Disclaimer: I own nothing but Aimee again.


Previously on Me, My (Fake) Husband and My Crazy Aunt:

"Do you still wanna get married?" Tony asked into the phone, and Ziva wiped a few tears off of her cheeks. "No. Nor could I love this child." Ziva said as he voice cracked. "So that's your answer?" "No, this is." She flipped her phone shut before tossing it in the grass beside her, and pulled legs to her chest and her tears flow freely.


What We Have

Tony was stunned, well not by much. "How could an assassin love somebody like me?" he muttered angrily to himself. Assassin, he thought to himself. 'It wasn't her choice' a voice seemed to say, 'She loves you. She's afraid, she's alone, her dad made her into a monster and now everybody's telling her she's gotta change. It's not easy for her." The voice said.

"B-but what about me? I love her, and she just throws it back in my face!" Tony told the voice. 'Look in the cabinet under the TV.' It said and Tony hesitantly obeyed, it was filled with CD's and DVD all marked.

"What am I looking for?"

"The second from the bottom." The voice instructed.

Tony pulled out a CD holder it was marked, 'Tali' He popped it into the DVD player and sat back against the table as it started. "Ima!" a small but familiar voice yelled and the blackness that captured the screen was taken away and a room with a light pink color, seeming similar to the nursery they had, is taken the place. "Ima," a girl's voice says again.

A younger version of Ziva is standing behind the camera in a red and white cheerleading uniform. "Ima, we will be late." Ziva explained. "Ziva, we are fine." Rivka said from behind the camera. "Where is Tali?" Ziva asked with great curiosity and a finger points over to the crib. Ziva quickly hurried over and peered over in the crib standing on the rails. "She is pretty." Ziva admitted.

"Yes, she is."

"I want one." Ziva said excitedly.

"No, you will not," A gruff voice said and Tony immediately knew who it was. "How come Aba?"

"Because, you will do bigger and better things than raise a child from some hooligan." Tony could see Ziva's face fall as she jumped down, "Yes Aba."

"That was the first time; I learned something had changed from him." Tony looked over his shoulder and saw Rivka leaning on the edge of the couch. "Was she every really happy?" Tony asked, and Rivka nodded, "A few times." Rivka walked over and reached into the cabinet and removed the first DVD and replaced it with another.

"Ima! Ima!" Ziva's younger voice yelled and the screen changes again from black to lush green grass filled with colorful flowers. Ziva has on the same uniform from before except she is a little older, "Can we go?" Ziva asked impatiently, tapping her foot.

"Where is your sister?" Ziva shrugged, "With Ari, now let's go!" A little girl about 3 or 4 with olive-toned skin and brown shoulder length hair runs out from the house, "Mommy! Mommy! Lwondon has pretty flowers!" she exclaims.

"Tali, if you do not hurry I will be late for my cheerleading game." Ziva ordered and Tali nodded, "Of Course." The screen pauses for a second pauses before appearing on a football field and a group of younger girls run onto the field and form a cobra. "Ladies and Gentleman 'The London Cobra's'!" an announcer shouts to the audience before the "Gonna Make YouSweat" starts to play. They all start by, in unison, waving their arms above their heads before flipping out to the edge of the field except for a small group who form a circle in the middle and flipping Ziva up into the air.

The rest twirl and flip into the middle where they pull their legs up to touch their heads and flip backwards where they grab Pom-Pom and do a dance routine with them before shouting,

"We're the London Cobra's, we're here to win, and if you don't like it we'll kick you in the shin!" They dance around some more before the other male cheerleaders ran on and picked them up on their shoulders and the song ends. The camera zooms to Ziva's face, she is grinning greatly, before it goes black.

"When she was cheering it was the only time she was happy." Rivka explained and Tony nodded, "When did she stop?" Rivka thought about it for a second, "Um, after she graduated high school." "Why?" "The Army, it was not her idea…it was her father's." Tony frowned, "He made her?" Rivka nodded. "He wanted her to be his solider; I had no say in it once Tali died." Tony ran his hands over his face, "Her life isn't hers." He grumbled. "I suppose to a point." She said before she left him alone.

"Her life isn't her own."


Ziva's POV

I sat there on the edge of this pond lightly dragging my foot through it, "I'm torn between two places." I tell Aimee, "And you are just in one, one that will get bigger and bigger." I sighed, "But I do not think my heart will. But I can promise you; I will not put you down like my father did to me. If you want to join a dance team, join a dance team-."

"If you wanna join a cheer team, Mommy would be very proud." A well-known voice said from behind and I turned around Tony was standing behind me with his hand in his pockets. "W-what are you doing here?" I asked stunned. He shrugged, "I'm a federal agent remember?" I rolled my eyes before twirling my foot back in the water. "You were a pretty cheerleader." He admitted.

"I'm sure you've said that before." I hissed as he sat next to me. "This time I mean it." I glanced over at him and he seemed to be hiding something. "What do you have behind your back?" I asked suspiciously and he grins. He handed me a package with a light pink bow tied upon it, I lightly tug at the bow and it unfolds. I tear at the wrapping paper and pull the item up; I hold it up to the moonlight and see it's like a stuffed leopard.

"I couldn't find a Siberian Lynx." He confesses, and all I can do is smile. "Did you see the rest?" I peer back down into the box and it's my old cheer uniform and now I have tears burning the rims of my eyes. "W-where did you find it; I thought my father burned it." "Your mom had it, she was gonna give it to you but I beat her to it." He was beaming now, "I wanna her to be happy." I explain and he nods, "So do I," I lightly chew on my lip as I play with the edges of the skirt. "Why are you here?" I asked and he looked over at me and shrugged, "I couldn't live without you…I guess."

"Define Love." I tell him and he stares at the water before answering, "Love is…Love is a feeling for someone that can't go away, it can survive anything, it is something that should last forever."

I was surprised, almost; he would say something that profound. "It sounds like us." I confess and he glances over at me, "I mean, we've been through my mom and my Aunt and their crazy antics, and now we got a baby on the way." I explained.

"Guess so." He shrugged. It was pretty calm for the most part and then he started to pick up tiny stones and skip them across the water. "How do you do that?" I asked and he smirked, "Wouldn't you like to know." He moved over to me and lightly took my wrist and placed a rock inside, he flicked it gently and it skipped across before sinking to the bottom.

I grinned, "Thank You, my brother Ari. He use to take me and my sister down to the pond by my house and he would show us how but I could never get it." He turned my face to his,

"Tell me. Why, do you not want to love me?" I shrugged, "Because every person that I loved died or something bad happens to them, and I can't let that happen to you." I explained, and he shook his head,

"Everybody's different, but that won't happen to me. I mean listen I've known you for like 3 or 4 years and nothing bad has happen to me." He said gently. "I promise you, I promise you, I will love you more than anything. I promise not to let anything bad happen to you, I just want you to be happy, I don't like to see you cry, I like to see you smile. I just want you to forgive me please." He pleaded with me, and I could tell he was serious, sincere and something in my heart changed; it felt different and softer, and I knew what it was.

"I know some people would probably say I'm crazy for saying this but…I think I'm falling in love with you." I said softly. "So you do love me?" he asked and you could see him getting giddy. "I suppose." I teased lightly. "But, only if you keep your promise." He lightly touched my stomach, where our child lived, "This is my promise, I'll always keep it." He vowed and he lightly kissed my nose.

"I think we can make this work, I think we have love."