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Sympathy for the Devil
After the girls had finished their final joint, they each dispersed from Laurie's room and down the stairs to the living room. At the bottom of the stairs, each girl was met with her boyfriend, excluding Laurie and Jackie. While Sam immediately jumped from the stairs onto Hyde, clinging her legs around his hips, Jackie looked away uncomfortably and stood fidgeting with her thumbs.
"Mmm baby you are so sexy when you're baked like a cake…" Hyde said loud enough so that Jackie could hear. He didn't know why he would do it, but he always rubbed his relationship with Sam in her face. It only pressed harder at her guilt. He remembered when she would bring guys around that could be her potential "make-out buddies" as Hyde recalled hearing Jackie say to Donna with a radiant smile. None of the guys would last more than one day in the basement though with Hyde burning them within inches of their lives…
"You guys, this is Paul!" Jackie held onto the hand of a tall young guy, his body resembling that of Kelso. He had dark brown hair that hung shaggily around his face, framing his eyes sexily, as Jackie thought. He was initially quiet, but he had a great sense of humor and his heart had swelled when Jackie asked him on a date. He had always thought she was cute, and he was a good guy that would be willing to stay with a girl instead of use her.
Everyone turned towards Paul and greeted him welcomingly except for Hyde, who just stayed in his seat and grunted at this new guy. When Jackie pulled Paul up to Eric in order to create a new friendship, all the while holding onto Paul's hand and caressing her hand up his stomach, Hyde watched as her eyes cast fleeting glances his way.
Hmph. He smirked. Two could play at that game. As if on cue, Sam walked out of his room looking slightly disheveled. She always looked that way, but maybe Jackie had never noticed and would think something had been going on back there before she came to the basement.
Sam walked towards Hyde and he hungrily pulled her down on his lap. Her back leaned into his chest and he hungrily kissed at her lips. Sam's hand distastefully rubbed up and down Hyde's thigh, often stopping right on the bulge in his pants.
Jackie felt sick. The scene before her was not only disgusting but also hurtful. She had remembered how she had sat like that with him countless times, but instead he would play with her hair or gently rub any part of her body he could get his hands on. It had been loving, not sleazy like it was now. She decided to ignore their little show. She turned her megawatt smile on and faced Paul.
Eric and Paul were beginning to talk about how they were shocked when Leia had chosen Han instead of Luke. Jackie rolled her eyes. What nerds.
Before Paul could make a huge fool of himself in front of the whole gang, proving himself to be the other Star Wars geek in the group that would most likely never get laid, Jackie pulled him down onto the couch. They sat down awkwardly until Jackie turned towards him and began a flirtatious banter with him.
"So… what do you want to do after this?" Instead of having a serious face on, she had a smile on and Paul immediately got the message she was sending.
"Do you want to… go somewhere?" Jackie nodded flirtatiously and snuck in a quick wink at him. As habit, she turned her eyes towards Hyde to find him staring hardly at her. So she couldn't have sexual relationships with another guy but he could with a girl?
Screw him, she thought.
"How about we go right now?"
Take that, Steven! she thought triumphantly.
Before the two could get up from the couch, Hyde instinctively began in on the burn fest.
"Hey man, keep your best friend away from her. You never know how many times she might end up screwing him when she's bored with you." Paul immediately looked towards Jackie, his face holding a stare of disgust.
"Ah, BURN!" Kelso screeched.
"Kelso, man, you're the one who was screwing Jackie while I dated her!"
"Steven, shut up! That's not true… we never…" Jackie trailed off sadly.
"Hyde, you burned him and yourself in bringing up that I am the only one who ever wins here!" Kelso was always so excited when burn time came, so he sat waiting on the edge of the couch like a dog waiting to be fed.
"Whatever, man. Hey, Paul, right? We'll all be there tomorrow." Paul looked quizzically at Hyde.
"At your wedding, man! You know she'll be pressuring you right after she gives it up. Shouldn't be long now. Maybe an hour? That's how long she lasted when I was around."
Hyde immediately regretted saying something so harsh, but his angry side took over and quickly wiped out that feeling.
