A/N: thank you so much for the reviews I'm so sorry that it took so long my aol was broke. Enjoy this chapter.
Chapter 3 Conversations & Tears
Once they got home it was 6 o'clock. Donna looked up as they entered through the kitchen door.
"Hey where'd you guys go?"
"The hub." Stevie said happily sitting down at the kitchen table and looked at what Donna was doing.
"Hey what are you doing?"
"I'm knitting for my baby." Stevie nodded trying not to laugh while Hyde and Jackie weren't good at controlling theirs.
"What? What is so funny?" Donna asked getting annoyed.
Jackie shook her head, "nothing Donna it's just that well...you knitting."
Jackie said letting go and bursting into giggles.
"What? What is so funny about me knitting?"
"Well you're Donna Pinciotti-Foremen. You don't knit, Donna, it's just kinda creepy. I mean Jackie knits don't you Jacks?"
Jackie stopped giggling and tried to control her expression. Steven had not called her that in years, maybe he still had feelings for her? No, no he married the stripper, he couldn't still love or like for that matter her.
"Um, um, no actually, I never knit anything for Stevie." Jackie said stuttering.
"What you said that you did." Stevie said abruptly looking at her mother.
"No, hun, I lied."
"Jackie does that a lot actually." Hyde muttered, just as Fez, Ben, and Kelso walked in.
"I do NOT lie a lot, well ok there was that time when I had to go shopping with Eric, oh and the other time when I said Fez was my fiancee then going to the wedding with him. Oh and then there was that other time when we went to clean out my parents cabin and—"
"See! Jackie you lie a lot especially to me!" Hyde said smirking with satisfaction.
"Oh God can't you guys just sleep together to get rid of the tension!" Kelso said butting in.
Stevie started laughing at her moms stunned face.
"No that was a long time ago and over with and, and, I'm going to go make the bed." Jackie said flustered and headed towards the living room door.
Hyde shrugged going into Zen to get away from Kelso's comment, then headed downstairs. Stevie decided to follow him and headed downstairs too.
"Hey can I talk to you for a second?" Stevie asked as she finished walking down the stairs.
Hyde shrugged, "sure why not I wanna ask you some stuff too."
Stevie walked over to the couch and sat down silence hovered over the pair. "Did you and my mom date?" Stevie asked bluntly.
"Yeah, for awhile."
"Is that why she hates you?" Hyde laughed. "We hated each other for awhile, I mean she and Kelso dated, that's how I met her, we hated each other. Then Kelso cheated on her with Laurie–"
"Eric's sister?"
Hyde nodded. "Yeah he thought that he could date them both at the same time, it didn't work so cool. Jackie found out, dumped his sorry ass."
"Then?"
"Well then Kelso and Laurie started dating openly and Jackie hung out in the basement more with me—"
"is that how you guys started going out?" For some reason Stevie really wanted her mother to go out with this guy, it wasn't that he was nice to her cause he hadn't been it was more as if her mom and Hyde BELONGED together. There was just something about Hyde that she wanted her mom to be with, maybe because they fought or maybe because she didn't want the stupid one, kelso, to be her real father.
"Stevie! Hyde come and eat."
They walked upstairs and were surprised to see Jackie serving the dishes more Hyde was surprised to see Jackie working in a kitchen, Stevie just shrugged and went to sit down at her first meal to be eaten in Point Place, Wisconsin.
"Jackie are you WORKING?" Jackie rolled her eyes and slammed the plate in his hands.
"Yes I am in fact working, Steven, don't look so surprised."
"I'd have thought that you would have a maid."
"A maid? We can't even pay the electric bill sometimes." Jackie glared at her daughter. The table was filled with an awkward silence which was interrupted by a shrill voice.
"Oh my god! Jackie!" Jackie was embraced in a bone breaking hug.
"I haven't seen you forever! And oh my god a little Jackie! You're married! With a child!" Laurie pulled back and went to hug the 10 year old who moved back slightly and positioned her body as if to say touch-me-and-you-die. Laurie laughed it off, "she's SO cute! Like a pumpkin! But not."
Jackie looked at her strangely.
"Laurie changed a little." Hyde said in her ear."
Jackie nodded and tried not to shudder as his breath brushed her ear. "Oh well in that case, Hi Laurie and this is Stevie my daughter, and no I'm not married."
