Well, this is my first attempt at a fan fiction story, so I hoping you enjoy and r & r.
Note: I do not own any of the characters on That '70s show, and don't claim to own much else, so suing me would be utterly useless…lol
The BasementThe gang, minus Jackie is playing cards. Jackie is sitting on the washing machine reading the newspaper.
"The game is Anaconda," says Eric as he start dealing the cards. "Big Ace, Eight Ball, Red Lady, Jackson, High Brow, Wild Man…"
Jackie looks over at Kelso, and exclaims, "Oh My God, Michael!" She gets off the washer and shouts, "They opened a disco!"
"Where at?" says Kelso.
"In Kenosha. You could wear your David Bowie butt huggers," she says and starts disco dancing to imaginary music.
"Michael, that would be super!" replies a rather sarcastic Hyde.
"Laugh if you want, man, but my butt looks pretty good in those."
"Fine. Are you guys crazy? I mean, a disco? No way," Eric said with a grimace.
Donna responds by saying, "I don't know, might be kinda fun to go dancing."
"Oh, we could go!"
Kelso looks at his cards, realizes he has nothing and folds. Hyde looks at Kelso, and tells him to go make some popcorn if he's out.
Kelso heads to the kitchen to make the popcorn, and Hyde seeing that Jackie is still dancing says, "Take her with you." Jackie follows Kelso into the kitchen.
"What is disco?" Fez asks.
"Disco is from hell, okay? And not the good part of hell with all the murderers, but the lame ass part where the really bad accountants live," replies Hyde.
In the meantime, Donna is checking out Kelso's cards.
"Excuse me, what are you doing?" Eric asks her.
"Looking at Kelso's cards."
"That's cheating."
Jackie screams downstairs, "Eric! I can't find the popcorn!" Eric jumps off the couch and heads upstairs, then rethinking this heads back to the couch.
"Hey, um, Donna, why don't you take a little look at my cards, then you won't have to wait for me to leave." Eric attempts to show Donna his cards, but she pushes him away. "No, come on, take a look. Take a look, tell me what I have, you cheater!" He forces the cards right into her face where she can't help but look. "You got nothing!" she says. "Yeah, and I'm gonna bluff, so watch out!" Eric runs up the stairs to help find the popcorn.
"Donna has stuff for Eric, yes?," Fez says to Hyde. "Not stuff, thing. Donna has a thing for Eric."
Hyde looks over to Donna and asks, "Why do you have a thing for Eric?"
"He makes me laugh, he doesn't ask me stupid questions. He's smart, and, you know…"
"No, I don't know," he replies, a bit defensively.
"I know!" Fez raises his hand. Hyde points at him. "It is because Eric is noble, and a woman wants her first love making to be in the arms of a man she can trust!"
Donna looks at Fez, "Fez?" "Yes." "Go make popcorn." Fez gets up.
Forman kitchen
Eric, Red, and Kitty are eating
Eric talks to his parents about going to the disco in Kenosha, and gets his curfew extended to 1:00. He also tries to con his way into getting some gas money, but is unsuccessful. Red asks who's all going to the disco, to which Kitty replies that Donna will be going for sure as her and Eric are practically dating. Eric tries to brush off her comments by continuing to ask for the money for gas. Kitty tries to tell Eric that the quickest way to a girl's heart is to dance with her, and she reminisces about all the times she went dancing with Red on Mackinac Island. Eric starts to comment about the mileage to Mackinac Island, but Kitty cuts him by starting to sing and dance. This causes Red to say to Eric, "You see what you did? You got your mother started!"
Forman GarageHyde to Kelso, "Man, I can't believe you're dragging everyone to that disco. It's so sad" "No, I'm just going to meet Kenosha chicks. Breakin' up with Jackie."
"Oh, get a tall chick! Because you and Jackie look so silly together!" replies Fez.
Eric looks into the garbage can rather pitifully. "Ok, that's all the deposit bottles and the aluminum cans. We gotta have at least…a dollar fifteen worth of gas."
