I'm so sorry this was late. I had a bit of writers block but I'm much better now.
This chapter is rated S for silly. Please review! I really do own this. Really.
No, really.
Death wish.
The gang, plus Laurie, sat in Hyde's basement; Jackie and Brooke were comparing bridal magazines. Jackie held up a picture. "I think this is my favorite."
Brooke nodded. "That's very nice." "I like the blue daisies myself."
Donna looked at Eric. "You know, seeing them do this makes me really, really grateful we didn't have a big wedding." Eric nodded in agreement.
Kelso sat on the cooler. "Do we really need china?" He asked Brooke. "I mean, we're probably not going to eat at home a lot anyway."
Hyde laughed. "You never eat at your place."
"Exactly, so why are we getting a bunch of plates we're never going to use?"
Brooke looked at Jackie as though she was waiting for the answer as well.
"Oh Brooke, you have so much to learn about marriage. The importance of china is not to have it so you can eat off it, it's so that you have something to throw at Michael when he's being a jerk." Jackie smiled.
"So then why do I want to choose my favorite one? Shouldn't I just get ones that are ugly?" Brooke asked confused.
"Because, you still have to look at them." The two girls smiled at each other.
"Okay, so we'll get the ones with the gold swirls, I liked those but wouldn't object to throwing them."
"Wait, you're going to throw stuff at me?" Kelso asked. "It's bad enough when Hyde beats me up."
Hyde grinned. "That's fun."
Brooke smiled. "I'm not going to throw things at you Michael."
Donna looked at Betsy. "Your parents are weird, don't be like them."
Eric did the Jedi mind trick motion in front of Betsy's face. "Don't be like your father."
Donna rolled her eyes. "I keep telling you that doesn't work."
"The Jedi mind trick does work." Eric said, waving his hand in front of Donna's face. Donna just shook her head and her and Brooke stood up.
"See you guys later." They waved good bye.
Jackie went to sit on Hyde's lap. "So Eric, have you thought of something spontaneous for you and Donna to do?"
Eric groaned. "No."
Jackie was almost sympathetic to Eric's plight. "Eric, you just need to learn how to think outside the box. Do something she won't expect."
Eric stared at his friend. "Jackie, we've known each other for awhile yes?"
"Yes." Jackie agreed.
"When in that period of time have I ever tried to do something and not have it come out spectacularly wrong?"
She sighed. "Damn, you're right."
Hyde laughed. "Well, you could always try that thing you always want to do in bed."
"Don't listen to him, Eric." Jackie commanded. "Write down a list of things you would like to do, and then give them to us and we'll help you so that you don't end up pissing Donna off."
Eric nodded. "Okay, that sounds good."
Fez shook his head. "This is going to end badly."
Both Hyde and Kelso grinned. "That's why we're doing it."
"Fezzy?" Laurie asked apprehensively.
"Yes buttercup?"
"I have something to confess to you."
They gang all turned their attention to Laurie.
"Five bucks says she has a kid." Hyde told Eric.
"I have ten that says she's got a contagious disease."
Hyde nodded. "You're on."
Laurie glared at her brother and his orphan friend. "Shut up you two!" She turned her attention back to Fez.
"Okay, do you remember how I said that I would take care of our divorce?"
"Yes." Fez answered.
"Well, I kind of um, didn't."
Fez was speechless. "You didn't?"
She nodded and looked sheepish. "Oops?" She gave him a ditzy smile.
Fez stood up from the couch. "I can't believe this!" he shouted walking to the basement door. "Good day!"
"But Fez…" She called.
"I said good day!" Fez stormed out. A second later he was poking his head back in. "Are you coming?" he asked Laurie.
"Oh right!" She exclaimed, running to the door. "See you later guys!"
Fez came back a moment later. "Uh, any plans you had with me and or Laurie are off until further notice." He waggled his eyebrows and finally left for good.
Jackie sat by the cash register in Forman and Son's reading both baby books and bridal magazines.
Red looked at the mess. "Jackie, let me explain something to you. This is a muffler shop. We sell mufflers, we buy used mufflers, and this is a manly store. It doesn't need to be contaminated with your girly books."
