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In many sequel names, particularly in schlock horror, the title, or sub-title, describes some kind of return, revenge, reaction, counter-force, backlash, etc. that usually implies it's a direct consequence of one of the previous installments. The movie's tagline might even be something like 'And this time, It's Personal.'

Also expect 'Return of _____', 'Son of _____', and 'Bride of _____'.

Compare Unabashed B-Movie Fan. Subtrope of Stock Subtitle. Usually overlaps with The X of Y.

Examples:

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• The second season of Jubei-chan 'The Counterattack of Siberian Yagyuu.'
• Mewtwo Strikes Back is an odd example, since it's the subtitle of Pokémon: The First Movie. The sequel is called Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns.
• Similar to the above, the Dragon Ball Z movie Cooler's Revenge is the first appearance of that character (his 'revenge' is for the death of Freeza). The trope is played straight for the following film, Return of Cooler.
• Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon. The original Japanese title was Diaboromon Strikes Back. The '02' in Digimon 02 refers to it taking place in 2002, though. (At the time it was written, 2002 was 20 Minutes into the Future.)
• The MovieMobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory: The Last Blitz of Zeon.
• The Lupin III OVA Return Of The Magician is a sequel of sorts to the original 1972 series, featuring the return of the villainous magician Pycal.

• Batman: The Dark Knight Returns is not actually a sequel, but its sequel is The Dark Knight Strikes Again
• The second Hack/Slash trade paperback is titled 'The Revenge of the Return'.
• Ambush Bug's second series was Son of Ambush Bug.
• Lobo's second series was Lobo's Back. The third was Lobo's Back's Back.
• In X-Men: The End, Jubilee is a movie producer - and one of the posters in her office is for Lord of the Flies 2: Piggy's Revenge

• Aladdin: The Return of Jafar Jafar uses Abis Mal, a foolish thief with a grudge against Aladdin and Iago switching sides to get back in power.

• The Universal Horror films of the '30s and '40s may have been the Trope Codifier:
  • Frankenstein was followed by Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, The Ghost of Frankenstein, House of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, etc.
  • Dracula was followed by Dracula's Daughter, Son of Dracula, and House of Dracula.
  • The Mummy was followed by The Mummy's Hand (actually a reboot rather than a direct sequel), which itself was followed by The Mummy's Tomb, The Mummy's Ghost, and The Mummy's Curse.
  • The Invisible Man was followed by The Invisible Man Returns and The Invisible Woman.
  • Creature from the Black Lagoon was followed by Revenge of the Creature and The Creature Walks Among Us.
• Star Wars:
  • Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Has become so well known that nearly any movie, book, or other title with the words 'strike back' in it that came after 1980 is 99% likely to be referencing this.
  • Episode VI: Return of the Jedi It was originally titled Revenge of the Jedi in both posters and even the teaser trailer before Lucas changed the title a few weeks before the premiere (as Jedi do not seek Revenge).
  • Episode III: Revenge of the Sith..which was itself a reference to the original title of Episode VI.
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which is of course a direct reference to Star Wars. Complete with Mark Hamill (applause).
• A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge. However, it's a Non-Indicative Title, since Freddy is not getting his revenge on anyone. Nancy, the only survivor of the original film is not in this one, and she didn't even beat him then, prompting no actual revenge. There is also no hint that the kids' parents in this film were responsible for killing Freddy.
• Halloween:
  • Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later was originally going to be Halloween 7: The Revenge of Laurie Strode.
• The Return of the Living Dead (a sort-of sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1968)) and its four sequels.
• The actual George Romero sequels: Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead (1985), Land of the Dead, Diary of the Dead, and Survival of the Dead.
• The Return of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (the sequel to the Bay film). Justified title, as the Fallen is an actual character in the movie, seeking revenge for things that happened millennia before the first movie took place. Also a subtle play on events from the first movie.
• The Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Trail of the Pink Panther, Curse of the Pink Panther, Son of the Pink Panther.
• Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
• Godzilla Raids Again
  • Godzilla's Revenge.
  • The Return of Godzilla, also known as Godzilla 1985.
  • The second Mechagodzilla movie, known in America as Terror of Mechagodzilla, has a Japanese title that translates to Mechagodzilla's Counterattack.
• Star Trek II was nearly named The Vengeance of Khan, but the third Star Wars movie was known at the time as Revenge of the Jedi, so they switched to calling it The Wrath of Khan.
• The Mummy Trilogy:
  • Done again at the Universal Studios theme parks with the Revenge of the Mummy roller coaster.
• Hammer Horror were never content with a Numbered Sequel. Why settle for 'Dracula III' when you can have Dracula: Prince of Darkness instead?
• Return of Sabata
• Zebraman 2: Vengeful Zebra City
• The Son of Kong, sequel to the original King Kong (1933).
• Dr. Phibes Rises Again, sequel to The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
• The fourth, fifth, and sixth Child's Play films are entitled Bride of Chucky, Seed of Chucky, and Curse of Chucky.
• Bride of Re-Animator and Beyond Re-Animator
• Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) is a follow-up to the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls.
• Return of the Killer Tomatoes! and Killer Tomatoes Strike Back!
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation.
• Return to Cabin by the Lake.
• The Man Who Saves the World, a.k.a. Turkish Star Wars, has a sequel named Son of the Man Who Saves the World. As you might guess, the sequel's protagonist is the son of the prequel's protagonist.
• Return to House on Haunted Hill, sequel to the remade House on Haunted Hill (1999).
• Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial.
• Kriemhild's Revenge, the second part of Fritz Lang's cinematic epic The Nibelungs.
• Before he died, Stanley Kubrick wanted Terry Gilliam to direct a Dr. Strangelove sequel called Son Of Strangelove.

