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Chapter one: Welcome home!
Leroy Jethro Gibbs is at Andrews navy and air force base and he is waiting for the aircraft, which is bring home injury and return soldiers from the Air force, navy and one army soldier. Gibbs is waiting along side family members of soldiers that are coming home. Gibbs who has come from work and has to go back into work later in the day is dress in a tan suit, with a black polo short sleeved shirt and a white T-shirt under the polo shirt. Leroy Jethro Gibbs looks at his watch and then starts pace, because the aircraft that is coming from Iraq is running late. Gibbs notices that the family members of the soldiers coming home are looking at him, so he stops pace. At the same time his cellphone starts vibrate again and he takes the cellphone off his hip. Gibbs sees Abigail Sciuto is calling for the fifth time, because she wants an update on her sister Angela (Angie) Amberly Sciuto who is the injury army soldier and Chase who is a friend and co-worker, who is also injury. Gibbs now wishes that he had let Abby come with him, Leroy Jethro Gibbs flip his cellphone open and put the phone up to his right ear.
"Gibbs, have you seen my sister or Chase or talking to either of them yet? Also Kate called to say she will be running late for work today, because her car has four flat tires."
"No, the plane is running late and thanks for letting me know about Kate. Has Tony got into work yet?"
"No, will you call me as soon as you know anything, Gibbs?"
"Yes, Abby."
"Thank you and bye."
"Bye."
Gibbs flips his cellphone close and puts the cellphone back on his hip, at the same time three people are walking toward him. The youngest of the three is five feet eleven inches tall, he also has dark brown hair and light brown eyes but at times his eye's look hazel depending on light and shirt color that he is wearing. Gibbs also notices that the young guy walking toward him looks tired and worried, but that the elder couple do not look worried. The elder woman is five feet two inches tall with golden blonde hair that comes to the base of her ears and green eyes. The elder man is six feet two inches tall and he has gray hair that used to be black with a bald spot on the top of his head and a gray mustache. In addition the elder man has dark brown eyes, Gibbs smiles at Chase boyfriend Daniel and Chase grandparents on her mother side, which he has knew since he was a kid because his father and Chase grandfather were in the same army air corps service unit during world war two. When Daniel (Dan), Yannette (Pronunciation yah NET) and Eliot and reach Gibbs each of them takes a turn giving Gibbs a hug and Gibbs hugs each of them back.
"How are you doing Yannette and Eliot? It has been awhile since I saw the two of you. Both of you are looking great and Yannette you do not seem to have aged a day, I can't believe that your hair is still a golden blonde!"
"We are both doing great Gibbs, My husband and I have been in California visit grandchildren and great grandchildren."
"She has gone gray just like I have Gibbs, but unlike me, my wife has her hair dye a golden blonde, but when she was younger my wife had brown hair."
"How are you doing Dan?"
"I am doing great Gibbs, my medical school clinical training at Andrews navy and air force-hospital is keeping me busy and so is writing to Chase."
"Thanks for coming today, Chase is going to be happy to see you."
"I would not miss being here when Chase gets home, she is like a daughter to me Eliot and Yannette!"
"And Chase says you are like a second father to her and I am happy that you step in and was a great male role model for Chase after her fathers' f16 was shot down and he was killed in action in 1991."
"I was happy to be a role model for her Yannette. I help Chase's cope with losing her father and Chase helped me cope with losing my daughter, after my daughter and wife were killed."
Gibbs, Dan, Eliot and Yannette start watching the sky for the aircraft, Gibbs then checks his watch again. At the same time Eliot looks at Dan and then looks at Gibbs and knows that the two of them are worried.
"Back in my day, the flights never return late from deployment Gibbs!"
"You mean you never get back from a flight late Eliot?"
"No, I was always on time when I was the pilot and your father was always on time when he was the pilot too!"
"That nice to know."
"And your father asked me to have you call him."
"I will give my father a call tonight."
"Good, he misses talking to you."
At the same time all the children who are waiting with their mom, dads or grandparents' start pointing up at the sky, because they have seen the aircraft. Meanwhile, inside the cockpit of the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, the pilot who has amber eyes and blonde hair, which is jaw length takes a deep breath and at the same time is hoping that her injury right knee will hold out for one more landing. Chase begins to lower the aircraft into the descent to the runway. A few minutes later back on the ground the family members along with Gibbs are watching the plane landing on the runway. Meanwhile at Washington, D.C. NCIS headquarter Tony is walking out of the elevator, he then starts walking toward his desk. Abby is watching Tony and notice he is wearing a black suit, with the suit jacket unbutton and showing the white long sleeve dress shirt. As Tony walks pass Kate's desk, he notices that Kate has not come into work yet and that Abby is sitting at Gibbs's desk. Tony set his backpack on the floor by his desk and then sits down on his desk chair and his desk is across from Kate's desk. At the same time Abby stand up from Gibbs's desk chair and Tony notices that Abby has her black hair in pigtails like she always does and that she is wearing a pair of loose fitting black Goth pants and a black long sleeve shirt. Tony also notices that Abby is wearing a black ribbon choker with a skull hanging from the center of the ribbon and a pair of black Goth boots.