Jackie frowned. "These books are the only thing keeping me from going crazy, Mr. Forman. You've got me stuck up here so the baby won't get harmed from the fumes, but I'm bored!"
Red sighed. "Fine, you can keep your girl crap." "You and Steven are coming to my Veterans day barbeque tomorrow right?" It wasn't a question.
Jackie grinned. "Yep, I'm hoping Steven has something romantic planned."
Red stared at her. "Right, because the day celebrating me getting shot at really is the most romantic day of the year."
"It's the day we had our first date. Our first, first date." Jackie explained to him. She sighed. "Oh, who am I kidding, he probably doesn't even remember." Jackie sulked.
Red couldn't take it any more. "Why don't you take the rest of the day off?" She was already running out the door by the time he finished the sentence.
Hyde, Leo and Eric sat in Hyde's office.
"Jackie's freaking me out man." Hyde told them. "She's gone overboard with planning Kelso and Brooke's wedding, our wedding, and the baby, and when she's not doing that, she's either eating or throwing up."
"I got it!" Eric exclaimed, "We'll go skydiving!"
"I went skydiving once man." Leo said.
"Really Leo?" Eric asked, "What was it like?"
"It was great man." There was a pause. "I don't really remember it though."
Eric laughed. "You could just do what Donna and I did and elope."
"Something tells me Jackie won't be too keen on that idea."
The door flew up and a cheerful Kelso walked in, breaking up the circle. "Which one of you wants to be in charge of my bachelor party?"
Eric and Hyde looked at each other and shrugged.
"Why don't you get Fez to do it? He's your best man isn't he?" Eric asked.
Hyde shook his head. "No, whatever you do, do not let Fez plan your bachelor party. He'll get strippers."
The two guys looked at Hyde. "What's wrong with that?" Eric asked.
"It's part of my agreement with Jackie. I don't have anything to do with strippers, and she lets me 'touch her naughty places' and I happen to really like touching Jackie's naughty places."
"Besides, I can't ask Fez, he and Laurie are on their honeymoon remember?" Kelso reminded them.
Eric looked up. "They went on their honeymoon? Where'd they go?"
Hyde laughed. "Nowhere, they locked themselves in Fez's apartment and turned off the phone for the weekend. Who knows what kind of sick things are going on in there?"
Eric grimaced.
"Yeah, there's no way I'm going anywhere near that place." Kelso told them.
Brooke, Donna and Jackie walked into Hyde's office.
"Why are you all in here?" Jackie asked.
"We're planning my bachelor party."
Donna looked over at Brooke. "That means they're trying to decide if they want a blonde or brunette stripper."
Hyde shook his head. "No we weren't!" He denied.
"Yeah." Kelso agreed, glaring at Hyde. "Hyde said Jackie won't let me have strippers because if he sees them she won't let him do it with her."
Jackie raised her eyebrow. "You said that Steven?"
"Technically, what he said was that you won't let him touch your naughty places." Eric amended.
"Thank you Judas." Hyde glared at Eric.
Donna walked over and put her hands around Kelso's head. "Look at this face, Jackie. Look at how sad he is." Brooke nodded in agreement. "It's fine with me if Kelso gets a stripper."
Jackie crossed her arms. "Of course it's okay with you, your fiancé isn't liable to go off and marry her!" She stormed out and a minute later she was back. "You're sleeping on the couch tonight, Steven!" She stormed out again.
Hyde turned to his friends. "I hate you all."
Eric shrugged. "Hey, we're not the ones who married a stripper."
"When is everyone going to let that go?"
The group shared a look. "We'll let it go when Jackie does." Donna told him.
"So, never huh?" Hyde asked.
All of them nodded.
The girls sat in Jackie's soon to be former house.
"Come on Jackie; let Brooke let Kelso have his stupid stripper." Donna begged her.
Jackie sighed. "Look, I know I'm being irrational. I trust Steven, and I trust the guys not to let anything happen."
"Then what's wrong?" Brooke asked.
"Everything!" Jackie exclaimed. "I have to pack up my mother's house because she's too sloshed to do it herself, I'm pregnant with my boyfriend's bastard love child, I'm planning two weddings, I'm going to be fat for Brooke's and I really, really want a milkshake!"
