That 70's Show is owned by someone else. They know who they are and what they did. I'm just here to fix the mess that they left like Harvey Keitel in Pulp Fiction did for John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson.
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Chapter three: The Flowers.
It had been two days since Kitty had found out that Jackie was pregnant. Things continued on as normal, Donna continued to pretend she was having a baby while Jackie and Donna were in Jackie's doctor's office, staring at sonogram monitor.
"Do you think it looks like Steven?" Jackie asked, squinting at the screen.
Donna shook her head, "No, I think it looks like a pea."
Jackie smiled and turned to Donna, "I'm telling him today."
"That's great!" Donna hugged Jackie. "I'm getting tired of going to the bathroom with you every time you get sick."
Jackie rolled her eyes. "Tough luck, because you're still going to."
"Great." Donna muttered.
A while or so later, Donna dropped Jackie off at her house and went back to the basement. There, she found Hyde, Fez and Kelso standing around the coffee table.
"Do I even want to know?" Donna asked.
"Sam finished her present for the Formans." Hyde told her.
Donna walked over to look. "That's what she's giving to the Formans; oh I can just see Red now."
"I like it." Fez said with a nod, "It reminds me of home."
The four continued to stare at the now completed toilet paper roll sculpture.
"It's like a giant burn on art." Donna commented. The sculpture had a vague resemblance to the empire state building, and was painted red, white and blue. Bits of actual toilet paper had been glued to the sides.
Kelso licked his Popsicle thoughtfully. "Red is going to freak when he sees that."
Hyde sighed at the sculpture and turned to his friends, "Do you think I made a mistake?"
The other three looked at each other and then in unison said, "Yes!"
Hyde ran his hands through his hair. "You know she won't even look at me?" They all knew he was referring to Jackie.
"Well, you did marry a stripper." Kelso pointed out, "That's not something girls like Jackie just automatically forgive."
"And," Donna added, "It's not like you've tried talking to her."
"I've been busy." Hyde argued.
"Scared is more like it." Kelso commented.
"Whatever." Hyde snapped.
"So go talk to her." Donna ordered him, "Since you're not scared."
"Fine." Hyde snapped. "I will." And then he walked out of the basement.
Donna and Kelso looked at each other as Hyde left.
"She's going to kill him isn't she?" Fez asked.
"If she doesn't throw up on him first." Donna muttered. Seeing Kelso's confusion, Donna quickly said, "Probably."
"Can we go watch?" Kelso asked.
The three ran out of the basement.
Kitty put a plate of lasagna in front of Red. "Here you go, Red, it's your favorite." She said cheerfully.
"Oh no." Red said, "You only make me lasagna when you have bad news, so just, tell me and get it over with."
"Fine." Kitty sighed as she sat down at the table. "This whole thing is a big mess."
"You mean with Eric?" Red asked, taking a bite of his food.
"Kind of." Kitty smiled weakly.
"I don't know what you're so worried about, Kitty. It's probably better that he's not here for Donna's pregnancy, you know how he is."
"Well, that's what I wanted to talk to you about." Kitty replied, "It turns out that Samantha must have heard wrong when she eavesdropped on Donna and Jackie, Donna isn't pregnant."
"Oh that's great news!" Red exclaimed, kissing his wife on the cheek. "I don't know why you were so worried about telling… oh god damn it!"
"Now, Red!" Kitty said as her husband got up from his chair.
Red shook his head, "I'm going to kill him."
"Now, Red, you can't kill Steven."
Red looked at Kitty, "Oh yes I can, I'm trained in killing, I can even make it look like an accident."
Kitty grabbed onto Red's sleeve. "Now, Red, I can't let you do this."
Red shook his head again, "Kitty, he knocked up the loud one and then married someone else. What kind of irresponsible dumb ass, you know, I thought he had potential. I thought he was going somewhere. I thought I raised him better than that!"
"He doesn't know." Kitty said, softly. "Turns out that she's um, unable to spend more than five minutes in a room with him."
Red glared, "He's making her cry?"
"No," Kitty said with a slight laugh, "He's making her throw up."
