"Let's go to the back seat," Ananya whispered, crawling back to the back seat.

Nikhil doesn't question her Nikhil silently follows her, without any questions. If she's saying something, she'd have thought something. He believes her words and crawls towards the backseat.

"What now?" He murmured, settling himself beside her, he saw the men nearing their car. They had to do something and before he could think anymore about anything, he saw something falling on their heads.

It was Ananya's scarf. Nikhil frowned in confusion, looking at Ananya who is adjusting the scarf over their head. What is she doing? He thought not getting the whole matter yet. He didn't even get the chance to ponder over his thoughts anymore, as he saw Ananya groping down at him.

He was stunned feeling her in his embrace. Ananya moved clumsily, making him fall on the seat and she was on him, lying, and hushed in his ears, "Act like we're making out! Just moan together with me."

Ananya had no choice but to act like they were making out, on the verge of having sex, a clear indication to people that they weren't the world of people and trees but are long lost in the world of pleasure and ecstasy, not laying in the car but in the seventh heaven of euphoria. No one would dare to disturb and even if they, they wouldn't be responding, lost in their own world of lovemaking, groaning, and moaning. All an act — but they wouldn't know.

If Ananya was able to gaze at him, she'd have seen how his eyes widened when he heard her demand. Nonetheless, he did what Ananya told him. His hands on her were waist as he sniffed her hair. Ananya's face was the crook of his neck as she smelled him. They faked a moan and another one and soon another one. They were lost in heaven, moving and groping down on each other and the scarf long enough to cover them till their waist — All fake. They didn't realize when the drama turned real and who started it first. They both were turned on and groaned and moaned together, not faking it anymore— squeezing the soft skin, closing their eyes in pure pleasure, experiencing the moment, their mouths in their places, tho, not touching the skin, for, their cheeks doing all the work, his stubbled jaw, and her mushy cheeks and rousing touches and stirring whispers did their best in forgetting the place and moment. Their hands all over each other, hair on their skin stood in attention, butterflies in their stomach asking for more and more, they were to kiss, groaning aloud, feeling his one hand below her breast and another cupping her cherry cheek, her hands on his chest and neck — the sensitive spot he was never aware of, his hazy eyes pouring love — all on her and her saucy lips — trembling in temptation were about to touch his — his addictive body fragrance activating her estrogen, her deniably undeniable attraction so palpable was now acting in its own way as if it had its own body. Just when they were about to touch their lips, they heard a voice.

"What's happening?" they heard one man asking the one who had come to check on them. They remembered their whole act and the moans and groans started again, they put back the embarrassment they felt and got back to their drama, this time trying their best to control their uncontrollable hormones.

The other man who asked the question was embarrassed at the sounds he was getting to hear.

"Nothing to worry about, I guess. Two teenagers high on hormones are making out. Let's go before they notice us," the other whispered to the man who can look at two figures all over each other.

"Right!" he huffed rolling his eyes at the public sex and they made their way back to the car.

Each one going in their own direction, and sensing the vehicles had started moving, Ananya and Nikhil stopped their act and sat back in their places, adjusting the tresses on their clothes, and avoided looking at each other as the embarrassment started surfacing again.

Ananya moved to the front in silence muttering in a hushed voice, "We need to follow the car."

Nikhil too avoided meeting her eyes, acting as if nothing has happened, and crawled to the front, murmuring, "sure."

Both of them know what exactly had happened between them and chose to ignore it, one in guilt and another one in embarrassment. But no one did regret the moments. They know their feelings were real and they weren't wrong. Yet were adamant about not acknowledging the fact, choosing to act ignorant.

Soon, they started their car as Ananya traced the location of the vehicle, and with her guidance, they began following the car for an hour from a distance.

Only to stop at one point.

Nikhil stopped his car too, and they noticed the only man in the car, who was driving, get out with the same girl in his arms. It was another lone area where there was no house and just trees all along. Ananya and Nikhil were totally engrossed in watching the man and they were horrified when the man throw the woman to the side.

Ananya got out of the car and the man walked back to the car rushing away from there, escaping from the scene after having done what he should have done. Nikhil had followed Ananya. Both of them know their priority should be the woman and they ran towards the woman and were stunned at the blood around her.

The woman was bleeding heavily and unconscious and alive. Nikhil kneeled down on the road to examine her. It was clear she was bleeding from her vagina. He further examined her and she was indeed bleeding from the uterus.

