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Author's Note: Hello everyone! How are you all? Hope all is well! So sorry about not updating last week, had midterms and we all know how fun those are. And I also apologize for posting so late into this week, had plans of posting it yesterday but I remembered I had an online test due that day and the chapter still wasn't finished. My bad, I know…though still who gives a test during spring break? College I guess! Anywoo sorry about that once again. Just a few notes today. First off thank you all for your such lovely and kind reviews! Reading them never fails to make my heart flutter! I love them all! And as always I love you all! You're so all so wonderful and kind! Thank you again! Second as always please remember I am not a doctor nor am I learning to be one. I am almost, almost close to catching up to all the eps of House and that make me both happy and sad! I know I'm weird. And finally please forgive me for not only not posting last week, and for posting late into this week but for also updating with a short chapter. It is the half of last times chapter that had to be cut in half, so that's really the main purpose. Still this chapter does have some important info and I really liked writing the first scene after the video segment. It was fun and I hope you like it too, that what's really important of course. Ok I'm shutting up now…jeeze you'd think me not sleeping at all last night would quite me down huh? lol Enjoy!

"Hate is a very strong word, Steven. Especially when you're talking about people." Kitty stated.

It had been quite a few minutes since Kitty's final question and Hyde's emotional response. Now the two found themselves back in their places from before; Kitty seated on the yellow sofa and Hyde infront of her, happily filming behind the camera.

"Yeah, ok." Hyde replied not exactly seeing the point in his mother making that statement, it didn't really answer his question; and so he asked again, "So who are some of the people you hate?"

"I don't hate anyone." She explained but soon saw Hyde's unconvinced look behind the camera, and she let out a small sigh, "I mean sure there are a few people…oh like those rich, snobby women from The LOPPS."

"Kids, don't ask. You don't wanna know." Hyde said to the future viewers of the video.

Kitty sent a warning look to Hyde but soo softened her expression when she too began to address the future generations, "The Ladies of Point Place."

"See I told you." Hyde added before going back to the main subject, "So you hate those ladies?"

"No, I don't hate them, Steven, I just don't like them very much. I dislike them, I don't hate them" Kitty tried to clear up the differences, "I don't think you should ever say that you hate someone or show any hatred towards anyone; not even towards the people you dislike or people who have done mean things to you."

"Don't get mad, get revenge right?"

Kitty frowned a shook her head, "No not revenge either. You should always show kindness towards others, smile, give a compliment, offer a helping hand." She went on and remembered another important part, "Ooh, oh and it's always good to do this to a person after they've done something that upset or hurt you. That way you'll feel like the better person and they'll feel guilt. They may not show it but deep, deep, deep inside it's there, and then slowly it'll start eating at them until they can't take it anymore."

"The ol' kill them with kindness, huh?" Hyde asked with a smirk that Kitty returned with a smile.

0o0o0o

"What kind of place claims to serve breakfast but doesn't give one piece of bacon?" Red grumbled with annoyance as he glared down at the takeout food in his lap.

It had been several minutes since Hyde had come up and delivered the morning's breakfast and by now everyone was settled in and eating their meals. Well almost everyone. Kitty still hadn't eaten anything; the food only seemed to make her feel sicker and she no longer felt like eating at all, of course part of that was due to the fact that whatever she put into her system would only be tossed out minutes later. Still she sat with her family, enjoying the talk, the company, and most importantly just being able to have a little more time with them all.

Eric was still downstairs finishing his breakfast and Hyde had informed his adopted family that he'd be coming up later on and that they shouldn't wait for him to eat. And so the food was passed out and they all sat themselves around Kitty.

Red remained at his wife's side in the armchair he'd been spending half of his time in now—the other half was spent beside Kitty in their bed. Hyde had pulled in another chair and placed it beside Red's seat. Sitting on the left side of the bed, but facing both Red and Hyde, were Lucy and her mother. Laurie was seated by Kitty's feet while sharing the tray Hyde and brought up with Lucy, to put their food on. And Lucy had made herself comfortable in the spot closest to her grandmother, who had—with the help of Red—propped herself on several pillows so she wouldn't strain herself from sitting up for too long.

