Disclaimer: I own nothing. Just spreading some Christmas cheer one month later.
Author's Note: Hello All! Well we've reached the end of the story. One month after this story was supposed to end but hey it could have been a year right? Almost didn't post today but if figured you guys waited long enough, and one month later sounded better than a month and one day later lol. Anywoo thanks for all the reviews and for stay tuned despite the fact that Christmas is over. (I just took down those decorations in my room). But it is still winter! So with out any more delay here it is, the final chapter of "Stuck with You" Enjoy!
The next hour or so was filled with more childhood memories that were caught on tape.
There clips that were long and lasted several minutes, like the one of the kids sledding together outside in the snow. Several moments were outside in the snow including one that came to a surprise to them. It was of a snow ball fight, Donna, Kelso, and Bob against Eric, Hyde, and Red. In the end Team Forman had won.
Different memories of holidays were also projected onto the 'screen.' Red's annual Veteran's Day barbeque, Christmases, a few Easters, New Years, and Thanksgivings. There were also Halloween home movies, but only one had been found of all the kids together, in their homemade costumes.
Laurie was dressed up as an angel, that earned quite a few laughs. Eric was a clown, an unhappy clown, wearing the baggy pants and white face paint. Dressed as a police officer was coincidently Kelso. Donna was in a black dress and had a pointy black hat to go with her witch costume. Not so surprisingly was Jackie dressed as a princess. And Hyde wore a cowboy outfit with his aviator glasses.
Among the various minute lasting clips—like the one of the Formans, including Hyde, camping with the Pinciotti's—were some quick few seconds shots. There was one of Laurie sitting at the kitchen table eating a cookie and waving at the camera. A shot of Eric and Hyde ridding their bikes was also seen, as was a clip of Kelso proudly showing off the new stitches on his arm.
The home movies weren't of just the kids though. Occasionally a clip of Red and Kitty would make its way to the screen. Such as the one of Kitty talking on the phone until realizing she was being filmed, that was when she began shooing the camera away. Another shot was of Red that Kitty must have filmed as a bit of payback. It was Red fast asleep in his arm chair, newspaper spread over his chest and mouth wide open.
At the moment the gang was watching a movie of the six of them.
"Wow I can't believe we did that." Eric said as he watched the clip, "And they filmed it."
"I bet it was Mom." Laurie added.
"Whoa." Kelso said in amazement, "That car is old."
The others nodded in agreement as they kept their eyes glued on the sheet that had the projected images of their younger selves. This piece of footage was of all of them, none of them any older than twelve. They were all sitting in the Vista Cruiser, pretending to be driving it. Or Eric was at least. He sat in the drivers' seat as Donna sat beside him and Laurie next to her. In the back seat were Hyde and Kelso with Little Jackie sitting between them.
They were all singing, some unknown song to them now, and bouncing around. It was almost exactly how they behaved in the Vista Cruiser today. This made some of them smile and some of them were just embarrassed.
"Oh my God." Jackie groaned, "Did we really do that?"
Donna nodded "I think so."
"Ugh, make it stop." Laurie pleaded.
"Hey check out Hyde." Kelso said as he pointed to the screen, "He's got his arm around Jackie."
Sure enough when everyone moved their eyes to the young Hyde, they saw that he did have his arm behind a smiling Jackie. Hyde frowned as he heard his friends 'aw.' He couldn't let them think he was had a thing for Jackie back then…or now.
"Yeah, I was probably trying to strangle her with it so she'd stop singing." Came his response, earning him a glare from Jackie who had found the moment cute.
"You know," Eric began to say, "I think this one might be my favorite home movie."
"Yeah."
"Me too."
"Same here."
"Not me." Fez answered as he sat with his arms crossed over his chest, "My favorite is the one where I came out…oh wait I did not come out in any!"
"Fez don't blame us for you not being in the home movies." Jackie said with a frown, "It's your own fault. You're foreign."
Donna frowned at Jackie for a few seconds before looking over at Fez, "I think what Jackie's trying to say is that since you're foreign and came into our lives later on in our life you weren't here when the home movies were being made. And that's why you don't have any home movies."
"Yet."
"What?" they all seemed to ask, confused by Fez's answer.
"I am going to make my own home movies." He explained, "They are going to be called Fez's Home Movies. They will be filmed by me and they will be staring me, Fez."
"Yeah, ok." Hyde said unenthusiastically, "Good luck with that."
"Thank you, Hyde." Fez replied with a grin, "Just for that, you will get the first copy!"
"Terrific." Was Hyde's sarcastic reply.
"Hey, can't a guy get some peace and quiet in his own apartment?"
