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Thanks for all the great reviews! Everything I've written before was just practice for this story, so it makes me feel super that you're all responding to it this way!

Kudos to anyone who caught the Woodsman Red reference. Not everyone is going to correlate to Jackie's fairytale world, but there might be the occasional cameo here and there.

E/D fans might hate me after this. If you hate it, go read one of my other stories. They all have ED in them. I'm not being vindictive, just doing what is right for the story.


Glass Slippers.

"Roo coo coo, roo coo coo,

Blood is dripping from the shoe:

The foot's too long and far too wide,

Go back and find the proper bride." –Cinderella.

"Tis, tis,"

Jackie opened her eyes to see a woman leaning over her, clucking her tongue. "This won't do!" The woman took Jackie's chin into her hands and moved Jackie's head side to side. "Oh this won't do at all!"

Jackie groaned. She felt like she had just fallen off a twenty story building. "Where am I?" Jackie asked.

"Where are the slippers?" The woman asked, ignoring Jackie's question.

"What slippers?"

The woman threw up her hands. "The glass slippers, surely you have them!"

Jackie shook her head. "Sorry, I don't."

The woman looked at Jackie with distain. "You turned left didn't you?" The woman's voice was accusing.

"The voice told me to!" Jackie replied indignantly.

"And you listened?" The woman scoffed. "I would have figured you better than a dummy, but I guess I was wrong!"

Jackie sat up to get a better look at the woman. If Jackie had to guess, she would say the woman was in her mid to late forties with high cheekbones and a bouffant hair do. She would have been pretty if it weren't for her massive jaw line which gave the woman the appearance of a horse.

"Um, who are you?" Jackie asked

The woman stood up and put her hand to her chest. "Oh silly me, we haven't been properly introduced! Where are my manners?" The woman shook her head.

"I'm your fairy godmother!" The woman cheered and did a little jump.

"Really?" Jackie asked, excitedly.

"Oh, god no." The woman responded sarcastically. "I'm no one's fairy anything."

"Okay." Jackie was confused. The woman leaned back down to look Jackie in the eye. Jackie wanted to jump back at the pure evil she saw in the woman's eyes as she scraped a long sharp nail down Jackie's cheek.


"What did you do?" Donna yelled again, rushing towards Hyde. Red caught her before she could get to him. "He killed her!" Donna yelled. "Let me at him!" She begged Red.

"Donna, calm down." Hyde requested.

"Calm down?" Donna asked, livid. "Tell me where Jackie is!"

Bob stood up. "Donna, cupcake, Jackie had to be taken upstairs for some surgery."

This news did not help Donna to relax. "Surgery?"

Bob shrugged; the doctors had not been back yet to inform them of the reasons for Jackie's surgery.

Donna cast an ugly gaze onto Hyde. "What, it's not enough that she almost drowned, you had to finish the job, is that it?"

Before Hyde could respond, Kelso started laughing. Everyone turned to look at him.

"What is it, Michael?" Kitty asked.

"Donna sounds like Jackie right now."

Donna stared at Kelso for a moment before wrapping her arms around Red and crying into his shoulder.

"Kitty, do something." Red said helplessly to his wife. Kitty gently turned Donna around and gave her a motherly hug while Donna continued to sob.


Hyde watched as his surrogate mother took Donna out of the room. Bob stood up a minute later and gave a slight smile. "I'm going to get some air too." He told them before walking out of the room. Red nodded at Bob and then took his chair.

Red looked over at Kelso. "You brought that damn thing?" He pointed to the lawn chair.

Kelso nodded. "Yeah, there weren't enough chairs here for everybody." Hyde knew the real reason Kelso had brought the chair over, even if he didn't. No one had any intention of leaving Jackie's side until they absolutely had to. If Jackie couldn't come to the basement, the basement was going to come to Jackie. Hyde made a mental note to himself to bring his chair when a doctor came in.

"Are you Jackie Burkhart's family?" The man asked.

Red stood up and nodded. "Yes, we are."

The doctor looked at the guys, clearly skeptical, but he decided to let it go.

"How is she?" Kelso asked.

"Why did she need surgery?" Fez asked at the same time.

The doctor held up his hand. "Jackie is doing okay; she was just having an adverse reaction to the medication she was on, and we were just doing some follow up surgery to repair the damage she sustained from drowning."

"How are her lungs?" Red asked.

"I won't lie to you and say we aren't still concerned about the amount of water Jackie took into her lungs. There's always risk for complications in this situation, but we're doing all we can to make sure Jackie gets the best care we can give her."

"What about her head?" Red asked.

