I just watched that episode and had this thought. What if Red had died. I mean I like Red and all, but it was just a thought. Well read and enjoy, I am a quick updater, so review and Ill update quickly.

Eric stood at the small wooden podium frozen, his ability to speak had been taken away. He stared at the many people around him. He felt void of any real emotion, his mother sat in the front, tears streaking down her face, sobbing in Laurie's shoulder. Donna sat beside Kitty, tears going down her face as she stared in Eric's eyes. Jackie sat beside Hyde, crying on his shoulder. Hyde held her tight, his arm around her arm. Kelso and Fez sat beside Hyde, their faces solemn.Eric stood there looking at everyone he cared about, but someone was missing, today was supposed to be a day of celebrating, the whole gang had graduated, but the day had ended in tragedy.

Eric still remembered when Laurie jumped forward telling Red that she had married Fez just to keep him from leaving the country, but it had been too much for Red's heart to take. Eric recalled the day perfectly.

They had just returned from a camping trip gone wrong and had unfortunetly missed their own graduation. They were tired, agravated, and smelly from the ride home in the back of a pig wagon. Laurie had just told Red that she had married Fez. Eric had laughed at Red's face until he began holding his arm. "Dad are you ok?"

Red's face seemed uncertain. "Uh yeah, I'm fine. My arm just hurts.

Kitty knew what was happening, her face filled with fear. "Red Red, you're all clammy. Red I think you are having a heart attack."

Kelso came over. "No. Open your eyes. He's having an arm attack."

"Micheal-"

Kitty pushed Micheal away. "Micheal get a chair. Laurie call an ambulance."

Eric had then watched as his mom rode to the hospital with his dad in the ambulance. Eric took the Vista Cruiser and drove Laurie, Donna, Jackie, and Fez, while Hyde took Kelso in his car. Eric and Laurie paced around the room while their mom was with their dad in the emergency room.

Donna sat with Jackie, neither saying a word while Hyde leaned against the wall. Even Kelso knew the seriousness of the situation and kept quiet.

They waited three hours for news, when Kitty walked in, tears rolled down her cheeks. Eric walked over and caught his mom as she collapsed sobbing. Laurie covered her mouth and began crying, she leaned her head against the wall, just sobbing. Donna walked over and hugged Eric and Kitty, she was also crying. Kelso walked over. "Laurie." His voice sad. Laurie turned and hugged him tightly, just sobbing in his chest. Jackie cried on Hyde's shoulder and Fez stood against the wall, he wasn't crying, but he felt so sad. They had lost a great man, they had lost Red Forman.

Those few days after Red's death had been so hard on everyone, but especially Kitty. She hadn't stopped crying since the emergency room scene. Eric went through those days in a daze, it hadn't really sunk in. Everyone he expected to see Red sitting at the kitchen table reading the newspaper and calling him a dumbass. Comfort from Donna was the only thing that kept him going, what mades things worst was that his dad had finally told him he was proud of him days before he died. Red had finally told Eric the words that he had been waiting for years, proof that he was't a total disappointment to his father.

Eric looked down at the coffin, in it lay the shell of his father, his spirit already gone. He had been laid to rest in a red cherry oak coffin. Thirty people had attended the funeral, everyone had been shocked to learn of his death.

His hands were cold and sweaty and he stood at the podium, still unsure of what to say. His mom had asked him to deliver the eulogy, but Eric wasn't sure what to say about his dad. He had alway loved his dad, but love was always a hard thing to talk about with his dad.

He leaned close to the microphone. "Um, well..."He cleared his throat. "I don't really know what all to say about my dad, I mean he was...well...he hated the french." He let out a forced laugh, but no one laughed as well.

"Ok, well Red's death was a shock to all of us and I know we are all going to miss his...cheery outlook on life and his encouraging remarks."

Although Red and Eric had a lot of hard times, I mean a lot of hard times, he still had some good times with his old man. "I know I really miss him." With that said, Eric stepped down from the podium into Donna's arms.

The preacher got up and gave a short sermon before concluding the funeral. Everyone went by red's coffin to pay their last respects before he was buried. Hyde took a moment. He took a breath. "Well Red, you were a hardass, but you took me in, even when you didn't have to, even when you didn't want to. I may not have said this enough, but thanks." He walked off with this head down, his arm around Jackie's shoulders.

Fez said a few words of good bye then walked off, followed by Kelso. Donna ran her hand over the smooth coffin. "I'm sorry Red."

Donna then let go of Eric's hand and helped Kitty walked out of the church, leaving Eric alone with the coffin. "Hey dad, I know you and I never really talked and although I know it was partly my fault, it was yours too. I mean you had to be such a tough guy all the damn time. As many times as I needed those kicks in the ass, I needed some affirmation from you as well." that was when reality sunk in and the tears came. "Damnit dad, I needed you and now you're gone." He pounded his fist on the coffin. He felt a hand on his shoulder and he turned to see Laurie standing there, her arms crossed over her chest, her eyes puffy from crying. She ddin't say anything about eric's outburst, she simply put her arms around Eric and both siblings stood next to their father's coffin and just sobbed.