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Shweta Sarkar

Drama Fantasy Thriller

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Shweta Sarkar

Drama Fantasy Thriller

A Cure To Secret

A Cure To Secret

11 mins
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A car accident, a woman screaming, car hitting the tree. Suddenly the alarm rang and Arayaman woke up with a jolt, all sweaty and scared. He glanced at the alarm clock and shut it off. Slowly walking towards the bathroom he opened up his cabinet and took his medicines. He took a shower and was getting ready to go to his work. The doorbell rang, Sunita his maid came to cook and clean his house. He had his breakfast and then left for his work. While waiting for the cab to arrive his friend Abhijit joins him.


“Today the weather is really hot, isn’t it Arayaman?”, Arayaman was lost in his own thoughts. Abhijit asked him “Are you taking your medicines regularly and you aren’t missing your doctor’s appointment right?”, “Don’t worry Abhi, I am following the chart daily and taking all the required meds time to time”, listening this Abhijit sighed in relief. Their cab arrived. They both work at a pharmaceutical institute called the N-sirum institute as a senior research analyst. N-sirum is India’s largest institute where a variety of research is done on different biological foreign agents. India’s most classified research and projects are carried out here. Arayaman has been working with this institute for about 10 years now. He is a chemical engineer from IIT Kharagpur and was selected for this institute through campus placements. During his tenure at N-sirum institute, the institute offered him to apply for a PhD program. After completing his PhD from Pennslyvania State University he joined back the institute as a senior research analyst.

        As the world was fighting with a deadly virus which spreads easily Arayaman and his team were working on the cure for the virus. His boss Dr Dev Kumar head of the research team called him into his office, “How are you holding up Arayaman? You could have taken a few more days off from work?”. Arayaman looking at his boss, “I am fine Sir, thank you for asking though and coming to work will divert my mind from what has happened”. Looking at him Dev understood that he is still grief stricken. He asked Arayaman to get back to work. It was around 7pm and Abhijit was ready to leave for home and was waiting for Arayaman to finish up. Arayaman said “Don’t wait up for me, I will be late you go without me”, Abhijit nodded and left for home. Arayaman stayed a bit late to complete his report. As he was about to leave he heard a voice, but ignored it he thought it must be the night janitor.

As he was walking down the road he felt something as if someone was following him. He started to walk a bit faster and suddenly the shadow behind him got bigger. Some men came from other side and put a black bag on his head and threw him into a car. Arayaman was struggling to get out the captivity but couldn’t. The car suddenly stopped, Arayaman started to scream, “Help, help, somebody please help me”, but no one came to his rescue. Those men who kidnapped him dragged him to a room, Arayaman was struggling to get out of it. Then they made him sit and pulled out the bag from his head. Arayaman was astonished to see a totally unknown place and an unknown face right in front of him. The person sitting in front of him was staring at him and said, “Welcome Arayaman to our humble abode, I am Special Agent Surya Tripathi from Special TASC force and the men who brought you here are my colleagues.” Arayaman was taken aback that a government agency has brought him here. “I know what you are thinking, why they have brought me here I am just a common man what the hell is happening, let me answer all your questions. We have received information that there is going to be a trade, a trade of chemical formula to Yokov who is the head of a Russian mob.” Hearing this Arayaman said, “What does this has to do with me?”, Surya looked at him with a cringe expression “Let me finish first, the chemical formula which is going to be traded off is the one which has been created at N-sirum institute where you work and is currently being used to create the vaccination for the deadly virus which has crippled the whole world.”


Listening to this Arayaman couldn’t believe it, “This is impossible, only a few people know that the chemical formula is ready and the vaccination preparation is still under the research. How the hell this news got out, this is classified information. If this chemical formula goes into wrong hands then with a tweak in the formula it can be turned into a mass destructive biochemical weapon.” To this Surya said, “We have confirmed information that a trade is going to happen for this formula and we need your help to stop this trade and catch this perpetrator.” Arayaman was in a state of shock and couldn’t believe that they are asking him to get involved in this international threat. “See Mr Surya”, Surya gestured with his hand and said “Please call me Surya”, “the kind of help you are asking from me is not possible, I am a simple man living a simple life I don’t want to get involved in this, please spare me from all these shenanigans.” Arayaman stood up and as he was about to leave, “Dr Arayaman Sharma, graduated from IIT Kharagpur as chemical engineer, got selected for N-sirum institute through campus and completed the PhD from Penn State University.” Arayaman was looking at special agent Surya and asked him, “What are you trying to pull here”.


