Arjun FF: Wait for You - IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT PAGE 12!! - Page 6

Originally posted by: easha4539

Awesome update.

So Aisha made Sameer tongue tied!! LOL

Sahi kaha Sakshi ne.

Yeh Arjun wakei mein Akdu hai.

Ek tareef toh kar deti!!

Loved Raesha and Arakshi moments.

Con soon with more tadka..

Originally posted by: sisodia_shefali

Nice update specially arjun sakshi moments spoken or unspoken their eyelock
sam finally mustered enough courage to tell aisha that she looked good
poor shree all excited to go for party par rathod ne uske armano pe pani fer deya 😆
thanks for pm
pls next update jaldi dena

Originally posted by: Rehana25

Wow yaar
Amazing arakshi moment
Raesha is also good
Eagerly waiting what happen next

Originally posted by: coolRD

Dat ws wndrful!!

Luvd d scenes b/w arjun-sakshi nd sameer-ayesha..

Wndrng wat dangers dey wud hav 2 face ahead..

Cntinue soon.. Nd thnx 4 d pm

Once inside the team split up, joining the security queue at intervals to avoid at tracking suspicion. Inching forward in line, Arjun quickly spotted something, and whispered into his earpiece.

"Trouble up ahead. They've got one of those full-body scanners we have to pass through." He narrowed his eyes at the full-body scanner closely, "woh hamare earpieces ko detect karlenge. We have to lose 'em."

Sakshi intently listened, but objected. "Leken Arjun, we can't. Maine abhi abhi suna hai kisi ko phone pe baat karte hue, they were saying that they're not allowing any cell phones through." She told him, slight disappointment apparent on her face.

Rathode mused at the current situation they had at hands, "So without the earpieces, we'll be completely on our own."

Arjun nodded his head slightly in agreeance, "We go dark, or we don't go at all." He then spoke into his earpiece, "Shree? This is where we part ways."

"We hear you, sir. Be careful." Shree responded in the lab.

"All the best, sir!" Liza added, looking at Shree. "Don't worry, yahan par hum sab samhal lenge." Shree mentally rolled his eyes at the sound of Liza's voice, being reminded of her presence. Are yaar kahan phas gaya main iske saath.

Arjun approached the security check and made small steps forward. "All right, last chance. We need to ditch the earpieces. Follow my lead."

Arjun pried the flesh-toned gadget from his ear. A few wayward stared at him as he stepped out of the queue and paced toward the rubbish bin along the wall... But he gathered no suspicion from security as he rejoined the line. Perfect. I got rid of it with nobody noticing. Finally, he reached the security checkpoint.

"Naam?" The security guard questioned as per protocol.

Arjun quietly offered his fabricated Delhi citizenship card. The guard checked his alias against the invite list... "Thank you, Mr. Agarwal. Welcome to the palace." He continued, "please leave your mobile with us. You'll get it back at the end of the night. Then if you have any metal items on your person, please place them in this bin here before you pass through the scanner."

Arjun quietly and subtly eyed the scanner in a scrutinizing manner, "hm.." He considered the towering contraption before him, and removed his metal cufflinks, dropping them in the tray.

"Go on and step through the scanner when you're ready."

Firm lines of slight tension appeared on Arjun's face. He entered the gate, and the machine whirred as it scanned him thoroughly. Then a green light illuminated.

"Next!" The security guard bellowed.

Arjun's face relaxed at the guard's words. Made it through. He stepped through to the other side, where the guard returned his cufflinks.

"Sorry for the inconvenience, leken aapke cooperation ke liye dhanyabaad. You can never be too careful with who you let in."

Arjun nodded silently, and continued on. The guard smiled broadly. Such a chipper young fellow. "Enjoy your night, Mr. Agarwal."

* * *

Arjun waited for the others to successfully pass through the checkpoint, then together they strolled into the main hall... and the mouth of each member of the team hung open. Lit warmly by thousands of candles, the grand hall was draped in luxurious regal banners.

Lively music from a string quartet filled the room over the hundred simultaneous conversations of the country's best and brightest. Overlooking the hall from the top of a grand staircase, Arjun pointed out something below.

