AN: Thanks for clicking on this story! I wanted to add a little depth into the relationship arch of Jake/Gia, their 'getting together' at the end of Legendary Battle while not sudden was a little unexpected. So I came up with this fun way of exploring why the two became a lot closer in Super Megaforce. This is a big departure from my usual comedic style so I hope I can do it justice.

I will be writing a chapter for every Super Megaforce episode but if there is a demand for it, I'll happily do more. Also, even though the nature of this story could be very suggestive, I'm not planning on writing any smut - I just don't think it works with this storyline. However, there can always be an epilogue if people want that ;)

So this chapter is set the night of the big fight with the Armada which I'm assuming is around the the first or second week back after summer and before Mr Burley comes back to teaching.


It had been a rough day. The Rangers had met a new and more powerful foe and things were not looking up. Yes, they managed to destroy the squid monster thing, but there were still many more where that came from and half the city was destroyed. The Harwood County Gazette had placed the death count at 27, the highest yet. Naturally, Noah and Jake decided it was a good time to have a late night 'therapy' session to vent their anger at the Armada and possibly even themselves. It was an effective method and had worked before but currently, on the evening of a day of disaster, it seemed not to be working. Due to the absence of Noah's mother and Jake's whole family at the hospital (all very minor injuries), the two had decided to continue their session late on into the night - only after Jake had convinced Noah that they probably didn't have much school the next day.

Jake looked over at the clock, it was one am. The two were on an online Call of Duty free-for-all with some dudes in Japan but their moods had not been improved despite the fact Jake was winning and Noah a close second. They had gone through all the usual 'therapy' games - GTA, Battlefield, Destiny - to no avail and had to settle with their old school video games to help lighten the mood. However none of them could shake the feeling of hopelessness away.

Just after he got one of the Japanese dudes in the back with a knife, Jake's phone buzzed from where it was on charge on his nightstand. "Dude, I'm going to go and check my phone - DON'T kill me alright?" He spoke down the microphone before crossing the room and picking up his phone.

Gia Moran: Hey, are you up? (01:16)

Jake smiled, he could't believe his luck. Gia never texted him, well not voluntarily, she usually only texted him to tell him some details on a plan or something. He walked over to his PlayStation to find out that somebody - presumably Noah - had killed him and he was respawned somewhere else on the map. But he didn't care, Gia Moran, the incomprehensible Gia, had just text him. At one in the morning. On a school night.

"It was Gia"

Noah could practically gear the smile in his voice. At least one of them was happy. "What did she say?" Noah feigned his excitement, on any other day he would be over the moon for his friend but not today, not on a day of such destruction.

"She wanted to know whether I was up or not?"

"And?"

"And that's it. I haven't replied yet." Jake swung back into the swing of things on the game - there was only 2 minutes left.

"So, you are telling me that you have yet to text back the love of your life who up until this point has payed no interest in you?"

"Yes."

"Is there something wrong with you?"

"I know, it's crazy right. I'm trying to play hard to get so i'm giving it a couple of minutes so I don't look desperate." Jake snuck up behind Noah and shot him in the head. "As stealthy as a snake."

"Damn You... Jake. You couldn't play hard to get even if you tried. Just text her back already!"

"At the end of the game." There was only 20 seconds left.

"If you say so, but you could probably stop playing now and still win." And much to Noah's predications, Jake won by a landslide even with the walk to the phone detour.

"I'm checking out of 'therapy' now, I'm way too tired to play another game." Noah huffed before logging out of the online session. "I want to hear all about this conversation in the morning. Night."

The moment Noah logged out, Jake did the same and headed back over to his phone and removed it from the charger.

To Gia Moran: Yeah. (01:21)

He set the phone back on the nightstand and went to the bathroom to go and brush his teeth. When he returned, he was surprised to see that Gia had already text back.

