A/N: hehe I am going to stir the pot a little bit. I honestly had no idea what to do with this chapter after I wrote the last one. But I was just throwing some ideas around and out came this. I know this won't disappoint anyone. Please read and review. I hope you enjoy!

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Love wasn't built on Conditions

Chapter 6: Best Kept Secret

Jackie sat at her desk staring at the wall; she had probably been doing it since she started back this week. It was Thursday and if you asked anyone at the office she had been doing this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
"Knock, knock" a voice said. Jackie didn't answer she was too busy wondering where her life went wrong.

"Jackie, it's your second week on the job and you are already slacking?" it tried again. Which snapped Jackie out of lala land; she looked at him and frowned. If it wasn't for him she wouldn't be in this situation.

"What do you want Anthony?" she asked in an angry tone. She had been trying to avoid him since the party and up until now she had been successful.

"Just wondering if you were planning on coming to the party with us tomorrow night," He walked over and sat on the corner of her desk. "We didn't get to spend that much time at the party and I definitely want to see more of you,"

Yeah more of her was right, he wanted to see her naked on her back on his nasty ass bed.

"Sorry, I don't think I can,"

"If you are too afraid of drinking and driving you can always crash at my place," He said wagging his eyebrows.

Jackie rolled her eyes. "I'm actually trying to see a friend,"

"You know if you had just told me you were seeing that Hyde guy I wouldn't have had you sleep in my bed,"

Jackie scoffed. "I'm not seeing Steven, I just don't want to see you," She said and got up, Anthony followed her and she shut the door in his face.

"Ahh… much better"

The last couple of days had been absolute hell for her. She knew it was her fault that Steven didn't want to be around her, after all she did run away from them after they had sex but it had been about a week and a half since it happened. He was using his zen against her again so she tried to use it back on him to show she didn't care. He would come over to Brookes and Michaels to drop Nikki off and would completely ignore her. The two days he spoke to her only when he was burning her. It was like the year before she went to college all over again.

"Jackie," The little girl said to her.

Jackie looked up from the kitchen table where she was doing her work. "Yeah?"

"Why are you mad at daddy?" she asked.

"Uh…" Jackie wasn't mad at Steven but she didn't understand how she could explain the situation to a little girl. Did he tell her she was mad at him?
"Is that what he told you?'

"You don't talk to Daddy anymore," She said sadly.

"We are okay we are just spending some time apart. While you were at your grandmothers we were together everyday and now we just need to spend time with other people," Jackie tried.

"Oh," Nikki replied looking at her still sad. She pulled her on her unicorn and walked out of the kitchen. She really didn't like having to explain these things to Nikki, she didn't know what Steven thought. She also wasn't Nikki's mother.

"I got it!" Brooke said walking in holding a brown paper bag.

Jackie looked up at her. "Thank you so much!" Jackie exclaimed and ran over to her taking the bag.

"No problems, thanks for letting me get a few minutes away for the girls,"

"I'm gonna go take this now," Jackie told her walking out of the room.

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Hyde walked up to Kelso's house ready to pick up Nikki. He wasn't sure what was going on with Jackie but he was sick of it. She had been ignoring him for the past two weeks and he didn't know what happened. All he remembered was they came home from dinner with the gang he had pissed her off at dinner and she came down and played poker with them and that was it. He had so much fun with the guys and her that night, he hadn't been that trashed in so long. He wondered if it had anything to do with the night before where they sleeping together on the couch, if she wanted to be with him and then he pissed her off. He wasn't quite sure but he didn't want to piss her off so he just let her be, if she wanted to talk to him she could make the first move. He learned in the past that by pushing her to talk he just ended up pissing her off more.

He walked into the house.

"Oh hey Hyde," Brooke said peering around the fridge door.

"Was she good today?" He asked sitting down at the table.

"Well… she has been acting out at day care,"

"What?" Hyde asked. He didn't really have much contact with Nikki's school. He dropped her off at Brookes early; Brooke took both the girls to school and picked them up.

