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Hours later at the Forman-Pinciotti house, Donna and Eric sat cautiously in their living room.
"You know, if we turn out all the lights and be very quiet, when they get here they'll think we aren't home." Eric said and Donna laughed.
Just then the doorbell rang and the couple froze.
"Ready?" Donna asked her husband
"If its Hyde yeah. If it's Jackie…well is anyone ever ready to see the Devil?" Eric asked as they walked to the front door.
Donna didn't say anything; instead she opened the door to reveal a familiar face.
"JJaaaccckkkiiieee!" the foreign man called as he ran into the house with his arms wide open, ready for a hug. Fez frowned when he didn't find who he was looking for, but instead of giving up he took off to the living room.
"JJaaaccckkkiiieee!" Nothing. So he went to the kitchen. "JJaaaccckkkiiieee!?"
Donna and Eric, who had reentered the living room, laughed as they heard their friend but immediately stopped when Fez stormed into the room.
"Alright where is my beautiful Goddess?" he demanded.
"She'll be here soon." Donna assured him as they all took a seat.
"You know it's good to see you too Fez." Eric commented sarcastically.
"Of course it is." Fez replied with a grin and Eric's face dropped.
"Where's Kelso?"
"He's on his way. I left before he did because somebody told me my Goddess would be here already!" Fez said angrily.
"Fez I…" Donna began to protest
"I said be here already!" Fez interrupted with his hand in the air, before standing up, he turned to walk away.
"Where're you going?" Eric asked from his seat.
"I'm off to the bathroom. I have to make sure I look good for when Jackie arrives." Fez stated as if it were obvious.
"Fez I already told you, Jackie's engaged." Donna reminded.
"Yes, but is there a ring?" he questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah. It's pretty big too."
"Bigger than yours?" Eric asked his wife as he lifted her left hand.
"Eric, a ring in a Cracker Jack box would be bigger than mine." came Donnas' response.
"Ooh burn by the wife. Classic." Fez stated before heading out of the room.
"Fez, there's a bathroom right there." Eric said pointing to the nearby door.
"Oh please Eric, I know that is for guest. And I am family." was the last thing Fez said before he walked out of the room to use the upstairs restroom.
"Yeah, we can't get rid of you." Eric said to his wife.
"You know, no one ever uses that bathroom." Donna pointed out.
"Maybe we should make it into a closet...or a tiny Star Wars museum." Eric suggested.
Donna shrugged, "Well it'll get your junk out of our room and I'll never have to walk in there. I still have that memory of you…" Just then Ally entered the room.
"Mommy, Daddy!"
"Saved by the kid." Eric said aloud.
"Betsy's here!" Ally exclaimed
"No, not yet honey, but she'll be her soon." Donna assured her daughter
"No Mommy…" and Ally's parents stood up.
"That's Jackie." Donna said
"It could be Hyde." Eric stated.
"It's Betsy!" Ally exclaimed as she followed her parents to the front door.
"Ally, Betsy will be here as soon as Uncle Kelso gets here." Eric explained to his daughter.
"But Daddy…"
"Just hold on a sec Ally." Eric said before opening the door.
This time when the door opened, it revealed a young woman and a young man along with a ten year old little girl riding on the man's back.
"Now the party can go, because here are the Kelsos!" Kelso exclaimed with a raised fist, as he and his family entered the house.
"He's been working on that all day." Brook whispered to Donna who smiled.
"I told you!" Ally said looking up at her parents "Hi Betsy!"
"Hi Ally!" Betsy said as she climbed off her father.
Even though the girls were nearly six years apart they were still the best of friends.
"Come on lets go gang up on Luke!" Ally exclaimed taking her friends' hand as they ran off.
"Ok!"
"Hey be nice to Luke, you two!" Eric called after them "One day he's gonna be just like me and…"
"Still won't be able to do anything." Donna finished with a smirk.
"Burn!" Kelso exclaimed in the way only Kelso could.
Before more could be said a running Fez ran into the room.
"JJaaaccckkkiiieee!" his arms dropped as soon as he saw the couple in front of him. "What the hell?!"
"Now Fez," Donna began, "is that any way to greet our guests?