"Come on. My dad's got a ton of empties." Kelso says, and Eric, Kelso, and Fez head out to the driveway, leaving Hyde and Red in the garage.
Hyde looks to Red, "Man, I can't believe they're gonna waste all their money on a stupid disco when they could buy a really big bag…" He pauses for a second thinking as he heads to the back of the garage preparing to leave, "…of caramels!"
"Not going to that disco, huh?" Red comments.
"No. Phony people listening to crappy music does not sound like my kinda time."
"You can't dance, can you?"
"I can dance."
"Oh, I don't think so, pal."
"I can dance," protests Hyde.
Red gets a smug look on his face, "Not one step."
"You're right, not one step." Hyde sighs looking defeated.
"Well, then you got a problem, son. 'cause women wanna dance. They always wanna dance. Always."
"Why?"
"'Cause. They get close and wiggle their bodies around in front of a man in a safe atmosphere."
"See, I don't really wanna wiggle around in public."
"Well, of course not. You're a man. My point is, you're going to have to learn. Otherwise later on in life, you're gonna be wiggling all by yourself. Now if you want, I can help you out."
The Next Afternoon
The Forman Living Room
Kitty is attempting to teach Hyde to dance, with hilarious, but rather disastrous results.
"Left, right, left, turn and step. Ok."
Hyde attempts to follow her instructions, but looks stiff, uncomfortable and clumsy.
"I can't keep up with music, Mrs. Forman."
"Now, lets not get discouraged! I am just gonna turn this music off!" She goes and turns off the record player, then heads back to try without the music.
"Now! You follow me. Ok. You can do this. Ok. Left, right, left, turn and step!"
Hyde steps on her foot.
She stumbles, but gets up to try it again.
"Ooh…no! No! No! Look at me, not at your feet. Ok, you know what, now, now, put your arm around me. Yeah, a little bit lower, put your hand in the small of my back. You feel how you can guide me?"
"Oh! Yeah…" replies Hyde with a smirk in his voice.
"Ok, ok. Left, r…you're leading!" She giggles. "Ok, now. Tell me where to move with your hand. Uh-huh. Left, right, left, turn, uh-huh, ok, eye contact in the turn, ok, ok, and…dip!" Partway into the dip, he doesn't support her back properly and she falls through the kitchen door.
"Ok, well now let's just do it again."
Meanwhile, Bob comes into the kitchen carrying a Thermos. He yells, "Hello! Anybody home? I'm bringing back your thermos!" and cracks the kitchen door looking to see if anyone's home. He sees Kitty in Hyde's arms and looks shocked.
"Ouh, put your hand there. Oh, that is perfect! You are better than Red!" says Kitty to Hyde who is supporting her back in a dip.
Bob runs off and hides behind the driveway door as Hyde and Kitty head into the kitchen.
"Oh, I am exhausted! That is sweaty work!" Kitty says to Hyde as she grabs them both bottles of Coke, which they raise in cheers.
"Mrs. Forman, I'd really appreciate it if maybe we didn't tell anybody what we were doing here."
"Oh, mum is the word! Tomorrow after school, okay?"
"Thanks."
"And Steven? You were good."
Bob looks through the window in the driveway door, shocked.
The Basement
Eric, Fez, Kelso, and Hyde are sitting in the circle.
Hyde, "Ok, I thought about it. And I'm going to the disco! Just on the off chance that they might mix up a little rock 'n roll, man."
Kelso, "Yeah? Well, I have something to say. I went to the mall today, and I bought a…pair of new shoes, and they're the coolest kicks in the cave!"
Eric, "So, no more for Kelso, he's toasted!"
Fez, "I would like some toast if you are making some. Or food of any kind would be good. I am starving!"
Hyde, "Oh, I read somewhere there are these people in India who fast, man! Yeah! And their minds are so advanced, they could actually think themselves to death, man!"
