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For the First Time [The Office; Michael/Jan]

Jun 26, 2007 06:54

TITLE: For the First Time
FANDOM: The Office
PAIRING: Michael/Jan
SPOILERS: "The Client" (2x07)
RATING: PG
SUMMARY: ( Everything's wrong? For Jan Levinson-Gould? Wait... no Gould. )

fandom: the office, character: michael scott, character: jan levinson, pairing: michael/jan

Comments 18

xtaline June 26 2007, 13:07:54 UTC

This was completely amazing. It's so great to have another Michael/Jan fic from you!! I love your Michael voice in this, you absolutely nailed him and his man-boy ways of thinking. His threesome fantasy with Jan and Angelina Jolie made me LOL as did his thoughts that he was about to get lucky.

Poor Jan! She was just so sad and vulnerable, but completely believable. I just want to hug her myself. It's really too bad that she regrets everything in the morning, but then again, if she didn't we would never have gotten that great year of sexual tension on the show.

So...yeah. Love, love, love this!

regalish June 27 2007, 22:14:21 UTC

Awww, thank you so so much! I'm glad you liked this. I admit, it felt good to write M/J again. I've been feeling kind of maudlin about them lately.

Glad you liked the Angelina Jolie part, hehehe! That was thrown in last minute, lol.

And that's true -- if Jan had been as enthralled with Michael the morning after as he was with her, we wouldn't have gotten those amazing moments leading up to Benihana Xmas/Back From Vacation. :D

Thanks again!

xphilehb June 26 2007, 14:36:31 UTC

Wow. This is beautiful. That is the Michael and Jan that I love. I really appreciated that you didn't try to cover up the fact that Jan's a bit crazy here. These two characters, even though they shouldn't work, just fit together so, so well. And I love what you've done with them here. *sigh*

regalish June 27 2007, 22:32:19 UTC

Thanks so much! Glad you liked this. This is the Michael and Jan that I love, too. I've been so bitter about what they did to them for so long, I decided to just backtrack to the good days :D

Thanks again!

lz1982 June 26 2007, 14:48:38 UTC

I really like this; it's sweet and also very well-written. Michael's thought process is easy to believe and still in character.

regalish June 27 2007, 22:33:12 UTC

Thank you muchly! Glad you liked this different writing style :)

violet4120 June 26 2007, 16:08:30 UTC

This is fantastic. The second-person POV just really works here, and you have managed to completely capture Michael in all of his fabulous glory.

And as you close your eyes, for the first time you think maybe you'll be the hero that gets the girl.
So good!

regalish June 27 2007, 22:38:04 UTC

Awww, thanks! Glad you liked the second-person; I rarely use it, but I forget how fun it is to write. :D

dollsome June 26 2007, 18:37:32 UTC

Caroliiiiiine! Oh my God. I'm sitting here all insane and teary. (Jan would be proud.) And, okay, part of that can be blamed on the fact that I'm having weird emotional breakdowns at random intervals about Harry Potter, but most of it, at this moment, is the fault of this fic.

This was just . . . really, really sweet and lovely and beautifully characterized and beautifully written -- looove the use of second person -- and . . . just awesome. Everything is so Michael, from the knee-jerk "I love you" compulsion (that was the sweetest thing, and such a Michael thought) to the allusion to his childhood and his mom's "happiness medicine" (heartbreaking and awkward and so spot-on; poor Michael, no wonder he is the way he is) to the Angelina/him/Jan threesome (because, well, he is Michael). And I love the way you've got Jan here, showing her weaknesses and making her end-of-season-3 crazy seem consistent and plausible, which is more than the show managed to do. Everything is just wonderful ( ... )

regalish June 27 2007, 22:53:27 UTC

Awwwwwww! LEVINSON-SCOTT FOR THE WIIIINNNNN. *starts sobbing uncontrollably*

Ah, yes. I was able to push the bitterness aside in order to complete this one, because the story had to be told. I've decided I'm kind of in love with the 2nd-person narrative; it's so much fun. It's like being in the person's head, but not really. If... that makes any kind of sense. Heh! :D

I'm so glad you liked this! I miss your M/J fics! But I totally understand where you're coming from with all the bitterness. I will tell you from experience, it's quite therapeutic to write them in the midst of the bitterness. I say, let the healing process begin!

(Also, I'm off to read your Kandy fic right now :D)

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