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Author's Note: Hello everyone! So sorry for the late update. I know I didn't post yesterday and this posting is pretty late at night. Sorry! I really need to get a regular, normal sleep schedule. Especially now that summers almost over *sigh.* Hopefully this chapter will make up for my lateness. Couple of notes. First off thank you so much for all your kind words and reviews. They really mean so much to me. As do the alerts and favorites, so thank you for those too! Second please remember I am not a doctor nor am I training to be one and I didn't even catch House last week because I was out shopping. Hehe. Well for once I really don't have much to say, so you should enjoy it while you can lol. Thanks so much for everything, sorry I'm late and please Enjoy!

Hyde nodded as Kitty finished with her answer and then quickly thought of his next question.

"So what about secrets" he asked.

Kitty frowned slightly, "What about them?"

"Do you think they're good to keep?"

"No. Keeping things inside is never healthy." She began, "Of course that doesn't mean I think secrets are bad either. I do understand that some things just can't be shared with others…"

"Are you good at keeping secrets?" Hyde asked as Kitty began to drift off in her answer.

Kitty straightened her posture and smile, "Yes, I am."

"Okay, Mom." Hyde scoffed.

"I am very good at keeping secrets, Steven." Kitty protested looking more shocked and not hurt, "Like…oh I bet you don't know that when Eric was six years old he use to have this reoccurring nightmare. It was about one of those wind-up monkey dolls…you know the ones that would clap the cymbals together."

Hyde moved the video camera back so he could get a better view of his surrogate mother as she performed the actions of the toy she was describing.

"Well anyways I don't remember what the dream was exactly about. But the poor dear was so frightened by it. And even today he's still scared of the toy…" Kitty suddenly stopped talking as she realized she had just told her son's secret to her adoptive son and anyone else who would later watch the video.

She smiled weakly at the camera, "Oops. Sorry, Eric, honey." She said before breaking out into a nervous laugh.

Hyde laughed from behind the camera, "That's a good one Mom."

"Never mind that." She replied, wanting to change the subject, "Back to secrets. I think it's better if you just come out with it and tell someone. Someone you trust. After all, if it's a problem that you're keeping as a secret that person could help you."

"And besides, you can only keep a secret so long before someone finds out." Kitty went on, "Especially in this family. There are no secrets in this family."

"You can say that again." Hyde said with a smirk and then a thought suddenly entered his mind, "Hey Mom, you think you can let me know when your planning on sending anything to Eric I wanna send him a little something from the toy store."

0o0o0o

It was later on that same Friday, Eric was sitting in the kitchen enjoying the quietness as he read the Funnies in the days paper—even though it was well into the afternoon.

"Alright Forman, what's up with you?"

Eric looked up slightly surprised by who had said the words. It sounded like something his adoptive brother say to address him—the angry tone included—but instead of Hyde being the one who had said the words it was the petite brunette who had entered the room from the basement.

"Well nothing much really." Eric began to say, "Just sitting hear reading. You won't believe what Snoopy did to Charlie Brown."

Jackie frowned an intense frown as Eric lifted the paper containing the cartoons and began to point out a section to her.

"See in this square Snoopy's laying on his dog house, like he always does, and the Charlie Brown comes in and…"

"I don't care!" Jackie almost shouted as she snatched the comics out of Eric's hand, "I don't care what Snoopy did to you!"

"Me?" Eric asked softly with a confused frown, but Jackie only ignored him.

"What was that?" she asked, keeping her frustrated tone in her voice.

Eric looked up at her and tried to look innocent, "I asked 'Me?' Because I didn't get why you called me Charlie Brown…"

"Not that!" Jackie argued, getting more and more aggravated that she had to fight the urge to stomp out of the room, "That, down in the basement!"

"Ooohhh that!" he said nodding his head as if he'd suddenly remembered what it was she was talking about, "That was all of us talking. Mostly about Mom and the shifts schedule…oh and the guys did get some burns on Randy in there…"

"Eric." Jackie said, not sounding so loud this time but still keeping her voice very firm, "You completely ignored me. What was that about?"