Kelso, "Whoa. I hope I'm not doing that right now. My mind's always doing things that I don't even know about!"
Eric, "Man, we always think of so many brilliant things down here, but then later I can't remember any of them! I mean, they're brilliant man!"
Fez, "Someone go make toast right now."
Hyde, "Hey, we should record our conversation, man! Yeah! Then we could play it back and write it down! I'll bet that's how the writers at National Lampoon do it!"
Kelso, "Yeah, well, I read somewhere that there's these people in France!"
Hyde, "What do they do?"
Kelso, "You see, they are incredibly…French!"
Eric, "See, that's brilliant, man! I'm getting the tape recorder!" He heads up the stairs.
Fez, "Where's my toast, you idiots?!"
The Forman KitchenEric has the tape recorder and is preparing to make toast. Red walks in talks to him offering his gas money to perform a series of chores, but Eric has problems remembering the list as the wallpaper is moving behind him. Finally after a few attempts to list off the chores he succeeds, and Red tells him that if he does them, he'll give him $10 for gas money.
Forman Living RoomHyde and Kitty's dance lessons continue, and we can see that Hyde is making progress. They are dancing to various music, swing, mambo, and rumba.
Meanwhile at Donna's house, Bob and Midge are looking across the way.
"Aw, jeez, Midge. Kitty and that boy are at it again."
They close the blinds, but Bob opens them again and stares at the Foreman house for a while.
Forman DrivewayKitty and Midge are with the gang taking pictures as they prepare to leave for the disco.
"You smell great. What'd you do?" Eric asks Donna.
"I took a bath. I was thinking of you the whole time."
"Yeah, you know I do the same thing in the shower."
Donna gets a weird look on her face. "What?"
"Nothing."
Kitty, camera ready says, "Oh, let's take some pictures! I'm ready, Steven get in closer. Ok, let's all schmoosh together! Ok, big smiles! Nice!"
She takes the first picture, and Kelso poses to show his butthuggers off to their best advantage.
As she prepares to take the next picture, "Ok, now, girls, look how pretty, smile, nice!" She takes a picture of Donna and Jackie this time.
"Now boys, oh, so handsome!" she says as she takes a picture of the guys. Kelso, once again poses to show off his butthuggers.
"Ok, now lets…"
Eric cuts her off saying, "Hey, mom, why don't I take a picture of you?"
"No, no, no, no. Ok, you'll be late, bye now!" she replies looking rather flustered.
Everyone starts to pile into the Vista Cruiser, as Midge talks to Donna. Hyde goes over to Kitty and kisses her on the cheek.
"You're the best," he tells her.
"Oh, you go get 'em, Tiger."
Later that night, at the discoKelso is trying to dance around to "Dancing," but is only succeeding to make a fool of himself. He looks around for Jackie, and realizing that he's alone he runs to the table where the gang is sitting.
"Jackie, where'd you go?" he asks.
"I had to get something for you to bite on, cause I told everyone you were having a seizure!"
"When do they play the disco music?" asks Fez.
"This is disco music." Donna tells him.
Fez shakes his head and says, "No, no. This is samba."
Hyde looks at him with a disgusted look on his face, and replies, "Fez, it's disco, man. It's crap!"
"Whoa, I think I like this crap!" Fez stands up. "Come, Jackie! Let's get down!"
Jackie, still looking a little embarrassed about Kelso says, "No, I think I'm a little tired," and looks away.
Fez sticks his hand under her chin and turns her around to face him. "Don't resist me mama. It's boogie time!" he exclaims.
He proceeds to pull her out of her chair and onto the dance floor.
Donna looks at Kelso. "I think you just lost your date!"
"Yeah, well it's cool 'cause Jackie and I are history!" a rather frustrated looking Kelso replies.
Fez and Jackie are doing some amazing disco moves on the dance floor, and are attracting the attention of the entire club. Everyone is looking at them and cheering. Fez picks Jackie up and spins her around.
"She must not weigh that much," responds Eric.
