How will Jeff and Annie Get Together?: Discussion and Fic Challenge

[nevr0s]

We all know it's going to happen. Five years of sexual tension and character development have led up to it. Jeff and Annie will (hopefully) end up together in season six. But how will it happen?

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• Will Jeff switch roles with Annie, hopelessly pining over her?
• Will he continue trying to deny his feelings for her, only to reveal them in an extremely

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[indirrr01]

Two words: Annie's Mother. I want to think that in whatever fashion Jeff and Annie get together, it has to have story with Annie's mom. Also Dan revealed that season six will come back next year in fall based on his twitter post today.

[drunkencarp]

Tangentially related, but I'm feeling chatty and opinionated I guess. I think there's something interesting in the estrangement between Annie and her mother and Jeff and his father, that they're both from broken homes, and how we hear almost nothing about Annie's father and Jeff's mother. Though the impression I get is that Annie's father pretty much vanished from her life after the divorce.

Not that that's anything remarkable; every character whose family we know anything about is from or part of a broken home or an abusive relationship. AFAIK Britta sprang fully-formed from the mind of Zeus.

A line of Annie's cut from Mixology Certification: "I love surprise parties. I mean real ones, not the kind where your parents forget your birthday and then three days later, surprise, a really small teddy bear with a card that both parents signed in Daddy’s lady friend’s handwriting."

[tattelatte]

I'm like 90% sure that is how Britta came to be. She is Athena, hear her roar!

[nevr0s]

It would be really cool for Annie to confront her mother in the same way Jeff confronted his father, except Jeff would play Britta's role. There was a fanfic that did that type of thing, and it would be wonderful to see it in canon.

[thesicko1012]

One thing that's interesting about their abandonment issues is that they both wound up dealing with it in polar opposite ways. Jeff tries to remain cynically realistic and avoids relationships as much as he can, while Annie remains hopeful, starry eyed, and romanticizes life. I think it could be really good for them to work through their past together because they both have something to offer each other. Jeff can bring Annie down to earth a bit, while she can teach him to have a bit more faith.