008 // MC plans. 

Sirius had recognized that voice; this was one of 2 who kidnapped him and hurt his family. He prayed to Mother Gaia to keep his siblings safe as he didn't know what had happened to them if the spells they were struck were harmful or not.

He analyzed his captor's words; this was a sibling of a Muggleborn who went to Hogwarts as most muggleborns went there. Hogwarts could easily absorb the cost of teaching muggleborns while other schools on the British Isles couldn't. That brother faced difficulties in Hogwarts or after it due to his status as a Muggleborn. That magic-wielding adult Muggleborn was in leagues with at least his brother if no one else but there could be any number of people involved. and these people thoughts his family politics were harming them or their nation in some way. Sirius wasn't up to date with what his family's stance was in the current political environment but he did know that children and women were a no go zone in any situation and these people had harmed his siblings and kidnapped him. If his father or merlin forbid his grandfather got his hands on them, they would disappear.

He could think about why These people had kidnapped him, one of the reasons could be that his wizarding family was part of the muggle royal court. He knew that his grandfather who was also the Duke of Newcastle was a close advisor to the current king, King Edward VII, and he helped the ministry of magic in keeping magic's existence hidden from muggles using his high position in court. Sirius also knew about a few more families who had retained their noble titles after the statute of secrecy, or made their way in high muggle institutions and assumed this boy Aiden was from one such family. He did know about one Lady Adams who frequented his mother's social circle, but she never bought a kid, maybe a nephew or relative.

He looked at Aiden, who was eating the gruel from the bowl quietly. Aiden hadn't said a word while Sirius confronted their captor, but then he was actually a scared kid who had seen his cousin getting hurt. This Edwin might be magical as well if Aiden was magical. Aiden hadn't reacted negatively to the talks of Magic and witches so he must already know about the Wizarding world.

As he thought he noticed the bowl full of gruel in front of him, food reminded him of home and all the tasty feasts their elves prepared for them usually.

A lightbulb went off in his brain, and he offhandedly remembered that lightbulb wasn't even a thing right now. Why didn't he think of this before? Elves. Elves could go anywhere but no one considered them. He could call an elf and escape or at least get help. Even Muggleborns didn't consider elves a threat usually, as half of them didn't even know about such creatures.

He softly called out, 'kint' while praying to all existing deities that Kint heard his call. It had been a few hours since he was kidnapped, and his family must know about him being missing by now.

After a few seconds of waiting, Kint appeared with a pop.

"Young master, here you are, everyone is looking for you!" he said excitedly pulling his big ears.

"Yes kint, I was taken by 2 bad men from the gardens. Are Phineas and Ella alright? And Miss Clara?" he asked kint in a worried tone.

"Little master and little miss be sleeping. They not waking up and Missy's nanny also sleeping. There be healer at home and everyone looking for you." Kint said with tears in his eyes.

"don't worry kint, they would be alright if they were found. Now can you take me and that boy in that cell out of here?" Sirius asked pleadingly.

"Oh, no Young Master! There be wards here, kint cannot take you." Kint said in the hysterical voice now crying loudly.

"Shh Kint, don't be so loud. What if the captors heard you and found you?" Sirius clapped his hand over Kint's mouth trying to silence him.

Kint eventually quietened and sat on the floor near Sirius, now silently crying.

Sirius was thinking now, while Aiden was looking at Kint with big eyes.

"Hey, what's your name?" he asked him. Sirius realized he hadn't given the boy his name.

"I am Sirius Black." He replied absentmindedly. He needed a plan to break out of here safely. He didn't know where they were and if kint said there were wards then there were powerful wards. He didn't know much about house-elves, but he did know that their apparition was similar but not the same to them.

"Are you related to The Blacks?" Aiden asked in a high-pitched voice.

"Yes, I am Sirius Black, grandson of Aquarius black, Duke of Newcastle." He said thinking the boy must know him from somewhere. Many noble houses were married into The Black family, and they knew of his grandfather as he was the public face of their family while his father worked more in the background right now.

"My father has told me about your family. He said your family is old and powerful." Aiden murmured looking at Sirius who was busy trying to form a plan to get them out of here.

"Kint, can you perform magic here without alerting anyone?" Sirius asked Kint ignoring Aiden for now.

Kint nodded his head excitedly still following the previous order of being silent.

"Good, now listen properly. You are to scout this whole place where we are kept right now and gather knowledge about who all are here and about all the protections around this place. You must be unseen and unheard to anyone and then you must come and tell me about everything. Be fast, time is of the essence." Sirius said seriously to kint who nodded his head in acceptance of the orders given to him.

With that, Kint vanished without pop and Sirius started thinking about what to do now, still ignoring the boy in the opposite cell who was muttering something.

He could send kint to his family and led them here and get rescued, but if his captors were alerted of some apparating nearby, they might hurt him and Aiden and whoever they have previously captured if they were still nearby.

To make an informed decision he needed information, which kint was gathering right now. This was like a game of chess, every move had consequences and another player could make moves of their own and without knowing the whole chessboard he couldn't reliably make moves. He just wished that other kid would keep his mouth shut and cooperate silently if something happened or he would need to shut his mouth with magic and claim accidental magic later.

After what seemed like hours of waiting but realistically was only a few minutes, kint popped back.

"Erect a privacy ward kint." He said softly. He didn't want Aiden to know if something disturbing had happened to his cousin as kint was brutally honest most of the time.

Kint did as said, and Sirius felt a slight disturbance in the air then it vanished as nothing had happened.

"Now tell me what you have discovered. Be short and precise please, we are running out of time." Sirius instructed kint kindly. This elf was family, even if other family members didn't consider him so, Sirius did.

"Young master, we be in small house with 2 floors, and this be basement. House be in a magic alley, there be goblin wards around the house. There be too much magic in the air but kint did his best. Yes, kint did." Kint nodded seriously while relying upon information.

"Alright good, how many people are in this house currently and what is their status," Sirius asked forming plans, Magic alley was elf-speak of the London market which was a tangled mess of many alleys joined together, most prominent of them was Diagon alley. Most people thought only Diagon alley and his shadier part Knockturn alley existed but that was simply not true. There was a total of 91 alleys in Britain which were spread over whole London through nifty gateways just like one behind the leaky cauldron. Only about 7 of them were in London main. They could be in any alley.

"Kint saw 2 big men smoking in the kitchen. One was a Mudblood and the other a filthy muggle, there be 2 little wizards be in one room and kint be sensing magic of one other mudblood in one room." Kint said with clear hatred in his voice.

Sirius heard kint use slurs for the first time in his life and decided to ignore that for now as Kint was normally non-reactive towards people who weren't family, this was an issue for later.

"Alright kint. So, listen here this is what you're going to do." With that Sirius explained his plan to kint wishing everything went smoothly. Chances of something going wrong were high and he wanted to escape this ordeal intact.