Kitty just held Jackie as she cried, and she was crying along with the young girl, she knew she needed to let Brook and Fez know what was going on and see if they had heard any word on Steven. He really needed to be here, he needed to hold her.
"Sweetie, it just wasn't time yet, you are going to be fine and we are going to help you."
"I didn't even know, I have been on the pill, but had I known I would have stopped, I am sorry I know you don't want us having sex I remember when you found out about Eric and Donna. It was the only time I really felt like Steven cared about me, when it was just the two of us."
"I know sweetie, but know that he does love you."
"I don't know, he left before I could tell him that I had no idea that Michael was even there, it is no telling where he is now"
"Red is at home waiting for him and then he is bringing him directly here."
"He was so mad, I was in the middle of laying my heart on the line, probably for it to be stepped on again, and Michael showed up"
"I know Jackie, Brook told us what happened"
"I never should have gotten back with him earlier this year, it was on promises we wouldn't talk about the future, and then everything happened"
"I know I wish you would have told us, instead we had to read about it in the paper"
"So there is never a going back to Point Place, not if the town knows. Do you know when I am getting out of here?"
"They are keeping you overnight, they are waiting to see if they need to perform a surgery tomorrow"
"I have to be out of here, I have my job that I have to start tomorrow"
"Jackie you don't worry about your job, you worry about you, we have to make sure you are in good health you may not be able to work for a few weeks, we can call them in the morning."
"If I don't have a job tomorrow, I might as well be dead, there is nothing left, no boyfriend, no job and no where to live."
This statement worried her, she needed to find out what was going on, but she didn't want to leave Jackie alone, she was scared what the girl might do. She stepped out in the hall and found her nurse, "Can Jackie's friends come in and sit with her, I don't want to leave her alone and I have some calls I have to make"
The nurse agreed and said they were moving her to a room upstairs and her friends could come with her.
Once Brook and Fez were in the room with Jackie, Kitty went to place a phone call. Unfortunately again Red answered. "Oh Red I hoped you and Steven was on your way down here by now."
"Donna and Charlie just went on a man hunt to find him, Bob is staying here with me trying to keep me calm. How is Jackie?"
"Not good, she has had a miscarriage and she is worried about her job she is supposed to start tomorrow."
"Did she know she was pregnant?"
"No I was able to talk to the doctor and she was only about two months along and hadn't realized it yet. They may need to take her in for surgery tomorrow, and her mental state is not good. This may break her if she lets it."
"WB just pulled in the driveway, so maybe he knows something about Steven, call back in an hour if you can, if I am not here, Bob will be, send Jackie my love and tell her I am counting on her to get through this"
"I will Red, I know you love Jackie more than the others. Love you, be safe on your way here, I hope it is soon."
WB walked in the sliding doors, "hey have you guys is Steven here?"
"No we have a search party out looking for him now, seems he went to Chicago, and Kelso played a dumb prank that had him peeling out of the parking lot of Jackie's motel alone. Now Jackie is in the hospital and both Steven and Kettlehead are MIA."
"I just stopped by the store and found it in the hands of that dirty hippy, and well it smelled like a Grateful Dead concert, with what could be only described as a full on orgie in the office. I kicked everyone out and closed and locked up the store."
"He was supposed to go to Chicago and propose to Jackie and bring her back, Donna and Charlie are out looking to see if they can find him in Point Place."
At that both Donna and Charlie walked in with a defeated look.
"I am guessing you didn't find him?" Red asked as they sat down at the kitchen table with the three men.
"No we checked everywhere, the beer warehouse, every bar in Point Place, the water tower, and the store, but no sign of the El Camino or Steven anywhere." Donna said, "Any word on Jackie?"
"Not good, seems she didn't know she was even pregnant and she miscarried, they are admitting her right now, Kitty is afraid this is going to break her."
"I need to get to her, I can't keep looking for Steven knowing she is going through all that."
"Donna is right, Jackie is like a second daughter to me, maybe the two of us should head down there first thing in the morning."
WB was sitting there absorbing everything in, "So Steven has just vanished after seeing Kelso and Jackie?"
