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[juryrigs]

Even if it is his first time there, it doesn't look like he's all too bothered by it. He looked like he was sort of expecting to find himself in a place like this. But given who he is and what his job is, to say he's adaptable is a bit of an understatement.

He's sat on a bench in the plaza making little sculptures out of paperclips. There is a box of paperclips with him so he is in no danger of running out soon. There's a few on the bench beside him. Right then he's using the pliers on a well used and loved swiss army knife to bend the paperclip in a particularly intricate curve.

If you ask him he might even make you one.

"What's the biggest lie your parents have ever told you?"

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[juryrigs]

He realized that this other version of himself really had done something good. Then he did something a little awkward but he felt it was needed then.
"Clearly that worked out well though." He reached out towards Dennis to give him a hug.

"I found out that I still have family. The man who I thought was my father, isn't. My mom is still alive and they thought they were keeping me safe." He laughed at that.

[dennis_murdoc]

Dennis accepts the hug with a disbelieving chuckle, his tone full of wonder.

"You really are amazing," he says.

The bit about family leaves him floundering a bit.

"Wh-what? Pah-pop isn't your dad? Wh...I don't get it."

[juryrigs]

"Why?" He doesn't think that he is, though he hears it a lot.

He pulls his phone out of his pocket. It's easier to explain with a picture. Easier to explain the things he's learned to accept.

"My mom and dad wanted me safe, because being with them wasn't. So they gave me to my aunt and uncle to raise, well we know how that turned out."

The photo he finds to share is taken on the steps of a building, the resemblance between him and the man he points first to is unmistakeable. "That's my dad. My mom and my uncle. He has to wear those glasses."

[dennis_murdoc]

"You just are. Most people would be hitting me or thinking I was laying some kind of trap. And, I wouldn't blame them," Dennis answers, as he studies the photo of two people he doesn't recognize.

He processes the new information and surely he misunderstood?

"James MacGyver is your biological uncle?"