A/n: thankx SO much i will be writing a sequal i think. I already have to idea for it. So I'm excited to start. I'm really happy u guys are liking Stevie, I tried to make her a mix between Hyde and Jackie I hope I'm doing a good job. I'm also happy that you guys enjoy the pace were I am taking Jackie and Hyde, in there relationship. in my opinion I think Jackie wouldn't jump back into a relationship with Hyde because of everything happening (or so I've heard) on season 8. Enjoy chapter 12:
Chapter 12 House shopping.
A couple of days had gone by and Jackie was checking the paper for apartments or houses in her money range.
"What are you doing?" Stevie asked coming into the kitchen.
"House shopping?" Jackie said not looking up from the paper.
"Really so we are seriously moving here?" she asked.
"Why you don't want to now?" Jackie asked this time looking up from the paper.
"No, I want to I just well, am I going to finish this school year?" Stevie asked.
"Yeah, I have to make a few changes you know and it'll probably take awhile so...probably"
"Cool." there was silence as Jackie searched the newspaper.
"Morning" Hyde said interrupting the silence.
"Hi." Stevie said while Jackie silently waved.
"What are you doing?" he asked looking down at Jackie.
"House searching." she explained.
"Oh can I have that after you're down I want to look for some apartments too." he asked.
"Finally moving out of the Foremens?" Jackie asked sarcastically.
"No I moved out I'm just staying here since my old house burned down." he said a little sadly.
"Oh...I'm sorry." Jackie looked up at him.
"It's ok, so can I see it?"
"No, I'm not done."
"Can you hurry up?"
"No I have all day to spend on this so I'll take as long at I please."
Hyde rolled his eyes.
"You are so annoying."
"Whatever."
"Hey Stevie while you mother is being impossible want to go play cards."
Stevie shrugged.
"Sure, call me when we are going to go."
"Kay." Jackie nodded.
Stevie and Hyde headed downstairs, and took out the cards.
"Let's play go fish." Stevie said smiling; Hyde looked at her funny, laughing. "Sure." They sat down and took out the cards. After awhile of asking 'do you have...' and getting 'go fish' Stevie asked something.
"Hyde what should I call you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Should I call you dad or something?" Hyde looked up at her, and considered the question.
"I'm not sure, maybe I mean call me anything that makes you comfortable if Dad sounds uncomfortable then don't call me that."
"Ok." Stevie said smiling.
As she was about to ask do you have any 8's her mom's voice came from upstairs.
"Stevie come on we are going house shopping." Stevie stood up and Hyde followed.
"Kay." they went upstairs, and Jackie glared at Hyde.
"What are you doing?"
"Coming with you." he said smiling at the discomfort of that sentence.
"Why?"
"Cause I need a house too."
"Fine whatever."
They arrived at the first apartment.
"I don't like it." Jackie said not even stepping into it.
"Well I do." Hyde said coming into it and looking around. "What do you think Stevie?" he asked, the little girl who was walking around.
"Yeah its ok." he nodded and walked around a little more.
"Hey hun you want to live in an apartment or ahouse?" Jackie asked.
"You mean we have a choice?"
Jackie laughed.
"Of course it's Wisconsin, not New York, besides we have enough money to buy a house."
"Well I'm not sure." Stevie kind of felt like she was being pulled in two separate directions. Her mom was acting weird and her father was asking her opinion WAY to much.
"Stevie come here." Hyde asked coming back into the main room. She went back were he was yelling from and checked out the room.
"This would be your room, is that big enough?" Stevie nodded.
"Yeah that's fine."
"You sure?" Stevie nodded again.
"Yeah fine." They walked back over to Jackie.
"Ok let me go pay for it."
"You're buying it on the spot?"
"Yeah why?"
"Well...nothing." Jackie went back to the newspaper. Stevie looked back and forth between both parents shaking her head. This was going to be a very, VERY long day.
They came upon their sixth house that afternoon. Jackie had finally decided on a house, all they looked at it. The rest either had too many windows, was too little, was too big, too expensive, too little windows, not enough closets space.
"Hurry up Jackie this is like the 100th house!" Hyde said impatiently.
Jackie rolled her eyes as she looked through all the rooms.
"Well we'll have to paint some rooms, the closets are big enough, nice amount of windows, hmm" Jackie counted the bedrooms and bathroom.
Then she went to ask how much it was. "Stevie hun what do you think?"
Stevie nodded, her head tired and had a headache from nodding so much.
"I like it."
"Really! Me too!" Jackie went to talk to the woman who was in charge. Hyde looked around it and came to sit with Stevie on the floor.
"Hey."
"Hey." she responded smiling a weak smile.
"You really like it?"
Stevie rolled her eyes.
"Oh my god you too are impossible asking my opinion every right and left." Stevie sighed and closed her eyes.
This was the longest day of her life, but on the bright side she now had two houses. On the dark side she felt as if her feet would fall off.
"Come on kids we are done here. I now own a house" Jackie said smiling coming up to the too.
"Can we go eat yet?" Stevie asked whining. Jackie nodded.
"Sure, Steven you want to join us?"
Hyde shrugged. "Sure."
Jackie came downstairs, after they got home. Stevie was upstairs making sweets with Kitty.
"Steven we need to talk." she said coming into his room.
"About what?" he asked looking up from the magazine he was reading.
"Well we need to talk about what days Stevie should be with whom and stuff." she said finding the cracks on the cement to be very interesting.
"Fine."
There was silence as Jackie sat on Hyde's little cot.
"So she can finish up the year in New York then when we move back here, we can I don't know share custody."
Hyde nodded not wanting to talk about it.
"So...I'll have her every other weekend or something." he said very Zen like.
"Yeah." she said then a very eerie silence came over the room.
"Why don't we give it a try?" he asked suddenly.
"Give what a try?" she asked some what knowing what he was asking.
"Living together?" Jackie sighed, hoping this conversation wouldn't come up.
"Because...Steven it won't work we talked about this." she looked away from him.
"Jackie come on we both still care about each other." he looked up at her.
"I don't really think we care about each other." Jackie said getting up and leaving, as she left she looked back over to him.
"But Hyde...I loved you once, and I always will I'm just, well, I'm hurting a lot, because of you. I have for awhile and still will. Even if I haven't seen you for ten years I still loved you, but...it hurts too much I don't think I'll be able to...go through with it again." Jackie looked down willing herself not to cry and closed his door.