Chapter 12

The incredible bond

While whistling Larry walked through the museum. The inhabitants just came alive. Teddy was happily walking around on Texas on his way to Sacagawea. Attila the Hun and his "crew" joyfully greeted Larry. Of course Larry did the same. Suddenly Larry saw a little blue sports car from the corner of his eye. He immediately recognized the car and knew his two favorite little guys were in there. But this time there came four people out of the car instead of two. It was odd to see the cowboy grab the hand of a Roman woman while the Roman general was already holding the hand of a cowgirl. Love could take weird paths but that doesn't matter as long as you love each other.

"Good night, my liege," Octavius said while he slightly bowed for Larry.

"Hey guys," Larry happily replied. "Octavius I heard something weird about you and a Roman square. Did something happen?" Octavius looked for help to Jedediah. Something happened indeed.

He kissed July in the middle of a busy, Roman town square. At that moment he forgot everyone, except him and July. But after that he came back to reality and saw hundreds of shocked and surprised eyes staring back at him. Jed was the first to spoke up saying: "Well, that was surprising. Good job Ockie." After that Marcus Agrippa, the military friend of Octavius took a few steps forward.

"People of the wonderful Rome," Marcus started. "It appears that our general has found love." After that was said, all the people started to cheer. Surprised Octavius and July looked at each other, this was not going like they had thought it would.

But how did he have to tell Larry? Luckily Jedediah came to his rescue once again.

"Let's just say it was shocking, but in a positive way." Octavius gratefully laughed at Jedediah. Jed gave his 'you're-welcome' smile in return. Larry didn't understand a thing so he decided to look for some other Romans and ask them what happened.

"But guys," Larry started after shaking off his previous thought, "there's a party in the main hall in 15 minutes, are you guys coming?"

"We'll be there for sure," Jed immediately answered.

Fifteen minutes later the little blue car arrived at the main hall. The party had already started. Jedediah, Octavius, July and Serena immediately joined the fun.

It was towards the end of the night when Jedediah saw Octavius sitting on a wall by his own. Octavius looked kind of down, his helm was placed on the wall besides him. A little worried Jed walking towards his friend.

"Hey Ockie, is something wrong?" A bit startled Octavius looked up, a sad smile on his face.

"Everything is fine" Octavius answered but Jed didn't buy it. He didn't need to say a word. Octavius recognized the look on his face and spoke.

"Two nights ago I heard Larry tell Theodore that it has exactly been half a year since Larry's first night shift here. That means that this night, exactly 6 months ago we crashed and became friends." With an unbelievable face Jed looked at his friend.

"Half a year...," Jed repeated while he sat down on the wall next to Octavius. "But what is the problem?"

"I wanted to give you a present but I couldn't come up with something." Octavius answered. "I just wanted to give you something small to symbolize our friendship but now I have nothing."

"You feel bad because you have nothing to symbolize our friendship?" Jedediah asked surprised. Octavius briefly nodded. That made Jed shake his head while smiling. "But Octavius, that isn't necessary at all. Friendship isn't about presents or words, it's about deeds. And you already did enough for me. I already realized that you're a true friend, one that sticks with me no matter what. I don't need any presents for that, because not a single present can be better than our bond."

Octavius looked at his friend. How could he ever see him as an enemy? Half a year ago that still was the case. Half a year ago it was the first time he gave him his nice smile. Then he had wondered how such a tight leader could smile like that. Now he was used to that smile. Jedediah was rethinking the words he just said. Had it really been 6 months? In his mind it seemed much longer. It was like they had been friends for centuries, but he vividly remembered that night in the car as well. He meant the words he just spoke with his entire heart. Jed quickly turned his head away. Octavius did the same. Jed looked back at Octavius. Surprised Octavius looked back at Jed. Jedediah doubted for a second, wondering what Octavius would say but wrapped his arm around his friend and started to hug him anyways. No matter how shocked Octavius was, he still hugged back.

That's how Larry saw the miniature cowboy and miniature Roman sit. "What an incredible bond do they have," he thought. "I wonder if they know it's been half a year today."

The end

This was the end of my first fanfiction. I hope that you enjoyed reading it. Please, leave a comment with what you think about the story.

I am making a new fanfiction about Jedediah and Octavius and I think the new one is way better. It has the name: "Just call my name" and I will upload the first chapter soon enough. If you enjoyed this story, please check out the other one as well. ^^

Thank you for reading it, it really means a lot to me!

- Fientje ^^