Annie's Asylum. [Jeff x Annie]

Back where it started.

   I had for the most part moved on from the greendale seven, it stung to say it but I was content with my job at greendale as a teacher and I knew that we had all moved onto bigger and better things, Abed's Movie, Shirley's Sandwiches, Britta's Bar or Troys voyage around the world, we all had things going on in our lives and we had all drifted apart over time, three years was a long while.

Sometimes I still wondered about Annie and her internship, I still wondered about us and our kiss but it wasn't worth the heartache, what was the point of torturing myself with it? I had let her go from my hold and from my head and finally from my heart and that was all their was too that.

Maybe I thought about them all sometimes, but we had all moved onto bigger and better things and that was okay, and Frankie made that even more okay, she made everything okay.

"Winger." I was brought out of my trance by a peck on my cheek, speaking of Frankie "Frankie" I replied with a smile, she was holding her plain black binder "I've gotta cancel, the dean needs me" it was a bummer but I would survive a night alone "that's fine, better you then me, now I've gotta get going I've got a class to teach."

We exchanged a quick glance and a heartfelt smile and we made our way past each other in the halls as I made my way towards my classroom, sometimes in all honesty I liked teaching more then I liked being a lawyer, it was simpler and I knew my greendale family would be proud I knew that Frankie was proud.

"Absolutely NOT!"

Almost as proud as she would be if the dean could go 24 hours without saying something unreasonable, "Jeffery!" Ah, and now I'm involved in this, I turned the hallway corner to the office opening the door "yes Dean?"

I was greeted by a proud looking dean and a defeated looking Frankie "this'll be the prison episode all over again." Sometimes we still called things seasons or episodes, Abed rubbed off on us.

"The what episode? I don't want another prisoner on an iPad trying to shove me down the stairs!" Of course he'd agree to something like that again, idiot dean.

"Jeffery this is DIFFERENT, they're asylum patients not iPad prisoners and they will actually be attending"

"great a bunch of Nut Jobs on Greendale's Campus, we already have enough of those!" Of course he'd agree to something like this, this school is finally normal and now and something like this has to happen, now instead of having a murder use an iPad to TRY and push me down the stairs I can have a Crazy person ACTUALLY push me down the stairs, wow we really saved greendale!

"Jeffery! This is an opportunity for you to make new friends!"

"New friends? I DON'T NEED SOME NUT CASES TO BE MY FRIENDS!" I'd officially had it, this school was still insane probably more insane then our soon to be new students, they're starting Monday morning.

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"For the record, this is a terrible idea" Based on the look on Frankie's face she clearly agreed with me but the dean sadly didn't "Jeff you stop being so negative."

There was a big white bus in front of the school that said 'Greendale Insane Asylum' how could I not be negative? This entire situation was a negative, I wanted to tear up this shitty glitter covered banner, we didn't even spend for the good glitter glue on this.

They started shuffling off the bus, they all looked nuttier then a peanut factory and I wasn't excited, every student would get paired up with a staff member and they would be responsible for that student, apparently I'd have to babysit some kid from coo-coo town.

They were all wearing these plain white outfits that were way too baggy and there was a chubby dude wading over, he looked so pale and dazed he kind of reminded me of star burns on meth.

I took in a few more faces before I saw something I didn't want to see, a jittery brunette with a fuzzy binder, she looked like she was tweaking out, this was Annie, Annie Edison.

I couldn't believe my eyes "Annie?" It felt like the entire world slowed down and she looked and me, she looked like she had done something wrong all she did was snap her head away and continue fidgeting unable to hold still.

I had never felt so sick to my stomach in my life, Annie wasn't crazy and she didn't belong in a goddamn asylum, this was clearly absurd and they had clearly done something to screw her up, it was almost as if they had her on something, this definitely wasn't the Annie I knew, the Annie I knew was smart and confident something was wrong and I was going to fix it.

"Annie you already know your way around the school you can be excused- all right then she's gone time to get on with our tour."

Annie bolted halfway through what the Dean was saying, she was go in the other direction faster than the speed of the light and I was gone after her, this entire situation was crazy, I wanted it to be a bad dream that I'd wake up from.