"Last time something like this happened, the two of them were sitting on the couch together, Hyde saw them and took it for cheating and went and screwed a nurse, he felt like the major dill hole he is when he found out that Jackie was just comforting him and nothing was going on."
"So he could be out doing something stupid right now because he jumped to conclusions?" WB asked.
"Hyde thinks everyone is going to eventually leave him like Bud and Edna, so flight is his first instinct, never stay around to find out the truth." Donna filled in WB
"Steven thought for sure we were going to kick him out on his 18th birthday, even though he still had a year of school to finish, even when he graduated it never came up to kick him out. But the few years we have tried to raise him, can't erase the time that he lived with Edna and Bud."
"Jackie is a loud and funny girl, but I like her. She doesn't hold back, even when we first met she didn't blink to put me in my spot on jumping to conclusions about Steven. And not only that I have seen that girl in action, she has in her to drive Steven to be something. The first day in my office she showed up with his lunch and a suit. Just the little time I have gotten to know my son, he needs someone in his life like that"
"Hyde won't say he is happy with Jackie, just less pissed off, he claims he doesn't do happy. At first we thought they were the most creepy and unnatural pair, but the way they are with each other, they bring out the best in each other. She is not the vain shallow princess she was when she was with Kelso." Donna stood up and started to pace, "Where is that dill hole, I am so ready to kick his ass"
"I wonder if he is by chance using the credit card I gave him? I could put a call and find out where he is using it"
Jackie was in her room and Kitty was going to be allowed to spend the night, Brook told Fez he could stay with her and hope by morning more answers on Steven's disappearance was known. Walking out of the hospital to Brook's car they bumped into Michael "Brook you are alright! Where is Betsey?"
"Betsey is at my mom's, how did you know where I was?"
"Well I went to your apartment and you wasn't there, so I went to your mother's but she has moved? And by the time I got to the motel to see Jackie again, they said that someone was taken to the hospital by ambulance."
"So the other two times you saw Jackie today wasn't enough?"
"No well I was looking for you and Betsey. What do you mean the other two times?"
"I know that you showed up and she told you to go away and slammed the door in your face, but then even then you couldn't leave well enough alone and showed up a second time in a towel talking about doing it while she was having a serious discussion with Steven? Really half of Point Place is ready to kill you right now"
"Hyde isn't up there looking for me is he?"
"No you idiot, he took off after you little stunt! Fez is not a happy man, you have possibly ruined things and I can not look at you" without saying his typical good day he stormed off to Brook's car.
"What no good day?"
"You don't deserve a good day, have a bad day like the rest of us are having right now" Fez hollered back.
"Michael I found Jackie sick on the bathroom floor basically miscarrying a baby she didn't even know she was carrying. She lost her house in Point Place, her boyfriend showed no signs of seeing a future with her, or could even assure her that he loved her when she needed him. And now that she could possibly lose the job she moved her for, she is hanging on by a thread. Kitty is up there with her now, and Red is waiting at home for Steven to show up, but no one has heard anything. If I was you I would avoid the Foreman house, and probably the Pinciotti house as well, everyone there is ready to kick your ass."
"Brook I am sorry it was just a joke"
"Michael it is time you grow up, you can't be going around messing with people's lives. You didn't just pull a joke on an ex and a friend, this doesn't just affect them, but you did this to the people you picked as godparents to your daughter. You are messing around with people that we need to count on to be there for Betsey."
"I don't know what to say, I never thought of it that way."
"You better hope they can find Steven, and I suggest for a long time you stay away from both of them, you can sleep at my apartment tonight, but in the morning you are heading to Point Place. Mom will keep Betsey for the weekend, I am going be there for Jackie and help her get through this"
Donna walked into her house with her dad as her phone was ringing. She went to answer it, "Hello"
"Donna, hey I called to check in with mom and the phone has been busy?"
"WB is over there trying to track down that dill hole of a best friend of yours"
"Ok where is mom? And what is going on?"
Donna told her everything that happened and the trying to find Hyde.
"I guess I missed everything, so do you think he may have came out this way?"
