Chapter Seven: Betrayal

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Chapter Seven: Betrayal

Hyde was staggering through the streets with no clear destination in mind. He needed a fix, but he had no money and he had already gone through all the stuff he had stolen from Dan after he had beaten him to a bloody pulp. At least, he assumes it was him who did it. To be honest, he doesn't remember it at all, but Dan had been lying there unconscious and beaten and Hyde'sHHksjhngv hands were bloody. Even in his state he could infer correctly what had happened.

Hyde was trying very hard to remember beating him; along with a few other time periods he couldn't seem to recall anything when a police car pulled up beside him.

The nest thing Hyde knew, he was in the back of that police car, the words 'you are under arrest for the assault and rape of Jacqueline Burkhart' running through his mind.

I did what?!

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After Jackie had finally admitted that it was Steven who had raped her, the detectives went asking around for him with his picture in the area around the club where the rape had occurred. About a mile away from the club, a girl who worked behind the counter at a convenience store recognized him after he had wandered into the store about five minutes ago looking like death and then continued on down the street.

Now, after an arraignment with some random guy in a suit acting as his attorney before he got a permanent one, something he was adamantly against, and let out with a bail of five thousand dollars which someone, Hyde, didn't know who, paid, he sat in the same room Jackie had sat in earlier that day confused beyond belief with two detectives trying to get him to confess to something he didn't remember. He had been in there for about an hour when a defense attorney came in for him. Attorney Trevor Langan answered the silent question of the detectives saying that the victim, Jacqueline Burkhart had called him and it seemed that she had also paid off his bail as well.

With coffee running through him, Hyde was much more aware of what was going on, so when he heard that Jackie had called a defense attorney for him, he made it very clear that he did not understand what was going on.

"She did?!" he yelled. "So then I couldn't have done it! Why would she call an attorney for me and pay my bail if I did it?"

"Steven," Olivia said. "We know it was you. She told us it was, but for some reason she still cares about you."

"This is unbelievable! I don't remember raping anybody!"

"With all the drugs you've been doing, I'm not surprise," Detective Stabler told the confused perpetrator. When he received a look from Hyde he continued. "Yeah, that's right. Mr. Foreman told us all about your recent recreational activities."

"I think I would have remembered something like that!" Hyde argued, but even as he said it, he was remember Dan and how he didn't remember any of that either, but there was only one logical conclusion.

"That's not true and you know it," the female detective said, seemingly tapping into his thoughts.

"But if I don't even remember it, how can I be blamed!" Steven yelled.

"You can't," he defense attorney piped in. "Now is Casey going to be making an appearance or not."

Hyde didn't know who Casey was, but he didn't care, he just wanted to get out of there and find Jackie. To find out what the hell was going on. He of course guessed though, that she probably didn't want to see him.

Not much time later, ADA Casey Novak walked into the room. "Five years."

Hyde had no idea what that meant.

"Dream on, Casey. You know he doesn't remember any of it. He was on too many drugs. He's not responsible," Trevor said.

"He was on drugs of his own volition. It's his own fault," she continued to argue.

"Regardless of that, he was not competent at the time, therefore, he is not responsible. Three years probation and mandatory drug counseling."

"After what he did to her? No way! Five years in a minimum-security prison with chance of parole after three."

Hyde finally started to get what was going on. Prison? I can't go to prison!

"We'll take our chances in court," Trevor said as he stood up. "Come on Steven." He looked back to Casey. "You'll have my notice of defense by reason of mental disability or defect on your desk in an hour." With that, Trevor and Hyde were out the door, but Hyde had no idea where exactly he was going.

As they were leaving Casey shouted after him, "Just because he took drugs doesn't mean he's crazy!"

"At the time, he was!" Trevor shouted back, and then they were gone.

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Jackie sat in the basement of the Foreman house. She had said she had wanted to go home, but Kitty wouldn't let her be alone in that big mansion, and to be honest, she was glad she wasn't. She needed the day to be regular, the same, boring, and that that was hanging out in her boyfriend's basement.

She was on the couch with Eric next to her and she sat snuggled into his body with his arm around her. Donna was on the other side of her, Fez was in the lawn chair, Randy was sitting on the washing machine, and Brooke was sitting in Kelso's lap in Hyde's chair. Or his old chair now.

Steven. No one knew that she had posted his bail and called a lawyer for him. Not even Eric. They would probably be mad when they found out. To be honest, she wasn't she why she felt the need to do those things for him. She didn't feel sorry for him. In fact, she hated him, as she rightly should. But for some reason, despite this, she still cared about him. He had been her friend. Her lover. You don't just forget things like that. Besides, he had also been as far from sober as possible at the time and she knew that he didn't know what he had been doing. Not that that makes it okay. It just makes the circumstances different. It meant that there was hope for him after all.

Note: Short chapter, I know. Sorry, but I wanted to hold off on some of the other things like the trial until the next chapter. Please review.

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