Darshan stared at the dilated pupil of the patient and ordered for the defibrillator as he watched Stephen frantically continuing CPR to the patient.

Holding the paddle Darshan asked Tulsi to set the alarm knob at 200 volts and induced the electric current into the patient by pressing the defibrillator pads on the cold body.

The body limped upwards and then fell back lifelessly on the bed,increasing the alarm knob Darshan let the pads to charge for thirty seconds and then gave the second shock to the body repeating the process once again but the body seemed to be in ALT+DELETE mode as it fell back without any mercy back on the bed.

"Code called at 11:03."
Darshan declared the death time trudging his collar in desperation to get out from the death table sooner.

Stephen leaned towards the body in failing anguish of losing a patient,he knew it was his mistake not to follow the protocol.

"Wait for me in my cabin Dr Joshua." Darshan said in a gruffy voice as the very difficult part was not yet completed;giving the bad news to the guardian.

Giving one last look to the dead body Stephen went to change his dress code, as Darshan walked out to meet the family funnily hoping for an approachable interaction.

~

"Dr Stephen Joshua what were you thinking when you took the patient into the OT without a doctor on lead?"
Darshan shouted at the blunder Stephen had committed although anyhow the patient didn't have any great chances to breathe.

Stephen stared at the floor ashamed of his actions,words not fathoming his tongue made the situation atleast better because Darshan was the type of boss who didn't approve people giving him back answers.

"Do you even realise how big of a scandal you lead us into? An intern took in charge at RCSM! That's what the papers are going to print tomorrow!" Darshan continued shouting in agony of how to handle the press if something like that even releases,once or twice such a scandal did happen but the Viona was in PR back then so it was handled quite cheerfully.

"Do you think it's being a super hero to jump into action without prior knowledge to the consequences?"
Darshan ranted as the door to his cabin clicked open with Sejal entering the room with a paper bag filled with food.

"Cool down Dr Vyas,I think you need some food."
Sejal tried to ease the situation watching Stephen crawl into a puddle of guilt,because she has never seen this side of Darshan being such a strict man of values.

She only knew the Darshan who knows to quote his every moment of life,who can make even a dead body laugh,and to whom his family means the world,she has never seen Darshan as the doctor or more worse as the panel head.

"Stay out of this Dr Seghal." Darshan spoke to her in a very irritated tone and it hurt her listening him call her Sejal instead of his usual beautiful.

"Darshan you need to go fuck off. I will handle this." Sejal couldn't miss the hoarseness in the new voice entering the cabin,as Aryan gave a little tap on the back of Stephen walking up to where Darshan was standing.

Darshan rolled his eyes as Aryan plucked out a pen from the holder dangling around the table,settling on the chair he motioned Stephen to come and read the documents he has bought.

"I am sorry sir." Stephen spoke to no one in particular,taking the papers from Aryan he gave a little look at Sejal.

"Sorry my ass.I know Dr Stephen you want to prove your Dad that you are better than him,I know everybody hates that man but making your personal agenda as a professional scandal will kick your reputation out of this prestigious place. Understood?" Darshan stopped his ranting once he realised he was in need of some water,while Stephen gave a low nod.

"This is the code of conduct contract which you have signed when you joined RCSM,now that you have broken one of the guidelines I am marking you with a warning. One more warning in your list the contract is breached." Aryan explained all calmly completely in contrast with the mood of Darshan.

"That means your license as a doctor will be seized for the next five hundred days." Aryan continued watching Stephen read the contract papers very carefully.

The room filled with the aroma of food; particularly burger,and a little paper shuffling made everybody turn towards the source of it.

"I am sorry guys." Sejal apologized wrapping the things back into the cover.

"What is got into you Dr Seghal? Now why did you put that inside?Why are you -"
Darshan was cut off with a stern look received from Aryan,as Stephen watched hopelessly at the situation in the heated cabin.

Sejal didn't knew what else to do with Darshan behaving like a three months pregnant lady,Stephen clinging for his job and Aryan trying to doze off things all she could do was set the burger back on the table to savour them in peace.

