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Author's Note: Hello All! Oh my goodness! I am so sorry for the wait! Things were just pretty hectic over here. First last last weekend we had surprise company come in, always fun. No actually it was, but it took time away from my writing. Then during last week I had to get ready for my college orientation, one I almost tried to get out of going till I found out one of my closest friends was going too. So we went and had fun there, and came home tired. No lies. I came home Friday afternoon didn't wake up till a Saturday afternoon! That day I knew I had to work on the story, but go a little blocked and made a huge mistake of watching something really depressing. Long story short, after I finished watching the episode of something I thought, ' I don't wanna do them!' Episode was from 'Archie Bunker's Place' had never seen the episode and really shouldn't have because I was supper sad and didn't want to work on this story and didn't until today when I figured out something I want to do with the story. So see pretty crazy! But Anywoo I hope this long chapter makes up for the wait. A couple of quick notes, this AN is getting to be as long as the chapter. First of all, I am not a doctor nor am I training to be one. Did see an old episode of ER the other day though. Second, thanks so much to all the reviews and encouraging words, when I felt that depression and almost put a hiatus on the story I thought about you guys! Third please read the bottom author's note for more…well more of my notes to you all. Thanks again and I am so sorry for the wait!

"Do you ever wish you didn't have to work?" Hyde asked Kitty from behind the camera.

"Well, I'm not working anymore." Kitty reminded, and her smile shrunk a few centimeters. "It's been almost two years since I've been to the hospital as anything but a patient."

"I'm guessing you miss it?"

Kitty nodded and smiled, "Yes, I do. I'm a nurture and I miss taking care of people, making them fell better." She paused for a few seconds, "I mean I love being here at home and having more time to spend with you, Jackie, and Red…but my work at the hospital was something different."

Hyde nodded along as he kept the camera rolling.

"Oh I don't know, I think it might be my generation." She went on with a quick shake of her head, "Even Red. He turned down that offer to 'Muffler Masters.' And I really am glad that he stood his ground, because I knew he really didn't want to retire. He wanted to keep working, keep doing the things he loves, keep feeling useful. It's going to be a long while before that man finally does retire."

"Yeah." Hyde nodded, "And it kinda keeps his mind off the…you know."

Kitty nodded her head along, knowing exactly what he was talking about.

"Another reason I'm glad he kept the shop."

0o0o0o

The next morning, Eric Forman was still sound asleep in his parents bedroom.

Last night had been a long night for him. First his mom had gotten sick, then what happened with Jackie down in the kitchen. And after Jackie had left to her room, Eric had stayed down in the kitchen for at least another half hour before going back to his Mom's room where he continued to replay that kitchen kiss in his head, trying to figure out why Jackie had left the way she did.

It was at least four in the morning when Eric had finally fallen asleep. He couldn't remember the last time he'd stayed up that late.

Even then, he was still waking up every so often because of the uncomfortable feeling he had from sleeping on the wrong side of the bed. When he'd returned back to Kitty's room the night before, she'd made herself comfortable on the left side of the bed—which confused Eric just a bit, he always remembered from the times he'd come into his parents room as a child during a storm, that his mother slept on the right side of bed. But Eric ignored his thoughts and didn't have the heart to move her, so he tried to get some sleep on the other side of the bed.

Things are different when you sleep on the right side of the bed though. Like the direction of where you can roll changes. Eric usually rolled to his right when he slept, there was much more room that way. But when you slept on the right side of the bed, there wasn't much room left on that side to roll to.

He learned that the hard way as he rolled his body towards the right on the mattress just as he would in his own bed; but unlike in his own bed, he reached the end of the mattress a lot sooner and sent himself down to the floor with a loud thump.

Instantly, Eric woke from his sleep and sat straight up, alarm in both his face and his actions. He quickly looked back on the bed to make sure he hadn't woken up his mom.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Kitty wasn't even in the bed.

Carefully and already starting to fall back into his slumber, Eric climbed back onto the bed and rested his head on the pillow before closing his eyes.

Not even two seconds after Eric had shut his eyes, he reopened them making them bigger than ever as he realized he was lying in an empty bed.

"Mom?" he called out as he shot himself straight up and off the bed.

The call received to response and caused a feeling of worry to stir around in Eric's stomach.

