A/N: Thank you all so much for your reviews and support, it really does mean a lot and encourages me to keep writing. Things start to heat up a bit in this chapter (in more ways than one) so that being said, this chapter does have an M rating and also be prepared for some drama and jealousy. Alright, I'll shut up now, and please if you can leave a review and let me know your thoughts!

"What the hell is this?" Eric questioned in a frenzy of confusion of mild disgust.

Jackie and Hyde looked to each other in panic, Jackie still firmly on top of Hyde, as though they were trying to silently come up with an explanation for their current position.

Jackie pursed her lips together and narrowed her eyes. "Um, would you believe that he was just getting something out of my eye?" Jackie asked with a weak smile.

Eric's eyebrows furrowed together, still in shock at the sight before him, shook his head. "No!" He answered emphatically.

"Damn, I forgot that he's smarter than Kelso and Fez." Jackie murmured to the curly haired man she was still straddling.

"Let me handle this one doll." He whispered back, patting her shoulder. She hesitantly climbed off of him and took a seat beside him, fixing her currently disheveled hair. Hyde let out a sigh and looked toward Eric. "Look Forman, it's no big deal. We're just messing around, having some fun."

Jackie's shoulders visibly slumped at his explanation to Eric. Sure it wasn't supposed to be a relationship by any means, but it was sort of a big deal right?

Eric crossed his arms, jaw still slightly slack from the sight in front of him. "Fun? Why is your version of fun always doing unspeakable things to the devil?" He got closer to Hyde, whispering loudly in his ear. "She's satan Hyde, you wanna make out with satan?"

Hyde rolled his eyes. "Forman, it's not like this is anything new alright? We've done way dirtier before." He added, causing Eric to shiver slightly. "Stop being such a diva about this and get over it."

Eric arched an eyebrow, piecing everything together. "So if this is just like before then you guys are gonna get back together?"

Jackie and Hyde both momentarily froze before answering in unison variations of no.

Jackie sat up straight, having regained her composure. "Look Eric, Steven and I are just friends who like to engage in other activities as well. It's understandable that you wouldn't understand since you've never had any friends like that, on account of you being well you." Jackie explained in a falsely sweet tone.

Eric's eyes narrowed. "See, the devil!" He exclaimed once more to Hyde, who once again rolled his eyes.

"Ok look Forman, clearly we're not getting anywhere so just agree to keep it to yourself, and we'll make sure you don't see it again ok?" Hyde reasoned, getting bored with the cyclical nature of this argument.

"Um yeah I don't think I can do that, on account of the fact that well I don't want to." He explained, returning Jackie's falsely sweet smile.

Hyde smirked. "Alright Forman, we'll do this the hard way. Keep this a secret and I won't tell Donna that you only signed a three month lease on the apartment instead of the one year lease that you told her you signed."

Eric's eyes widened. "You wouldn't."

His smirk only deepened as he relaxed further into the sofa. "Oh I think you know very well that both I and my associate here would." He said gesturing to Jackie who gave a small wave.

"Fine then, keep living in sin, see if I care!" Eric exclaimed dramatically exiting the basement.

Jackie bit her lip, glancing in Hyde's direction. "Steven, watching you blackmail Eric was pretty hot."

He raised his eyebrows. "Oh yeah?" He moved in her direction, this time straddling her.

"Maybe we should move this to the bedroom." She breathed out, distracted by the hot kisses Hyde was leaving on her neck. "You know so we don't have a repeat of that."

He briefly removed his lips from her neck. "Jackie, it's two in the morning if anyone else comes down here they're either drunk or stoned out of their mind."

Jackie agreed with the sound reasoning and resumed with their previous activities, attacking his lips with her own.

The next day Donna walked into the basement with a grimace on her face, still clearly nursing a hangover. She shot a glare at Eric as she sat on the opposite side of the couch from him, leaving plenty of room in between.

