Disclaimer: I do not own That 70s Show. This is written for fanfiction and entertainment purposes only.
Author's Note: So, I've heard about the spinoff that this show is going to have and it sounds like it actually might happen. I expect there might be stories about this so I want to write my own.
Pairings: Eric/Donna, Kelso/Brooke, Jackie/Fez, but don't worry that'll turn into Jackie/Hyde, Fez/OC, Laurie/OC.
"One thousand, one hundred and four hours left of summer. Day one has just begun." Groaned a fourteen-year-old redhead who sat back in her father's car.
Her father, Eric Forman, was driving to the girl's grandparent's house, Red and Kitty Forman.
It wasn't exactly how she wanted to spend the summer. Point Place didn't scream like a fun summer vacation. She heard stories all the time about how much of a horrible place it was to live there and that's why her parents moved to the city in Madison. When her mother, Donna, was younger, she wanted to go to college to have a good and stable career to support her family. Her mother was an author, and her father was a history teacher.
Donna quickly became pregnant while she and Eric lived in Madison together and they got married and started to raise their family. And do college at the same time. The young parents struggled and had their ups and downs in their relationship, but in the end, Donna and Eric made it work.
Now, they're driving their fourteen-year-old daughter to Red and Kitty's because they believed she could learn a thing or two from them and by living at a different area of Wisconsin where the teenage redhead wasn't a city girl. Donna and Eric thought Point Place could humble her, but their daughter didn't agree and believed that she was perfectly fine.
"And you sound so happy," Eric remarked in delight to annoy his daughter. It was one of the many pleasures of parenthood he enjoyed doing which was to annoy and humiliate them. He was very good at that.
"I'm quite the opposite if you can't tell." She muttered as she stared at the window watching the scenery go by. She dreamed that if she could jump out of the car, she could get a taxi to drive her back to Madison.
"It won't be so bad to spend some quality time with your grandparents, Leia," Donna scolded. "It wouldn't kill you."
"You don't know that. I don't see why Todd can't visit Grandma and Grandpa for the whole summer, too," Leia argued at the unfair treatment. "Why do I have to spend it in Period Place?"
"It's Point Place, dear." Eric sarcastically corrected her, but Leia ignored him.
"Because, Princess, unlike you, I'm going to summer camp." Todd was her twelve year old little brother answered while playing on his Game Boy. He had green eyes like his sister and a similar haircut that his father had as a teenager but was more styled and there were fringes of his brown hair that swept from his face. He was named after his parent's favorite singer, Todd Rundgren.
"Oh, so he can get to go to summer camp while I get to be at the miserable place on earth?" Leia complained. "Todd is totally your guys' favorite. Neither of you can handle me yourselves so you're shipping me off somewhere else. You guys don't care about me-"
"No, he is not, Leia. We both love you equally and you know that," Donna defended and got irritated with her daughter's behavior. "This is why we're sending you to live with your grandparents for the summer. It's this rude attitude of yours lately. Your Grandpa will definitely get your act together and won't go easy on you. Your Grandma, well, she will..." Donna knew how Kitty could get with her grandchildren. She was the grandmother type who spoiled her grandchildren endlessly.
"Shower you with her love until you get sick of it." Eric filled in the answer for his wife who gave him a grateful smile in return.
"Great," Leia muttered under her breath. She sighed in boredom. "What do you mean Grandpa won't go easy on me? He's not that tough with me and Todd. Sometimes."
"We made sure to tell him that he can be hard on you all he wants like he was to me at your age," Eric said and then smirked. "Which means, if you do or say anything stupid or made, he has our permission to put his foot up your ass."
"He was planning on doing that anyway with or without our permission." Donna added.
"You really don't want a foot up your ass, Leia. The foot might get stuck so up in there that you won't be able to feel it."
Todd looked so serious at his older sister that it was almost comical. She glared at him in return.
"Todd, don't say ass," Eric chided. "You're too young for that kind of language."
His son just rolled his eyes and continued playing on his Game Boy.
"Well, can we at least change the music? I mean, what is this crap we're listening to? It just sounds loud."
Eric made a fake, dramatic sound as if he was in great pain and clutched onto his chest. "Oh, my sweet, Princess Leia, this music isn't crap. This is one of the best if not the greatest bands of all time. Led Zeppelin."
But Leia made a face at the foreign band name. "Led...what-lin?"
"Zeppelin." Donna pronounced slowly with an amused smirk.
"Let's turn it up so you can hear it better, shall we?" Eric turned the music louder and Led Zeppelin's Black Dog played at almost high volume.
Leia frowned. Rock music wasn't her thing.
"Can you please put Backstreet Boys on?" She desperately requested.
However, her parents ignored her, and Leia had to suffer listening to the dreadful music. Eric felt being kicked as Leia banged her head against his seat.
After a couple of hours driving through all of the Wisconsin traffic, the Forman family finally made it to Point Place. Eric parked his white Honda Accord at his parent's driveway.
Leia and her parents helped take her luggage out of the trunk. It was mostly a book bag and a couple of duffle bags.
Leia, Todd, and their cousin (Laurie's daughter), Brittany, visited their grandparents and had sleepovers so they already have their clothing in the bedrooms. As for Todd's case, he liked to sleep in the basement because there was a room he lived when he stayed over. The same room that Steven Hyde used to live in many years ago.
