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Chapter Eleven: May The Force Be With You
"And then they go into this bar and there are all these space creatures. And then someone makes the mistake of picking on Obi Wan Kenobi. And then he takes out his light saber and he goes WOOSH and chops this guys arm right off. 'Cuz it's a saber that's made out of light."
Tina rubbed her eyes tiredly. Her twin brother had been going on and on about this new stupid space movie for hours. She had heard about it last night when he had come home. She had heard about it when he was chattering away in their bathroom. And now she had to hear about it at the breakfast table. Eric gave Tina an expectant stare.
"It sounds like you have a giant crush on Obi Wan Kenobi," she stated bluntly and watched as red crept up his neck.
"Not - not -" He looked down at his cereal, gulping. "He's just really - really cool."
"Well, you know," Kitty jumped in, shaking her head. "It just doesn't sound like a very nice movie. Now… The Way We Were, that's a nice movie."
With that, Kitty got up with a laugh, taking her dirty plate to the sink.
"So, Eric, you going to get yourself some Star Wars pajamas?" Tina glanced up at the snide voice of her sister. Tina didn't entirely know why Laurie was staying here. For all the years that she had been in college, she had chosen to stay there for every holiday and break that was given. Now all of a sudden she was here, sitting at the table like she had when they were younger.
"Maybe…" her twin mumbled, shuffling around the cereal in the bowl.
"Hey, Laurie." Laurie's eyes met her sisters in a cautious way as the brunette gave her a thin smile. "Why are you here?"
Just as Laurie's mouth opened in a retort, their father slammed through the sliding door. "Kitty! I'm going back to work! Full time."
Relief smoothed out her mother's face. It was odd how Tina had overlooked how worried her mother and father had been. How they had been cutting down to cheaper cereals and whispering over bills in the dead of morning. Tina swallowed, a knot loosening in her chest.
"Oh, Red," she breathed. "Oh my god. You're kidding."
"No," Red whispered, stepping forward to stand in front of Kitty with a grin. "I ran into Ron Milbank at the Kmart and he's moved back to reopen the plant."
Tina blinked. The Milbank's had been in town for a bit now. Her brows furrowed as she glanced to her brother who had turned to watch the scene.
"Oh. Oh, this is a godsend," Kitty breathed tears welling up as she pulled Red into a tight hug. "And to think how close we came to losing the house."
Tina and Eric reeled back, meeting each others bewildered stares.
"Losing the - Mom! You said we were fine!" Eric croaked and Tina guiltily thought back on all the times that Red had given her money over the last few months.
"Oh, Eric honey," Kitty gave a laugh. "I lied."
Hurriedly, Tina got to her feet and went to her parents to give them both a hug.
"I'm so happy for you, daddy," she whispered, giving him a peck on the cheek as he grinned down at her.
"Wait a go, daddy!" And then Tina was crammed in between a Laurie and her father and then Kitty as Red pulled them all into a hug.
"My job and my two little girls!" Tina had rarely seen her father this happy. In fact, this display of emotions terrified her. How close had they been to losing the house? How could she be so oblivious?
"Um. Yeah. I'm here too." Tina wiggled her way out of the hold to find her brother standing a bit to the left like a lost puppy.
"Speaking of you," Red started, grinning as Eric's face curtained with wariness. "I told Milbank to get David to come by and see you."
"David Mibank, dad? I hated that guy." Tina grimaced, stepping forward to punch Eric in the stomach. "What the hell, Tina?"
"Don't talk to your sister like that," Red snapped and the brunette gave her brother a discreet smirk. "And I don't like David's dad but I smile like hell when I see him."
"We'll take care of him, daddy," Tina promised, giving him a nod.
"Oh, I'm sure you will," Eric whispered acidically, sending her a glare that she fully returned. Still held against Red's side, Laurie's eyes narrowed like a cat that had caught sight of a bird. Tina hadn't exactly hidden the fact that she had gone out with David from her family - She had thought that it was such a small period of time that it didn't really matter.
And she had certainly been under the impression that no one would ever need to know about her involvement with him considering the fact that he lived one town over and hadn't ever mentioned reopening the plant.
"David Milbank? Oh, barf," Donna said after a bit of contemplation and then she turned to Eric with a grin. "Remember when you beat him up?"
Tina was sprawled across the top of the washer and dryer, one leg hanging limply over the edge and a view master in one had. A box of reels lay at her side, some scattered all over the place and spilling onto the floor. Tina's lips thinned at the thought. David had definitely held a slight grudge against Eric for that when they had gone out. In fact, it had made it a little awkward.
"Yeah. I kicked his ass." The amount of pride that her brother got from that was actually embarrassing.
"Wait. Wasn't he the kid with scoliosis and asthma?" You could always count on Jackie to know about the many people that had come and gone from Point Place.
Smirking, Tina put in another reel and looked through the eye holes to see a funny little picture of Cinderella weeping on her godmothers lap.