"That's right, I was ignoring you. Sorry bout that." Eric replied trying to seem naïve, but it only made Jackie's brows knit closer together "You know Jackie, I know you probably wanna talk about that right now, but I'm just not really ready to talk about it. I mean I think we should put off talk about what happened even though it's very important for us to discuss."

Jackie looked down at Eric and saw his mischievous smirk on his lips. She suddenly realized why he had been ignoring her. That whole thing he had just told her was pretty similar to the whole discussion about last night. Eric wanted to talk about it, but Jackie wasn't ready. They were putting off talking about it even though it was very, very important for them to discuss it.

She kept her multicolored eyes on his green ones as she shook her head, "You're a sneaky one, you know that?"

"Like a snake." Eric answered with a smug smirk.

Jackie lifted her right eyebrow "A snake?"

"Yeah," Eric nodded, "Cause you know it slithers around and…stuff."

Again Jackie shook her head; only this time she did it to hide her smile. Eric smiled back, especially when he caught the quick glimpse of her tiny grin. And then that smile grew as she took a seat in the green chair next to him.

Maybe she wanted to talk about last night now. But even if she didn't the smile on Eric's face would stay in its place. He really enjoyed her company.

"Okay fine." Jackie said as she got comfortable in her seat. "Let's talk about night. But! For the record your little trick did not work and we're talking about it now because I decided it was time, with no help from the peanut section."

Eric only nodded as he fought back the urge to chuckle at the sharp look Jackie was giving him as she pointed her index finger at him. He really didn't care who was the one who decided when was the time to talk about those kisses, he was just glad they were finally talking about it.

"Wait, are you calling me Charlie Brown again?" he asked with a frown.

His answer was a playful smack on the arm.

"Do you wanna talk about this or not?" Jackie questioned, no longer able to hide her smile from him.

Eric nodded, "No I do, I do. You're right."

"Ok." Jackie said with a nod.

"Ok." Eric repeated.

The two then fell into a long somewhat uncomfortable silence. They both sat in their seats and began moving their eyes to anything in the room that wasn't the person in front of them. Neither one of them knew how to start off or what to say once the conversation got going.

"Sooo…" Eric began, already showing how uncertain he felt, "You know maybe I was wrong and I was making to big deal about this. We don't really need to talk about what happened last night. I think we'll be ok…we were pretty good today. Let's just forget about the talking and I'll see you in Mom's room at seven."

Eric then stood up from his chair and was ready to walk out of the room when a small, soft hand grabbed a hold of his wrist. He looked over and saw Jackie before she gently pushed him back into his seat.

"No Eric, you were right. We need to talk about what happened, and the longer we put it off the harder it'll be to talk about later on." Jackie explained, "Now come on, we can do this. Why don't we start off with a question or something?"

"Yeah ok." Eric nodded, still feeling the butterflies in the stomach, "Questions are good. Ok."

"Ok." Jackie repeated Eric's word and his nod, she then looked at him with her own uneasy eyes, "You start."

"Uh…um…ok." He agreed, though was very much taken aback that she had suggested he start. It took him quite a few seconds to come up with a question to ask, but at last he did.

"Why did you kiss me?" he finally asked, keeping his voice gentle.

Jackie bit her lip before answering, "I don't know."

Eric nodded in response and then Jackie decided to repeat the question.

"Why did you kiss me?" she asked him in a similar to the one he used on her.

"I don't know." Eric replied.

Jackie nodded and then realized it was her turn to come up with a new question. She took a few seconds to think of one, but didn't take nearly as long as Eric had.

"How did those kisses make you feel?"

"I don't know." He said and then took a short pause before asking her the same question, "How did that kiss make you feel?"

She gave him the same answer in a soft voice, "I don't know."

"Well this is going really well." Eric said in a joking matter rather than a sarcastic one.

"Yeah," Jackie had to agree with a smile, "Maybe now we should try to answer those questions…honestly."

"Yeah. That sounds good." Eric nodded and then gulped, "Why did you kiss me?"