"We should take her to the hospital," Ananya murmured, who got the scarf from the car when Nikhil was busy examining her. Before he could take her in his arms, Ananya folded the scarf, protecting her vagina from bleeding more, even if it was by less amount. Nikhil who took a step behind when Ananya did her work, came forward to take her in his arms.

"Don't you have any first aid kit or medicines to make this better?" Ananya asked when he put down her on the back seat. The scarf was of no use as she bled profusely.

"No, not related to this. She needs to get IV injections and I don't keep them," he murmured, continuing, "Ananya, you drive the car. I'll be here." Ananya nodded at him, walked back to the driver's seat, and turned on the GPS for any nearby hospital. Nikhil was needed in the backseat, for, he was trying to wake her into consciousness and analyze her condition more.

She wasn't waking up and breathing very slowly. Her pulse was low and Nikhil know she'd lose it anytime. The bleeding isn't stopping at all. He turned to Ananya and rushed his words, "Take us to any pharmaceutical store. She needs an injection!"

Ananya without any questions changes her GPS location and looks for a pharmaceutical store. And thankfully there is a small store twenty minutes away. Ananya accelerates more, covering the distance in ten minutes. She stopped the car and Nikhil who was impatiently waiting for the store, got out of the car and marched towards the store, buying the injections he needed, after showing the storeman his doctor's license who was to deny him without a prescription.

He ran to the car and got into his seat. Ananya started for the hospital which was 20 more minutes from the current location. Nikhil had injected the medicine into her nerves, hoping it'd show its effect soon. Ananya accelerated some more, and they reached the hospital after 10 minutes. Thanks to the roads that were clear and not usually loaded with traffic. They're now in the city.

Nikhil breathed relief, the woman is still breathing and the bleeding still didn't reduce. Medicine would take its time in showing its effect and he was aware of that as he took her in his arms again, walking into the hospital while Ananya already ran to get a stretcher.

Everything happened in a rush for a few minutes as the woman was taken inside and Nikhil was busy asking the nurse for details about who'd be attending to the woman. He needed to tell what he injected for treatment and got busy with the doctor telling him about it. The doctor nodded at him and he by now was aware that they are CBI Officers, and Nikhil is, especially a Forensic Doctor, and Dr. Karthik analyzed the patient accordingly.

Nikhil cleaned himself and Ananya did too, now waiting for the doctor to come out and tell them about the girl's condition.

After two hours,

"How is she, doctor?" Nikhil had asked as soon as he saw the doctor coming out. Ananya was looking at him in anticipation as well.

Dr. Karthik sighed, telling them about what happened to her. That would already indicate what happened to her since Nikhil is a doctor too, "She was given clomiphene during her menstruation cycle to produce eggs, and oocyte cryopreservation was performed on her."

Nikhil understood what does that mean but Ananya didn't since she didn't have much knowledge of medical terms, "What does that mean?"

Nikhil took the burden to explain to her, whispering in a low voice, voice rushed, "Oocyte cryopreservation means freezing/removing a woman's eggs and storing them at lower temperatures for later purposes, like IVF, fertilization, and so on."

The doctor continued from where Nikhil left off giving them further information as Ananya looked on from Nikhil to the doctor, "That's right! And the strange thing is she had severe ovarian cancer and normally, one shouldn't take clomiphene if they've certain conditions and clearly this woman cannot take it. I'm wondering why did she take it. It isn't recommended. Her doctor should have tested her before giving her medicine."

Nikhil thinks along the same lines. Why would a woman who has Ovetain cancer will take those medications? Before taking them, the tests are necessary. They have to know her medical history. Ananya knows what Ovarian Cancer means and understands the issue.

"Is she sexually assaulted?" Ananya asks the question that was nagging her for a long time.

"No! We found no forceful penetration. As I said before, she was having cancer and seemed to have Oocyte cryopreservation done in the last three hours," Karthik murmured, informing them about what he had diagnosed back in the emergency room, a few minutes ago.

The last two hours meant during the time she was kidnapped and that was the exact thought roaming around Nikhil's and Ananya's craniums.

"Anyway, we're trying our best to save her, she had a lot of blood loss, and we're arranging for blood. Hope for the best, excuse me," the doctor dismissed himself from them. He needs to concentrate on the patient too, and the blood transfusion is getting arranged. Once that happened, he'd need to treat his patients again.

