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Author's Note: Hello friends! Well it is Monday and I am very happy! My shows are back this week with new episodes and I got my midterm back and passed with a 'C' but it's college algebra and I worked hard for that grade and well I passed lol. This week's chapter is a little long and it was going to be longer but I decided to wait and put the next scene in next weeks so good news there. Now just a quick little reminder, I am not a doctor or a nurse or anything in the medical field…I am applying for a scholarship from a hospital but that's the closest thing to anything today. --Okay i left that in there to show that i was gonna post this chapter yesterday but was havign probles uploading. Anywoo Thanks or all the reviews you guys, I am so glad you're enjoying it! Hope you like this chapter! Enjoy!

"Oh my, I didn't realize it was already one thirty." Kitty said as she looked down at her watch and then up at the camera, "Steven honey, do you think you could stop the video taping for a little while?"

"Um sure, Mom." Hyde answered but didn't turn the camera off or move it away, "What's wrong? I thought you said you didn't have any appointments today."

Kitty shook her head "I don't. I have to get started on lunch."

"What?" Hyde asked, and though the camera didn't show him, it was pretty obvious that he was frowning, "No you don't. The doctor said you should be taking it easy. You don't have to make lunch, Jackie can do it."

"Oh Steven, I don't think I have the strength to take care of the three of you at the same time, if you all got food poisoning. Again." She said abit sadly, "It'll just be easier and much safer if I make lunch."

"Wait." Hyde called out, stopping Kitty from standing up, "Me and Red can make it."

"Speak for yourself, dumbass." Red replied from behind his paper.

"Fine, then we'll order out." Hyde suggested and Kitty shook her head as Red spoke up again.

"Not unless you're paying for it."

"Steven, I appreciate your concern for me." Kitty began, "But I think I can cook a meal for the three of you."

"But…" Hyde started to protest.

"No buts. I am making lunch for my family and that is final." She firmly told Hyde as she stood up from her seat on the couch, "Now you can either turn that thing off and wait until I'm done or you can follow me into the kitchen and we can continue in there. It's up to you."

Since she had said what she need to say, Kitty turned around and walked off and into her kitchen. Hyde kept the camera on her until she was in the next room. He filmed the kitchen door as it swung back and forth a few times before moving the camera to Red.

"Red, man." he said to the man covered once again by his paper, "The doctor said she needed to rest."

"I know." Red answered from behind the newspaper.

"Aren't you gonna say anything to her?"

Red at last pulled down the paper and looked over at Hyde and the camera, a slight frown on his face.

"Steven I've been married to Kitty for over twenty-five years, trust me when I say this." He paused for a second or two, "If you argue with her, you won't win."

~*~

"Damn it! You see this is why I didn't want him to see her." Hyde growled.

He and Jackie were in the Forman living room. Hyde was up on his feet while Jackie stayed seated on the yellow couch. It was nearly six in the evening, and Eric had yet to return from wherever he'd gone.

"I knew he was gonna do something like this." Hyde continued, "I knew he was gonna come get her all excited and then do something to disappoint her. I wanted to at least warn Mom, before she saw him."

Jackie looked up at him. She was upset at Eric for taking off like that and slightly mad at herself for sneaking him past Hyde. But part of her was still sure that she had done the right thing.

"You couldn't have warned her while you were up there this morning?" she questioned him with a frown, "You were in there for practically two hours."

"This isn't about me not warning Mom, Jackie." Hyde argued, "It's about Forman upsetting her."

"Steven, she's not upset." Jackie said with a shake of her head, "She's disappointed sure, but not upset."

"Yes she is, Jackie." he protested, "Look, I've know her longer, I've lived with her longer, I know she's upset."

"I'm not upset."

The new voice caused both Jackie and Hyde to look away from each other and over to the stairway. Over at the top of the staircase stood Kitty with the IV at her side.

"Mom, what are you doing out of bed?" Hyde asked as he walked over to the bottom of the stairs.

"Steven, I am not a child and it is not past my bedtime." Kitty said with a roll of her eyes, "I'm tired of being in bed. I want to come downstairs."

Jackie stood up and walked over to stand beside Hyde, who was still standing on the last step of the stairs. With the two of them standing like that, it looked like they were blocking Kitty from leaving the third level of the house.

"I don't think that's such a good idea." Jackie began, "You've got the IV and you're already having trouble walking in your room, the stairs are just gonna be worse."

Hyde nodded his head in agreement, "Jackie's right. Go back to your bed and I'll be right there with your medicine. I'll even stay up there for awhile and we can watch TV on the portable…"

"No." Kitty replied in a firm tone of voice, "I am going downstairs whether you help me or not."

