A/N I own nothing. So, I keep getting requests for more of this and I found two pages id written before I lost track of having any sort of life besides my stupid job. So, surprise! Here's a chapter, I don't know when I'll write more, but I finished this one, so I hope it garners me some goodwill from people who liked it.

Spur of the moment chapter 9

Jackie tapped her pencil against the small table trying to think of the right word to describe her point about Benjamin franklin's contribution to America for her paper. But her third tap was so loud she jumped in her seat…until she realized it was a knock at the door of her and Hyde's home.

Feeling jumpy from the shock, Jackie cautiously went to the door even though chances were the person knocking was of the Forman clan, no one else had come to see them in the month they lived there. Jackie smiled softly when she thought of the last month, they were married and everyday it felt like it a little bit more, she couldn't for the life of her figure out why her mother had hated all things domestic because she loved every tiny detail so far, and that included cooking and cleaning because Steven helped her as much as he could so it was just…nice.

But outside the door in the dim hotel hall was not someone bearing the name Forman, outside staring at her like a wounded puppy was Michael Kelso kettle head extraordinaire.

"go away!" she growled and tried to shut the door in his face, but his foot stopped its progress.

"Jackie wait please!" he cried quickly

"no! go away Michael I don't want to see you!" she yelled

"I know, but I'm not here to see you" he said with the tell-tale widening of his eyes that told her it had been a slip up to say.

"then why are you here Michael?" she asked less angrily

"I just…I need to apologize to Hyde Jackie. I know I owe you an apology too but it's not the same as with him, he's been my best friend since we were kids and he fell in love and I wasn't there for him! he got married and I wasn't there because I acted like a selfish jerk! Do you have any idea how bad that feels?! I missed your guys' wedding Jackie, there's no do over for that, and I should have been there for him! I know how bad his family is too ya know, were supposed to be his family and I let donna convince me that she and I were in the right and now I'm all alone" he told her so sadly and weirdly serious that Jackie couldn't help but feel for him.

"the thing is Michael he misses you too, he's so serious and tense naturally that hanging out with a doofus like you was important, but there's nothing I can say to him that will help you. You need to talk to him and try not to act like a jerk ok?" Jackie told him kindly

"yeah, yeah you're right. I feel bad for how I treated you too Jackie, it took fez explaining with puppets for me to get what I did wrong towards you but I get it now, and I really am sorry" he told her sadly

"thanks Michael, that's nice to hear, except for the part about fez owning puppets, never mention that again" she ordered

"will do, it was kinda creepy" Kelso admitted

"he's either at the front desk or the little office behind it" she informed him before waving goodbye with a wish of good luck and shut the door.

She smiled a little to herself when she settled down to finish her paper, she didn't really bare Michael any ill will if he was telling the truth about his remorse. And she wanted Steven to have his friends, she wanted him to have as much of his normal life as he could because then there was less chance of him getting stir crazy with her or regretful of the huge thing they'd done. They were married and they were so young, it was a delicate thing to keep it from spiraling into a bad place, and normality was key.

Hyde sat at his desk in his little office pretending to do paperwork, but really, he was indulging in his favorite pastime – thinking about Jackie. His wife, he had a wife and that wife was Jackie, his chick was his wife…the grin couldn't be wiped off his face every time he thought of it.

He'd come to a realization a few weeks in.

Married life wasn't what Hyde had been expecting, in that – it was actually kind of nice? He'd known that he wanted to take care of Jackie and be there for her and his crazy idea to get married had been the best way to do that, but somewhere in the back of his mind he'd been expecting it to be like it had always been but they lived together.

But Jackie had had other ideas.

She made sure they ate dinner together every night, she still wasn't much of a cook, but she figured out ways around that, sandwiches, pasta with premade sauce, the occasional frozen dinner. They were both aware that its wasn't great but neither of them cared – it was nice, and Hyde had never been too picky about food, living with Edna made sure of that.

Aside from the food situation there was the sleeping situation, Hyde worked until 1am as the night manager, and since he was still technically in school he tended to fall into bed as soon as he was off work, Jackie was already asleep most nights but she had some sort of sixth sense in her sleep that told her when he was there, because she always without fail rolled over and cuddled against his side, it was also nice.

He learned a lot about his wife just by cohabitating with her, she liked to listen to old movies on the tv while she did her homework, she was disconcertingly fluent in French – which he learned when she got annoyed at him and wouldn't speak English all freakin' day! Which had led to him making a silent vow to never again stay in the hotel kitchen playing poker with Forman and Roy if it upset her to that point, as far as he'd been able to translate with her old text book she'd accused him of being a 'brain dead chicken with a penchant for sheep'?

It was one of many lessons he learned about his tiny wife – she was brutal if she wanted to be.