"I don't know, Red." Hyde replied to his adopted father's comment with a smirk, he then slowly lifted his own strip of bacon to his mouth and took a bite, "I just don't know." He finished with his mouth full.

Frowning Red looked at his son but then turned away only to realize what it was he saw and then quickly turn back to look at him again, in a double take like way. Seeing the older man's actions caused Hyde's smirk to grow, however he never bothered to even try to hide his piece of crispy, greasy bacon. Red opened his mouth to make a comment but didn't get the chance to even get a word in when Kitty joined in the conversation.

"Now Red, you know you're not supposed to be eating bacon. It's too greasy." She reminded but didn't stop there, "Besides you've barely eaten anything since you've been home, to have bacon be the one thing you finally eat." She shook her head slightly before giving a pointed look at her husband, "And don't think I've forgotten all of that greasy, fattening, unhealthy food you must have eaten, but would never tell me you had, while you were at your convention. We need to look after that heart of yours."

Though Red tried to look upset or even show his annoyance he couldn't seem to fight back the small smirk that was etching it's way onto his lips. It was there for two reasons, one being the memory of all the greasy, fattening, unhealthy but very tasty food that he had in fact indulged in while in New York—but that reason was a mere cause for the smirk. The main reason behind the slightest smile was the same reason that was usually the reason behind any of his smiles, Kitty.

Here she was sick and…getting sicker but she still looked after them all, Red himself included, making sure they were well and taking care of themselves. She may have been moved to the top of the family's list of concerns these past couple of days but she'd kept her order of things the same with her family at the top of hers.

"Lucy, honey don't play with your food and finish your hash brown." Laurie told her daughter in a firm and yet still gentle tone of voice.

Not five seconds later the little blonde toddler put her piece of half a biscuit—she'd been using as her hash browns dance partner—back on the food tray and brought the food her mother had told her to eat to her mouth. She took a bite and then looked up at her mother with large smile stretched onto her lips, Laurie returned the grin as she looked at her daughter and brushed the little girl's bangs out of her cute little face.

The scene on the bed had Red's smirk turning into a slightly larger smile; though he was still getting use to the fact that his little girl was now an adult seeing her interaction and attentiveness with her daughter—his granddaughter—had him beaming with pride.

Kitty too found herself smiling as she watched Laurie and Lucy, she'd always known that Laurie's reckless teenage and early twenties years were just a faze and that there would be something that would make her reexamine her life, settle down, and be responsible. And now her she was a loving, caring mother who saw her child as the light of her life. Kitty's smile grew as she realized just how happy and how lucky she was to be able to see this scene before her.

Even Hyde couldn't hold back his smirk—though he told himself it was because of the kid and not Laurie, though he'd never admit it out loud he did have soft spot for little kids. Still deep down he knew most of his smirk was caused by Laurie's actions as well. He was glad to see that she had become such a great mother, he use to worry that if she ever did end up with a kid she'd be an Edna-type mother and he wished that on no child. However, while he was happy to see a change in Laurie he knew the old Laurie was still somewhere in there.

"So Laurie, what's it like with Jackie in your room now?" Hyde questioned, trying to hold in his mischievous smirk.

"Okay." The blonde replied with a shrug of her shoulders, "I mean it was pretty nice of her to let me and Lucy stay in there with her…she even let us sleep on the bed. And we got to talk a little bit too…I guess she's really not that bad."

While Laurie hadn't said her words in a happy, chipper, just made a best friend for life kind of tone she hadn't used a miserable, annoyed, or sarcastic tone either—and that made both her parents smile. They saw Jackie as their second daughter and to see that their own flesh and blood daughter was starting to get along with her as well made them both very happy.

