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Chapter 24: Halloween
Before Hyde became more than a boy to Tina Forman, before Laurie less than a sister, and even before Eric stopped holding her hand, the auburn-haired girl wanted many things. That was a constant in her life: the urge to want things. She wanted her sister's blonde hair. She wanted the boys in her class to talk to her with the same reverence and softness that they gave sweet girls like Stacy Burnman who had freckles and curls. She wanted to be softer, to speak just enough that others wanted more like a drop of honey in tea.
As she stared down at the stack of dilapidated records that Donna and Jackie had found somewhere in the burned heap of Point Place Grammar School, she wondered if those wishes were put down in there.
More than likely it just included that one time that she had kicked Jenna Mechade with the heel of her boot when she had refused to get off the monkey bars. Blood usually was a lot more visible than thoughts.
"Wow," Kelso breathed, his eyes large as he squatted down beside the table that the papers were piled onto. Beside her, Eric shifted, his eyes sliding to meet hers. Whatever bad blood they had, there was no denying their shared past. And from the age of zero to twelve they had been almost inseparable. And our past… well, we hadn't been the coolest. "Our permanent records. Oh, you know what? They must have left these here after the school burned down."
"Yeah," Tina sighed sarcastically, her eyes drifting over the printed names. "That would kind of make sense since they're still here… in the burned down school…"
Hyde's lips twitched up, his eyes crinkling as he slipped a hand to her waist. Oblivious, Kelso's hands drifted over the file at the top of the stack, flicking it open. Immediately, Hyde's eyes zeroed in on the action, a shark sensing blood in the water.
"Pinciotti, Donna," he drawled, his eyes lighting with mischief as the redhead's eyes narrowed. "Looks like someone we know had a problem keeping their clothes on in kindergarten."
Blushing, Donna's hand snapped the file away from the table, her eyes widening. "What?" Briefly, her gaze zoomed across the papers, her mouth curving further and further down before she slammed it shut. "It was just a stupid phase."
"A stupid phase of sexually harassing everyone in your class," Tina teased, earning a fake laugh and a slap from the other girl as she passed by.
Across the room, Jackie and Fez had hiked themselves up onto one of the still-standing desks, each half-heartedly listening to the exchange as they rifled through his bag of candy.
"I'm sure glad that's over," Eric muttered sarcastically, his eyes rolling.
Hyde sighed, grabbing a desk and dragging it over beside Fez before setting down Tina's bag and lifting her onto it. Unwanted butterflies burst through her stomach, heating her as he sighed, resting himself against the side as he watched the Eric and Kelso go through the files.
"Don't want to see your file?" Tina probed, sliding a bit closer as he tipped his head to the side, a few curls falling into his eyes.
His teeth flashed in a chagrinned smile. "And hear about how I'm a bad little boy who needs a good ass-kicking?" His nose wrinkled as he drifted close enough to kiss. "Nah. I'm good."
"Oh listen to this," Kelso suddenly called, standing with an open file. His smile was shit-eating, the expression only growing as he turned toward where Tina and Hyde were. "I fear that despite Steven's high I.Q.-" Against Tina's side, she felt the subtle tensing of Hyde's muscles, his eyes going attentive as they focused on Michael. "He's a born trouble maker and is destined to be the smartest man…" A small grin flitted across Hyde's face a moment before the expression slipped into anger. "In his cell block."
Tina's stomach rolled, her hands clenching into the material of Hyde's jacket. Briefly, a painful image of a smaller, more vulnerable Hyde drifted across her mind. He had seemed softer in kindergarten - more willing to smile or offer compliments. Sure, none of those things had ever been directed at her but she had seen it - those rare times when Hyde had had a crush. It made her want to simultaneously hug him and punch his lights out.
"What?" He snarled, ripping the file out of Kelso's hands. "They couldn't have known that in second grade."
Hyde's curly head bent over the paper and for a sickening moment, Tina felt a thrill of unease. Across the room, Eric's eyes caught hers, widening. What did that- Oooohhh. Tina winced. Oh no.
"Steven willfully and maliciously destroyed Christine del Beuno's shoebox diorama of the four food groups," Hyde read and Tina grimaced.
