DELHI

CBI, Next Day

Morning, 9:15 AM

Arnav Bhatt has come 15 minutes early today and waiting for his Madam to arrive to discuss the case of Krithika. He had to call Bhandra Police Station yesterday and he was informed of a meet up today since they're busy yesterday. He had messaged to his Madam and he got reply as well but the said reply didn't confirm him if his  Madam is coming for the meet up and is it just he and ASR. So, he's waiting for Khushi's arrival.  There're 13 minutes more for working hours to start. In the meanwhile, he's passing his time by examining the drugs and looks for the notes but he doesn't find them. He wonders who must be taken them and remembers he didn't  see them after Kirthika left. He had seen drugs in ASR's cabins' custody and there were no notes at that point in time. By the time he came after taking the contact details from Krithika, Khushi has already left. 

"Where's Ma'm?" he asks ASR as he walks out of KKG's cabin.

"She said it's an emergency and left," ASR explains.

As he thinks of that, he sees Khushi entering into the office and at his peripheral vision, he encounters another figure.

He frowns. "ASR? Khushi Madam ke saath?"

(ASR? With Khushi Madam?)

Maybe they came at the same time. Yeah, that must be the reason. Why would Khushi Madam come with ASR? She doesn't like him. Before his inner thoughts could go wayward, his Madam's voice disturbs him.

"Good Morning, Madam!" he greets as he didn't listen to her words at first.

"Morning! I've asked for Krithika's contact details that she left with you here," she said again looking at him as she saw him lost in thoughts when she spoke before. 

"Sure, Ma'm," he responds and walks away to get the details. 

"And get that to my Cabin," she screams after him.

"Sure, Ma'm," he screams back.

All the while, ASR has been lost in Khushi's world, gazing at her with a kinda look.

"Morning again, ASR," Khushi greets  him again looking at him lost in dream world. 

"Ahh..," he awoke. "Yeah?" ASR looks at her now in senses. 

"Need some lemonade?" she was sarcastic.

ASR bobs his head in embarrassment. 

"I'll just get the file you've asked for," he says and turns around to walk to his cabin from hallway.

"Look at your hands once," she said gesturing towards his hands.

He looks and finds the exact file in his hands. And then  he remembers he got this from his home and took out this file from his car while parking the car.  He squints his eyes smiling sheepishly. 

"You know what? You're hopeless!" she said and walked away.

ASR followed her pouting.

As soon as she sat in her cabin, he gave her two files that are in his hands standing beside her. 

She took the pale blue file and started going through the printed paper present inside it.

"Hmm... It seems okay but-" she was going to say something when she heard, "Ma'm?" Arnav Bhatt knocked the cabin door.

ASR and Khushi heard the knock. ASR walked a bit and sat down on the chair opposite to her. 

Khushi closed the file and put it her personal handbag she carries with her always.

"Come in," Khushi sat down opening a red file ASR has given her with a pale blue file.

Arnav Bhatt opens the door and walks in. 

"Here're the details, Ma'm," he said giving the file to her.

"Okay. Thank you!"

"And I've forwarded the Excel sheet containing her details to your mail id as well, Ma'm," he said smiling at her.

"Oh. Thanks, again! When's the meet up? I'm sorry, I don't remember the time exactly. When do you need to go Bhandra Police Station?" she asked.

"It's at 10:30 AM, Ma'm," he informs and Khushi nods at him looking at the file again. 

"But are you not coming, Ma'm?" he asks curiously.

"No. I've some other work. You can go with Arnav Singh here," she commands looking at ASR.

"Yeah, sure. I'll go with Arnav Bhatt to Bhandra," he said looking at Khushi.

Khushi is still looking at the file burying her face inside it. 

"Alright, then, if it's decided, you can get out of my cabin," she orders. 

ASR nods looking at Khushi. 

"Okay, Ma'm," Arnav Bhatt replies.

"ASR, let's go." Arnav Bhatt turned towards ASR and scoffs looking at him gaze Khushi.

He grabs ASR's hand and drags him out. ASR was perplexed. 

"What happened?" ASR asked looking at Arnav Bhatt weirdly. 

"I know Khushi Ma'm is beautiful and it isn't that hard to develop a crush on her, but for your information, this is office, and thank your stars, Madam didn't see you gazing at her," Arnav Bhatt huffs as he says that.

"So, what if she saw?" ASR asked puzzled.

