AN: Thanks to everyone for all the feedback. The noise you hear is my head
banging against the computer. In the last part, Red should have had a
heart attach not a stroke. Doah! Thanks for keeping me straight! 8-) In
this part, I tried to that sort of fantasy thing that 70s show is famous
for, but wasn't quite sure how. Hopefully it makes sense.
Disclaimer: Still don't own That 70's Show. Parts of this are straight out Plagiarized from Casablanca, which I also don't own. Nor do I own I will Survive or As Time Goes By, although, I have been known to get up and boogey to Gainer's tune.
Part 3 A Sigh Is Just A Sigh
The gang stumbled into the darkened theater.
"Great. Just great," Eric grumbled. "We've missed the previews. Are you happy now?" A collective "shhh" sound came from the all ready-seated audience members. "Oh, SH yourself."
Donna grabbed Eric's arm and squeezed gently. "You've already seen that Bond preview like a dozen times." She quickly scanned the seats. They were too late to all get seats in the same row. "Ok, there are three over there. Jackie, Hyde and Fez take it. Eric and I will be in those two. And Kelso you can grab the one directly behind me."
"Why can't Hyde sit by himself and I sit with Jackie?"
"Because I need to give you that thing we had to stop for on the way here," she said patting her purse.
"Yeah, you just had to make a beer stop," Eric grumbled loudly.
Kelso cocked his head to the side and looked at Eric. "Dude, ixney on the beerney. You trying to get me thrown out."
Donna grabbed Kelso and Eric and dragged them to their seats. Jackie, Hyde and Fez quickly took off to their row and sat down. Fez's arms were loaded with candy, soda and popcorn.
Hyde looked over at Jackie and saw her lips moving. He couldn't hear what she was saying so he leaned in closer. Jackie was singly very softly to herself, "I spent so many nights just thinking how you did me wrong and I grew strong. I learned how to get along." Well, that told him how this night was going to end. He sat up straighter in his seat and focused on the movie. 'Boogey was cool. The quintessential Zen master. He'd never get all soft and fuzzy over a dame. He'd never get all twisted emotionally over a chick, even a really hot chick.' Hyde thought to himself. By the time Ingrid Bergman's character entered the show, Hyde knew that Bogart aka Rick was a goner.
Hyde/Rick: If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him,
you'll regret it.
Jackie/Ilsa: No.
Hyde/Rick: Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for
the rest of your life.
Jackie/Ilsa: What about us?
Hyde/Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have - we'd - we'd lost
it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Jackie/Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you...
Hyde/Rick: And you never will. I've got a job to do too. Where I'm
going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part
of.
Hyde/Rick: Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much
to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill
of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. (She
drops her head tearfully. He touches her chin and raises it to gently
bolster her up.) Now, now. Here's looking at you, kid.
Kelso/Victor, Ilsa's husband, approaches. He's everything Rick isn't.
He's younger, taller, pretty even. He leads his wife to the plane,
the fog rolling around them. Ilsa/Jackie looks back and says farewell
to Rick/Hyde.
As the plane takes off, Rick/Hyde is left to walk off into the night
not with the woman he loves, but with Captain Louis Renault/Fez.
Rick/Hyde: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship.
People in the audience started collecting their things and heading towards the exit. The movement broke Hyde from his thoughts. He stood up quickly and stretched.
"That was so sad," Fez said, tears in his eyes, face covered in chocolate.
"You've been hanging around Foreman too long," Hyde complained. "You're starting to turn into a girl."
Jackie handed Fez a napkin. "Shut your pie hole."
Hyde looked at her. Her eyes were glistening with unshed tears. He clenched his hands into a fist to keep from reaching out and pulling her to him. "Let's go before Foreman decides to sit through the next showing just so he can see that stupid preview." He turned and started down the aisle, not waiting for Fez or Jackie. They could just catch up with him.