Hyde smirked at Donna. "Wow you and Jackie must have went pretty hard last night." He remarked, fully well knowing the answer.

She rolled her eyes. "Ugh you have no idea. Believe it or not though, I think she went harder than me." She said with a chuckle.

His eyebrows furrowed together. "What do you mean?"

"Well she might not want me to tell you this, but she met someone last night and I'm like eighty percent sure that she brought him home with her."

His jaw clenched. Oh yeah the guy, Jackie had assured him that she didn't think it was going anywhere, but even if it was why would he care? This thing they had was casual, just a way to pass the time the way that it should have stayed beforehand. He knew Jackie wanted a marriage and a house and whatever else he couldn't give to her, so good for her if this guy could.

"Hyde are you ok?" Donna asked, smirking slightly bringing Hyde out of his trance.

"Yeah I'm fine why wouldn't I be?" He asked annoyed.

"Oh I don't know, maybe because Jackie was with another guy?"

He scoffed. "Oh please she was not with that guy last night." He remarked, freezing after he realized what he said.

"How would you know that?"

Hyde looked to Eric for help, who was wearing a shit eating grin. "Because she was hanging out with Forman."

Donna shook her head in disbelief. "Eric and Jackie were hanging out together?"

Eric gave him a look of disbelief and mouthed 'what the hell?' at Hyde.

"Uh yeah." Hyde replied simply.

Donna crossed her arms and looked at Eric. "So Eric, what were you doing with Jackie that was more important than seeing if I was ok after a night of drinking?"

Eric swallowed thickly. "Um, we were uh," he smiled slightly, "talking about you."

"Me?" She questioned disbelievingly.

"Yep that's what I said."

"So you're telling me that at two in the morning not only were you and Jackie hanging out together, but you got Jackie to talk about something that wasn't Jackie related?"

He laughed nervously. "Crazy right? The growth that girl has shown!"

"Well that's great. Now if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go talk to Jackie about you." She said glaring at Eric as she left.

"So um Hyde? Next time you need me to cover for you, how about you do it in a way that doesn't make Donna wanna chop my balls off?"

Hyde let out a big sigh. "I'm sorry man, I just didn't want Donna to start down a road about the new guy Jackie met."

"Because you're jealous."

"I am not!" He said forcefully. "I just happen to know that Jackie was with me last night, not some random asshole she met while she was wasted." He replied calmly.

Eric smirked. "Calling some guy you've never met an asshole? Right totally not jealous."

"Hey Forman? Jackie and I did it right where you're sitting."

Eric shot right up, his face wrinkling in disgust. "Ugh, oh my god!"

Later that night, Jackie and Donna entered the basement. Jackie was dressed up, clearly with the intention to go somewhere.

"Jackie it won't be so bad." Donna comforted as they entered.

"Donna I don't even want to go." Jackie whined.

"Go where?" Eric questioned, eavesdropping on the conversation.

"On a date." Donna squealed excitedly.

Hyde's jaw clenched. "You're going on a date with that guy?" He asked, showing more emotion than was expected.

"Yes Steven, he's taking me out to a simple dinner and then we're coming back." Jackie replied, noticing that he was visibly upset at this news.

Donna laughed and rolled her eyes. "Oh please like that's all that's gonna happen."

"Donna!" Jackie admonished in a warning tone under her breath.

"He's gonna be here any second so be on your best behavior." Donna warned.

"Wait why is he picking her up here?" Hyde questioned, still silently fuming.

"Because I live with Fez." Jackie replied simply.

Suddenly a knock was heard on the basement door, making the room go completely silent.

"He's here!" Donna squealed, to which Hyde and Eric gave her questioning looks.

She opened the door to reveal Dylan, the man from the previous night, smiling ear to ear holding a bouquet of flowers. He was dressed as he had been the previous night, sharply with a suit and tie. "Donna, nice to see you again. Conscious this time." He greeted with a chuckle.

Donna blushed at his comment. "Nice to meet you, you know not completely wasted."

