Authors Note: I'm so so so so sorry that it's taken me this long to update. I had finals this past week and things were just crazy. Then i had a slight writters block but when i sat down yesterday I wrote this and it isnt what i wanted it to be but i'm proud of it none the less. If hyde seems ooc to some of you...please realize that i'm writting an older hyde. A man who lost it all and had to grow up and learn how to be a man. I dont know how many more chapters i'm going to have. I know there is going to be the donna/eric wedding and then some more jackie and hyde stuff but i'm not sure how many more chapter that'll take. So bare with me. To everyone who reviews...thank you. Your reviews encourage me and make me want to continue. I love it. I just hope that all ya'll will continue to update and leave me little notes about how i'm doing because that makes my day! I dont know if there will be a christmas update but if there isnt merry christmas to you guys. Who knows i might have one sooner or later.

Disclaimer: I dont own any of the characters or actors...even though i asked santa for Danny this year...who knows maybe i'll wake up christmas morning to him under the tree...wouldnt that be nice: ) !!!

Chapter 9: So this is what we've come to

Hyde walked out of his room expecting to find an empty basement, instead he found Kelso on the couch. Hyde walked over to his chair and quietly sat down. Kelso looked over at Hyde as if he was waiting for the other man to say something. Hyde secretly watched Kelso out of the corner of his eyes, which were hidden behind his trademark sunglasses. After what seemed like hours of deafening silence Kelso finally spoke.

"Hyde, are you still mad at me?"

Hyde looked at the man who was once one of his best friends, the man who had once used and hurt the woman he loved and he sighed. "Kelso a part of me is always going to be angry with you. You knew I loved her."

"No I didn't because you never said it."

"Damn it Kelso I was going to ask her to marry me. Don't you think that if I was going to ask her to spend the rest of her life with me that maybe I loved her? Unless you think marriage proposals are things I randomly ask people."

"Hyde."

"Hell if that's the case maybe I'll just go ask Donna or hell maybe even Brooke."

"Fine I get it. You loved her and I knew that. But it doesn't change what you did Hyde."

"What did I do?"

"You got drunk that night instead of answering her."

Hyde took off his sunglasses and set them on the table then looked back up at Kelso. "Kelso that night I was so scared about everything. I wasn't sure what I wanted; hell I wasn't even sure if I deserved to want it to begin with. Kelso I…the next morning I was going to ask her to marry me because when I woke up in the back of that warehouse I realized everything I wanted, everything I needed was with Jackie and in that second of realizing that I didn't want to lose her."

"Then why didn't you tell her that when you found her in the basement?"

"I was angry, angry about that stupid letter she wrote instead of waiting."

"I forgot about the letter."

"Then I talked to Leo and I realized that this was it. So I went to Chicago and I found you."

"Hyde."

"Save it. We're done Kelso. I realized a long time ago that we aren't best friends. We stopped being best friends the minute my lips touched Jackie's." Hyde said as he picked up his sunglasses and headed towards his room.

"Then why did you tell me all that stuff?"

"I told you because I wanted you to know what you ruined that night." Hyde said before he walked into his room.

Kelso stood up and walked out of the basement as the last thing Hyde said played in his head like a broken record. "Hello Michael." Kelso looked up and smiled at Jackie.

"Hello Jackie."

"You look upset."

"Yeah I had a talk with Hyde."

"Oh so he's down there."

"Yeah he's in his room." Jackie nodded and started to walk away. "Jackie."

"Yes Michael?" Jackie said as she turned around.

"I'm so sorry for everything I did; for all the pain and sadness that you've had to go through. I shouldn't have done what I did and I'm sorry for it."

Jackie smiled as Kelso turned and walked away.

Jackie walked into Hyde's room and found him sitting in the chair across from his cot.

"Steven." Jackie said as she sat across from him.

"Jackie…I have something to tell you."

"What?"

"I'm sorry about the night I passed out at that beer warehouse. I'm sorry about all the 'I don't knows' and the jerk I was when I found in the basement."

"Steven."

