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The Hub

March 1st, 1990

7:30 pm

The gangs old table that always seemed to be reserved just for them finally seemed right in it's place again. Hyde and Lana sat at the table enjoying some cheesy fries when Jackie enters with Kelso by her side. Hyde puts some space between him and Lana nonchalantly, growing tense at the sight of Jackie with Kelso.

"Hey, what were you two doing?" Hyde tried and failed in attempts to not sound jealous.

"We just took Coda and Layla to the park for a playdate. You know the girls are about the same age." Jackie lifts Coda from the stroller and places the giggly child on her lap. He couldn't help but stare at her, Coda looks so much like her mother it was terrifying to him.

"Yeah, Brooke took Betsy clothes shopping with Madelyn after her doctors appointments so I agreed to take Layla for the day. I offered to take Madelyn too but apparently I can't handle a five and a two year old at the same time. Can you believe that?"

"Yes." It was a unison reaction.

"It's cute to see the girls playing together. Coda has never had a play date before." Jackie dug through her bag in a panic. "Shoot I must've left my wallet in the car. "Michael can you hold her for a minute?"

"I'll take her." Hyde offers before realizing what he's doing.

"Oh thanks." She rests the little girl on his lap and heads out the door.

Coda looks up at Stevens curly hair and beard grasping onto him with her tiny fists. Her blue eyes glisten up at him, her dark curls were tucked behind her little ears.

"Well I think I'll take off." Lana speaks in anger getting up from her seat and starts to head towards the door before realizing that Hyde hadn't said anything. "Do you even care?"

"No, not really. Have a goodnight."

"Seriously!" "Yeah, you're not my girlfriend. I don't care why you're leaving."

"God Hyde!" She storms out as Donna and Eric enter the building.

"What's up with Lana?" Donna takes in the image of Hyde bouncing the little girl on his lap. "Why are you holding Coda?"

"Jackie is looking for her wallet in the car and Lana is the latest victim of the 'why won't Hyde commit to me' syndrome," Kelso laughs.

"She's not my girlfriend, I don't do commitment."

Donna sat next to Hyde picking up Layla who was every bit as cute as Betsy was as a child. Except that Layla was her god daughter. "Hey baby girl. We know why Hyde doesn't commit huh. He is in love with Aunt Jackie."

"I am not. I don't love her…I can't love her."

"Mhm… I've seen you with all three of your nieces and you've never been like this with any of them." She gestures to the way Hyde was coddling the little one. "She's your ex-girlfriends daughter with another man. I figured you wouldn't want to touch her with a ten foot pole."

"She's just a little baby. Her past or mother's past isn't her fault. Even I'm not that petty Donna."

"If you say so."

Jackie's Apartment

10:45 pm

Jackie watches little Coda in her crib, the cute way her daughter scrunches up her nose while she sleeps always tickled her heart strings. She always stayed up too late watching her baby sleep, she was the most precious thing Jackie had ever laid eyes on. She never thought she'd love anything as much as she loved this little girl, which really calls into question her mother's behavior.

There was a soft knock at her door that drew her away. Who could possibly be here at this hour. She opens the door to be greeted with her favorite familiar face. "Steven. What are you doing here?"

"I'm sorry I know it's late I'm not interrupting anything."

"Nothing at all I was just watching Coda sleep." Jackie smiles, "why are you here Steven?"

"I'm sorry. It's just that sometimes I don't like being alone. My house is big for just one person."

"Oh, well, you're welcome anytime I guess. Do you want a beer or something?"

"Yeah a beer sounds good, thanks." He watches as she walks into the kitchen. The apartment had been quickly turned into a home under the Jackie Burkhart touch. It was impressively beautiful. So warm and homey, like the Forman house without the tacky taste.

"Here," she offers him his bottle and takes her own to the sofa where Jackie pats the cushion. "So Lana took off today? I'm sorry."

"I don't care."

"Maybe you should."

"Maybe but I don't. Lana was just a chick, she wasn't my chick." Steven shook his head her as Jackie rolls her eyes at him.

"Alright I won't push it. I just think it might be nice if you settled down with someone."

"Not going to happen, Doll." He turns to her with that famous smirk of his. "What happens to you if I take myself off the market? Fez?"

