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Author's Note: Hello everyone! I know, I know, I'm late. And really I have no good excuse this time. I was just lazy and didn't feel like working on the chapter. Summer time blues maybe. It's one of the worst parts about summer. All the sleeping and then realizing, 'Holy Cow I haven't done anything!' Sorry for the wait and I hope you can forgive me. Quick notes, remember I am not a doctor or a nurse or anyone who works at a hospital or near a hospital. Thanks for the reviews guys I really appreciate them and I hope you keep them coming! And sorry fro the wait once again. Enjoy!

After showing the back yard and the rest of the house, Kitty was once again sitting on the living room sofa answering the question her surrogate son had given her.

"I love traveling. It's so exciting seeing the different places and meeting all sorts of people." She explained to the camera with a big smile, "When Red and I first got married we had plans of traveling to all sorts of places. I wanted to see the different cities and Red could get his corvette."

"Why didn't you go?" Hyde questioned, "What happened?"

"Kitty got pregnant." Red answered from his seat in the armchair.

Kitty glared slightly at her husband, "Oh so it's all my fault?" she asked a bit angrily, "When you were the one who came into the kitchen and started kissing my neck, you know…."

"Ok!" Hyde practically shouted, stopping Kitty from saying more, "Let's not scar these kids that haven't even been born yet." He took a few seconds to think of his next question, "If you could choose anywhere to travel to, where would it be?"

"Oh you know, I always thought it would be so much fun to get one of those RV's and take long road trips with all of you kids." She said happily, "Doesn't that sound like fun?"

Hyde smirked at the thought. It probably wouldn't be a fun as Kitty had it pictured in her head, but something told him it would've been pretty memorable. Maybe not for the greatest reasons, but still unforgettable.

Kitty smiled as she went on, "I've always wanted to go to California, or Hawaii… and Florida too. Ooh and Texas. Those people know how to square dance." She finished with a giggle.

"Any places out of the states?"

"Well, sure. There's Italy oh and the city of love Paris. Of course Red would never take me because of the foreigners…but over there they wouldn't really be foreigners."

Kitty began to drift off and Hyde quickly became concerned.

"Mom, you ok?" he asked.

When Kitty looked up at him with a small grin back on her face, Hyde knew he had worried for nothing.

"You know if I could visit any place right now, I would have to pick Seattle." She informed him.

"To go see Eric." Hyde stated more than questioned.

Kitty nodded, "Exactly. You know it's been over three years and I've only seen his apartment in pictures." She continued, "I need to make sure that place is safe for my baby to live in."

0o0o0o

"So now he's stuck in Chicago?" Donna asked before using her chopsticks to pick up a piece of compow chicken from the carton.

The group was sitting around the kitchen table, having brought extra seats up from the basement. Hyde had just finished informing them all about the phone call he'd gotten earlier from Red as they ate their take –out dinner.

Brooke and Kelso, with Fez as well, had picked up Chinese food from the small Chinese restaurant in town. They'd even brought chopsticks, upon Kelso's requests—despite the fact he didn't know how to use them. And Fez had insisted they get fortune cookies too, forgetting the incident in Chicago where he'd accident eaten his fortune.

"Yup. Don't know for how long either." Hyde nodded, "Still haven't heard back from him."

"It can take a long while for those planes to get back up in the air." Randy commented, "One time I was taking my grandma to see her cousin down in Florida. Our plane got delayed for two days in Tennessee. And just when we were getting ready to get on a plane back to Wisconsin our other flight got the okay. But by the time we got to Grandma's cousin she had died."

Randy didn't exactly realize that he should have kept that last part to himself until he saw the faces around the table.

To his right, Donna glaring a deep angry glare at him, then it was Jackie whose face and eyes showed her worry. Eric looked at him with a blank expression, not believing he'd heard right, while Hyde kept a Zen expression on his face.

The people sitting on his left didn't look too happy either. Fez looked almost like a deer caught in the headlights, and Betsy seemed to pay no attention and seemed more interested in the two wooden sticks in her hands. Kelso's jaw had fallen open and his wife's expression looked very similar to Jackie's.

"Sorry." The feathered haired man said, feeling guilty, "I didn't mean…"

"Don't worry 'bout it, man." Hyde interrupted, surprising the individuals in the room, "Red's doing everything to get here as soon as he can. He was even gonna try and get a ride from you Kelso."

"Haha good thing I'm not in Chicago! I'm safe here!" Kelso said with a big grin on his face as he stabbed his chicken with both his sticks, suddenly his grin faded. "Wait, no I'm not! Cause what if Red goes to our place to get a ride and I'm not there? He's gonna get pissed!"

"Michael!" Brooke slightly scolded him for cursing infront of their daughter.

