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Disclaimer: I don't own That 70's Show or Fairy Tales. I own Jasmine, Larry and Rocko. Btw, I don't usually care about casting, but Rocko would be played by Michael Chiklis.

This chapter kicked my ass in so many ways, so I really hope that you like it.

Warning: This chapter is sort of graphic. Parents strongly cautioned and all that.

Wolves.

"Oh Grandmother, what a big, scary mouth you have!" - Little Red Riding Hood

Hyde was sitting on his El Camino on top of Mount Hump with Donna's voice came on the radio.

"Hey everyone, you're listening to WFPP with me, Hot Donna and this time I promise not to play any disco." Donna laughed. "On that note, I just want to thank everyone who has called in wishing Jackie a speedy recovery, I especially want to thank you, Paul who sat right behind Jackie in third period English class for the card he sent, in which he wrote 'Even though Jackie was mean to me, I still think she's hot.' A sentiment shared by many." Hyde could imagine Donna's smile. "Up next is another classic rock block, starting with Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here." And with that, Donna's voice disappeared and was replaced David Gilmour's. It had played the night Jackie left for Chicago and on the night Sam had shown up, but he had choked it up to coincidence and chose the path of least resistance.

That's all that Sam was; the path of least resistance. The white flag he flew to all those who had told him he would never amount to anything other than white trash. The universe who kept saying he was no better than Bud. When had things gotten so fucked up? When had he turned into the one thing he had never wanted to be? Jackie had always told him that he could be more, do more. She was constantly pushing him to live up to his potential. He had never truly understood what potential she was referring to. He always thought he'd be lucky if he stayed out of prison. But because of her, he now had a real family that actually shared the same blood and weren't working as gas station attendants or in prison. Because of her, he had a job that he loved. And to thank her, he had chosen someone else and had gone out of his way to make sure she knew that he regretted the two years they had together, that it meant nothing to him.

She had believed him too. He had seen it in her eyes the night in the woods. Maybe it had been all the beer, maybe it was her closeness, but he had gone out of his way to be extra snide to her. It wasn't just that she had fallen into the creek that made Hyde feel guilty; it was everything he had said to her prior. She had been so disgusted by him that night that she had refused to take his hand. Why hadn't he just grabbed her and carried her over? Why had he just stood there and watched?

In a fit of self anger, Hyde picked up a rock and threw it off the side of the cliff and watched as it hit a tree on the way down, shattering into several pieces. Then, he jumped into the El Camino, turned up the stereo and proceeded to drive to Milwaukee.

Red hung up the phone and turned to Kitty, Eric and Jasmine. "That was Steven; he said he's gone to Milwaukee."

Eric was confused. "Why would he go to Milwaukee?"

Red shrugged. "Didn't say."

"And you didn't think to ask?" Kitty asked, narrowing her eyes at her husband.

"Kitty, it's none of our business, WB probably just wanted to see him."

Kitty sighed. She loved her sons dearly, but sometimes they had a tendency of making bad decisions.

Donna had gone to the hospital right after her shift so that she could talk to Jackie alone before everyone else showed up.

"It's weird to be able to talk to you without you insulting me." Donna looked over at her sleeping best friend. "Yeah, so… Eric's engaged."

She had no idea why she was even waiting for Jackie's response. "Yeah, I know, you always said I could do better than Eric. You should see this girl though, she's pretty and nice and perfect."

Donna knew how Jackie would have replied. She would have said something about how Jasmine must have something wrong with her if she was dating Eric. Donna didn't bother to hold in a giggle.

"Yeah, you're right, she can't be perfect. No one is." She squeezed Jackie's hand. "I really miss you. I never thought I'd say that, but it's the truth. I was so awful this year but you stood by me, so thank you."

Soon though, it got to hard to talk about her love life or lack there of. "Hey, so I found your book of fairy tales." Donna reached down into the duffle bag and got the book. "Want me to read you one?" Donna took Jackie's silence as a yes and started to read The Frog Prince.

"Once Upon a time, when wishes still came true, there lived a king who had beautiful daughters. The youngest was so lovely that even the sun, which had seen many things, was will with wonder when it shone upon her face." Donna could practically hear Jackie claim "Like me!" in her head. She shook it off and continued to read.

