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"Where now?" Pam asked breathlessly.
"Do you need anything from the shops?"
"No, do you?"
"No. I think we should go back to work now. We've been gone over an hour but if we go back we can finish the day as normal without too many questions."
"Yeah, that would probably be best. Will we just leave my stuff in your car?"
"I think so. No one can see in the trunk so they won't know it's there. If we go back to mine now I think we'll be pushing it too far time wise."
"Yeah," Pam nodded in agreement before turning to look in his direction. "And Jim, thank you. I don't what I would do without you."
"No problem, I just couldn't stand to see you get hurt." He glanced at her and smiled. "So what excuse will we use for being gone so long?"
"I thought the truth," Pam said winking at him. "We went to go get lunch but ended up getting distracted when we saw a costume store with an amazing Popeye costume in the window and you just had to try it on."
"Ok, firstly we need a better cover story and secondly why Popeye?"
"I don't know, I guess I always thought that Popeye and Olive Oyl would always make good Halloween costumes."
Jim laughed, "Ok Beesly, so what alibi can we come up with?"
10 minutes later they arrived back at the office and to their surprise no one questioned their whereabouts for the past hour and a half. They sat down at their desks without saying a word and continued with their work like they had never left.
It was just after 3:00pm when Jim decided to go to the break room to grab his usual soda and packet of potato chips. He'd just left the room when the front door of the office opened. Roy stormed in.
"WHAT THE HELL PAM?" Roy yelled.
"Roy, no, stop," Pam pleaded.
"I get home and you've left me a note telling me it's over? And you leave this?!" Roy stormed over to the reception desk and flung the ring at her. Pam ducked but the ring hit her in the arm.
"I love you! You're mine!" He was close enough for Pam to be able to smell the alcohol on his breath and clothes. Roy reached out and grabbed her arm and pulled her up sharply.
"Ow, Roy you're hurting me, let me go!"
Dwight ran over.
"Let her go!" Dwight yells in Roy's face and tries to pull him off.
"Get off you weirdo!" Roy yells at Dwight, throws him off and pulls Pam around the desk and towards the door.
"That's it!" Dwight runs back to his desk and starts rummaging through the draws. Jim runs back into the room after hearing all the shouting.
"JIM!" Pam screams as Roy continues to try and pull her out the office. Jim sprints over and punches Roy stunning him long enough to pull Pam away.
"Come here," Phyllis grabs Pam's hand and pulls her over into the annex.
"ROY, leave her alone!" Roy moves to go after Pam but Jim blocks him and pushes him backwards.
"YOU KNEW! YOU KNEW WHERE SHE WAS AND DIDN'T TELL ME!" Roy yelled in Jim's face.
"How did you jump to that conclusion? I'm just looking out for her. You were dragging her away but she didn't want to go with you Roy!" Jim wasn't yelling but he was finding it extremely difficult to restrain himself from beating him up. It's what Roy deserved for treating Pam that way but she wouldn't want him to beat up Roy, which meant Jim couldn't do it.
"I think you should leave." Dwight sneered as he walked over, can of pepper spray in one hand some ancient looking club in the other. Roy looked from Jim to Dwight to the door to the annex then turned around and walked out. Dwight followed him, and watched him from the window to make sure Roy left the premises and didn't come back.
