12.01 am 1st January 1980, Eric Foremans living room.
Red has his arm around Kitty's shoulders with that little smile of his, you know the one he only gives her.
Kitty is beaming, her baby boy is back from Africa. Everything is going back to how it should be, she glances at the couple on the stairs, or nearly as it should be atleast.
Said baby boy Eric is staring at Donna, his Donna, trying to figure out how this is all going to work and whether she's going to knee him in the nads after the New Years celebrations die down.
Donna is just glad Eric is back, still pissed at him, but she realises she hasn't been all rainbows herself for the past few months since he left - they'll figure it out, they will actually talk through this properly put all their cards on the table and work it out.
Kelso is wondering what would happen if he got a slab of beer and tapped all the fireworks he has left to it and set them off, like would it rain beer and he could just run around with his mouth open? Or would the whole slab get projected into outer space? And if it did go into outer space, would he be famous? Would little Betsy be able to one day say "look how cool my daddy is, he made beer fly. Burn"
Fez is smiling at his goddess on the stair case. He can't belive he finally got her, he can't wait to show her off to everyone, ha the sons of bitches wont be laughing anymore, hes had brief thoughts over the past week on how he is going to tell Jackie he is still technically still married to Laurie, but he figures that's a 1980's problem and he'll just buy her a necklace and tell her she's beautiful. After all she shiny things.
Jackie is smiling again, it's not the same smile that used to grace her face, not with the same twinkle in her eyes, but she feels better then she has in months. This is going to be her year.
Hyde has just opened up another can, surely beer was a gift from the gods, beer, rock n roll and pizza that's all he need this year. He glances up at the two figures on the stair case.
"Get off my chick you dillhole perv!"
it's slow motion, the can goes flying and hits the wall just behind Fezs head, Jackie with an almost elated but shocked expression, Fez with a look of horror. Kitty basically jumping up and down with joy, Red has that look on his face, where you just know he's thinking this god damn dumbarse finally figured it out. Eric has his eyebrows raised eyes shifting from Hyde to Jackie. Donna's smiling. Kelso is just looking comically at the beer.
The can hits the wall, beer explodes from the end every where, splashing over Jackie's dress and down over Fezs head the room goes quiet, the record has selected the perfect time to stop.
"oh!" Kelso says loudly, "I was gonna be the one to make beer squirt everywhere!" he huffs out of the living room and slams through the kitchen door.
"might just go and make sure he doesn't have anymore fireworks." Eric says standing up and grabbing Donna's hand.
"yeah we don't want a repeat of '75." Donna says as the two quickly walk out of the room.
"He better not have fireworks near the Toyota!" Red calls as he pulls Kitty with him, "I might have flash backs to the last time I had explosions going off near a Japanese machine. And if that happens my foot will go in his arse!" Kitty is desperately trying to stay where she is and resist Reds pulling, she's grabbed the shelf behind her.
"No Red, I've waited too long for this!"
Red spins around and grabs her around the waist, he picks her up and pulls her with him. "Remember Kitty, Eric is back, he's in our back yard with his kettle head friend and that Pinciotti girl."
Jackie is gingerly wiping her face with her sleeve, trying to figure out what just happened.
Fez is is breathing deeply looking at his curly haired, pornstache wearing friend. "you son of a bitch!"
"Fez," Jackie reaches out to touch his arm.
"you ruined my shirt!" he cries pulling his arm back from Jackie to inspect the sleeve.
Hyde had stepped towards Jackie as soon as the can had left his fingers.
"crap, are you OK?" he asks looking at her, "Fez shut up man, I'm sorry, it was a girly shirt anyway Fredrica. "
"Steven what the hell?" Jackie yells standing up, "how could you do that?"
Hyde looks at her, and it suddenly clicks with him what he had just said and done. He opens his mouth to speak, but nothing comes out he's drawn a black.
Jackie is giving him that look, that one which is telling him to use his words and answer, but how can he after what's happened these last few months.
"oh jackie, the son of a bitch still loves you, and he doesn't care that once again he's breaking someone's heart." Fez cries dramatically, shooting a dirty look to Hyde. Before going back to check his now beer soaked hair. Jackies is looking at Hyde, strangely oblivious to the beer which has dropped down the front of her dress and is still slowly dripping from her fringe. Hyde swallows and licks his lips nervously, he couldn't possibly still love her -, he didn't even love her in the first place, with her bossy ways and spolied princess attitude, and her stupid hair and ridiculously good looks, and that look she used to give him, the one which said he was her Knight in shining armour. How she could be so fiery and passionate and so superficial but actually quite smart and intelligent underneath. And like when she used to kiss him and it didn't matter how crap his day had been it just made it better and how he used to spend time with her just doing nothing but being with her.
So this really turned out to be longer then I planned. Now have a whole little story planned out from this. Was thinking about how season 8 could have been saved and really by adding Hyde saying get off my chick to the kissing jackie and fez would have been the last resort, but I think would have guaranteed a season 9.