"Why are you in the squad room?"
"Waiting for you or Kate to get here, Gibbs is at Andrews navy and air force base Chase is coming home today remember?"
"Yes and why are you not at Andrews navy and air force base your sister coming home too?"
"Because no one else was here to man the phone, so Gibbs made me stay behind."
"Where is Kate?"
"She running late today because of four flat tires on her car."
"I am here now, if you want to go and see your sister."
"I will just head down to my lab and get the lab ready for Chase welcome back party, Gibbs says that he would call me when the plane landed and has talked to Chase and my sister."
"Ok."
Tony turns his computer on, as Abby walks over to the elevator. Meanwhile at Andrews navy and air force base Gibbs sees a medic push a stretcher off the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III and then he notices the young lady that is laying on the stretcher is Angela (Angie) Amberly Sciuto. Gibbs starts walking over to the medic and Angela and he notices that the young lady is five feet four inches tall, has blue eyes and dirty blonde hair that waist length. Gibbs can also tell by just looking at Angela that she is in a lot of pain. The medic stops push the stretcher when he reaches Gibbs and Angela looks up at Gibbs.
"Angela I am Leroy Jethro Gibbs and I work with your sister Abby."
"I know, I take it that Tony was late to work, so Abby had to stay and man the phones?"
"Yes."
"Gibbs will you let Abby know that I am doing all right, I am going to Andrews navy and air force hospital to get an MRI, because the MRI machine is out of order at Bethesda and then I will be going to Bethesda's military hospital with the MRI to get treatment."
"I will Angela, is there anything else you want me to tell Abby?"
"Tell my sister that I will call her after I have talk to my doctor and know how bad my back injury along with the medical treatment that I needed to treat the injury."
"I need to take Angela to the hospital now."
"(Angela and Gibbs) Ok."
The medic starts pushing the stretcher and Gibbs wave bye to Angela, he then takes his cellphone off his hip and calls Abby. In the cockpit of the aircraft, Chase is still sitting in the pilot seat and is doing the post flight checklist and she is crying. The reason Chase is crying is because the pain in her right knee has become unbearable and the reason for this is that Chase has not taken anything for the pain all morning. Once Chase has finished the post flight checklist she stands up putting all her weight on the left leg. She reaches down and picks up the metal (silver) underarm crutches, which have gray underarm pads, hand grips and tips from the floor between the pilot seats and the seats behind the pilot seats. It has now been an hour since the plane landed and Chase grandparents, Dan and Gibbs are the only four people that are still waiting and Gibbs has starts to pace again. Four minutes later Chase hops out of the aircraft on crutches and is not putting any weight on her right leg. Dan, Eliot and Yannette run up to Chase, who hug her grandmother first and then Chase hugs her grandfather. Dan then pulls his girlfriend into a bear hug and the two of them kisses each other on the lips. When Chase stops kisses Dan, she notices Gibbs is there and he is standing next to her grandmother. Dan let go off Chase and Gibbs walks over to Dan and Chase. Gibbs and Chase hug each other and then Gibbs and Chase's look at each other for a couple minutes before anyone says anything and Chase's grandmother is the first to speak.
"Why did it take you so long to exit the plane Chase?"
"I ended up having to fly the plane after the pilot and copilot both get sick and that meant I had to do a post flight checklist before I could exit the plane and come see the four of you, grandma."
"But your right-knee is hurt!"
"I know that Gibbs! I do not think flying the plane did any more damages to my knee, but the flight medic is having me go get an MRI at the hospital and see a doctor. After I see the doctor I can leave and go to NCIS headquarter Gibbs."
"That is fine Chase."
Chase, Dan, Eliot, Yannette and Gibbs leave the runway and then the five of them head to Andrews navy and air force hospital. Two hours later at NCIS headquarters Abby is busy getting her lab ready for Chase welcome back party. She has just finish hanging a banner over the windows and then she steps back to look at the banner that say Welcome back Chase, at the same time her cellphone starts ringing. Abby takes her cellphone off her hip and sees that the phone number is a Bethesda military hospital number. She flips her cellphone open and then puts the phone up to her right ear. Abby walks into her office area and walks over to her desk, then sit down on her desk chair.
"Abigail Sciuto speaking!"
"Abby's it's Angie, can you talk right now or are you busy working?"
"I can talk right now all of my work is done and I just finish decorating for Chase welcome home party, I wish you could be here for the party too and then it would be a welcome back party for both of you. So what do you want to talk about Angie?"
