Author's Note: Chapter 11 and this epilogue was written and uploaded in March/April of 2005 and published on my LJ Community "tarnished_luci". I am just now moving it here because I am the best at procrastination. I should get a medal.
Please be 18+ to read this and any of my stories over on LJ, as they are not for young eyes.
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I don't know how to start these things off so I'll just jump right into it…
I was surprised when Jackie picked me to hold Vera. Out of Kitty, Red, Donna, Eric, hell, even Fez! Me. Twenty minutes in to the ceremony I stopped wondering why. The little thing that I thought was practically the cutest (second to my future kid, of course) baby in the world, spit up on me five times. After the third time, I stopped laughing and started shooting death glares at the happy wife and husband to be. Of course, they didn't notice me. I still did it, anyway, it seemed to make her laugh and I always appreciate a good laugh. I shifted her on my knee, those wooden fold up chairs weren't so good for sitting on long periods of time and I had to pee. As far as I could tell, there were no port potties in sight, either.
Oh, yeah, they decided to have their wedding in the woods. The woods. Well, technically, it was the park overlooking the town…but it was woody, so it's the woods. And, man, there just ain't no place to go when you gotta go, you know? They skipped on Pastor Dave and picked Red to do the nuptials. Heh. Nuptials. Replace that 'U' with an 'I' and add another 'P' and…er. Anyway, yeah, Red bitched every chance he got until the day of, especially after finding out that he had to get registered to do it.
This was still pretty strange, not the whole Jackie and Hyde getting married thing, but the part where Jackie came out in a white sundress. What the hell? Actually, you know, that was pretty funny. She bought all these Bridal magazines and asked Hyde a million questions on what fabric goes with what lace and she ended up getting a fancy white (cough) sundress. Or maybe it was cream…she always said I was good with colors.
Okay, so, she comes out and I'm still playing with Vera because since we're out in the fricken' woods, there's no music to cue everyone to stand and gawk at the bride, so I'm still making faces at Vera and she's walking up the aisle as slow as could be, soaking in all the attention (which was also strange considering there weren't many people there to begin with) and Kitty nudges me to stand and…Jackie looked beautiful. Not that I was expecting any less…just, damn. The sun was setting, which is why I guess she was going so slow, and she was just shining.
I took a quick glance at Hyde and had to stop myself from laughing at the expression on his face, he wasn't smiling…but he wasn't frowning…man, if I have to find a name for what he was doing, we'd be here all day. He looked in awe, there you go, awe. I guess everyone was pretty awed. Heh. That's a funny word.
Okay, back to Jackie, she was wearing white thin ribbony lace things in her hair and her dress stopped right above her knees and the back went past her feet. I don't know why I'm trying to explain her dress but you need a visual, you know? Her shoes were a strappy contraption and even with the high heels she stood just below Hyde's nose. She wasn't wearing a veil; she complained that she wanted her face visible in the pictures they took so everyone could see how happy she was and how hard she worked on her makeup.
I guess I'll tell you what Hyde was wearing, too, only fair. Jackie made him buy new slacks and shirts (she said he needed more than one incase something happened to the first one) so he was wearing black pants and a shirt the same color as Jackie's dress. Eric, the best man, (what's that about?) wore the same thing, but about one hundred sizes smaller, next to him. He was smiling, but I think he was really trying not to laugh, he still thought the dress was white and apparently he hadn't gotten over that, yet. He kept glancing at Vera on my lap and then back at Jackie. I still don't know how Donna puts up with him.
Red cleared his throat and started reading the nuptials (heh) and I was almost tempted to stand when he asked if anyone had any objections. I didn't want to object, you kiddin' me? I just thought it'd be funny and everyone needed an exciting wedding. The look on Hyde's face as he glanced at everyone in their seats held me back, though; I wasn't really going to stand up. By this time, Vera had fallen asleep and my arm was going numb so I was getting pretty cranky, I didn't wanna move her but her head weighed a ton. While she was sucking happily away on her pacifier, the blood had stopped circulating in my arm and I think my hand started to change color.
Where was I at, again? Oh, yeah, Red asked if Hyde would take Jackie to be his lawfully wedded wife and Hyde paused. He was smirking while he did it, though, so I knew he was doing it just to piss Jackie off but he waited a good ten seconds before he said 'I do'.
I wish I could have seen her face, I was on the bride's section (I forget why) and I couldn't get a look at her face. Red repeated the question to Jackie and I saw her head kind of cock to the side while she waited the same amount of time Hyde did to answer, if not longer. See, that's the thing I like about them; they're never boring. Not to say Jackie and I were boring in our day, messed up, yeah, but never boring. Eric and Donna, on the other hand…they had their moments but 'eh'.
