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Rated: M for language and sexual content.

Hey guys hope you enjoy the last chapter. After chapter 12 I'll be changing the story title and cover. Also, I don't think or share some of the views in this story. I only put it there to help the characters stay in character. TRIGGER WARNING: This chapter contains some verbal abuse. Make sure to review

The Forman Residence

October 31, 1978

3:23 P.M

Hyde looked at himself one more time in the bathroom mirror immediately feeling embarrassment and unease. He hated himself for doing this crap, it was degrading and made him look like a pansy. As soon as Mrs. Forman heard about Jackie's 'cute little plan' ; she practically dragged Hyde to the mall and made him shop for halloween costumes. Hyde thanked himself for being there because if he wasn't he'd be dressed like a fucking 4 year old. He really did appreciate it though he'd never admit it. He was glad that Mrs. Forman paid attention to his personal life, the most Edna tried to do was remember the first letter in his friends' names. So he'd liked the fact that Mrs. Forman took the time out her day to help him even if he was dressed like a pritz. This experience did teach him a lesson though, that his stupid fucking crush on Jackie made him do stupid fucking things.

The whole time he was there he thought about Jackie and how this thing was really important to her for some stupid reason and that he'd wanted to do this for her because it would make her happy. God, I'm turning into Forman, no worse Fez, he thought. He grimaced at the thought No, I could never turn into Fez. But, whatever he thought he was turning into didn't matter. He'd never done this for chicks, shit they'd be happy to get a fucking meal from Fatso Burger after he hooked up with them. The crazy thing is he'd never even hooked up with her, he had never even kissed her besides on Veteran's Day where he realized if she'd ever admit anything all he would've been was a rebound and here he was dressed up in this pansy ass costume on Halloween to make some chick happy that probably never even thought twice about him.

He looked at his costume again in the mirror. He was dressed up as a cowboy in a dark brown leather duster coat, a white half button up, black jeans, matching leather boats, and a matching cowboy hat. Could be worse, could be dressed up as the Fonz, he thought as he put on his sunglasses and exited the bathroom. The outfit wasn't really as bad as Hyde thought it looked on him; it made him look like a badass.

He walked down to the basement and saw Eric dressed in some ridiculous Fred from Scooby Doo costume and Fez still in his Willy Wonka costume. They were on the couch watching whatever the hell was on tv. When they saw Hyde coming down from the stairs they immediately grew teasing grins.

"Well, Howdy there partner." Eric teased as Hyde took his seat.

"Get bent." he said, putting his attention to the tv.

"Mommy helped pick your costume, Heidi?" the foreigner taunted.

"Shut it, Wonka. We still don't if all of this is an epic burn she planned." The stoner said, sulking. Okay so maybe I trust her a little bit more than I let on still couldn't let anyone know that, he thought.

"Or if it's true and we get to watch all of this blow up in her face." Eric said enthusiastically.

"A guy can only wish." Hyde responded sarcastically.

"I wish to see a bunch of sexy women in sexy costumes." Fez pervertedly said.

The two boys just looked at him "What? We were all thinking about it." Fez defensively said. Just then Kelso came in wearing a 'sexy' pirate costume, with an eye patch, a hook, and a pirate's hat with Serena wearing a matching 'sexy' pirate costume with mini black shorts, a long sleeve red peasant crop top,a black pirate black bandana with a fake parrot. The amused idiot had his iconic childish.

"I'm a pirate, and look guys I have this awesome hook." Kelso said, his grin growing wider.

As the taller man sat down on the lawn chair with his blonde girlfriend on his lap. His friends all shared a concerned look worried about their friend and their own safety.

"At least he has an eye patch." The skinny geek stated.

"And Fez got his wish." The foreigner said, giving Serena a perverted look and wink. The blonde shifted uncomfortably in her boyfriend's lap.

"Okay so what do we do now?" Kelso asked.

"We're still waiting for Donna and the devil."

Just then Donna walked in her new and improved Daphne costume. She takes a seat in between Fez and Eric, the whole gang staring at her new outfit.

