A/N This story is between 5x02 and 5x03. I needed to write this, because I always wondered how Eric and Donna found out about Jackie and Hyde the second time. So this is my take on it.

Disclaimer: If I owned them, do you really think season 8 would have turned out the way it did?

The good old days, the hones men,

the wrestled hearts, the promis land,

the sudden kiss that no one sees.

Chapter 3: What is and What...

Eric: Ewww! Do you mind not getting all gooey and romantic when I'm about to eat my breakfast?

Hyde: What crawled up your butt?

Eric: You and Jackie. Then you started making out in there.

Red: Hey! No more butt talk at breakfast.

Eric, Hyde and Red in What is and What..(epi. 5x03)

Eric Forman has never been known as a good secret keeper. In fact Eric Forman hates secrets. He doesn't like the way that secrets change things, he doesn't like to whisper in fear of other people overhearing things. But most of all he hates secrets, because he knows he can't keep them.

When Eric Forman was 7 years old, he went to the one school in Wisconscin. He was in the same class as his three friends, Steven Hyde, Donna Pinciotti and Michael Kelso. And one day a girl from his class, Hallie Smith, came to him with a huge secret. Her friend Katie, who was a year younger than Eric, liked his friend Michael Kelso. After telling Eric this, Hallie made sure that Eric swore not to tell anybody on the playground rules. Of course Kelso knew it within 5 minutes.

Two years later when Eric had just turned nine, his friend Steven Hyde told him that he had smoked a sigaret fotr the first time. He had found a whole pack in his mom purse, who had passed out on the couch and he had stole one of them. After telling Eric all about, the whole coughing part including, Hyde left the basement to steal some more. Eric had sit still for a total of 8 seconds before running up the stairs and spilling the whole story to his mom and dad. His parents ended up with punishing Hyde (since his own mother didn't do that) and Hyde hadn't talked to Eric after that for a good three months (To Eric, it had seemed so much longer).

And now at 18, Eric Forman just found out this major secret. And he was just dying to tell someone. Well technically speaking, he had already found out about this particular secret a few days ago, but then Jackie and Hyde had said that they would break it off. And Eric being Eric actually believed them, eventhough they weren't the most trusted persons.

Everything seemed normal after that, Jackie and Hyde sat apart from each other, made nasty remarks and seemed to hate each other again. The keyword here is seemed. Because three days later..

Eric Froman and Fez stumbled towards the Formans home. A man walking with his dog passed them by in the opposite direction. He couldn't help but stare at them, waiting for one of them to drop deap on the sidewalk and the other to walk in somebody's garden. Neither of this happened, but he was however, much to his dismay, caught staring.

"What are you looking at? Never seen two drunk teenagers before?" the skinnier one of the two shouted at him from across the street.

The man was slightly shocked by the rude reaction and quickly walked on, dragging his dog behind him.

"Yeah, run you son of a bitch! Run, run or we'll catch you".

"Fez" Eric said while laying his arm around the shoulders of his foreign friend. "I don't think I can run after him".

"I know what you mean, my friend. We are the drunkest we have ever been".

"I don't think drunkest is a word, but it sounds funny! They should put it in the dictoranry".

"Yeah, we'll call them tomorrow and tell them, no force them to no longer ignore this word, it is a beautiful word!"

By now the tho giggling friend have reached the basemant door and Fez being the least drunk went to open it with his right arm, while his left was supporting Eric. They stumble into the room, where Donna is sitting on the couch. She rolls her eyes when she sees who they are and returns her attention to the magazine she was reading.

Eric managed to stumble to the couch and falls down it, while falls goes to sit in the garden chair. A few minutes later Hyde comes down the stairs –It could also have been two hours later, Eric doesn't quite remember the time- he looks shocked at the sight of seeing all his friends, except for one, in the basement.

"What are you all doing her"

"Well I came her a couple of minutes ago and the moment I sat down these two idiots stumble inside" Donna says, eyeing hyde and pointing to Fez and Eric.

