I'm starting this story rated T, but it might get bumped up to M later on, but let's see how it goes. Please read and review!

The italicized quotes are taken from the show. This will probably be the only chapter with direct from show content. After this, it won't really follow the show's timeline.

Disclaimer: I own nothing from That 70's Show.

"I'm going to the prom. I'm taking Pam Macey."

At the sound of Kelso's words Jackie's stomach dropped. When she broke up with Kelso she didn't think about prom. It's the most important day of her life and she just forgot about it because of a stupid pregnancy scare. She shouldn't have let Donna talk her into focusing in her future dreams. Her dream right now was to go to prom. As she looked up at Michael's stupid face she realized she wouldn't let him ruin prom for her.

"Oh…well I have a date too," Jackie said.

"Who is it? What's his name?" Kelso practically screamed.

"His name…is not important," Jackie said not able to think of a name. "What's important is he's better than you in every conceivable way."

"Well, Damn Jackie that could be anyone," Kelso actually screamed this time. Jackie placed a strategic smirk and looked Kelso in the eye until he left. As soon as he was out the door of the Pinciotti's kitchen, Jackie's smirk feel and she let her head fall into her hands.

She promised herself she would stop crying over Kelso, so she held back her tears. After a second of silence, she picked up her head and headed to the living room. She didn't see Donna anywhere and when she went upstairs to her bedroom and she couldn't find her, Jackie figured she was in Eric's basement. She never understood why Donna chose to spend so much of her time there. Jackie would go to the basement to be with Kelso, but Eric wasn't worth spending time in that dump.

When Jackie made it to the basement she opened the side door slowly. She was afraid Kelso would be there and she didn't want to run into him again.

She had just popped her head in when she heard Hyde's voice ring out.

"If you're looking for Kelso he's not here," Hyde said abrasive as always. "Fez and him went to see a movie."

Seeing that the coast was clear Jackie walked into the room. She hesitated, but then went and sat next to Hyde on the coach.

"I'm not looking for Michael," Jackie said flopping down in a very unladylike manner. "I'm looking for Donna."

"Maybe you haven't noticed, but she's also not here," Hyde said indicating around the empty room. Jackie's entrance had his interest peaked. She very rarely entered the basement without Kelso or Donna.

"If Michael's not going to be back for a while, do you mind if I wait here until Donna comes around?" Jackie asked. She knew that she didn't need permission from him, but he always intimidated her slightly. It was fine when they were in a group and she could be her confident, bossy self, but when it was just the two of them something felt different –tense, but not necessarily in a bad way just like they both weren't saying everything they wanted.

"It's a free country," Hyde said. He wasn't going to stop her, but he certainly wasn't excited about listening to her yap about Kelso. All he could hope for was that Donna would come around to listen soon.

Plus, Jackie had a way of making him feel on edge. He thought it might have something to do with the fact that she could dish out insults almost as well as he could. It made her a worthy adversary and a little exciting to be around not like he would admit that to anyone.

They both sat in silence. Hyde was focusing on his television show, but Jackie was deep in thought about the prom. She was running through a list of boys that would be acceptable to take her. When she realized that all of the senior boys were out she let out a sigh. When she realized that all the juniors were taken she let out another slightly louder. Then she thought about staying home alone on prom night and let out a third sigh.

"Jackie if I asked you what's wrong will you stop doing that?" Hyde asked in annoyance. He instantly knew he regretted his question after hearing her next three words.

"It's the prom," Jackie said. She was hesitant to tell Hyde for fear of him making fun of her, but he had asked. And she really needed to get this off her chest. "Stupid Michael is taking stupid Pam Macey and I don't have a date, but I told him I did and I feel like a complete loser."

Hyde let out a hearty laugh. When he looked to Jackie to laugh with her he quickly noticed she wasn't laughing. In fact, her sad expression had turned into a royally pissed off one.

"…No you're not," Hyde said letting his smile fall. Of course it was a lie, he did think she was a loser not because she didn't have a date, but because she cared so much about the stupid prom.

"It's just thought…look…I thought he was going to ask me," Jackie said. "And now everyone who's anyone is already going."

"That is so true," Hyde said sarcastically letting the television start to draw his attention again in hopes of getting out of the conversation.

