The Things You Give

Part 23

Red's eyes widened and quickly and swiftly shut Eric's door, and turned back to the boys. "What do you mean you can't find him?!"

"He's not here," Kelso repeated, visibly sweating. "We've searched the whole house and he's not here."

Red pinched the bridge of his nose, already feeling a raging headache already coming on. "Are you telling me that you didn't see him come home last night?"

"We did!" Kelso defended. "Or at least we thought we did."

Red growled, holding himself back from strangling them two. "Well, find him! I don't care what you have to do. You. Find. Him. And soon!"

"Yes, s-sir," the boys stuttered.

"And say nothing to Y/n," Red continued. "I don't need her finding out and worrying. I'll keep her distracted for the time being." A beat passed before Red quickly grew frustrated again. "What are you still doing here?! Go! Now!"

"Daddy?" Y/n called out, emerging from Eric's room. "Is everything okay? What's going on?"

One look at his youngest child, and his breath was taken away at her beauty. She reminded him of Kitty on his own wedding day and if he could allow himself, he would cry. The way her hair flowed down her face and her eyes popped made him realize that this was the moment he had been waiting for since the day she was born. "Wow, Sweetheart...you look beautiful."

Y/n blushed and smiled at her father. "Thank you. Is everything okay? Where's Steven?"

"Everything's fine, Pumpkin," Red responded, plastering on a fake smile and rubbed her shoulder. "He's just getting ready."

She smiled in relief. "Oh good. I was getting worried that he might've run off or something."

The three men chuckled nervously.

"Oh, he wouldn't do that," Fez said, avoiding eye contact.

"Yeah, because he knows that my foot would be in his ass," Red responded, chuckling. "Now, go back with your bridesmaids and we'll see you at the venue."

"Okay, Daddy," she chirped and went back in her room, her bridesmaids following shortly behind her.

Red chuckled as he shut the door behind them and then snapped back to the quivering young men. "Find him!"

Kelso and Fez didn't respond as they scrambled down the hall and down the stairs. Red stood there, sweating and panicking. He went through Korea and survived his heart attack and he still never felt this scared up until this moment. Where was he? Was he okay? Did he bail on her? And most importantly, how would Y/n take this that her husband was missing on their wedding day? His forehead glistened with sweat as all these questions ran through his head. He had to act—and fast.

--Scene Transition—

The two rushed to the basement in a rushed panic.

"Alright, Fez," Kelso said, frantically looking around. "We need to retrace our steps from last night."

"But I barley remember last night," Fez whined, rubbing his head from the slight hangover. "Should we check his room again? Maybe he came home while we were upstairs."

"We've already checked his room three times," he Kelso responded, pacing. "Unless he figured out how to be invisible, I highly doubt that he's going to be in there."

"Oh, man, what do we do?" Fez asked, rubbing a hand through his perfectly quaffed hair.

"What's going on here?" Donna called from the stairs as she and Jackie made their way down. "Where the hell is Hyde?"