Jackie laughs leaning into his chest, "Oh babe I think I'll be okay and I'll definitely won't need Fez." She shifts to curl up on his lap, feeling his fingers running through her hair. "I just want you to be happy."

"I'm happy. Right here with you."

"That's not what I mean."

"Why can't it be?"

"Steven we don't work together. You've said that yourself. It's been such a long time since we've been together."

"Not that long."

"Maybe, but that doesn't mean I'm okay to subject myself to all that again."

"I understand."

"Thank you, besides there may be some lingering feelings between us but that's all really. It's been so long I'm just glad we can be friends again." She stood up as she spoke, "we probably don't even have chemistry any more." She jokes but she can hardly get her laugh out before Steven's hand grasps her arm whipping her around to face him.

From his seated position on the couch, his hands grasp her hips and pull her to her knees, straddling his lap. He winds his fingers through her ebony, unruly hair and he kisses her, once, twice, and again, faster, more urgently as each kiss progresses. Finally breaking away from the kiss, he pushes her back onto the couch, falling on top of her gently and grinning when she is lying voluntarily underneath him.

''You still think we don't have chemistry?,'' he mumbles, before kissing her again.

''I'll admit it I was wrong,'' she says softly, before she kisses him again, somehow it's even more deep than before. His beard against her smooth skin as he presses his face on hers, kissing every part of it, and she likes it. It's a reminder of that summer so many years ago. He grins down at her and she kisses him again because she likes it. She likes him so much, it hurts.

Jackie's Apartment

7:30 am

Steven woke to Jackie's little girl pulling on his hair. He tipped his head back to look at her. He couldn't get over how beautiful she was. Coda had her mothers eyes so big and innocent looking, except that they were crystal blue.

"Hey, baby girl are you hungry?" Coda nods in response. Steven stood, thanking god that she and him had decided to find some clothes last night before completely passing out on the couch. He looks around for Jackie knowing that Coda couldn't have gotten herself out of the crib. He hears the shower running.

"Up." Steven looks down at Coda who was bouncing on her toes, reaching her arms up to him. He didn't know how it was possible but Coda had mastered her mother's pout that always achieved her getting her way. He bent over and swiftly flung the little one over his shoulder resulting in her giggling, the most wondrous sound he'd ever heard.

"Alright doll, looks like you're having cereal." He tells her after setting her in her high chair. It appears that Jackie didn't do much grocery shopping since she always ate out or at the Forman's.

Coda mumbles as Steven places some dry cereal in front of her. He ruffles her hair with his hand before finding some coffee stashed away in one of Jackie's barren cupboards.

"Well, look who's up." Jackie turns the corner smiling so brightly. She walks over kissing Coda on the top of her head and then Steven pulls her in for a tight embrace, kissing her lips hard and passionately.

"I've gotta get ready for work, the store won't open itself." He kisses her again, "last night was…well amazing, we should try to talk again later."

"Yeah, I agree." Jackie turns to Coda, "Open up sweet pea," she finishes feeding Coda as she hears the shower start. "Come on Coda it's time to get dressed."

Coda follows her mother into her room across the hall from where Steven was in the bathroom. Jackie picks her and lays her down to unzip her footie pajamas. "Coda, do you want to hear the story?" Jackie looks down at her little girl and Coda nods loving to hear her mothers fairytale. "Once upon a time,"

Jackie slips Coda's sweater on and sets her baby on her lap. "Once upon a time, there was a young princess in a small kingdom. This princess loved a prince, but this prince was bad for the princess and he broke her heart many many times. But every time the prince would break her heart a night in shining armor would be there for her rescue."

Steven was listening intently to the fairy tale Jackie was spinning. He was trying to hear every word without being seen.

"You see Coda, the knight cared very much for the princess even if he would never admit it. He tried to mask his feelings by lying to himself but after a kiss shared between the knight and princess, the knight realized he loved her and made it his mission to save her from the bad prince.
Then one day, the bad prince disappeared and the princess ran to the knight for comfort. The knight and princess shared a wondrous kiss. The kind of kiss where you feel fireworks in your heart and and the whole world becomes bright and colorful."

