" So, Grandma, how was life at the ostrich farm?" asked Laurie. She was on a mission for money. Having been rudely interrupted by Eric calling, she decided to try harder.

" It was well," replied Bea. Two could play at this game.

" Was it a big farm?" inquired Laurie.

" It wasn't big, it wasn't small. It depends on your opinion of size."

Laurie groaned inwardly. She hated guessing games. The look on her face must have said something, because Bea gave her a strange look, and handed her a 20 dollar bill.

" Now leave me alone," she told her granddaughter. Laurie didn't have to be told twice. She took the bill and nearly ran from the kitchen table.

" Cheapskate," muttered Bea.

T7S

" Okay, so we'll go down to the basement and wait for mom there," Eric told the others.

" Are you stupid?" asked Hyde. " Red will kill us! Jackie's the only one of us he's ever came close to liking!"

" Oh, it's okay… I'll just tell Kitty I fell… while teaching Donna how to cheer!"

" Yeah, Jackie, real believable," said Kelso. Hyde punched him.

" You're the reason we have to do this in the first place!" said Hyde. "Jackie, we should just take you to the hospital."

" You know I don't have insurance! I can't do that!" she replied.

" Okay, okay, stop. Just stop." said Donna. Trying to distract the fighters, she looked around.

" Why don't we order something to eat while we're here?" she asked.

" Yeah, Steven, I'm hungry," said Jackie. That caught Hyde's attention.

" I'm gonna get a burger," he told her. " You want the fries?"

" Sure." she said. " And the pickles."

Kelso got up and ordered too. Donna and Eric split a soda, while Fez continued with his candy bag. Within the next 15 minutes, everyone had calmed down a bit.

" You guys, I wanna go back to the basement," whined Jackie, who looked unwell.

" I'm gonna head home for the night," said Kelso, ignoring the looks he was receiving from everyone else. " Fez, are you coming with me?"

Fez crossed his arms. " Not until you apologize to this goddess." he stated.

An idea was starting to form in Kelso's mind. " I will… tomorrow!" he said, and ran out the door of the Hub.

" You guys, I must go home for the night," said Fez, who had now turned an odd shade of green. " My candy friends are betraying me," he told them, and followed Kelso, running.

" That was… odd," said Jackie.

" Kelso's gonna do something stupid." stated Donna.

" I've got ten on him lighting himself on fire." Hyde replied.

" I'm with you on that," said Eric.

" Can we go?" Jackie asked again.

" Okay, but we're going to have to do something about your ankle until my mom gets back," Eric told her.

Hyde let her lean on him and hobble out the door, where she curled up next to him on the ride home, but with her one leg stretched out to the side.

T7S

Back in the basement, Jackie was stretched out on the couch, a frozen bag of peas covering her ankle. She was whimpering softly, for all this moving from place to place was making her feel worse. A loud noise from the floor above broke her out of her daze.

" They're home." said Hyde, and before anyone could respond to him, he was off the couch and halfway up the stairs.

Kitty was in the kitchen, making herself a drink. Apparently it hadn't gone too well with her mother, for Hyde saw multiple ingredients out on the counter. He made loud, slow, stomping steps, to alert Kitty of his presence. She had just shoved everything into a counter by the time he got to the kitchen.

" Hello, Steven, what can I do for you?" asked Kitty.

" Well, um, Mrs. Forman, I don't know how to say this, but Jackie kinda hurt her ankle doing… something, and I'd like to know if it was okay with you to take a look at it," he said, looking down at the floor.

" Oh, sweetie, sure! Just let me get some of my supplies, and I'll be down in a jiffy!" she chirped.

He sighed. Now that he would know what was wrong, all he could hope was that she would be okay.

T7S

" Jackie, you're very lucky you didn't break your ankle." said Kitty, who was now in nurse mode. " What were you doing exactly?"

" Um, I was… teaching Donna how to cheerlead!" she said, with fake enthusiasm.

" Well, it looks like the time Michael fell off the water tower and he came… did you fall off the water tower?" Kitty asked. Jackie blushed. She didn't want to be known as clumsy!

" Well, to be fair, Kelso kinda pushed her," said Donna.

" Kitty gasped, but resumed to examine Jackie. " Okay," she said. " Now this part is going to hurt a bit," she said, grabbing an ace bandage.

As she wrapped up Jackie's ankle, Hyde saw the color drain from her face. He grabbed her hand, which she squeezed tightly. When Kitty was done, she stepped back and pulled an aspirin from her pocket, which Jackie gladly accepted.

" Now, what you need is some bed rest and some TLC," she said, like a mother would to her child. " Let's get you back to Donna's, okay?" she said.

Jackie reached out to Hyde, who scooped her up. It embarrassed her to be carried like this in front of Kitty. As they went out the door, she found way to get comfortable. Across the driveway, she felt content. Not just any old boyfriend would do this for her.

Digging her keys out of her pocket, she handed them to Hyde. He got her up to Donna's room, and waited for her outside the bathroom when she went to freshen up. Linking arms with her, he let her hop across the hall, to which he then scooped her up to deposit her in bed. She let out a small laugh, and sat up.

" Thanks," she said, just above a whisper, and leaned in to kiss him. It was the kind of kiss between them that made her feel like she had butterflies in her.

" No problem," he replied. It really wasn't a problem for him. He walked over and flicked off the light in Donna's room, and as he walked down the stairs and she lay in bed, all they could do was recount what had happened that day.

T7S

She was sore all over.

Jackie didn't get why she let Michael convince her to come outside, or why he had her come outside at 8 at night. She had slept until noon, and only got up because Hyde had delivered a pair of crutches from Kitty's attic to her.

She sat on a blanket in the Forman's backyard, with absolutely no clue as to what was to happen, except for Hyde kept muttering something about money. The mid May night was still cool, but Hyde had draped his jacket over her shoulders.

That was when she heard it. A loud BANG! And she looked around to see where it had came from. She could see the fireworks going off, with more BANG's every second. Then she heard a cry of pain from Kelso, and saw him run into the yard, his pant leg on fire.

Hyde came out of nowhere, with a bucket of water to douse him with, Eric followed.

" What, what just happened?" Jackie asked.

" Well, he tried to spell out ' I'm sorry Jackie', in fireworks," said Hyde.

" He spelled 'sorry' wrong," added Eric.

" I wish Fez was here to see this," said Eric.

" We learned a lesson today." said Hyde solemnly. He paused for effect. " Never give Fez a whole bag of candy all at once."

" And always keep a bucket of water ready around Kelso." added Jackie.

" You got it," he said, and the two shared a kiss as the last of the fireworks went off