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Author's Note: Hello everyone! How are you? Hope you're doing well! Today I have for you the next and final chapter of "Party Crashers" I'm very sorry that it too so long to get updated. Had a busy past month and I was going to update a few days ago but decided to wait just a little bit longer…You'll find out in my AN at the bottom. Anywoo, thank you for all of the amazing reviews and incredible support you all have given this story it means so much! And all the favorites and alerts has really meant so much too, thank you! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am so glad that you liked the last chapter and the previous chapters as well. I have had so much fun writing it, I hope you all had fun reading it. This is the last chapter where everything wraps up and I know you all have been waiting for a while so, without further ado, thanks again for stopping by to read, hope you like, please review if you can I'd love to hear your thoughts (even if you've never reviewed any of the other chapters, don't be shy!) hope you like, and as always, Enjoy!

It was nearing five in the morning over at Point Place General where Baby Boy Hyde has been welcomed into the world mere hours ago. He'd been left to bond with his parents for a few minutes before he was taken off to nursery with all the other fresh babies. While he was being tended to in the nursery, the doctor insisted that the baby's mother take an hour or so to relax and recover before seeing any visitors. The was something she did not argue with, she really was tired.

However, after an hour nap, Jackie was up but not yet ready for visitors. She refused to let anyone see her again until she washed her hair that she insisted had become all greasy and icky during the delivery. It had taken another hour and the tears of one of the hospital's orderly before someone finally went out to buy Jackie some shampoo because she would not use the generic shampoo the hospital offered.

Meanwhile, Baby Boy Hyde's Grandma Kitty had used this waiting time to call up various family members and friends. And between phone calls, she tried to sneak into the nursey to get a peek at the new member of the family.

This left new father and Grandpa Red siting in the waiting room, holding paper cups of coffee, and looking tired—but content.

Red cleared his throat, getting ready to ask the big question. "So Steven, how's it feel to be a father?"

"I don't know, man," Hyde replied after a pause; it was hard to put the emotions he was feeling right now into words. He'd never felt this way before…he never knew he could feel this way. He looked down at his bronze colored liquid in his cup and shook his head. "It's…it's different…" he lifted his head and gave Red a small smirk, "But a good different, you know?"

"I know," Red confirmed; he knew exactly what Steven was saying and it made him happy that Steven was experiencing some of those same feelings he'd once felt. He patted the younger man's back, "I know."

As Hyde nodded his head in agreement, he remembered something he wanted to tell the man seated next to him.

"And Red, thanks for being here…you know sticking around all this time," Hyde started to say. He'd been more than a little excited when he stepped into the waiting room and found that he had family to share the news of the birth of his son with. "It really means a lot to Jackie."

A bushy, skeptical eyebrow rose, "Just Jackie?"

The corner of Hyde's lip twitched, creating a lopsided smile before he admitted, "And me too."

Soon Red was returning the smile with a grin of his own; but the truth was he wasn't used to being thanked for this kind of stuff. He definitely didn't do any of this to be thanked, heck, this was something he didn't think he had to be thanked for.

"Yeah well…listen, what else were we gonna do?"

Hyde shrugged his shoulders, "Go home, sleep," he threw out there then added. "That's what I would've done if I were you."

Hearing those words made Red chuckle because he knew how untrue the statement was. Steven was big talker, like himself, but if someone he cared about was in the hospital—for whatever reason—he'd stay in that waiting room until security kicked him out.

"I wouldn't 've gotten much sleep at home anyway," commented Red. "Kitty would've kept me up either with her damn party planning or by going on and on about how we should've been here," he waved an open palm front of himself, "Believe me, it's better that we stayed. Kitty really wanted to be here."

Again an eyebrow arched with suspicion; this brow missing the light sprinkle of gray the previous one contained. "Just Kitty?"

"Alright, smart-aleck," Red glowered at Hyde and the way he was using his own tactic against him. "And me too."

Red tried his best to continue to scowl at the grinning fool beside him but found his own face cracking into a smile. He was becoming delusional from lack of sleep, he reasoned.

"Still feel pretty bad about you having to start your birthday off here at the hospital." The guilt Hyde felt made the corners of his smile much heavier.