Jackie glared at the ground as she stared at the swamp before her. Briefly, she turned around and through about taking a different path, but she knew in the pit of her stomach that the only way to get what she needed was to go through the swamp.

"You only have five hours until she comes looking for those slippers." The invisible man reminded her.

"What happens if I don't get them?" Jackie asked. "Will I die?"

The man was silent, which Jackie took to mean 'yes.'

"Have you remembered anything else?" He asked her as they walked. Jackie was fairly sure she had never seen so much moss in her entire life.

"About Steven?" She clarified.

"No, about Rumplestilskin." He replied sarcastically. "Yes, about Steven."

"I remember crying on his shoulder." Jackie told him. "Because Michael cheated on me."

"Oh, so you remember Michael?" This was good, they were making progress.

"Of course I remember Michael!" Jackie exclaimed. "I remember all my friends, Michael, Donna, Fez, Eric, Eric's parents."

"But all you remember about Steven is that you cried on him a lot?" The man asked.

"No, I remember…" Jackie stopped dead in her tracks and stared at the run down shack sitting in the middle of the swamp. In her head, she could hear yelling coming from within, but as she got closer, she realized that there was no one inside. Slowly, she opened the door.

Hyde walked into WB's office to see two men were sitting on the leather couch; both were wearing suits and were talking in low voices. One was a skinny, twerpy looking man with a bowl cut and long side burns with round sunglasses. He looked like he could be John Lennon's dorky cousin. The other was a short, stocky bald man who reminded Hyde of a bulldog.

"Steven!" WB stood up from his desk to greet his son. "Come on in."

Hyde looked nervously at the two men as he sat down in the chair across from his father.

"Oh don't mind them." WB said, gesturing to the men. "This is just my lawyer, David Greene and my private investigator, Rocko." Both men stood up and shook hands with Hyde.

"I'm glad you came." WB told them once they said had all been introduced. "How is Jackie?"

"The same." Hyde answered. "Not any better, not any worse."

WB nodded solemnly. "Sometimes that's the best you can hope for."

Larry pushed his wire frame glasses on top of his nose. "Why don't we talk about why we're here?"

WB nodded. "Son, when you told me the circumstances of your marriage, I have to admit I was a little concerned about the woman you married, after all, you barely knew her."

Hyde nodded for WB to continue.

"So, I had Rocko here investigate Samantha."

Hyde looked up, shocked. "You did what?"

"I wanted to make sure, for your safety." WB answered as Rocko handed Hyde a manila envelope that said Samantha Hyde in huge letters on the front.

"What's this?" Hyde asked

"Just open it." Rocko commanded.

Hyde opened the folder and dumped the contents out onto WB's desk. He stared dumbfounded at the pictures of his wife kissing another man, her head on his shoulder, the sight of their silhouettes through a window. Hyde was almost overcome with how little he cared his wife was having an affair. It would just make divorcing her all that much simpler.

"There is something else you should see." WB told him as he handed Hyde a piece of paper.

Hyde took one look at it. "It's a marriage certificate."

"Look again." David the Lawyer ordered.

Hyde looked at the certificate; on it were his and her names, the date they had married, and the signature of the clergy. He could see nothing wrong with it.

"It looks okay?"

"It's fake." The lawyer told him. "The man who officiated your wedding is a comedian who officiates joke weddings."

"You were probably so drunk that you didn't realize you weren't really getting married." WB broke in with a grin on his face.

"There's more." Rocko said, leaning forward, "Turns out Samantha is already married."

"So I'm not married?" Hyde asked, just to make sure he wasn't dreaming this.

"You're not married." WB repeated.

"But she is?"

"To someone named Larry Crock." Rocko interjected.

As relieved as Hyde was, he was stunned into complete silence as only one thought made its way into Hyde's brain.

Jackie was going to kill him.

As Donna read, Fez and Kelso remained silent in their chairs, listening to Donna's voice. No one felt like talking anymore. They were all saving the important stuff for when Jackie woke up. The only question on their minds though was when Hyde was going to return from Milwaukee.

