Hey, guys this a new story that I don't think has been done before. Basically I am going to be following everyone in the office's reaction to the first season of the documentary. It will be set in season 9. Leave a review and tell me how I can improve. Thanks!
Poor Richards was packed. Everyone in the office was waiting in anticipation of the documentary that had been filming them for so long, about 10 years. Jim heard Phyllis ask Stanley, "I don't think I am ready for this."
She said what everyone was feeling. How could they be prepared for what was about to happen? Even though the camera crew had become a part of their everyday lives, they didn't really believe that it was going to amount to anything.
Oscar proclaimed when the show was about to start, "Well our lives are never going to be the same."
"Alright Jim you're quarterlies look very good. How are things going at the library?" Michael asked.
"Michael!" Phyllis exclaimed as she saw his face, which she had gotten very used to over the years. Everyone looked happy to see the slightly younger face of their stimulating former boss.
"Oh I told you, I couldn't close it so…" the back of Jim's head said.
Pam nudged Jim in the arm, making him smile.
"So you've come to the master for guidance? Is this what you're saying grasshopper!" Michael said, smiling.
"Actually you called me in here." Jim said, "But yeah."
A few people laughed, this was a classic Michael Scott thing to do.
The show continued for a minute or so, the atmosphere was relatively tense in the bar. Pam had Jim's arm wrapped around her, when her first appearance appeared on screen.
"This is my kingdom, far as the eye can see." Michael said to the cameras, gesturing to the surrounding Office. He walked up to Pam and said, "Ah! This is our receptionist Pam!"
Nellie turned around to Pam and said, "Pam you were cute,"
Pam smiled at this, then returned, "Why is that such a surprise?"
"Pam, Pam Pam!" Michael squeaked, banging on her desk. "Pam Beesly, Pam has been with us forever? Right Pam?"
Pam responded with a smile, "Well, I dunno."
Michael cut her off and told the cameras, "If you think she's cute now, you should have seen her a couple of years ago. Raaar." Michael said, smiling.
Pam laughed at her former self looked horrified by this little outburst.
"What?" Pam asked, concerned.
Michael tried to break the awkwardness by asking, "Any new Faxes?"
"Um, yeah, "Pam responded, obviously bored. "One from corporate. " She said handing Michael the piece of paper.
Michael trying to be funny said, "Pam, this is from Corporate, I told you there's a special filing cabinet for stuff from corporate. It's called the wastepaper basket!"
"Oh Michael, "Oscar said, shaking his head. "He was always so stupid."
"Amen to that." Angela piped up, beside Dwight.
The camera changed to a young looking Jim, who was sitting, slouched against the wall.
"My god, look at my hair, "Jim exclaimed as he watched his younger self.
"I thought it was cute." Pam told him, giving him a smile.
"Why?" Jim asked, thinking what was I thinking?
"You looked goofy, and I really liked that." Pam said raising her eyebrows at him.
"Oh get a room you two." Dwight said in disgust.
"My job is to talk to talk to clients on the phone about….." Jim looked lost for words, before continuing, "Quantities, and urrrrrrr type of copier paper. Y'know, whether we can supply it to them, and whether they can pay for it, and um."
"Wow, Tuna you really look like you enjoyed your job," Andy said to Jim, grinning.
"Yep, I did."
Jim laughed before saying, "I'm boring myself just talking about this."
The next scene, was with Michael, Jan and Pam in the conference room. Jan asked Michael, "Is there anything you would like to add to the agenda."
"Umm… me no get no agenda." Michael told her, looking at the floor.
"I'm sorry?" Jan enquired, confused.
"I didn't get any agenda." Michael told her. Pam looked very uncomfortable sitting beside them.
"You look happy Pam," Kevin told her slowly eating some pretzels.
"Oh, I hated taking notes so much." Pam said in response.
"Well, I faxed one over to you." Jan told him, "this morning."
"Really?" Michael asked, "Did we get a Fax this morning?" He said to Pam.
"Michael is really embarrassing himself," Jim said to Pam.
"Tell me about it." She responded, putting her head on his shoulder.
"Yeah, the one…" Pam gestured to her desk. Before being interrupted by Michael,
"Why isn't it in my hand, the company runs on efficiency of communication, right?" He said to Jan.
"Pam, why are you letting him run all over you?" Nellie asked Pam. This wasn't like the Pam that she knew.
"I used to be a lot shyer." Pam said, matter of factly.
"What's the problem Pam, why didn't I get it?" Michael asked insensitively.
"You put it in the garbage can that was a special filing cabinet." Pam told him. Jan looked horrified by this, and continued to inspect her memo.