"To tell you that I have two unstable spinal fracture and dislocations the L4 and L5 and I need to have spinal fusion surgery on my back. I also have to wear a Thoraco-Lumbo-Sacral Orthosis (TLSO) brace pre surgery and post surgery until the doctor say I can take the brace off."
"What about your miliary career?"
"My doctor is filling out paperwork to get me an honorable medical discharged from the army."
"When is the surgery?"
"On Friday, will you come to the hospital to visit me, after you get off work? And I wish that I could be at Chase welcome home party too, bring me a piece of cake and cookies when you come to visit?"
"Sure I will come visit you after work and bring you a piece of cake and cookies."
"I need to make some more phone calls, so I will talk to you later bye."
"Bye and I will see you later Angie."
Abby flips her cellphone close and looks at her computer screen to see what time it is. She stands up and puts her cellphone back onto her hip and then walks out of the office area. She walks back into the main area of the lab and then walks over to the silver counter that is normally use to process evidence, but not today because the counter has a red, white and blue tablecloth over the counter. On top of the tablecloth is a stack of blue paper plate, a box of red plastic forks and a pile of white napkins with red stars on them. There is also a stack of red, blue and white plastic cups, two liter bottles of Mt. Dew, coke, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper and root beer and a close cake box setting on the counter, with a cake stand next to the box. Abby looks around the lab to make sure she did not forget any of the decorations and sees the welcome home banner is hanging up, along with all the red white and blue crepe streamers, which mean she did not forget anything. Abby open up the cake box, which reveals a round chocolate frosted cake that has the Air force logo on the top of the cake. Abby takes the cake out of the box and puts the cake onto the cake stand. She then takes the empty cake box into her office and set the box on her desk, so that the box is out of everyone way. Abby then walks back into the main area of the lab and at the same time Tony, Ducky who is wearing a blue dress shirt, a red bow tie and black suit pants, Gerald Jackson who is wearing a black suit pants and a white dress shirt and Kate Todd who is wearing a long sleeve light blue blouse, black dress pants and black dress boots and carrying a plate of sugar cookies walks into Abby's lab. Kate set the plate of sugar cookies that are shaped like air-force jets and also round cookies with the air force logo onto the counter next to the cake stand.
"The lab looks great, you did an awesome job decorating for Chase welcome home party Abby!"
"Thanks Kate. Gibbs and Chase should be here any minute now!"
Gibbs walks through the door of Abby lab carrying an ice pack in his right hand and few moments later Chase comes through the door using crutches and she smiles at everyone. At the same time Kate, Gerald, Ducky, Tony and Abby notice that Chase is wearing a violet long sleeve shirt that has a v-neck, a pair of khaki Cargo zip-off pants also know as convertible pants with the right knee off showing a gray Donjoy universal tri-panel knee immobilizer with an open area around the kneecap and pair of black army work boots. Using the crutches, Chase hops over to the chair at the computer work station, which is in the center of the main part of the lab. Chase sits down on the chair and at the same time Gibbs grabs one of the other chairs, then he pushes the chair over to Chase. Gibbs raises the height of the chair, so the chair is as tall as the chair that Chase is sitting on. Chase then puts her legs up onto the chair and Gibbs set the ice pack onto Chase right-knee. At the same time Abby runs over to Chase with a huge smile on her face and gives Chase a huge bear hug.
"Thank for leading the search and rescue teams despite already being hurt and finding my sister after the terrorists take her prisoner. You save Angie life and I can't thank you enough."
"Abby's I could not let anyone else lead the search and rescue teams, I knew your sister since her first tour of duty in Afghanistan and I knew you since August of 2000, when I was working here after breaking my left ankle at the end of office training, which I had to take after I gradations from the air force academy and was put on medical leave from air force. Also, Abby's you and Angie's are both important people in my life."
"How long are you going to be working with us this time?"
"Seeing that I have a stable transverse fracture kneecap (un displaces fracture) and bruised kneecap, ligaments and tendons the doctor says I could be on medical leave from the air force for six to eight weeks and then I will have to build the strength in my knee back up before the air force will put me back on active flight duty, so I could be working with you for twelve or more weeks Tony."
"What did you major in at the air force academy Chase?"
"I major in foreign language and military strategic studies Kate."
"What foreign language do you speak Chase?"
"Beside English I can speck Arabic, Pashto, Ladino, Farsi, German, Polish, Hebrew, Yiddish, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese and Japanese. I also know sing language, Kate."
"Did Gibbs and you stop by Dan and your house on you way here so you could change or did Dan bring you some clothing to change into?"
"Gibbs and I stop by Dan and my house, so I could clean up and get change Tony."
"I say we should get this party started!"
"(Kate, Abby, Gibbs, Ducky, Gerald and Chase) sound like a good idea Tony."
