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Owen wanted to go to the Museum of Natural History for multiple reasons ofcourse, to help his kids with their history homework, and to go back to one of his favorite sets of one of his favorite trilogies he was apart of. He ended up staying far longer than he thought, looking at the hall of miniatures in awe that they kept his Jedediah figure in the Wild West exhibit and Steve Coogan's Octavius figure in the Roman exhibit. The late hours for the building are to 5:30pm instead of closing before 2pm and Owen stayed until he had to leave with everyone else, but something felt weird when he left, so he turned around to see a tall figure holding a glowing blue light in each hand.
Curiously, he went on his phone to look up what they were should there be any info on the employees but nothing popped up other than hoaxes and rumors about the Museum similar to the ones in the movies he was in. In all honesty he missed playing the spunky little cowboy and missed his costars dearly, he walked back up the steps and knocked on the door which alerted Owen when he saw the dark figure turn in his direction with bright blue eyes peering through the doors at him. He recognized the figure being identical to him besides the massive height and glowing eyes and immediately smiled widely in excitement as if they'd known eachother closely, he tried pushing through the revolving door and noticed he could now walk back through to the now pitch black museum.
The actor started to feel saddened that his twin was seemingly avoiding him, and an idea came to mind "Jed? Jedediah Smith? Are you the one with the glowing eyes and marvel props?" He calls, expecting to get a response from the other blond. A cool breeze made a chill go up Owens spine and he knew he must've made the man towering over him mad, but when he saw the brown coat and vest with the periwinkle shirt and red tie he knew that indeed must've at least been his stage name. The Sheriff stares down at the man calmly as if expecting orders, he lifts the Tesseract to his face to make sure he wasn't being tricked then lowers it back to the Scepter's clasp with a low guttural growl as he steps back and looks around with the Lance fusion held high as it flows blue energy to turn the lights back on. Owen seems to understand what's happened and looks up at the new deity in awe as he lifts a hand to hesitantly place on The Sheriff's chest.
There was nothing to be felt other than a surge of pride and a warm current of pulsing magic from two artifacts that cast one of his boys into having greatness thrust upon him like Teddy once said. The Sheriff stares down at the hand resting on his chest on confusion before his ears and corners of his mouth perk up, the lantern glows brightly for a brief moment before the 6'10 shadowy guardian of the museum is shrunk back down to his littler self, the actor catches Jed in his hands and cradles him carefully before sitting down in the lobby's desk chair with his boy nestled between his thumb and index finger.
He vows to never leave him behind again and to be the father he has always deserved.