Gia Moran: Can we talk? I need someone who isn't Emma to listen to me. (01:22)

To Gia Moran: Erm sure. Are you okay? (01:25)

Gia Moran: I'm not sure (01:25)

To Gia Moran: Oh. Do you want me to call? (01:26)

Gia Moran: You can do. We'll have to be quite though, my parents are next door. (01:26)

To Gia Moran: You can come round to mine. My parents are out with my sister?(01:27)

By half past, there was no reply, Jake presumed this was down to her thinking but after re-reading the text he deduced she was probably repelled by his creepiness.

To Gia Moran: I'm sorry, that was creepy. I promise I didn't mean it in a suggestive way. (01:30)

Gia Moran: Oh don't worry about it. Zero creepiness detected here. I was just putting on my coat. (01:31)

Gia Moran: Where do you even live? We have been on the same team for a year now and I have no freaking clue. (01:31)

To Gia Moran: Haha, good. 176 Madison Park Ave. The one with the blue door. (01:32)

Gia Moran: woah, the really nice part of town. I should have put on my fancy coat. (01:33)

To Gia Moran: Hehe. Come round to the back door, i'll be there. I would tell you to use the front but I have very nosey neighbors. (01:34)

Gia Moran: Okay, see you in 10. (01:35)

Jake looked around the room. It was a mess. Plus, he was only in some very loose underwear - there was no way in hell he was not going to meet the girl of his dreams wearing just that. He went over to the wardrobe and pulled on a shirt, black of course, before moving over to the pile of washing he had on his desk chair and taking it to his bathroom to throw it in his hamper. He kicked the random shoes that was littering his floor into the bottom of his closet and stacked a pile of his school work that was strewn over his desk (and floor) in a orderly pile. He went over to the adjoining bathroom but there was nothing really to do, when it came to bathroom hygiene, he was very clean also it looked like his mother had recently cleaned it.

He glanced at the clock on his nightstand. It was twenty to two. Knowing that Gia would be here soon, he picked up his phone in case she got into any trouble with the people next door who have never heard of privacy and set off downstairs, checking for mess as he went. When he reached the bottom of the stairs, he turned into the kitchen to go and get the keys careful not to wake up the sleeping Corgi in the corner. He stopped at the hallway mirror while waiting for Gia to knock. He ran his hands through his hair making himself look more presentable and less like he had been playing video games for five hours straight. He needed a shave but it was too late for that, his scruff would have to do.

Exactly ten minutes after she texted, Gia appeared at the door. It appeared that her perfectionist nature covered correctly predicting the time she would arrive. Jake unlocked the door and she stumbled in quickly.

"Your door isn't blue by the way, it's more of a teal." Gia muttered as she took of her black trench and handed it to Jake once he had locked the door. Jake could not help but smirk at the image before him: Gia Moran. In his hallway. At one am. With bright yellow shorts and an old Spongebob Square Pants t-shirt.

"Wow" Jake grinned.

"Don't - I'm not in the mood." Gia glared at him and crossed her arms over her chest.

Furrowing his brow, Jake remembered his manners, "Are you okay? Would you like a drink?"

"Not really." Jake took that to mean a no to both.

"Do you want to come upstairs?" Jake stuttered and gestured behind him clearly nervous that he had a girl in his house.

"As long as you don't try anything, sure." Gia warned and walked pasted him in the direction he gestured.

"Erm…the stairs are just through the door there." Jake stopped for a second and behold the girl in yellow walk through his house pretending not to be interested in her surroundings but Jake knew she was totally snooping with her eyes. Even in her bright yellow pjs, she still made his heart race. Stop staring Jake, It's creepy. He snapped out of his trance and ran ahead to lead her towards his room.

"Welcome to my lair." Jake smirked as he opened his door and gestured for her to enter.

"Nice room." Gia commented as she walked in and looked around. It was big, probably bigger than most bedrooms in the town. Obviously, the walls and the curtains were black but surprisingly the bedsheets were only grey. Suppose he has to have some color. He had his own tv in his room, and games console but other than that and the general size of the room, there was no more indication he had money.