She had a very good memory and more than anything, her past moments of vindictiveness shone clear. She could remember when she had thrown all of Laurie's makeup in the trash and personally waited for the garbageman to come get it. She could remember telling Eric that he had been adopted and then following it up with taking him to someone's house and introducing him to his "real parents." He had gone home crying. She could even remember forcing Kelso to each an entire box of candies on a dare knowing that they were expired because he pretended like he didn't know her in eighth grade.
The years before Laurie decided to effectively ruin her self-esteem, Tina had been one of Hyde's main adversaries. In later years it had grown more playful but when she was younger… Tina winced once more, the harsh bite of metal digging into the bottom of her thighs as she scooted a bit farther back on the desk.
"You're a monster," Donna teased from across the room, completely oblivious to the startled mental distress signals that the twins were sending to each other. In front of her, Hyde's shoulders were bunched, his head still bent over the papers. "A horrible, horrible monster."
"Yeah, real funny, but I didn't do it," he snapped, flipping furiously through the pages.
Tina felt a bolt of panic burst through her as her twin stepped forward, his face hardening. "You know what's really funny, Hyde?" Tina resisted the urge to leap across the room and squeeze down on his windpipe. The thing about being twins that ended each other's sentences before they realized that it creeped people out was that often you're lumped together. Tina knew this all too well and she also knew that the next words out of her brother's lips were going to implicate her in a lot more than a dumb food group diorama.
Hyde's words were mumbled, his eyes still running across the page as if he were searching for some other explanation than the ones he was finding on the paper. "What, Forman?"
"I don't really think-" Tina started to hedge but was quickly cut off by a few sharp laughs.
"Heh heh," her brother squawked, the laugh almost non-existent as he stared at some invisible spot on the ceiling. "I broke the diorama."
Hyde's head snapped up. "You?"
Tina could feel a bubble of anxiety start to open up in her stomach as thunder crashed outside fo the broken window. In the tiny room, almost all of the attention snapped to the two. And… Tina gulped, a dribble of sweat snaking down her neck as she felt the uncomfortably sharp stare of Donna Pinciotti.
"Her's was better than mine. I had to smash it." A look of contrite sadness drooped his shoulders. "I left out diary."
The gaze was sharpening. Tina could almost feel it starting to cut through the top layer of her temple. In her lap, her nails tap, tap, tapped against her skirt, her foot starting to jiggle. She got antsy when she was nervous. Jesus, she needed something to clean.
Hyde's steps were measured as he stalked closer to Eric, his eyes narrowed, voice lowering with anger. "You know, that's when everyone turned against me. They pegged me as a bad kid! And once that happens, you're labeled forever. You ruined my life, Forman."
Tina flinched at the last name, her heart rabbiting out of her chest. Because there was someone that already labeled him a bad kid. Someone who wanted to ruin Hyde's life even before the diorama. Her foot blurred as she stared unseeingly at the pair, a cold sweat breaking out across her brow.
"Hey, are you okay?" Jackie leaned around Fez, her eyes wide as she eyed the pale pallor of the auburn-haired girl. "You look all… ew."
"Tina." All at once, the wild dashing of her foot stilled, her expression stiffening as Donna's brows rose, her stare accusing. "Didn't you and Eric refuse to do projects as individuals back then?"
Tattling little snake. The withering glare that was building in the auburn-haired girl's eyes wilted all at once as Hyde slowly turned, his fingers tightening on the file.
"Oh dear," Fez murmured, clutching his candy bag to his chest as he eyes the three. Kelso's face was nearly splitting with his smile, his eyes ravenously gleeful as he took in the drama.
Hyde's eyes narrowed. "You've got to be kidding me."
A nervous laugh broke from Tina's lips before she could stop it, her insides withering. "I mean… you and I didn't really get along back then…"
"You've got to be fucking kidding me," Hyde repeated, his eyes flashing. His stare made her feel about ten inches tall.
Eric's head tilted to the side, catching his twin's eyes with a grimace. "Come on, man. Remember when you first met and she accused you of stealing money from me? Not the best first impression."