So, yeah, Jackie and Hyde. They're always testing each other's nerves and having a good time, Hyde does something; Jackie matches him step-by-step. That's pretty cool. Like then, she waited at *least* five seconds longer than Hyde to answer, and the look on Hyde's face was priceless, she must have looked pretty convincing, I think he was gritting his teeth. Before Red even got to the 'You may kiss the bride…', they were already kissing. Actually, they were doing a little more than that and Red had to cough to break them apart, but hell, Fez got a kick out of it.
Oh, they made Fez photographer. Ever since Fez got that job, you know, I think that kind of made up his mind about what he wanted to do. Take pictures of pretty people. It's kind of fitting, actually, now that I think about it. Jackie had him take example pictures for her before she decided and he came back with five rolls of film from the beach. I still need to find some frames for some of those, man; I wonder how he got that close-up without getting smacked.
I forgot to tell you about why we were in the woods in the first place, according to Jackie; this was the place where they had their first date. A park. It was Veterans' day, the one where Fez and I got drunk and wandered around aimlessly, and Hyde took her to this exact place. She said they just sat on top of the car drinking pop and talked for three out of the forty minutes but it was 'nice' she also said this was where they had their first kiss.
She hit me up side the head when I asked if this was the first place they did it, too, though. Whatever. As they walked back down the aisle, Jackie reached for Vera and gave me a kiss on the cheek as she did. That's another thing, Jackie got freakishly nicer ever since she had Vera, not by a lot, she's still kind of the same, but enough. She says 'please' and 'thank you' now, for instance. Hyde patted me on the shoulder and they were on their way.
The reception was held at the Sizzler. That's another thing. The Sizzler? But I didn't ask this time, I knew. After I cheated on Jackie with Laurie and she caught me, she made Hyde bring her to the Sizzler and then she bought him new boots. I remember because I spent all that week trying to combine The Who and Led Zeppelin songs and pretend I wrote them when I sang them to her (to get her back). I remember she kissed Hyde, then, too. I told her that we should have the ceremony in Sizzler, then, because that was really their first date and day when they first kissed.
She hit me upside the head again and told me to pay attention. Oh, I take back what I said about her being nicer. Yeah, no. I also mentioned that their wedding really wasn't all that classy and she said that they were on a budget and their honeymoon will be much classier.
That's where you come in, buddy, since you live in Mexico now, Hyde asked me to write this to you incase his long-distance call didn't come through (or Red caught him), they're going to be staying at a hotel but he wanted to meet up with you and catch up or whatever. The name of their hotel and number is on the back of this page. See? I remember some things.
I hope you get this, though, 'cause this is the longest letter I've ever written. Oh, and just so you're not confused, Jackie told me to tell you about the wedding since you couldn't make it. Hyde slipped me a twenty just to get straight to the point because he said you have trouble paying attention for too long, but then Jackie said she'd bring me back a souvenir of one of those dancing hula girl lamps if I gave you the details. So, yeah, hope you're still reading, man.
Okay, Leo, man, I'll see ya. One other thing, if this police thing doesn't go through, can I buy one of The FotoHuts'? Get back to me, thanks.
--Kelso
PS: These are the pictures Jackie gave me to send, she said to give them to modeling agencies or as examples for your FotoHut down there incase you don't get to meet them. She told me her face needs to show up somewhere exotic. Or something. She also said she won't be too put out if you have to cut Hyde out. Okay, I said that. But, really, c'mon, he's not even smiling in most of them, he's doing that...awed...thing. Okay, seriously, later. (My picture's in there, too. Don't knock the cut, man; it's popular down here.)
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Fair play to you
Killarney's lakes are so blue
And the architecture I'm taking in with my mind
So fine...
Hyde skimmed the letter again and shook his head; he knew he shouldn't have let Kelso write the letter to Leo. Luckily, though, the call went through and he got the information he needed. Leo was staying at a beach house in Playa Condesa and since Acapulco is such a small city; the hotel ('Casablanca' Jackie sure knew how to pick them) Hyde and Jackie were staying at was just a couple of blocks away. He still couldn't believe he was in Mexico.
As time passed and he couldn't dodge Jackie's wedding questions any longer, he figured he better hunker down and actually discuss what they'd have to do in order to have a decent wedding and an even better honeymoon.
