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Author's Note: Hello everyone! I am so sorry for not posting! I have a feeling you guys know why, it's pretty much the same reason as always. No it's not I fell asleep. It was…college algebra. Yuck. I have a final this week and last week we were reviewing and this week too, but I figured I work on the chapter, last week and post them this week. Hope that didn't hurt anyone's head. And then yesterday I was gonna post it but my professor held a surprise review session, of course I went. But then afterwards…I kinda stayed to vent with a couple of friends about the class. And today we had an extra credit assignment for the class. So to um up, I did not update because of college algebra. But after Friday, I'm free! Unless something happens during the test. Anyways. I want to thank all of you for all of your kind words and alerts, and favorites. I am so happy you guys are enjoying this story. It makes me enjoy writing it even more! Oh and please remember I am not a doctor or anything in the medical career, but I do enjoy science more than math. Thanks again to everyone and please forgive me for the late update, as soon as the finals done and as long as I don't fail, updates will be back on schedule! Now go on, read, and Enjoy!

"So with all of us hanging out here all the time, you never got tired of us?" Hyde asked in disbelief.

"No, I always wanted to have a house full of kids."

Hyde frowned, "So you married Red? The Anti-kid."

"Steven," Kitty slightly scolded with a shake of her head, "Red does not hate kids. After we have two wonderful kids of our own."

"Really?" he asked sounding and looking confused, "Who are they?"

"Laurie and Eric." She told Hyde, looking at him with a concerned face. How could he have forgotten them?

"Oh." Hyde replied, "I got a little confused when you said wonderful."

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It felt like hours, days even, for Jackie as she sat in the battle field where she was sure World War III would soon break out.

She looked at her ex-boyfriend. Hyde was standing with arms uncrossed and his Zen all over his face. But after dating him for over two years, Jackie could see the anger he had in his eyes behind his shades. She couldn't leave Eric to face that alone.

Moving her head abit downwards, she saw Eric who was much easier to read. He was nervous, he was scared, he almost resembled a deer caught in the headlights. And he was probably in just as much trouble as that deer.

Jackie was ready to stand her ground and tell Steven that she wasn't going anywhere, until she realized maybe this was what these two needed to get back their brotherly relationship. Not them beating each other to death, which Hyde was likely to do, but them talking about Kitty, about Eric's absences, about anything and everything that needed to be discussed.

Slowly, Jackie stood up from her seat. Eric was quick to notice Jackie's movement and began to panic.

He grabbed out her wrist, holding on to her tightly, "Where're you going."

"Don't worry." She assured him in a soft voice as she placed her hand over the one he had gripped onto her wrist, "You'll be fine."

Once Eric had let go of her wrist, and it had taken quite a few seconds, Jackie walked away from the table and over to Hyde.

"Steven," she said stopping in front of him "you better not kill him." she told him in a firm tone of voice, "Or Mom will kill you. And I'll help her."

"I know, Jackie." Hyde answered in his Zen tone.

Jackie nodded her head towards Hyde and then looked back at Eric—he still appeared to be nervous—but she kept walking to the dinning room reminding herself that she was doing the right thing.

Eric anxiously turned his body around so he could look at his adoptive brother.

"Hey Hyde." He greeted in his high pitched voice, he quickly cleared his throat before speaking. "How's it going?"

Hyde didn't answer; he just walked over to the kitchen table. With each step Hyde took, Eric felt his heart beat faster and faster. He was sure he was going to receive something a lot harder then one of Hyde's usual frogs.

Again Eric cleared his throat, "You didn't by any chance not hear…."

"You saying I'm stubborn and acting childish?" Hyde asked taking a seat across form Eric—being sure to leave a chair between them, "Yeah, I heard."

"Of course you did." Eric nodded.

"But that's what I want to talk about." Hyde added.

"Oh, ok. Good, yeah that's good. We'll…we'll talk about something else." Eric said trying to stay calm, "Hey did Kelso tell you about his new idea for cars?"

"What are you doing here, Forman?" Hyde asked, not bothering to even acknowledge Eric's question.