"Look Steven, you gotta remember I've fought in two wars. This isn't the worst birthday I've ever had," the older man tried to assure and for a moment Hyde actually did feel better; until he noticed the somber almost horrified look slowly appear on Red's face.

Silently, Hyde sat there, waiting to see if Red would continue, slightly worried the guy was having some sort of war flashback to the worst birthday he'd ever had.

Finally, Red spoke again.

"But it might be once Kitty's party planning is finished," he said solemnly.

With a shake of his head, Hyde's smirk was appearing once again. He really should've known better. Red Forman could handle armed Commies but birthday parties filled with annoying friends and neighbors was another story and Red was really not looking forward to the upcoming one.

"That reminds me," Hyde placed his untouched coffee on the table in front of him before he reached over and grabbed his winter coat he'd slung over one of the empty waiting chairs. His hand dug into the jacket's left pocket and soon pulled out an item that he proudly held out towards his adopted father. "Here you go, Red. Happy Birthday."

"Hey," Red's small smile was swiftly turning into a giant grin as he took the fat brown stick that was being handed to him. "That's a nice cigar."

Sticking his hand back into the pocket, Hyde pulled out another cigar, this time keeping it for himself. "Yeah, got 'em from Leo. Said they were special cigars," the explanation caused Red's brows to move upwards making Hyde chuckle just slightly. "Not that kind of special."

"Good," nodded Red, his focus still on the roll of tobacco his fingers held. He never thought he'd find himself holding another cigar but now that he was, he was so tempted. He just needed a match…a lighter even…but… "You know, I'm not supposed to have one of these things."

Hyde wasn't sure whether Red was talking to him or to himself.

"Yeah, I know. I heard Mrs. Forman gettin' on your case about it," Hyde started say because it was true and he felt bad about going against Mrs. Forman's wishes but this was Red's Birthday wish. "But it's your birthday, you know? You deserve it. And heard it's kinda something new dads do when their kid's born…pass out cigars and stuff. Can't mess with tradition right?"

Red made a sound that was a cross between a laugh and a scoff, the boy had thought this through; but there was still something holding him back from lighting up. "Kitty'll kill me when she finds out."

"I won't tell her if you don't," Hyde offered. "It'll be our secret."

Kitty's husband eyed the younger man in front of him; he obviously didn't know his wife as well as he did.

"Then she'll kill you when she finds out you were the one to give me this thing," Red stated, reminding Hyde of something he should have already realized. This wasn't if Kitty found out it was when she found out; because even if the two of them made these cigars their secret, Kitty would find out.

"I know," confirmed Hyde, not looking very worried. "Figured I'd make sure I was holdin' her new grandson when she found out so she can't hurt me."

The balding man looking impressed, "Already planning on using your kid to get yourself out of trouble?" he asked before smirking, "You're gonna be a great father, son."

"Yeah, right," Hyde said, sounding like he was agreeing with a joke as his eyes looked down at his unlit cigar.

"Hey," Red's stern call grabbed Hyde's attention instantly. "I never say anything I don't mean."

Looking at Red, Hyde wondered how the man seemed to know the latest worry going through his mind: Would he be good father? Maybe Red has similar worries when he first became a parent, though for Hyde that was pretty hard to imagine. Still, having one of greatest dads he knew telling him that he'd be a great dad, did make Hyde feel a little less worried.

"Thanks, Red."

A nod of his head and a faint smile were the response Red gave just before he returned his attention back to his latest gift. He rolled the cigar between his thumb and first two fingers. It was like he was itching to smoke it but something was stopping him.

"You want a light?" asked Hyde, already preparing to retrieve his lighter.

Red was a bit startled at having been caught but once he was over it he looked at his son and scrunched the bridge of his nose, "Nah."

Hyde's brow furrowed as he watched Red stick the roll of tobacco into his shirt pocket. "You're not gonna smoke it?"

"Maybe later."

"I don't get it, Red," the expression on Hyde's face showed his confusion. "This whole time I thought all you really wanted was a cigar…"

"I did. And now thanks to you and your son, I got that cigar. Doesn't mean I gotta smoke it the moment I get it," Red began to explain, a smirk forming on his lips. "After all, this is a special cigar, right?"

Now understanding things a little more, Hyde smiled and nodded in agreement.

"Tell you what," continued Red. "I'll hang onto this cigar and you hang onto yours and in a few years we'll smoke 'em together. Say on your son's 18th birthday."

