Note: Okay, here it is. So this is the finale. I want to thank everyone for reading and a special thanks to those who took the time to review. Y'all are awesome. And this last chapter is crossed with Grey's Anatomy, just so you know. If you don't watch Grey's Anatomy, you won't get the side conversations that the doctors are talking about, but they are not important. It's just a little fun for the people who do. It really has no importance to the main story. And drum roll please (cue drum roll)……………AND HERE'S THE FINALE!!
Seattle, Washington
August 2, 1987
A tall redhead, formerly a bottle-blonde, sat in the waiting room of the Sacred Heart Hospital flipping through month-old magazines. She smiled at the sound of two little boys walking down the hallway with their father having a discussion about names.
"She should name her Benji. That's the best name ever," the first boy said.
"You're only saying that because it's your name," the second one retorted.
"So?"
"Besides, that's a boy name. Aunt Jackie wouldn't name a girl a boy name, would she Dad?" They both looked to the taller man walking slightly behind them.
"Nope," was the father's response. "Jackie will probably give her the most effeminate name ever," he said more to himself than his son's.
"What's effena, effema, effemanina…" the youngest boy tried to spit out.
"Effeminate?"
"Yeah, that. What's that?"
"It's what your father is," cut in a voice that they all instantly recognized as they entered the waiting room, and they all, including the redhead, stood upon hearing it behind them.
"Uncle Kelso!" the two boys shouted in unison as they ran up to greet the long time family friend.
The father of the two boys walked up to the redhead and put his arm around her while they both waited for their turn to greet their friend whom they had not seen in almost a year, but had kept in close touch with.
"Hey Benji," Kelso said to the older boy of five-years-old. "Connor!" to the younger of four years. "Donna! Eric!" he greeted the married couple of six years. "How's it goin'? I'm not too late, am I?"
"No," Donna responded.
The three adults sat down while the boys took up their coloring books and G.I Joe's to occupy their time.
"So, hey, where are Brooke and Betsy?" Eric asked.
"I'm right here Uncle Eric," responded an eight-year-old smart alec walking a little in front of a tall brunette from the same direction Kelso came.
"Hey guys," said the brunette.
"Hey," said Eric as they all stood up once again to greet the new arrivals.
"Betsy, you've gotten so big," Donna said as she hugged the girl.
"Well, duh. I'm not gonna get smaller," Betsy said.
"Very true."
"Betsy, don't be a smart mouth," the brunette warned.
"She takes after me," Eric said with a smile.
Betsy went to greet Benji and Connor while the adults sat once again.
"So Kelso, how's the law doing? Still intact?" Eric said with a smile.
"No, I'm out of work," Kelso responded with obvious understanding of the joke. In his younger years he would have been confused by the question, but he grew wiser as his age progressed and he lost his naivety. But his childlike humor and small traces of his former oblivion remained and were brought to the surface more often than not.
"Michael is doing very well. Did you hear he was promoted to lieutenant?" the brunette said with excitement.
"Only like, ten times," Donna said.
"Brooke, everyone knows. You don't need to keep telling everyone," Kelso told his long time girlfriend and mother of his child. While the two had been together for years, shared a child, and lived together in Chicago, they had never actually tied the knot. To people outside their circle of friends, it seemed strange, but to them, it was just the way it was.
"I'm sorry. I'm just so excited for you," Brooke said.
"WE'RE HERE! WE'RE HERE! NOW WHERE IS MY NEW GRANDBABY!"
A small, older woman burst through the hospital doors with a grumpy looking old man in tow.
The group rolled their eyes as they stood a third time to greet the woman who had practically raised them all and the man who had threatened to put a foot in their asses more times than any one of them could count.
"Kitty, calm down. You'll scare the baby right back into her mother," the old man said.
Kitty turned sharply on her husband with an evil gleam in her eyes.
"Calm down? Calm down? Red Forman, how can I possibly be expected to calm down? There's a baby for Christ's sake! A baby!" Kitty shouted.
"Not yet," Eric said as his parents made their way into the waiting room to greet everyone. He would have thought that the effects of menopause would have subsided after all these years. No such luck.
The entire group sat down after the newest greets were made only to stand right back up again at a new voice sounding through the hospital.
"My friends!" a foreigner with an untraceable accent entered the waiting room.
"Fez!" "Uncle Fez!" "Buddy!" "The foreigner!" everyone shouted at once.
Once again, more greets were preformed and everyone sat down, once again. They had not been talking for five minutes when a doctor approached them.
"Hello. Are you all here with Mr. and Mrs. Hyde?" she asked.
"Yes," was the general response from the group.
"Hi, I'm Dr. Addison Montgomery. I'll be delivering Jackie's baby."