It turned out that when Jackie turned 18, she gained access to some money her deceased grandparents put away for her. Thing is, they never told her parents, so when she got a belated check from some bank in Florida; she was shocked, to say the least. He had to tie her down to keep her from going straight to the mall and blowing it on shoes and the new high-end baby clothes shop just outside of town.
Five thousand dollars wasn't enough to pack up and move to the rich side of town again, but Jackie was ecstatic and Hyde had to count to ten before he talked to her about how to spend the money. The money was enough to move up their plans a few months and allowed them to go straight from Bob's old house to the house in Kenosha Jackie was eyeing. It also gave them the option to either have a really nice wedding, or a really nice honeymoon. Hyde didn't need to do much to convince her the latter would be more worth remembering, especially since he got word on where Leo's new pad was. Jackie even saved some of her mother's postcards from her trips around Mexico, Jackie told him Acapulco even had a cliff diving show and what better way to spend their vacation looking at people jump off cliffs for entertainment.
Acapulco. Steven Hyde, 19, father of one, husband of Jackie Beulah Burkhardt-Hyde spending his honeymoon in Acapulco. If he weren't so busy trying to find Leo and burping Vera, he'd pinch himself to see if he were dreaming. There was no question about whether or not to bring Vera along with them, they would be gone for two weeks and there was no possible way in hell that they'd leave their baby girl for two whole weeks. They trusted the Formans' with everything, but they would be missing and worrying about her too much to enjoy the vacation. Not to mention Vera had a natural attachment to her parents at ten months old.
Hyde got permission to extend his Thanksgiving break another week and a half on account of his 'dying grandmother in Texas.' Hell, he wasn't totally lying, he didn't know either of his grandmothers, and one of them might be dying at that very moment for all he knew.
Mexicana Airlines was considerably cheap that week due to the whole holiday rush; they got a good round-trip deal. Everything was going smoothly and Hyde tried not to think too much about it because that was just about the time something or someone threw a wrench in it and damn it all if he was going to jinx it by thinking. He would have rather be stripping Jackie of her sarong and bikini but their babysitter was still at work.
Jackie almost clocked him when he suggested Leo baby-sit. Leo was actually pretty good with babies when he was sober and Vera really seemed to like him when he dropped by in the summer to visit. Jackie must have known Hyde wouldn't even be thinking about it if Leo weren't reliable, he wouldn't let anyone stay alone with her for too long before he insisted Vera didn't like the constant attention. He was getting better and better at lying, too. What kid of Jackie's didn't like constant attention? Hah.
While Jackie checked out the house for rodents or insects and baby-safe items, he put Vera to sleep in her bassinet and pulled Jackie into his arms before she turned over Leo's house.
"Steven, just one more room, I swear."
She tried to wriggle out of his grip weakly but gave up after she saw the look on his face.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" She went for her mirror compact and he held in a laugh.
"Now that you mention it, your lip gloss looks a little messy…" He got closer with each word and captured her lips with his; drawing her into his embrace further and tasting the remnants of the candied apples they got at the airport. His foggy mind got even foggier as she reciprocated his eagerness with a sweetened coconut tongue.
She leaned into him heavily as he backed them up against the dining room table, slipping his fingers through the strings that held her top together. The knot came undone and fell carelessly to the floor as Hyde brushed her nipples lightly against his calloused palm, close enough for her to grind her hips into his but far enough away for her to moan in his mouth in frustration. Her bottom lip still in-between his teeth, he tugged lightly away as he murmured a "Shh", indicating a sleeping Vera just a few feet away from them.
Her hands went from his chest to the back of his head to grip his curls and pull him back to her mouth. She laid a long, hard kiss on him before stepping away and picking her halter-top back up and tying it on before his brain registered what she was doing. He hooked his forefinger beneath her sarong and pulled her back against him.
"What are you doing?" she asked as she squirmed away and giggled at his hard expression. "Leo will be back any minute, Steven, we can't be doing it on his table when he gets here."
Hyde rolled his eyes and curved another arm around her waist, he nipped lightly at her collarbone before feathering kisses up her neck and around her earlobe. "He doesn't care, babe."
She automatically let her head fall to the side to let him go on but she snapped out of it soon enough when he tried to untie her sarong as well. "Steven, seriously, no."
She moaned the protest and he chuckled under her chin. "Seriously, he won't care."
Jackie slapped him lightly upside his head and tried getting her leg back from between his legs. "I care, c'mon, let go…"
She was trying her best not to laugh, but the image of Hyde crossing his legs around her to lock her in was too amusing.
