(11 years ago, Vaishnavi pov.)

The moment vaishnavi opened her eyes, she founded herself lying on the ground. She tried to move but it went in vain.

She tried few more times to break free from what's stopping her from getting up but soon stopped when she realised what is the meaning of all this.

She remembered how she pulled backwards with chloroform hiting her sensitive nose. The fear filled her whole body when she identified what's stopping her from getting up.

She looked around to see what this place looks like when her eyes fell on the footsteps coming near her.

Her movements of breaking free from the cloth rope and looking at the surrounding, immediately stopped as she pretended to sleep. She didn't wanted the person who brought her here to know that she is awake now.

"Vaishnavi...."

I opened my eyes in a snap when I heard a very familiar voice. At first I questioned myself, was she also involved..? But after seeing her everything was clear.

Even though we weren't that close and have only talked few times, seeing bruises on her face wrecked my heart. It was clear that she have been physically abused very badly but even when she was hurt, she got up and helped me to get up properly without getting hurt. That action of her, melted my heart.

I saw that she hadn't any kind of cloth rope holding her hands and legs and that made me confused in the situation of terror.

As if she understood what I am thinking, she searched the pocket of her torn pants before showing me two cloth ropes.

"I removed them. I know I will get beaten once again but I don't care."

She spoke in a dry voice. I looked at her with my blank eyes as I have never saw this side of Vidhika. She always have appeared to be a person who is gentle and because of that, many people considered her weak. That mentality lead them to bully her to show the superiority. And that senior who I stopped from bullying her was also one of the person who had that kind of mentality.

I have never saw, not even once, Vidhika taking up a stand for herself. So after seeing her rebellious statement and a fearless look in her eyes, I couldn't help but question whether she was the same Vidhika whom I knew.

Before I could say anything, I heard someone opening the lock, and that voice made my brain click and gave me more information about the surroundings in which I was held in captivity.

The window were very high which made it nearly impossible to climb and get out of this hell. The door of this terrible room was locked from outside which again made my escaping theories useless.

Vidhika looked at me with a particular look in her eyes, but I wasn't able to understand what she was trying to tell me until, she acted like she fainted.

I followed her actions and acted like I never woke up after getting here. From childhood, I was very good in acting as if I am asleep. Many times, I have even fooled my parents because of my acting.

"They both are asleep. It seems like the new one haven't woke up yet."

The person, who seemed a like man, said in a hushed voice before going out of the room. Not forgetting to lock the room.

After getting 100% of assurity that he went away, I opened my eyes just to see Vidhika sitting straight while looking at me.

Her sudden look and eyes on me, made me shattered for a second even before I let my body compose from the shock I was receiving.

'I don't know where I am, but for sure I will get out of here.'

I was in full determination of getting out of here as I don't want anything wrong happening to me or even to the girl in front of me.

The whole night have passed with me being sleepless, for the first time. For me, sleeping was precious and never ever I will sacrifice it but today was a different story and I was in a different place.

It was early in the morning already but we didn't knew what time exactly it is. Vidhika's situation was better than me as my condition was worse.

I am a type of person who can't handle hunger well. I have to eat even when I am not that hungry, or else I will get severe headaches.

The moment, the hunger reachs my brain, there is a blast. Blast of anger. That's why I always make sure to eat properly or else I will suffer.

From the last evening, I haven't eaten anything which is very clear from my condition. If I didn't eat now, for sure I will angry on this bastards who have kept me here without any reasons.

I was literally loosing my sense because of the hunger but still I have some sense remaining which told me not to eat when a person came in with the food.

'What if it has poison in it...? I will die of hunger but will never eat this.'

I have too much pride in me which led me to stick up to my decision of not eating but soon hunger took over the pride and I took a bite of the food they gave us both.

I have no idea how time passed but I guess it was afternoon when I was sitting down and thinking about how my life have changed because of this one incident.

'If I had went home early that evening, I might have not been here.'

I thought and keep on thinking about various things when a clicking sound of the lock made me break free from my thoughts.

The same person came in who have been checking on us from the time I am here, but this time he wasn't alone. He came in with someone.

At first was terrified by the thought what if this new person does something to us. Like this, many bad and negative thoughts surrounded my mind but it soon faded when I saw that person.

That person condition showed that she wasn't here to torture us, but she was being tortured. She was also held in captivity here.

The only difference was, she looked as if she was here from many days as her clothes were fully torn and her body had many bruises.

That's how I saw and met Meenakshi, Kairav's mom.

(Present.)

"If Adarsh was really innocent and he got punishment for the crimes he never did, I have to bring him the justice he deserves."

