#community fanfic
Big thanks to @inkentumbls!
The mystery fic that was driving me crazy is Chang-cuffed by ficcingagain on LJ.
It’s as funny and sweet as I remember. I did misremember the reason why Jeff and Annie ended up handcuffed together. And the key was lost rather than hidden. But other than that, I was pretty close. I’ve now bookmarked it on LJ.
I tried Google. I went through the dated archives. I went through tags. I went through multiple other LJ communities. But here it is thanks to the kindness of strangers!
I’m kinda hoping that someone here bookmarked this story, but somehow I doubt it. It’s worth a shot, tho:
FANDOM: Community
SHIP: Platonic Jeff/Annie with shippy undertones
AUTHOR: Not sure. All I know is that it’s someone who wrote exactly ONE J/A Community fic
WHERE WAS IT: The story was on someone’s personal Livejournal, but a link to it was posted on the Milady/Milord Livejournal (or possibly Community_TV Livejournal, but I doubt it because this Community_TV turned pretty anti-J/A around this point, I think out of self-preservation because Milady/Milord was such a massive LJ community and the J/A ship was drowning out discussion of all other ships in fandom).
WHEN WAS IT: It was posted somewhere between “Geography of Global Conflict” (S3) and before the start of S4.
PREMISE: Told from Jeff’s PoV. Jeff and Annie are “arrested” by Security Guard Chang and find themselves handcuffed together in an “interrogation room.” The cause is some kind of shenanigans have happened on campus and Chang is convinced the Study Group is behind it. Jeff and Annie were nabbed because that’s who Chang found first (I’m pretty sure tasering was involved). As far as Jeff and Annie know, the Study Group wasn’t involved (I think it turns out that Pierce and Shirley are solely responsible, but it was a “side adventure” and not a Study Group thing), but Chang doesn’t believe them and threatens to hold them until they come clean. Comedic interrogation follows that somehow results in Chang hiding the key and Jeff and Annie escaping while handcuffed together. They reach Troy and Abed and convince them to take them to the police station to see if they have the key for the model handcuffs they’re stuck with. There’s another comic interlude where Jeff has to let Troy drive his car because he can’t do it while handcuffed to Annie. For one reason or another, the Police don’t have a key to match the handcuffs because the handcuffs are some kind of unusual model that the police don’t use. In any case, Jeff and Annie are stuck and Cassa TroBedNie at least overnight while handcuffed together. I don’t remember how they actually manage to get out of the cuffs.
WHY DO YOU WANT TO FIND IT: It was a great story, well-written, in-character for S3, and hella funny. Also, the Jeff voice was on the slightly unusual side, in that he is an actual functional adult who has kind of accepted his life had been turned into a Looney Tunes cartoon.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO FIND IT: I thought I had bookmarked it on Livejournal, but I had not. I tried going through the tags on Milady/Milord Livejournal, but considering this was someone who wrote exactly ONE J/A Community story, they don’t have a tag.
FOUND! @inkentumbls got the goods for me.
The mystery fic that was driving me crazy is Chang-cuffed by ficcingagain on LJ.