"Where's Forman?" Kelso finally asked.

"He and Jasmine went to Kenosha." Fez answered.

Donna stopped reading and looked up at Fez and Kelso. Something about this news pissed her off. "What the hell are they doing in Kenosha?"

"I think Forman wanted to show Jasmine the city." Fez shrugged.

Donna reminded herself that she didn't care what Eric did. It wasn't so much that he was taking her to Kenosha, but it was that he had done it while he should have been here, feeling as anxious as they were. This was not play time.

"You gonna keep reading?" Kelso asked, breaking Donna from her thoughts.

Donna looked up at him. "Oh, yeah." She said, before turning her attention back to Hansel and Gretel.

Jackie was filled with an overwhelming sadness when she entered the house. This was a place of pain and broken hearts, where people were abandoned, left to the wolves. She smelled ketchup and beer and the stench of decaying flesh; it's a disgusting mixture that made Jackie want to gag. In the bedroom, there was a broken bed and the carcass of a rotting wolf. Stones filled the animal's belly and Jackie winced at the sight the decomposing animal. The whole house was rotting in fact. She knew she couldn't stay there long, because if she did, she would fall victim to the evil that had taken residence.

"If I were a pair of slippers…" She said to herself. "Where would I be?" Jackie began to search the house for the shoes. How she knew they were there, she wasn't quite sure, but her instincts were telling her this was the place.

"The wolf thought to himself: "That tend young thing will make a dainty snack! She'll taste even better than the old woman. If you're really crafty, you'll get them both." Donna grimaced at the sexual connotations of Little Red Riding Hood. "This is really perverted." She said to herself.

"I like it." Fez countered.

Donna smiled. "You would."

Kelso had left an hour ago, saying he needed to go call Brooke and Betsy, but Donna knew the real reason he left was because he couldn't take the silence anymore. Kelso had never been good with silence or unhappiness. He needed to be around people who were lively, who weren't sick to death from worrying about their friend.

"Why do they treat her so bad?" Fez asked.

Donna stopped reading. "What?"

"Kelso, Hyde, they always treated her like she's nothing… why?"

Donna didn't have an answer for him.

Hyde had the radio turned off as drove back to Point Place. He knew that Sam would be coming back soon, and he couldn't wait to shove her lies in her face. He could practically see Jackie dancing in his mind, singing I told you so while hitting the tambourine.

"I told you so, I told you so! Your wife is a whore and I told you so!" The Jackie in his mind sang in front on a huge stage while Donna and Kitty sang background for her.

"Oh, she told you so… your wife is a big fat whore and she told you so!"

"Drum solo!" Jackie yelled, pointing to Forman who was sitting behind a drum kit.

Hyde shook his head to bring himself back to reality before Forman could get a chance to conduct his drum solo.

"You do know where you are right?"

Jackie didn't answer right away; instead she continued to search underneath the bed for the slippers. She sat up and listened to the memories the house held.

"They're all gonna laugh at you!"

"Shut up Ma! You're making the night too damn special!"

She remembered that night; it really was special. He had been such a good friend to her that night, but she had failed to see it. She had been so wrapped up in her infatuation with Michael that had failed to see him.

Donna was still reading when they heard a very familiar voice.

"Hi Mr. and Mrs. Forman!" Donna and Fez took one look at each other before jumping out of their seats and running to the door.

"Oh, Samantha." Kitty said with fake cheerfulness. "What are you doing here?"

"I went to your house but you weren't there, so Mr. Pinciotti told me where you were and I just had to come… Is Hyde here?"

Donna looked over at Fez who had his arms crossed.

"Oh, hey, it's the stripper." Kelso had come back and was holding a tray full of coffees. He walked by Sam and handed the coffees to Donna and Fez. "What is she doing here?" He whispered loudly.

"Steven is in Milwaukee." Red told Sam who nodded as though she understood. Donna watched Red and Kitty share a look.

"Remind me why I was friends with her again?" Donna whispered to Fez who shrugged.

"I think the peroxide went to your brain." He answered.

Sam looked over at the three and smiled. "Oh, Donna… your hair!"