Dylan turned towards Jackie, jaw dropping slightly at her appearance. "Jackie you look amazing."

Jackie smirked slightly. "Yeah I know."

Hyde smiled just barely from his position on his chair with pride. At least Jackie wasn't falling all over this guy, she maintained her same confident and conceded attitude. That's his girl, wait dammit, not his girl but you know.

Dylan also seemed to appreciate this attitude, beaming. "These are for you," he said handing the flowers to her.

"Roses." Jackie remarked taking them from him politely.

Hyde knew that she was not impressed, the number of times he had to hear, "Steven roses are so cliche, don't you dare buy me roses". He also happened to know that her flower of choice was lilacs, not that he wanted to give her flowers or anything.

Dylan stood there awkwardly looking at the two other men in the room who he had not been introduced to yet.

Donna, noticing that Jackie wasn't going to, took the initiative. "Dylan this is Eric and Hyde. There are two other idiots who are usually here but they're having quality Kelso and Fez time."

Dylan nodded as though he understood. "Got it. Well nice to meet the two of you, hopefully we'll get to know each other better but Jackie and I really need to get going."

Jackie grabbed her coat, Dylan made a move to take it to help put it on her but she declined. "Don't take it personally, I just don't like people I don't know touching my things." she had replied.

She briefly caught Hyde's eye as they were making their way out the door. He gave her a brief nod, but after so much time she had learned how to decipher his expression underneath his glasses and either she needed to brush up on her skills or he looked, sad?

That couldn't be right, why would he be sad?

She returned his nod as her 'date' led her out the door.

"What the hell was that Donna?" Eric asked once the pair was out the door.

"What?" She asked clueless.

"The giggling and the squealing and the blushing." Eric replied irritated.

Donna shrugged. "I'm just happy for Jackie. He seems like a good guy, and god knows she needs it after the number you dillholes in our group did on her." Donna said glaring at Hyde.

Hyde shrunk into himself, he knew he had hurt Jackie but had he really been that bad? The end was obviously pretty bad, but he had been pretty good to her right? Of course there was the nurse, and he hadn't been able to really say what he was feeling but Jackie always knew. Didn't she?

Well if he was so awful maybe this new dickhead wouldn't be such a jerk to her. He couldn't sit around and think about it, he had to get wasted pronto.

"Yeah I'm happy for her too." Hyde said standing up. "Later guys."

Eric turned to look at Donna. "Ok I get that you're team Jackie, but Hyde's really hurting here Donna."

She shook her head slightly. "So what? He should be."

He looked at her in complete disbelief. "How can you say that Donna, he's one of your best friends."

"It doesn't mean he wasn't a total jackass. You didn't see what he did to her Eric, the way he flaunted his wife in front of her and insulted her. The way that he just completely abandoned her, just like I did." She looked him directly in the eyes. "Just like you did to me."

He was speechless. "Donna..."

"You know Eric, I should probably go."

He made no move to stop her, just sat there wondering how much he had missed.

Jackie eventually returned from her date, Dylan had offered to walk her inside but she very politely declined.

She walked into the basement, once again hoping to see Steven, instead she was greeted to just Eric sitting on the couch sullen.

"Hey Eric, is Steven here?" She questioned awkwardly.

Ignoring her question, he looked up. "Jackie I'm sorry."

"What are you talking about?" She asked sitting next to him.

"About the last year."

She shook her head. "Eric I don't understand, you didn't do anything to me, you weren't even here."

"Exactly, I wasn't here. I'm not saying sorry to just you, it's mostly for Donna."

Jackie, suddenly feeling very uncomfortable, pursed her lips together. "Well maybe you should say that to her."

He shook his head. "I can't Jackie, not until I fix things."

"Fix what?" She asked more confused than ever.

He stood up suddenly, heading up the stairs. He was gonna make things right, and oddly enough that was going to start with getting his best friend and his sorta friend back together.