But he was happy, and that was the thing that blew his mind – he was happy and that was something he had never expected from his life, but Jackie gave it to him.

He was musing about what they would do when he got home today since it was his early night off, when someone knocked at his office door.

With a confused frown for who would be bothering him, Hyde got up and walked to the door to see who it was.

When he opened it and saw the overly pretty moron staring back at him with a nervous expression, Hyde shut the door in his face.

"Hyde come on! Let me talk to you a minute please?!" Kelso begged piteously from outside the door.

"go away Kelso" Hyde growled, the way he had talked to Jackie still burned in his mind making him furious, no one treated his chick that way… his wife…the anger lessened at the thought and he opened the door again with a resigned sigh.

"umm, hi?" Kelso said when he was face to face with Hyde again.

"what do you want Kelso?" he asked blankly, doing his best not to show emotion.

"I want to apologize" Kelso said contritely

"not good enough" Hyde nearly growled

"please man! I miss you; I miss us all being friends and hanging out and stuff, I hate that it was me who messed it up, and I'm sorry for how I acted to you and Jackie. And not like I'm sorry because you got mad at me, I'm sorry because it hurts that I made you both feel bad about falling in love, I never loved Jackie like you do Hyde, and I'm really happy for you that you have that and it makes me so sad that I was such a jerk, I'm so sad that I missed your wedding and that you don't want to be my friend anymore because of it, I guess I didn't think you would pick a girl over our friendship, but what I didn't understand at the time was that were not kids anymore and picking your friends over your girlfriend is what kids do." Kelso looked at Hyde with a look of forlorn loss

"I don't want to be a dumb kid anymore Hyde, I want my friends back" he said with such deep felt honesty that again Hyde felt his anger fade away.

Kelso of all people had thought hard enough to realize the repercussions of his actions, he'd done something incredibly difficult for him because he cared about his friends, it was hard to stay mad at him knowing that, it was also becoming clear to Hyde that although annoying and dense, Kelso had never in all their years of friendship, been malicious.

That was the trademark of someone else they knew.

"I guess I accept your apology" Hyde said after a long pause

"really?!" Kelso asked looking so hopeful Hyde wanted to laugh, but he knew it wasn't the time/

"yeah man, I know you acted without thinking, which doesn't make it ok but ill give you another chance so long as you remember that its your last chance, this isn't some low stake couple weeks relationship, Jackie and I are married and when I say married I don't mean just legally man. She's my wife." The way Hyde said it made it clear even to Kelso that it was an important in a way that people their age didn't usually feel.

"I get it man, I went by your apartment and begged Jackie to tell me where you were she sounded the same way, I respect that you and her are for real and I'm sorry it took me so long to get with the program" Kelso said contritely

Hyde instinctively reached out and punched him in the arm as a show of friendship, it was so nostalgic Hyde grinned happily.

"I'm almost off man, you feel like having dinner with me and jack's tonight?" he asked casually

"really?" Kelso asked with a huge smile splitting his face

"yeah, were just going to order pizza sine jacks not allowed to try and make dinner when she has papers due that aren't over half finished – has to focus and all – but it'd be cool if you hung out for a while" Hyde told him honestly

"yeah, that'd be awesome, could…could the rest of the gang come to?" he asked hopefully "it'd be nice to all hang out again…its been along time" he explained what he was thinking.

"yeah man, get fez and I'll call Forman" Hyde said pointedly, he watched as Kelso got what Hyde was saying without saying it and nodded slowly.

Kelso ran off to get Fez and pick up Pizza to bring back to Hyde and Jackie's place, the joy he felt at being accepted back by his friend was evident in even the way he walked clumsily out of the hotel.

Hyde shook his head with a smile, it felt good to forgive Kelso and feel like they were friends again, they'd been friends so long it had hurt Hyde to cut him off for how he'd chosen to behave about him and Jackie, but he'd do it again and Kelso understood it.

When Hyde got back to home after work was done he walked in to a room full of laughter and chatter, Fez and Jackie were in the small kitchen area getting plates and soda's while Kelso and Forman sat on the couch laughing about something Hyde must have just missed. Fez was talking animatedly about his opinions on how Jackie had arranged the small space and his wife was smiling proudly at her friend's words.

When they saw that he was there everyone smiled and greeted him, and it hit him hard how much he had missed his family, he loved Jackie to distraction but he saw then that they needed the support and help of their friends, or there chances of making it weren't as good.

He sat on the corner of their small blue couch and caught the soda fez tossed to him right before Jackie sat on his lap without breaking stride in the story she was telling Fez about Forman winning the 100 meter dash and promptly throwing up from exertion, then accepting the medal.