Donna couldn't help but notice that Sam had yet to ask about Jackie. She also couldn't help but notice that Hyde was coming through the ICU doors.

"Hyde!" Fez called, causing Sam to turn around and run towards him.

"Baby!" She cooed. "How are you?"

Hyde pushed Sam off him and walked over to the Formans. "Any change?"

They shook their heads and Sam stared at Hyde with a dumb expression. Or, as Fez was to later say, "I thought that was her usual expression."

"What did WB want?" Red asked Hyde who was pointedly ignoring Samantha.

"Ah, he wanted to go over some expense reports and discuss Jackie. He's offered to pay all her medical bills."

"Wow, that's great of him isn't it?" Kitty said. Red nodded in approval.

Jackie picked up a rotting apple core from the ground and instantly dropped it as she heard a familiar voice.

"You don't remember? We got married!"

The memory came back to Jackie in a flash. She felt like she had just been punched in the gut.

Hyde couldn't take it anymore. Sam was pouting at him, tugging on his shirt and whispering to him that she wanted to be alone. All around him, he could see the faces of the disappointed people in his life. These were his family, and he had let them down.

"I went to get a divorce." Hyde admitted. There were a few gasps of shock, and a single yay from Fez.

"What?" Samantha screeched. "Why baby?" It was the most annoying sound Hyde had ever heard in his life.

"Man am I glad I dumped you."

Jackie wanted to kick someone. She felt utterly broken, as though someone had ripped her in two and placed stones inside her stomach, just like the dead wolf in the bedroom.

"But, as it turns out, I didn't have to bother, because this isn't legal." He held up the fake wedding certificate for everyone to see. "The clergyman was actually a comedian who puts on fake weddings; we were too drunk to notice." Hyde explained, "Turns out our marriage was just one big joke." He ripped the paper in half ignoring Sam's cries of protest. "Fitting huh? Since you managed to make a huge joke out of my life."

"It's the monster of the forest, but don't worry it only eats nice girls so you're safe."

She felt like a huge joke. Here she was thinking he was worthy of love, worthy of her time and devotion, but it turned out he was just a callous jerk who had done nothing but eat her whole. He wasn't a prince, but a big bad wolf.

"My only regret is that I can't actually divorce you." He told Sam. "But I can tell you to get the hell out of my life."

"But…"

Hyde interrupted her. "I swear if the next words out of your mouth are I love you, I'm going to let Donna kick your ass."

"I don't think Samantha is the worst piece of trash that ever walked the earth."

"How could they do that to me?" She screamed. "Why did they do that to me?"

"I can't believe you!" Sam yelled. "You're breaking up with me because of some girl?"

That was it, Donna couldn't take it anymore. "She's not just some girl, she's our friend."

"Well, your friend is a bitch who got what she deserved."

"I can't cross that."

"Sure you can, you just cross it like you usually do, real bitchy."

Jackie could feel her insides twisting up in knots. She fell to the ground, absolutely broken. She punched her fists into the floor, breaking the skin.

"Fine, take my hand."

"No."

"Jackie, just take my hand!"

She had taken his hand, but the combination of sweat, rain and the drunken numbness of his fingers caused her to loose her grip. She felt like she was drowning all over again, the cold water easing its way into Jackie's lungs as she struggled to stay afloat. The current was just too strong. She remembered screaming, remembered calling his name but there was no answer then, just like there was no answer now as she screamed in the middle of the floor of the swamp house.

The ICU was in complete chaos as Kelso and Red tried desperately to break up Donna and Samantha who were engaged in a viscous cat fight. Neither of them had ever seen Donna become that undone, she was a wild woman as her fists continued to connect with the stripper's face. In retaliation, Sam was pulling on Donna's hair causing Donna to scream and scratch Samantha on the face with her nails. Red pulled the girls apart and Kelso held onto Donna to keep her from jumping on Sam again.

"Jackie was right about you." Fez spat at the bleeding blonde.

"Jackie's right about everything." Red said to the group. "You're all just too dumb to listen."

As Jackie laid on the floor crying, she saw something sparkle in the corner. Sniffling, she reached out and grabbed one of the glass slippers. She stared at the shoe for a moment before sending it flying through the air. The shoe hit the wall and shattered.

