Thank everyone who reviewed my first story 'New Member of the Family'. This squeal is the request of several people. Godzilla: the Series characters are property of Toho Studios and all other respective owners. Jess and her family are property of Mine.

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Chapter 1: Life Goes On

Jess stretched, arching her back to pop her bones into place, blinking against the muted light streaming in through the shuttered window. Rumbling her eyes, she glared at the window. She hadn't been sleeping well for most of the week. Sitting up, the blankets pooled around her waist, her pyjamas wrinkled from her rolling around in the night. Tiredly, she pushed her legs free of the blankets and got to her feet. She thanked every god she knew that no one was around when she fell to the floor, her legs going numb on her.

'God, damn it!' she cursed, pushing herself up and looking down at her legs.

.: Jess silly.

There was no stopping the growl that rippled up in her throat. Ever since she had gotten home, Godzilla had become one overprotective lizard. She couldn't go anywhere, not without having her "brother" constantly hanging around her. And ever since she had told him to start using her name, Godzilla just hadn't stopped. Hence all the sleepless nights she had been getting recently.

'I'm not silly,' she grumbled right back. 'I'm just very tired. It's a bit hard to sleep when you have a giant gecko rumbling constantly in your ear.'

That seemed to get him. Godzilla growled its phantom rumbling through her mind at a more tolerant level. .: Me not a gecko. Me brother.

Jess sighed. 'I take it you want me to come out onto the roof?'

Another rumble, this time a softer, more pleased one, filled Jess's mind. .: Please.

The bond went silent, indicating that she was once again alone in her mind. Along with watching over her, Godzilla also used the bond to check up on her. It was a little annoying, but Jess found it sweet in its own way.

Quickly getting dressed, she moved out into the main living area of the Staten Island base. She glared at Randy when he let off a wolf whistle at her. She was only dressed in jeans and a plane grey shirt. Maybe it was the fact that it had "Can't play with the demons, Get the F**k out of Hell" across the front. Rolling her eyes, she moved out onto the roof.

'I thought you might be on your way,' Nick said from where he was leaning against the edge, scratching a heavily as he could against the scales beneath Godzilla's eye. The gargantuan lizard rumbled his own greeting, a molten gold eye turning in Jess's general direction. Nick turned his attention towards his niece, a smile curving his lips. 'Couldn't sleep again?'

Jess returned his greeting with a grin. 'Yeah. Something to do with an overgrown gecko.'

.: Told you, not a gecko. Godzilla "grumbled", sounding like a sulking child in her mind

The grin just got bigger as Jess came up beside her uncle. Her fingers joined his, scratching at the hard scales. The rumbled they received for their efforts shock Jess all the way to her core. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but the love and affection that Godzilla was transmitting to both Nick and herself more than made up for it. Jess smiled, scratching as hard as she could while playfully teasing him with "ghost" touches. Godzilla grumbled, pulling away and shaking, glaring at her all the while.

.: Pain.

'Same to you, brother. Same to you.' Jess murmured, staring right back at him..

Nick looked at his niece, a rare smirked twisting his lips as he watched his two charges. 'You do realize that you spoke out loud,' he asked, the smirk turning into a full grin when Jess's face paled in realization. 'Don't worry, I won't tell anyone.'

Jess looked away, grumbling. 'Damn it.'

Nick chuckled while, though her mind, Godzilla's laughter at the situation near deafened her. Jess went back to glaring between the two of them. 'Great, now I've got both of you teaming up. Again.' That just earned her more laughs. 'Males.'

Jess didn't get to grumble any longer. With a gust of wind that smelt suspiciously like fish, she knocked fat onto her stomach, flipped over, and assaulted with a tongue the size of H.E.A.T's jeep. Her cry of protest vanished behind a wall of saliva, spiking her hair up around her face and drenching her cloths right through. Godzilla's laughter and pleasure at tormenting his sister transmitted clearly throughout the bond as he drowned her in his saliva. All the while, Nick stood there laughing. He wasn't about to get in between the two of them.

After a few minutes however, with the threat of his nice drowning, Nick intervened. 'Alright, Godzilla. I think she's had enough.'

Jess, coughed as her face cleared, allowing fresh air to entre her lungs. Panting hard, she glared at the two of them. 'You planned that. You two are so–'

'Nick!' Randy came skidding out onto the roof top, stopping as he took in the sight of Nick clutching his sides from laughing too hard, Jess covered in lizard spit and fuming, and Godzilla hovering over both of them looking innocent. He had seen many strange things after all of H.E.A.T's adventures, but this once topped his personal "Top Ten Bizarre Shit" list.

Nick cleared his throat. 'What have you got, Randy?'

Randy blinked, and then looked back down at the paper in his hand, forgotten for a moment. 'Right,' he said, 'News came in of a string of strange attacks in the Amazon jungle. People have been disappearing from villages along the South East border. Their Government specifically asked for us.'

Nick nodded. 'Prepare the H.E.A.T Seeker. Be ready to head out in twenty.'

Jess glared at him, 'Right. After I have a shower.'

Alonzo glared out at the water, surrounding his newly-located laboratory. It had been two months since his daughter had escaped, with the help of his brother-in-law Nick. What a disappointment that had been. However, the scientists had explained what exactly Jess would be undertaking. She would be much easier to track…

'Ah… Mr. Van Dike?' the nervousness in the voice that had interrupted him only annoyed Alonzo, but he listened anyway. 'You have an important call coming in on line–'

'I told you, Nadine, that I was not to be disturbed.'

His secretary gulped. 'I know sir. But this man insisted. It said it had something to do with the recent… incident.'

Alonzo looked down at his speaker phone. The "incident"? Who? 'Put him through.' He waited until Nadine's phone clicked over, then spoke, 'Van Dike.'

There was a short pause, then a man's voice answered. 'Mr. Van Dike. A pleasure to put a voice to the man.'

'Who are you?'

'Apologies. My name is Cameron Winter. I have a proposition for you…'