"That'll be your 75th birthday," Hyde had quickly done the math

Smirking, Red nodded his head, "I'll be here."

"Cool," his son mirrored his smirk.

"Come on," Red patted Hyde's jean covered knee. "Let's go see if I can meet my grandson yet."

0o0o0o

"Steven, which is better? If I'm looking up and smiling at them as they walk in or if I'm looking down consumed by the cuteness of our baby?" Jackie questioned before giving a taste at what each pose would look like as she sat in her hospital bed.

Hyde smiled as he watched her, "You look beautiful, doll."

She smiled back at him and was just about to point out that he didn't tell her which was better, when a small cry was heard coming from the blue bundle she held in her arms.

"Oh, it's okay. Shh baby, it's okay," she cooed to the fussing baby. "Shh."

Once again Hyde was captivated by the sight of his wife with their baby. He'd just started crying and already Jackie had managed to soothe his cries by rocking him gently and humming a soft lullaby. Hyde may have still been a bit worried about his own parenting skills but watching Jackie, Hyde thought she was a natural.

"Steven," Jackie whispered, breaking him from his daze. "Aren't you gonna open the door?"

"Right."

He quickly walked over to the room's door, his surrogate parents had waited long enough. Hyde just barely opened the door, midway through his greeting of 'Come on in' when Kitty practically pushed her way inside and made a beeline for Baby Boy Hyde. Red was further behind, taking a moment to pat Hyde's back before he walked further into the room.

"Oh! Oh he is so beautiful," gushed Kitty as she looked down at the baby in Jackie's arms. "Steven, honey, he looks just like you. Red, look."

"I see, Kitty," Red nodded gazing fondly at the newest member of the family before he looked over at the woman holding him. "How you doing, Jackie?"

Jackie smiled, "I'm fine, Mr. Forman."

"Oh Jackie!" Kitty cried as if suddenly remembering she was in the room too. She quickly embraced in the younger woman in a tight hug, mindful of newborn in her arms. "Oh sweetie, I am so proud of you."

"Thanks, Mrs. Forman. I'm proud of me too," Jackie admitted with a glowing smile. "And you were so right. Having Steven in the delivery room with me was the best decision I've made. I don't think I could've done it without him."

She looked across the room and locked her brown eyes on her husband's blue ones. Jackie meant every word she said and wanted to make sure Hyde knew this. His understanding was shown as he grinned back at her.

"Well, I'm not normally one to say this," Kitty's voice interrupted the silent exchange between the new parents. "But you're a mother now and you'll soon learn how good it is to say this…I told you so!"

A laugh escaped Jackie's lips, joining in on Mrs. Forman's own unique giggle.

"You did good, kid," Red said, looking at the baby before looking back at its' mother. "I knew you could do it."

"I know you did, thank you, Mr. Forman," Jackie said, remembering the conversation they'd had in the kitchen before leaving to the hospital. "And happy birthday. Sorry for sort of ruining your day."

Red waved to comment off, "Ah…"

"Can I hold him?" Kitty suddenly asked, looking as eager a little kid asking if they could open Christmas gifts yet on Christmas Eve.

Hyde smirked teasingly, "Took you long enough to ask."

Baby Boy Hyde grunted just slightly as he was moved out of his mother's arms and his little fist popped into the air for a moment, but his eyes remained shut as he was passed on into his Grandma Kitty's waiting arms. The moment she had the infant in her hold, Kitty felt her heart melt.

"Oh, it has been so long since I've held a baby," she shared before softly rocking the swaddle of blue, trying to keep her happy tears from falling. "I've missed this…Red honey, remember when our kids were this tiny?"

"Yeah, then they grow up and become smart mouthed dumbasses," he shook his head and looked at the new parents with a taunting smirk on his lips. "You two are gonna have your hands full."

Jackie giggled while Hyde felt his face droop with worry.

"Soo?" Kitty drew out the word, smiling down at the baby. "Does this little guy have a name yet?"

"Uh yeah, he does actually," Hyde confirmed then looked over at Jackie who nodded her head, signaling him to continue. "Red, Mrs. Forman, this is your grandson, Daniel Forman Hyde."

