This last chapter is rated M for smut

Three seconds into kissing Annie, Jeff became concerned that he didn't feel her kissing back. But she wasn't pulling away either. So he stayed where he was and waited for her to make the next move – which she did when she finally kissed him back. Yet after a few more moments, she finally pulled away – which was probably crueler.

"Oh God, what the hell am I doing?" Annie brought Jeff down even further. "Oh God, it's the damn dress again! It's brainwashing you like it did on Christmas!"

Jeff would have chuckled at Annie's panic, yet he suspected there'd be no more kisses after that. He stayed diplomatic and pointed out, "If clothes themselves had any power, the Dean would have bought them all and used them on me years ago. Hell, I'm wearing his most boring Santa suit and it's clearly not making me kiss you!"

"Well, something is! And it's clearly…." Annie trailed off again, regrouping herself slightly. "I didn't want this, Jeff, I swear. I didn't do all this tonight just to kiss you! I know I used your repressed, creepy feelings against you last time, but I'm not now!"

"Okay, first of all, they haven't been that repressed for some time. You had to notice that by now," Jeff argued on impulse, trying not to nitpick why he argued for his feelings this time. If he stopped and thought about it, he might weasel his way out of this, and he was still on enough adrenaline to not want that.

"How, Jeff? I can't read into anything you say or do anymore, remember? And I just stopped wanting to!" Annie shot back, deflating Jeff with memories of the past. "You're just confused by the moment like I was all those times, you have to be! But you'll come to your senses in no time, so it might as well be now."

"Why would I want to come to my senses?" Jeff pressed on.

"Because you don't want me! It took a while to get it through my head, but you did it!" Annie praised. "I guess remembering that is my final test tonight. The naïve Santa baby me would have creeped you out and pushed your buttons, but I can't do that now. And if I let myself believe you want me when you don't...I'll just be the same dumb, childish Annie all over again."

Hearing Annie accuse Jeff of not wanting her was one thing – as if that was ever the problem. But saying that stuff about dumb, childish Annie pressed his final button, even if she wasn't trying to. "Annie, none of that is you. You only think it is because I'm the dumbass who made you believe it! Well, I'm stopping that now!" Jeff promised.

"But-" However, Jeff didn't even let Annie get further than that. He had to get certain things off his chest before he screwed himself over again.

"Annie, I know you weren't doing this for me. You did it to make yourself better and more adult, and it worked. It worked to remind me you're the best adult I've ever met," Jeff let sink in before continuing. "Even when you're not…..I mean, for all those diminishing returns last year, I still joined Glee anyway because of you! I put on a Christmas sweater because of you! Brainwashing alone couldn't have made me do that!"

"It did enough. You didn't hate yourself for lusting after a young, childish me for one hour. That's all it was," Annie reasoned.

"If it was lust, I would have done you and moved on years ago, and you know it! I would have had you right here 10 months ago without the baby talk! Damn it, I probably would have anyway if I didn't give into Glee first!" Jeff admitted.

"I never hated myself for liking you because you were a child! I hated myself because I knew I was too much of a child to treat you right, like the adult you really are! But as usual, you set the bar for me and now I've got to match it, even if it….intimidates me. Yeah, that's a good enough word," Jeff settled on.

"I wasn't trying…." Annie waved a bit. "Jeff, I'm not forcing you to do anything. You can't do this so I don't cry or freak out, either, because I'm trying not to! Despite your best efforts," she let herself add.

"Well, even if I succeed, don't worry. You can cry and talk like a baby again all you want, but I can't let that scare me off. Not again," Jeff revealed. "As much as that stuff might still weird me out, I can't let it overshadow everything else anymore. The Annie I've been with tonight….hell, the Annie I've been with over the last three years….I can't keep pretending the childish Annie cancels them out. So I'll have to be with the whole gang in every way now."

