A/N: Ok, I don't know what crackhead came up with Season 8, but they should be hit over the head and castrated, because it was just horrible. Jackie and FEZ?!!!! Can we say EWWWWWWWWWW!!!! Anyhoo, this is my take on what might have happened after the series ended. I hope you all enjoy! And one more thing, I own nothing, for if I did, never in my wildest dreams (or nightmares) would Season 8 have ever happened!

Summary: Jackie and Steven get another chance to right what went wrong in their relationship, but will they take it? Or is there just too much pain and hurt to overcome?

December 31st, 1980 19:30

Jackie Burkhart knocked on the door to the Formans' home, feeling like she was finally home. Chicago had just not been what she thought it would be, and she was glad to be back in Point Place. Mrs. Forman opened the door, and said,

"Jackie, honey, we're so glad that you could make it! Come on in!" The older woman hugged Jackie tightly, while Jackie said,

"Thanks, Mrs. Forman, it feels good to be back. Has anyone else arrived yet?" Kitty laughed, her high-pitched, nervous laugh, before she said,

"No, not really. I just talked to Eric and Donna a few hours ago, they said they should be here by about 8, 8:30 at the latest."

"Oh. Is it alright if I wait in the basement, then?"

"Go right ahead, sweetheart," Kitty said, before she turned to go into the kitchen. Jackie walked down the steps to the basement, only to be greeted with a head full of ginger hair, something she hadn't seen in exactly one year.

"What the hell are you doing here, Steven?" she asked, as she stomped over to the couch, where he was sitting watching TV. Without even looking up at her, his arms still crossed, he said, in a voice full of venom,

"I'm allowed to be down here, Jackie. What the hell are you doing here? What, those Chicago boys aren't doing it for you anymore? Fez couldn't push the right buttons anymore?" Jackie lifted her hands in exasperation, and plopped herself down in the lawn chair. She turned her attention onto the TV, trying to distract herself from Hyde. She was bored out of her mind after a few minutes, but she refused to talk to him anymore, and decided to go back upstairs. She left him there, and thought to herself how wonderful a New Year she was going to have if he was there. The last New Year he had been alone, and she had been with Fez. She knew that inside, no matter what he said, he was dying, watching her with Fez; it was his worst nightmare, and she later realized it was hers as well. Fez was not her type, no matter how much she tried to convince herself that he was. After a few months, she broke it off with him, and thank God she did; his insistence to "consummate their fiery relationship" had completely disgusted her. She thanked God every day since that He gave her enough sense to see that her relationship with Fez was not something that was good, as it was just not plausible; it was like dating herself. That, and a man who walked better than she did in heels, and looked damn good doing it, according to some of her gay friends, was not someone she should be involved with. So Steven had still not admitted that he loved her even after all this time; she would make him admit it. For now, though, she went upstairs to help Kitty get ready, and maybe steal some of her secret stash.

An hour later, a buzzed Jackie was greeted by the sight of two of her best friends walking through the door. Kitty ran over to Eric, screaming "My baby!" while Jackie and Donna hugged tightly, not having seen each other for a year. Once Eric had extricated himself from his mother's death grip, he went to hug Jackie too.

"Hey there, devil! Long time no see! How is everything?" Jackie smiled at him, before saying,

"Not bad, though Chicago is not quite what I thought it would be, but other than that, great. What about you, how's Madison treating you and Donna?"

"Eh, not too bad, but I swear, I really wish that I had a lightsaber some of the time, some of my professors are just morons, worse than those Death Star guys."

"Yeah, ok, Obi-Dobi," she said as she walked away, planning to join Donna in the living room.

"It's Obi-WAN!" Eric shouted at her as she walked away, making her chuckle. She pushed through the doors to find Donna sitting on the couch, munching away on some hors d'oeuvres. Jackie sat down next to her, and said,

"So, Donna, how's Madison so far? How is college going?"

"Actually not that bad. I really like a lot of my classes, and I think I picked out my major."

"Really? Which one?"

"Psychology, if for nothing else than to figure you and Hyde out, because you guys are just fascinating." Jackie choked on her dog-in-a-blanket, having to cough it up and wash down the chunks stuck in her throat with her beer. Donna chuckled, before grabbing a dog for herself.