"Rathode, udhar dekh."

Arjun was able to pick out a familiar face, seeing Amar Vimal in conversation. It was impossible to make out the words from their location, but Amar Vimal of Parliament appeared to be enduring a withering rebuke from a handsome young man in military garb.

"Who is that yelling at Vimal?" Rathode questioned.

"woh Rajveer Choudhary hai. He's next in line for the throne, served in the Armed Forces for a while. I've seen him on TV, trash-talking the anti-crime bill." Ayesha answered.

"Matlab ki that's just one more person who would like to see Vimal and his legislation fail..." Arjun mused.

Down below, Rajveer Choudhary storms off from Vimal, fuming.

Ayesha decided to seize the opportunity immediately. "Yahi moka hai. Main usse jaake baat karti hoon."

But Sameer objected, " - nahi Ayesha." Ayesha's face fell in surprise.

Arjun agreed and nodded. "He's right. Amar Vimal se baat Sakshi karegi."

Ayesha's face showed more surprise, but Sakshi's jaw completely dropped. "K-kya?!"

Arjun raised an eyebrow at her outburst, then spoke. "Haan Sakshi, TUM Vimal se baat karogi. Already tum dono ke beech conversations ho chuki hain, toh Vimal is more comfortable around you. You'll be able to get more information out of him."

Ayesha and Sameer nodded, agreeing with Arjun, as always. But for once, Sakshi didn't.

"Leken Arjun, main yeh nahi kar sakti. Main -"

Arjun groaned at her childishness. What was the problem, he didn't understand. She's never acted like this before.

Knowing that Arjun was the only one who could handle her, Ayesha and Sameer headed down the carpeted stairs.

* * *

Arjun now understood. She was scared, fearful of him. Knowing that scolding her would only make it worse or attract attention, he took a deep breath. "Dekho Sakshi, you can do this. Don't be afraid, I believe in you. I know you won't let me down, won't let the team down." He told her as he lightly grabbed a hold of her upper arms, looking into her eyes.

But Sakshi was still apprehensive. Out of both the times she had talked to him, there was just something about him that rubbed her the wrong way. "Par Arjun, woh Amar Vimal bahut - "

"Do you trust me?" Arjun asked her suddenly, his hand extended towards her, his palm open for her to accept.

"Wh-what?" Sakshi asked, flabbergasted at his gesture. What was with him today? Ever since last night, he's been acting differently. I mean, not there's anything wrong with his behavior, she's happy he's turned over a new leaf, but it was still so sudden.

"I said do you trust me?" He said once again with somewhat of a low, husky charm in his voice, his eyebrows and eyes nudging towards his empty palm.

Sakshi cautiously but warmly put her hand in his, awaiting his next words. "Haan..." She trailed off. More than my own life. Her hand fit into his like it was a perfect fit. Like two pieces of a puzzle conjoining together. To her, it felt like her hand was made to coincide and fit with Arjun's.

"Tum yeh kar sakti ho Sakshi," he said to her as he put his other hand on hers, quite like he did last night when he confessed all that was in his heart to her. "Mujhe tumpe poora bharosa hai, this is very important for our mission. Aur," Sakshi looked into his eyes as his eyes changed from his acp persona to a caring, considerate individual. Reading her mind and her fears that welled up inside her, he squeezed her hands in his with slight pressure, "tumhe kuch nai hoga. Mein tumhe kuch hone hi nai doonga." He spoke with a determined voice as if he was trying to console not only her, but also himself. He just hoped he had nothing to worry about. Aur vaise bhi, agar kuch hua toh bhi, woh aas paas hi rahega Sakshi ke.

And it was then that she knew she was safe, she had nothing to fear as long as Arjun was here. She could do this, her self-esteem was back as soon as it had gone. She nodded and smiled, and Arjun's lips also curved into a half smile.

Soon after, the duo joined Ayesha and Sameer down the stairs.

* * *

"Yaad rahe, we just get in, get the information out of Vimal and Dipti, and get out." Arjun told the gang.

