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Author's Note: Hello everyone! How are you all? Hope you're doing well! Surprised to see an update for this collection? Wouldn't be surprised if you were surprised. I really am so terribly sorry for not updating this collection more often, I got busy with the holiday collections and then longer oneshots but I'm back now with updates for this collection and I'm excited to share them with you all! I hope you're excited to read them! Now I do want to note that even though I have little oneshots ready fro this collection they are little oneshots, mini-ones. This one is actually one of the longer ones. I hope you don't mind but I thought making them shorter would be easier for you all to read in a kind of spur of the moment thing and hopefully leave more time to leave your thoughts :) This story is with the pairing of Laurie and Eric but it's not anything weird it's pure family, sibling stuff, ad it takes place after season 8. In this story, Eric returned to Africa after New Years—that's about all the info you need of this story. Again, I am very sorry for not updating before but you can expect some new installments through out the month. I hope you all like this installment, please do leave a review if you have a chance, thanks for reading, and please, Enjoy!

The word that inspirsed this story appears 15 times. Can you guess it?

Eric Forman stood in front of the green painted door. His heart was racing with excitement. He felt like he hadn't seen this door in decades—though that could very much be true since he'd never used this door much before. But the truth was it had been some time since he'd seen this door, this house, this town. He'd missed it all while he'd been in Africa, but he was home now and that's what mattered.

He was eager to see everyone—who he was sure he would find on the other side of this door. They might not all be in the living room, most were probably in basement, but they'd be there just like in the good old days. Eric had told them he wouldn't be home for another two months, not because he wanted to lie to them but because he wanted to surprise them by coming home early. He couldn't wait to see their faces when they saw him.

As a smile crept onto his lips and he couldn't help but wonder how they'd each react. Donna would probably greet him with one of her long breathtaking kisses that he'd missed so much. The midget would probably give him one of her quick little hugs and then comment about how he smelled like foreigners. Hyde maybe a brotherly slap on the shoulder and Kelso would probably skip over the big greetings and go straight to informing him off all the burns he'd made during the time Eric was away. And Fez would probably tackle him in a hug and not let go…come to think of it that was probably how his mother would react too...but with more tears…maybe—after all this was Fez. And his dad would probably give him a simple handshake but maybe just maybe he'd be he'd be so happy and surprised to see his son back home, he'd start to tear up. Eric Forman might actually get his father to cry! He couldn't help the way the corners of his mouth twitched upwards. Part of him really did hope he could get his dad to cry.

With the excitement of that thought still inside him, Eric raised his right fist. He'd thought about just walking in but figured it might be an even better surprise if they opened the door to find him. He knocked three times and then put on a large grin, ready for the door to swing open and be overcome with a grand homecoming!

"Coming!" a voice trailed out from inside.

Eric frowned out the voice. It didn't sound like either of his parents but it did sound familiar…

Before Eric could give the voice any more thought the door was pulled open and standing on the other side of it was a young blonde woman wearing very tight jeans and a pink sweater with the zipper pulled down further that it should be, exposing the black bra she wore underneath. Normally such a scene would have Eric covering his eyes and running in the opposite direction while screaming his head off, but the just seeing his older sister standing in front of him had sent him into a paralyzing shock.

"Hi I know the pizza was ten but I only have a five…" she said in sweet innocent voice, that is until she looked up from her money and found her baby brother at the door step. Her face fell and her tone became bored, "Oh it's you."

Laurie rolled her eyes with annoyance before shutting the door right in Eric's face.

The slam broke Eric from his daze and he immediately went to work on getting into the house. He stepped closer to the closed door and slammed his clenched fists against it—not caring how much he resembled Fred Flintstone.

"Laurie! Open this door!" he shouted to her, "Laurie…"

"It's open, loser!" she called back at him.

The banging suddenly stopped and silence took over for several seconds before the front door was pushed open and Eric awkwardly stepped into the house he'd grown up in. Seeing the familiar props in the room made him feel more comfortable. The shag orange carpeting, Red's green armchair, his mom's glass grapes in the center of the coffee table, and his older sister—with her pink sweater thankfully zippered back up—sitting on the sofa while flipping through her latest Cosmopolitan magazine and ignoring him completely.

Ah, it was good to be home.

Still, he'd just had the door of his house shut in his face—he was not going to just ignore that.

"Uh Laurie," he said placing his bags by the door and stepping further into the room, "you know, you kinda just slammed the door in my face over there."

"I know. I did it, didn't I?" came Laurie's reply, her eyes never shifting from their spot on the beauty article she was reading.

"And you did it because…"

The magazine slapped against Laurie's lap when she lowered it to look over at her brother with a very bored expression her face, "Because you weren't the pizza guy like I thought you were."

Watching his sister raise the reading material up to her face once again Eric gave a fake understanding nod, "Right, right because pizza is more important than your brother coming home for the first time in months."

"Yup." She replied too cheerfully.

"Alright, fine, okay!" Eric said giving up, his opened palms showing this as he stepped away from the sitting area, "I don't need to you to get excited for me I know plenty of other people who'll be very excited to see me home. Mom! Your Baby Boy is home!"

He'd shouted out the words but received no reply. Eric scowled—not catching Laurie's snickering behind her magazine—but tired again.

"Dad?"

Silence.

"Hyde?"

Nothing.

