As it turns out, Sam is Hyde's second wife. He married his first when he was six. Mrs. Forman has the pictures to prove it. Takes place after Sam left but Jackie and Fez never got together.


Kitty Forman was upset, she had one son in Africa and the other had married a stripper, but was in love with someone else and making the poor girl miserable. She didn't know who to fix this mess. She couldn't do much for Eric but Steven and Jackie were another story.

They had always reminded her of her and Red, one emotional, the other zen-like but they made it work. She always thought they would be good together and seeing them miserable hurt her. The other basement babies weren't helping matters.

Fez was lusting over Sam and Michael had yet to apologize to Jackie for the damage he caused in her relationship. Donna, well Donna had been getting on her nerves with the support she was giving Sam and the way she treated Jackie so horribly of nowhere. Steven was trying to push Jackie away to keep his heart from breaking more, Donna was just cruel towards her.

Kitty missed Jackie, the little loud one always brought laughter and light into the house, but she was pulling away and Kitty and Red were frantic to keep in her their lives. She tried to have the girl over for dinner as much as possible but the girl would see Steven and dart out the door, pain in her eyes and he would stare at her with pain and love in his eyes. He was pushing her away thinking that she deserved better and she was running away because she still loved him.


A few weeks before Sam left, Kitty and Jackie had been making cookies when Steven and Sam walked into the room and Steven stoled some cookies. He bit into one and moaned in appreciation, taking a seat in one of the chairs. Sam moves closer to the stove.

"I don't know how you do it, Mrs. Forman."

Sam had asked about the recipe and Kitty had smiled politely and told her it was a family recipe. Sam had pouted and Steven was quiet as he remembered the fact that Kitty had given Jackie a couple of family recipes back when they were dating. He watched Jackie bend her head over the bowl, almost as she was trying to protect herself from any verbal blows directed her way and he hates himself for making her like that. He's just like Bud and Edna, no he's worse. They never loved each other or him. He still loves Jackie.

He saw a notebook on the table, with Jackie's writing in it. He had to swallow hard and shut the notebook before Sam saw it. In it were recipes, written in small neat, loopy handwriting, with hearts dotting the I's, the notebook had been open to his favorite cookies.

Jackie ignored Sam and kept stirring some more batter. This seemed to annoy Sam as she strutted over to him and sat on his lap.

She made a comment about dessert and he kissed her to shut her up. Jackie stirred faster and she hunched her shoulders as if she was trying to protect herself from any blows that would come her way. It hurt, he would never physically hurt but he was emotionally hurting her. So he suggested that they head to the basement and as soon as they close the door Jackie crumped into the chair he had vacated, crying. Kitty tried to comfort the poor girl but eventually gave up and walked out of the room giving her space but not before she saw her son sitting by the basement door, beer in his hand as he listened to his ex-girlfriend cry. He looked like he was in physical pain and his sunglasses were off.

She wanted nothing more than to comfort him but she wasn't sure how to help her kids. She couldn't do anything, he decided to stay married to Sam, she couldn't change that.


Eric comes home a few days before the new year with Laurie in tow and he ignores everyone in the basement and heads straight to the kitchen to hug Jackie who breaks down in his arms, crumpling to the floor as the dam finally breaks because someone actually cared to ask her how she was doing, and she looks proudly at her youngest son. She had suggested that Jackie send letters to him so her son was up to date about everything.

The others had followed him up the stairs and they stand silently as they watch the nerd hold the girl he refers to as the devil in his arms, stroking her hair, murmuring to her quietly. Laurie gives her parents quick hugs and kisses and then she stands next to them as they watch Eric and Jackie. Donna looks angry but she glares at her and Red stands there with his arms crossed, a small smile on his face as he watches his son comfort his favorite. Donna opens her mouth and Laurie makes a fist and look at Donna right in the eye and the girl doesn't say anything. Laurie may have slept with Jackie's boyfriend but she knows what its like to have your heart broken into a million pieces by your one true love, so that why she will stand by her. Laurie is a grown woman and she feels guilty about her actions and she owes Jackie an apology. Jackie is one of the reasons she came home, the other is the small life growing in her. She's going to be a mother and she needs to start acting like an adult.

Laurie snaps at the two boys and points to the basement and they nod so Fez and Michael head down the stairs with Donna in tow. Laurie and Red head to the living room and Kitty follows them but not before she looks back at the scene in the kitchen. Steven is left standing in the kitchen, arms crossed, sunglasses on. Her oldest son looks upset as Jackie cries on Eric's shoulder and she knows its because Jackie used to always go to him when she cried. But how can Jackie possibly cry on his shoulder when the one who hurt her is him.


After the scene in the kitchen, Jackie doesn't come by until the end of January.

