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Tap. Tap. Tap. Annie's pen kept hitting the desk over and over every other second and it was driving Jeff Winger insane. For the third time in less than a minute he put his hand over hers in order to try and stop that constant tapping of her pen meeting the wood. He knew that she wanted to ask something, but being Annie she would wait until the last possible moment and Jeff wasn't going to ease her suffering by starting up the conversation any sooner than it needed to take place.

He had made to Anthropology seconds before professor Duncan and the only reason the ex-lawyer did not get in to trouble was because of the fact that he used the Winger charm to convince the drunk Brit that he had been going to look for him and because he was the Jeff Winger Duncan had believed him. Well that and the fact the teacher honestly did not really care.

Within five minutes the usual ritual of watching Youtube video's had started and that was about the time Annie lost it and had to break the silence. Of course she would never outright speak what was on her mind she would simple agitate the older male until he told her what she wanted to know and if that did not work she would bring out the Disney eyes. Her Ariel eyes never failed her and ever since Jeff had brought it up when she got Chang fired she had been using them to her advantage.

"So." She bit her bottom lip and continued to tap her pen on the desk. She did not even notice that Jeff was starting to get the twitchy eye at the constant rapping of pen meets desk.

His hand shot out to cover hers for the fourth time. He didn't bother looking at her since he knew that would bother and he had to admit he was pissed that she hadn't told him about Vaughn. She knew how he felt about the hippie and she should've warned him. No he had to find out by walking in on them and while it had been innocent Jeff still felt as if she had betrayed him in some ways. He thought they were friends and friends told each other things right?

"So." He copied while pulling his phone from his pocket and quickly loading up Twitter. He wanted to see if he had gained or lost anymore followers. He was pretty sure that Pierce had started a Twitter and he would be damned if Pierce got more followers than he did.

"So." Annie waited patiently for him to look at her. When he didn't do so right away she started to tap her foot. She made sure to tap it to the tune of Shave and a Haircut since for some odd reason Jeff hated that song. It took about ten seconds for her devious plan to work and for him to look at her. "Did you have Vaughn have a nice conversation?"

Ah finally he hit pay dirt. He knew that little Annie Edison would not be able to keep her curiosity in for very long. This is where he would put his lawyer skills to the test by manipulating her in just the same way he had manipulated Mr. Hippie hands. The only different being that he was doing this for her own good even if she may never see it that way if she ever found out the truth. "Our conversation was interesting. I never knew that Vaughn could be so, no I can't say considering it is not my place."

As planned Annie's eyes widen in interest. Since when did Jeff have a problem talking behind another person's back? Trying to be sly the teen girl twisted in her seat and put on her best sympathetic smile. "You can tell me Jeff. You know I can keep a secret and I won't tell anyone anything. My lips are sealed shut tighter than a lock on a safe that holds something really important."

Sometimes at moments such as this, Jeff Winger realized how young Annie actually was. She was so innocent in the way she pulled her fingers across her lips pretending to lock them up before then pretending to put an invisible key in her pocket. Annie's innocence was something he wanted to protect at all costs. He knew the kind of monsters that roamed the streets since he was one of them. He remembered telling Shirley that men were monsters who craved young flesh and he had been telling the truth. Men only wanted one thing and micro nipples Vaughn was no different.

"Well I-" He did his best to look torn before he looked away from her. He had been forced to look away since he had a shit eating grin on his face and she would catch on right away. Annie was one of the few people who managed to read him at times he would rather not have his true intentions read like an open book. "All I can say is that he really cares about you in and Edward Cullen kind of way."

Annie who had read the Twilight books thank to Shirley tilted her head in confusion. "Are you saying he wants to kill me?"

"I'm not saying anything Annie and you need to remember. Anything I tell you I haven't actually told you if you get my meaning." He said with a small wink shot her way.

She smiled a toothy smile and winked back doing a horrible job of keeping it low key. "Gotcha!"

Neither one of them got to say anything else because at that exact moment Vaughn burst in to the room shirtless, shoeless, and holding a guitar. "Annie oh my Annie who is so pretty that I haven't been the same since the tranny dance. I came back for you my little mountain flower and when it comes to my heart you hold all the power."

Jeff looked at Annie to see her face all bright and smiles and immediately slouched down in his seat with arms crossed. Vaughn was playing a hard game and it was like Mortal Combat down and the lawyer made a final promise to give the hippie the final death as he finished him. Nobody outsmarted Jeffrey Winger and lived to tell the tale, nobody.

TBC…

AN: A short chapter, but I hope that you like it none the less. I promise that the next chapter will be better. I am excited for the episode tonight and am hoping for some Jeff/Annie chemistry that will inspire me to write a much better chapter. Anyways, please let me know if you liked this chapter or not and if you have ideas for the next chapter then please let me know.

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