"Brooke, this is serious! I already knew Red was gonna be mad when he saw me here, but since I wasn't there to give him a ride over here, he's gonna like kill me!" he announced to the table, getting more and more frightened, "I'm…I'm…I'm…I'm screwed!"

"Michael!" Brooke said again wile Kelso's pattern crime laughed away.

"Yes, you are my friend." The foreign man said pointing his finger at him, "You…wait what if Red goes to my apartment? He knows I live next-door to you!"

Fez joined Kelso in panicking, recreating a scene similar to the one from last night. However this time, Fez seemed to calm himself early on as he came to a realization.

"No Red will not go to my apartment. He does not like me." Fez said with a smile that dropped a second or two after saying this, "Nobody likes poor Fez."

"I like you Uncle Fez!" Betsy called out happily, before Fez's friends could say anything.

Fez's smile returned to his face as he hugged the little girl back, "Oh and I like you too Little Betsy-Boop."

The thought of Red killing him or doing anything painful to him, left Kelso's mind as he watched Fez tap the tip of Betsy's nose, causing his daughter to giggle.

"Ahem!" Kelso said loudly, getting everyone including Fez's attention, "Hands off my daughter!" he said raising his chopstick like a gun.

The group watched on if they weren't fighting back a laugh, they were giving strange looks to both men. Fez at first was confused at what his friend was talking about, but then remembered something he wanted.

"Gimme my fortune cookie!" he demanded lifting up his own stick.

"Boys." Brooke warned both grown men, and then looked back at Hyde, "Did you tell Red about us being here?"

"No way." Hyde replied, "That'll only make him more upset about this whole thing. I told him I had your number here and for him to just stay at the airport a while longer. That way he could…"

As Hyde went on to repeat the plan he'd already told her and Eric, Jackie turned her attention to the man sitting next to him. He'd been pretty talkative with the her and the guys early in the meal, but when the subject of Red came up, he suddenly became mute.

"Hey." She said in almost a whisper as she nudged his shoulder, "You okay?"

Eric looked up at her, "Who me? Yeah, I'm good." He replied trying to look and sound like he was, but son realized there was really no point, "I was just thinking about Red coming back home. I know you said everything would be ok, but I just can't help but be a little scared. I mean cause…well cause it's Red."

Jackie stifled a giggle. So far no one had heard their conversation and she wanted to keep it that way.

"I know, but you've just gotta be confident and…" she drifted off for a second or two as she searched for some type of metaphor. "Think about when Luke Skywalker had to face Darth Vader."

Instantly Eric's eyes lit up, "I can do that!" he said excitedly, "Oh and Darth Vader is Luke's father and…"

"Okay go upstairs." Jackie ordered and Eric frowned.

"What?" he asked confused, "You were the one who started talking about Star wars. You should know it's not easy for me to just stop talking about it like that!"

"Fine." Jackie said with a shrug, "I just thought maybe you'd like to brush your teeth or change your clothes."

The urge to continue arguing with her, soon left Eric as he heard what she'd said. His luggage! He'd spent time with his mom today so he was getting his things back. He wanted to change out of his shirt, but what he really wanted to do was brush his teeth. He hadn't had so much gum since he was kid at Halloween time.

Without another thought Eric stood up from his chair and yawned and stretched.

"Well I think I'm gonna get ready for bed. Night guys." He announced as he headed for the door, "Thanks for dinner, Brooke, Kelso."

"And Fez!" Fez called out angrily after Eric was already in the next room. "Nobody remembers poor Fez."

Jackie shook her head at both of her friends; not able to decide who was more ridiculous. She didn't really want to, but the main reason was because she had a more important decision to think about right now.

0o0o0o

Eric entered his sister's old room hoping to find his suitcase on top of Jackie's bed waiting for him. But when he practically ran in, he saw the room was just as he'd left it earlier before seeing his mom. No suitcases in sight.

Frowning slightly Eric began to look around the room, not moving too many things but just enough to see if Jackie had hidden his bags from him again.

He bent down to the floor to look under the bed, but found the space empty. Well except for a few pointy shoes. He sat himself up, but remained on the floor. The way Jackie had said to come upstairs, it sounded like his things were waiting for him. They had to be here somewhere, but where?

Eric started to rack his brain while looking around the purple room, trying to get a glimpse of one of his bags.

His head stopped its turning when his eyes landed on the nightstand that held the "Little Women" book. This time he wasn't paying attention to the novel; and he didn't find any of his luggage either. What had his attention was at the bottom of the nightstand were several tall books.

Eric gave into his curious and scooted closer to the collection. Being closer, he was able to read the titles on some of the books bind. There were only four of them and they each said 'Point Place High School' along with the years 1975 to '79.

