"You see the day of the murder, hair color of the victim, ciphers on the body, and voila! It is the Zodiac Killer! No need to even check properly whether the victim's wounds are really saying so, isn't it? There it is! Proven! You take everything at face value!"
Suraj taunted her.
But this time, Chakor just looked at him, and said with a rather straight face,
"Oh yeah? Fine for me! It's any day better than making a mountain out a molehill, like you Agent Rajvanshi! Maybe, all throughout your training for this job, they didn't teach you one simple saying- 'If ain't broken,don't fix it' but you won't understand that now, will you? You only have one agenda here! To prove yourself right and that's all! Arrogance redefined!"
Suraj clenched his jaw as he heard her throw such words at him, and with a countenance depicting rage, he spat,
"Oh yeah? I am arrogance redefined? And what does that make you? You are stubborn at all, hmm?"
Chakor looked on the other side before turning her gaze to him and said coldly,
"Yes,if having the aim of doing anything and everything for closing cases makes me stubborn, then yes, I am stubborn! Because I believe in NOT wasting time.For me, all cases need to be closed PRONTO and I believe in sleeping on them! The next day always has to be a new day!"
"And that, Agent Chakor, is stubbornness redefined."
Chakor's mouth flung open this time, at his blatant taunt, and she would have actually hit him for sure this time, but at the moment, it was Agent Ajay who was the intruder between the duo who were always at loggerheads.
"Don't you both get tired of fighting ALL THE TIME?"
And the second right after, Ajay would have hated intervening the fight, because it was in unison that the next words from both Chakor and Suraj came like a tight slap on him-
"SHUT UP AJAY!"
And with that two of them lashed out of the room in two different directions, leaving a perplexed Ajay behind, as he wondered, "And they say world war was over decades ago!" [sigh]
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"Yes, what have you got?"
Agent Chakor asked Imli as the latter called her up to fill her in about whatever she learnt from victim's mother and Chakor took notes of it mentally.Mainly the place CLUB AQUA BLUE where victim usually goes every Tuesdays.
"Thanks Imli.I think we are going to close this case soon."
Chakor said with conviction while Imli narrowed her eyes,pressing her cellphone a little closer to her ears as she questioned, "What are you going to do, Chakor?"
"Don't worry.It's not going to be tough nut to crack.See you later."
And she hung up the call, leaving a little confused Agent Imli on the other end of the line.
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CLUB AQUA BLUE
Every eye darted at only one direction.
Of course, it was the direction from where she entered.
Dressed in a little black dress with embedded sequins paired with high-laced stilettos, she redefined the phrase "goddess of beauty" as she stepped down the stairs, grabbing all the attention in the world towards her.
Women's envy, men's pride.
Yes, Agent Chakor looked inexplicably gorgeous this night, a stark contrast to her rigid and no-nonsense demeanour at work.
However, if there was one person who damned all of this, that was of course, a certain someone named Suraj Rajvanshi.
He rolled his eyes seeing Chakor walk towards him and all he did was gulp the last stroke of whisky from his glass at one go.
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"So...Club Aqua Blue, hmm? Rings a bell?"
She said dramatically, pouring a shot of tequila for herself, while Suraj deliberately ignored her, making her enjoy the scene all the more.
"Looking at your expression, it's clear that it does ring a bell!"
She said, raising one eyebrow, making him irked further.
"You were not needed here, Miss. Chakor!"
He finally averred, a little roughly.
"Oh yeah?Why? How can I miss the opportunity of seeing you proved wrong?"
She said with mock sympathy.
Suraj had enough.So he just looked at her with a piercing gaze, and remarked,
"Listen! First of all, I am not wrong! This is still an investigation! And secondly, I don't even know what you are trying to prove here!"
He looked at her extra-revealing dress and let out a frustrated sigh.
"Oh yeah? Then let me give my two cents too, Agent Rajvanshi!"
Chakor said as she animatedly counted on her fingers.
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