Tina felt her face go tight, remembering the self-righteous fury she had felt at seeing the curly-haired boy standing beside her brother in the driveway. At Hyde's stunned expression, she knew that that hatred might have not ran both ways however. His face tensed as he stalked closer, the thick packet of teacher's notes and detention slips making the desk beneath her squeak. His eyes were deadly, the green that was usually so subdued, blazing to life with indignant fury.
"I thought you were the most beautiful girl I had ever met," he drawled, his voice low as Tina withered beneath his stare. He wasn't inclined to mention what else he had thought. Something about making her cry - but he often felt the urge to break pretty things.
Somewhere to the left, Fez and Jackie gave identical sighs of glee. "That is so romantic."
"But I guess your mind wasn't going along the same track," he finished softly and she could all but see the general tide fo the room turning against her as Kelso let out a 'ah!' of scandal.
"Oh stop it," Tina hissed, her hackles suddenly raising as she remembered all the times that he had pushed her out of the way to get some cookies or called her a blowfish or done something else horrible. No wonder she had wanted to strangle him most days in kindergarten. Not to mention that he had continuously tried to get Eric to ditch her to go steal something or - when they got older - go smoke something. "The first time you met me, you called me shrimp. AND YOU PULLED MY HAIR!"
"Oh yeah…" Eric murmured, blinking at the sudden clarity of the memory. Tina's eyes turned an icy blue, glaring up at the impassive look on Hyde's face as he leaned back from her, crossing his arms.
"Girls used to love it when I was mean to them," he drawled.
Tina's arms crossed as well, her eyes narrowing into a glare. "I guess that's why Jenna Miller said you were an ass in art after you told her she looked like a walrus."
Jackie let out a gasp, looking thoroughly alarmed. "She dropped out right before middle school and moved to Alaska!"
Hyde's eyes roll. "Oh please. If she can't handle being called a walrus by a kindergarten bully then she's gonna have some serious issues."
"Yeah. Like surviving," Donna mutters from across the room earning a sharp glance from Jackie. With a fake glare, she glances back to Hyde. "You big meanie."
"She did always smell like seafood," Eric mused.
Tina could almost feel his focus sharpening, his fingers clenching into fists. His jaw tightened as he leveled an unamused stare at her.
"Listen, stabby twins," he snarled. "The fact remains that you threw me under the bus over a fucking diorama."
"Hey!" Eric protested, his vocie raising an octave as he tried to draw some of the attention. "I - I could have been the one - I mean, there were two people in that project-"
"Oh please," Hyde growled, his eyes rolling. "We both know that Tina was all over that little plot."
"That's-" Eric didn't know what else to say. So instead he just shook his head, letting out high pitched noises and grunts until Tina's stare silenced him.
Donna's head tipped to the side, her smile revealing enough to key Tina into the fact that she was getting a little bit too much enjoyment from this little exchange. "You were a little more world dominat-y than Eric."
"Like a mini Medusa," Hyde supplied.
Tina blood boiled, all regret evaporating at the ludicrous claims. Because the fact remained that Steven Hyde had been her mortal enemy from kindergarten to this summer. A low squeak ripped through the room as she leveled herself from the desk, her nails digging into the palm of her hand as she scowled across the room at the curly-haired boy.
Kelso let out a happy breath, his mouth widening with an awed smile as he scooted the bucket that he sat on a bit closer to Fez. "She reaches like a new level of hotness whenever she gets mad."
"MICHAEL!" Jackie screamed, slamming her boot into his face with enough force to make Kelso howl in agony.
Hand clenched to his jaw he crowed out an enraged gasp. "WHAT?! THAT WOULD BE LIKE GETTING INTO BED WITH A RATTLESNAKE!"
"HEY!" Eric and Hyde snarled, reeling on the boy who scuttled back a step.
"WHY'S EVERYONE MAD AT ME?" He screamed petulantly and Fez gave a happy murmur as he shoved a handful of nerds into his mouth, his eyes glued to the exchange. An accusing finger raised as Kelso tried desperately to draw the attention away from himself. "SHE'S THE ONE THAT RAILROADED YOU IN HISTORY!"
"What?" Hyde blinked.
Eric's eyes widened as Tina's hair nearly raised into a coil of hissing snakes, her shoulders raising as she stared down at Kelso. "WHAT?"
