So this is it! The end, finito! I could've dragged it on and on – and I was tempted, lol – but this was more a starting ground just so I could get my feet wet with the characters and their stories. Now I've been brushing up on season 8 and am really looking forward to doing something with that. Hope you all enjoyed this story!

Truth Or Dare

Donna knows that Jackie likes Hyde. Subtlety isn't exactly the girl's forte, not to mention the fact that she confessed to Donna at one of their girl's nights a while back. "I think I might like Steven," were her exact words, followed by a heartfelt sigh and, "Unfortunately."

Ever since then, she's been waiting for Hyde to pull his head out of his ass and stop acting so disinterested since it's plain as day that he wants Jackie. However, it's been months and he's yet to step up to the plate, so Donna has taken it upon herself to goad them into some sort of action.

"Can we please do something?"

Jackie's whine is the perfect opportunity and Donna, like any good strategist, pounces. "I know! How 'bout we play a game? How about … oh, I don't know, truth or dare?"

"Boo!" Eric intones, giving her the thumbs-down.

"No, Eric, that's a great idea," Hyde says. Everyone stares. "Oh, wait, I forgot, we're not thirteen year old girls. God, Donna, I thought you were cooler than that. You sound like Jackie."

The girl in question harrumphs. "Well, I, for one, think it sounds like a great idea. Just because some of us –" a dirty look in Hyde's direction – "don't have the guts to try something new, doesn't mean the rest of us can't enjoy ourselves."

"Oh, yes, let's enjoy ourselves," Fez encourages. "Does this game involve inappropriate touching?"

"Actually … it can!" Kelso realizes, slapping his friend five. "Fez, you're the man!"

Eric turns the television off and sets down the clicker. "Well, I'm in. I'll go first, uh, Donna?"

She rolls her eyes. "I'd say 'dare', but I know it'll just be something lame like kissing Jackie or touching Jackie or brushing Jackie's hair while we're both in bras. So … truth."

"Curses, foiled again," Eric mourns. "Uh … I don't know, guys, help me out?"

Hyde smirks. "Is Eric a good kisser?"

"Yes," Fez answers instantly.

"He's kidding! He doesn't really know that," Eric rushes to explain.

Donna shakes her head. "Enough already. Yes, Hyde, he is. My turn?"

Too late, Hyde realizes the trap he's just walked into. Calling Donna out on a private detail of her relationship gives her all the right in the world to give back as good as she got. Not that he has a 'relationship', per se. But Donna's no dumb blond, and he knows she has her suspicions about him and Jackie, and he knows that he could definitely regret agreeing to play this stupid game.

"Hyde," Donna chooses confidently. "Truth or dare?"

"Uh …" Well. He agreed to play. He never agreed to play by the rules. He can just … lie, he realizes. "Truth."

"Do you want to go out with Jackie Burkhart?"

Fez gasps. Kelso spews the soda he's been chugging all over himself. Eric freezes as a small voice inside him taunts that his girlfriend has bigger balls than him.

Jackie remains calm. Her eyes, however, do fly to Hyde's face, searching it for every telling detail it could possibly betray.

He's planned to lie. He has his lie mapped out and ready to go – a quick, are-you-kidding-me laugh, followed by a serious 'not a chance'. Just the right mixture of amusement and disdain. He's going to lie.

But somehow, with Jackie's blue eyes locked on his as she bites her lip almost imperceptibly, he can't. He just … can't. She would cry, and he doesn't want to make her cry. Besides, what's the point? He's been working his way up to telling her for weeks - months, even. Might as well bite the bullet.

"Yes," he mumbles, none too loudly, but the room is silent enough to hear a pin drop and there's no doubt to what he's said. The reaction, however, is nothing like what he's expecting.

Jackie stands up and gets right in his face, her eyes flashing furiously. "Well, don't sound so happy about it, Steven Hyde! God, what's a girl have to do to get a little romance around here, huh? You know, first it has to be dragged out of by a stupid game – in front of everyone, mind you – and then you make it sound like you're accepting a life sentence or something! Well, guess what? I don't like you. In fact, I want nothing to do with you!"

He stands too, so fast that he almost knocks his chair backwards. "That is such a lie, Jackie, and you know it. At least I'm mature enough to admit that I wanna go out with you which, believe me, is no easy thing to do."

"Oh, right, I'm such a hardship," she snaps. "I'm beautiful, popular, rich, and a damn good kisser."

"I second that," Kelso agrees from his place amidst their audience and their heated Shut up!s are in absolute unison. "Sorry."

"You'd be lucky to have me," Jackie continues, "And furthermore –"

"You're right," Hyde cuts her off.

Her mouth slams shut. "I'm – what?"

"You're right," he says again. "You are all of those things. The problem is, Jackie, I'm not and I don't want to be. Except for a damn good kisser, that one I've got covered."

"It's true," Fez pipes in, nodding wisely.

"Could we have some privacy, please?" Hyde bursts out, exasperated.

"No, they stay," Jackie tells him sternly. "If you can't say it in front of a crowd, then you don't really mean it."

"Fine." Still, he lowers his voice a few decibels, hoping to save himself the embarrassment of the guys reenacting this moment word-for-word later on. "Jackie … I really do like you. Yeah, you're shallow, and a cheerleader, and completely not my taste at all, but … how can I put this? You're hot. You make me laugh. You make me happy. And … you make me feel like I deserve it."

"Oh, Steven!" she cries, melting at the words. She falls into his arms like she's been waiting to do for months and it's even more romantic than all the times she fantasized about it, because his hands are calloused and his sideburns scratch her skin and she knows it's real. "That is the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me! You had me at 'you're hot'!"

Donna sits back, admiring her handiwork as the two touch foreheads and slowly lean in for their first kiss. "It's beautiful, isn't it?" she sighs dreamily.

"Are you kidding?" Eric watches at his oldest friend proceeds to make out with his greatest enemy. "It's the end of the world. And also … not quite how I imagined this game ending."

Kelso pats his shoulder. "Don't worry, man, if you squint … you can pretend Hyde is Donna."

Fez nods happily. "It is very sexy."

Donna doesn't know which one to slug first. "You know … you guys really know how to ruin a happy ending."