Laurie's nice act died and she laughed. "I always new you were going to be the first of us to wind up pregnant, I mean you went wild when Hyde got married."
Jackie's mouth dropped open. "Are you talking to me?"
"Yes I mean you were always kinda slutty, dating first Kelso, then Hyde, oh and don't forget a date with Fez, my husband!" Laurie screamed, causing the table to go quiet and Jackie to look shocked.
What was the matter with Laurie what did SHE do to her? The shock was starting to were off and anger was starting to take its place. Then she remembered something from long ago.
"Whatever." Jackie said nonchalantly and shrugged, sitting back down.
Everyone looked astonished by her attitude especially Laurie. "Hey! I just insulted you! Say something back!"
Jackie shrugged and helped herself to some mashed potatoes. Hyde smiled and sat next to her.
"The years have perfected your Zen." he whispered in her ear.
She smiled to herself and patted the seat next to her, "hun come eat."
Stevie sat down and tried to act like the whole scene didn't happen. He mother was usually a total hothead, but all of a sudden she was so...uncaring, ironically to a very bitter comment when she got so mad at easy things like leaving something lying around. Stevie wondered where she had learned that, she'd want to borrow the trick since she had sort of an anger problem sometimes, especially at school.
"Hey mom can I borrow that trick." she muttered looking up at her mother.
Jackie laughed and nodded, "but I'm not much of a teacher you'll have to ask Steven, he taught me. Maybe I'll tell you the story one time."
Stevie smiled. Her mother was her total idol she could withstand anything, and everything. Stevie started to eat silently, this was a lot better then her mothers cooking at home in New York City. She looked towards her mom starting to say something, then she stopped, Jackie and Hyde were talking to each other in hushed tones. Stevie smiled, this was going to be an interesting Christmas.
Stevie hopped onto the couch, the bed was all made out with covers and pillows. She looked towards her mother who was suppose to be following her. Stevie sighed and leaned back turning the television on and started channel switching. She finally stopped on a movie, Breakfast Club, she loved that movie. She glanced towards the doors waiting for her mom, wasn't she suppose to come to bed yet? Where was she?
Stevie gave up trying to watch the movie and went into the kitchen seeing if anyone was in there, nope. She then went upstairs, she heard Eric and Donna talking and decided to listen, she had nothing else to do.
"You think he's going to find out?" Donna voice asked floating through the thin wood.
Suddenly Stevie got very interested who were they talking about? A guy obviously but what did he have to find out.
"Donna I personally think that he is smart enough to figure that out, I mean he's smart, they look alike a lot and they have the same personalities."
"How do you know that?"
"I don't, but you can tell."
Stevie was getting more and more interested as the conversation progressed. Who were they talking about?
"Eric that sounds stupid."
"It does not! Fine here they look alike they have the same eye color. Happy?"
"Yeah, kinda" Eric laughter leaked into the hall way where Stevie sat next to the door.
"Come on Eric, H—"
"what are you doing by the door?" a voice asked loudly.
Stevie turned around fast and looked to see Laurie standing there with a smirk across her face.
"Listening are you?" Stevie panicked, what should she say?
"No I was, I lost my earring." Laurie's eyebrows raised, and Eric and Donna's door opened.
"Stevie? What are you doing here?" Stevie looked around trying to think of something to say and fast.
"Um well see I lost my earring and well—" she broke off suddenly thinking of something that always worked when she was caught doing something she wasn't suppose. She started crying. Big fat tear drops fell down her face, and she started wailing, she fell to the ground and put her head in her hands.
"What did you do Laurie?" Eric yelled over the 10 year olds sobs.
Laurie looked bewildered. " you were standing right there Eric I didn't do anything! She just started crying randomly!"
Donna bent down next to the crying girl. "Stevie, sweetie? Are you alright?"
Yes! They forgot that she was listening into there conversation, Stevie smiled into her pajama pants. "No! I'm not! I have no! N-n-no fffattheer!" she wailed the last part. "Everyone has to rub that in!" She said playing the father card.
Donna and Eric turned to Laurie. "What did you say to her out her."
"Nothing she just started crying! I asked what she was—"
"Stevie what the hell are you doing?"