Hearing a new and yet familiar voice, the group turned their heads around to find a familiar scruffy face.
"Leo?" they asked in disbelief.
"Yeah?" Leo asked looking confused.
Leo was standing far off in the back of the attic, he must have been in the section of junk…eh stuff that the gang had yet to go throw. Hyde stood up and walked over to his old friend, the others soon followed.
"Leo, man, what are you doing here?" Hyde asked.
"It's my apartment, man." Leo said as if it were obvious.
"No Leo, this is my parents' attic." Eric corrected, "Do they know you're up here?"
Leo shrugged, "I don't know, I just climbed up here one day and thought, 'Cool free place.'"
"Hyde," Laurie started to say as she scowled at both Hyde and Leo, "why is a dirty old hippie in my attic?"
"Hey Hyde, man." Leo said turning towards Hyde, "Why's there a blonde whore in my apartment?"
"I've missed you Leo!" Eric shouted before enveloping the older man in a tight hug.
"I missed you too, man." Leo said as he hugged Eric back and smiled, "Who are you?"
Everyone but Laurie laughed, before going on to find out just what exactly Leo was doing up here.
"Leo, how long have you been up here?" Donna asked.
"I don't know." Leo answered with a smile and a shrug.
Jackie frowned, "Do you know tomorrow's Christmas?"
Shock covered Leo's face, "What? Aw man, we didn't get to write our letters to Santa."
"We?" Fez asked curiously.
"Oh yeah." Leo nodded, "This place is so cool. It allows pets and the pet comes with it. Come here little guy."
Leo then bent down behind a box to grab an object that was on the floor. The gang looked on wondering what it could be. Most of them suspected that it would be a stuffed animal, Eric was afraid it would be a spider. None one, however, had suspected that Leo would reappeared with a medium sized raccoon in his arms.
"It's the Ninja Raccoon!" Kelso shouted in fear before he ran and hid behind Fez.
Fez stood watching the creature with wide eyes.
"It is real!" he said in an astonished voice and then hid behind his ex-wife, Kelso following close behind.
"Nah man." Leo shook his head, "This isn't a Ninja Raccoon. His name is Tom."
Hyde and Eric walked closer to Leo and 'Tom.' A few seconds later Jackie, Donna, and Laurie joined them and started petting the anima, who was actually very friendly in Leo's arms. Meanwhile Kelso and Fez stood as far away as possible looking more frightened than ever.
"He's pretty cool, Leo." Hyde commented.
"Yeah." Eric agreed, "I want one."
"You have better chance of getting your grades, Eric." Donna said with a laugh, "He is soft."
"And he is pretty cute." Jackie added as she pet the top of the animals head, "For a dirty stinky animal."
"You must like him a lot Laurie." Hyde said with a smirk and Laurie sent him a death glare.
"Fez, come over here." Donna called out.
"No…no thank you." Fez replied in a shaky voice.
"Come on Fez," Jackie said backing up Donna, "You'll love him."
"No I…" before he could say another word, Laurie had pulled the hand he was shaking so now he was standing with them around Leo and his pet. Kelso looked on feeling terrified for his friend. Ever so carefully Fez stuck his left hand out and placed it on the back of the raccoon, getting a feel of his soft gray fur. A smile quickly sprung to his face.
"Oh he is very soft." He agreed, "I just want to use his fur for a nice warm hat."
Everyone looked at Fez with a frown and matching looks that said, 'What the Hell?'
"I won't." he assured them.
"Come on." Eric called to the only one who was off to the side.
"Yeah Kelso." Hyde began, "Come meet your archenemy."
Kelso took one baby step forward and titled his head to the side to get a better view.
"Well, I guess he does look kinda friendly." Kelso agreed slowly starting to smile, his friends soon began to agree with him. "Maybe he's not a Ninja Raccoon."
"Yeah."
"Sure."
"Come on."
"It's ok."
A second later Kelso's smile fell and his eyes went wide in alarm, "Maybe that's a decoy and he's a bomb!"
Kelso dropped himself onto the floor and ducked his head, assuming his friends would do the same. He was wrong. Everyone in the room just stared at him with their brows furrowed.
"Hey you guys." Eric started to say as his eyes landed on another surprise. "The door's open.
Turning swiftly, the group minus Kelso turned and saw that the attic door was indeed open. After what felt like two months they were free.
"How long's that been open?" Hyde asked.
Fez shrugged, "I don't know."
"I guess we should go." said Donna.
Laurie nodded, "Yeah."
They all should have run over to the exit like a stampede, but they didn't. No one moved a muscle. They all just stood in their places waiting for some one to make the first move.
"Or we could stay up here and look for more home movies." Jackie suggested.
"Yeah."
