Thanks for all of your encouragement and for enjoying the fic. I kind of lost my way around CommunityLand for awhile. I hope I can give this a fitting ending.

"You know, people have been telling me to go fly a kite all my life, and now I'm finally doing it!" Troy enthused as he and Abed finished putting the toy together. Next to them, Annie was helping Jasmine with hers. "My dad used to take me to the park every spring to fly kites. It was something we always did together, just the two of us," she commented as Jasmine clapped at the pretty butterflies on her model.

The group had decided to enjoy the recent sunny weather with a BBQ in the park. Andre was manning the grill and the others were helping Shirley set up the table.

After a few successful attempts at flight and many more unsuccessful ones, Jasmine grew bored and ran to the table for a juice box. Stacy and Pierce decided to give the kite a try while Annie grabbed a bottle of water.

"This was a good idea, Annie," Shirley said from across the table.

"Yeah, it's fun," she agreed.

"Too bad Jeff couldn't join us," Britta said bitterly.

"Where is Jeff?" Andre asked, looking at Annie as he dropped a plate of cooked hot dogs on the table.

She shrugged. "How should I know? He said he would make it."

"And yet he's not here," grumbled Britta.

"I hope he's all right," Shirley offered.

"Guys, we've only been here half an hour," Andre said, trying to be the voice of reason, "and I'm sure if Jeff doesn't show, he's got a good reason."

As he walked back to the grill Britta sneered, Shirley shrugged and Annie tried to keep a blank face. She was worried that she was the reason Jeff hadn't shown, and she didn't want to have to explain why to the others.

"I can't believe Elijah has his driver's license!" she enthused, trying to change the subject. "And it's so sweet of him to take Jordan with him to his friend's house."

"Sweet my butt," Shirley replied, "we have to force him to spend time with his brother, with all of us. He's just at that age."

She was about to reply when Britta said, "Well, look who decided to make an appearance."

Annie turned around to see Jeff standing next to Abed and Troy while they showed him their kite. It took every ounce of self control she had not to smile from ear to ear. Instead she shifted back to face Britta and Shirley and said, "Good, we're all here!"

A moment later she heard Andre say, "Hey, man" and felt Jeff slide onto the picnic bench next to her. "Hey, guys," he said as he looked at each of them. "Sorry I'm late. I had breakfast with my mom and she asked me to do a few chores for her. It took longer than I thought to get away."

"Well, we can't be upset at you for that," Shirley smiled.

Britta looked skeptical. "If you're telling the truth, that is."

Jeff just smiled his cocky smile and turned to look at Annie. "Would I lie?"

She smirked at him. "Of course you would! But I don't think you would lie about your mom."

He chuckled then held up his left arm to show a bruise and a scrape just above his elbow. "Slipped coming off the ladder and caught the edge of the fence."

"Okay, I believe you," said Britta, looking just a little bit guilty.

Jeff looked at Shirley. "Should I offer to help Andre?"

"Oh, no," she replied emphatically, "he won't let anyone get near his grill."

Just then Jasmine ran up and grabbed onto his leg. "Mr. Jeff! Mr. Jeff!"

He looked down at her with a smile and patted her back. "Hey, munchkin."

"She just loves him," Shirley cooed.

"Wanna fly my kite with me and Ms. Annie?" the little girl asked.

Jeff glanced over at Annie, who offered him a smile. "Sure," he answered, "sounds like fun."

It turned out that he was a pretty good kite flier, and Jasmine squealed with delight as her kite rose far above Abed and Troy's. "Why did we want him to hang out with us again?" Troy mumbled to Abed.

Soon Andre was calling them all over to the table to eat. Annie made a point of sitting next to Stacy so she could get to know the older woman better. She tried not to care that Jeff had taken the spot on her other side, particularly since he was fielding questions about optimal kite flying from Abed and had his head turned in the opposite direction.

Yet she could still feel his presence. It reminded her of the old days, when merely sitting next to him in the cafeteria gave her a secret thrill.

Was she thrilled now, she wondered?

After they ate Abed, Troy, Jeff and Andre played basketball while Pierce insisted on teaching the rest of them croquet. When it started growing dark they made use of Andre and Shirley's fire pit and roasted marshmallows.

Annie chose to sit on the outer edge of their semi-circle and lost herself in thought as she set out her assembly line to make her S'mores.

"This has been fun," Jeff said as he sat down next to her a few minutes later. She had just taken a bite of her messy S'more and he had caught her off guard, probably on purpose. "You still know how to throw a good party."

"Uff usfedde thwing meh perrdiees werf lumm," Annie replied, covering her mouth with her hand. He laughed as she swallowed and drank some water. "You used to think my parties were lame," she said again, pouting slightly.

