Thanks to all those who favored and followed along, and the very select few who actually reviewed. Now here's the very end.

It was way too early for all involved to discuss Shirley's early morning freakout. So they all went back to sleep, got woken up when Andre came to take the kitchen table back, then parted ways for the holiday weekend. But by the time Monday morning came around, Britta, Shirley, Troy, Abed and Pierce were ready to talk – in the halls before they could face Jeff and Annie in the study room.

"I have a confession to make," Shirley began. "It's the only way I can fix my soul before I'm 80! 90, tops! I made Jeff host Thanksgiving dinner so he could….do things with Annie that night. In a romantic bed way, mind you! Not that their souls had the strength or plain old guts to do anything," she grumbled.

"Apology accepted," Pierce strangely said. "New topic. Magic Mike DVD night! That's a thing we can do, right? Even if Jeff and Annie are the only ones?"

"Oh, stop it!" Britta asked. "It's clear we all failed to win the bet already! We can't just change our picks now because we lost!" She paused and added, "Besides, there's no way they'd get away with sex on the quad."

"Damn it, my brain got that idea in brain rehab too!" Troy groaned. "Either great minds think alike, or mine just cheated off of yours! I'm going to say it's the first one….for now," he said as a warning before sharing a smile with Britta.

"Say whatever you want, I'm done," Shirley promised. "This whole thing was a mistake! We bet on them having sex, when the real important thing was them getting together the right way! Not that we got them to do any of that…..the cowards," she grumbled again.

"Yeah, we screwed up, didn't we?" Troy questioned. "We all thought it was inevitable they'd hook up, right? Maybe we made them lose their inevitability-ness! The bet was they'd be in love and then have sex, and now they might not even do love stuff! That sucks worse than them not having sex! At least in the really dull positions."

"Yep, we suck all right," Shirley agreed. "And now I'll be stuck in Hell with the rest of you because of it. You guys and Anderson Cooper better help me pass the time down there! At least I know I can count on Anderson."

Britta didn't even have the energy or spark to stick up for Anderson Cooper – none of them did. So they went down the halls, hoping they could face Jeff and Annie, their own failure, and the memories of what 400 dollars could buy.

Yet their disappointment was drowned out by noises after a while. They got a bit louder over time – and then suddenly, there were two really loud noises at the same time. One of them – the more masculine sounding one – actually sounded louder than the other high pitched sound.

And both of them seemed to be coming from the nearby billiards room.

"Oh my God! It sounds like they got hit in bad places by pool balls!" Shirley called, ignoring the dirty implications. What's more, she then cheered, "Yes! I nurse them back to health, I can get 80 years shaved off my Hell sentence! So long, suckers!" She ran over to the door of the billiards room, just as the two noises cried out louder than ever.

Seconds later, everyone heard more panicked and embarrassed screaming, along with a bunch of "Oh Lords" over and over. Britta, Troy and Pierce then ran in while Abed stayed behind, avoiding the sight of Jeff and Annie covering up after their 'first time' in the billiards room.

After a few minutes, the rest of the group came back, freaking out in their own in character ways. They were eventually followed by a fully dressed Jeff and Annie, who were more embarrassed and mad in their own in character ways. So Abed stayed quiet, knowing he had a few minutes before his cue.

Britta ultimately asked what the hell happened, and Jeff and Annie exchanged nervous looks before Annie took a deep breath to explain. Of course, what she said was a surprise to everyone but Abed.

Annie didn't plan ahead to go into the billiards room, which was remarkable for her. She just wanted to find a place where no one would think to look for her. Then she'd have some last minute peace before she was ready to face Jeff today.

Of course, she overlooked the ugly truth that Jeff loved pool.

"Jeff!" Annie squeaked once she saw him at one of the pool tables. "What, uh, what are you doing here?"

"I asked you first," Jeff incorrectly answered. "Well, asking you second should count for something. Right?" he tried to save as he put his pool cue down.

"I don't know, you know pool better than I do," was all Annie had. "I just wanted some quiet for a while. But you had dibs, so I'll clear out of here," she offered, wondering if the storage closet had been cleared of Changlorious Bastards booby traps yet.