He walked around his parents' bedroom, looking on the floor and sticking his head into the already opened closet door. But still no sign of his mother. This was not good. He only spent one night with her and already he'd lost her. This was worse than anything Fez and Kelso could do together.

Hyde was gonna kill him.

As Eric spun around the bedroom once again, trying not to go into his twitchy, panicky mode, he noticed the bathroom door was shut.

He nearly breathed a sigh of relief. Of course she was in the bathroom; she'd probably gotten sick….but that wasn't exactly something to give a sigh of relief to. Eric slowly crept his way to the closed door, part of him hoping his mother was in there, the other hoping he'd find her elsewhere.

Eric rapped his knuckles on the white painted piece of wood, "Mom?" he waited a few minutes of silence, before pushing the door open.

"Mom, are you…" he stopped mid sentence as he saw the bathroom was vacant.

He pulled the door closer to him, to shut it once again. Eric looked around the room once again and stopped at the main door; it obvious that his mom wasn't in here and that meant he had to go out there.

Eric really didn't have a problem going out of the bedroom and seeing the others who were staying in the house. Things were really going well between all of them. What really had him nervous was going out there and having to tell them—them being Hyde—that he couldn't find his mom.

Still there was a chance that most of the guests were asleep and if he wanted to find his mom before anyone else did, he needed to start moving now.

Eric exited the master bedroom and quietly snuck past his sister's slash Jackie's bedroom. Though Jackie would probably be willing to help him find his mom, he didn't want to wake her and then find himself thinking back to last night. He had to keep his mind on finding Kitty. Besides after last night there really was no guarantee that Jackie would be willing to help him right now.

He kept his head switching from left to right as he moved down the hallway. He has stopped in front of the hallway bathroom when he'd heard voices but went on his way as he realized the voices were only Brooke and Betsy.

Moving closer to the stairway, a familiar scent filled Eric's nose. It was a smell he hadn't smelt in some time, it was a smell that he missed, a smell that reminded him of home, it was the smell of bacon.

Eric practically flew down the living room stairs. He never looked over at Donna and Randy, but did remember to go through the den and dinning room to get to the kitchen.

When Eric entered his mother's kitchen he was relieved to see her there. She was sitting on one of the kitchen chairs, beside the stove where Kelso and Fez were standing, each of the two wearing aprons and cooking something over the oven.

While he was happy to see his mother was safe and did seem to be enjoying himself, he still did want some answers.

"What are you doing?"

"Making breakfast." Kelso informed with a large grin.

"And seeing how sexy we look in our aprons." Fez added, wiggling his hips abit as he did so, earning him a laugh from Kitty.

"Yeah guys that's great." Eric said, clearly annoyed, "I was actually talking to you Mom."

"Oh honey, I already know how sexy I look in an apron." Kitty replied adding one of her laughs at the end of her words.

"Us too." Kelso chimed in, "Va va va voom!"

"Aye, Aye, Aye!" Fez said in agreement.

Kitty giggled at the two young men's actions and the looked over to her son, who she could see was not very amused.

"Oh come on Eric honey, lighten up a bit."

"Mom…I…"Eric struggled for his words. He was glad that he'd found her and that she was ok, but he knew she shouldn't be out of bed, "I don't think you should be down here making breakfast."

"I'm not making breakfast." She argued, "I'm helping Michael and Fez make breakfast."

"Yeah and it's a good thing too." Kelso said to Eric, "Can you believe it, I haven't set anything on fire!"

"Yet." Fez mumbled just loud enough for Kelso to hear, and when he did hear the foreign man's comment he had to nod along.

Kitty smiled away, "I feel like I have my own little cooking show." She shared with one of her Kitty laughs.

Eric couldn't help but smile. It was nice seeing his mom so happy. Seeing her here in the kitchen, in her room of the house, really did seem to lift up her spirits, which made Eric feel better too. Seeing her in the kitchen smiling and laughing was much better than seeing her looking so sick and weak up in her bedroom.

"Oh Fez sweetie, I think you should turn those pieces of bacon." Kitty instructed to Fez and then looked over at the taller man, "Michael, why don't you flip that pancake there and mix the batter for the next one."

"You got it, Mrs. F." Kelso nodded with a large grin before going on to do his task.