"He wants to make toy cars have a button that turns them into real cars." Eric rambled on, but Hyde's face showed he wasn't at all amused.

"Forman." He repeated his tone a lot more serious, "What are you doing here?"

"I'm here to see Mom." Eric replied, "You called me and told me what was going on, remember?"

"Yeah, and after I finished talking to you, you said you had to stay because you couldn't miss work." Hyde reminded, keeping his Zen, "Then a few days later you're here anyways."

Eric nodded, he knew Hyde was bound to ask about that. When he'd talked to him on the phone that Saturday, he was pretty set on staying in Seattle because of work; and it had upset Hyde a lot. If Jackie wouldn't have called, he'd probably be in his apartment grading his students' papers.

"I don't know, man. After you hung up with me, Jackie called and just started talking to me." The once twitchy young man explained, "I guess then I just realized that I really needed to come see Mom."

"Jackie called you? And got you to come here?"

"Yeah, I can't explain it either." Eric said out loud, hoping to get a smile out of the Zen master, but no such thing happened.

Hyde continued to frown, his only movement being his arms as he crossed them over his chest. "Well can you explain you sneaking past me to go see Mom only to run off without even saying 'bye' or 'I'll be right back' to her?"

"I…" Eric opened his mouth only to close it shut when he realized there was nothing he could say that would make him taking off seem understandable. He sighed before continuing. "No. That was stupid and I shouldn't have done it. I shouldn't have snuck past you either, but Jackie made it seem like a good idea and…"

"Jackie?" Hyde arched an eyebrow, "Again?"

Eric's expression fell and he lost his train of thought. It had been Jackie again. Jackie had been helping and doing a lot of things for him. Either she was being really nice or she was being really evil and he just didn't know it yet.

"Yeah, Jackie again." He nodded, "I guess she's got me under some kind of Devil spell or something."

Eric smiled and laughed some as he watched Hyde, trying to get even a twitch at either of the corners of his mouth. But it was like he was made of stone. He sat stiff and still and the like other statues, the look he was giving scared Eric.

Coming to the conclusion that lame jokes and mild burns on other people wouldn't help patch things up between the two of them, Eric decided to do one of one of the things he was almost positive would work.

"Look Hyde, I feel really guilty about leaving Mom the way I did that day. And I'm gonna talk to her about it, and apologize." Eric began, "But I also wanted to tell you that I feel pretty bad about what I said to you the other night."

Hyde didn't say anything, but Eric was sure he remembered.

"I didn't mean it…I guess it was just I don't know the stress of everything…the time change maybe." He went on, looking down at his hands for a few seconds, "Whatever it was, I was wrong man. Mom is as much your mom as she is my mom."

"Yeah, but you're her real son." Hyde reminded while still staring deeply at the man he'd considered a brother years ago, "You're the one she carried around for nine months. You're the one she gave birth to. You're the one who she's been there for since day one."

"But where were you man?" he asked, his Zen now starting to faded away and his anger taking over, "Where were you when she was going through the chemo? Where were you when she had to celebrate her birthday in the hospital? Where were you when the doctors told her she only had a few weeks left?"

Eric looked away from Hyde's shaded eyes, he suddenly wished his friend would go back to being Zen.

"In Seattle." He answered in a tiny, ashamed voice.

"Yeah, in Seattle, working." Hyde agreed in anything but a happy tone, "Which is exactly where you planned on going back to today. To work." He shook his head, "I never thought you'd be one to choose work over family, Forman."

Those last words hit a nerve with Eric. He loved what he did at work, he loved his students, he loved his job; but he could never love it more than his family. More than his mother.

"Hyde, I'm not like you alright? I don't have some 'rich sugar daddy' to hand me everything." Eric fought back in a strong upset tone, "And I don't go to work instead of being with Mom because I choose to. I have to. I have to go to work if I want to make a living. I can't just call them up and tell them I'm not going in and get off nice and easy, like you can."

"Fine, I'll give you W.B. He's a good guy who understands what's going on and gives me a break for it." Hyde nodded his head, "But what about Red and Jackie? Huh? Red's still got the muffler shop that he owns and runs. Then Jackie's that shopping person. And still both of them have been able to be there for every surgery, every treatment, every everything!"

