AN: Last chapter was a lot of Eric's goodbyes, here is Jackie and Steven, sorry don't write smut.

Chapter 32

Steven drove him and Jackie back to their house, they were greeted by Marie, WB's maid. "Mr. Steven and Mrs. Jackie I was just finishing up the kitchen, your room should be ready for the most part, I am going to be leaving here soon, would you like anything?"

"No, thanks Marie, Mrs. Foreman stuffed us, that woman can cook on such a short notice. I think I just want to look over everything and maybe lay down." The couple went and checked out the living room, everything looked fine and a lot different than it did earlier that morning. The couple made their way upstairs the first room was still empty, it would be the nursery so they hadn't started on furniture for that room yet, the next room was their master bedroom, they walked in and the bed and the rest of the furniture was put in place, some of Jackie's trinkets already unpacked, they both took note of something that they had not expected, a small blue baby cradle beside the bed. "Did you do this Steven?"

Steven looked at the cradle, he recognized it from that time Mrs. Foreman thought she was pregnant, he noticed a note "no doll but it looks like Eric's old cradle, Red got it out when Kitty thought she was pregnant., there is a note."

Hey kids,

Thought I would get the first piece of baby furniture over, babies start off small and Eric loved this thing, I just suggest as he gets older to move him to his own room, don't baby him too much. If you ever need anything please feel free to reach out to Kitty and I. I want this to be used for our grandkids, so you guys get it first.

Red

"Red really is a softy." Jackie said as she ran her hand on the top of the cradle.

"Yea I remember him putting this up when they found out Kitty wasn't pregnant, he told me maybe he would get it out in a few years for a grandchild" Steven had taken a seat on the bed and motioned for her to sit with him. "I guess next step is getting his room set up and figuring out a name for him"

"Yea something besides little guy" Steven rubbed her baby bump. "I am getting sleepy with you doing that"

"Why don't you lay down, I'll check with Marie and be up to join you" he kissed her neck.

"Mmm, that sounds like a plan."

Steven got up and left the room while Jackie went into the adjoining bathroom and saw that everything she needed was already put up in there. Marie must have been busy and quick today. She took the time to take off her makeup and brush out her hair, she had taken off her dress and put on her robe that was already hanging while she went back to the bedroom to find something to wear, going through her drawers most everything was like she had it in her room at WB's, finally she found what she was looking for, she had just pulled in on when Steven watched from the door.

"Yea, I think you in that shirt like that is for my eye's only"

"Of course, I wouldn't be caught dead in public in this ratty old thing."

Steven was busy taking off the bolo and unbuttoning his shirt, "Well if need be you can just take it off." He smiled at her, she was heading for the bed and watched as Steven striped, "So are you enjoying the show?"

"Yea, I am guessing we have our house to ourselves?"

"Marie was just leaving when I went downstairs, locked the doors and we have food in the fridge for later" stripped down to his boxers he joined his wife in bed.

Later they Jackie woke up, she smiled at the position they were in, it was the same position they slept in back when she would sneak in his room when her mother left, the only difference back then they were clothed. She felt a kiss on the back of her neck, "Hey thought you were asleep?"

"I was but our son was kicking my hand, I can't believe you haven't decided on a name, I would have thought that was something girls grew up thinking about."

"I think I spent more time on names I didn't like, Jack is out because I wouldn't name a child after my dad, even when I was dating Michael I had Michael off my list"

"And Steven?"

"Would you want a Steven Jr? Think about how often I say your name in a day?"

"That's true, I wouldn't want you calling anyone else Steven, besides I always liked it when you called me Steven even when everyone else called me Hyde. Even when we weren't together you would do it, and I know I acted annoyed, I really liked it."

"Well we could call the baby Steven and I could call you Puddin Pop more" By this time Jackie had turned and was facing him.

"Um NO!"

"What about Reginald William, after both your father's?"

"We wouldn't call him Reginald would we?"

"Reggie?"

"Do you think Laurie or Eric would mind? Of course I don't see Eric naming a child after Red, but Laurie might?"

"Well before we set it in stone, you could ask her when you see her"

"I still don't know about that meeting, I have never been the biggest fan of Laurie"

"Hey just think Laurie's actions led you to teaching me Zen and becoming your grasshopper"

"Yea that was fun watching you kick her ass that day"

"Anyway, ask her about it, and then if she has a problem with it then we will work on another name"

"I can't believe you are taking Laurie's feelings into consideration"

"Well after everything I guess I feel for her with everything that happened to her, I always hated how she treated Red and Kitty, here she had the perfect parents, but talking to Fez I understand now how with what happened to her she had her own parental issues because of it, at least in her own mind"

"I guess that was why I never like her when all Eric's other friends drooled over her, I had seen how she acted and was never impressed." He rolled on his back to stare at the ceiling knowing he couldn't face her saying the next part. "Eric's letter to me after he found out about Sam he pointed out if slutty blonds were really my type I would have been all over Laurie, or maybe I should have just been with Laurie. I guess the descriptions he was getting sounded like her, I think that is why I am not ready to see Laurie"

Jackie still laying on her side looking at Steven reached up and rubbed his sideburns, "Babe Laurie and Sam are two different people, at least now we have an understanding of Laurie, you have to see Laurie as the little girl you grew up with before this horrible thing happened to her."

