Guess what kids, this isn't the Halloween chapter. Why? Because your dear friend Sooki sucks at math. If Eric came back in June, then this chapter would take place around early to mid August. Although, the time line on the show was pretty messed up so it really wouldn't matter. "Whatever"

So, there's a party and stuff happens, but it just doesn't happen on Halloween.

Standard disclaimers apply. Please review.

On Any Other Day.

Michael Kelso woke up to the sounds of his daughter's cries. Gently rolling his girlfriend off his arm, he got up and went to pick up his offspring. The two of them had a morning ritual. She would cry, he would wake up, and after a diaper change and her morning bottle, he would sit in the rocking chair and would start to talk to her.

"Someday, you're going to be a hot girl who all the guys are going to want to do it with." He told her. "Be like your mom okay? Don't give in to guys like me." He thought about how his daughter was conceived. "On second thought, I take that back. Don't' be like your mom."

He never thought he would feel this way about any other human being. So protective, so willing to sacrifice his own life to save hers. He looked over at Brooke. "That's your mommy. Aren't you glad She decided we should move back to Point Place and I should get my job as a police officer back?"

His daughter burped in response.

"Me too."

Brooke started to stir; she knew about her boyfriend and their daughters morning conversations. She tried not to eavesdrop, but it was hard when he kept saying such sweet things. They brought out the best in each other. He was more grounded and mature; she didn't take everything so seriously. "Morning." She said to both of them.

He gave her a wide smile. "Look who's awake Betsy!" He got up from the chair and leaned down to give Brooke a kiss. "We love you." He said for both him and his daughter.

She smiled. "I love you too."

She got up and took Betsy out of Kelso's arms. "You better hurry up if you don't want to be late today."

He went to the closet and started putting on his uniform. "Brooke? Do you think I make a good cop?"

"I think since you started taking it seriously, you've made a great cop." She told him as she dressed Betsy.

He sighed. "I know, but I don't know if being a traffic cop is enough."

Brooke understood her boyfriend's insecurities. He felt he wasn't smart enough to go far in the force, and that someday Brooke would leave him. "Why don't you ask for a promotion?"

"I know, but I don't know if I can do it Brooke."

She went over to him and kissed him. "I believe in you."

His heart felt like it was going to burst. Brooke saying I believe in you was better than any I love you could have been. He smiled and took Betsy so that Brooke could get dressed.

"So who is picking this girl up from daycare today?" He asked.

"I will. You need to talk to Sergeant Quinn."

"Brooke?"

"Yes Michael?"

"Thank you."

She smiled in return.

"So am I meeting you at the party?" she asked him.

"Yeah."

"And you have your suit?" she asked.

"It's in my car." He kissed his girlfriend and walked out the door.

Donna sat in Red's muffler shop talking to Jackie while Jackie worked.

"He never leaves his basement Donna."

"That doesn't surprise me." Donna responded.

"I even brought it up. I said, Steven, you have a nice, big house that you should be using and do you know what he said?"

"What?"

"I am using it Jackie, to grow my plants." Jackie said in her 'Hyde' voice. "I even offered to help him decorate!"

"I'm sure he took that well."

"He said okay!"

"I don't believe you." Donna said suspiciously.

"It's true. Granted, I was naked when I suggested it, so he probably didn't know what he was agreeing too." Jackie smirked.

Red walked in and noticed Donna. "Damn you kids. It's one thing that you've taken over my house, but now you're taking over my place of business? Why are you here?"

"Because I don't have anything else to do." Donna responded.

"Don't you have a job down at the radio station?"

"The station's decided to change formats, so that means new DJs. I'm out of work."

"You're not working here. It's one thing that the loud one connived her way into it, but I'll be damned if any more of you kids will be allowed here." Red turned and walked out.

"What do you want to do Donna?" Jackie asked her.

"See, that's the thing. I have no idea! I liked being a DJ but I always thought I'd go to college and become a writer you know? But now that I'm married to Eric, that's no longer an option."

"Why not?"

Donna shrugged. "I don't know."

"Well, I'm sure you'll find something."

"You think so?"

