November
19th, 2039; four years later and it was time for yet another
birthday. Today was Kate and Kassidy’s twenty-first birthday. Kate was a Corporal
while her twin was a Petty Officer 3rd class. Both girls had
requested leave from their respective commanding officers. The girls got their
requested leave time. Jenny lounged in
the backyard on the deck on one of chaise lounge chairs, their daughters; all
seven of the congregated in the living room/family room while the husbands of
the five eldest Gibbs girls were off doing their own thing. Jethro was in a
whole different part of the house and it wasn’t the basement working on the
latest wood project. Over the years Jethro had built his share of boats. There
was the one he named after Diane, that was the one that he burned cause he could stand seeing another man sail off on her
even though semantically speaking he didn’t have to worry about the boat
version of his ex-wife since Fornell had already sailed off on Diane. Jethro had
built six additional boats after The
Kelly had been involved in the case that Leyla’s mother was a part of years
ago. So The Delilah, The Emiliana, The
Arabella, The Madison as well as The Kate and The Kassidy were all docked
at the nearby marina.
But
that was irrelevant at the moment. He was spending part of his daughters’
birthday cleaning out the crawl space of the house per Jenny’s request. While
cleaning he came across some of Kelly’s old things just as he had countless
times over years before he had learned that she didn’t die while he was serving
in Kuwait. As Jethro was going through and old box that had all the papers and
crafts that the quads and twins did in school over the years in it, Jethro had
found an old paper from a project that the twins did for a project of theirs.
Kate Gibbs
Kassidy
Gibbs
History
Ms.
Leeanna
Sept.
12th, 2017
Twenty-four
hours or so ago the United States of America stopped for some time. We paused
to remember the brave souls that died sixteen years ago when Al-Qaeda attacked
us on our soil in New York, Pennsylvania and here in the country’s capital. Of
course those of us in Ms. Leeanna’s class were mere glimmer in our parents’ eyes;
we still understand what happened that fateful day thanks to our families who
endure the crisis. Growing up in one of the three cities that where in the
receiving end of the terrorist attacks as well as having our grandfathers and
our father serve the United States in the Navy and Marines made us recall
something out father, Marine Gunnery Sergeant/ NCIS Senior Field Agent Leroy
Jethro Gibbs once said.
A
year or two after the September 11th attacks our father and his team
of NCIS Special Agents as well as the agency’s Forensic specialists had a case
of a Marine who died while serving his country. Our father told the son of the
fallen Marine that it was okay to shed tears at his father’s funeral in front
of the other Marines that were in attendance. Our father told the son of the
fallen Marine about John F. Kennedy Jr. saluting his father’s coffin during
JFK’s funeral. In case it isn’t clear who we have such high respect for at this
point in the report, we have high respect for our father; Leroy Jethro Gibbs.
So we salute our father just as JFK Jr. saluted his father and we along with
our older sisters full heartedly thank our father for serving the United States
in the U.S. Marine Corps.
After Jethro had finished reading the
paper his daughters had written years ago, he left the crawl space in the attic
and looked for his daughters. He had found them in the living room with their
sisters. The girls were watching Julia Roberts and Richard Gere in Pretty Woman when Jethro entered the
room. Without saying a word or doing really anything at all Jethro walked over
to where the twins were sitting and kissed them each on the top of their heads.
In
a few hours all of the girls were going out to the local bar for Kate and
Kassidy’s first legal drink. Kelly had taken Delilah, Emiliana, Arabella and
Madison out to the same bar they were going to for the twins’ twenty-first
birthday. When Kate had stepped away to go to the bathroom and Kassidy had gone
into the kitchen to get herself some more pink lemonade; their older sisters
huddled up in a Tony inspired mini
campfire before their sisters’ returned.
“We
have their gifts, right?” Kelly asked her younger sisters.
“Of
course we do, Kels.”
“Where
are they?”
“Maddy
has Kassie’s and I have Kat’s.” Arabella responded.
“Maddy
and Aria have what for Kassie and I?” Kate inquired.
“Nothing.”
Emiliana thought and responded as quickly as she could to cover up the
conversation she and her sisters were in the middle of when their kid sisters
rejoined them.
Shortly
after that the twins returned. Once the movie ended the group left for the bar.
As expected the girls said good-bye to their parents then the older Gibbs girls
kissed their respective husbands good bye.
In
the blink of an eye the Gibbs girls were at The Thief’s Haunt, the bar they
decided to go. The bartender asked what they were celebrating as he took their
drink orders. Kate and Kassidy had been carded during their time at the bar.
Midway through their stint at the bar; Kelly, Delilah, Emiliana, Arabella and
Madison decided that now was the prime opportunity to give their sisters their
birthday presents. Kate and Kassidy unwrapped and opened up the box that
contained the gift from their sisters.
Within the box was sterling silver
necklace that had been engraved on the front and back of the heart pennant. On
the front of the heart were L.J.G’s girls. On the back were
the twins’ initials of KJG. Kate and Kassidy
thanked their sisters for the necklaces before they helped each other put their
respective necklace on. A few drinks later and the seven Gibbs girls were
walking in the front door.
Jenny was up in bed but in the
typical and true protective father mode; Jethro had stayed up and waited for
his daughters to come home from The Thief’s Haunt. The following morning Kate
and Kassidy’s leave would be over and they had to return to their respective
ships at the ports they had been docked at.
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