"Oh…" he whispered, wincing.
"YOU FUCKED ME OVER IN HISTORY TOO?!" Hyde snarled, reeling on the girl who looked closer to a walking viper than a human as she stared down at Kelso's quivering body, her eyes illuminating to an ungodly blue at the crack of another bolt of lightning.
Tina's words were low, her complexion going a similar shade to stone as lanky, brown-haired boy gave a pitiful whimper. "I will kill you."
Donna's chair shrieked across the room as she scooted all the way back to the exit, clutching at her transcript.
Tina's face has gained a splash of color, her cheeks reddening as she tried to explain. "You had used that excuse about your dog eating your homework so many times, Hyde. What did you want me to do? Not tell Mrs. Henders that you didn't have a goldfish, much less a dog?"
"Um, how about yeah?" Hyde's face was pulled into a snarl, his teeth bared as he stared down at a girl that he still found somehow, infuriatingly cute in his jacket and those stupid cat ears that kept slipping down her forehead. Which just proved to piss him off even more. "I thought you and me were cool."
"Well, we weren't," Tina snapped, whipping around to glare up at him. Her twin drifted toward her side before backing away to where Donna sat, thinking better of it. Tina's teeth flashed as she sneered up at the boy who she currently - maddeningly - thought was handsome beyond any earthy measure. Who had hair that curly and eyes that deadly? It was enough to make her want to pull her own hair out. "I hated you. I would have gnawed off my own arm if it meant that I could have blamed it on you."
"Woah," Fez whispered, his mouth covered in a thin layer of chocolate. "Hardcore."
Hyde's lips thinned, his eyes flashing. "Wow. Would have been nice to know that before I started macking on you."
Tina's eyes narrowed to blue slits. "Or what? You would have been able to control yourself?"
Teeth flashing, he let out a low snarl of irritation, not answering. Because if he spoke the truth - that no, he would have still wanted to bite down on her lip and feel her shaking beneath his fingertips, hear her moan out his name - yeah. That would sound pathetic. Which just pissed him off even more. Who the hell did this beautiful chick think she was?
The pits of hell could have opened up between them at that moment for the anger that was charging through the air between them.
"What the hell were you even thinking, Tina?" he snarled and that little action made her want to simultaneously kick him in the shins and bang her own head against the nearest wall.
For her part, Tina knew exactly what she had been thinking when she had suggested that Eric tell the teacher that Hyde had been the one to break that girl's diorama. Something along the lines of anticipation at Steven's face when he finally got what was coming for him.
But that didn't seem like the best thing to mention.
"I don't know," she hedged but her temper flared again at that stupid expression on his face. "Maybe that you had just tripped me in the hallway, Hyde!"
"They're relationship is sooo…" Kelso's face pulled into a grimace, his sentence tapering off into awkward silence as both Hyde and Tina whirled on him.
"Hey, why don't you shut it, man?" the curly-haired boy snarled, towering up behind the auburn-haired girl in a way that reminded Kelso of a watch-dog shadowing its master.
Jackie's eyes widened, her brows furrowing. "Back off. It's not his fault that you two are totally dysfunctional."
A short, harsh breath puffed out of Tina as she eyed two of the most idiotic, egotistical, completely relationship inept members of the group. "Ironic coming from Yoko Ono and her fucking Beatles flunky."
"Ha!" Hyde sneered, resisting the urge to pull her in for a kiss that would more than likely end in him hauling her back to Forma's car.
"Hey!" Kelso yelped, scrabbling to his feet and sending the bucket he was seated on, ricocheting off of the wall. Jackie was quickly behind him. "He was very successful after that."
Tina sneered, stalking over to the stack of permanent records and ripping open the ones stamped with Burkhart, Jackie and Michael, Kelso. "Fine, Lennon. Let's see what the files say about the perfect couple."
At her back, she could feel the gentle heat of Hyde as he picked up Kelso's much lighter record. Her eyes scanned over the file once and then twice, annoyed at the lack of anything even remotely damning.
"Go ahead," Jackie crowed. "I have a perfect record."
