that this worked for you. ♥

[bebitched]

love love LOVE. These were just abstract enough to be artistic but just concrete enough to make linear sense. I think 9 and 10 are my favorites:

This is when she knows she can: he steps away, lets go of her hands, turns around, and leaves.
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She's refilling the jellybean dispenser at work, distracted as she talks to the new paper salesman, when her ring scratches and scars the plastic. Jim makes a face and wry comment which don't register as she stares at the deep scratch, annoyed with herself (annoyed with the fact that this happened because she was distracted by someone she shouldn't be distracted by). This is the first time she slips off her ring.

Just... guh. This was wonderful.

[falulatonks]

Aw, yes - thank you so, so much. :D Seriously. I can't tell you why properly but this comment made me very happy. ♥ ten is probably my favourite, because it started with just the word "diamond".

Anyway, just - thank you. :D