"Well hello, beautiful," Fez said with a sly smile and dirty thoughts on his mind.
"Uh, yes. Hi," she raised an eyebrow giving her admirer a confused a slightly disturbed look. However, Fez being Fez took this look to mean that she was interested.
Fez strode up to her in a cocky manner and began to drape his arm over her shoulder and ask her what she was doing later, but just then an incredibly handsome and muscular doctor walked by and winked at her with a "Hey, Addison," to which she rolled her eyes and groaned. "Hello, Sloane."
Everyone was a little confused by the interaction between the two doctors, but they were not interested enough to look into it. Fez backed off and Addison began to address them all again.
"You're welcome to see her if you'd like. She's got plenty of time."
Everyone groaned at that. They were in no mood to spend all day at the hospital with nowhere else to go. They thought it was great that Jackie got offered a job in Seattle working as a reporter and that Hyde could open his very own record store there as well, but Seattle? Donna and Eric were the only ones who had been in town long enough to get a hotel room against Jackie's demands that they stay with her and Hyde. After two kids of his own however, Eric had no desire to live with another pregnant women, even if it would have just been for one night. Everyone else had just arrived in town today and went straight to the hospital from the airport.
"I understand waiting around can be very frustrating," Addison laughed a little at their response. "But don't worry. While she's only dilated around three centimeters she should-"
"I don't particularly want to hear the details," Red said with a grimace. All the other men grunted in agreement.
Addison smiled and shook her head. "Well, alright. I'll take you to her room."
In Jackie's hospital room, she was on her bed breathing heavily with Hyde in the chair next to her holding her hand and at a complete loss for what to say.
"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Steven this hurt like hell!" Jackie was screaming when everyone walked in.
"I know baby," Hyde replied, to which Eric, Kelso, and Red all took a sharp breath in and shook their heads.
"Oh no, no, no," Eric said.
"You know?" Jackie yelled at Hyde. "What do you mean you know?"
"Rookie mistake," Red said.
"You're telling me you know what it feels like to have a person inside of you who won't stop kicking your stomach until you're positive it is black and blue? Is that what you are telling me Steven Hyde?! I don't think so!"
Hyde tried to redeem himself. "No, Jackie, I just mean-."
"You don't know pain!"
Hyde was about to respond but Eric, Kelso, and Red shook their heads "no" so he shut his mouth before he got into more trouble.
"The contractions may be painful, but they're a sign that you're getting ready to go into the delivery room," Addison said as she looked over Jackie's charts. "Just remember to take deep breaths. And you," she directed to Hyde. "do anything that relaxes her. Okay/"
"Yeah, got it. Thanks, Doc," Hyde replied.
"Of course." She smiled to everyone before she left the room.
Everyone gathered around Jackie's bed.
"Don't worry," Donna tried to make Jackie feel better. "I know it's painful now, but it will all be worth it."
"Besides, isn't like, the actual giving birth part like, ten times more painful?" Kelso said.
Everyone gave him a "what the hell" look and Jackie glared at him.
"Thank you Michael! That's very helpful! I'm so glad to know I haven't yet seen the worst of it!" Jackie yelled with all the sarcasm she could muster.
"You're welcome. Or wait. That was sarcasm, wasn't it? Sorry. Never mind," Kelso replied sheepishly.
"Uncle Hyde. What are you gonna name the baby? It's a girl, right?" Benji asked as he stood right next to Hyde with sheer curiosity.
"Yeah, it's a girl," Hyde replied. "And we're still debating on the name."
"You should name her 'Angie'", a new voice said as it entered the room with a companion.
"Hey, Ange," Hyde said as he got up to greet his sister and father.
Once again, greetings were made among the group through hugs and smiles. Some were awkward, some were like feeling whole again, and some were entirely unwelcome (particularly in Red's case), but they were all done for the simple reason that the family was back together.
Near the end of the reacquainting period as the conversations died down and focus began to shift once again towards Jackie and her claim that hell had finally reached earth and was getting there through her vagina, one question stopped everyone dead in their tracks and even Jackie held her breath.
"Uncle Hyde," Benji asked, "what's that mark on your face?"
Silence for a good five seconds, though it seemed an eternity to the adults in the room.
"Uhhh…" Hyde didn't know what to say. Play dumb. "What mark?"
"This one." Benji lifted his right index finger to Hyde's face and traced the faded pink scar from where it began on his forehead above his right brow, over his eye, across his nose, onto his left cheek, and disappeared at his jaw. "I never noticed it before."
All the children expressed their agreement towards the scar they never noticed.
"Well, uhhh…it's uhhh. It's from…uhhh." Hyde's memory stirred and images of horror crossed over his eyes.
