Jackie beamed at herself in the mirror in the morning, she was almost four months along and still not showing, her perfect body, had blessed her with almost no morning sickness. Although her doctor didn't like the fact that she hadn't had any, she assured him, there was nothing wrong, she was just perfect and so was her baby.
She rushed off to work, there were plenty of more mirrors she could look into at work. She rushed all the way there.
The morning started the way it always did she flirted with her co-anchor, who seemed to enjoy calling her Miss more than he should. She assured herself as soon as she had the baby she was going to get calls to audition for bigger and better stations. Her co-anchor started to cover an absurdly long story on local baby ducks when she felt a strong piercing pain. She was cramping, it was sort of a funny feeling, like she was getting her period, she looked down, a small spot of blood appeared on her white skirt.
Co-anchor "To you Miss Burkhart…"
The camera cut to Jackie, she stood up to the careful viewer the spot of blood could be seen. "Steven" Jackie said in a whispered cry. She fell over, one camera man ran over, another one ran over with a hand held camera covering a fallen Jackie with the co-anchor and cameraman kneeling next to her and the blood stain spreading.
Lisa "Cut to the hand held"
The TV showed Jackie on the floor for just a second, before the producer could respond "No, cut to Tina in the field." Tina stutters for a second and then started her story, a small earpiece told her to draw the story out.
Donna in the teacher's lounge caught the whole thing, the blood, the fainting and the Steven. It didn't take her long to respond, she called the station, she had been there for a few tapings so when the producer picked up the phone, he knew better than to refuse her the name of the hospital.
In a few hours they would confirm a miscarriage. The second, the nurse utter the word, Donna understood why Jackie had said Hyde's name. Jackie would need Hyde to help her get over this, she couldn't allow her friend to carry this with her.
After Donna had taken Jackie home and put her in bed, she called the station to tell them, that it may be up to a couple of weeks before Jackie could make it back again. Donna shifted through her mail, she finally came across the letter she was looking for. It was a job interview for a position in Columbia. It was only an old professor's assistant so she had originally discarded it, but the summer session's grades were due in a few days and Jackie needed a trip to New York