"I guess, just so much of what she has went through, I keep thinking how did that not happen to me? How was it I didn't get to the stronger drugs, ya know"

Jackie had taken to rubbing his chest, "Who knows, you are stronger than you give yourself credit for most of the time, you saw what that did to your mom, you had your friends and the Foremans"

"Most of Vegas is a drunken blur, I remember when I finally came too and realized I needed to get home, checking for any signs of harder drugs, I was at a point it wouldn't have surprised me"

"I was in your room every night crying and praying you would come home safe."

He turned to her and put his hand to her face, "Thank you, I love you"

"I love you too, never stopped, just think we have this for the rest of our lives"

"I think I can get on board with that, the future used to scare me, but with you beside me it doesn't anymore"

"Well Mr. Steven J. Barnett me and our baby are hungry now, lets get dressed and get down to the kitchen and eat."

"Hey this is our house why do we have to get dressed?"

"Well just because we have this house to ourselves, there are still windows, someone could always stop by, and we won't always have the house to ourselves, we are not going to be the couple to walk around naked like another couple that used to live in the neighborhood."

"Ew I forgot about the nudist parties next-door."

"Yea living with Bob and his robe was no picnic either"

"I bet not"

Jackie got up and threw the t-shirt back on and found a pair of shorts. Steven was putting on a pair of sweats and a t-shirt he found looked at Jackie in shorts and a t-shirt, "Babe you know it's the middle of winter right?"

"Yes but the house is warm, or maybe carrying this extra weight is making me warm. So what else is here, how does everything look?"

"Well it looks like we have both guest rooms fully furnished, but I guess WB and Angie are giving us privacy and staying at the hotel, though I think they are going back to Milwaukee tomorrow."

Steven showed Jackie the guest bedrooms, the one upstairs looked to fit Angie, while the one downstairs looked to fit WB, all the bathrooms were stocked with towels and necessities.

Walking into the kitchen, "Wow Marie must have worked non stop to get all this done, they show up right after we left?"

"I think so, she directed the movers where to put the furniture and such and she got to unpacking, well all except my clothes that I left at the Foreman's. Looks like she left a casserole in the oven on warm"

"Oh I loved her casseroles, we fought but she finally let me cook with her after I cried and talked about missing cooking with Kitty"

Shaking his head he pulled out the dish from the oven, while Jackie went and found plates and silverware and glasses. Steven went and plated the food while Jackie fixed drinks, then he went over and lit the candles that were on the table and turned off the lights, "Figure make this as romantic for you as possible for our first wedding night, maybe we can go out for dinner of something one night this week before we head to Milwaukee, I still can't believe I am going to see Clapton."

"Well in one of our conversations about you when I was living there, I was telling them about the time that Kitty called Pastor Dave over to the house and he asked you to draw what you thought about when you thought about God"

Steven dropped his fork and looked at her "How did you know that story?"

"Remember when I fixed up your room, I came across your picture, I asked you why you had a picture of Jesus playing a guitar, and you told me it was Eric Clapton and told me the story"

"I had forgot about that, did you talk a lot about me when you was living there?"

"Yea, just different things would come up and I would tell them a story about you. Usually Angie would come in my room later that night and hold me while I cried, I was so scared I had lost you and didn't know how I was going to do everything by myself. Angie would remind me that even if her brother was an asshole that I wasn't going to be alone raising her niece or nephew."

They had finished their dinner, Steven reached up and pulled Jackie to him, "I wish I could have paid attention to what you was trying to tell me and know that you are never going to be alone again" He took her left hand and ran it over her rings.

"I haven't even taken the time to look at the rings, they match together perfectly"

"Just like us doll. I do have something for you, a wedding gift"

He pulled out a small box, Jackie looked at it strangely and opened it inside was a small charm looking like two rings linked.

"I picked it out when I got your bracelet to have for today"

"I love it, thank you, can you put it on for me?"

He took her arm and put the charm on, "Have you taken this off since Christmas?"

"Just when I take a shower, and then it goes right back on"

"Well maybe jewelry isn't such a bad gift."

"No it beats a burger wrapped in tin foil, it last longer"

The couple cleaned up their dinner and put the leftovers up. Jackie took stock in what was in the refrigerator for breakfast in the morning. "Are we going into Grooves tomorrow?"

"yea, for a bit meet the new guy Angie hired"

"What did she tell you about him?"

"He used to be a manager at a store in the mall, she couldn't remember it though, his name is Todd" Jackie froze at the name, "I guess you have spent enough time at the mall you probably know him" he noticed how pale she had gotten, "Babe are you alright?"

"Um that was the name of the guy at the Cheese Palace" not sure how his reaction to this information would be.

"Crap, well I have seen him get hit and hit, better not tick the guy off" It seemed he only remembered watching the interaction with Todd and Michael, then it hit him, "He was the guy that kissed you!"

"Yea"

"Well he better know better than to hit on the manager's wife"

"Are you OK with him working there?"

"Well the only time you are going to be there is when I am there, and if wants this job he should learn to keep his lips to himself"

"Trust me, since that summer I have only kissed you, and only want to ever kiss you."