Hey everybody, this is my second That 70's Show fanfiction, I hope you guys all like it. It won't be as depressing as my last story, so there's that to look forward to. This is about college aged Eric and Jackie and eventually Hyde will be here too, but like I said before, I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer – I don't own That 70's Show or any of it's characters.

September 24, 1984

Usually Jackie liked her birthday, it was a day about her and she got presents from everybody. That's how she used to feel, pampered. Now she just wanted to get everybody to leave her alone.

Little backstory, she always wanted to be a star. So she enrolled in the University of Wisconsin and took a theater course. She was considered to be the best actress in her class and her acting coach tipped off a casting agent about her talent and urged her to go and audition for an upcoming medical drama television show.

She went to the audition, nailed it, and was called back a few days later and told she got the part. They started filming several weeks later and Jackie didn't know the show would blow up like it did.

It became the biggest show on TV and Jackie thought she'd love that. She thought she'd love all the attention that came with fame and fortune, but she thought wrong. Turns out getting all the attention in the world could get overwhelming and very old very fast.

It was cool at first, but now it's annoying.

Jackie's contract for the show ended at the beginning of September in 1984 and she's decided to quit show business. She wanted to go back to college and study journalism. She found she liked watching people and watching how things unfold, so she started writing a little bit and found she really enjoyed it.

So recently, Jackie's decided to pack her bags, go back to Wisconsin, and attend Madison University. Donna had graduated a couple of years back and was now working as a sound engineer for a smaller record label, but she was trying to build up her resume and find work at a much larger record label.

Steven Hyde still worked at his father's record shop, but he was talking about moving out of Point Place and going somewhere else, he said he didn't care where, he just wanted to get out of this tiny little town.

Fez was dating this girl named Haley at the moment. She was red headed girl in a punk band called 'Pocalypse,' but don't let her punk title fool you. She was really sweet and everybody liked her, Jackie once even told Fez that he better treat her well because if he didn't she'd have to hurt him. Jackie wasn't even sure if she was kidding when she said it. But Fez and Haley have been together for over a year and a half now, so things were looking good for them.

Kelso was still a cop and he ended up marrying Brooke and now Betsy was now five. Kelso lived in a suburban town a few miles outside of Chicago and he absolutely adored his daughter. He jokingly referred to her as the little girl version of Eric because she apparently loved Star Wars and comic books.

She lovingly referred to Eric as 'Uncle Ricky' and he's the one that gave her some of his old comic books which she now keeps in a large box under her bed. He apparently took her to see Star Wars last year when the final installment of the saga came out even though Brooke told him specifically not to. That what he was 'cool Uncle Ricky' to Betsy.

Jackie never thought she'd hear Eric being referred to as cool, but life's full of surprises.

Eric went off to Madison when he came back from Africa and graduated with a degree in music theory in the spring. He came to visit his family and see his friends every once in a while, but it's been a while since he's come. He said he'd come visit for Thanksgiving.

He was living in Madison somewhere near the campus now, trying to find a job. He was going to teach middle school music class, since he always loved working with kids.

Jackie's only seen him once since he's returned from Africa thanks to her superstardom and all that crap. She was headed to Madison now, so maybe she'd see him while she was there.

She was on the bus there right now, her elbow leaned against the window and her cheek rested in her palm as she tried to stay awake, her eyelids heavy. She was so tired, she's barely slept in the past few days, she was so nervous about beginning a new life, she just hoped everything went well.

Luckily when the bus halted to a stop it woke the sleeping princess up, the movement causing her whole body to jerk forward. She let out a little gas of shock before she heard the doors on the bus slide open. She looked around and saw everybody was standing and grabbing there bags and heading off the bus.

Jackie stretched quickly and stood, reaching up to grab her bags from above her seat and pull them down. She had a lot of bags, I mean of course she did, she was Jackie Burkhart and Jackie had to have room to keep all her things that made her look gorgeous.

Jackie, using a lot of strength, struggled to get off of the bus with all of her things. Everybody was looking at her funny, wondering why she had packed so much for one trip. Couldn't she just have somebody send the rest of her things later and just take the necessities?

Jackie ignored the curious looks from other passengers and passerby's and she quickly walked to the sidewalk. The bus took her right to Madison University's campus, which was great and convenient. The only problem was that it was dark and Jackie hated the dark, it scared her, especially now, knowing who she was with all these strangers around and no one around to keep her safe.