"Now why-"
Again Darshan was sliced mid sentence when Aryan kicked the wheel chair towards him and motioned him to have a seat in the piece of magically carved leather throne.

"Dr Joshua,do you know a simple hack of life?"
Aryan questioned Stephen and the look on Darshan was pretty priceless assuming that the CEO of this organisation has gone insane explaining life hacks to interns.

Stephen simply nodded cluelessly as Sejal watched her devil in shining armour act as a CEO,taking on his responsibilities.

"We are humans first,and doctors later so the human part dominates us very much in our day to day life. It's awesome to have such a passion to save a life but mixing up your emotion and passion is sometimes the worst card as a doctor because in the verge of saving a life you may endanger hundreds of other normal day to day life,risking their jobs. We are teachers not policemen." Darshan stared like a dumbstruck statue at his friend as why he is giving a consoling lecture instead of worrying about the chances of a scandal to he handled.

"As doctors we cannot save every patient,but we can definitely give our best to make a change." It was Sejal who spoke up,getting up from the couch she came to give Stephen a warm hug then realised how awkward the situation must have turned out to be.

Sejal was still the new employee,Stephen has been here even before she joined and here he was struck in compromised position of losing his job standing in front of the CEO and the head of executive panel,and here she is sharing awkward hugs with him and nobody to question her.

Half of the work place employees has millions of speculations about her and once in the nurse room she even heard something about bets kept on either she was sleeping with Darshan or Aryan. All she could do is just sigh and stop giving clarification to every pole about her character certificate.

"You are dismissed Dr Joshua." Darshan announced with the voices of warzone dancing on his head.

"But what was the life hack?"

"You will figure it out with time. Now leave." Aryan pronounced his infamous final verdict.

As Stephen closed the door exiting the cabin,Aryan let out a happy laugh giving a baby hug to Sejal.

"Why the hell are you laughing?" Darshan asked annoyed for turning out to be  the third wheel all of sudden.

"Don't you think Sejal was so cute arranging the burgers and then keeping them and again arranging them. What a comic timing it was!"
As Aryan continued his explanation about his unintentional laugh Darshan could see his mood already lifting up.

"Yeah that's true indeed. Gosh! Am I the only one hungry here?"
Darshan asked shamelessly gawking at the burgers on display at the table.

"Why are you behaving like a thirteen year old on periods Dr Vyas?"

Darshan let out a small laugh then again the grumpy face clouded him as he watched Aryan who was staring at Sejal.

"What do you think you were doing Shitty?"
Darshan stood up and pulled Aryan with his collar,Sejal could almost see a duel summing up.

"I am your boss Vyas. Don't forget it."
Aryan said straightening his now crunched collar.

Sejal could almost see the power radiating from Aryan as the leading CEO of the organisation,that felt such a villainous look seeing him in that much of attitude. Definitely he did all justice to his role with his killer looks and the don't fuck with me attitude.

"Shitty I am going to kill you! Do you have any idea how much the PR had to work through this?"

"Darshan stop overthinking. The damage control is done. I see talent in that boy,and as mentors we need to let them learn from mistakes instead of  crushing them. If we don't give the chance to learn then they will turn rogue,do you want RCSM to turn into a psychiatrist center?"
He voiced his thoughts reaching up for the burger.

"Okay. I'll call in for a Coke or something,the meal will be incomplete without a drink." Darshan suggested dialing up the call in telephone,as Sejal and Aryan exchanged a confusing look that this guy is never going to change.

"I am not bringing lunch for you guys anymore. Specially you Dr Vyas."

"Turning into the owner mood doll." Aryan almost regretted after saying the statement,but once said can't be taken back.

Sejal stood there perplexed for a minute blood rushing to her face,this reminded her to go on a dinner meeting again with her dad to sort out the paperwork.

Munching her burger she enveloped silence in her grave,trying not to think about whatever Aryan had said because she didn't want to spoil the mood of the cabin.

~

"Katyusha I am actually in the middle of a race,I'll call you back later."
Sejal said waiting impatiently for the signal to turn red.

"Son of a bitch."
Katyusha shouted before cutting the line.

The signal turned green and Sejal connected the incoming call through Bluetooth speaker already fathoming curses for Katyusha on calling back.