"Annie, wait!" Jeff called out. Once Annie made herself turn around, he continued, "I won't be much longer in here. I'm just playing pool to clear my head and get ready for today. But I guess now I'm as ready as I'll ever be."

"To do what?" Annie tried to ask with as little visible hope as possible.

"Annie, you're right. I don't want to talk about certain things. I'm all talked out already," Jeff had the nerve to say.

Before Annie could attack him, he went on with, "I've talked to myself about that stuff for three years now. And my conscience has gotten off life support to nag my ass off too. That bastard really doesn't want to go back into a coma! But between my debates with them, and how our recent adventures have answered all my other concerns there's not much left for me to say. I figured that much out after this weekend."

"What do you have left to say, then?" Annie dared to inquire, her voice staying firm with considerable effort.

"Let's see, what do I have?" Jeff comically asked, which didn't help Annie out with her nerves. "Like I said, I don't have much. It's mostly stuff about how I don't want us to be weird or awkward anymore. And that I never want to be too cowardly to be around you again. Oh, and the matter of me wanting to be a regular couple with you. That includes sleeping and talking with you in bed, telling you things first, letting you meddle in my life and make it better than you already do. You know, things like that."

Despite how lightly he rattled off those confessions, Jeff took a few deep breaths when he finished. When he was composed again, he finished, "That's all I've got, really. How about you?" Yet Annie not only had nothing back for him, she couldn't even move a muscle.

"Annie?" Jeff checked again, but she still stayed silent. "If this is you paying me back for not saying this earlier, I guess I get it. Could you confirm it with words?" But still nothing. "What, do I have to say more? I spent all weekend coming up with that! Do I have to use the sappy version I deleted too? Yeah, I wrote one! And if I have to say it for you, I guess I'll-"

Jeff finally shut up for real once Annie went over and kissed him. It was the first impulse she had, and the first time in two years she felt safe to act on that desire. But when she remembered how that turned out before, she broke away and voiced one final concern.

"Do we need to be discreet now?" she tried to ask calmly.

"Never again," Jeff immediately answered – eliminating any calm in both of them.

With that, the floodgates opened as both of them put their lips, tongues and hands on anything they could reach. Naturally, Jeff did it better at first, yet instead of overwhelming Annie, it made her up her game. Soon, Jeff was moaning into her mouth even more than Annie was moaning into his – especially when she got under his shirt first.

Annie was just riding on impulse, as rare as that was, and she wanted to take advantage. That was her only thought, as even rarer as that was. As such, when Jeff picked up her and had her sit on the pool table, then started to unbutton her cardigan, she didn't have enough thought left to object. In fact, when she did think about Jeff exposing her body – and how in awe he looked of it – she turned off her brain for once and started unbuttoning him as well.

She didn't question why Jeff had a condom available at that moment. She barely even paid attention when Jeff said he dreamed about this all Thanksgiving night – and all weekend, and for much of the last year or two. She just –

"Okay, you probably know the rest," present day Jeff interrupted. Present day Annie managed to get her composure back, and faced her friends without blushing too heavily.

"Wait, who bet on them having pool room sex again?" Pierce asked.

"No one did, Pierce!" Troy reminded. "We had a sex pool and no one thought to bet on pool room sex! The only reason my brain's off the hook for that is because it's so funny!"

"You had WHAT?!" Annie yelled, which at least made her feel something other than embarrassed.

"Oh Lord, oh Lord," Shirley repeated two more times. "I'm already damned enough, I can't pile it on by defending our sex bet! You people are on your own!"

"To be fair, we bet on you guys getting together! We were on your side!" Britta tried to defend. "We just wondered where you'd do it after you did it, that's all."

"Why does that make sense?" Jeff asked. "For that matter, why do things like Pierce sending us to the Dean's office, Troy putting us in a broom closet…..and Britta bringing up our study room sex make sense now? Seriously, explain that to me!" he said with more anger.