The family of four entered the kitchen and saw Red and Kitty waiting for them. Red had a stern and apathetic face on, but his eyes read otherwise. There was light in his eyes that only his wife, Kitty, recognized when his son and his family visited. Deep down, Red loves his son and grandchildren just as much as Kitty did, but showed it in his own, different way. Kitty was beyond ecstatic about her granddaughter living with them for the whole summer and she just knew it was going to be the best summer she ever had.
"There's my adorable grandbabies!" Kitty gushed at the two teenagers and had her arms spread wide open to hug them both. Leia and Todd did unenthusiastically.
"Look at that, Donna. I'm just chopped liver." Eric told his wife, feeling left out that his mother blatantly ignored him and obviously favored his children.
"As you should be," Red said to him.
"Hi, Grandma." They greeted her in a somber tone. Neither of them really liked to be babied like that.
"Kids," Eric said to them sternly to treat their grandmother with more love and respect.
"Hi, Grandma!" They greeted again to sound more cheerful and happier despite it sounded terribly fake.
"Oh, hi, Leia, and Todd!" She squeezed them tighter with a wide grin on her face.
"Uh, Grandma, we can't breathe." Todd squeaked, wanting air.
Immediately, Kitty had released them. "Oh, sorry," She laughed and giddily looked at her granddaughter. "You don't know how long I've been waiting for this day to come. I've been marking the days off on my calendar. You and I are going to have so much fun together! I just know it!"
"I'm looking forward to it, Grandma." Leia smiled sweetly at her and she tried to be happy for Kitty's sake.
Todd approached his grandfather and didn't expect a hug at all. Red still didn't believe that men should hug, and he wanted to have his grandson be strong and act manly. He wanted to do a better job with him than Eric, but he knew his own son turned out not that bad.
"Sir." Todd greeted him formally and put his hand out for a shake.
"Hello, Todd," Red shook his grandson's hand. "Good to see you again, kid."
"Oh, for heaven's sake, Red," Kitty sighed at the interaction. "You can at least hug your own grandson."
"No, thanks. One strangle was enough." Todd said which Red approved.
"You're getting taller than Eric when he was your age. That's a good sign. Played any sports when you were in school?"
"Soccer."
"Soccer, huh? Well, it's not football, but I guess it's better than nothing."
Leia went over to her grandfather, and he even hugged her, but it wasn't that long or hard like her grandmother's hug was.
"Looks like you're going to be staying with us for the whole summer, huh?" Red sighed.
"Yeah, I am. For the whole summer-"
"Don't remind me," He deadpanned then became serious. "I don't tolerate any dumbass under this roof, you hear me?" Red said sternly to her.
"I plan to be a smart ass, not a dumbass." Leia quipped with a smile, but he wasn't amused not in the slightest.
Red gave a disapproved look to Eric. "She obviously gets the mouth from you."
"Yeah, I know," Eric agreed, nodding and so did Donna. "What can I say? Payback's a bitch."
"Eric, don't swear like that in front of your children!" Kitty scolded.
"Sorry, Mom."
"And, Leia, don't give your grandparents a hard time with your smart mouth." Donna ordered her daughter.
"Yes, Mom." Leia sighed.
Red began listing the rules like a military sergeant. "Your curfew will be ten o'clock. Not after ten, but right on the dot. If you don't show up on time, you're grounded."
"Seriously? A curfew at ten o'clock? During the summer?" Leia asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, Dad, it is the summer after all. We want her to have fun here, too. We set her curfew for eleven o'clock." Eric reasoned.
"Isn't that just dandy?" Then he sighed. "Fine. Change it to eleven. You listen to what your grandmother and I say. None of that smart mouth of yours like you get from your father. And no degenerates at this house either."
"You're going to have so much fun here, Leia!" Donna happily said, but her daughter knew she was being sarcastic. She lovingly wrapped an arm around Leia's shoulders.
Eric helped Leia move her stuff into his old bedroom while the rest of the family socialized downstairs. It got redone over the years to suit his daughter's style. Looked more like it belonged to a female teenager. Pictures of her old friends back at Madison were on the walls along with movie, band, and celebrity posters. There was a couple of colorful dreamcatchers hanging on the ceiling and she kept Eric's old lava lamp. She had sun and moon bedding. A portable stereo was on her desk and it also had a huge cluster of her CDs and magazines. There was many things Leia had in his old bedroom.
"I know you're going to get used to this, Leia," Eric said and joined his daughter sitting next to her on the bed. "I know your Mom and I always talked so much that we hated it here, but we think it'll do you some good. You might even grow to like it. It's not a punishment for you to spend time with your grandparents."
"Is there anything to do here?" Leia asked. She was already bored. "How did you and Mom hang out with your friends back in the day?"
"Well..." He drifted off to think about it. Eric didn't really want to reveal what he and his friends did as teenagers. That they goofed off at the water tower and got high in the basement. His daughter definitely didn't need to know that or follow in his footsteps. "We hung out at this cool place called The Hub. If that's still standing, you should check it out. Might even meet some friends there."
"I'm just going to be here for the summer, Dad," She scoffed. "I don't plan on having longtime friends here." Cause she knew that once summer was over, she'll immediately go back to Madison in a heartbeat.
"You never know, Princess." Eric smiled, using his pet name for her, and kissed her on the top of her head.