Jackie puts her leg around Fez to finish their big dance number. Fez drags her back to the table.
"Is she touching his ass?" Kelso asks accusingly.
The song ends, and changes to Fernando.
"Listen, Merengue!" Fez says, dragging Jackie off to dance again.
"Whoo! Fez, you're crazy!"
As they are once again dancing, Eric says, "Wow, they are really good!"
"Yeah, if you wanna dance that way!" Kelso pouts.
Donna looking off into space responds, "I would love to dance that way!"
Hyde looks at her, "You wanna dance?"
"Sure!" she exclaims, excited as Eric hasn't asked her to dance all night.
They get up and start dancing alongside Fez and Jackie.
"You dance. This is a side of you I've never seen," says Donna.
"Yeah. Actually, you're my first dance," Hyde bashfully replies.
"I'm your first? I'm honored."
"This is nice."
Hyde starts to slowly dance off to side with Donna as everyone is watching Jackie and Fez wow the club with their dance moves. As they're moving, Donna dips and they look each other in the eyes.
"Donna, man, I feel like I wanna kiss you."
They pull out of the dip, and Hyde looks into her eyes.
"You don't have to kiss me back if you don't want."
Hyde leans forward and kisses her softly for a few seconds. Once Donna comes to her senses she slaps him across the face and heads back toward the table. By this time, the song is over, and Hyde's left standing on the dance floor with a bewildered look on his face.
Meanwhile at the vista cruiser"Fez, you are an amazing dancer!" Jackie exclaims.
"Actually Jackie, you are the reason I am amazing. You see, when a man dances, he should display the woman to the room like a beautiful flower." Fez opens his hand to illustrate a blooming flower.
"Oh, Fez!" she looks at him adoringly.
Kelso runs out of the disco, and pulls Fez out of the car.
Jackie looks at Kelso guiltily…"Michael!"
Kelso shoves Fez up against the car. "Alright, pal, that's it! It's you and me right here right now!" he screams.
"Why did you interrupt us?" Fez asks.
"Jackie is my girl, Fez."
"But you were breaking up with her!"
Jackie looks at Kelso angrily. Kelso doesn't even know how to respond to this and looks bewildered.
"Where do you even get that stuff?" Kelso asks Fez.
"Ok, I'll be running away now." Fez says while trying to get away.
"Michael, M…" a very angry and flustered Jackie spouts.
Fez continues to try to get away, but Kelso grabs him and hangs him upside down.
Jackie comes to Fez's defense, exclaiming, "Michael! Michael, it's not his fault! You just don't know how to dance with me!"
"I don't know how to dance with you, so you just take off with some other guy?" he replies.
"I know, Michael, I'm sorry, I was wrong. But all I wanted to be was displayed like a flower." She opens her hand to show a blooming flower, mimicking Fez's earlier gesture.
"You know that you are my flower," says Kelso, getting all lovey-dovey.
Meanwhile Fez is still hanging upside down on Kelso, "That is so beautiful. Put me down." he interjects.
Kelso and Jackie ignore him.
"Oh, Michael!" a rather breathless Jackie says to Kelso adoringly.
They move into kiss, while Fez is still squashed up between them.
"Okay, I'm passing out now," says Fez, rather uncomfortably.
Kelso puts him down and continues where he and Jackie left off.
Forman DrivewayBob confronts Red about the "compromising" position he saw Hyde and Kitty in, and suggests that Hyde may be after Kitty. Red, rather sarcastically responds with, "Oh, my god. Now I've gotta kill him. Get your deer rifle, Bob." Bob looks rather flustered by this and stutters and stammers that he may have been mistaken, so there was no need to go to such drastic measures. "You know what you saw! Get the damn gun." Red replies. Bob then suggests that maybe Kitty had been choking on something, so Hyde was just helping her out. Red stands there, looking half panicked and says, "I can't take that chance. What choice do I have as a man?" Finally, it dawns on Bob that Kitty was probably only teaching Hyde to dance for the disco and he pats Red on the chest trying to calm him down. "Dancing, huh?" responds Red, looking off into the distance, with a 'Isn't
Bob a dumbass' look on his face. "Yeah," says Bob, still buying Red's sarcasm. "Jeez, Bob. That would be downright logical. Good thing I didn't shoot him," replies Red. Red finally turns and looks Bob in the face. Bob finally realizes that Red knew all about it.