• C. J. Cherryh's novel The Kif Strike Back. Cherryh was shocked that her publisher took her joking suggestion seriously.
• It's worth noting that Return of the King is not an example of this trope because: 1) it's not a trilogy but the third volume of a single story, 2) the titular return is something that's been hundreds (?) of years in the making, and not a direct follow-up to the two previous installments. Return of the Shadow was a rejected title for The Fellowship of the Ring, and eventually turned up as the title of the sixth volume in The History of Middle-Earth, Christopher Tolkien's making of dodecalogy.
• The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
• Many Goosebumps books: 'Return of the Mummy', 'Say Cheese and Die - Again!', 'Return to HorrorLand', 'Return to Ghost Camp', 'Return to the Carnival of Horrors', 'Return to Terror Tower', 'Revenge of the Body Squeezers' and 'Bride of the Living Dummy'. The 'Goosebumps HorrorLand' series includes several non-numbered sequels, starting with 'Revenge of the Living Dummy'. The nineteenth (and last announced) book in the series is 'Return to Chiller House', which is the last installment in a seven-book storyline.
• Arthur Conan Doyle's first collection of Sherlock Holmes stories after bringing the character back to life was titled - what else? - The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Likewise, Chesterton brought back his detective, Father Brown, in The Resurrection of Father Brown.
• The second omnibus of The Spirit Thief books is titled Revenge of Eli Monpress.
• One of Richard Lederer's sequels to Anguished English is The Bride of Anguished English.
• A The Addams Family tie-in novel by W. F. Miksch was called The Addams Family Strikes Back.

• The Quantum Leap episodes 'Return of the Evil Leaper' and 'Revenge of the Evil Leaper.'
• Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? is kind of a variation on this.
• Several Mr. Bean episodes: 'The Return of Mr. Bean', 'The Curse of Mr. Bean', 'Mr. Bean Rides Again', etc.
• How I Met Your Mother made a sequel episode to 'Slapsgiving' called 'Slapsgiving: Revenge of the Slap'. Then they made a third called 'Slapsgiving 3: Slappointment in Slapmarra.'
• The second Cinemax season (third Sky1 series) of Strike Back is known as Strike Back: Vengeance in Britian.
• An in-universe example happens in Friends, when Joey mentions to have acted in a movie titled 'Family Honor 2: This-a-Time-a-It's-a-Personal'.
• The Horror Host of Screaming Yellow Theater was named Svengoolie, so a few years later when another the station hired a new horror host he called himself the Son of Svengoolie.