Meanwhile Fez was carefully turning his third piece of bacon. His left hand was pulled close to his chest and his left arm was outstretched with the tongs in his hand, he was ever so carefully trying to grasp part of the strip so he could turn it to the other side without any of the grease bubbles popping and getting on his hands.

"Aye!" Fez yelped pulling his right hand towards him after dropping the cooking utensil on the counter.

"Burn!" Kelso exclaimed pointing his finger at his friend, "Literally!"

Kitty gave the oldest of the boys a warning look before turning her attention to Fez.

"Come here Fez, let me see." She said in a soft, motherly voice.

Whimpering as he did so, Fez walked closer to the mother hen and outstretched his arm to her so she could examine his injury.

"Aye…Aye…Aye…!" he cried in pain with his eyes closed.

"Fez man," Eric called out, "Your hand is still in a fist. Mom hasn't seen anything yet."

Fez smiled sleepishly, "Oh." He then proceeded to open up his hand.

Kitty looked over Fez's palm for a few seconds, her eyes fixating on the reddened area below his pinky. It wasn't very red nor was it very serious, but since it was the first burn he'd gotten from… well from the first time he'd ever made bacon, it was sure to have caused some pain.

"Ok honey, it's ok. It's just a little burn." She said and Kelso giggled in the background, "We can put some ointment that's in the bathroom when Brooke finishes giving Betsy her bath, but I think you'll be just fine."

Kitty then placed a small kiss on the injured area and a smile sprung to Fez's face.

"Thank you Miss. Kitty. Your sweet kiss has made the deathly pain go away." The foreigner exaggerated and Kitty smiled, "Why does a deliciously tasty treat like bacon have to made in a ball of fire?"

"Ball of fire?" Kelso questioned, his ears perking up at the words, "I wanna try!"

"No, no, Michael." Kitty shook her head, she'd know the 'adult' man since he was six years old and having him make bacon was not a good idea. "I think you should stick with the pancakes."

Kelso pouted slightly, but went on with his task of flipping a pancake.

As the room quieted down, Eric broke out of his daze that was starting to make him believe that this was a good idea. He turned back to his mother ready to continue with the questions he had for her.

"Mom you shouldn't be down here. You should be up in bed, resting." He shook his head slightly, "You shouldn't have snuck down here by yourself."

Kitty rolled her yes, she was tired of being treated like a child by her children, "I did not sneak down here by myself, Eric."

Eric frowned with confusion. Someone had helped her come down stairs? Hyde or Jackie maybe? Maybe they had actually thought this was a good idea. Maybe it was a good idea, and he was just making into a bigger deal than it was.

"Michael and Fez helped me." She went on.

Eric looked away from his mother and turned to see the two she was talking about. The men were standing by the stove, goofing around. Kelso was swinging the spatula around while Fez tried to capture it with the tongs, forgetting all about his injury.

This had been their idea? Yeah, this was a bad idea.

"They came into the room earlier this morning, to just sit and talk with me. You were sound asleep." Kitty began to explain, grabbing Eric's attention, "They told me how the only thing you kids have been eating since you've been here is take out food. And you know take out food is not food."

"So I told them you all needed to have a home cooked meal, and they reminded no one but Brooke and myself can cook in this house. Of course, guests should never cook in your home because they're your guests not your cooks. That's when I told them I would make breakfast."

"Mom, you…" Eric began to say only to get interrupted.

"Then I remembered how hard of a time I would have with a few of my children, who will remain nameless." Kitty continued, "So that's when I decided to have the boys make the food and I'd just supervise. This way they can learn a few things too, at Kitty's School of Cooking." She finished with a giggle.

"The best and tastiest school I've ever been in!" Kelso added.

"Yes," Fez nodded, "I can not wait for our class on desserts."

Eric shook his head. He was happy to see his mom happy. But this talk coming from his friends…another 'class.' That was not happening.

"Sorry guys, this class's the first and the last." He said to his friends, "And it's gotta end early."

"Aww!" Both Fez and Kelso cried.

Kitty looked up at her son, "Eric."

"Mom, I'm sorry." Eric began, looking down at her, already holding onto the metal pole beside her, "But I don't want Hyde finding you down here, cooking…or supervising cooking either. He'll kill me."

