I'm so sorry about how long it took me to get this chapter out. The ending is kind of cliffhanger-y, but the next chapter will go more into the issue at hand.

I don't own.

Peanuts.

Red was mowing the lawn when Kitty came out. He stopped the mower and smiled at his wife.

"Red, you need to get ready, the kids will be here soon."

Red rolled his eyes. "Kitty, this lawn isn't going to mow itself." He looked around. "I should have Eric do it."

Kitty rolled her eyes. "Red, Eric's no longer living here; you can't make him do chores anymore."

Red grinned. "Sure I can."

Kitty shook her head. "I did want to talk to you about Eric though."

Red groaned. "What did he do this time?"

Kitty laughed. "Nothing… well, nothing that I know of anyway." She laughed nervously. "Ever since he married that hussy and moved out, you two don't spend any time together."

"Kitty, I see him everyday. Isn't that enough?"

"No, it's not." Kitty responded, patting Red on the arm. "Which is why you two are going fishing this weekend." She turned to walk back inside. "Oh, and you're taking Steven, Michael and Fez with you as well." She laughed and walked back inside.

Red stood in the yard, stunned. "How does she do that?"

Eric was on the phone at Grooves. The song Fashion by David Bowie was playing in the background. He's tapping his foot to the music.

"I love you too."

"Forman, what did I tell you about making personal calls?" Hyde glared at him.

"I'm on the phone with mom." Eric told him, putting the hand over the receiver.

"Ask her what's for dinner."

"Mom? Hyde wants to know what's for dinner." Eric listened and then answered Hyde. "Pork chops."

Hyde grinned. "Great." "Now stop talking to your mommy and get back to work."

Eric said his goodbyes to Kitty and hung up. "Man, you're crankier than usual; did you and Jackie have a fight?"

Hyde shook his head. "Get to work." Hyde walked away from Eric and into his office, slamming the door behind him.

Eric looked at Leo who shrugged.

Everyone watched as Kitty loaded Jackie's plate with food.

"Uh, Mrs. Forman, I don't think I can eat all this." Jackie stared at the mountain of food on her plate.

"Jackie, you're eating for two. You can eat."

As they all ate, Kitty looked around at her family. "So how was everyone's day?"

"Mine was fabulous Mrs. Forman." Jackie told her.

"She's lying." Hyde said. "She spent an hour in the bathroom crying this morning." He ignored the pointed look he was getting from Eric.

"Aww, that's why you were so cranky today, you were worried about Jackie."

"You'd cry too if you had to wear an elastic waistband." Jackie pouted.

"Oh Jackie, you look cute." Kitty told her. "Now eat up." She gave Red a look.

"Uh, yeah." He said. "Uh, Eric, Steven… Fez. Kitty wants me to take you all fishing tomorrow."

"Oh I love fishing!" Fez clapped his hands.

"Uh yeah, sounds cool." Hyde nodded. "So long as there's beer, I'm in."

Eric looked at Donna. "Please don't make me go." He begged both his wife and his mother.

"You're going." Donna laughed at her husband.

"I'm going to kill them."

Jackie turned over in her and Hyde's bed. "Maybe if we ignore them, they'll go away."

The knocking only got more persistent.

"Wake up!" A voice shouted from outside.

Hyde looked at the clock. "Forman is dead."

The sound of the door opening didn't go unnoticed.

"Crap." Jackie said. "I forgot they had keys." She moved to get out of bed.

"Where are you going?" Hyde asked, grabbing her arm.

"To pee, your daughter is sitting on my bladder."

"It could be a boy you know!" He yelled at her retreating frame.

"It's not." She said, coming out a moment later and settling down beside him.

"You're going fishing right?" She asked, clasping her hand in his.

"Yeah. What are you going to do while I'm gone?"

"Kitty and Donna are throwing me a surprise baby shower."

Hyde's eyebrow went up. "If it's a surprise, then why do you know about it?"

"Because," She said, smiling, "Laurie made the mistake of telling Fez." She didn't need to explain any further.