Fez blew his nose and looked at Jackie. "Why must the handsome foreign Captain be the only one to not get a girl? Fez needs loving too."
Jackie patted his arm and followed him down the aisle. As they caught up with Hyde, they saw Eric and Donna waiting for them in the lobby. Kelso was over near the refreshment counter talking to the young, cute blonde working there.
"Here's looking at you, kid," Eric said pointing his finger at Donna, in his best Bogart voice.
Donna laughed. "No."
"What Bogart is cool?!"
"On Bogart that's cool. On you it's just stupid," Hyde said.
"I just love that movie," Donna said, turning and walking out the door. "But how could they end it with her leaving with Victor?"
Kelso bounds up to them and stands between Hyde and Jackie. "The cute guy always gets the girl. It's a fact of nature."
"I agree with Donna," Eric said.
Jackie laughs. "No. Really? Color me shocked."
"Ahem," Eric said clearing his throat, "As I was saying before the forces of evil tried to interrupt me, Rick was just cool, with his white tuxedo and his cool lines, 'We'll always have Paris.'"
Hyde punches Eric. "Your gushing like a school girl."
"He was cool, but homely. Right Jackie?" Kelso asked.
"Yeah, Jackie, this was your first experience with Casablanca," Donna said smiling at her friend. "What did you think of it?"
"I think.Well, I think that it's the kind of movie that you could watch at different stages of your life and get different things from. Like I have these two dresses. One is hip and pink and has ruffles around the bodice. I bought it a few years ago because it was the thing then. But my dad bought me this basic black dress about the same time. It looks good on me too of course, because I have the coloring for it, I'm blessed that way, but anyway, I didn't care too much for it at the time. I thought it was too ..boring. But in the last couple of years, I've worn the black dress a lot and my pink dress is.out of fashion."
"Leave it to you to bring Casablanca down to a fashion lesson," Eric grumbled.
"And just what the heck does an ugly, black dress have to do with a hot babe running off with me," Kelso said. He grinned and ran his hand through his hair. "I mean Victor."
"It means at one point in my life, I might have said, 'what woman in her right mind is going to stay with a man who works at a casino in some Foreign country when she could be with a handsome guy with potential and money?'"
"I'm out of here," Hyde said as he started to cross the intersection and go in the opposite direction of his friends.
"Steven, wait," Jackie said, reaching out to grab his arm. "Wait. I might have said that at one time, but I would have been wrong. Because the movie really boiled down to a woman with two men.one who needed her and one she needed. She goes with Victor because he needed her and Rick didn't. And being needed feels good. But she'd never be happy. Victor would probably be hitting on the first stewardess he saw and she'd spend her life wondering whatever happened to Rick, what they could have had together. Eventually, she'd be hitting on cabana boys and getting wasted on margaritas."
"Okay, that last part was about your mom," Donna said pulling Eric's arms around her and wrapping her hands over the top of them. "But the rest of it I agree with. I even understood your dress reference. Although that scares me a little. Am I becoming more shallow or is Jackie becoming deeper?"
"Is that like when you ask me if your jeans make you look fat?" Eric asked.
"Are you saying I look fat, scrawny?"
"No, of course not darling."
"I don't feel so good," Fez said holding his stomach.
"Well, you shouldn't have eaten the entire right side of the candy display," Donna said."
"Can we go home now?" Fez whined.
Eric looked at his friend and nodded his head. "Fine, but if you puke in my car again, I'm drugging you and dropping you off across the border."
Everyone piled into the car. Kelso jumped in to sit in the middle of the back, wedged between Jackie and Hyde, an uncomfortable silence filled the car. Softly, Fez began to sing, "As time Goes By," Jackie and Donna joining in.
"You must remember this. A kiss is just a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply As time goes by.
And when two lovers woo They still say I love you"
"Ah, hmmmmmmhmmmhmmmmhmm." Fez hummed the part he couldn't remember the lines too and then the three sang loudly as he reached the only line they were sure of, "As time goes by." "From the top," Fez said grinning. Everyone in the car sang, "You must remember this. A kiss is just a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply. As time goes by."
