Eric and Donna are having dinner in their apartment, there are stacks of papers on the other side of the table, books are stacked throughout the apartment, the only furniture they have is the table, two chairs, one wardrobe and a bed in the bedroom. It's a mess, but its clean.

Eric "So, I booked the church for next Thursday."

Donna nods "yeah, ok" her head is down, she's looking at some papers in her hand..

Eric "Are you ready?"

Donna still looking down, "Um, yeah. I'm wearing my mom's dress, and since the reception's at Hyde's, he's handling everything else. There was nothing else at my end, how's yours?"

Eric "Look up."

Donna smiles "You got the rings."

Eric "Yup, and I got my aunt to spring for paying for the flowers at the wedding, so that's one less expense and it's so cool, the priest says he normally doesn't meet the couples before he marries them, so it's all set. The only thing left to worry about is sleeping everyone who's coming."

Donna "Well Jackie rescheduled our Monday lunch date to visit Markus, so I can ask her tomorrow to let a couple people sleep at her house."

Eric "Yeah, Hyde cancelled his lunch too, they probably had to talk, I mean Jackie was cheating on him."

Donna shakes her head. "How many times do I have to tell you she wasn't cheating, they're not dating. She was seeing Markus, but I think it's over if it's not I'll kick her ass. Ok listen I really have to finish grading this idiot's paper, I told her to double line so wrote every line twice under each other. Dumbass."

Eric "Ok, I'll clear up." tries to kiss her on her forehead, but she looks up so he kisses the bridge of her nose.

Lunch

Donna "So, Kelso told us the basics, but what was really going on?"

Jackie shrugs "He ODed on my bathroom floor."

Donna "No, what was going on between you two?"

Jackie "Oh that, I'd rather not discuss it. It wasn't the healthiest relationship."

Donna "Spill"

Jackie "Alright, well he was kind of cool in the beginning, cool about everything, he teased me a lot calling me cheerleader, blasé, but good looking, in a scruffy kind of way. He paid a lot of attention to me."

Donna "So he was just like Hyde."

Jackie "Let me finish"

Donna "I'm just saying. Ok go on."

Jackie "Well then, then… We had sex, and there was just something missing. I mean he was emotionally unavailable, I was expecting that, but it was more than that. It was like he couldn't feel, like the most I would get out of him was obsession, not love."

Donna nods.

Jackie "But he kept calling me, and then I got the job and I wanted to go out and celebrate, so I called him, we went out, I got drunk and then…"

Donna "And then…?"

Jackie "I can't tell you the rest in a restaurant."

Donna "This is New York, no one cares."

Jackie "I care."

Donna "Ok we'll get this stuff to go, and then head to my office, office hours are like a joke anyway, no one visits their English teacher if they can avoid it."

The office

Donna "Ok we're here. Talk."

Jackie "Sit down first. Ok, well I got drunk and then passed out and he, sort of, well Steven says I was, he forced himself."

Donna stands up and starts pacing and yelling "What the hell! Did you go to the cops, did you report him?"

Jackie "No, but I never let him do it again."

Donna "Well what the hell did you do?"

Jackie "I told him I would never see him again if he ever tried to do anything like that again."

Donna "what the hel-"

Jackie "Let me finish, I planned on never seeing him again, but he sort of knew my pattern so well, he got me drunk a lot, and I would end up taking him home with me."

Donna just looks really shocked.

Jackie "I wouldn't realize it out, not until he was lying there. Even then I wasn't sure why, but I just knew I wasn't supposed to stay in that room. I figured out the rest lying in bed last night."

Donna "Wait, there was something you said, you said. Hyde knows?"

Jackie "Yeah, Markus is a lot dumber than he looks, he told him. Right to his face."

Donna "So why is Markus alive and Hyde not in jail?"

Jackie "We'll get to that."

Donna "Don't tell me Eric was right, you are sleeping with him."

Jackie "Not while I was seeing Markus."

Donna "But you are now?"

Jackie "Last night, when I was lying in my bed, the one I share with Steven."

Donna "When were you going to tell me?"

Jackie "You don't want to hear the rest?"

Donna "No, I do, go on."

Jackie "I figured it out, Markus is like Steven."

Donna "Yeah, ok old news."

Jackie "He's like Steven minus me."

Donna "Ok, I think I see what you're saying, but I think you should include the Formans, and the rest of the gang in this epiphany."

Jackie tilts her head in thought, "You're right, huh, anyhow, if Steven hadn't had us, he would have ended up like Markus, only Kelso wouldn't have been there."

Donna "Did you tell him this little morbid thought."

Jackie "Nah, I figure I… we all saved Steven from going down that path, and although I wasn't ready to be there for him last year, you were and Eric was. He would have been alone since the day he turned 18, maybe even sooner. When I was a teenager I was afraid he would become his father, and I would be an unmarried version of my mother."

Donna "Jackie, you're nothing like your mother."

Jackie "I know, that's what I'm saying, in the hospital, I realized I was trying to save the wrong guy, on the roof I figured out I was with the right one. Last night, last night I figured out the only thing I need to do is stay with the right guy. Damn, I sound like a teenager."

Donna "You sound like you're in love, and after your little monolog, I'm going to pocket the speech about getting back together with him, I'm happy for you, but as soon as my office hours are over we're going to the police department and…"

Jackie "Steven already tried that, they told us to get an order of protection."

Donna "I'm still going to give Markus a piece of my mind, and listen to me, next time call the damn cops. I can't believe Kelso saved his life."

Jackie's mouth falls open "Donna? (pause) Ok so, what we're you planning to ask me today?"

Donna "How did you know I was going to ask you something?"

Jackie "I'm going to be spending the next week arranging a wedding reception at my home, I expect to be asked."

Donna "Will you be my maid of honor, providing you buy your own dress, and you let us use your former home to house as many parents and friends as possible."

Jackie "You are damn lucky to have me as your best friend, now let's talk clothing, what does the dress look like?"

Donna "You've seen it, my mother's."

Jackie "Cause that work out so well for you last time. (grabs a piece of paper and starts writing on it) now give me a piece of tape, cause this is New York, and my best friend isn't going to get married in an old unlucky dress."

They walk out of the office, Jackie tapes the paper on the office door 'Out Shopping for a Wedding Dress' with a big heart around it.