Yes, I'm updating, but this will probably be it until Friday night or Saturday. I hope you like this chapter, I revised it like twenty times!

Chapter Two- An Interrogation

She waited a few minutes. She knew he was right, and yet would never admit it, not once to him.

He had seen her scars.

But, not once, did he mention it. When he would arrive at one of her branded marks on her skin, he would simply leave a soft sweet kiss there. How much they communicated without words.

She should have known.

She walked into the basement to find the gang in their circle. The Circle. It had become one of her favorite parts of the basement. They all looked up at her expectedly. Steven had his sunglasses back on, and was 'Zen.'

How she hate him when he acted like that.

Besides the obvious fact that she was technically cheating, the only problem with their relationship, if you could even call it that, was the fact that no one in the gang knew. And this seemed to plague her even more than the fact that she was cheating.

And it frustrated her.

She expected that she could tell Donna about them and he would tell the guys, but neither of them did. It seemed to be this unspoken rule. And that's when she hated the silence in their relationship. She had hoped that they could steal away kisses or they could be affectionate towards each other when they were with their friends.

But she couldn't.

So he stared at her and then held up a joint. "Well?" he asked.

Well, fuck it then, she was going to get high and drink and be happy as hell. Even if she couldn't touch him.

An hour passed, and then Kelso decided that doing shots to see who could do the most would be tons of fun. It was after all a Friday night and they had nowhere to go.

She thought about what she ate today and how many shots she should do. Her salad might not be sufficient enough for this kind of activity. But she couldn't let them know that she couldn't do shots, because then they would want to know what was wrong.

Steven would know he was right.

Kelso placed a shot of vodka in front of each one of them and they all did one.

And it went right to her head.

At ninety-five pounds, a shot of vodka with no food might not have been the best idea, but she loved the feeling, because she could release herself. Despite her better judgment, she did two more.

And then she almost passed out when she fell to the ground off of her chair.

i.i.i.

"Jackie? Jackie, come on, get up." Steven said into her ear.

Her eyes popped wide open to see five faces staring at her. Eric gave a sigh of relief, "Thank the fucking lord." He exhaled collapsing into the couch. "Red would have seriously murdered me."

Jackie felt embarrassed and tried to get up but realized how dizzy she was.

"Damn Jackie, what's wrong with you, I've seen you do plenty more than this!" Kelso shouted.

Hyde looked at her worriedly. She was the only one who noticed though; he was never an obvious kind of guy. "Guys, I'm fine, I have no idea why you're worried! I just did them to fast. You all seem to forget that you all have a good twenty to thirty pounds on me." She paused for a moment. "Well of course, except you Eric."

They all laughed, except Eric who pouted on the couch and Hyde who continued to look at her with concern.

"Look, I have to get home, I'm just gonna go." She said quickly.

"Like hell you are!" Hyde said.

"Stev-" she corrected herself quickly, "Hyde, seriously, I'm fine."

"Well at least sleep a little off man." He said returning Zen. "You can sleep in my room and we'll wake you up in an hour."

"Yeah, Hyde's right, you're in no condition to drive or go home to a house full of people." Donna added in.

Hyde grabbed her arm, and helped her to his room shutting the door behind him.

She passed out backwards onto his bed and smiled up drunkenly at him. He did not look amused though as he pulled up a seat next to his bed.

"What the fuck Jacks?" he asked seriously.

"Steven, just let loose, have fun." She said giggling. She pulled herself up to his lips and kissed him, making him forget for one moment, that he was pissed and worried about her. She grinned against his lips and then he pulled away.

"Yum, pot and cigs." She said happily.

"Go to sleep." He said as he pulled the blanket over her body.

i.i.i.

"So what's up with our girl?" Donna asked with an alcohol-induced grin on her face.

"She's fine." He said. He sat on his chair and stared blankly up at the TV.

"Come one Hyde, you guys spend all this time together, and despite the fact you say you 'hate her more than the government,' we know you care about her like you care about any of us." Eric stated.

"More than you." Hyde thought to himself.

He stared at Eric, and then walked outside to light another cigarette. He sat on the steps and contemplated what the hell he was doing.

She was engaged. He knew this, if there was anything he hated, it was to have such a dependence on someone and then have it torn away. He was doing this to himself; he was only creating his own heartache.

He felt like he needed to be there. He didn't know why, he never felt like that about anyone. Sure, he loved his friends like brothers and sisters, but it was different with Jackie.

Why was Jackie so different?

He heard the door open behind him and Donna appeared in the door. The tall red head stepped next to him and then took a seat, joining him on the basement steps with a beer in hand. He pulled out his carton of cigarettes and offered her one but she declined.