"Well, hello sexy purple lady." Fez pervertedly said, looking at her boobs. Donna rolled her eyes and smacked him in the stomach.

"Would asshats stop looking at me, like I'm a piece of meat?" Donna irratiblably asked.

"What? We can't just admire your nice costume?" Hyde snarkily replied with a smug smile. If I'm really going to go through with this, I might as well have some fun.

"You know I told Jackie that you were all gonna do this." The redhead said.

"Wait, Jackie had something to do with this? Wow, she truly is a goddess." The foreigner said with a smile.

"Speaking of the devil, where is she?"

"She said something about being fashionably late and the element of surprise and beauty."

"See, this all doesn't make sense why is she taking so long if she isn't planning to burn us or something? Something is going on here and I don't know what is but I'm not liking it." As much as Hyde liked the cheerleader is as much as he still had his paranoia.

"Hyde, maybe you're onto something here." The skinny geek stated.

Donna rolled her eyes at the two young men "Would you guys shut up? Jackie isn't up to anything she just takes too much pride and time into her appearance."

"That's what she wants you to think or maybe you're in on this with her."

"Yeah, maybe that's why you're wearing that hot costume." Kelso said from his seat.

"Finally you guys are thinking about this, well at least Forman's thinking about this."

"How do I know that you dillholes aren't in on this and you're just trying to get me paranoid for a big burn?"

"Please, if I was in on this you'd all know." The dopehead snarked.

"Exactly, don't we know if you're in on this, I mean you were the first one to start questioning this." The tall dork said.

"How do I know that you're not in on this and trying to put everyone against me?"

"You know Fez you've been really quiet, maybe you know some stuff about something?" Kelso suspiciously asked.

"Really, that's where you wanna go, you son of bitch? How do I know you sons of bitches aren't trying to set me up and get me away from my candy?"

"Fez might be onto something, your chick has been really quiet and isn't funny how Jackie invited her to this whole debacle despite her being your new chick?" Hyde said to Kelso, leaning back on his chair.

Fez, Eric and Donna all nodded in agreement "Yeah, that doesn't make sense when Laurie was with Kelso Jackie kicked her ass but now she's all buddy buddy with Serena?" Donna commented.

Serena whispered something in Kelso's ear "Hmmm... yeah baby… that's true, that makes sense," The idiot says. "Serena said what if this all a ploy to get me to leave because I'm Michael's new girlfriend." Kelso added.

"Yeah that makes sense you guys tried to do the same thing with Jackie when she was first here." the foreigner sided.

"Are you siding with Jackie?" Eric asked Fez.

"Stop trying to throw the blame on Fez, Eric. You were the one the was trying to convince everyone to go by saying how humiliating this was going to be for Jackie. How are you so sure it's going to be humiliating for Jackie?" Kelso asked.

"I only said that because Donna wanted to go so badly." Eric said accusingly looking at Donna.

"I only wanted to go so badly because we had nothing better to do on Halloween."

"Sure you did, Big Red." Hyde said unconvinced.

The room was silent, the paranoid teenagers all suspiciously looking at each other.

"Why'd you blink so fast, Hyde?" Eric asked

"Why did you blink so slow." Hyde replied

"The real question here is, why did Kelso blink twice really fast?" Donna queried

"Yeah, well why'd you blink once really slow?" Kelso commented

"Why did Eric twitch?" Fez interrogated

"I always twitch!" Eric replied

"Yeah, it was real convenient for you to twitch right now." The foreigner said, very paranoid.

Hyde looked around at his paranoid friends "Wait a minute, what if this is what she wants us to do?"

"What do you mean?" Kelso asked

"What if she wants us to all turn on each other? What if that was her plan all along? What if that's the reason she put Big Red in that costume?"

"Oh my god, she set us up this is the big burn, she was never coming." The redhead stated.

"Yeah it's 3:55 she's definitely not coming she wanted us to wait it out and turn on each other." Eric pointed out.

"But, it's not gonna happen cause we're all smarter than her." Hyde looked over to see an amused Fez clapping his hands while Kelso was trying to fit his whole hook in his mouth. "Well, we're smarter than her." he said, gesturing to Eric, Donna and himself.