"Because you kissed me first. And that's the truth." Jackie reminded. Eric nodded understanding and then looked down at his hands, just that little gesture made Jackie feel a bundle of guilt inside her.

"But there's more to it." She added before taking a deep breath and explaining, "I guess seeing you with your mom and how you were helping out with her. You went from running out of the room to getting her to press that morphine button. I'm really proud of you Eric and I guess that kiss just seemed like a good way to show you just how much."

Jackie smiled at him and tiled her head slightly, "Plus all that time we'd been spending together, played a pretty big role in it too."

This extended sat a lot better with Eric. Still that last part seemed a bit open-ended. Eric waited for Jackie to elaborate on that last part of the answer but she just smiled shyly at him before asking him the question.

"Why did you kiss me?"

"Well," Eric began before taking a deep breath. She had been honest with him, so now he had to be honest with her, "You did look really beautiful that night. And…"

"Hold it a minute." Jackie ordered as she put her hand up in the air to stop him form continuing, "We said we were doing the honesty thing here. Now we both know I look good now, and I looked good earlier today, I'll even look good later on today. But that kiss happened at three in the morning. No one looks good at three in the morning."

Eric looked into her mismatched eyes, "You did."

Obviously touched by Eric's response, Jackie put her hand to her heart and smiled. He didn't say anything though because she knew his answer wasn't finished.

"And I guess it's like what you said about Mom. I saw you taking care of her and I thought about how good you were at it. How you must have done it a hundred times before, and how you've been taking care of both Mom and Red…just being here for them, when I couldn't be. I'm really thankful for that Jackie."

"I also agree with you about the time we'd been spending together play a part n why I kissed you." He said after a brief pause, "I mean, I just couldn't ignore some of those thoughts I had been thinking when I was with you."

This time Jackie was the one who waited silently, hoping the answer would be further explained. However after waiting almost a whole minute, she realized he was leaving his answer just as open-ended as she had. It was time for the next question.

"How did those kisses make you feel?" she repeated her question from before.

"Jackie, like I said before, those kisses weren't nothing. But…" he suddenly stopped talking as he felt a bundle of nerves starting to act up again.

Jackie noticed his nervousness and realized after what she had said to him earlier about the kisses, it was her fault he felt that way.

"Eric," she said in a soft voice, "Since we're being honest and all, I think there's something you should know. And I think I better say it before you give your answer. If that's ok with you."

He nodded his head in response happy that he had more time to think over his answer, "Yeah, no go for it Jackie."

"Ok." Jackie breathed before taking a deep breath and speaking again, "I lied about what said before about those kisses being nothing. They were really something. Something good. Like really, really good."

Eric grinned at the words he had heard and Jackie smiled back at him.

"That's it." She told him, "Now come on, answer your question."

Eric gave a small chuckle at how Jackie could go from feeling nervous and speaking softly to her loud bossy self.

"Alright, well you're right Jackie those kisses were really, really good kisses. They were pretty amazing." He began to explain, "And honestly, they're pretty hard to explain."

Jackie nodded for him to continue.

"I mean they felt like kisses I had never had before. I thought I had had some amazing kisses before but after those kisses last night the other kisses from before seem so…dull." He went on, "I don't know, it was just like…"

"Something clicked." Jackie finished for him.

Eric nodded, "Exactly."

"I know. I felt that same way too." She said so that this time the question wouldn't have to be repeated.

"Really?" he asked sounding hopeful.

"Yeah." Jackie nodded and smiled as she looked down at the table for only a second or two before looking back at Eric, "Can you imagine? The former cheerleader and nerd…"

Eric frowned as he began to protest, "Hey I wasn't a nerd!"

"Ok fine, the former cheerleader and geek." Jackie stated and saw that Eric was getting ready to argue so she jumped in, "You like Star Wars. You're a geek."

He couldn't argue against him liking Star Wars, so he just nodded in agreement.

Jackie gave a small laugh, despite the tinge of sadness in her eyes, "It's kind of funny to think about huh?"

