What You Find While Looking For Something Else
Chapter: Her Kind of Humor
Rating: K
Disclaimer: Not mine, no profit made
A/N: Gasp! Something else happened in "The Job" besides Jim asking Pam out? Only one of the best Pam/Dwight friendship plots ever...
As she takes the title of Secret Assistant to the Regional Manager Pam knows exactly what Jim would do. Well, not exactly what he'd do... Jim would never actually get the position, but she knows what he'd egg her own to do. She takes the title in that spirit, with Jim's patented phrase of affirmation. She's just trying to make a lonely day a little more exciting.
But she finds, mildly to her surprise, that she doesn't want to pull that kind of prank on her own. She knows she's done a lot of stuff to Dwight over the years, and only a fraction of it was wholly her idea. She doesn't feel the impetus to bother him, just to make Jim laugh.
Even more to her surprise, she feels free not to do it. There's no peer pressure. He's not there. Maybe he's never coming back.
She almost feels like she could deal with that.
Sitting there in the conference room as her coworkers grow restive, Pam can almost hear Jim, like a little devil-voice on her shoulder, a snarky comment crafted with anarchy in mind leaving lips that curled so easily into a disarming smile.
"Hey! Come on! Let's listen to Dwight's presentation!"
She's as surprised as anyone when they listen to her, but they do. She leans back, satisfied for some reason.
The clumsy wink Dwight throws her is funnier than the prospect of everyone simply walking out on their power-drunk leader's presentation.
This is her kind of humor, she decides.
A/N II: This is a little miniseries I've been kicking around... Being throughly sick of Jam and rings and cloying, cloying fluff, I thought I'd do a few perspectives of scenes in which Pam could have moments of doubt. It won't be explictly anti-Jam, but not will it be especially pro-Jam, either.
Special thanks to MrsBigTuna for directing me to the correct place to get episode transcripts!