KYLIN'S POV:

I followed Siri-er… my father… down the stairs and into the dining room where Mrs. Weasley had set up a large feast of roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, biscuits, and gravy.

I swept my short bangs out of my face, taking a seat in between Fred and George. "So where's Harry?" I asked after a moment when I realized that my god-sibling wasn't here. I had kind of been looking forward to getting to know him.

Everyone made some kind of face. Ron and Sirius's were rage, the other Weasley siblings grimaced in distaste, and Molly and Arthur shook their heads sadly like some great loss had happened.

"Harry goes to live with his muggle aunt and uncle every summer. When his parents died, he went to live with them. They're terrible," George explained with a surprisingly disgusted face.

"Oh." After an awkward silence, idle chatter was started up.

"So, did you get the chance to watch that, uh- movie?" Fred asked, obviously unsure whether he was calling the foreign object by the correct name.

I smiled. "No, but I brought my computer. You can watch it with me when I do."

He nodded with a grin.

I could feel Sirius's eyes on me the whole time I chatted with everyone.

We had all finished eating, stuffed full, but we were having such a good time talking and laughing and enjoying each other's presence that none of us wanted to leave the table.

Eventually, though, Sirius stood and said, "Kylin?"

I looked up to him.

He smirked and waved a hand at me, urging me to follow him.

I stood from my chair and put a hand on Fred's shoulder. "Be right back." I walked with him into the hallway where he was toying with something in his hand.

"It was your birthday yesterday," he said, not turning around as he grinned down at whatever was in his hand.

I nodded even though he couldn't see me.

"Here," he said, holding his fisted hand out to me, closed palm down.

I shook my head. "You didn't have to-"

"Yes. I did," he said with a warm smile.

I looked at his eyes, full of warmth and fatherly love, though we had only really known each other for less than a day. I nodded, unable to crush the beautiful childlike hope that sparked in his gray eyes.

I held my hand out under his and allowed him to grab the bottom of my hand with his free one and then he placed his fisted hand in mine and released the object, quickly closing my hand around it. It felt smooth, hard and cold. It was moving.

"What is that?" I asked, looking with wide eyes from Sirius to my closed hand, where the whatever-it-was was wriggling around, trying to find a gap in my fist.

"Keep a tight hold on him," Sirius said with a chuckle.

"Him?" He had given me a living metal thing that fit in my palm?

"Wait till he settles down," Sirius advised, an amused expression on his face.

I nodded, feeling extremely nervous about this present. Magic hurts my head.

The thing in my hand stopped moving around so much, just stomping its four (?) tiny feet around in a circle before plopping its long, thin body down in my hand.

"It stopped moving," I said, glancing cautiously at my cupped hand.

"Open it up slowly," Sirius said, nodding at my hand.

I did as he said, each small centimeter my hand was lifted revealing more and more. It was a tiny, shiny, silver metal dragon. He appeared to be sleeping, his body was even moving up and down with his breathing. He was beautiful, with odd metal railing-type things along his sides.

"When he opens his eyes don't look away," Sirius whispered quietly.

Apparently not quietly enough. The tiny dragon's eyes popped open, revealing shimmering onyx jewels in place of eyeballs. I tried to remember what Sirius told me and not look away. I seemed to be caught in the tiny being's sharp gaze for a long time before the eyes slowly became warmer (I'm not sure how that happens with jewels for eyes, but that's what happened) and it slowly walked across my hand and slithered its way around my thumb, locking in place and becoming completely still. The bands along the length of his body had been the rims of a ring.

"He used to not do that," Sirius said, snapping my attention back to the room we were in instead of the brilliantly alluring eyes of the little dragon around my finger. "His name is Deacon. He was mine when I was a boy. He sat still and didn't do anything like that. Then I met your mother. She charmed him to do that and I gave him to her. Now I'm giving it to you."

Knowing the history of it made me want to give it back. It wasn't that I didn't appreciate it, I just didn't feel right taking away something that this man had left of his late wife. It still felt weird to think of this man and the woman I never got a chance to meet as my parents.

I started to tell him I couldn't take it, but when I tried to pull it off my thumb, it seemed to tighten.

"He wont come off," Sirius told me with a grin.

"Surely he must," I rationalized. "I mean, he's not on you anymore."

He leaned back with his arms folded and grinned. "There's a secret."

"Well, aren't you gonna tell me?"

He grinned wider and shook his head no, obviously pleased with himself.

Now I had no choice but to keep it. I frowned down at it. Damn dragon.

"Oh, also," Sirius said, pushing himself off of the wall. "Dumbledore will be here tomorrow to take you to Diagon Alley to shop for your school supplies."

"Alright."

He pulled something else out of his pocket and handed it to me. "This is the key to my vault in Gringotts."

What in the hell was a Gringott?

To my blank look, he said, "It's the wizard bank. You're my daughter so you can legally withdraw money from our family's vault."

I nodded, trying to keep up with this weirdness.

"We'll test your, erm, theory tomorrow," he added, patting me on the shoulder and walking out of the room.

I looked down at my hands, glancing back and forth between Deacon and the key to the Black family vault. "What have I gotten myself into?" I whispered to myself, turning and walking back to the dining room to finish talking to Fred.

Drama is beginning in the next chapter, you guys, so be forewarned. Maybe not drama beginning so much as drama being set up. But still. Thanks for reading, hope you guys liked it! :D Review!