I don't own them. I'm just playing with them. I also don't own the Police, or any of the other songs referenced.

Chapter 16: Mother.

The next morning, Hyde woke up on the couch with a headache and a crook in his neck. He looked over to see Jackie was curled up next to him. Fez was sleeping in the small space left on the couch. Donna and Forman were sprawled out on the floor, Donna was using Forman's arm as a pillow. He thought back to the night before. The girls beating them at strip poker, Kelso proposing to Brooke, Jackie telling him he was going to be a father.

He was going to be a father. Hyde knew he probably didn't react the way Jackie wanted him too, but in his defense, she was practically naked when she said it.

One by one, the group started to wake up.

"We need to do this more often." Fez told them.

"Yes we do." Kelso agreed.

Hyde looked at his friends. "Hell no, you seeing that much Jackie skin is going to last you guys forever, because this is the last time you get to see it."

Fez shook his head at Hyde. "No Hyde, I'm not talking about that, although, I must say, it was good. I'm talking about us having fun. Sure, we hang out all the time, but when was the last time we sang or danced? Had deep conversation?" He pointed the group, who were all listening to Fez's speech eagerly. "We need to this more often."

Hyde looked at Forman, who was nodding his head in agreement with Fez. "He's right."

"Why don't we do something today then?" Donna asked the group.

"Like what?" Jackie asked.

Brooke interrupted. "Before we do anything, I need to go call mom and see how Betsy is doing." She walked up the stairs to use Hyde's phone.

"So what are we going to do?" Jackie asked again.

Fez suddenly grinned. "I know! We had a good time dancing last night, let's do it again!"

"Go dancing?" Jackie started to get excited. "This would work, since it's going to be the last time I get to dance for nine months!"

"Dancing sounds fun, but I don't think the clubs are open quite yet." Donna told them.

"Okay then, we'll go dancing tonight, and we'll do something before that." Jackie replied. "Oh I know! We'll all go shopping!"

Eric laughed. "Jackie, just because shopping is your idea of fun that doesn't mean it's ours."

"Shut up dork. No, we'll all go shopping for something to wear tonight! I'll even pay."

Hyde finally spoke up. "Uh, Jackie, that's a lot of money to spend."

"Remember the money my grandfather gave me?"

Brooke came back down the stairs. "Betsy is fine." She told Kelso who smiled back at her. "So what did we decide on?" She asked.

Eric, Hyde, Donna and Jackie walked into the Forman kitchen for breakfast. Red was at the table reading his paper while Kitty was frying up some bacon.

"Hi!" Kitty said cheerfully.

"Uh, Red, can I talk to you?" Hyde asked his surrogate father nervously.

Red didn't even need to guess at the topic of conversation. He sat his paper down and the two walked out the door and into the garage. Red pulled out two beers from the cooler and handed one to Hyde.

"So, I take it you found out you're going to be a father."

"Yeah." "I'm a little scared." He admitted.

"You're afraid you'll be like Bud." It wasn't a question.

Hyde nodded.

Red looked Hyde in the eye. "Steven, so far I've raised two fine men I'm proud of. Trust me when I say you're nothing like Bud."

"Are you sure?" Hyde asked.

Red nodded. "I'm positive. Now go into the house and kiss the woman you love." He took Hyde's beer away from him and nudged him out of the garage.

Hyde and Red walked into the kitchen. Kitty was loading Jackie's plate up with food.

"You're eating for two now." Kitty told Jackie. She and Jackie smiled at each other and Kitty clapped her hands.

"We're having a baby!"

Can I talk to you?" He asked Jackie.

She nodded and the two went into the Forman's basement.

Jackie looked around at the now barren room. "Wow, it feels so different now."

"I love you." Hyde told her.

Jackie spun around. "I love you too."

He hugged her and kissed the top of her head.

"Are you okay with this?" She asked.

"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't scared." He admitted.

She chuckled. "That's good because I'm scared too."

"What are you scared of?" he asked.

"That I'll be like my mother." She admitted.

"Wow, and here I was thinking I'll be like Bud."

"You're nothing like Bud." She told him sternly.

"And you're nothing like Pam."

Jackie looked up at Hyde. "Well then, we won't model our parenting skills from them. We'll use the Forman's instead."

Hyde laughed. "Sounds like a plan." There was a pause in the conversation as the two stood in the sparse basement holding each other.

"So, when should I ask you?"

Jackie smiled. "You can ask me whenever your heart tells you to, but not today."

"Good to know." "So, you're sure it's mine?" He joked.

Jackie pretended to think about it. "Well, I'm pretty sure. There's a small chance that it's the gnomes."

"You're never going to let me live that down are you?"

She smiled. "Nope." She gave him a kiss and went back upstairs.

"So, ladies," Eric asked as the girls came back from the ladies restroom at the mall. "What is our agenda for today?"

