A/N don't hate me for the way I ended the last chapter, but I am giving you this one. The long awaited talk

Chapter 12

Angie gave her dad a look, and knew they needed to leave these two alone to talk. She stood up and grabbed Jackie's hand and gave it a gentle squeeze, giving her a small smile she turned and looked at her brother, "I am going to be right out this door, you better behave" and she walked out.

WB gave him a stern looked that echoed Angie's words to him, he nodded at him and walked over and took the chair that Angie had been sitting in. "Right now I have so many questions I don't even know where to start" he looked at Jackie. "How far along are you?"

"Six months, the baby is due in March. I have tried to talk to you but you didn't want to talk about our future."

"Damnit Jackie, you left for Chicago carrying our baby and didn't think to tell me?"

"Steven I tried, I wanted to know if you saw a future with me. I wanted you to be with me for me and not because of the baby. I had give up that hope and was going to tell you the night you went to the beer warehouse. I had a job offer with better money for me to provide for our baby since it seemed like you didn't want me" tears were forming in Jackie's eyes. Steven was looking directly at her. His glasses lost somewhere.

"Jackie you should know I would be there for our baby" He reached to grab her hand but she pulled away.

"Steven you was the one that didn't see a future with me, how was I supposed to know, and then before I left for real you told me to have a nice trip, you ripped out my heart that day, I couldn't stay after that I had to get out even if that meant getting a ride to Chicago with Michael at the time. When you showed up in the motel room, I was getting ready to tell you about the baby, because you coming for me showed me that I mattered to you, but Michael and you left."

Steven was looking back and knew he should have never let her leave. "So I don't understand, you was trying to get me to commit to a future with you, why didn't you just let me know about the baby? You should have known I would never leave you with a baby."

"Sure because the only time to get married is when your backs against the wall and the girl is pregnant right?" She quoted the speech he had given Eric when they found out about their engagement.

"What is wrong with that? It would get you the wedding you wanted right?"

Jackie shook her head, he didn't get it, "sure get the wedding, but not the marriage I want, I don't want a marriage that is only because of the baby. Those marriages don't work, I want a marriage where two people love each other and that is why they are together, they aren't together because of a baby and to keep up the standards of society. I would rather be a single mother alone. I don't want the marriage my parents had or look how well that worked for the Pinciotti's. Sure Bob loved Midge, but it didn't go both ways and she was miserable and left Bob heartbroken. I'd rather deal with heart break now instead of wait for the years to go by and you decide to leave me"

Steven just sat there, it made since, sure once upon a time shallow Jackie was immature and dreamed of big fancy weddings without thought how things worked out after. He had always been afraid that one day Jackie would wake up and realize that he wasn't good enough and leave him. This time he grabbed her hand and held tight and she didn't pull away, "Jacks I have been so scared over the last 2 years that you was going to realize I wasn't good enough and leave me. Even after WB and the record store. When Chicago came I was going back and forth on everything with us. I had bought a ring, but chickened out and went drinking with the guys. I was so hurt when Kitty gave me that letter that you left, when I saw you again I was letting that hurt turn into anger so I said have a nice trip. I was letting you go instead of waiting for the years to come and you to leave me later. I talked to Foreman before he left and he told about your phone call, I was actually sitting there when he was talking to you. I thought for a minute he was going to hand the phone to me, but then he hollered to Red. I guess you hung up after you talked to Red. We talked alone and he convinced me to go to Chicago. I was so angry what I saw, that I couldn't look at you and I left. I drove till I hit Vegas that was the worst mistake of my life." He looked at Jackie's eyes, tears were forming in his own "I am so sorry for Sam, I figured when she showed up we were done for good and I wouldn't be like Bud and leave her. I should have checked things over, I should have kicked her out right away. I should have ran after you. I was Bud, you should have been more important."