The doctor sighed. "To be honest, I'm more concerned about her head trauma then I am anything else, but we don't know anything for sure until Jackie wakes up."

"So she is going to wake up?" Kelso asked hopefully.

The doctor looked into Kelso's eyes. "I won't lie to you, it's a crap shoot. We just don't know if or when, but, her brainwaves are strong, which is a good sign."

The doctor left a few minutes later after being bombarded with more questions from Red, Kelso and Fez. Hyde sat silent; listening to what the doctor wasn't telling them.

"Oh crap, you're crying!"

Hyde blinked. He hadn't even realized that tears were in his eyes until Kelso brought it up.

"Shut up." It was the only defense Hyde had.

Kelso held up his hands defensively. "Hey, it's okay, I cried earlier too."

"I cried last night as well." Fez admitted. "But then again, I cry a lot."

"Speaking of crybabies," Hyde said, trying to get the attention off of him, "When is Forman supposed to get here?"

Red sucked in a breath. "Sometime tonight, he said he'll just get a cab from the airport and come straight here."

"Does anyone else think it's kind of weird that Eric is coming back because Jackie is in the hospital?" Kelso asked the room. When no one answered he looked at Fez. "Don't they hate each other?"


Donna sucked in a breath of cool spring air. Kitty had lured her to the small park across the street from the hospital with the promise they wouldn't stay long. As they sat on a park bench, Donna watched as an old married couple holding hands as they strolled leisurely through the park. She had always imagined that someday that would be either her or Eric, or even Jackie and Hyde. Those daydreams were as good as dust now though.

"I can't look at him anymore, Mrs. Forman." She finally opened up. "I look at him and all I see is him laughing. While I was scared that my best friend might not make it, he was laughing."

"What was he laughing at?" Kitty asked. Red had filled her in on the story, but she didn't want to spill the beans just yet.

"Does it really matter?" Donna snapped at her. She instantly felt bad. "I'm sorry."

"You know what I think?" Kitty asked, "I think that you don't blame Steven, I think that you blame yourself."

"I do blame myself. I never should have left them alone together. " Donna scowled. "He probably wanted it to happen."

Kitty gave a slight laugh. "Oh, Steven isn't capable of doing something like that!"

"I think he's capable of just about anything." Donna responded, standing up to go back inside.


Jackie stared at herself in the full length mirror that occupied the room the enchantress gave her as the chambermaid tied Jackie's dress together.

"I wouldn't think about it if I were you."

"Think about what?" Jackie asked.

The chambermaid eyed her. "You're planning on escaping, aren't you?"

"No." Jackie answered shortly.

"Right." The chambermaid said. "That's fine, but just remember what my lady wants, my lady gets."

Jackie now felt nervous. Truthfully, she had planned on ignoring the enchantress's request to find her slippers, but something about the chambermaid's tone made her feel anxious.

"What's your name?" Jackie asked, figuring that if she was going to be here awhile, she might as well make friends.

The chambermaid answered. "I'm not important, and neither are you."

Jackie raised her eyebrow. "Oh, I happen to be very important."

The chambermaid shook her head. "No, otherwise you wouldn't be here."


Two hours later, the whole gang was back in the ICU, awaiting Jackie's return and Eric's arrival. Donna had to admit that even though she and Eric had broken up, she was looking forward to seeing him. He would know what to do. She looked up at the people in the room. Hyde was sitting by the window, staring out into the parking lot, Kelso and Fez were playing cards, Red and Kitty were standing by the doorway, and her dad was retying his shoe. She wondered if they all felt as broken as she did without Jackie. It was in that moment when she made up her mind to talk to Hyde as soon as she could. She needed to confront him, find out what exactly happened that night.

"I'm going for a walk." She said as she stood up and walked towards the door. Red and Kitty moved out of her way as she breezed past them towards the elevators.

"We're here to see Jackie Burkhart." Eric's voice caused Donna to stop in her tracks. He wasn't supposed to arrive for another hour.

"Eric?" She heard her own voice squeak and grimaced.

"Donna?" His voice sounded equally squeaky, making Donna feel slightly better. She felt like she was walking in slow motion towards him.

"Your hair!" He pointed to her red tresses and laughed.

"You're… tan!" It was true; Africa had been good for Eric. She watched as he looked behind himself.

"Waiting on someone?"

"Oh yeah." Eric said flippantly. "Uh, so… where is…"

Donna gestured towards Jackie's room. "She's still in surgery though."

"Surgery?" Eric asked surprised. "What for?"

Donna shrugged. "I'm not really sure to be honest with you." She watched as Eric looked behind his shoulder again.

