Disclaimer: I do not own "That '70s Show".

Just hours after putting up the last chapter I remembered I had an idea that I had really wanted to write. Therefore, the story is going continue. I didn't want to write a sequel, I thought I could just continue this. So I will :). Sorry I've been taking so long to write chapters and update these days… But anyways, thank you for your reviews! I think I've set a number for reviews until I start writing the next chapter –6 to 8. :)

This chapter is based on the season one episode "Water Tower" and the beginning of the season one episode "Hyde Moves In" oh! And a season 5 episode but it's a character switch (and I don't mean by making it Pam Macy instead of Jackie) you'll understand when you read it.


Jackie often walked to Hyde's house, when there was no one in the basement, when she couldn't get a ride to his house, when she wanted to feel his arms around her, his touch and warmth and his lips on hers. At the moment, it was to get away from her family. Laurie was back home once again and they had shared a room but to Jackie's disdain. She loved her sister but a room with her was too much.

But when Jackie went to Hyde's it wasn't common to find Edna leaving, she was either, there drunk and passed out, or gone, most likely at a bar to be back later.

"You don't need me anyways," she heard a woman's voice. It was scratchy and had some sort of screech to it. Edna.

"So you're just gonna leave?" an angry teenager's voice. Steven. "A lousy trucker? You're leaving me with nothing?" She could almost see Edna roll her eyes.

"Look, I'm tired of having to take care of your lazy, good-for-nothing ass," Edna told her son. The door swung open and Jackie felt herself run to a bush and hide behind it. "You're 17, take care of your god damm self. I wasted 17 years on you. God, you're just like Bud, a selfish loser." Edna walked towards the truck as Hyde followed angrily.

"I'm a good-for-nothing? I've been taking care of myself all my life. Y'know, I bet that's why Bud left!" Hyde bit the bullet, Edna would get angry he knew it. But he had the right to be the angry. "He was tired of dealing with your lazy ass!" Hyde was furious, was his mother just leaving him like that? With no money? No food? Just up and leave for some cheap trucker?

Edna turned around with fury and slapped him, hard. "Watch your mouth!"

"I hope you burn in hell," Hyde yelled as Edna got in the truck. "Bitch!" He yelled as it moved farther and farther away from him. He stared at him, just hoping for a second it would come back. But no. His mother was gone and for the first time, for good. He should be relieved he wouldn't have to deal with her, but he isn't. He's mad, fuming, infuriated, she left him, her only child, for a trucker that'll dump her in a week. Bitch.

Jackie watches him, unsure of what to do. He'd be annoyed if she had gone to him now, he would know she had heard everything. She wanted five minutes; he sat on the ground and stared at the road. She felt her heart drop at the disappointment in his eyes. Then soon he got off the ground, kicked at the dirt and walked back into the house as if nothing at all had happened. He was acting Zen.

She bit her lip then gave a fake smile and knocked on the door. She stared at the cheap door; its paint was coming off. She glanced around at the grass, it was yellow, Jackie wasn't sure if the rest of the gang had ever really been to Hyde's house. But chances were they hadn't, they all always met up at the basement or the Hub.

He answered the door with his Zen and gave her a small smile when he had seen her face. Jackie returned the smile and hugged him tightly. When he asked her why, she told she wanted to feel his arms around him and his scent around her.


Donna and Jackie looked down onto Point Place; their feet were dangling and their laughs were contagious. On the water tower they were, with everyone else as well. The boys were using green paint…they were painting a pot leaf on the tower.

"Steven, make sure you know where you're putting your foot," Jackie called out.

Hyde rolled his eyes at her and glanced in her direction. "I'm fine, Jackie," he told her to ease her worries. She turned to look at him and shook her head at him. God, he was good at hiding feelings. He hadn't mentioned his mother and it had been two days. He was living alone and he was 17, he always at the Forman's and the Hub when someone else was buying. It made her sick to her stomach to know his mother left him.

"Jackie, there's a better chance of Eric falling off than Hyde," Donna informed her friend. Donna paused for a moment to think over her words. "Eric, watch where you're going!" she yelled with worry. Eric, like Hyde, told her not to worry and continued on with his painting.

