Phone rings in the hotel room.

Jackie "Hello."

Receptionist "You have a call, Miss Burkhart. I'll connect you."

Jackie "Hello?"

Hyde "Do you have any idea how long I've been looking for you?"

Jackie "I don't answer to you."

Hyde "No. but you usually tell someone where you are. This is New York Jackie what if something had happened?"

Jackie "Alright, you're right I'm sorry, I should have tried to tell someone I where I was. But when I left your condo, I really, I had no idea where I was going. But I'm fine, you found me. Ok so let's just…"

Hyde "I still do want to spend some time with you."

Jackie "Well, maybe with can all go out, Eric is here as well."

Hyde "I know, he's crashing at Leo's, what are you doing tonight? Come here, 8, no arguments."

Jackie silent.

Hyde "Jackie are you nodding?"

Jackie "No, but I'll come, and I'll call Donna."

Hyde "Till then."

Jackie "Ciao."

Hyde rolls his eyes and hangs up. What was he getting himself into?

Jackie on the phone. "You owe me, if it weren't for me you wouldn't even be with Eric. It's just one night. How many do you think we're going to have all together? Donna why are you giggling? Eww. Ok ugh, I'll see you tonight."

Eric "You didn't agree did you?"

Donna "No, but it doesn't matter, Jackie thinks we're going, and I hate to admit, Jackie did help me, we wouldn't be here if it weren't for her."

Eric "The world is ending, Jackie is a force of good."

That night, at 9.

Donna "Hyde, I don't think she's coming."

Hyde under his breath "Not here anyway, (louder) I'll see you later."

Eric winks "Thanks man, see you."

Lunch at a crowded deli in New York,

Donna "So how was the audition?"

Jackie "Not bad, although, I'm not sure I want the job, I mean I'm not overly attached to California, but New York is complicated."

Donna "You mean Hyde's here. You know it's a pretty big city. You could live the rest of your life here and never run into him on the street."

Jackie "Yeah, but it's too soon, I just left Fez, and although I wanted to part as friends, he, he kicked me out of the salon, I don't know, he wasn't a bad husband not in the beginning. Maybe… maybe we could have made it work."

Donna "Jackie, it's going to take time. You may not have had an ideal marriage at the end, but it was still a part of your life. (thinks for a second) if Hyde wasn't here, how would you feel about New York?"

Jackie thinks "I don't know, if I get the job, I'll stay."

Donna "Well at least that's something."

Jackie "So did you take the job they were offering?"

Donna "Nah, I'm thinking of trying the colleges again, and I sent in a couple short stories to a few magazines. I don't know, if Eric can get a job at the local school district we may stay, although there is one other factor."

Jackie "Which is?"

Donna "I'm not ready to not see my best friend at least once a week."

Hyde walks into Leo's apartment. "Eric man, this is New York, you're going to have to learn to lock the front door."

Eric "I did, man this city gives me the creeps."

Hyde "Donna tells me you're staying." Smiling.

Eric "Yeah, I've got to do what the woman wants, you don't have to say it. I'm whipped, and I'm proud of it."

Hyde shakes his head "Ok I got to get to work, are you going to be alright here? Know how to get to the school?"

Eric "A couple subways."

Hyde "Want a ride?"

Eric "That'd be great."

Hyde "Wait here, I'll send Markus over."

Eric "One day that kid is going to get his revenge."

Hyde snickers "Probably."