Stevie stopped crying abruptly, crap her mother was here. Her mother had taught her the crying trick, so she would defiantly not buy the fact that she was one really crying and two was upset she had no father. Well not that Stevie would tell her, she liked living only with her mother, it was fun, sometimes, though she wanted a non-absent father. Someone to depend on besides her mother. Stevie was determined to see how far she could take this.
"What did you guys do?" Jackie asked looking at the 3 guilty faces.
"Nothing! she was listening outside Donna and Eric's door and I came up here and all of a sudden she just started crying."
Jackie rolled her eyes and started laughing.
"I don't get it." Hyde said looking at the people in the hallway.
"Me neither. You're laughing because you're daughter's crying?" Eric asked appalled. "Jeez, you really are the devil."
Jackie laughed trying to control her giggles. "She's not crying."
" are you crazy she's sobbing!" Donna yelled.
Jackie shook her head. "She's not crying, it's a trick, I taught her. When you get caught doing something, or are in trouble, anything you wanna get out of, you start crying, really big tears." Jackie shook her head and smiled. "She did a pretty good job of it too. Especially playing the-I-have-no -father card." Jackie walked over to her daughter, and pulled her up.
"Pretty good!" Jackie said looking at her.
Stevie smirked a very similar smirk to Hyde's. "Thank you, I just had to add the I have no father card in, you know give it effect."
The 4 adults mouths were wide open. "My god Jackie you are raising the devil." Eric muttered.
Stevie and Jackie laughed. "But she's my devil."
Stevie nodded and looked up at them.
"A very good devil, you're a really good crier, how do you do that?" Donna asked.
Stevie smiled. "Easy!"
"How?"
"Family secret." Stevie and Jackie said together.
Donna scowled. "Right."
"So what were you doing?" Jackie asked hands on her hips.
Stevie looked down, "I lost my earring?" She said more as a question then an excuse.
"Stevie you don't HAVE your ears pierced." Stevie scowled at the ground.
"So what were you really doing?" Stevie looked up and crossed her arms looking off into the distance.
"Oh God Jackie I'm so sorry!" Donna exclaimed all of a sudden. Jackie looked at her.
"Why what did you do?"
"I- we, were discussing some uh stuff and I think Stevie heard."
Jackie's eyes got really big. "WHAT?"
Donna shrank back from the little pixie, Hyde looked at Jackie surprised.
"What you— Stevie what did you hear?" Stevie looked up at her mother, what was so important in that conversation to have wigged her mother out that much.
"Nothing, not much just someone they were talking about, who someone else looks like, nothing very interesting, till you hear a name." Stevie shrugged, Laurie looked back and forth bewildered. What was going on?
"What's going on?"
"Nothing." Jackie snapped rubbing her head.
"Oh is this about you and Hyde?" Laurie asked.
"When you found out you were—" "GO AWAY LAURIE!" Jackie yelled.
Laurie rolled her eyes then went into her and Fez's room.
Jackie shook her head then headed back downstairs. Hyde looked at her, then grabbed her hand before she went downstairs.
"What? What was she going to say about us?" Jackie pulled her arm back.
"Nothing I'm, I'm going to bed its late."
"Jackie it's 10:13."
"So? It's my vacation on vacations you sleep a lot, anyway I have to get up early, we have to go Christmas shopping."
"We?" Hyde asked wondering who she was talking about.
"Yeah me and Stevie."
"Oh." Hyde sighed hoping for a split scecond she was referring to him, then an idea came to him, why didn't he make so excuse to go with her. Man wasn't life ironic 11 years ago he would have sacrificed his arm not to go with Jackie but now all he wanted to do was sacrifice his arm TO BE WITH HER.
"Wait isn't Christmas in like a week?" Eric said.
"Yeah but I have to get a few extra presents."Jackie said as casually as saying what's up.
"Jackie Point Place is wiped out!"
"Oh I know were to go don't worry." Jackie said shaking her head at Donna.
"I'll go too." Hyde said surprising everyone.
"Why?" Jackie asked bluntly.
"Well cause I have to get yours and Stevie presents, this IS a surprise visit and no on told me 2 extra people would be here so...I need more presents."
Jackie shrugged. "Sure, Come on Stevie we have to go to bed a busy day awaits us."
Stevie got up and headed towards the steps. Tomorrow was going to be very interesting wasn't it, she thought casually.
Hope you enjoyed, ignore the spelling mistakes, if there are anyway. I'll try to get the next chappie up tomorrow.