Eric smirked and reached his hand for the yearbook of '78. He hadn't seen these things in awhile. He pulled the edge of the book towards him, but stopped when a hidden medium sized envelop fell out from between yearbooks '78 and '79.

His senior yearbook was soon forgotten and Eric paid close attention to the envelop. It was too big to be a letter, but was small enough to go unnoticed on the shelf.

Eric carefully stood up, the envelop still in his hands; he turned around to make sure no one was there and then took a seat on the bed.

Ever so carefully, Eric opened up the package that hadn't been sealed. His frown still in its place, Eric reached in and pulled out a stack of photographs. Christmas photographs.

Eric smiled at the first picture. It was of everyone—including Laurie—sitting in the living room. How his mom had gotten them all to sit for the picture, Eric really couldn't remember. He flipped to the next photo and found them all in the same pose, except not so surprising Laurie wasn't there. The next photo had even less people as Kelso and Fez had both disappeared.

With the next Christmas picture Donna became the missing link and it saddened Eric. Not so much because Donna wasn't there but because he knew that was the last Christmas photo he'd take on that couch. Of course he came to visit for Christmas, but these photos were taken before Christmas, so they'd be sent out with the Christmas cards. After he moved to Seattle he never made it to another one.

As he put the photo with just him, Hyde, and Jackie with his parents to the back of the stack he saw a photo of just Hyde and Jackie with his mom and dad. There were two or three more photos he looked at quickly before stopping to stare at one.

The photograph had the same four people in the same living room setting, but there was something different with his mom. Several things different. This had to have been when she had been feeling her worse. She looked thinner and fragile, like she did now, but in the picture she had a festive scarf tied over her head. She looked so different from all the other photos, but there was one thing that had stayed the same;; her smile.

"Yeah, I was surprised we took a picture that year too."

Eric jumped up in surprise, now knowing what they meant by 'jumping out of their own skin.' He turned around and found Jackie smirking up at him.

"Jesus, Jackie!" he said still trying to calm himself, "Do you realize how scary that was? Oh yeah you do, you look at yourself in the mirror everyday." He said jokingly.

Jackie snarled slightly while shaking her head. She knew he was only joking and he had been the one snooping through her stuff. She was going to get him back good.

"Ok fine." She said standing up but keeping her hands behind her back, "I guess you don't want your stuff back."

"What? No!" Eric shouted, "I'm sorry, I am."

"What do you want?"

"Um…my stuff?" he said, not sure of what she was asking exactly.

Jackie grinned, "Say it."

"I want my stuff back." Eric said.

"Say it and add the magic word and my name."

Eric rolled his eyes, "I want my stuff back, please Jackie."

"Jackie, who?" the tiny brunette asked with a mischievous grin.

"I want my stuff back, please Jackie the beautiful."

Eric was surprised by his answer just as much as Jackie was. However both of them tried their best not to show it.

"I was going for 'The Great' but that works too." Jackie stated, "Here."

She then proceeded to throw a small object in the air towards Eric. A second later it was in his hands and Eric frowned down at it

"What's this?" he asked lifting up his toothbrush.

"Eric, it hasn't been that long." Jackie began, and then started speaking slowly, "This is a toothbrush, you use it to brush your teeth and get rid of that bad breath. Gum can only do so much."

Eric frowned, was she burning him? He shook his head; he couldn't be bothered with that now. Besides he'd gotten her pretty good with the mirror thing.

"I know this is my toothbrush, Jackie, but where's my other stuff?"

Jackie shook her head a smirk playing n her lips, "You'll get it later. Remember every time you spend time with your mom you get a piece of your luggage. There's your first piece."

"Piece?" Eric asked lifting up the brush again, "Jackie this isn't a piece! This isn't even a crumb!"

"Should've read the fine print a little better, Eric." She replied with a tile of her head.

Eric looked at her as if she were crazy, "There was no fine print for me to read. There was no print!"

"Because you didn't look for it." Jackie replied in a sing song tone.

"I…this is dumb!" Eric argued throwing his hands in the air, "This is a dumb idea and I didn't agree to it."

"Yes you did." Jackie answered, "And it is not a dumb idea."

Eric took a step closer to the small young woman, as if challenging her, "Uh I think it is."

"And I say it isn't." Jackie retorted moving herself closer to him.

"I say it is." Eric said taking another step to her.

Jackie did the same, "It is not."

By now they were merely a few inches from each other. Jackie was looking up at his green eyes and Eric was staring down at her mismatched ones. Being so close to each other and the intimate action was enough to get them both to forget what exactly they were arguing about and just staring into the other's eyes.

"Hey Forman."

The familiar male voice startled to duo and the quickly backed away from each other just before Hyde walked into the room.

"Jackie?" he asked sounding slightly confused, "What are you doing up here?"

