A known stranger | Ft. Abhyutami

Chapter 25

Re read nahi kiya hai to agar koi mile spelling/grammatical errors jaisi gustakhi,to abhi se maafi.

Recap - It's been 4 months since she's been in the hospital now.

It's been about 4 months now that she's in the hospital, she's nicely recovered but her feet still gives her problems. She uses crutches to walk (temporarily) Or most of the time aalim helps her. She's been discharged just today.

When both aalim and gulnaaz were getting put of the hospital, zainab and nasir arrive.

Zainab - Mrs. Gulnaaz, are you doing fine now?

Before naaz could speak anything, aalim interrupted.

Abhi - yes sir, she's doing much better than that day atleast.

Nasir - are ali sahab, aap to gussa ho gaye, khair hame aapse kuch baat karni hai Mrs siddiqui.. (She didn't change her surname)

Abhi (interrupts) - ab kya baaki reh gaya hai?

Gulnaaz - aalim... Please it's fine..
Boliye sir, kya baat hai?

Nasir - hame aapse deeply maafi mangni thi mam, hamne jo kiya vo genuinely bilkul theek nahi tha, it was legally and morally, wrong in both the ways.

Zainab - ji Mrs. Siddiqui, aap shuru se hi masoom thi fir bhi aap par hamne itne bure ilzaam lagaye, that wasn't fair.. Inn kuch mahinon me hamne kaafi socha iss baare me..

Nasir - yes.. Mr. Ali and Mr. Bashar, would you mind give us a second, kuch ISI ko leke confidential baat karni hai...

Abhi looks at naaz and raised his eyebrows and naaz just simply nodded.

Abhi - sure.

Zainab - chaliye ali sahab..

(Btw just to let you guys know, inn 4 mahinon me abhi ka kaam bilkul stop nahi hua, he was constantly going to work and sharing information)

Nasir - Mrs. Siddiqui, aapki hypothesis actually me sach thi.. Hamne uske baad shaukat se fir kabhi nahi suna, ye sochi samjhi sajish thi hame aapas me bhidane ke liye.. I would've never thought ki shaukat ul haq jaisa agent itni jaldi palat sakta hai.. Vo to mulk ke liye qurbaan ho jaane valon me se tha..

(Meanwhile in India, exactly this happened.. After some time when shaukat had already contacted Pakistan, the indian army caught him and just so that they wouldn't use him against pak, he committed su|c|de.)

Gulnaaz - sir afsos ki baat ye nahi ki uski vajah se aapne mujhe saza e maut se bhi battar saza di, par afsos iss baat ka hai ki india apni sajish me kamyaabi ho gaya.. And mere wahan naa rehne se hamare 4 pure mahine waste ho gaye.. I think ab aapko sochna hoga mission ke liye, that would be my advice..

Nasir - advice matlab? You've to implement it Gulnaaz.

Gulnaaz - well mujhe laga ki iss sab ke baad aap mujhe kaam pe vaapis nahi aane denge..

Nasir - no no no, aapki hame sakt zarurat hai wahan pe mohtarma, ek bhi ISI analyst function nahi kar paa raha hai wahan par, jabse aap wahan nahi hain, ek bhi agent india nahi gaya hai, sabhi ko aapko approval chahiye tha, aur naa hi ham pata laga paa rahe hain ki aage kya kaise karna hai.. We've gone is deep loss without you, we need you there.. Please mera gussa apne mulk pe mat nikaliyega..

Gulnaaz - sir aap ye kya keh rahe hain, ISI ki itni buri halat ho gai hai??

Nasir - ji sahiba, aap please waapis laut aaiye, nothing is functioning properly.. Apne mulk ke vaaste..

Gulnaaz - ab me apne mulk ke liye to jaan bhi de sakti hu to ye kya cheez hai sir.
ISI analyst head, Mrs. Gulnaaz Siddiqui reporting sir! Pakistan zindabaad.
(Salutes with one hand while holding onto a crutch with the other hand)

Nasir - Pakistan zindabaad, more than glad to have you back Mrs. Siddiqui.

Gulnaaz (smiles) - thanks sir.

Nasir leaves.

Gautami smiles widely seeing that she's got the job back and she'd be able to share all the information with india once again, and another reason to smile was how nothing special had happened in these days that she could've shared, so she's also not lost much important information.. She was back.

Soon aalim came and both went to their home. Gulnaaz would start working from the next day so aalim dropped her and then left to his workplace.

This was the time, when gautami would contact tej again.

She called him and they started talking in their code language. Firstly he apologised majorly to her and told her that shaukat had been caught but he then k|lled himself after being caught. She told him about the atrocities that she had to go through and he once again madly apologised. She told him that it was fine and this was just her part of giving to her country. She also told him that ISI's working had came to decline while she was in the hospital so there was nothing to worry about, no important information had been lost.
Their call ended.

(Iss baar puri conversation nahi dikhai kyuki thodi hi der me ek aur aisi hi conversation dikhani hai.. Taki tum log bore na ho jao isiliye brief me likh diya)

Soon after aalim came back.

Aalim - aapki tabiyat theek rahi naaz?

Naaz - haan, aap meri fikr mat kariye, kal se to kaam pe bhi jaana hai..

Aalim - kya??

Naaz - aapko gadi me bataya to tha na?

Aalim - haan par ye kahan bataya ki Kal se join karna hai aapko?

Naaz - aalim already jitna loss ho chuka hai ISI ka.. Working has almost came to decline.. Agar mai jald se jald nahi jaungi to aur buri halat ho jaayegi..

Aalim - hmm.. Par apna dhyaan rakhiyega.. Vaise army ke halat bhi bilkul ache nahi chal rahe hain.. Border pe bohot tension chal raha hai..

Naaz - astagfirullah.. Ab kya karne ka socha hai? (She asked this so that she could know pak army's next step)

Aalim - well best baat ye hai ki indian army attack kabhi nahi karti, hamesha defense hi karti hai yaa fir surgical strikes hoti hain.. To abhi itna to relief hai ki india attack nahi karega, tab tak ham army grow karenge and major attack hoga...

Naaz - ohh..

5-7 more days pass by, naaz has started working in ISI... And aalim is also working, both are sharing information and giving tej updates.

Once, in an office hour, both of them receive a phone call from tej separately..
When they picked up and told tej that they were busy in their code language. Tej only said 4 words and hung up the call. The words were
"EXTREMELY URGENT, CALL BACK"

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𝐃𝐚𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐤𝐨 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐤𝐮𝐥 𝐍𝐀𝐇𝐈 𝐤𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐚, 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐞, 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐟.

𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐕𝐎𝐓𝐄, 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖, 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓
(𝐯𝐨𝐢 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐡)

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