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"Hey, Baby. Want to hear Daddy sing?"

Siniy looked up at Gajeel, before quickly toddling away in the direction of her mother's library. Of course the baby didn't want to hear him sing, the baby never wanted to hear him sing. Gajeel followed his daughter as she made her way out of the room to what was quickly becoming her favourite place in the house. She hadn't spoken a word yet, but Levy assured him that their toddler could already read. He wasn't quite sure how she had figured that out, something to do with following her eyes as she read and her bein able to act out the story. For someone who couldn't speak, Siniy was excellent in communicating in her own special way. She took baby steps into the library, heading straight to the correct bookshelf before picking what was quickly becoming her favourite book off the shelf, waddling back over to settle herself down on a bean bag and looking up at Gajeel with her red-brown eyes, begging him to sit next to her. Gajeel knew where she learnt those eyes from…

Exercising all of his self-restraint, Gajeel shook his head and walked over to pick her up. She felt tiny in his hands, no matter how quickly she was growing.

"Not here, Baby. We can go outside and read. It's a beautiful day, and you need some fresh air once in a while."

Siniy kicked up a fuss for a few seconds, before giving in and relaxing in her father's arms. She had learned long ago that she would never match her father's strength, and no matter how hard she kicked she could never get through his thick skin to hurt him. Whenever she tried to play up, it just made him angrier and less likely to fall for her pleading eyes in the near future. They made their way through the house, into the large garden which was situated behind before Gajeel settled her on a log under a large cherry tree and sat down next to her.

"The Dragon and the Shrimp. Really, Baby? We read this one literally every day."

Siniy looked up at him with those eyes that she knew her father could not resist. She had seen her mother use the same expression on him before, and he couldn't resist her mother either. These were her pleading eyes, her first power she had over her father. Levy always joked with Gajeel that those eyes will be the end of many a young boy in the future. Gajeel disagreed, arguing that he would be the end of any young boy who took an interest in their daughter.

"Fine, Baby." Gajeel conceded, settling in on the rock. He wasn't as fast a reader as Levy and he knew that they would be there for a while.

The book she had chosen was one that Lucy had written for her, a super kid-friendly version of how Levy and Gajeel had met that she had given to Siniy when she was born. As soon as it was passed over, Reedus made sure to point out that he provided all of the pictures that illustrated the tale. It portrayed Gajeel as a large iron dragon, and Levy as a small fairy with wings matching her blue hair. Siniy looked up at her father and held her hands up to her head, one sticking straight up and the other formed into a cup, like bunny ears.

"That's right, Bunnygirl wrote this for you." Gajeel opened it to the first page, looking at the large Iron Dragon wrapping his way around a young fairy with bright blue hair. Siniy jumped onto Gajeel's lap and pointed at the dragon before putting her fingertip on Gajeel's nose. She then quickly pointed at the fairy and mimed reading a book. Gajeel felt pride rise up in his throat at the intelligence his daughter already showed.

"That's right Baby, the dragon is me and the fairy is Mummy."

Siniy bounced up and down, before placing her hand across the entire drawing, and bringing her hands up to her eyes to make glasses. Gajeel took a second to figure out who she meant, before agreeing with her.

"Yes, Baby. The drawings are all by the Painter. Now, do you want me to read this or not?!"

Siniy pouted, showing her annoyance, before clambering up onto Gajeel's lap, situating herself between the book and her father's torso. She wriggled for a second to get herself comfortable, before laying her head on Gajeel's chest.

"Once upon a time, there was an Iron Dragon and a Bookworm…"

Gajeel read as Siniy followed the words with her finger, slowing down when Gajeel had to slow down to pronounce a word. He knew that the two girls in his life laughed at him behind her back because Siniy could already read better than he ever could. But Siniy seemed to be just as engaged when he read as she was when Levy read, which lifted Gajeel's heart slightly. Even though he could only read to her in Fiorian and Draconic, Siniy tended to come to him more often when she wanted a book read in either of the languages.

When the book was finished, ending with the birth of a tiny dragon with iron scales and blue wings, Siniy tugged on Gajeel's jacket to get his attention, before jumping off his lap and standing in the middle of the garden.

"What do you want, Baby?"

He went to stand, but Siniy shook her head and motioned for him to sit back down. As soon as Gajeel was settled back on the log, a look of concentration crossed her face.

Siniy closed her eyes and squeezed her fists tightly. Gajeel was going to step in to ask her what she was trying to do, when her eyes opened, burning brighter and redder than ever before. Within seconds, a familiar word appeared in front of her and fell to the floor with a thunk. Gajeel looked up in surprise while Siniy pointed between the book and the word in front of her. She had made the same IRON that Levy had made for Gajeel on Tenrou, identical down to heart in the middle of the O.

Gajeel didn't know what to do. He hadn't been this happy since Siniy had taken her first steps. Her first spell and it was Levy's. Levy always complained that Siniy was more like Gajeel than her, and now she had her mother's magic Levy would be elated. Gajeel only wished that Levy had been there to see it, but alas she was away on a job and wasn't due to be back for the next couple of days.

He ran towards Siniy, scooping her up in his arms as he did, and spun around with her. Siniy screamed in joy, both at being spun around and that she had appeared to have done something which pleased her father. Gajeel continued to spin around, laughing with her as he did. Thank God their daughter had her mother's brains and not his.

"Told you he had gone soft." Natsu elbowed Gray as they sat in a tree overlooking Gajeel and Levy's garden. Gray was using a pair of binoculars to watch the spectacle while Natsu relied on his dragon senses.

Gray joined in with Natsu's laughter as he watched Gajeel jump around the garden with the little dark-haired girl. When Natsu had told him that Gajeel was reading with his daughter, he didn't believe it. But now as he watched the normally stern dragon slayer rolling around on the floor he knew it was true.

"Dammit, if only I had a camera lacrima. The guild will pay a bomb to see this!"

The two men laughed, leaning on each other as they held in their sides. That reputation that Gajeel had tried so hard to maintain was falling around him, first marriage, then parenthood and now this.

"I'm gonna run home and get my camera. This opportunity is just too good to miss."

Natsu was just about to jump out of the tree when he felt himself being pulled backwards violently to smack into Gray's back, and when he looked down he saw a million little "rope" words wrapping around the both of them. He didn't need to look up to know the source.

"You will do no such thing, Natsu Dragneel."

The men looked up and saw Levy stood on the floor, hands on her hips. Her face was pure anger, and both of the boys started to quake.

"Need I remind you who made S-Class first? And you know that I have been taking more physical jobs since Siniy was born. Do you really want to try me?"

It was true since the birth of her daughter Levy's maternal instincts had taken over and she had made it her own personal mission to get as strong as Gajeel to protect her little girl. Natsu and Gray looked at each other, unsure whether they could actually take her. They had all seen Levy's anger before when she was pregnant and hormonal, and it was not something that they wanted to come up against, they both gulped in unison before shaking their heads.

"Good. Now both of you Fuck Off so I can go and see my husband and daughter. And if I hear ANY mention of this, I swear to Mavis I will remove your limbs one by one and feed them to the Vulcans."

The two male guild members were out of there as soon as their bonds were broken, and Levy just stood there and smiled. Now it was finally time to go and see the rest of her little family.

A/N - This is my first ever childhood fic, and I was terrified of it. But I have to say I actually love Siniy as a character, and I may use her more. The question is, who's magic does she actually possess? She could make the same word with her father's magic, of course.

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