Jackie's eyes brimmed over with tears and she pulled her hand from Paul's. She looked around at all her friends, each one of them looking sympathetic. When she looked at Sam, she saw a smirk appear and then her lips twitched until she was grinning widely. Hyde was neither grinning, nor frowning. His lips were set into a harsh line and those blue eyes were hidden behind his glasses. She could never get through to him anymore.
She pulled open the door to the stairs and slowly walked out, deciding on allowing herself to wallow in her pain rather than throw a tantrum and slam the door. Paul didn't come to her once she was outside, so she turned on her heel and immediately began to march home, resolving to reform her life.
"Thanks for… letting me know. I never thought she would be a slut or a psycho."
"Any time, man" Hyde said. As Paul turned away to finish his conversation with Eric and then exit quietly, he allowed himself both a grin for his achievement in keeping Jackie away from another man, and a frown for being so callous towards her.
Jackie stood still on the stairs, recalling that painful memory. She chastised herself for letting her "Steven barriers", the ones that kept all her good memories with him locked way in the back, let loose. She sighed and slipped past the group, walking through the kitchen and deciding to spend some time on their chairs outside.
As she sat down and leaned back into the chair, she pulled her legs to her chest and curled in on herself. She closed her eyes and began to hum her favorite song, Tangerine by Led Zeppelin, to herself. Her arms cradled around her knees rocked her slowly back and forth, and soon her mind was slipping from the real world and into her own comfortable place of pure blackness.
Measuring a summer's day
I only finds it slips away to grey
The hours they bring me pain.
Tangerine Tangerine
Living reflection from a dream;
I was her love she was my queen
And now a thousand years between.
Thinking how it used to be
Does she still remember times like these?
To think of us again?
And I do.
Although Steven would never, not in a million years, tell anyone, he had once sang this song softly in her ears for her to go to sleep in his arms. Although he had been slightly off key, Jackie still found it the most soothing thing to listen to. After her tears had subsided, having been crying over her father's predicament and her mother's absence, she had closed her eyes and drifted towards sleep. And before the grasp of slumber had pulled her completely down, Jackie could have sworn she heard Steven breathily whisper, "I love you" against her face as he kissed her nose gently.
Hyde was very frugal when throwing around an 'I love you', so she decided it must have been a dream. A very vivid dream, one where she could feel every movement he made beside her. She had spent the rest of the night cuddled up in his arms as he lightly played with her hair, never sleeping until she whispered his name in her sleep.
Jackie's eyes remained shut as the glass door beside her slid open and a person stepped through. It was probably just Kelso asking it if he could do it with her because he heard sex with a sad girl is the best.
Suddenly, hearing the distinct controlled breathing she had come to learn over the past few years, she was no longer so sure that it was Michael. So unsure that she popped one eye open to find Steven standing in front of her. He looked down at her uncomfortably and she shifted in her seat. She closed her eyes and continued humming. The song she hummed hit him hard in the chest. It had been their song. The one she would sing to him when he was angry, when he was sad, when he was tired, after they made love. She would whisper its lyrics in his ear very sultrily when she wanted to make love to him. And he had sung it to her on rare occasion when she was feeling down. It had been playing the first time they had ever made love.
Hyde cleared his throat, expecting her to speak first and yell at him, but instead she seemed to be using the 'Zen' he had taught her long ago. He cleared his throat again, and this time he provoked a reaction in her.
"What do you want Ste—Hyde?" He hated it when she called him that, even more than he hated ABBA.
"Why didn't you get me a present?" Jackie had known that he would have been pissed, but he was completely serious and Jackie was surprised he was that affected.
"I did, it's just…" Jackie trailed off. She didn't want to tell him that she was sorry, but she was. "Look… I just couldn't give it to you in front of them."
Hyde was perplexed at this, until a naughty thought crossed his mind.
"So, you're planning on wearing that little red and black number from Christmas before? Are you gonna do a little dance and ask me how naughty I've been?" Hyde chuckled at the thought, which immediately made him a little hard.