Of course the happiness showed more in Kitty than in Red, still they were both equally happy because their family was coming together. And having a united family, having people to lean on, would be something that would help them all get through the future events everyone knew were coming no one quite spoke of.

"Yeah, ok." Hyde quickly said, that wasn't what he wanted to hear, "But I meant how do you feel about Jackie now living in your old room when my room and Eric's room have been left exactly the same?"

Hearing his adopted son's words caused Red send a warning scowl his way, "Steven…"

Laurie stopped her father with a raised hand and a smile, "It's ok Daddy, I understand why Jackie's living here now. She came to help you and Mom out." She said in an understanding tone of voice as she looked at her mother and father, but once that was said she looked over at Hyde but kept her understanding voice though it now started to sound a bit faux.

"And having her in my room was really the only logical choice. After all Eric's room has got so much junk in there it would take months to clean out and you'd have to find someone to do it because I would touch any of that stuff with a ten foot pole. And your room Hyde," she tilted her head, her fake innocent voice now easily recognizable, "Well that is where that murder, that took place before Mommy and Daddy bought the house, happened."

Hyde tried to keep his Zen in place as he heard Laurie's statement but after letting his smirk drop and quickly disappear from his face it was pretty hard to do. Still he gave it a shot, reminding himself that this was Laurie, Evil Laurie who was trying to get back at him by telling him his room could possibly be haunted, and that was a laugh. His room couldn't be haunted…though there hand been those occurrence of a chill in the room that he'd always passed off as him being in the basement.

"That's…" he cleared his throat and looked at the person he knew would tell him the truth, "That's not true, right?"

"Of course not, Steven. Laurie I don't know why you would say such a thing." Kitty scolded slightly but Laurie only shrugged, "Do you honestly think we would buy a house where a murder took place?"

"Your mother's right." Red declared speaking to both his children, "There was no murder committed in Steven's room or any other room...Hell Steven, before you moved into that back room I'd pretty much forgotten about it."

Kitty gave a small giggle at her husband's words, "You know I did too."

"Oh that's right, your room isn't the room of the murder," Laurie said as if remembering just then while she smiled that evil looking smile at Hyde, "It's the room of the forgotten. You really must feel right at home in there."

Hyde stared back at Laurie, now having his Zen back in tact, "Yeah unlike your room that everyone or should I say every guy knew about and visited…isn't it like the neighborhood's national landmark?"

"Yeah." Laurie nodded, "because the city's national landmark was already that area between your mom's l…"

"Alright, that's enough!" Red cut in angrily, a headache had already started to form in the small amount of time.

"But Daddy," Laurie began to protest with a small pout, "we were just getting started."

Hyde nodded in agreement, "Yeah Red, and I had a really good comeback planned out."

"I don't care." Red argued gruffly, "You two are adults now and that means no more of these petty, pointless arguments."

Both Hyde and Laurie looked downwards, but neither did it out of embarrassment or because they were ashamed; instead they hung their heads with hints of sadness and even more disappointment.

Kitty nodded her head as she looked at the duo, "I'm with your father on this one. Even though your little argument did remind me of the days when all of you kids were much younger, and that did make me smile, you are all adults now and you need start acting like it as well. Which reminds me…" she drifted off just a bit as she turned to her daughter, "Laurie, what about Fez?"

"What about him?" Laurie asked trying to sound nonchalant as she shrugged her shoulders.

The actions caused Kitty to frown but didn't stop her from pressing for an answer, "When are you going to tell him?"

"Later…" Laurie said in an almost uncertain tone of voice, never looking up at her mother.

"Later? Laurie, how much later?" Kitty asked; it wasn't that she was upset with the situation or her daughter, she just felt that Fez had the right to know about his daughter and telling him as soon as Laurie could, would be better than prolonging it until Laurie was forced to tell him the truth, "Honey, you and Lucy can't stay up here hiding forever. There will be a point where either you'll have to go downstairs or he'll have to come upstairs and the two of you would run into each other, this house isn't as big as you think it is. And what happens if he sees Lucy? What do plan on doing then?"

