Chapter 3: Flashback is killing

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Rathode smiled at Shree's condition and then at Chotu's excitement and walked out of the room.

....Flashback ends....

Shree has a broad smile and Rathode and Arjun also smile remembering this.

Rathode smiles thanks Shree "Mood light karne ke liye thank you Shree."

Arjun also smiles agreeing with Rathode.

Rathode now bids goodbye to them "Toh chalte hai waise bhi kal HQ mein commissioner sir ke saath meeting hai. Toh kal jaldi pahunchna hoga."

Shree also leaves saying "Haan Sir. Mujhe bhi minister aur unke under kaam karne wale sabke call records dekhne hai."

Arjun says "Hmm.. tum dono jaao mein bhi chalta hoon."

Before leaving Rathode says "Rawate jo bhi tumne Sikandar aur department ke baare mein pata kiya hai woh lete aana. Hum kal kahin aur milenge aur tab baat karenge."

To which Arjun replies "Theek hai Rathode. Jab milenge tab meri mission findings discuss karenge."

Shree nods in positive.

All leave to go to their respective homes.

*At Shree's home*
He enters his room and opens a bag. From that bag he removes his lappy which he used when he was in ETF. Rathode would get him all the updates he needed after a lot of persuasion. After the team's "death" he never used that laptop as it would get all the memories along with it.

But today he brought it out and kept it on the table to check if it is working properly. If not, he has to repair it and also install new software. He then thought to himself "6 saal baad phir se Rathode sir se naye software ke liye permission mangni padegi."

Everytime he used to get a bit scared but this time he was happy as he had missed it a lot. Not to mention he was still scared.

He then notes down everything required. And even practices how he is going to convince Rathode.

On the other side
After meeting everyone at 2:00 am

Arjun in his room twirling his pen in his style and in deep thoughts.

"Iss sikandar ko iss baar pakadna padega. Jitni details mili hai woh sab Rathode aur Shree ke saath share karna hai aur baadmein mera plan batana hai. Details bhi nikalne padenge. Yeh humara acha chance hai sab begunaah logon ko aazad karne ka aur hamare team ko bhi. soch Arjun tu kya kar sakta hai. Inn sab mein jis kisi ka bhi haath hai wohi hamein Sikandar ke paas pahunchayenge."

P..O.V ends

He goes to the kitchen side to make a cutting chai for himself. He looks at the time it's 3:00 in the morning. A small smile creeps on his face as he remembers the time when Sakshi used to carry cutting chai with her wherever she went with him in order to keep him calm.

...Flashback...
They are in a taxi waiting for the kidnapper to come and collect the bag of money. It's 3 in the morning. Sakshi being Sakshi turns on the radio and it plays a beautiful romantic song. She looks at him lovingly. Arjun realizes that but he doesn't react. He gets irritated as usual but he cannot say anything as it can alert the kidnappers who are already very cautious.

Then he notices a shooting star and ignores it. But Sakshi had already noticed it and she jumps with excitement and exclaims pointing to the sky "Dekho Arjun toot-tha tara. Kehte hai agar toot-the taare ko dekh kar kuch mangoge toh woh mil jaata hai."

Arjun nods his head in disbelief and says "Aise kuch nahin milta. Agar kuch paana chahti ho toh Dil se maango aur dekho mil jaayega."

Sakshi with a cute smile asks "Acha Arjun toh tum inn sab mein maante ho? Toh phir kyun tum uss din aarti lene nahi aaye?"

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