• The O.C. Supertones' second studio album was titled Supertones Strike Back, and their sixth was titled Revenge of the O.C. Supertones.
• Son of Schmilsson, Harry Nilsson's followup album to Nilsson Schmilsson.
• The Frank Zappa instrumental trilogy Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar, Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar Some More, and Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n' Play Yer Guitar.
  • The song title Return of the Son of Monster Magnet (predating the above trilogy) parodies this trope.
• Although it's not a sequel, Genesis gave us the song 'Return of the Giant Hogweed,' in which the eponymous weed (which, in real life, is very unpleasant) comes to life and wreaks havoc.

• Given its B-movie traits, Revenge from Mars is fittingly named.

• Red Dwarf started as a sketch on Son of Cliché which was a Sequel Series to Grant Naylor's previous show, Cliche. The first Red Dwarf script book was called Soup and the second, Son Of Soup as a nod to this.

• Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge
• Batman: Return of the Joker. The Sega Genesis version changes the title to Revenge of the Joker.
• B.C. II: Grog's Revenge, the sequel to B.C.'s Quest for Tires.
• Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack
• Cybernoid II: The Revenge
• Double Dragon II: The Revenge
  • Return of Double Dragon, the Japanese version of Super Double Dragon.
• The Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 expansion pack Yuri's Revenge.
  • Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars: Kane's Wrath
• Metroid II: Return of Samus
  • And its remake, Metroid: Samus Returns
• Mother 2: Gyiyg Strikes Back! (known as EarthBound: The War Against Giygas! in the U.S.)
• Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi
• Kirby:
  • The mini-game Revenge of Meta Knight in Kirby Super Star was the titular knight's second appearance in the mainline Kirby series.
  • From Kirby Super Star Ultra, we get Revenge of the King. A darker and much harder remake/semi-sequel of the first game in the series with King Dedede and all of the bosses taking a huge Level In Badass.
• Snake's Revenge, the non-canonical NES sequel to the original Metal Gear. The title makes very little sense in context, since the plot is actually about Big Boss getting his revenge on Solid Snake for turning him into a cyborg. It becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater revealed that 'Snake' was originally Big Boss' codename.
• Bonk's Revenge, but what Bonk's getting revenge for is uncertain. If anything, King Drool should be getting revenge on him.
• Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge, which is actually about Dracula getting his revenge on Christopher.
• The PAL version of Super C is known as Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces.
  • The arcade version of Super Contra bore the tagline Erian no Gyakushu in Japan, which literally means 'The Alien's Counterattack' or 'The Aliens Strikes Back'.
• The two Shinobi sequels for the Sega Genesis were called The Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers the second Game Boy game in the series.
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Return of the Shredder, the Japanese version of TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist for the Genesis.
• Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
• Mega Man: Dr. Wily's Revenge (the first Game Boy game in the series)
• Final Fight Revenge
• Golden Axe: Revenge of the Death Adder (the arcade sequel)
• The Legend of Kyrandia III: Malcolm's Revenge
• Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh
• Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge
  • In Space Quest IV, one of the time travel dates is called Space Quest XII: Vohaul's Revenge II.
• Police Quest II: The Vengeance
• Shantae: Risky's Revenge
• Lode Runner II: The Bungeling Strikes Back
• Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress. The Big Bad of part two is the ex-girlfriend of the Big Bad from part one.
• Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge
• Hunchback II: Quasimodo's Revenge. It's not clear what Quasimodo is supposed to be taking revenge for.
• Spider-Man and the X-Men: Arcade's Revenge
• Return of the Invaders, 1985 sequel to Space Invaders
• Revenge of the Mutant Camels, sequel to Attack of the Mutant Camels
• Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna
• Dungeon Master: Chaos Strikes Back
• The Return of Ishtar, sequel to The Tower of Druaga
• Dragon's Revenge, sequel to Dragon's Fury
• Cauldron II: The Pumpkin Strikes Back
• Montezuma's Return was a sequel to Montezuma's Revenge, which wasn't a sequel to anything.
• Mystery Case Files's Ravenhearst series: Return to Ravenhearst, and then Escape from Ravenhearst.
• Dan Dare II: Mekon's Revenge
• Doomdark's Revenge, sequel to Lords of Midnight
• Last Ninja 2: Back with a Vengeance. (This may have been intended as a Tag Line rather than a subtitle, but some versions did include it on the title screen.)
• Another non-sequel example is the Gameboy Advance port of Infogrames' The Smurfs (1994) titled Revenge Of The Smurfs (which is also the name of one of the cartoon show's episodes).
• Columns III: Revenge of Columns.
• In LEGO Batman, two of the episodes have titles like this, even though the game itself is not a sequel: 'The Riddler's Revenge' and 'The Joker's Return.' It's justified by the opening showing all the villains breaking out of Arkham Asylum, so even though the game isn't a sequel, the Joker is returning to committing crime in Gotham. Briefly.
• X2: Wolverine's Revenge
• Emperor Yie-Gah's Counterattack: Yie Ar Kung Fu 2.

