Out of The Shadows (Golden Trio Era) {1}

Number 12 Grimmauld Place

"BREAKFAST!" Arthur yells from the bottom of the stairs, Mikayla and Ron walk down together. When they arrived down stairs, Mikayla spotted Dumbledore in Ron's usual seat. "Take mine." She whispered to him. Ron took Mikayla's usual seat, Mikayla grabbed a bowl of porridge and strawberries, leaning against the kitchen counter. Dumbledore tells them he has to meet someone else, he gives them the address of headquarters, and after breakfast they all depart, following Mr. Weasley whose broom has GPS. They arrive at Grimmauld Place square, in front of the houses eleven and thirteen. Mikayla looked around confused, Arthur and Molly began walking towards the meeting of the two houses, the Weasley kids follow them, which gave Mikayla the impression, she too should probably follow them.

Before her very eyes, No. 12 Grimmauld Place appeared in front of her and the Weasleys. They knocked on the door, after a few quick moments, Remus Lupin appears behind the door. "You're just in time!" He beams stepping aside, allowing the group to enter the magical house. The house was very untidy, and black was the main colour of all the decoration. Remus told them to be quiet walking towards the kitchen since their was a portrait that kept screaming, they were almost successfully at the kitchen when George tripped and caused a loud bang. Curtains swung open, "Werewolf! Blood traitors and..." The woman stopped screaming her eyes widened as she looked at Mikayla. Mikayla could feel everyone turn towards her, Mikayla walked slowly towards the portrait, she read the name on the portrait and instantly recognised it. "Hello Granny." The portrait gasped taking in all of Mikayla's features, "Just as beautiful as your mother." Walburga smiles, "And just as mischievous as your father." Mikayla nods smiling brightly. "What's going on?" Sirius' voice filled Mikayla's ear, she spun around and darted towards the shaggy man. "DAD!" The pair share a suffocating embrace, Sirius rubbed small circles in Mikayla's back, to soothe her.

"'MIONE!" Mikayla and Ginny ran towards their bushy haired friend that just arrived with Dumbledore. "KAYLA! GIN!" Hermione swings her arms open receiving a hug. Everyone hyper aware of Mikayla's slinged arm, to be careful and gentle. "Kids upstairs bedrooms on the first, second and third floors are to be divided between you all." Sirius instructs after Dumbledore whispers in his ear, all the boys groan whilst the girls rush upstairs to pick their beds. they had the choice between four two person rooms. Mikayla decided that she'll take her own room on the third floor, since she thought it would be good for Ginny and Hermione to spend more time together. Mikayla unpacked her four days supply of clothes, taking a look around the room, she walked back downstairs knocking on the kitchen door. A frustrated looking Mrs Weasley answer the door, "I was just looking for some cleaning supplies since I can't use magic and the rooms are a bit of a mess." Molly whips around her wand, supplies came flying from every direction into a box she had conjured. "Thank you." Mikayla smiled, carrying the box up to her room, taking a deep breath and writing supplies. She wrote a to-do list, leaving it on her night stand.

Mikayla took all her bed clothes off, throwing it into a pile on the ground near the door. She pulled out stain remover and cloth out of the box, she begin scrubbing her mattress, removing all possible stains. After getting one side done, Mikayla finds Ron, asking him to help her flip the mattress, since she only has usage of one of her arms. Ron agrees to help under the bargain that Mikayla would help him clean up his room, once she was done with hers. Mikayla agreed to Ron's terms.

Once her mattress was fresh, there was a knock on her door. Mikayla walks over opening the door, once she saw that it was Sirius, she stepped aside letting her dad in, before redressing the bed with the now clean sheets. "What's up dad?" Mikayla questioned as Sirius helped her. "Just thought you might've needed help since you're in a sling." Mikayla thanked her dad for coming to his conclusion. After a few minutes of silent cleaning on the shelves of the room, "How are you feeling? After what happened at the end of your school year." Mikayla was caught a little off guard but remembered what Avery said in the broom shed. "If I'm honest I don't know. I've been busing myself so I don't have to think about it." Mikayla smiled softly, moving onto riding the room of spider webs. "Well if you figure it out, come talk to me yeah?" Mikayla agreed to Sirius' terms about the verbility of her emotional state. Within a hour Mikayla's room looked brand new. Sirius gave Mikayla permission to redecorate the room, claiming it as hers. Sirius got a plaque with 'Mikayla Black' engraved on it and mounted it on her door.

Mikayla and Ron collapse onto Ron's bed, his room was so much worse than Mikayla, there was literal block layers of dust and three spider families hollows. They decided not to open the old cupboard near the window, that kept wobbling, Mikayla had concluded that it must've been a boggart. As the pair's chests rise and fall, fighting their hardest to regulate their breathing a sheer scream echos through the house.

Mikayla got up and made her way down to the main entrance where Walburga Black's portrait hung. She saw a regretful looking woman trying to pick up the troll-leg umbrella stand. She was definitely the youngest adult there, Mikayla took in her features, she had a pale heart-shaped face, dark twinkling eyes, and short spiky hair that was a violent shade of violet. Mikayla liked the stranger, she looked cool yet it was quite clear that she was clumsy. Mikayla rushed to the stranger's side, helping her put the umbrella's that were all over the floor back in the stand, and Sirius shut up Walburga. The woman looked oddly familiar to Mikayla, she felt like she had seen her before, "Nymphadora Tonks..." a drawling voice came out from behind Mikayla, one that was all too familiar, Nymphadora flinched at the mention of her name with a rather disgusted expression painted onto her face. "Always making a mess." Mikayla spun around to be faced with Snape, Mikayla clearly didn't hide her surprise of the appearance of her potions teacher. "Miss Black, shouldn't you be upstairs with the other children." Mikayla slowly nodded her head, "I came to help.." Mikayla turned to Nymphadora, "You can call me Tonks." Tonks smiles, clearly understanding Mikayla didn't want to call her the wrong name. Mikayla nodded turning to face Snape again, "I came down to help, Tonks." Mikayla spoke with the confidence she lacked. "Once again your help wasn't asked for or needed." Snape snarked pushing past towards the kitchen.

Mikayla turned back towards Tonks, "I'm Mikayla." Mikayla held out her hand but Tonks engulfed her in a hug. "Sorry, I'm a hugger." Tonks let go of the teen girl, Mikayla smiled shaking her head, "There's no need to apologise." Tonks stepped back and looked Mikayla up and down, Mikayla finally remember the girl. "You were at my mam's funeral. I remember seeing you there, you hair was blue and longer back then." Tonks nodded her head sadly, "Your mam was a good friend of my parents." Tonks admitted, "Tonks, come on in, we're about to start the meeting." Lupin's voice filled the hall in a whisper, "Coming Remus." Tonks walks towards the kitchen, Mikayla turned around and made her way back upstairs.