"Steven is not going to kill you, Eric." She firmly told him. "I'm sure he'll appreciate this meal very much. He hasn't had something homemade since I went to the hospital. And who knows how long it's been since you've had a home cooked meal young man."

"I've…I've had home cooked meals."

Kitty narrowed her eyes at her son, "Frozen meals are not home cooked meals."

"Oh."

"See." The ill woman said with a nod of her head, "Now look at all the things the boys have made. There's toast, fresh squeezed orange juice, coffee, hashbrowns, scrambled eggs."

Eric followed his mother's hand as she gestured to the plates found through out the room, his mouth watering with each new item.

"And they're almost done with the bacon and pancakes."

Eric looked away from the overflowing plate of scrambled eggs and back at his mother. She smiled at him with a knowing smile, she knew she'd gotten her way. Not wanting to give in just yet, Eric looked at Fez and Kelso to find the two of them both grinning very proudly at the fact that they had been the ones who'd prepared the meal.

Slowly Eric looked back at Kitty and tried to fight the smile that was starting to make its way on to his lips.

"What can I do to help?"

Kitty's smile grew and she stretched both her arms up in Eric's direction. Knowing what she wanted, Eric placed his head between her hands, and allowed her to pull his head closer to hers. She placed a loving kiss on his forehead and then softly pushed him away.

"You can set the table for us."

Eric nodded and then straightened himself up before heading over to the cabinets to grab a few plates.

"Ok Fez, why don't you put those pieces on the plate there." Kitty suggested and Fez nodded before doing what he was told. "Now put four more strips in there. And if you put the burner up just abit higher, you'll see a little trick."

Grinning like a small child, Fez quickly placed the uncooked bacon on the pan and then turned the knob on the stove to the right. The bacon sizzled loudly and the aroma was becoming even strong. The new pieces of bacon couldn't have been on the stove for more than ten seconds, when footprints were heard followed by a familiar voice.

"Who's cooking bacon?"

Fez gasped as his frizzy haired friend, without his usual shades, appeared in the doorway from the basement.

"That is amazing!" he said in awe.

"Yeah!" Kelso agreed, "Now make him disappear!"

Hyde frowned at his moron friends, confused at what exactly what they were talking about. Still feeling puzzled, his eyes moved away from them and over to the nearby chair that his surrogate mother was sitting in. At that moment he couldn't figure out if he felt more confused or angry. When he turned his head to the far right and saw Eric getting dishes out of one of the cupboard he quickly figured it out.

"Forman man, what the hell?" Hyde asked already starting to charge at his adopted brother.

Eric quickly put his hands, that were still holding a cup in one and a plate in the other, up to try to defend himself from Hyde. Kelso and Fez looked on surprised and not sure what to do. Kitty watched her two boys and knew exactly what to do, but with her current state, she was going to have a little trouble doing so.

"You did good all day yesterday and then I let you stay with her last night. And now you go and do this! Making her get up to make breakfast?" Hyde asked angrily, "She's gotta be resting man not slaving over a hot stove. I thought you'd get that picture…"

"Steven!" Kitty called out, quieting Hyde right away. "Eric didn't make me get out of bed."

Hyde stared at Eric who'd practically cuddled up into a ball as he stayed standing, before slowly turning to Kitty. Fez and Kelso both exchanged worried expressions. They'd been the ones who'd gotten Kitty out of bed, but they certainly didn't want to be the open getting in trouble with Hyde. Trying to be secretive about it, they began to sneak their way to the swinging door.

"I made the decision all on my won." Kitty stated and Fez and Kelso stopped in their tracks.

Hyde didn't look very convinced, "You came down the living room stairs all by yourself?"

"Well Eric didn't help me." Kitty replied, it wasn't a lie.

Hyde shook his head, "Alright, well I don't care how you got down here, I'm helping you back upstairs." He said already getting ready to help Kitty out of her seat.

"Steven…" Kitty began to protest, not expecting someone to jump in and take over for her.

"Hyde, man maybe we should let her stay down here for a little longer." Eric said stepping forward, "I mean she's already been down here for awhile and everything seems to be pretty good. She's even happier than she is upstairs."

Kitty nodded along with her son's words as they both looked at Hyde, who was starting to get confused again. When did he become the bad guy?