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• A story on The Daily WTF mentions the ITAPPMONROBOT server, dedicated to physically pushing a button with its CD tray. A year later, a similar story was published as The Son of ITAPPMONROBOT.

• Total Drama Revenge of the Island
• The Snow Queen (1995)'s sequel is named The Snow Queen's Revenge.

• 'Pojan koston paluu' is used quite a lot in Finnish. It literally means 'The return of the revenge of the son'.
• Similarly, in Spain 'X 2: La Venganza' (X 2: The Revenge) is basically the Spanish equivalent of Electric Boogaloo.

Parodies:

• One Short Circuits strip in issue #53 of Mega Man revolved a hypothetical sequel to 'Curse of the Lion Men', generally considered the worst episode of the Mega Man cartoon. It was titled 'Son of the Return of the Curse of the Lion Men'.

• Turnabout Storm: Pinkie spoofs this in one of her fourth wall moments with the potential sequel title Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: The Revenge of Wob Niar^note
• The sprite comic Bass Comic Adventures has a story arc called 'Return of the Revenge'.

• Taken to the hilariousextremeand beyond by Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D—which isn't even a sequel in the first place. That is, it does have a sort of sequel itself: Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 33.
• There was a script written for a sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show called Revenge of the Old Queen.

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• In Carpe Jugulum, the Old Count is writing a piece of 'music' entitled Return of the Bride of the Revenge of the Son of Count Magpyr. He considered adding 'From 20,000 Fathoms', but then scored that bit out.
• Star Warped, a Star Wars parody, entitles its third part 'Episode VI: Return of the Son of Jobbi Rides Again', and the sixth 'Episode III: Revenge of the Return of the Son of Psmyth Rides Again: the Next Generation - The Early Years'.
• The final two books in Craig Shaw Gardner's Cineverse Cycle (which take place in a universe of clashing B-Movies) are called Bride of the Slime Monster and Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies (the first is Slaves of the Volcano God).
• In The 39 Clues, Dan decides to use his new credit card to order The Ninja’s Revenge Part VII: The Last Revenge and The Ninja’s Revenge Part VIII: The Final Last Revenge on Pay-per-view.
• The illustrated collections of the Bastard Operator from Hell have volumes named 'Son of the Bastard Operator From Hell' and 'Bride of the BOFH'.
• The collected books of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are variations on the It Was a Dark and Stormy Night line: Son of, Bride of (in that order), The Final Conflict, Rides Again..

• A Blackadder the Third episode has the title character making sacracstic reference to 'Dictionary 2: Revenge of the Killer Dictionary'.
• Mr. Show had a sketch called The Return of the Curse of the Creature's Ghost - a B-Movie parody which consisted largely of the characters arguing over what it was they were supposed to be afraid of.
• During his opening monologue for the very first episode of The Tonight Show (then known simply as Tonight) in 1954, Steve Allen noted that NBC had already had success with their morning show, Today, then joked that if Tonight was successful, they would introduce yet another program called Son of Tonight.
• One episode of Russ Abbot's Madhouse had a spoof sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda called Return to Zenda.

• The Curse of the Revenge of the Ghost of the Evil Chicken of Doom..Returns!

• In Sinfest,
• El Goonish Shive, has the storyline 'Revenge of the Jokes'.

• How 2 Kill a Mockingbird: Return of the Revenge.
• Parodied by the Avatar: The Abridged Series guy.
• Linkara names his live shows in such a manner (e.g: Return of Atop the Fourth Wall Live, Curse of Atop the Fourth Wall Live, Son of Atop the Fourth Wall Live, etc).

