Closer Than Ever
By: daisyduke80 and LightOnAHill
Chapter One
Just one week after Larry had saved the museum, Jedidiah Smith and Octavius had begun to fight once again. The Romans and the Westerners were quiet surprised how long they had not fought, even though it was just a week. Most of the Romans gave their general Octavius one day before he would have Jedidiah in a the head lock, while all the Westerners gave Jed an hour before he was kicking the general.
"Say that to my face you, you JERK!" Jedidiah yelled throwing a punch to Octavius mouth.
Octavius rubbed his jaw, "Ouch! Goodness…"
The cowboy laughed at the victory of hurting his opponent. "You deserve it Octtie!"
"What on Earth did I do to deserve that?!"
"For them criminals on your side! They stole a good amount of my people's food!" Jedidiah yelled.
The general was appalled, "They did not!"
"They did too!" Jedidiah yelled pushing Octavius.
"Did not!" Octavius screamed pushing Jed.
"Did too!"
"Did not"
"DID TOO!"
"DID NOT!"
The Romans and the Westerners watched as their leaders fought. . Most were so used to it they did not even care to fight the other group. People, who did care, fought with them. Though two young people watched in shame as their own fathers were fighting. The young people were: Sam, Jedidiah's son; Octavia, Octavius' daughter.
Octavia walked over to a blonde boy about her age, while still keeping an eye on her father, Octavius. "This is a disgraceful sight, is it not Sam?"
Chuckling at this as he watched Jed hit Octavius with a gun, "Yup. But you should be used to it by now."
"I know I should be used to it, but it is still disgraceful for our fathers to be fighting like this every night. And usually over nothing," Octavia said, "I wish there was a way for them to get along."
Just then, an idea dawned on Sam.
"Maybe there is," Sam smiled, "come here."
Sam started whispering into Octavia's ear. After awhile Octavia was smiling and nodding to Sam.
Octavia grinning from ear to ear looked upon Jedidiah and Octavius, "Sam. For once in your life you have actually come up with a good idea!"
"What do you mean by that? I always come up with good ideas!" Sam exclaimed folding his arms across his chest.
"Oh come now! Let's not fight," she said as they snuck away unseen, climbing into the Frontier diorama.
Sam led Octavia to his tent and pulled out the handcuffs.
"Okay how are we going to get the handcuffs on them?" Octavia asked.
"Now that is going to be hard. What I am figuring on is while they are fighting we try to stop them but of course they won't listen. So we wait for them to have their arms down next to each other and put them on," Sam explained
"That's your plan?" Octavia asked.
"Yeah. Why you got better one?" Sam asked.
"Maybe," said Octavia.
"I don't know if this will work, but it is better than your idea. Come on let's try to find the pharaoh," Octavia said as they left while they were about the RC Corvette, Sam grabbed Octavia's hand. "What are you doing?" She asked drawing her hand back.
Not responding Sam climbed into the car, "Hey, we could really get to that pharaoh faster in this!"
Glaring at him, "We are not going in that thing! Anyways it belongs to my father, and yours. They would kill us both for taking it!"
"We're not 'taking' it, we are borrowing the car," Sam stated. "Come on...you know you want to!"
Looking longingly at the car, she had never had ridden in it, Octavius always told her that she could not ride in it. He would tell her it was not what Roman women are to do, but how would he to know? They had none of these in Rome.
"Come to the car, Octavia..." Sam said.
"Alright," she said getting in, "but, we are to put it right back when we come back." Grabbing Sam's collar and bringing his face close to hers, "My father is to never hear of this!"
Octavia and Sam drove to the Pharaoh's tomb and found him just before he left.
"Ahkmenrah we need a favor," Sam said.
"What is it?" Ahkmenrah asked.
Sam and Octavia explained their plan to Ahkmenrah.
"So we need you to make sure we wake up before everyone else so we can get my father into the Frontier and handcuff them to each other," Octavia explained.
"Okay I will make it happen. You two will only have ten minutes to do this. But I still say they are going to kill each other before they talk," Ahkmenrah said. "Wait who will help you two get Octavius in the Frontier?"
Sam spoke up, "We had a run in with Larry, and he agreed to help."
Ahkmenrah shook his head, "Alright," and went to his tablet and said something in ancient Egyptian.
"There it is done. Now remember you will only have ten minutes to do this," Ahkmenrah said.
"Good. We had better get back before they notice the car is gone," Sam said.
Sam and Octavia drove back. When they got there, they realized it was almost sunrise. As they walked back to their homes they winked at each other. This was the best plan ever!
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This story belongs to me (LightOnAHill) and Daisyduke80. Octavia was real. Sam, is not so I guess he belongs to us. We do not own Night at the Museum. Please review, and tell us what we can work on. Kind reviews if you do review. Thank you for reading!