"But, what are we gonna do now that she's not coming?" The redhead asked.

Hyde grew a smirk on his face but before the group could hope into action the basement door was opened. They turned at the door. "It's Jackie." they heard a shrill voice say.

They all saw Jackie striking a pose, her hair newly dyed a dark raven color, styled in wispy bangs and down to her lower back. She was dressed in a sexy hot pink butterfly costume with a vinyl bodysuit, fencenet stockings, matching opera length gloves, matching pink vinyl butterfly wings with black glitter contrast, a black antennae headband and matching pink heels. Her makeup was pink and glittery and she was still wearing her new necklace.

"Now, my wish has truly come true." Fez said with a wide perverted smile.

"Jackie, what the hell are you wearing?" Donna said, shocked.

"A costume." Jackie replied.

"That's not a costume...that's something a stripper outfit." Donna said.

"No it's classy, cute, sexy and original, strippers don't have that."

"Donna please, can we just take this time to admire both of your costumes." Kelso said, growing the same perverted grin as Fez. Serena looked at him angrily and and smacked his chest, he gave her a 'what-did-I-do' look and she just rolled her eyes in annoyance.

Hyde just looked at Jackie once again thankful for his sunglasses. How can she manage to look hot and adorable at the same time?, he thought. What the fuck? I'm starting to think like Forman.

"First of all, how'd you even manage to get your hair down to that length?" Donna asked, still in shock at her best friend's apparel.

"I don't know it just is and the first thing I walk into is your criticism, I at least told you it looked hot."

"I'm sorry that I don't support you dressing like that on Halloween knowing you wouldn't do it on any other day."

"I like it. It's cute regardless of what you and your lumberjack values think."

"It's not 'lumberjack' values. Whatever point you're trying to prove you shouldn't have to prove by dressing like a skank."

Jackie rolled her eyes "That's what this is about me, looking like a 'skank'?

"Yes, it is."

"Well, I think she looks just fine." Hyde said, growing a smug grin.

Jackie took the time to examine the room, mostly examine Hyde. His half button showed a little bit of his chest. It was a little hairy but more defined, it was definitinley sexy. What the hell am I thinking about this Steven Hyde? He's not sexy, he's scruffy, she thought.

"Yeah everyone knows Donna, Halloween is the one day a year a girl can look as skanky as they want and no other girls can say anything about it." At least that's what Pam and Cosmo told me, the princess thought.

"I love this holiday!" Fez exclaimed.

"I mean why do you think I dressed you up as that? So you won't be publicly humiliated, duh."

"I thought you said it was because you didn't trust me with anything feminine."

"That too."

Just as Donna was about to respond, Laurie walked down the basement stairs in an oversized trench coat.

"Hey dork, Mom and Dad left?" She asked

Eric was too intrigued with what was going on with Jackie and Donna, so he just nodded.

"Good." She took off the trenchcoat, revealing her in a sexy dark blue playboy bunny costume. She reached into the trench coat pocket, took out the bunny ears headband and put it on.

"Nice costume, Laurie." Fez said in his usual perverted tone.

"Thanks, Fezzie." Laurie flirtatiously said, winking at him.

Fez looked around the room to see if there was anyone else she might've been talking too. He pointed to himself asking her if it was him he was talking too. She smiled flirtatiously and nodded. Fez was awestruck.

"See Donna." the newly raven haired girl said pointing to Laurie "Laurie you look like a skank." The fairy raven added in a complimentary tone.

"Oh my god thank you, so do you." She complimented back and smiled.

"Thank you, I really love your costume. Where'd you get it?"

"The Lanny's at the Ivory Hills Mall."

"Me too, the one at Point Place Mall is just so cheap!"

"That's what I told my friend Sherry but she's a fat girl so I really didn't think she understood."

"What's with fat girls and not caring about their appearances? I mean just because you're big as a buffalo doesn't mean that you shouldn't take pride in your appearance."

"Exactly! By the way I love your hair it's so you, Especially the length and the color goes well with your skin tone."

"Oh my god thanks I already told how much I loved your hair before, but it looks more healthier now and has more volume than before."