"I do."

"You know, Jackie, I never thought I'd see the day when you allowed yourself to be covered head to toe in grease." Donna pointed to Jackie and laughed.

Jackie looked down at herself and picked off a glob of oil and flicked it towards Donna, who picked the grease off her shirt and flicked it back towards Jackie.

Red walked in on the girls, both were now covered in grease and laughing like hyenas.

"Oh for heaven's sake." He said, turning back around and walking out.

Donna turned back to Jackie. "You're coming over to help me with my makeup and hair right?"

"Yeah, I'm going to stop by Steven's first though. Or rather, Steven's basement." She rolled her eyes. "Men."

"Men." Donna agreed.

Hyde walked up to Eric who is listening to a record in the listening pit. He pulled off Eric's headphones.

"I need to talk to you."

Eric looked up. "Okay shoot."

"I got a letter from Jackie's father."

That got Eric's full attention. "Really? He wrote you from prison?"

"Yeah."

"What did it say?"

"Oh you know that I'm a no good half breed bum who isn't good enough for his baby girl."

"Huh, I guess you are the holy trinity of all the things Jack Burkhart disapproves of. You're half black, you're poor, and you're a criminal."

"You would think he would at least approve of the last one, given that it makes us have something in common." Hyde joked. "He offered me money to stop seeing her." He said more seriously.

"Are you going to tell Jackie?" Eric asked.

"What's there to tell?"

Both of them shrugged.

Jackie was on the phone at Forman and Son's

"That's great! Yes, I'm sure they'd love too. I love you too, bye!" She hung up the phone.

She hung up and ran to find Red.

"Mr. Forman!"

He didn't answer.

"Mr. Forman?" She called again.

There was a piece of paper on the counter.

"Jackie,

I left to go get my suit from the cleaners.

Lock up when you leave,

Red. "

Her news was just going to have to wait.

Jackie walked into her boyfriend's basement wearing her Forman and Son's uniform. Hyde was sitting on the couch with his eyes closed wearing one of his Led Zeppelin tee shirt and jeans, listening to Mama Kin by Aerosmith.

"Hi!" She said perkily, sitting down next to him. He didn't open his eyes, but put his arm around her.

"Hey."

"You have your suit right?"

"Uh huh."

She looked down at herself. "Uh, okay."

He opened his eyes and looked at her. "You're the hottest mechanic in this town you know that?"

They kissed for a moment.

"I have something I need to tell you." He said.

"Me too, but it's going to have to wait. I have to Donna's. I'll see you at the party." She kissed him and ran out the door.


Kelso walked into the library wearing his police uniform, he spun Brooke around and planted a kiss on her lips.

"Michael!" "What's that for?" She said, surprised. "I thought we were going to meet at the party."

"I just wanted to see you." He had a huge grin on his face.

"No reason." He was clearly hiding something.

"What did you do Michael?"

"I got promoted to Lieutenant!"

She threw her arms around him. "I knew you could do it!" She gave him a deep kiss.

"Brooke… are you busy?"

"No, not especially."

He grinned and pulled her away.

"Whoo!" She exclaimed.

Red Forman walked into his house to see Kitty making the last of the food for the party.

"Hi Red!"

"Hi Kitty." He kissed her and sat down at the table.

"I've had the strangest day Kitty."

"You think you had a strange day? Guess who called here earlier!"

"If the next words out of your mouth are 'My mother is coming to visit' I'm putting us in the witness relocation program."

She laughed. "No, Edna Hyde!"

Red sighed. "What did she want?"

"To talk to Steven, I told her I'd take a message."

"Again, what did she want?"

She sat down next to her husband. "I think she just wanted to talk."

He shook his head. "No, I know Edna. She wants something, and I bet I know what."

Kitty looked dismayed. "You don't think she's found out that Steven's real dad is back in his life do you?"

Red nodded. "I'd bet a million bucks that's exactly what happened, Kitty."

There was a pause in the conversation.

"You tell Steven!" Both said at the same time.

Kitty stared her husband down.

"Fine. I'll tell him tonight."

Kitty got back up and went to the stove.