Jackie looked over at Hyde and he sighed in response. They knew there was no point in fighting it now, and they couldn't let Kitty attempt to climb down those steps by herself.

Jackie walked off ahead of Hyde, but he was quick to follow her up to where their adoptive mother was standing. Hyde stood by Kitty side and linked his left arm to her right one so he could have a better grip on her hand—just incase. Jackie went to stand behind them and took hold of the sliver pole beside Kitty.

Carefully and very slowly, the three of them descended from the stairs. It took them a good two minutes to reach the last step and even then they still had the remaining two by the sofa.

"Where do you wanna sit?" Hyde asked when they began to near the sitting area.

Kitty shook her head, trying not to show how much she was struggling at the moment. "Anywhere."

Hyde nodded and began to lead the two women over to Red's green chair.

Once they reached the chair, Hyde gently helped Kitty into the seat and Jackie placed the IV close beside her. The two of them watched as Kitty closed her eyes and paced both her hands on each arm of the chair. Concern filled them until they saw a smile stretch her lips; then they relaxed, they knew what she was thinking about. Or better yet who.

"You know we can always call him." Hyde spoke up, "Let him know what's going. I'm sure he'd be here in…"

"No." Kitty shook her head, keeping her eyes shut, "He'll be home soon. I don't want to be the reason for ruining his fun." She opened her eyes and looked at them, "And I don't want you two bothering him. Understand?"

Together they nodded, "Yes ma'am."

It wasn't a lie, because they wouldn't be bothering him. When and if they would ever they would get in touch with Red they would inform him of his sick wife and tell him to come home. That wasn't bothering.

"Where's everybody else?" Kitty asked breaking the silence.

"Well Donna and Randy went to a bunch of different places." Jackie informed and shrugged, "I guess you could say they went sight-seeing."

"In Point Place? I wouldn't." Hyde commented to Jackie and then looked back at Kitty, "Brooke and Betsy took Fez and Kelso to Funland."

Kitty smiled, "How nice."

"Yeah." Hyde nodded, "And Eric, we're not really sure…"

"Except that he's at The Piggly Wiggly." Jackie quickly jumped in. She ignored Hyde's deep frown and paid attention to Kitty's small one. "He went for um…fruit. Yeah, I sent him for fruit. That's where he's at, getting fruit."

"Jackie, don't lie."

Surprisingly the person who said those words was not the person Jackie thought would say those words. It wasn't a Zen, deep, manly voice. It was a softer, gentler, feminine voice. It wasn't Hyde. It was Kitty.

"I'm not lying." Jackie lied. She didn't like lying, especially to Kitty, but the truth would only hurt her. Jackie looked over at Steven and gave him a look that said, 'Go along with me' before repeating herself, "I'm not lying."

Hyde stared back at Jackie for a few seconds before looking at Kitty.

"Yeah, she's lying."

"Steven!" Jackie shouted upset and ready to let him know jus how much.

"Jackie, Jackie, sweetie." Kitty called out, stopping Jackie before she kicked Hyde. "I knew you were lying."

"But…"

Kitty shook her head and cut Jackie off, "Jackie, I love my son. He's a good boy." She paused a tiny pause, "But he can't pick a good piece of fruit to save his life. Even when I would send him out to get a bag of grapes he would come back with sour ones. He knows he shouldn't buy fruit by himself. And I know that neither one of you knows where Eric is."

Jackie looked down at her hands, "I'm sorry, Mom. I just I…"

"Didn't want me to worry." Kitty finished for her, "I know. But I'm not worried. I know he just needs some time to himself, he'll be back soon."

Hyde and Jackie exchanged looks. With everything that Kitty had been through, they wondered how she still remained so optimistic. Before anymore could be said the front door swung open and Kelso burst in holding something behind his back. He had a large smile on his face as Fez stood beside him looking very mad.

"Guess what we got!" Kelso called out.

"Fatso Burger!" Fez answered for them, in an upset tone.

"Ah!" exclaimed Kelso, as his mouth dropped open, "I wanted them to guess, Fez!"

Fez glared at the tall man, "So did I, you sonofabitch!"

"Then why did you tell them?!" Kelso asked sounding both upset and confused.

As Kelso and Fez continued their argument, Brooke—with a tray of drinks in her hands—and Betsy—along with an arm full of prizes—entered the house. Betsy ran to the sofa and dropped her new toys there, ready to show them off to anybody who would listen. Brooke meanwhile, walked over to where Jackie was standing.

"Can you tell they were fighting over who got to announce that we picked up dinner?" she asked and the others nodded.