"It's done!" Kelso shouted, jumping off the rails and close to Jackie and Donna. The other guys followed his lead, doing the same. They stared at the artwork. Jackie raised her eyebrows at it, it looked off.

"Gentlemen, we've finally done it, a pot leaf on the water tower!" Eric said with excitement. The group clapped their hands together and grinned stupidly.

"This is the proudest moment of my life," Fez told the group with glee. Jackie and Donna laughed at him with amusement.

"It doesn't look like a pot leaf," Hyde commented as he put his arm around Jackie's shoulders. It had been weeks since the group had found out and these days it felt like they were never alone. Jackie gave him a smile and kissed him softly on the lips.

"What!" Kelso said with annoyance while he stared at the pot leaf.

Hyde pulled away from Jackie and stared at it. "It looks like a hand giving the finger," he stated.

Jackie bit her lip and frowned. "Y'know, it does." The group shook their head at the two. "It's like…two in one. The finger and a pot leaf." Hyde chuckled and brought her closer to him. She snuggled into him happily, giving him another soft kiss on the lips.

"It doesn't have to look perfect, Hyde," Kelso said with his annoyed look. "It's art!"

Hyde smirked. "Get up and make it better."

"Fine!" Kelso yelled, getting up on the rails once more. Hyde pulled away from Jackie and walked toward his friend, someone had to tell him what to do.

"Make it wider, right up there," Hyde directed Kelso, pointing to the right of the pot leaf. "Yeah, out further though." Kelso listened to his friend's words without much thought, he did that often. He felt himself shake, the rail get unstable and then a boom of a sound come.

Michael Kelso had fallen off the water tower.

"Oh my God, Kelso!" the girls shouted. The guys' eyes widened and looked at their friend on the ground.

Hyde turned after everyone else. "Hey Kelso!"

"How's it look from down there?" Hyde questioned.

"Steven!" Jackie scolded. Jackie hit him on the chest with amusement and annoyance. He gave her a grin that made him seem unaffected by the troubles he had faced in the past two days. She shook her head and gave an amused smile.

"It looks like it's giving me the finger!" Kelso shouted out to his friend. Hyde looked at his friends with a look that clearly stated 'I told you so!'


Eric opened the door, turned on the lights, and walked inside. "Guys, we should take him to the hospital," Jackie told the group as they entered the Forman residence. She had to be the voice of reason.

"No Jackie, then my dad'll find out," Kelso told her. Kelso put his hand on the other one that was clearly in pain and let out a scream. The girls winced again and bit their lips.

"Kelso, do you not hear yourself?" Donna questioned. Kelso shook his head and said nothing as he sat down on the couch. Hyde shook his head at his friend's pain, sat down in Red's chair, and pulled Jackie onto his lap.

"OK, my mom's a nurse. I'm gonna go wake her up and maybe she could fix him," Eric told the group.

"Just don't wake up Red, he'll kill us all," Hyde informed his friend.

Eric rolled his eyes, "Jeez, you think?" He ran up the stairs quickly.

Jackie glanced at Kelso from Hyde's lap. "So what do ya think it is?" she asked with curiosity

"Probably just a sprain," Donna answered. "But I still think we should go to the hospital." Jackie nodded in agreement.

"He's fine," Hyde told them. If only you were, Jackie thought.

Fez shook his head. "Oh my good looking friend!" The group looked at him strangely but said nothing. "At least it wasn't his pretty face!"

"If it was head it wouldn't matter, there's nothing in there anyways," Hyde said with a smirk. Kelso nodded in agreement.

"Stop smirking like that," Jackie whispered in his ear. No matter how annoyed she secretly was, his smirks always got to her.

He raised an eyebrow at her. "Why?"

"You know why," she murmured.

"I like it when you say it," he whispered in her ear with a smirk causing goose bumps and chills to go up her spine. She kissed him on the lips and he smiled. He tasted her cherry lips, smelled her strawberry smelling, brown hair and smelled her vanilla perfume.