• The Simpsons were once watching a trailer for Titanic 2: Revenge of the Titanic.
  • 'Rocky V plus Rocky II equals.. Rocky VII: Adrian's Revenge!'
  • In ''Homer the Whopper', the producers of the Everyman movie plan to make a sequel titled 'Everyman 2: Rise of the Revenge'.
• Family Guy had an episode involving 'The Passion of the Christ 2:Crucify This'. From what we see of it, it appears to be a Buddy Cop movie featuring Jim Caviezel and Chris Tucker.
• One episode of The Venture Bros. is 'Return to the House of Mummies, part 2.' There is no part 1.
• An episode of The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo has the gang sucked into a horror movie called The Son of the Bride of the Ghost of Frankenstein.
• The Penguins of Madagascar episode 'The Return of the Revenge of Dr. Blowhole'.
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) had an episode where Baxter Stockman returns yet again from banishment in dimensional limbo, called 'Son of Return of the Fly II.' (Two of his other appearances were straight examples of this title trope: 'Return of the Fly' before the parody-titled episode, and Revenge of the Fly after it.)
• Season one of Darkwing Duck had an episode titled 'Battle of the Brainteasers'. (The 'brainteasers' were Puppeteer Parasite aliens that looked like hats with eyes.) A sequel episode followed in season two titled 'The Revenge of the Return of the Brainteasers, Too!'
• Danger Mouse: 'The Clock Strikes Back' was the follow-up to 'The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma.'
• In the reboot of The Powerpuff Girls, the villain Man Boy appears in episodes each with the prefix 'Man Up' (the first installment) in them:
  • Man Up 2: Still Man-ing
  • Man Up 3: The Good, the Bad and the Manly
  • Man Up 4: The Donnyest Games (with Donny the Unicorn)

• Terry Pratchett used to have a gag he did with people who brought all their Discworld novels to sign. He'd start off with 'Best Wishes' then 'Better Wishes', 'Even Better Wishes', 'More Wishes' and so on, then eventually move on to 'Son of Best Wishes', 'Bride of Best Wishes', and 'Return of the Killer Best Wishes (from 20,000 Fathoms)'. This prompted one fan to suggest the sort of dedications Sir Terry would be writing when he hit the fifty book mark and people were backing the car in, including 'Fuck Off', 'Son of Fuck Off' and 'Third Prodigal Son of a Fling with the Daughter of the Baker to Fuck Off'. Fans being what they are, some people later requested these.

In the squad room, Ziva typed away, but eyed Tony as she did so. 'Do you think that was McGee's mother that you saw upstairs with Gibbs?'

'I guess so. Ducky said Gibbs and the Director were to meet with her this morning.' Tony barely got the whole sentence out; his mind was elsewhere; he was making no attempt to work.

Wonder if the McGees are gonna sue the agency?..I wish they'd let us see him, but the orders from Jenny herself are no, not unless invited, or until the family leaves.

- - - - -

'What I think, Mrs. McGee, is that you're actually encouraging Tim to engage in risky business! That's not what I usually expect to hear from a mother!'

'Of course I encourage him to take risks; isn't that what I've been saying?! Thought-out risks, preferably. I know you people must make fast decisions; I hope you've been teaching him to make good ones.'

Gibbs felt himself starting to relax, finally. 'We try. Tim is a little…'

'Impetuous? Reckless, at times? An unfortunate consequence of our urging, I'm afraid.'

Download advanced systemcare crackeado. 'But that behavior could get him killed! And needlessly!'

She sighed. 'Yes. He doesn't talk to us in detail about the cases he works on for NCIS. But I'm not surprised to hear that he's like that..Tim was a shy boy, Gibbs. Some children just are. The risk-taking we grounded him in was a way of challenging him, of giving him confidence.'

'That doesn't help if he winds up in a morgue!' Gibbs snapped, but immediately cursed himself. 'I'm so sorry, Mrs. McGee. That was extremely tasteless of me, considering..'

She had paled a little, but quickly regained her composure. 'No, you're right, Gibbs. And I would hope that you'd encourage him to make, er, better decisions than he sometimes does.'

Gibbs ran a hand through his hair. 'I try. Lord knows, I try.'

She looked at her watch. 'I told Tim I would be back to see him by 1:30. Care to come with me?'

