Mithra's POV

I just finished my shift and it's 8 in the night. I go into the dean's office to sign out.

"Bye Mam." I say to Dean Iyer. She bids me goodbye, and I leave. I walk into the covered staff parking in the ground floor to see if my friend had come. I wait for five minutes, when I get a text from my best friend, Arshika.

Arshu: Hey Mithu. Ik ur shift's over, but i cant come sorry yaar. I have to travel to Pakistan urgently.

Me: Oh, ok. Everything alright?

Arshu: Yea, grandfather fell sick. Little worried abt him. Srry.

Me: Oh ok. take care then. its fine dw. I will catch the bus. How long will u be gone?

Arshu: Idk.

Me: ok. take care tho. Everything will be fine dw.

Arshu: Hopefully. thx

As I am about to put my phone away and walk to the bus stop, I get a call. Looking at the caller id, I see that it was dean Iyer, and lift the call.

"Hello mam." I say.

"Hi Mithra. I need you to take over Arshika's shift. She has to go somewhere. Family emergency apparently." she says.

"Yea mam. I will."

"Ok. thank you so much. Her shift ends at 1, but you can leave at 10. At 10, Shravya will take over."

"Ok madam. I will come sign in now." I say.

"Ok. Good. I am out of office right now, just left but I will be back after some time. Thank you so much Mithra." She says and she cuts the call.

Great! I have to work for two more hours. I walk back upstairs and sign in.

Vijay's POV

Its been two days, and I am going crazy.

"Here Vijay." Shaurya says as he hands me a glass with raw beer. The second the cup lands in my hand, I down the contents.

"Mama. That's raw!" Karthik exclaims.

When I don't reply, Shaurya puts another glass with a little bit of raw beer and turns for the soda. Again, I gulp the raw down.

"Man, what is going on with you?" Yash asks. They all stare at me.

"Who is it?" Shaurya asks. He knows me best.

"Doctor." I say dreamily.

"Bro, trust me. She is not going to fall for you, leave it." Gautham replies.

I pout. "But I want her bro. She opened my heart's doors. I need to meet her again."

"Dude, she's a doctor, and we are RAW." He says.

"So?"

"Eh, let the man try. No problem in that right." Yash says.

I look at him and smile. "Thanks bro." I say.

"But how will you meet her?" Gautam asks after a while.

"Yea i dont know mama." I say.

"Easy, just make Gautam's hand wet or something, and then we can go to the hospital." Shaurya suggests.

"Yea, good idea." I say. Without warning, I take the open water bottle next to me, and throw water onto Gautam, who shrieks like a kid.

"Whoops. Guess we have to go to the hospital." I say innocently.

"Ugh. Let's go." he groans. None of us are drunk. We all drank only one or two shots worth of beer, so driving was ok.

"Hey, man. Let's stop for some tea." Yash suggests.

"Fine." I say. We stop a a small tea stand, and order four teas. We get the teas, and start to take sips.

Suddenly, we hear a scream. We throw the teas down. Shaurya and I start running while Gautam and yash get the bikes. We see a man and a woman on the street. Shaurya runs to the man, who has his neck slit.

"He's no more." Shaurya says. I look at the woman who had passed out. Quickly, I stop an auto passing by, and get in with the woman.

"I will take her to the hospital, you three come after me." I say. They all nod, and we start to the hospital.

****

After admitting the woman into the hospital, we all wait in the waiting room.

"Excuse me?" a nurse says as she comes us.

"Yes?" I say as we all get up.

"The patient is good. We gave her some anesthesia, so she's out."

"ok. Thank you sister. Please call when she wakes up." I say. she nods and leaves.

"We have to find those thieves." Yash says angrily.

I look up at him.

 "Let's go." I say.

"Where?" they ask. I don't answer as I turn Shaurya's bike on, and get on.

"I threw a tracker onto one of the bikes." I say.

"Let's go to the tea stall, I need my bike." I say. They nod, and we drive to the tea stall.