"What?" Jackie finally said, her voice hoarse. "What do you mean, Steven and I are fascinating? What exactly is so fascinating about the two of us?" Donna snorted, before she turned to Jackie and said,

"Are you serious right now, Jackie? What is so fascinating about the two of you is the fact that you're still both in love with each other, yet you refuse to admit it to each other, and you continually keep hurting yourselves, just to prove a stupid point with your stupid pride." Jackie crossed her arms over her chest, and huffed slightly.

"I am not in love with Steven anymore!" Donna rolled her eyes at her best friend's antics, before she stood up and said, in a cutting voice,

"Right. That's why even though you were 'so in love' with Fez, you still kept chasing Hyde like a lost little puppy! And let's not mention that even when he made the choice to be with Sam, you had to keep pushing, you had to make him feel shitty, even shittier than he already felt for what he did. You just had to keep twisting the knife in his heart, saying that you loved him constantly. Yeah, I would say that's the definition of someone who isn't in love with someone else." Jackie stood up as well, and clenched her fists at her sides. She looked up at Donna, and suddenly just exploded.

"How DARE you, you lumberjack! You know nothing, absolutely nothing, about my relationship with Steven! NOTHING! How I cried myself to sleep every night for weeks on end after he left, how when he got back I could think of nothing else but him, how he pushed ME away! How when he ended up choosing that stripper over me, he might as well have shot me. Better that than to kill me slowly from the inside, making me watch every time he kissed her, or touched her, or, or…" Jackie's voice faltered as the tears took over, but she pushed them down, swallowing around the lump that had formed in her throat.

"I loved him more than anyone I have ever loved, or probably will ever love. He was everything to me, and I would have given anything to be with him forever! And what did he do? Never gave me an answer to my proposal, not that I should have expected anything different. He's Steven Hyde, master deceiver, Zenmaster extraordinaire, Mr. I-have-no-feelings. At least I hope he got a good fuck out of me, because that's probably all I ever was to him!" Jackie closed her eyes; she hadn't let anybody so far in to her world in a long time, almost two whole years. She hadn't even planned on telling Donna this, it was just the redhead brought her to the point of no return with her statement. She opened her eyes again, and continued with her rant, in a much softer voice.

"He left me, not the other way around. I stuck around until the last minute when I had that first job offer in Chicago, and I was totally willing to give it up for him, to give up everything for him. I wanted to be Mrs. Jackie Hyde, my God, how I wanted to be her. I would have given everything I have, everything, anything, to be with the man that I truly loved for the rest of my life. What did I get in return for my love? A boot, stomping all over my heart. Surprise, surprise, another person who abandoned me." Jackie angrily swiped at her tears, noticing that Donna had tears brimming in her eyes. She pointed an angry finger at Donna, and said, in a voice cracking with anger and tears,

"Don't you dare cry. You have no right to cry. You left me to go and become best friends with Sam, leaving me behind, confused and utterly lost. You have no fucking right to cry! Do you hear me, Donna? You have no right to cry!" She screamed out the last sentence, before turning away from Donna and running straight out to the kitchen. Donna yelled out "Jackie!" before running after her, only to find that the petite brunette had already left the house. She got to the sliding door, and saw Jackie getting into her car.

"Fuck!" Donna yelled out, and turned around, only to be met by Hyde, standing next to the revolving door.

"Oh, hey Hyde." She was met by an icy silence, and she sighed, figuring out that he had been listening.

"How long were you standing there?" He took a sip of his beer, and moved closer to her, before he said, in a quiet voice,

"Long enough to hear what she said." Donna nodded her head, and walked towards the basement, leaving him standing in the middle of the kitchen, facing the sliding door. Donna stopped at the door to the basement, turning towards him.

"Well, aren't you going to go after her?" Hyde didn't move for a minute, and Donna waited. Without even saying anything to her, Hyde picked up his keys and opened the door. Donna smiled slightly, and opened the door to the basement, hoping that everything would be alright. After all, it was the New Year, and anything could happen.