Red cringed, "Oh damn, I didn't need to hear that." Sighing, he went back to the table and sat down.
Kitty gave a sigh of relief, another life had been saved. For now.
Hyde's plan however to go talk to Jackie was stopped by Sam pulling up into the drive way.
"Great." He muttered under his breath.
"Hi, sweetie!" Sam said cheerfully as she got out of her rusted out Trans Am.
"Uh, hi." Hyde replied with no feeling. Out of no where, Donna hit him on the back of the head.
"What the hell was that for?" Hyde asked.
"I just realized I hadn't done it yet." Donna replied.
Hyde shook his head and turned back to his new wife. "Um, I thought you were still at work."
"The manager let me off early." Sam shrugged, "I thought I'd give the Forman's their new present."
"Yeah, about that," Hyde said, "I don't know if that sculpture is the best thing to give them. Can't you just say thank you?"
"But honey, they're letting us live with them." She smiled dumbly.
Hyde looked over at Donna for help, but she simply crossed her arms and stared at him.
"Fine." Hyde said, "But I want nothing to do with it." Sam didn't hear the last part though; she simply kissed him on the mouth and ran into the house.
Hyde turned to Donna. "What the hell was that?"
Donna raised her eyebrow. "It's called loyalty, Hyde. You might want to look it up."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Hyde questioned.
"You know exactly what it means." Donna said venomously.
"No, I don't." Hyde countered.
"Do you even care how much you hurt Jackie?" Donna asked.
"Jackie has nothing to do with this." Hyde argued.
"She has everything to do with this!" Donna exclaimed as she threw her arms into the air.
"Donna," Hyde said warningly.
"Why are you still married?" Donna asked, "You don't love her, you don't even like her, so what is it, Hyde? Are you trying to make a point?"
"I'm doing the right thing." Hyde said with clenched teeth.
Donna laughed, "The right thing…oh Hyde…the right thing is so far away from you right now that you wouldn't even recognize it even if it came up to you and said hi, I'm the right fucking thing."
"Um, guys…" Fez but in to try to keep the peace, "don't yell, someone will hear you."
They acknowledged Fez's request by moving down the driveway. The argument, however, continued on. Both Fez and Kelso watched their two friends argue more about Hyde staying with Sam until finally, Kelso couldn't take it anymore. Knowing he wouldn't be able to get their attention by himself, he walked over to the El Camino, leaned in through the window, turned the station on Hyde's radio until he found the right song and then turned the volume up on the stereo and started to sing at the top of his lungs along with Al Green.
"They've been saying things, baby, since we've been together, oh loving you forever is what I need, let me be the one be the one you come running to, I'll never be untrue, ooh baby, let's, let's stay together. Loving you whether, whether times are good or bad or happy or sad!"
"What the hell are you doing?" Hyde yelled.
Kelso ignored him however as he continued to sing and dance around the driveway. After a minute, Fez joined him in singing.
"Times are good or bad or happy or sad!" He shouted over the music.
Hyde looked over at Donna who was holding her stomach as she laughed.
"What the hell is going on here?" Red yelled from the door.
Kelso ran to the car and turned the music down. "Sorry Red," he said contritely.
Red shook his head and muttered dumbass under his breath and then turned to Hyde.
"Don't you have somewhere you need to be?"
Hyde blinked as he remembered that he was going to go talk to Jackie. "Right," he said, "I'm going."
Kelso walked back to Donna. "We're still going to go watch her kill him, right?"
"Oh, yeah." Donna agreed.
They ran to Donna's car.
"I'm coming!" Jackie yelled at whoever was banging on her front door. Tying her robe together as she walked towards the door, she slowly tried to calm herself, in case the person on the other side was Hyde. With a deep breath she opened the door.
"Oh, it's you guys." She said as she looked at Donna, Kelso and Fez. "What are you guys doing here?"
"Is Hyde here?" Donna asked as the three came in.
"Um, no." Jackie said, "Why is he supposed to be?"
"He's coming here to talk." Donna warned her.
