Author's Notes: This chapter has been changed by fixing some grammatical errors and adding one flashback for a little bit more backstory for NCIS Special Agent Crystal Jean "Cassie" Tracy.


It has been five very long years minus six months since my gymnastics accident and I had joined NCIS and Leroy Jethro Gibbs' team, thought I, Crystal Jean "Cassie" Tracy, with a huge smile on my face as I got out of the elevator and was greeted by Gibbs and the rest of the team with their usual greetings. As I sat down at my desk right across from Gibbs, he looked over at me as I logged in to my computer to be greeted by the last picture that I was in before my gymnastics accident with the rest of the Tracy family on Tracy Island. I was sitting right next to my twin brother, John Glenn Tracy also known as Star-Gazer, who funny enough besides our middle brother, Virgil Grissom Tracy also known as Muse, has been in contact with me at all over the past five years. Gordon and Alan Tracy were sitting down next to our oldest brother, Scott who was standing behind as with our father, Jeff Tracy, who was no longer mad at me for what happened five years ago from today. I checked my email and sure enough, my dad had just emailed me the following email:

Dear Cassie,

I just wanted to know if you are planning on spending spring break here on Tracy Island with the rest of the family including Alan who I think you might want to go and pay a visit to at his school along with Fermat. I am really no longer mad at you about your gymnastics accident, sweetheart. How is the job at NCIS going by the way?

Love always,

Dad

I smiled at the sight of my nickname, which just happens to be Cassie, in his first email in five years; it tells me he's okay with everything that happened regarding my accident. Before, I waved Leroy Jethro Gibbs over to see what her father had finally sent her. As soon as he saw the email, my boss looked me straight in my pale blue eyes and said in a whisper, "Tell him that you are most definitely going to be coming home to Tracy Island for spring break, Special Agent Tracy." I smiled up at him before looking back at my computer and started to type my return email to my father which took me at the very least five to seven minutes to type up before sending it to him. The following is my return email to my father, Jeff Tracy:

Dear Dad,

My boss told me to tell you that I will most definitely coming home to Tracy Island for spring break. Can you send me the address to the school that Alan and Fermat are currently at so that I can visit them, pretty please with sugar on top? Oh, and will you tell the others especially my twin brother, John, that I love them and will be seeing them all soon. The job at NCIS is going great, dad. Thanks for asking me about that because I have not heard from Virgil and or John in a while.

Love always,

Cassie

After I had send the email to my dad who was currently on a rescue mission since Brains had replied that Mr. Tracy is currently performing a rescue mission somewhere around the world, I remembered what happened on the 14th of October in the year of 1999 when both me and Star-Gazer was nineteen-years-old in New York City, New York:

Flashback:


Six days after my twin brother and mine's 19th birthday, I, Crystal Jean "Cassie" Tracy, was walking with my twin, Star-Gazer, and my then best friend, James Larry Morrow, when Star-Gazer's cellphone started ringing as our youngest brother, the Sprout, his best friend for life, Fermat Hackenbacker, and Tintin came running over to us from the hotel that we were staying at for my first and only gymnastics completion up in New York City, New York and said to the three of us in a whisper, "Guys, we are needed up in our hotel room right now. Something has come up that we are all needed for right away." I shared a look with both Star-Gazer and James before the three of us nodded in agreement and together we all walked into the hotel and entered the elevator where Star-Gazer said with a very slight laugh, "It must be a rescue mission, guys. James, I want you to after we left take Cassie, the Sprout, Fermat and Tintin to the gymnastics studio so Cassie can get in some practice before her first and only gymnastics completion. Cassie, please be so carefully while we are performing this rescue mission." James immediately nodded his head and he opened his mouth to say the following in return to my twin brother, "You should know by now that I was going to do just that, Star-Gazer. I was just about to mention that my dad is on his way here to the hotel."