"Who knows, I think Red and WB were going to bed soon, WB is staying in your room. And your mom is staying with Jackie in the hospital."
"Ok let me give you my number to reach me here when you guys hear something, I want to know."
Donna took down his number, "you are missed just so you know"
"Apparently so, everything goes to pieces with me gone. I am supposed to be here for a few weeks so give dad my number"
After hanging up she took and walked back over to the Foreman's to see if she could find out anything and let Red have Eric's number.
Red and WB were in deep discussion when Donna came back over. "Eric called over my house he had been trying to call here and check in, but the line was busy. He wants you to have his number he's in New York preparing for Africa. Any word?"
"It looks like the hophead could be heading towards Vegas from the looks of the card charges"
"I am heading out first thing in the morning to Vegas to try to knock some sense in him, I should be able to find him, they are putting a tracker on the card and I will call with updates of where it is being charged. But right now I need to get some sleep if I can"
"I feel like I should go with you, but I feel like I need to stay here as well. I don't know when Kitty will be coming home. And I need to be here, with Steven, Eric and Laurie all gone and only knowing where Eric is for the time being, she is going to be in state."
"Well I am going to head to bed too, dad and I are going to Chicago in the morning. You might want to call Eric with an update"
Donna walked out of the house and Red got up and picked up the phone again and dialed the number that Donna had just gave him, Eric answered right away, "Dad?"
"Yea son, wish you were here"
"I do too, any updates on where he is?"
"From what WB found out we think he is heading to Vegas, WB is getting a flight first thing in the morning"
"Anyone going with him?"
"No as much as I would love to go to be the first to kick his ass, I can't leave not knowing when your mother is coming back"
"Is WB there? Can I talk to him?"
Red handed the phone to WB telling him Eric wanted to talk to him. "Hey Eric"
"I know this is asking a lot, but is there a way you could have a ticket at JFK to Vegas for me in the morning? You need someone that knows Hyde and how to talk to him. He's been my brother longer than he has lived with me, and I want to find him. The more I think about Africa the more I am not ready to go. I am needed at home or at least looking for Hyde"
"I'll make the arrangements and meet you in Vegas tomorrow."
After hanging up WB looked at Red, "I guess you heard your son is going to meet me in Vegas"
"Well if anyone can talk Steven down from this level of stupidity it is Eric, I didn't think Africa is right for him, but there comes a time they have to learn for themselves, but then there is a time you have to pull their head out of their ass."
"How do you think Kitty is going to take the thought of both boys in Vegas?"
"If we are lucky you all will be back before she finds out."
Eric went and woke up the director and told them there is an emergency at home and he was going to have to drop out. He then went and tried to get some sleep before going to the airport the next day. The last time he flew out west it was to bring Donna home, now he was flying out to bring his brother home. His heart ached for everything Jackie was going through. He may have called her the Devil, but she had been a pretty good friend. They talked mostly when no one else was around. He saw the differences that Hyde and Jackie brought out the best in each other. He just hoped they could find a way to each other.
Donna laid in bed and cried herself to sleep, so much had happened in a short amount of time it seemed, her and Eric had called it quits for good, and then everything that happened with Jackie and Hyde. She couldn't remember the last time she cried herself to sleep.
Kitty couldn't help but hold Jackie's hand as the little girl slept, mainly from the pain killers they had given her. She prayed for peace for both Jackie and Steven, she prayed that Steven would find his way home and soon. She hated being away from Red, but they both knew she was needed here. She would never understand Pam and leaving a daughter without making sure she was OK. She worried about her own daughter, Laurie was out there who knew where. If she couldn't be there for Laurie she would move heaven and hell to be there for Jackie.
Michael couldn't sleep either, scared for what his ex was going through, guilt that his actions could have caused it. Visions of Jackie literally hanging on by a thread went through his mind. Jackie that always had a love for him and forgiveness, but it had never been the love she had for Hyde. Why did he do so many stupid things?
Steven found himself checking into a motel on the outskirts of Vegas, first he needed sleep then he planned on getting hammered at the strip club next door.
