Disclaimer: You know the drill. I don't own any of the characters blah blah blah. Oh yea cept for Mackenzie of course.

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Chapter 3 ~ Late Night Visits

Donna, Jackie and Mackenzie walked into the Pinciotti's kitchen. Both Jackie and Donna turned towards Mackenzie. "My God Mac, that was amazing."

"Yea um, I don't feel so good," Mackenzie said holding her stomach. She sat down at the kitchen table.

"That took like what, ten minutes?" Donna said impressed. "Hyde normally takes a good day before he'd fuck a girl. Then again, I can't remember the last time he got some. Come to think of it I can't remember the last time he even kissed a girl."

Jackie raised her hand. "Duh Donna how could you have forgotten that one?"

"Oooh yea." Donna shrugged it off. "Hey, Mac, you really look kind of pale."

Mackenzie slammed her head down onto the table. She rubbed her head softly. She had hit it harder then she had meant to. "Ow." She looked at the two girls on either side of her. "You guys, I don't know. I think I just fucked up."

"How'd you fuck up? The only thing you did wrong was leaving so soon. Girl you could have had him." Jackie said oblivious. Donna, however, was a little more intuitive.

"Don't worry about it Mac. Hyde's probably high as a kite and forgotten about it completely."

Down in the basement, Hyde had declined the guys' offer to sit around and get high, which was very unusual and extremely disconcerting as lighting up was Hyde's magic answer to everything. Eric decided maybe the guys should let Hyde have some "alone time" and so Eric, Fez, and Kelso each went home.

"Hey, man, you alright?" Eric asked, as he was about to walk up the stairs.

"Yea fine. Just um, I'm kind of tired." Hyde replied, running his hand through his thick hair, looking around for something.

Eric looked at him like he had three heads, "Sure buddy. Just remember to say 'Hi' to Lucy for me." He smiled at Hyde, who looked thoroughly confused, and waved the fingers on his right hand. A look of realization came over Hyde's face and he began to chase Eric up the stairs. Eric, who was already halfway up the stairs made it to the top first and Hyde gave up the chase.

He made his way back down the stairs slowly and entered his room. Hyde began to unbutton his shirt and pulled it off. He went to throw it onto the folding chair he had next to his dresser, but he stopped himself. On the chair were Mackenzie's clothes, folded neatly, hanging from the back. He walked over slowly and hesitantly picked up her shirt. It smelled like vanilla and beer. God what was he doing? Suddenly, on impulse, he grabbed the clothes and ran out the basement door.



Back in the kitchen."It's just that.I don't know, I guess I've never felt bad about anything like this before."

"Why should you feel bad? You were doing us a favor. And besides Steven doesn't care about things like that. After all he barely flinched after we kissed." Jackie sighed. Once again she laid her head down on the table. "That's it. I am losing it. Mackenzie can get Steven, why can't I?"

"Jackie I'm really sorry, and trust me you're beautiful, but I really think I need to go lay down." Mackenzie walked out of the kitchen.

"Well, that was rude. I mean honestly, what's more important then listening to my problems?" Jackie said, still staring at the door, which Mackenzie had just walked out of. Donna rolled her eyes, but stayed with Jackie

Mackenzie pushed the door to her room open and instantly walked over to the radio and turned it on. The Door's 'People Are Strange' filled the room. She started to dance to the music in an attempt to forget about everything that was spinning in her head.

Hyde climbed the tree outside Donna's window. He'd done it before, and he's never had problems braking into homes. He had no clue what he was doing, it would have been a million times easier to just knock on the door All he had to do now was walk the ledge over to the next window. He was about to knock on the window when he saw Mackenzie dancing in her room, still clad in his boxers and undershirt. Hyde stopped and watched her twirl and sway her body to the music.

Mackenzie sighed heavily. She couldn't get her mind to stop spinning. She stopped dancing and sat down on the bed. Mackenzie pulled the collar of the shirt up over her face. It still smelled like Hyde, and she inhaled deeply, before pulling it off completely. She got up, folded it neatly, and hung it on the back of the chair.

Hyde caught his breath short. She was right in front of the window now; he had to stop this before he got into it any further. He knocked lightly on the window. She turned and looked at him without flinching. He didn't think about odd it was that she didn't seem shocked it until later.