Fez continued to frown, "What do you mean guests? Jackie is a guest. I see this sonofabitch everyday!"
Donna rolled her eyes. With Kelso, Fez, and Red always around it was a wonder how Ally and Luke's first words were actually decent words.
"Fez, Luke and Ally already learn enough curse words from Red." Donna said as the five entered the living room.
"How is Red doing?" Brooke asked as she took a seat on the couch next to her husband.
"Pretty good." Eric said with a nod. "Today he told us he'd stick his foot so far up our asses we'd be tasting shoe for a month."
"That's a long one." Kelso said in shock that soon turned into a dopey grin, "He hasn't told me one of those in like a month!"
As the others laughed, Donna looked down at her watch. It was 7:15, Jackie and Hyde would be here any minute, and she knew she had to warn the 'soldiers' of the bullets they might soon face.
"Um, you guys, I need to tell you something." Donna said and everyone turned to look at her as she struggled with her words. "Um…you see…Eric invited Hyde over for dinner tonight!"
Kelso jumped up off the couch and then jumped behind it as he heard Donnas' words.
Fez's eyes became wide, "Bas…set hound!" he said quickly changing his cruse word, in fear of Donna.
"Me?!" Eric shrieked, knowing what word his friend meant to say. "No I…no! My mom is the one who made him come back to Point Place!"
Fez frowned as he stood up, "Don't try and blame this disaster on that sweet, wonderful, sexy, woman." Eric frowned with slight disgust but Fez continued, "She is already going through enough. I….I…Aye. I have to pee. This is not over!" he said before running off to the upstairs bathroom once more
Kelso looked around the room looking more and more frightened, "Um we've gotta go." he said pushing Brooke up onto her feet.
"What?" the other three asked.
"I don't wanna be here if Hyde's coming. We haven't seen each other since Chicago! He's gonna be pissed!"
"Kelso!" Donna exclaimed
"Fine Donna. Pi…ss. Come on Brooke, lets go get Betsy and then get out of here." seeing the upset expressions of his wife and both his friends, Kelso added, "We'll be back."
"When?" Eric questioned not believing him.
"After we pick up a few stuff. Some chips, beer, a lawyer, and a penny made in 1928."
The doorbell rang.
Kelso turned to Brooke, "Betsy's young we'll come back for her later."
"Michael…" Brooke started to say as Kelso grabbed her arm.
"We'll go out the back door!"
As soon as the words left his mouth there came a knock from the backdoor, now everyone was standing up.
"Damn we're trapped!" Kelso exclaimed not noticing the window he and Brooke were standing in front of. Donna looked at Kelso with an annoyed expression, before turning to her husband.
"You get the kitchen door and I'll get the front." she ordered.
"Got it." Eric replied before the couple walked off in opposite directions, leaving Kelso and Brooke alone.
"Come on Brooke, help me out. There's gotta be some kind of secrete passage way that leads out of this house." Kelso stated before getting down on his knees and then crawling around.
"You mean like a window?" Brooke asked and Kelso's head shot up as he remembered the window he had been standing by.
"You know, you're hot but let's face it you're the brains in this marriage." he told his wife as he stood up, "Now come on lets go!"
"Michael, no." Brooke said sternly, raising her voice slightly, as she stopped Kelso from climbing out of the window by grabbing his arm. "Michael it's been ten years. Don't you think it's time you talked to Hyde? Told him the truth?"
Kelso shrugged, "Well yeah. But Brooke…I wanna see Betsy grow up and if I see Hyde well…he's gonna kill me!"
"Michael, Hyde and Jackie are Betsy's godparents. Don't you think Betsy would like to see her godfather?" Kelso opened his mouth but Brooke spoke over him, "With her father?"
"Actually I was gonna say, I'd let her see The Godfather." Kelso stated, "But you're right Brooke, maybe it is time I saw Hyde."
Brooke smiled, "Thank you Michael." she said before kissing his cheek.
"But I'm telling you now, I might have to wear an eye patch for awhile."
"I don't mind."
Kelso frowned, "I know. I was telling you, cause that means we get to do it like pirates." he said excitedly to his wife who just laughed.
