Author Note: Hey, guys! This story was originally going to be a smut piece...with the overall EJ theme/story still present in it but after I actually started writing it, I felt like smut would have been out of place, like really out of place. It got a more an emotional/humorous feel to it the second I started writing it...and alas, no smut...but I like it better like this so… :-D There is some T rated themes and some language, but I think we are all adults here. But if you are an adult and have a problem with a couple swear words (the big 'F' one, oh no!) then there's an icon with an arrow pointing to the left towards the upper left hand corner of your screen...I'll be here all week. :-D I'm not expecting many readers but I felt another EJ story for their loyal fans wouldn't hurt anybody and I had a ton of fun writing this. I tried to make this as original I could so I hope you like it.

This was sort of inspired by this binge mode I had in the 'Star Wars and Lip Gloss' community (How awesome a title for EJ is that? That is EJ in a nutshell!) of the FF site, which is worth a look! Some stories that aren't well known are in EJ lore are present in that community, so if you like some EJ mushy goodness, go check it out!

IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ: Jackie Burkhart and Michael Kelso got back together in that episode "The Trials of Michael Kelso" in season 3 and this takes place after that episode, maybe...let's say, 2 weeks afterwards so Jackie and Kelso's relationship can settle again and they can start to feel those pesky insecurities about their relationship lurking inside them...again...enjoy! Most definitely AU! God, am I sorry for the long author note intro! (Me telling you about how long it is, is only making it longer...on with it!)

Princess Jackie - Chapter 1 - Lowly Peasant

Eric Forman's Basement

1977

Point Place, Wisconsin

Eric sat on top of the freezer in the already cold air of his basement, reading his 'The Man Behind The Red Hood' comic book...trying to that is. Eric needed to something to do while waiting for his comforter to get done from being in the dryer, he usually would join in on a circle with his friends, but wasn't up to it today for some reason.

Hyde, Kelso and Fez were fresh out of a circle and enjoying their sweet high. Eric was lucky enough not to get a contact high from the smoke, trying to be as level headed as possible to read one of his favorite comics, it was kind of hard to do so with their hysterical laughing.

"Oh man, so get this! It doesn't even run on gas, dude...and you won't believe this next part...it runs on…" Hyde intentionally trailed off as he was informing his friends on something in which the Zen master was clearly convinced on its spectacularity, and his 2 friends were leaning forward eagerly waiting for Hyde to tell them.

"Why do I have a feeling I know what the punchline is? Are we ever going to make a breakthrough in these circles?" Eric mused to himself with a smile helplessly crossing his face.

After waiting some time, Hyde gave them his answer…

"...fully oxidized hydrogen!"

This caused the teen sitting on the freezer stop reading his comic, "Oh…?" Eric thought in genuine surprise as he looked up from the text and sketched action scenes of his book as his head tilted in curiosity, like a dog would when the owner tells him/her they'll be going outside soon, upon hearing Hyde's punchline, he actually put his comic book down in his lap to actually listen in on this one, "Holy shit, are they actually on to something?" he couldn't help but think as he listened with some honest-to-God interest.

Kelso and Fez both leaned back, "Well, that sounds even more expensive than gas, Steven!" the foreign friend retorted, and Kelso couldn't help but nod in agreement, "Yeah, dude! That sounds all...science-y. Screw that!" the kettlehead threw in.

"That's the thing, though!" Hyde shot back, as he quickly fanned his hand through the empty air to clear the still present smoke away from his face so he could see his friends, "Do you even know what fully oxidized hydrogen is?" Hyde condescended as he requested their attention yet again with his tone, and Eric was even giving in to his orphan brother's tone, with his ready alertness to hear him as well.

"It's water, man!" Hyde revealed.

And Eric loudly scoffed out loud and just rolled his eyes...although he couldn't help but think he should start paying attention in science and chemistry class if he actually bought into that, hook line and sinker, "Still...they're talking about the same old crap!" he thought to himself, "To be fair, I'm sure I'd be laughing my ass off with Kelso and Fez right now had I joined in on their circle…"

"That's amazing, dude! Why isn't this like, water-car...thing not on the streets right now?" Kelso asked.

Eric chuckled and decided to chip in, "The government won't make money with those things driving around...right, Hyde?" he asked rhetorically.