"The knight and the princess had fallen in love. Not just any love though, no this was true love. As I've told you Coda, true love is the most powerful magic in the world. But as time went on, bad people and mistakes managed to tear the knight and princess apart, but you have nothing to worry about my dear because with true love, the princess and knight will always find their way back to each other."

Jackie kissed daughter's forehead, and then realized that Steven was listening from the doorway. "It's her favorite story." She tried to explain.

"It's a good story, maybe one day it'll get happy ending." Steven said softly to her.

"Not all happy endings end with 'And they lived happily ever after.'"

"Maybe that's true." He kissed her forehead, "I'm going to the store. Are you going in today?"

"Yeah at noon." She answers before his replied nod as he exits the bedroom and Jackie and Coda heard the front door close shut.

Jackie's Apartment

9:45 am

"Pick up, pick up, pick up." Jackie was chanting into the phone until she heard the other line pick up. "Donna!"

"No, this is Eric. Jackie?"

"Yeah put Donna on the phone."

Eric sounded sullen, "um, Jackie, now's not the best time."

"Please Eric," Jackie pleaded.

"What do you want Jackie?" Donna finally answered but she was sullen sounding too.

"I know we aren't the best of friends anymore but I need a friend to talk to."

"Well why don't you call Hyde or Kelso or even Fez."

"Because believe it or not I need a girlfriend and it kind of sounds like you need one too."

"I have Brooke."

"Donna, seriously."

"Okay fine, what's up?"

"What's up with you?"

"Nothing."

"Come on Donna, talk to me I'm supposed to be your best friend. At least I used to be."

"Yeah I still can't figure out how that happened. Or how it ended."

"Donna…" Jackie sensed something must be up because she could hear Donna's breath catching in her throat.

"I had another miscarriage, Jackie. I don't understand why this keeps happening to me." Donna was full on crying now and Jackie began to realize that even as her old best friend she was definitely in over her head.

"Oh Donna… I'm so sorry."

"I know it'll be okay but I'm getting tired of trying, it shouldn't be this hard."

"Maybe you and Eric should see a doctor, a fertility specialist."

"Yeah, maybe you're right."

"I don't know if I'm right or not Donna, but I do know you'll be a terrific mother and if it'll help it's worth a shot, right."

"Wow Jackie,"

"What?"

"Motherhood has really changed you."

"Yeah I've noticed that too."

"Okay now out with it."

"Um what?"

"You called me, remember?"

"Oh yeah, I just needed to talk."

"Is it Hyde?"

"What?"

"Oh come on Jackie, you haven't changed that much. I sense boy drama so out with it."

"Okay fine it's Steven."

"Good, that means I'm winning the bet."

"What bet?"

"Eric and I started a bet after you broke up with Fez on who you'd end up with? I choose Hyde and he picked Kelso."

"Michael is married and is having his forth child, I think Eric has permanently lost. And what about Fez?"

"Oh come on Jackie that was just wrong and we both know it and a relationship has never stopped Kelso before."

"True. Anyways being back here around Steven is just making me a little crazy. I think he still likes me." Jackie attempted to be vague as much as she needed her friends advice.

"Well duh, Jackie."

"Donna!, I don't know, I don't want to get hurt again. He messed me up so bad I ended up with Fez!" She could hear Donna laughing in agreement on the other end of the line. She sipped on her coffee as she looked onto a napping Coda on the bed from her seat on the couch. "I don't want a relationship with him again it'll end the same way, it always does."

"Jackie, I understand you being worried about getting hurt but shouldn't you be more concerned about Coda, what about her dad?"

"Yeah he doesn't know he has a daughter, which I want, even though you might not think it's right."

"I don't know, not my place I guess."

"Yeah."

"Hey Jackie, who's her father anyways?"

"Just a guy I slept with when I was all emotionally vulnerable."

"Okay Jackie." Jackie knew that wasn't the answer she wanted but Donna wasn't going to push it. "Hey Eric needs me so I'll talk to you later okay."

"Okay bye, hey if you want me to go to the doctor with you, I'd be happy to."

"Thanks, bye midget."

"Bye, lumberjack."

A/N: We are getting nice Donna back slowly so that's good for everyone. Hope you liked and please, please Review!