A/N: Enjoy! There's a little canon reference in here!

"It's been ten years since my older sister committed suicide... but the pain has never truly gone away. In many ways, I am still grieving for her. I'm still healing. I learnt this summer that it's ok... it's ok to still be grieving. There isn't a time limit on these things. I'm still learning every day how to live without her, how to go on when it feels like time stopped ten years ago. And that's ok"

"I was the one who found her... covered in her own blood, lying in our bathtub at six in the morning. I was ten years old. Ten. I barely even knew what suicide was, and there I was coming face to face with it. It was incredibly traumatic. I don't remember much of the days following her death because I went into shock. I started having nightmares... I would wake up screaming and crying. For nearly three months. Every night. And even now... earlier this summer, I started having the nightmares again. I witnessed something a grown adult can barely understand, and yet, I was just a child"

"Losing someone you love to suicide is painful, and it's heartbreaking, because you'll forever question if there was something you could've done, some way you could've helped them. It's ok to have these feelings. It's ok to struggle. And it's ok to grieve, even ten years on. There are people out there who are experiencing the same pain and heartbreak, and we have to band together, we have to help each other. Blackbird can help you do that"

"My name is Jennifer Jareau. I'm a World and Olympic champion in gymnastics. And I lost my sister to suicide"

She'd barely set foot on the wooden walkway along the front of the dorms when what looked like half the girls attending camp came racing out of open doors to greet her.

"About time you got here!" Simone exclaimed as she gave JJ a tight hug, before taking her pillow in order to free up her hands.

"Our flight got delayed," JJ laughed, pulling her suitcase along the walkway as Simone led her to the room she and Aly always stayed in at camps.

"You're here!" Aly shrieked happily as she came bounding out of the room to throw her arms around JJ, almost knocking her off her feet. Laughing, JJ hugged Aly back, before following her into their dorm and dropping her backpack on her bed. Simone followed behind them, putting JJ's pillow down beside her bag and taking a seat on the edge of the bed.

"I need to give you an even bigger hug," Aly said softly once JJ had put her things down. JJ, slightly confused, accepted the gesture.

"Why?" she asked as Aly pulled her in.

"Because I saw the Blackbird video," Aly replied, holding onto JJ for a few moments before pulling away once more. JJ softened at her friend's words; she had filmed the campaign video for Blackbird shortly before leaving for camp, and it had been released almost immediately. Obviously, by now, her friends and teammates would have seen it.

"How come you never said anything? At the June camp, you were struggling so badly with something and you never told us... all I ever knew was that you had a sister and she passed away"

"I just don't like talking about it," JJ said softly as Simone stood up and gave her a squeeze from behind. "It's literally the worst thing that's ever happened to me... even Will didn't know the full story until just before my birthday"

"It made me cry," Aly admitted.

"That doesn't surprise me," JJ teased, making Simone laugh as Aly shook her head.

"Well, I hope that you're at least doing a little better now," Aly said sincerely.

JJ nodded. "I am... I was so scared to say it all out loud and put my private life out in the public like that... but when I was finished... I felt so much better. Lighter, I guess. I've been carrying that story around for ten years, and I never realised how much it was eating away at me until I actually revealed it to a camera"

Simone squeezed her a little tighter as Aly broke into a reassuring smile.

"We're here for you. Always"

Two days into camp and they were all working harder than ever.

It had not escaped anyone's notice that Larry was no longer present as the team doctor. Deb, the assistant physician, had taken over the bulk of Larry's old duties, with the girls being informed that he had taken up a new position at Michigan State University. But changes in staffing had not decreased the level of work expected of the girls. So much hard work meant that their downtime together was fast becoming loud, rambunctious, and oddly hilarious.

"You are not the police of this party, you can't shut us down!" Simone shrieked at Aly before breaking into a fit of giggles. Aly was laughing as well, filming from the top bunk of the bed she had climbed onto. Across the room, JJ, Gabby, and Alyssa were laughing too; Simone was always the first to get a little crazy on camps. Her naturally rambunctious nature made absolute sure of that.

It was early the following morning when JJ and Aly were awoken by the door to their dorm flying open.

"WAKE UP!" came Simone's yell, followed by laughter that JJ recognised as Maggie's. Simone clapped her hands together, laughing the entire time.

Groaning, JJ pulled the blankets over her head as Simone leant down and tried to tug them away.

"Hi JJ," she cooed through giggles. JJ groaned, trying to swat her away as she buried her face in her pillow.

"It's too early," Aly mumbled.

"What do you mean, c-come on, we gotta go to breakfast!" Simone laughed. "Time to GET UP!"

And with that, she had bounded out of the room, Maggie at her heels, no doubt to deliver the same wakeup call to the other girls.

"Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Jennifer Jareau, Madison Kocian, Maggie Nichols, and Aly Raisman will make up the team for the world championships in Glasgow. Mykayla Skinner will be the travelling alternate, while Brenna Dowell and Bailie Key will be the non-travelling alternates"

JJ breathed a sigh of relief. After a rough year, a nationals that had not gone as planned, and an intense training camp, she would be going to Worlds. All the work and perseverance had paid off.

After Marta had finished addressing them, they broke from formation to gather their things. Aly bounded excitedly over to JJ, throwing her arms around her.

"We're going to Worlds again!" she shrieked happily as JJ let out a laugh.

"Damn, I was just getting used to being by myself," JJ teased as they grabbed their things. Aly giggled.

"You won't get rid of me that easily boo"