Hyde pointed over to Eric in a very exaggerated fashion, "YES!" he shouted loudly, oblivious to the fact his foster parents were still upstairs, Eric loudly shushed back at Hyde, "Jesus Christ, keep it down! You've only just smoked how many bowls? Do you want them to come down here, huh?! I'd be an accessory!" Eric harshly whispered at Hyde, although Kelso and Fez were still wheezing and struggling to breathe from their laughter.

Hyde looked up, "Oh, yeah...right...quite a few bowls by the way…" he replied as he adjusted his trademark glasses from the bridge of his nose, shifting them back over his eyes, "...but that 'water car government' thing is true and it's about damn time you started listening to me, Forman. There are probably warehouses full of these cars...just gathering dust." he told him, his arm finally coming down from pointing in an unnecessary fashion.

Kelso inhaled from his gasping laughter, "Oh, shit! I forgot to pick up uh...come on, I know this...Jackie...from…!" he started but his already stuttering mind went blank even further, "Uh...God, where is she? Someone help me out…?" the rightfully titled kettlehead asked his equally stoned friends as he scratched his head.

Kelso and Fez looked at each other, after both of them timed out from a lack of knowledge, they turned to Hyde by default, and he shrugged his shoulders, "I don't keep tabs on her, man! I guess she's walking home, huh?" the foggy aviator glasses wearing rebel stated, "Ha!"

Kelso couldn't help but laugh as well, "Yeah, and it isn't even my fault this time!" he told his friends, Fez patted him on the back, "Yeah! It really isn't your fault, you just couldn't remember where she was, so she can't be mad at you!" the foreign exchange student assured his buddy, "Don't think about it too much or you actually might remember, okay?" Fez suggested, patting him on the back.

Eric laughed at how stupid his friends were under the influence, but he couldn't help but notice that Kelso really wasn't taking his recently rekindled relationship with his brunette as seriously as he should have been, he felt bad for Jackie believe it or not, she deserved more than this, "Whoa...actually might be getting that contact high…" Eric thought to himself for thinking of Jackie in this light, "Well...maybe not. She is actually trying to make this fledgling relationship with Kelso work...actively trying to save a relationship with Michael Kelso is pretty respectable, right?"

As if on cue from Eric's thoughts, Michael Kelso decided to chip in with this: "Dude, I could totally see through Leslie's shirt in woodshop today. And she wasn't wearing a bra either!"

"Or a waste of time…"

Eric knew his own relationship with Jackie was...pretty non-existent. Even though she didn't like him, he knew Jackie was maturing gradually and he noticed that, he didn't hate her at all. Eric always thought it'd be nice to be friends with her, whenever she talked with Donna or the rest of the gang, the raven could be pretty funny in her own unique way.

Eric chuckled remembering Jackie blunt delivery of: "Michael, I told you; I don't like the south!"

Eric tried not to give her a hard time, she was dating Kelso...wasn't that punishment enough?

She deserved more than just a break.

"Kelso? Jackie's at cheerleading practice." he informed his friend, in turn, Eric's stoned stable of friends looked at him in annoyance.

Eric smiled sarcastically, "Your welcome." he stated in a chipper tone.

A complete bash of jeers was then directed at him, Fez referred to his homeland's language to ridicule Eric and Kelso lashed out with his trademark loud, shrill and offended gasp, "Damn it, Eric! I was in the clear and everything, what the hell is your problem?!"

"Gee, bi-ig shocker!" Hyde told him in a very obviously agitated tone as he slumped in his chair, "Forman is always the one to ruin my high!"

"Screw you, Eric! You suck!" Kelso harshly shot at him.

Eric gave his own and genuinely annoyed 'tsk' in reply, but it was meant for the kettlehead and just the kettlehead, "Kelso...really, just...shut your little whore mouth." Eric retorted with some genuine anger.

Hyde let out one of those laughs in which his lips were closed but an exhaling laugh caused a giddy 'pbbt!' sound to come out of his mouth instead, leaning over in his chair, "Ha-ha-ha-ha! Nice burn, Forman! You just gave me my high back!" he admitted as he cracked up with laughter that soon turned into uncharacteristic giggles.

Kelso looked at his friend who was lost in laughter, and who he thought was supposed to have his back in the situation, and saw Hyde losing his mojo in a giggle fit, knowing Fez of all people would have his back, he looked at his foreign friend...and even Fez was covering his face in laughter, not wanting Kelso to see it.