"Look Mom, I know you wanna stay down here and that you're happier down here but…" Hyde sighed, "You've got be upstairs, in bed, resting. Not making breakfast."

"But she's not even making breakfast." Eric answered for his mother, "She's just watching and helping Kelso and Fez make it."

Hyde turned away from his adopted family and looked to where Fez and Kelso were standing. They each grinned dopey grins and lift a hand to wave when Hyde's eyes landed on them.

"These two morons?" Hyde asked looking back at Eric and Kitty, using his thumb to gesture behind him, "You'd have better luck with Betsy."

"Hey!" both men called out from behind.

"We are not children!" Kelso declared.

Fez nodded an affirmative nod, "Yes, we are very mature."

"Yeah." Kelso said to Hyde and then turned to Fez, "Hey Fez man, when you put two pancakes together like this," he lifted two pancakes next to each other, "They look like boobs!"

"First doughnuts and now pancakes!" Fez said in amazement, "Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day!"

By the time Kelso had nodded in agreement, the other three occupants of the kitchen had tuned the other two out.

"See Mom, if you stay down here, you'll have to deal with that all day." Hyde said gesturing to Kelso and Fez, "Come on let's get you upstairs. Forman man, could you help me out here?"

Eric looked from Hyde to his mother. While he didn't want to get into another fight with Hyde so soon after making things a little better between them, an Upset Kitty Forman was not something you wanted to deal with. Besides Eric could tell his mother really did want to stay here with everyone else.

Slowly, he shook his head, "No."

Hyde frowned at Eric for a few seconds before letting his Zen take over, "Whatever." He said before looking back at Kitty, "Come on Mom…"

"Steven, no." Kitty sternly argued, "I'm feeling good today. I'm having one of my good days and I don't want to spend it upstairs in that room alone."

"Ok, fine." Hyde nodded understandingly, "I'll go up there with you."

"Steven…"

Hyde ignored her surrogate mother's protests and got ready to help her push along the IV. "I'll even get Jackie in there for awhile."

"Steven…."

"There's probably some good movies on TV right now…"

"Steven James Hyde." Kitty called out, finally being the one to interrupt, "I am not going back upstairs. I am staying down here and helping prepare a nice home cooked breakfast for my family. If you want to go upstairs so badly, then go, no one's stopping you."

Hyde stared down at Kitty, she looked upset and it was his fault. He never liked making her feel upset or any other emotion besides happy, but he was worried about her. Even if she said she was having a good day, he didn't want her over working herself by taking care of the others around her.

"Mom…you shouldn't be doing this." He said with a sigh.

"But I am." She replied, "And if you want to pretend that I'm not, fine. Then you can go get some greasy takeout breakfast, instead of having a nice home cooked meal like everyone else."

Hyde looked around the room seeing the various breakfast items. He felt angry at all she'd done already, but there was also a rumbling feeling coming from his stomach that yearned for something that wasn't fast-food.

Hyde's eyes landed back on Kitty, "I want extra pieces of bacon."

Kitty smiled and nodded, "As long as you help Eric set the table."

Hyde gave a small smirk before walking over to where Eric was. Eric handed his brother one of the glass plates and then reached back into the cabinets for more dishes.

The room fell into a comfortable silence as Fez and Kelso finished up on breakfast and Hyde and Eric gathered the tableware. It wasn't until the living room door swung and two more people entered the room.

"Hey you guys…" Donna began to greet as she and Randy walked in, still in their sleeping clothes, but her greeting drifted off as she took notice of the scene of her four male friends doing what was considered, 'woman's work.' She grinned, "I don't know what's going on here, but I like it."

"Randy man," Hyde said to the feather-hared man, "I think that's a warning to reconsider marrying this one."

While Donna shook her head and glared slightly at her old friend, Randy just laughed it off before taking notice of the older woman sitting in the chair.

"Good morning, Mrs. Forman." He greeted with a smile that she returned.

"Good morning, Randy."

"Mrs. Forman, I'm sorry I didn't even see you there with all the guys working in the kitchen." Donna explained and her smile grew as she pointed to the scene, "Did you do this?"

Kitty grinned back, "You bet I did."

Donna laughed a small laugh and nodded with approval, "It's good to see you out of bed again. How're you feeling?"