All the acrimony seemed to be gone from her, and Gibbs had been longing for such an invitation. 'Sure.'

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She smiled wryly as Gibbs pulled his car into the hospital parking garage and they walked into the hospital. The rain had slackened, but the very air was still heavy with humidity. 'Eleanor Roosevelt said, Do one thing every day that scares you. I want Tim to be scared, a little, every day. I want him to work through this fear, and to triumph. I want him to take risks, and help others when he does. I want him to have the courage to make the world a better place.

'I was livid when I arrived at NCIS today. I came there expecting that NCIS would try to smooth over the house issue, or pass the buck, or even blame Tim for standing where he was when the ceiling collapsed. But none of those things happened. I am impressed, Gibbs; I truly am.'

Gibbs smiled, but decided to change the subject. Too much praise weakens a man. 'You said you left the Severe Storms Lab in the late 1980s. Where do you work now?'

'I'm with the National Weather Association. We live in North Dakota now; a little off the beaten path for the majority of tornadoes, but we get enough. Mostly, I study linear thunderstorms and tornadogenesis. I'm also part of a Quick Response Team that logs in destruction from fierce tornadoes..' She grinned. 'I'll never stop loving storms.'

'Do you still chase them?'

'Unauthorized? Oh, yes. Sometimes Kale comes along with me. I'll be driving, Kale will be commenting or reading a map, or else riding with his head out the window for a better view if we're not in rain yet; he's like an old hound dog that way. If Tim happens to be visiting, he'll often come, too. It's a thrill, a rush; like an amusement park ride.'

'And your daily dose of doing something that scares you.'

She grinned again. 'I never thought of it like that, but you're probably right. It works for Kale, Tim, and me. Sarah's her own person, though.' Then her tone softened again. 'So much of our work these days has to be done with, and certainly logged on, computers. It's hard for me; it requires a lot of background knowledge I don't have; years I spent doing research, and raising two children in between. When Tim visits, I give him a laundry list of computer applications I need, and he either finds them for me or writes the code himself. He's so good with computers, and such a big help to me.

'Kale's also a meteorologist; but his field is physical meteorology, dealing with the study of the transfer of energy in the atmosphere, the formation of clouds, and so on. He's more theory; I'm more hands-on. We both would have loved dearly for Tim to go into the sciences..wouldn't have to have been meteorology..but his age group fell in love with computers. Ah, well; he's doing something he loves.

'I'm so glad he found NCIS, and you, Gibbs. You've helped broaden him. I hope you won't stop encouraging him..'

'..to take risks. Calculated ones, mostly. But risks. To do things that scare him? To the extent that he doesn't get himself killed or maimed, you've got a deal, Mrs. McGee. Tim's a good man. I'm very pleased to have him on my team.'

She smiled, genuine warmth this time as she extended her hand. 'Call me Cleo, please.'

'Cleo. And I'm Jethro.'

'Or 'Boss', as Tim says he calls you.' She stopped, looked down before they entered Tim's room. 'I'm sorry we got off on the wrong foot at NCIS. I would have liked to have met his teammates..ah, Tony and Ziva?'

'I'll call them. They'll come right over,' Gibbs offered, pulling out his phone at her eager nod. He pocketed the phone a moment later. 'It normally takes about ten minutes to get here. So figure they'll be here in five.'

She laughed and traced the pattern in the floor tile with one shoe. 'I think there was another misunderstanding. We live far from Washington. We know Tim considers you and your team his second family. Kale and I do, too. You've done so much for Tim. Please..any time, don't feel shut out. NCIS will be welcome to visit Tim if he's hopitalized, whether we're here or not.'

'Thank you.' There was nothing more to say than that.

They entered Tim's room. Gibbs felt a twinge at seeing his young team member pale and bandaged in a thicket of tubes. But Tim roused at the sound of footsteps, and smiled at them. 'Hi, Mom!.. Boss! You came!'

'Well, yeah. You've gotta fill out a leave slip, McGee..' Gibbs pretended to search his pockets, while Tim laughed.

'How're you doing, honey?' Cleo asked her son, after kissing a non-bruised spot on his cheek.

But Tim's glance fell to the window, where sun beams were now meandering in. 'Look, boss! Did you know my mom controls the weather? She's brought the sunshine!'

- The End -