After the disco, everyone is heading home. Hyde and Fez are sitting on the hood of the Vista Cruiser looking at the stars.
"Hyde, you were right about disco music. It is evil. It's pulsing rhythm made me do a bad thing."
"Yeah, well, me too," says Hyde, looking at the stars, thinking of his kiss with Donna and how she hasn't talked to him since. She had spent the rest of the evening with Eric, and Hyde was convinced he'd blown it for sure. He sighs. Finally he clues into the fact that Fez is talking again.
"…Kelso is my friend, I cannot take his woman."
"You're a good guy, Fez." Hyde replies. He is thinking to himself about how he wasn't quite so nice, and feels a little guilty.
"Actually, I could take his woman, but I won't."
"Come on, I'll walk you home."
Eric and Donna come out of the house, and stop to talk to Fez and Hyde.
Hyde looks at Donna guiltily and says, "See you guys."
To which Donna replies, "See you Fez."
Eric looks at Donna quizzically…she's not usually so cold to Hyde and he wonders what's going on. He makes a mental note to ask Donna about it later. In the meantime, he says, "Good night," to both Fez and Hyde, who walk off.
Eric decides that he should try to get Donna to talk about what was bothering her. He says, "Hey, uh, Hyde dancing, what a surprise!"
Donna looks off into the night, and answers nonchalantly, "Yeah! Who knew?"
"Yeah. You looked like you were having a pretty good time," he prods.
"Yeah, well, you know, disco fever. You catch it. But I'm better now," she says in a rush, making it clear that she doesn't really want to talk about whatever's bothering her.
Eric lets it go, figuring she'll tell him when she's ready…"Wow. What a, weird night. Hey, did you see Kelso's shoes?" he says in an attempt to change the topic.
"Yeah. Remember when he saw that girl wearing the same shoes?" Donna gets a goofy look on her face and starts cracking up.
"Oh, yes! That was, actually, it was pretty sad," Eric says breaking into a grin.
"Yeah, it was," Donna exclaims as the laughter starts to subside.
"Hey, um…do you recall that night we crossed the Rio Grande?" asks Eric.
"What?" Donna looks confused.
"I can see it in your eyes."
"What are you talking about?"
Eric starts to sing…"How proud you would've fought for freedom in this land…"
Donna starts to look a little uncomfortable remembering the events that happened the last time she heard that song. "Shut up, don't! Don't! Don't, shhh!," she says.
"There was something in the air that night! The stars were bright!" Eric continues to sing oblivious to the look on Donna's face.
Donna starting to look rather panicked puts her hand to his mouth to stop the singing.
Eric continues to sing, but it comes out muffled with Donna's hand in the way. "…Fernando! They were…"
Suddenly, Eric notices the look on Donna's face and abruptly stops singing. "What's the matter, Donna?" he asks. "You've been acting funny ever since you danced with Hyde."
"I don't know what you're talking about," persists Donna. "Besides, you didn't dance with me all night!" she says defensively.
Eric looks rather sheepish. "That's because I don't know how to dance," he admits looking at an imaginary spot on his shoes.
"You'll learn," she says, "I'll teach you." Donna starts singing, "There was something in the air that night! The stars were bright…"
"Donna, I really think we should talk about whatever's bothering you. If Hyde said something to you to get you so upset, I swear he'll be wearing a giant foot up his ass…" Eric replies. He frowns, trying to look tough.