"You know other people are here to," Donna told them, breaking them away from each other.

Fez made a sound of frustration. "You whore! It was getting sexy!" Jackie looked at Fez uncomfortably and got up from Hyde, walking toward Donna.

"What about me? I'm here, in pain and you two are making out! Jackie should be making out with me! I'm the one in pain!" Kelso frowned deeply. Hyde rolled his eyes, got up and hit Kelso in the shoulder with his fist. "OW! Hyde!"

Eric came down the stairs and clapped his hands together. "OK, let's go." He got closer to his friends. "Everybody hop in the car and let's…go now." His uncomfortable look received a confused look from his younger sister.

"Where's your mom?" Kelso asked.

Eric pulled Kelso by his shirt. "SHUT UP, DON'T YOU DARE TALK ABOUT MY MOTHER!"


"No, Dad, no. There is no way this could have been avoided," Kelso said, speaking into the phone while sitting on his hospital bed. He was on the edge in his hospital dress, which had caused the group to laugh, and was trying to explain something to his father. "Yes! Yeah! The cop kicked me after I tipped it over." He paused to listen to his father. "I'm not lying!" The group put their heads in their hands at his stupidity.

Hyde was lying on the hospital bed and Jackie was cuddled up to him with her eyes closed. Her head rested on his chest comfortably as she thought.

"Okay," Kelso said on the phone. "I love you too." He put the phone down, turned to the group and grinned. "He bought it!"

"Um, excuse me," Fez said to the nurse who had begun to walk out. "Yes, um. I would like my sponge bath now." The nurse stared at him then walked out without a word.

"I'm surprised Pam hasn't found out and come here," Donna spoke aloud.

"Me and Pam broke up," Kelso told the group. "Yeah, I'm a single man…so if you and Jackie wanted to come home with me… that'd be awesome!" Donna rolled her eyes and Hyde kicked Kelso with his leg from his position on the bed.

"I'm here!" Pam yelled, running inside the room.

"And I spoke too soon," Donna mumbled to herself.

"My poor baby!" Pam attacked him with kisses that Kelso happily returned. "I'm so sorry," was heard somewhere in there from Pam.

"Get a room," Donna yelled. Hyde opened his eyes to glance at the two and made a face of disgust.

Pam ignored her. "I'm gonna be here for you and nurse you back to health!"

"It hurts," Kelso lied with innocence.

Donna walked towards Eric and smiled at him. His face looked uncomfortable as he stared into space. "Eric, are you alright?"

"They were sleeping," Eric said quickly, turning to his girlfriend. She shot him a strange look but said nothing more.

"I'll be with you, right here holding your hand. I'm sorry I let out problems get in the way of our love," Pam apologized. Kelso nodded and pulled her to him for a kiss.

"Alright! Alright!" Eric started and opened the door. "I'm going, whoever needs a ride…" Hyde got up out of the bed and glanced at Jackie.

"Jackie, come on, time to go," he whispered softly.

She opened her eyes and let out a moan. "What time is it?"

"Just past midnight, doll," he answered. She opened her eyes and sat up. The group stared at her and noticed bags under her eyes. "Jackie, how much sleep did you get last night?"

"I don't know… Laurie had some guy over and they started to get frisky. I slept on the couch in the living room," she told him. He chuckled and picked her up in his arms. Her arms went to his neck and he carried her to the car behind Donna, Eric, and Fez.

"Who knew our little Hyde could be sweet?" Donna said with a smirk while looking at Eric. Eric shook his head and said nothing, obviously uncomfortable with what had happened. Although no one knew what had happened. Hyde glared at Donna.

"You didn't have to carry me, you know," Jackie mumbled. Hyde chuckled and grinned at her. "I'm not all that sleepy." She really wasn't, maybe just a bit tired but at the moment she was annoyed. Annoyed that Hyde hadn't mentioned anything.

"Absolutely nothing," Eric repeated to himself as they all got inside the car.

"Man, just start the car," Hyde told him with Jackie on his lap. She got off his lap and sat in between Hyde and Fez.