"Let me finish. Jackie I was going to ask you to marry me that morning, but instead I got that note. That note hurt me because I felt like you didn't trust me enough to let me answer you. That hurt a lot. Then I found you with Kelso. Jackie I guess what I'm trying to say is that I love you, I've always loved you, even when you doubted it, and I'm sorry for ever making you doubt it."

Jackie got up, walked over to Hyde and sat in his lap. "I was scared too Steven. I was so scared that you were going break my heart and when Eric said you were passed out drunk, I jumped to conclusions. I guess I was a little childish, but I did what I did and I'm sorry. God Steven I'm so sorry." Jackie said as tears fell from her eyes. Hyde cupped her face in his hands and wiped the tears away with his thumbs. Jackie leaned forward and kissed Hyde. He pulled her closer as the kiss went from slow and sweet to hot and passionate. Jackie poured all her feelings into the kiss and Hyde did the same. When they broke apart Hyde began placing hot kisses down her neck as Jackie moaned and reached for the bottom of his shirt. Hyde pulled away from her neck and let her take his shirt off. Jackie leaned forward and placed hot open mouthed kisses down his chest as he unbuttoned her top. Once it was unbuttoned Hyde slowly removed it then leaned forward to capture her lips once more. Jackie moaned as Hyde lightly touched her nipples through her bra. He moved his hands to her back and unhooked her bra as his tongue battled hers in a fiery kiss. Once the bra was gone he moved his kisses back to her neck and down her chest. Slowly he made his way towards one of her breast and pulled her nipple into his mouth while his other hand played with the other one. Jackie moaned and leaned into his touch as she felt a pool of liquid begin to form between her thighs. "Steven I want you."

Hyde stopped teasing her and smiled. "Really, how do you want me Jackie?" Hyde leaned forward as his hand traced the zipper of her jeans. "You have to tell me what you want Jackie. I can't give it to you till you tell me baby." Hyde whispered in her ear.

"Oh god Steven I want you inside me."

Hyde kissed her as he picked her up and placed her on her feet. Jackie reached down and unbuttoned his jeans as Hyde undid hers as well. Jackie pushed his jeans down and wasn't the least bit surprised by his lack of boxers. She reached down and touched him as he leaned his head back. "I want all of this inside of me Steven." Jackie said as she moved her hand up and down slowly as she lightly squeezed.

Hyde nodded then just as he felt his release coming he grabbed her hand. "No baby I want to cum inside you."

Jackie nodded and Hyde removed her pants and stared at her back lacey panties.

"See something you like?"

Hyde picked her up and laid her down on the cot. "Always doll face."

Hyde slowly kissed his way down her body, playing with her breasts as he made his way down to her acing core. He kissed up her thighs, teasing her as she squirmed and begged him to touch her. He slowly pulled her panties off and gazed at her completely naked body. "You're so beautiful." Jackie blushed and started to cover herself. He stopped her. "Don't be embarrassed, you have an amazing body."

"No I don't I have stretch marks now and stretch marks aren't sexy."

"Yes they are Jackie; especially these stretch marks."

"Why?"

"They're proof that you and I made a child together, a child that you carried and gave birth to and for some reason that makes them seem sexy to me." Jackie smiled at Hyde as he kissed each mark before moving back to her acing core. He lightly flicked his tongue over her clit as she moaned in approval. He continued to flick it with his tongue as he inserted two fingers inside her. Jackie moaned as she felt herself climbing towards her release as Hyde sucked on her clit. Hyde knew she was close, but he wanted her to cum with him inside her so he quickly withdrew his fingers and climbed up her body. Jackie pulled him in for a kiss as he lined himself up with her.

"Are you sure?"

Jackie nodded and Hyde slowly pushed inside of her. They both moaned at the feeling, both never realizing how much they had missed this feeling until now. Jackie wrapped her legs around him as he slowly moved in and out of her. Hyde knew he wouldn't last long so he reached between them and gave Jackie's clit two flicks as she came taking him with her. He collapsed beside her so he wouldn't crush her and waited till his breathing returned to normal.

"I love you Steven."

Hyde pulled her close to him and kissed her forehead as she closed her eyes. "I love you too Jackie." He said before he fell asleep.