Fall For You A/N: I don't own the song or lyrics Secondhand Serenade, or That 70's Show or any of its characters.Fall For You

"The best thing about tonight is we're not fighting.

It couldn't be that we have been this way before.

I know you don't think that I am trying.

I know you're wearing thin down to the core.

But hold your breath.

Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again.

Don't make me change my mind.

Or I won't live to see another day, I swear it's true.

Because a girl like you is impossible to find,

You're impossible to find."

-"Fall For You," Secondhand Serenade

They sat there, on opposite sides of the rooms, in silence. The ringing silence was what he wanted. It was better than what was usually heard.

They would always be yelling at each other constantly. Ever since she had started getting serious with Kelso, they had fought. They had become enemies.

It wasn't that they had known each other much before. It was just he saw her, and she saw him. They both acknowledged each other as good-looking, cool people, in very different ways.

Then, for the first time, he saw her in a different light. Kelso had asked her to the Winter Dance, and she showed up there, looking like she did, and he realized that he was falling for her. Hard.

He drove himself crazy after that, seeing her at school, or, if Forman had somehow managed to drag him to some school event, or Kelso dragged him to a football game so he could make out with the cheerleaders, and, for some reason, he relented, he would see her there. Her smile was infectious, her laugh was contagious, and thoughts of her relentlessly plagued his mind.

He waited for the best moment, when maybe it would seem right to go up and talk to her, but Kelso swooped in first.

"Hey, guess what, man?" said Kelso, coming into the basement one day Sophmore year.

"What?" Hyde asked, only half-interested.

"I finally got that cheerleader to go out with me," he said excitedly, a dopey grin on his face.

"Which one?" asked Hyde. He was mistaken- he'd thought Kelso had managed to make out with all of them at least twice already.

"Jackie Burkhart."

Hyde stiffened slightly, nothing Kelso's low radar for people's reactions would be able to pick up. "Oh. Hey, that's cool, man."

When they met the next day, everything changed.

She was Kelso's girl now, which meant that she was completely off limits, and was a complete waste of her time. He convinced himself that she was stupid and not that attractive. Or, at least, he tried.

To her, he was now her boyfriend's best friend, the biggest off-limit's of them all. He was lazy, uncaring, and unproductive. That's what she told herself.

And they had to reassure themselves, and others, that they felt nothing for each other. So they fought. Constantly.

Well, now she was no longer Kelso's girl. Now Kelso had left, gone away to California.

Now he was no longer her boyfriend's best friend. He was her ex's best friend.

And that changed everything.

For the first time in ages, Hyde could look at her- really look at her- and finally admit to himself that she was none of the things he'd spent the last two years convincing himself she was. She was outgoing, and charming, and silly, and romantic, and beautiful. And he felt himself falling again.

But this time it was okay.

"This was not what I intended.

I always swore to you I'd never fall apart.

You always thought that I was stronger.

I may have failed, but I have loved you from the start.

Oh, but hold your breath.

Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you, over again.

Don't make me change my mind.

Or I won't live to see another day, I swear it's true.

Because a girl like you's impossible to find, it's impossible.

So breathe in so deep, breathe me in,

And promise to keep- hold on do you worst.

'Cause talk is cheap.

And remember me tonight when you're asleep."

-"Fall For You," Secondhand Serenade

Hyde stared at her, his hands slightly shaking with the anger of it all. Which was dangerous, because he was in a tree.

He had gotten the idea from Eric, who he had known to often climb the tree that was directly next to the window in Donna's bedroom.

He sat there now, watching Jackie as she lay there, sobbing.

Donna had gracefully stayed out late tonight, knowing when to help Jackie and when to give her space. She knew the stages, she knew Jackie was grieving, and for right now, Donna could tell Jackie wanted to be alone.

Why? He asked himself over and over again: why? This wasn't supposed to happen. He never meant for this to happen. It wasn't supposed to be like this. He never meant for it to be like this.

Sam had shown up, and he'd all but broken down at the thought of not having Jackie anymore, but this girl that he knew nothing about. He couldn't show it- he could never show it. Her presence never allowed him to show when he felt the breakdown near. She saw him as a pillar of strength, her pillar of strength, and her safe place. To break down would make things worse than ever.

She didn't understand, he knew. Sam had left, and nothing had changed between them. They remained in the same hurtful, destructive anti-relationship state.

But he couldn't stand it. Why? Why wouldn't she come to him?

He couldn't go to her, he just couldn't. How would that look? He'd left her, married someone else, gotten left, and come back? No.

He didn't deserve her, he was nothing compared to her, he told himself, no matter how many times he'd her say otherwise. He had failed her, breaking it off before he ever managed to become the man she wanted him to be.

But he loved her. From the very first day, he realized. Ever since he saw her in that beautiful dress, at the Winter Dance, all those years ago, dancing in Kelso's arms, he loved her. And he loved her still.

He wanted her to confront him, to say everything she'd been keeping in for the past year. Every hateful word and thought- he wanted her to say it.

He wanted to feel her pain, and then hold her and say it would be okay.

He watched her as she stood up, walked stiffly to the dresser, and took a tissue. There would be no more crying tonight, he could tell by her determined walk, and the set of her eyes, or anymore ever again.

She was amazing, and he felt himself falling for her again, deeper and deeper.

"Because tonight will be the night that I will fall for you, over again.

Don't make me change my mind.

Or I won't live to see another day, I swear it's true.

Because a girl like you is impossible to find.

Tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again.

Don't make me change my mind.

Or I won't live to see another day, I swear it's true.

Because a girl like you is impossible to find.

You're impossible to find."

-"Fall For You," Secondhand Serenade

Jackie stormed into the room. "Steven!" it was a cross between a cry and a shout and a shriek all at once, and it made him jump about a foot and a half.

"Jackie?"

"Steven, what's going on?" she demanded.

"Hmm?" His tone was completely confused.

"Sam's gone, you're here, I'm here, and I've waited, Steven. I've waited." Her voice choked a bit. "And you haven't come, and I've waited," she whispered.

"I-" He looked away. "I didn't know how."

She paused. "So, you meant to come back?" she asked.

He turned towards her again, looking at her straight-on. "I always meant to come back," he said. "I always have to come back."

She grinned. "Do you mean it, Steven? Is it really time for us to be us again?"

He nodded. "Jackie," he said. "From the minute I saw you, I've been waiting for it to be us."

He saw tears form in her eyes, and once again, she was crying over him, but it was out of love and joy, and he knew it, and he couldn't think of any sight he wanted to see more. She threw her arms around him, and he held her as they kissed.

He felt himself falling for her once again, and he knew now that he would never stop, and he would always be falling for you, over and over again, deeper and deeper.

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