Jackie tried pushing a stray strand of brown hair out of her face, but it was sticking to her lip gloss. God, she hated when that happened. She huffed in annoyance and decided to just try and go find where she could get her dorm key.

She walked for a few minutes, but eventually found where she was supposed to go. She walked into a larger building and saw a desk a few yards ahead of her. She was just glad it was well lit in here and there were no shady looking people in here, excluding the guy in the beige colored trench coat standing right outside the door smoking a cigarette.

Jackie stepped towards the desk and smiled politely at the girl working behind it. She looked like Cyndi Lauper, who Jackie adored, but this girl didn't seem to be having a good time. She loudly smacked on bubblegum and twirled a strand of her bright orange hair around her index finger.

Jackie cleared her throat to try and gain the girl's attention, but her attempt failed. So Jackie tried speaking to her, "Excuse me."

The girl finally looked up, her blue eyes showing nothing but pure annoyance, "Can I help you?" She asked in her valley girl voice.

Jackie smiled and tilted her head, "Yes, um, I'm Jackie Burkhart and I've recently been accepted to attend here, I just need the key to my dorm and I'll be going."

The girl pursed her lips and raised her eyebrows, but she didn't seem impressed with Jackie, "Wow, an admission in the middle of a semester, that doesn't usually happen around here, you must be special."

Jackie seemed surprised that this girl didn't know who she was, but she wasn't in the mood to try and remind her, she just wanted to get her dorm room key so she could get going.

The girl typed something on her computer, her long neon blue nails tapping at the keys loudly. Eventually she nodded and reached down underneath the desk for something and Jackie heard her rummaging through some things. Eventually she was handed her key and she smiled.

"Thank you," She smiled brightly, which made the girl behind the desk seem uncomfortable.

"Yeah, whatever," She said before she looked back down at her nails and started file them.

Jackie sighed and held her room key between her fingers as she started towards the door again, but she stopped when she got there. When she came in someone was nice enough to hold it open for her, but there was no one around now, and Jackie's hands were full.

She tried shifting her bags around, but she was sure that was making it worse. She resorted to kicking the door in frustration and that was followed by the girl at the desk snorting a laugh behind her, causing Jackie to glare at her over her shoulder.

"A little help here?" Jackie snapped, her glare never faltering.

The girl looked at her and smirked, "Not with that attitude," Then she was back to filing her nails.

Jackie huffed and looked down at her shoes, trying to figure out what to do. But her question was soon answered when someone opened the door for her.

"Here ye' go, miss," A man's voice spoke, "Britney can be a bit of an ass every so often, it's to be expected in her situation."

Jackie looked up and noticed the person holding the door open for her was the boy in the trenchcoat who was smoking a cigarette just minutes before.

"What do you mean 'in my situation?'" The girl, who Jackie now knew was named Britney, asked in a sharp tone.

"Y'know, your situation," The man replied, flapping his free hand about, "C'mon Britney, you work a dead end job at a college handing out room keys, life can't be that good."

"Bite me, Adam!" Britney snapped back, sending him a threatening glare. If looks could kill…

"C'mon miss, let's go find your room," The man said, never taking his eyes off of Britney, "She's spitting venom, we wouldn't want it to burn such a pretty lady."

Jackie didn't know whether to laugh or blush, but before she could do either, she was gently pushed out of the door and back outside. Once outside, some of her luggage was taken out of her hands by the man who helped her.

"What dorm you headed to?" He asked her, looking down at the keys in her hand.

Jackie, her hands now slightly less occupied, looked down at the key and the number imbedded on it, "Um… 365."

Adam suddenly smiled and nodded, "Ah yeah, I know exactly where that's at. It's just over here, follow me."

Jackie smiled and quickly followed Adam as he led her over to her dorm room as he continued talking to her, "I know your roommate. You'll like her, her names Linda. She's got an attitude, but, like, a good one. Y'know what I mean?"

Jackie nodded, "Yeah, I think so."

Adam nodded and smiled down at Jackie, "Good… Wait. Don't I know you from somewhere?"

Jackie shrugged her shoulders, "I don't know, maybe…"

Adam examined her face for a moment longer before he smirked and nodded, snapping his fingers in realization, "Yeah, I do know you. You're Jackie Burkhart, you were on Central Lake Hospital. You played Natalia… What're you doing here? You're a star."