She walked over, without covering herself up, and opened the window to let him in. "What are you doing here?" She almost sounded angry with him, which was far from the truth she was just still a little weirded out by the whole situation.

"I, um, I came to bring your clothes back." He stuttered through the words, and tried to look at anything but her. When she didn't answer he continued, "You, um, you left them in my, um room."

She took them from his hand, and noticing how uncomfortable he was, put on the closest thing to her: his undershirt. "Oh, come on Hyde, I know you've seen a pair of tits before." She said cocking an eyebrow at him. His awkwardness put her more at ease. It was far easier to be a bitch when he was being a coward.

"It's not that." Hyde shot back defensively. "It's just that, I've, uh, never seen your tits before."

"Well, how'd you like 'em?" She smiled at him devilishly.

"No complaints here." He looked her in the eye for only a second before once again diverting his eyesight. "Room, turned out nice." Hyde hadn't been back into her room since the first day she came to Point Place.

Mackenzie looked around the room too. "Yea," She sighed, Hyde thought she sounded pleased with herself but there was something else he couldn't figure out. "My room back home was way nicer though," Hyde suddenly realized what that something else was. Mackenzie went on, throwing herself onto the bed. "But the dorm rooms that I was in had the fire escape right outside my window. Now that was nice." Mackenzie smiled, remembering all the times she had snuck out.

"Ahh, so you're not such the good little girl everyone makes you out to be." All Hyde had heard from Kitty, Red and Bob was what a little goody-two- shoes Mackenzie was.

"I would have thought you had figured that out by now." She said, pulling him onto the bed with her. They sat next to each other in silence for a couple of minutes. Mackenzie, as always, broke the silence, "So why'd you really come up here? I know you didn't climb that tree outside for your health."

"You're not very shy are you?" Hyde questioned, he didn't really know why he climbed the tree to see her and he knew he'd need a little more time to bullshit an answer.

"Nope, you gonna answer the question?" She placed her hand under her chin in anticipation.

"Honestly?" Hyde asked and Mackenzie nodded her head, yes. "Well, honestly, I couldn't sleep, and I just wanted, to um, talk." Mackenzie raised her eyebrows, she didn't believe him, "But you know, I wouldn't be opposed to foolin' around." Mackenzie laughed at him and hit his chest playfully.

"Oh baby, I love when you talk dirty." Mackenzie rolled her eyes at him and got up from the bed. She turned off the radio, which was now playing Led Zeppelin's 'Dancing Days'. "What's your all time favorite song?" She asked, already looking through her shelves of records.

"Ummm, I don't know, don't really have one I guess."

"I'm the same way, too many to pick just one." She paused and turned to face him and wrinkled her nose, "Sort of like boys." She laughed and Hyde couldn't tell if she was being serious or not. "Seriously what do you wanna listen to?"

"Surprise me."

"Ok then." She flipped through her records once more, finally deciding on one. She put it on the record player and 'Tuesday's Gone" by Lynyrd Skynyrd came on. She moved her hips with the music again and turned towards Hyde. She walked back over the bed.

Hyde sang along with the song under his breath but stopped when he saw Mackenzie smiling at him. "Hey, um, why'd you leave so fast before?" He blurted it out before he had a chance to stop himself.

"I'm sorry for that whole thing, it's just that, um well.. you see." Mackenzie closed her eyes trying to think of an excuse.

"Yes." Hyde urged her on.

Mackenzie stood up and started pacing back and forth. She began to ramble about Jackie and being pitiful and not having any confidence. She proceeded to tell him the entire story, only allowing herself two breaths. Hyde understood about a third of what she said and held up his hands to try and stop her from going any further. She inhaled deeply to catch her breath, "I'm sorry."

"It's, um ok?" Hyde said just as confused as he was before. He scratched his head. "Just forget I asked."

Mackenzie flopped herself back onto the bed next to him again. "Hi."

Hyde smiled at her oddly, "I don't think I've ever met anyone like you." He shook his head.

"Damn, and I try so hard to be a conformist." They both laughed. They spent the next four hours talking about anything and everything, until finally Mackenzie fell asleep in Hyde's arms. She had felt so safe and protected in his arms she had never slept better. And Hyde was finally content. He'd never thought of himself with someone, even with his friends he was always the loner. Although he still wasn't sure about Mackenzie, it felt good to have someone there with him, instead of being alone in his room isolated from everyone.