Disclaimer: If I owned this show, Jackie and Hyde would've been endgame.
Author's Note: Ya know what I found out recently? That season 8 actually had different writers than the other seasons and they openly admitted to not liking Jackie and Hyde together. So, they just had to ruin it for us, didn't they?
And I'll have you know I read the guidelines; the website just said I'm not supposed to reserve a chapter for author's notes, just place them around the story, so my little notes are not against the rules. So HAH!
"I've never been here at night," Jackie said softly, smiling lightly, leaning further back into Hyde's chest, enjoying how the moon reflected off the water, "It's beautiful out here."
"Mmm," Hyde murmured, not removing his lips from her neck. Steven had sneaked into her room that night as usual, using the tree that was conveniently by her window. They hung out in her room for about a half-hour before deciding to head out. After what seemed like endless walking, the two ended up at the reservoir.
They sat at the edge, right next to the water, Jackie between Hyde's legs. His arms were wrapped around her, her hair moved over her shoulder so he could mouth the back of her neck, her hands clutching his arms.
The two sat in silence for a while, Hyde keeping his lips on her neck, before he suddenly grinned.
"You wanna swim?"
"What're you talking about, we don't have any swimsuits."
"Yup."
Jackie turned her neck to face him, eyes narrowed at his grin, "Are you suggesting we go skinny dipping, Steven?"
Hyde only shrugged innocently, his grin firmly in place.
"C'mon, Jackie," He encouraged playfully as he stood, taking her with him, "It'll be fun."
"Steven," Jackie scolded, eyebrows raised high in warning.
"What's wrong?" Hyde teased, removing his jean jacket, knowing if he riled her up, she'd go for it just to prove him wrong, "Scared?"
"I'm am not afraid to skinny dip, Steven. Especially not with you."
"Oh, yeah? Prove it."
There was a long pause as Jackie stared at him, eyes narrowed, cheeks puffed out and flushed.
Without breaking eye contact, Jackie pulled her sweater over her head, throwing it to the ground, leaving her in a baby blue bra and short skirt.
Hyde smirked, removing his sunglasses and setting them on the ground where they wouldn't be lost or stepped on, before looking her in the eyes again.
Slowly, he reached for the hem of his shirt, pulling it over his head in one smooth motion, tossing it on the ground with Jackie's sweater.
Jackie's cheeks darkened even more, her heartbeat picking up in both excitement and nervousness, blinking quickly in an effort to keep her eyes on his and not wander over his impressive chest and softly defined abs. She ignored his self-satisfied smirk and shimmied her skirt off her hips while using her feet to remove her shoes, leaving her in nothing but a thin bra and panties, trying to ignore the chill in the air.
The smirk on Hyde's face vanished as he stared her in the eye, his own shifting a little, but not breaking contact, and she could see his chest falling and rising with the deep, silent breaths he took through his nose, his mouth closed. He didn't say anything to her. He simply unclasped his belt buckle.
The sound of his jeans unzipping brought Jackie back to her senses and she quickly lowered her eyes to the ground, wrapping her arms around herself, her cheeks darker than ever, eyes wide in embarrassment as she listened to the rustling of his jeans and the thumps of his boots.
She jumped slightly when she felt his hands slide along her stomach, over her side, and up her back, hugging her close. She bit her lip at the feel of his bare skin, not brave enough to look down to see all of him for the first time, running her hands up his taut stomach to rest on his chest before sliding them over to clutch his upper arms, hiding her face in his chest. She said nothing as she felt him unclasp her bra from the back. He slid the straps down her shoulders, placing a wet kiss on the skin there, letting the straps hook onto her bent elbows, before sliding his hands down, dipping his fingertips slightly underneath the fabric of her underwear. She shivered when his hands dipped down further, taking the underwear with them. His warm hands covered and kneaded the cold skin of her bottom, and she let out a pleasured breathy sigh, arching her hips into his, making Steven let out an almost silent grunt. She spread her legs just enough so the panties could fall down, the fabric pooling around her ankles, and she lifted her feet slightly to step out of them.
