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Office Fic: Waking Expectations

Feb 17, 2007 23:58

Title: Waking Expectations
Pairing/Character: Pam/Roy
Rating: PG-13 for a few F-bombs.
Spoilers: Through Business School
Author's note: Many thanks to my lovely beta readers, allthingsholy and sophia_helix, who gave up their Saturday night for this. Ladies: you're the best.

( He's fooled himself so often with dreams that he's wary of waking up happy. )

fic, the office, pam/roy

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obsession_inc February 20 2007, 01:57:23 UTC

Why, thank you! I know, isn't he a pitiful pumpkin? ::snuggles poor Roy::

annakovsky February 20 2007, 01:05:22 UTC

Oh PAM. This broke my heart, and was so true, and so her, and oh god.

And your Roy POV is just fantastic - now I actually kind of feel bad for boys and their emotional retardation. Hee. Just that panicky, a-girl-is-crying, what do I do? Kind of stomping around in the dark. This really felt like Roy. FANTASTIC.

obsession_inc February 20 2007, 02:03:18 UTC

Yay! Oh, I'm so glad you liked it!

Kind of stomping around in the dark.

Oh God, yeah. Over the years I have given my husband explicit, step-by-step instructions about what I'm about to do (cry) and what he is expected to do (hold me, pet my hair, make comforting noises, and NOT PANIC). He still gets all freaked out, though. BOYS.

I over-identify with Pam way too much on the cowardice thing. Oy, poor Pam.

honey_wheeler February 20 2007, 01:07:14 UTC

Oh! Oh, poor, dumb, sweet, clueless Roy. Sniffle. And seriously, the trash bag is just so ROY. You know that when they used to go shopping together he was like, Pam, we should really get these, I can put boxes in here and broken glass and cans and shit and they'll hold ANYTHING. And she was just like, sure, whatever, I don't care about garbage bags, and he'll still think they're pretty vital for a functioning household, so he'll always make sure she gets the right kind. SO ROY.

obsession_inc February 20 2007, 02:21:39 UTC

I know! It's like how boys want a truck that can pull a million tons, even if they're just going to use it to drive to work, because they MIGHT need it at some point. It's like when they buy things, they switch into this alternate universe where there is a great deal of action and danger and they must be ready at a moment's notice, and then they get the thing home and are all proud of its capabilities in case of emergency.

You totally know that this is the only place to throw anything out in the whole apartment now, too, because it would never occur to him that individual rooms would need garbage cans. Just this big black bag that's half full of stuff, sitting in the corner in the kitchen. BOYS. Gotta love 'em.

I'm so, so glad you liked it. YAY!

honey_wheeler February 25 2007, 08:58:05 UTC

HEE, yes, precisely. It's the Boy Scout motto gone into overdrive.

agate February 21 2007, 05:19:51 UTC

HAHAHA. MORE LOVE FOR THE GARBAGE BAG. It's, like, hooked on the corner of one of his bottom kitchen cabinets, sort of slumped on the floor. How do I know? Because that is what my college boyfriend did, of course. Big black leaf bags. His roommate accidentally threw a burning match in their old garbage can and set it on fire, and they never bothered to go out and get a new one. God, BOYS.

I read this when you first posted it and I just realized I never feedbacked! I feel so bad for Roy here, because he's trying so hard and just doesn't have what it takes.

When she cries, Pam is somewhere he can't reach, responding to things in her head that he can't see and doesn't have a clue about how to fix, and it always feels like he's locked outside in the cold, helpless and alone.

What an amazing line.

obsession_inc February 21 2007, 16:53:11 UTC

It's, like, hooked on the corner of one of his bottom kitchen cabinets, sort of slumped on the floor. How do I know? Because that is what my college boyfriend did, of course. Big black leaf bags.

Precisely! I think that most boys either do this or WOULD do it if there wasn't a woman around. There seems to be a genetic thing against proper garbage cans. ::sigh::

And yaaay, you liked! Thanks!

nowherelander February 21 2007, 08:52:32 UTC

Guh! This is so amazing. I loved all the little details about their past relationship and how Roy can't quite function without Pam and *sniff* OH PAM. Thank you for my newfound sympathy for Roy, as if the whatrangle we have now wasn't complicated enough. :D

obsession_inc February 21 2007, 16:56:20 UTC

I am putting "whatrangle" in my mental dictionary along with "'WTF Pam' Royfic". Excellent word coinage.

my newfound sympathy for Roy

Awww. Glad to have helped complicate things. I feel so AWFUL for Roy this season, because he's just so lost without Pam. Poor, poor boy.

Thanks for the feed!