"Really? thanks I've been using a new hair routine and shampoo."

The rest of the group just looked between the two girls mostly in confusion and amusement. Eric was the first one to interrupted the girl fest "Don't tell me Laurie is coming with us."

"You wish, dork. Like I said, I don't hang out with babies unless I get paid to do so." The fair haired girl bitched.

"So, why are you dressed up for Halloween, then?"

"There's this Halloween themed college party I'm going to. So I'll see Jackie and you children later." The blonde said, slipping Fez a piece of paper winking at him and then leaving.

"Wow, is it just me or did she get really nice when she came back home?" The noir haired girl said.

"It's just you." Donna replied.

"Okay so first order of business on the Jackie agenda. Jackie agenda? Where do I come up with this stuff, I'm a freaking' genius. Anyways, we're going trick or treating."

"Really that's your first big bang? Trick or treating." Eric said.

"I think it's the start of a good plan." Fez said on the defense.

"If you buffoons would let me finish you know that I was going to say we're going trick or treating… at the richest street in Point Place."

"Isn't that where you live?"

"Yeah, when I was little they used to give out like bucket loads of candy, not just regular generic brand candy but like the really good quality and what better way to start off the best Halloween ever than having a bunch of good quality candy." The part Jackie left out about that story was the fact that right after her fifth Halloween her parents stopped taking her trick or treating because they were too busy and told her to stop eating too much candy because it wasn't good for appearances.

"Okay, I guess somehow that kinda makes a little bit of sense." Donna said

"Of course it does now, let's go I'm driving."

"Ohh no you're not, I'm driving. I don't trust you behind the wheel and it's the only way I'm going along with this without complaining about everything. " Eric said.

"Yeah, plus he's a total backseat driver." Kelso added.

"What? No, I'm not." The scrawny dork replied.

"Yes, you are" the four of them replied.

"No… I'm not." Eric said in his plea.

"Yeah you are man, remember that time Red took the Vista Cruiser and we drove Kelso's cousin's car or that time we went to Funland and made you sit in the back." Hyde said.

"Oh, he only does that to make up for the lack of control that he has over his real life." The foreigner explained.

The group just looked at him very strangely. "I've been watching a lot of Donahue lately."

They all just shrugged and left the basement.

Hyde right now was in a debatable situation, he was squished up with Jackie. The good part, it's Jackie and the bad part it's Jackie Burkhart. He was still questioning ever telling anyone about his crush on her. He could just keep it a secret and hopefully it would die out by the time her and Kelso get back together. But, a part of him didn't want this crush to end or her to get back together with Kelso. This part wanted him to get Jackie and maybe get a fairytale ending. Yeah right like I could have a fairytale ending with Jackie Burkhart, he thought. It wasn't like he was afraid to get in a relationship with her but there were just too many things stopping them from getting in a relationship let alone having a happy one. For starters, it would definitely mess up the group dynamic. Then there was the fact of his paranoia getting in the way for the both of them. He didn't even trust her about this plan, let alone a whole blown relationship. Then there was the biggest problem; people like him don't get happy endings. It's not like people like him want happy endings, but even if they did they wouldn't get it. He was destined to a life of mediocrity, his biggest goal in life was not being dead or in jail by the age of 25. Edna and Bud taught him that from a young age, it was one of the only things valuable they ever taught him. He remembered exactly how it happened…

Flashback

The Hyde Residence

November 28,?

2:12 P.M

It was Hyde's eighth birthday when it had happened. He was walking home from school and he was genuinely excited. He was a year closer to becoming exactly what he wanted to be at the time, a writer. He had some alone time at recess Eric was busy playing with Donna and Kelso was too wrapped up in this bossy girl named Jackie. She was cute and he would give his friend that, but she was extremely annoying and incredibly bossy. He wasn't about to stress about some annoying little brat on his birthday. He just found out what he wanted to do with his life. This was big, extremely big. He was eight and it was about time he figured it out. He opened the door to find Edna and Bud sitting on the couch drinking beer and smoking something he didn't know about at the time. He wondered if they remembered his birthday because they didn't pick him up like they said they would.

