A/N Sorry it took so long again. But It was worth the wait. In this chapter the lovers are reunited! Enjoy!
Hyde drove all through the night making his way to New York. He was very tired but he didn't want to stop and rest. He only wanted to get to Jackie. The whole drive he had been thinking of her and the baby. He was going to be a father, he had always thought that would scare him, but the more he thought about it the more he was excited. All he wanted to do was explain the whole marriage to Sam thing and tell her that he wanted her to come back home and be with him.
Finally Hyde found the street that Jackie lived on. He turned down the road and parked the car into a near by parking lot. He took in a deep breath and got out. Hyde glanced at the envelope Jackie had sent, yep it was the right address, he thought. The only thing left to do was actually talk to her. Hyde walked up to the front door and saw the name Burkhart written beside a buzzer. He wanted to press it but he was afraid that she wouldn't buzz him in when she found out he was there, he would have to find another way into Jackie's apartment.
He didn't have to wait long. Soon another person who lived in the brownstone opened the door with his key. Hyde quickly caught the door before it closed and entered as well. Jackie's envelope said that she lived in apartment 2B. Here goes nothing he thought as walked up the flight of stairs to the second floor. He stood before her door frozen, staring at the shiny brass letters that indicated which apartment he was at. Somehow he couldn't bring himself to knock; his mind was racing with excuses. Maybe she wasn't awake yet it was early in the morning after all? Maybe she would call the police and have him arrested? But he had to do this. He brought his hand up to the door just as Jackie was opening it.
"Steven?" Jackie screamed as she jumped back in fear. "Oh my god you scared me. Wait…what are you doing here?"
"I…I had to talk to you"
"Steven there isn't anything to say."
"Well, there might be something to say. Can't I at least come in?"
"Steven I have to go to work. Why don't you go back to your hotel and come back around 5:00. Then I'll think about talking."
"I don't have a hotel room Jackie! I drove straight through the night to talk to you."
"Well I have to go to work Steven. You'll just have to find something to do with yourself while…"
"Jackie I know about the baby." Hyde said cutting her off.
"What?" She said with a stricken look on her face.
"Donna told me, that's why I'm here."
"Damn her!" Jackie mumbled to herself. "Look Steven. I don't know what all she told you, but it really doesn't matter that I'm pregnant ok. You don't have to worry about it. You might as well just go back to Point Place. Go back to your life and your record store and your precious wife." Jackie made a nasty emphasis on the word wife.
"Jackie I don't have a wife."
"What are you talking about?" Jackie practically yelled. "You know what, I don't have time for this. I have to go to work." Jackie closed her door and locked it. She gave Hyde one more look and turned to walk away. Hyde watched her until he could no longer see her. Every part of him felt sick. Sure he hadn't thought this would be easy, but he didn't think she would be this apprehensive towards him. He knew he would have to be more creative then just showing up and begging her to talk. Before long a grin began to sneak across Hyde's lips, he knew just the way to get her attention.
Jackie stood in front of her door exhausted. She had just come home from working an eight hour shift at the Estee Lauder counter giving Donna like girls makeovers, and being pregnant only made her more tired. All day her mind had been on Steven. She couldn't believe he was there, why did every turn seem to make her life more difficult. She let out a heavy breath and slid the key into her door. Upon slightly opening the door Jackie could tell that something seemed different to her; she pushed the door all the way open to see an array of candles in her living room. Steven was seated on her couch and was holding a bouquet of roses.
"Oh my god Steven, what is this about?" Jackie wanted to be mad at him. She wanted to be mad that he had come to New York and messed up her plans to be independent, but seeing the very un-Hyde-like jester, she couldn't bring herself to be angry.
"Jackie, before you say anything else just listen, because I'm only saying this once." He cleared his throat. "Jackie, I want you to come back home to Point Place with me. I want to get married and raise our baby together." He calmly and assertively said, looking to her to receive an answer.
"Oh Steven. That's all I've every wanted to hear from you. And I really want that too, but it's not that easy."
"Jackie, what do you mean it's not that easy? I love you and we'll make it work."
"Steven I love you too, but I mean that even if I go back to Point Place with you we can't raise the baby. It's not our baby anymore. I signed papers saying I would give that baby to a couple who couldn't have children." Jackie began to cry as she let out her words. She hated that she had to give up her baby, but she wanted her child to live in a home where it could have anything it wanted and she knew that she couldn't give her baby that.
Hyde jumped from his seat and enveloped Jackie in a hug. He led her to the couch and stroked her hair as she cried on his shoulder. Jackie couldn't believe how great Steven was being. She lifted her head to look into his eyes. She had so much love for him, and she could see that he felt the same way. He pulled her lips into a passionate kiss for the first time in 3 months. Jackie kissed back just as passionately.
"I've missed you." She said.
"I've missed you too. So does this mean that you'll come back home?"
"Steven I want to more than anything, but what about the baby and the papers?"
"Jackie I don't know what we're going to do but we're going to fix it somehow."
They looked into each others eyed and began to smile. It had been too long since they had shared a moment like this one. Jackie's face suddenly changes from happiness to confusion.
"Steven, how did you get in here?"
"Come on Jackie, it's me we're talking about. I have my ways."
"Well however you did it, it's really sweet."
"Enjoy it; it'll probably never happen again."
"Oh, Steven!" She said giving him a light slap on the chest.
"Hey Jacks, you haven't asked why I don't have a wife anymore."
"Oh, I guess I was just enjoying the moment. I didn't want to spoil it you know. But now that you bring it up, I would like to know what you were talking about in the hall earlier."
Hyde began to relay the whole story to Jackie. Jackie couldn't have been happier. This meant that their marriage would be his first marriage not his second. The two spent the rest of the night just talking to each other. They were both excited about the baby and talked about it most. Wandering what it would be, a boy or a girl and thinking of names. Before they new it, they could see the sun coming in through the window. Jackie decided to skip work. Instead she wanted to make up lost time with Steven!