The two other girls shared a look and stood up. Donna pulled Jackie up.
"Come on Jackie, let's get you that milkshake." Donna said to her.
Jackie smiled. "Thanks you guys."
A short while later, the girls sat in the Hub, with Jackie sipping happily on her milkshake.
Kelso walked in and pulled up a chair. He pouted at Jackie. "Please?"
"Fine." Jackie told him. "But you have to promise me that you won't let Steven even so much as talk to her."
Kelso nodded cheerfully. "That'll be Forman's job."
Donna shook her head. "Don't get Eric to do it. You're better off with Red."
Kelso looked frightened. "Red wouldn't come to my bachelor party."
Donna grinned. "He will if you tell him it's for Jackie."
Kelso thought about it. "I'll ask him." He gave Brooke and Betsy a kiss and left.
Brooke turned to Jackie. "If you need me too, I can do the rest of my planning."
Jackie gave Brooke a small smile.
Kelso walked into Forman and Son's feeling extremely nervous. Red looked up from the counter.
"You better be here to buy a muffler, Kelso."
Kelso shook his head. "I need to ask you a favor."
Red raised his eyebrow "Why would I want to do a favor for you?"
Kelso held up his hands. "It's not for me! It's for Jackie."
Red's temper diminished. "What?"
"Uh, I'm having a bachelor party, and there's going to be strippers there and Jackie said it's okay as long as you're there to make sure Hyde doesn't so much as look at them."
"Wait, shouldn't this be up to your fiancé?" Red asked curious.
Kelso leaned over to Red. "Don't say anything, but Jackie and Donna are pretty much in charge."
Red nodded thoughtfully. "That's probably best." "I'll do it, for Jackie."
Kelso grinned. "Thanks Red!" He ran out of the shop.
Hyde walked up to Eric inside Grooves as they were closing up. "So, have you figured out what you and Donna are going to do?"
Eric smiled. "I have an idea."
Hyde smirked. "I'll be sure to leave the basement door open for you so you can sleep on the couch when Donna kicks you out."
Eric frowned. "Thank you."
"At least Donna isn't raged up with hormones." Hyde sighed. "I've got to come up with something to do for tomorrow."
"You mean besides go to my dad's Veterans Day barbeque?"
"It's the anniversary of our first date."
"The one you had where she went back to Kelso after?"
Hyde nodded. "Yes, that one."
Eric laughed. "How many anniversaries do you two have anyway?
Hyde counted in his head. "Seven."
"And how many of those do you celebrate?
Hyde gave Eric a look. "This is Jackie we're talking about, Forman."
"So all of them then?"
"This is a great party Red." Bob said to him as Red flipped the burgers on the grill.
"Thanks Bob."
Kitty and Joanne watched as Red and Bob talked.
"I'm so glad you and Bob got back together." Kitty said cheerfully.
"I have to admit that missed you guys." Joanne told her. "That's not true; I didn't miss you, Red."
On the other side of the driveway, the gang sat together.
"Why couldn't he have been set back up with Midge?" Eric pouted.
"Or better yet, Pam." Kelso said.
Jackie glared at Hyde. "Oh, you'd like that wouldn't you?"
He threw up his hands. "He's the one who said it!"
"I know what you're thinking." She pointed to him accusingly. "Seeing my mother topless once just wasn't enough for you was it?"
Donna stood up and grabbed Jackie's hand. "Come on Jackie; let's get you a brownie before you embarrass yourself."
"Don't look at me like that Steven Hyde! I know where you live!" Jackie yelled as she was pulled towards the house.
Hyde smiled nervously at her.
Brooke stood up and took Betsy from Kelso. "I'm going to go check on Jackie." She gave Kelso a quick kiss and walked back to the house.
"Hi guys!" Fez waved as he and Laurie walked up the driveway looking disheveled.
"We would have been here sooner but we had to pull over twice." Laurie told them.
Red glared at the happy couple. "Kitty, tell me this is all just one horrible dream."
Kitty laughed. "Look on the bright side Red, at least it wasn't Michael."
Red shook his head. "But he's so… foreign!"
"He clearly cares about Laurie; I think that trumps him being foreign, Red."
