A/N: Thanks for all the reviews I really like writing this story and I figure it will all be over in about 3 chapters. I really appreciate the reception this fic has received and I have a few more ideas for future fics in my head so look out for a new fic sometime after this. J

Chapter Seven: Runaway.

Jackie just stood by the doorway shocked. Her fingers trembled as she opened the door wider, her legs felt weak as she tried to turn but her body wouldn't let her. Instead she stayed where she was watching her father betray them. Dawn saw her and continued to kiss him at was as if she wanted to hurt Jackie. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she looked on, the salty trails stinging her face. The moment only lasted a mere few seconds before Jackie bolted out of the room and dashed down the hallway. Jackie's heart pounded within her chest and the one of the most important people in her life had betrayed her. Questions of how long it had been going on and whether her mother knew swam around her already crowded head. She grabbed on to the rail as she flew down the stairs. She needed to get out of the house. No longer does she see it as her childhood home but as a place of infidelity and lying.

Just before she reached the door she stopped and saw her reflection in the mirror on the wall. She stared at her reflection and saw the weak, dependent person she had always been. Naïve innocent Jackie, too trusting even Steven told you that. You should have listened. And now you are staring at your pathetic self in the mirror snivelling like the little daddy's girl you have always been. Well guess what princess your dad isn't so great. He isn't the superhero you thought he was and reality has finally hit you. He is a scumbag like most men! Jackie's internal monologue of

self-loathing, and self pity ended when she heard feet move around above her. She took the mirror and threw it against the wall. Tiny pieces of glass shattered on the floor with a resounding crash. Jackie turned and ran.

Hyde sat on the couch in the living room with Eric, Donna and Kitty. Red was in his usual arm chair. Hyde kept looking at the clock wondering where Jackie was. They left her at her house over two hours ago and she only had to pick up some stuff. Eric could see Hyde's agitation and smiled.

" Hyde are you worried about Jackie cos she hasn't been gone that long?"

Red shifted in his chair and turned his attention to Hyde.

" So you and the bossy one have finally got together. I was worried I was gonna have to witness you making googly eyes at her for the rest of your life. And if you didn't stop than I would of had intervened…with my foot up your ass!" Red groaned.

Kitty circled around and placed a tray of cupcakes on the table.

" Oh hush Red I think it is sweet that my two boys how found their one true loves. I remember love…why don't you ever show me you love me. It's been a while you know. And before you say anything twenty minutes is not love!"

Everybody looked at Red who just huffed and grabbed a cupcake.

" Nice." Hyde said while smiling at Mrs Forman.

" Can it Steven!" Red ordered.

" You know as you grow older and turning into a man, I swear you are turning into a dumbass smart mouth like Eric!"

Eric butted in. " Hey dad I can't be a dumbass and a smart mouth I can only be one or the other!"

" Red don't worry I am not a wuss like Eric!" Hyde got up and paced towards the door.

" Oh really than why are you headed towards the door peering out for your girlfriend!"

Hyde walked back towards the couch and sat back down.

" I'm just worried as she has been getting these creepy messages and stuff and there is some psycho on the loose!" Hyde groaned.

" Yeah in the guise of a peppy cheerleader!"

Donna put her arm around Eric. " Look we don't know that Dawn had anything to do with that. And Jackie said she'll tell us if anything else had happened."

" Well Donna I hope your right! Red are can't believe one of the cheerleaders is a psycho….I mean they are just so peppy!" Kitty said.

" Well believe it mom and she is even having an…" Eric stopped before he went to far but by the looks of intrigue on his parents and Donna's face and the look of anger on Hyde's he already knew he went to far. Donna put her hand on Eric's shoulder and harshly turned him around.

" Having a what Eric?" Donna enquired.

" Forman you say another word and I swear I will pummel you into Thursday!" Hyde yelled.

At this point everyone had gathered around Eric. Questions of what and who filled the air until Eric couldn't take it anymore.

" Shut up!" Eric yelled and everyone was silent.

" I'll tell you. Hyde and I followed Dawn the psycho cheerleader and we followed her to Jackie's house and……" Eric trailed off. Hyde just looked at him and begged him to not say anything but Eric had to he couldn't take the combined threats of no dinner, no sex and a foot up the ass from Kitty, Donna and Red.

" Come on Eric…spill the beans what is the big secret?" Donna pushed.

Eric took a step back. " Dawn is having an affair with Mr Burkhart!" He yelled.

At that moment Jackie opened the door and heard everything. She starting laughing and slowly Eric's, Donna's , Kitty's, Red's and Hyde's gaze fell upon her. Hyde tried to walk towards her but she put her arm out to stop him.

" Don't!" She said as her voice broke. " Just don't okay!"

Jackie entered the room further and closed the door. The room was so silent, it scared Hyde.

" Steven I was on my way over here to tell you that I had just seen my father in bed with Dawn but what do I also find out that everybody knows about it first." A tear fell down her cheek and Hyde wanted to hole her.

" The two most important men in my life are lying to me!"

Donna walked towards Jackie. " Look Jackie I am really sorry, and I just found out now!"

" It doesn't matter. It's not your fault…..but Steven and Eric knew. When were you gonna tell me or did you want me to find out this way?"