He lit up and looked at her.

"What's up Hyde?" she asked seriously.

"Man, we've already been through this." He said with frustration running his fingers through his hair.

"Look, the rest of those idiots may be able to accept the fact that you say something is fine and really something is wrong, but I can't. Maybe it's the girl in me, as much as Jackie denies there is any to me." She looked at his face, waiting for a reaction when she said Jackie, but he had been working his Zen for too many years to have something little like that make him all bent out of shape.

"Hyde, you're one of my best friends. I mean, I've known you since you used to come over here and throw eggs at my dad's hair with Eric in kindergarten." With that comment she provoked a slight chuckle from deep inside his throat.

"Yeah man, I don't know where you come from." He said. "You're parents aren't the brightest people in the world."

She rolled her eyes at him. "So, what is up with you and Jackie?"

He took another long drag of his cigarette and looked at her with slight defeat. "You better not splurge this shit to Foreman, you might be a girl, but I still will hurt you."

Donna gave a slight smile, there was the angry, hating-the-government Hyde she knew. "You know I won't."

"Jackie and I have been sleeping together." He said with a monotone voice.

Donna's eyes became extremely wide as managed to hoarse out in a raspy voice, "What?"

His eyes, that had lost their guard, which lay clipped to his shirt, gave her a look. His eyebrows were slightly raised and then he turned his head away and took another long drag of his cigarette, exhaling all of the secrecy he had been hiding for these three long years.

"Hold on, you, Steven Hyde, you… oh my god." She paused for a moment to regain a sane mind. "You and Jackie."

He smirked, "And I thought you knew all along. Figured Jackie would let it slip somehow."

"Hyde, what the hell?" she asked half angry and half confused. "She's getting married and you, well, you just hate everything she likes and you two have nothing in common. It's like the most unnatural thing I've ever heard in my life."

"Oh, because you and Foreman are the picture perfect couple. Carol and Mike Brady. I mean except of course, he would play the wife."

"Stop joking around." She said sternly, but had to smile slightly. "You just couldn't give up a good burn, could you?" she asked with slight amusement in her voice.

"Never, especially about Foreman."

"So, like, how long have you been sleeping together?"

He looked at her and became semi-serious. "Well, the first time we slept together, was about three years ago after Kelso ditched her. But that was just off and on, but I guess we've been 'serious', if you can even call it that, for about a year."

"So, you guys were like, 'together' before the engagement, before she even met Christopher?" She asked in confusion.

"Yep." He said smoothly. He took one last drag of his cigarette and threw it to the ground.

"Wait, but then why…?" Donna stopped mid-sentence.

"Why did she say yes? Because I told her to. Look, there's a lot of crap you still don't know about, and this just makes it easier for now." He said looking at the steps.

"That's so like you, take the easy way out." Donna said half disgusted. "So what, you use her to sleep with her and then send her home to hubby so she can put on the show. Yeah, that's real great Hyde!"

He could sense her anger, but wasn't about to become worked up over it. "Look man, don't get pissed at me, okay? I'm opening up my heart here." He said with a slight smile. "Any decision about anything to do with our 'weird and unnatural relationship' has been made by Jackie and me, together."

She paused, and realized he was done talking for now. This was more than she had gotten out of Hyde in years, and decided to accept what he gave her. She looked one of her best friends up and down, not recognizing him. "She's not going home tonight, is she?"

He shook his head and got up from the steps, "Look, I can't let her."

Donna looked up and him. "You can't let her go home to him?" She asked.

"No, I can't let her be hurt again. I just, I don't want her to have to face everything tonight, especially with her state of mind."

Donna looked up at him surprised and stood up, "You, actually care for her, don't you?"

"Yeah man." He said, once again defeated by Donna's interrogation. "Don't think I like all this caring stuff or anything. It's just…" And then he paused and looked at her half sad and half happy, if it was possible.

Something in his eyes made Donna understand. So she nodded and threw her beer can into the garbage and gave him a quick hug.

And then they walked back inside, leaving their conversation on the steps where it would not be mentioned again.

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I hope you like the story so far. I know there wasn't a lot of J/H interaction, but I thought Hyde and Donna's conversation was really important, I hope you agree. I don't really think you can get anything romantic from their conversation, but I can promise you, even if you did, there is not going to be any D/H in this, romantically anyway. I mean they are friends. Next chapter, though, I promise there will be lots of J/H.

Thanks for reading guys; I really appreciate all of the nice reviews you've left me! You all are amazing and give me the confidence to keep on writing.