"Damn it, Hyde." Eric cursed, "Don't make me sound like the worst son in the world. I've come to visit plenty of times since I moved to Seattle."

"Yeah, but how many of those times was Mom sick? Really sick?" Hyde questioned.

Eric was silent as he thought over the last few years. He had made several trips to Point Place over the years, but he couldn't seem to remember too many times that he saw his mom sick.

"Two." Hyde answered for him, "Two times, Forman. And the second time you ended up leaving back to Seattle early. You're her kid Forman, and you only saw her twice while she was sick. She can expect shit like this from Laurie cause she's Laurie. But you…"

"Do you even realize how much you've hurt her, man?" He asked angrily, Eric opened his mouth but wasn't able to get any worse to leave it, "Don't even bother trying to answer that one, cause you don't."

Eric stayed quiet, as he watched Hyde's angry eyes close.

Hyde sighed, trying to calm himself down, before opening his eyes again.

"I remember one time back when she was the hospital the second or third time, I heard her and Red talking." He explained in a softer voice, "She was asking him if he thought she was a good mom. He told her he did and stuff like that, then he asked her why she was asking him that." He paused for a few seconds, to move his eyes up to see Eric, "Mom told him she thought maybe she had done something to you and Laurie and that's why you guys hadn't been around to much."

Eric didn't think he could feel any worse about this whole situation, but Hyde's story proved him wrong. His mom, the world's best mom, was thinking she was a bad mom. Because of him. And Laurie, but like Hyde said she was Laurie.

"She was crying, man. The whole time. Red tried to comfort her but she kept crying." Hyde went on to say, "I don't know about you Forman, but I can't stand to see Mom cry."

"Me neither." Eric agreed with a nod of his head before looking up at Hyde, "And I know that was a mistake. All of it. Staying away so long. Running off, both times. But that's what I do, you've known me long enough to know that Hyde. I'm Eric Forman and I make dumbass mistakes."

Hyde snorted, "Yeah, a lot of them."

"True." Eric nodded again, "But I also try to fix my mistakes Sure sometimes things only get worse, but sometimes they do work out. I wanna try and make things better for this one. And I hope, for Mom's sake you'll help me."

For several seconds the kitchen was silent, Hyde's face stared back at Eric's slightly nervous one.

"You know" Hyde began to say, "after tomorrow, if you hurt her again, you're gonna have both me and Red to deal with right?"

"Scares me just thinking about it." He replied honestly.

Trying his best not to smirk, Hyde nodded, "Alright."

"Alright?" Eric asked surprised that he'd agreed so fast, but also confused, did he really just agree that fast? "Alright you'll help me?"

"Yeah." The curly haired man nodded, "For Mom."

Eric couldn't help but smile, "Ok, great. So does this mean we're good now?"

"We're getting there." Hyde informed as he stood up from his chair and headed to the exit.

Understandingly, Eric nodded his head. He knew Hyde wouldn't says they were good right away, but a 'we're getting there' was a whole lot better than a 'no.'

"So can I stay with Mom tonight?"

"No."

"What?!" Eric asked, regaining his squeaky like voice, "Hyde, I just said I knew if I messed things up again I'd have to deal with you and Red. That's enough to make me stop breathing. I'm not…"

"Geeze Forman, don't get your panties in a bunch." Hyde said, shutting Eric up, "I don't want you staying with Mom tonight because she's sick. Really sick. And you've pretty much just told me you can't handle seeing her like that."

"But Hyde…" Eric began to protest.

"Look man, maybe tomorrow if she's doing better you can see here. And maybe maybe stay the night with her."

That was reasonable, and so Eric nodded in agreement.

"Oh hey and Hyde," he called out, causing Hyde to stop and turn away from the swinging door, "Thanks for being here and helping Mom and Dad out with all of this. I really appreciate it."

"Yeah well," Hyde started to say a not so nice comment, but then suddenly remembered what Kitty had told him earlier. He nodded his head, "Thanks too, man."

