A/N: Hey folks! Thanks for the reviews, they've been great! I'm glad so many people are enjoying this story. I hope that everyone is staying cool during this hot week!

Disclaimer: I don't own 70S SHOW nor any rock references I may make.

At the Foreman Burkhart breakfast Donna was the only one Jackie told about the big blow up. They were sitting on the other end of the table, so, their hushed tones were not heard by Kitty or Red as they talked to Ash. Ash had put on a strong face, and genuinely enjoyed the Foreman family. She was pissed at the situation, but certainly didn't let on about it.

"See, this is why you don't sleep with Hyde," Donna said, in low tones.

"Yeah, thanks," Jackie said.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'll be okay," Jackie said. "I just hope that Ash doesn't hold this fight against me."

"She won't. He seriously said he loved you?"

"Yeah, he definitely said that."

"… Wow. How do you feel about him?"

"I don't know," Jackie said. "I don't know if I SHOULD love him after all that's happened."

"Screw should. Do you?" Jackie didn't answer.

"So Ash," Kitty said, "Your father told me that you like writing."

"Yeah, I really do," Ash said. "I love writing."

"Well that's fantastic, sweetie," Kitty said.

"Just don't write like those damn beatniks," Red said. "I blame them for how much of a slacker Eric was in high school."

"Hey Dad, Hyde's the one who read those books, not me," Eric said.

"I'm actually dating a guy who likes those books," Ash said.

"Was that the nice young man from yesterday?" Kitty asked.

"Yeah."

"Damn beatniks," Red muttered.

The maitre d came to the table.

"Excuse me, Red Foreman?" he asked.

"Yeah?" Red replied.

"Phone call for you." Red got up, and followed him away.

"Lily, eat your sausage," Donna said.

"I don't like it," Lily said.

"Lily, you like sausage," Eric stated.

"No I don't, Ash doesn't like it," she said. Eric waved at Ash.

"Ash, Lily says that she won't eat her sausage because you don't like yours," he said. "How about you prove her wrong?" Ash caught his drift, and held up her sausage link.

"Hey Lily!" she said. "I do like sausage! See?" She bit the link, and Lily smiled. She ate her sausage too.

"If Ash liked brussell sprouts Lily would eat them," Freddie said.

"Ash, do you like those?" Donna asked.

"Sorry, Donna, no," Ash said. Donna snapped her fingers.

Red came back to the table.

"Well Kitty, it's time to go back to Point Place."

"What? But we're eating breakfast!" Kitty exclaimed.

"Well Laurie is stuck in Green Bay."

"She's WHAT?"

"She says a friend of hers dumped her in the middle of town and ran off and she doesn't have money for a cab or a bus ticket," Red said. "Not on her, anyway."

"Translation." Eric said. "Laurie's most recent boyfriend dumped her in the middle of Green Bay and ditched her."

"Oh, why'd the chef do that?" Jackie asked.

"I never said it was the chef," Eric stated. "Dad, why are you going to enable her?"

"Because she's my daughter and it's called unconditional love," Red said, putting on his coat. "She would do the same for me because I'm her father. No matter how many times she's failed me, I still love her. You'd do the same for Lily and you know it." Ash looked at the table, and Kitty hugged her.

"It was so nice to meet you!" Kitty said. "You need to come out to Wisconsin!"

"We'll see, Kitty," Jackie, said, standing to hug Red and Kitty. Ash watched them leave, and then fell deep into thought. Red's words really affected her. "Have a safe trip, you two!"

"My sister ruins everything," Eric said. "Lily, Freddie, don't trust Auntie Laurie with anything, okay?"

"Okay," they both said.

Jackie and Ash said their goodbyes to the Foreman clan, and drove back to their house.

"How are you feeling today, Mom?" Ash asked.

"Oh, better than last night," Jackie said. "Thanks for the concern."

"Any time, Mom," Ash said.

Adrian was reading 'Steal This Book' when the phone rang. He answered it, and leaned back in his beanbag chair.

"Hello?"

"Hey."

"Hey Leigh, how are you?"

"Not so great," she said. "Can you come over?"

"… Yeah, sure."

He arrived at the Burkhart residence that evening, and she was sitting in the treehouse. He looked up, and she waved down at him, her leg dangling down from the door.

"So am I supposed to come up, or what?" he asked.

"Please!" she called, and he climbed up.

"So what's up?" he asked, sitting next to her. She looked up at the sun through the trees. "Did something happen after I left?"

"No, something happened while you were here, then got worse after you left."

"….. Okay, what did I do, because I was enjoying the non hostility between us-."

"Not you, Mom and Hyde," she said. "Apparently they slept together."

"Ugh," he said, and she chuckled.

"That's what I said!" she exclaimed. "But wait, that's not the bad part. She's totally unable to trust him because of what happened all those years ago."

"Man, that's rough," he said.

"The worst part is that he's still in love with her" she muttered. "At least that's what he says, though I don't really blame her for questioning it knowing what I know."

"Well, it does seem a little fast for them to be getting back together, I mean, they have things they need to solve, ya know?" he asked.

"I know, but I just want them to at least try," she said. "Because I see how they look at each other and I KNOW that it would all work out."

"How can you know that?" he asked.

"I just do," Ash said. "I've decided that Mom and Hyde are soul mates."

"Leigh, you're the last person I'd think would believe in soul mates," he said. "For God's sake, you're wearing a tee shirt that says 'Courtney Killed Kurt'!"