"Did you have fun at Funland?" Kitty asked, directing the question to the little girl but instead got an answer from two other people.

"Yeah we did!"

"The best!"

The fight they had been having seconds ago, left both Fez and Kelso's minds when they heard Kitty's question. Quickly and excitedly, they walked over to where the sick woman was and took a seat on the couch. But not before Kelso practically shoved the fast-food bags into Brooke and Jackie's arms.

"Hey morons," Hyde called out to the two babbling grown men, "I'm pretty sure she was talking to the kid here."

Kelso and Fez stopped their chattering and looked from Hyde to Betsy to Kitty. A disappointed look on each of their faces.

Kitty smiled slightly, "I'm afraid Steven's right, boys."

"Aww."

"But as soon as Betsy finishes telling me about her day at Funland, you two can tell me about yours." She reassured them.

"Oh ok." Kelso nodded with a smile as Fez did the same, "Works for me." The two men smiled, happy that they would get their chance in a few minutes, and made themselves comfortable on the sofa.

Betsy jumped off the couch and scooped her toys into her arms before walking over to Kitty.

"Funland was fun! I got this toy, his name is Tom. And I got this toy her name is Betty. And this one is Fluffy…" Betsy rambled on to her Grandma Kitty, who just smiled and nodded as Betsy placed more and more toys into her lap. "And then I got on a ride that was this high!"

Jackie smiled as she watched her goddaughter stretched her arm up as high as it could go, even stepping on her toes to make the ride even taller. She saw that Kitty was distracted by the talkative child and the same went for Hyde. This would be a good time to tell the others about what had happened.

"Um could you guys help me in the kitchen?" Jackie asked, "We need to get some plates under the burgers."

"Sure, Jackie." Brooke nodded.

The two women then headed off to the kitchen, but Jackie stopped when she saw her other two helpers hadn't budged. She grabbed Brooke by the arm to stop her from taking another step.

"Michael, Fez" Jackie called out to them, "Come on let's go."

"Why?" Fez asked childishly.

Jackie glared at him, "Because you need to help."

Kelso turned his head towards the two, "Why?"

"Because you're adults." Brooke answered, "And that's what adults do."

"Why?" Fez asked with a tilt of his head.

"Because if you don't start acting like adults and get into the kitchen to help us, you're not getting dinner." Jackie threatened.

"Fine." Both men grumbled with a stomp of their feet before standing up and walking over to the kitchen with frowns on their faces. Kelso grabbed the paper bag out of his wife's hands and took it into the kitchen for her while Fez, clearly mad at Jackie, ignored her and let her carry her bag.

"Man, being an adult sucks." Kelso complained.

Fez nodded "I could not agree more, my friend."

"Hey! Check out the cool toy I got with my Junior Fatso Meal!" Kelso shouted as he pulled the mini water gun from the paper bag in his hand.

When the four of them were in the kitchen, they worked in silence. Kelso was filling his water gun with water while Fez stood beside him waiting for his turn. Brooke was unpacking a few items from the bag as Jackie searched for the stack of paper plates.

"Ok, what happened?" Brooke asked Jackie as soon as she had found the plates.

Jackie sighed and looked at Brooke, "I think I messed up."

"Oo this should be good." Fez said as he grabbed his soda and began sipping his straw, while looking very intrigued.

Kelso had also heard Jackie's confession and soon forgot about his new toy and grabbed a package of french-fries and began eating it like it was a box of popcorn.

"What happened?" Brooke asked softly.

"Ok well you know how I was trying to get Eric to see Mom, right?" Jackie asked.

Brooke nodded, "Right."

"And you know how Eric wasn't exactly looking forward to that, right?"

"Right." Kelso answered with his mouth full.

"And you know how Steven didn't want Eric to see her either, right?"

"For God's sake, woman!" Fez exclaimed, "Tell us something we don't know!"

At first Jackie was surprised by her friend's outburst, but she knew she had to tell them. She took in a deep breath and nodded.

"Ok, I snuck Eric past Steven so he could see Mom."

"No!" three different voice said in disbelief.

"Then what happened?" Kelso asked sounding very interested.

"Well I got Jack past the grumpy giant." Jackie began, "Eric got to see Mom and she got to see him. She was so happy and so was Eric…of course he was a little nervous and twitchy but he's Eric." The three nodded and Jackie continued, "Everything was going great until Eric started talking about his work and how he's up for an award that deals with perfect attendance…"

"Wait." Fez interrupted as he raised his hand up, "What is perfect attendance?"