I waited until we were out of the elevator before opening my mouth to said something in return to my twin with a very worried look on my face, "Star-Gazer, I am a little bit scared right now. I will be as careful as I can during practice, all right. I am going to need my hair fixed up by dad before you guys head out, by the way." I watched as he smiled in understanding, give me a huge hug and said in return to me with a slightly worried laugh, "Cassie, you have no reason to be scared right now. I know that you have been a little bit worried for the past six days, all right, sister. Come on, I will make sure that our dad fixes up your hair before we head out on the rescue mission and try to calm you down with Muse and my help very fast." I smiled a little bit more as the six of us walked together over to the door to our hotel room and Fermat knocked on it and we only had to wait a couple of seconds for Joker-Fish to open the door for us. I ran right into the hotel room straight into our dad's arms who immediately give me a huge hug as he looked down at me with a very slightly worried look on his face as he said to Fly-Boy, Muse, Joker-Fish and Star-Gazer in his commander voice, "Boys, a rescue call was just received by Brains over on Tracy Island. Help me with calming down your only sister so that we can head out to perform this rescue mission." My brothers including the Sprout moved closer to me and our dad with worried looks on their faces as they watched as I continued hugging our dad right now and together they said to me with our dad, "Come on, Cassie. You know that nothing is never stop us from coming back to you and Alan, so you do not have to worry about anything, sweetheart." I looked up at my dad was a very small smile on my face as I opened my mouth and said to him, "You are forgetting something, dad." He looked down at me as I pointed at my hair which reminded him about his promise to fix my hair and he immediately said as he put up my long platinum blond hair into a double braided ponytail, "You are correct, Cassie. I almost forgot to put up your hair, sweetheart. I am so very sorry, and I will hopefully see you personally perform at your first and only gymnastics completion, all right."

Ten minutes later, I, Cassie Tracy, was walking out of the hotel lobby with James who was following me with the Sprout, Fermat and Tintin when James' dad, Director Tom Morrow, finally found us while driving over to the gymnastics studio and he rolled down his window with a worried look on his face in his best normal voice to the five of us, "Hello there, you five. Would you kids like a ride?" I watched as James smiled at the sight of his dad who was waiting for an answer to his question from any of us and myself and James answered at the same time together with very quiet laughs, "Hello, Director Tom Morrow. Of course, we would like a ride now that you have asked. We were our way to the gymnastics studio under the orders of Jeff Tracy of International Rescue/the Thunderbirds, sweetheart." Director Tom Morrow immediately smiled as he stepped out of his car to open the passenger's side doors for the front and back open for us and James looked at me and said with a small smile on his face, "You can sit up in the front passenger seat, Cassie. I will sit with the Sprout, Fermat and Tintin in the back seat, all right. Oh, a word from the son of the Director of NCIS, just ignore him when he starts talking about the agency and its members, buddy." I immediately laughed as I said in return to him as he helped me into the front passenger's side seat and with the seatbelt with a very loud laugh, "You are crazy, James. You know that, right? Make sure that the Sprout does not kick my seat all right, buddy, and I will definitely be ignoring your dad on our way to the gymnastics studio."

Fifteen minutes later at the gymnastics studio, my then best friend, James Larry Morrow, got out of his dad's car and helped I, Cassie, who had already unfastened my seatbelt on my own by helping me get out of the car while the Sprout, Fermat and Tintin followed by Director Tom Morrow who was smiling at the thought of keeping watch over Jeff Tracy's only daughter practicing for her first and only gymnastics completion while most of my family was performing a rescue mission somewhere in the world. I, Cassie looked over at James which immediately got his attention and he asked me with a slight smile on my face, "Do you want me to come in with you, Cassie?" I nodded and answered with a very slight smile in return to him, "You would be correct on that front, James." James held out my left hand to me and I grabbed it with my right as we both walked into the gymnastics studio so that I could get ready for practice before my first and only gymnastics completion. Seven minutes later, James was watching as I was practicing for the beam for my first and only gymnastics completion and not even once did I injured myself at all. Then I practiced for the low and high bars with some help from James Larry Morrow himself while his dad and the others watched from the stands with looks of wonder and happiest on their faces. Third and finally, I, Cassie, did both parts of my gymnastics routine back to back step by step just to make sure that I had my landings down and everything before the my first and only gymnastics completion which everyone was watching so that we know that I was going to hopefully do all right later today during the completion.