"I'm glad we're having this party, Red."

"I'm not."

"Red Forman, one of our sons has gotten married; the other has moved out and is back with his girlfriend. This is a time to celebrate!"

"Kitty, you just like to throw parties. Holidays, birthdays, the Sears catalogue coming in the mail, every time the dog barks. You're a party fiend."

He saw the look she was giving him.

"You're pretty?"

She shook her head.

Jackie ran into Donna's room holding her dress. "Okay, I'm here… let's get it going!" She cheered.

Donna smiled. "You can take the girl out of cheerleading but you can never take the cheerleading out of the girl."

Jackie smiled. "I have the most amazing news!"

"Jackie, a sale at the mall is not the most amazing news."

"Oh, this is better than a sale."

"Jackie, you once said that in life, absolutely nothing is better than sales."

"Donna, that was before I saw Steven naked."

"Ugh!" "I don't want to hear about that, Ew." "Really?"

Jackie just smirked.

"So what is this oh so fantastic news?"

"I can't tell you. I have to wait till Dinner."

"I have news too, and it's also waiting until dinner."

Jackie set to work on Donna's hair.

"Jackie?"

"Yeah?"

"Have you ever had that feeling of dread? Like you know something bad is going to happen?"

"Donna, do I need to remind you that I worked for Christine St. John?"

"Point taken. I just have a bad feeling about this party."

"Bob, what the hell are you wearing?"

"This is my best shirt Red."

"Bob, I saw you wearing that shirt when you were mowing your lawn last week."

"That doesn't mean it's not my best one!"

"Thanks for inviting me Mrs. Forman." William Barnett told Kitty as he kissed her hand.

Kitty blushed. "Oh WB, it's our pleasure. This party is for Steven as much as it is Eric and Donna."

"I brought wine."

Kitty gushed.

"I'm going to go talk to Steven." WB walked away.

"Thanks Kitty for inviting me." Leo came up to her wearing a tee shirt, jeans and a tweety bird tie around his neck.

"You look smashing today Leo." She smiled.

"Thanks, what's with all the decorations?"

Kitty continued to just smile.

The kids stood in a circle in the living room, the girls were wearing dresses, the guys in their suits.

"Ten bucks says fifteen minutes after dinner starts."

"I'll take that bet Hyde. I say it happens while Red cuts the ham," Eric pulled out some money and handed it to Hyde.

Fez looked at his wallet. "Put me down for whenever Miss Kitty forces Red to make a speech."

Jackie and Donna shook their heads. "You guys are such morons." Donna said. "I say it happens before dinner even starts."

"You guys!" Kelso said, dismayed. "I can't believe you're betting on when I set something on fire!"

"Yeah!" Brooke defended her boyfriend. "Put me down for dessert."

Kelso looked at Brooke in shock. "You?"

"Sorry honey, but it's just too good of a bet to pass up."

Hyde looked at Jackie. You wanna put some money into the pool?"

"No, because I don't think Michael is going to set something on fire."

"Thank you Jackie."

"He's going to glue himself to something."

"Damn Jackie!"

Red walked over to the kids. "What are you deviants doing?"

"We're betting on when Kelso sets fire to something tonight." Eric told his father.

"Set something on fire?" He thought about it. "I'll take that bet." He pulled out his wallet.

Kelso pouted.

"Everyone?" Kitty called. "Dinner is ready, come into the dining room."

They all made their way to the dining room; the table was set using the Forman's finest china, with a flower centerpiece and candles on the table. Everyone grinned. A ham was sitting on a plate along with various side dishes. Everyone sat down at the table and waited for Red to cut the ham. As the plates were being passed around, Kitty asked,

"How was everyone's day?"

"I got promoted to lieutenant."

"Steven, Edna called."

"I got a letter from your father, Jackie, bribing me not to see you anymore."

"I'm going to work at the library with Brooke!"

"My grandmother invited us all to stay with her for the weekend at her house in the Hamptons!"

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!" Red shouted.

They all turned to Jackie.

"Say that again Jackie." Kitty requested.