Jeff did succeed in making Annie cry, but it looked like it was in the good way. But she wasn't making a sound while the tears came down, so this could still go either way. However, she let her hands settle onto Jeff's arms, gliding them down his muscles and his Santa suit – so this was going the greatest way possible.

Yet Annie's doubt still returned as she said, "What if I can't do this? What if I still can't use my sexuality like an adult, Jeff? I mean, last year I dreamed we kissed at the housewarming party! And even there,I ruined it by saying you made me think of my dad! I guess I just ruined it with that in real life too, so there you go!"

Well, that did help Jeff come down a bit, before the anticipation could overwhelm him. Yet it wasn't enough to turn him off altogether. It might be because he was too horny and on too much of an honesty high to be creeped out – but Jeff truly hoped it wasn't just that.

And he hoped it wasn't the only reason he said, "Annie, you've been smarter and better than me in every way possible. The very least I can do is help you learn to be better at something. Hell, if there's anything I do know, it's this, right?"

"Not according to Britta," Annie made Jeff relieved – by being better enough to tease him, not because of who she brought up.

"Okay, she's off limits when we're making out too," Jeff informed. But before this made Annie nervous, Jeff took her hand and let it rest in his.

After they both revealed in the look and feel of each other's hands together, Jeff went over, grabbed the chair and led both of them behind the partition – in case someone was suicidal enough to come in and interrupt.

Once Jeff set the chair back down, he sat on it and let Annie stand between his legs. "Just let me finally do this for you….please," he asked a bit more pleadingly than he wanted. But since he rarely had to ask a woman for this before, he could chalk it up to inexperience.

Yet when Annie bent down to finally let Jeff kiss her again, he was back in his element. Nevertheless, he hadn't used his experience quite like this before. The kisses were slower and softer than he was used to, and he thought he'd be more unrestrained by now with her. But this wasn't about that – this time. He had to prove himself now so there could be a next time, and some next times after that too.

Jeff couldn't believe Annie was so worried about being sexual, especially with the ways her lips and tongue rubbed against his own. But he had special ways to use them too, as he proved by breaking from her mouth and gliding them down to her neck. All that exposed skin on her neck, shoulders and upper chest had teased him long enough in that dress.

He thought Annie's lips and tongue were soft enough, yet nothing compared to that exposed skin. Jeff could feel her knees wobbling a bit as he kept kissing – and even nuzzling – her neck while all but massaging her shoulders. When she started moaning, he added suckling to the mix until he got to her collarbone.

"Oh God, Jeff," Annie called out, straight from Jeff's own dreams. However, she did stop the mood – not by being a sexual child, but by pulling back and preparing to lower the dress. Yet Jeff stopped her before she got too far.

"I want that on," Jeff ordered. "Just this once. You can show off the rest all you want next time. But I like what it's showing off right now. Keep it on."

Jeff never imagined he would ask a woman to keep her clothes on. Especially Annie, for a number of reasons. However, after everything that dress had done to him, he felt entitled to enjoy it a while longer. In fact, he was so desperate for it, he even let it slip that there would be a next time.

But perhaps that was what made Annie take it a step further and sit down on his lap, wrapping her legs around him. Once their centers met, their groans canceled each other out as they kept their thighs perfectly still – out of necessity if nothing else. Yet when they weren't on the edge as much, Jeff recovered and put his hands on Annie's waist, finally feeling the soft fabric of the dress – and the softness of the body it contained – at long last.

With Annie in his lap, Jeff had his closest view of Annie's cleavage yet. However, he almost surprised himself by going back to kissing her collarbone instead. But when she moaned and grinded herself against him, he questioned it a little less.

After a few more minutes of just kissing her neck and bare shoulders, Jeff's mind did wander again. With those glorious, half naked boobs finally pressed against his chest and ready for him, he still wasn't even grabbing them. Yet he couldn't stop rubbing his hands over her sexy dress long enough to rub her breasts. And he couldn't stop kissing the perfect, creamy skin of her neck long enough to kiss any lower either.