At the announcement of the baby's name both Red and Kitty looked over at their adopted son. Red looked shocked, taken aback, and unsure of what to do, while Kitty had lost the fight of holding back tears and was now smiling a very tearful smile.

"Steven, oh…oh honey, that is…it's just the sweetest thing…"

"Yeah, I thought so too," Hyde smirked, "But I can't really take credit for it."

He then looked over his shoulder and Kitty's eyes followed, soon finding that he was looking at his wife.

"Jackie?" Kitty asked, unable to help the surprise in her voice.

"I do nice things too!" protested a slightly pouting Jackie.

"Oh honey, I know you do," the older woman quickly said, not wanting to offend the young mother who had made such a kind gesture. "And this is the nicest thing ever. Isn't it, Red?"

Red had barely managed to open his mouth when Jackie started to speak.

"Well, I know how much your family means to Steven…you are his family. You're both always there when we need you and you've also done so much for both of us," she explained to the couple, speaking straight from her heart and trying not to get too emotional herself. Weren't the hormones supposed to be in order now? "And since he was born on your birthday, we wanted to honor you Mr. Forman….although, and no offense," she was swift to throw in, "but I was not going to name my son Reginald."

A chuckle left Red's lips. "None taken," he assured; he wasn't a fan of his full name either and was glad there wouldn't be another Forman generation stuck with it.

Subtly, Red's smile downsized as he stared back at the petite brunette. "You know," he cleared his throat, looking down then you again. "You didn't have to do that."

"I know I didn't have to do it," came Jackie's reply, her smile stretching on her lips. "I wanted to."

His grin formed again, this time a little bigger than before. "Well…thank you, Jackie."

"Do you wanna hold him?" she offered despite not being the one holding Daniel at the moment.

"Uh Kitty's not done holding him," Red tried to use this an excuse. "Let her finish and then maybe I'll…"

Kitty tsked at her husband as she approached him with their grandchild. "Red, honey, don't be silly. You hold him now and I'll continue my turn in a bit." She told him, already passing the baby to him.

He could have objected, not opened his arms even, but it was like an old instinct left from when he and Kitty were new parents and she'd hand him a crying Laurie or a sleeping Eric. Red's arms were ready and accepting the baby his wife was handing to him.

"Besides I have to talk to Steven about something," she told her husband with a quick pat on his arm.

Red had barely heard her, let alone notice her and Hyde walk off to the far off corner of the room. He was captivated by the little baby he held in his arms. Everyone talked about how incredible it was to hold your first child in your arms and Red wouldn't trade that memory of first holding Laurie for the world; but no one ever told you how special it was to hold your first grandchild in your arms. He felt like this little person had given him a whole new outlook on life.

"Mr. Forman?" Jackie called softly, he'd been quiet for some time now. "Are you okay?"

Lifting his head, Red revealed the smile he wore. "It goes by fast, Jackie," he said, "Make sure you enjoy this time as much as you can."

Tearfully she nodded, "I will."

Over on the other side of the hospital room, Kitty was talking to her adopted son about a subject she couldn't ignore any longer. Her hands were clasped tightly together, pressing against the bottom of her chin, and her eyes bore into Hyde impatiently.

"So Steven, how many pictures did you take in the delivery room?"

Hyde nervously scratched his cheek, this was a subject he would've been happy to ignore a little longer. "Uh…none."

"None?" Kitty's eyes widened.

"I didn't really have time to be snapping photos, Mrs. Forman," he said, partially lying. He might've had time to capture a few moments on film but he hadn't been willing to risk Jackie seeing him and possibly breaking the camera or shoving it somewhere that it certainly didn't belong. "Sorry."

Kitty tried not to look too disappointed, "Well what about after the delivery room? Have you taken any pictures at all?"

"No…"

"No?" she practically screeched. "Have you learned nothing from me?"

This time Hyde bit the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing, "I was gonna take one but then I figured, I want my kid's first picture to be taken by the family photographer."

Almost as if done magically, Hyde pulled out Kitty's camera from behind his back and handed it to her. Kitty's face immediately lit up and she snatched the camera into her own hands. This baby was hours old and still hadn't gotten his first picture taken! She needed to fix this!

Watching Kitty spin around with the camera already positioned and ready to go, Hyde grinned, happy that he could give his surrogate mother this moment of happiness.