"Well, that's not good."

Jackie ignored the man as she picked up the other shoe and throwing it in the same direction.

"I'll drive you to the house." Red told Sam. Kitty had put ointment on the girl's cuts, but it was clear that her eye was going to be black and blue by the morning.

"I have my own car." Sam reminded bitchy.

"Then give me the keys." Red ordered. "But you're not going to be alone in my house."

Sam relented and chucked her keys at Red. "Fine." She pouted.

"Say hi to your husband for me!" Hyde waved sarcastically at Sam's retreating frame.

It was all Donna could do to keep from laughing head hurt from Sam yanking on her hair, and her lip was still bleeding, but all her focus was on the utter irony that was their lives. "Hyde?"

Hyde looked over at the redhead, catching the gleam in her eye. He saw her mouth twitch upwards and felt his doing the same. It was Kitty who started laughing first though. Soon, Fez and Kelso joined her, and finally, something broke inside them all and they were in hysterics in the middle of the ICU.

"I can't believe it!" The invisible man shouted.

Jackie came out of her daze and stared at the glass on the floor. "What did I do?"

"You broke Cinderella's shoes!" He exclaimed.

Jackie turned to the voice. She could see him now, standing in the middle of the room looking shocked.

"Eric?"

"So you weren't really married?" Eric and Jasmine had returned from Kenosha and Hyde had filled him in on what he had missed.

"Yep."

"So not only do I miss the wedding and the marriage but I missed the break up as well? That sucks." Eric pouted.

"You also missed Donna kicking Sam's ass." Fez told him.

"Man, I miss everything." Eric whined.

Hyde just nodded as he reached over and stroked the hair out of Jackie's face. When he looked up, he saw that everyone had quietly left the room and he turned his attention back to Jackie. He knew he had hurt her to the point of no return that he couldn't just say "I'm sorry for being a major ass." And hope that everything would be alright, because it wasn't, and it wouldn't.

But one thing kept him from running away, one fleeting bit of knowledge that he had pushed deep inside to keep himself from going crazy.

They had been in love once.

"I remembered." Jackie told Eric. It wasn't really Eric, but the man had taken Eric's shape and personality. She knew why too, Eric had been the only one who hadn't betrayed her. She hugged her old friend gratefully.

"So why am I not waking up?"

"Because you haven't remembered it all yet. You're just remembering the pain; you need to remember the other stuff too."

Jackie raised her eyebrow. "What other stuff?" She knew deep down what it was though. They had been in love once. She wasn't sure she could go back to that though, because eventually, it would all just come crashing around her. In the real world, she had no one, but here, in the woods, she was safe.

Eric stood up and offered Jackie her hand. "Come on, let's get out of this place, it gives me the creeps."

Jackie agreed, so she stood up and hooked her arm through Eric's. "Come on, Geek boy, let's get out of here."

As they walked out of Hyde's old house, Eric turned to Jackie. "So what are you going to do about the shoes?"

"Visiting hours are over." The nurse told the group. She wanted them out of her ICU before another fight broke out. Kitty stuck her head through the door of Jackie's room.

"Steven, it's time to go."

Hyde nodded and followed Kitty and his friends outside. Eric had already gone off to the hotel to be with his new fiancé.

"Darn it, Red has the keys." Kitty said.

"Don't worry about it Miss. Kitty, I'll take you home." Fez told her. Kitty smiled gratefully and the two walked off.

"Fez!" Donna called. When Fez turned around she yelled again, "Meet us at the water tower!" Fez gave her a thumbs up sign and turned back around to walk with Kitty.

Donna turned to Hyde and Kelso "Water tower?" She wasn't ready to go home, nor did she want to go to the basement. She needed a night to spend with her three friends, to talk about Jackie, to reconcile with the Hyde she had grown up with, to watch as Kelso would inevitably fall off the tower.

They both looked at each other and nodded. "Water tower." The three said unanimously.

I don't know about you, but I think they're all making real progress. Let me know what you think! Oh, and I wrote a new one shot that you can find in the M section called The One I Love, go over and read and review!