"Well, I and the board, have decided that they cannot justify a Scranton branch and a Stamford branch. This means that there will be downsizing." Jan told him. Pam looked up from her notepad, clearly interested.
"Woooo! Stamford rules!" Andy yelled, receiving a few weird looks from his former co-workers.
The shot played to a scene where Dwight was stood behind Jim, and tapped him on the back and moved to his other shoulder. Jim looked round, which made Dwight burst out laughing and Jim looked very unimpressed.
"Dwight was so annoying." Jim said out loud.
"Not as much as you." Dwight responded, his arm around Angela.
"Very true."
"I have a question for you." Pam asked Jim, who was at her desk.
"Yes, go ahead." Jim said, looking at his fingers.
"Are you going to Angela's cat party on Sunday?" She questioned, giggling.
"Yeah, stop. It's ridiculous." Jim said down to a laughing Pam.
"You said you enjoyed it Jim." Angela said, disapprovingly. "It was not ridiculous."
Angela wasn't fooling anyone. Pam gave a little look to Jim that she agreed with him.
Ryan Howard, was just being introduced to Michael Scott and said, "Hi, I am Ryan Howard, from the temp agency."
"Uh-huh." Michael said, looking at the cameras and moving about.
"They sent me down to work here today."
"Buddy I'm sorry to break it to you, you are going to be working there a lot longer than that." Jim said, making some people laugh in agreement.
Michael responded by saying, "Like Mo Howard, the three Stooges?"
"Yep."
The scene changed to an interview with Pam. "I don't think it would be the worst thing if they let me go." She stopped. "Because then I might- I just don't think that it is any little girls dreams to become a receptionist."
"You are right, technically as in 2008, 2%-"Dwight was stopped in his factual revilement by Jim, who said, "Nobody cares Dwight." Getting a few laughs.
"I like to do illustrations, mostly watercolour, and few oil pencil. Jim thinks they are good."
"They were." Jim said, smiling down at Pam.
Dwight was in an interview. "Downsizing, I have no problem with that. I've been recommending Downsizing since the day that I got here, I even brought it up in my interview. I say, bring it on."
"Oh, Dwight you were so weird." Oscar said to him, who smiled at him back.
"If I left, what would I do with all of this useless information in my head, y'know? Tonnage price of Manila folders, "Jim said in an interview, shaking his head, "Pam's favorite flavor of yogurt, which is mixed berry." He said to the camera, which cut to a scene with Pam eating yogurt, from Jim's desk.
"Jim said mixed berries? Oh, wow yeah he's onto me." Pam said beaming to the camera.
"You guys were so cute," Nellie said, smiling to Jim and Pam who had eyes only for each other.
Ryan shook hands with Jim, before Michael said to him, "Watch out for this guy, Dwight Schrute in the building, this is Ryan the new temp."
"What sup," Dwight said, putting on his glasses.
"Nice to meet you." Ryan said, shaking his hand
"Dwight Schrute, Assistant Regional Manager."
"Assistant to the Regional Manager." Michael corrected him.
Dwight smiled at the memory of the days where he was Michael's number two. He missed that.
"Dwight, tell him about the car and everything." Michael said to him, trying to start a conversation between the two.
"Bought a 78 2 to z for 1200, renovated it and sold it for 3 grand. I've got some photos." Dwight said, putting his arm into his desk to retrieve it. He looked inside, then changed tact.
"Dammit, JIM!" Dwight exclaimed angrily, banging on his desk and staring at him.
"Ok, hold on, hold on judge is in session what seems to be the problem here?"
Dwight reached inside and pulled out a plate full of Jell-O and his stapler inside. "Jim put my stuff in Jell-O again." Pam burst out laughing, which made Jim very pleased with himself.
"Classic." Jim said.
"True dat, brother." Creed said, receiving a few odd looks.
Jim was eating his cup of Jell-O and up at reception, sharing a laugh with Pam, before Jim asked her, "How do you feel going out at the end of the day for a drink with everyone?"
Pam looked up at him and replied, "Yeah."
"That's why we are going out, y'know an end of the week drink."
"So when are we going out." Pam asked, lacing her hands through her fingers.
"Tonight hopefully."
"Yeah, sounds great." Pam responded, before a big burly guy with a warehouse uniform on walked in, and disrupted their conversation.
He said to Jim, "Hey, man" and to Pam, "Hey, baby." Leaning against her desk, which visibly made Jim uncomfortable.
"Who is this?" Gabe asked Pam and Jim.
"You'll find out." Pam replied.