Abby cut the cake and then puts a piece of cake onto eight plates and the eighth piece of cake is for Abby's sister. Gibbs hand Chase a plate that has a piece of cake and a couple cookies on the plate, then Gibbs gets Chase a cup of MT. Dew to drink and hand her the cup. Chase set the cup on the desk beside her and start eating the cake. As Chase, Kate, Tony, Ducky, Gerald, Abby and Gibbs eat their cakes and cookies they talk to each other and let Chase know what has been happening in they life and Chase tells everyone what has been happening in her life. Gibbs has just taken the last bite of his piece of cake when his cellphone start ringing. He takes the cellphone off his hip and looks at the number on the display and sees it is the dispatch number.
Chase, Kate, Tony, Ducky, Gerald and Abby are watching Gibbs who has went into Abby office to take a phone call and he is still on his cellphone and is pace around Abby's office. A minute later Gibbs walks out of Abby's office and back into the main part of the lab putting his cellphone onto his hip, with a serious look on his face. He looks at Chase first, then look at Kate followed by Tony, Ducky, Abby and Gerald.
"There has been a booming at the special need's dance academy that is on Andrews navy and Air force base. There is a total of ten children that are dead and four injury children. There are also one teacher and four aids dead. In addition there are two injured teachers and five injured aids. Tony's go grab your bag and then gas up the van, I will meet you at the van."
"Yes, boss!"
Tony, Gerald and Ducky walk out of Abby's lab and at the same time Gibbs look at Chase, then looks at Chase's right knee. Gibbs then looks at Chase a second time and takes a deep breath, then he looks at Kate.
"Kate's I want you to drive one of the Dodge Intrepid to the crime scene and Chase will ride with you. Chase your bag is right where you left the bag, next to the desk across from my desk and next to Tony's desk. And Abby's I want you to go visit your sister and then come back to the lab."
"Thank you Gibbs, I was just going to ask you if I could go see Angie."
"Kate, I will meet you at the intrepid, I need to have a few words with Abby before she leaves."
"That is fine"
"Thanks Kate. Abby's you will want to be sitting down for what I have to say!"
"Ok."
Gibbs and Kate walk out of Abby's lab and at the same time Abby walks over to Chase, thinking why does she need to talk to me alone? At the same time Chase has taken the ice pack off her right knee, then takes her legs off the chair. Abby sits down on the chair with a concern look on her face. Abby then notices that Chase is no longer smiling, but has a look of alertness on her face.
"Why are you looking at me with a look of alertness Chase?"
"Your sister has been through a lot the last two and half week's Abby."
"I know that from the last two and a half week's of talking to you in MTAC!"
"No, Abby's you do not know what she has been through. You know that she was taking by terrorists and that the terrorist's injury your sister back. But I did not have the heart to tell you during our live video feed talks that the terrorists torture Angie for days for information, before I found her and the rescue team was able to rescue your sister."
"Why did the terrorists fracture my sisters' spine and dislocation Angie's L4 and L5 vertebrae, Chase?"
"Because she would not tell the terrorists what they want to know Abby's. In addition I did not tell you during are live video talk that your sister is having a hard time sleeping, because she is having nightmares about her time in capture with the terrorists. I am only tell you because I do not think that your sister has said anything to you about the nightmares and Angie is going to need you to get through this."
"Ok and thank you for letting me know. You are right Angie never told me about the nightmares or about having a hard time sleeping."
"Abby's do not push talking about the nightmare, let her bring up the nightmare up on her own."
"Ok, Chase. You should get going."
"Yes you are right."
Chase and Abby stand up and Abby hands Chase her crutches. Abby then goes into her office and grabs her purse and keys. At the same time Chase using the crutches start walking toward the lab door and has just hop into the hallway when Abby walks out of the lab door carrying a plate with a piece of cake and cookies. Abby then closes and locks the lab door, then the two ladies head over to the elevator, which is across from her lab. When they reach the elevator Abby pushes the button and they wait for the door to open. When the door of the elevator open up on the second floor Abby and Chase walk out of the elevator and walk over to the squad room. Abby stays by the elevator door and Chase head to the desk across from Gibbs's desk and grabs her black bag. She then walks back over to the elevator and Abby push the button and the door open, then the two of them walk back into the elevator and Abby push the button for the first floor. A few minutes later Abby is heading to her car in the parking lot and Chase is heading toward Kate who is standing outside one of the Dodge Intrepid waiting for her. When Chase walks up to the intrepid, Kate opens the passengers' door for Chase. Kate then takes Chase bag and set the bag on the back seat. Kate then watches Chase as she lower herself down and onto the passenger seat. Kate then takes the crutches from her co-worker and as Chase is getting comfortable in the passenger side of the car, Kate put the crutches on the floor of the back of the car. A few moments later Kate gets into the car herself and a minute and half later Kate is pulling out of the parking lot of NCIS and then start driving toward the crime scene.