A/N Part of why so much was posted over the weekend is because I had that already written and just learning how to upload and such. I am still learning. Thanks for all your reviews.

I go back and forth from Steven to Hyde, it sometimes depends on who else is in the story. To his friends he is Hyde but to Jackie, the Foreman's, and WB and Angie he is Steven. Will he always go by Hyde?

Chapter 9

Jackie had a renewed energy as her and Angie shopped in the mall, Jackie was loving the bigger mall of Milwaukee vs the mall in Point Place, the only down side this shopping trip was for maternity clothes. She was trying to avoid thinking of her conversation with Kitty this morning, she agreed that next weekend she would go back to Point Place and go to the Christmas festival with everyone. Luckily everything would be outside so for the most part she would be able to hide the bump under her coat and do her best to keep it on all day. And then get back to Milwaukee, she wasn't holding much hope despite what Kitty said about Steven wanting to apologize. Angie knew that Jackie wasn't ready to talk about next weekend. She felt anxious herself for her friend and prayed everything worked out next weekend, she was going to be going over the books at Grooves while the rest went to the festival.

Grooves was pretty busy with a cross of black Friday sales and one year anniversary of the store. Hyde was also anxious himself for next weekend and seeing Jackie again. A year ago Jackie and him were the last ones to leave and close up the shop, they ended up spending the night in the listening pit, getting up and getting dressed just before WB came in that morning. He was beginning to realize he was missing Jackie more than he missed anyone else that had left him, and unlike the others that had left him he had driven her away.

WB came up to him "hey a little too busy in here to be day dreaming don't you think?"

"Yea, sorry just anxious thinking about next weekend, Jackie is supposed to be coming in and I'll finally get to talk to her" He was doing his best to be more open, figured it would help be more open when he talked to Jackie.

"So do you know what you are going to say?"

"Yea, but I'll spend the rest of the week revising it. Right now just so many memories around, good and bad that keep adding to what I need to say to her. And then I am scared something will happen, I'll say the wrong thing and push her away more or she doesn't even show up."

"You just need to relax, get busy with work and take your mind off it for now."

Saturday Hyde decided to go on with his plan in case something happened and Jackie didn't come to Point Place. Kitty and Red said nothing, Brook said that Jackie had sent some things to Betsy but there was no return address for her to send thank you cards, she still had the thank you card on her and was going to leave it with Mrs. Foreman in case she could get it to her daughter's godmother. So Hyde was taking a trip he never thought he would on his own accord, driving to the state prison. He would check with Jack Burkhart and see if he would tell him anything about his daughter. He never had much contact with Jack before he went to prison, and knew he was happy his daughter wasn't dating the idiot Kelso.

After going through all the proper channels and finally sitting across from Jack, Hyde could tell he was shocked to see him. "What are you doing here?" Jack almost shouting"

"Jackie left and I am trying to find her, I figured she still talks to you and you would know, I am begging you to help me"

"I haven't heard from her in almost a year, though I guess she finally took my advice and moved on from you. I hope for good this time. You were never really good enough for her and even more so now"

Hyde was taken back, he would expect this over a year ago, but now he had a rich dad and running his own record store, sure he still lived in the basement but that was because he wasn't ready to leave the Foremans so soon after Eric left and he still enjoyed the parental role they played in his life that had been missing for most of his life.

"I don't understand? I know I had some issues in the past but I am actually doing pretty good financially, of course not what you had before prison, isn't it all about money to you?"

"Boy it has nothing to do with money, Pam and I don't agree on much but we both agreed that no daughter of ours should be tied down with a half black boy when we found out who your real father is"

Hyde was dumbfounded, as he stared at the older man. Sure most people were uncomfortable with WB when he first came into their lives, but that was just because they were not prepared and really didn't know any blacks living in what WB called 'lily white community' Hyde still didn't know what to say.

"When she visited me last she I told her she needed to end things with you or I would see she was homeless, I knew she would no longer go back to the Pinciotti's and that you still lived in the basement of the Foremans', Pam wasn't going to stay around much longer so I talked to my lawyers and once Pam left funds for the upkeep was cut, of course I had already stopped paying taxes on the house. I'll give Jackie kudos, she paid the utilities herself longer than I thought she would. But I guess she finally came to her senses and broke up with you, if I knew I would start the payments, even pay the back taxes. I can't believe that she didn't run back here when she finally let you go"

Hyde was taking all this in, was this why she was pushing for commitment, because her daddy cut her off again like he had done with Kelso years ago? What was left to say to this bigot? He was further away from the answers he was seeking', and now had more questions. "Well I guess you can't help me after all, I'll just leave" Hyde stood up and walked out.

