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“Sometimes the White Picket Fence Isn't A Bad Thing" by lodessa (G)
Fandom: THE OFFICE
Pairing: Kelly Kapoor/Ryan Howard
Length: 1768 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lodessa
Author Website: AO3
Why this must be read: (Oh, hey, a non-JAM rec.) "The Office" did a good job for a while of hinting at why Kelly and Ryan might stay together, in spite of his not actually being anything she wants and vice versa. Obviously, that fell apart in later seasons, but this fic does a nice job of expanding on one of the wackier couples in canon--everyone's totally in character, yet there's a nice happy ending here.
“Here baby, I thought you might be thirsty.”
Kelly leans over the picnic table to hand him a beer, her strappy little summer dress gaping and giving him a nice view as she does. Ryan smiles and walks around the table to kiss his wife. She’s still cute and perky as the day he met her, in heels and full makeup. He looks around the backyard at Jeff and Mike’s wives in their shapeless mom jeans and oversized t-shirts, covered in food stains. Jennifer and Anna used to seem enviable to Ryan, with their law and business degrees and no nonsense geometric haircuts. He’d felt sort of embarrassed about his girlfriend being so… well girly. A few kids later, his friends’ wives are staying home with the kids just like any uneducated high school dropout could, and here is his guilty pleasure girl, now a mother of 5, finding a way to stay home with the kids, and make more than Ryan does half the time, while still looking ready to pose in a magazine. So yeah, Ryan’s happy with Kelly.
Kelly isn’t the kind of girl he’d ever have imagined himself marrying, and really he wasn’t really that into the whole idea of getting married at all when he accidentally started dating her. He’d fallen into his relationship with Kelly pretty much the same way he fell into the job at Dunder Mifflin. He’d been waiting to hear back from the executive assistant job he’d applied for and the temp agency had called with the assignment at Dunder Mifflin. It wasn’t exactly a thrilling prospect, but his parents had decided they weren’t going to pay his car off unless he stayed employed, so Ryan had figured any job would do, just until he got that position of course.
The offer never came; after not hearing back from a dozen different places, and a few interviews he obviously came up short next to the other candidates in, he still considered turning Michael down and going back to temping at a new place every few weeks. He could stop returning Kelly’s calls and nudge that pink toothbrush off the edge of his bathroom sink and into the garbage. His back right molar had really been bothering him though, and the temp agency didn’t provide dental insurance, so Ryan said yes to becoming Dunder Mifflin’s newest salesman. Kelly squealed in a way that still impressed him, after over a year. He could always quit later right? He’d leave just as soon as something better came along.
Sometimes the White Picket Fence Isn't A Bad Thing or How Ryan Realized He Cared about Dunder Mifflin... and Kelly
Pairing: Kelly Kapoor/Ryan Howard
Length: 1768 words
Author on LJ:
lodessaAuthor Website: AO3
Why this must be read: (Oh, hey, a non-JAM rec.) "The Office" did a good job for a while of hinting at why Kelly and Ryan might stay together, in spite of his not actually being anything she wants and vice versa. Obviously, that fell apart in later seasons, but this fic does a nice job of expanding on one of the wackier couples in canon--everyone's totally in character, yet there's a nice happy ending here.
“Here baby, I thought you might be thirsty.”
Kelly leans over the picnic table to hand him a beer, her strappy little summer dress gaping and giving him a nice view as she does. Ryan smiles and walks around the table to kiss his wife. She’s still cute and perky as the day he met her, in heels and full makeup. He looks around the backyard at Jeff and Mike’s wives in their shapeless mom jeans and oversized t-shirts, covered in food stains. Jennifer and Anna used to seem enviable to Ryan, with their law and business degrees and no nonsense geometric haircuts. He’d felt sort of embarrassed about his girlfriend being so… well girly. A few kids later, his friends’ wives are staying home with the kids just like any uneducated high school dropout could, and here is his guilty pleasure girl, now a mother of 5, finding a way to stay home with the kids, and make more than Ryan does half the time, while still looking ready to pose in a magazine. So yeah, Ryan’s happy with Kelly.
Kelly isn’t the kind of girl he’d ever have imagined himself marrying, and really he wasn’t really that into the whole idea of getting married at all when he accidentally started dating her. He’d fallen into his relationship with Kelly pretty much the same way he fell into the job at Dunder Mifflin. He’d been waiting to hear back from the executive assistant job he’d applied for and the temp agency had called with the assignment at Dunder Mifflin. It wasn’t exactly a thrilling prospect, but his parents had decided they weren’t going to pay his car off unless he stayed employed, so Ryan had figured any job would do, just until he got that position of course.
The offer never came; after not hearing back from a dozen different places, and a few interviews he obviously came up short next to the other candidates in, he still considered turning Michael down and going back to temping at a new place every few weeks. He could stop returning Kelly’s calls and nudge that pink toothbrush off the edge of his bathroom sink and into the garbage. His back right molar had really been bothering him though, and the temp agency didn’t provide dental insurance, so Ryan said yes to becoming Dunder Mifflin’s newest salesman. Kelly squealed in a way that still impressed him, after over a year. He could always quit later right? He’d leave just as soon as something better came along.
Sometimes the White Picket Fence Isn't A Bad Thing or How Ryan Realized He Cared about Dunder Mifflin... and Kelly