Donna cuts him off mid tirade and continues singing, "Fernando!" She stops singing for a second and says, "Shut up and dance! They were shining there for you and me and liberty…"
Eric lets the issue with Hyde go for now, though he is concerned about it. He starts to dance and sing with Donna in the driveway.
Both are singing, "Fernando! Though I never thought that we could lose, There's no regret, If I had to do the same again…"
Slowly Eric and Donna's singing fades out and is replaced by Abba.
ABBA: "I would, my friend, Fernando!"
The next day
Jackie heads over to the Foreman's for yet another day in the basement. She thinks about how dirty and smelly it is down there, and how she'd rather spend the day at the mall, shopping for stuffed animals with Michael. Ah well, she figures that she'd rather spend time with him in Eric's dirty basement than not at all, especially after their fight and make up the previous evening.
Despite everything that happened, she had a wonderful time at the disco, and was still amazed by how well Fez could dance. Michael could be such a yutz on the dance floor, but he was very easily manipulated, which Jackie really enjoyed.
She had promised Kitty that she would come and tell her all about the disco, since she knew that Eric wouldn't go into any details with her. She adjusts her hair at the front door and raises her hand to knock.
Kitty opens the door on the smiling brunette, "Hello dear, what did you come to the front door for? Everyone's already in the basement."
Red shouts from the living room, "Which of Eric's homeless friends is it this time…"
"I came to tell you about the disco like I promised," Jackie says, as she and Mrs. Foreman head to the living room.
Red looks up from the paper.
"Oh it's the noisy one," he says to Kitty. "Why didn't you just go downstairs like the rest of the kids who seem to think they live here?" Red mutters, and continues to read the paper.
"Be nice, Red." Kitty admonishes him.
"So tell me all about the disco…" Kitty says to Jackie. She pats the sofa next to her and Jackie flounces down next to her.
Jackie goes into a long tirade about how Kelso made a complete fool of himself on the dance floor and how much it embarrassed her. Then she gushes about how Fez took her on the dance floor and how great they danced together, and how Michael got all jealous and came to defend her against Fez's advances and how romantic it was… Kitty keeps a politely interested face the whole time, ignoring Red's exaggerated eye rolling behind his paper.
Out in the kitchen, Donna enters the Forman's house and heads for the dining room, intending to join her friends in the basement. She had decided this morning she would act like nothing had happened last night, though she's still feeling uncomfortable at the thought of being around Hyde. But hearing Jackie's voice in the living room, she wonders why Jackie would be talking to Mrs. Forman, instead of down in the basement, cooing with Michael.
"…that's nice Jackie. By the way, did Steven get a chance to dance with anyone at the disco?" Kitty asks and giggles.
Donna suddenly realizes she's eavesdropping, although she didn't intend to. But, she doesn't move. Still standing by the kitchen door, she wonders what made Kitty ask that question. Out of all the questions she could ask about the disco, why did she ask about Hyde – not Eric?
"Yeah, I think I saw him dancing with Donna, while I was dancing with Fez. It was kinda weird though, cuz it seemed like all of a sudden the two of them just vanished off the dance floor…I wonder where they went to," Donna hears Jackie reply.
Donna leans against the wall by the phone, her hand coming up to her mouth, thinking about the kiss she and Hyde shared after they danced out of sight, while unconsciously touching her lips.
"Well, I'm glad to see he got to dance with Donna. I mean she is the whole reason he came to me for the dance lessons in the first place…" Kitty trails off.
"What!" Jackie exclaims, sounding as surprised as Donna feels.
Donna doesn't hear the rest, as she moves slowly away from the door to sit at the kitchen table. She realizes she's still touching her lips, and quickly lowers her fingers to fiddle with the placemat. She's not sure what to think. It's rather endearing that Hyde had gone to all that trouble just for her, for one dance. Hyde was definitely not a guy you'd expect to see on the dance floor. But on the other hand, did he learn to dance just so he could get the chance to kiss her? He already knew that she and Eric had been kissing. Realizing she has a lot to think about, Donna slips back out the sliding door.