"And I kicked his ass," her twin said proudly and Tina chucked a reel at his head. "What, Tina?"
"Don't be a dillhole," she snapped, glaring across the room at him as she forced herself to her elbows. "You know that we need to be nice to him because of daddy."
Eric rolled his eyes, his head flopping back against the couch. "I know. I know. But if he does anything to tick me off - It's on."
"I'm sure he won't tell everybody that you wear Disney undies, Eric," she retorted, causing the others to snort.
"That's why you beat him up?" Donna whispered and red crept up the back of his neck.
"It was a very scarring moment," Eric muttered before whirling to face his sister who had gone back to the view master this time with a farms reel. "Besides, shouldn't we be watching out for you? You guys did go out-"
"We didn't go out," Tina groaned as the rest of the basement gasped.
"You went out with a guy with scoliosis and asthma?" Michael gasped, turning away from the cassette player to stare at the brunette.
"You used to go out with quarterbacks, Tina," Jackie whispered, horrified. "What happened to you?"
"What's wrong with me?" Fez demanded, his mouth twisting bitterly as he glared at the girl. "Huh? Is this because I liked to smell your hair sometimes in class when you aren't paying attention? Is that what this is about?"
"No, Fez," Tina said blandly, clicking through to another slide on the view master. "This is not about the weird things that you do when you think I'm not paying attention."
The foreigner gasped, his eyes flicking around the gang. "You knew?"
"Listen," Tina said, putting down the toy to turn her eyes to the rest of the room. "We went on one date and then we never saw each other again. Plus, he's actually not that hard on the eyes now."
Donna snorted as Jackie rolled her eyes.
"You sure spend a lot of time with someone that you aren't dating," Eric snapped and Tina resisted the urge to get up and slap the hell out of him.
"Yeah, well you and Donna sure spent a hell of a lot of time together when you two were apparently not dating."
"Hey!" Donna exclaimed and Tina sent her an apologetic glance. "Don't drag me into this."
"You have to be nice to him as well," Tina pointed out and then pointed a finger around at the rest of the gang. "All of you do."
A series of groan were all she got as the brunette went back to her view master. Something was nagging in the back of mind. Why hadn't David mentioned anything about opening the plant back up? It seemed like a really obvious thing to talk about.
"Eric! Tina! David's here!" The brunette glanced up to see that Jackie and Kelso had left. Which wasn't really that surprising. At this point, she was wondering if she should go see the damn movie with how much they were talking about it all the damn time.
"The scoliosis - asthma freak is here! I cannot wait to see this." Fez exclaimed, laughing hysterically but quickly stopping at the dark look Tina was casting his way.
Footsteps clattered down the wooden steps as David came into view, a nice smile curling his lips. Immediately his eyes fell on Tina as she stayed sprawled out across the washer and dryer and she saw the smile wilt a little bit. She hadn't really thought much about what her dismissal of him might have left him with. Her eyes narrowed as she gave him a restrained smile.
"Hey, guys! I'm back!" he greeted as Eric and Donna got up and her twin brother shook his hand.
"Yeah! Hey!" And then there was silence. Tina smirked as she took in the awed expressions of everyone.
"Back and so grown up," she hummed from her place on the machines and David gave her a curious smile while Eric let loose a nervous laugh which could have only been inherited from their mother.
"You've really grown up." Over his shoulder, Donna eyes met Tina's and the brunette smirked as she mouthed, told you so.
There was no way of getting around it. David Milbank was a hunk with a pocketbook. His dad was a big wig and the boy was all but set up for a family.
"And you've...really grown up." Tina's eyes snapped up to watch as David gave Donna an unabashed once over.
Her lips thinned, her eyes snapping to the suddenly very worried expression on her brother's face.
"I've grown up too," Eric squeaked out, blinking rapidly as Fez winced in consideration.
"Yes. But him so much more than you have," Fez pointed out and Eric jumped forward to throw an arm over Donna's shoulder.
"Hey. Hey. So tell us about you," and then before Tina could interrupt, Eric slid in a quick, "We're dating."
"Woah!" Tina exclaimed, jumping off the washer and dryer with a loud laugh as she scooted between Eric and David with a friendly smile. "Why don't we um, take a seat? Yeah? No? Sit down."
Slowly, tensely everyone took a seat and Tina pushed over her brother so that he was squashed up against Donna and she was closest to David. There was no way that she was going to let her idiot brother do anything mess up dad's new job. No one said anything. Tina couldn't think of anything that wouldn't be awkward and Eric was going into overdrive. Like a rabbit sensing the jaws of a predator, Eric felt impending doom. Something important to him was in jeopardy. And he didn't know how to protect it other than to go on the immediate defense.
"So, uh Donna, you still writing short stories?" Tina blinked. This was bad. David's attentions were completely on the redhead.
"Yeah. I still write a little," Donna said with a smile as her brother jumped in.
"Well, No. Not - Wait." Her brother reeled to stare at Donna. "You still write?"