"I had a scare with the baby that night, I thought I was having a miscarriage, was in the ER and kept overnight. I had to fight them to make sure Kitty never found out. I thought for sure that night I was going to lose the last link I had to our relationship from the last 2 years" At this Steven got up out of his chair and began to pace the room. His stupid actions could have cost his baby's life. Jackie would have never forgiven him if she lost the baby. And right now he wondered if even now she would forgive him. He wanted a future with her more than anything, he didn't think he could have a future without her with him. He walked over to her bed and this time sat beside her on the bed and took her in his arms, "Baby I am so sorry for everything, I am sorry I didn't get right to saying this earlier today. I love you more than I have loved anyone, you are my future. Please forgive me"

Jackie relished the feel of being in Steven's arms again, forgiveness might come easy, but trust in his words that was a different story. She pushed herself out of Steven's arms, this caused Steven to worry he looked up at Jackie, "Steven I have been waiting so long for you to say everything you just said, but I am not sure I am where I can trust what you said to be true. I don't know if it's what you have really felt all these years or you are just doing the right thing because of the baby. I am going to need time to believe you."

"Is this like the summer after I graduated? Me or Kelso and then you chose yourself for the summer?" Anger was evident in his tone

"No and yes, there is no choice of you or someone else, but I need to take care of me right now"

"So after everything you don't want me?"

Jackie could feel her stress going up, he wasn't getting it, about that time her monitors started going off, Lisa rushed into the room "Sir I am going to have to ask you to leave so we can take care of Ms Burkhart"

WB had stepped in the room knowing he probably would need to help get Steven out, grabbed his arm, "Son you have had a long day, let's get you home, I am sure you can come back tomorrow"

They made their way to the hall but Steven stopped and stayed by the door as a doctor and another nurse rushed into the room. "I'm not going anywhere till I know they are alright"

Kitty came up to the three in the hall, "Steven lets go down to the waiting room right down the hall, they know we are there and when they have word they will come talk to us there" Steven let WB and Kitty guide him down the hall to the waiting room, Fez and Red were already there sitting and waiting.

Fez knew that the parents needed to probably talk to Steven, "I am going to walk down to and get some coffee for everyone" He stood up and started to walk out

"Wait Fez I'll go with you and help you" Angie also realized that her dad and the Foreman's needed to deal with Steven.

As the two left it started to sink in that Angie was with Jackie in her room when he went in, he looked at WB as the pieces were starting to come together, "She's been with you this whole time hasn't she? I asked you to help me find her and you was hiding her from me the whole time!" He had stood up and started to pace again, "You all knew where she was, and you knew about the baby!" He couldn't believe they had all kept this from him.

Red was the first to speak up, "Yes Steven you are right, Jackie was going through the early stages of pregnancy and Kitty picked up on, but she also knew how you was treating her and how it was effecting her body and the baby."

Steven looked at Kitty, "She said that you didn't know what happened to her"

Kitty knew what he was talking about, "Steven when I realized she was pregnant I could see the stress that she was carrying. She doesn't know but I checked her medical records I hadn't even told Red that I found out she ended up in the ER the night that Sam showed up. I had just found out myself right before she moved away, I knew it was better for her and the baby to get out of Point Place. Angie had went to a doctor's appointment with her, and Angie said the doctors were concerned about her blood pressure. That was when it was decided that she go to Milwaukee"

WB stood up and went over to his son, "Don't be mad at us for keeping a secret that needed to be kept, we were all worried about Jackie's health, the night that Donna through that sleepover, Jackie tried on last time to go over and tell you. We had to get her away from here."

Feeling defeated, Steven sat down in the far corner of the room, put his head in his hands, he couldn't be mad at Jackie, he was the one that screwed up every time she tried to tell him. "So who else knows? Am I the last person to know?"