But, they could just be busy, young Hyde thought. "Hey guys." Hyde spoke enthusiastically.

"Whaddya want you little ass?" Edna said, kinda slurring her words.

Hyde was taken back, that was the first time Edna had ever spoken to him like that he ignored it. She could've had a long day, he thought. Hyde just thought back on what he had discovered about himself earlier today and smiled. "I just found something that's really important."

"Yeah, like what?" Bud bitterly spitted back.

Hyde's smile simmered down his confidence a little ruin but he wouldn't let that get in the way. After all told him that one day he would make an excellent writer and why would she lie to him she was his favorite teacher and he was her favorite student. If she and his parents thought he could do it then he definitely could.

"Like, I think I wanna be a writer." Hyde said. He looked at his parents; they look like he'd just grown a second head.

"Then you must live in a delusional world." Edna said, taking another swing of her beer. Hyde's confidence went down a lot by then. Delusional?, he thought. Hyde just learned that word three weeks ago it meant a belief that is not true or a false idea. That meant she didn't believe he could do it. Well, what did she know? He still had his father on his side, maybe he'd say that he could do it and Edna would be convinced or something. Hyde looked at his father, Bud looked at his child at first Hyde thought he saw remorse, mercy, something that gave Hyde hope but even if he did see that look it was replaced by annoyance and coldness. That was the first time Hyde had seen that look on his father's face.

"You could probably be a garbage man or a fast food worker. Your goal should be not to end up dead or in jail, not win a fuckin' nobel peace prize." Bud told his son. Hyde couldn't believe it, his father saying all these things. Hyde looked up to his father and if he didn't think he'd be able to do it then he couldn't do it.

"But… Mrs. Gerald told me.." Hyde was cut off before he could finish his sentence "Mrs. Gerald? That old bitch? I can't believe she's still allowed to drive, let alone teach." Edna rudely jokes.

"Look kid, you're surrounded by trash, you live with trash, you smell trash, you ARE trash." Edna continued, talking with her beer in hand.

"Exactly, you're fucking trash and we're fucking trash, that's all there is to it."

Hyde was on the verge of tears. Something told him they wouldn't care if he cried, so he just nodded his head and went to his room.

"A fucking writer? Yeah and I could be Mrs. America." Edna sarcastically from the other room. He heard laughter, his parents' laughter, they were laughing at him.

Hyde started looking around for them, he found he found them in his dresser. It was a rose tinted aviator sunglasses. Bud had found it for him at the thrift store. Hyde could already see the new person coming to be as he put them on. From now on no one would laugh at him ever again. He would be… what's the word...uhh aloof, at peace, indifferent, zen. Zen, yeah that's the word Mrs. Gerald had taught us. Speaking of her, fuck that crazy old hag telling me I'm something that I'm not ,

From that day forward there was to be no more Steven, just Hyde. There was no more writing and much more troublemaking. There was no more Mrs. Gerald and much more weed and there was definitely no more dreaming or delusions and much more realism and cynicism. Hyde didn't have a career; his only goal in life was to just be a mediocre piece of shit that didn't end up a total mess. Atleast he wouldn't fuck that up. Anything other than that was crushed by Edna, but especially Bud. The crazy part is they never remembered his birthday.

Present

Yeah right Jackie Burkhart with Steven Hyde? A cold day in hell, she would expect too much of what I couldn't give, Hyde thought. As the Cruiser hit a speed bump on the road Hyde's knee gently brushed against Jackie's. He stopped his train of thoughts to look at the newly colored raven. He noticed as the sun shone on her hair that it was kinda mixed with blue but like a really dark blue to the point where it blended in really well. She looked absolutely attractive as the sunlight from the window shone on her. Maybe, I could just sit back and enjoy this until this crush fades and she gets back with Kelso because she doesn't need mediocre shit in her life, she needs the best.

Okay, I know don't get mad at me I can't promise they'll be some actual HJ moments in the next chapter but I'll try. I'm sorry if I'm taking this story too slow for your liking but I literally can't fit the 'grand plan' in one chapter. So again sorry, make sure to review.