"I don't really think so." Eric began to say and then shrugged his shoulders, "I mean I guess it's funny in the 'Knock, Knock' joke way. But not in The Three Stooges way."

"The Three Stooges?" Jackie repeated in a questioning tone.

Eric smiled and nodded, "Yeah, they're funny guys. That 'Slowly I Turned' sketch, classic."

"That's the one where they keep beating up poor Curly." She said with a scrunched up nose.

"Jackie, they always beat up 'poor Curly.'" Eric stated.

"I like the pie fight better." She shared with him.

"The pie fight?" Eric asked sounding shocked, "Everybody does that fight now."

"Right, but the stooges were the ones who started it all."

"True very true." Eric agreed as he waggled his index finger at her, "Hey do you remember the one where they take care of a baby?"

"The one where they try make the baby laugh by doing all sorts of things and it finally starts laughing when they start crying?" Jackie asked already starting to laugh at the scene in her head.

"Yeah," Eric laughed "And then they put a diaper on Curly thinking that it would fit on the baby?"

Jackie nodded her head, "Then at the end where the snuck off in the haystacks?"

Eric joined Jackie in laughing harder and abit louder. Then suddenly the laughter from both parties died down. They both realized what had happened, but it was Jackie who commented on it.

"I guess we kinda got off topic huh?" she asked.

"I guess so." Eric agreed, though he wished they had stayed on The Three Stooges topic a little longer. It was nice seeing that they had something in common and Eric couldn't think of too many girls who really like the three masters of physical comedy.

"It's your turn to ask the question." Jackie informed him.

"Oh right. Ok." He nodded and then took a deep breath, "What do we do about this?"

Jackie was surprised by the question he'd asked. She knew it was bound to come up, but had thought she would be the one to address it. And never thought it would come up so early. She really wasn't prepared.

"I...I don't know. Honestly." She said to Eric and then began to voice her thoughts to him, "I mean it's like we really shouldn't do anything, and just forget about this whole thing. But it's almost like those kisses were too much of something to let them becoming nothing."

Eric nodded, knowing exactly what she meant, "Right."

"I think," Jackie took a deep breath, "I think it might be better for everyone if we just put it behind us, Eric." She told him, but something deep inside her told her that was the last thing she wanted.

"Put it behind us?" Eric asked with a frown.

"What else are we supposed to do?" she asked hoping he'd come up with a better answer than she had.

"I don't know." He shrugged, "I thought maybe we could go out like on a date or something."

Jackie's eyes widened—she wasn't expecting that, "A date?"

"Yeah, you know that thing that two people do together. Sometimes they go out to dinner, sometimes a movie, sometimes…"

"Eric, I know what a date is." Jackie interrupted him as she stood up from her seat and walked over to the sink, "And I know we don't have time for one. We're taking care of your mom remember?"

"I know, Jackie." Eric assured, "but weren't you the one who said Mom didn't want us spending all of our time hanging around here, taking care of her and doing nothing?"

Jackie mentally cursed to herself. She could have kicked herself for saying that. Of course it was the truth, but she had never thought it would backfire on her later on. Before Jackie could say anything Eric went on.

"Besides, seeing Mom like this is another reason I think we should do something instead of just ignoring what happened." He began to explain, "She's sick and she's…well you know." He said still not able to say the 'd word.' "It reminds me that life's short and every so often you've gotta take chances."

"So come on Jackie, what do you say?" Eric asked standing up and walking to where Jackie stood as he started up a familiar tune, "Take a chance, take a chance, take a chance on me. Take a chance, take a chance, take a chance on me."

Jackie furrowed her brow as she watched him, "Eric, who sings that song."

"Uh, ABBA." He replied, he wasn't too sure if that was exactly how the song went but he thought it was pretty easy to figure out what song it was.

"Let's keep it that way then." she replied and Eric had to break into a smile.

"Alright, I stop singing if you agree to go out on a date with me." He bargained.

For several seconds Jackie remained quiet. She wasn't too sure about going out on a date so soon, a date with Eric Forman to top it off with. Then again it was better than just ignoring those kisses all together. And maybe that date wouldn't be so bad.