"Katyusha I am going to kick you . ."
Sejal had to stop midway because of the sudden turn on the road,and moreover it was Aryan on the line not Katyusha.

"Sejal!Where are you?"
Aryan asked making Sejal roll her eyes of his so concerned behaviour as if she was a five year baby to be taken care of.

"In my car Dr Shetty..Oh! Wait I am getting an incoming call."
Her brain seemed so confused too many tasks at once,driving being the primary one.

"Hey Nic. Get ready to lose."
Sejal shouted increasing her speed and almost slamming into one of the dividers.

Racing in the traffic has become one of her new found love interest which also bought her and Nikhil into a nickname basis,this was another of Nikhil's crazy ideas of betting on who reaches the destination first through the heavy junkline of automotives on the roads.

"No banana you are not winning,by the way Katyusha is quite pissed with you. Byeee. Got a race to win."
Nikhil practically vomited all the words in one sentence in his thick accent not even waiting for her to reply,maybe that was his newfound past time.

Sejal resumed her call with Aryan,she couldn't hear what he was talking about because her mind raced to the rear view mirror where she could see a police Innova stalking her with the tri colour;blue,red and blue blinking on their car.

"Oh! My God. I am in trouble Dr Shetty,I'll call you back later."
Sejal blabbered thinking of possible solutions out of the situation,one was stop and wait to listen what they had to say but police following you is definitely not a wedding invitation so she choosed the latter option of speeding up and leave them behind which was a very bad idea.

After much of speeding and still not able to distract away the police Sejal turned into desperate search of local busy streets,thankfully she found one and immediately lead the car into it,without wasting any time she spared a glance behind and it was a relief finding no Innova following her.

There was an incoming call from Aryan which she picked up without wasting anytime,but before she could speak her heart leapt out of the ribcage as she found the Innova coming from the front,with a racing heart,shaking hands she pressed the break and looked back to start the reverse gear but there seemed too much of public,everything seemed out of control with Aryan shouting hello worriedly through the speaker and the police approaching her.

A knock on the window and she got down with her driving license,meeting a police officer maybe in his forties with a freckled face the uniform suited much to his title.

"Why were you running away?"

"Because you were chasing my car sir."
Sejal replied innocently because she didn't want any scandal to happen now.

"Ha-ha."
The police officer studied her license and peeped into the car through the open window.

"Mam your boot is open."

"Pardon."
Sejal asked confused because she hasn't put on any boots today.

"Ha-ha. The car trunk."

"Oh-okay my trunk. Oh My God I am such a -"
Words were tied to her tongue standing in front of a police officer,letting out a nervous laugh she pressed the button to close the trunk.

"Have a nice evening mam. By the way I am Shravan,same as your Dad."
Panic jolted her body listening the last part because she was being low key right now,which she has been all her life avoiding media to run things smoothly,but this was a shocker.

"H-how do you know t-hat?"

"Ha-ha.Any policemen would know dear after checking your license."
Shravan went into another spree of laughing,walking back to his Innova.

Calming herself with few innocent deep breaths she got into the car and explained Aryan everything from the bet about the race to the police funnily following her to shut off her boot and her mini heart attack about the police Shravan identifying her relation with Shravan Bhattacharya.

To which Aryan seemed to be turned into a ticking bomb scolding her for attempting such a stupid race and even saying that he will have a talk about this with Nikhil which obviously Sejal tried to object.

"I am really hating you right now Muñeca."
Aryan said in much of an annoyed tone and Sejal could almost feel her heart breaking even thinking about him hating her.

"Why is that Dr Shetty?"

"Meet me I then I will explain you Sejal. I hope you remember about why we are meeting now."

The tone made her flinch out of emotional hurt as she found her own name irritating because today both Darshan and Aryan has used it,and they use it whenever upset or angry.

Like the icing on the cake she couldn't even remember of why they were meeting today,maybe monkey jumping it was which Aryan wanted to try being the adventurous one among the both.

Was it monkey jumping?

Pulling her hair in exhaustion she thought only about two things,one she lost the race and the other, till when will she run away from the world?