Two hours before my first and only gymnastics completion back at our hotel after practicing, I, Cassie, ran right into my dad's arms when he and the others finally returned from the rescue mission with a huge smile on my face which immediately got my dad to say, "How did practice for your first gymnastics completion go, sweetheart?" I looked up at him before I answered his question with a very quiet laugh, "Practice was just fine. James had to help me with the low and high bars the first time however the second time, I was able to pull them all by myself, dad." The others walked over and give both me and our dad a huge hug before I looked at my twin brother and said with my normal smile on my face to him, "I want to play a game with you, Star-Gazer." He immediately laughed and asked me with his normal smile also on his face as he walked with me over to the game table in return, "What game do you want to play today with me, Cassie?" I thought about that and whispered my answer into his right ear, "Want to play a game of Battleship with me on your team or not?" I watched as he nodded and said to both Fermat and Alan with a very loud laugh, "Sprout and Fermat, do you want to play a game of Battleship as a team against me and Cassie?" The both of them nodded and ran right over to the game table so that I could set up the game board so that we could a play a game while the other watched with shocked looks on their faces. Five minutes later, both me and Star-Gazer, "Yes, we win," which got both Director Tom Morrow and our dad to very loudly laugh at the news and together the two of them said at the same time to both the Sprout and Fermat, "Poor Sprout and Fermat. Better luck next time, boys." I could not help but feel a little bit sorry for my youngest brother and his best friend for life so I walked over to them and give the both of them a huge hug which they immediately returned with two very loud laughs.

A hour and a half after over at the Gymnastics Studio, I, Cassie, was getting ready for my first and only gymnastics completion with the help of my dad with put my long platinum blond hair up into a normal ponytail for a change since I was just going to have to fix my hair again anyways. Tintin helped me with both my make up and my nails while Muse make sure that everything was okay out on the floor for our dad. I was waiting for my turn at the balance beam and I knew that I was ready and as soon as I heard the announcer say the following words, "Next up is Crystal Tracy from the USA," I immediately started shaking a little bit however I knew that that was not going to hurt myself if anything goes wrong then I will be seeing my dad getting mad at me. I, Cassie, noticed five minutes into my gymnastics routine for the balance beam, that the balance beam was super slippery and called for a time out so that my dad can check it out very fast, however the judges thought that I was lying and immediately I slipped and hit my head super hard which made my dad very angry with the judges who immediately realized that he was angry with them because his only daughter was trying to not get injured and they did not allow him to check the balance beam. Muse as soon as he was allowed onto the floor, ran right over to me and saw that I had passed out from the blood loss from my head injury and said yelling at our dad, "Dad, call for an ambulance, right now! Cassie is not awake! Fly-Boy, find me a medical kit, please!"

Twelve minutes later at the nearest hospital, I, Cassie, was able to be released as long as I was on bedrest back on Tracy Island however as soon as we got back home, dad started yelling at me about what happened which made me mad enough to run to my bedroom, with a lot of help from Tintin who personally did not blame me, packed all of my clothes, shoe and other things into bags so that I could ran away from Tracy Island and possible never come back at all. Immediately dad realizes what he had just done and tried to stop me but I had already had taken my plane and landed over near NCIS headquarters since I know that Director Tom Morrow would personally give me a job since he always said that I would make a great special agent one day. On my way into the lobby, I met Former Special Agent Mike Franks who immediately knew why I was here and decided to help me with getting my visitor's pass so that I could talk with Director Tom Morrow who funny enough had just received a call from my dad and knew that I was on my way to him. As soon as I stepped out of the elevator, he looked down at me and said with a very slight smile, "I heard from your dad about you getting mad at him about him yelling at you about what happened earlier tonight, Ms. Tracy. Follow me to my office and Mike, you might as well come as well. Too, Special Agent Gibbs." I was following Tom Morrow to his office when the door leading into open and James Larry Morrow stepped down and he saw me and said, "Why, hello there, Cassie. What are you doing here?"