"It's when you don't miss any days, Fez. Most schools have an award system for the students who have it." Brooke explained quickly, she wanted to know what else happened. However she looked more like a friend interested to know what happened so she could help, not like the other two who resembled movie viewers at the edge of their seats.

"Yeah, I remember I had that one year." Kelso said out loud, with a proud smile. "In kindergarten. It was all snacks, nap time, and the best tasting glue."

Jackie made a disgusted face at the man she dated long ago, "Anways, Eric was talking about how his perfect attendance was helping him win that award, and Mom soon realized that he wasn't going to have perfect attendance because of him being here. So she apologized to him but he said it was ok because he had this two days system figured out."

Brooke frowned, "Two days system?"

"Yeah, he's got this plan that will keep from missing so many days of school. He's gonna leave tomorrow then come back Friday night and leave Sunday night so he can be back in school to teach." Jackie explained and then shook her head, "It's like he's trying to be in two places at once, and he won't be able to do it."

"Yeah, not without a clone." Kelso added and Fez nodded beside him, "Man, I wish I had a clone!" he paused to think, "Wait no, cause then he might be better looking than me…" he took another second to think, "Nah, that'll never happen. I'll make sure I'm better looking."

"So Brooke," Jackie continued with her story now directing to the only sane person in the room, besides herself. "After he said that I got mad and left the room. I guess I shouldn't have done that, because when I came back about an hour later Mom said Eric had left."

Brooke gasped softly.

"No!" Kelso said wide-eyed.

Fez glared and slammed his styrofoam cup on the counter "That bastard."

"Does Hyde know?" Brooke asked.

"He knows about Eric being gone but not about the two days deal." Jackie replied, "So don't say anything."

The three heads nodded.

"Do you have any idea where Eric could be now?"

Jackie shook her head at Brooke's question, "I have no idea, and I'm starting to get a little worried."

"Oo I know!" Kelso shouted excitedly as an idea popped into his head, "I'm a police!"

Fez, Jackie, and even his won wife stared at him with their own scowl. They didn't exactly see where he was going with this.

"I work with police dogs!" Kelso went on, still not helping the others get the idea, "Police dogs find things like people! I've seen what they do, I can do that and find Eric!"

Brooke and Jackie didn't look too convinced but Kelso's partner in crime was just as excited as him.

"Oo I want to look for Eric too!" Fez chimed in as if what Kelso was talking about was a game.

Kelso grinned, "Sure thing, Little Buddy."

Okay now there was no way Jackie could be convinced. With it just being Kelso, he had a better chance—after all Kelso was a policeman. But now with Fez helping him…it was like sending Lenny and Squiggy. Jackie didn't want to have three missing people, she had to stop them.

"I don't think that's such a good idea…"she began.

"Come on Jackie, I can do this." Kelso said, sounding very serious, "I wanna find Eric. For Mrs. Forman."

Jackie's face softened, and she began weighing out the options.

"Yes, me too." Fez stated, "Oh and I want to be a detective for a day."

Jackie looked up at her foreign friend and saw him smiling with Kelso standing next to him grinning and nodding along. They were baboons but they were thoughtful baboons who wanted to help.

"Okay fine." Jackie finally agreed and then looked down at her watch, "Mom should probably be going to bed soon. If Eric's not back by then, you can go out and look for him. I don't want you worrying Mom."

"Aye, aye." The two men said with a salute before loosing their brief seriousness.

"This is going to be so much fun." Fez smiled, "We will be like Shaggy and Scooby."

"Yeah!" Kelso agreed before his smile fell and he began to frown, "Wait I don't wanna be Shaggy. I wanna be Fred. He's better be looking."

"But Fred does not always partner up with Scooby." Fez reminded.

Kelso nodded, "True. Oo I got it! You can be Daphne."

Fez frowned at his man-pretty friend for awhile before a smile crept onto his face, "Well I do look good in purple."

Jackie shook her head and smiled, trying her best not to laugh. She had missed these two; things had been too serious around here with out them. She was glad they were back.

"Come on, let's get these burgers out there." Jackie ordered and then pushed open the swinging door with her hip as she held a plate of food in each of her hands.

The others followed from behind as they walked back into the living room. Jackie handed one of the plates to Hyde before setting herself down on the piano bench. Brooke, who had also been holding two plates, handed one to her rambling daughter and then took a seat on the couch. Kelso sat down beside his wife on the arm of the sofa, after placing the tray of drinks on the table. Fez was at the end of the line holding two additional plates.

"And then Uncle Fez got six cotton candies!" Betsy said excitedly.

Kitty smiled at the young girl's enthusiasm, "Really?"

"Yes and I ate them all." Fez answered with a proud smile, "And now Miss. Kitty it is time for you to eat."