"He's right!" Nikhil whispered after the doctor has gone. He was right, why would a woman knowing she had ovarian cancer would take the risk to produce eggs artificially? And the Oocyte cryopreservation process happened in the last three hours. Does that mean it happened when she was kidnapped? Was it the purpose of kidnapping the girl? If his guesses were true, the case is more complicated and not just about one girl.

"I am sure she wouldn't have taken it if she know she had Ovarian cancer," Ananya whispered, and Nikhil gets out of his thoughts nodding his head at her, "Somebody must have given it to her."

"Or she had taken it herself. There can be no symptoms of Ovarian Cancer in some cases. But the chance is less because she was kidnapped and left alone after maybe the egg was taken from her." Nikhil adds on second thoughts.

"Is it some kind of Mafia or something?" Ananya had read the news a few years ago about something like this and whispered in realization.

"Might be. We need to get details on her to inform her family, first!" Nikhil pointed out the most important thing they needed to do.

"There's no phone with her, how will we contact her family," Ananya pointed out the fact. The girl isn't in consciousness yet and there's no phone with her. How would they know who is she or her family?

"We should enquire in the same area she was kidnapped," Nikhil murmured, and Ananya nods in agreement. Investigating the crime scene would probably give them any clue about the girl. There were no CCTV cameras in the area she was kidnapped too!

"But how can we go there leaving her here alone?" Ananya questions. Leaving her alone isn't good. She is their responsibility now. One of them has to stay here until the girl gains consciousness.

"I'll call Lolark here. He'd be here with her. We'll go and search for her." Nikhil takes out his phone, muttering in his dry mouth, and calls Lolark.

"I'll send her photo to that police officer, he'd search for her until we reach there. It'd be helpful." Ananya suddenly remembers the careless police officer, murmuring while Nikhil nods in agreement already talking to Lolark on the phone.

Dr. Karthik had let them take her photo when they wanted to further investigate.

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It was dark and just a small lamp was lighting the whole place. The people who had kidnapped the girl were standing on the side, bowing down in fear. Their boss was smoking and was busy glaring at them. The only question that came out of his mouth made them shiver.

"How can you not know she had ovarian cancer?"

"She didn't inform us," One of the men who lead today's operation gathered the courage to reply to their boss.

The man was so much furious at their answer. His voice was deadly low, shivering the man in question, "Raghav, do you remember their faces?"

Raghav gulped, cursing himself for opening his damn mouth.

"No, it was dark and we couldn't see." There's no use lying and he knows what his fate could be as heard his boss scream.

"God dammit! Is this why I gave this job to you?" He, in furiousness, took the cigarette out of his mouth and burnt his hand the man cried in pain, "I'm sorry, boss!"

He never forgave anyone for their mistakes. Even if it is a single mistake and for the first time they had done it. There's first chance or chance at all in his dictionary.

"Shoot him, Lallan!" he commands, throwing the cigarette as the man pleaded more. "No, A. Please! Listen to me. I am sorry."

"I hate the word sorry and you know that!" There's another word he hated to the core. Sorry! He never liked to say anyone and nerve wished to hear from anyone. He walked away as Lallan shoots Raghav and the other men were grounded.

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After an hour,

Lolark had to come to the hospital in an hour and that was the same time the doctor had come out, updating

"She's still critical. We kept her on life support," Karthik delivers the news. The girl isn't responding to their treatment and they had to keep her alive on life support.

"God!" Ananya was disappointed as she bites her lip in worry. Nikhil who was informing Lolark about everything had heard that too and was worried for the girl.

Karthik walks away and Lolark opens his mouth, taking the duty of taking care of the girl here. He's a bachelor and it isn't new for him to stay on night duties if it is necessary. And it isn't about his job or one of his cases here. The matter here is the life of a girl who's fighting for her breath. As a police, and especially as a human, it's his responsibility to help another one. 

"Nikhil, Ananya. You guys go and search the crime scene. I'll be here."

Nikhil and Ananya thank him in gratitude and walk out of the hospital. And when Nikhil was driving the car, she got a call from the inspector.

"Yeah, did you get anything?" Ananya lifts the call and was straight to the point. No Hi(s) and no Hello(s). It isn't the time for it.