He would have never waited this long to play with other boobs – ones that didn't compare to Annie's anyway. But they didn't have necks or dresses like Annie's either.

If his mouth wasn't ready to go lower, then maybe his hands were. After all, those stockings were probably just as soft too, to say nothing of what they covered up. So Jeff's hands slid down her dress, over her ass and landed on the legs and stockings that were wrapped around him.

After deeply rubbing her upper thighs and making Annie writhe and shudder, he took a more delicate approach and glided his fingertips up and down her legs. But instead of writhing and shuddering, Annie shook with a bit of laughter instead.

"You're laughing," Jeff noted out loud, just as he figured out why. With a downright evil smirk, he lightly tickled the top of her legs and thighs, making Annie laugh a bit louder. "I will definitely have to remember this next time," Jeff kept giving away, although Annie was probably laughing too hard to hear him.

"Stop it, Jeff! God, I hate you!" Annie cried, yet her laughs betrayed her words – as did the additional grinding. Once that became too much, Jeff showed mercy and just rested his hands on her legs. Annie caught her breath, steadied herself on Jeff's lap and exhaled, yet she still let herself smile.

Jeff could only take that in for a minute before Annie's hands went for his Santa belt. She went even lower than that, but with little room for her, Jeff had to lift the suit up and help her unbuckle his regular belt. Annie was content to let him stay in costume as well, yet settled for just exposing one part of him.

When she pulled it out and studied it, Annie squeezed her thighs together and gripped Jeff a bit tighter. Both actions made Jeff moan, and worry about his endurance for what was to come. However, Annie made it slightly easy on him by getting up, albeit so she could pull her panties down. And when Jeff couldn't help but lift her dress up to peek at her genitalia, he lost his breath for a moment.

He did manage to gaze up and see Annie, looking shy but also looking a bit overwhelmed. But Jeff imagined he looked a might overwhelmed also – perhaps it explained Annie's face as well.

Seeing him look so impressed by her, in a way that no other man had been before, had to be calming her nerves down. Somehow, he was giving her as much confidence, hope and faith in her sexuality as she so often gave him over the years in….well, everything.

It escaped him how every other man was too dumb to do this for her before. But then again, he was among them for far too long. Those days had better be over after tonight, though. Yet as she hovered over his lap and lined up with his erection, he couldn't see how they could continue. Everything now was –

"Wait! Pill! Condom!" Jeff called out. Briefly, he realized the fear of being unsafe for Annie came right before his fear of pregnancy and babies.

"Pill's at home," Annie answered quickly. Jeff breathed a sigh of relief, for probably more than one reason – yet his breath lost him again when Annie's opening touched the tip of his penis. Annie's breathing got heavier when the tip slipped in, but Jeff had just enough conscious thought to put his hand on her and rub her through the pain.

He kissed her chest again as he went in deeper, his left hand stroked her groin and his right went onto her bare backside. After a few more kisses and massages, Annie rested back onto Jeff's lap and laid her face on the top of his head, while adjusting to having all of him inside her. "You okay?" Jeff asked while making his own adjustments.

"You might need new hair gel, but I'll be fine," Annie found the sarcastic reserves to say. Jeff stopped worrying about his hair once Annie kissed his head, feeling like he would let her alter his hairstyle however she wanted. Speaking of which, he had to get back to her hair, which he did as Annie pulled her face back into view and raised her lap a little.

Jeff also grabbed her hair when Annie came back down, but settled for making his first thrust inside her. After a few more practice runs, it felt like they were getting the hang of it. Soon Annie's hips and thrusts met Jeff's as she slowly began to ride him. After looking down at the sight for a moment, Jeff looked back up and was a little surprised to note, "You're smiling."

