Steven Foreman & Erik Hyde

Prolog

End of junior year, 1977 (AN: that is my interpretation of the time line).

It is class picture day for everyone with and almost the whole gang is in the room. Donna is sitting on a desk wearing a plad shirt with jeans. Kelso is sitting in his chair, across from Donna and wearing a suit. Jackie is sitting in a chair to the right of Donna and she is wearing a good looking dress. Fez is sitting on the other side of Jackie and wearing a suit. Steven is sitting next to Donna, both are messing with each other, and he is wearing a polo and his signature sun glasses. It all looks like they're having a good time.

Then a man who was wearing a ratty Led Zeppelin shirt and pants walks in the door with a smile on his face and says, "Guys, I was able to put lip stick on Tommy Hedges' face before he took his picture. It was so funny."

Donna laughs and says, "Dude, Eric, that's awesome."

Steven says while laughing, "That's freaking hilarious."

Fez laughs too and says, "Very funny."

Kelso, also laughing, says, "Hyde that is a freaking awesome burn."

"Yeah, but where'd you get the make up?" Jackie said trying to burn Eric.

"Oh that's right, here's your lip stick Jackie." Eric said as he was handing the lip stick container back to Jackie.

Jackie looked at the lipstick in front of her and said, "Eww, get that away from me."

Steven with his arm around Donna said, "Okay guys, we really need to start thinking about our year book quote."

Eric said, "It should probably be some sweet memory."

Steven looked at Eric and laughed before saying, "Hey Hyde, how about the time we first met."

Eric, with angry expression, said, "Don't you dare tell that story."

Steven said, "I'm going to."

(Flashback)

1968

Steven was at the playground, sitting on a swing, getting ready to go home. All of a sudden he heard some noise, sounding like a punch. Steven looked up and saw a skinny kid fighting three big kids and the skinny kid was winning. Steven thought that is was awesome how this kid was doing until he saw one of the big kids pick up a big stick and hit the skinny kid in the face with it. Steven thought the fight was unfair and ran over to the three boys started punching them and after a little bit the three kids ran away.

Steven went to the kid who was on the ground and said, "Are you okay?"

As the kid got up he said, "Why'd you help me?"

"Well, I thought it was wrong that those kids used a stick," Steven said, "besides, you were kicking their tails before and that's cool."

The kid laughed and said, "It's ass, not tail."

Steven saw kid was wiping the blood off his mouth and said, "Hey, want to go to my house to clean the blood off?"

The kid said, "Sure."

They started to walk to Steven's house, Steven said, "My name's Steven Foreman, what's yours?"

The kid said, "My name's Eric Hyde."

Once they arrived at Steven's house, his mom opened the door, with Mr. Foreman right behind her, and she said, "Oh…Red look, Steven's got a new friend."

Then she saw the blood on Eric's mouth and shrieked, "OH MY GOSH IS THAT BLOOD! Come inside I'll clean you up."

A few minutes later, Eric was on the couch in a full body cast.

"Gosh, Kitty he only has a bloody lip." Mr. Foreman said looking at Eric.

Kitty looked at him and said, "A blood lip today Red, but what about tomorrow?"

Kitty went back into the kitchen.

Red looked at Eric and said, "I'm sorry..."

Red left the room.

Eric looked at Steven and said, "If you ever talk about this I will kill you."

(Flashback End)

Eric looked at Steven and said, "Now I have to kill you."

Steven laughed and said, "Sure Hyde, but a least you got a friend out of that cast."

Eric looked around and said, "Where is this friend?"

A change in roles, a change in life, but with similar results.