She finally got the courage to look up at him; his normally sparkling, sky blue eyes were darkened to a midnight color, and he pushed her away slightly so he could slide her bra off the rest of the way, dropping it to the ground. He held onto her upper arms right below her shoulders, looking her up and down, drinking in her completely nude form for the first time.
He pulled her back to him, her body flush against his, one hand on her waist, the other sliding up her back, and he rested his forehead on her shoulder after placing a light kiss on it. And Jackie couldn't hold back a smile, running her fingers through his hair, at the hoarse, whispered words that left his mouth.
"You're perfect..."
"I'm waiting," Jackie said snottily about a week later, sitting in Hyde's chair in Eric's basement, arms and legs crossed, shooting Eric an impatient look.
Hyde didn't bother to defend Eric; he just sat on the arm of the couch, playing with his lips in a bored manner. Eric sat next to him, one of his weird, twitchy looks on his face, Kelso shaking his head from his seat on the lawn chair.
Finally, Hyde sighed impatiently, "Just say it, Forman. And she'll go home."
Eric clapped his hands together, an almost pained frown on his face, "Fine."
"You're right, Jackie," He said reluctantly, "The Fonz could... beat up Bruce Lee."
"Thank you," Jackie smiled pleasantly as she stood patting Eric on the knee and cheek patronizingly, "Now, Steven, don't forget to call me tonight."
"Yes, dear," Hyde smirked sarcastically, letting her kiss him on the corner of his mouth before she left, going up the basement stairs.
"Hey, Hyde, quick question," Eric started as he made his way to the deep freeze, grabbing a popsicle, "Why can't you date someone a little less annoying?"
"Oh, yeah," Hyde muttered, grabbing a Playboy as he sat in his chair, "Like who?"
"What about Barbara Vanson?" Kelso asked as Eric sat back on the couch.
"Nah, she's just as annoying as Jackie," Hyde said, flipping through the pages.
"But her boobs are huge," Kelso grinned.
"Yep," Hyde smirked, showing the guys a page spread, dazing them, "Gotta admit, I can't find that annoying."
"Pam Macy!" Kelso exclaimed when he finally snapped out of it, "Now she's got some knockers."
"Yeah, but they're not bigger than Barbara's," Hyde said, not lifting his eyes from the magazine as he flipped through the pages.
"Wha- yeah they are."
"You're dreaming," Eric disagreed, "It's like comparing- Exodus and Deuteronomy, both of which have taught us very valuable lessons, oh hi, Dad!" He stuttered over his sentence when Red suddenly entered the basement, Hyde quickly hiding the magazine in his stomach.
"Damn dryer's broke," Red grunted, "Ah, nuts, I need my vice grips." He exited the basement just as quickly as he entered.
"Have you seen Pam in a tube top?" Kelso started the second the basement door closed, "It's like looking at the grand tee tons! In a tube top!"
"Look," Hyde said, "The issue isn't 'are Pam's big.' The issue is 'are they bigger than Barbara's' because Barbara's are bigger than - the Walls of Jericho, which we all know came tumbling down, right?" He cut off his sentence a little smoother than Eric did when Kitty came down the basement stairs.
"Hello, Mrs. Forman," He greeted, nearly forgetting to hide the magazine cover, accidentally kicking the coffee table when he crossed his legs in his hurry to hide it from her.
"Hi. Uh, Eric, did your father come down here?" Kitty asked nervously.
"Yeah, he's fixing the dryer."
"Oh, dear," Kitty gave a fake smile and a quiet nervous laugh, "Ya know, ever since the plant cut back his hours, he's spent all his time fixing things. Things that aren't broken. Things I use, things I need, things I love."
"Oh God," She said urgently, running back upstairs, "I gotta go hide the crock pot!"
"Sounds like your dad is losing it," Hyde patronized when she was out of sight.
"Jeez," Kelso muttered, walking to the record player, "If he's like this now, he's gonna be a total head case when they shut down the plant. He's just gonna be this pathetic guy who- Breasts the size of watermelons!" He shouted, nodding his head, eyes wide, pointing at Eric and Hyde when Red opened the door next to him.
Red stared.
"I-is what Moses said to the Egyptians..."
"Kelso. Go. Home."