"Do the magic word." He said.
She shook her head. "We have time for that later."
He cocked a brow and waited.
She sighed and tiptoed up to him, brushing her lips across his face before landing on his lips to nibble. She smiled against him and let her arms float back around his neck. "Good?"
He gave her another kiss. "Mmhm. But I was lying."
She gasped as his fingers found the slip on her thigh and slid under her thong. "Stev—"
"Uh-uh, no waking the baby."
Her head fell back and her throat constricted as she tried to hold in the loud moan stuck in her parched throat. Hyde tipped her head toward him again and let her bury her scream in a bite on his jaw, his busy fingers worked around the tiny string of a cloth and climbed higher into her clenching heat, the slickness making it easier to pump his fingers in and out as her hips worked against his arm.
The panted groans and shallow breaths blew chilled air on the hickey she hungrily left him and he rocked his hardness through his jeans and onto her soft stomach, trying to relieve the pressure in him and draw out her orgasm as long as he could, as hard as he could.
Finally, her hips bucked hard and she stilled her movements as her teeth let go of his flesh and her long moan against the bruise chilled him to the bone. She slid her hand between her legs to fetch his and kissed each finger before letting him taste them himself.
He kept his eyes on her and she watched in a daze as he unzipped his jeans and guided her shoulders down until she was on her knees in front of him. She licked her lips in anticipation.
Slowly inching him between her lips, she twirled her tongue around the engorged tip, and exulted in his low growl. Moving slowly, and then speeding up, she began to ride his shaft with her mouth, taking in as much of him as she could with each pass. She grazed her teeth over his head and he tightened his grip on her hair, his hips quickened its steady pace as she took more of him in her hot mouth.
She felt her abdomen tighten as he rocked against her; she bit down lightly on his shaft to ease the maddening pressure in her stomach. It was all he needed. With a garbled cry of her name, he came in her mouth and she had to swallow several times as the milky fluid shot down her throat to take it all in. She let got with a soft 'pop' and grasped at his hand to help her up.
Laying a sweet kiss on his lips, she zipped his jeans back on and let her fingers massage the thatch of hair under his stomach before buttoning him up.
"I swear, Steven, if he came back just then I would have bit your thing off."
He chuckled. "Good to know."
Forever fair
And I'm touching your hair
I wish we could be dreamers
In this dream, ohhh
Let it dream
Fair play to you
Killarney's lakes are so blue
High-ho silver, tit for tat
And I love you for that
A/N--
Huge thank you to Nicole for making a video for Crazy Love, which you could find here --
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Jackie had fallen asleep on the couch with Vera by the time Leo came back from work and Hyde was watching one of the Spanish soaps on the tiny television, haven given up with trying to find a channel in English, he was now trying to translate the foreign ramblings.
"Hey, Leo, your TV sucks." Hyde got up and gave Leo a hug.
"It's not mine, man, it was here when I moved in." Leo glanced over Hyde's shoulder at the pair of sleeping girls and smiled. "Wow, I can't tell them apart."
"Yeah, Vera's the one with the pacifier." Hyde laughed.
"You're a father, dude."
"Yeah."
"She was smaller when I came by that one time."
"Leo, man, that was five months ago. Babies grow."
"Can I be her father, too?" Leo made his way over to the sleeping baby and ran his thumb across her soft cheek.
"You could be her…uh, Godfather?"
"Cool. Just like the movie, man."
Jackie woke up and yawned, waving at Leo. "Hi Leo!"
"Jackie, Hyde says I could be your daughter's father." Leo shot her a grin and nodded proudly.
Jackie gave Hyde a look and he reiterated. "Godfather, I said he could be her Godfather."
"What's the difference, man?" Leo sat down on the couch next to Jackie and wiggled his fingers on Vera's palm.
"So, Leo, how much experience do you have with babies?" Jackie crossed her legs and looked him over, eyebrows raised.
"What's with the third degree? I think I raised all my brothers."
"You have brothers?" Hyde asked.
"Yeah, they're all way younger than me, man. My mom wasn't home much."
"Oh, so you have experience with male babies…how about girls?" Jackie smiled hopefully.
"Some of my brothers acted like girls?"
Jackie looked to Hyde for help. "Steven…"
Hyde nodded. "Leo, you'd be able to take care of Vera, right?"
Jackie rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, of course, man. We got along last summer, how hard could it be?"