Any actual explanations were drowned out by yelling, arguing and more left over embarrassment from Annie and Shirley. But among the noise, some of them could hear Abed counting down from 10.

"Five, four, three, two, one and now!" Abed called out, which made everyone finally get quiet. "Good, you've had your allotted incoherent yelling time now. With that, we can finally move onto the closing twist."

"Does this look like the time for an outdated dance, Abed?!" Pierce complained.

This did help everyone focus on Abed more, as he pulled out his cell phone and showed the others that he was loading up a video. When it started, it showed Abed sitting all alone in the study room, with his laptop and a newspaper nearby.

"Greetings from the slightly distant past. No more than three weeks ago is my best guess," Abed accurately stated. "If you're watching this, then you've just walked into Jeff and Annie having sex for the first time. And it wasn't in a broom closet like Troy guessed, or the Dean's office like Pierce thought, or here on the study table as Britta predicted, or in a bed like Shirley hoped for. As much as you'll all try to make that happen, it obviously didn't work if you're watching this video."

Abed turned his phone towards the laptop and focused on the date listed on the bottom right. He then turned it to the newspaper as well. "This confirms I'm filming on the day you made the bet," Abed reinforced. "As such, it confirms I knew Jeff and Annie would have their first time in the billiards room from the start. It was the first place where Annie saw Jeff naked, so it makes sense that it's the first place she'd see him naked as a couple. If you're watching this video, that's exactly what happened."

Britta, Troy and Shirley groaned at Abed being right and at getting it so wrong. But Pierce reflected, "Right, a pool room has balls! Of course that would get Jeff going! Why the hell didn't I think of that?!"

"You know what, maybe I will shove balls into things now!" Jeff called out. "Maybe then you'll think twice the next time you bet on me and Annie! Or at least think twice the next time you manipulate us into having sex!"

"That's what you're going with now? They tricked you into having sex with me?!" Annie objected, her anger at Jeff now catching up to her anger at the group.

"Jeff, Annie, Pierce, please," Abed actually said in the phone video. Once they were startled by Abed seeing the future that accurately, they all shut up and kept watching Abed's phone.

"Now then, although Jeff and Annie may be upset about what the group did, and the group may be upset that they all lost, they shouldn't be," Abed continued. "You were right to keep me from taking part in the bet. If I had given the climax away, none of this would have happened and I would have stopped you all from getting Jeff and Annie together. Just not in the way you planned."

"Your goal is for them to start their relationship and have sex, but you focused more on them having sex instead. Yet through all your tricks, you'll set the stage for them to work through their last remaining issues, and see that they're ready to work as a real couple. Although your plans for them to make love completely and utterly fail, you'll all play a part in them being ready to be in love instead. And express that love against a pool table," Abed guessed correctly.

As the truth of Abed's future telling sunk in, the past Abed kept going with, "So in that regard, all of you have now won the bet. Everything that Troy, Pierce, Britta and Shirley are about to do will bring Jeff and Annie together, both with and without their clothes on. Therefore, you are all winners – and you don't even have to lose any money now. It may be a bit sentimental, but I can't completely blame Season Four for it this time. At least the sentiment and happy endings for all have been eaarrnnneedd!" he finished in his spooky Halloween voice.

Yet he resumed in his normal emotionless voice with, "Hopefully that callback balances out the sappier epilogue ahead. Future Abed, turn me off and let them wrap it up. I'd end with an Inspector Spacetime time travel joke, but I have to find Troy before Jeff and Annie fail to have broom closet sex. End flashback….now!"

With that, the video clip ended and the present day study group was left to take it all in. Finally, present day Annie said, "He's right. Past Abed is absolutely right."

"Don't you mean when Abed is absolutely right?" Troy interjected. When no one responded, he backtracked, "Oops, mixed up my Inspector Spacetime time jokes."

"Anyway, Abed is right in both times!" Annie resumed. "If you guys hadn't tricked us into all that time together, we wouldn't be here! We wouldn't have proved we can see each other for who we really are," she said while pointing to Troy. "We wouldn't have remembered that we'll always be there for each other, even after we graduate," she gestured at Pierce. "We wouldn't have remembered that the past doesn't matter, as long as we want to make it better," she signaled at Britta. "And we wouldn't have seen that we can be a regular couple after all," she pointed to Shirley.

