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Barry helped Jackie zip up her funeral dress, and she did his tie.

"How handsome you look," she said, and he smiled.

"And how pretty YOU look," he answered. She grinned, and went to the mirror. "Are you feeling better, honey?"

"Yes, yes I am," she said. "Nothing a little sleep couldn't fix."

"Good," Barry said, and they didn't talk about it again. Because in this situation, a good friend won't talk about it. "Are you ready for this funeral?" She sighed, and did her hair some more.

"I don't think that anyone could be completely ready for a funeral," she said. "But… I'm as ready as I can be… More ready than last time…"

"Yeah, no kidding." She pulled back, and checked herself out. Her dress was black, but it hugged her curves perfectly. It had a baby doll look about it, and she looked good, in her mind.

Donna walked in the room, and looked them over.

"Very nice," she said. "Eric, Tommy, and I are riding with the Foremans, but Jackie, do you remember how to get to the church?" Jackie nodded, and hugged Donna. But Donna hugged back even tighter, because she knew that Jackie needed one too.

The church was small, but there were a good number of people there. Jackie and Barry sat next to Donna and Eric, and Tommy sat in Jackie's lap. She was a little uncomfortable at first, but she got the hang of it quickly. He was well behaved, and Jackie bounced him if he got a little squirmy. She looked back at all the guests. She saw Hyde, sitting near the back. He saw her, and she turned her head quickly. It hurt the most because what he said was true. He still could read her. It drove her crazy.

The reverend asked for people to say things about Bob. Donna obviously had the most to say, and Jackie was still a little numb.

"My Dad was probably both the nicest and most infuriating Dad in the world," Donna said. "He was very supportive, but it isn't easy raising a teenage girl on your own. So when he didn't understand things, it was infuriating. But the fact that he tried to understand meant so much to me. He was a happy man, even when his health began declining he had a positive outlook. His goal was to live to meet his first grandchild, and he met that goal. So, it comforts me knowing that he died happy, and fulfilled in life. I wish that I was as strong as he was, but I'm just not sure. The last time we talked on the phone, he told me that he was proud of me, and that I wasn't his little girl anymore. Well, he was wrong. I am going to miss him, because I still am his little girl, always, and forever." She laid a rose inside the coffin, and the tears were visible as they ran down her face. She sat down again, and the reverend asked if anyone else had anything to say. Some of his poker buddies did, and Red said a concise speech about how Bob was a good neighbor, if not a dumbass some of the time, and then Jackie found herself handing Tommy to Donna, and walking to the front of the church. She looked over everyone, and took in a deep breath.

"I met Bob when I was a teenager. I never really had any interaction with him, until some personal troubles in my life left me without my parents. And I didn't want to live alone in their empty house," she said. "And Bob, without knowing me very well, offered me a place to live until one of my parents came back for me. I know that I was a bratty teenage girl, who made things hard for a lot of people, but Bob didn't mind having TWO teenage girls in his house. I have this vivid memory of a late night, when I couldn't sleep, it was still early in my new living arrangement. I was sitting in the kitchen, and Bob came in. He offered to make me waffles. Just like that." The tears were falling again, so she laid a rose in his coffin, and sat down next to Barry.

It was snowing in the cemetery, and Barry had his arm around Jackie. After the coffin was lowered into the ground, and people began to disperse, Jackie and Donna were left alone at the grave. As the group walked away, Barry decided to make an attempt to reach out to Hyde.

"Is it always this cold here?" he asked, and Hyde laughed a little.

"Only about half the year," Hyde said.

"Well, in New York it's this cold maybe once in awhile… Though when it is the city stops."

"So how come you're being so nice to me? I'm sure that Jackie told you what I said to her," Hyde said, staring ahead. Barry shrugged, and shoved his hands in his pockets.

"Yeah, but you know, um, Hyde," he said, finding it weird to call him by his last name. "I have been best friends with Jackie for the past eleven years. I know how she is. So I don't condone it, but I understand it." Hyde chuckled a little, and Barry shoved his hat back on his head.

Jackie and Donna stared at the grave.

"He was a better father than mine was," Jackie said. "Though, that's not too hard. I should have called more."