Kitty walks over and sits in front of him on the table, I know Eric knows, but I believe that is it"

Fez and Angie had just returned with the coffee for everyone, "I just found out before she went to talk to you at the festival. I was hugging her and her stomach kicked me and I noticed the roundness of her stomach under all those layers"

Kitty looked up at Fez, "You mean you got to feel the baby kick? I was so looking forward to that today and haven't gotten to feel it yet"

"So she is showing already and the baby is kicking, how did I not see it?" everyone could see the hurt in his eyes.

Angie came over to sit next to her brother, "Jackie planned it that way, for no one to notice until after she talked to you and told you. She made sure that she would be outside and would have no excuse to take her coat off."

"Steven that is why she ran out of that tent, she was getting overheated with those heaters they had in there and needed air. The doctors believe she passed out from being overheated and that is what led to her falling in the pond." Kitty explained

At that time Lisa stepped into the room, "Ms Burkhart is doing fine now, her blood pressure spiked to a level we don't want, we have her calm and she is sleeping now. We are going to have to ask everyone to go home for the night. She wanted me to give Steven a message to be here at 9am when she goes for an ultra sound"

Steven looked up, "What is an ultra sound?"

"It's something that will be able to see the baby in the womb, the doctor just wants to double check everything and make sure the major organs are functioning as they should" Lisa answered him.

Red looked at WB, "Are you and Angie going back tonight? Or do you want to stay at the house?"

"If you don't mind we would like to stay with you guys"

Angie walked over to speak to Lisa, "Can I write a short message to Jackie, I need to let her know I will take care of something she was going to do tomorrow?

"Sure here is a pad of paper right here and a pen, I'll make sure she gets it"

Angie took the paper and pen and scribbled a short message for Jackie:

Jackie,

I'll take care of the surprise visitor tomorrow, I grabbed the flight info when I got your clothes

Love ya,

Angie

As they were walking down the hall Steven realized then they were on the maternity floor and stopped at the nursery, he couldn't help but stop and look at the babies. He couldn't help but think in just a few months a baby he and Jackie created would be in this nursery. Red walked up to him and put his hand on his shoulder, "They start off small but they are a lot to deal with even that small. But before you know it they are grown, marring some guy for him to get his green card or taking off across the other side of the world leaving his mommy or you take another in only for him to disappear for a month without a word, you think your relationship with Jackie is filled with heartache? It's nothing like that baby can cause." Before Steven could turn to respond Red was walking with Kitty hand in hand. Watching the two of them he knew that is what he wanted, turning back to the babies he could only hope his baby wouldn't do the stuff to him and Jackie that Laurie, Eric and himself had done to the Foreman's.

When they got to the house Fez left to go back to his apartment and said he would meet everyone at the hospital the next day. Steven went down to the basement, he tried to lay down and go to sleep but found he couldn't. He thought that these times he would reach for a bottle to help him forget and sleep, but he knew he couldn't forget and he wanted a clear head in the morning when he saw his and Jackie's baby for the first time. He decided he needed to maybe get a snack from the kitchen, he really hadn't ate all day. As he got to kitchen he found WB at the table alone.

"Kitty made some sandwiches before she went to bed if you are looking for something to eat"

"Yea, really haven't had anything to eat all day" he took two sandwiches out of the fridge and put them on a plate and poured him some juice. Walked over and sat across from WB at the table.

"Son, I think it's time we talked, spending the last few months with Jackie I have learned more about you than I have in spending time with you."

Steven took a bite out of his sandwich, he could only imagine all the awful things Jackie has told WB about him over all this time. WB looked at Steven and his uncovered eyes he could see the worry of what has been said by his ex. "Steven despite all the heartache you have caused that girl, she never put you down. She told me of all the things you did to help her over the years, even before you were together. That girl stood by you despite what her parents thought and even her so called friends. She talked about the friend you have been to Eric and the others over the years. That girl still has you on a pedestal, and from what she has said rightly so. I know you are not one to talk, especially about yourself, but I realized that as much as I have learned about you, you don't know much about me. And it's time for you to know.