"The agenda, Eric, is to find sexy outfits for us to wear tonight." Jackie told him. She motioned towards the door. "Come on guys, let's buy you some suits!"

Hyde looked at himself in the dressing room mirror. Jackie had found him a nice black suit and a pair of black boots and several shirts that while they weren't his usual tees shirts, still made him look cool. He walked out of the dressing room.

The girls were sitting in the chairs waiting on their men. They all walked out together.

Brooke leaned over to the other two girls. "They're so hot!" She whispered.

Both Donna and Jackie nodded their agreement. The guys were hot. The girls stood up to go to their men. They gave them a deep kiss each. Hyde growled and pulled Jackie closer to him. "I'm going to wear this suit every day if that's what it does to you."

She laughed.

"Oh, so I have reservations for us at the club at nine." She told the gang.

"Now, you guys go get changed into your regular clothes so we can pay for this and go find me and Donna something."

Jackie grinned as they sat the pile of pants, jackets, shirts and shoes on the cashiers table.

The woman behind the counter balked at the amount of merchandise in front of her.

Jackie handed her credit card, which the woman took with dismay.

Jackie saw the woman's apprehensiveness. "Clearly, you're new here. I'm Jackie, and I'm your best customer." She reached out to shake the new woman's hand. "Chrissy." She read. "Huh, that name sounds familiar."

They all turned at the familiar name and stared. Sure enough, it was the same Chrissy who had almost convinced Hyde to leave with her to go to New York. She had aged into an attractive woman.

"Chrissy?" He said, surprised.

She turned to look. "Oh my god! Hyde?" She came out from behind her counter and hugged Hyde.

"What are you doing back in Point Place?" he asked her.

"Well, you know what they say. You can take the girl out of Point Place, but you can't take the Point Place out of the girl."

Jackie frowned at the reunion of the old lovers. Donna, seeing Jackie getting jealous, put her arm around her and whispered into her ear. "Don't worry, he loves you." She took in Donna's offer of comfort, but she couldn't feel a bit scared. Standing in front of Steven was the one who had gotten away. She was Steven's type, blonde, rebellious. What was Jackie? She was short and dark haired, and was carrying Steven's baby. Donna felt Jackie tense up and took pity on her.

"Okay, as nice as it is to see you Chrissy, we really need to get going." Donna said with an icy tone in her voice.

Hyde balked at the tone in Donna's voice. He backed away from Chrissy but Donna continued to frown at him.

Chrissy ran up the guy's new clothes and Jackie signed the receipt.

"Don't be a stranger Hyde." Chrissy flirted.

"You stay away from my boyfriend you skank!" Jackie yelled. Donna and Brooke pulled her away from Chrissy, leaving the guys to carry the merchandise.

"Hyde, Hyde, Hyde." Kelso said to him.

"What Kelso?"

Kelso grinned at him. "So… it must be good seeing Chrissy again." He nudged Hyde.

"I bet it was." Eric agreed. "I mean, you almost left Point Place to be with her."

Hyde frowned at the guys. "What are you getting at?"

"What they're trying to say Hyde is that you're a moron." Fez told him.

Hyde was confused. "Why?" He asked.

Kelso laughed. "Oh, well it's obvious she wants you."

"And?"

They all got closer to Hyde so that they were practically circling him. They knew he'd be able to take all three of them, but they didn't care.

"And well, we told you what would happen if you hurt Jackie. So you might want to rethink your position on seeing Chrissy again." Eric told him.

"So you're saying I can't be friends with Chrissy?"

The guys all groaned. "And Red says I'm the dumbass." Eric said to them.

"Hyde, we all know that you're not very good when it comes to relationships." Fez told him. "First, you cheat on Jackie over a misunderstanding, then, you used that biker chick against her when she was trying to win you back, then, you told her I don't know when she asked if you two had a future."

"And you married a stripper." Kelso added.

Hyde growled. "I wasn't married."

"Still counts though." Eric told him.

"Oh and don't forget the time he didn't want to spend Christmas Eve with her. Or when he said Brooke was hot, or when he said he wanted to nail her mom. Oh yeah, those were great burns." Fez said sarcastically.

"What is your point?" Hyde asked, pissed off.

"There is no point, except that you're bad at relationships." Fez laughed.

Eric put his hand on Hyde's shoulder. "I think the point we're trying to make is you're about to fuck up, and we're trying to stop you before you do!"

"Look Forman, it's Chrissy." He said that as thought it would explain everything.

Eric looked over to Kelso and Fez. "Did you hear that you two? It's Chrissy!"

They both faked understanding. "Oh, well, when you put it like that!" Fez said.

Kelso shook his head. "I'm going to find the girls. Jackie probably isn't doing too hot."