"Usse we may be able to piece together the killer's plans before the Parliament vote tomorrow morning. By then, shayad bahut dere ho chuki hogi." Rathode added.

"Word travels fast, leken hopefully yahan abhi kisi ko pata nahi chala hoga ki hum investigation se bahar hain. Leken safety measures ke liye, let's keep a low profile." Arjun concluded, ending to look at Sakshi.

Sakshi smiled, took a deep breath, and nodded at him, signaling she was ready. With a slight smile from Arjun, she broke off towards Vimal. Shortly after Sakshi left, Arjun spotted Dipti.

"Okay, I see Dipti over there. If anyone knows about Horus's activity lately, wahi hai. Main use jaake baat karta hoon."

"Zara samalke, sir. See that big guy nearby? Woh Delhi police ka Commissioner hai." Ayesha informed him.

Sameer put a hand on his chin, "Yeh wahi hai jisne hume investigation se bahaar nikal diya hai. Don't let him recognize you."

* * *

Arjun took his comrades' advice, and started to walk towards Dipti, winding casually around conversation circles, wary of Commissioner Desai's line of sight. Finally, he approached Dipti, where she was laughing heartily with other dignitaries. She spotted Arjun instantly upon one glance.

"Ah, ladies, gentlemen, might I introduce to you the ever-dashing ACP from Mumbai, Arjun Suryakante Rawte. My, yeh suit tumhe kaafi jatch rahai."

"Miss Dipti, may I have a word?" Arjun politely asked.

Just then, the string quartet stroked up a dance, and the guests began to pair off.

"Well... aap chahen toh you may have a dance. Mumbai waalo ko dance karna toh aatai na?" She slightly teased in a flirtatious manner.

Dipti set her empty glass on a server's tray and took his hand, leading him away from her friends. She turned to face him, placing one hand on his chest, and both of them began to dance.

"I was wondering when you'd visit me again, ACP sahaab."

"And I was wondering when you'd return my calls." He retaliated with a similar tone.

"Now, now, perhaps I'm just playing hard to get."

Needing to get this information out of the lady, Arjun cleverly put on a flirtatious persona. "I can tell you're very hard to get. The rarest beauties always are."

"Oh, stop," she answered, giggling flirtatiously.

"Maybe you'd feel comfortable talking if you and I ditched this snoozefest and went somewhere a little more... Private?"

"I'd love to." Dipti answered again.

"Toh phir intezaar kis baat ka?"

"I really would love to, ACP sahaab, but.. ab chupane ka kya faida. Aapko haq hai jaanne ka." With a sad, long, and empathetic face, she said, "Commissioner Desai ne mujhe baatayai ki he's terminating your task force's jurisdiction here. Mujhe nahi lakta woh zyaada khush honge to see me working with... An enemy of the state."

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Meanwhile, Sakshi sidled up to Amar Vimal and feigned surprise, interrupting a hushed conversation with an aide.

"Well, look who it is!" She said with that lilt in her voice and her beguiling smile.

"Ah, the lovely reporter Ms. Anand! A pleasure, as always." He smiled.

As the quartet stroke up a dance, Vimal raised an eyebrow. "Shall we?"

Sakshi and Amar Vimal began an easy, loping dance across the floor of the cavernous hall.

"You really must ignore our national media. They're a lot of alarmists, I say. Mere hisaap se aap aur aapki poori team kamaal ka kaam kar rahe hain in the pursuit of Mehta's killer. But nonetheless, I'm happy to see you have a moment to relax and enjoy the festivities."

"Unfortunately Vimal, main yahan kaam se aayi hoon. Mujhe tumse Sir Raj ke baare mein pooch na tha."

"What about him?"

"Aapke knowledge ke hisaap se, kya unne aisa koi bhi kaam kiya hai jo aapko unethical lage?"

Vimal swallowed in tension. "Well... why do you ask?"

"Hamara yeh maan na hai ki the killer is punishing his victims for what he views to be treason, and he's expanding the usual parameters of what counts." Sakshi dropped her smile, "I don't to insult his memory, but to complete this picture, hume yeh jaanna bahut zaroori hai ki Sir Raj ne aisa kiya kya hai ki woh target ban gaye."