"Yeah. This is like a fun ride!" Annie explained as she rid him a bit more. Yet that description did sound somewhat kid-like to Jeff. However, before it turned him off and made him rethink a few things, Jeff forgot about her words when she saw her mouth and how it was smiling.

Jeff had always wanted to make women groan, cry out and come undone during sex. Mainly for his own ego's benefit and not theirs, he supposed.

But as he saw Annie enjoy herself, after all her doubts and all he put her through to get here, he realized this was the first time he ever wanted to make someone smile during sex.

Then again, no woman he'd ever been with, or known at all, smiled like Annie. And no man or woman ever smiled at him the way Annie did, which was true even before tonight. Yet to see Annie give him that sweet, loving smile while riding him with that dress on – it was the most erotic thing Jeff had ever seen.

She wasn't even trying to act erotic or extra sexy for him. Yet everything about this and everything about her – even her soft smiles – was sexier than anything even he imagined. It was certainly more beautiful – maybe that was really the right word here. But Jeff wasn't a total girl yet, so he could ignore that a while longer.

"Keep smiling," Jeff let out. Any creepier or girlier concerns would go away as long as Annie kept smiling.

Although she was a little confused, and did more groaning than smiling before long, the focused smiles she did give him were magical. That sappy term likely came from having sex brain, yet Jeff's sex brain had never thought of words like that before.

But if it kept going, it might make other parts of him end this all too soon. So Jeff got Annie to stop smiling by kissing her instead. His right hand went back to her hair to pull her closer, as his left enjoyed the velvet softness of her dress, ass and legs.

Annie seemed to be going on autopilot, as she just rocked against him and moaned into his mouth. This hardly helped Jeff contain himself, so he tried to focus on other things. He tried to think about his old fantasies about Annie in her Santa garb, and how inadequate they seemed now. Eventually, that brought him back to Annie's original routine – and her closing number of "Boopy doopy doop boop sex!"

Instead of letting it creep him out and make him feel like a dirty old man, Jeff realized he could use it to his advantage now. He began thinking of the words "Boopy doopy doop boop sex" and thrusted against Annie to the tune of those words. Not only could he keep pleasing her, but if he kept thinking of those words and thrusting along to them, he might stay distracted enough to last longer.

Jeff kept thinking of the words and timing his thrusts to them – yet the harder he went and the more Annie tightened up and cried out, the shakier his focus got. It didn't get better when Annie broke their kiss, bounced a bit harder on him and groaned out, "More! I'm almost there, please…." Well, she was the quickest learner Jeff ever knew.

Annie further threw off the curve by pressing her chest against Jeff's face and putting her hand on his head. Now Jeff had no choice but to work on her boobs, although he could only get to the cleavage in this angle. But the more he licked it and kissed the top of her heaving breasts, the faster Annie rode him.

As Annie's moans echoed, Jeff's were muffled against her chest, as he still tried in vain to think of "Boopy doopy doop boop sex" instead of cumming. He even muttered the words while trying to thrust, but it was just no use. By the end, he lost it enough to all but growl those words into Annie's chest, right as she tightened up and released around him.

Annie hugged Jeff closer and wrapped her arms around his head, making him nearly unable to breathe against her chest. But he wasn't going to be able to breathe when he came anyway, so it balanced out. He just had enough to growl again and let himself go inside her, almost thankful that Annie couldn't see his contorted face.

When it was finally over, Jeff started breathing again but was now overcome with exhaustion. He was sitting down the entire time, yet the sensations and the eruptions and the….emotions took a lot out of him. The first two made him tired after sex all the time, but this new emotions stuff was a double whammy of its own.

He knew he should have some words for Annie and should check to see she was okay. Yet her own heavy breathing and embrace gave him a good idea. In any case, he just closed his eyes and laid his head on her perfect chest, while letting his hands run over her perfect hair, back, dress, ass and legs ever so slowly. He didn't want to move, and not because he was too tired – but because he was too content to let go.