"She says it's on her. I told her I didn't want to leave my friends, and my boyfriend so soon after we just got back together, so she said that you can all come. Even you Leo!"

"I like the Hamptons, lots of rich white folk there." WB said.

They all looked at each other and slowly started to nod. "We're in!" Eric said for the rest of the gang.

"Yes honey, she called."

"What did she want?" WB asked.

"She said she just wanted to talk to Steven."

Hyde shook his head. "I don't want to talk to her."

"Steven, she's your mother."

"No Mrs. Forman, she's not. You are."

Red groaned. "Oh god, now you've made her cry." He followed Kitty out of the room.

Donna looked at Kelso. "Good job Kelso."

He smiled. "Thanks Donna." "And congrats to you too, now there's going to be two hotties working at the library."

"Man, if there had been girls like you two at the library when I was little, I would have been there every single day." Eric said to Donna and Brooke, who smiled at him.

"Here's to that!" The guys raised their glasses.

"How much did my father offer Steven?"

"Jackie, I'm not going to take it."

"I know, I just want to know how much."

"A thousand."

"A thousand? That's it?" She scoffed. "He must be really broke."

Red and Kitty came back into the dining room.

"The food is getting cold. Everyone eat." Red demanded.

Every so often, someone would check their watch and then shake their head sadly.

Bob stood up. "I would like to make a speech."

Everyone turned their attention to Bob.

"When I found out my baby girl had gotten married behind my back without telling me, I was very angry. But then, I thought about it and I realized that she was probably doing it that way so Eric wouldn't freak out and run away again. So congratulations to the happy couple."

Eric frowned.

Kitty stood up. "Red also has a speech." She sat back down.

"I do?" Red asked her. She nodded her head.

"Oh crap, fine." He stood up and pulled on his tie. "Eric, Steven, thank you for finally getting out of my home."

"Red Forman!"

"What?"

"Awww, my daddy loves me." Eric put his hand on his heart.

"You guys, it's almost time for dessert and Kelso still hasn't knocked over the candles." Donna said.

"Who had dessert?" Eric asked Hyde.

"Uh, let me see… that would be… Brooke."

Brooke smiled at her boyfriend.

"Brooke, I'm not going to start a fire on purpose, just to win you some money."

She whispered something in his ear.

He looked at her wide eyed. "Well, I guess if you put it like that…"

"Kelso, if you purposely start a fire, my foot is going to light a fire of it's own in your ass."

Kelso looked sheepish and put his hands in his pockets,

'Huh, what's this' he thought.

'Why did I leave a tube of superglue in my pocket?

He tried to pull his hand out of the pocket.

"Uh guys, I have a problem."

"What is it buddy?" Eric asked.

"I had left a tube of superglue in my pocket. I think it broke and now I'm stuck."

"I told you he'd glue himself to something!" Jackie shouted.

That night, Jackie and Steven were in his bed together.

"The Hamptons huh?"

"Yeah, we'll have a room of our own." She said, wrapping her arms around his waist.

"Really?"

She nodded.

"I can't get with that."

"Are you going to talk to Edna?" She asked, trailing her fingers through his chest hair.

"No." He said. "And I don't want to talk about it."

"Good, I don't think you should talk to her anyway."

"Thank you." He pulled her so she was on top of him. "I thought about what you said about me not using my house, and I realized there is something I can do with all this space."

"Steven, you're not going to turn this into a home for degenerates such as yourself."

"I was thinking more along the lines of doing it."

She did her famous head twilt that drove him crazy. He pulled her down to his mouth.

"I love you" She said as the kiss broke.

"Okay."

"I know we just got back together."

"Okay."

"And it's probably too soon to say it, especially after everything that's happened."

"Okay." He said a little more forcefully. She was still ignoring him.

"But that's the way I feel and I'm tired of hiding it, so I'm going to tell you. I love you puddin' pop."

"Jackie!"

"What?" She asked surprised.

"I said okay." He looked into her eyes, begging her to understand.

Her eyes went wide as realization dawned on her.

"Oh. Okay."

"Yeah, okay." He said, flipping her over. "Now, I say we start with this room, and then move on to the kitchen."