Jackie mentally ran down the list and spoke, "She's still teething, she cries when she's left in her crib too long, she kicks when you change her, she doesn't hold down solid foods too well…"
Hyde cut in, "Well, we brought Popsicles for the teething, and if you carry her while she's awake she's fine…" he paused, "keep a small distance from her feet when you change her and make sure she's always wearing a bib."
"Should we write that down for you?" Jackie hopped up to get a pen.
"I'm good with babies, I had to watch my brother's kids, too, you know. They were evil, though, man. Seriously."
"Vera's an angel." Jackie smiled reassuringly.
"Sometimes."
"All the time." Jackie swatted Hyde on his shoulder.
"So, you guys know there's a storm passing through, right?" Leo headed for the window to open the curtains.
"What?" Jackie got up and ran past Leo to look outside. Dark clouds hovered dangerously over the ocean and the sun was completely hidden. Jackie let out a screech.
"Steven!"
"What? I don't control the weather." Hyde checked over Vera to see if she was still sleeping and being used to her mother's outbursts, she was.
"Well, how long is it supposed to be like this? Put on the news." Jackie gestured toward the small television.
"You know Spanish?"
"Why?"
"Because we're in Mexico and all the stations are in Spanish."
"Leo?" Jackie let the unasked question hang in the air.
"Huh? Oh, yeah." Leo started rummaging through his cabinets. "You guys want rice? I make rice pretty good."
Jackie rolled her eyes. "Leo, do you know if the weather's going to stay like this?"
"Hell, we're lucky if it doesn't kill us."
"What?" Jackie screeched.
Hyde laughed nervously. "He's kidding. Leo, man, you're kidding, right?"
Leo looked between the two and nodded slowly. "Sure, man, whatever."
Jackie's jaw dropped and she ran to Hyde, throwing her arms around his neck, she sobbed, "I'm too pretty to die!"
Hyde stumbled back at the blow but regained his footing quickly. "Jackie, we're going to be fine."
"Wisconsin doesn't get hurricanes. We're not going to be fine. It's going to know we're new blood!" Jackie continued gripping his shirt and sniffling.
Hyde had to stop himself from laughing. "Jackie, I seriously doubt a hurricane's coming."
Jackie pulled back and wiped her eyes. "Oh, yeah?" She walked over to the television set and pointed to the bright warning with a lightening rod scrolling across the screen in Spanish. "What do you think that says? Enjoy the weather?"
Leo shook his head. "Nah, man, your Spanish is horrible. It says to stay inside and put boards up. Oh, man, and it says we have to evacuate if we live on the coast! What the hell, man, the whole city's on the coast!"
"Oh my god, Steven, I want to go home." Jackie picked Vera up quickly and went back to his side, trying to fit back under his arm.
"Jackie…the planes don't usually fly in weather like this." He rubbed her back reassuringly. "But we could go back to the hotel, they probably know what to do."
"Hey, man, can I stay with you? I don't think I have boards to put up."
Jackie gave him a look. "No, you can't stay with us…you could…get another room."
"That's what I meant, you think I wanna stay in a room with you two?" Leo laughed.
"Alright, whatever we're doing, we're doing it now before our rental car gets blown away." Hyde tried to move his arm away from Jackie to get their stuff but she wouldn't loosen her hold on him. "Jackie."
She clung tighter and started to bounce Vera softly, nervous. "Hmm?"
"You need to let go." Hyde tried to move unsuccessfully again.
"Right, let go? Hah. Good luck with that, mister."
"Okay, I'll just drag you along with me." Hyde moved awkwardly to the couch to get the baby bag and bassinet. "Jackie, c'mon."
"I am not moving, Steven."
Hyde sighed. "This is going to be fun…"
They all managed to get to Casablanca safely and after Leo distracted Jackie with wanting to hold Vera, Hyde quickly rounded all their bags and made it out to the town car they had parked outside.
The hotel was crowded with people checking in and out and Jackie was close to tears, every time she looked up a new black cloud would appear and she cursed the travel agent who had said it'd be clear skies for their duration of the stay.
Despite getting his own room, Leo still squeezed in with them for company and Jackie took advantage of the situation.
"So, since we're all stuck in the huge, lovely hotel room, I say we let Leo take care of Vera while we monitor him and see if he's really qualified to baby-sit her when this hurricane blows over and we're out enjoying our expensive damn honeymoon."
"I'm right here, man," Leo spoke up.
"That you are," Jackie smiled and picked Vera up from the bed next to Hyde, where she was currently grabbing at his hair and pulling cheerfully. "How many times have I told you that daddy's hair is attached to his head?" Vera giggled in response. Jackie shook her head and handed her to Leo. "There."