"So what? Did you just ask that?" Arnav Bhatt was baffled at his nonchalance.

"She doesn't like it if anyone makes their crush on her look so obvious," he explains hopelessly. 

"I'm not just anyone," ASR smirks at Arnav Bhatt and walks away to his cabin. 

"What?" Arnav Bhatt was left frowning.

He paces up to him from the back and says, "Don't underestimate KKG, ASR. Flirt with her, she'll shoot you in the head. Just be professional, okay?"

"I'm being professional as always, Bhatt," he smirks whistling. 

"Crushing and flirting is not your profession, Raizada," Arnav Bhatt points out. 

"Oh, I'm sorry but trust me, it exactly is my profession," he smirked oh-so-sexily and walked away. 

Arnav Bhatt stood staring at Arnav Singh Raizada's back frowning. 

"I'm sure this guy is gonna get fired someday," Arnav Bhatt mutters. Only if he knows! 

Khushi's cabin

Khushi takes out the pale blue file again, reads the content in it. After reading it, she takes out her phone and messages the same person she sent to messages when in Restaurant.

Somewhere in the Delhi, 

In a hospital, a handsome young man was seen talking to a recovering patient when he heard his phone beep. 

He heard the beep and ignored it. Turning towards the patient, he smiled and said, "Take care, Sweetheart. You'll be fine soon." He walks out ruffling a 14-years-old girl's hair. Nurse takes over in tending the girl as her parents looks over.

He walks in to his cabin and takes the phone out,

"Thanks for this, Sweetheart!" it read.

Khushi's cabin

Khushi was going to message Aryan when a message popped up in her phone.

"My pleasure, K. But do thank her when you meet her in person. Or you can simply kiss him thanks and he'd give it to her!" it read.

She frowns and then slightly blushes, and then comes back to her grumpy mood.

Hospital,

"Shut up!" it read and he laughs.

Khushi's cabin

Khushi then messages Aryan,"What's up? Let's meet at her place in the evening, okay?"

She then concentrates on some other case reports when her phone beeps.

"Deal!"

Khushi relaxes in her cabin keeping her phone aside and remembering yesterday's event. 

"Observe these notes with it." Khushi throws a laser light at him and he catches at the right time coming out of his shock. Otherwise his beautiful face would've been a victim of slightest scar.

He takes the laser in his hands, turns the button up, and looks at the paper. 

"What the!" he exclaims.

"So my doubt is correct," he said after reading two notes.

The first note had some other words's shape printed on it as if somebody has written a note keeping this note below it. And the second note had some words shaping from the first note as if the  second note has been written keeping the first note above it. 

If someone sees it without much beam of light, nobody would notice it that much. But if a beam of light fells, anyone can observe the marks of present notes' words on the next note as if these notes were written at the same time with the same pen. Hence, pen shade on other notes are same as that of other notes. 

"So, I was right," he said.

"Yeah, you are," she exclaims.

"But why would  Krithika do this to herself?" he asked.

"Or maybe she's not!" Khushi exclaimed.

"You mean somebody else is?"

"Maybe or maybe not. Only Krithika could answer," Khushi said and gets up taking her bag.

"I've some other work. I'll have to get going. So, take care of things here," she said and walked out of her cabin. 

Arnav sits for sometime to think over, and then gets putting the laser back in its place, collects the notes in his hands and walks out as he dashes into Arnav Bhatt outside her cabin.

Bhandra Police Station

10:30 AM

Arnav Singh Raizada and Arnav Bhatt are present in the police station ready to talk with the station in-charge there.

"Good Morning, Sir(s)," Chandan greets them.

"Morning! We're here for Krithika's case details," ASR explains.

"Yes, sir. Come with me. I'll show you the reports." he takes them with him to a cabin inside.

He takes the file that was on table along with the evidence covers containing those drugs and notes. 

"Please be seated first, and do you want anything tea or coffee?" asked Chandan looking at them.

"No, thank you!" both of them sat down on the chairs.

ASR takes the notes and Arnav Bhatt takes the drug packets in his hands. ASR  stares at the note for a while, and then asks for report.

"Here it is, Sir. " Chandan settles in his chair. 

He reads the report, "Why didn't you file the FIR when she came for the first time?" he asked looking at Chandan.

