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Chapter 13, Tony perspective, 3 days after the funeral:
"She's living with me!" I argue and run my hand through my hair.
"That's absurd, she shall live with me!" Jane responds
"No way! She's my daughter she's coming back with me!"
"She's my niece."
"Father Trump's aunt at all times."
"Not when the father has only been in the picture 5 minutes!"
"You know that wasn't my fault!"
"Oh it never is with you Tony!"
"What are you talking about?"
"You know what I mean!
"No, I don't, tell me!
"It's always everyone else's fault, 'cause your Mr. Perfect and you never do anything wrong!"
"Where on earth is this coming from?"
"You broke my sister's heart!"
"She broke mine!"
"Yeah right, you don't have a heart!"
"That's not fair; she left me a week before the wedding! I'm not supposed to thank her for it!"
"See there you go again, it's always someone else's fault!"
"She chose to leave!"
"You didn't stop her!"
"How could I?"
"STOP IT!" Becky yells grabbing our attention "How is this helping anyone?" she asks totally bewildered.
"It doesn't I'm sorry sweetheart." I reply as I run a hand through my already spiky hair, "I just can't lose you…I've only just got you." I sigh "What are we going to do Jane?"
"We've got to do what's best for Becky." She replies looking extremely tired.
"And what's that?" I ask
"I honestly don't know." She says as she collapses on the sofa.
"Jeez guys, even I have a clue of what's best for me!" Becky states.
"Care to fill us in O' wise one? I ask
"I need a family who will love and support me with everything I do!"
"Tony..." Jane starts
"Yes Jane?"
"Stop letting her watch so many of your films." Jane jokes.
"Ha ha Jane, you are such a comedian." I joke
"Well everyone knows that it was what I was born to do!" Jane continues
"Really, 'cause I don't think you'd get very far!" I say and Jane lightly punches me on the arm.
"What do you want to do Becky then?" she asks getting back to the original subject.
"I don't know…" Becky replies "I love you guys so much, it's just…"
"Be honest with us, I promise that we won't be angry." prompts Jane.
"In America, with Dad I felt like I had another family..." I smile at the memories of the food fights, and games, and all the laughter we shared with the team "…it was dysfunctional, yeah, but I love it, we shared jokes and movie nights and got to know each other so well that we became a family. I made friends who know me better than people from Greendale and I went there for over three years. I was accepted even though I was completely different and I don't want to lose any of it. Aunt Jane please don't say you hate me for loving that life."
"Darling how could I hate you? You found what your Mum found in America" Jane replies
"And what was that?" Becky asks
"It's called true happiness sweetie." Jane says with a smile and hugs Becky.
"Thank you!" Becky whispers into Jane's ear.
"I trust you Tony, but if you do anything, and I mean anything to hurt her, I will hunt you to the end of the universe. Do you understand?" I nod and give her my best DiNozzo grin I was not going to lose my daughter after all.
Over next few days I was pulling all the strings I could to get the necessary paperwork for Becky to officially live with me, and let's just leave it with the fact that there is a lot of paperwork involved, and that my phone bill is going to be very high this month, and lots of people now know that I'm a Daddy, and gave their commiserations towards Becky for having me as a father, which I personally found quite hurtful considering that they hardly know me, not that I'd let anyone know that of course.
But in the end I the process was complete and I could call home and tell them the fantastically brilliant news…
"David" Ziva answers
"Hey Zi it's Tony."
"Hello Tony, how is England?"
"Err, green would be a good way to describe it." I say Ziva laughs.
"Is that the only thing you can say about the country?"
"Yeah, pretty much." I respond and Ziva laughs which makes me smile because I love to hear her laugh.
"So why are you calling Tony?" Zi asks
"I've got some big news." I tell her
"Ok" Ziva responds waiting for me to continue.
"DiNozzo charm can get you anything." I joke
"And why is that Tony?"
"Becky is going to be living with me." I say smiling to myself.
"Really?" she asks
"Yeah Zi! I tell her "She's officially by law under my care."
"That's great Tony!" she replies and I can hear the smile in her voice.
"Thanks Ziva."
"Are you happy?"
"I'm over the moon Zi." I reply
"Why would you be over the moon Tony?"
"It's just an expression Ziva." I moan not wanting to start a conversation on Idioms again.
"I know, but I don't get it." She explains
"It means that I am extremely happy Ziva."
"Then why didn't you just say that then?"
"Because then I would not be having this delightful conversation with you." I reply not sure if I'm joking or not.
"So do you want me to pass the message on or do you want to tell them yourself?" she asks
"If you wouldn't mind…"
"I'll tell them at work tomorrow."
"You're the best!" I tell her.
"I know! But one thing…"
"Yes Zi?"
"When are you coming home?"
"I've booked the flights for Friday, why?"
"I'll need to tell Gibbs when you're getting back Tony." Ziva replies.
"See you soon Zi." I tell her.
"Goodbye Tony, take care."
"I always do Zi." I reply and hang up the phone.
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