"Sleep With Me"
TITLE: "Sleep With Me"
PAIRING: JACKIE/HYDE
RATING: PG-13 (due to language)
SUMMARY: This fic covers the missing J/H scenes of "Bring it On Home" in Season 5 when we find out that Jackie's mom is still not back and that she has been sleeping with Hyde in the basement for several weeks. I always wondered how Jackie started sleeping there and found it so cute that they weren't doing it cuz it said a lot about Hyde. So here's the story.
NOTES: I do not own ANYTHING. FOX does. I'm just simply a big fan of That '70s Show!!!
CHAPTER 4: "Let Me In!!!"
That same afternoon Jackie asked Hyde to go with her to her house. She needed to pay the workers and grab some checks to pay the month's bills. When she got there, she noticed Rosa was on the phone.
Rosa held the phone out to Jackie, with a big smile on her face. "Señorita Jackie. It is your mother!"
Jackie took the phone immediately. "Mom? How are you?"
Hyde took a seat next to Rosa. She was playing cards and he decided to join.
"When are you coming back? What do you mean you don't know? Mom, don't you know that I'm alone here?" Jackie's eyes filled with water.
Hyde looked up from the game just in time to see the first tear come down.
"Well, how am I supposed to run everything around here on my own?! This is your responsibility not mine! But, Mom! You promised you were gonna be here soon! It's been months! Mom, do not hang up on me! Mom! MOM!!!" Jackie slammed the phone back on the cord and began to cry.
Hyde was at her side in three long strides. He was about to place his arms around her when she stepped away and brushed away her tears. "Don't. I don't need your pity." She began to walk away.
Hyde frowned. "What pity? Jackie I don't pity you."
"Yes, you do, Steven!" Jackie's anger had come back with a thunder. "That's the only reason why you've been so sweet to me! You feel sorry for me. And I don't need that from anyone, you hear me?! Especially, from you!" She turned and walked out of the kitchen.
Hyde wasn't about to let her get away that easy. Not until he had his own say on this argument. "Jackie, you're such a spoiled little upper-class brat! You know that?"
"I'd rather be an upper-class brat than a poor junkie!"
"I may be a poor junkie, but you're a complete basket-case! You're letting your feelings build up and at the most stupidest moment, you crack!"
"I'm the basket-case?! Who's the one that refuses to let anyone in about their past?! You take everything that happened to you as a kid a joke and you carry such anger inside of you because of it! Maybe if you would let it out, you wouldn't be so damn angry all the time."
"You don't let anyone in, either! You hide the fact that your parents left you! You haven't told anyone! You haven't even openly admitted it to me!"
"Because I don't want to face the fact that you're only still with me because you feel sorry for me!" Jackie couldn't hold it back anymore. Tears started to make their way down her eyes and she couldn't hold back. Once she was able to catch her breath, she continued on. "I don't want to wake up one day and have you kick me out of your room because you're finally tired of me. Find out that the only reason you were my boyfriend was because you took pity on me. I couldn't stand it."
Hyde walked closer to her. "Jackie, I could never be with someone for some idiotic reason like that. I don't pity you." He took in some air and took his time to figure out how he was going to say this to her. "The reason why I've been the way I have with you is…well, because I can relate. Both my parents left me too and I went through some tough shit because of that. And I just can't stand seeing you having to go through the same shit I did." He placed his palm against her cheek and brushed away a tear with his thumb. "Ok?"
Jackie looked up at him, more tears stinging her eyes. She now understood. She then nodded. "Ok."
"Alright then, lets hurry and get those errands done before 5 hits. I gotta hurry up or I'm gonna be late for work." He started heading for Mr. Burkhart's office.
However, he didn't go more than 3 steps before Jackie pulled on his hand and brought him up against her. She brought her hand up to his neck and pulled him down for a kiss.
After several minutes, she finally pulled away and gave him a tiny smile. He smiled back at her.