A/N: Mostly parts of 'Jackie Bags Hyde' episode from season three with minor differences.
Hyde,Eric Fez, and Kelso stood around the driveway together. Normally they would be playing basketball, but with the table set up with all the different food for the barbeque Red had threatened to shove his foot up their asses if they ruined it. Knowing how serious Red was when it came to Vetran's Day BQ kept them from doing anything. Rather they were waiting for the food to be ready so they could start eating.
"Steven! There's a phone call for you!" Kitty called from the kitchen.
The three teens passed silent confusion as Hyde shrugged. He walked to the sliding door and went to where Mrs. Foreman had left the phone as she went back to cooking. He lifted the receiver cautiously, "Hello?" He uttered.
"Steven Hyde, this is Jack Buckhart." The brooding voice on the other line made him want to roll his eyes. He had no idea why Jackie's father would want to talk to him, but if it had anything to do with her undying love then he was ready to jump in front of a bus.
"Why do you want to talk to me?" Hyde tried to keep his annoyance to a minimum since he was speaking to an adult, a politician, and Jackie's father.
"You've been spending time around my daughter." It was more of a statement than a question.
"Jackie's been following me around for awhile I guess...I'm not dating her." He replied firmly. Last thing he needed was to get arrested again just because Jack Buckhart didn't want his little girl dating some burnout.
"My daughter seems to have taken an interest in you."
"And I've told her plenty of times that I'm not interested." Hyde sighed as he started to wonder if hanging up now would be a good idea.
He heard a similar sigh come from the phone, "Well, I may not approve of my daughter's choice here, but I need to make my daughter happy. So , if you agree to date my daughter then you will compensated with 100 dollars a week."
Hyde's jaw dropped open in shock. Jackie's father was going to pay him to date her! If this had been anyone else Hyde would have said yes in a heartbeat, but whether he admitted this or not Jackie was still a friend of sorts. Not a random tramp. "Are you serious?" He finally managed to get out when his voice had returned.
"I don't joke about my daughter." The man darkly answered.
"She doesn't need you to get a boyfriend. She's hot, guys are waiting in line to date her and most all of them are a better option than me. Keep your money, Jackie's not a whore." Hyde slammed the phone down once he finished talking not wanting to her the answer her father came up with. He didn't bother looking at Mrs. Foreman who was giving him a curious look as he stepped back outside through the sliding doors. He took a seat in one of the patio chairs next to the door. He made a straight face as he slipped under his 'Zen' mask so no one could tell how his blood was boiling.
He listened with little interest as he heard Red and talking about the parade that had taken place earlier today, it got a little more interesting when Bob joined in the conversation. Really the spat over National Guards really being veterans didn't interest him much at all since they were all goverment pawns, in his opinion. Not that he'd be saying that to adults faces anytime soon.
Bob came marching out almost the exact moment that Jackie came up with some stranger's arm slinged around her shoulders.
"Hey Mr. Pinciotti! I didn't know you were in the boy scouts." She wasn't aiming to insult or burn him, she didn't even know it was an insult. But Bob marched away still annoyed and probably didn't wanna yell at teen who didn't know better. "Hey everybody! This is Chip; he's been after me for awhile now so I just said, what the hell." Jackie introduced. "Chip, it's everybody."
"Hey everybody," He spoke before turning to focus on Jackie next to him, "Jackie I'll get you something to drink." They pulled away from each other as he moved towards the buffet table with the punch bowl.
"Whatever" She gave a shrug and Hyde moved his eyes between the two as she came closer to him.
"So, you're with this Chip guy now?" Hyde wanted to bite his tongue for even asking the question.
She leaned against the wood of the structure. "Yep!" She said with enthusiasm.
"Huh" He raised a brow at her answer.
"Why? Do you care?" She turned her head to him and was obviously looking for a reaction.
And he wasn't going to give it...he shrugged, "No, if you wanna date this guy that...cool." Damn he hesitated.
She must of noticed the way her body straightened and she made a quick glance to Chip before turning back to him, "It is?"
Before he could respond to that one Jackie had set off towards Donna's. He let out a groan before watching a somewhat confused Chip start up conversation with Kelso and Fez.
It took a couple hours for the cowards to start coming of various veterans and neighbors to the Foreman barbeque. Or to the Pinciotti barbeque that was going on next door. The crowd seemed to shift in favor of whoever had the best items.
Hyde sat in chair in the driveway of the Foreman's near one of the tables. He had a beer in hand as he watched the people around when Chip came up and took the seat next to his. Hyde hadn't exchanged many words with this guy as of yet, but might as well see what guy Jackie chose to take on. "So where's Jackie?"
