AN: Saw a thing on Facebook couples that made or broke the TV show, Jackie and Hyde were listed as couples that made the show while Jackie and Kelso, Donna and Randy, and Jackie and Fez broke the show, I guess they feel like most of us do for Jackie and Hyde. It had several different shows and couples listed but That 70s Show seemed to have the most couple pairings mentioned, though no mention of Donna and Eric.

Chapter 33

Steven and Jackie went to open Grooves the next day and meet with who would come in later and close with Randy.

"Puddin, I am going to go to the office and look over the books"

"Angie has been taking care of things, so it shouldn't be much, I think her and dad are stopping by before they head out, maybe we can grab lunch, and watch what you say calling me Puddin"

"Sorry" she gives him a peck on his cheek before going to the office.

A little bit later Todd walks in, "Hey I am looking for a Steven Barnett?"

"That would be me, Todd right?"

"Yea, do I know you?"

"I am friends with Michael Kelso, I was there when well he tried to hit you and you did hit him."

"Oh yes now I remember, I hope Jackie moved on from that idiot"

"She did, she's my wife now"

"Really?"

"Yea not long after that incident he took off for California and well we have been off and on since, and well now we are on for good"

"Well you look like you have more to offer her than Kelso ever did, he just seemed like he was going to try and get by on his looks the rest of his life, and Jackie deserved better than that"

"Well he is a cop now, but he has grown up a bit, has a daughter"

About that time Jackie came out of the office, "Hey Pud..Steven, it looks like all the books are caught up, Leo is sleeping on the couch however, I guess Randy forgot to kick him out before he left, Oh hi Todd"

"Hey Jackie, I guess this is a change of things now I am working for your husband"

"Yea and I'll take the smell of the dirty hippie over the smell of cheese any day, but Steven I really need to lay down, can you run him out of there?"

"Jacks you OK?" Looking at her with concern.

"Yea, just seems like my energy has been zapped, just run Leo out and I'll get blanket to cover the couch with and take a short nap."

"You try to wake him up?"

"Of course I tried, he just mumbled something about loud girl and rolled over"

Steven started chuckling, "you know who loud girl is don't you?"

"No am I supposed to?"

"It's you, all he kept saying to me before I went to Chicago was 'You love loud girl' it's the one clear thought in that hippie's head" he turned to Todd, "this shouldn't take long…I hope"

They walked over to the office together, "Hey Leo you need to get off the couch, time to work"

"Oh man I was having a dream I was getting woke up by loud girl, Hey Loud Girl!"

"Hey Leo, get off my couch!"

"Leo go out there and help Todd if there are any customers, I'll be out in a minute"

Leo went out of the office, Steven watched from the door as he walked over to the music pit and laid down on the couch out there. Jackie went over to a small dresser they got for the office and pulled out some blankets and a pillow, "Well at least he didn't find these, I would hate to have to wash them everyday"

"Are you sure you're OK?"

"Yea I just need to lay down, maybe I moved too much this morning or something"

Jackie laid down, and pulled the covers over her, Steven bent down and kissed her forehead, "Well with Todd and Leo we should be good, I'll show him how everything works, he asked me if you moved on to someone better than Michael Kelso"

"Of course, someone once told me I would find someone great, and I did"

"Sounds like a smart person"

"Not sure about that but he's getting there" she smiled up at him, "love you"

"Love you doll, get some rest, I'll try and keep it quiet out there" Steven turned the light out and stepped out and shut the door, "Guys let's keep it kind of quiet out here, Jackie is taking a nap"

"How far along is she?" Todd asked

"She's due mid-March, we have had a busy few days moving and such" Remembering his favor to Eric "Leo do you still have the equipment in the photo hut" He knew it would be a long shot for Leo to remember he had owned the photo hut much less where it even was.

"I don't know, but I have a bunch of photo stuff in my garage now, there used to be a car, not sure what happened to the car"

Steven could only shake his head, "Leo you gave me the car. Look I have some film that needs developed for Eric, pictures he took in Africa. Maybe I could come over sometime and we can see if we can take care of it for him"

"Sure man just let me know"

"Well it might be a few weeks, but I want to get it done before the baby comes, cause then who knows how busy I am going to be with helping Jackie"

Luckily instead of asking who Jackie was or about the baby, Leo rolled over and went to sleep.

"I know it's not my place, but why does he work here?"

"Leo gave me my first job when I moved in with the Foreman's years ago, he also gave me his El Camino, sort of been a surrogate father at times, but more like stoned out uncle. We just try to keep an eye out on him. He disappeared a few years ago, and then just showed up. He had a wife and kids, but not sure what happened with them. He has a few cousins that live here, that is all I know of his family."

A few customers came in and out and Todd seemed to know his music and really had no issues with customers. Around lunch time WB and Angie showed up.

"Well we got checked out of the hotel and thought we would take you and Jackie out before we head back to Milwaukee" WB told Steven.

"Sounds like a plan, Jackie is in the office laying down, I think I may take her home after lunch"

He walked in the office just as Jackie was starting to stir, "Jacks babe, you waking up?"

"Yea, I feel better, but now I am hungry"

"Well dad and Angie are here going to go out to lunch before they head out"

"Ok let me take and put the blanket and pillow up, keep Leo from using it"

The four went to lunch, and said their goodbyes, they would see each other in a few days. Angie pulled her brother off to the side, "Hey just wanted to give you the heads up, we are actually working on a baby shower for Jackie on Friday after you and dad leave for the concert, it's a surprise"

"Is Kitty planning it?"