Jackie instead blanched and started talking gibberish. "I… uh… that is long gone… dancing for you… you actually remember that… loved…" Hyde's ears immediately perked up at the word love.
"Jackie." Jackie continued to stare at him bewilderingly.
"Jackie!" Her mouth closed shut and she looked up at him expectantly.
"I got you something too. Do you want to meet me somewhere to exchange gifts, or something?"
Jackie pondered this for a moment but felt she wouldn't be safe alone with Hyde and her feelings.
"How about we just meet in the basement at what, like 4:00?" Hyde just nodded and walked back into the house, fully knowing that being alone with her would be a mistake.
XxxxxxX
Jackie walked warily up the Forman's driveway. Her feet couldn't balance, she was so nervous. She was extremely late, having spent over an hour wrapping and unwrapping Steven's present, deciding to give and not to give it to him. Finally she had willed herself to just get it over with, and she had found her most beautiful wrapping paper and packaged the gift.
She almost slipped several times as she made it down the stairs towards the basement, her hands shaking profusely. When she opened the door, she heard the sounds of Led Zeppelin IV playing softly over the record player. She shut her eyes in nostalgia as she took her last step into the room and shut the door behind her.
Hyde was sitting on his chair watching How the Grinch Stole Christmas with a smug smile on his face. His glasses were on. He looked once at Jackie and then back at the TV. A small, wrapped box sat squarely on his leg, just waiting to be opened. His eyes jumped once more to Jackie, this time knowing that he had the protection of his glasses to hide his lingering gaze. Starting at her feet, he noticed that her legs, covered in heeled boots, were constantly moving, never at ease. Her long coat covered her beautiful curves, but he knew that underneath the clothing she was the most amazing little firecracker.
"Umm…"
"Shh!" Hyde silenced Jackie with his finger up and pointed to the screen, waiting for his favorite line.
"Then he got an idea. An awful idea. The Grinch got a wonderful, awful idea…" Hyde chuckled at the most badass Christmas movie character. Hyde was the Grinch.
"Look Steven, I know you want to watch your little kid cartoons so I'll just put your gift here and you can give me mine, then I'll go."
"No, no wait." Steven turned the TV off, picked her present up from his leg, and headed around the back of the couch towards her. He stopped about three feet away.
"… Merry Christmas Jackie." Jackie smiled a soft, yet somehow sad, smile at him.
"Merry Christmas Steven."
Hyde handed her the gift and she placed it in her palm, fingering the edges of the paper. He did a horrible job at wrapping, but at least he had tried. She stuffed it in her pocket and handed him his big box.
"You're not gonna open it here? I thought you'd be screaming that you get another present." Jackie simply shook her head no.
"Are you gonna open mine here?" Hyde tilted his head at her in question.
"No… actually open it when you're alone." Jackie swallowed very slowly and spoke up again. "Where's Sam?" She had a hard time saying the horrid stripper's name.
"She's hanging out with Donna. I told her I needed to be alone for a few hours."
"Oh…" Jackie sighed. "Well I think I should go now."
Jackie instinctively leaned down to graze her lips against his and stopped herself at about an inch away. Horror crossed her face. She hadn't been alone with him in so long and she just felt so familiar with this routine.
"I'm sorry… I… bye, Steven." She breathed against his face, looking at his lips, and then turned back towards the door. She took one step when her hand was caught by his.
He pulled her back towards him and crushed her against his chest, catching her lips in a deep, passionate kiss. Her mouth opened despite her protesting brain and his tongue slipped inside, first caressing the edges of her lips and then massaging her own tongue until he got a reaction out of it. Both of their hearts swelled, but neither would know that the other's had.
A soft moan escaped her lips and he placed one hand on her hip, drawing her lower half nearer to his as he lightly grinded up on her.
The record had been spinning on side two, and the first two songs had gone by. When "Going to California" began to play, Jackie was immediately pulled back into reality.
Her eyes closed once more, savoring the kiss, and then she pulled away slowly. Hyde stared deeply into her eyes, brimming over with passion, lust, anger, and love. She could see it all in the bottomless blue that she had grown familiar with.