The door opened and Donna and Eric came walking in.

"Okay you two love birds, time to wake up."

Hyde ignored them. "Jackie, I know you're pregnant and all, but would you mind kicking our friend's asses for me? I'm too tired to get up."

"If I get up, it's going to be to pee again." Jackie told him.

Donna pulled Hyde's arm until he was sitting up. "Get up."

Jackie rolled over and got out of the bed. "I have to pee anyway."

"Dad's taking us fishing, we have to get going." Eric said to Hyde.

Two hours later the girls were standing in the Forman driveway, waving goodbye to their men as they drove away.

"Ten bucks says one of them doesn't come back." Donna whispered to Jackie.

"Twenty say's it's Fez." Jackie snickered.

Brooke shook her head. "Are you going to take that?" She asked Laurie.

Laurie just shrugged. "She's probably right. My husband gets forgotten a lot."

"Yeah." Donna laughed, "Like for example, Laurie forgot to take him on their honeymoon."

"Yeah well…" Laurie searched for a response. "At least Fez isn't a nerd like Eric."

The three other girls shook their heads. "Is that the best you can do?" Jackie asked her.

Laurie sighed. "I know."

Kitty stuck her head back out the door. "Brooke, I think Betsy's diaper needs to be changed, and I would do it but uh… I've got to watch this uh, pie."

Brooke nodded at Kitty and went inside to check on Betsy.

Jackie watched as Brooke went inside. "So, when does my baby shower start?"

Donna faked shock. "Shower? What shower? There's no baby shower." She waved her hand in front of Jackie's face. "There is no baby shower."

Jackie just stared at her.

"Oh my god." Donna said, putting her arm down. "I can't believe I just did that."

"Well, they do say that married couples start to share traits after awhile." Laurie said.

"Wait, does that mean Jackie's going to start saying whatever and wearing sunglasses and you're going to start eating candy non stop?"

Laurie nodded. "I'm afraid so."

Jackie and Donna looked at each other.

"We can never let Brooke go to the water tower again." Donna told her. Jackie nodded in agreement.

"So, what time is my 'not shower' supposed to start?" Jackie asked.

"Jackie, there's no shower!" Donna said, trying to be convincing.

Jackie rolled her eyes. "Get off it, Donna. Fez told me."

Donna gasped. "Wait, how did Fez know…"She trailed off and looked over at Laurie who gave a guilty smile.

Donna sighed. "Just act surprised okay? Mrs. Forman has been planning this for a week."

Jackie put her hand to her heart, clearly touched. "Oh, that's so sweet."

As soon as they reached the lake, Red turned off the car and turned to face the guys.

"Alright dumbasses, here are the rules, one, no talking about women, two, no talking about women, three, no talking about women." He turned and looked at Eric. "Oh, and none of your Star Wars crap."

"Now that's a rule I can get behind." Kelso said cheerfully, earning him agreement from everyone except Eric.

"Man, if Forman can't talk about Donna or Star Wars he won't be able to find anything to say." Hyde grinned.

Eric laughed as they got out of the car. "Shows what you morons know, I still have Styx and Comic books under my belt, so hah!" He laughed manically.

"Damn." Red sighed. "I forgot about those."

Kitty had decorated the living room with blue and pink streamers and had set out various snacks, including cookies, trail mix and cheese puffs.

"Wow!" Jackie gushed as she was lead inside by Donna and Laurie. "This is incredible!" A huge stack of presents sat on the living room floor, including a highchair and a baby stroller.

Jackie started to cry. "This is so great." Donna put her arm around her best friend.

"Come on Midget, let's get some cookies into you."

"Cookies!" Jackie said excitedly as Joanne held up a plate of sugar cookies for Jackie.

"Oh, she just kicked!" Jackie gushed, putting her hand to her stomach. Instantly the other girls did the same thing.

"She did it again!" Laurie said excitedly.

"This is so cool." Donna smiled. She took her hand away. "Oh my god, it just hit me. You're having a baby."