Leo positioned her over his shoulder and patted her back gently. "Why are you all staring at me? I told you I was good at this."
Hyde laughed. "She does this to everyone."
"I do not." Jackie wrinkled her nose and asked, "I didn't do it to you, did I?"
"Hey, dudes, what's that look on her face mean?" Leo held Vera away from him to scrutinize her face further.
"I think she's about to be sick," Jackie rushed over to them and threw a bib across her shoulder. "That plane ride was too much for her little stomach." Jackie cooed and rubbed Vera's back as she spit up. "There, baby, you're fine."
Jackie brought her to the bathroom to clean up and Leo sat heavily on the couch next to the bed, "Hey, don't worry about this hurricane, man, I heard the news and they said it was just winging us and it was small already anyway. The brochure says paradise, they're lying, man, it must rain here every week."
"You could have told us that on the phone, man." Hyde propped his head up on his arm and flicked the TV on.
"You wouldn't have come if I told you that." Leo laughed.
"Nice burn," Hyde chuckled and started flipping through channels. "Is there anything in English?"
"The weather channel is in English sometimes. Hell, I'm beat. You don't mind if I crash here? My room is too far away, I won't make it." Leo's head hit the back of the chair and he was asleep before Hyde got a chance to respond.
He sighed and rubbed his eyebrows, muttering to himself, "Jackie's going to kill me."
He was still breathing but the looks Jackie shot his way every so often kind of made him entertain the thought of not having the oxygen privilege. Vera was asleep in between them and Leo was still snoring on the couch, Jackie had her arms crossed and feigned interest in the Mexican movie playing.
"Jackie," Hyde whispered.
She sighed and kept her gaze on the screen.
Hyde rolled his eyes and poked her. "Babe,"
She pressed her lips together in annoyance. "Steven. What?"
Hyde was so intent on getting her attention that he forgot why he even called her in the first place. "Leo said the hurricane isn't that bad, it won't even hit this city."
"Will there still be rain and heavy winds?" She raised her eyebrows.
"Uh, yeah."
"Then don't talk to me."
"Jackie, c'mon."
"Okay, fine, the weather isn't your fault but Leo falling asleep in here is!" She gave him another stern look, which he found more cute than irritating and had to keep from laughing.
"What is so funny?"
"Nothing."
"Ugh, you're always laughing at me." Jackie crossed her arms and focused her attention back to the television. Suddenly, she gasped, "Oh my god, what station is this?"
The scene changed to a woman and man having sex in a roadside motel room and didn't seem to leave anything out, Jackie scrambled for the remote to change it before Hyde snatched it from her and lowered the volume.
"Steven, what are you doing? Change it."
"How many times would we able to see Mexican porn?"
Jackie glared. "Steven."
Hyde nodded to the screen. "This is pretty good stuff, too." He reached over for the TV schedule pamphlet and traced his finger along the movie titles. "Hmm, 'Erótica, Two men commit a robbery. One is caught and the other runs away. He ends his escape in a lonely and deserted beach when he meets a beautiful woman named Erotica. They both start a passionate love affair that is interrupted when the other conman escape from prison and joins them. A sexual/sentimental love triangle begins leading to a violent confrontation between the two men.' Sounds pretty interesting."
"Of course it sounds interesting, you perv, it has sex in it." Jackie rolled her eyes.
"Jackie, it's either this or that Spanish game show you couldn't understand the rules to since it didn't have any subtitles. Oh, or the weather channel."
"What if Vera wakes up to this?" Jackie questioned.
"I lowered it."
"Fine. But don't get any ideas."
He smirked. "Right."
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The movie ended and Jackie and Hyde were still staring at the screen, Hyde managed to slip his arm around her waist as they watched and Jackie absently traced circles on the palm of his hand. Needless to say, they were definitely feeling the heat. The heavy winds hummed loudly outside their window and the branches scraped incessantly against the glass as they tried to figure out a way to be alone. Mentally, they reviewed their options: they couldn't leave Vera alone with a sleeping Leo, they couldn't leave Vera alone with an awake Leo until they were sure he knew what to do, they had nowhere to go…
"Damnit," Hyde cursed.
"I know." Jackie sighed. "I hope you know this is your fault."
"Of course it is."
"Steven, seriously, can we sit and quietly watch a steamy movie called 'Erotica' in Spanish without getting turned on?"
"Well,--"
"Well, nothing, we can't even watch a hot tub be presented on The Price is Right without getting ideas."
He heaved a sigh. "There's a bathroom over there with a Jacuzzi."
