Authors Note: Here's the last of the two. Hope you enjoy. And now do you get it. Had to have two chapters for it to make sense. Thanks for reading. And as always review.


Chapter Seven: While You Sleep: Hyde

"No!" Hyde said as he sat up on his bed. After clutching his heart for a few seconds Hyde looked around and realized that he was back in the basement. "What the hell is going on?" He said as he looked around. Everything looked familiar and yet strange at the same time. He couldn't quite place it but he knew something was off. "What am I doing here? I died…didn't I?" He said as he stood up only to fall right back down.

"Hey what gives?" He said as he rubbed his legs to try to get some feeling back into them. After a few minutes he tried standing again and after a slight stumble, he was able to move around the room again. "Weird." He said as he reached for his jeans and pulled them on. After fishing around his room he found his favorite zeppelin shirt and pulled it over his head. "Time to go figure out what's going on," He said as he walked out of his room.


Hyde walked upstairs and saw Red sitting at the table with Eric. "Hey guys."

"Good morning Steven."

"Hey man." Eric said never once looking up.

"What's going on?"

"Mom is in her room so I don't think we're having breakfast today."

"Oh."

Red stood up and walked over to the kitchen door. "I'll be upstairs."

Hyde sat down beside Eric as he watched his friend. "What's going on man?"

"It's weird…I mean I found him."

'Oh his grandfather…shit this is the day after he died.' Hyde thought as he looked at Eric. "Hey man I know it's gotta suck, but he's better off now…ya know?"

Eric looked up at Hyde. "Who are you and what have you done with Hyde?"

"Never mind man. What's going on today?"

"Oh um mom is planning the funeral and I think it's tomorrow or the day after."

"Okay…you okay man?"

"I'm fine…just a little freaked out. Kind of like when I found my grandma."

"Yeah, man that blows. I'll be in my room if you need me."

"Okay." Eric said before Hyde went downstairs.


Hyde walked into his room and began really looking around. "1978…how the hell am I back in 1978?" He said as he rummaged through a few things trying to find stuff that he had lost in his time.

"Steven."

Hyde turned around and saw the Angel who had guided him through his afterlife.

"What are you doing here? No wait…what am I doing here?"

"You wanted a second chance right?"

"Yeah, but why here…why did you send me back to this time?"

"This is where it all changes. This is where once decision can change everything."

"You mean the whole either I dump her or I don't thing?"

"Yes. Steven we've sent you back here to change your future. Because the future you lived in and the one you saw, those were not meant for you."

"What?"

"The future you are meant for…you have to make now. You have to make smart decisions with your heart and it will lead you to the truth."

"I made decisions with my heart in my future…Jackie is the one who didn't. What's to say she won't just make the same mistake again?"

"Steven you have to be the one to make sure she doesn't do that. Jackie needs you in her life, and you need her in yours. Your souls are bound together for all eternity….now we've spent a long time watching you two walk circles around each other and we even watched you two lie about your feelings for one another. Now it is time to be truthful and admit everything you've been keeping inside."

"So you want me to admit to Jackie that I love her and not do what the asshole me or the idiot future me did?"

"Pretty much,"

"Okay,"

"And Steven,"

"Yeah,"

"You don't always have to be so mysterious." The Angel said before he disappeared.


Hyde looked around the room and decided to go get a Popsicle and watch the price is right. However as soon as he walked over to the freezer the basement door opened and Jackie walked through the door.

"Steven?"

Hyde watched as tears began to fill her eyes and he knew…this Jackie wasn't the Jackie from 1978…this Jackie was his Jackie….the one he'd fallen in love with…the one he'd lost. "Doll?"