I decided to let Tom Morrow tell his eldest son what happened on Tracy Island and he immediately walked over to me and give me a huge hug which got me to start crying here then and there. Tom let James join us and as soon as we were in his office, he turned around and said to Special Agent Gibbs who was waiting to know why he asked to come to his office, "Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, I would personally like you to meet the only daughter of Former Special Agent Lucille Tracy who was killed in an avalanche as Former Special Agent Mike Franks know. I am correct, Mike?" Gibbs and I both looked over at Mike who immediately answered with a very sad look on his face, "Yes, Director. You are most definitely correct about that. Former Special Agent Lucille Tracy was a excellent agent for many years at all of the agencies." That was when Gibbs finally realized that he was about to be asked with he would take on the only daughter of one of the very few people who Mike Franks personally knew and waited for Director Tom Morrow to ask him the question which he did, "Gibbs, I would like to know you will personally teach Cassie everything that you have learned from Former Special Agent Mike Franks?" I, Cassie, was in shock when I heard Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs answered the question like so, "I would be honored to do so, Director." That was the story of both my gymnastics accident and how I became a NCIS Special Agent.

End Flashback


Fifteen minutes later, my video watch flashed, and I knew that it had to be my twin brother, Star-Gazer, calling so I lifted my right hand and said with a huge smile on my face with a loud smile to him, "Hello there, Star-Gazer! I take it that dad has already told you who is going to be home for spring break then?" My twin brother stopped spinning and stood up before saying in shock to me in return also with a huge smile on his face with a loud laugh, "Hello there, Cassie! No, dad did not tell me who was coming home for spring break besides Alan and Fermat. Wait, you are coming home to Tracy Island for spring break, sis!? Why did you not tell me or Virgil the last time we talked with you?" I waited for my twin to calm down before answering his questions with a loud laugh in return, "I only noticed dad's email today, Star-gazer, plus my boss told me that I can spend spring break with the rest of the family on Tracy Island as soon as he saw the email himself. Dad wants me to go and visit both Alan and Fermat over at their school, by the way. Do you know the address, bro?" I watched as he nodded a yes at me and went over to his computer and sent me the address to Alan and Fermat's current school with a wave goodbye.

"Grab your gear, team. We have got a dead navy officer like always," said my boss, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, with his usual smile on his face with a laugh. Immediately I, Cassie, grabbed my gear alongside the rest of the team and followed them to the elevator as soon as we could feel the elevator moving, Gibbs whispered to me with a laugh, "You now have to definitely visit your youngest brother and Fermat at their school, Special Agent Tracy." I nodded in understanding and looked over at Special Agent Dinozzo and said to him with a very slight smile, "Tony, can you give me a ride over to my youngest brother's current school later today?" He nodded yes to me before saying with his usual smile on his face, "I never thought that you would have asked, Special Agent Tracy." Just then, the elevator opened and together we exited the elevator and headed towards the parking lot where we headed for our vehicles in my case, I went with Special Agent Gibbs like always when it came to missions during which time I fixed up my long platinum blond hair in a ponytail like always. As we got to the crime scene, I saw both Thunderbirds One and Two land nearby and knew that I was about to meet up with most of my family in a couple of minutes, so I grabbed my gear and headed over to the taped off area to start taking pictures of the crime scene with Tony and Gibbs.

Seven minutes later, I felt a very familiar hand on my right shoulder and I very slowly stood up and turned around to face most of my family who were currently staring at me with their usual smiles on their faces. I rolled my light blue eyes at them before saying with a huge smile on my face with a loud laugh to them, "Hello, guys. I have missed you so much more than you know!" I finished my sentence with a scream because three of my brothers plus our father were currently hugging me to death at the moment. Both Gibbs and Tony laughed at the sight with their usual smiles on their face as I finally got away from Fly-boy, Muse and Joker-Fish who were waiting for our dad to get off on the ground with some help from me and Tony who decided to introduce himself to them. I could not help but laugh at the sight of them talking to Tony who glared at me with a laugh as he walked over to both me and Gibbs who stepped towards them and said with his usual smile on his face, "Hello, my name is Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs. You have already met Special Agent Tony Dinozzo and you most definitely know Cassie. They are only two members of my team. The others are on a super special mission with Director Tom Morrow for the next week and a half, so we have a lot of work and not enough people."