"Me too, hanging out with sexy girls is better than hanging out with a moron." Fez said with distain.

They went off to find the girls, leaving Hyde and Eric behind.

Hyde turned to Eric. "So what is your problem?" he asked him.

Eric groaned. "My problem is that my wife's best friend is carrying you're baby and if you hurt her, I'm not going to get any as my wife will be too busy comforting her. Just, think about what you're doing man."

Suddenly, Hyde looked thoughtful. "Wait, what was that about me wanting to nail Jackie's mom? I never wanted to touch that skank."

Eric shrugged. "Who knows?" "Now come on, let's go find the girls."

Jackie was on the other side of the department store, in the women's restroom, throwing up. Donna was behind her, holding her hair and rubbing Jackie's back. Brooke stood outside the restroom incase the guys showed up looking for them.

Kelso and Fez walked up to her, with pissed off looks on their faces. They both looked around for Jackie and Donna. "Where are Jackie and Donna?" Kelso asked Brooke, kissing her on the cheek.

"Jackie isn't feeling well."

"I'm going to kill Hyde." Fez told them both. "I'll poison his beer."

"You don't have to do that." Hyde told them, walking up from behind.

Fez turned around to glare at him. "I'm too mad at you right now; I can barely look at you. Now, I'm going to go find more dresses for the girls to try on. Good day."

"But Fez…" Hyde started to say.

"I said good day!" Fez put up his hand before he stomped off.

The two girls came out of the bathroom; Jackie still looked a bit green.

"Where did Fez go?" She asked.

"He went to find you something to wear." Brooke told her.

"Oh, I'm going to go find him. I need to talk to him." Jackie left to find her roommate.

Hyde watched as she walked off. She had barely acknowledged his existence, which was how he knew he had messed up. He knew he was being glared at. He turned to Donna.

"Donna…" He looked at her expression and knew that nothing he said would be good enough. She reached over and punched his arm, hard.

"I'm going to kick your ass Hyde. Do you have any idea how mad I am at you right now?"

"I'm starting to, yeah." His arm still hurt.

Eric took pity on Hyde. "Look Hyde, we know you're scared about having a kid, but think of how Jackie must feel. She's probably scared out of her mind right now, and all she wants is some reassurance from you that you're okay with all this and that you love her."

Donna was still glaring at Hyde though. "Hyde, in your dresser is an engagement ring that you bought two months ago. Maybe you should take it back if you're not really serious about giving it to Jackie."

"I have no intention of doing that Donna. I love Jackie."

"Then what are you doing?" They all yelled at him.

Hyde sat down in an empty chair. "I don't know." He admitted. "I just, I saw Chrissy and I was so surprised at seeing her I didn't think." He looked down. "God what did I do?"

Donna put her hand on Hyde's shoulder. "Go find her." She forced him to get up and pointed in the direction Jackie had run off to.

At the same time:

"So Fezzy, we need to talk." Jackie told him as he looked at the dresses on a rack.

"Oh, Jacqueline. I'm so sorry."

She smiled with teary eyes. "Why are you sorry?"

"Because your kid is going to be part dumbass."

She laughed. She was extremely grateful to have Fez in her life. She was grateful to have all of her friends. Friends who were most likely beating the crap out of Steven for her. She grinned at the thought.

"This is going to change things you know." She told him.

He hugged her. "I know, but if you need anything, you just ask."

"Here, go try these on." He said, handing her several dresses. She took them, kissed Fez on the cheek and skipped into the dressing room. He saw Hyde walk up and simply pointed to the dressing room.

She had left the dressing room unlocked. He opened it. She had the dress over her head and couldn't' see him watching her.

"Hey." He said, walking up to her and trailing a finger down her naked back.

She turned around, startled. "Steven." She said surprised.

The dress was now on her, it hanged off her breasts due to it still being unzipped. He nudged the straps off her shoulders until the whole thing fell to a heap on the floor.

"Steven, what do you think your doing?" she asked him, clearly still mad at him.

"Groveling." He told her; as he pulled her in close to kiss her. He held her hand. "Chrissy is nothing, you… it's you baby."

She sighed, and kissed him back. She started to undress him. She was still scared, but the memory of how he looked in the suit was too much for her to handle. She needed him, now.

He laughed at her brazenness. "God you're sexy." He picked her up and she wrapped her legs around his waist. They kissed as he entered her. He put her against the wall she wouldn't fall.

"God Jackie." He said, plunging into her.

"Oh Steven." That was it, he was gone. He came before he had a chance to really know what was happening.

Her own orgasm had hit her quickly as well. He felt her spasm, and went to silence her screams with a kiss.

He pulled out of her and gently put her down. She started to laugh.

"I like when you grovel." She told him.

He handed her back her dress. "Me too, it definitely explains why Forman messes up so much." He grinned at her as they both got dressed.