"I'm over reacting again aren't I?" Jackie asked as she bit into her third cookie.
Donna nodded. "Yes, you are."
Jackie sighed. "It's just that today is very important to me, and I really thought that Steven would do something special."
"I don't see why you're making a big deal about this Jackie, it was just one date." Donna told her.
"Our first, first date, Donna."
"After which you got back together with Kelso." Donna pointed out.
"So, you're telling me that because you and Eric broke up that one time you don't celebrate the first time you went on a date?" Jackie asked her.
Donna scowled. "You're right, he should do something special!"
Brooke sat and listened to the girl's conversation while she looked at the wedding planner Jackie had created. Everything was organized down to the last detail, including, guest lists, invitations, and seating charts. Pictures of Brooke's wedding gown and the bridesmaid dresses were included, as well as the guy's tuxes and the flowers for the wedding.
"This is amazing, Jackie."
Jackie smiled. "Thank you Brooke."
Brooke handed the book over to Donna. "Look at this."
Donna took the planner and started flipping through it. "I can't believe it. You did this?"
Jackie waved her hand. "It was nothing."
"No Jackie, this is incredible." Brooke told her. "I couldn't even begin to do anything half this good."
Jackie smiled proudly. "The one I have for our wedding is even bigger."
"Has Hyde seen it?" Donna asked.
"No, every time I mention the word wedding Steven's eyes go cloudy, so I've learned not to mention anything wedding related around him."
Brooke got up and took the book. "I'm going to go show Michael." She went outside.
As soon as Brooke had handed Kelso the planner the guys all huddled together with it.
"Man, look at this… she's got a list of the guest's allergies." Eric said, stunned.
"And who shouldn't sit next to whom at the reception." Kelso noted.
Kitty walked up to the gang. "What are you all looking at?" She asked.
Hyde handed her the planner. "Jackie made a planner for Brooke's wedding, take a look." Kitty took a seat and opened it up.
"You made this, Jackie?" Kitty asked as she looked at the pages.
Jackie nodded. "It's really no big deal; I just think it helps to have everything organized incase something happens, and something always happens."
"Like for example, when the groom fails to show up." Donna said snidely.
"I showed up for our last wedding!" Eric responded defensively.
"Because I dragged you there."
Hyde suddenly stood up. "Well, as great as this barbeque is, Jackie and I have somewhere we need to be." He grabbed Jackie's hand and led her to his car. The gang watched them leave, shrugged and went back to looking at Brooke's wedding book.
The two had been driving for hours before Jackie couldn't take it anymore.
"Steven? Where are we going?"
He grinned. "Well, I know that you wanted to celebrate our first date today."
"Our first, first date." She corrected.
"Right, our first, first date." "As I was saying, I didn't think that you would want to go back and recreate it since that's what we did on our last first date, and I figured I already did something romantic for you when I gave you that ring."
She nodded. "Uh huh, so where are we going?"
"Well, I've noticed how stressed you've been lately, so my gift to you is the gift of sleep. W.B is out of town for the weekend, he's letting us stay in his condo for the rest of the weekend."
Jackie nearly wept. "You mean we'll have one weekend away from our friends, just the two of us?" She paused. "Wait, you didn't let me pack!"
He nodded. "Yeah, I figured we might as well enjoy it since soon it'll be the three of us." "Also, I took care of it." "Okay, fine, Donna and Brooke took care of it."
"Aw, Steven."
He shrugged. "I'm mostly doing it for me, I figured if I do something nice for you you'll remember it and won't be so mean to me."
Jackie smiled. "I know I've been a real bitch to you lately, and I'm sorry, but that's probably not going to change, especially when it comes time to give birth to her."
Hyde grinned as he pulled into W.B's driveway.
As Jackie snuggled into the four poster bed and next to Steven, she touched her hand to her growing bump. It was too soon to be able to feel anything, but just knowing she was there was enough. She felt Hyde kiss the back of her head and smiled as she fell into the best night of sleep she had in weeks.
I know, two chapters in a row that end with a sappy moment between Jackie and Hyde. I swear it was an accident! I'm also sorry for not including alot of Laurie and Fez, but I figured no one wants to see the disgusting goings-ons between them.
Next time: Thanksgiving time!