Jackie shook her in denial. "Oh no," she said, "he can't come here, I'm not ready! I need more time." She paced around the front hallway of her house.
"Jackie, I know you're scared,"
"No." Jackie said as she shook her head, "Jackie Burkhart does not get scared, I'm just tired of getting morning sickness every time I look at that jerks face."
"Okay," Donna said slowly, "I can tell you're still angry at him."
"Angry?" Jackie repeated, "Donna, when he slept with that nurse, I was angry, when he ditched me for that biker skank, I was angry, this however, surpasses angry by a mile!"
"Yeah," Kelso said awkwardly, "I'm going to go make us some sandwiches."
Jackie waved him off and looked down at herself. "Great, now I have to go find something to wear."
"Well, as a male, I can honestly tell you to wear something that shows your cleavage, in fact, I say you just wear that." Fez said with a leer.
"Fez!" Jackie yelled, slapping him on the shoulder.
"Ow, woman, and trust me, it's the perfect way of keeping a guy's attention, including Hyde."
"I'm not sure this is a cleavage showing situation though, although, they are kind of bigger now."
"Oh yes," Fez agreed, "I noticed that."
Jackie glared at him, "You noticed my breast size?"
Fez looked at Jackie as though it was the most obvious thing in the world, "Of course."
Jackie turned to Donna, "Fez notices my boobs but my own boyfriend can't even notice that I'm pregnant with his kid, unobservant bastard."
"Oh my god!" Fez shouted, "You're pregnant?"
Jackie looked around nervously, "No!"
"You are!" Fez accused, "Oh my god, everything makes so much sense now!"
"I'm not pregnant Fez, that's Donna, Donna!" "Donna, tell him."
Donna however held up her hands, "Don't look at me."
"Oh you cannot fool me, I know the truth. You're having Hyde's baby." Fez stated.
"Fine." Jackie relented, "I am, now help me pick out an outfit to tell him." She grabbed a hold of Fez's sleeve and dragged him upstairs.
"It's just Jackie." Hyde said to himself for the thirteenth time as he walked up to her front door. "You'll go in there, say what you have to say and then you'll get out. No complications, no emotional bullshit. Just keep it simple." Nervously, he knocked on her front door.
Donna answered it. "I was beginning to think you weren't going to show."
"What the hell are you doing here?"
Donna laughed at Hyde's frustration. "Come on." She said, opening the door for him.
Hyde walked inside and looked around. "Um where is…"
Donna cut him off, "Jackie and Fez are upstairs looking for something for Jackie to wear, I'm watching an Elvis concert special on the Burkhart's big screen TV and Kelso is making a… she paused and yelled towards the kitchen, "Kelso, what kind of sandwiches are you making?"
"Peanut butter and Banana!" Kelso yelled back.
"And Kelso is making Elvis's favorite sandwich."
Hyde nodded crossly and then turned around, "Wait, Fez is in Jackie's room?"
Donna raised her eyebrow, "Why, are you jealous?"
Hyde shook his head too quickly, "No." he denied. "So… um, how's the baby." He asked awkwardly to try to change topics.
Donna smiled and in hopes of manipulating the situation a bit, she said, "I saw it today, it looks like a little pea."
"Um, cool." Hyde said distantly.
"I'm just glad Jackie was there with me, since Eric wasn't." she put extra stress on Eric.
"Well, he is in Africa." Hyde pointed out.
"True," Donna conceded. "You know, I'm actually kind of glad Mrs. Forman was the one to tell him, because if he was here, I think I might be too nervous."
"Why would you be nervous?" Hyde asked, "It's not like you haven't been through this before."
"That was different." Donna said, "This time it's real, and none of us can run away from it, no matter how hard we might want to. It's about doing the right thing you know?"
Hyde nodded. "What's taking them so long?"
"You're all about doing the right thing, Hyde, what would you do if you were Eric?"
"You mean if Sam was pregnant?"
Donna wanted to hit him on the head for his denseness, but kept her hand to herself.
"Actually, I was thinking about Jackie."
"What would I do if Jackie were pregnant?" Hyde blinked, "Um, I guess it would depend."
