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A/N: And we're back. This is an AU, I've been working on, on and off, for the last couple of months, and I finally decided to just let you see it. Timeline-wise it takes place in between Ski Trip in season 1, and I Love Cake in season 2. It's not intended as a full episode rewrite, and I also don't want to just summarize the show for you, so if something just stays the exact same as in canon, we'll just move on. I'm also avoiding reusing dialogue from the show, wherever possible.

Other than that, I just hope whoever is reading this enjoys it.


Michael's hat said Truckers make good lovers. Jackie didn't know where, he had gotten it from, but he had a lot of weird stuff, so it wasn't like it surprised her. It was still weird though even gross, but Jackie didn't care. Her wonderful, sweet Michael had walked all the way here from Point Place to the ski cabin. Just because he was sorry about Pam Macy. It was all so romantic. That had to be it, right? All of their friends were staring at them, Hyde rolling his eyes at her question. But it had to be it. She loved Michael, and Michael loved her, and he had wanted to prove he was really sorry. Michael's mouth was hanging open.

She had never felt as betrayed, as when Leslie had come running to tell her, what she had seen behind the gym. That Michael, Jackie's Michael had kissed Pam Macy of all people. It had even been making out! Michael had absolutely deserved her dumping him and taking all of his friends with her to the ski cabin without him. Hyde was sitting on top of her parents' bureau, leaning slightly forward watching them with interest. Eric and Donna shared a look between each other. Fez had passed out on the couch.

"Actually, he hitched a ride with a trucker so," Eric said, without looking over at them. Jackie practically shoved Michael away from her. All of the joy of seeing Michael here, evaporated into thin air. She hoped Eric was lying, it would be like him to lie, it was Eric. He called her the devil on a regular basis, it wouldn't be beneath him to try and ruin something, she loved.

"Eric!" Michael protested, coincidentally making all of Jackie's romantic fantasies come crashing down around her. She shoved him again, glaring daggers at him. Michael looked mostly confused, after all she had been crying about him, minutes earlier.

"You did, man," Eric replied, almost sounding defensive. Jackie wasn't sure, why he said that, and she didn't care. What was important was what Michael had done or hadn't done to be more precise.

"I can't believe you, Michael!" Jackie bit at him, anger boiling in her entire body. She had been upset about Michael all night, but now she was just angry. "First, you cheat on me with that slut Pam Macy! Then you don't even walk through the snow to get to me and apologize. You still haven't apologized!"

"But Jackie, it was really cold out there!" Michael protested lamely, out of the corner of her eye, she could see Donna and Eric sighing heavily. Jackie clenched her fists. "And I felt really lonely, since you know, Eric totally ditched me."

"Michael!" Jackie practically yelled. If he hadn't even come here to see her, but just because he wanted to see Eric of all people, it was definitely over. Who would pick Eric over her? It was Eric for crying out loud.

"Kelso, I don't think that is making it any better," Donna added, her voice a little small, but Jackie barely noticed her. She was busy glaring at Michael, tears welling up in her eyes. She didn't want to cry again, she'd already cried too much about him. Stupid, stupid Michael.

"Oh, and you. You know obviously you totally ditched me too," Michael said. This time Jackie shoved him so hard, Michael actually stumbled backwards and fell on his ass. A small part of Jackie's brain registered the fact, that Hyde let out a small laugh over on the bureau.

"You know, I gotta say. This is a lot more fun, than you two just jumping each other and getting back together," Hyde said. He almost looked like he was enjoying the show. Even if Jackie usually didn't mind him too much, besides the fact that he was dirty and poor, and had given her a shoulder to cry on only to then be an insensitive jerk, Jackie fumed at him now. Not only was her and Michael's beautiful love dead, but Steven Hyde almost seemed to think it was funny.

"Oh, shut up Hyde," Jackie bit at him, as she made her way past him, glaring, heading into the bedroom. She slammed the door closed behind her, to Michael's muffled protests. She didn't care. She might love Michael, tragic love story and all, but Michael had also very much ruined whatever relationship they had. There was a part of Jackie, that was tempted to go out there, and just forgive him. After all, Michael had shown up. It wasn't his fault, that he didn't always say the right thing. But the rest of her was too angry, too upset to ever speak to Michael again.


This ski trip had turned into a trip from hell. Hyde and Kelso were debating whether or not it would be funny to draw a moustache on the sleeping Fez, who laid sprawled across the couch and occasionally let out small whimpers in his sleep. Donna shifted a little uncomfortably in her seat, she was having one hell of a weird night. Jackie's sobs from the bedroom had died down. Donna knew her friend well enough to know, that there was no point in trying to talk to Jackie as long as she was upset enough to cry about something. It would be like talking to a wall. Or as Hyde had proved earlier, it could make things a lot worse. But now that Jackie was seemingly done crying, Donna knew she should go talk to her. A not so small part of her, also wanted to get out of being in the same room as Eric and Hyde.

She couldn't believe Hyde had actually kissed her! Donna had known, obviously, that he liked her. You would have to be nearly blind to miss that. If the dance at the disco in Kenosha hadn't made it completely obvious, Christmas definitely had. But Donna was with Eric, even if Eric hadn't properly asked her to be his girlfriend just yet, and Hyde had teased her enough about liking Eric, that she figured it wouldn't be an issue. That he would just drop it. Apparently, she'd been wrong about that.

