A/N: Hello! My first That '70s Show fic! How exciting! So basically this is kind of weird. My favorite scenes usually involve Kitty being excitable. So I decided to write an entire fic about her camera, because she loves to take photos. It's going to be Jackie/Hyde centric despite featuring the whole gang and will span from their childhood to about the mid 90s. You will have to forgive me as I was born in the mid-90s and therefore will be making mistakes regarding how things (like film cameras) work. The idea of this fic is that each chapter will represent one photograph from a spool that Kitty finds lying around and has developed. The first few chapters will be a little stand-alone-ish, but there is a running story in the present and hopefully you guys will like this and it's not too weird. A few liberties have been taken (like the fact that a film would last 30 years?) and I guess that I largely ignore flashbacks from the yearbook photos episode and the discoveries on Halloween. Now I shall stop rambling, please enjoy.


"Good morning, my name's Kitty Forman, I dropped off a film to be developed last week," Kitty handed her receipt over to the clerk of the photo hut.

"Grandma," a small, but hard to ignore, voice piped up from around her kneecaps tugging on her skirt. "What are the photos of?"

"You know, I have no idea. That camera is so old, well I wouldn't be surprised if there were photos of your mom and dad as kids on it!" Kitty cupped her youngest granddaughter's face in her hands and smiled down at her.

"Really?" Molly looked excited. "Can I see them?"

"Of course! Oh you can help me slip them into the photo album and make labels! We're going to have such an exciting day!" Her happiness seemed to be infectious as Molly's little face lit up at the prospect.

Back at the house Kitty got out her photo albums and began to explain the process to Molly, whose little three-year-old head could not quite comprehend the process and started to stiff the glue stick. "Why doesn't it smell Grandma?"

"No, no sweetie, don't smell the glue," Kitty took it away from her and laid out the four photo albums on the sitting room's coffee table. There was a very full one, with pages added, that was reserved for Eric and started at very early baby pictures and progressed through to his current life with Donna and their two daughters. Then there was Laurie's album, which was almost half-full, but seemed to stop around age 15 when Kitty could no longer bare to look at the way her only daughter dressed. Then an album that she had started for Steven when he was about 14, it was fuller than Laurie's but not as obsessively stuffed as Eric's. The fourth was her miscellaneous with lots of pictures from the past of Eric and his various friends, family gatherings, weddings, christenings and a few of her and Red. She didn't feature in many pictures, as she was usually the one taking them.

"OK, let me see the photos Grandma," Molly's little voice demanded as she held out her hands.

"No, no, no, first we need to go wash those little hands and you can only hold the edges ok?"

"OK," Molly relented and let Kitty lead her away to have her hands washed.

"Now?" She asked when she sat up on the sofa beside her Grandma and Kitty held the photo envelope.

"Now," Kitty nodded and opened the envelope. She was surprised at the age of the first photo. "Oh wow, these are old," She sighed, pulling Molly into her lap as they looked at the first photo.

"Who is that?"

"That's your uncle Eric," Kitty smiled at the photo.

"Really? He looks kind of small," Molly frowned.

"That's him when he started school when he was six," Kitty smiled at the memory.


*** September 1st 1966 ***

"Kitty, that shirt is far too big – you're making him look weedier than he already is," Red complained as he sized up his son over breakfast.

"Oh he's not weedy Red, just delicate," Kitty smiled and leaned over to kiss Eric. "Isn't that right my precious baby boy," Kitty kissed his face repeatedly.

"Mom!" Eric whined.

"Kitty leave the boy alone," Red rolled his eyes.

"Oh I can't help it, my baby starting school, what will I do all day with you?" And suddenly Kitty was in tears. Laurie just frowned at her mother and looked to her father for some sanity, but he continued to ignore the calamity breaking out in the middle of his breakfast.

"You'll come and pick me up though Mommy, right?" Eric smiled brightly and Kitty suddenly got excited at the prospect of seeing Eric at the end of the day.