After I said this, I went to counsel Adhya and recorded our conversation, obviously after taking her permission.

From her statements, it was clear that our Mrs. Psychiatrist have done something to make Adhya think like she can't fight this battle which forced her to say the statement she never wanted to say in the first place.

Earlier, she have definitely given many hints but this time, she was very verbal about it and told me what-what our Mrs. Psychiatrist have told her or to be specific, how she manipulated her.

Even though she, herself said what-what happened, but she didn't told me what she told to Mrs. Psychiatrist that made her take a wrong advantage for her trust.

"It's okay. This is enough evidence for the court to punish them for manipulation."

I told Vidhika as she was being a mess because we still haven't found the reason why the psychiatrist did that.

After seeing her calming down, I took a deep breath before closing my eyes and resting my back on the chair. I was still exhausted because of the hypnotherapy.

I knew what I was signing into when I decided to have a hypnotherapy and how exhaustion was inevitable but in the end, it was worth trying as I found myself getting close to the mastermind of this dirty game.

I got a quick flashback of a memory in that factory which made me open my eyes in snap while my mind was fuzzy.

I was shattered by how Vidhika's eyes was on me when I opened my eyes, quickly reminding me of that olden terrible days in the factory.

"Vidhika I don't know whether you have noticed this or not but I found something strange when my memories got back to me."

"What is it...?"

Her sentence came out immediately after my sentence and her voice was desperate indicating how badly she wants to know what I have founded out.

"Remember when I asked you from how many days you have been her and you said from 3 days...?"

I asked her as I saw her nodding to my sentence.

"Yes, I remember saying that and that was true. I was there from 3 days before you showed up."

I nodded as I started thinking deeply about the memories I got back. I didn't knew whether I was right or not and that's why I want to ask her.

If she didn't noticed it, then there are two possibilities, first one, that never happened and second one, it happened but she didn't noticed. The later one is a dangerous.

"Before telling you what I noticed, can you remember and tell me that, everytime when that person came in that room, after checking on you, he locked the room from outside...?"

I asked her with selective words which I have carefully chosen from my dictionary. I saw her thinking before nodding and answering that she was 100% sure that everytime she heard the lock's clicking voice when that person goes away after checking.

"Once again, I don't know whether you have noticed this or not but the moment Kairav's mom entered that room and when that person left after leaving her, I didn't heard any clicking sound of the lock."

Silence filled the room after my sentence as I looked at her who had wide eyes now, acknowledging my sentence with her expressions.

"And when you think carefully about the situation in which we were, it quite doesn't make any sense. We were desperately trying to find the way out of that room and suddenly that person didn't locked that room. Doesn't that looks every strange."

She nodded and continued with her own assumptions.

"It's like the people who kidnapped us was too dumb or too smart but for what."

She said and her sentence made sense but her last five words, ringed an alarm in my mind, an alarm of realisation which was still an assumption.

"It felt like they were waiting for one of us to get out of that door. Just think, how they will let you escape soo easily and how did they didn't realised that they didn't locked the door with a lock which they everytime do.

It means that the mastermind have already saw our moves. She exactly knew what will do next and acted in the same way.

She also made you think that Adarsh was the one who killed Kairav's mom and seeing me passed out beside her, you thought that he killed me too but in reality, I fainted when I saw her killing aunty.

This mastermind, played a very nice game before retreating back like nothing happened. She raced in the initial race but then stopped and let us continue on the road of injustice.

This person is very smart."

"Vaishnavi..."

I looked back at her when I heard her voice. Her voice was filled with something which I could never understand what it is but I was hella familiar with it.

"Vaishnavi, she knew us very well. Just think about it, she knew that seeing Adarsh on the scene, I will lose my mind than anyone else. She also knew that if you got the chance, you will release me first instead of running away.

That shows how well she knew our personalities. She got lucky because you forgot your memories."

Her words made too much sense. He every word was like as if it was the truth without any solid evidence which make the truth useless.

"She definitely got lucky because I forgotten my memories but she back to mingle in our lives again when I took your sister's case. Your sister also got herself involved with that person's business.

She knows what she is doing as she knows our personality. We haven't seen her, I mean I have seen her but I don't remember her face but surely know how sneaky she is.

From years she have been using her sneakiness as her strength and tooo many advantage of it but now we have to turn her sneakiness into her biggest weakness."

I took a deep breath before continuing my further sentence with confidence and sternness.

"If she thinks we are the same girls from 11 years ago, then we have to prove her wrong. We have to show her the power of the justice and if we fail at doing it, we no longer can call ourselves as 'protectors of the law'
Let's keep that in our minds."