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Author's Note: I'm using the song that Michael's Mom sang to him as a little boy for this fic. Also, from when Tony says in Shell Shock 1 when he said his Mom used it as an escape.
Lullaby
Eight-year-old Tony DiNozzo ran towards his room, skidded to a stop in front of his door, he opened it and then quietly closed it. He then ran to his closet, which was dark and put his hands over his ears. It was always this way ever since he could remember. If they weren't fighting about him they were fighting against each other about how much they drank. He knew even at this young an age that his parents drank way too much. He could hear a slap, which he knew his Mother would be soon have a bruise on her face. She thought that she had hidden it, but he knew how she had gotten it. He also had a few bruises from his own father when he had slapped him too. Mostly it was when his Mother had been drunk and had fallen asleep because of it. He still couldn't believe that she had drunk his sea monkeys. They had been his only pet that he had been allowed to keep.
There were a few times where his Mother had been a real Mom. Those were the times that he cherished and never wanted to forget. He didn't want to remember when she too had hit him too. He loved the times that she had been a Mom to him. The times that she wanted to escape from his father and take him away only for a few hours. They would go into town and go to a theatre that his mom loved. They would buy popcorn, candy and even soda and sit in the darkened movie theatre and watch the movie.
After the movie they would walk around the town and just go window-shopping, or there were times that they would go inside a shop and get things. Sometimes they would even go to get ice cream. They would walk in the park while they ate their ice cream and talk about his school and what he was doing.
When they were done they would go back home and sometimes his father would be gone, but sometimes he would be in his office. Tony and his Mom would go outside. Just for a little while he and his Mom escaped their life in the big mansion, but as always had to go back.
Later that night his father was sleeping in his office because he had been drinking too much. Later that night his Mom came into the bedroom and tucked him into bed and sat on the edge of the bed and sang.
The day is done
Gone the sun
From the hills
From the lake
So run along home
And jump into bed
Say your prayers
And cover your head
You dream of me
And I'll dream of you.
He could feel his Mom's hand brush his hair from his face as he went to sleep. It would be a week later that his Mom would be dead. The last time that he had gone to a movie with his Mom and had heard her sing the lullaby that she sang.
The End