Jackie was left alone in the basement, still extremely confused, she had come here for a hookup and to get the date she was 'forced' to go on off of her mind and she ended up listening to an emotional babbling Eric.

Hyde stumbled into the basement, dazed but not drunk.

"Steven thank god you're here, Eric is acting super weird."

Hyde chuckled. "Yeah what's new?"

"He was getting all emotional and uncomfortable and ugh." Jackie said cringing at the memory.

He nodded. "Yep sounds like Forman. Speaking of uncomfortable, how was your date?"

She rolled her eyes at his insult. "Why do you care?"

"I don't." He replied, his emotions betraying him.

She raised an eyebrow. "You sure? Cause it kinda seems like you do."

He scoffed. "I thought the whole purpose of this thing was to not care."

"Yeah tell yourself that." She said crossing her arms.

So what if he cared? It wasn't like he had a shot in hell with her anymore, Donna's comment made it pretty damn obvious how horrible he had been. Why hadn't he just gotten drunk? Oh yeah cause when he was drunk and jealous he slept with/married people he shouldn't.

Had he ever even apologized? When they started this whole thing it was kinda unspoken, just like before, nothing said, the past completely unacknowledged. He owed her at least an apology right?

"Jackie I'm sorry." He said cutting her off.

She threw her head back and groaned. "God why is everyone apologizing to me tonight?"

Ignoring her he continued. "I'm sorry about how I hurt you. I realized I never said it, and you deserve at least that, so there."

Jackie looked at him incredulously. "So there?"

He shrugged. "Yeah."

She laughed in spite of herself. "So you out of the blue sort of apologize, and then say so there?"

"What else do you want me to say?"

She shrugged, this whole thing was about no emotions right? "Nothing I guess."

He shook his head, he hadn't meant to upset her. "Jackie-."

"No Steven, I don't even want to hear it. I had a great night, I don't want you ruining it." Ok so she lied. He married a stripper! She had a right to torture him a little.

"Great night huh?"

"Yeah, Dylan was amazing, the perfect gentleman in every way." She said suggestively.

He felt a spark of jealousy, as he scoffed. "Oh please you did not sleep with him."

"Oh yeah and how would you know that?"

He smirked. "Because I know you, and Jackie Burkhart is not a slut."

"So?"

He moved closer to her and put his hands on either side of her face, so close he could feel her breath. "So if you slept with him, there is no way in hell you'd sleep with me tonight." He stated as he kissed her, sliding his tongue in her mouth.

She returned the kiss with an equal fervor, jumping up and hooking her legs around his waist. He carried them into his bedroom, using his foot to slam the door and then push her up against it.

She made quick work of removing his t-shirt, and he of her dress. She began work on his belt as she tried to catch her breath. "Oh Steven."

"I know." He replied quickly.

She got his pants and belt undone sliding them and his boxers off in record time, him doing the same to her underwear, flinging them across the room.

He moved them over to his bed, laying her down and positioning himself over her.

He leaned down and captured her lips with his own, her hand tangling in his hair, as she moaned her pleasure.

He quickly slid into her, starting the rhythm for what was to come. "Oh hell Jackie." He said, his eyes closing in ecstasy as he slammed into her.

Rough had always been their style, both had a lot of pent up anger and it was just more fun that way. Despite it being rough though, there was something different about this time than the others since their little arrangement had started. This one had an unmistakable air of love. Not that the others didn't, but this time neither held back.

"Steven, I'm almost there." She said breathless.

"Me too baby."

Almost in unison, they hit their climax. He collapsed on top of her, careful not to crush her. He kissed her again carefully before rolling on his side, instinctually she cuddled up to him, despite the strict no cuddling rule, and he in turn pulled her closer.

Oh yeah they were in trouble.

A/N: So how was it? If you guys liked it the next few chapters can be much more M rated. Things are also getting very heated between our beloved couple and Donna and Eric so expect more backlash from that in the next chapter. Please let me know what you thought and thanks for reading!