With a roll of her blue eyes, Laurie turned to her rambling mother, "Relax mother, I meant later on today."

"Oh." Kitty quickly said with a hint of embarrassment that cause the two men in the room to smirk, "Well that's good to here."

"Yeah." Laurie agreed but didn't sound as convinced, she looked up from her coffee and towards her parents, turning on her innocent voice and matching expression, "And I was kinda hoping you could do me a favor when I do tell Fez…"

Having a hunch as to what his daughter was going to say, Red raised his left hand to cut in, "Don't worry Kitten, you just tell me when you're planning on telling Alibaba and I'll grab my hunting rifle and block the room's exit."

Kitty's eyes widened in fear as she looked over at her husband, the grin on his face was doing nothing to settle her nerves. Meanwhile Hyde smirked and nodded in amusement, today was going to be a very interesting day he just knew it.

"Daddy, no." Laurie was quick to reply, "I want to do this on my own. I was just hoping that you and Mommy could watch Lucy while I tell Fez everything." She paused for a second or two before explaining, "I don't know how he's going to react when I tell him about Lucy and well…just to be on the safe side. I don't want her to see anything…I don't want her getting hurt because of something I did…um didn't do…you know what I mean."

Kitty smiled a gentle smile, "Laurie, I really don't think you have anything to worry about but if it'll make you feel better we'd love to spend more time with our granddaughter, right Red?"

"Sure." The bald man seated in the armchair nodded, "We'll watch the kid. Just let us know ahead of time, your mother's nurse is coming some time during the day today."

"At two o'clock." Hyde was quick to inform.

The fact that Hyde knew the information off hand didn't surprise either of his surrogate parents; Kitty let out a soft giggle and Red smirked just slightly. Laurie, however had no clue as to why Hyde would be keeping track of the time her mother's nurse would arrive but it made her very curious and the expression on her face showed it.

Hyde didn't like the responses from any of his adopted family members, it was bad enough he'd lost his Zen in that moment of thinking of Angie…maybe he could regain a little of it back.

"Or you know some time around that time. Two-ish." He said leaning back in his chair and letting a thin veil of Zen cover his face.

None of the Formans looked fooled as they stared back at Hyde, even the youngest of them all gave a little giggle causing the rest of them to join in in the laughter. It was then that Hyde realized the only way to make this better was to change the subject.

"Hey Laurie, you think you could lemme know when you're gonna tell Fez too?" Hyde asked and Laurie opened her mouth to make a remark about the visiting nurse she'd yet to meet but Hyde continued, "Wanna get goof seats and all, heard it's gonna be one heck of a show."

The young mother scowled slightly, "You know what good show you'd be perfect for? Annie. I mean you've got the whole orphan thing and frizzy hair thing nailed, just talk to Eric about the high pitched voice thing and the part will be yours!"

Hyde furrowed his brows at Laurie's insult, however instead of coming up with his own burn he turned towards Red. After a few seconds of feeling eyes upon him Red turned and saw Hyde, he then raised his eyebrows.

"Oh now you want me to stop her." Came the words from his mouth.

Kitty's smile grew as she watched the interaction between her family; these were they types of moments she'd always hoped would surround her in her last days. All that was missing now was her baby boy Eric who Hyde had assured would be coming in upstairs with them soon, so Kitty didn't fret over it too much. And of Jackie and her other basement babies were MIA in this moment. But they had all taken time from their lives to come visit her and had even worked out a whole shifts plan to help them spend more time with her, another thing she was grateful for.

Suddenly Kitty was pulled out of her thoughts as she felt a small pat on her leg. She turned to her left and was met with the sight of her granddaughter looking up at her and holding up her hash brown in her hand.

"Grandma hungry?"

The corners of Kitty's mouth tugged upwards at the kind little gesture, "Oh no Lucy, your Uncle Steven brought that up for you to eat sweetie."