Jackie shrugged and frowned, "I was getting tired of all the hustle and bustle of the TV world. I wanted to do something more than just be a pretty face that teenage boy's fantasize about. I mean, I still want to do that, but maybe do it and do something I enjoy along with it, you know what I mean?"

Adam nodded and smiled, "Yeah, I know what you mean."

The two of them walked for several more yards but eventually stopped in front of a small building, which Jackie could only assume was where her dorm was.

"Well, this is it," Adam said, "Do you need help with these, or…"

Jackie shook her head, "No, I think I got it from here, if you could just help with opening the door?"

Adam nodded and smiled, "Of course."

Jackie took all her bags out of the nice boy's hands and he opened the door for her, saying as she passed, "Maybe I'll see you around?"

Jackie nodded and smiled, "Yeah, maybe."

Adam smiled and nodded before Jackie was inside the building and he waved to her, telling her goodbye before he closed to door behind her and dashed off back to what he was doing before Jackie got here.

Jackie looked around the building was in and she sighed. Thank God she was finally here, she was tired of travelling and worrying about her future.

Jackie started down the hallway and looked around for the dorm that had the number 365 on the front of it. It took her only a minute to find it. When she did she wrestled around for the key, trying to juggle all her bags at the same time before she somehow unlocked her room and pushed the door with her shoulder to actually open it. Once she was inside, she closed the door behind her.

It was a nice little dorm, it was actually quite spacious. It was really all one room, but it looked nice. There was a small couch in here, and all the far wall was a fridge, stove, microwave and toaster and on the other side were two beds, once of them in college sheets and the other decorated in bright oranges.

The room was empty besides her right now, leading her to assume the other girl was out doing something with friends, it was Saturday after all.

So Jackie started unpacking, wanting to get it all finished up as quickly as she possibly could so she could go to bed. She put away her clothes first, then her jewelry, then her personal hygiene products. She'd decorate her side of the dorm tomorrow, for now she'd just leave it as it was and get some sleep.

After she was done with unpacking, mostly anyways, she stood back and sighed, both hands on her hips as she examined the room once again.

This was a nice little room, it was cozy. Jackie smiled to herself, she kind of liked it here.

Jackie was pulled out of her thoughts of the room though when she heard shouting coming from outside. It seemed obnoxious and it made Jackie feel unsettled for a second. Usually when she heard drunken speech it made her feel threatened, you never know what a drunk person may do around a celebrity, they never thought things through, of course, Jackie wasn't used to people screwing around and getting drunk on campus. Drunk perverts and drunk college kids were on completely different levels of stupid.

Jackie went over to the window and looked out and saw about four people walking down path between buildings on campus, most of them staggering around and only one of them seeming somewhat sober.

Jackie recognized the sober one as Adam. There were two girls with him and another man, all three of them clumsily clambering down the walkway.

Jackie rolled her eyes and turned back to her dorm before deciding she'd go out and get some fresh air before she went to bed. Everything wasn't as rushed anymore, she could finally relax and do what she wanted.

Jackie smiled to herself, yawned and then skipped out of her dorm and back down the hall. She pushed the door to the building open and stepped outside, letting the door swing shut behind her before he stepped out from under the canopy and looked up at the sky.

The stars were pretty tonight, they were all bright and twinkling. Jackie didn't see much of the stars in the city, all the city lights made it impossible to see them.

Jackie smiled and felt a shiver run down her spine, making her wrap her arms around herself as she continued looking up at the beautiful sky.

Her peace was soon ruined by the three drunk bafoons as they started yelling at somebody, calling this person names and belittling him.

Jackie raised an eyebrow and looked towards her left and saw the group of four looking at a larger man who was smoking a cigarette.

"You four get the hell out of here before I have to kick all your asses!" The man shouted, glaring at them and taking a threatening step forward.

"I bet you'd like that wouldn't you, you fat pervert," The drunk man snapped, spitting on the ground next to his shoes before looking back up at the man in the doorway, the drunk man's eyes covered by his sunglasses.

"What did you just call me?" The 'fat' man snapped, clenching both his fists as he threw his cigarette down on the ground, not bothering to smoosh it down and put it out.

