Hyde walked into the waiting room, he saw Kelso sitting on a chair and Jackie spread across a few. He approached them.
Kelso "What are you doing here?"
Hyde "A friend of mine was brought in. You?"
Kelso "A friend of Jackie's ODed in the bathroom."
Hyde "Markus?"
Kelso "Yeah man. You know him?"
Hyde "I'm his emergency contact."
Jackie wakes up. "Steven?"
Hyde "I'm here."
Jackie "Where?"
She started to sit up, Hyde sat beside her and held her.
Jackie "Oh Steven. It was so… oh Steven."
Kelso "I didn't let her see him, but I think she caught a glimpse when the paramedics wheeled him out."
Jackie nodded on Hyde's shoulder.
Hyde "I'm sorry you had to see that, he had been clean for almost a year."
No one said anything for a while. Jackie sat in between Hyde and Kelso, Hyde had his hand around her.
Kelso "I'm going to get some coffee. You guys want anything else?"
Hyde shook his head. Jackie leaned onto Hyde's shoulder.
Hyde "I'm sorry, I didn't know you two were. If I had I would have told you."
Jackie "This isn't the time for this."
Markus' room.
Hyde is sleeping on the chair. Markus is awake, "Hyde man, what happened?"
Hyde wakes up "Oh hey man, how are you feeling."
Markus "Like crap"
Hyde "Good. I can't believe you did that. You were clean. You were fucking clean for so long."
Markus "It's that damn cheerleader man, she's driving me nuts."
Hyde "Don't you dare blame this on Jackie. She's not the one lying here, she would have found if it wasn't for a luck of the draw. You little piss-ant, if it had been her she wouldn't have known what to do. You'd be dead man. If Kelso wasn't a cop, this would have been the morgue."
Markus "You don't know what that bitch is like, she wont give it up unless she's drunk and even then she usually passes out. Frigid bitch. If it weren't for her I wouldn't be here."
Hyde clenched fist. "What do you have a death wish? I'm going to ignore that today, if you weren't in the hospital and my step brother you wouldn't even get that. After this, whatever we had is gone. You don't come anywhere near me, and you stay the hell away from her."
Markus smiling "You don't know that little cheerleader like I do, she drives you crazy, but she's just as addicted to me as I am to her. She come on all her own."
Hyde swaying in and out of Zen "You're wrong, I know her better than could hope to ever know her. She may feel for you, that's Jackie she can't help it. But don't count on that, you son of a bitch, and if I find out you're so much as watching the morning news, I'll take care of you myself."
Hyde walked towards the room door, then turned back he'd love to yank out the guy's catheter, but today was not the day for an assault charge. It apparently was a day to be angry at Jackie. Why the hell didn't she tell him? He would have done anything for her, she used to know that.