Hyde frowned as he watched Fez hand Kitty one of the paper plates that had been filled with the greasy take-out food of Fatso Burger. That wouldn't do her any good.

"Fez…" Hyde began to say, ready to get upset with his friend for bringing Kitty the food; but when he saw Kitty's warning eyes, he looked down, "that nice of you to think of Mom."

Fez furrowed his brow with confusion; he looked from Hyde to Kitty.

"It was very nice of you, Fez." Kitty said with a smile, "But I think it might be just a little too much for me, so I think I'll only take a few bites."

Though everyone else thought she was still talking to Fez, Hyde knew she was telling him. She was looking at him, after all. Fez still didn't understand, but he was hungry so he shrugged it off and took a seat next to Betsy on the floor.

Not a minute after Fez sat down, a voice was heard from the kitchen.

"Hello?" a manly voice called out.

"Is anyone here?" another voice called, this one sounding just a bit more feminine.

"In the living room Donna!" Jackie shouted back.

A few seconds later, the kitchen door was pushed open and Donna and Randy walked into the scene.

"Hey you guys." Donna greeted her friends with a smile and then realized Kitty was there too. "Mrs. Forman, you're out of bed."

Kitty smiled back, "That's right."

"I think that's great." Randy added his two cents, "Just because you're sick doesn't mean you should be cooped up in bed or in one little room. You should be moving around and doing anything you can. If you're able, then do it."

"Thank you, Randy." Kitty smiled at the tall man. Maybe he wasn't so bad after all.

Meanwhile, Jackie and Hyde were thinking the exact opposite. They sat in their seats glaring at Randy as they continued to eat their meals.

"Oh there's some burgers and fries in the bag in the kitchen." Brooke informed the couple.

Donna shook her head, "No, it's ok. We already had dinner."

"I could go for some fries though." Randy said out loud before disappearing into the kitchen.

"You guys ate out or something?" Hyde questioned as Donna took a seat beside him.

"Yeah," Donna nodded her head, "we figured there would be a chance of Jackie cooking dinner and…we really didn't want to take the risk."

"Burn!" Kelso shouted with the help of his daughter.

Jackie glared from Kelso to Donna. She wasn't sure who she should get after first. Donna for insulting her or Kelso for turning her goddaughter against her. Well Donna did start it.

"My cooking is not that bad, Donna."

"Yeah, ok." Donna replied still unconvinced as her boyfriend walked back in and sat between her and Brooke.

"She's right, Donna. Her cooking's not that bad." Hyde began to say before a smirk sprang to his lips, "It's terrible."

The room filled with the different laughs as Jackie frowned at the smirking Zen Master.

"Oh like you're such a good chef." She teased.

"Steven is a good chef." Kitty said, joining in the conversation, "As long as what he's making doesn't involve the microwave."

Hyde frowned as Jackie joined in the laughter.

"Do you remember when he made that frozen pizza in the microwave with the plastic and cardboard still on it?" Jackie asked Kitty between laughs.

Kitty laughed at the memory and nodded, "And he put it in for the an hour and a half instead of the minute and thirty seconds."

The laughs got even louder at the thought of the mess that had created.

"Hey that wasn't me!" Hyde protested, "I was the one who made the hot chocolate explode in there. Red was the one with the pizza."

The memory filled his mind and Hyde then started laughing with everyone else while Jackie tried to speak with out laughing.

"I remember that." she let out a laugh, "He said if the microwave had an ass he would stick the pizza up it with his foot."

"Oh, I swear that man." Kitty said with a shake of her head as the laughter began to die down, "It was until this last year that he figured out it wasn't the toaster oven."

That gave them the second wind and their laughter was even louder.

But while the group laughed together and told other stories of mishaps with microwaves—not surprisingly Kelso and Fez had lots of stories, especially with Marshmallow Peeps—no one noticed Eric standing behind the kitchen door watching from afar.

Though he couldn't see his mother's face, he could tell by her laugh that she was enjoying herself and having a good time. She didn't need him here for that. He had spent time with her earlier and she didn't laugh like that. Maybe it would just be better for everyone if he went back to Seattle and didn't come back till…later. His friends could take care of her. And he…he just wasn't cut out to do this.

Author's Note: And that would be Chapter 7 of "Two Weeks" Hope you liked!

BTW those microwave stories, true stories. The pizza thing happened to one of my friends who is 18, happened maybe a year ago. And the hot chocolate exploding happened to my sister just last week. The Peeps…well that hasn't happened…yet.

Until next time, thanks for reading, hope you liked, please review and lemme know what you think, stay tuned, take care, and have a nice day!