A perfectly boring record, Tina thought venomously, searching through the pages with growing agitation. She was freaking perfect. Not a single missed day until she went for a month-long stay in Paris. Always got a sticker and was apparently a delight.
And then Tina's eyes stalled on the top of the page, her face freezing. No. That couldn't be. Slowly, she turned, the gentle snick of papers drifting through the air as Hyde refiled through his packet with annoyance.
Her eyes drifted to the brown-haired girl, a smile curling her lips. "Really? Your middle name is Beulah?"
Hyde's fingers froze on the pages, his eyes immediately snapping up. Kelso's face turned ashen a thick silence falling over the room as all eyes turned instinctively to Jackie who had gone three shades lighter.
"I HATE YOU!" Jackie shrieked, lunging forward with enough force that all Tina could do was move to the side and watch as she crashed into the desk with enough force to down a buffalo. Still, like a cat, she whirled, all claws and teeth as she tried to lunge once more at Tina but was forcibly hauled back by Hyde. "I'll remember this, Tina!"
"Good," Tina taunted. "Because I'll be remembering this too, Beulah."
The howl that the small girl let out was so otherworldly that even Kelso almost dropped her after Hyde had forced her into his arms.
"Listen that's the least of our problems right now," Hyde interrupted. Quietly, Jackie snarled from Kelso's arms, her face rabid. "Kelso over here had to repeat first grade."
Six pairs of eyes snapped over to the suddenly still boy, his face having taken on a shade similar to curdled milk. His arms tightened around a suddenly quiet Jackie, taking an unsteady step backward.
"Oh my god," Jackie gasped, wiggling form his grip so that she could back away from him in disgust. "Michael, say it's not true."
"I feel so lied to," Tina heard her twin breath to Donna.
Kelso's shoulders hunched against the open accusation. "It was… it was the cursive writing, all right? All those stupid squiggles and bumps. I wouldn't do it!"
Hyde let out a snort. "You mean you couldn't do it."
"No! I wouldn't do it and that's why they held me back." His face immediately blanched, his head drooping. "Plus I might have killed the class bunny. WHY?!"
Fez hurried over, his pupils slightly dilated from copious amounts of chocolate and pure sugar as he wrapped a protective arm around the lankier teen. "It's okay, Kelso."
"Wait…" Tina's mind did a few mental calculations, rehashing the fact that he had had to do first grade… twice… Her eyes sharpened on Kelso. "How old are you?"
Immediately, Hyde stiffened. "Wait a minute…" Fez's face had gone still. "If you had to go through… Are you 18, man?"
"Yeah," Kelso said, obviously still shaken from his recent admission about the class bunny. "That's why I always seemed more mature than you guys."
Besides being an absolutely idiotic thing to say, it was also a betrayal so deep to the group that the others could barely fathom it. All at once, they were up, converging on Kelso with feral intent.
"ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT ALL THIS TIME YOU COULD HAVE BEEN BUYING US BEER?" Hyde snarled.
"You bastard!" Fez gasped.
Tina for her part was mad about the many, many times that she had had to go with out a good glass of wine in favor of soda. Her teeth bared in a sneer as she jabbed a finger at him. "How dare you?"
"You're dead to me," Hyde growled.
Immediately, Kelso's fingers jabbed out at all of the assembled teens, pointing emphatically at both Tina and Eric in turn. "They ruined your life!"
"Yeah and if I had a beer, I could be getting over it right about now," he snapped back immediately.
Tina sent him a cold smile. "Nice try though!"
"BEER!" Eric started and the sentiment was echoed quickly by the others. From her place against the wall, Donna got to her feet. "BEER! BEER! BEER! BE-"
A plaid capped figure blurred in front of the advancing masses, brown curls bouncing as Jackie bodily shielded Kelso. "Alright, everyone just calm down. Okay? Because he may be a liar but at least he's not a backstabber like Tina and Eric."
Tina's eyes rolled and for once she was infinitely on Donna's side as she sent the other girl a sneer. "Stay out of this, Beulah."
"Don't." Tina could almost see the blood vessels in Jackie's forehead pulsing as she bared her teeth at the redhead. "Call. Me. That."
