Jackie started, turning around quickly. "Hey, what do you think- Oh, Steven!" she said, throwing her arms around his neck.
Hyde looked at her with a raised eyebrow, putting an arm around her waist. "You okay?" he frowned.
"Sorry, just, you startled me. It's the middle of the night in a strange hotel, I thought you were still asleep..." she explained.
Hyde nodded. "I was, but then I woke up and you weren't there." he said. "Like you said... strange hotel, middle of the night... you shouldn't be going out by yourself in just... that, okay?"
Jackie smiled, scrunching her face up slightly and kissed his cheek. "Yes, Puddin' Pop."
And, she yelped as Hyde threw her over his shoulder and smacked her on the butt lightly. "Steven, what-"
"Me Tarzan, you hot." he said in a grunting, caveman tone.
Jackie giggled, her hands sliding down his undershirt clad-back as he raced her back to the hotel room...
The next morning, Hyde woke up to hear Jackie in the shower, singing an off-key version of "Dancing Queen". He cringed slightly, chuckling with affection. But, then, he saw the envelope slide under the door. He squinted at it, walking over hesitantly, hoping this wasn't the hotel's subtle way of telling him he owed more on the bill than he'd already paid.
He picked it up, frowning when he saw Jackie in the black and white 8x10s, wearing her nightgown in the hallway of the hotel. He saw a picture of himself, holding her over his shoulder, and then another... of them in the throes of passion from last night... Four very provocative pictures from that time followed.
Confused, and more than a little nervous now, Hyde shoved the pictures back into the envelope, and folded the envelope, shoving them into the back pocket of his jeans.
"Jacks! We gotta check out!" Hyde called.
Jackie walked out, not having bothered with a towel, her hair full of suds. "Steven, I'm taking a shower..."
"Get back in there before you get seen!" he ordered, shooing her into the shower.
Jackie frowned. "Seen? Steven, we're in a room..."
"Yeah, and... I've, uh, heard sometimes perverts like to sneak hidden cameras in. Freakin' bellboys..."
Jackie shook her head, rinsing the soap out of her hair. "You are being silly."
"Stop arguing with me and hurry up so we can get outta here? Uh... don't you want to shove your rock in everybody's face and tell 'em you're getting married?"
"Ooooh! Yes, I do!" she said happily from the shower.
Hyde grinned. "Good, good..."
When they checked out, Hyde dropped Jackie off at home so she could tell her mother and make calls or drive to show whomever else she pleased. Hyde, on the other hand, called a meeting at his record store.
"Why are we all here, Hyde?" Eric asked curiously.
"Well, Foreman, you're going to have to take a break from your doing nothing and help me do some detective work."
"Sweet! Like the Hardy Boys!" Eric said with a glint in his eye. "I call Frank!"
"First of all, Foreman; the Hardy boys were lame, so, no." Hyde said. "... and, Frank was the older, cooler brother who was dating the hottie. So that'd be me."
Eric pouted slightly for a moment. "Wait... Frank was dating the blonde! Joe had the brunette! And... hello, dating the hottest blonde in Point Place."
"Dyed blonde, and- and we're not having this conversation right now!" Hyde huffed. "I have an issue that I need to solve without Jackie knowing about it. So... no telling Donna."
Eric nodded. "Right, a boys mission... I like it."
"Don't girl it up, Foreman."
Kelso eyed him. "You have an 'issue' that you don't want the girls to know about, and you need our help to do some 'detective' work?"
"Well... yes."
"If this issue is about stepping out on Jackie and getting something extra, I know where you can go to take care of that quietly-"
Hyde made a disgusted face, and then punched Kelso in the arm three times.
"Ow! Damnit, Hyde, I'm an officer of the law now! You need to treat me with some respect!"
"You accused me of hiding an STD from my fiance`- and, in fact, admitted to exposing her to some without her knowledge!"
Kelso laughed goofily. "Well... yeah..."
Hyde reached out and punched him in the same spot in the arm a couple of more times.
Kelso rubbed his arm. "Okay, fine..."
"Wait, jou just said 'fiance`', Hyde." Fez said, eying him.
"Yeah, I figured Foreman would have told you."
Kelso and Fez looked at Eric.
"Well, you guys didn't react so well when I asked Donna, so I figured I'd wait and let you put the helmet on him."
"You and Donna were in high-school still." Kelso reminded. "Besides, Hyde and Jackie are a better couple, I've told you that- and this is coming from someone who used to pleasure her endlessly."
"Stop saying that! They are not!" Eric whined, giving a little foot-stomp.
"And, Kelso, she called you 'her little minute man'." Fez said pointedly.
Kelso nodded. "Yeah! Like... like the British army from back in the day!"
"Yes, because Jackie's such a history buff..." Eric smirked, amused. "We all know why she called you that, man..."
Hyde and Fez nodded at Kelso, who huffed and kicked at the counter like a toddler about to have a tantrum. "Well... fine!"
"Can we get off Kelso's inadequacies- funny as they are- long enough to discuss my problem here?"
"Sure, man, what's the problem?" Leo asked, popping up from behind the counter.
Hyde started. "Geesh, Leo, man, you gotta stop sleeping underneath the counter, dude!" he said, shaking his head, and pulled the envelope out of his pocket. "Okay, we were in the hotel, and someone sent me these pictures under the door..."
He pulled them out, and the guys all started looking. "See, someone was watching us, man. It's creepy... one or both of us is being stalked, 'cause it's not like we're scared for people to find out we're having sex and could be blackmailed about it; we're engaged."
"Man... I didn't realize they were so symmetrical..." Eric said. "Donna's are nice, but one's bigger than the other..."
Fez breathed heavily. "And the shape of her-"
"And, that's enough looking at that." Hyde said firmly, yanking the pictures away and folding them up.