Hot coals falling down all around him and one sliding over his face and producing the mark, which had been much darker then. His hands burning to the bone. He is covered in blood.
Hyde unconsciously rubbed the inside of his left forearm where three large scars remained.
Dragging the blade across his skin, the blood pouring from his arm. Smearing said blood on the wall before desperately trying to make out the letters coming to light.
"It's just a scar, sweetie," Jackie laughed on the inside at her answer. Just a scar? That is anything but just a scar. That's one of the few that still remained, and probably always would. That and those scars on his arm.
Betsy got right into Hyde's face for an inspection. "Huh. It's kinda faded, but it's pretty long. Hey, you're like Scarface!"
"Betsy, stop it!" Brooke whispered in a way that could not really count for a whisper. While Brooke did not know the experience first hand, she knew no less than Jackie, Kelso, Fez, Eric, Kitty, Red, or Hyde knew.
Angie and WB knew as well, but not in nearly as much detail. Hyde had been more kind in his explanation to them than Kelso had to Brooke.
The children giggled at Betsy's reference to a movie none of them had seen and knew nothing about save the name.
The moment was broken up by the doctor and someone new in tow, but who was obviously with the hospital. The new person was speaking to Addison as they entered the room, "I just couldn't take it anymore. I may still be on probation, but I am not his personal assistant. I mean, who does Sloane think he is asking me to get him coffee?"
"He's an ass, Izzie. I'm just waiting for Alex to figure that out," Addison responded before turning her attention to Jackie. "How are we doin'?"
Jackie turned to the doctor a little startled, but smiled. "Fine. Just fi-aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW! Steven!"
"I'm right here," Hyde held her hand.
"STEVEN! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Oh my god, STEVEN!"
"Jackie, I'm right here. Okay?"
"Shut up! I know you're right there! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! I just wanna yell at you!"
"Did I do something wrong?"
"You got me pregna-ooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww!"
"Yeah. Yeah, that was me."
"Let me check you, Jackie," the doctor said as everyone else backed up to give Addison and Izzie room. They checked how many centimeters Jackie was dilated and they smiled when she was at ten. "You're ready."
Izzie smiled at Hyde. "You ready to be a dad?"
Hyde swallowed nervously and nodded.
Jackie was rolled out of the room on a wheel chair and taken to a separate room for the delivery. Only one person was allowed in the delivering room with Jackie. Hyde was becoming a little panicked and began speaking incoherently and it was making Jackie nervous. She threatened to kick him out and get Donna in here with her if he didn't calm down and shut up. It was probably the only time Jackie was ever the one to tell Hyde to shut up, and if it wasn't, it was the only time he ever listened.
Hyde was sweating as the doctors were preparing Jackie so he began rolling up his long sleeves, but stopped when he saw the scars on his left arm.
One cut wasn't enough. Hyde was forced to cut through his skin again to draw more blood to smear on the wall. And again. Hyde never felt so close to death in his life as he was slicing his arm open for the third time.
Hyde stared at the scars and Jackie noticed. She began smoothing her fingers over the scars. She lifted his arm up to her face and kissed his them. For me. These were for me.
The birth of Isabelle Addison (named after the doctors because afterwards, Jackie was so relieved and happy, she called them her heroes and decided she would name the baby after them, and Hyde was just so thankful it was over that he agreed) was difficult. There was a scare when she was breeched which had Jackie crying and Hyde demanding the doctors to "fix it", but in the end, she was perfect, as Hyde described her to the group anxiously waiting outside. They all filed into the room and took turns holding her. The children sat on a chair and held her very carefully, thinking she could break at any given moment.
Isabelle Addison eventually made her way back to Jackie as Hyde sat on the bed next to her with his arm over her shoulder and his other hand over Jackie's holding the baby. They looked like the picture perfect family as Hyde leaned over and kissed Jackie's temple whispering, "I love you" to her and then down at the baby.
"Isabelle Addison Hyde," Jackie said her name over and over again and every time Hyde said "yep" in response, smiling down at his new baby girl.
Isabelle Addison Hyde: the product of the most unholy, sickening, wrong, dysfunctional, beautiful, caring, cherishing, loving couple to ever be happy together.
THE END
Note: Thank you so much for reading. I hope y'all liked it. (Yes I made Jackie a reporter. She would be a great reporter. She is nosy and always wants details.) I will not be writing a sequel for this. I have trouble writing when there is no real plot to it. I can't imagine what the story line for a sequel would be. Also, I think a sequel for this kind of story would be a little boring, or just unnecessary. I will be writing other fics soon, but for now, it's been fun. Get it. Got it. Good.