"How would you know you're not even going?" Jackie said letting the anger into her tone. After looking at Hyde's unfazed face for a moment, Jackie realized something. He wasn't going. She let out a loud gasp with the realization. "Wait you're not even going. Oh! Oh! And I bet you clean up real good."

Jackie grabbed his arm slightly with her admission, but quickly pulled her hand away. She knew Hyde was attractive it was hard to ignore, but she had never thought of him as anything other than Michael's friend. Now, she was imagining him in a suit holding her hand as they walked into prom. He was a little scruffy, but the cheerleaders would all be jealous. They all had a thing for him because they wanted to get with the bad boy. She could picture all of their heads turning and their eyes bright with jealousy. It would be perfect!

"Well I do, but I won't," Hyde said briefly looking at her. "See that's a big part of who I am."

"Look, Hyde, I know we've had our differences but –, " Jackie said before she was interrupted.

"Jackie we've had nothing but differences, in fact don't we kinda hate each other," Hyde said hoping she would drop it. He didn't do proms and he especially didn't do them with cheerleaders.

"Yes, but this is the prom," Jackie said and before she could even finish her sentence she was crying. She knew she was exaggerating when she let her head fall into Hyde's crossed arms, but she didn't care. It was the prom it was too important for her to miss.

Hyde looked down at her dismayed. How did she go from being perfectly fine to crying in his arms within seconds? He hated when girls cried. If he wanted a girl crying on him he would have a girlfriend. Jackie's tiny body shook as he remained stoic and repeatedly asked her to stop. Finally, he realized he only had one out.

"Look do you want to go to the prom?" Hyde asked. He was immediately mad at himself for falling for her game. She lifted her head and accepted. Her eyes and nose were red, but the tears immediately stopped. Hyde finally figured out how this girl got men to fall over themselves for her.

Jackie let out a sigh and let her head rest on his shoulder. Hyde put his arm on the arm rest and rested his own head against his hand. At this angle he was further away from her, but he could also see her face. She had a tiny smile that he realized he hadn't seen on her since before her pregnancy scare. Kelso really did a number on Jackie. He hated to admit it but she could do better than Kelso. She was smart, pretty and manipulative as hell. Sure she had her flaws like her big mouth, but still she didn't deserve to be repeatedly cheated on and treated like crap. He would never tell Kelso, but the smile he wore when she ended things with him wasn't just because of the wicked burn, but also because he was happy to see her stand up for herself. Now he just needed to figure out how to get her to stand up and get out of the basement.

When Jackie went to pick up Hyde she was surprised to see that he actually wore an undershirt that matched her dress like she asked him too. She was also pleasantly surprised by the corsage that he handed her. She had been right he did clean up well. They looked like the perfect couple when she handed him her dad's keys she was more than happy to slide into the passenger side and watch the scenery pass on their twenty minute drive to their school.

Hyde on the other hand, couldn't stop looking over at Jackie. He wasn't lying when he told her she looked beautiful. She looked nice every day, but she looked older tonight and like she wasn't trying to impress anyone but herself. He of course knew this wasn't true because the whole reason she was going and that he needed to go with her was so that she could impress people at school, but something about her confidence was just different.

He wanted to punch himself for how much of a sucker he was being tonight. Between the purple shirt, flower and caring about her father's car he was turning into Forman. He didn't even mind it when she kissed him on the cheek in front of his house. At least he had had the self-control to tell her not to, but he hadn't pull away like he should have.

Realizing the ride was too silent he turned on the music. The station was set to some girly crap so he fiddled with the radio until he heard Cherry Bomb by the Runaways. The next time he looked over at Jackie he noticed she was bombing her head slightly and he smirked. Maybe she did have some potential.

When they pulled up to the school they both started heading towards the gym without saying anything. His eyes were drawn to her hands as she fiddled with her fingerless gloves. Her hands looked so tiny in them. He knew she was nervous because Kelso would be inside with Pam Macey. He wasn't going to hold her hand, but he did move his hand to the small of her back and started leading her to the gym rather than just silently walking next to her.

"There's no reason to be nervous," Hyde said.

Jackie looked up at him. She was touched he had even noticed let alone said anything.

"Michael's going to be with Pam and everyone is going to know that we're not together and that he's moved on," Jackie said. In a quitter voice she continued, "I don't want to be compared to Pam."