Our father, Jeff Tracy, walked over to Gibbs and introduced himself and the others including my twin brother who was currently on speakerphone with his usual smile on his face in his commander voice which I, Special Agent Tracy, went back to taking pictures of the crime scene, "Hello, my name is Jeff Tracy. These are my four oldest sons and Cassie's brothers, Scott Carpenter Tracy who is my second in command (the oldest), John Glenn Tracy who is currently up inside Thunderbird Five and the twin brother of Cassie (the second oldest), Virgil Grissom Tracy who is our personal medical professional (the third oldest) and Gordon Cooper Tracy who is the swimmer of the family (the fourth oldest). The only son/brother that is missing is the youngest who is Alan Shepard Tracy who we all call the Sprout. He is fourteen years old and is currently attending Wharton Academy with his best friend, Fermat Hackenbacker." I laugh as he walked over to me with his arms opened wide for me and I give him a huge hug as he smiled down at me with a laugh of him own as my brothers messed up my hair which made me very angry for a couple of minutes before they realized what they had done and apologized for messing up my hair like that. I looked over at Virgil with a huge smile on my face with a laugh and said in a whisper so that only he could hear me speak, "Hey there, Muse! Can I have a hug, pretty please? I have really missed you a lot more than you know." I watched as he held his arms out to me with his usual smile on his face and I ran right into his arms with a laugh as he very carefully hugged me as tightly as he could without hurting me before he looked down into my light blue eyes and said with a laugh also in a whisper so that only I could hear him speak, "Hello there, Cassie! I have really missed you a lot too. Oh, boy, I think that dad just got a call from Wharton Academy about something that Alan might have done again. You might want to help me calm him down so that we can find out what the Sprout has done now."

As me and Muse walked over at our dad, he looked over at us with a slightly sad look on his face before he opened his mouth and said in his commander voice, "That was Wharton Academy, kids. They already know that Alan did not do anything that he usually would do but they still want to talk to me over at the school. Cassie, do you want to come with me so that you can visit Alan and Fermat?" I looked up into our dad's dark blue eyes with a huge smile on my face as I nodded yes to his question and he held out his left hand to me which I grabbed onto with my right hand and together, me and him walked over to Thunderbird Two with Muse following closely behind us while both Fly-boy and Joker-Fish ran over to Thunderbird One as fast as they could run. As soon as we were inside of Thunderbird Two, our dad pulled out one of the spare flight suits and gave me it so that I could change into it before we went over to Wharton Academy to visit Alan and Fermat/meet up with the schoolboard. Once I was dressed in my flight suit, I sat behind our dad and Muse as they prepared to fly Thunderbird Two over to Wharton Academy while Fly-boy and Joker-Fish did the same thing which made me smile a huge smile at the two of them with a laugh.

Twenty minutes later at Wharton Academy, I felt the moment when Thunderbird Two landed in the woods behind my youngest brother, Alan Shepard Tracy's current school which signaled me to get dressed back into my sage green work outfit and with some help our dad fixed my ponytail with a huge smile on his face as we very quickly followed Virgil who was already to go and visit both the Sprout and Fermat. Muse was wearing a dark green t-shirt, jeans and sky blue flip-flops while our dad was wearing a suit that he is known for wearing most of the time and his best pair of dress shoes. I looked over at Fly-boy who was wearing a sky-blue t-shirt, red shorts and light yellow flip-flops while Joker-Fish was wearing a yellow and red t-shirt, dark blue shorts and white flip-flops. Together we walked as a family up to Wharton Academy with huge smiles on our faces at the thought of surprising the youngest Tracy, the Sprout, and his best friend for life, Fermat, with a visit. As we got to the main double doors, I, Cassie, heard some super familiar voices including Alan's and Fermat's and so as our dad opened the double doors to Wharton Academy, I smiled my usual smile at the sight right in front of me before I opened my mouth and said with a laugh, "Hello, guys! Sprout, stand down, boy. You are most definitely my youngest brother, all right." I watched as both Alan and Fermat turned around, saw me which made my day because as soon as they realized as I was in front of them, they ran over and give me a huge hug before they said together to me at the same time, "Hello, Cassie! We have missed you so much. Oh, boy, most of the family is here with you. Now, what are you doing here besides visiting us?"