Hyde walked over to where Donna was. " Jackie I wanted to tell you. I wanted to tell you so many times but how could I tell you something like that, I didn't want to see you hurt!"

" You could have told me Steven. I could have handled it. I'm not this little fragile being all you guys think I am. I actually can take care of my self. Hell I have been doing it long enough!" Jackie yelled through her tears. Donna enveloped her in a hug and Jackie didn't try to fight her off.

" Sweetie what do you mean?" Kitty asked.

" You know what it doesn't matter. I have been lied to my whole life. By my parents, by Michael but Steven I never thought you would lie to me about something this serious."

" I didn't lie I just didn't tell you!" Hyde yelled back. He wanted more than anything to take Jackie in his arms and make her feel better but she wasn't making it easy for him.

"And Jackie I knew that this doesn't help but technically not everyone knows. I mean Kelso and Fez don't even know." Eric added.

" You know what Eric your right that didn't help! You guys are my best friends, you're my only friends and you lied."

" Jackie if you perhaps opened your big eyes than maybe you would have sensed something. So don't yell at me about lying to you, which I did to protect you cos you were too dumb to notice what was happening under your own nose for months!" Hyde yelled. Hyde just snapped. He didn't understand why she couldn't get why he lied to her.

At that moment Jackie's heart broke in two. She pulled herself from Donna and stared at Hyde. She then ran out of the house and dashed to her car.

" Steven honey, you shouldn't have said that!" Kitty pointed out.

Hyde ran out of the house to catch up with Jackie but before he could she had already drove away. All Hyde could see was the grey of her fathers Lincoln. After a few seconds he saw the rest walk out of the house. Eric put his hand of Hyde's shoulder.

Hyde grabbed his car keys from his back pocket and walked to the El Camino. He opened the door and Red stopped him.

" Steven what do you think you are doing?"

" I need to go and find Jackie and make her listen to me." He said.

" No you are gonna give her some much needed space and let her think about all the stuff that is in her head and then you are gonna let her come back here to you when she wants to." Red assured Hyde.

" Yeah man. She was angry and hurt so you should just let her think for a while." Eric added.

" Yeah sweetie she just needs to sort it out herself." Kitty said as she guided a reluctant Hyde back into the kitchen.

Jackie just drove in her father's car, she had no idea where she was going and right now she didn't care. She stared at the open road and lapped up the fresh air that was coming in through the semi-open window. Jackie breathed in and wiped the tears from her face. She stared at herself in the mirror and wiped away the thick black lines of mascara that her tears had caused.

" Look at you, your crying as if this was the first time a man has ever hurt you. When it comes down to it they are all the same they all give in to their biological urges to sleep with skank's." She harshly said to herself.

Much of the pain in her voice was caused by her father but some belonged to Kelso's betrayal so long ago. Jackie stopped the car on an abandoned street and just sat. She looked out into the dark sky and thought of Steven. She really wanted to hate him for lying to her and then yelling at her but she was so consumed by the pain she already felt she didn't have enough energy to hate him. She turned on the radio and heard the sweet melodic voice of Todd Rundgren flow through the air. At that moment all she wanted was for Steven to put his arms around her and tell her that everything was going to be fine. She closed her eyes and could almost feel him put his arms around her but opened her eyes and heard the roar of another car on the not so abandoned street. She started the car and drove on. Even though she didn't want to go back to her own house she felt as though she didn't have anywhere to go. She couldn't go to the Forman's and face Steven just yet. She at least needed to collect her thoughts and pluck up the courage to speak to her father. She turned and took the road that lead her to her house.

Steven just looked towards the ceiling of the small backroom that he was sleeping in. His conscious wouldn't let him sleep and right now he didn't really want to. He looked towards his watch and it read quarter past eleven. Hyde tossed and turned in his bed and each time he closed his eyes he saw the look on her face as she walked into the Forman living room. If Eric and Mrs Forman hadn't been then to stop him Hyde would have tore up the whole town looking for her. Something inside of him pulled at it wouldn't let go until he knew she was alright.

But Hyde knew that being alright would be an understatement of the century considering what Jackie just found out that her boyfriend and friends were lying to her about the fact that her scumbag of a father would much prefer to have fun with his teenage bit of skirt than spend time with his daughter. Who Hyde happened to think was one of the best people he knew.

He leaned over and took out a tiny picture of Jackie he kept in the bottom draw of the chest of draws. It was lightly bent but Jackie looked as beautiful as she ever did it pictures. Hyde just gazed at the photo and just knew that she was destined to be so much more than the small town of Point Place. In that second Hyde wanted so much to get up and try to find her but deep down he knew that Eric was right she needed time to think things through he just wished he could help her with it.

Jackie found herself outside her house. She saw that her car was the only car in the driveway and knew that her dad was gone, probably to a meeting or taking Dawn home. Jackie absently walked through the house like she did earlier but headed straight her room. She gently pushed the door to her room open and was greeted by a scent of sweet flowers, she recognised the smell that penetrated her senses. It was not her own perfume but her mothers. Jackie entered the dark room and for a fleeting moment she actually thought her mom was in there with her. She jumped and turned around as she heard her bedroom door close. The room was really dark and was about to flip the light when it was already done for her.

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