"Pinciotti, the Man-beater!" Donna smirked, narrating her basketball moves, "She fakes right, she fakes left, she fakes faking right, and fakes left!"
"Donna," Eric stood from his crouch, "What're you doing?"
"I'm runnin' down the clock."
"What clock?"
Donna quickly side-stepped him, dunking the ball.
"Whooo!" She cheered, running back toward Eric, "And that's gaaamme!" She started singing, "Man, what a slaughter, I just wiped the court with you from one end to the other," She ended her song with a slap to Eric's ass, making him jump and blush, "Whooooo!"
Embarrassed, Eric started walking to his sliding door, "I gotta head back inside, but I'll... leave the light on. I don't want you to... gloat in the dark."
"Wait, Eric," Donna called, "Don't you want your balls back?"
"Okay, now that's just uncalled for-"
Donna held up his basketballs with a 'duh' expression on her face before smirking, tossing them to him.
"Oh, uh..." Eric flushed, catching them, "Yeah, thanks..."
CIRCLE
CUT TO KELSO
KELSO: (giggling) "Donna beat you at basketball?"
PAN TO FEZ
FEZ (sounding disappointed) "Is this true, Eric?"
PAN TO ERIC
ERIC: (confused) "Yeah... is that a big deal?"
PAN TO HYDE
HYDE: (blank faced) "Of course not. Unless Donna happens to be, ya know..." (smirking) "A girl."
PAN TO KELSO
KELSO: (teasing) "Especially a girl you looove."
PAN TO FEZ
FEZ: "You know, in my country, if a woman beats you, it makes her want you."
PAN TO ERIC
ERIC: (grinning) "Reeaally?"
PAN TO FEZ
FEZ: "Yes, but this is America, wuss."
PAN TO KELSO
KELSO: (singing in the rhythm of baseball songs) "Wuss, wuss, wuss, wuss. Wuss, wuss, wuss, wuss-"
PAN TO HYDE
HYDE: (looking at Kelso in annoyance) "Kelso. Stop it." (grins at Eric) "Wuss, wuss, wuss, wuuuss, wuss, wuuuuss."
PAN TO ERIC
ERIC: "Wait, wait, wait, wait... what about you, Hyde? Jackie has you totally whipped."
PAN TO FEZ
FEZ: (nodding) "Whipped like the family pig."
PAN PASSED KELSO'S GIGGLING FACE TO HYDE
HYDE: (looks incredulous) "I'm not pig-whipped. Where do you even get this stuff, man?"
PAN TO ERIC
ERIC: "Are you kidding?" (copies Jackie's valley girl voice) "Steven, don't forget to call me."
PAN PASSED HYDE'S ANNOYED FACE TO KELSO
KELSO: (copying Jackie) "Steven, pick me up tonight."
PAN TO FEZ
FEZ: (copying Jackie) "Steven, rub oil on my thighs while I spank you."
PAN TO KELSO
KELSO: (stares open mouthed)
PAN TO HYDE
HYDE: (looks incredibly pissed)
PAN TO ERIC
ERIC: (looks completely horrified)
PAN TO FEZ
FEZ: (looks around nervously) "Please, somebody else talk now." (suddenly jumps and cries in pain) "AY!" (glares at Hyde) "There is no need for kicking, Hyde!"
"Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God!" Jackie yelled dramatically into the phone.
"Donna, it's for you," Midge deadpanned, handing her daughter the phone.
"Hello?" Donna answered.
"You beat Eric at basketball! How could that happen?"
"So I beat Eric at basketball, what's the big deal?"
"Eric will never be your boyfriend if you keep beating him at stuff."
"Okay," Jackie started, "It is like in West Side Story. Now, if Maria had beat Tony in one on one, they would have never fallen in love."
"Yeah," Donna said sarcastically, "And Tony would have never been killed in that knife fight."
"And neither will Eric if you're not careful," Jackie snipped back testily.
"No, don't worry about it, someone'll stab Eric," Donna deadpanned, "Bye."
"Donna, you're annoying friend is right," Midge said after Donna hung up, "Things change."
"Mom, Eric and I have been playing games our whole lives. Sometimes he wins and sometimes I win."
"No, I meant the rules change," Midge joined Donna at the table, "Women have to pretend to be fragile so that men can feel superior."