The moment that Kitty had spotted Daniel safely tucked in her husband's arms, she saw the opportunity for a Kodak moment and snapped a picture.

"Kitty," Red groaned at the camera's bright flash. "You trying to blind the kid before he's a day old?"

"That was such a cute photo of the two birthday boys," giggled Kitty, ignoring her husband's griping. "Oh! We should do that every year! Take a picture of the two birthday boys together and see how much they grow over the years."

Though Kitty seemed very excited about her idea, Red did not appear to share her enthusiasm. "Oh jeeze…"

"Red," she sent him a sharp glare. "You can't take this away from me. It's my God given right as a mother….and now grandmother! Oh, give me that baby!"

Without a word, Red handed Baby Daniel over to his wife. He knew that him not holding the baby would also mean him not having pictures take of him.

"Sorry we're gonna have to miss out on the party tonight," Hyde suddenly said and Kitty suddenly stopped making funny faces at the baby in her arms.

"Well, actually, there's been a change of plans," her voice sounded a little less happy.

"What?"

Kitty looked at her husband and gave him a smile. "I guess it's time for me to give you my gift to you, Red," she paused then smiled. "I cancelled the party."

"You did?" Red looked more excited than any of them could remember seeing him.

Kitty was giggling and nodding her head and Red was looking like he could do a cartwheel, but Jackie couldn't help but feel more than a little guilt-ridden when she heard the news.

"Mrs. Forman, I'm so sorry that you had to cancel the part because of us," she told the older woman; she really felt terrible. "I know how hard you were working on it."

"Oh Jackie, don't be silly," Kitty chided slightly. "I didn't cancel the party because of you or this little angel. And you have nothing to feel sorry about. After all, thanks to you, this time next year I could be helping you plan for a 1st birthday party!" She giggled with excitement. "Oh it'll be so much fun. We could do a circus theme oh or pirates! This is so exciting! Steven, honey, come grab Daniel so I can get a picture of the two of you together."

Knowing better than to argue against an excited Kitty, Hyde took his son into his arms and allowed Kitty to capture a few precious moments with her camera while Red and Jackie just watched on.

"Wow, she's really excited about next year," Jackie said, this wasn't something she'd seen coming.

"Yeah," Red agreed heavying out a sigh. "It'll be a miracle if she remembers it's my birthday too."

Right away Jackie looked over at Red, ready to make another heartfelt apology for making him share his birthday thunder, but before she could say anything to him a large grin popped onto his face.

"This is the best birthday gift I could've ever asked for!" Red declared before moving his arm around Jackie's shoulders to give her a one armed thank you hug.

Jackie beamed up at Red who smiled assuringly at her. Red Forman was probably the only person in the world, okay with having his birthday forgotten. Because to Red, a forgotten birthday meant no fuss over him, it meant people leaving him alone on his birthday…and that had been the wish he'd made on birthday candles for a countless number of years.

Of course with Kitty as his wife, his birthday probably wouldn't be completely forgotten but it would be celebrated with a much smaller bash now that there was someone else to celebrate that day, and Red was more than okay with that idea.

Keeping his arm around Jackie, Red patted her arm gently and Jackie happily rested her head on his shoulder as they both watched Kitty continue to take multiple pictures of Hyde and the little party crasher.

The End

Author's Note: So what did you think? Love it? Hate it? Be sure to let me know in a review!

I really hope you all liked this chapter and the way that the story had wrapped up. Like I've said before this story and idea was one that was close to my heart and that's because for those of you who don't know, I actually share my birthday with my grandpa too. (Remember I posted the first chapter on my birthday, never expected it to take this long lol) And one of the reasons I had Hyde and Jackie name their son Daniel is because that was my grandfather's name, so I thought it was a nice little way to honor him in this little story.

And the reason I waited until today to post this last chapter is because today, July 3 is actually Kurtwood Smith's birthday! Started the story on a birthday, thought it would be nice to end it on one too :) Happy Birthday, Kurtwood!

Thank you again to all of you wonderful readers who have stuck with this story! Thank you for all of the wonderfully kind reviews and for being so sweet to add this story to your alerts and even favorites. It truly means so much more than you know. Thank you!

Until next time, thanks for reading, hope you liked, please review and lemme know what you think, take care, and have a nice day!