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HEY GUYS!

How's You all? Well i am absolutely Fine, thank you. ;)

hmmm...i am back again with a small story this time. It's not a simple story there is a little something...UNNATURAL about the plot but i was really keen to try on this one PLOT. The story would mostly end in 3 chapters.

Also it's a very very SPECIAL story. It's DEDICATED to some VERY SPECIAL people in my LIFE. ALL my FRIENDS on IF or FF. But specifically due to two very important occasions that have passed recently it is more special for 2 of my friends in particular. One already knows and i wish he keeps his side of DEAL. And another one would know in coming chapter through a small reference.

And yeah OF COURSE, It's a DUO STORY. Also the plots not mine, it's inspired by a story I read on another fandom that really touched me.

I hope you all ENJOY the STORY guys.

PS - if you haven't realised yet, I am same old scary Dreamfanatic. Gotta reveal my identity I suppose.

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CHARITY?

."EVERY BURDEN IS A BLESSING"

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For once in his life history of about eighteen to nineteen years, he woke up fresh and without a headache in the morning. He didn't have to go through the same tedious and still hurting routine of getting up from the nightmare, heading to medicine cabinet for any kind of analgesic and then towards water bottle for few gulps down his dry throat. He didn't have to feel guilty about his mother either...MOTHER? Yeah, now he knew why he felt better today. There had been no NIGHTMARE this night. As far as he can remember, it was the first time in the last 18 years, from the day when his mother died, it was the first time that he didn't have that scene played in front of his eyes as real as it had been then. It was a day to be marked in his small calender. He sighed tiredly knowing that it was just...something. The nightmare would return tomorrow and he would again be waking up with the headache. It was not the headache though, he knew that. It was the dream itself that he dreaded yet never found himself getting rid of it. It was one of the connections he still had with his mother, how painful it may be.

He continued the rest chores as he did everyday, feeling a little lighter, a little less burdened than usual. He really marvelled what he must have taken last night in dinner or after, that made his body and mind feel so light.

He would ask DAYA about that later as he didn't remember taking anything special from usual yesterday.

But he felt something missing too. Something that had been a part of himself for so long that he now felt incomplete. He didn't remember why he got the headaches, MIGRAINE, he reasoned with himself. The lightness and the softness of morning felt nice for once but the empty feeling also bothered him. He shrugged slightly feeling himself over thinking the small change of routine and not taking the good for good, he smiled slightly and whispered to himself while inserting the key in ignition...

" hmmm...Daya sahi kehta hai...main boring ho gaya hun duty kar karke...", he smiled at the thought and also at the triumphant smile daya would give if he admitted that to him, he made a note to not to do that and smiled pleasingly. Still analytical. Good.

The ride to bureau felt...different. He had a new opinion, a new smile, a new thought, new comments...everything fresh and new despite the surroundings being same for the past 18 years. He now really wondered what had changed so much that he felt everything so new. Again thinking. Leave it alone. The feeling was certainly good, pleasing and softer. Not the hard cold one he usually got while seeing a mother being helped by her son, by seeing the soft kiss she placed over his forehead as a blessing gesture. He again missed the bitter feel he was certain he used to have of his own mother's soft lips over his forehead, always followed by a few drops of salty water he felt clenching his heart always.

The angry rude horn from behind brought him back from his land. He looked behind on impulse and after seeing a long line of traffic apologized with his eyes and sped off in his direction again. He jerked his head and took a deep breath, well for a pleasant morning it was surely an unusual act he carried on with.

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The headache was like a hammer being hummed inside his head, like pins pricking the nerves directly, like...it was nothing LIKE ordinary yet it seemed extremely familiar but just vastly detailed as it had never been before. He recognized his own desperation for a pain killer like it had always been him but he knew he wasn't and yet he felt satisfied now as a painful smile tugged across his lips. But even the effort of smiling triggered the ache, he grabbed his head with one hand and got out from the comfort of his bed to take a pill. He remembered the sooth that the splash of cold water would provide to his buddy.

It all was both eerily familiar and satisfying.

He was one of the witnesses, may be the only one, of those late night travels to a 24 hour medical store in the middle of the night just for a damn aspirin. He recounted the hours spend sitting silently over the couch with eyes closed and every muscle of the body tensed with the ache in head, and he knew better, it was the HEART which was in more pain. Because the headache was already under control with the medicine.

He followed the same set of steps without any hesitation, almost blindingly, having already worked out the pros and cons and knowing that at this hour none of those ever mattered. But the only change from the ideal was the presence of a healing GUILT in his heart...not the pain. He realised the aching back portion of the body, due to the few hours over couch about which he had scolded his buddy numerous times before resigning finally, no longer held any significance. It was all nothing but the mere effects that came along with the nightmare and headache, headache being more for him as he never knew what the nightmare had been about.

Though NOW he did. And all the effects were his to bear.

But still a smile tugged on his lips, unmoving and as firm as his decision had been. He couldn't help but imagine the painless and completely fresh waking in the soothing morning light which seemed beautiful not irritating. The finally rested face of his buddy had never left his sight since the decision and he knew it was a knot that was binding him firmly.