"Ok, guys open the tracker apps." I say as I do the same. We start tracking it,  and drive to where it was moving.

"They stopped." Shaurya says. I nod, and we drive to the place the tracker last showed. It was on the ground, and we all stop at the Golconda west entrance.

"What now?"  Gautam asks.

"Boys, there are four gates, and four of us. We can cover the entire place. We will stay connected through group call." I say.

"Ok. Let's go." Yash says. We all do a group call and put in our Bluetooths.

I take a right turn and drive straight. I keep driving, and decide to stop in an alley. A row of bikes are parked, and someone is sleeping on a cart there. I see a water bottle, and can almost sense that someone had been here just a few minutes or so ago.

I grab the bottle, and start pouring water on the bike engines. I keep doing so, until the fourth bike. I pour water on the engine, and am about to keep walking when a hissing noise stops me in my tracks. I see the engine of the bike i just poured water on letting off steam, and look up at where it was parked. There is a building in front of the bike.

"Boys." I say into the Bluetooth. "I found it." After a few minutes, the three of them come to where I am, and I gesture for them to follow me. We are unarmed, as we were unprepared, but we can all fight. The second we walk in, four guys come to us. We kick all four in the stomach, and twist their necks, breaking them. After that, a few more ran up, thinking they would over power us, but lets say we went through them without breaking a sweat. After fighting off more of them, we go through the building, picking them off like bugs. After about 20 minutes of the fight, we had them all down.

After calling the police, we leave the building, work finished.

"Good job man!" we all congratulate each other. But, something is hitting off.

"What is it mama?" Yash asks me.

"I have a feeling this is more than just a chain theft." I say.

"How so?" Gautam asks, confuse.

" They might be who we are looking for." I reply.

"Terrorists?" Shaurya asks.

I shake my head. "No. Definitely not."

"Then?"

"No clue, but something's wrong." I say.

Suddenly, my phone rings and I pick it up.

"Hello?" I hear a female voice.

"Yea? Who is this?"

"Uh, sir the woman you admitted woke up." 

"Oh, ok. Thank you." I cut the call, and tell the others what happened. We rush to the hospital to see the woman.

**In the hospital room**

"Hi mam." I say.

She puts her hands together in a gesture of thanks. I can tell she has been crying. Probably about her husband's death.

"Thank you so much sir." she says.

"Oh, no. Don't worry mam. Its fine." I reply. 

"Mam, if it's ok, we would like to ask you a few questions." I say to her. She nods.

"Your husband, he is the author of the "Daily Newspaper" right?" I ask.

"Yes." she answers.

"He wrote about Asim Kureshi?" I ask. She nods again, and starts crying. A nurse comes in and tells us to leave, as it might cause problems if the patient talks too much. She also informs us that the doctor will see us.

We wait in the waiting room. I am deep in thought.

"What is it?" Shaurya asks me again.

"I knew something was wrong with them." I think.

"What do you mean Vijay?" Gautam asks.

"They aren't just thieves, and this isn't just a chain snatching." I think aloud.

"You mean they are Kureshi's men?"

"No. They are Kureshi's sleeper cells."

"Sleeper cells?"

"Yes."

"Bu-"

"Excuse me?"

I turn around, and see the doctor.

"Oh, yes?"

"What happened to the patient?" she asks.

"Who?"

"The one you admitted."

I tell her what had happened and she listens. I leave out the part where we find the criminals and stuff so our cover doesn't get blown.

"Ok. Thanks you." she says. We both just stand in front of each other.

"uh, so. Are you married?" she asks.

"No." I answer.

"How about...love?" she asks.

"Doesn't suit for me."I reply.

"Then good." she says.

"Hey Mithra!" Someone says before i can reply.

"Huh?" the woman says, turning around.

Mithra. I like it. I think.

"Dean Iyer is calling you."

"Ok. See you." she says to me and starts to walk away.

"Hey, what do you mean by good?" I ask.

"My shift ends at 10. We will talk then." she answers. I smile and nod an ok. She smiles back and walks into the room.

We will talk...

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