Now he was really starting to get worried and couldn't help the way he voice went up when he called out the next name "Mommy?" When he once again received no response Eric turned to his sister, hoping she could explain this mystery, "Laurie, where is everyone?"

Laurie pulled her magazine away again, but this time her facial expression was very serious and she looked almost frightened.

"You mean you didn't hear?"

"I didn't hear…what?" Eric asked sounding cautious as he eyed his sister suspiciously.

The blonde stood up from her seat and slowly walked over to where her brother was standing in front of the living room staircase.

"It was all over the news." She said, he voice sounding small but solemn too, "People in Wisconsin have been…just…mysteriously disappearing. As soon as I heard I came straight home but…"she sounded close to tears, "Eric, I've been home three weeks and still haven't seen Mommy or Daddy."

Eric's face showed both alarm and concern, but mostly concern, "Oh my God. Seriously?"

An evil smile crawled onto Laurie's lips, "No. God you are still so easy."

She started to walk back to the couch and Eric stood there watching her. Normally he would've stood there kicking himself for falling for such a trick but Laurie's words snapped him out of his self pity—they were too good to let them pass on by.

"Funny, I was just about to say the same to you." he said with a smirk and a tilt of his head.

Laurie snarled at him, "Shouldn't you be teaching elephants to read or something?"

"Oh dumb…I mean dear sweet sister." Eric corrected himself in an anything but heartfelt tone, "I finished my program in Africa and not only that but my scholarship letter will be in the mail by next week." He shared proudly, "What about you? I mean what're you doing back home? Canada finally start enforcing their No Whores Allowed Law?"

"For your information, I wasn't in Canada." She informed him, "I was in…"

Before she could reveal her true whereabouts for the past year or so the doorbell rang interrupting her story.

"That better be my pizza this time." Laurie muttered as she stood up from the sofa again.

As she walked over to the front door, she pulled the zipper of her sweater back down to how it had been when she'd open the door for her brother moments ago. Pulling the door open she found that her dinner had arrived and it was being delivered by a young pimply face teen—the perfect target.

"Hi." She greeted with a sultry smile.

"Hh..hu…hhi..Hi!" the pizza boy squeaked out, "Um…uh…one pepperoni pizza?"

Laurie nodded and subtly licked her lips, "Mm hmm."

"That'll be ten dollars and seven cents." He managed to say before nearly shoving the pizza box into her hands, "Here you go. Keep the change!"

The young boy then began to walk away—backwards—causing him to trip but he managed to keep himself from falling; however, taking off running back to his pizza delivery car didn't make him look any cooler. Laurie smirked at the scene before closing the door and zippering her sweater back up.

Meanwhile Eric, who'd watched the scene from the background, at last spoke up, "So be a whore and you get a free pizza." He said as if he finally understood his sister.

"It has its perks." She replied with a shrug as she settled back into her place on the left side of the couch with her free pizza on the coffee table.

"So really, where are Mom and Dad?" Eric questioned, hoping he wouldn't be fooled again.

"I don't know." Laurie replied while grabbing a slice of pizza, "Some date night or something."

Eric nodded but couldn't help but feel disappointed until he remembered some other people who would be happy to see him, "What about Hyde or Donna?"

"You expect me to keep tabs on those losers?" she asked in disgust but did still share what little information she knew before taking a bit of her piece, "Last I heard the kiddies were all going to some concert or something in Madison."

"Oh." Eric said once again sounding sad by the information until he had a sudden realization that made him smile again, "Wait a minute. Mom and Dad are out on a date and everyone else is at a concert but you're here. Alone. Does Laurie have no life? Laurie the Loner does have a nice ring to it."

The blonde glared daggers at her brother, "At least people were here when I came back home."

Her words hit him harder than he was sure anything he'd said had hurt her. His smile fell as he dropped himself onto the other side of the sofa.

"That's true. I mean I wanted it to be a surprise so that's why I didn't tell anyone." Eric said out loud, not caring if his sister was listening or not, "I guess I shouldn't be upset about them not being here. It's just…I…I had this image of everyone here waiting for me and making a big deal about me being back home." He gave a small scoff, "Instead I got a welcome from my older sister who was more excited about her pizza being delivered than her own brother's homecoming."

Laurie turned her head to the right and saw Eric looking down at his clasped hands.

"God, you are such a baby." She told him, "You would've thought your time in Africa would've toughened you up."

"Yeah." Eric gave a simple reply, not really feeling up to saying much else.

Eric's lack of a comeback made Laurie roll her eyes. This was really getting pathetic. But with an unhappy expression on her face she grabbed another slice of pizza from the box and held it towards Eric.

"Here."

He looked up and was surprised by the sight and gave a somewhat suspicious look her way, had she poisoned it? No, he saw them deliver it and everything, still he wasn't too sure that he could trust her.

"Really?"

"Take it before I change my mind." she firmly told him.

With a smile now on his lips, Eric reached over and took the piece, "Thanks, Laurie."

She said nothing and for a good few seconds they sat in silence eating their pizza until suddenly Laurie looked back at her brother eating his pizza.

"Welcome home, Little Brother." She said with a smile that he soon returned.

Author's Note: So what did you think? Good? Bad? Just okay? Lemme know what you think!

And of course, the word that inspired this little oneshot was…Pizza. Guess correctly anyone? Either way, be sure to grab a pizza on your way out!

Until next time, thanks for reading, hope you liked, please review and lemme know what you think, stay tuned, take care and have a nice day!