For the past eighteen years he had only felt a harsh guilt cut across his heart every time he saw his buddy up in the middle night hours, trying to sooth the all so familiar ache. It had become such an inseparable part of his buddy's nights that after some years, though the guilt from his side still persisted he no longer saw those deepened lines over his buddy's forehead, every morning he came to bureau. He had learned to BELIEVE that he couldn't do anything and had become accustomed to the pain as much as his buddy had.

But it still left a sharp shiver down his spine knowing that the ACHE was still there.

He didn't knew how this has worked out. It was the first day, and he was willing to see the relaxed face of his buddy. But knowing ABHIJEET he knew that he would certainly guess that he was in pain or in lack of sleep. It would lead to a multitude of questions which Daya had already revised many times in his head but he still had a doubt on his guts to face the fiery eyes, and this time without FATIGUE. yeah Fatigue, another of those bulk of effects he now recognised came handy with treacherous headache.

But he was going to be FINE. He knew...he believed he would be. After-all Abhijeet had been for all these years.

There was no medicine and no cure. No therapy either. There was just acceptance that merely kept the person sane. But Daya realised, since he was just the bearer of that dream, that it was not as painful for him as it had been for Abhijeet. He had never dreamed about that day because he usually dreamed about the first meeting of his and abhijeet after the kidnapping, when abhijeet had failed to recognize him and ACP sir. And despite everything, despite every optimistic move he did, he knew somewhere he had made a BIG MISTAKE this time.

But the MAN in question, his buddy had never blamed him, never as much as threw a TAUNT despite his reputation about being one with best taunts, he had never even ASKED him that WHY he was unable to save him. HE OWED him this and he knew it.

He drew a sharp breath in as the memory only hammered more pins in his brain. He realised the method was to keep still and quite, and not to think. And for another an hour, he did exactly that.

He was not the first one to pay his attendance in bureau that morning. Freddy, for once was already there and surprisingly working on some files. He moved ahead towards his desk and after seeing him completely engrossed in work greeted freddy himself with a smile... " Good morning Freddy.."

It was a trait of freddy, he flinched at the sudden greet but when turned his head up to look at abhijeet, he relaxed easily but in next moment turned his head down again in frustration and replied irritated... " arrey sir kuch bhi good nahi hai iss morning mein.."

Abhijeet shrugged and asked in complete confusion, it had been the best morning till date... " arrey freddy aisa kya hogaya...(with a smiley wink after a thoughtful glance) kaheen bhabhiji ne toh..."

Freddy again irritatingly... " nahi nikala hai sir ussne mujhe ghar se...(angrily) halanki aapne aur vivek ne koi kasar nahi chodhi hai..." Abhijeet laughed at that innocent anger remembering the TALK vivek had did with freddy's wife last night.

Freddy looked up sharply at Abhijeet. The laugh. It had just been...more carefree. more relaxed. Freddy in his years with Abhijeet had seen him laugh countless of times, heard him laugh over phone too. It was not that Abhijeet never laughed, he did, especially with DAYA and with him too at least. But it had never been so relaxed before. There was always a sign of some pain, some guilt, some loss behind that laugh that they had gotten so accustomed with. THAT laugh had become a part of their lives and of Abhijeet's character too, it had become a part of them. And now, when it missed those elements, freddy found himself guiltily asking WHY? That laugh was familiar, this was NEW. And certainly scary. But more assuring.

Abhijeet stopped laughing and realised that freddy's eyes were fixed over his face. He frowned at that caring look and tapped freddy ,startling him out of his thoughts with... " freddy? ". Freddy realised his mistake immediately. But this time he also knew the comeback. He asked causally, in caring tone with a small smile... " aap aaj kaafi relaxed lag rahein hain sir..."

Abhijeet's smile lightened again and freddy found himself again asking WHY but with a scold for himself following this time. Abhijeet answered with same smile... " arrey freddy badhe waqt baad bahot achi neend aayi hai raat mein...(laughing slightly) poochunga main daya se ki kal aisa kya khaya tha humne..."

Freddy nodded smilingly still shocked, fearful, pleased, concerned and angry with himself for questioning the sudden relaxed state of his senior. But he was just CONFUSED perhaps. He tilted his head to relax the tension in his shoulders he hadn't realised had built and looked up to find his senior eyeing him closely, with a naughty glimmer in his eyes. Freddy smiled after finally finding something familiar, yeah teasing taunting senior felt more familiar then a laughing one. GREAT.

Abhijeet was feeling confused with freddy's careful smiles now but also about his presence in bureau in early morning hours, specially doing work. He asked after jerking his head to shred the former question and asked the later... " waise freddy tum kar kya rahe ho itni subha yahan?"

Freddy was glad to change the topic, he answered with a frown, an angry irritated expression occupying the place of the smile... " Arrey sir yeh report karni hai case ki...(angry tone) ACP sir ne aaj hi mangi hai...(with irritation) CHITROLE aa raha hai aaj..."