"I'm feeling good today, Donna. Thank you."

"You know it really is good that you're out of bed and moving around and doing stuff you like to do, Mrs. Forman. I remember when my grandpa was sick," Randy began to tell another story about his grandparents after he and Donna sat themselves down at the table, "He kept doing all the things he did when he was healthy. He actually died at the horse track."

"Oh my." Kitty said, she seemed to be the only one paying any attention to the story.

"It was ok though. Me and Grandma were there and when you think about it, it was really the way he wanted to go." He went on, "A fist full of winning tickets in one hand and cheesy nachos in the other."

Randy gave a small smile as he drifted off abit, while the others around him frowned and stay silent not sure of what to say.

"Oh that reminds me." Kitty said a few seconds later.

"Forget it, Mom." Hyde said lifting up his left hand, as he and Eric made their way to the table with the dishes, "I'm not taking you to the races."

Kitty laughed, "Don't be silly Steven. I just think we should take a trip to the market. All you kids have in the fridge now is butter and beer."

"But there's still beer, right?" Eric asked jokingly.

Hyde ignored Eric's joke and shook his head, "No way, Mom. I really don't think going to the store is a good idea." He stated, "I mean this with the breakfast is a pretty big risk. And you know we should kind of hurry it up, Angela's gonna be here pretty soon and I don't want her finding out about this."

"Aw Hyde doesn't want to get in trouble with his girlfriend." Fez teased before he and Kelso began making kissing noises towards Hyde.

"Ha ha. That's funny." Hyde said sarcastically.

"Thanks, I thought so." Fez grinned.

"yeah me too." Kelso nodded.

"Ow!" the two grinning baboons exclaimed together as Hyde bumped their heads together.

"Steven." Kitty scolded slightly.

Hyde just shrugged and smirked, "Sorry."

"Morning." A female voice called as she entered the room.

"Jackie, good listen…" Hyde began to say before he turned around and saw not just his ex-girlfriend but Angela as well. "Uh Angela…what…what are you doing here?"

"I said I was coming in the morning remember?" the young woman asked with a small smile, and then turned her attention to those in the background, "Good morning everyone."

The rest of the group waved and exchanged 'mornings' to the nurse before Kitty spoke up.

"oh Angela, dear I don't think you've met my son Eric." She said gesturing to Eric.

However, Eric didn't noticed his mother's wave to get him over to her, nor did he hear her words. He had his full attention on the tiny brunette who'd snuck behind everyone else and was quietly pouring herself some coffee, never looking his way. Why was that?

"Hello Eric." Angela greeted sticking her hand out from him to take.

"Huh?" Eric asked as he broke his eyes away from Jackie and saw the woman he'd never met but had heard of. "Oh, hi. I'm Eric."

Angela laugh as Eric shook her hand, "I know. It's nice to finally meet you. Your mother's told me so much about you."

Eric just smiled. He didn't really want to talk to this woman right now. Though he did appreciate everything she'd done for his mother so far and had millions of questions for her. He wanted to talk to Jackie. He had a million and one questions for her.

Luckily Angela didn't seem to bother or interested in the fact that Eric wasn't talking very much; she just turned her attention to Kitty.

"How are you feeling today Mrs. Forman?" she asked gently.

"Very well, dear." She replied.

"Good." Angela smiled, "And you being down here in the kitchen…"

"Uh yeah…about that…" Hyde began to explain.

"I think it's a really great idea." Angela finished with a smile as she looked at Hyde.

"It was my idea." Hyde, Kelso, and Fez said together.

Author's Note: And that would be Chapter 22 of "Two Weeks" Hope you liked!

Ok more notes. First or you know fourth…I had to cut this chapter in half, the characters just really got away from me. But I was looking over my plans for the story and there's a lot. So I was thinking I may, if I get reviews for this long chapter, I'll post the second part this Friday. And yes it does have more Eric and Jackie. Sorry bout that in this chapter. So if you want a second update this week review and don't be afraid if it's your first review for the story, I'd still love to hear from you!

Will Eric and Jackie ever talk about the kiss? Why hasn't Jackie talked to him? Will Kitty get to go to the supper market? What will happen during this visit with Angela? And how will breakfast turn out? Confused? You won't be after the next chapter of "Two Weeks"

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