Vimal looked around at the densely crowded floor, his face tense. "Jo bhi kuch tumhe jaanna hai, main woh tumhe bataonga. Leken yahan nahi. We must speak privately."

* * *

At the same time, Ayesha drank her champagne absently, watching from a distance as Arjun and Sakshi interrogated the targets. And for the second time that day, she saw a familiar hand extended towards her, the palm of it open in the air for her to accept. She looked up once again, like earlier, to see Sameer with that same charming smile he had before.

"May I have this dance?" He asked her, in a low, charming, husky-like voice.

"You may," She answered, as she placed her right hand in his, discarding the champagne glass she was sipping on earlier.

Sameer led Ayesha into the pack of dancing couples, and faced her - eye to eye. He put his hand on her waist, and the duo revolved around each other in a slow dance step. Ayesha filled the entirety of Sameer's vision as she danced with him - her neatly tucked hair, her brilliant eyes, her plunging neckline...

"You know Ayesha, we might be on a dangerous, life-threatening mission, but.. I'm glad I'm here with you."

Ayesha's lips curved upwards into a smile. She couldn't feel any happier. "Me too."

A few moments later, she adopted a professional behavior, and Sameer followed her gaze across the dance floor, where Rajveer was waltzing with a foreign duchess.

"Tumhe laktai ki Rajveer khooni hai?!" Albeit Ayesha was quite inquisitive when it came to solving cases, but wasn't this a little absurd?

"Aap ne dekha na kaise woh Vimal ko berate kar raha tha. He openly wants the anti-crime bill destroyed. Plus, you said he served. Maybe he got the taste for blood. One way or another, I just know he's involved in this somehow."

Sameer nodded at Ayesha's reasoning, and they joined the line of prancing couples. The line of couples winded through the happily clapping crowd as they slowly gained on Rajveer.

Rajveer and the duchess danced towards a small latticework arch, where they separated, Rajveer going right and the duchess going left, before rejoining on the other side. Each couple followed suit, and soon it was Sameer and Ayesha's turn.

Sameer let go of Ayesha, and split off to the right, following the men, while Ayesha went left with the women. He then joined back together after the archway.

"Kaafi acha dance karle the hain, aap sir."

"I've still got some moves you haven't seen yet," Sameer said with a twinkle in his eyes.

Sameer and Ayesha's moment was interrupted as Rajveer indulged in conversation with the duchess. They listened intently as Rajveer went on.

Ayesha shot Sameer a telling look, and unnerved by Rajveer's words, Sameer couldn't help but return it. The waltz drew to a close, and the couples released each other. A pleasant applause filled the hall.

"Thank you for such a lovely dance, Duchess. I must... Excuse myself."

Sameer watched as Rajveer quickly threaded his way through the applauding crowd and exited through a small door into the bowels of the castle.

"Where is he going? We have to follow him!"

"I don't think that's a good idea, Ayesha."

Ayesha made one step forward but stopped abruptly. A broadly built man stood in their path, his heavy jowls quivering with rage.

"Well, look what we've got here," said Commisioner Desai.

* * *

Meanwhile:

Shree and Liza were having between them their usual petty tom and jerry quarrels. Nothing out of the ordinary. Liza would make a remark, Shree would retaliate, then Liza would wittingly have a thodu jawaab, leaving Shree renderless, rolling his eyes at her.

Just then, Shree's fancy hi-tech computer dinged! He immediately flicked his eyes to the screen in a flash.

"Oh no..."

"Kya hua Shree? Did you just realize that your new invention isn't so new?" She teased, once again.

Ignoring Liza, Shree punched a number into his phone... "Phone uthao! C'mon!"

"Haan Shree." Chotu answered.

"Chotu, I've been monitoring the palace guard's network activity to get some sense of what's going on in there..." Panic arose on his face as he spoke, "And someone just scanned Ajay Diwan's press pass to get into the Jubilee!"