She turned around. "Zip me up." She demanded.

He kissed the back of her shoulder. "Yes dear."

An hour later, the girls had found their dresses, complete with new shoes, and they were all ready to leave.

Kelso looked at his watch. "We still have five hours before our reservations." He told them.

Hyde spoke up. "I got an idea."

They ended up at the water tower, looking up at the Fez + Michael Fez had written on it.

"That is a beautiful sight." Eric told Fez.

"Oh shut up, I was just trying to make Jacqueline feel better."

She kissed him on the cheek. "And it did, so thank you."

Hyde punched Fez on the arm.

"Hey!" Fez shouted. "Don't punch me just because your girlfriend finds me irresistible!"

Finally Eric broke the tension. "What are we doing here Hyde?"

Hyde frowned. "I didn't really think that far ahead."

An hour later, they were all sitting on the water tower. Jackie leaned up against Hyde, and he wrapped his arm around her.

Fez looked at his watch. "Oh shit, we only have three hours!" They all scampered off to go get ready.

The dance club they went to was far better than the disco in Kenosha. It played a mixture of rock, disco and other types of music. The song Rebel, Rebel by David Bowie started to play. Jackie got up and started to dance, instantly attracting all the eyes of the men in the club.

They stared at her as she twirled around and shook her hips to the beat. She sauntered up to wear Hyde was sitting and danced in front of him. She put out her hand and he took it and started to dance close with her. She was mouthing all the words. "Hot tramp I love you so." She sang in his ear.

She knew a David Bowie song? What the hell? "How do you know this song?" he asked her.

"There's a lot you don't know about me Steven."

Then Abba's Fernando started to play, and Fez grabbed Jackie away from him. "It's our song!" She laughed and they started to dance.

They were even better than the first time they had danced to the song, all those years ago. It was obvious why they were the reigning champs of the Kenosha disco competition. He watched with the rest of their friends as Fez picked up Jackie and twirled her around the room.

The song switched again, this time to Billy Joel's Only the Good Die Young. Eric started to sing it to Donna. "God I wish you still had that uniform." He told her.

"I do." She told him.

He blinked in response. "All right!"

Later that evening, the group said good night to each other and went to sleep in their own beds.

Jackie put on her pajama's and crawled into bed with her boyfriend. He gave her a kiss on the forehead. He watched as an array of emotions cascaded on his girlfriends face. He frowned though when he saw her expression to one of anger and then one of sadness. Before he could say anything though, she spoke up.

"Do you wish you had gone to New York with Chrissy?" She asked him.

"I used too." He told her honestly. "But then something happened and I forgot all about her."

"What was that?"

"I met this really annoying girl, well, I already knew her, but I started to see her for what she really was."

She smiled. "What was that?" she asked.

"Annoying, loud, kind of shallow." He joked.

She hit him in the chest.

Hyde pretended to sigh. "Fine." "Beautiful, kind, generous, loving, Jackie, I'm sorry about what happened at the mall. I was just so surprised at seeing her, but I don't want her, I only want you."

"I know that Steven. I'm just a little emotional right now, and it's probably only going to get worse."

Hyde reached down and put his hand on Jackie's stomach. "Jackie…" he trailed off.

Jackie smiled at him. "It's okay, Steven. I know what you're trying to say."

He grinned. "What's that?"

"That you love me and the baby and you'll always be there for us." She said seriously.

"How did you get to know me so well?" He asked her.

She grinned. "I'm a fast learner."

"That you are my little grasshopper."

Eric was lying on his back next Donna. "You know, I fear what would of happened if I had stayed in Africa."

She moved closer to her husband. "Me too. You're our glue you know."

"How did I become the glue?" he asked her.

"By being you." She said simply. "Without you, we would have fallen apart. I would have fallen apart." She didn't want to think of what might have been. She inhaled, she had read somewhere that couples were attracted to each other by smell, and as she inhaled Eric's scent, she knew what the experts meant. She kissed his neck on the spot she knew would get his attention.

"Donna, what do you think you're doing?" He asked her.

She licked his neck. "Seducing my husband." She replied honestly.

"Oh, well, don't let me stop you."

She wiggled free from his arm and moved to be on top of him.

She looked down at Eric and smiled. "I love you." She told him.

He grinned. "I love you too." And he reached up to kiss her.

Jackie walked up to the crowd in her cheer leading uniform.

"Come on readers, let's R.E.V.I.E.W!"

PS: I'm taking suggestions for names for the baby (who won't be born for several chapters yet, so don't worry about this thing being over too soon!) Both boy and girls names will be accepted.

Up next: Jackie and Steven have Jackie's first doctor's appointment and Jackie tries to figure out her living situation and Brooke starts to plan her wedding. I know I promised another meeting, but it just didn't fit in with the chapter. It'll happen sooner or later though.