"I share." Lucy replied in an innocent voice that unlike her mother's was not fake.

Kitty's smile grew at her granddaughters generous offer, however before she could make another protest her own daughter cut in gently lowering Lucy's hand that held the breakfast food.

"Lucy, baby," Laurie began to say, not knowing how to explain this complicated situation to a three year old, "Grandma's not feeling good right now. And eating anything right now will make her tummy hurt." She paused figuring that was a well enough explanation, "So why don't you finish eating your breakfast now and Grandma will eat later on, okay?"

Lucy's brown eyes stared up at Laurie's blue ones as she nodded, "Okay Mommy."

Seeing her daughter's smile and the fact that she'd quickly understood and didn't go on with a million and one questions as she normally would have, made a grin break out on Laurie's own face. However, when she turned her attention away from her daughter and caught a glimpse of Hyde, she saw him slowly and slightly shake his head back and forth causing Laurie's smile to fall. She knew what he was telling her.

He was telling her that Kitty wouldn't be eating later on. He was telling her that she hadn't been eating. He was telling her that her…their mother was getting worse.

Lucy noticed the sadder change in her mother's expression but seemed more interested in reality that she was no longer watching or paying attention to her. The blonde haired toddler saw this her moment, and she looked back at her grandmother—with her hash brown still in her hand—ready to make another attempt in getting her to eat. This time though she decided to take a different approach, a more familiar one to her.

"Open up for the choo choo twain." She said smiling brightly as she moved the piece of food towards Kitty in a motion that was to be similar as a train's; just like her mom did with her when she wouldn't eat her vegetables.

The actions earned a giggle from Kitty and even Hyde and Red had faint smiles on their faces from the scene. Laurie on the other hand, didn't look as amused and her eyes widened slightly.

"Lucy." She lightly scolded.

But Lucy ignored her mother, "Choo Choo!" she said happily moving the hash brown patty even closer to Kitty's mouth.

Not wanting to break the poor dear's heart and still not being able to hide the smile on her face that Lucy had put there, Kitty gradually opened her mouth and took a bite of the potato breakfast. It was a small piece so hopefully it wouldn't cause her to get too sick, but it was big enough for her to be able to taste and enjoy the bite and most importantly big enough to make Lucy happy.

"Yay!" Lucy cheered excitedly while clapping her hands.

The adults in the room smiled along with her and Hyde even found himself clapping his hands as well. Maybe not as fast as Lucy but still clapping.

"Well Kitty," Red began to say with his smirk in place, looking from his wife to his granddaughter, "Looks like we've got a new number one favorite."

Though Lucy wasn't quite sure what it was her grandfather was talking about, the happy expression he was looking at her with made her even more wound up and she began to clap faster her smile now twice the size from before. This caused Kitty to release her own girlish girl as Red chuckled with delight.

However not everyone was happy about the made statement. The minute the words left Red's mouth, two set of eyes widened before deep frowns became intended on two different foreheads.

"Hey!" both Hyde and Laurie exclaimed together.

0o0o0o

Back down in the kitchen, breakfast was just about over and already over for some people.

Kelso had now given up on trying to sleep while holding his head in his hand and had laid his head sideways on the table as he peacefully slept with his mouth wide open. While Kelso's snores filled the air and his drool started to pool over the table, his bestest buddy Fez was throwing tiny, balled up pieces of the paper back into his mouth—missing shot after shot.

Next to Fez sat Brooke who was busy trying to get her daughter to finish eating the rest of her breakfast. Donna sat in her seat at left side of the kitchen table and seemed even less interested in her meal than Betsy seemed to be with hers. The blonde had hardly touched any of the breakfast foods but did take quite a few sips of her coffee.

Standing up, having already finished their breakfast, were Jackie and Eric. Jackie stood by the sink with a pen in her hand a small notepad under that while Eric was deep into the open and empty refrigerator.