"Diwan? Unless Liza reanimated his corpse while you weren't looking, I imagine it wasn't him using his own identification." Chotu mused at the situation at hand.

"Aisa kuch nai hai," Liza said, confirming Chotu's thoughts.

"Mujhe... Mujhe lakta hai ki woh killer ho sakta hai. I think ki who wahan mojood hai, palace mein. Right now." Shree said. His brows furrowed full of tension, "Chotu, you have to warn the others."

"I'm going in. I'll find them, Shree." Chotu assured him.

The line went dead as Chotu hung up. Shree sat there in tense silence for a moment, thoughts of Arjun, Sakshi, Sameer, and Ayesha rushing through his brain.

He grabbed his jacket.

"C'mon, Liza! We have to go too! There's nothing more we can do here!" Without thinking twice, he hurriedly grabbed a hold of her wrist, yanking her up from her chair. Immediately after, he felt sudden sparks course through his veins, an unknown feeling resonated through him. For a brief moment, he stood still and looked at Liza. He - he'd never felt this way before towards anyone. A red blush started to appear on his cheeks as he was tongue-tied.

Liza observed Shree's unusual state as he stood frozen in the middle of the lab. "Umm... Shree?" Not gaining any type of response, she waved her hand in front of his face and snapped her fingers a couple of times as well. "Hello? Shree?!"

Shree immediately snapped and came back to his senses.

"Kya hua? What are we waiting for? Let's go!" She said enthusiastically, as she scampered out the premise.

Shree stood there, dumbfounded by the recent events. What just happened? What was that? Why couldn't he tear his eyes away from her? Shaking his head at the notion of even the dreadful thought, he assembled into his normal self, and followed in suit with Liza out the door.

* * *

Arjun was still engaged in a tense dance with Horus CEO Ananya Dipti.

"What are you talking about?" He questioned, fury clearly written all over his face.

"In fact... I should have reported you the instant I saw you." She said with a devilish smile. "Oh, that's right. I did." She chuckled a villainous laugh.

Before he could even blink, rough hands seized his arms and yanked him back.

"Get the HELL off me!!!"

"I'm afraid we must ask you to leave, sir." The security guard mentioned.

Dipti blew Arjun a red-lipsticked kiss, and winked before turning on her heel, leaving Arjun to leave with the aftermath and chaos to erupt. The guard wrangled him back while more guards escorted Ayesha and Sameer toward him.

"Hands off the goods, pal!" Ayesha exclaimed.

"Bahaar nikalo sab ko. They're spoiling the mantri ji's party." Commissioner Desai bellowed.

"You're making a big mistake." Arjun said, a dangerous anger in his voice.

"No, you did in ever coming to this city. Now go back to the sewer you came from."

Arjun was not the slightest bit interested in what the Commissioner had to say. His words could affect him the least. Instead, the only thing that was currently wrapped around his mind was the fact that everyone had been roped in by security guards and ruffians... except for Sakshi. He looked around frantically, his eyes searching for those doe-like, brown orbs he was so familiar with.

"We're not leaving without Sakshi! Where is she?!"

"You leave when I say you leave." The commissioner bluntly replied with a dark chuckle apparent in his voice.

The guests around Arjun watched in horror as the guards pushed the trio towards the exit.

"Rathode, Ayesha... Do you have any idea where Sakshi is?"

No. This couldn't be. He promised her - he promised he wouldn't let anything happen to her. He felt ashamed, repulsive for his own self. Man kar raha tha to punch his fist into a cement wall. But in the center of his heart, he also hoped and deep down knew, that despite however dangerous Vimal was, Sakshi was a very brave girl, and just hoped she would be okay.

Please be okay.

Just wait for me, Sakshi. I WILL find you.

Not the best cliffhanger in the world but hey. Sorry for the boring chapter. As I said, the writer's block really got to me, but the next chapter will be better, with more action and some bravery from Sakshi Anand! I hated how they portrayed her as so vulnerable in the show.

Even if this chapter sucked, tell me through a comment! The more comments I get, the faster I update 😉 And stay tuned for the next chapter, guys!

Cheers,

Kiya

xo

Chapter 5