Clearly knowing she was referring to the size of his room and the overall grandeur of the house, Jake explained himself. "My dad owns a lumber business remember, the one that Emma protested against?"

Gia giggled at the memory. They had been in one of their last years at elementary school when Jake and his family had moved to town. When Emma, still wearing pink way back then, found out that they had moved because his dad opened up the new headquarters of his company in Harwood she had made a picketing sign and set up outside of the headquarters with the local hippy group.

"Thanks to her, my dad still plants three trees to every one he has cut - and rightly so."

"Still?!" Gia sat down on the foot of his bed.

"Emma, while small, is very threatening." Jake wondered over to the bed and sat down in the middle crossed legged. "What's wrong Gia?"

Gia sighed knowing it was time to get down to business but tried to divert the subject in order to prolong it as long as possible. "Where are your family?"

"My sister is in hospital thanks to the attack and mom is over there with her. I think my dad is either there too or sorting out the wood for the rebuilding of the city."

"Oh, is she alright?" She started to play with the stitching on the bed in order to avoid eye contact.

"Yeah she's fine, it's just a concussion so they are keeping her in over night as a precaution. She'll be using this as an excuse not to do chores for the next month so I doubt she's unhappy."

"That's good."

The awkwardness in the room had reached a high point. The thing that was eating away at Gia was eating away Jake's usually carefree attitude too. She looked guilty, and that made Jake nervous.

"Gia. Why are you here?" He tried to get it to come across as genuine as possible and not aggressive.

"Promise me you wont freak out and get all over protective?" Gia said, finally looking up.

"I can't promise but I'll try. You can tell me anything and it wont lower my opinion of you." Gia had an inkling this was a comment about her guilty demeanour but the words did bring a smile to her face.

She took a deep breath before beginning her story. "Well, the summer before we became a team. I met this college guy, Adam. I thought he was great and the perfect guy for me. You know, the stuff all sixteen year old girls think when they meet someone older than them who is interested in them. But he wasn't - he was far from it."

"He didn't…" Jake trailed off.

"He didn't what?"

"He didn't, like, force you or anything?"

"No…no he didn't. And besides, I don't think he would be able to, I could still kick butt back then."

Jake smiled briefly at her appreciating her own value and probably also out of relief. "Go on, please."

"He had a way of getting into my head. I started to feel guilty that I spent time with Emma or even my own family over him. I couldn't say a bad word about him without hating myself. He'd make me feel bad if I refused to… do stuff with him." She watched as Jake flinched at that point. "He was toxic and I needed to get rid of him - Emma helped me with that."

"I don't want to sound rude or like I'm not understanding, but if this happened last year, why are you over at my house upset about it?"

She turned to face him properly, mirroring his position on the bed. "Because, he died today in the attacks. He was by the square when a building nearby collapsed on to him. I only found out because my dad was working his shift at the hospital when everything came in." She studied his face when he took in the information relieved to see he wasn't upset that he was dead.

After a minute or so in silence, Jake spoke up. "Why me? Why not Emma?"

"Emma. She cares too much about everything and everyone. She'd -"

"-She'd be upset that he was dead whereas you're not. And I'm guessing because he was a manipulative bastard that you are feeling guilty because of that?"

Gia gave Jake a stern look as a response to his harsh tone. "I thought you said you weren't going to be over-protective?"

"I'm not being over-protective, I'll telling it like it is. He was manipulative and he was a bastard to even dream about hurting you."

"You know what, you are completely right... I just feel so bad of even thinking that. And I knew going to see Emma and seeing her upset - well acting like she isn't - would just make me feel worse."

"He's still got his mind control over you even from beyond the grave." Jake muttered with a hint of a jokey tone which was met with another steely look from Gia. "Sorry, that was totally not appropriate."

Gia looked back down at her hands deep in thought.

"You shouldn't feel guilty about not feeling anything for him. He hurt you, probably deeper than you and I can imagine. It's natural for you to not care about him, I'd be worried if you still did. Did he deserve to die? Probably not but that does not mean you have to care." He said reaching out to touch her shoulder before reminding himself not to be a sleaze, especially after she had just spilled to him about an abusive relationship. "I have an idea - well I have two ideas."