Jackie smirked. "Uh yeah, how'd you guess?" She responded sarcastically.

"Well, it never really hit me until now!" Donna said. "I mean, I knew, but now it's real. You and Hyde are having a freaking baby!"

Slowly everyone else took their hands off of Jackie's belly.

"She's right." Brooke said to her.

"I know she's right." Jackie replied. "I've sort of known for six months now."

"Okay girls." Kitty called. "Jackie, sit down on the couch so I can hand you your presents."

Jackie nodded and sat down. Donna sat next to her and Brooke was on her other side.

"That one's from me and Fez." Laurie told her as Kitty placed a large box wrapped in blue paper in front of Jackie.

Jackie opened it with gusto. "It's a toaster oven."

"That's just the box. Open it up." Joanne went over and cut the tape. Inside the box were various kinds of stuffed animals.

"Oh, wow." Jackie said, taking some of the animals out. "An elephant, a dog, a teddy bear…" She looked at Laurie. "Thank you Laurie." She said sincerely.

"This one is from Bob and myself." Joanne told her, taking the previous present and placing it on the floor and replacing it with her own gift. Jackie opened it to find a set of baby monitors and a teddy bear mobile.

"I know you and Steven don't have a theme for your nursery planned out yet, so I got you something that would go with anything." Joanne told her, pointing at the mobile.

"We haven't really talked about it." Jackie replied, holding up the mobile. "Teddy bears would be a cute theme."

"And," Donna said, "It would work for either a boy or a girl."

Jackie gave Donna a dirty look.

"Sorry, it'll be perfect for a girl." Donna rolled her eyes at her best friend.

The guys sat on the dock, fishing. The car radio is on, Fez is singing along to the music.

"Enola Gay, you should have stayed home yesterday."

"Shut up." Red ordered.

Fez stopped singing and looked down at the water, sheepish.

Silence once again reigned as the guys continued to wait for the fish to bite.

"Okay, who would win in a fight, Samantha, or Wonder Woman?" Kelso asked, breaking the silence.

"Wonder woman." All the guys including Red and Bob answered.

"Oh I got one." Eric told them. "Wonder woman or Jackie?"

"Ah, that's a good one, Eric." Fez said. "Cause Wonder Woman has super powers, but Jackie is… very scary."

"Jackie would only have to make fun of Wonder Woman's outfit and she'd start crying." Kelso said.

Hyde stayed quiet, too wrapped up in his own thoughts to participate in the conversation.

Leo arrived to the party. "Hi Loud girl!" He smiled.

"Hi Leo." Jackie waved from the couch. "Is that a present?" She asked, looking at the box in his hands.

"Yeah."

"Well, let me open it!" Jackie held out her hands. Leo gave her the gift and sat on the piano bench.

Jackie opened the box. "Oh wow!" She pulled a beautiful little girl dress and a boy's suit.

"That's adorable!" Kitty exclaimed. She took a look at her watch. "The guys should be home in an hour."

Jackie stood up. "I can't believe you got me all this stuff." Jackie said, looking at the large collection of gifts.

"Thanks so much for the basinet, Donna." She hugged her best friend.

Meanwhile, the guys were driving back to Point Place. Red and Bob were in the front seat, Eric and Hyde were in the middle seats and Kelso and Fez sat in the back.

"We said we're sorry." Eric turned around to face Fez who was dripping wet.

"Oh can it you son of a bitch."

"Hey, don't talk about Mrs. Forman that way." Kelso yelled.

"Both of you can it." Red yelled.

"So dad," Eric leaned towards his dad, "How did it feel to bond with your son?"

Red rolled his eyes and pulled the car over and turned to the guys. "Okay, I'm going to say this once and only once. I watched the four of you grow up before my eyes, watched you pull some incredibly dumbass stunts, whether it was gluing your hand to your face, marrying a stripper, or running away to Africa for six months, but to my surprise, you four managed to become fine young men and I'm proud of you all."