"What the hell, guys?" he asked in that tone, the one Kelso used to convey how offended he was to his friends and girlfriend. It didn't occur to Kelso that maybe it was the pot that was making his friends lose their cool in giggles.

"Sorry, man...it just came out of nowhere! Totally unprovoked! Haven't heard Forman make a burn like that since his 'Carnation Instant Bitch' burn to Donna!" Hyde defended himself.

Eric shook his head, not sure if he should actually do what he was about to do, "No, Hyde. It wasn't unprovoked, okay?" he told them in the most serious tone he could, and it worked as his 3 friends looked at him to hear him out, Kelso's eyebrows were arched downwards upon hearing that, not looking forward to Eric's upcoming speech because truth be told, he hated when his friends put him in his place like this, since Kelso truly believed he was in the right about almost everything, he knew that he was mostly wrong (subconsciously) about an awful lot, but that wouldn't change anything about Michael Kelso's lovably idiotic attitude.

Eric sighed, shaking his head at how dumb his friend was, he hated it sometimes because it would lead to moments like the one that was about to happen, "Look Kelso, I am not Jackie's BFF but I can say for a fact that you are taking her for granted. You and Jackie literally just got back together and now, your crap is starting up all over again...you are borderline neglecting her. I don't even think I can blame Jackie for the problems you guys are having, it's all you, man. I'm sick and fucking tired of seeing it, sick of seeing my friend act so clueless about what's wrong when it's you yourself causing the problems." and Kelso just looked back at Eric in awe, most definitely taken back that he was putting him in place and worst of all...defending Jackie!

Hyde was grinning, as Eric going off like this was a rarity and something Steven loved seeing since his foster brother never really had the guts to fight back verbally like this, unless he truly believed in what he was preaching, so his rightful rants were like that whole Haley's comet event: it came around once in a blue moon and it was truly awesome to witness in person. Stories from another person don't do it justice.

Eric sighed deeply, "Kelso...I love you, man...but you are even a bigger dumbass than I thought if you don't realize what you have in that brunette. She may not treat me the way she treats everybody else but that's for a reason; because it's a bittersweet joint effort on our part to cut each other down. It's what we do together, it's our thing but that doesn't mean I'm so ignorant to see that Jackie isn't an absolute sweetheart...well, to everybody but me." he pointed out, "Jackie treats you like you should treat her...like a princess. Or… you know, a prince since you're a guy...or...whatever, nevermind." he told his friend, using those patent Eric Forman hand gestures to convey his point throughout.

Kelso's mouth was hung open, taking it all in, "Wait, you think I treat Jackie like crap?"

Eric exhaled through his nose in disbelief and shook his head, but decided to put Michael Kelso in his (much needed) place, "Whoa, look at this, now! Watson didn't even need Sherlock to help him crack this case, he did it all on his own!" Eric sarcastically lauded Kelso, holding his hands out and clapping for effect, "Dumbass…" he threw in for good measure.

Hyde was giving a look of 'proud father' at Eric for taking such a needed 'stepping up' for Jackie. Hyde always held Jackie in high regard after their date on Veteran's Day, that was the day he saw there was more to her than he had originally thought, she could be sweet and thoughtful for those she cared about. Jackie at least had some sense of who she has and a set of morals...which Hyde respected about her giving her upbringing, girls with the parents in high places like she had, they didn't have to care about what other people were going through and they were somehow fine with that. Not Jackie. Hyde always singled out that aspect of Jackie for straying away from their pack of high class assholes like she did, the brunette was the rare exception to that cliché.

This lead Fez to stand up, literally and metaphorically, for his friend and he immediately lost his balance and fell over on his ass, "Ah!" he squealed out as he hit the concrete floor, moving past his epic fail and seemingly ignoring the snickers of his friends, even Kelso, he stood up, "Okay Eric, that is quite enough! Don't you see Michael is on the verge of tears?!" Fez shrilled to Eric, and to Eric's surprise, the group's foreign friend was serious.

Kelso first got a look of shock, then embarrassment, "Wait, what?! No, I'm not!" he defended himself, Hyde snickered even more seeing this take place.

Fez turned to Kelso, "Yes, you are! I can see your lovely brown eyes tearing up…" he told his friend.

"No, I'm just high, that's all! It does stuff to your eyes!" he would shout.

