Jackie begins 3

Roy sneaked out of the pantry, drying his eyes. It had been a good day, but that only reminded him of all the bad days he had. And that made him cry.

Apparently Hyde is having a bad day today, judging the way he's storming in here. "Hey, Steven, how are you?"

"Just great. I know I'm a little early but do you have any work?"

"A little? You're an hour early. Why don't you hang out in the lobby until it's time."

"Alright, man, I could use a beer, anyway. But I'm still getting paid overtime, right?"

"Of course."

"Cool." And with that, Hyde left the room. Leaving Roy all alone. Again. They all leave you alone in the end don't they? Maybe, another pantry crying session wouldn't hurt.

After the second beer, Hyde started talking to this one nurse. She seemed nice, about as old as kitty, probably a little younger.

He just said a lot of what he said to Donna, and what happened today.

By the fourth beer, Hyde had a crowd of four nurses-two just trying to flirt and two who looked like they really cared- but he didn't want to talk right now… Then why is he still talking?

"I just… I thought I could trust her. She of all people should know not to-"

"Shhh, I know, baby, I know." A young nurse (not one of the flirty ones) rubbed his arm and hugged him.

This is exactly what Jackie did… Maybe this nurse had a boyfriend, and no intention to cheat on said guy. Maybe he was just being and idiot, as usual, and needed to find Jackie.

"Hey, Roy. You seen Steven?" a giggly Jackie bounced into the kitchen.

"Yea, he seemed really angry and upset. If I didn't know any better I'd think you cheated on him."

"Well, were is he? I think I can cheer him up."

"He's in the lobby."

"Thanks" Jackie was way too happy to wait for him to reply, she needed to find Steven. Now.

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After thanking the nice nurses, he walk down the hallway to the dinning room, but was stopped by the sand hot nurse that hit on him this morning.

"Hey, you still have that girlfriend?"

Honestly, "I don't know"

"Common, Let's talk about it in my room." She grabbed his hand.

He anchored himself down.

"You know, I think I should talk to her."

"But you just said that you don't know if you had-"

"Yeah, but I need to know if I do or not. But you know that older guy? Yeah, he's way better than me I heard, so just have a few more beers and try him out." The nurse made a weird face but shrugged and brushed past an excited Jackie, making her way to the kitchen.

"STEVEN!"

"Hey, Jacks, we need to talk"

"Wait, you'll never guess what!"

"Seriously, Jackie, I need to talk to you."

"But, Seven! Michael's gay!" she bursted into giggles.

Hyde nearly choked on nothing. WHAT? KELSO, GAY?

"Wait, no I saw you guys on the couch."

"Oh, so you heard the whole conversation" Hyde looked down a little ashamed of not waiting to hear the whole story. Of course this could be all crap, I mean Kelso's gay? That is the stupidest excuse he heard so far.

"What do you mean the whole story? I didn't hear anything about hi being gay."

"Well, Fez had a… well.. After the nurses convention…Fez fell asleep, and Michael…I mean-"

"What are you talking about?"

"Come on, I don't want to talk about this here." Jackie took his hand and led him to the El Camino. "Okay, so, I promised I wouldn't say anything, but it's me so just act like you didn't know."

"Yesterday, Fez had a gay dream about Michael, apparently Michael was a nurse and sponged Fez!" neither one could contain their laughter, and after two minutes of cracking up, Hyde finally looked over at the passenger side to the woman he loved and decided it was now or never.

"Hey, what did you think we were talking about on the couch?" She interrupted

"What?" His pulse was so loud in his ears that he could barley heard what she said, and he was annoyed that he couldn't talk to her without interruptions.

"When I told you about Michael being gay," She giggled again, "you said that I was wrong because of something you heard us talk about on the couch. What did you think we were talking about?"

"You know what? That doesn't matter, I made a mistake and it's all okay now."

"No, tell me. I won't get mad."

Sigh, "Alright. All I heard was you saying there is no harm in trying and then he said something about me getting made about it. Then, you said that you should focus on him. I left after that because I thought…. I don't know that you were, like, taking him back or something…. and I know that was really stupid and I jumped to conclusions and I'm sorry I doubted you, but I realized that I was overreacting about something I didn't even know was true and came to find you."

Hyde finally looked up to see Jackie's eyes filled with tears. He started the car and kept quiet, hoping to make it up to their spot without being seen. He finally bucked up the courage and continued on his rant without letting her talk.

"I came over to your house for a reason. So, just hear me out. I'm just going to start with I trust you, and that's not easy for me. The only people I trusted completely left, and when I started to trust you the 'get off my boyfriend thing happened' and I was crushed. Don't feel bad about it now but I guess I've had some bad experiences with trust okay with that said I guess… I'm really not good at this" after thinking for a minute or two, he found the words, "you know how I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping?" He waited for her to nod to continue.

"Well I found out that it was because you were there. And I don't want to loose you and I really worry about you sometimes and so I stay up and watch you sleep. It helps a lot to know I can… keep you safe, in a way." As he started to continue, Eric and Donna came up to the door and knocked on the window, they were stopped at a red light, in front of the Hub

"Hyde! Man, Open up it's freezing out here!"

Rolling down the window, "Get bent Forman."

After exchanging a look with Donna, she grabbed her annoyed boyfriend and left Hyde to do what she wanted him to do.

"Anyway….. I'm done going into too much detail, you are probably the coolest chick ever. Look at you, you're gorgeous, smart, fun, a great kisser, and for some weird reason, I want to be near you all the time. I talked to Donna and she made me see that…I-" he couldn't say it. Looking in her eyes, he prayed that she saw the emotion there. He knew that she deserved it, and he wanted to say it but… why can't he?

"Jackie, I l..lo-" this time he was cut off by her lips crashing into his. The kiss deepened as they fell back on the seat. Quickly crawling on top of her, Hyde held her face, not letting go when she pulled back.

"Thank you, Steven." Jackie whispered.

"I love you." He whispered back before descending on her lips

The kiss they shared held more emotion then either one anticipated. Their feelings for each other were stronger than they realized.

They were not ready for this type of thing. But it was coming at them in full force.