Jackie stared at Hyde and smiled. He was always sweet when it got to Jackie, any human-being could see that. She grabbed his hand and rested her tired self on his shoulder. God, she needed more sleep, thank God Laurie was sleeping at some other guy's house tonight.

Jackie stared at Hyde's ripped jeans, his old jacket. She thought of his constant hunger at her house. Her grip on his hand became tighter. He deserved better than what he received in life.

"Steven." Her voice was gentle and soft.

"Yeah?" He glanced at her.

She went to his ear, no one was to hear here and Fez was right there, she murmured, "Is your mom home?" His eyes widened and he stared at her. He should tell her, and the closest she would get to that happening is to question if Edna was home.

"What?" He couldn't have heard that correctly.

"Is your mom home?" she repeated herself.

"Of course she's home, Jacks." Act Zen. She rolled her eyes at his words, immediately waking up. How the hell did she know?

"Steven, don't lie to me." He said nothing. She moved closer to him and whispered in his ear. "Steven, stay over at my house." He shook his head and continued to say nothing. "It's Saturday tomorrow, or no, today's now Saturday." She knew why she was doing this and it all started at one root person: Edna.

"Look Jackie, I don't know what the hell you're talking about," he said quickly. He thanked God he had his sunglasses on.

Jackie frowned. "Steven, don't lie to me. I know she's not home." He shook his head.

"Jackie, stop."

"You can stay-"

"I'm fine."

Eric drove in the driveway and everyone piled out. Hyde went down to the basement immediately, Jackie followed him. They sat down on the couch and Jackie looked at him, he stared at the TV, it was off.

"Please don't lie to me, Steven," Jackie whispered. Hyde shook his head and said nothing; he stared at the back of Donna's head. Jackie reached for Hyde's hand but he didn't move, he let her hold his hand but made no movement. Jackie frowned. "Steven, please," she begged. Hyde sighed at her soft words and put his arm around her, drawing her closer to his body.

"Jacks, I really don't want to talk about it," he told her in her ear. She frowned deeper.

"Why didn't you tell me?" She asked. It had been two days, maybe she should have waited longer, but 48 hours was enough in her mind.

"It's not that big of a deal and it looks like you already know."

"Why don't you stay with me?" He shook his head. "Stay for me." He took off his sunglasses and stared in her green and blue eyes. "Please, Laurie's going to be at some manwhore's house for the night." He sighed.

"Jackie, I don't need your help. I can take care of myself just fine."

Jackie crossed her arms. "Well maybe I don't like being alone in my room."

"You did it all the time when Laurie was at college," Hyde pointed out. She glared at him.

"Well, I've gotten used to her being back. It's been weeks since I've been alone in my room," she paused, "I need a strong man to protect me while I'm alone."

He rolled his eyes; this wasn't her best work at getting what she wanted. Either way he found himself agreeing. "Fine." She squealed and hugged him.


He found himself in Jackie's bed a half hour later. It took him a half hour for Jackie to get settled, then the time it took to climb the tree into her room. He was amazed with how many times they almost got caught. Who knew Red Forman talked in his sleep? Jackie had always fallen asleep fast and never noticed.

She lay in his arms, already asleep. He stared at her; her brown hair was all over face. He didn't know it was possible to just lie in a bed with a girl and do nothing. But then again, he had never even had sex before. It was already sad enough to have Kelso lose his virginity before him but if Eric and Donna have sex before him and Jackie that would make him look pathetic. Because it was Eric.

His mother abandoned him; he had no home, the day after Edna left he found himself piled with bills. The bitch left him penniless and full of debt. He was at his girlfriend's house and her dad would kick his ass if he found him. It was a price to pay when dating Jackie Forman.

"Bye Edna," he said, more to himself than to an absent Edna.

He pulled Jackie tighter to him and fell asleep thankful to have one good thing in his life.


I'm not really sure what I thought about this chapter. I redid it twice I think because I didn't like my original idea. But please review (6-8) because I really am unsure of this chapter. And again, I'm sorry it took so long to get out, every time I sat down to write it I had to get up a half hour so that got really annoying…

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