FIC: untitled (The Office, Pam/Roy)
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maidenjediOkay, I have no idea if this is done yet, hence no headers.
I've been watching season 2 for the first time, and I started thinking about this after watching "The Client" last night.
They almost broke up the summer after high school.
Pam had applied at a small school in West Virginia, which wasn't very far away, but that she couldn't drive back and forth from every day. She hadn't told a soul, not even her mom.
When she got the acceptance letter, it was a surprise to everyone. Her mom had opened it and squealed the way only very proud moms ever do. And Roy, who was helping Pam change the oil in her car out in the garage, heard every word of the ensuing conversation.
"When did you apply?"
"Two months ago."
"Did you see this, they want to offer you a scholarship!"
"Yeah, I know, I thought I'd apply for aid at the same time..."
And so on. Roy got mad because he was left out, and then he got mad all over again when Pam told him she intended to take the scholarship and leave him.
Well, she hadn't put it that way, but that's what Roy heard, and the fight that followed was epic. For a whole week, they couldn't even go for a walk without screaming at each other. Pam hung up on him three times, and he didn't try calling her back.
When Saturday night rolled around, Roy showed up at five like always, for dinner with her parents and then to take Pam to a movie. But Pam wasn't home, she and her mom had gone shopping, and Pam's brother just sort of shrugged as he told Roy. His face seemed to say, dude, just let it go, she's already gone.
It was two weeks later when Pam called to tell Roy she hadn't taken the scholarship, that she was staying right there, and did he maybe want to get a cherry Coke and go to the lake.
He hemmed and hawed, thinking about how that cheerleader Stacy Brumley had cornered him once in the locker room and gave him a blow job, and how he had that chick's number and he didn't need Pam, plain Pam with her B-cup tits, who wouldn't go down unless he bought her flowers and combed his hair and came to dinner on Saturdays.
But if Pam was staying, if she wasn't going to college and away from everything (from him), then he wanted her. She knew things about him, how he liked to be touched and where, and she'd stayed with him through the knee injury and helped him through his therapy. She wouldn't ever cheat on him.
And her mom did make really awesome lasagna.
She never did tell him she stayed because the scholarship fell through, and she couldn't afford to go. She let him believe it was because of him that she stayed.
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I've been watching season 2 for the first time, and I started thinking about this after watching "The Client" last night.
They almost broke up the summer after high school.
Pam had applied at a small school in West Virginia, which wasn't very far away, but that she couldn't drive back and forth from every day. She hadn't told a soul, not even her mom.
When she got the acceptance letter, it was a surprise to everyone. Her mom had opened it and squealed the way only very proud moms ever do. And Roy, who was helping Pam change the oil in her car out in the garage, heard every word of the ensuing conversation.
"When did you apply?"
"Two months ago."
"Did you see this, they want to offer you a scholarship!"
"Yeah, I know, I thought I'd apply for aid at the same time..."
And so on. Roy got mad because he was left out, and then he got mad all over again when Pam told him she intended to take the scholarship and leave him.
Well, she hadn't put it that way, but that's what Roy heard, and the fight that followed was epic. For a whole week, they couldn't even go for a walk without screaming at each other. Pam hung up on him three times, and he didn't try calling her back.
When Saturday night rolled around, Roy showed up at five like always, for dinner with her parents and then to take Pam to a movie. But Pam wasn't home, she and her mom had gone shopping, and Pam's brother just sort of shrugged as he told Roy. His face seemed to say, dude, just let it go, she's already gone.
It was two weeks later when Pam called to tell Roy she hadn't taken the scholarship, that she was staying right there, and did he maybe want to get a cherry Coke and go to the lake.
He hemmed and hawed, thinking about how that cheerleader Stacy Brumley had cornered him once in the locker room and gave him a blow job, and how he had that chick's number and he didn't need Pam, plain Pam with her B-cup tits, who wouldn't go down unless he bought her flowers and combed his hair and came to dinner on Saturdays.
But if Pam was staying, if she wasn't going to college and away from everything (from him), then he wanted her. She knew things about him, how he liked to be touched and where, and she'd stayed with him through the knee injury and helped him through his therapy. She wouldn't ever cheat on him.
And her mom did make really awesome lasagna.
She never did tell him she stayed because the scholarship fell through, and she couldn't afford to go. She let him believe it was because of him that she stayed.
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Date: 2008-06-24 07:46 pm (UTC)Was the small school in West Virginia... Wesleyan? Ha ha.
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Date: 2008-06-24 07:51 pm (UTC)And it was totally Wesleyan - I was trying to think of smaller schools in the region and I immediately thought of it. :-)
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Date: 2008-06-25 03:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-06-25 04:50 pm (UTC)I couldn't stop thinking about their first date, and Pam getting left behind at the hockey rink. It seems to me that there would have been dozens for reasons they were together, but that there were many more why they shouldn't have been.
Sadly, it's really easy to make Roy out to be an awful guy, or at least a not-so-great guy. And that's without even comparing him to anyone else.