"No, madam! No one recognized her. " Ananya is dissatisfied with his reply and cuts the call in frustration after telling him to go back to his station. If needed, they'd call him since they were coming to the crime scene.

Did he even search? She doubted and judged his previous behavior.

It took them a few more minutes before they reached the crime scene and they began searching for any clues that could lead to her family or anyone the girl knows. They hoped they'd at least get her identity card if not anything else. A government iID card would give them all the needed details.

They didn't find anything even after ten minutes as they had their flashlights on from their phones. It was night and so dark. The street light which is coming off and on wasn't much of a help.

Ananya sighed walking to a bunch of bushes and she noticed something sparking under the bushes. She was cautious while taking it out.

It was a handbag!

"Nikhil!"

Nikhil stops his search and ran towards Ananya when she showed him the handbag.

"Is it her handbag?" Nikhil murmurs in wonder. Ananya began opening the zip of the handbag to check what is in there murmuring, focusing on the handbag, "Let's check."

Ananya soon takes out her phone and finds no ID card.

Nikhil takes the handbag and searches for more when Ananya gets engrossed in opening the lock of the phone and being a hacker, it wasn't even a deal for her. Big or small doesn't come on the list.

"It's her phone!" Ananya declares after successfully opening the lock. It was her phone on the wallpaper and checks her contacts list. That's what they want. Either her family or friend or her address.

They were surprised, finding no calls on her phone. It was past 11 at the night and she isn't home yet. Was no one worried for her? Or is she habitual to coming home late? They didn't ponder on the thoughts much and continued looking at the contacts.

Nikhil stood beside her, observing the contacts as well, "There's no one on speed dial except her bestie."

They had checked the speed dial and there was no one named except the contact 'BESTIE'

"And no one named mom and dad," Nikhil points having observed all the contacts. There were very few contacts on the phone and no one was marked in the family group. Everyone is either related to the Business group or the colleague group. No one related to the family group and friends group except Bestie and that was on the speed dial as well.

"Let's call her bestie," Ananya murmurs, calling the number from her phone.

They wait for her to pick up the call but there was no answer.

"She isn't picking up."

Nikhil gestures to her to dial again, "Try once again."

Ananya nods rubbing her lips and waits for someone to answer. Alas! No one picks up, "Same. No answer."

Nikhil was about to tell her to call her colleagues when she mutters, "I'll check her apps."

Nikhil understands her words. There are Paytm, Phonepe, and so many online platforms on her phone. If she had stored her address, it'd be easy for them.

Ananya instead of opening the payments app, she opens the food ordering and delivery app. Who wouldn't have used Swiggy at least once in their life? The suggestions kept coming in the notifications from the time her mobile data was on. Also, she wouldn't like to waste in hacking the Phonepe app's password! Swsigy and Zomato have no passwords and it was quick and easy. She checks Zomato and Swiggy and finds her address in one of the orders she made a month ago. The address matched the address she opted for the main address in her details section.

The location was very near to the place they were in as well.

"The Swiggy app, she had her location in it." Ananya shows it to Nikhil who turns his GPS ON, "Let's go there."

Her name is Sameera! The app informed them.

They walk into the car with the handbag and the girl's phone.

It took a few more minutes for them to reach her house which had bed lights on. They walk into the house carefully and find no lock on the door. They ring the ball thinking there was someone in the home.

But no one answers. They wait for five minutes ringing the bell again and when they don't get an answer, they walk into the home, searching for anyone. Surprisingly the door was kept unlocked.

Don't people usually lock their doors at the night?

Pointing the note in their mind they continue searching. But there was no one. Not in the hall, not in the kitchen, and not on Balcony. Until they walk towards the bedroom.

Ananya notices a figure laying on the bed, and calls Nikhil who was searching in the other bedroom.

"There's one woman laying on the bed," she whispered and Nikhil walked towards her. And they saw one young woman lying on the bed.

Before they could walk towards her, they heard someone opening the main door. They were in the bedroom now and hiding behind the door, they saw the man walking in.

"Wasn't he the same man who threw the girl on the road?" Ananya whispered finding him who have the same physique as the man. The lights were dim and they couldn't see the face clearly.

"I don't think so. That man was a little lean," he murmured in her ears, lowly, not wanting to alert the man.

They saved Sameera from them, they need to save the other girl and themselves now!

But was Sameera really saved?

To be continued..,

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polymath_land

14/01/2023