"Donna… there's something you need to know." He started to say something when they reached Jackie's room, but Donna wasn't paying attention. Was it wrong of her to be thinking about how good he smelled? Of course it was. They were over, and even if they weren't, and even if there was a miniscule chance they could get back together, it couldn't happen.

"Look what I found." Donna interrupted Eric mid speech as she opened the door to Jackie's ICU room. She watched as Kitty attached herself to her son like a clamp, pressing kisses all along his face. She reluctantly let go after Red pulled her off, only for Eric to vice gripped by Fez. Eric awkwardly patted Fez on the back.

"Am I interrupting something?" Fez let go of Eric and Eric went to stand by the girl who had walked in. Donna stared at the woman standing next to Eric. She looked like a Greek goddess statue come to life with brown cocoa skin, huge doe eyes and a full mouth. There was no awkwardness or self doubt in her pose; she held her head high in the midst of the open mouth stares coming at her direction. What made it even worse however was that she was giving everyone a huge smile. As Donna narrowed her eyes downward, she saw that she and Eric's hands were intertwined.

"Everyone, this is Jasmine, my fiancé."

"Hello, Donna, this is me, karmic retribution."

Jasmine's smile only got bigger. "Oh it is so good to finally meet you all; Eric has told me so much about you!" She spoke in an Africanized French accent.

Red glared at Eric. "She's French?"

"Libyan." Jasmine corrected. "I was born and raised in Libya, but if it makes you feel better, my father fought for the Free French in the war."

Red stared Eric's new fiancé down. "You don't take crap from no one do you?"

"No sir."

"And you're polite." Red nodded. "Eric, I like her."

Eric's smile was worth a thousand heartaches in Donna's eyes. This girl, this boyfriend stealing tramp of a whore, had put that smile on his face. Donna looked over at the empty bed where Jackie should have been. Was this how she felt when Sam had shown up? Of course it was. And Donna had just let it happen. She had let Sam become a part of the group, had even become friends with her. Donna could feel a set of eyes on her and she looked up to see Hyde staring at her as though he could read her thoughts. He knew exactly what she was thinking.


As Eric's new catch introduced herself to the gang, it occurred to Hyde that he had forgotten something.

"So, when do I get to meet Mrs. Hyde?" Eric asked his voice teasing.

Crap.

That's what he had forgotten. In all the drama, he had forgotten about Sam.

"You didn't tell her, did you?" Red accused.

"It might have slipped my mind." Hyde admitted, embarrassed.

"She doesn't know?" Kelso asked, voicing what everyone was thinking. "Burn!"

"Just wait till I tell Jackie." Fez said, instantly realizing his mistake. "I mean... when she... crap."

Hyde couldn't help but smile though. It was the kind of burn that Jackie would have appreciated.


Jackie was alone when the evil enchantress walked into her temporary bed chambers. As prisons went, it was one of the nicer ones Jackie had to admit.

"You will get me my slippers, little girl." The wicked woman ordered, not bothering with pleasantries. "You will bring them to me by sunset tomorrow." Jackie screamed out when the woman took Jackie's wrist and made a slit into the skin with her nail and then squeezed the blood from Jackie's veins into a glass cylinder.

"I wouldn't try anything." The woman told her. "I have your life force." She waved the glass tube in front of Jackie. "Do we have an agreement?"

Jackie shook her head definitely. "Look, I don't know who you think you are, but I'm Jackie Burkhart and I don't take orders from no one, especially washed up middle aged skankoids like yourself."

The woman grabbed a fist of Jackie's hair and yanked her towards a large mirror.

"You think you're so loved? That you're missed, let me show you what's really going on in your world." The woman waved her hand against the mirror and soon Jackie was face to face with her prince.

"Oh looky." The woman mock pouted. "Your prince seems to be enjoying the comfort of another woman's arms, how about we listen?"

Jackie tried to shake her head but it was too late.

"Are you happy?" The blonde was asking.

"I've never been happier." Hyde's reply was almost robotic.

"He's lying." Jackie claimed. "There's no way he's happy with her." She wasn't sure she knew who she was as her face was shadowed but she was certain there was no way Steven could ever be content with some slutball.

"Mrs. Forman is throwing us an engagement party." The blonde told him as she snuggled into his side. Jackie wasn't sure if the face changed, or if the lighting had gotten better, but now she could see the woman snuggling up to Hyde was no other than her best friend.

"Donna?" Jackie reached out but was pulled back by the woman.

"They've moved on." The queen told her. "You will go get me my slippers."

Jackie couldn't take her eyes off the mirror, even though the scene was long gone.

"Yes."