Hyde started laughing his ass off, while Eric just smirked at Fez unknowingly helping out Eric's own cause, and Kelso was looking between his other two friends like a hyper oscillating fan, "No, I'm not! Don't listen to him guys!" he told them frantically, he then turned to Fez, "Fez, just shut up! You're not helping me at all!" the kettlehead shouted, he then attempted to punch Fez in the shoulder but missed by about 2 feet, somehow.

Fez gave him a strange look, and Kelso just pressed his fingers to his closed tight eyes for some sort of way to alleviate the stress, and his altered state, "See?! I'm not supposed to have these kinds of talks when I'm this high, you guys. I thought this was a group of friends having' a good time together and not this...some sort of...judging circle…and Fez, you're not helping!"

Fez shook his head, "Well, you don't know what you want...and someone has to stick up for you, Kelso. You know, in my homeland…" Fez started in a matter-of-fact tone, as he was always happy to talk about his home country. Eric locked eyes with Hyde, or his glasses rather, and they both just grinned at the situation...and just Fez in general.

Fez unnecessarily cleared his throat, "...whenever the lowly village idiot that everybody loved for being just that, was being ganged up on, some of us would have to stick up for him out of pity...cause he's so dumb and can't stick up for himself effectively, you know?" Fez explained in a nonchalant tone, this made Hyde laugh even harder and even Eric had to chuckle at that, as Fez was truly trying to help his friend, but was failing miserably.

Kelso and Fez's relationship together was almost endearing, they were both idiots but they had good intentions. And together, they were like the C3PO and R2D2 of their gang.

Kelso looked at Hyde who was slumped on his chair, head thrown back laughing, and then he looked to Eric who had a laughing smirk, then to Fez who was cluelessly wondering why Hyde and Eric found this funny, "Who the hell cares how do they do things in your stupid homeland, wherever that is!" Kelso angrily told his foreign friend.

Fez's eyes widened and his eyebrows furrowed, "Here I am trying to be a good friend and help you out! And don't you DARE talk about the Falkland-!"

"Fez!" Eric's tone a scolding one for getting so sidetracked, oblivious to the fact that Fez was in the process of revealing his homeland for the first time.

He then turned his attention to Kelso, "Seriously Kelso, you need to go pick her up. She's going to freak out on you when she decides to walk all the way over here. I'm trying to help you out here, man. I'm pretty sure it was supposed to rain today." Eric explained, he put his comic down on the top of the top of the freezer to the left of him and pushed himself off of it.

"I smoked just as many bowls as Hyde did! Do I look capable to you?" Kelso asked rhetorically, "And now I have to smoke even more cause you're bumming me out so much!"

Hyde chuckled, "I don't what you're talking about, Kelso. I'm having a grand old time!"

"It's easier to deal with Jackie when I'm not sober." Kelso added.

Eric shook his head, "Kelso, you are not even capable of the bare minimum..." he informed the kettlehead, but Kelso did have a point as Eric noticed how red his eyes were and that stoned 'staring into the wind' look glazed on his face, "...but yeah, you shouldn't drive a car...at all...even sober...so…" he admitted with his hands on his hips.

Kelso's eyes blinked rapidly for no particular reason, most likely due to the pot, "You go pick her up, dude. You're not doing anything important…" he pointed out, his hand pointing about 5 feet left of the freezer where Eric's comic actually was, it almost made Eric crack a smile at his stoned buddy, but he was a little too worked up to do that, "I mean, you're reading that book with the red bucket man in a tux but that isn't import-"

Eric's hand reached back behind him almost immediately, his fingers ripping the book off the freezer, and held it up for Kelso to see, displaying what his idiot friend was trying to describe, "That...is 'The Joker', you moron! And it isn't a red bucket...it's part of his alter ego, the Red Hood." Eric defended the very thing he devoted most of his time to, he wasn't going to take this from a stoned Kelso of all people!

Hyde shook his head and laughed, "Forman, really...nobody cares about any of that..." he ended with a chuckle and leaned back in his seat and crossed his arms over his stomach.

Eric rolled his eyes, "Whatever. Hyde, you could back me up on this whole 'Jackie thing', you know I'm right."

"Oh, I agree with you on Kelso treating Jackie like crap but he has a point with-"

"Exactly!" Kelso interrupted and nodded his head.

Hyde gave Kelso a confused look, looking to Eric and Fez who were just as confused, "Kelso, I don't even...wow. Anyways man, I'm on Forman's side on this one. You don't treat Jackie very well at all. You knew you had to go pick her up but blazed up with us anyway, that was pretty lame on your part." Hyde retorted to the kettlehead who looked shocked of course.