She picked her present to him up off the couch and placed it back in his hands, all the while as he stood there silently, thinking about what had just happened. As she turned to leave, she made one last decision to walk slowly back to him. She placed one feather light kiss, both their eyes open as they tried to savor each other's eyes, on his lips and then leaned into his ear.
"I was her love she was my queen
And now a thousand years between."
She sang softly in his ears, and his eyes closed in remembrance. She still thought of him. It was obvious. His hand trailed down her cheek and she shivered, deciding to leave before she got carried away again.
She opened the door softly and willed herself out, stepping one foot in front of the other until she found herself at her car door, opened it and sat down, placing her head against the steering wheel. After sitting there for a minute just breathing, she turned the key in the ignition and headed home as her heart broke again, remembering all fragments of her relationship with Steven.
XxxxxxX
Jackie sat on her carpeted floor in front of her small, yet beautifully decorated, Christmas tree. A record spun on the music player, the soft tones of "White Christmas" drifting through her apartment. She held Hyde's Christmas present to her in his hands and decided to finally open it. She wedged her finger into the paper gingerly, and pulled it back to reveal a small black box. Curious beyond comprehension, Jackie popped the lid off and felt tears brim at her lower lids.
Inside the box was Steven's favorite ring. He said it was something that his mom had given to him, claiming that it was Bud's. He had held onto it forever, wearing it all the time. Jackie had never seen it off of him.
She slipped it onto her thumb, the biggest finger on her hands, and laid down on her side on the carpet. She curled up into herself and tears of joy brimmed out over her lower lashes, sliding their way down her cheek like raindrops fell on a car window on a drive during a windy, rainy day. She finally understood that their relationship really was over. It had never hit her, that final hope lodged into her heart that they would one day forgive each other. It was time she move on. She smiled blissfully, but sadness tugged at the corner of her lips.
She eventually laid her head against the ground and closed her eyes, breathing deep the scent of pine needles, all the while feeling as though Steven were lying behind her. She could just imagine him whispering into her ear and putting his arm around her. He would have held her flush against his chest, rubbing her arms and sides comfortingly. She took a deep breath and sighed, her chest heavy with the weight of realization. Her eyes slowly dipped down, continuously opening and closing again. She finally allowed them to stay shut, and drifted off into a dreamless sleep within minutes.
XxxxxxX
Hyde sat back on his bed with the gift in his lap. Immediately after Jackie had left, he had made his way back to his room to find solace in his privacy. He was impatient to open the present, embarrassingly curious as to what she could have had to give him.
He opened the lid and found several gifts rolled up into tissue paper. The first one he found contained a flimsy picture of him and Jackie kissing at the Foto Hut. Leo had taken it, so they were in the corner and Leo's face took up most of the camera space. But still, he could see his perfect happiness as his eyes lay closed, holding her lips in a deeply passionate kiss. Her eyes had been open and looking at the camera, but he could detect the lust there. His hands were on her waist and hers were locked behind his head.
The second gift was the tiny troll he had once received in his lunch box. When it once seemed annoying and slightly creepy, he now found it to be special and almost endearing. He'd had no idea she'd taken it, no idea she'd somehow gotten it back from his office. He placed it on the small table beside his bed, deciding to leave it there as a reminder of her.
The third gift was her cheerleading outfit. Wow. He had not been expecting that, and a smirk spread on his face as his eyes glazed lustfully, remembering all those sexy encounters in this outfit. He remembered their Christmas Eve together that he had thought about earlier that morning. He pulled it against him and smelled the top. Her ambrosial scent immediately overwhelmed him and he pulled it away from himself. She was a decadent flavor, and he could detect hints of daisies and peaches all around certain parts of her body. He put the outfit back in the box, deciding it would be best to put it away but hold onto it forever.
There were only two more items. The first tissue paper held something soft, and when he opened it he found his favorite Led Zeppelin shirt rolled up. His eyes closed as he remembered when he had given it to her for a birthday gift. He didn't imagine she'd keep it forever but he had never thought she would give it back. He thought she would have burned it by now.