"Ok."
"Sure."
"I'll go for that."
Everyone agreed before one by one they walked back to their seats in front of the already set up projector. Even Leo and the Ninja Raccoon…Tom, joined them. Kelso however remained crunched up into a ball on the floor, never noticing his friends' departure.
******
Well it's Christmas time again
Decorations are all hung by the fire
Everybody's singin'
All the bells are ringing out
And it's Christmas all over again
Yeah again
"I don't know about this, Michael." Brooke said with a frown
The two of them were standing outside in the Forman's driveway as the snow fell around them. Brooke was frowning slightly as she held their two year old daughter in her arms. Kelso was standing in front of her grinning away as he held his 'Ninja Raccoon' in his arms.
"It's fine Brooke. He's perfectly harmless now that I know he's not a real Ninja Raccoon." Kelso explained "Oh and I checked and there's no ticking, so we're good!"
Brooke still didn't look too convinced, "I don't know…"
"Come on Brooke, how much harm could this little guy really…AH!" he yelped as the once calm animal leapt out of Kelso's arms and onto his chest, scaring the daylights out of Kelso as he fell to the cold cement.
Brooke watched her fiancé practically wrestle with the small animal; unusual noise coming from the both of them. She held her daughter closer to her, shielding her eyes while trying to see if Kelso was ok.
Meanwhile over in the patio area stood Fez and Laurie. Laurie was watching the man she dated long ago, with a frown on her face. Fez stood beside Laurie, keeping his eyes on her and paying no attention to his friend, who was in much need of some help.
"Ugh, Kelso is such an idiot." She said with a roll of her eyes.
"Yes. Yes he is." Fez answered quickly causing Laurie to turn and look at him confused. "Oh would you look at that, dear ex-wife?"
Laurie followed where Fez's index finger was pointing; up in the air to the roof of the patio where a green leaf was hanging.
"So?"
"So, uh-o we are standing under the mistletoe." Fez sing-songed before puckering his lips towards the blonde.
Laurie frowned at the foreign man, "That's parsley, Fez."
Fez's lips unpuckered and his face fell with sadness, "Oh."
"What the hell, it's Christmas." Laurie said with a shrug before wrapping her arms around Fez's neck and embracing him in a long passionate kiss.
Long-distance relatives
Haven't seen 'em in a long, long time
Yeah I kinda missed 'em
I just don't wanna kiss 'em, no
And it's Christmas all over again
Yeah again
At the same time, in the kitchen, Donna and Eric were sitting at the round table. Donna was enjoying a mug of hot chocolate as Eric scanned through the envelopes that were on the round surface.
"Bill. Bill." He said as he flipped through the letters, suddenly stopping when his eyes fell on a yellow envelop, "I may have won ten thousand dollars…well with that kind of money I could just buy my grades!"
Donna laughed a bit as she watched Eric rip open the envelope, she placed her hand over his stopping him from continuing.
"Ok, I think you've suffered enough." She said before reaching into the pocket of her coat, that hung off the back of her chair. Her hand reappeared holding a white envelope that she then placed in Eric's hands.
"Donna," Eric said after looking up from the envelope and at her, "These…these are my grades."
"Yeah."
Eric frowned, "You had them?"
Donna smiled, "Yeah."
"And you just let me worry and torment myself by coming up with reasons—terrifying reasons—for them not coming?"
"Yeah. It was fun." Donna nodded with a smile. "Now come on, open them."
"Ok." Eric nodded as he took a deep breath before ripping open the envelope. He stopped just before pulling out the letter and looked at his girlfriend, "I can't do it. I'm too scared. You do it."
"Ok." Donna agreed as she reached over and grabbed the paper, ready to reveal his grades.
"No! I wanna do it!" Eric exclaimed as he yanked the envelope out of Donna's grip. Slowly he reached in and pulled out the paper. His eyes scanned over the paper for several seconds before he spoke. "Huh."
"What?"
"Nothing. It's just," he shrugged his shoulders, "I passed!"
Donna laughed as she watched Eric pump both fist in the air out of happiness.
And all over town
Little kids gonna get down
And Christmas is a rockin time
To put your body next to mine
Underneath the mistletoe we go, we go
Over in the next room, Kitty sat on the yellow couch next to her husband. Her full attention was on the letter Red had written to her years ago. The kids had, ever so thoughtfully, brought down Red's old trunk and for the past hour and a half the couple had been reminiscing as they went through it.
"…Forever yours, Red." Kitty read off the old piece of paper. She sighed dreamily before placing the paper against her chest, "Oh well…this has got to be one of my favorite letters you've ever written me, Red."
A small scowled appeared on her face when she received no response from her husband, "Red?"