"Really?" Jackie perked up and turned to get up when she realized who was on her lap. "Steven, we can't."
"If I had a dime every time you said that…"
"You'd still be poor." Jackie smiled and gave him a kiss. "We have time."
"Says you." Hyde leaned in for another kiss and buried his face in the crook of her neck, inhaling her strawberry scent. "You smell good."
"Oh, I bought the new fruity shampoo at Piggly Wiggly's before we left." She dropped her head down to rest on his and closed her eyes. "Sleepy."
"Horny."
"Steven, go to sleep."
"After," Hyde licked lightly at her earlobe and blew, sending shivers down her spine.
She yawned and knocked him lightly on the head. "Sleep or I'll kick you."
A week went by and the rain and winds persisted, Jackie and Hyde managed to get out and visit the local bistros and bars in town but ended up coming back earlier than they intended to check on Vera. Despite Leo's shady track record with babysitting, he seemed pretty natural with it all and made the baby laugh more than they've ever seen. Leo agreed to stay off the 'film' while they were there and brought Vera around town when the weather cleared up.
Even though they were more comfortable with Leo watching her, they weren't used to being away from her longer than they had to and they usually cut their plans short to go back to her. The weather finally cleared on the 7th day and Leo brought them all to the Foto Hut he opened in town. It looked exactly like the old one except his employees were actually working and he cared a little more about where the money ended up. Since he was paying for his beach house and not squatting, he learned how to be responsible.
A little.
In payment for babysitting Vera, Jackie and Hyde would take Leo out for dinner with them every other night and buy more 'film' to bring back home for the gang. Leo's beach house was still surprisingly in tact when they came back and the beach didn't look half as scary as before, what with the waves being of normal height and the sun being out. Jackie attempts at tanning were thwarted every time she went for the door, though, and she was getting fed up.
"Steven. I. Won't. Get. Sunburned." She tried to duck under his arm but he pulled her back into his chest.
"The UV out here is eleven plus, Jackie, the world's strongest sun block won't save you. You get a tan going out to the damn car, come on."
Her face turned upward. "Aw…"
"Nope." Hyde shook his head. "Don't do that, you know this for purely selfish reasons, now get your ass back in the door."
"Steven's a sweetie pie…" Jackie teased.
"Yeah, keep that up and you can forget about going to their little mall." He smirked.
She rolled her eyes. "You can't stop me."
"Oh, I can stop you." He started to walk towards her and she screeched and gave chase, Hyde not far behind.
Another week passed and the weather surprisingly held up, Leo was having a blast watching Vera, he usually didn't have to do much because Jackie and Hyde would show up less than two hours after they dropped her off. They were at the beach when Vera started crying and Leo stood dumbfounded.
"Whoa, little one, stop!" He looked around frantically for something to give her and grabbed up the note Jackie left him and read aloud, 'If she starts crying, pick her up.' Oh, that's easy."
He picked Vera up and rocked her on his shoulder, she continued wailing. "Man…" He took the note and read the next part, 'If still crying, give her teething ring.' Teething ring? What the hell?" He sifted through his freezer and brought the ring out triumphantly, he let her chew on it and she simmered down. "Man, that was heavy."
He set her down in her bassinet again and started looking through his fridge. "You hungry? The milk they have here is from your mom, she's like a human cow, man, it's cool."
Vera started to giggle with the ring in her mouth and he laughed, "Hey, you understand me. You're like, the only person ever who can do that. Other than your father, but even he's a little dense at times, you know?"
Vera continued her giggling and Leo smiled appreciatively. "They should bring you over more often, we'd have fun you and me." Leo opened up her diaper bag and brought out some of her rattles. "You have more of these than I do, man."
She reached for them and he dangled it in front of her hand, the phone rang and he jumped up to look for it. "I'm coming!" He picked the receiver up and said, "Hey, I said I was coming, man, you could have stopped ringing."
"Hey Leo, is Jackie or Hyde there?" Kelso's staticy voice came through the line.
"Nah, man, they went swimming or something. I don't know why, man, it's like two in the morning. Hey. Why are you calling me at two in the morning, man?"
"It's four, here."
"Why are you calling me at four in the morning?"
"I thought it'd be four in the afternoon there, Donna lied to me, damnit. You guys aren't on the other side of the world, right?"
"I don't think so man, Mexico's underneath that place with the cowboys and that's not too far from where you are."
"See, I knew it. So, Leo, what are you doing?"
"I'm watching Vera, man, she's a kick in the head. She keeps laughing at me."