"Nothing. Nothing." Jackie replied, not looking at Steven, "I was just talking to Eric about something. Right Eric?"

"Um yeah." Eric nodded quickly, "Right."

"Okay." Hyde said not sure what had been going on before he came in, but he didn't really have time to worry about that. "You mind if I talk to him about something real quick?"

Jackie shook her head in a fast pace, still not meeting Hyde's shaded eyes, which confused Hyde even more; but once again he decided to ignore it.

"Uh Forman listen." Hyde started to say to Eric was trying to not look guilty, "Since there's no way Red's coming in tonight…and Mom is having a pretty good night tonight…and you didn't run off earlier…I was wondering if…you wanted to stay with her tonight?"

This evening was just full of surprises for Eric Forman. He looked back at the man he'd considered a brother for many years, shock covering his face.

"Seriously?" he asked in disbelief.

"Yeah." Hyde nodded, "I mean you don't have to…"

"No, no, no." Eric was quick to interrupt. "I do. I do wanna stay with Mom. I…thanks Hyde."

Hyde shrugged his shoulders, "Yeah, sure thing man."

"So what do I do?" Eric asked sounding excited, "Can I go in now or do I have to wait or…"

Hyde had to laugh at the slight twitchiness in his friend. He knew that skinny geek was in there somewhere. "Nah, man you can go in now."

"Cool!" Eric grinned and then head out the room, cause Hyde to frown.

"Forman, man." He called out stopping Eric, "Aren't you gonna change?"

"Well you know Hyde, I'd love to but…" he looked over at Jackie, giving her a sideways look, that she instantly caught.

"But he is just so excited, he's just gonna brush his teeth and the head straight to Mom's room." Jackie finished for him.

She hadn't told Steven about her luggage plan, because when she'd come up with it the two men still weren't speaking to each other. It was nice to see that had changed.

Normally Eric would have argued with Jackie or even told Hyde the whole story about Jackie kidnapping his luggage. But she was right, he really did want to brush his teeth. So without another word, Eric just raised up his hand to wave and then ran off to the hallway bathroom.

Hyde's confused frown deepened as he watched Eric's disappearing act, "I'm starting to rethink letting him stay with Mom tonight." He commented to Jackie.

She only shook her head and her smile grew; she knew very well that he didn't mean it."

"Steven, you are so sweet." She told him, no able to look at him again.

"No, I'm not."

Jackie continued to smile, "Sure you are. I mean you're letting Eric stay with Mom tonight because you know how much it means to him."

"No I didn't." Hyde argued, keeping himself Zen, "I just figured you might wanna staying your own bed tonight."

"So you did it for me?" she asked curiously.

"Yeah okay." He sighed, "Not even I would buy that one."

Jackie let out a small laugh that Hyde had to join in on.

"You know, I'm sure Angela would have liked what you did here." Jackie said to him and could almost see the excitement in his shaded eyes.

"Really? You think?" he asked quickly before realizing how lame he sounded. He cleared his throat and then became his Zen self again, "I mean, really? You think."

"Jackie laughed as she nodded. Hyde's frown reappeared as he watched her and was about to defend himself when he remembered something from earlier today.

"Never mind that," He said with a wave of his hand, turning serious once again, "Did you call Red's brother Marty and tell him what's going on?"

Jackie knitted her brows together, "Red has a brother?"

"Yeah, Marty." Hyde repeated, "Did you call him?"

"No, up until now I didn't even know Red had a brother." Jackie informed shaking her head, "Why?"

Hyde frowned with his own confusion. "Um nothing. It's not important."

Jackie's furrowed brow stayed in place as she watched Hyde walk out of the room, still looking deep in thought. Once he was gone though, the tiny brunette closed the door and shrugged her shoulders.

She smiled and walked over to her bed, before lying herself down. She was happy that she was back in her room. She was even happier that Eric would be staying with his mom and spending more time with her. That meant another piece of luggage for him.

Speaking of those pieces of luggage what had been the deal there? Why had they kept moving closer to each other? Why couldn't she tear her eyes away from him? Why had she almost moved closer to him? Why had she felt the urge to kiss him? Him Eric Forman?

Jackie shook her head and moved her mind onto something else. What was with this Marty guy? Sure he was Red's brother—apparently—but who had called him? Hyde couldn't have because he asked her. And she didn't even know who he was exactly. Maybe it was someone else who knew he existed. Maybe Eric.

Author's Note: And that was Chapter 19 of "Two Weeks" Hope you liked!

How will it go with Eric staying the night with Kitty? How will Red get home? Why did Jackie want to Kiss Eric? Did Eric feel the same way? Will Hyde ever catch on to what's going on? And who called Uncle Marty? Confused? You won't be after the next chapter of "Two Weeks"

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