Kitty turned around to find Red plopped against the couch fast asleep. Kitty smiled and gave a soft giggle before cuddling herself closer to him and rereading more of the words that she was positive still held true today.
Everybody's singin'
All the bells are ringin' out
And it's Christmas all over again
Yeah again
Hyde was sitting in the basement watching the classic story of "It's a Wonderful Life." When the side door burst open and Jackie marched inside holding a bag that was much too big to be her purse.
"Ok Steven, you think I return every little thing everyone gives me, fine." She said as she stood herself infront of him, blocking his view of the television set, "But I am sentimental and I do save the things that matter, the important stuff"
Hyde frowned and opened his mouth to say something; but didn't get the chance to speak because Jackie continued talking as she pulled out various items from the bag.
"A ticket stub from the first movie was saw alone together. A lighter from the first…circle I was a part of. A napkin from the hub, the first time we were there as a couple. Your Led Zeppelin shirt, you gave me." She then pulled out a larger item that was probably the reason for the big bag.
Hyde frowned as he saw the item, "A Led Zeppelin IV album?"
"It's yours." Jackie said with a nod, "You use to play it all the time when we were going out. And I saw you had two copies anyways…"
"I thought Forman took it." Hyde informed as he grabbed the album and examined it, "I beat him up pretty good for it too."
Jackie rolled her eyes, "Ugh Steven, you're not seeing the point!"
"What point?" he asked confused.
"Just forget it." Jackie replied, clearly frustrated as she headed for the back door.
And right down our block
Little kids start to rock
Christmas is a rockin time
To put your body next to mine
Underneath the mistletoe we go, we go
"Lavender."
Hearing Hyde's voice say that one word, stopped Jackie in her tracks.
"What?" she questioned, looking back at him.
"That's the color you want for your bridesmaid dresses." Hyde explained, "You told me at prom. When you were wearing that lavender colored dress and I was wearing…some lavender. You said that lavender goes with winter and summer wedding which were the only two seasons you would get married in."
Jackie stared at Hyde, not believe what she'd heard. "You remember that?"
"You talked a lot that night." Hyde joked before turning serious again, "I guess I'm like you. I keep the stuff that matters, the important stuff."
Merry Christmas time come and find you
Happy and there by your fire
I hope you have a good one
I hope Mama gets her shopping done
Jackie smiled and Hyde smirked back.
"But I still think the only reason you bought that stuff over was so you could still get your Christmas gift from me."
"Maybe." Jackie said with a tilt of her head.
Hyde shrugged Zenly, "I guess since it's after midnight I could give your present now."
"Yay!" Jackie cheered.
"But you have to close your eyes."
Jackie sighed before sitting on the couch and doing what she was told, "Fine. But it better be something really good."
"I think it will be." Hyde answered as he stood up from his seat, "And I don't mind if you decide to return this gift."
Hyde took a seat beside Jackie and then carefully placed his left hand on her right check and gently pushed her face in front of his. He then leaned closer to her and placed his lips on hers.
Jackie was surprised by the first touch of contact and was even more so when she felt the touch of his lips and then his tongue when it moved across her lips. She parted her lips allowing his tongue entrance to explore her mouth; hers was soon doing the same to his.
She resisted the urge to wrap her arms around his neck, but allowed her hands to rest on his thighs as his right hand held the back of her head. Their kiss last for several minutes until finally, breathlessly they pulled away. Hyde made himself comfortable on the couch as if nothing had happened as Jackie touched her lips with her finger tips.
And it's Christmas all over again
Oh baby it's Christmas all over again
Oh yeah!
She smiled and shrugged as she looked at Hyde, "Maybe I will return this gift a lot sooner than tomorrow."
"Alright. Cool." Hyde nodded in his Zen manner, before he turned to Jackie. "Merry Christmas, Jackie."
"Merry Christmas, Steven." Jackie replied with a smile before letting it fall just a bit, "Am getting an actual gift though, right?"
And it's Christmas all over again
The End
Author's Note: There you go, the final chapter of "Stuck with You" Hope you liked!
Thanks for the idea of Leo, 80sUnLovedChild!!
This song title was chosen because I hope that for every future Christmas or when you feel like getting that Christmas mood, you'll come to this fic and read it again, making it Christmas all over again!
Thanks so much to all over my readers and reviewers and alreters you guys are awesome! I'm sorry for not keeping the updates the way I wanted them, but it was hard work. Maybe we'll try again next year. Or maybe with another holiday story…who knows!
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This story was so much fun to write and I hope you guys liked it and that it brought some Christmas joy to your holidays…during the holidays and maybe during the month afterwards. You guys are the best!
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