Summary: Their lives keep changing, that's a fact. So when Donna proposes a last, kind of insane trip, no one can't refuse. However, with Hyde's new-found problem, a humongous blizzard, and their crazy relationships all playing a role, the story of their last journey is bound to be more complicated and dangerous than the Odyssey– As Eric would have simply put it: May the force be with them.
I bring you here my first fanfic! I would really appreciate any kind of reviews, just so that I have an idea of how I'm doing, especially since it's my first time doing this! Anyways, don't let me stop you from starting the story! :) Bon Appetit! (?)
Chapter 1
"It's not a big deal" he declared as soon as he walked into the basement, quickly shutting the door behind him so that the frigid wind of the blizzard wouldn't start flowing around the Forman residence. After all, the smokey cloud of his recently-used stash still floated around in the room, and he did not want to take the chance of seeing it getting blown away by some stupid wind. The room received him with it usual cozy and warm nature. And like always, the rest of the gang was there, all displaying devilish smiles on their faces.
"Aw, are you sure Hyde?" Donna started as he took off his jacket and rubbed the snow out of his curly hair. "Are you positive you don't want any help getting around the circle?"
"Stop it," he demanded in a fruitless effort to silence his friends' laughter. He put his aviator glasses back on and made his way to his usual white chair, annoyance irradiating from him. "It's bad enough Mrs. Forman made me go all the way out to the clinic. During a blizzard. I'm telling you, I'm done with this shit."
"Hyde, man, you can't blame us from being worried," said Eric, looking at his best friend with a cunning smile from the sofa "I mean, we are your friends. We just really don't want you to run into something dangerous."
"BURN!" screamed Kelso, jumping from his patio chair with excitement. Hyde groaned, his fingers already opening a beer can just as his usual routine mandated. The night had already been long enough and his friends' laughs were thoroughly pissing him off : the faster he got drunk and forgot the nightmare that awaited him for the rest of what was left from the day, he figured, the better.
"Oh, no! No more beer for you, whitey!" yelled Fez hysterically as soon as he noticed his friend's actions, rapidly leaning over from his colorful stool and snatching the can out of his hand. "You were bad enough during THE incident without any! If something like that happens again, I know I won't live through it!"
"Oh, stop it you guys." Jackie commanded from Fez's lap, even though her laughter made it almost impossible for her to finish the sentence. "He is getting all grumpy, can't you see?"
Another wave of laughter flooded the room. He was seriously glad he had closed the basement door really fast when he first came in: that cloud of old smoke was the only thing keeping him from snapping at them. Had it been blown away, he knew, the mostly-happy atmosphere of the room would have been impossible to obtain. Hyde sighed.
"...Are you people done?"
"Far from it," mentioned Donna with a light smile. Yet she shook her head almost immediately after her comment and attempted to regain her composure. "But Hyde, tell us, really, are you okay?"
"Yeah, man. I said it's no big deal." he repeated.
He meant it. It really wasn't. Just because he couldn't tell a B from an E, a C from a G, and... well, an S from an H, during that test he had taken minutes ago, it did not mean that he was fucking blind. No way in hell that was ever happening. Sure, he had known for about three weeks already that his eyes just weren't as focused as they were before, but it definitely wasn't as bad as those idiots who accompanied him in the basement were making it sound. He could see. His normal sight was no worse than while he was drunk, at least. Just a bit fuzzy here and there. No big deal. Yet the doctor – a short, little guy with a white mustache and a devotion for slowness – had taken about two hours to figure out that his eye-sight was probably, as he had put it, "perhaps a bit blurry". Well, wasn't he a genius. The worst part was, however, had not been the tests he endured and the thickness of the optometrist, but the moronic solution the doc had given him...
"Oh my god, you are gonna wear glasses?" shrieked Jackie.
"Hell no, man!"
"I thought he was already wearing them" mentioned a confused Kelso.
"Not those glasses. Actual glasses!" responded Donna, giggling at the thought of Hyde with dorky, see-through spectacles. "I can't believe you would agree to that!"