With a puzzled look on his face, Eric watched Hyde leave the kitchen and go into the living.

On the other side of the door, Hyde was making his way up the living room stairs as Jackie was descending down them. Neither of them said a word. As they passed each other on the staircase, Jackie tried to spot any blood splatters on any of his clothing.

As soon as Hyde was upstairs and Jackie was well into the living room, the kitchen swinging door swung open again. When Jackie saw it was Eric, she practically ran over to him.

"Oh thank God, I thought he killed you." She told him.

Eric smirked, "Sounds like somebody would miss me if I was gone."

The concern in Jackie's face quickly vanished and she stared up at him as she shook her head. "No, I wouldn't."

"Yes, you would." He teased.

"No, I wouldn't." she argued, "I would first go bail Steven out of jail and then throw a party."

"But while you were getting Hyde out of jail, you'd miss me." He sing-songed the last part.

Jackie rolled her eyes, "Yeah, sure, if that makes you feel important. So how did it go in there?"

"Pretty good." He replied as she sat down on the couch, "We talked and he even said if Mom was doing better tomorrow, I might be able to stay the night with her."

"Yeah, good luck with that." Jackie said with a snort, "If Mom has even the small case of the sniffles, to Steven it means she's not feeling well. And it's only gonna get worse when your dad gets here." She rambled on, not noticing Eric's smile fall, "I swear with those two watching Mom, not even the Queen of England would get in to see her."

"And Mom loves The Queen." Eric stated out loud, now wondering just how true Hyde's words were.

Jackie frowned with confusion, before looking over to Eric where she was met with a somber expression. Now she felt like a dumbass. Well maybe not a dumbass but she did feel bad.

"Eric, I didn't mean it like that." She said, taking a seat beside him and placing a soft hand on his back, "Everything's gonna be fine when your dad gets here."

Eric turned to look at her, "You keep saying that."

"Because it's the truth."

"Yeah, for you maybe." He said looking away for a few seconds, "He actually likes you."

"He likes you too, Eric." Jackie insisted, "He even loves you."

"Ok, now you're pushing it."

Jackie tilted her head slightly to the side, "And I bet he sees a lot of himself in you too. I know I do." Seeing Eric confused and yet curious frown, she went on, "You both care a lot about your work and family. You'd do anything for your loved ones. You've got his green eyes and his mischievous yet sometimes evil smirk. And I've seen old pictures of your dad, and you finally got those of his muscles."

"Um ok, I'm not sure what's weirder. "Eric began, "The fact that you found some many things Red and I have in common, or that you're checking him out in his old photos."

Glaring at him Jackie went on with her list, "Oh look at that, you have his receding hairline too."

Eric's eyes almost popped out of his head, before he popped off of the sofa.

"Quick get me a mirror!" he ordered as he rushed around the room in search of anything that would show his reflection.

The tiny brunette remained on the couch, watching and laughing with amusement. She would've let him go on for a good five minutes, but the poor guy had already been through enough today.

"Sit your ass down." She ordered shaking her head.

Eric froze in his tracks, "Now you're sounding like him…this is getting too scary. I'm just gonna ask my favor and go up to bed."

"What favor?"

"Oh right." Eric began, taking a seat on the couch again, "You know how I had the questions for Angela and you said you could help me answer them?"

"Yeah." Jackie nodded, with her brow furrowed.

"Well I was thinking maybe you could help learn how to do stuff that'll help Mom out." He explained, "Different things, thing you think I should know. I wanna be here for Mom, as much I can."

A smile found its way onto Jackie's face, "I could do that."

"Thanks Jackie." Eric said happily; he was so glad she had agreed, he knew she would be the most help to him, that he could've kissed her. "You're the best."

"I know."

Author's Note: And that would be Chapter 15 of "Two Weeks" Hope you liked!

Will things ever be the same between Hyde and Eric? Will Eric be able to see Kitty the next day? What will Red's reaction be to Eric being back? Where is Laurie? And how will Jackie helping Eric help Kitty work out? Confused? You won't be after the next chapter of "Two Weeks"

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