you can't spell "involved" without "love," by wr1t3rbl0ck3d

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Fandom Category: Community
Pairing: Britta Perry/Jeff Winger
Fic Title: you can't spell "involved" without "love."
Author: wr1t3rbl0ck3d
Link: http://wr1t3rbl0ck3d.livejournal.com/3770.html?style=mine
Rating/Warning(s): PG? PG-13?
Genre: One-shot. Character/relationship study
WIP?: no

Why This Must Be Read: Quick, but perfectly in character and exactly everything that makes this pairing work so well without overlooking the obvious character flaws that both Jeff and Britta share. Which, in the world of Community, really just makes them that much more perfect for each other.

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It’s not like they actually agreed on anything. It’s not like, one day, they both sat down at her tiny kitchen table and one of them said, “So, this is kind of turning into a relationship.” In all honesty, they’re probably afraid to do just that. She doesn’t think his jokes are funny. He thinks her extreme liberalism is pointless. She wrinkles her nose as she watches him tear into a steak. He pokes fun at her when she takes out a bit of knitting for her cat.

They just don’t work. They aren’t a couple and they aren’t in love—they proved that the first week back, she thinks. Shirley says they bring out the worst in each other, and Annie and Abed have both commented on their lack of chemistry. They bicker like brothers and sisters, Troy tells them. And Pierce, surprisingly enough, thinks she’s too good for him.

She tells herself that they’re right. They’re not good for one another, they’re like brother and sister, she deserves better.

She shouldn’t care. She shouldn’t. But she does. She doesn’t know when it started, but she does.

(A wise voice in the back of her mind informs her politely that it started somewhere between the moment they met and the moment after that.)