Meanwhile in the next room, Eric was on his way to open the backdoor as he quietly repeated to himself, "Please don't be the Devil. Please don't be the Devil. Please don't be the Devil."
Finally he built his courage enough to open the door revealing Hyde and a tray of cookies, brownies, and other treats.
"Hyde!" Eric exclaimed
"No it's the muffin man." Hyde said in deep sarcasm but Eric just laughed as he let Hyde into the kitchen.
"Here your mom said to bring this over." Hyde said as he handed Eric the large tray.
"Awesome chocolate chip!" Eric exclaimed as he quickly put down the tray so he could grab a cookie.
"Actually man, she said those were for me."
"Hyde please." Eric scoffed as he grabbed a cookie, "My mom only makes chocolate chip cookies for her precious baby boy. Me." with that said Eric put the cookie up to his mouth ready to take a bite, only to be interrupted by the ringing of the telephone.
Eric frowned as he moved the cookie away from his lips and himself to the phone.
"Hello?" he asked wondering who it could be. All of his friends were here and his parents were at the hospital.
"Hello honey." came a cheerful voice from the other end.
But of course they had phones at the hospital.
"Oh hi Mom." Eric greeted with an uncertain tone of voice.
"Has anything happened yet? Oo, oh have they seen each other yet?" Kitty asked excitedly.
"No Mom. Uh Hyde just got here." Eric then looked over at Hyde and grinned a fake grin causing Hyde to frown in return.
"Is Jackie there yet?"
"Um yeah, he brought the cookies with him." Eric answered trying to stay cool, but failing.
Kitty frowned, "Well of course he did. I asked him to. Eric, I was asking about Jackie."
"I know mom." Eric said hoping his mother would figure it out.
"Ooohh I get it. Steven's in the room isn't he?"
"That's right."
Kitty gave out one of her Kitty laughs, "Well aren't you the slick one?" she asked before laughing again.
"Yes, yes I am. But I have to go now."
"Oh ok, but you be sure to call me as soon as something happens …Oo or I could stay on the line and you could hold up the phone when they see each other, so I'm there but no one can see me. It'll be like I'm invisible." she laughed again.
"Ok Mom I'll call you later." Eric said getting ready to hang up.
"Oh alright but, be sure to call your fathers' room. I'll be running in and out of there. I've got to take him his dinner and…"
"Bye Mom." Eric interrupted.
"Bye sweetie, I love you."
Eric looked at his friend and then turned to face the wall "I love you too Mom." he mumbled but it was still loud enough for Hyde to hear. Hyde soon burst out laughing.
Eric turned to see his friend, and waved his hand trying to silence him, "Bye." he said into the phone trying once more to end the conversation, and once more he failed.
"Eric, tell Steven to stop laughing."
"You're in trouble." Eric singy song said, pointing at Hyde as he quieted down.
"Oh and Eric put that cookie back on the plate." Kitty instructed, causing Eric's eyes to become wide as he looked around the kitchen.
"Where are you?" he asked but the question went unheard by Kitty as she continued.
"You haven't had dinner yet. And the chocolate chip ones are for Steven." after hearing his mothers' words Eric quickly looked over at his brother and was greeted with a smirk.
"But…but Mom you always make chocolate chip cookies for me. Your precious baby boy." he reminded as he turned his attention back to Kitty.
"I know Honey, but Steven's alone. He doesn't have anyone to bake him cookies. You…well you have Donna."
There was a small pause on both sides of phone, before mother and son burst out laughing.
"Ok Mom. I'll call you back later. Bye." he said between laughs before placing the phone back on the receiver.
"Aw Forman loves his Mommy." Hyde teased.
"Hah ha, that's funny Hyde." Eric said with a smile, "You know what else is funny? She said the cookies were mine." Eric stated with his smile gone as he tried to act serious, leading Hyde to laugh and point.
Author's Note: There you go, Chapter nine of "Learning to Fly" Thanks so much for reading, I hope you enjoyed it. Please stay tuned for Fridays chapter, a long chapter, when our favorite gang from Point Place are finally all in one room. Until Friday, thanks for reading, hope you liked, please review, take care, and have a nice day!