A/N: Thanks for review everyone and I hope you'll keep reviewing as the story progresses.

Hyde's Bedroom

11:53 pm

Jackie rolls over onto Steven's bare chest tracing her fingers over the underneath of his chin. She wants badly to talk to him about Donna leaving tomorrow but it seems the basement is quite packed and her voice is easily recognizable. She kisses his shoulders and up towards his neck.

"They aren't leaving anytime soon. I told them we'd celebrate Forman's birthday tonight." Jackie looks up at him, her eyes pouting. "Hey, it's either I go out there or they come in here to get me."

"Alright, go, but I'm not leaving."

"You better not." Steven pushes her aside and lays a blanket over her almost entirely naked body. He picks up his green tee shirt and his jeans. He bends down and kisses her once his clothes are back on. "Get some sleep, I'll see you later."

Jackie smiles up at him and blows him a kiss as he walks out into the basement. "Babe wait," Jackie tosses his aviators in his direction and he slides them onto his face as he leaves.

"And midnight." Eric says just as Hyde comes into the room situating his glasses on his face. "So long, seventeen. In the words of Alice Cooper, I'm eighteen and I like it."

Hyde smiles and shakes Eric's hand, "Happy birthday, man."

"Let's give him his present." Kelso practically hops out of his lawn chair. He and Hyde fight their way to their hiding place in the dryer. "It's a case of twenty-three beers."

"Kelso!"

"I deserved one I carried it."

Eric snatches a beer from the case, cracks it open and takes his first legal sip. "Yeah, tastes like eighteen."

"Whoa, check out the new stereo." Kelso says as he wanders towards the stereo and Hyde takes his seat with the beer. His eyes flash back towards his room and he noticed that Jackie must've shut the door. They need to leave the basement so that Jackie can get some sleep. "Oh, it plays records and eight-tracks? This thing's like right out of the future."

"Yeah, Donna gave it to me. I think she feels bad that she's going to college without me. So on one hand I'm losing the girl that I've been in love with since I was five, but on the other hand, I get a crappy stereo."

"Score!" Everyone just stares at Kelso. "What? I mean, she was going to dump you eventually." He catches the beer that Hyde tosses to him. "Rock and Roll never dies."

"Kelso, Donna and I are fine. Okay? She's waiting as long as possible to leave so that we can spend every moment together. We are going to make this work."

"Eric, long-distant relationships do not work. Just ask my girlfriend from back home."

"Fez, you have a girlfriend back home?"

"No, you idiot. Don't you listen, long-distant relationships don't work."

"You guys, Donna and I aren't going to let a couple of miles come between us. This isn't the end of the world."

Hyde looks at his brothers face and recognizes the uneasy twinge laying beneath the surface of the weakly confident exterior. "Alright, I know how this is going to end. Forman's going to have about five more beers and then we are going to have to listen to him whine about his impending break up with Donna and wait for him to pass out before we put him in a dress. So, either I'm going to bed or we are going out."

"Let's go out. This may be your last day as a committed man, let's not waste it." Kelso says and he and Fez lead the way out the basement door.

"I'll be right there I left my wallet in my room." Hyde walks back into his room and sees Jackie sleeping on his cot, her eyes fluttering softly. "Night Doll." He kisses her forehead and starts to leave the room.

"Be safe and don't drink too much."

"Promise."

Pinciotti's Living Room

4:35 pm

Eric sits down on the couch next to Donna. His cheeks are still a little itchy from the grease he apparently wiped on himself last night before ending up in a dress. Donna is reading a magazine but looks up when she sees him come through the door. "Hey, there's the birthday boy. I thought I'd be seeing you in something much less flattering."

"Yes, there was a dress."

"I'm sure you looked very beautiful."

"I did. Hey, Donna."

"What?"

"That tattoo you saw on Jackie's finger, what did it look like?" He asks slowly trying to remember past the booze of the night before.

"I don't know, just some plain black lines. Um, kinda zig zagging. I still can't believe that she wouldn't tell me. We are supposed to friends, and tell each other everything."

"Do you think that maybe, you're more upset about her not telling you about Hyde than about the tattoo?"

"We are supposed to tell each other everything." Donna lays her head on Eric's scrawny shoulders.

"I think Hyde has the same tattoo."

"What? They got matching tattoos?"

"I don't know, I saw something on his finger last night. He shook my hand and I thought I saw something."

"They're serious, like actually serious. She didn't come home last night, she doesn't sleep here most nights actually. She sneaks out when she thinks I'm sleeping." Donna shook her head. She shouldn't be upset but she's seriously pissed off now. She told Jackie about everything especially about Eric and apparently Jackie told her nothing. She's in a very important relationship and she feels like she needs to hide it. "Come on, let's go."

