Chapter One: Life In The Hyde House
It was 2008. Jackie Hyde sat in her kitchen, thinking about her life.
She had lived a great life with her husband. They had married on February 26th, 1982-Jackie's twenty-first birthday. Donna had been her matron-of-honor. Laurie and Brooke had been bridesmaids. Eric had been Steven's best man.
They had decided to stay in Point Place instead of a honeymoon. They wanted to save for their honeymoon.
Their wedding had been the "wedding of the century", according to the then Jackie Burkhart. It had been a miracle she and Steven had made it down the aisle. They had had their problems. Jackie's relationship with Fez had only lasted a few days in January 1980. Jackie and Steven had reunited only a few days after her break-up with Fez.
They fought a lot in those few first days of being reunited. Jackie had thrown several plates at her boyfriend. Hyde ended up proposing to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day 1980. Jackie happily accepted and then announced she was pregnant.
The pregnancy progressed normally. On August 18th, 1980, tragedy struck the Hyde family. Jackie was involved in a car accident. She was hit head-on by a drunk driver. She had been rushed to the hospital with a head injury, internal bleeding, and a broken wrist. The doctors had performed an emergency c-section. A little boy named Donovan Steven Hyde was born two months prematurely. Jackie woke up hours after the accident to learn she was no longer pregnant. Donovan died on August 20th, 1980 as a result of his premature birth. Jackie and Hyde were left devastated.
The death of their son just made Jackie and Hyde want to try again for another baby. The couple started trying for a baby shortly after they got married. Unfortunately, Jackie suffered a miscarriage in October 1982-The original month that Donovan was supposed to be born. The Hydes were determined to not let the miscarriage affect their marriage. They began trying again. A second miscarriage was suffered in April 1983. A third miscarriage followed in November 1983. After the third miscarriage, Jackie and Steven decided they weren't meant to be parents.
The Hydes never let the miscarriages or Donovan's death affect their marriage. They went into therapy after the third miscarriage, but Jackie refused to visit Donovan's grave.
In 1988, Steven Hyde was involved in a car accident. "Those Hydes are involved in a lot of car accidents," Donna Pinciotti-Forman told Brooke Kelso shortly after the accident. Steven was comatose for 208 days. Jackie visited the hospital every day. Her friends had to drag her out of the hospital one day a week just so she wouldn't go crazy at the hospital.
When Steven woke up, the Hyde marriage went through several changes. Hyde had amnesia. He only remembered up until the prom that Jackie and Kelso reunited at. Jackie had been devastated by her husband's memory loss, but she stuck by him. When Hyde regained his full memories, he and Jackie went on vacation to Europe. They returned after three months, just in time for Donna to give birth to a son that was named Steven Lucas Forman.
Jackie loved her family. She didn't regret not having any children. She had wanted one badly for years, but she knew that she and Steven were happily married.
Things were about to change for the Hyde family, but in a good way. They were happy, but were about to become a lot happier.
This is my first attempt at a fic for that '70s Show and my second published fic. A lot of things have changed from the original draft.