Annie addressed the rest of the group altogether with, "We solved all those issues because you gave us the chance! That's why we couldn't keep our hands off each other anymore today! Each one of you really did help bring us together!"

But after saying that, Annie suddenly got nervous and looked at Jeff. "Not that I'm saying we're together now! It's way too early to put labels on this, or bring up things that may not be there in front of everyone! I know that!"

Jeff then sighed and concluded, "You never should have had to know it that well. But you won't have to again." To drive it home, he dared to put his arm around Annie in front of the group.

"You know, I should be furious at all of you!" Jeff restarted. "Being afraid of what you thought kept me from doing this much earlier! Well, that was just one reason, but still! Now you're not only okay with us, you got us together! You should have tried to make money off us years ago!"

"So you are together now? Even when she's not naked?" Shirley asked.

"That's what I was hoping for," Jeff assured. One relieved, blinding smile from Annie assured Jeff that his hopes were rewarded. But before they slipped into one of their long looks, Shirley came up and hugged them both as tight as she could.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, oh glorious day!" Shirley said, using the last words Jeff and Annie ever imagined from her at this moment. "I've done good after all, we've all done good! I might salvage a trip to Heaven yet! Maybe one or two of you might too, who knows?"

"Yeah, I've earned a trip to my much better Heaven after this!" Pierce announced. "I mean, they got closer in the Dean's office than anywhere! You could say I really won the bet because of that!"

"Uh, no we couldn't," Britta objected. "They needed to fix their past way more, and they did it in the study room! So I came closest to winning the bet here – not that it matters!" she corrected. But then she added, "Plus I kind of had a few moments with Troy afterward. That should get me extra points somewhere."

"Wait a minute, if you get those, I get them too! It should be in our couple's pre-nup or something!" Troy stated. "Besides, if my brain was working right back then, it would have guessed they'd do it in the pool room too! And I was the first one to try anything, so that means I won even more! And Abed's my best friend and he got it right, so now you guys aren't even close! It's embarrassing how higher up my brain is now!"

"Screw you, they screwed because they gayed it up in the Dean's closet! It just took longer than I thought! And I lost a friend because of it….I think it was Magnitude or someone like that! So give me my 400 bucks!" Pierce demanded.

"Stop it, all of you!" Shirley insisted. "The important thing is that we made them happy, and made them ready for each other! That's the best thing that came out of this, not money or winning bets or anything."

The group looked appropriately shamed – yet Shirley still went on with, "Plus they didn't sleep together like a real couple in your plans. And mine was kind of the last straw before they did it for real, so…."

"Wow, you got back into Heaven and redefined pimping, good for you!" Britta snarked.

"You would know, you….study room night lady! Now where's my money?!" Shirley snapped.

Britta, Shirley, Troy and Pierce couldn't be stopped now, as they argued over who did more to get Jeff and Annie together – and who should win the bet they all already lost. Jeff, Annie and Abed just watched quietly, until Annie added, "Okay! Well, me and Jeff will be at the study room when you're all done…."

"Oh no, it's way too late for study room sex now, Edison!" Britta called out. "Unless….200 bucks on the study room for their second time! Thanks guys, I owe you a 5 percent cut for this!"

"Pool room, I got pool room this time! Now you'll all bow to Troy's brain!" Troy cheered.

"Britta, stop pretending your boyfriend's a girl and shut him down!" Pierce demanded, which sent them all into incoherent arguing again.

"All right. You all go do that," Jeff conceded, leading Annie away while their arguing friends were distracted. But Abed still noticed them shaking their heads in disbelief, smiling over their friends' insanity – and then taking each other's hands before they got too far away.

"An overdue happy ending, and a comical argument to make it ironic. Maybe there's still something special left for Season Four after all," Abed expressed relief, standing in the middle as the new couple walked away on his left, and the friends who finally got them together kept screaming on his right.

THE END