Hyde then tilted his head in thought, looking away from Kelso, "Hmm. Come to think of it, I sure wouldn't mind picking her up right now...getting to see Jackie in that sexy little cheerleading outfit after a long day's practice? Following a 3 hour workout? Damn…" he stated, more to himself as he stared off into space, deep in thought.

The spaced out Steven blinked, seeing his friends staring at him with Eric shaking his head with a smile, Hyde was torn from those thoughts, "...Oh, well." which earned him a glare from Kelso, the kettlehead would have frogged him on the arm, but he wasn't confidant he would actually connect with the punch.

Hyde looked back to Eric though, "But he has a point with us not being capable to drive, Forman. You were too much of a square to join us in the circle, reading your stupid little book, so as a result, you are more qualified to pick the devil up." Hyde informed his foster brother in a teasing tone, with a grin to boot.

Eric groaned which was immediately greeted by Hyde, "Oh, shut it, Forman! Think about this, man..." he explained leaning forward in his seat, "...Jackie. Cheerleading. Jackie in her cheerleading outfit. 'Nuff said." Hyde told him a growing grin, Eric had to admit if only to himself, Hyde had a point: Jackie looked damn good in that outfit, Eric had a hard time not looking at Jackie and those ridiculously good looking legs of hers in that uniform when she happened to come into the basement with it on, even when he was with Donna, he couldn't help but stare.

Fez's eyebrows shot up, "Eric! Didn't you say it was raining? Oh, man! Why are you complaining? Soaking wet Jackie in a cheerleading outfit!" he practically squealed.

Hyde looked at Fez, "Don't make it weird, Fez." Hyde told his friend, looking back at Eric now, he tilted his head, "Our perverted foreign friend does have a point though..." he added with a devilish grin.

Eric scoffed with a hopeless smile, "You forgetting she has a boyfriend, guys?" he asked, "You know...that idiot right there?" Eric asked pointing to Kelso, he was getting more pot out of the little baggie, oblivious to the conversation.

Eric then shook his head, "And she thinks I'm repulsive, so..." he pointed, he couldn't help but get bummed out at Jackie's opinion of him. He sure didn't mind admitting Jackie was beautiful, even if it was only to himself, there was no harm in that, right? On the other side of the coin, the brunette certainly didn't mind telling Eric exactly what she thought of him...and there were never compliments...except one time when Jackie told him she thought he was 'such a good guy' but Eric knew it was only because she needed a friend at that moment, she thought she was pregnant after all. Eric knew Jackie didn't actually think that.

Anyway, her burns wouldn't get to Eric as much if Jackie didn't make sure she told him just how pathetic he was in front of his friends. It made Eric almost avoid burning her because she could always one up him. Eric avoided Jackie entirely in that respect.

Fez was giggling like a giddy little girl on the couch, for no apparent reason.

When he stopped, he noticed everyone was staring at him, "Heh. Before, you said Eric was too much of a square to join us in the circle...oh, how you have a way with words, Steven." Fez told Hyde with a goofy smile, to which the red eyed Zeppelin loving rebel smirked proudly.

"Yeah…" Hyde stated looking at Eric with a damn cocky smirk, "...I'm so ahead of my time...a rebel poet."

Eric just groaned, running his hands over his face, "My IQ is lowering the longer I'm in the presence of you guys." he told them, looking at the sight of his friends surrounded by the hazy smoke, accenting the smoke was the single light above the table, Eric noticed with the cable spool table in the middle of the room, they resembled the picture of the dogs playing poker...if the dogs were stoned.

"All the more reason to leave and go get Jackie!" Kelso told him with a stupid smile, "Take her car so she won't have a reason to come back here though, okay?" he told him reaching out to the table to retrieve the keys, then throwing them to Eric but the keys hit the floor and slid under the freezer.

Eric sighed as he observed, "Well, at least my super bouncy ball will have some company now. Your plan wouldn't have worked anyway since I wouldn't have a way to get back since Jackie can't drive." he explained, "Not too surprised you didn't think that through, though. I'll take my car and she'll have to walk 8 miles to get here and pick up her car tomorrow...which I'm sure you're completely fine with, right?" Eric told Kelso in a condescending tone, he patted his pocket to make sure he had his keys and walked towards the door.