"Roy's my fiancée. We' been engaged about, um about 3 years. We were supposed to get married in September, but I think we're gunna get married in the spring." Pam said unsurely to the camera.
"When were you going to tell me you were engaged before Pam?" Nellie asked, clearly upset Pam didn't tell her this.
"It doesn't really matter, I am with Jim now." Pam answered, getting a smile out of Jim. After all they had been through, he still couldn't get over the fact that they were together.
The scene changed back to Pam's desk. "Hey, can I go get a drink with these people?" Pam asked Roy, who didn't look very optimistic.
"No, no c'mon let's get outta here, go home." Roy replied, which Jim obviously didn't look very happy about as he kept on switching position.
Pam left to do some faxes, which left Jim and Roy standing next to each other.
"Awkward." Oscar said aloud.
"So, Jim how does it feel that Pam was married to Roy for like 3 years, they must have had sex like-" Kevin asked, thinking aloud.
"Leave it Kevin." Pam responded, giving him a fierce look that made him stop talking.
"You should come with us. See what people are like outside of the Office." Jim said to him, who clearly didn't want anything to do with Jim.
"No, we should really get going." Roy answered back, looking at the wall. Jim began to scratch his stubble awkwardly before going to sit down at his desk.
"Sorry." Pam said to Jim quietly.
"Don't worry about it, "Jim smiled back.
"Do I think I am going to be invited to the wedding?" Jim asked aloud, looking unsure, scratching the back of his head.
The scene shifted, and Michael invited Pam into his office where he and Michael were hanging out. "As you know, there is going to be downsizing, and you have made my job a lot easier in that I am going to have to let you go, first." Michael said.
"Jackass." Gabe said out loud.
"Way out of line." Oscar agreed.
"Why?" Pam asked, confused.
"Why? Theft. Post it notes. You sell a thousand post it notes at 50 cence a piece, you have got a profit margin. You're gunna run us out of business Pam." Michael said, trying hard to keep out his laughs.
"Are you serious?" Pam asked him, upset. Michael nodded in response.
"The best thing about it is that we are not going to have to give you any severance pay."
Jim shook his head, in exasperation.
"Just clean out your desk Pam, I'm sorry." Michael told her, smiling behind his hand. At this, Pam began to cry, and Michael's facial expression changed.
"Oh, Pam that must have been awful." Phyllis asked her, as she noticed Pam's pained expression as she relived that dreadful moment.
"You all knew Michael, so….. you know what he was like." Pam responded, trying to be upbeat.
"Surprise, it's just a joke, we were joking around!" Michael told her, and her expression turned angry as she stopped crying. She looked over at Ryan who was obviously very ashamed of what he had just witnessed.
"You're a Jerk." Pam said angrily to Michael, who replied
"I don't know about that."
Pam stormed out of the office, leaving a very awkward few minutes with Michael and Ryan.
"This was one of Michael's bad days." Oscar announced to the group, who all nodded in agreement.
"That really wasn't funny, what was he thinking?" Nellie asked. No one had an answer for her. Who knew what was going through Michael Scott's head.
Pam walked up to Jim's desk and said," Hey."
Jim turned around instantly, "Hey, how are ya."
"Good, I thought that you were going out for a drink with a –" Pam gestured to the parking lot.
"Ah, no." Jim said. They were both very conscious of the camera that was pointed at them, which made it a little awkward.
"The cameras took a long time to get used to." Pam said.
"I never got used to them, it felt like we were in a zoo or something." Kevin said aloud.
"How's your headache?" Jim asked her.
"Better, thanks."
"Good, great." Jim said, swinging on his chair.
"Are you walking out?" Pam asked him.
"Yeah, do you wanna?" Before he could finish, there was a few beeps from Roy's car, which made Pam say,
"Have a good weekend."
"Yeah, definitely you too." Jim said, watching her pick up her coat. "Enjoy it."
"I bet you two didn't have a clue that you were going to get married and start a family together, did you?" Asked Oscar to Jim and Pam.
"I knew." Jim said, making Pam beam at him. He looked at her lovingly, "I knew all along."
Jim watched her go, before taking out a plate of Jell-O with Michael's beloved 'world's best boss mug.'
The show ended after this, but was going to be continued in 10 minutes after the ads.
"That was, interesting to say the least." Pam said, laughing. "It was so weird seeing me from like 10 years ago. How about we have a break before regrouping here in 10 minutes for episode 2?"
There was a murmur of agreement with everyone as they got up to get more drinks. Just then, Meredith walked out of the bathroom, very drunk and asked, "Hey, guys." She slurred, "What did I miss?"
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