"Sir, we thought it was a fight between two lover's. Aisa hota rahta hai yaha, Sir. It's very common for people here to come and complain about their boyfriends/girlfriends and then in the next two days comes to withdraw it. So, we thought it must be the case of same thing. We didn't gave much importance to her then. And I also remember when we enquired her before filing FIR she was just giving the same answer. Either she was lying about the whole thing or was just here for the time pass. Although we haven't filed her FIR, she didn't gave us any strong reason to file an FIR. Though, at first, she was stubborn, later she stepped down and went away," he explained. 

"How do you remember all these? Even the smallest details?" Arnav Bhatt asked narrowing his eyes.

"It's been just few weeks that it happened and also, her boyfriend was our Ex-DCP's son. So, it's obvious we would remember," Chandan explained.

"Or maybe you haven't taken her FIR because she was complaining on EX-DCP's son? Bribery?" ASR laughed.

"If it was so, why would I by myself mention that she came to complain on our Ex-DCP's son?" he asked.

"Hmm. What about when she came with threatening notes and the drugs?" ASR asked.

"Yeah, at that time, she came with her boyfriend to complaint on him. It seemed even her boyfriend doesn't know that she's going to complaint on him. He was caught off guard by her accusation," Chandan sighs.

"So you took him into custody?" ASR asked as he read the report and their statements in it.

"Yes, we were about to," Chandan replied.

"On what basis?" Arnav Bhatt asked as ASR continues reading the report.

And the reply to that question comes from ASR, "Because there were fingerprints of Aryan on drug packets."

"What?" Arnav Bhatt exclaims shocked.

"What a fool leave his fingerprints behind after blackmailing his girlfriend," Arnav Bhatt mutters.

"Exactly! It was the point. Aryan pleaded innocence and pointed the logic here," Chandan continued.

After a pause, "And since there was no proof that he actually did that, we didn't take him into custody,"

"But you could, right? There were fingerprints of him on the drugs," Arnav Bhatt pointed out.

"And there were fingerprints of Krithika too," Chandan explained.

"And she was supposed to be victim. So, she must have touched them, that's obvious, right?" Arnav Bhatt was curious.

"Yes, that's another point we couldn't ignore. So we did actually took him with us, like not into custody, but yeah, when we were about to take him into custody. Our DCP sir called us and a few minutes later, our DCP and Ex-DCP came with a lawyer. And he wasn't taken into custody, with the help of the lawyer, it had to happen. We filed the FIR for her and we've been looking for strong lead that can prove Krithika's FIR. But till now whatever we'v e had in our hands, like fingerprints, her witnessing him putting the notes inside her bag, his weird behaviour, all of that wasn't sufficient for us to arrest him, and-" he was cut off by Arnav Bhatt.

"What do you mean by witnessing-" Chandan cut him off a he understood what's he going to ask.

"Yeah, Krithika also exclaimed seeing Aryan put note into her handbag once but the same was denied by Aryan when asked. So, again we weren't sure who's lying and who's not. Eventually Krithika applied for shifting it to CBI and it's still in process. She didn't get any lawyer to fight this in court. The copy of that application is there in the report." Chandan pointed to the report in ASR's hand who's still busy reading the report but yeah, his ears were on their conversation too. 

"Okay. We need a copy of this report with us," ASR asked as he completed reading the report and successfully got the written notes into his hand as he read them. They weren't much,tho, less than 5 maybe.

"Sure, Sir," Chandan said as he went to make a copy of it.

Arnav Bhatt examines the drugs and the notes. 

"ASR?"

"Hmm?" ASR is out of his thoughts.

"Notes?" 

"Sure," ASR hands them over to Bhatta and walks outside.

"Give me 20 Crores or else I'll kill your boyfriend.

Time: xxx

Venue: xxx"

"Didn't see you in the venue. Eager to see your boyfriend dead?"

"Did your boyfriend faint? How's he now? As a punishment, let's double the punishment! What's say?"

"Tik Tik Tik, time's not stopping anyone. Not even you, darling!"

Arnav Bhatt read some of the notes. 

Outside the cabin,

ASR takes out his nokia phone, his special one.

"Talk to DIG or whoever you need to, we need to shift this to CBI. I think this is somehow related to him!"

And a minute later he get the reply,

"Sure, I was about to inform the same!" it read.

"Great, then!" he texted smirking.

To be continued..,

So, what do you think about the update?

Is Krithika the guilty one?

Comments on Aryan?

Who's the doctor? 

Whom did ASR text?

Comments are welcome!