Donna got up from the couch and made her way to the bedroom of the cabin. She'd been expecting to just have a nice weekend with Eric and the rest of her friends. But then, Hyde had decided to ruin it. And then Kelso had shown up to upstage Hyde, and once again prove himself to be the king. Donna opened the door, and found Jackie lying in the dark bedroom in the middle of the bed, hugging her knees to her chest. Donna closed the door behind her and switched a light on. That made Jackie sit up. "I don't wanna talk," she said with a small voice.

"Liar," Donna said with a tiny smile, sitting down on the bed next to Jackie. Jackie wrapped both her arms around her, and she pressed her face into her shoulder. Normally, Donna wasn't as much for the hugs, as her smaller friend was, but right now she was kind of grateful for it. Not only, was it helping Jackie, but it was also taking her mind off this whole Hyde thing, and how the hell she could ever tell Eric about it.

"I hate Michael," Jackie muttered into Donna's shoulder. Her voice was thick from having cried earlier. Donna definitely understood what she meant. She stroked her back. "And I hate that I still wanna forgive him."

"Jackie, look at me," Donna said, making Jackie look up to practically glare at her. Even if there wasn't much strength in her eyes, and they still looked watery. Her cardigan was askew, from how she'd been curled up on the bed. "You don't hate Kelso, you just hate him for being a dillhole. But you also deserve better than some dillhole who cheats on you with the first blonde skank, he sees, got it?"

"I don't know what to do without Michael," Jackie said with a tiny, barely audible voice, looking completely serious. Something tightened in Donna's throat, she felt really bad for Jackie. Kelso might be her friend, and he would probably be upset about Jackie not taking him back for a while, considering how mad he got, whenever Fez tried to hit on Jackie. But as much as Kelso was her friend, she doubted he'd feel as helpless, as Jackie looked like she was. It made Donna want to get up and get out in the living room, just to punch Kelso in the face a couple of times, just for good measure.

"Jackie, two days ago Kelso tied his own shoelaces together as practice for a burn, and then when he got up to leave, he'd forgotten and fell flat on his face," Donna said instead of leaving. She was pleased when she saw a small watery smile, sneak its way onto Jackie's face. "I think, you'll be fine."

"Thanks Donna," Jackie said with a small smile, resting her head against Donna's shoulder again. Donna didn't really mind that Jackie was getting snot all over her shirt. Maybe, she usually wasn't as enthusiastic about their friendship. But Donna didn't mind this. Donna had never had any friends, that wanted to talk about stuff like this with her. This was surprisingly not bad. Neither of the girls said anything for a long moment, before Jackie continued. "Tell me more stupid stuff, Michael did."

"Alright," Donna started with a small grin. She understood why Jackie wanted to hear about it. "So, there was this one time, Kelso tried to build a rocket launcher out of firecrackers."


Sure, a lot of Hyde's friends would say his conspiracy theories were crazy. But this was the first time, Hyde himself was actually convinced he'd lost it. Not only was he actually going to participate in a Christmas tradition, and give someone a present that wasn't a brown paper bag, candy, firecrackers or a comic book. No, he was going to buy a Christmas present for a chick, a chick he really liked. Namely Donna. Only, he had no idea how exactly to do that. He leant against the kitchen counter and took a deep breath.

Sure, Hyde knew the basics, he would get something that showed how much she meant to him. Maybe even helped convince her, that she shouldn't be with Forman, but with him instead. As shitty, as it made him feel to think that. Hyde took another sip of his soda. He had to stop thinking about Forman so much. The shrill voices of Jackie's vapid cheerleader friends interrupted his thoughts. In true Fez fashion, Fez was trying to convince them to come to Forman's party later. Hyde hoped, he failed. Sure, he didn't mind Jackie too much on a normal day, even if he complained a lot about Kelso dragging her down in the basement constantly, but he wasn't sure he could handle 3 Jackie clones on top of her. It would just give him a headache.

Jackie herself was standing by the sink, pouring a glass of water. Her dark hair was pulled away from her face, and she was wearing a red fur trimmed coat. She looked like a doll, more than an actual person. Hyde quickly pushed that thought out of his head. He had definitely lost it, if he thought Jackie Burkhart looking like a doll, and not just the spoiled rich brat, she actually was. Dolls were pretty, not vapid, egotistical and annoying. Then an idea struck him. Jackie knew Donna, and Jackie had helped Donna pick out a good present for Eric. "Jackie, come here," he said, before he could convince himself it was a shitty idea.

"Why?" she bit back, not moving an inch. Because nothing with Jackie ever seemed to come easy. It was probably why Kelso, had such a hard time trying to break up with her. She just wasn't that easy to get rid of.

"Just come here," he said, gesturing towards himself. Jackie finally seemed to listen to him.

"Hyde, if you wanna make out with me, the answer's probably no," she said, as she headed towards him, as if that was something, she actually needed to make clear. For a split second, he was too dumbfounded to say anything, or ask her what he meant to do. Her dark curls framed her face. Sure, she was kind of hot, if you could ignore all the crap she said, that was the one part of Kelso's insistence on dating her, he actually got. But there was a long way from that to actually wanna make out with her. She probably just assumed all guys were attracted to her, like Kelso assumed all chicks wanted to nail him.

"Right, okay," Hyde said quietly, and explained to her, what he actually wanted to ask her about, Donna's Christmas present. Even, if he didn't want her to know, it was for Donna necessarily. Maybe, he would remember what she'd just said for later. It would make a pretty sweet burn on Kelso, and it would probably get her embarrassed about it.ould probably get her embarrassed about it.