Disclaimer: Still don't own That 70's Show. Parts of this are straight out Plagiarized from Casablanca, which I also don't own. Nor do I own I will Survive or As Time Goes By, although, I have been known to get up and boogey to Gainer's tune.
Part 3 A Sigh Is Just A Sigh
The gang stumbled into the darkened theater.
"Great. Just great," Eric grumbled. "We've missed the previews. Are you happy now?" A collective "shhh" sound came from the all ready-seated audience members. "Oh, SH yourself."
Donna grabbed Eric's arm and squeezed gently. "You've already seen that Bond preview like a dozen times." She quickly scanned the seats. They were too late to all get seats in the same row. "Ok, there are three over there. Jackie, Hyde and Fez take it. Eric and I will be in those two. And Kelso you can grab the one directly behind me."
"Why can't Hyde sit by himself and I sit with Jackie?"
"Because I need to give you that thing we had to stop for on the way here," she said patting her purse.
"Yeah, you just had to make a beer stop," Eric grumbled loudly.
Kelso cocked his head to the side and looked at Eric. "Dude, ixney on the beerney. You trying to get me thrown out."
Donna grabbed Kelso and Eric and dragged them to their seats. Jackie, Hyde and Fez quickly took off to their row and sat down. Fez's arms were loaded with candy, soda and popcorn.
Hyde looked over at Jackie and saw her lips moving. He couldn't hear what she was saying so he leaned in closer. Jackie was singly very softly to herself, "I spent so many nights just thinking how you did me wrong and I grew strong. I learned how to get along." Well, that told him how this night was going to end. He sat up straighter in his seat and focused on the movie. 'Boogey was cool. The quintessential Zen master. He'd never get all soft and fuzzy over a dame. He'd never get all twisted emotionally over a chick, even a really hot chick.' Hyde thought to himself. By the time Ingrid Bergman's character entered the show, Hyde knew that Bogart aka Rick was a goner.
Hyde/Rick: If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him,
you'll regret it.
Jackie/Ilsa: No.
Hyde/Rick: Maybe not today, and maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for
the rest of your life.
Jackie/Ilsa: What about us?
Hyde/Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have - we'd - we'd lost
it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Jackie/Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you...
Hyde/Rick: And you never will. I've got a job to do too. Where I'm
going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part
of.
Hyde/Rick: Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much
to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill
of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. (She
drops her head tearfully. He touches her chin and raises it to gently
bolster her up.) Now, now. Here's looking at you, kid.
Kelso/Victor, Ilsa's husband, approaches. He's everything Rick isn't.
He's younger, taller, pretty even. He leads his wife to the plane,
the fog rolling around them. Ilsa/Jackie looks back and says farewell
to Rick/Hyde.
As the plane takes off, Rick/Hyde is left to walk off into the night
not with the woman he loves, but with Captain Louis Renault/Fez.
Rick/Hyde: Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship.
People in the audience started collecting their things and heading towards the exit. The movement broke Hyde from his thoughts. He stood up quickly and stretched.
"That was so sad," Fez said, tears in his eyes, face covered in chocolate.
"You've been hanging around Foreman too long," Hyde complained. "You're starting to turn into a girl."
Jackie handed Fez a napkin. "Shut your pie hole."
Hyde looked at her. Her eyes were glistening with unshed tears. He clenched his hands into a fist to keep from reaching out and pulling her to him. "Let's go before Foreman decides to sit through the next showing just so he can see that stupid preview." He turned and started down the aisle, not waiting for Fez or Jackie. They could just catch up with him.
Fez blew his nose and looked at Jackie. "Why must the handsome foreign Captain be the only one to not get a girl? Fez needs loving too."