"No why?"

"She sucks at surprise parties, mine, Eric's just to name a few, but seriously thanks, I guess that means Saturday I'll have a ton of stuff to haul back to Point Place?"

"Probably, but Brook and I are planning it, of course Mrs. Foreman has been invited, and well Donna too, I just hope that isn't a problem."

"No it shouldn't be, and you and Brook will be there in case she runs her mouth and tries to cause problems?"

"We are on it, it was by accident she heard us talking to Kitty about it and well"

"No problems, I think Donna is realizing where she has gone wrong especially with Jackie and I, she knows she won't be getting Eric back anytime soon."

"Just the little time I have spent with both of them I don't see them compatible at all, they are so different"

"Well the same could be said about Jackie and I, but they both want different things in life and well there are things about Donna, I don't know if I'll ever trust her completely"

"Yea I think Brook and I are leery still of her, she is leaving back to California Saturday from Milwaukee, Jackie can stay with me and Brook said she would share the guest room with Donna. Red is supposed to drive her and Kitty, he has an auto show he is going to check out during the shower and they are getting a hotel room."

"Well I am sure Red will scare the crap out of her on the way down then"

They went over and joined WB and Jackie, "Well we need to get on the road, see you guys in a few days"

Over on the other side of Point Place Red had came home for lunch as he ate his lunch with Kitty Bob came over to the door.

"Hi Ho Neighbors"

"Bob, would you like a sandwich?" Kitty asked

"No thanks, not really a social call, I got a call this morning, from Pam"

Red put his sandwich down and looked up at Bob, they had already talked about Pam coming back around, "So what did she want?"

"Like we thought, she asked about Jackie, I told her I heard something about a job offer in Chicago, and that Jackie and Donna had a falling out, so she hasn't been by the house. I was moving out of state next week and Donna was going to her mom's"

"Well that was we talked about if she called you, I guess next she'll try to call us, Kitty you make sure you play it cool"

About that time Donna came to the door, "Dad why did you tell who was on the phone that Jackie and I had a falling out?"

Red looked at her, "Well didn't you, several times?"

"Well, I guess, but we are making up, I am making up for how I was to her"

"Pumpkin, that was Pam calling looking for Jackie, we are not letting her know where she is"

"Yea Eric told me about her parents reaction to WB being Steven's dad"

"That is part of it, but Jackie is going to be getting a sizable trust fund on her birthday, we are afraid that Pam is going to try to get to Jackie to get her money" Kitty told Donna.

"Wow Jackie never said anything, so why was she so dead set about the job in Chicago if she had money coming to her?"

"Well for one, she wasn't aware of it, and of course she had other reasons for wanting to leave, she didn't know if she could stay in Point Place and find a job and be a single mom which is what she thought was possibly going to happen, she was scared and hormonal, trust me making decisions is not always the best in that state she was in, along with she hadn't told anyone." Kitty told her

"Is she aware of it now?"

Red looked at the girl at his table, "Yea we told her when she was waiting for Steven to come back, I don't know why but Pam's father appointed us over the trust fund years ago. He trusted us to look over it and keep contact with Jackie, we told her when she came back looking for Steven and afraid of what she was going to do with no job we told her, it helped her ease a little, but still she had to figure out how to get by till then with the fear of losing the house"

"So why did they get the house they got, and not get her house back?"

Kitty looked at the girl, she clearly had no idea about Jackie's home life growing up, "Donna why would she want that house? Think about it, how much time did she spend over here even when she wasn't dating Michael or Steven? When you guys took off for California, she still came over, that was a house, it wasn't a home, she stayed there because she needed a place to live but she would rather never live there again."

Donna never really thought about it, but Jackie did seem to spend more time over at the Foreman's than her own house, even the summer she had broke up with Steven after the nurse she was still over, if she wasn't at the local pool. It didn't even register with her that she had a pool at her house that she never seem to use.

"Donna sweetie, Jackie may have had money but she really never had her parents around, all those things that annoyed everyone about her, that was her trying to be the perfect daughter in her parents' eyes, over the last couple years she came to the realization that no matter what they didn't care. No matter what she did" Kitty patted the girl's hand. For being a best friend she realized she never took the time to really get to know Jackie.

"I never took the time to really get to know her did I?"

"No you probably didn't, you just saw the surface that she put out there to cover up who she really was, just like Steven, that is why they work so well together when they get past the masks they put on. Enough about that, we will leave Red and Bob to handle Pam while we going baby shopping"

Once they were in the car, Donna looked over at Kitty, "You know Jackie and Steven sent me a book for Christmas? Wanting to remind me of my dreams I had of being a writer before the whole promise ring fiasco. I always wanted to go to college and write, I am not even sure why I stopped, and I don't think I can blame Eric, I never talked to him about it much. But the real sad part is Jackie remembers my dreams, but I don't know that I really have ever got to know what she wanted to do in life."

"Jackie may seem like she wanted the fairytale dream, and in a sense she does, she wants the happily ever after, but she wants a family, something she never really had growing up. But not really having it growing up, she could only draw on what she read in her books and movies and such, it gives a distorted view of family if you really think about it. Steven for him growing up his view of family was just as distorted, but took a different meaning, and he for the longest time wanted nothing to do with family. I don't think it is going to be easy for them, but they know who to reach out for help and they really do love each other."

The girls drove off for a shopping trip for the baby.