New York 1985

"Jackie, there's a phone call for you." Jackie looked over at the receptionist and cringed. Crap, this was just what she needed, someone calling for her at work and not using her private line. She hadn't even been with CBS a week; she didn't want to give a bad impression.

"Thanks Susan, I'll take it in my office if you wouldn't mind transferring the call." Jackie turned around and headed back to her office or what she affectionately called her hole. They could at least have given her a wall with a window. Even a sliver would have been better than this four wall dungeon they had placed her in. Jackie guessed that beauty pageant reporters weren't on the top list of CBS priorities. She sat at her desk and picked up the phone.

"Jackie Burkhardt here."

"Jackie! I'm so glad I caught you." Donna exclaimed on the other end of the line.

"Donna? Hey! It's been a few weeks since I talked to you. How is everything?" Jackie sat back in her chair and smiled anticipating hearing all about Donna and Eric and their newest arrival. Jackie regretted that she hadn't been able to see little Annie since she had been born and she had been shocked when Donna had called and asked her to be her Godmother.

"Oh, we're good. Eric got a full time teaching position at the high school. He's going to be teaching Science. He wants to make it fun. He was saying something yesterday about teaching the laws of gravity using Tie Fighters. Leave it to doofball Eric to try and teach Science using Star Wars."

Jackie grinned. She could hear the love in Donna's voice. "Donna I'm thrilled for him and for you. Have you decided if you are going to stay home full time or..?

"I think for now I'm going to stay home. I know, I know. That's the total opposite of women's lib and what I believe in but you know what? I don't want to miss a second of Annie's life. I want to see everything. If I go to work I'll miss some of that. And while I love Kitty to death, the thought of leaving Annie with her when there is Bourbon in the house is a little frightening."

"Oh Donna, Mrs. Foreman was a great mom, she wouldn't do anything to hurt that little girl."

"I know, it's just that I'm a little overprotective and still hormonal. I'll probably be ready to chuck this kid in a few weeks."

Jackie's grin grew larger. "Donna, I sincerely doubt that. Look, I should probably go. I'm really supposed to be working. They gave me this big expose on dog shows and they actually want me to interview a freaking dog." Jackie rolled her eyes.

"Oh! Wait. I called for a reason not just to talk about my humdrum life. We had dinner with Hyde last night."

Jackie froze at the mention of Steven's name. She hadn't talked to him since she left Point Place. After all this time just the mention of his name still made her shiver with longing.

"Jackie, you still there?" Donna asked anxiously.

"What? Yes, sorry. I'm here. Well I hope you had a nice dinner. I have to ru…"

"Jackie, wait. Look I know it's still hard for you to talk about Hyde. I know you aren't over him. I knew you weren't over him when we were kids but I had so much shit going on that I just kind of ignored it. I was a rotten friend. But that's not the case anymore. I'm here for you and I need to tell you something before you hear it from someone else."

Jackie could feel her whole body tense in preparation for the words that would be coming.

"Hyde is... well…last year he met someone. She started coming into the record store all the time and I guess she grew on him. They started dating but I didn't think it was serious. I mean it was Hyde. How serious could it get? He loved you and we saw where that went so…"

Jackie closed her eyes and grimaced at the reminder. "Donna, could you just get to the point?"

"Sorry. When I first met her I couldn't get over how much she reminded me of you, it was eerie. She didn't look like you so much as she acted like you. It was almost like Annette, you remember her right?"

"Unh" Jackie grunted in assent.

"Right, well. It was like that. Anyway, Hyde showed up last night to talk to Eric. He told him, well us because I was not about to sit that one out that Diana, that's her name. He told us that Diana was pregnant."

Jackie felt like someone had punched her. Steven had gotten some woman pregnant? Jackie couldn't even wrap her head around that one. She just sat there with her jaw hanging open in shock.

"Huh, I expected yelling and swearing. Guess not. Well I went ballistic. If we still had the stupid helmet I would have hit him in the head with it. I told him what an immature shit he was for getting somebody pregnant. But he told me he was going to do in his words the right thing. Jackie, Hyde is getting married."

Jackie had to get off the phone as quickly as possible. "Well, that's…Okay. Tell Steven I said congratulations will you? It was nice talking to you Donna, I'll call you soon."

Jackie hung up the phone and stared down at her desk trying to focus on the questions her producer had dropped off earlier. But all she could see through her tear filled eyes were her dreams crumbling around her.