"I didn't!" Hyde's feelings of exasperation were growing. "I'm not giving up this pair. Never."
"Are you going to stay blind, then?" asked Fez, horrified. "Oh, no. Oh, no. That's not happening. Someone please tell me that's not happening!"
"Oh, c'mon Fezzy, don't worry. That won't happen again" Kelso comforted him. "I mean, what are the chances of Hyde bumping into the sofa, smashing his face against its arm, then hitting the floor, then dropping the table, accidentally leading to the falling of his burning stash onto your candy, which turned on fire, that then caught on to your pants, and that ended up in a wasteful use of beer, again?"
"Aiiy!" cried the foreigner, reminiscing on his hurtful past. Then he turned to Hyde, furious. "You burned all my candy, you blind son-of-a-bitch!"
"Kelso, I thought we had agreed on not bringing that up again."
"Will you people shut your pieholes?" Hyde stopped them. "No, I'm not wearing glasses. But Mrs. Forman kept naggin' the doctor about giving me some other kind of solution, so instead, I got these..."
He removed a tiny box from his pocket.
"...Cardboard?"
"Stupid contact lenses," corrected Hyde with annoyance. He couldn't help noticing Jackie's eyes widen and Donna's amused laughter sounding in the background.
"No!" said the later, still not quite believing the situation.
"Yes..."
"Steven, do you even know how rare contact lenses are?" exclaimed Jackie, her eyes sparkling with amazement. "You are probably the fist person in Point Place who owns a pair!"
"Yeah, Hyde, aren't those super expensive?" questioned Eric, surprised.
"Usually, they are. But this pair... the contacts are still in, well, let's just say, an experimental phase. So they were free."
"Awesome!" yelled Kelso, his mouth wide open. "Hyde's a lab-rabbit!"
"Oh, my god. Hyde, can you, like, put them in?" asked Donna excitedly.
"Oh, oh, please do." begged Fez.
"No! What do you mean 'put them in,' Donna?" answered Hyde, irritated. "Can't you people see? This is clearly a way for the government to observe exactly what I'm doing. Yeah, I bet those things have little cameras in them or something. Maybe even some motion detectors. The fact that they are in a 'developmental period'...And I got them for free? I'm telling you man, this is definitely some kind of ploy."
"...Just when I thought you were starting to do some progress with all the "government conspiracy" related topics,"
"Yeah, sorry to bring you down, Forman."
" It's ok, man."
"Oh, Steven, just put them in, would you? They can't be that bad."
"Yeah, Hyde. Don't be a wuss."
"Yeah, Hyde."
"I'm not doing it. I'd rather be blind. Man, I wouldn't mind not seeing some things anyways."
"Hyde, you can't do that. Think of all the things you'll miss,"
"Like your children's births!"
"Like Michel's crazy stunts!"
"Like my face!"
"Like boobs!"
"Mmm...You may be right, Fez. I don't know if I could cope with that one..."
"Okay! Are you gonna put your contacts in, then?"
"Are you gonna show me your boobs?"
"Wha–? No!"
"No, then."
"You know what? I'm really starting to think that he doesn't want to put them in," Eric pointed out, a bit tired of the topic already. He was followed by Donna's sigh, showing that she was equally exhausted by the pointless discussion.
"Okay, so..." she began, moving her body forward so that the rest of the gang would give her more attention. "I know this lenses' conversation could go on forever, so I'm gonna make us all a favor and stop it right here."
"Aww," moaned Kelso in disappointment.
"But instead," she continued, ignoring him "I'm going to tell you all about this idea I've had for a while now: You guys know how I'm leaving for college in, like, less than a week... So, I was thinking that, maybe, like good ol' times, we could all go camping tomorrow, before U-Day! How 'bout that, huh?"