"On what?" Donna asked curiously.
"I guess on the circumstances."
"Okay," Donna said thoughtfully, "Say you're married to someone else, but before you went and made the biggest mistake of your life, you knocked your now ex girlfriend up, what then?"
Hyde didn't get the chance to answer though, because Jackie was coming down the stairs followed by Fez. She was dressed simply, in jeans and a lilac shirt. Hyde blinked as he remembered the shirt from the day they started messing around in the basement. He thought back fondly about that day, and how he had convinced himself that one kiss wasn't going to hurt him. But one kiss had become two, and two had become many and it had all snowballed into the moment he had been dreading all along. He had gotten hurt.
"Steven." Jackie said with surprise. "I didn't know you were here."
"I just got here." Hyde said. "So, is this the new hangout?"
"What do you mean?" Jackie asked.
"Well, uh, I just noticed that you guys haven't been coming to the basement as much."
"That's because I don't want to get your stripper wife's nasty germs on me." Jackie stated matter-of-factly.
"Oh but Jackie, you're missing out." Donna said sarcastically, "You haven't gotten to see the sculpture." "It's made out of toilet paper rolls."
Jackie shook her head and looked at Hyde. "You dumped me for someone who makes toilet paper roll sculptures?"
"Technically, you dumped me."
"Technically, you're an ass." Jackie said.
"You know what, I'm glad I married Sam," Hyde lied. "At least she doesn't nag me."
"That's because she only has enough brain cells to take off her clothes." Jackie snapped.
"Oh, yeah, at least she has a job." Hyde said unable to think of a better burn.
"Spinning naked around a pole while fat guys put their hands on her is hardly a job, it's a cry for help."
Sensing things were going to get out of hand; Donna put her hand on Jackie's shoulder. "Come on." She said as she led Jackie to the couch.
"Now, you two, you need to learn how to get along."
"No we don't." Jackie said quickly.
"Yes, you do." Donna stressed. "Kelso, Fez and I don't want to have to choose between you two."
"But you'd choose me right?" Jackie asked.
"Why would she choose you?" Hyde scoffed. "If she'd choose anyone it'd be me."
"No, she'd choose me, because I'm her best friend." Jackie argued.
"Well, I've known her longer, so hah!" Hyde said mockingly.
Donna shook her head. "Okay, let's move on, there are other reasons why you two need to get along."
"Like what?" Hyde asked curiously.
"Like…" Donna looked at Jackie pointedly who was doing her best to ignore Donna. "Jackie…"
"I think what Donna is trying to say is that we should get along because even though you're an ungrateful pig who stomped on my heart, I still need you in my life, all though I have no idea why." Jackie said grudgingly.
"I stomped on your heart?" Hyde asked skeptically, "If anything, you're the one who stomped on mine!"
Jackie stood up from the couch and walked towards Hyde. "Well that's a shock; I didn't know you had a heart! And besides, I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't sleep with Michael, I told you I'd stay if you promised me we'd get married someday, I tried talking to you about it, but you were the one who brushed me off, so don't talk like I just up and left you, Steven Hyde."
Hyde couldn't think of anything to say to her, so he just stared. After a moment, Jackie sighed.
"I'm going to eat one of those sandwiches." Jackie said softly, and left.
"Well I think that went really well." Fez commented, getting dirty looks from Donna and Hyde.
Hyde stared at the kitchen door for a minute as he thought about everything that had happened in the past month or so. Jackie had been right, she had tried to talk to him, but he had let his own insecurities get in the way and had pushed Jackie away. One thing was for sure, he was tired of pushing. He was also tired of being stuck to someone he didn't even want to be with in the first place. Sure, Sam was a good distraction, but when he thought about their future, all he saw were his mom and Bud. With Jackie, he saw everything, a real wedding, a house, kids, and the chance for a real family.
Hyde nodded to himself and then turned to Donna and said, "Keep Jackie here."
"Where are you going?" Donna asked quickly as Hyde walked to the front door.
Hyde opened the door and then turned back to his two friends. "To make things right." He said before leaving.
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