Forman's Basement

Eric and Donna open the door to the basement and as they enter they're laughing stops. Hyde is sitting in his chair staring at the TV which isn't screening anything Hyde would usually watch while Jackie is looking through a magazine she would never usually read on the couch next to him. They had heard them coming and stopped doing something they'd much rather be doing.

"Hey!" Donna greets. "Why is Hyde here?"

Hyde looks up confused and offended. "Why hello to you too, Donna."

"Don't be such a girl Hyde, what I mean is that we need some girl time and that means no boys allowed. So shoo." Then Donna actually starts pulling Hyde from his chair and pushing him towards Eric and both of them out the door.

"This is our home. They live over there and they kick us out of our home."

"Shut up Forman, let's get something to eat."

Inside the basement, Jackie sets the magazine down on the table and looks up at the stern look on Donna's face. "That was kind of rude, what did Eric do now?"

"Nothing, not yet anyway. I'm sure he'll get emotional and do something stupid like throw a toaster or something. But this is about you. I told, actually I promised, Eric I wouldn't say anything but I can't keep quiet. You're sleeping with Hyde!" Jackie's eyes go wide.

Nervous laughter erupts from her throat, "What are you talking about? Me and Stev- Hyde? You're crazy."

"You've been going out for months and we've been in the dark, then we found out accidentally and I need details, I'm your friend I want to understand. I need to be on your side, but knowing nothing except that you're sleeping with your ex's best friend is making me upset." Donna's eyes plead with Jackie. "Come on Jackie, it's Hyde, we've been witnessing his one night stands and screw-ups for years, what changed?" she asks.

Minutes pass and Jackie looks defeated. "You're not going to stop asking are you?" She asks.

Donna shakes her head. "Alright," Jackie replies, "but you have to agree to say nothing to Eric or Michael or Fez and definitely not to Steven. No one can know that you know. Deal?"

"Deal, but why are you hiding?"

"Things are good. We don't want you all ruining it."

Donna sits on the couch next to Jackie, "So Jackie, how did this start with you and Hyde?"

"I um… we started…it was…So last summer when you were in California with Michael, I was left here alone with Steven. Eric was in his room moping every day and Fez was determined to get chicks and failed so that left just me and Steven. Things were different, things were good."

"So you were alone and bored," Donna cut in.

"No!" Jackie says in offense. "It wasn't because we were bored or lonely. I mean we were bored but there was this pull and then we kissed just once and it was just like the very first time we kissed, Donna. There's no explanation it just felt right. It felt as though we should have been doing this the whole time. You know how that feels?"

"Yes." Donna says sadly, "well no, with Eric it's good but when I kissed Casey it wasn't any different." Donna continued.

"Well," Jackie starts, "Steven is so attentive, so loving, and so giving." Jackie pauses, a grin spreading across her face.

"Ohhh…" Donna said, "So Jackie, how giving is Hyde?"

"Well, on our first night we did it four times, we only got about 3 hours sleep. It was like we couldn't keep our hands off each other. He kept saying how beautiful I was and how long he had wanted this."

"Really? Hyde had a crush on you?"

"Come on, it was obvious! He was always helping me and offering comfort when Michael was being a doofus…"

"I always thought he was joking."

"We kinda leant on each other, we both had hard times and felt kind of beaten down, but once we got together," she paused, "I can't even find the words, it's like what I've been waiting for my whole life, and it just fits."

"It's hard to believe that this is Hyde we are talking about!" Donna said.

Jackie smiled. "What can I say; seems like I've been pushing Stevens's buttons for years. No wonder why he can't get enough of me!"

"So Jackie, I need to hear about the night of four times. Eric could never do that." Donna grins.

"Oh well, it was so amazing, we had been making out for weeks and it was just so amazing. It sent electricity up and down my spine. Right then, that moment I just knew."

"Come on, get to the good stuff."

"Okay, okay." Jackie said. "First time it was really passionate, he didn't stop touching me all night, even in between sex he was either caressing my side or running his fingers through my hair or kissing my finger tips."

"Wow."

Jackie continues, "the best part of that night wasn't even sex, it was when he gave me a full body massage."

"Really" Donna says interested.

"Uh-huh, he started from my ankles, he licked and caressed and rubbed his way up my body until he reached my head. It was so amazing."

"You know, I know I asked but I think I'm becoming a bit too familiar with Hyde, it's like he's a completely different person."

"Exactly, he is a completely different person, what you guys see is Hyde's defense, his rudeness, his zen, it is how he protects himself. Underneath all that is a very vulnerable, sensitive guy who just wants someone to confide in." Jackie agrees, she then sighs. "I'm so in love with him. My heart aches when we are not together, it's like I'm missing a part of myself." Jackie pauses, "I've never felt like this, especially not with Michael."

"Really?"

