After enough time spent on the island and getting to learn its varying levels of weirdness, Karen knew there was nothing she could really do when, for three days in a row, all she get off the bookshelf was the same reel of The Office. And she knew if she ever wanted to watch another movie or read another book or comic or magazine again, she was
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A very pregnant version of her. He actually forgot to breathe for a few seconds, until she answered Michael's question.
"Oh, thank god," he said outloud without thinking, then winced when he realized he said it for her to hear. It wasn't that anything back home actually mattered here, but for that brief moment, a panic had set in at the mere thought that he was going to have a kid back home with her, too. The relief that hit him right afterwards when she said it wasn't his was palpable, and he leaned against the doorframe to shake it off.
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If there was anything stupider she could have done back home, it was go back to Jim Halpert. No offense to Jim here, of course.
"Yeah, that," she said faintly.
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"Wow," he finally managed out, letting out an uncomfortable laugh. "I did not mean to say that outloud. But - I mean -"
He was stammering and he knew it. He stopped himself before he made an even bigger idiot out of himself. In the background, Michael was doing an even better job at doing just that.
"Sorry," he settled on, focus on her, sounding close to meek. "Do you want me to, uh, not stick around?"
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"So... what the hell?" he asked. "Baby?"
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"I guess that's true," she said, shaking her head as the scene finally ended and went to Dwight and Jim. And some really ugly balloons. "Oh my god, this is too weird."
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She knew Pam was there, but hadn't really worked up the courage to look at her just yet. Karen often forgot that Pam wasn't the Pam who'd been here first; there still was a lot between them, even if things were good.
"We're not-" she stopped herself, because having to repeat what she'd said when Pam heard it well enough was just stupid. "You and Jim, you're together. Like you're supposed to be." If there was anything Karen was grateful for on the island, it was being able to say that without an ounce of regret. She'd gotten over it, had moved on and accepted the way things were.
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Her head felt like it was spinning, but she made her way over to sit on the couch by Karen, trying not to look as shaken as she felt. Like you're supposed to be, she repeated in her head, and managed a weak smile. Maybe that was true. Maybe it was supposed to work out no matter what. She couldn't dwell on that now, though, not when Karen was onscreen and pregnant.
"Right," she replied quickly, shaking her head. "No, of course. I just -" What she'd thought had been made pretty obvious, though. What wasn't clear was what was going on onscreen. After watching for a few moments, apparently confused, she turned her head to look in Karen's direction, still a little pale. "You left Scranton," she said, the sentence not quite a question. "So this is in the future."
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God, she wasn't even sure how much Jim had told Pam about the reels.
"There was another one I watched, a long time ago? I became regional manager of the Utica branch. And..." she gestured weakly at the screen, "moved on."
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Instead, he walked in the room just in time to see a very, very pregnant Karen walk on-screen.
He just stared, wide-eyed at the screen. "Holy shit," he blurted, giving away both the fact that he was there and the fact that he was caught incredibly off-guard by this pregnant TV-Karen.
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It would be just her luck that when things were going really, incredibly well, this would happen, and he'd think that was what she wanted and get scared away or something.
All she could really do was cringe when Michael went on about the possibility that it was Jim's baby.
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Even after Karen's former boss had (temporarily) finished making a fool of himself and the show moved on to the next scene, all Nick could do was stare in confusion. It really sort of hurt his brain, and he generally considered himself a pretty intelligent guy.
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He heard the sounds of someone watching something on the projector, and when he rounded the corner, did not expect to see what he did on the screen. Karen. Really, really pregnant.
Chuck hadn't even known that Karen was fictional, but that wasn't the first thing on his mind. Eyes wide, he stared at the screen for a long moment before he remembered why he'd come to the rec room in the first place.
"You-- you haven't seen Morgan around anywhere, have you? Tiny man with a beard?" He asked, feeling more than a little awkward. It might have been easier to just back out of the room and pretend he hadn't seen anything at all.
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Just her. Pregnant. With a baby.
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Steve Carell. Either this was a long lost episode of The Daily Show, or Karen was on The Office.
And pregnant. Really pregnant.
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She looked back at Chuck again, realizing he had no clue, if he was asking about this. "That's me, yeah. On a TV show."
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