Tina gave a harsh laugh, elbowing her brother. "Of course she still writes. You knew that Donna Pinciotti, your girlfriend still writes, right?"
"Um," Eric fumbled out, staring at Donna like this was the first time he had met her.
"I mean, I would love to read your stuff," David threw out and Tina felt a frantic kind of panic pump through her.
"Yeah?" Donna grinned, leaning forward.
"Or, I could read them!" Tina threw out, patting her brother's knee harshly as he stared at his girlfriend. Donna's eyes met hers in a quizzical stare. "I love reading. You know me. Jane Austen to… Some other author."
"Oh, yeah." David's brows furrowed as he turned to stare at the brunette. "I was meaning to ask you - could I get my book back?"
Tina blinked, gulping down a breath. She hadn't ever thought that she would be seeing David again. And she had completely no idea where The Exorcist had gone to. "Um, you see, what's funny about that is-"
Four sets of eyes turned to the door as it creaked open to reveal a curly haired boy in shades and Tina let out a happy breath, jumping up and stumbling across the table as she nearly sprinted to Hyde.
"It's Hyde, guys! Everyone say hi to Hyde!" Grinning, she placed a relieved hand on his arm and looked around at the stares. Behind his glasses, Hyde eyes narrowed as they fixed on the man sitting in his seat with a stupid grin on his face. "Hyde, this is David. I'm sure you haven't-"
"Scoliosis boy," Hyde said with a smile that bordered on being an out and out threat, his arm sliding around Tina's neck as he stared the boy down. "Yeah. I know him. You still carry an inhaler? Wouldn't want you to get too excited and keel over on us."
Hyde had an excellent memory. He knew exactly who the little dweeb sitting in his seat was. He knew that Eric had beat him up when they were little and he knew that a little over three months ago, Tina had been taking literature classes from him. He also knew that he was fake as a three dollar bill, as his ma liked to put it. Under his arm, Tina stiffened, her eyes going wide as Donna and Eric and Fez stared up at the menacing boy. None of them had any clue what was going on with the pair but they definitely knew that the curly haired boy had an obvious claim on Tina Forman. Even if it wasn't acknowledged by both parties.
David's eyes narrowed for a moment before he forced out a laugh, leaning back in the chair. "Um, actually it's all but gone. Apparently losing all that weight really helps with asthma."
"Mm," Hyde's eyes crinkled a bit as he gave the man a thin smile. "Too bad there's no real cure for that giant hump you have to live with, am I right?"
Tina choked on laughter, reaching out to pinch Hyde's side as she gave the room a smile, particularly David. "But you're really looking great, David! Really! Just like - like a million bucks."
"Aw, Tina." Hyde squeezed her shoulder. "You're being so sweet. Funny because-"
"OKAY!" The words bounced off the cement floor causing everyone to jump as Tina's hands curled into Hyde's shirt and she tugged him towards the basement door. The only way to stop this was to get him out of here. She knew a full frontal attack when she saw one. Giving a warning glance to both Fez and her twin brother to opened the door and shoved Hyde out of it. "You kids have fun."
Tina reeled, snarling up at the curly haired boy as the door shut with a bang. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT? DO YOU-"
Finger tangled in her hair, Hyde's body pressing her into the cool cement on the wall that led down to the basement door. She didn't have time to think. She barely had time to take in a breath before his lips were crashing down onto hers, drawing her into a bruising kiss. He kissed her in a way that completely disarmed her, his tongue sliding in to meet hers roughly as he hauled her against him.
Shocked to her core, Tina opened up for him completely, letting her arms slide up to wrap around his neck as she returned his kiss with complete abandon. But more than that - she wanted more. Fire sizzled along her skin as his hands tugged on the strands of her hair, readjusting her so that he had better access, his other hands sliding along her ribs until it was resting on the curve of her butt. And then down further to her thigh as he forced it up and around his waist. Fiery need quaked through her as she whimpered, her fingers curling into the soft hair at his nape as she arched into him.
A low growl quivered along her lips as Hyde's fingers tightened along her thigh, the edge of her skirt inching up as he demanded that their be no space between them. Tina was utterly lost. Giving her one final lap of his tongue along hers, he pulled away.
"What um -" It was hard for her to find words. She blinked, her lips stinging as Hyde stared down at her, one hand still keep her leg hooked around her waist as he dragged a slow circle along the skin. "What was that for?"
His lips pressed to hers softly, sending her mind over the edge again as her body caught fire. She wanted him to do more. A smirk curled his lips as he let her leg drop and untangled his fingers from her hair, dragging them roughing along her back before they settled lowly along her hips.
"Nothing much," he rasped and she shivered at the gravel she heard in his voice. His eyes drifted down to her lips and he gave her another lingering kiss. "Just an experiment."
She blinked. An experiment? What the hell did that mean? Hyde gave her a cheeky smile, his hands squeezing down on her butt quickly before he was turning away and getting up the stairs. Tina stared after him. How was she supposed to take that?
"Hyde!" Tina yelled, hurrying after him.
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