"you should totally throw up after every victory!" Kelso laughed until he fell over

"I'm good with just the once" Forman told him dryly

"someday eric you will learn to take victory with grace and style like my Jackie" Fez told him with a smile for his beautiful friend

"you're saying I should stick my tongue out at the girls I beat when the judges aren't looking?" Forman asked with a pointed look at Jackie who was laughing too hard to look embarrassed about her behavior.

"are you both going to stay on track this year too?" Kelso asked, he was really out of the loop since he had made the mistake of taking Donna's side in the great war.

(A/N I can't for the life of me remember if eric had graduated by this time, that shows timeline was too weird to follow. So, let's just say they're all seniors for ease of everything)

"I am but we don't know about miss Jackie here:" Forman told him with a questioning look at his small friend currently seated on his intimidating friend.

"I want to but I'm worried about taking on too much at once, the teachers found out I married Steven somehow and now they're constantly giving me speeches about their 'concerns' about me, which is total crap because I am doing just fine and quite frankly having a lot less sex then most of their students!" she snapped angrily.

"you guys don't – "but Forman realized what he was saying before finishing his poorly thought out question.

"she said 'a lot less' Forman, not none. If you think about it were up against Pam Macey and jake Bradly, so a lot less is still a respectable amount" Hyde pointed out stoically

"thank you for that traumatizing information Hyde, would you happen to have some bleach handy for my poor ears?" Forman asked brightly

"deal with your trauma some other way, bleach costs money and were on a budget" Jackie told him loftily but was clearly trying to keep from laughing.

"you wound me devil! That my well being is worth less to you then a common household cleaner" Forman moaned dramatically

"oh, settle down Erica, you know id be bereft without you" Jackie pouted at him, making Hyde laugh into her hair.

"I have missed this" Fez said looking around fondly at all his friends, he felt warm and happy being surrounded by them again, laughing and joking like they used to. It had been hard on all of them when certain people caused a rift in their group, but that rift was mending, and he had high hopes that they would all find a new way to remain good friends.

"me too Fez" Hyde agreed off handedly, he wasn't going to get sappy and emotional, that was something he only did when he and Jackie were along and even then, it was rare.

"I think its safe to say we all do" Forman agreed seriously

"even I know that" Kelso agreed proudly

They all talked and laughed for another couple hours before Hyde kicked them out so Jackie would get enough sleep for school the next day, he would never let anyone get an opportunity to deride their choices and her succeeding at school was a vital part of this.

He lay in bed watching her brush her teeth in her old blue night dress and thought about her, it was amusing to him to know that even when she was six feet away, she was still on his mind. She crawled into bed beside him and picked up her book she read before she had a stressful day looming.

"hey jacks could I steal our attention from Anne of green gables for a few minutes?" he asked in a low voice.

"sure puddin'" she said with a sweet smile, setting her book down to give him her full attention.

Hyde stared at her face with its large beautiful mismatched eyes framed by a mass of soft dark curls and felt like he always did looking at her – awed and lucky.

"tonight, was a good night" he began with a small smile,

Jackie responded with a much wider one "it really was" she agreed

"I felt a lot like I used to hanging around with everyone, but something was different, and I think I know what it is" he began,

"what was it?" she asked curiously. She loved when Hyde got like this. Every new thought he shared was like a treasure and she was patience personified to earn them.

"it's that now everything seems better and happier because I have you, and I love you like nothing else in this world" he said as casually as he could manage under the circumstances.

"say it again" Jackie asked in a shy voice. It wasn't that Hyde never said the words to her, he did at least once a day, but they were usually a sleepy murmur, this was a conversation where he was voluntarily talking about how he loved her without her having to push him to, much.

Hyde smiled at her "I love you jacks, I love you so much id walk through fire for you, and even that doesn't do justice to how much I feel for you, I'm not going to talk like this often so don't get your hopes up there, but I wanted to tell you in case you ever worry or in case people at school make you doubt it – I have been in love with you for longer than you might expect and even with all the scary parts of being married and being responsible, I'm happy with our life and I'm happy were married and I am crazy in love with you" he told her in a low gravelly voice full of emotion he didn't know exactly what to do with.

"that was way better than Anne of green gables" she whispered

Hyde laughed softly "ill take that as a compliment" he said happily and leaned in to kiss her in a serious sort of way, he was a little overcome with emotion at that moment and felt a need to be as close to her as possible.

"me too you know" she whispered when he broke the kiss after a long moment.

"hmm?" Hyde asked in a happy daze, his eyes glancing back at her lips without intending to, he would wait until she said what she wanted before kissing her again, but only barely.

"I love you too, am in love with you too and I'm happy with our life and excited for our future" she told him shyly, she stared into his piercing blue eyes and thanked whatever force had made him decide to ask her out in that cabin back when they barely tolerated each other.

Hyde pulled her close and kissed her again, he'd talked as much as he was going to that night.