Given that he wasn't a cuddler before, during or after sex, this should have raised some concerns. But too many had been raised already – too many that he already knew the answer to. So since there was no point in solving the mystery, he surrendered and felt himself drift to sleep with Annie in his lap and arms.

The next thing he knew, he was woken up by some noises outside. Once his eyes shot open, he realized that Annie was still in his arms and asleep too. But he couldn't even savor that for long as the noises woke her up next. With that, she pulled back and finally let Jeff's face get off her chest.

Before she could ask Jeff anything about what that noise was – or about their little nap – Jeff signaled for her to keep quiet. He contained his disappointment when Annie finally got up and got Jeff out of her, then zipped himself up, found Annie's panties and got up on his feet. But when he peeked his head from the partition, he saw that no one else was inside.

By the time he went to the closed front door, he could hear the sounds of marching – but not the unorderly, chaotic Greendale type of marching. He then heard a voice say, "Are you sure no one's in there, sir?"

"If you want to peek in that Glee storage room where Rad worked in, be my guest!" a second voice stated before the first voice shuddered.

"Good point. God, why do we have to wipe their minds on Halloween every year?" the first voice said to Jeff's surprise.

"Because we're better at covering up Pelton's 'taco meat thefts' than stopping them. At least it made them act like werewolves this time. That's better than zombies or last year's vampire attacks!" So that's why Jeff's neck hurt so much after last year's party he didn't remember! Too bad they couldn't wipe out Britta's psych test Britta'ing too, but still!

"Yeah, I'm sure glad I didn't run into Winger and Edison again. At least they were someone else's problem this year. Come on, let's get out of here and get ready for next year's hidden camera ghost attacks," the first voice offered.

After a few moments, Jeff felt safe enough to open the door a crack – just in time to see the last army members and men in black walk by. He promptly closed it again just as Annie came and asked, "What the hell was that?"

Jeff suddenly knew what it was. If he didn't go solo with Annie, he might have gone crazy eating Pelton's meat. And if he didn't come in here with Annie at just the right time, they might have been attacked. And if they did anything different tonight, their memories of the entire night…..this crazy, unbelievably hot night…..would have been erased. And then Jeff would have never….

"We're dating," Jeff suddenly announced. "I knew it before, but this clinched it. We're dating and that's all there is to it. Life and memories are too fragile to waste by not dating."

"Jeff….are you sure?" Annie still sadly felt doubtful enough to check. "I mean, we just had sex and uncovered a government brainwashing conspiracy. This still might be the adrenaline talking."

"I kissed you, cuddled you and made you smile during sex. And it's only by the grace of Mr. Rad's insanity that they let us remember it! I'm never coming that close to losing you again! Um, not for the immediate future, I mean!" Jeff finally backtracked from sounding too serious – for the moment.

As Annie began to smile and let herself believe Jeff again, Jeff was amazed at how this came so close to never happening, or being erased. While everyone else forgot tonight, this would be the defining moment of –

"Wait," Jeff switched topics. "If no one else remembers tonight….then the Dean won't make me go to the mall Saturday to pay for the costume! This is the merriest Halloween ever!" he celebrated.

"Hold on, Jeff," Annie interrupted. "He'll know something happened when he can't find it in his closet. And we're not sneaking in there to return it with the army leaving. Or with everyone brainwashed! Besides, if he didn't give you that costume, none of this would have happened, would it?"

"Well….it might have taken some different turns," Jeff barely argued.

"Turns that would have gotten us brainwashed. And I've had enough of that myself," Annie reminded. "So that settles it, you're going to the mall with him on Saturday, even if he forgot. And then….I can let you recover by taking me to dinner," she added with a knowing but hopeful smile. God, the compromises Jeff was making in this relationship already.

Yet when he said, "Yes, Milady," and saw her light up like a real Christmas/Halloween angel, he suspected he would never pair up Annie and diminishing returns ever again.

THE END