"That's insane," Donna protested her feminist view on it, "If women don't stand up for themselves, men'll always control the world!"
"Oh, honey," Midge smiled, "Men don't control the world."
Bob came into the kitchen, ready to leave for work.
"Honey, could you open this jar for me?" Midge asked after barely even trying to open the jar.
Bob smiled, struggling a little before he opened it.
"Oh, I'm so lucky to have my big, strong grizzly bear around," Midge smiled, causing Bob to let out a dramatic bear growl before kissing her on the cheek and exiting the house.
A long pause.
"First of all," Donna started, "Yuck! And second, things don't even work like that anymore. That's what the Equal Rights Amendment is for."
Midge looked at her daughter patronizingly, "That's good, honey, you stand by your principles and in forty years from now, you can tell all your cats how you won a basketball game."
"Okay," Jackie gossiped on the phone, "And she was going like 'that is so grooooss,' and I went like 'well is takes one to know one,' and she was all like 'nuh uh,' and I went, 'yuh huh'..."
"Uh huh," Hyde answered dazedly. He was leaning against the Hub payphone, sunglasses hooked into the front of his shirt. His eyes were completely glazed over, and he was barely even paying attention to Jackie's words.
Hyde checked his watch, catching Kelso and Fez's figures out of the corner of his eye. "Look, Jackie, I got like five minutes till the movie starts. I need to go."
"What?" Jackie snipped, her eyes narrowing, "I'm getting to the good part, Steven."
"Yeah, uh huh, ummmm... Bye," Hyde deadpanned, hanging up the phone.
"Hah!" Jackie let out an angry huff, slamming her phone down.
"Did you just hang up on her?" Kelso asked nervously.
"Yup," Hyde said blankly, putting his sunglasses on, "I'll call 'er back later, let's go."
"Hey, nice shot," Donna commented, watching Eric make a basket.
"Thanks," He replied, looking at her wearily; the same look he's been giving her since she kicked his ass at air hockey.
"You wanna play?"
"I don't know..." He trailed off, throwing the ball and making a basket, "Okay, why not?" He smiled.
Donna tried to take her mother's advice, playing as badly as she could to let Eric win. But it only seemed to make things worse.
"Donna," Eric finally asked, "What're you doing?"
"Uh..." Donna tried out her mother's pouty face, "Losing to you, you big, strong grizzly bear."
There was a long pause while Eric stared at her strangely.
"Donna," He finally snipped, snapping out of it, "You're intentionally throwing the game."
"Well... I didn't want you to feel bad about losing to a girl again."
"Oh, and pitying me is so much better."
"God, I can't believe you care about this, all I did was beat you at a few lousy games!"
"A few?" Eric started, not noticing his mother walking through the sliding door, "Try two, two, two lousy games. And I don't care, so... please leave my property," He finished his sentence in a strange voice, eyes wide as if he couldn't believe what he was saying. Behind him, his mother scratched the side of her face, lowering her head in a 'really?' pose.
"Well," Donna glared, shoving the ball into his chest, "As long as you don't care."
Jackie strut into the Hub, setting her sights on Hyde, sitting at the gang's usual table as he laughed with Kelso and Fez.
"Steven," She snipped, placing a hand on his shoulder, ignoring his look of annoyance, "We need to talk," She walked away from the table, standing in the middle of the restaurant.
He ignored her.
"And I am over here," She snarked, placing her hands on her hips.
Hyde sighed heavily and with a roll of his eyes, he stood from his chair to walk over to Jackie, eyes immediately drawn to the skin of her stomach, exposed by her "sexy knot." When he finally met her eyes, he couldn't help but smirk at the angry glint that had only intensified at his wandering eyes.
"Oh no," She said, "You are not allowed to look until you tell me why you hung up on me."
"I had to catch a movie," Hyde said patronizingly, speaking slowly as if she couldn't understand what he was saying.
"Steven."
"Jackie," He mocked before regaining a normal voice, "I don't wanna hafta to listen to the latest gossip, Jackie. You know I'm not into that stuff."
"But I want to be able to talk with you about something, Steven," She replied in a snotty voice, "You always say that talking is only for people who have something in common."