Special agent Surya continued, “Married for 5 years and a recent widower.” Arayaman was getting agitated hearing this. Surya continued, “Your wife died in a car accident, that car was driven by you and you blamed yourself for the death of your wife.” Arayaman was not able to hear this anymore he started to shout and in anger pulled the collar of special agent Surya and thrusted him towards a wall. His colleagues came running to save him but Surya asked them not to come. The next words that came out of Surya’s mouth totally moved Arayaman, “You didn’t kill your wife, it was not an accident. Oil was spilled on the road intentionally just to make your car skid.” To this Arayaman said “No you are lying the investigating officer said that I had fallen asleep while driving that’s why the car met with the accident.” Surya was smirking, “and you believed him, of course you did. You are such a fool you don’t get it was all a plan to remove you, your wife was just a collateral damage.” Listening to this blood came out of Arayaman’s ear. He was so furious that he could just burst into flames. Arayaman just couldn’t believe that a conspiracy was plotted against him in order to remove him and in that he lost his wife. Surya came to him and consoled him, Arayaman calmed down a bit. “Look Arayaman we can’t force you to help us but we believe that the person who is behind this trade is also responsible for your wife’s death.” Arayaman looked at Surya, “What do I have to do?”. Surya smiled and said that “Arayaman you have to be our inside man, give us update on any suspicious activity or movement. Just keep us up to date and give us a progress report on your development of the vaccination as well. Also Arayaman one more thing I want you to keep this under wraps you are not at liberty to disclose anything to anyone other than us. This conversation never happened. Please keep this phone with you, you will contact us or we will contact you through this whenever needed.” Arayaman agreed to it and they dropped him off at his home.


The next day Arayaman woke up again all sweaty and scared because of the repeated nightmare he had been having. Then he remembered the purpose of his life has changed now he just wants to know how someone he knows could stoop so low. Arayaman jumped back to his old life and pretended like that last night never happened. He entered the institute’s premises and began to think from where to start. He was sitting in his cabin started to check the logs on his computer. Just at that moment Abhijit arrived, “You didn’t wait for me today at the cab stand.” Arayaman had totally forgot about Abhijit and he said, “I am so sorry, I came in early today so I took a bus instead of the cab.” A little worried Abhijit asked him, “Are you okay? You look a bit tensed.” Hearing this Arayaman thought that he needs to be himself otherwise people will notice that something’s not right. “No no everything is fine, just a bit tensed about the vaccination creation. I have been tracking the movement of the process there still isn’t much of a success. So just worried about that”, Arayaman said. Abhijit came a bit closer to him “Listen you are one of the best researchers in the whole country and I have faith in you, you will definitely crack it.” Listening to these reassuring words Arayaman felt a bit confident. Suddenly a ringing tone was coming, Arayaman wasn’t paying attention to it, it was that phone which special agent Surya had given him for further communication. Abhijit saw that phone and asked Arayaman, “You got a new phone?”. Arayaman said, “No its just one of my old phones was testing whether it is still working or not, excuse me Abhi but I have to take this call.” Abhijit left his cabin. Arayaman answered the call, on the other side special agent Surya was there. He gave him the information that one of his closest colleague is the culprit. Arayaman told Surya about the logs which he has been checking and an astonishing fact was discovered by him, “Surya in the logs it can be seen that one of our team member Chetan Jha has logged into our research room multiple times even after office hours.” Surya wasn’t surprised to hear this, “So! he is on the research team right, he can go in there for some work or research.” The next words which came out of Arayaman’s mouth shook him, “Surya, Chetan is in the US for the past 2 years for his PhD program. Someone else has been using his access card to enter the lab and trying to steal the formula.” Surya asked Arayaman to check when was the last time Chetan checked in. As per the logs today morning around 10 am. Arayaman was shocked. Surya asked him to check the CCTV footage, but the whole footage was wiped out. Someone made sure that they don’t get caught on the camera.


Now Arayaman was in a fit, he was thinking how can he catch the culprit. An idea came to his mind and he discussed it with Surya, he was impressed by his idea. In the late evening Dr Dev Kumar HOD of the research department made an announcement that the vaccine was ready for the deadly virus which has created a havoc in the whole wide world. Arayaman received a call from Surya stating that the plan had worked and the trade has been set for 11 pm tonight. Arayaman requested Surya to take him to the drop site, he wanted to see who was the real culprit who killed his wife and is planning to kill on more people. Surya agreed and they hatched a plan.


As the meet time was approaching Arayaman was pacing, he was very nervous. Suddenly there was a bang at the door Surya had come to pick him up. At the drop site everyone from the Special TASC force were already in place. Dot at 11 pm Yokov came to collect his parcel. Suddenly they see a man approach Yokov with an envelope. As the exchange took place Special TASC force surrounded them. Both culprits were caught. Surya took Arayaman to see who was the devil who wanted to play with people’s lives. When Arayaman saw him he fainted there for a moment, it was none other than his good friend Abhijit Shah. Arayaman was so furious he asked him, “Why, why did you kill my wife?”, he replied by saying, “The plan was to kill you, your wife was just a collateral damage.” Hearing this Arayaman rushed towards him but the TASC officers got a hold on him. Arayaman said, “She considered you as your little brother and you were just lying to us this whole damn time, shame on you.” Surya told Arayaman that from past few years Abhijit had about 60 lakhs of gambling debt. In order to get rid of the debt Yokov approached him with this plan. Surya thanked Arayaman for his services. Surya asked Arayaman, “Did you have fun doing this work?”, Arayaman smile and said, “Whatever keeps me distracted.” Hearing this Surya got an idea, “Will you be willing to work for us, just the way you worked this case.” Arayaman started to walk away and stopped, “When do I start?”.


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