Abhijeet smiled softly and again freddy couldn't help himself to see the restful eyes but this time he managed to hide his observation well and heard the reply coming from his senior in irritated tone... " chitrole ke aane ka matlab hi hai gadbad hona...(he jerked his head and said to freddy smilingly again) tum karlo file complete, warna kaheen chitrole tumhe nikal na de..."

Freddy found himself shocked for the 3rd time in that early morning just the difference was that now he was scared shocked. He uttered in same shocked tone to abhijeet... " SIR?". But Abhijeet winked, laughed again and headed towards his desk.

Freddy concluded it was going to be a shocking and confusing day for him and considering that they have not had a case in past 2 days, most probably it would be the MOST confusing day for him, even beating the score of his days through junior classes learning alphabets and tables. He jerked his head and prepared himself for the day and got back to his work to at least avoid ONE of the things of the day, CHITROLE.

It was an hour later when DAYA entered inside the bureau. His eyes immediately darting around, desperate to find and analyse his buddy. It was certainly not fear, just simple desperation to take in the, as he was intending to see, the more relaxed state of his buddy. It was freddy who noticed Daya first, still glancing towards abhijeet with a soft smile on his face. Freddy wondered what Abhijeet sir might be doing enough to make daya smile? He turned his head to look towards abhijeet who was completely engrossed in his work. Freddy turned his gaze towards daya and shook his head frowning at the sudden UNUSUALNESS of the day. He suspected somewhere that these both, his seniors and friends, were just trying to scare him away.

Daya took in the relaxed posture of his buddy, making notes about the visible physical changes as much as he could. Though to everyone, Daya knew the man seemed such relaxed and smooth every time, but daya had always known the stiffness in actions despite them being as perfect, or may be even more than anybody else. But he knew they had not been relaxed actions, just pretended to be relaxed and it had indeed worked for the past 18 years. But now what he saw was TRUE.

Freddy who was still silent now took a short breath and called Daya, startling him immediately... " DAYA sir..?". Daya looked towards Freddy while Abhijeet after hearing that turned his attention from the computer screen and found Daya standing in the middle of bureau hall. He immediately noticed that something was wrong. Daya was standing there a little stiffened...he shrugged as within minutes Daya's posture consciously shifted to more relaxed one as he replied smilingly to freddy...

" arrey freddy aaj tum itni subah yahan ? Kaheen..."

Freddy immediately answered to protect himself from the well known tease... " nahi sir aisa kuch nahi hai...(Daya smiled broadly) mujhe ACP sir ne files complete karne ko kaha tha bas issiliye jaldi aaya hun, (irritatingly) aaj chitrole sahab aa rahe hain bureau..." Daya made a disgusted face over that bad news of the morning. But he had better and more important things to care and be happy about so he simply let chitrole out of his mind. He nodded slightly towards freddy and headed towards abhijeet's desk now smiling casually and greeted his buddy happily with... " Good morning Boss..." Daya was pleased with himself after hearing his own normal voice. Well almost.

Abhijeet looked up again and seeing Daya's smiling face greeted him too with a casual smile, though he was already doubting the casualness in daya's voice... " Good morning..." He again turned his head towards the screen. Daya scowled at that, expectantly and dragged a chair near abhijeet's desk immediately. He was going to spend some time disturbing his buddy. That felt appropriate to make the situation more familiar.

Abhijeet looked up after 10 minutes after completing the report he was working on. Daya's eyes were already fixed on him, he had felt that minutes ago but he knew what it was about. This time though, he didn't knew he was wrong. He shook his head and told Daya teasingly...

" Daya bureau kaam karne aate hain..."

" I know..."

"then you should work..." abhijeet said pointing towards daya's desk. Though talking to daya after a ache less morning felt refreshing.

Daya replied while shrugging, his eyes still following abhijeet... " Mood nahi hai mera..."

Abhijeet replied while shaking his head, he wanted to give an angry reply but instead a smile came over his lips... " Sahab ka mood hota kabh hai kaam karne ka...?"

Daya shrugged again but this time after seeing that smile he found himself blurting out smilingly... " tum aaj kaafi relaxed lag rahe ho..."

Abhijeet looked towards daya's eyes and clearly saw the pointed smile and relaxed muscles in his eyes, he again smiled softly and said while turning his gaze away which was analysing daya... " Mujhe iss raat sapna nahi aaya tha...". Abhijeet didn't looked up again, he was not willing to see the guilt and pain in daya's eyes over such a simple statement they both knew meant allot yet hurt. But he also missed the satisfaction and brightness in daya's eyes, who after glancing abhijeet for few minutes more, nodded and headed back towards his desk with a whisper... " per mujhe aaya...". He couldn't help the urge to share that with abhijeet, and so he did but he knew abhijeet had not heard. And he will TRY and make sure HE NEVER WILL.

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So guys how was it?

Please let me know whether i should continue or not. I WILL UPDATE AFTER 2 DAYS.

Also guys i would like to know if you felt anything odd about any character. It's been many days since i watched CID or read any CID STORY. But i have been associated with another show so there are chances i may have mixed up. SO just let me know about ANYTHING you felt out of way or odd or just disturbing.

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