Jackie patted his arm and followed him down the aisle. As they caught up with Hyde, they saw Eric and Donna waiting for them in the lobby. Kelso was over near the refreshment counter talking to the young, cute blonde working there.
"Here's looking at you, kid," Eric said pointing his finger at Donna, in his best Bogart voice.
Donna laughed. "No."
"What Bogart is cool?!"
"On Bogart that's cool. On you it's just stupid," Hyde said.
"I just love that movie," Donna said, turning and walking out the door. "But how could they end it with her leaving with Victor?"
Kelso bounds up to them and stands between Hyde and Jackie. "The cute guy always gets the girl. It's a fact of nature."
"I agree with Donna," Eric said.
Jackie laughs. "No. Really? Color me shocked."
"Ahem," Eric said clearing his throat, "As I was saying before the forces of evil tried to interrupt me, Rick was just cool, with his white tuxedo and his cool lines, 'We'll always have Paris.'"
Hyde punches Eric. "Your gushing like a school girl."
"He was cool, but homely. Right Jackie?" Kelso asked.
"Yeah, Jackie, this was your first experience with Casablanca," Donna said smiling at her friend. "What did you think of it?"
"I think.Well, I think that it's the kind of movie that you could watch at different stages of your life and get different things from. Like I have these two dresses. One is hip and pink and has ruffles around the bodice. I bought it a few years ago because it was the thing then. But my dad bought me this basic black dress about the same time. It looks good on me too of course, because I have the coloring for it, I'm blessed that way, but anyway, I didn't care too much for it at the time. I thought it was too ..boring. But in the last couple of years, I've worn the black dress a lot and my pink dress is.out of fashion."
"Leave it to you to bring Casablanca down to a fashion lesson," Eric grumbled.
"And just what the heck does an ugly, black dress have to do with a hot babe running off with me," Kelso said. He grinned and ran his hand through his hair. "I mean Victor."
"It means at one point in my life, I might have said, 'what woman in her right mind is going to stay with a man who works at a casino in some Foreign country when she could be with a handsome guy with potential and money?'"
"I'm out of here," Hyde said as he started to cross the intersection and go in the opposite direction of his friends.
"Steven, wait," Jackie said, reaching out to grab his arm. "Wait. I might have said that at one time, but I would have been wrong. Because the movie really boiled down to a woman with two men.one who needed her and one she needed. She goes with Victor because he needed her and Rick didn't. And being needed feels good. But she'd never be happy. Victor would probably be hitting on the first stewardess he saw and she'd spend her life wondering whatever happened to Rick, what they could have had together. Eventually, she'd be hitting on cabana boys and getting wasted on margaritas."
"Okay, that last part was about your mom," Donna said pulling Eric's arms around her and wrapping her hands over the top of them. "But the rest of it I agree with. I even understood your dress reference. Although that scares me a little. Am I becoming more shallow or is Jackie becoming deeper?"
"Is that like when you ask me if your jeans make you look fat?" Eric asked.
"Are you saying I look fat, scrawny?"
"No, of course not darling."
"I don't feel so good," Fez said holding his stomach.
"Well, you shouldn't have eaten the entire right side of the candy display," Donna said."
"Can we go home now?" Fez whined.
Eric looked at his friend and nodded his head. "Fine, but if you puke in my car again, I'm drugging you and dropping you off across the border."
Everyone piled into the car. Kelso jumped in to sit in the middle of the back, wedged between Jackie and Hyde, an uncomfortable silence filled the car. Softly, Fez began to sing, "As time Goes By," Jackie and Donna joining in.
"You must remember this. A kiss is just a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply As time goes by.
And when two lovers woo They still say I love you"
"Ah, hmmmmmmhmmmhmmmmhmm." Fez hummed the part he couldn't remember the lines too and then the three sang loudly as he reached the only line they were sure of, "As time goes by." "From the top," Fez said grinning. Everyone in the car sang, "You must remember this. A kiss is just a kiss. A sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply. As time goes by."