"Um ok, we also need milk…cheese…" Eric said while looking into the ice box and trying to picture the items that should have been there, "butter…and cream."

Jackie nodded as she wrote down the items before looking up and over at Eric, "Ok, you've given me about ten items so far…"

"Really? Wow, I guess this won't be so hard after all." He replied with a proud grin.

"Yeeaahh." The brunette nodded again letting her eyes travel down the list once more before looking back at Eric, "You wanna try giving me an item that's not in the dairy group this time?"

A shy smile appeared on Eric's lips; he hadn't even realized he'd only been concentrating on that part of the food pyramid.

"Sure. Sorry about that, but you know you forget something once…" Eric began to say, referring to his school project years and years ago, "And never again. Never again."

Jackie giggled at his dramatic performance and decided to let him give another shot. Eric smiled back in response before turning himself back around and looking into the fridge once more. But after talking about the dairy group all he could think about was…the dairy group!

Eric fidgeted a bit longer, racking his brain for another answer but all he could come up with was a weak, "Yogurt?"

The grin on Jackie's face dropped and she rolled her eyes at Eric's words. Not only was the item he'd given her another dairy product but it was one he'd already given her minutes ago! She scanned her eyes around the kitchen and suddenly realized she had a lifeline in the room that she should have thought to use sooner.

"Hey Brooke." She called out getting the taller woman's attention, "Do you think you could help us come up with a list? I mean I know we're in Wisconsin but this is seriously a lot of dairy." She added lifting and waving the notepad in the air.

Jackie's actions earned a laugh from both mother and daughter as Brooke nodded her head, "Sure thing. But I think you should probably figure out what you're planning on doing with the stuff you're gonna buy before you actually buy it."

"Well I thinking…"Eric started to say and then lifted up his open palms, "and this is just a thought, but eat it."

Instead of giggling or shaking her head when she heard what Eric said, Jackie nodded along with the statement. She never was one to do much of the grocery shopping even when she was living on her own those few couple of months, she'd always come over to the Forman's…for some of Kitty's home cooked meals.

And while there was no laugh coming form Jackie, one did manage to escape Brooke's lips, "I know that. But what kind of food do you plan on making? That way we can come up with the ingredients needed to fix that meal."

"Oh." Jackie said, now understanding more of what Brooke was saying but not having any idea of what type of meal to reply with. She looked over at Eric who seemed to be in the same place was.

"Well I guess we're not really looking to make any big meals or anything." Jackie explained, which really was true; she still had yet to run the idea of someone else cooking in Kitty's kitchen with Red, Hyde, and Kitty herself. "Maybe just like the necessities, things that can hold us over for awhile…let us be able to make a sandwich everyone in awhile."

Brooke nodded, "Alright, well when ever Betsy and I go to the market we always make sure to buy a loaf of bread, eggs…"

"Ice cream!" Betsy's childlike voice shouted

Eric and Jackie both smiled as they watched the littlest Kelso showing her side of Kelso while also showing how much time she spent around her Uncle Fez. Betsy' mother meanwhile, was still on top of keeping her daughter's manners in check.

"Ice cream….?"

Instantly the missing word clicked in Betsy' brain and she gave her cutest smile towards her aunt and uncle, "Ice cream pwease."

"You mean chocolate ice cream?" Eric asked curiously and Betsy eagerly nodded her head, which caused Eric's smile to grin, "I think that then can be arranged my friend."

As she watched her Uncle Eric step towards her Aunt Jackie and take the pen out of her hand and then begin to write a word of the notepad—that she could only assume was 'ice cream'—Betsy nearly began to bounce up and down in her seat causing the women in the room to laugh.

Well maybe not all the women in the room. Though Donna had kept an ear out on the conversation, her face remained in a straight and serious manner. She poked at her untouched takeout breakfast as she heard the laughter; she knew it was a high spirited, happy moment but she just could seem to find any happiness in it for herself.