An hour later, the Forman's and Bob were gone, Jackie was back in her bed, and the gang was sitting in mock circle around Jackie's bed. Nothing was being smoked, but it was a shape that was comforting to the gang. Hyde couldn't take his eyes off of Jackie. She looked even more broken then she had when he had first seen her earlier that day. He wanted to reach out, to touch her, but after what had happened earlier, he was stricken with fear. What if Donna was right? What if he had been trying to finish the job? What if Jackie was so repulsed by him that she'd rather be dead than have him anywhere near her?
This was stupid. Jackie thought as one of the castle guards led her outside the gates.

"Well, look at what you've gotten yourself into now."

Jackie looked around. "Oh, it's you again."

The voice gave a slight chuckle. "A day ago you would have been happy to hear me again."

Jackie shrugged. "A day ago, I wasn't being blackmailed into finding some uggo's shoes. Seriously, has she looked in a mirror lately? A pair of glass slippers isn't going to help the mess that's going on up here." Jackie gestured around her face.

The voice laughed. "Ugly or not, she has a vile of you blood, which means you're locked to her now."

"Phh.." Jackie kicked at a rock. "I came here for one reason and one reason only, and that was to rescue Steven."

The voice sighed. "I keep telling you, Steven isn't the one who needs to be rescued here, and you are."

Jackie looked up at the sky, confused. "And just who is supposed to rescue me?" When the voice didn't answer quickly enough, Jackie nodded to herself. "Yeah, that's what I thought."


"So then Fez decides the way to get back at him is to throw pickles at Fatso Burger so that he's a prisoner of his own pickle prison, so he chucks a pickle at the window but it doesn't land there."

"Where did it land?" Jasmine asked Hyde.

"On my forehead." Donna told her, glaring at Fez.

Fez pointed at her. "Yep, that's the same look she gave me when it happened." He and Kelso held each other's arms as they laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Hyde asked Kelso. "You weren't even there."

"That doesn't mean I can't appreciate it." Kelso retorted.

"So… tell me about Jackie." Jasmine requested. "Whenever Eric talks about her all he says is that she's spoiled, self centered and mean."

The remainder of the gang looked at each other and nodded. "Yeah, that's pretty much true." Kelso said.

"This is the part where you ask us why we're friends with her then." Donna told her, seeing the perplexed look on Jasmine's face. "Go on, everyone else does."

"Um, okay." Jasmine said slowly. "Why are you friends with her then?"

"Because she's perfect." Hyde seemed as surprised by his own admission as everyone else was.

"So perfect that you had to kill her?" Donna said, slowly rising from her chair.

"Donna." Eric tried to grab Donna's hand to get her to sit down again, but Donna pulled it away. He had chosen someone else. He no longer had arm grabbing privileges.

Hyde looked up from his boots and into Donna's red eyes. "You really should get some Visine, Kelso is going to start thinking you're a robot."

Donna crossed her arms. "Stop making jokes, Hyde."

Hyde couldn't deal with Donna's accusations anymore. "You really think I would kill her?" He asked softly.

"I don't know what to think of you anymore." Donna replied. "She was dead and all you could do was laugh!"

Hyde stood up and yelled in Donna's face. "I didn't know!" "I thought she had gone home without us!"

"Like that matters!" Donna screamed. The rest of the gang could only watch as the two most important people in Jackie's life squared off.

"You really want to blame me?" Hyde asked. "You knew how drunk I was, and yet all you could think about was being alone with Randy!"

"Randy?" Eric asked, pretty sure he already knew.

"Boyfriend." Fez answered.

"Ex boyfriend." Donna quipped, not taking her eyes off of Hyde.

"It's your fault she fell in as much as it is mine." Hyde felt horrible for saying it, but he couldn't just let Donna get away with playing the martyr.

Donna nodded. "You're right." She agreed. "We all did this." And in a way, she was right. They had each turned their backs on Jackie when she had needed them most, and now, she was paying the price for it.

Kelso looked up. "So what do we do?"

The gang looked at each other, uncertain. For once, no one had any answers.

"How about you guys start at the beginning." Eric requested.

Fez nodded. "It was a dark and stormy night…" The group all listened as Fez and Donna told their sides of the night in question. No one took their eyes off of Jackie as the vision of her cascading down the creek, body slamming against the rocks as the current swept her downstream engulfed them all. They were lucky she was even alive.


Jackie waslked back and faced the tall castle. "Next time," She started to tell the inhabitants, "You decide to show me what life is like without me in it, try to be at least a little realistic." She smiled at the gargoyle guarding the gates.

"So long, Cinderella." She patted the head of the stone beast, turned and walked back into the woods, unaware of the slight head movement the gargoyle made as he watched her with apt curiosity.


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