Kelso shrugged his shoulders and nodded, "Yeah, why not?" he stated nonchalantly.

Eric stopped at the door after hearing that and stared at his friend, he was now quite concerned for Kelso, "I know you love Jackie...right? Come on, man. She loves you, you love her...yet you guys are in a really bad funk right now." he was really trying to reason with Kelso. But then Eric remembered he was trying to relate to someone (Kelso, no less), who was stoned.

"That was a mistake on my part then…" Eric thought to himself as he twisted the handle on the door, not opening it yet as Kelso spoke.

"How do you think she gets here everyday? She walks!"

Eric's jaw tightened in anger, just thinking about Jackie walking all that way just to be with this utter dumbass, "Really? Really, Kelso? I know you're stoned right now but I kind of want to slap your hollow head, man. Cause this isn't that far off from how you normally act." he told Kelso who was already rolling another joint.

Eric shook his head, "I don't have to do that since you'll be suffering soon enough." he stated as Kelso looked back at him as he had the joint in his mouth and the lighter just under the tip ready to light it but was looking at his friend speaking, a rather poetic image, "Jackie has enough pride to know she doesn't need to take this crap from you, and she'll just dump your ass and maybe get someone who will take just 20 minutes out of their day to pick her up from fucking cheerleading practice." he scolded his friend yet again, but Eric didn't feel bad about it, he saw Hyde looking over his shoulder at Eric with a small smile on his face.

Eric pointed his finger at Kelso and added one final thing, "You might not remember me telling you all of this...but what I'm telling you will all come to you naturally after she gets fed up."

Hyde looked at Eric and nodded approvingly as if to say 'You tell him, Forman…' with him looking back at Kelso, who was actually considering this, taking it in...but it didn't last long as his thumb flicked the lighter.

Eric bit the inside of his lip to abate the rising frustration and he opened the basement door and was immediately greeted with the sight of fog and rain at the top of the stairs, water dripping down the steps, with that rainy, breezy and amplified fresh air like smell that came with rainy weather entering his nostrils, and a lot of it, the pitter patter of rain roughly hitting cement, water smacking metal as it poured from the gutters of distant houses. It was pouring rain with small pieces of hail mixing with water gathering at the landing of the stairs.

"Oh, damn it, Kelso!" Eric scolded as he quickly walked away from the door and past the couch where his friends were, and grabbed the Green Bay Packer helmet off the stand by the stairs and turned, aggressively slamming the green and gold helmet down on the kettlehead.

Eric then brought his hand harshly to the green 'G' on the side of the helmet that was on Kelso's head, a loud 'thwack!' echoed throughout the basement as his hand connected and Kelso's head jolted to the side, "Ow!"

Eric was fast as he went over and quickly opened the dryer door and retrieved his comforter from the soothing and hot heat of the dryer, he didn't know if Jackie was still waiting outside the football field where the cheerleaders practiced in the freezing and wet environment, or if she was walking home, or she hitched a ride with one of her friends, but he knew he should be on the safe side considering the harsh weather as he gathered the still hot blanket into a ball in his arms and headed for the door, shooting an annoyed glare at Kelso, who still had the stupid helmet on his head and it looked rather appropriate.

"If the shoe fits..." Eric thought.

As Eric headed out the door and outside, not bothering to shut it, he heard numerous 'thwacks' coming from behind him in the basement, followed by Hyde and Fez laughing as they took turns smacking the helmet on Kelso's head, "Guys, cut it out!" Eric heard Kelso plead.

Not knowing if Hyde and Fez were doing this for fun or because they too thought Kelso deserved it, or both, Eric didn't care as he trudged up the steps out into the rain and hail, jogging out to his car.

Okay, that's the first chapter! I'm not sure what to think about this chapter, I tried the best I could but to be honest, I wrote this to get to the main meat of the story, kind of like what Age Of Ultron was to the other Marvel movies: an excuse for what's to come. (Having seen Infinity War? I can say it was SOOOOOO worth it! lol) But still, I'm proud of this 1st chapter, I think...I'd love to hear your thoughts. I don't know what I'm expecting in terms of reviews, views and all that good stuff, because I wanted to try something different from my usual humor and romance, although this story will have that sprinkled in it, it's not the main focus, I kind of wanted to do an Eric and Jackie friendship piece...but it takes a small detour in the final chapters. This might be like 5 chapters long perhaps with small smut, I'm not sure yet :-) Thanks again for reading!