Tina crossed her arms, flanking the taller girl as she whirled back around. "Why don't you tell us what we should call you, Yoko?"
"You bitch," Jackie sneered and Tina grinned. God, Hyde's hands ached to grab her and bite that lip.
"Beulah," Donna taunted, brows raising.
And then all at once, Jackie was smiling, her face tense with restrained anger. "Fine." Jackie's arms extended diplomatically. "You know what? Donna kissed Hyde last year."
All of the air in Tina's lunges wooshed out as Donna's face paled. In the back corner of the room, she heard her brother's choked gasp. It shouldn't feel like a betrayal… But it did. Her mind condensed painfully on the knew fact, a whooshing filling her ears as Donna all but leapt on Jackie. What the hell?
Her eyes tore from the dark-haired girl, dragging painfully to where Hyde was approaching her, his face pinched with pain. "Listen, Tina-"
"I thought you said that you loved me since we were kids." Why was that the first thing that tore from her? She wanted to claw her own eyes out just so that she would be able to reach inside and tear out her own brain so that she could stop these images - images of Donna and Hyde. Her Hyde. Hyde kissing Donna like he… Like he kissed her. Pain crashed over her.
"I did," Hyde scrambled. "I do-"
"WHAT THE HELL, MAN?!" Eric yanked his sister behind him, his face stiff with rage as he stared down the curly-haired boy. "How… HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?"
Rage rolled through Hyde's eyes, his teeth flashing. "I guess I'm just a born troublemaker." All of that bled away when his eyes darted back to where Tina was visible behind her twin though. "Can we please talk?"
"What did you and Donna talk about before you ended up swapping saliva?" Venom, thick and potent laced each word. A sadistic part of her actually wanted to know. Her mind involuntarily drifted to when he had rode off on the back of that greasy haired chicks moped. And wasn't that a road to agony?
"When the hell were you going to tell us?" Eric demanded, Donna's features twisting as she turned sporadically from Jackie to us.
Tina's mouth twisted bitterly as she eyed the blonde. And her perfect body. She was tall as hell but that meant that she was curvy and had great boobs. Damn her. "I don't think they ever were."
"Tina-" Hyde started, reaching out for her only to be pushed back by Eric.
"Don't touch her, pal!"
"Who the hell are you talking to?"
Who does it look like-"
Across the room, Donna was screaming at Jackie. Voice bounced off of the walls, echoing, crowding in on each other until there wasn't anything coherent. Tina's fingers balled, her mind playing over her brother's words from a week ago. He hadn't been right. She hadn't been together with Hyde.
But Hyde had known that her brother was in love with Donna…
Her stomach twisted painfully.
"STOP IT!" Fez's cape fluttered, his eyes wide with worry as he dove into the middle of the chaos. "Can't you see what's happening?" Silences thickened in the room. Fez's eyes darted to the stack of files sprawled across the desk. "Those permanent records are tearing us apart."
Immediately, Tina's eyes snapped to the worn pages, a few fluttering harmlessly in the desolate wind that blew through the burned halls. Her mind drifted scornfully back to the moment that Hyde had turned on her.
"Batman's right," Eric muttered, his mouth thinning. "Look what we've become."
"We're like animals," Donna breathed.
"Worse than animals," Tina bit out, shaking her head.
Kelso's fingers were white around the hilt of his flashlight as he thrust it at the packets. "Those files are evil, man."
Jackie's eyes narrowed. "We have to destroy them?"
"But how, Jackie?" Eric pressed. "How?"
A pregnant silence filled the room. Tina's mind ran over all the possibilities. And then somehow drifted back to Donna and Hyde playing tongue hockey in some incredibly romantic setting. Her stomach rolled. Out fo the corner of her eyes, she could see Hyde trying to catch her eyes.
"I saw a shovel in the back," Kelso suggested.
And if for nothing other than to avoid Hyde, she hurried to go find it.
Whew that was a long one and dense as hell. I hope that I kept it lightish? I hope. Maybe not. It started out light as whipped cream though. Anyway! Please leave me a REVIEW. Ya'll know how much I love my reviews and it'll making me feel like a penguin bunny - which sounds like a lovely combination, right? Penguin bunny reviews for the win!