A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed my first chapter! I know there are some unpleasant things that happen with Hyde and various sluts…but please don't get mad at me for including people and events as they happened in the show. It wasn't my idea...
Hope
A long time ago
in a basement far far away,
the gang has just seen Star Wars.
Jackie is thrilled to be back
with Kelso, but Kelso can't
seem to keep his eyes off of
Laurie Foreman.
Meanwhile, Hyde has been
avoiding Jackie and the basement,
hoping to find something to take
his mind off of her…because having
a crush on your friend's girlfriend
sucks no matter what decade you live in.
Am I right?
Anyways, right now, Jackie and Donna
sit in the Pinciotti's kitchen
discussing their boyfriends.
"When Michael and I were apart, he realized how much he missed me. I'm telling you, Donna, breaking up with him was the best thing I ever did!" Jackie was still giddy over being back with Kelso, and nothing could rain on her parade.
"I thought you said that getting a pedicure was the best thing you ever did!" Jackie just rolled her eyes at her friend.
"That was last week, Donna!" Donna just nodded her head in mock understanding while her thoughts turned back to Eric and his stupid obsessive worry about David Millbank.
"I don't know, I don't know… I don't know what do to about Eric! He's acting like this possessive macho jerk!"
"Oh, I am so happy for you, Donna!" Jackie laughed, honestly thrilled for the redhead. What could be better than a boyfriend who loved you enough to want to be around you all the time?
"No, Jackie," Donna scoffed at the brunette, "I'm with him because I thought he wasn't like that!" Jackie just looked confused until Midge walked in.
"Mrs. Pinciotti, can you please tell Donna that I'm right? Isn't it cool when men act like they own you?" Midge smiled at the girls, looking excited.
"Oh yeah!" she exclaimed, her smile only falling when she saw Donna's face.
"Mom! What about all those feminist classes you took!" Midge stared blankly at her daughter for a moment before she smiled thoughtlessly.
"Oh! Right. No."
Jackie just shook her head at her friend, looking forward to Kelso being protective and possessive now that he had her back.
Kelso and Jackie sat together on the couch while Laurie folded laundry behind them.
"So, what do you wanna do tonight?" Jackie asked, looking over at Kelso hopefully, thinking about her empty house. It had been a long time since they had last been together…not since the pregnancy scare, and she found herself actually…wanting it. Her expression fell when she saw the look on his face. "Oh, and if you say 'see Star Wars' again, I'm leaving." She nodded emphatically while Kelso flipped into Obi Wan mode.
"You don't want to leave…You want to see Star Wars." Jackie stared at him for a moment before hitting him and jumping up from the couch.
"Stop it! I have had it with you! You are weird, and I'm going home!" Jackie stomped out the back door, leaving Kelso alone with Laurie.
"Jackie," he called aimlessly at the closed door before Laurie captured his attention.
"Oh boy, that's terrible the way she treats you." Smiling at him, she put down her laundry and walked towards him.
"Right!" he exclaimed, smiling happily at Laurie.
"You know," Laurie said, swiveling her hips as she neared him, "I saw Star Wars, and I'm not a movie expert, but I think it's safe to say it was the greatest film of all time." She smiled at him flirtatiously.
"Finally! Someone who understands!" He grinned dumbly at Laurie.
"Yeah. You know, Kelso, I always thought you were kinda dumb…"
"Uh huh," he urged her to continue.
"But I don't care." Laurie leaned in and kissed him hard on the mouth, leaving him slightly dazed.
"You know, I don't either. It's…" Kelso never finished his statement as he jumped Laurie, devouring her mouth with his own.
Neither noticed Hyde standing on the basement steps watching the scene unfold with disgust.
God, it hadn't even been a week since prom, Hyde fumed to himself as he walked outside through the kitchen door. Kelso hadn't even had Jackie back for a whole week, and he couldn't keep it in his pants. He was more angry at his friend than he considered reasonable, and thus pissed off at himself. Why the hell should he care if Kelso was cheating on Jackie?
"What are you doing?" The words came out sounding more angry than he had intended, but he was shocked by the presence of Jackie perched on the hood of the Vista Cruiser staring up at the sky. Jackie popped up, trying to figure out why she was being yelled at. When she saw Hyde, she just rolled her eyes and lay back down.
"I don't have a ride home," she answered simply, although she didn't seem upset over that fact.
"And you are waiting out here because…"
"God, Hyde, can't you just, like, not be a jerk? I needed to get away from Michael and his stupid Star Wars crap or I was gonna scream. I'll go in and ask him for a ride soon." Hyde smiled at the thought of what Jackie would see when she walked through the doors. The image of Jackie running to him with tears in her eyes and throwing her arms around his neck filled his mind, but he distinctly told himself that that was not why he wanted her to find out. She just deserved to know, and it would be a great burn on his idiotic friend.