"Awww…"

"Shut it Eric."

Later that evening, the guys were all home and the gang was sitting in Hyde and Jackie's basement. All of Jackie's baby shower gifts had been taken over to their house and Eric and Fez were playing with the baby monitors.

"Niner, niner, this is Luke Skywalker speaking."

Jackie, Brooke and Laurie burst into laughter. Donna crossed her arms and glared at her friends. The guys just stared at them confused.

"Eric, you'd be so proud of Donna, she actually used the Jedi mind trick." Jackie smirked.

Eric stopped playing with the monitor and stared dumbfounded at Donna who was shaking her head in denial.

"I thought we agreed to never mention that." Donna hissed at Jackie.

Jackie looked at Brooke and Laurie. "I don't remember agreeing to that, do you

remember agreeing to never mention it?"

Brooke shrugged. "I was in the Forman's living room when it happened."

Laurie smiled wickedly. "Well, I was there, and I definitely don't remember any such conversation."

"Get bent." Donna told them.

Jackie stuck her tongue out at Donna and then turned to Hyde. "Steven, will you go get me a brownie?"

Hyde gave Jackie a kiss on the cheek and walked up the stairs to get the plate of brownies Kitty had given them earlier. While he was in the kitchen, he noticed the stuffed Elephant that Laurie and Fez had given them sitting on the counter. Hyde picked it up and stared at it.

"Crap."

"Have you and Hyde thought of a name yet?" Donna asked her as she took a card from Laurie's hand.

"No." Jackie admitted. "I mean, other than the doctor's visits and the shower today, we haven't really talked a lot about the baby…" Jackie trailed off.

The others stared at her, waiting for her to go on. Instead of continuing, Jackie looked over at the stairs. "Where is Hyde with my brownie?"

Donna stood up. "I'll go get him." She went up the stairs to find Hyde.

Downstairs, the gang was all looking at Jackie as she started fidgeting. Kelso looked around frantically. "Oh god… she's having a breakdown."

"We need Hyde." Fez said.

"Hyde, Donna!" Eric yelled up the stairs. "Jackie's having a nervous breakdown!"

Upstairs, Hyde was having his own nervous breakdown in front of Donna. "I'm going to be a father."

"Yes, you are."

"I'm going to be a father."

"I heard you the first time." Donna rolled her eyes. Hyde stared at her as he lost his Zen. A minute later, they heard Eric calling for them.

"Look Hyde, you and Jackie are going to be great parents, just… whenever you have a problem, think about what your parents would have done, and then do the exact opposite."

Hyde nodded. "Yeah, I can do that." He stood up and grabbed the plate of brownies. The two walked back down the stairs where Jackie was now pacing the floor. "We have less than three months left and we don't even have names picked out or the nursery painted or baby seats for the car." Jackie rambled. She turned to Hyde who was holding the plate of brownies in front of her. Jackie took one and bit into it.

"Okay, I got an idea." Brooke told them. "How about tomorrow the three of us(she gestured to the girls) go to the bookstore and get some baby name books, and then all of us can choose our favorite names and then Jackie and Hyde can choose from those."

Jackie sighed. "I guess that works." She looked over at Hyde. "What do you think?"

Hyde just nodded. "Fine."

Jackie turned to Brooke. "But that doesn't solve our other problems."

Fez stood up. "Laurie and I will take care of your nursery." He told them. Laurie nodded. "We'll make it really cute, we swear."

Jackie sat back down on the couch. "Yeah, okay."

"You and Hyde just worry about the doctors visits; we'll take care of everything else." Eric said, grinning.

Hyde sat next to Jackie and pulled her in close. Jackie rested her head on his chest. "You okay?" She asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." He lied.

Next time: "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new mission… I give to you, Operation Baby Jedi!"

I don't know when the next chapter will be posted, but I promise you it'll be sooner than it took me to get this out. I also promise that Hyde won't do anything stupid like run off and marry ugly strippers. He's learned his lesson.