The ride back Hyde was processing everything he just heard, why didn't Jackie just tell him? Was she trying to find was to push him to break up with him to be in her parent's good graces? And he thought back over the year and the first part from the Christmas fiasco and fight to the break up. He was getting angry, she had kept this from him and the only reason he could come up with. Oh he was definitely revising his speech for when he saw her next week. He also knew to make sure he could give that little burnet a piece of his mind he was going to have to play off that he was going with his original plan to make sure she showed up.

Kitty was excited to see Jackie, she knew for the most part she was going to be hiding the pregnancy but she hoped she could get her alone and feel her grandbaby kick sometime. Everyone was going to be going with them to the festival and she prayed everything would go smoothly. She wasn't sure With Donna and Randy coming how she would handle that, from her talks with Eric he was fine with Donna dating someone else. Her main concern was Donna and Jackie, they hadn't talked since the disastrous sleepover. Donna had been harsher than normal with Jackie since Steven's fake wife showed up. She knew Eric had been furious with Donna and it just showed him her true colors really coming out, he had seen the way she had treated Jackie in the past and now that he had been removed from everyone with a chance to reflect on everyone in his life. Him and Donna was never going to work, he wasn't what Donna wanted or needed in her life and she wasn't what he wanted or needed . He hoped he could still be friends, but he wondered, even Kelso had finally sent him a letter with some crayon scribbling from Betsy. Kelso was working and wouldn't make it, but Fez was more than excited to see Jackie, she figured he hadn't put thought of how awkward everything was going to be.

Friday night before going to Point Place by herself in the morning, Jackie was getting everything ready warm backing clothes and a heavy jacket, it had been planned to leave as soon as she got there so there would be no excuse to go inside and need to take her coat off. Angie knocked on her door to let her know Eric was on the phone. Jackie went down and sat down on the couch and took the phone. "Hey dork what do you want?"

"Hey I just wanted to let you know that I know about tomorrow and well want to wish you luck in dealing with everyone. Also wanted to ask if you could maybe pick me up at the airport Sunday and bring take me home?"

"What are you done? You are really coming home?"

"I am just coming home till after the first of the year, I tried to get home today to be there to watch everything happen tomorrow, but I couldn't get the flights together. I haven't told anyone else so feel special"

"Well now I do, I can't believe you are coming home. Kitty is going to be so happy to see you and have you home for Christmas."

"So are you going to finally tell Hyde your news tomorrow?"

"Just get right to the point why don't you? Yea I am but I am making sure he follows through with his apology first"

"yea that is why I wanted to get home today, a Steven Hyde apology, that is less frequent than Hailey's comet"

"I don't know his last one was for the nurse and that was a year and half ago, but hey we have to actually have this one happen first before it counts"

"I think he knows how badly he screwed up and is man enough to admit it. So I have faith that he will, he is just not right without you. I told you this before when you were broken up at the beginning of the year, he is happier with you even if he calls it less pissed off, he was happy with you."

"Thanks Eric, I was happy but then I got so insecure where I stood with him, would he just replace me at the drop of a hat? And then he did. Even if it was a con he let her stay before he knew that, he threw away what we had. I still don't want the baby to be the reason he is with me. Michael and Brook are working the parenting thing together without being together. I guess maybe I need to reach out to Brook and maybe she could help me figure out this co parenting thing with parents that are not together"

"I don't know how much help she would be, from what I got out of Kelso's last letter they are talking more, but it's been hard with him in Point Place and her still in Chicago, he is looking to transferring to Chicago to be with Brook and Betsy. But you don't know that, he told me I was the first to know. He wasn't ready for how the others might react to the news. Fez is already pretty distant with him for spending most of his free time in Chicago. And he doesn't want to hear the comments from the others."

"Yea we have a group that loves to throw in their 2 cents in other's relationships"

"Yea the words Creepy and unnatural spring to mind, sorry about that by the way. I think it was just the shock of it, the man who was like a brother to me was keeping this huge secret from me. Sorry about that"

"It's not a big deal, Steven said if our relationship wasn't just a little creepy and unnatural he wouldn't be in it, it was the first time he acknowledge we were in a relationship"

"HAHA, glad I could be of help in the progression of your creepy and unnatural relationship"

Before hanging up, Eric gave Jackie all his flight information and she promised she would be there when the plane landed. She was excited to see him again, over the last few months he had really proven to be a great friend and she really needed those right now.