"Yeah, uh, you should go do that." Jackie just rolled her eyes at his insistence.
"I told you, Hyde, I need to be away from him for a while." She paused in thought, "Why is he so obsessed with that stupid movie anyways? It's just a bunch of morons jumping around with fake swords and explosions. Who the hell kills a guy with a sword made out of light?" Hyde just laughed at her furrowed brow, silently cataloguing the expression as cute and shrugging his shoulders. "And it's not just that he likes a stupid movie, it's that he'd rather see it for the fourth time than come back to my empty house! We haven't even done it since we got back together!" Suddenly she jumped up from the hood of the car and stomped her foot.
"Uh…" Hyde had literally nothing to say, and his imagination was working overtime, playing with the image of being alone with Jackie in her house. How had he never noticed how fucking hot she was when she was angry? Her face was flushed and she stalked towards him, and it hit him that she wasn't just angry, she was horny. Dear God, Jackie was turned on; he could see her nipples pebbling through her top even in the warm air. What he wouldn't give to push her back against the car and take them in his mouth. He was startled out of his thoughts by Jackie's shrill voice.
"Why does he have to be such a freakin' moron! He's supposed to be protective…and possessive." She closed her eyes as a shudder ran through her body, and Hyde thought he would give an arm and a leg to know what she was thinking about. "Instead, he's obsessed with that stupid movie! Uhhg!" she screamed, kicking some imaginary object on the ground.
"So why are you with him?" he managed to ask, tucking thoughts of possessing Jackie into the back of his mind. She searched his face for a long moment before answering.
"Because I love him." Her expression softened until she was smiling at him. "He was my first everything and my only…" Trailing off, Jackie blushed up at him. "It's special to me that we can share that…being each others only lovers." Hyde thought he felt his heart rip in half at her words, but he wasn't sure if it was because she loved Kelso or because Kelso threw away her love like yesterday's newspaper. He only nodded, though, keeping a tight leash on his thoughts and feelings.
They stared at each other for a long moment before Jackie's gaze turned almost shy.
"I never thanked you," she whispered, walking even closer to him, "for what you did at Prom." Hyde nodded his head jerkily, too affected by her presence to speak. To Jackie, he just looked like his usual pissed off self. Another step forward and they were standing toe to toe, giving her the perfect platform to lean forward and wrap her arms around his neck. Instinctively, Hyde's arms snaked around her waist, holding her too tightly for a friendly hug, but as her lips brushed slowly over his cheek—not an inch from his lips—their embrace felt nothing like 'friendly.' The urge to turn his head slightly and capture her lips was too strong, though, and Hyde quickly stepped away from her with a frown.
"I thought we weren't going to do that anymore," he grumbled, staring at his feet. She just smiled widely at him.
"You might try to hide it, Hyde, but I know you don't hate me," she giggled, sticking out her tongue at him, unaware of the reaction Hyde had to the sight. "I'm going to go get Michael to take me home." Her happy skipping towards the house was stopped as Hyde grabbed her wrist, pulling her back towards him, sending her small body colliding into his. Letting his hands linger on her hips too long as he 'steadied' her, Hyde mumbled his explanation.
"I've got the keys to the Cruiser," he held up the ring and jangled it at her, "and I was heading that direction anyways." Jackie nodded her acceptance even through her baffled expression, but she didn't comment on the strangeness of the offered ride or the fact that one of Hyde's hands was still firmly gripping her hip.
Sliding his hand from her hip to the small of her back, Hyde lead Jackie to the passenger door of the Vista Cruiser and opened the door for her, earning him a brilliant smile. As he walked around to the driver side, he mentally cursed himself. What the fuck was he doing, touching her and voluntarily spending time with her? Why in God's name had he stopped her from finding her stupid boyfriend with Laurie? Seeing her smiling face as he climbed into her seat gave him all the answer he needed. Kelso would get caught eventually, but he didn't want to ruin things for Jackie when she looked so happy. And God, she was still horny; her nipples were poking through her shirt in a way that made him positive she wasn't wearing anything underneath.
He didn't notice he was staring at her until Jackie snapped her fingers in front of his face.
"Earth to Hyde!" Shaking himself back to reality, he smirked at her before slamming his door shut.
"You should really wear a bra with that shirt," he joked, silently praying that she wouldn't do something crazy like get mad or actually take the advice seriously. Her eyes widened with embarrassment for a moment before her expression melted into a smile.
"Take me home, you pig!" He just laughed with her, glad that he was so good at hiding his thoughts.
"Yes, dear."
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