Donna took one look at him and screamed.

"Oh my god, I like him already." He was tall, with dark long black hair, blue eyes and his clothes obviously showed he had money. Hyde took a disliking to him the minutes he saw him, while Donna was already embracing the man in a hug. Eric seemed a little pissed off.

"Jackie this guy has got nothing on me," Kelso said. "I mean no offense." He said looking up at Kyle.

Kyle nodded looking confused. "Okay, sure man."

"Hey Donna theirs no need to strangle the guy maybe you should get off him." Eric said. Donna gave him a look.

Jackie and Donna took a seat on the coach and started to catch up. Hyde listened in to here what Jackie had been doing this whole time. He found out she had been in California most of the time. She had met Kyle about half way through the trip and then she had decided she missed the gang and Wisconsin so much she had come home.

"So I have no where to stay for awhile I mean cause Kyle's new job in Wisconsin is pretty far out, and he has to stay in a hotel that is pretty far out. So I was wondering if I could bunk with you for awhile Donna?"

Donna smiled. "Yeah sure, Jackie you can stay with me. Kyle can drop by anytime he wants." Kyle smiled at her, which made Donna break into a fit of giggles.

Jackie did not seem happy with Kyle. Hyde saw he glare at him when he was explaining something to Eric and Donna. He wondered what was up with her.

The next day Jackie walked into the basement. Hyde like usual was sitting in front of the TV reading a magazine.

"Hey," He said.

She nodded at him. After a few minutes he tried to start a conversation. She turned around and glared at him, which stopped him.

"What so you're not giving me the silent treatment anymore?" She asked.

"Jackie what are you talking about?" Hyde said confused.

"When I left whenever I spoke to you would ignore it. Now you're talking to me again? God, why don't you just go talk to Sam, your whore of a wife?"

"Jackie Sam left." Hyde said.

"Great so you're talking to me again because Sam left you, and now I'm second best compared to her. Which is ridiculous cause we all know I was the more beautiful one." Hyde smiled thinking to himself that this was the Jackie they all new.

"No I told Sam to go home. She was married to someone else while being married to me. I told her to leave about five months ago."

Jackie looked at him. "Oh okay. Sorry that kind of sucks for you." She was feeling bad for him what had happened to Jackie.

After a few minutes of silence he talked. "So how's you get the bruise near your eye?"

"Why? Is it noticeable? Nothing happened I mean I'm fine, it's not a big deal." Jackie was panicking.

"Jackie calm down. I was just asking. Seriously, it looks fine." He paused. "So did you get in a fight?" He tried not to smile. It was funny imagining Jackie all of five three trying to fight someone. Although he then started to get defensive, wondering if someone had hurt her.

She glanced at him. "No, not really a fight. Well sort of." She looked sort of sad again, depressed really.

He knew he wasn't going to get anything out of her so he dropped the subject.

"You grew out your hair." He noted a few minutes later.

"Yeah," she said turning to him with her sad look. "Kyle likes it long."

"Huh," Hyde said feeling jealousy towards Kyle.

"What does it look better short? Do you hate it?" Jackie asked self-consciously. He smiled happy that she wanted his opinion not Kyle's.

"No, no it looks good. It's just I've never heard you decide to do something because someone told you, you should. I mean that's so not Jackie Burkhart."

"Yeah well people change, I guess." Jackie said turning away from him.

"Hey baby." Kyle said coming walking in the door and walking over to her. He sat down on the coach. He leaned in to kiss her, and Hyde saw her wince and s pull away but Kyle just leaned in more.

When they kissed Hyde started to feel really pissed off. Why would she kiss Kyle in front of him? It was hurtful and rude they didn't have to go off making out right in front of him. He remembered all the sudden that Sam and him had done the same thing. He realized how much it must have hurt.

Jackie pulled away and Hyde was grateful.

"Hey man, I didn't get the chance to introduce myself to you yesterday I'm Kyle." Hyde tried to be cool.

"Hey I'm Hyde." He said. Kyle frowned at him obviously Jackie had filled him in on their history.

"Oh so you and Jackie used to go out right?" Jackie went red.

She lightly hit him. "Kyle-"

"God damn it Jackie." He exploded. "Don't ever hit me like that don't you dare ever do that got it?" He screamed. She shrunk down and looked like she was about to cry. "Don't ever hit me."

"Whoa man I think you need to calm down she wasn't trying to do anything it was just a tap." Hyde said defensively. He wondered why Jackie was taking this and wondered why Kyle was getting so worked up about it. Kyle ignored him.

