As much as Dean Pelton, the Greendale cleaning staff and a minority of students didn't want it, there was no way around it. It was all but required by law -- almost literally at one point -- that Greendale had to host a paintball war for the third straight May. The trilogy had to be completed, no matter how much damage was done -- or if they used up all their original ideas and homage's the first two times. Yet when it comes to a 'threequel,' original ideas and imagination weren't required anymore.
But Jeff Winger and Annie Edison were among those looking forward to this -- though they wouldn't admit it to anyone else or each other. If they did mention it to each other -- and mention why they were looking forward to it -- things might have gone differently. Then they'd have known right away that they each wanted to have sex with each other for the first time during paintball, in the study room -- just as Jeff and Britta Perry did in Paintball War 1.
Circumstances were different then, as Jeff and Britta merely needed to relieve sexual tension during their first time. Yet over two years of romantic tension had already been relieved by Jeff and Annie not long after Valentine's 2012. After dancing around each other for so long, they had finally started a real relationship over these last two months. But although they overcame milestones like Jeff admitting he wanted to be with Annie, Jeff enduring the initial jokes and protests from the group, and surviving their first arguments as a couple, they still hadn't had sex yet.
They had made out more than enough, although when Annie thought about it, she was amazed that Jeff hadn't tried to go all the way yet. Now that Jeff didn't see Annie as a little girl anymore, it was easier to accept that she was irresistible to him. And Annie....well, she needed no words to show how hot she thought Jeff was. Yet despite devouring each other's mouths, faces, necks and ears over two months, they hadn't devoured anything below that.
Annie reasoned that Jeff wanted to be a gentleman for once, as part of being a proper boyfriend for the first time. Going the first two months without having sex with her, especially after two years of sexual tension, was remarkable for a player like Jeff. But if he had reformed to the extent that he wanted to wait until marriage....well, the first part of that would not do.
However, after the first month, Annie got one of her typical golden ideas. This one wasn't as typical as her past ideas, since none of them involved having sex in school. As icky and dirty as it made her feel....she knew she had to embrace that stuff in some way now that she was with Jeff. Having her first time with him in the middle of the next paintball war, and in the study room, should be the best step to take.
Yet she didn't know that Jeff was planning the exact same thing. But he thought of the idea a week before Annie did, so he would have won if they were keeping score. Given that he was now in a relationship he had fought tooth and nail against -- which he was still trying to make up for every way he could -- his first time with Annie had to be special and sexy. Paintball sex in the study room may not have been the special first time Annie always envisioned, per se. But it would be sexy and meaningful if he did it right.
Wanting to do it right in non-sexy ways was new for Jeff. So was actually holding off on sex, especially with the most gorgeous woman he knew; and especially after being ashamed of thinking she was gorgeous for two years. Then again, considering how Annie was more....sinfully gorgeous than usual in paintball last year, Jeff knew he wouldn't have resisted her in this year's game. So he might as well make it the first time and make it that much hotter, if possible.
Jeff and Annie both had the same idea, and now it was just a matter of filling in the details. For starters, this year's theme was the buddy cop genre, which meant it was a game between duos and the winning one had to share the grand prize. It should have disqualified Jeff and Annie from pairing up, since they were together now and buddy cop teams never got along at the beginning. Yet since they had personalities that were even more different than most buddy cop duos, they were allowed to slide on a technicality -- as if Dean Pelton could really say no to Jeff.
With Annie playing a cop, her outfit couldn't be as revealing as her Western gunslinger ensemble last year, to Jeff's dismay. However, she already played cop with Shirley two years ago and still had her old costume, which was at least convenient. And she made sure to wear her pink shirt tighter this time with an extra button undone. So combined with the police jacket, hat and paintball gun, it had the desired effect her and Jeff both wanted.
Of course, Jeff didn't go as all out, considering how he never put any effort into costumes. But he did have an in-character excuse for having just a white short sleeved shirt and tight pants, since his "character" was supposed to be lazy and unprepared, unlike Annie. This was true in real life most of the time anyway; plus, Annie had to admit -- not out loud of course -- that not being prepared could look really good on the right people.
With their costumes set and easily removable, the next detail to cross off was the prize. Excessive paintball prizes had destroyed the school in two straight wars, so Dean Pelton said he wasn't telling them what the prize was this year. The hope was that since they didn't know, they would have a much more peaceful game. Yet when theories about the prize turned to unsubstantiated rumors, and rumors turned to unconfirmed facts, Greendale was a greater wasteland than ever before by nightfall.
Everyone but Jeff and Annie was more insane and deranged than ever, due to their theories and inaccurate buzz about what the prize was. In truth, they nearly turned Jeff and Annie a little rabid when they took out five duos at once after sundown. However, they each knew for a fact what prize they really wanted, and willed themselves to focus on it.
For Annie, seeing Jeff and his bare biceps in action did that, along with his usual protectiveness and witty cop movie banter. For Jeff, seeing Annie get even more badass in paintball than last year calmed his greed. He almost took her then and there when she stood over Rich and shot him in the forehead -- although Rich's chipper congratulations to Annie afterwards all but killed his boner. That was how much he still hated him.
But to his credit, Jeff avoided making too many snarky, jealous comments after Annie waved a chipper goodbye to Rich -- or at least enough to start a full-blown fight. Annie really had changed him -- yet his desire to see her naked had never changed, especially now that he accepted it.
As the night went on, Jeff knew if he was finally going to see her naked, they had to get to the study room. Annie was thinking along the same lines, so they both tried to lead each other there without being too obvious.
But getting there was more difficult once the rest of the group caught up to them. Troy and Abed were still alive and together, despite Troy's earlier epic arguments with Abed's by-the-book uptight white cop character. Britta and Shirley had pulled off the greatest miracle of the war by not shooting each other hours ago. The only relief Jeff and Annie felt was that they didn't run into Pierce and Chang as well.
Although the group usually endured these wars together, Jeff and Annie wanted to get away from them and reach the study room by themselves. Jeff thought of leading them towards Magnitude's alliance of cops to get ambushed, figuring that once the others got killed and he and Annie escaped into the study room, they would comfort each other with sex. Of course, Jeff didn't mention that last part, but Annie's scolding over the first part killed his scheme and his boner anyway.