"Yeah she got a note home today," She said walking over to Nikki's backpack and opening it. She picked the note out and handed it to him. He scanned it real fast.

"She has sharing issues?" Hyde asked. "So what, she'll grow out of it,"

"No… her teacher wants you to come in to talk to them,"

"God, when am I gonna have time to do that? I have to be down at the record store with Randy. We are still fixing that place up,"

"I could go for you," Brooke tried.

"Nah," He waved her off "You do enough. I'm supposed to be the parent and I never see her. It's my fault she has problems sharing,"

He was surprised what just flew out of his mouth, did he actually own up to something? Yeah sure Nikki was a little spoiled, she was an only child and she had one parent. He would shower her with attention when she was around. Kitty and Red only had one grandchild and it was her so of course she got a lot from them, and Nikki's grandmother always was giving her things. He knew he had to teach her to interact better with other kids but he figured that being around Betsy would teach her that.

"Well I could go with you if you want," Brooke told him.

He really didn't know what to say, he would appreciate her being there seeing as she was more of Nikki's caregiver then he was sometimes but he couldn't depend on Brooke for everything.

"I think I can handle it, but thanks for the offer," he responded.

"You want to stay for dinner?" she asked but before he answered there was a high pitched shriek that came from the back of the house. They both looked at each other before taking off to see what the problem was. They got into the living room and Betsy and Nikki were sitting side by side playing with dolls perfectly fine.

"Thank God," Brooke let out.

"Who could it have been?" he asked.

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This could not be happening, there was no way. How could something like this happen to Jackie Burkhardt? No… maybe it was wrong? Brooke just had to have bought a cheap test. She opened the bathroom door and peaked out to see both children and Brooke and Steven standing in the living room.

"Oh, hi!" She said trying to seem fine.

"is everything okay?" Brooke asked making a face to her.

"Yup… just a spider," Jackie said walking out a little farther. "Oh, hey Steven!"

"Hi Jackie," he seemed unconvinced.

"How many spiders where there?" Brooke asked referring to the test.

"Two, can you believe that? I think I might just be seeing things," Jackie replied but this conversation was making it worse for her in Steven's eyes.

"Jackie, is everything okay?" He asked.

"Yeah, I'm just feeling a little sick," She said running back to the bathroom and she shut and locked the door before vomiting again. She had never thrown up so much in one month in her entire life.

When she finally calmed down she walked out into the living room to find Steven sitting on the couch by himself.

"Where's the girls?" Jackie asked walking around to face him.

"Oh Brooke made them dinner," Steven said looking at the TV.

"Oh," She sat down on the couch on the other side.

"Are you sure you are okay?" He asked suddenly.

"Yeah, I just ate something bad at work today,"

He didn't say anything and the silence was driving her crazy. Was she really pregnant? Tests don't lie? She wasn't going to tell him, she couldn't not until she was entirely sure. She was starting to get fidgety, he couldn't read her mind could he? He was staring at her and it was like it was burning into her brain. Could he know?

"So I was wondering," He started off. Finally someone broke the silence and Jackie let out a deep breath.

"Yeah?"

"Do you think I could get Kathy's number from you?"

What? What an insensitive jackass, her she was pregnant with his child and he wanted to date one of her friends? God why did she date him in the first place?

"Um… yeah sure, she really likes you," Jackie told him.

"Great," He responded

And now they were back to silence again. Jackie looked at the ceiling, normally she was bubbly and full of things to say but when she was trying to hold something in she seemed to blank with proper conversational skills.

"yup," she answered after a few seconds.

"Not that I care, but did I do something to piss you off?" He asked.

Jackie stared at him, was he serious? "No, but aren't you mad at me?"

"Why would I be?" He asked confused.

Did he remember? Should she try to bring it up? She was afraid to because whenever she used to bring up relationship stuff with him he would just get angry and it would make things worse then they needed to be. They were both so hard headed.

"So you aren't mad about what happened that night after the guys left?" Jackie asked.

"No, did you do something?"