Jackie stops by one day while Kitty and Laurie are drinking wine and lemonade in the kitchen. She asks them to help her make something. Jackie's baking skills have improved greatly since the apple pie incident back when she was a sophomore taking home ec. She doesn't say why she stayed away or why she's in the kitchen and why she is back and neither Forman women ask. Kitty doesn't say a word as Jackie unpacks her grocery bag full of baking materials and she sees that the ingredients are for Steven's favorite cookies. Laurie makes them laugh as she talks about her life in Chicago, careful not to bring up anything that would worry her mother.

Laurie and Jackie had sat down two weeks ago and cleared the air. They talked about Michael and Jackie even told her about steven. Laurie told her about the baby and they eventually went back to Jackie's place talking and giggling. She even got to clear the air with Fez

Steven comes into the kitchen from the basement and sees the cookies and Jackie, he puts two and two together, he opens his mouth and then shook his head and went back to the basement without taking a cookie and Jackie burst into tears, thinking about the last time she made him cookies. Laurie burst into tears too and that's when it hits Kity as to why her daughter has come home.

She's going to be a grandmother. This news should make her overjoyed but as she watches both of her daughters cry, she wants to cry too.

She sends Jackie home with cookies and dinner and she has Red buy ice cream for Laurie and tells her to get some sleep and they will discuss the baby in the morning. Then and only then does she poured herself another glass of wine and decides to look through some photo albums from when the boys and Laurie were much younger, simpler times. Before they got their hearts broken, abandoned like stray puppies, and pregnant out of wedlock.


She chuckled as she saw the famous picture of Steven and Eric in the bathtub. Steven's glaring at the camera, but it's such a sweet picture.

There was one of Laurie standing in front of a mirror, wearing a pair of her heels and her pearls and another one of her and Red with the car. There's one of Laurie, Steven, and Eric, all three of them sitting on Santa's lap.

There was one of Eric, Steven, and Michael all squeezed together on Eric's bed, asleep. Michael has one leg on top of the blankets and one arm in Eric's face. Eric is sleeping on his stomach and Steven is curled up with one of Eric's teddy bears under his arm.

She snorted when she came across a picture of Donna sitting on Eric's head. There were some of her and Red. One of all her basement babies minus Fez sitting on the couch, Jackie between Michael and Steven but in the picture, she was leaning against Steven a smile on her face and he was relaxed next to her, the picture had caught the boy giving her a soft smile.

She halfway through the album and on her fifth glass of wine when she stumbles upon a picture she forgot she even had let alone took, her fingers still and a soft smile appears on her face as she stares at the picture of Steven and Jackie, in her basement.

She can't help but think about that day and it made her smile. That was the day that she knew one of her sons had met his soulmate.

She looks at the picture for a while before she looks at the pictures on the next page that are also of Steven and Jackie.

She feels someone sit down next to her. She looks up from the photo album and sees Eric next to her.

"What are you looking at?"

She shows him the picture of Jackie and Steven and he gasps. She flips to the page before and he looks at the picture before he flips back to the previous page.

"Wow. I forgot about that. Look how small we were."

He pulls one of the pictures of the album and holds it with shaky hands.

He chuckles.

"He always loved her, didn't he? He could never say no to her."

Kitty smiles thinking about all the times Steven had helped Jackie out, from holding her hand when they went trick or treating together, after a clown scared her or kissing her knee the one time she fell and scraped it, to the time he took her to prom.

"Sweetheart, they were in love with each other long before they even knew what love was."

"You should show them, remind them of what they are missing."

"I think they are both aware of what they are missing. Thought you weren't going to meddle, I mean you aren't a big fan of Jackie after all, don't tell me a bunch of letters changed your attitude towards her."

Eric shrugged.

"She's the devil but Hyde's my brother and she makes him happy, or as he would say less pissed off. The way she believes in him, no one has ever believed in him and the way he looks at her when she's not looking. Everyone says me and Donna fit well, but sometimes I think they fit better. "

He waves the picture, "This just proves it."

She took the picture from him and decided she needs to go to make copies of the picture which she did a few days later in Kenosha when she and Laurie went to the doctor for a check-up.


The girl working the photo machine and Laurie coo over the picture.

Kitty told the girl that was her son and his longtime girlfriend. The girl said that she hoped they got married one day and Kitty smiled, she still hoped for them to get married.

On the drive home, Kitty told Laurie a bit about the story behind the picture, which made Laurie cry happy tears over how cute it was.

Kitty had originally planned to go shopping with Laurie after the check-up, but Laurie suggested that they bring Jackie along to go shopping for maternity wear. That suggestion made Kitty beam. Her oldest daughter taking in her youngest child under her wing.

So she went home with three copies of the picture and brought frames for them. One frame goes on the shelves with the rest of the pictures, the other two are placed in separate boxes, wrapped with bows.

She wandered into Steven's room and placed one on his bed with a note that said, one day means today.


Let me know what you all think.

-Queen