"I'm gonna go down to the basement and watch some TV." She announced as she stood from her seat, and the laughter and carefree energy soon died down, "I mean if you guys are going to the store today, I think I'd rather eat that stuff that more McDonalds."

Jackie stared back at Donna and nodded her head before quickly turning away, she'd felt a small feeling of guilt when she looked at her friend and she wasn't exactly sure where it'd come from. Was it because she was the one who bought McDonald's again? Was it because she was laughing and making some little fun memories while Donna remained alone and miserable at the kitchen table? Or was it something else? Something more?

Eric was quick to catch on to the way Jackie had avoided eye contact with his ex-girlfriend and really he didn't blame her. They were all feeling some sort of awkwardness, but hey couldn't let that feeling get to them or else that would be all there was. And awkwardness just made things worse, they really didn't need any more worse.

"Donna, are you…" Eric started to ask but by the time he turned around Donna had already long ago vanished into the basement, "Ok."

Clearing her throat Jackie tried to get the conversation back on track, "I there anything else you can think of Brooke?"

"Maybe you could get a couple of snacks and junk food sort of. That way we can eat some of that during the day and the lighter meals like sandwiches will fill us up more." The young mother began to explain, "Some chips and soda could be good. And maybe some of those Hostess snack cake things…"

"And Foot Loops, please!" Betsy interrupted again, this time being sure to add in the magic word.

Brooke smiled and nodded her head at her daughter, "Yes and Froot Loops. And some popcorn too…"

"Oh and syrup!" Fez exclaimed, as he too joined in the conversation.

Betsy turned her eyes towards the foreigner, "Say please, Uncle Fez."

"Huh? Oh right." Fez quickly said as thing clicked together, he then turned to his friends and put on his best pouty face and clasped his hands together, "Syrup pwwease?"

Not being able to contain herself, Jackie laugh at the foreigner's actions and began writing down the item, "Just because you said 'please' Fez."

"Oh happy day!" he said joyfully, forgetting all about his snoozing friend beside him; suddenly his face turned stern as he looked back at Jackie and Eric, pointing his index finger in almost a threatening way, "But you better not forget my syrup or I will throw my tantrum!"

Brooke saw the uncertainty in Jackie and Eric's eyes, not knowing if their friend was kidding or nor, and she knew it would be better if she informed them rather then have them find out on their own.

"Yeah, you guys better not forget that syrup." She stated in a stern manner, "Seriously."

While Jackie nodded again and underlined Fez's request at least three times in dark straight lines, the kitchen phone began to ring.

"Oh I'll get it." Eric was quick to offer.

Jackie smiled a thank you before going back to discussing the appropriate grocery list with Brooke while still getting shout out request from Betsy and now Fez. It was when Fez shouted out 'a coconut' that Eric gave a small chuckle before lifting the yellow receiver to his ear.

"Hello? Forman Residence."

"Eric?" the voice asked from the other end.

"Yeah this is he." Eric replied, not paying much attention to who's voice it sounded like, his eyes were fixated on a smiling Jackie as his attention was following them.

"It's uh…" the voice paused, "It's Randy."

"Oh, hey Randy." He said into the mouth piece still smiling while still watching Jackie, until abruptly he realize what had just been said, "Randy? Wait Randy, randy? Like Donna's Randy?" he asked his voice starting to get high but at the same time he tried to keep it low so no one else in the kitchen could hear just yet.

Randy chuckled over at his end of the line, "Yeah. Not sure if I'm keeping the 'Donna's' part but yeah it's that Randy."

"Right, right." Eric was quick to apologize as he moved his head up and down, "Sorry, it's just it's been awhile since we've heard from you. We were kind getting a little worried over here." He added with an almost forced laugh.

"Yeah…sorry about that." Randy said, feeling uncomfortable, "Um is Donna there?"

