History Shows Again and Again

Chapter 3

January 21st, 2015

Zeek was busy sketching in his notebook at his desk- one he entitled Godzilla Notes - Known Information , the monitor having a clear shot of Godzilla after the San Francisco battle when he heard the announcement about a landing Osprey came over the PA. He tilted his head slightly as his eyes flickered to his open doorway. Should he go see who it was or should he stay?

As he was about to go back and sketch, his question was answered in the form of Vivienne stopping at his doorway, looking over at him.

"Doctor Serizawa wants you to meet him down at the helipad." She told Zeek, making him look over at her with a raised eyebrow.

"I'm a part of the welcoming committee?"

"He wants you to meet someone. She's our chief Paleontologist as well as a Director of Bioacoustics Studies."

Zeek forced himself to hold back a sigh before he set his pencil down and stood up, tugging his sleeves on his button up down and followed the other out of the room and down the hall.

He could already see the osprey on the pad as they walked into that large chamber with the MUTO head. Ishiro was talking to a woman with curly hair and beside her was a...little girl? Why was a little girl here at the base? Was she the woman's daughter?

He noticed the three heading to them though the girl was running and crashed into Vivienne who picked her up and Zeek blinked in surprise before looking at Ishiro and the woman, both standing in front of him.

"This is Doctor Emma Russell." Ishiro introduced the woman. "Emma, this is Doctor Zachery Martin."

"I prefer Zeek." Zeek offered a hand and she took and shook it with a polite smile.

"It's nice to meet you." Emma's eyes flickered over to the girl and Vivienne. "Honey, come here please."

Zeek watched as the girl looked over at Emma before she was put down and the little girl walked over to her mother, grabbing her shirt.

"Sweetie, say hi to mommy's new work friend. His name is Zeek."

"Hi..." Madison greeted shyly and Zeek knelt down to be more at her level.

"Hey there." Zeek smiled slightly. He tried to think of something more to say until he got an idea. "Who's your favorite creature?"

That seemed to get Madison out of her shell a little bit. "Godzilla!"

"Yeah? That's mine too. I'm actually doing some research on him. Want to help me with it?"

Madison seemed to perk up at that before she looked up at Emma, silently asking her.

"Well....I don't want her to give you any trouble..."

"She won't." Zeek shook his head. "Besides, I offered. I don't mind watching here with you, Doctor Serizawa and Doctor Graham talk about work and whatnot. I'm sure it's very boring with a kid her age."

Emma let out a chuckle at that. "Alright. Maddie, be good to Zeek, alright?"

"I will!" Madison excitedly grabbed onto Zeek's hand and he led her away from the three.

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Zeek had moved his stuff out to a conference room and he was sitting at the large table with Madison sitting beside him. She had a paper in front of her with a pencil and a few coloring pencils scattered about as she drew and colored. The man was writing in his notebook instead of drawing this time around.

Compiling the information that was already known by MONARCH was something of a Godsend to him. He didn't have to go looking for this information, it was all right here.

"Zee." Madison chirped, making Zeek look down at her. She was showing her paper proudly and on the said paper was what clearly was supposed to be the outpost and what vaguely resembled Godzilla floating next to it.

"Looking nice." Zeek chuckled and Madison just grinned and grabbed another piece of paper and began to draw again.

Zeek watched before he went back to his writings.