Jackie laughed. What was she going to say? He had to have forgotten what happened which makes the situation with Kathy even worse.

"More like you did something," she answered.

"What?" and before she could tell him what happened both girls ran into the living room and jumped on the couch.

"So you aren't mad at daddy anymore?" Nikki asked.

"I was never mad," Jackie answered looking at her. This was making her look worse. God she wanted to move out of here and not be involved with Steven and his daughter sometimes. She wouldn't have to make things up and feel like she was lying to anyone.

"We should probably get out of here, we need to have a little talk," Steven said talking to his daughter. Nikki got up and ran from Steven. I guess she knew she was in trouble because she started crying and tried to get away from him as fast as she could. Jackie watched in shock as the girl ran into the bathroom and tried to shut the door but Steven was too fast for her.

"Daddy, what's this?" she came out of the bathroom holding the pregnancy test.

Steven looked back at her and Jackie just shrugged.

"Oh sorry, I should have thrown that out," Brooke said saving the day. "Jackie if that's what you really found you should have told me!"

"Sorry, I wasn't sure if you wanted to show Michael,"

"Alright, I don't know what's going on here but I don't want to stay here and have Nikki learn more disgusting things that I have to explain,"

As soon as Brooke was sure they had left Jackie started crying.
"You're pregnant?" Brooke asked.

"Uh-huh," between sobs

"And its Hydes,"

"Uh-huh,"

"And he doesn't remember?"

"He even asked me for that girls number I tried to set him up with on Friday night," she started to ball.

"Oh jeeze, Jackie are you gonna tell him?"

"I can't! He already has one kid and he doesn't remember… maybe it's a false positive?"

"Alright fine, I'll get you another one. But if it comes up positive again you have to see a doctor,"

"Fine," Jackie agreed.

"And if he says you are pregnant you have to tell Hyde,"

"I dunno… everything is already so strained between us,"

"Jackie! He has a right to know. Its part his too!"

"But he is going through so much right now…"

"And Nikki would have a little sister,"

"He and I are finally on good terms for the first time in our life. I don't want to go and screw that up."

"Well its gonna get a lot worse if a baby comes out of you in nine months with a head full of curls,"

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"Mmm… this is really good!" Nikki said eating ice cream out of a bowl.

"Can I have some?" Hyde asked.

"No!" Nikki said taking the bowl and shielded her body around it.

"Can I just have a little bit?" He asked

"No!"

"Just a spoonful?"

"Go get some of your own!"

"Look Nikki, Your teacher sent me a note home," He told her.

She just looked at him not understanding what he was trying to tell her.

"Because you have been being a bad girl,"

"No I haven't!"

"You aren't sharing with your classmates,"

"That's because they are mean,"

"They can't all be mean,"

"Yes they are and I don't like them!"

"You won't even share with Betsy?"

"No!"

"Nikki, you have got to realize that just because you are the only kid around here doesn't mean that you get everything you want." Hyde told her and took the bowl away. "Now you can't have anymore of this until you will share with me,"

Nikki stood up and stamped her feet across the floor into her room and slammed the door. That's what he got when he left her around under the influence of Jackie. She as starting to act as spoiled and annoying as Jackie used to be when he first met her. And he definitely couldn't take a little Jackie living with him. He had got to stop this behavior and he had to do it now.

But before he could say anything to Nikki the phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey man," He heared Kelso say.

"Hey, Congrats man,"

"On what?"

"Brooke's pregnant,"

"She is?"

"Yeah we found out today,"

"Uh… well speaking of pregnancy… Donna went into labor!"

"crap we need to get up to Madison," Hyde responded.

"Yeah just bring Nikki over here, Brooke can watch her while we are gone,"

"Yeah I'm on my way,"

A/N: I'm sorry this moves fast but I'm starting to get a little bit of writers block. I know some stuff I want to put in this story but I got to get it to move along so it can happen. Sorry this is probably the crappiest chapter. But I just wanted to give you guys a little something after that last chapter.