Donna ended her sentence with a big smile on her face, waiting for her friends to happily start preparing themselves to follow her plan. After all, how could it not be fun? All of them together like before, now that they were all enjoying their free, holiday time. She knew that such opportunity wouldn't come in the near future – Kelso going back to Chicago, she and Eric moving to Madison – and she was more than ready to spend one of her last days in Point Place surrounded by her friends in an unrestricted, unseen place. She knew it would be awesome. Yet, unlike she expected, no one seemed to be too exited about her master plan. Not even close to excited, actually. In all honesty, she realized, they all looked pretty mortified.
"Um, Donna... I don't know if you noticed but, right now, even as we talk, there is an ice storm the size of Russia burring us alive out there," commented Eric. "I'm not sure whether that is a good idea."
"I am. And it's not a good idea," ended Fez. Donna glared at them and pursed her lips.
"I'm not saying we go out there with tents," she replied, offended. "Look, you guys. These are my last days here and I just wanna make some really great new memories."
"We don't need to go camping out for that."
"Oh, shut up, Ray Charles!" she hissed at Hyde, who just sat back in response. She cleared her throat "I mean, think about it: a warm cabin in the middle of nowhere, snow-covered pines around it, and all of us together, solely accompanied by an abundant stash and a keg full of fresh, icy beer. How can it not be awesome?"
She pleasantly observed all her friends re-thinking their past intentions.
"I guess it really doesn't sound all that bad," admitted Jackie. "Plus, it gives me another good excuse to show off all the cute winter-outfits I got myself for Christmas!"
"Yes, and now that I think about it, it also sounds like a good place for..." Fez put his arm around Jackie's waist and brought her even closer to him "Well, you know... making some hot, crazy coco."
"Ugh, Fez!" Donna's face became contorted with revolt. "No need to know!"
"Um, guys... I don't know how this is possible, but I think my mind just puked." joined Kelso.
"Yeah, yuck, Fez. If we do go all the way out to a cabin, and I suddenly start hearing any kind of strange noises during the night, believe me, I'm gonna have nightmares. Really horrible, excruciating nightmares... I might cry..."
"See? This is exactly why I won't wear contacts. Now that I'm partially sightless, even my imagination is screwed up," explained Hyde in a matter-of-fact tone. "While you guys envisioned Fez's plans in complete, disgusting detail, I only saw a brown fuzz moving around. Man, I knew my body had good reasons for this to happen!"
"...No one wants any hot, crazy coco, then?" Fez looked around, baffled. "Dang. I already had three boxes of 'Swiss Miss' Hot Cocoa with Marshmallows' in my reserves just for this type of emergency situations... Eh, I'll take some anyways. But don't expect any sharing!"
Everyone gave out a low groan.
"So, what do you guys think? Are we all in?" Donna insisted.
"Wait, Donna," the always logical Eric intervened. "It really does sound like a great idea, but, I mean, how are we gonna get a cabin?"
"My ski cabin is long gone," pointed out Jackie while nodding, as if she was in deep thought.
"And I'm not paying for anything. Do you guys know how expensive it is to raise a child?" exclaimed Kelso, overwhelmend.
Donna looked at them with almost a malicious smile.
"Well... Do you guys happen to remember Randy's cabin?"
"The place where you and him had sex for the first time?"
"First time se–? Donna, you never told me anything about this cabin!"
"We did not have sex there! Anyways, he and his family barely go to it. I don't see any harm if we just borrow the cabin for a night, don't you guys agree?"
All of her friends paused, already picturing the situation in their heads.
"I say we DO it!" Kelso yelled suddenly.
"You know what? Sure. Let's give it a try!"
"Whatever,"
"Yay!" screamed Jackie and Fez at the same time before sharing a cheesy high-five. Donna grinned.
"Great. We leave tomorrow at four, okay? Be ready by then. Hyde, you are in charge of the stash,"
"Got it,"
"Kelso, you'll bring the keg,"
"Yahoo!"
"We'll take the Vista Cruiser," offered Eric, already excited.
"Guys, I'm telling you, it's gonna be awesome! We'll make the memories of a lifetime!" Donna concluded happily, hardly knowing that the experiences that awaited them would indeed get imprinted in their memories. Changing everything forever. One more time.
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