Sitting with a very bored expression on his face, Hyde looked at the clock once again. One more day and he'd be outta that hell hole. He sighed, and looked down at his lap. He'd convinced Jackie to go on back to Donna's to get some rest. She'd been there for more than half the time, and each day she wasn't looking any better. Sleep wise, that is.
Hyde looked at the clock, ten to three o'clock. Usually he'd either be at work, or in the circle. Most likely the circle since he skipped work a lot. Or in a circle at work since his boss didn't mind. It wasn't until the door opened that Hyde's interest took a different peak.
"Leo? Man, whaddyah doin' here?"
The hippy smiled and pointed a thumb behind him. "He found me."
Kelso walked into the hospital room, his hands in his coat pockets. He looked pretty proud of himself. Behind him Fez walked in.
"Kelso man." Hyde was a bit speechless. "I thought…"
"Yeah, well." Kelso shrugged. "We ran into Leo."
"Yes," Fez nodded. "He gave us advice."
Hyde raised an eyebrow and pointed to Leo, "He gave you advice?"
The group nodded.
"And it worked?"
Another nod.
"Yeah, see," Kelso started. "We were gonna go out and get the dude that shot you."
"But they ran into me instead." Leo cut in.
"Yeah, and then while I was giving him a ride home, we got into this deep conversation about life and death and stuff."
Hyde raised both eyebrows this time.
"It was like, this whole spiritual thing I did a few years ago, man." Leo explained. "Totally got me thinkin'."
"And that's when we realized that killin' that guy wasn't gonna do us any good," Kelso went on. " 'Cause according to Leo, killin' a man only gets you in hard times with 'the man', man. And when you're not good with 'the man', then man are you in trouble. Get it?"
Hyde looked slightly confused, but ended up nodding anyways. "Sure, Kelso. So, uh, wha'dja do with the gun?"
"Huh? Oh, we gave it back. We figured it wasn't so smart to have a gun in the van with 'the man' watching us." Kelso glanced up and the ceiling and winked, "I'm bein' a good boy this year."
Satisfied with their entry and speech, Kelso, Fez and Leo turned to leave. "Hey Leo," Hyde called. Our long haired friend turned, awaiting. Hyde had a small smile on his face. "Thanks man."
Leo shrugged, clueless to what his friend meant, "No problem. Hey I'll bring yah a gift from that spiritual thing next time I go, kay?"
Hyde nodded, "Sounds good man."
