Fic: Summer Snapshots
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jedi_of_urthTitle: Summer Snapshots
Author:jedi_of_urth
Fandom: Community
Characters/Pairings: Jeff, Jeff/Annie
Rating: PG
Word Count: 383
Prompt: Something like ‘Pictures of You’ I think
Summary: A look at how Jeff and Annie’s relationship progressed over the years
Disclaimer: Community isn’t mine
Author's Notes/Warnings (fic): LAS fic, vague spoilers for the first two seasons, mostly the finales.
Author’s Notes (flashback): Originally written June 2011. I don’t think we ever got the results of this one, but I know I’ve never been real happy with it. It was kind of a rush job that it turned out didn’t need to be.
That first summer, right after the Tranny Dance, Jeff set down the rules and he stuck to them. It was a mistake, it was a horrible idea, it should never be mentioned again. They were going to go their separate ways and come next school year it would be like it never happened. He didn’t answer the few times Annie tried to call him, until she gave up trying. It should have been a relief but it didn’t feel like one, not really.
The second summer she was the only one from the group taking summer classes. It was always impossible to tell Annie to take a break even if the school was barely functioning after the latest paintball fiasco. But when she e-mailed him to say she wanted to pick his brain for her modern law class he was happy to agree. Before he knew it, it was a regular thing, just the two of them getting together. After a while it wasn’t even about her classes, they’d just spend hours talking about anything. And if some nights he crashed on her couch it was only because he didn’t want to go back to Chang still camped out on Jeff’s own couch, it wasn’t about the Annie of it all.
The third summer the group wasn’t talking to him and he tells himself he doesn’t care. It was a pretty thin lie at that point, but he tried to believe it. That was until Annie ambushed him on his morning run on behalf of the group and he was just so happy to see her that he really couldn’t deny that he missed them. All of them, it wasn’t about Annie, not really. Somehow, it was always Annie who managed to pull him back when he was ready to split for good.
The forth summer, the one after graduation, he made his reservation at Morrey’s and invited Annie to join him. Time was he could have and would have found himself a meaningless companion for his celebratory dinner, but that wasn’t his thing anymore. And it turned out there was another thing that had changed. As they walked through the streets after dinner he realized he wanted to kiss her, and it didn’t feel like it would be a mistake any more.
Author:
jedi_of_urthFandom: Community
Characters/Pairings: Jeff, Jeff/Annie
Rating: PG
Word Count: 383
Prompt: Something like ‘Pictures of You’ I think
Summary: A look at how Jeff and Annie’s relationship progressed over the years
Disclaimer: Community isn’t mine
Author's Notes/Warnings (fic): LAS fic, vague spoilers for the first two seasons, mostly the finales.
Author’s Notes (flashback): Originally written June 2011. I don’t think we ever got the results of this one, but I know I’ve never been real happy with it. It was kind of a rush job that it turned out didn’t need to be.
That first summer, right after the Tranny Dance, Jeff set down the rules and he stuck to them. It was a mistake, it was a horrible idea, it should never be mentioned again. They were going to go their separate ways and come next school year it would be like it never happened. He didn’t answer the few times Annie tried to call him, until she gave up trying. It should have been a relief but it didn’t feel like one, not really.
The second summer she was the only one from the group taking summer classes. It was always impossible to tell Annie to take a break even if the school was barely functioning after the latest paintball fiasco. But when she e-mailed him to say she wanted to pick his brain for her modern law class he was happy to agree. Before he knew it, it was a regular thing, just the two of them getting together. After a while it wasn’t even about her classes, they’d just spend hours talking about anything. And if some nights he crashed on her couch it was only because he didn’t want to go back to Chang still camped out on Jeff’s own couch, it wasn’t about the Annie of it all.
The third summer the group wasn’t talking to him and he tells himself he doesn’t care. It was a pretty thin lie at that point, but he tried to believe it. That was until Annie ambushed him on his morning run on behalf of the group and he was just so happy to see her that he really couldn’t deny that he missed them. All of them, it wasn’t about Annie, not really. Somehow, it was always Annie who managed to pull him back when he was ready to split for good.
The forth summer, the one after graduation, he made his reservation at Morrey’s and invited Annie to join him. Time was he could have and would have found himself a meaningless companion for his celebratory dinner, but that wasn’t his thing anymore. And it turned out there was another thing that had changed. As they walked through the streets after dinner he realized he wanted to kiss her, and it didn’t feel like it would be a mistake any more.
