A/N: In this story season 8 never happened. At the end of season 7 Hyde and Jackie got back together. Kelso never showed up with a towel on and Hyde never married a stripper.

Hyde and Jackie had been living in their new apartment for about 5 months now. Jackie had finally convinced Hyde to move out of the Forman's basement since he was over 20 after all. Red couldn't have been happier but Kitty cried for days. She soon got over her emotions when she realized that she saw Hyde more since he moved out then she did when he lived there. He and Jackie came over for dinner almost every night, after all no one ever accused Jackie of being a great cook!

Soon after coming home from Chicago Jackie decided that since she loved to share her knowledge of beauty with the less fortunate girls of the world like Donna, she would start taking classes to become a makeup artist. She had just graduated from the 6 month program and had her first job at the TV station doing makeup for the news anchors.

All the good and bad times she and Hyde had been through only made them stronger. After getting back together in Chicago Hyde had told Jackie that getting married was just not what he wanted at that time. But he did want to be with her. Jackie decided to accept Hyde for who he was. Living with him would be enough. She found that when she quit bugging him about the whole marriage thing they really got along.

Jackie stopped by the record store on her way home from work. She wanted to see her pudding pop and couldn't wait until he came home from the record store. When she got there she found the usual, Leo and Randy and lots of kids looking through the records. But WB was also there, which was not the usual. He normally stopped by only every couple of weeks. He preferred to see Hyde outside of business. WB and Hyde seemed like they were having a serious conversation. Since she couldn't stand being left out of anything she walked up to Hyde and began listening in.

"Jackie what are you doing? I'm trying to talk to my father here."

"I know and it looked interesting so I thought I would see what it was about."

"Well Jackie, Steven and I are having a little disagreement. It seems that my son doesn't want to go to New York for a weekend business seminar."

"Steven, why don't you want to go?" Jackie asked; she couldn't believe that he didn't want to go to New York.

"Jackie you know that I'm not a seminar kind of guy. I would have to dress up and wear a tie. Plus I would have to leave the store to Leo and Randy and we know what happened last time I left the store."

"Yeah but that time it was just Leo. Now Randy's here and he's responsible. I think you should go. And make sure you bring me back a lot of cute things." She said while jumping up and down and clapping.

"Fine, I'll go. But if I do it I want a vacation when I get back."

"Steven you're my son. You can have a vacation anytime you want" And with that WB left the store.

"Damn it!"

"Oh Steven cheer up. It's just a weekend."

"So what are you doing her babe?'

"I just thought I would stop by to see you." She said leaning in to give him a kiss.

Glancing at his watch and putting an arm around Jackie. "Well its five o' clock, time to head to the Forman's. Come on babe lets drive over there."

The two headed out of the store leaving Leo and Randy to close up.

After they had come home from their dinner with Kitty and Red, Hyde grabbed a beer and heading to their bed room to begin packing a suitcase for the weekend trip he was dreading. Jackie had just gotten out of the shower and was sitting on their bed in a robe with her hair rolled up in a towel doing her nails. Hyde couldn't help but smile. He loved it when Jackie was like this. No makeup and barely anything on. He just couldn't stop himself from crawling into the bed with her, wrapping her in his arms and kissing her neck.

"Steven stop it. I'm trying to file my nails."

"I know but you're so beautiful when you're like this." He said in between kisses. Jackie had to kiss him back after that comment. It wasn't often that Hyde was like this. After a short make out session Jackie pulled away and returned to her nails. With a slight groan Hyde got off the bed and when back to what he had originally started.

Hyde left that Friday. He had put his suitcase in the El Camino and kissed Jackie goodbye. He told her he would call when he got settled in his hotel. Jackie waved as he drove away and went back inside to get ready for work.

Jackie arrived back to there apartment around 4:30. She made herself a cup of tea and began reading through a magazine. She had told Mrs. Forman she couldn't make it for dinner. That she wanted to be home for Hyde's phone call. Donna was coming over instead and they were going to get take out. Around 6 Donna showed up with Chinese food.

"So, heard from Hyde yet?"

"No. And I'm a little worried. He should have been there by now."

"Well you know Hyde. He probably went to a bar or something. I'm sure he'll call."

"Yeah, you're probably right. Well let's eat. There's a movie on TV tonight that I want to see."

"Ok, cool."

Donna and Jackie had a good time hanging out together but Jackie couldn't help looking at the clock every thirty minutes or so. She kept feeling like something was wrong. Donna had sensed that Jackie was a little uneasy. She tried to keep Jackie's mind off of it. Hyde was being a real jerk not calling and all.

"Donna, do you think I should call the hotel that he is staying at?"

"Yeah, that's a good idea. I'm sure he just forgot to call. Call that boy and make him feel guilty."

Jackie picked up the phone and called the number of the hotel. Donna could see in the way Jackie was fiddling with the phone cord that she was upset.

"Yes Hello. May I be connected to Steven Hyde's room please?" Pause. "What? What do you mean?" Pause. "Are you sure?" Pause. "Ok, thank you." Jackie hung up the phone and turned around in Donna's direction. She looked as though she had seen a ghost.

"What happened? What did they say?" Donna jumped off the couch and walked straight to Jackie.

"He never checked in. Donna I'm really worried, what if he had a wreck or something?"

"Ok, well let's just calm down and think. Maybe we should call Mrs. Forman. She'll know what to do."

Within 15 minutes Kitty was at the apartment. When she got Donna's call she knew Jackie would need her.

"Ok" She said walking in the door and hugging Jackie. "We need to call the police and see if any wrecks were reported. Then we'll call the hospitals."

After an hour on the phone with numerous hospitals from Point Place to New York they had no where else to go. The police had no information and neither did the hospitals. No wrecks had been reported involving an El Camino and no one matching Hyde's description had been taken into the hospitals. The police told them they would have to wait 24 hours for it to be considered a missing person and that sometimes people left on purpose not wanting to be found.

Jackie refused to believe that Steven would leave her. They had been so happy lately. She had a sick feeling in her gut, she new something bad had happened. Why had she ever told him to go?

That night Jackie stayed with the Forman's. No one slept; they were all waiting on news from Hyde or from the police.

The next day around noon the phone rang, startling everyone including Red. Kitty answered it. It was a police officer. They had found an El Camino Just outside of Madison. It seemed that Hyde had run off the road and down a hill. The car had burst into flames but no one was able to see it from the road. There was no body. Everything had burned.

Without even hearing what the officer said Jackie burst into tears. She knew from the look on Kitty's face that he was gone.