Jeff registered her words but had become transfixed with a dab of chocolate that remained at the corner of her mouth. Reaching out his thumb, he answered, "No, I didn't," as he wiped the errant chocolate away. Annie pulled back slightly at his touch, then gave a little laugh and wiped her face with her napkin.

She tried not to be turned on by Jeff licking the chocolate off of his thumb. It didn't work. "Well, anyway, at least this marshmallow roast isn't ending in a huge fight like our last one."

Jeff glanced around at the others, who were broken off into smaller conversations. "I guess we finally ran out of things to fight about."

"Yeah," she agreed. "Shirley said if we still saw each other as much as we did in college we'd still be fighting like that."

He nodded. "She's probably right. Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

Annie turned her face away from his and back to the fire, twisting her marshmallow spit nervously.

"Speaking of Shirley," she said, clearing her throat, "she mentioned that she and Andre ran into you the other night when you were out on a date."

"Oh, that, yeah," he replied, looking for signs of jealousy from her. "That was a one-off; we didn't click."

Annie turned back to him, smiling, "You didn't 'click'? Since when do you say things like that?"

"Since I started looking for more than one-night stands," he answered. "And what about you? I heard from Britta that you've dated a string of guys over the last couple of weeks."

"Not a string!" she huffed, "just two or three."

She noted Jeff's lawyer face. "Okay, four. But everyone's been wanting to fix me up since I got back into town, so I just decided to agree to all of them at once and get it over with."

"Get it over with? You didn't like any of these guys?"

"No, we didn't click," she sneered. "I guess I was checking to see…"

"To see if you liked any of them more than you like me?" Jeff asked, hopefully.

She rolled her eyes. "Yes."

"And you didn't click with any of them?"

"I already said I didn't," she replied with a huff, turning back to her marshmallow.

Jeff looked at her profile for a minute. "You know what bothers me, Annie?" he asked sincerely. "You seem to like me against your will."

"Well wasn't that always your problem?" she replied. "Didn't you like me against your will?"

"Yeah, I did," he nodded. "Is this some kind of torture thing? You want me to know what it feels like to be rejected by someone who you know really wants to be with you?"

Annie twisted her head around to see if anyone else was listening, but they were still talking, laughing and eating amongst themselves.

"No, I'm not trying to torture you," she said, ducking her head down. "Okay, maybe I was a little, that day at my office," she admitted.

She pulled her marshmallow from the fire. Without a word, Jeff took the spit from her and began forming her S'more.

"It's just the idea of you, wanting me, after all this time, scares me a little."

He wrapped the finished treat in a napkin and handed it to her. "Because you think I'm going to hurt you?"

"Maybe," she answered, "but mostly I think I'm worried about you wanting the person I was back then. And maybe I just want the person you were back then, too."

She drew in a silent breath as he once again licked chocolate off of his fingers.

"Look, Annie," he said finally, meeting her eyes, "I can try to assure over and over again, and you can analyze this to death. But there's really one way to find out if this is something, if it can be something now, not whatever we were back at Greendale."

Annie studied his face in the firelight. Once upon a time, Jeff Winger had refused to allow her to make a mistake by dating him. Now he was offering himself up.

And she knew resistance was futile. She wouldn't let the chance of making the mistake of Jeff Winger pass her by. If she did, she would regret it for the rest of her life. And Annie Edison was tired of regretting the past.

Drawing herself up, she smiled and said, "You're right. There's only one way to find out."

"I'm right?" Jeff asked, astonished. "So, you're saying you'll go out with me?"

He might be right, but she was still Annie Edison. "I'm saying when you call and ask me out like a proper gentleman, my answer will be yes."

He wanted to roll his eyes and scream at her, but instead he just watched her take another huge bite of S'more, covering the corners of her mouth again in chocolate. "As you wish, milady," he said with a chuckle.

Abed and Troy had finally worked out the logistics of the super kite they had decided to create. As Troy chomped down on his fifth S'more, Abed cast a glance over to Annie and Jeff, who were not speaking, but just smiling at each other.

"What's going on, Jeff? Annie?" he asked, getting everyone's attention. "Are you two hooking up?"

"Abed!" Shirley cried, "That's not nice."

"Why do you care, you have your boyfriend Troy," Pierce offered.

"Guys, have a little respect!" Britta yelled.

Jeff cast a glance at Annie then turned back to their friend. "No, Abed, we're not hooking up. But I'm going to ask Annie out in the very near future."

"And I'm going to say yes," she added.

There was a round of "What?" "Aww!" and "Really?" followed by Pierce muttering, "This is so gonna ruin the group."

Annie looked at Jeff and started laughing, and soon the others had all joined in.