Arjun Case SS: The Devil's Trap, Chap4, Page 27 24/01 - Page 14

Sakshi rushed to the flat, she hoped it wasn't too late...

But unfortunately it was already too late, when she entered the flat, it was only to see a gun being pointed at Aisha's head and Shireen lying lifeless on the floor. And it was too late, she couldn't just retreat her steps, because Arti had already seen her.

"Don't even try to escape," Arti said coldly, "Unless you want this beautiful face to be deformed by my gun!"

"Just go away!" Aisha shouted, only to be hit on her face with the gun.

The door was only one step behind, she could easily run away, and Arti wont even be able to do anything. Sakshi stared at her friend and colleague standing in front of her, and pondered on how to proceed. Could she risk Aisha's life just to save herself. She had to think something out, and she had only a few seconds to decide what to do. Unfortunately she couldn't run away, she'd never be able to live with her conscience if anything happened to Aisha while she was still alive.

Taking a deep breath, she closed the door, with her inside the apartment.

Aisha was staring angrily at her, and screamed, "Why didn't you just run away?"

"Humans are so pathetic, too much influenced by their feelings! First Reetu, and now your friend," Arti said laughing in an evil way. Keeping the gun on Aisha's head, Arti ordered Sakshi to throw her bag to her. When Sakshi had thrown her bag, Arti kicked at it, hence it being under the sofa.

"Now like a good girl, empty your pockets and go and sit on the sofa," Arti said to Sakshi. Having not much choice, Sakshi walked to the sofa, while her eyes strayed on Shireen's body on the ground.

"She's dead, don't bother about her!" Arti said scornfully, and when Sakshi's eyes looked towards Aisha for confirmation, Aisha just bowed her face with pain and defeat.

"And now you also go and sit down next to your friend, and don't even try anything, I can shoot at any instance! So dont push your luck" Arti said pushing Aisha away from her.

As soon as Aisha was seated down next to her, Sakshi turned with fearful eyes and asked, "What happened? Are you hurt?"

Aisha nodded in a negative way, and then said, all the while looking at Arti.

Sakshi turned to see what Arti was doing, she saw her removing a mobile and talking with someone very softly, so softly that they couldn't even hear any words.

"We can try to run away," Sakshi whispered to Aisha, "All we need to do is tackle the gun she has!"

"Nahin Sakshi, it's not that easy! Arti, if that's her real name, is more versed in physical and even guns than me! She easily overtook me physically, she's someone far more dangerous than we can even imagine!" Aisha whispered back.

Some ten minutes earlier

Aisha was trying to comfort Shireen, while at same time keeping an eye on Arti. But suddenly Shireen fainted due to constant crying, Aisha walked to the kitchen after ordering Arti not to even move, to get a glass of water. She was carrying the glass of water back to the living room, when she heard a gunshot. She rushed and saw Arti with a gun in her hands, and Shireen bleeding.

Aisha wondered on what to do, and finally decided to fight back. Using the glass she had in her hands, she threw it at Arti and jumped on her. Soon she managed to push the gun away, and the fight started with each trying to overcome each other. It was then that Aisha realized that Arti was by no means a stupid and innocent girl, she fought dirty and the first moment she got, Arti was picking up the gun and pointing it towards Aisha's forehead.

Just then Sakshi ran inside the flat.

"I told you to run away! Why didn't you?" Aisha hissed staring angrily at Sakshi. She was a cop, so it was normal for her to risk her life, and probably one day she'd die for her country, but Sakshi wasn't like her.

"I couldn't leave you, besides had I really gone, she'd have killed you!" Sakshi said with unshed tears in her eyes.

"...Yes come here as soon as possible. I don't think we have much time left now before the whole team comes back here," Arti was saying on the phone, and then staring at these two ladies on the sofa, "Nah let's not kill them, who knows they might be very useful to us."

And then cutting the call, Arti walked towards them and said, " So shall we all go for a ride, I don't know about you people, but I'd sure as hell enjoy this ride!"

A few minutes later, some people came inside of the flat, they had masks on their faces, so no one could see their faces. Soon Sakshi and Aisha's hands were tied, and their eyes blindfolded. They felt themselves be dragged, and while being dragged out of the apartment, they heard a male voice asking what to do with Shireen's body.

That's how when the rest of the team came, there was blood everywhere, but no corpse. And Aisha's disappearance was already killing each and every one, but finally seeing Sakshi's bag also added more strain on them. They all prayed that their friends were still alive.

"Shree, check if there is anything in Sakshi's bag?" Arjun said.

Shree emptied the bag, but apart from some personal things, Sakshi's mobile and some papers nothing was there, at least nothing which could help them anyway.

Arjun was thinking what to do, how to proceed, given they had absolutely no clues on what could have happened here. In his eyes four ladies were missing, two of which was civilians and the other two his team members. He looked at Rathore and could see the frustration on his face. Shree and Chotu looked very afraid. But he couldn't let himself be weakened by such emotions, at least not right at this instance. He needed full control of his emotions to decide what to do now.

Just then a phone started to ring, they all rushed to it, and finally after ensuring Shree was ready to tap and search for it's location, Rathore picked up the phone.

"Hello," Rathore said nervously.

But no one was even speaking. He could only hear someone breathing from the other end.

"Who are you? Why don't you speak up?" Rathore asked infuriated now.

He heard someone laughing and finally the other person spoke, "Catch me if you can! Though probably it would be too late by then? What do you prefer? Catching me or saving your friends!" and then cut the call.

All turned towards Shree hoping he could trace the call, but Shree had a defeated look on his face. "The call duration wasn't long enough for me to trace it," he said quietly.

"Damnit," Rathore roared.

"Calm down Rathore," Arjun said," they are only playing with us! And thus this call!"

"Maybe, but we still don't have anything to locate them!" Rathore shouted hopelessly.

"Stop it! They aren't weak persons, don't forget Aisha is a trained officer!" Arjun said back, and then "They must have left something for us! A hint anything to guide us! Search everywhere, there must be a clue hiding for us somewhere!"

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