This made Gia perk up and raised her head to look at him. "None of those ideas include talking this through right? I've just reveal more to you in the past twenty minutes than I have to anyone in a long time - not even Emma."

Jake gulped out of shock and appreciation at such a big statement. "Do you think he's why you're so…so…"

"Was cold the word you were looking for?" She said with a smirk. "I think he's got a big part to do with it but I am the daughter of a lawyer and a doctor - some of it is genetic." It was clear from her joking tones that the atmosphere was returning to normal now that she has got that off he chest. "So what are these ideas then?"

"Well. When Noah and I are angry or upset like today, we have a massive violent gaming session which which called 'therapy'. It really helps to get the feelings out without actually hurting anyone and it is a good distract."

"And the other?"

"I have a small dog who, unless my ears betray me, has just woken up and really enjoys cuddles."

Gia smiled larger that she had all week, she was more of a cat person herself but she was not going to refuse cuddles from a dog nor was she was she going to refuse a chance to show Jake up by beating him. "Can I try them both?"

"Of course" he said as he moved of the bed to go and turn on his games station before heading out of the door.

Gia smiled as she heard him running down the stairs. She had decided that coming here was a good idea. Jake was the perfect person to talk to, who better to not judge you than someone who sees the world in you? Gia's mind had already began to clear after the little conversation that she began to take in his room. It was just so…Jake. She could tell that he had tried to clean before she had come over as she could see the places he had missed. The thought of him cleaning up his natural habitat for her made her smile.

The sight of Jake at the with a small dog in his arms made Gia's heart flutter which confused her. She deduced this was down to the dog and not Jake as she could never feel that way about Jake. Could she? Gia was shook out of her thoughts by the corgi being placed in her lap which immediately curled up expecting a stroke.

Jake moved over to the console and loaded up the last game he was playing. "His name is Benji and from the lack of barking, he likes you."

"Hi Benji." She said scratching behind his ears as he yawned. "I hope you know you are going down." Gia looked over to him with a confident look on her face.

"Or really? I must warn you that I'm infamous at Harwood for being a pro at CoD." Jake replied with utter seriousness which made Gia laugh. He handed her a controller before joining her on the bed.

Three games later and Gia had thrashed Jake. Jake was shocked, she was so much better than him but he wasn't going to admit it to her - he was still trying to impress her. He looked over at her and smiled. Here, in his room, clad in Spongebob pyjamas, cuddling his now sleeping dog and grinning like a maniac as she killed him yet again with a headshot, she looked perfect. She always had to him but it was like he finally just realised the extent of it. It made his heart yearn.

After the fourth game, which Gia won him at, he turned off the console at look at her. "It's getting late."

"Yeah," She looked at the phone in her pocket, "I should be getting going." She carefully moved the sleeping dog of her lap and on to the bed before looking over at him. "Aren't you going to show me out?"

"Sure." He bounced up and lead her out the door and down stairs. "I was going to ask you to stay but I though that might be a little creepy."

"Pity. I would have said yes." She winked as she pulled her coat which nearly gave Jake a heart attack.

He unlocked the door and waited for her to leave. She leaned forward, stood on her tip toes and put her arms around his neck, pulling him into a hug. Instinctively, his arms went around her waist and his head rested on her shoulders. Jake was glad that his body knew how to act as his mind was going into overdrive.

"Thank you." She whispered before pulling away and leaving the house. She turned around and waved before she walked away.

Jake could feel him heartbeat in his ears. She would be the death of him.


Thanks so much for checking this out! I hope that I've done my idea justice. I was really trying to account for the sort of stalker-ish writing of Jake early on in the series. I'm just putting it down to him not knowing how to act around girls, hence why in this series he realises when he's coming across too strong. I hated to make Gia like a damsel in distress but I felt that in order to begin this relationship, I needed a way to get her walls to start and come down.

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