A tear slipped down Jackie's face. "Jackie, you know not to do that to me." Kyle said softening his tone. "I'm sorry I got mad alright." He looked at Hyde. "I had a long day." He added. "I just have a short temper right now okay. I'm sorry sweetheart. You know I love you right?"

Hyde wanted to kill him for making her cry. For yelling at her but mostly for telling her he loved her.

Jackie looked at him. "I love you too." When she said it, Hyde new she didn't mean it, it was so fake and forced sounding but Kyle smiled and wiped away a tear.

"Okay well honey I just wanted to come by to tell you that Donna Eric you and me are going to go out tonight." He didn't wait for a reply. He kissed her again then said goodbye and walked out the door.

Hyde looked at Jackie who had begun to cry silently. Hyde moved from his chair to sitting on the coach next to her.

"Jackie?" He said. She didn't turn to look at him; he knew she was ashamed he had seen her like that.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

She nodded. Then added, "Yeah I'm fine." Jackie looked down at her shoes.

"He seems like a jerk." Hyde said. Jackie didn't say anything. "Why are you with him?" Jackie closed her eyes blinking back any more tears.

"Is that any of your business Hyde?" She said.

"I guess not but I just think you could do better okay?" He said.

"Like who? Like a guy who runs of the second he thinks there is trouble and marries a stripper?" She asked grabbing her purse.

"Jackie I was going to marry you? I came to tell you that when I found you and Kelso about to sleep together." If there were anything Hyde could have taken back it would have been that. Jackie looked at him sadly.

"Steven it was a misunderstanding I would never have slept with Kelso right after we had broken up I thought you would know that. I loved you so much." She closed her eyes and a tear slipped out.

"Jackie-" He said standing up. But she shook her head and walked out of the basement.

Donna and Eric walked into the basement. It was at least twelve at night. Hyde, Fez, and Kelso had been sitting in there watching TV.

"Okay I hate to say this cause Jackie is like my best friend but I don't like Kyle. I mean I thought I did cause he was cute and all but he's a jerk to her. He kept ordering her around and yelling at her. I mean that's the girls job." Donna said sitting down.

"You should have heard what he did earlier to her." Hyde said. After he explained the story Donna seemed even more pissed off.

"I'm going to kick his ass what a jerk." She yelled.

"Wait do you think Jackie's okay?" Kelso said concerned. Hyde knew that even though Kelso had been a jerk to Jackie that he did truly care for her.

"I don't know man. I mean she looked really upset when he did it but not very surprised like it might have happened before."

The gang sat there in silence wondering if there was anything they could do to help their friend.

Jackie sat on Donna's coach. She had missed living at Donna's house, she had missed hanging out in Eric's basement, hell she had even missed Eric. But most of all she had missed Steven. She wondered every day she was away what he was doing? The thought of him and Sam made her sick. She cried for days after they had broken up.

Michael walked into the house.

"Hey," He said sitting down next to her.

"Hey Michael." She said.

"So I didn't really get to see you that much and I thought we should spend some quality time together." He said.

She looked at him. "Michael, last time you said we should spend quality time together you meant we should sleep together." Jackie said rolling her eyes.

Kelso laughed. "Yeah, well we could do that too but I was thinking we should just talk."

"I have never heard you say that." She smiled at him.

"Yeah well I have really grown up since you left." Jackie gave him a look. "Okay fine not really but I think we should catch up."

"Okay well how have you been then?"

"Okay I guess nothing interesting really I quit my job and I started working as a model again. I figured I should use these good looks while I can. Betsy and I have been spending more time together too." He said.

"That's really amazing Michael I always believed you'd make an amazing father." She said.

"Thanks, Jackie. So what about you and this Kyle guy?"

"Um there's not much to say." Jackie rolled her eyes. "I mean he's a good guy, he's great I mean he wants to commit to me. Unlike Steven he promised he would marry me in the future."

"So you want to marry him?" Kelso asked. She looked at him.

"I think so, I mean yes." Kelso gave her a questioning look. "No," Jackie finally admitted. "No, I don't want to marry him. I don't see any kind of future with him." Jackie looked down at her shoes.

"I hate him." She finally said. A tear fell down her cheek. "I hate him. I hate him and I hate what he does to me."

Kelso went cold suddenly understanding which was usually something he could not do. To confirm it he asked the question he knew he did not want to know the answer to.

"What does he do to you?"

Jackie looked up horrified and sad. At this point crying very hard. She took a deep breath. "He hits me."

Okay this was hard for me to write because I don't like anyone who would do this. I kind of stole some of the story line from a book called Dreamland, so that's where I got the idea except I changed it a lot.

Anyway a lot of the others will find out in the next chapter what is going on. Thanks to all the reviewers and tell me what you think. Do you like it do you hate it?