The final gift lay wrapped in red tissue paper, tucked into the corner. He pulled it out and found his Led Zeppelin II album that he had thought he lost. It instantly struck him that he had left it at her house years ago. They had made love to its softer songs many times.
The memories that laid in this box immediately seized his heart. She was giving him a lot of stuff back, but some of it was her own gift to him. He knew it had to be a reminder. A reminder of their love.
He put the record on his player and immediately went back to sit on his bed. He grabbed the picture and held it in his hands. He couldn't stop staring at their loving embrace. It so wasn't like him, yet at that time it had been exactly what he was like. Jackie had been his world, besides Zeppelin, his Camino, and shoplifting, or so she had said. He had felt her passion for him the first time they had ever made love. It was the most amazing thing he had ever felt.
XxxxxxX
"Steven, do you want me?"
"Of course I want you. Would I be here if I didn't?"
"No. Do you… want me? My body?"
Hyde's immediately licked his lips and nodded. He had waited for her and had actually found her resistance adoring. Normally he would have left a girl if she hadn't put out by then, but with Jackie everything seemed different.
"Come here, baby," she cooed. He followed her into his room. He was upset with himself for not having all the things he had heard her demand of Michael when she planned out their first time. He didn't have candles. He didn't have a banner. Not like he would put up a banner that would say, "Let's do it, Jackie!"
But he did have music. He remembered that the album inside of his record player and turned it on to "Tangerine", one of the softest songs on the album. He knew she would like it.
He placed his hands on her hips as she pulled him down on top her of on his bed. Their kisses started out soft, but soon transferred into roughly passionate kisses. He pulled back from her and looked deeply into her eyes.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" She only nodded. He carefully placed his hands at the bottom of her shirt and felt her shift uncomfortably but showed her agreement when she helped his hands pull her shirt over her head. They had gone this far before, but she knew what was soon to come and it made her nervous.
She was breathtaking. He could hardly breathe at the sight of her naked breasts in front of him and he reached down to cup them. She moaned slightly at the feeling of his cold hands on them and met his lips once more.
She continued to pull his shirt up and over his head, all the while getting more and more nervous. He could see that she was visibly shaking. He placed both hands on either cheek and kissed her softly on the lips, nuzzling his nose with hers.
He began to pull her skirt down off of her legs as she kicked her sandals off. He looked back to her body after pulling her skirt past her feet and saw her lying on his bed half naked, only in black lacy underwear. She was embarrassed to be this exposed and pulled one of his pillows around her. He only grinned in response and began to unbuckle his belt, sliding out of his jeans.
He took his place above her once more and let some of his weight sink down on her, still holding much of himself up with his strong arms. She sighed in content when his tongue swept its way into her mouth.
He decided that he would finally take her underwear off, so he reached his hand down.
Her eyes immediately grew wide and he stopped right where he was. She was so frightened and he could tell. She was treating this like it was her first time.
She spoke for the first time since having made it into his room. "It's okay. I want you to." He complied by pulling her undergarments down her smooth legs and dropped them onto the floor. She lay down below him, completely exposed, and he immediately got harder.
He began stroking her stomach as he kissed her and then moved his hands further south. When he reached her bottom half, he lightly dragged his hands over the small ribbons of hair that lay there, finally dragging his fingers over her entrance. He stroked her a few times and watched her eyes close and her head fall back. She was wet and completely read for him, so he slipped one and then two fingers inside of her. She moaned a deep, guttural moan, and it was the sexiest thing Hyde had ever heard. He picked up his pace as he saw her chest rise and fall quicker and quicker. Before she could reach completion, he pulled his fingers out and brought them back up to her breast as he kissed her.
She decided it was her turn. She pulled his boxers down and immediately his erect penis pushed up against her thigh. She grasped it lightly in her hand and began to stroke his long shaft up and down, watching as his eyes drifted closed. Before she could finish him off, his hand stopped her, although his mind was telling him to keep his mouth shut.