Hyde frowned at her once again mentally cursing Kelso.

"There's no comparison," Hyde said. When he saw her look of confusion he sighed. He really didn't want to feed her compliments the way every boy trying to get in her pants did. "I just meant that…Pam she's easy but there's not a lot there besides that…You're…just you're…different…"

It wasn't the most beautifully said thing, but Jackie was still touched. She knew he didn't often give out compliments, so it meant a lot when he did.

"It's a good thing you warned me not to kiss your check again," Jackie said smiling up at Hyde.

"Whatever," Hyde said rolling his eyes as they walked into the prom.

They posed together for the classic prom photo. Jackie was touched that Hyde took the photo with her and he even let her fuss over his tie. He didn't look entirely happy in the photo, but she didn't care she still loved it. He even had some fun and took a photo with Fez. She didn't say anything, but she was pretty sure he did it to make Fez feel better about not having a date.

The more time Jackie spent with Hyde and away from Kelso the more she realized he was actually a very sweet guy under the scruff and attitude.

Everything about the night was going perfectly for Jackie. Hyde danced with her and insulted Pam Macey. Based on the easy conversation and small smiles she suspected that Hyde was having a pretty good time too. When she asked for them to stop dancing and he offered to go get them punch, she knew she had made the right choice asking Hyde to the prom. He was the perfect date.

Hyde went to the punch bowl and was confronted by Kelso. His idiot friend looked pissed and Hyde knew why.

"Hey Hyde, you brought Jackie to the prom you're supposed to be my friend and you dogged me!" Kelso yelled.

"Hey she cried man," Hyde said angry at Kelso for causing this problem in the first place.

"Well is she having a good time," Kelso asked now sad. "Because she looked real pretty."

"Okay look you big baby. She wants to be with you and you want to be with her, so why don't you stop whining about it and just go be with her because the whole thing sickens me."

Hyde was pissed. He knew Jackie was miserable, but getting back together with Kelso was only going to cause her more pain in the end. Still, it wasn't his job to tell her what to do. He wasn't going to stop them from being together that's for sure.

"But what am I going to do about Pam," Kelso said.

"Don't worry about it I'll take care of Pam," Hyde said. He might as well get some pleasure from tonight. "Just go, man."

Kelso smiled wide and literally skipped over to Jackie. Jackie looked up at him surprised to see Kelso and not Hyde standing in front of her. She had seen Hyde and Kelso talking by the punch bowl but she hadn't thought much off it. She looked back over at the punch bowl and saw Hyde standing there watching them. He gave her a small nod, but didn't move.

"I miss you," Kelso said.

"I miss you too," Jackie responded and she truly meant it. For as much fun as she was having with Hyde her breakup was still fresh and she thought she had loved Kelso. That wasn't easy to give up.

"Do you want to dance?" Kelso asked with his hand out.

Jackie looked up at him and then towards his out stretched hand. She let her eyes go behind him to see Hyde still standing there watching her and Kelso talk. She knew Hyde wouldn't care if she danced with Michael, but she had come with Hyde and they were having a fun time. That's when she realized Michael always did this to her. He came crawling back when he saw that she could be fine without him.

"No," Jackie said firmly. "I don't think that's a good idea we're broken up. Plus, I came here with Hyde."

"What!?" Kelso asked.

"I don't want to dance with you Michael," Jackie said.

"Damn Jackie!" Kelso yelled. "Fine, I have Pam anyway."

Kelso stormed off and grabbed Pam's hand. They went out unto the dance floor and started to sway together closer than they had been all night.

Watching the interaction unfold. Hyde made his way slowly over to Jackie. He was surprised but happy to see her reject Kelso. It sucked that he was missing out on a night with Pam Macey and he didn't want to see his friend get hurt, but it was a good move for Jackie. And for some reason that made him happy.

Hyde silently handed Jackie a cup of punch. She quickly drank it and stood up.

"Do you want to get out of here?" Jackie asked.

"Sure," Hyde said. After a second of thought he continued, "I have any idea."

With that, Hyde finally gave in to temptation and grabbed her hand. They walked out of the Point Place High School gym hand in hand without giving a second thought to the people staring at them as they left.