"She laughs at me too, I don't know why. She doesn't laugh half as much with Eric or Donna."
"That dude and that other chick are kind of squares, man. Vera's an old soul, like us."
"Roger that. This police stuff is more hard work than anything."
"Dude, you're a cop? It wasn't me, man, I swear." Leo held up his hand.
"No, man, not yet, I'm training."
"Well, good, 'cause it wasn't me. And you're out of your jurisdiction if you come looking for me, man."
"No one's looking for you, Leo, I'm just training."
"You're working for the man, man."
"Actually, I'm working for a woman and she's pretty hot."
"Hey, isn't this phone call, like, expensive, man? Hyde yells at Jackie whenever she stays on the phone with that red head too long."
"Oh, man, you're right. Red's gonna kill me, I gotta go."
Leo heard a click and the line went dead, he shrugged and hung the phone up. "Hey Vera, that was your uncle Dumbass as Hyde likes to call him."
Vera was sound asleep with the ring halfway out of her mouth and he put a finger to his mouth, "Oops. Man, what's taking your parents so long?"
Earlier that night…
Jackie looked Hyde over and tapped a manicured finger to her bottom lip. "Steven?"
"Hm?" Hyde was trying to figure out what was happening in the Spanish soap opera and one of the women just slapped her boyfriend…or brother, he wasn't sure.
"You ever had sex on the beach?"
"What?" Hyde snapped out his daze and looked at her.
"Sex on the beach, you ever had it?"
"The drink?"
"No."
He raised his eyebrows. "No…"
She broke into a huge smile. "Good, c'mon."
"What?" He must have been going deaf, Jackie willing to get sand in unknown areas for the sake of sex?
"You heard me." Jackie rushed out the back door with Hyde on her heels.
It ends here if you're under 17 or not in to smut...
Warning--Smut ahead.
Missing beach scene from the previous chapter.
The hot sand dug into her elbows as he pumped in and out of her from behind, the waves crashed at their feet and drew closer and closer to her knees. The night air was still and humid, making the salty scent from the ocean and heady aroma of their coupling heavy and strong as she gasped out his name in a plead.
His free hand came down hard on the side of her ass as she let out a piercing screech, the sting going directly to her groin. Her damp hair fell around her face and stuck to her forehead with the sweat pouring over her body as he continued his assault on her, his other hand gripped her hip tight and created crescent shaped marks on her sensitive flesh. He was hard inside of her and the tough skin around his length created a sensory overload; her knees weakened its locked position under his gyrating hips and she dug her fingers in the sand to keep herself steady. His scratchy groans barely registered as she grinded back against him, desperate for release and hoping if she moaned his name loud enough, he'd go faster and harder.
Her back arched like a cat as he pulled out almost completely before plunging back into her, coating himself with her flowing juices and driving her forward in to the blanket of sand. His muscles ached and tightened as he kept up his pace behind her, determined to make the torturous pleasure last long past dusk. He could tell she was exhausted and a few thrusts away from begging him to let her come, but this was their last night there and he needed to make it even more memorable than the last seven.
He drew out again and slowly, madly, inched back in, his thumb coming into brief contact with her drenched clit and making her whip her head back to curse his name. He felt all the blood rush south and explode into her as she tightened her inner walls around him decisively, taking matters into her own hands. He roared her name into the thickly scented air around them, pumping furiously to spill inside of her everything that he had bottled up. Her strangled moans filled his senses deliciously and he collapsed on top of her, spent.
The waves crashed down over them as they stood on rubbery legs, still locked in each other's arms; before she could protest, Hyde scooped her up in his embrace and went further into the ocean, Jackie's squealing and giggling surrounding them. The water was chilly and the liquid ran down their skin like silk, making it easier for Hyde to position Jackie on him again. He slipped inside her heated cleft and drew her tighter against him as the swell of water washed over them harder, her hands clung to his neck like a life line and she crossed her legs around his hips anxiously, moaning softly in his ear. He bucked into her deeper as the ocean carried them further out to sea, the cold water inched around Jackie's chest, her breasts dipped in and out as he moved his hips harder under her.
He suckled an erect nipple into his mouth as she writhed herself further against him, her heart beating fast against his lips. Their climax rippled through their bodies like thunder and he had to tighten his grasp on her slippery waist as she thrashed beneath him, the water threatening to carry her away. He strained against her as the pleasure pricked at his skin and hummed steadily throughout his body.
"That was definitely better than the drink." Hyde breathed against her neck.
"Definitely." Jackie sighed happily.