"Right," Hyde says before sitting down on his chair, looking slightly anixious. Of course this is kind of hard to tell, because of all his zen, so I could also have been very happy or very sad.

"Stééééévééééén, I can't find my bra anywhere"

Donna, Eric and Fez hear the voice before they even see her. But the moment they hear the voice, their faces all show the emotion: shock. Next thing, the owner of the voice enters the rooms, realises she is not alone with her Stééééééévéééééééén and stops dead in tracks, not moving until somebody tells her too.

"Dirty" Fez speaks up at first, his not so drunk brain still doesn't really get the whole subtext of the whole sitution. "I'm going to go look for the bra" he says, his body moving towards Hyde's room before he has even said the words.

"What the hell!" Donna screams, the second one to react. Now here is where the whole story seems to have a big black hole, all Eric remebers here is a lot of shouting and yelling. Then a slamming door and a big tension hanging in the air.

"Wait a minute," Eric finally speaks up, standing up from the couch. "Why are you wining about your bra to Hyde?"

Nobody answers his question and it takes Eric a total twenty minutes before his mind registers what has happened. Then Eric does the only thing he can think of to do, he runs out of the basement, screaming like a little girl.

That had happened three days ago, ever since then Eric, Donna and Fez knew about Jackie and Hyde again. All three of them had tried to talk them out of it, Donna and himself a little more than Fez, but still they had tried. But neither, Hyde or Jackie would budge. They wanted to continue, saying Kelso just needed to get over himself. So after his final attempt to make Hyde see that he was doing the wrong, Eric finally did the only thing that maybe would work. He went to his mom.

"Mom," Eric started the conversation. His mother was making dinner and he just needed to tell his mom now before he was going to explode.

"I need to tell you something huge"

"Oh Eric, is it a secret, you know you can't tell secrets!" Kitty says, then she walks to the other side of the kitchen. Takes out a big bottle and a glass, fills it up and walks back to Eric. "Now you can tell"

"Right, so you know this summer, Kelso left Jackie alone here and well Hyde was alone as well and well, they started something together over the summer" Eric says it so quickly, it almost seems like one big word.

"Is that all?" Kitty says, a little too loud. "I knew that months ago!"

"What, you knew!"

"Yeah, I knew! I thought everybody knew, I mean they weren't that careful!"

"I can't believe you knew, why didn't you tell me?"

"Well, I would have, if you weren't in California."

"Right" Eric says, moving to sit at the kitchen table. He is quickly joined by his mother, who holds both his hands.

"Sóóóóóóó, was there anything else you want to tell me?"

"Well, I just, maybe you could talk to Hyde about Jackie. I mean they need to stop this thing, it is unnatural and creepy and they are going to hurt Kelso and.."

Mrs. Forman has stopped holding on to Eric's hands, the moment he started talking about breaking them up.

"What do you want to do? You want me to break them up?" Mrs. Forman asks her son, shock written all over her face.

"Well yeah"

"I'm not going to break them up!" Mrs. Forman says, standing up again and walking back into the kitchen.

"What, why not?" Eric asks, also standing up and following his mother.

"Well, can't you see honey. I think they might work together. I mean Steven needs a woman in his life, who gives him a lot of attention and love and Jackie needs someone to bring her back to earth and we all know Steven can be that person."

"What, mom!" Eric whines, dragging out the last word. "They are not good together, they are unnatural, they are just wrong!"

"Well, sweetie, maybe you should stop trying to break them up and try to understand why they are together. Why don't you go talk to Steven?"

Eric considered this for a moment, before finally giving in to his mother's advice. It might work and besides he wondered why Hyde was even with Jackie. I mean she was the devil for Mercy's sake. So he went downstairs to the basement, ready to get some answers.

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A little bit of a dull end, but I just needed to come up with some sort of finish. So look the button down there is saying your name.