"Getting some drinks." He replied smoothly turning his head towards the cooler where Jackie was yelling at Kelso.
Neither guys tried starting up anymore conversation as they waited for Jackie to join them and hopefully make this scene less awkward. Jackie was giving a frustrated stomp towards them with a light sway to her hips, her eyes filled with anger and two beers in her hands. She stopped right next to where Chip sat, but looked directly at Hyde, "Kelso's shaking all of the beer and soda cans!" She complained.
Hyde let out a chuckle as he looked back to the coolers. "That's a good burn." He smirked as he watched the rapid shaking of Kelso's arm. When he turned back he saw Jackie had settled on Chips' leg for a seat, lucky for him she didn't seem to notice him frown before returning to Zen.
"Here." She held out one of the beers the other was already in Chip's hand.
"Jackie, I have a beer." Hyde stated giving the beer a light shake. He frowned slightly when he realized it was almost empty.
"Well unless you want your next one to give you a shower I suggest you take it." She replied back giving a light smirk.
Hyde leaned his head back and chugged the last of his open beer. He set the empty can on the ground before taking the unopened one from Jackie. "How do I know you haven't shaken it?" He questioned cautiously.
"You don't" The zen like comment matched with her sly smirk caused a surge of pride to run through Hyde over his Grasshopper.
He took the risk and opened it. He smirked somewhat when the contents didn't come and splash him in the face.
"Hmm guess I didn't shake it long enough." A smile spread over her lips and with a small giggle she was off again.
Hyde watched her carefully from behind Chip as she made some conversation with Laurie as she went to the cooler. She picked up one of the drinks and made her way to the backyard. With her out of earshot he turned his full attention to Chip, "So you and Jackie, huh?" He had a plastered smile that no one would know was fake.
"Yeah, isn't she something." The Chip guy answered with a smirk and nod.
Hyde could feel something in his gut tighten. "...Sure" He answer casting a small glance to Jackie who he could see some of over to the white fence.
"Sometimes though I kinda hate it when she talks."
Hyde let out a laugh, "I hear ya'" He agreed. He decided to stand, mostly just to stretch his legs that were starting to get stiff.
"Man, she's always talking." Chip complained as he stood with him. "But...I figure it's worth it if I can nail her." Chip's smug grin at that statement made Hyde want to smack it off.
He restrained himself though as he shifted on his feet. "Huh..." He scratched the back of his head and tried to come up with something to say that wasn't going to make him seem jealous. "Yeah, you should probably think about that man. You know, I mean, Jackie's kinda young...She's only had like one boyfriend." He could feel himself rambling slightly not like this guy would know.
"Hey! That's not a big surprise...you know...she's a bitch." He stated calmly.
'Shouldn't have said that' Hyde thought darkly as he remained zen. He turned his head slightly and stepped back slightly positioning his foot. In a quick motion he pulled his fist back and thrust it forward landing a hit square in this guy's jaw. He dropped like a ton of bricks and Hyde near tripped on his limp body.
"Steven, what happened?" Jackie's voice broke him out of his enraged trance as he looked back to find her already by his side.
"What? Nothing...Just somebody, then the guy said...bitch. And there was nothing." He didn't even know what he was saying.
"Oh my god! He called me a bitch! And you hit him!And that's what happened! Isn't it?" Damn how did she figure that out through his gibberish.
"...No" Real smooth Hyde.
"Liar." She gave him a brief glare. "I am the bitch! And you love me!" Her eyes started to sparkle as she looked at him with some sort of 'hero worship'.
"Jackie, no! Stop starring at me! Gah!" He moved past Jackie and entered the Foreman kitchen, he went through passing and going down to the basement which thanks to the shin ding going on was empty. He dropped in his usual chair not even bothering to turn on the television. He removed his aviator glasses and rubbed his eyes trying to rid himself of the anger still boiling inside him.
He was more angry at himself now than anything. He knew Jackie brought that loser to make him jealous. He had fallen into the obvious trap by punching the guy in front of everyone! Jackie's reaction didn't even upset him much since she had been trying to get his attention for weeks now. He thought earlier when he had recited the haiku for Jackie she had gotten through her skull. When he saw her bring Chip to the barbeque he thought it was a desperate last attempt and if he was lucky it was her moving on from him.
But he wasn't going to let that guy talk about Jackie like that! And no he didn't have a crush on her, damnit! He looked up from his hands and placed his sunglasses back over his blue eyes. He glanced over to the phone on the table. He glared at it as if it was mocking him. "Crap!" He lifted the receiver and started dialing.