"Ok, fine. One date." She said lifting up a finger. Eric's face lit up and he wanted to tell her how grateful he was but she wasn't through with her message, "But we won't make up any day for it. It'll just be whenever we're both free, that way we can still do what we have to for your mom."

Eric nodded, "Got it."

"And I'm only doing this because I love ABBA." She added and Eric laughed knowing she was only kidding

"This is great Jackie, it really is." Eric said to Jackie, "And I promise we'll go wherever you wanna go for our date."

"What about our friends?" Jackie asked.

Eric frowned in confusion, "Uh Jackie, when I said date I meant just the two of us not everyone else…"

"I know that." She said smacking him playfully on the arm, "I mean do we tell them about…us?"

Eric thought over the question. While he didn't like keeping things from his friends this might be an exception. You'd think after all this time they'd be more mature about these things but the really weren't. He'd seen the way Fez and Kelso had been teasing Hyde about Angela and if he and Jackie told the group the taunting and butting in would be ten times worse.

"You know Jackie, I think for now we should just keep it between ourselves." He said after taking the time to think.

"Right." Jackie nodded and then looked down at her hands, a movement that worried Eric. Maybe she wanted to tell them, and because he said no she was rethinking the whole date.

"Uh or we could tell them." Eric chimed in, "I just thought we shouldn't rush in and get them all excited, but if you think…"

"No, Eric I agree with you." Jackie interrupted, "I think we should wait and just take this whole thing slow."

That had been her problem in her other relationships, she was always fast forwarding to the future. To weddings and house and babies. She never really enjoyed the present time and if she did, it wasn't long before she started planning for the future. She didn't want to do that this time, she didn't want to make the same mistakes.

"Ok, I got it. We wait to tell everyone else and we'll take things nice and slow in the mean time. Have like a secret relationship, a sort of friends with benefits." Eric rambled on and Jackie shot him a side look at his last words, "Well not those kinds of benefits. I mean maybe like a kiss here or there, if the moment feels right. We'll take things step by step."

Jackie smiled at the man she once thought of as her enemy, "Eric, how can you go from taking chances to taking things nice and slow?"

"Because of you, Jackie." he said as he took a few steps forward making the gap between them become smaller and smaller.

"You're not the same spoiled bratty little princess you use to be before I left to Africa. You're this strong responsible caring young woman, I mean yeah you still have that little princess in there that makes a quick appearance every once in awhile but mostly you're this amazing new woman."

"I've really enjoyed spending time with you these past five days, Jackie." Eric continued on, "I think we've actually spent more time together these past few days than we ever did when we were kids. And I'd do anything to spend more time with you."

Jackie's grin grew at Eric's words, "Eric."

"Yeah?"

"The moment feels right." She said.

Before Eric could say one word, Jackie wrapped her arms about his neck and crushed her lips against his.

Eric wrapped his arms around her slim waist, pulling her closer to him. It was their third kiss, their third kiss in the kitchen, and it was just as passionate as the first two.

Their tongues danced together. And they explored each other's mouths as if it were the thing they had longed to do all day. They were so caught up in their tender kiss that they never heard the voices on the other side of the room getting closer and closer.

Nothing could have brought the two out of this moment, nothing until the swing door was pushed open.

"What the Hell?"

Instantly Eric and Jackie broke away from their kiss yet remained in their embrace. They looked at each, knowing very well who had said the words.

Still they turned their heads to the swinging door and saw two people standing in the doorway. Two shocked people. Two people each of them had dated. Those two people were Donna and Hyde and neither of them looked too happy.

"Huh." Eric said as he thought about the decision he and Jackie had come up with regarding their friends, "That didn't last long."

Author's Note: There you go, Chapter 26 of "Two Weeks" Hope you liked!

Who asked the words "What the hell?" How Jackie and Eric explain this? How will Donna and Hyde along with everyone else react? Will Jackie and Eric still go out on their date? Where will they go? And when the heck are we gonna hear from Red again? 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, stay tuned, take care and have a nice day!