"And that is a very true statement, doll," Hyde grinned.
She glared at him.
"Okay," He seemingly caved, "Tell you what. I'll be at the Hub all night with the guys. You feel like callin' me tonight, call here and I'll answer, kay?"
"And you'll listen?"
"Of course."
"Okay," She looked at him suspiciously, "Good... Now. I'm thirsty. Get me a pop." She walked toward their table, taking a spot on the cushioned seat as Hyde walked to the counter.
"Hey, Fez," Hyde waved him over. Kelso and Jackie glanced at Fez for a moment when he stood before returning to their own devices. Hyde wrapped an arm around Fez's shoulders, giving him a fake smile. Fez smiled back, oblivious.
"I have... six dollars on me right now," He smirked, holding up the bills after giving them a quick count, "Four after I buy a pop. Would you be willing to do me a favor for four dollars, Fez?"
Donna giggled when she leaped onto Eric's back, sending them both to the ground and causing him to nearly lose his hold over the ball.
"What'd ya want, Donna?" Eric laughed as they wrestled over the ball. When she ended up on top, he dropped the ball, "Okay, foul," He smirked.
"Oh," Donna smiled, "So now we're suddenly calling every little thing?" She suddenly hopped off him, crawling toward the grass.
"What're you doing?"
"Reachin' for a clump of dirt."
"Oh, no," Eric said, grabbing her ankle, pulling her toward him.
"Must reach clump of dirt!" Donna laughed. She suddenly stopped, realizing their positions, her underneath him, him holding her hands above her head.
They stared at each other; he looked totally dazed and she blushed.
"What?" She finally asked after a long moment.
"Nothing," He answered quickly.
"Donna!"
The two jumped at hearing Bob's voice calling her from her house.
"Wh- you gotta go..."
"That's my dad!"
"See ya!" Donna yelled sprinting toward her house.
"Wait!" Eric called, still sitting on the ground, "Who won?"
"I wasn't keeping score!"
"Cool... me neither."
Eric hopped up when he heard the garage door open suddenly, his dad staring at him with an 'honestly' look etched onto his face.
"Well that was pretty sad, Eric."
"And Barbara Streisand became this huge star, right?" Jackie narrated into the phone that night, taking Hyde up on his offer, not realizing who she was really talking to, "But Chris Kristofferson could not take anymore. So he drinks and drinks and drinks and crashes his car. Isn't that romantic?" She smiled.
Fez kept his hand over the speaker end of the phone, watching Hyde and Kelso play cards.
"Say 'yes it is'," He ordered, holding the phone up to Hyde.
"Yes it is," Hyde said blankly into the phone, not looking up from his card game.
"Oh, I just love romantic movies, don't you?"
"Say 'yes I do'"
"Yes, I do."
"You know what would be a good romantic scene in a movie," Jackie smiled, thinking back to the first night Steven saw all of her and she saw all of him, "That night we had by the reservoir last week when you took me skinny dipping. Remember?"
Fez smiled perversely.
"No, describe it to me," He said to Hyde, who repeated the words blankly into the phone.
"Steven," Jackie giggled, "You're so bad. But okay. The water was really cold, so when I dove in-" She cut herself off, suddenly embarrassed, "Well you know."
"No, I don't know," Fez said in excitement, forgetting his job completely.
Jackie's eyes widened.
"STEVEN!" She screamed into the phone, dragging out his name, nearly hyperventilating.
Hyde jumped, hearing her shriek on the phone from where he was sitting.
"What?" He panicked, leaping from his seat and snatching the phone from Fez, "What did you do, Fez?"
"Yeah, Jackie?" He said into the phone, "Yeah, I know it was Fez, Jackie. Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeeaahhh. See you there..."
"Way to go, Fez," He sneered as he hung up, "Now I hafta go down there and explain to her why you were on the phone!" He frogged Fez hard in the arm, ignoring his cry of 'AY!'
"You're not gettin' that four dollars now, man."
Sorry about the lack of moments in this one, but I was unable to think of how that last conversation would go, ya know? Plus, I'm trying to work my up way up to different moments, cuz, like I said before, Jackie is still a virgin.
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