"Oh yeah yeah…of course you called to talk to Donna. Your fiancé." Eric said nervously while secretly seeing if the man he was speaking to objected against his words. He didn't that was a good sign, "Yeah she…she actually just went down to the basement but I'll go get here, hold on a…"

Before Eric could finish his thought Randy spoke again, "Uh no it's ok. I was just kinda calling to check in. If you could just let her know I called."

"Sure." Eric replied, frowning as he wondered why Randy couldn't wait just a few seconds to be able to tell this to Donna herself, "You know Donna really misses you and she's been worried about you too. It's like she'd been sitting at the phone every minute of every hour and every hour of…"

"She's worried about me? And misses me?" Randy asked in disbelief, "Then why didn't she call me? I left her the number of my friend's house and everything."

The friendly smile Eric wore on his face soon fell and he felt himself sympathize for the man on the other end of this conversation. He'd been in his place before, years ago but still he'd been there. He'd had to deal with a stubborn Donna who usually wasn't the one to take the first step especially when it came to apologizing.

"Randy, man," He said with a sigh, "Believe me when I tell you this, Donna loves you and she's so happy when she's with you…"

"But not as happy as she was with you, right?" Randy shot back almost defensively.

"No, no! See that's where you're wrong! Really wrong!" Eric continued, as he pointed his index finger up in the air, even though randy couldn't see him, "You should've seen all the things I did to make her mad. I mean I'd tell you them all but my dad would kill me over the high phone bill."

All of a sudden, just seconds after the words left his mouth and idea popped into Eric's head. Maybe if he talked to Randy, helped him patch things up with Donna, Donna would be easier to talk to about the situation and that talk between the two of them would go smoothly ending in much better results. Sure Jackie had told him he didn't have to talk to Randy, and she was right but now he felt like he wanted to.

"Hey Randy, I know I'm not exactly the guy you probably want to talk to right now…" Eric said as he started to ease himself in, "But I kinda know what you're going through…I mean I've know Donna for a long time and most of that time were just friends and not romantically involved. If you want I could offer some advice, try to help you maybe understand her better…figure out the best way to talk to her about this…situation."

"We could meet for a couple of minutes a few hours…you name the time…today, tomorrow." He continued, but was soon cut off.

"No." Randy said and Eric held his breath hoping the answer wouldn't just be 'no.' "Today sounds good. Can't make it right away though, need a couple of hours to fix my hair…and I've got plans with cousins later this evening…One thirty sound okay?"

A mixture of emotions had filled up inside Eric during the past two minutes. First he'd been full of worry as he thought Randy's 'no' was a flat out 'no' to everything. Then as the feather haired man went on to elaborate, Eric had felt a sense of relief and could almost feel his hopes starting to rise. But then he'd said the time. One thirty. The same exact time Eric had said he'd go to the market with Jackie at.

Eric looked on as he watched Jackie as she conversed with Brooke. He really didn't want to stand her up on, especially since he really wanted to go. Still this meeting with Randy sounded like it would be beneficial for everyone. Perhaps he could get Jackie to push back the time for the trip to the store or even postpone their second date.

And if they did postpone their second date…well it would mean a longer wait to the third one, which was a downside, but maybe it would give him the chance to something special…something more special then walking around The Piggly Wiggly together. This talk with Randy could really be favorable in a lot of ways…all Eric had to do was make sure Jackie wasn't wearing any pointy shoes when he told her his plans.

"Um yeah, sure Randy one thirty sounds good." Eric spoke again and then listened to Randy ramble on about the place of the meeting, "Yeah, I know where it's at. Ok…yeah…alright. See you then."

Author's Note: There you go! Chapter 37 of "Two Weeks" Hope you liked!

How will Eric's talk with Randy? Will it be as helpful as he thinks it will? Will Jackie be wearing pointy shoes when Eric tell her his plan? When will Laurie tell Fez about Lucy? What will happen when Angela comes for another visit? And will Fez get his syrup? Confused? You won't be after the next chapter of "Two Weeks"

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