Saddly, I don't own Night at the Museum. If I did I'd probably give Jed and Octavius their own spin off show (that may or may not center around teaching kids racial and homosexual tolerance... I'd of watched it! Actually, I would still watch it. ;P) Yeah, so This is Jed and Octavius Yaoi. Just sayin'. Also there is no actual smex, only implied smex.
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When Larry had suggested that the inhabitants of the hall of miniatures play a sport to keep them from fighting, he never expected the underhand tricks they would play on each other. Currently, the Romans and Wild West-ians were engaged in a game of softball.
Softball.
Jedidiah's team were batting against Octavius' fielders. Jedidiah was just coming up to bat and Octavius was standing at first base, waiting for the ball so he could get Jed out.
Octavius watched the events of the next few minutes closely. The bowler threw the ball. Jed hit it. It went far and Jed ran. And Octavius realised that Jed was going to make it.
Octavius' Roman pride got the better of him, and he decided then and there that – no matter how much of a friend Jedidiah was to him - he wasn't going to let that happen. He picked up his base and ran with it, ran so Jed couldn't get to it.
"Hey!" Jed shouted "I don't think so!" and he reached for his lasso. Octavius struggled against the rope as it caught around his shoulders, but it was no use. He was affectively trapped and couldn't help but be dragged towards Jed as he was pulled, hand over hand.
"Release me at once!" Octavius shouted.
"Anyone who cheats so unashamedly deserves to get punished! Now I just have to figure out how I'm ta deal wit ya, and I'll get straight on it!" Octavius was right up against Jed's face now.
Blushing, turning his face to his side, Octavius hesitantly muttered "You promise, Jedidiah?"
Jed swallowed his throat suddenly dry. A small blush crept outwards from the tip of his nose and a million possible interpretations of Octavius' words ran through his mind.
There appeared to be a trend.
"I, ah... I... Yeah." Jed stammered. He reached for Octavius' face, but thought better of it, given the present company. Octavius started to say something when...
"Come on, what's the hold up? You two are taking forev... Umph!" The cowboy up for batting next was cut off by sharp thumps to the head coming for three directions. Two of the cowgirls who were up for batting after him and the Roman girl who was playing back stump had whacked the man.
"Hush! We can't hear them!" cried the Roman girl, Cathandra. The two cow girls, Frankie and Kat nodded in agreement. The poor cowboy was left in a confused daze, wondering exactly what he did to deserve this kind of treatment.
Jed was struggling to free the General from the lasso and the Octavius was trying very hard to hide his widening man-blush. A few embarrassed coughs and a couple of slaps on the back later and the game was back in play.
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The Rome diorama had a public baths area and after three games of softball straight (due to the fact the Romans called for a two out of three, wining the second but losing the third) the players wanted to get rid of their sweaty stink, so good naturedly the Romans offered the players from the wild west team the use of their baths.
In the male baths the two team captains were delaying in leaving the water. The last of their teammates were making their way out to get changed and soon Octavius and Jedidiah were the only ones left. Octavius stared into space and Jed was trying to figure out how to proceed.
Jed's mouth shaped words but no noise came out. He turned to Octavius, started edging towards him and cleared his throat. "Hey. Octavius, 'bout earlier on and what you said?"
"Yes Jedidiah?"
"Did ya... did ya mean it?"
"Yes"
"Oh good, cause I was gettin' worried there." Jed said in a husky whisper, closing the gap between them. He reached out and touched Octavius' waist and held him with both hands causing Octavius to shiver slightly.
Jed leaned over Octavius and kissed him lightly on the mouth and pulled back, trying to judge Octavius' reaction only to be violently pulled back into their kiss by Octavius, and held there in case he thought of moving again. As they slipped into their own world neither noticed the little head of a certain mini-Roman girl appear in round the door and disappear just as quickly, presumable to tell her friends.
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Dawn was fast approaching and Larry had all the other exhibits back in place but he couldn't find Jed and Octavius. As he did a sweep of the Hall of Miniatures for the third time he noticed that two cow girls were standing in the Roman diorama talking to a third girl of Roman descent. They appeared to be giggling about something. It was the type of giggling that you hear at sleepovers, usually signalling talk of boys being on the agenda.
Larry walked over to them. "Hey, you two should really head back over to your own diorama, the suns about to rise. By the way, you don't happen to know where Octavius and Jed are, do you? Just I need to find them..."
"Oh, we know where they are." Said one of the cowgirls, Kat.
"Okay, great. Where?" asked Larry.
"Their savin' horses!" Cried Frankie, the other cowgirl. The three fell into fits of laughter. When it was clear that the Night Guard didn't get it the Roman girl, Cathandra elaborated:
"You know, saving horses..."
"...riding cowboys!" The other two shouted, gleefully finishing their friend's sentence (which just goes to show fangirlie-ness transcends all borders). Larry's eyebrows became entangled with his hairline and his eyes filled the space his eyebrows had evacuated.
"Well. I mean, well. Good for them? Just make sure they, uh. You know. Get back before sun rise." Larry, clearly not sure quite how to deal with this development decided it would be best just to leave it to the, uh, experts.
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Jed and Octavius grudgingly broke from their embrace because the sun was minutes from rising.
"Octie, I-Iloveyou."
"And I you." Replied Octavius with a smile. Jedidiah smiled back before pulling Octavius into a rough goodbye kiss, and then he made his way back to his diorama.
Jed and Octavius knew one thing for sure.
They weren't going to spend tomorrow night playing softball.
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Hehe, my OCs Cathandra, Kat and Frankie are Yaoi fangirls. None of them are based on me! My friends, maybe. But not me. I know, it's bad to insert friends but I had to find a way to put the save horses thing in. Also, this was thought up whilst in gym class so that's why softball. And I did actually run away with a base :O I'm bad ;P!
Plus thanks for reading!