"I called you fat, what are you gonna do about it?" The man in sunglasses replied, throwing his head back and downing the rest of whatever was in that bottle he held tightly in his fist.

Jackie watched as the large man took a threatening step forward, "I swear to—"

But he was suddenly cut off when the man in sunglasses appeared to feel threatened by the larger man's step towards him and he threw the glass bottle in his hand at the man, the bottle shattering into several dozen pieces behind the big man.

"I'm going to kill you!" The large man yelled, infuriated.

Then, the group of four college students took off running, scattering out and going in separate directions, confusing the man, who watched as the girls took off.

The man in the sunglasses came towards Jackie though, and she didn't know what to do. He didn't come over to her though, not exactly. He jumped behind the bushes by her and crouched down, hiding from the man as he ran the opposite direction from them.

Jackie looked down at the man as he peeked over the top of the bushes and watched as the man ran away from him and towards Adam, who ran opposite from him.

The man smiled and chuckled before he stood and brushed himself off, still hiding behind the wall under the canopy though, just in case.

Jackie watched as he brushed his blue sweater off. It seemed a little big on him, but he was kind of thin, you could tell, even under a bulky sweater.

He looked familiar, but still so unrecognizable.

It'd be better if she could see his eyes, but his dark shades covered them. Why was he even wearing sunglasses? It was dark out.

"You probably shouldn't threaten men who are liable to kill you," Jackie said, her arms still wrapped around herself as she shivered noticeably.

The man in shades looked down at her and raised an eyebrow, "Jackie?"

Jackie was taken aback. So she did know him?

"Yeah…? And who are you?" She asked, her brow furrowed curiously.

The man smiled and held his hands out in surprise, "It's me! Eric! Eric Forman."

Jackie's eyes then widened. Whoa. He was so different than last time she saw him. He was still a skinny little punk, but he looked different. He dressed nicer, or nicer for Eric, his hair was a little shorter, but still shaggy as it seemed to spike up and point in all different directions. Did he groom himself? His hair was fluffy too, as if he blow dried it in the morning just to give it that effect.

"Eric… Wow, uh… Wow," Jackie chuckled.

"Yeah, I haven't seen you in, what? Two, three years?" He asked, but it was more of a statement than a question, "You look good, Jackie. Or should I say, Natalia Barker?"

Jackie blushed and face palmed, "No, please don't call me that…"

"Why? It's so exotic sounding," Eric teased, "Natalia Barker. Natalia… I don't know, I like it. I think it suits you."

Jackie shook her head and looked up at Eric, she couldn't help the smile on her face, "You're still a dork, that hasn't changed."

Eric adjusted his shoulders, "I've changed. My hair's different. I gained five pounds."

"You're still skinny," Jackie replied in a teasing way.

Eric held up a finger, "But not as skinny."

Jackie rolled her eyes and asked the obvious question, "What's with the sunglasses, big shot?"

Eric pushed them up the bridge of his nose and replied, "I look really cool in them."

Jackie shook her head, "No, no you don't."

Eric shrugged, "That's what you think, but all my friends think I look awesome, so I wear them like the badass I have become."

Jackie rolled her eyes again and tightened her arms around herself, a chill assaulting her once again.

"You're cold," Eric observed the obvious, "I know the perfect solution for that. Booze."

Jackie rolled her eyes for the ninetieth time tonight and looked up at Eric, "I'm tired. I'm getting ready to go to bed."

Eric shook his head, "If you just got here you have to participate in the newcomer's ceremony."

"What newcomer's ceremony?" Jackie asked.

Eric smiled deviously, "Getting boozed up, smoking some good stuff, and going out to the bar and playing pool with your friends, or my friends, who are also super cool."

Jackie shook her head, "Eric, I'm tired. Can't we do the 'newcomer's ceremony' tomorrow?"

Eric shook his head and grabbed Jackie's shoulder's, "No, it had to be on the day you got here, but don't worry. After tonight, you'll sleep like an angel."

Jackie sighed irritably, but went along with it, figuring there was no arguing with a very drunk Eric. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad. She'd like to catch up with Eric, see what he's been up to recently. Of course she'd have to wait till he was a bit more sober before she did that, but maybe she could have a little fun tonight, ease up. It's what she needed anyway.

Maybe she'd get to see what it was like to be a regular college kid afterall.