"I loved Michael, I think I did, but it's not the same. I don't love him the way I love Steven and he never really loved me at all. The things Michael did to me, that's not love. He just liked having me around, it comforted him but I deserve better."

"You do. One last question, why and when did you two get matching tattoos?"

"I've told you already Donna, some stories have to be earned."

"Why do you get so secretive about this? You told me practically everything else."

"For the same reason that we want to keep what we have a secret. This is so incredibly precious, nothing like what I have had with Michael or, and I apologize for saying this, like what you have with Eric. We may compare though to Mr. and Mrs. Forman. It's sacred. Our sex life won't be a joke for all of you to laugh at and the way Steven is with me won't be a reason for Eric or Michael or even Fez to even burn him. We are special and we aren't here for your entertainment. You and Eric are okay with letting everyone in about everything and we are not. Please don't turn what we have into what you have with Eric, keep my secret and understand that some stories have to be earned."

"Okay."

Forman's Living Room

"What do you think they're talking about?" Eric asks Hyde who sat on the couch with him in his parents living room.

"I don't know, man. What did you do?"

"I haven't done anything."

"Seriously man, Donna's leaving in a couple of hours and you haven't done anything to screw up your relationship with her yet."

"Hey! This coming from the man who's never had a girlfriend." Eric says knowing that he's wrong and maybe Hyde will admit to it.

"Cause I don't want a girlfriend, but you do, right? So don't screw it up."

"Shh! They're coming up the steps." Eric hears the creak of the basement steps as the girls come up to join them in the living room.

"I didn't know you two were up here," Donna comments.

"Yeah, Hyde and I went to the Hub and then came back here cause it was getting late, speaking of, shouldn't my surprise party have started by now?"

"We keep telling you there's no party, man. It's like you're deaf."

Just moments after he spoke Mrs. Forman came running into the room eagerly through the front door. She takes in the room, Jackie and Steven standing suspiciously close to each other, though she knew the reason they hated putting space between each other, Eric is sitting next to Donna on the couch. "What are you all doing here? You can't be here."

"Oh, right. I'll go outside and then come back in and pretend to be surprised."

"Eric, honey, there is no party."

"What? How can there not be a party? What is more important than your only son's eighteenth birthday?"

Kitty looks awkwardly around the room at her sons and their girlfriends. "Okay, fine. For the first time since his heart attack, your father and I are having intercourse." Kitty watches all of the kids cringe and even Donna sees Jackie turn her face into Steven's neck as he rubs her back comfortingly.

"Happy birthday," his mother says to him as she runs up the steps.

Jackie whispers into to Steven's ear very quietly, "promise me that we'll end up like them, in love… forever."

Steven smiles at Jackie in the way that she knew he meant 'absolutely'.

Hyde's Bedroom

Jackie sits on the bed having left the first floor in fear of hearing disgusting sound of the only parent like people she has having sex. She sits on Steven's bed, on their bed. It's become their bed. He's standing there in front of her calm, quiet and with a smile on his face that says 'we're alone', she loves that smile.

"We have lasted a year." She states the fact in a calm quiet manner.

"Yeah we have, haven't we? Over a year actually."

"I don't know why, but I never thought that would happen."

"Honestly, Doll, me neither. I was sure I'd screw this up. I didn't know how to love, I wasn't capable of love for a long time. But now I am and I can't give it up."

"Do you think it's time that we tell people?"

"I don't know. Our friends are great, but they're not like us. They don't understand us or who we are or what we need. I am afraid Jackie. I don't want them to turn me zen because that's what we they do and I don't want to be zen with you. I want to be me with you." He sits next to her and kisses her cheeks and moves to lay a few upon her inviting and delicious lips. "Come on, we've got to go."

"Go where?"

"We have to pick up Fez and Kelso and then go meet Forman at the bus station to pick up Donna."

"You mean to drop Donna off."

"Oh we both know she isn't going anywhere."

Hyde's Bedroom

2:03 am

She had snuck in a little after one and crawled into his bed like she always did. He had wrapped his arms around her and pulled her in and she had quickly fallen asleep but he hadn't. He is laying awake staring down at calm and flawless face, watching the way her eyelids flutter as she's dreaming.

He kisses her forehead and whispers in her ear, "Jacks, Doll, wake up."

"Mmm I'm sleeping."

"I want to tell people, I want to have you on my lap when we are all hanging out, to kiss you when you walk in the door, I want to hold you, I want to be you boyfriend in the eyes of everyone else. I'm just scared."

"It's alright. We will tell them all when it's time to let them know. We will tell when it's time."

"When will that be?"

"I don't know, I don't know that there will ever be a right time, but a time will come and it's going to be okay."

"Yeah, we will be okay."

"We will." She kisses his lips and then pulls herself into him and they both drift off to sleep.

A/N: Kind of short but I decided that Jackie and Donna's relationship needed a boost. I hope you liked and please review!