"Come here." He kissed her passionately and pulled her into his tight embrace. Her legs immediately moved wider to allow him space in between her thighs. He lined up with her all the while watching her face. Her breathing was becoming heavy and came in breathy pants. He slowly pushed inside of her and she moaned again.
His movements began slow as she whimpered in his ears. He began to pick up his pace as he moved in and out of her, and she grabbed onto the curly locks of hair on his head. Her pleas grew louder and even more incomprehensible.
"Steven… please baby… harder…" He pulsed into her harder, feeling the passion spread through his veins. Her tight wetness stroked his shaft with each movement and as he felt her shake in his embrace, her inner walls clinging tighter to him, he erupted inside of her.
Tired from the exertion, Hyde sat back against the wall behind his bed. But she wasn't done. She placed tender kisses along his neck, all the way down his chest, finally reaching his penis. She grasped it in one hand and placed her mouth on the engorged tip. She took him deeply in her mouth as he groaned in pure satisfaction. He watched her head take in and release his erect manhood and soon enough came once again.
Having gained some energy back from the relaxation of her actions, Hyde immediately grabbed Jackie by her shoulders and flipped her over so he was on top. He followed her steps and peppered kisses down her body, stopping at the juncture between her thighs. He placed his hands on both legs to still her and dipped his tongue into her slit. He moved it up and down, all the while sucking lightly on her clit. Her breathing grew heavy and her moans took on a higher pitch as she neared orgasm. He continued his exercise, going faster and faster, until she came right underneath his mouth. He brought his mouth up to hers and kissed her, allowing her to taste her own pleasure.
They rolled passionately for a while, locked in each other's embrace, until they ended up on their sides cuddling each other. Their faces were against each other's, often leaning in to place a kiss on the cheek, lips, nose, or forehead. Eventually Jackie had fallen asleep in Hyde's arms and he had drifted away soon after. They had woken up the next morning, still in each other's arms, and preceded to reenact the passion they had demonstrated for each other the night before.
XxxxxxX
Right before Hyde could put the box down, he noticed a small card at the bottom that said Merry Christmas in festive red and green designs. He opened it and in her messy cursive writing read:
I thought I should give you some of your stuff back and leave you some reminders. It's too hard for me to look at these things knowing how much I love you.
XO- Jackie
Hyde's eyes immediately widened at something she had said. "…knowing how much I love you." Not loved. Love. As in currently. He was suddenly shaken to life, his old self having died inside him when Sam had come into his life. He placed the card back in the box as realization dawned on his broken, aching heart.
XxxxxxX
Hyde was once again sitting on his chair, listening to Zeppelin and thinking back onto his days with Jackie. Since when was he the kind of guy to sit and think? Since Jackie, that was when. Although he had never thought she of all people, with her shallow and bitchy demeanor, could change him and make him deeper, she had done it.
Sam opened the door and put a certain sway in her hips as she walked towards Hyde. She was horny tonight and she was going to get some. But Hyde never once looked at her. She was a little upset so she placed herself down on Hyde's lap and straddled him, using her finger to draw his attention up to her face.
"Mmm, Steven. I want you to take me. Right here, right now."
Steven just stared at her as several things started to click into place for him.
"Sam, I think you need to leave."
She was confused at first but then smiled at his remark. "You want me to go wait in the bedroom for you, baby? I can go put on one of my outfits." She purred seductively at him, but after having seen Jackie's unparalleled sexy demeanor, she only looked like trash to him. How could he have ever let this girl hurt the one he truly loved so much? He felt like the sick bastard he was.
"No Sam. I think you need to leave Point Place, for good. I think you need to leave me. I want you to leave me."
To be continued…
Author's Note: Thanks again for the reviews! They just keep me going. I am doing sooooo much homework right now. I have probably written like 25 pages of information on Achilles and Odysseus. I have a literature final tomorrow and I'm kind of freaking out. If any of you readers somehow were in the CORE program you will know. It is stressing. Especially in my grade. Gah! So it will probably take me a while to post the next chapter, seeing as tomorrow I'm going to be hanging with my friends and then I have to study for the most gigantic mid term of my life! Fun. Thanks for reading, xoxo!
