A/N: Don't own That 70's Show, or its characters, or Paramore, or their songs and lyrics. This is especially dedicated to jackiehyde4eva, who has been super-awesome and supportive, while writing some kick-butt stories. Go read "I'll Protect You" right now- it's amazing. Please read this, and tell me whatcha think. I'm gonna write more and more soonses. Love you guys! :D

They showed up somewhere in between Donna and Eric's driveways, Jackie coming from her mansion and Steven from the Forman's basement. They were both out of breath, but they looked at each other with intensity.

"Steven."

"Jackie."

The words came out in a tumble, so that neither knew who had spoken first.

The two of them just stared at one another, watching as the last few months seemed to replay in their minds.

There was so much to say. There was too much to say.

They kissed, all the words waiting to be said exploding into that moment.


Time froze, and so did he.

Jackie pulled apart suddenly, licking her lips were the sting of the ice had hit them.

She looked at Steven and gasped. He was completely and totally frozen, from head to toe. His blue eyes sparkled, staring at her, taunting her, hurting her.

"Steven," she whispered. She tried to touch his arm, now turning a pale blue color. She yanked her hand back from him.

It was like he had hurt her, like being with him had hurt her too. That made sense. The two of them together caused them both damage. She was always being stung by it, hurt by the iciness of it all, but she always went back for more, just waiting to be stung, to be hurt again.

And ever since they'd broken up, this was how he'd been. Frozen to her, icy cold, and painful to be near.

This was how the two of them were now: he was always icy-cold, and ready to sting her, and she was always left on the outside, waiting to be stung.

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The kiss should've felt like fire.

It was the thing he'd hated most, that fire, but something Jackie had made him come to love.

But this kiss felt like ice.

He opened his eyes. Jackie was frozen, inaccessible to him, just like now.

He couldn't stand to look at her, to see the pain that she was in. She was stuck, unable to move from the spot that his kiss had left her.

Jackie couldn't move on from him, or she wouldn't move on, he wasn't sure which. He wanted her to, so bad, to live her life away from him, successful and happy, like she deserved. She didn't need to be here, waiting for him, waiting for the life that she deserved better than.

And yet she stayed, waiting for him, frozen in the past when he so badly wanted her to move on.

She was frozen, too, so that he could not have her back. He couldn't take her back, not after all he'd done to her. He refused to let her suffer again, even if that meant he had to watch her from far away for the rest of his life.

She was frozen in time, and he was stuck outside.


They turned away from each other, walking back towards their houses.

Jackie saw her bedroom doorway, and saw the flames that reached on the opposite wall.

She sighed. It was either Steven frozen, or her burning.

Steven looked into the basement from the doorframe. The wall behind the T.V. was on fire.

It was either a life of watching Jackie frozen, or him facing his fear of fire.

They both looked at the flame, said a silent prayer, and stepped into the fire, hoping for the best for one another.

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