Kitty had driven Eric and Laurie to school while Red headed off to the plant. Kitty watched Eric's expression in the rear view mirror the whole way to school, searching for any sign of hesitation or any indication that she should hold him back a year. Unfortunately all she saw was his vacant expression as he gazed out of the car window. Well she sighed to herself, maybe academics wouldn't be his forte and he'd be held back at some point so he'd leave for college a year late anyway.

Once they arrived at the local elementary school they stopped outside of the school for a photo, but Laurie moaned about how long this was taking and Kitty wasn't able to take her usual dozen. Laurie disappeared into her third grade classroom and Kitty had taken Eric to sign in to Kindergarten.

"Hello, I'm Miss Black," a kind young woman smiled down at Eric, "and what's your name?"

Eric looked up at her a little shyly and Kitty answered for him. "This is Eric Forman, he's my youngest you know. I just don't know what I'm going to do with myself all day," Kitty blubbered on as Miss Blair checked Eric off on her list.

"OK Eric, we've got a desk over there for you, right next to Steven," Miss Black pointed to where a boy with a mop of curly hair sat sharpening his pencil into oblivion. Eric looked to Kitty, but she nodded in encouragement before collapsing on Miss Black in a fit of sobs.

Eric headed over to where the sullen looking boy sat and clambered into the seat next to him. "Why are you doing that?" Eric frowned as he watched Steven make a huge mess across the desk.

"The question is why aren't you doing it?" Steven gave Eric a look and Eric frowned, he didn't really understand this boy.


*** Present ***

"How comes you didn't take my daddy to school that day too?" Molly looked up at Kitty quizzically. "You didn't make him take the bus on his first day did you?" Molly looked at her grandmother in horror. "Mommy says that Joshua can't take the bus until after Christmas break."

"Well you see your daddy didn't always live here, he used to live with a different family," Kitty began, but Molly interrupted.

"But I thought you was his Mommy?"

"Well I am, but he had a different Mommy when he was little and she took him to school on the first day of Kindergarten," Kitty squeezed her granddaughter's shoulders hoping that would placate her curious mind and it seemed to.

"Will I have a different Mommy after I start school?" She asked frowning.

"No, no, it's only if your first one's no good," Kitty explained. "And your Mommy, well, she sure is something," Kitty kissed Molly on the head as she finished affixing the photo of Eric's first day.

"She's the best. I don't think I could ever have a better Mommy or Daddy."

"I think your right," Kitty smiled at how much Steven's daughter loved him. "Do you want to hear a funny story?" Molly nodded eagerly. "Well on that first day of Kindergarten your Daddy got uncle Eric into a lot of trouble," Kitty began and saw Molly's eyes light up in the same way as her mother's did when gossip was mentioned.


*** 1966 ***

"Go," Hyde goaded, watching his new friend look a little nervous, but get up from his seat nonetheless and head over to the teacher's desk.

"Is everything OK Eric?" Miss Black smiled kindly at the sweet little boy in front of her. Eric nodded and smiled, but still said nothing. "Do you need to go to the bathroom?" Miss Black suggested, trying to prompt the youngster.

"No, I just have a vocabulary question," Eric smiled up at her innocently and she nodded, pleased to have such an eager student. "What does dillhole mean?"

Miss Black's eyes widened in horror and Eric found himself sitting outside of the principle's office within the next five minutes. But it was worth it because Hyde had given him a proud look as he was frog marched from the room. Eric knew that they were friends.


*** Present ***

Molly burst into fits of giggles as Kitty uttered the word 'dillhole' it was Joshua's favorite insult to throw at his little sister and she loved it when their Mommy told him off. "Mommy shouts at Daddy when he says bad words," Molly nodded knowledgeably. "He has a potty mouth."

Kitty smiled. Steven did have a potty mouth and while she'd been annoyed at him corrupting her little boy back in kindergarten, she wouldn't love him if he were any different.


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