"He knew you cared," Donna said. "You shouldn't kick yourself about this." Jackie rubbed Donna's back.

"You have many great stories to tell Tommy," Jackie said, and Donna nodded. "Are you ready?" Donna nodded, and they walked away from the grave. They strolled to the cars, where the rest of the old gang was. They all hugged Donna, and Jackie stood on the outside of the hugging, with Barry.

"Do you know what we could use right now?" Eric asked.

"What?" Donna replied.

"A good old fashioned circle in my parents basement," he said. Donna covered Tommy's ears.

"Are you kidding me?" she asked. "We aren't kids anymore, Eric, we're responsible adults!"

"I'm just saying that after the lunch is done at Mom and Dad's house, we should think of a way to just relax," Eric said. "It's not like we have pot or anything."

"Well, I do," Hyde said.

"How are you not burned out?" Donna asked.

"I've been saving it for a special occasion, Leo gave it to me awhile ago."

"As an officer of the law, I want to say that I do not approve of this," Kelso said. "But I'm on vacation."

"For the last time, this isn't a vacation!" Donna said.

"I agree, this sounds like a good plan," Fez said.

"Okay, who all is in?" Eric said. "After the lunch is done, we meet in the basement of my parents house."

"What if you Dad catches us?" Jackie asked.

"This isn't high school anymore, Jackie," Kelso said. "He can't do anything about it."

"Except call the cops," Donna said.

"So we tell him that you need time with your friends to grieve," Eric said. "Grieving women freak Red out."

"You're going to use my pain as an excuse to get high," Donna said, irritated. "Ugh, I'm insulted."

"Are you in or out, Donna?" Eric asked. Donna sighed, and then smiled a little bit.

"Well, I could use the relaxation," she said. "I'm in if Jackie's in." They all turned and looked at Jackie. She stepped back a little, and looked at Barry. He actually looked excited for a circle, and he was, it made him feel like one of the gang. This gang that he hadn't even known until two days prior… But that didn't matter.

"…. Okay, I'm in," Jackie said. The guys cheered triumphantly. Kelso picked Jackie up again, and she shrieked a little bit. "God, you love showing off your policeman strength, don't you?"

"If I wanted to show it off I'd pick up Hyde," Kelso said, setting her down.

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The lunch at the Foremans was packed with people, and Eric began a chain to tell the gang to go to the basement. Jackie was drinking some soda, when Fez tapped her shoulder.

"We're going to the basement, you tell Hyde," he said. She almost choked on her soda.

"Do I have to tell Hyde?" she asked.

"Yes, you have to tell Hyde, everyone else has been told!" Fez hissed.

"What about Barry, can't I tell Barry?"

"Barry told me."

"What!"

"It went me, Barry, Donna, Kelso, Eric," Fez said.

"Donna told Barry, that witch, she's trying to become his girl best friend!"

"What?"

"Never mind. Okay, I'll tell Steven," she said, and Fez went for the basement. She set her soda on the counter, and looked for Steven. He was on the back porch, by himself. She swore under her breath, she didn't want to face him with no one around. But she had no choice. The Circle was counting on her; after all, he had the pot. She took in a deep breath, and walked onto the back porch.

"We're going to the basement now," she said, and turned to go back inside.

"Jackie, hang on," he said. She stopped, but didn't turn around. "I… I wanted to say that I'm sorry." She shrugged, but remained facing the house. He stood up, and walked so he was right behind her. "Everything I said last night… It was really insensitive of me to say it. And I didn't mean it, I was just frustrated, and angry, and everything you said, it was… true." She kept her arms crossed, but turned around.

"Well, everything you said was true too," she said.

"But I shouldn't have said it, you didn't deserve that," he said. "So, I'm sorry for the way I blew up at you."

"Forget it," she said. "It's okay."

"We should try again tonight," he said.

"Try again at what, insulting each other?"

"No, I meant… We should try to be friendly tonight. It's been a long time since we've been friendly with each other," he said. She nodded. Should she accept this invitation? She was afraid that it would end up hurting again, but she also knew that taking risks was a part of life.

"Okay, what do you suggest?" she asked.