"Hey, we couldn't understand their love!" she joked, and shoved him playfully.

"So what, you want to do a lame 'Parent Trap' thing?"

"Maybe!"

"Don't be ridiculous."

"…. I'm remembering why I found you so obnoxious when we first met."

"Ash, your parents, if they're really meant to be together, they will figure it out," Adrian said. "All you can do is try to keep your relationship with your Dad. That's the only thing you have control over. Now if they aren't together, do you want that?" She thought for a few minutes, and then smiled at him slyly. She kissed him quickly, and began to climb down from the tree house.

"Not so obnoxious now, am I?" he called after her, following behind.

As Hyde was closing up the store, he heard a knocking on the window. He turned, and saw Ash there. She pointed at the door, and he nodded. His heart began thumping, and he opened the door for her.

"Hey," she said.

"…… Hey," he answered, and she walked in. "What's, um… You didn't bike here, did you?"

"No, Adrian is outside," she said. "He drives you know."

"Yeah, I remember, he's almost seventeen."

"Hyde…"

"Sorry, sorry," he said. "So what brings you to my neck of the woods?" She sat on the counter, and cocked her head.

"So what the hell happened last night?" she asked. "I mean, how did you guys manage to burn each other again in the course of five minutes?"

"It's a gift your Mom and I have always had," he said. "Though I know that it's mostly my fault, I can't give her what she wants."

"Can't, or won't?" Ash asked.

"Hey, SHE won't let me!" Hyde said, finding it depressing that he was getting love lectures from his fifteen year old daughter.

"Well regardless, you two are so infuriating to me," she said. "When she wants you, you don't take her, and now when you want her, she doesn't take you! It would be great poetic justice if it didn't throw me into the mix, ya know?"

"Well I'm sorry for that," he said.

"Yeah, me too," Ash said. "Well, if she doesn't she doesn't. That's life. What I do know is that she isn't going to shut you out of her life, because I'm here. So she won't be running to a different state this time."

"Well that's a relief," Hyde muttered, sarcastically.

"I thought it was," she said, blithely. "Well, I have to get going. Adrian is waiting on me."

"Okay," he said.

"Oh, and before I forget," Ash stated, and dug into her bag. "This was taken while we were all at Minnehaha Falls." She handed him a picture of the three of them. "I got it developed today. I think I look like I'm completely stoned but you and Mom look good."

"Thanks," he said, and smiled at her. She smiled at him, and they hugged.

"Give her a little time," Ash said, walking for the door. "Hell, she gave you chances when you didn't deserve it. She'd be dumb to not give you one when you did." With that, she left the store. Hyde smirked, and looked at the picture again. It was his family, something that he had never really had. Not truly. Of course, right now he didn't have it either, but at least in the photo he could pretend.

Ash was beginning to get ready for bed, when her room phone rang.

"Hello?"

"It's Sam."

"AND Maddie! We're conference calling you!"

"Hey."

"Why so blue?" Sam asked.

"Guys, it's been a fucking dumb weekend." And she explained everything to her friends. They listened, and once she was done with her story, Sam whistled.

"That's rough," he said.

"It was because of the stripper, wasn't it?" Maddie asked.

"I'm going to hang up now," Ash stated.

"Well before you do, you should hear out what we had for plans tonight," Sam said.

"Oh yeah?" Ash asked. "Okay, I'll bite. What are the plans?"

"I got back from the cabin this afternoon, and I began thinking," Maddie said. " 'What kind of memories are these? Sitting by a lake, just marinating in the sun? I want some REAL memories!'"

"Okaaaay…" Ash said. "So what are you going to do?"

"WE are going on a ghost hunt," Maddie said.

"…. Are you fucking kidding me?" Ash asked. "A ghost hunt? What are you even talking about?"

"We're going to go to Calvary Cemetery in Saint Paul!" Sam said. "Gonna look for ghosts, gonna bring a tape recorder to record ghosts in the air."

"You're killing me with this crap," Ash said. "My Mom and Hyde are on the skids and you want to play Ghostbusters?"

"Don't you want to play with us?" Maddie asked. "I'm driving, and-."

"AGAIN with the driving sans license!" Ash snapped.

"Come on, Ash, it'll take your mind off things," Sam said. "And you know you love being scared. It's the ultimate horror movie, darling." Ash huffed, and smiled a little bit.

"When are you gonna be here, Maddie?"

"In two shakes of a lambs tail! Be ready! And bring a video camera too!"

"Yeah yeah yeah," Ash said. "See you in a bit. Sam, we'll meet outside. Mom is gonna kill me if she finds out I'm sneaking out to go on a ghost hunt."

"Precious memories are being built tonight!" Sam said, and they all hung up. Ash crept out her room, and peeked around the corner. Jackie's door was closed, and the light was off. She was probably sleeping. Ash smiled slyly, and dug out her clunky video camera she'd received from Pam and Jack for her birthday when she turned twelve.

"Who ya gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS!" she sang, and laughed a little bit. She grabbed 'Ghost Hunting for Dummies' off her bookshelf, and threw it in her backpack. She pat a sleeping Claudius on the head, grabbed her house key from her dresser, and carefully snuck down the steps, bag on her back and video camera under her arm.

Had Jackie not been in a fitful sleep, she still wouldn't have heard Ash creep from the house.