"Dinner?" he asked. She nodded.

"Okay. But, we need to get to the basement now," she said. He nodded, and they walked into the house and down the stairs.

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The Circle was around the small square table, and there had to be two people to each side, except for Hyde. He got a side to himself. Eric and Donna, Hyde, Fez and Kelso, and Barry and Jackie were around it in that order. They had toked a couple times, and the affects were kicking in.

"Oh my GOD, did you see the Reverend?" Donna asked, laughing. "He, he looked like a fish!"

"I was gonna say toad, but fish works too," Eric said.

"It's the Church's deep secret," Hyde said, and laughed a little bit. "They're splicing their holy men with fish and toads to create a SUPER RACE of reverends!"

Kelso and Fez looked at each other, terrified.

"We have to warn the people," Fez said.

Jackie was laughing hysterically, and Barry was staring ahead with a dumb grin on his face.

"We can't tell the people, Fez, because they would never believe us," Kelso said. "It's just like Soylent Green."

"You're a cop, Kelso, they'd believe you," Fez said.

"I think just let the Reverends be toads and fish in peace," Jackie said, and burst out laughing again. Barry nodded, and Donna held up her hands.

"Oh my God, what if they try to kidnap Tommy!" she exclaimed, and leapt up to find her two year old.

"Donna Donna Donna, calm down," Eric said. "Tommy's napping in my old room, the reverends won't think to look for him there."

"Besides, he's not a man of the cloth," Hyde said. "They only want the holy ones because they are righteous. It's a conspiracy!"

"You and your stupid stupid conspiracies," Fez said. "I thought you would have outgrown that a long time ago."

"Hey man, those fuckers on the grassy knoll WANT us to give up on our conspiracies," Hyde said, and then laughed a little bit. Barry held up his hands.

"Hyde, I'm sorry to disappoint, but the grassy knoll men did not execute anything in the actual Kennedy assassination." Everyone stared at him, and Jackie continued laughing.

"Sure they did!"

"They planned it, but they didn't pull the trigger," Barry said. "Everyone knows that the Mafia wanted Kennedy out of the picture because he was cracking down on them, so they hired Oswald, a down on his luck ex military man with a new baby at home, to pull the trigger. That's why Ruby shot him, he had well known Mob ties, he had cancer, and nothing to lose. That way your main link is dead, and Ruby dies before going to jail."

Everyone's jaw dropped.

"You're so lucid!" Donna exclaimed. "How do you do it?" Barry shrugged.

"I don't know. But we should warn people about the fish toad holy men," Barry said. "They could start a holy war!"

"Don't be a dumbass, Barry," Jackie said, and then burst out laughing again. "I sounded like Red! You dumbass! I'll put my foot in your ass, dumbass!"

"Oh my God, Red's possessed Jackie!" Fez yelled, and leapt up from the table to leave the basement.

"The power of Christ compels you!" Kelso yelled, making a cross with his fingers.

"I'll get the Fish Reverend!" Eric said, and Donna pulled him down. "But Jackie's been possessed by the Devil, we need an exorcism!"

"Only twelve year old girls get possessed, because they're seen as the purest thing the devil could take," Hyde said. "Jackie's just been possessed by Red."

"Red isn't dead, though!" Barry said.

"Dumbass!" Jackie yelled again.

"Is he having an out of body experience?" Eric asked.

"Why would he take a woman's body?" Donna asked.

"You damn kids had better quit your yelling!" Jackie yelled, and laughed so hard she fell off Barry's lap.

"HEY!" the voice from the top of the stairs yelled, and they all shut up. "You damn kids better keep it down in your mourning or reminiscing or what not or so help me GOD I will put a boot in your asses!" They all stopped talking, except Jackie, who was still on the floor. Barry kicked her gently with his foot to shut her up.

"Yes, Mr. Foreman," Kelso yelled.

"Sorry, Dad," Eric responded.

"We'll be quiet!" Hyde called.

"…. Dumbass!" Jackie hissed, and clamped her hands over her mouth to stop her giggling. Donna shrugged at Barry.

"You should have seen her when she was a teenager," Donna said.

"And YOU should have seen her at NYU," Barry retorted.