_____ March 11, 2018 _____

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Everyone kept quiet while Nick removed the papers from his bag. He had neatly put them in a stick file. He handed it to Uncle.

"What's this?" 

And before he read the papers, we told him about our KRI visit and also about the painting. 

"So, your Dad owns the place now?" He was quite shocked. 

"That's what the newspapers said." Avi said.

Uncle then started seeing the papers. The only movement in that room at this point of time was his eyes getting wider and wider and sweat dripping from his forehead and his temple quite profusely. I knew it! He recognized the script!

"Where did you find this?" We had already told him. Still, Nick told him again.

"This can't be! How is this even possible?" He stood up and started shuffling the papers rapidly on his table. He was going mad. The last time I saw him like this was when he had lost one of his important file, 2 years ago. Over the time, Uncle learned anger and stress management really well. He became silent over the years. Concentrated on work more than anything else. Preferred working behind scenes. Never went out of control. After the KRI incident, he had to fly to The States to hide his existence. But, as Mom used to tell, he became rather reckless. Depression was what had sealed him for years. But once he came out of it, he was a new and a better person. This state I'm seeing right now was way out of his 'New Person' list.

"What's the matter, Uncle? What do the papers say?" I asked him going near his table and looking at him. 

He looked at me and probably realized he was acting crazy. So, he sat on a chair and continued reading. No one spoke. 20 minutes. 

"Sir?" Finally! Thanks Hastha.

"Oh! What! Yeah. I'm sorry. But, this can't happen!"

"What happened?"

"These papers are basically the 2.5 years of our research. Whatever we did, every error, every problem, every inch of success is right here! Whoever can read this, will know everything that happened in 2.5 years of KRI which we intended to keep a secret. And.. It is typed! How can anyone have this script in a physical device? We only knew this script in writing. We had all of it in our mind! No physical device had this script before. How can anyone have this? Oh My God! What's happening?"

"Is everything that you did in KRI there in these papers? Everything?" Nick asked.

"No, not everything. Like 60% is here."

"I knew it! Someone is doing everything that happened in KRI again. Part by part they're doing this. And, they thought no one gives a f*ck about KRI now, sorry for the language, Doc. And, so, they saved a copy there. And I'm sure this isn't as simple as it looks. To do everything again? No ways that'll be a person or a two's job. This is definitely a huge plan with a huge group. Probably the bad guys in this story!"

"Probably they have the Infinity that was left back before the blast. Probably they started the fire..." Avi added to Nick.

"No! Infinity isn't with them! They are doing this, I don't know, using some other reference?" Hastha spoke quite with confidence.

"How do you know that?" Doctor asked him.

"Because I know where that 20 days old Infinity is!"

Wait..WHAT? That hit like a f*cking bullet train to all of us. Everyone got up from where they were.

"Where?"

"In the walls of KRI!"

"How can you say that?"

"Okay. Let me explain! After everything doc said just now, it proves that Infinity can be nowhere else other than the walls of the left out KRI building! The other day April told me everything about what happened in KRI when you guys had gone there. In the end, she also told me about that weird eerie feeling that all of you went through. The feeling was that something is pulling you, like a magnet attached far from you, yet closer than it looks. Also, you guys went there in the evening time at around 4! You guys came back at around 6:30, right? In between that time, as April told me that that weird feeling was increasing. Also, when Nick went in the morning, he said that feeling wasn't there at all! And the reporters, years back, as the news item brought by April and Niha said, went there in the night when the police and others left. And, that, according to Doctor's theories, is the time when Infinity's power will be at its peak! Walls of KRI, means a wide area and two reporters' weight is a small amount compared to the amount of Infinity spread in the walls. 28 kilogram was the estimated weight while creation, and as time passed by, since it was a virus, it must have definitely spread all along, at least double of it's weight. So, conclusively, the two reporters were reported missing and Infinity was just 7 days old out in open. So, probably, Infinity might have swallowed them. Don't know about now, but, if you guys would have been there for more time, then maybe you would experience the same thing that they experienced! You would have disappeared, forever maybe  and..." she stopped, with a look of Horror in her face, when she realized what she was talking. "Disappear? What the hell!"

The whole place was quite. Everyone were like in a state of shock, and super deep thinking.
Then Avi managed to open his mouth. 

"You go girl! You just spoke some real shit there! Infinity, on the walls? We, disappearing!? Though it is senseless, it sort of makes sense! And I'm gonna die today."  He sat heavily on the couch. I was already feeling this Nausea crawling in. This was way too much for me to take in. Since the breakup, I avoided human contact, assuming everyone are temporary.  Days went fast and nights went slow. Avi and Jake always dropped by home whenever they could and even tried to sneak in to my room from the bathroom window to cheer me up on my birthday. But I just shoo'd away everyone real bad, with words that I didn't even know existed in my vocabulary. They only suffered more because of my state. Mom used to cry too. This study right here, was where I started cutting myself due to the pain. Oh God! Thank God, those days are gone...

"Why didn't you tell it till now, when Doc and we were having the debate on where Infinity could be?" Niha asked.

"I thought it was stupid. But, when doc told about the papers, I realized, this is the reason why 'They' hid it in KRI itself. They did those experiments using Infinity that was on the walls. It's amazing that Infinity didn't lose it's attracting power till date..."

She was interrupted badly. "Will you stop talking please? Are you even hearing what you are saying?" Doc looked like a lost baby. 

Everyone settled down. Silence again. 

After like 5 minutes, Hastha spoke again. "Not sure if it's the walls. I mean, for the eerie feeling explanation April gave, you felt it everywhere in KRI, so, basically, it can only be on the walls. And, the main thing is, the people who kept the papers there know this! And I have a strong feeling your Dad knows all about this. And he is letting it happen, not sure of the reason though."

"Something is definitely happening there. We didn't see any lab or experiment chamber in KRI. Plus, no power! So, that means, they aren't doing those experiments there. Then, why would they store the papers there? That too in a painting, when no one is ever going to be there? And Avi, you better talk to your Dad now. It's high time he tells us everything. Now that we know dealing with Infinity is dangerous, we should warn your Dad about it, in case he had no idea of the ongoings in KRI. Maybe he can find out who these people are.after all" Jake was quite worried.

"No!" Nick burst out. "First thing he'll tell us is, 'Why the hell do you want that for?'. And then he'll start having spys and bodyguards around us all the freaking time. And, I will check on other of his properties and buyings to see if there's any other place that is left untouched like this one in that list. Then, we could just go there and check if the lab we are searching for is there. And, as far as I know, Dad never buys any place or any property without a reason. So, he very well knows what's happening. And, us asking him will just get troubles on our way. First, we need to find out if the Infinity is actually on those walls or not! We need to go to KRI gain. This time, Doc, you'll be coming along."

He spoke for a minute, yet, spoke so much. I always loved the way Nick analyzed things. He was always that perfect big brother everyone wishes to have. When teenage just crawled in on us, Me and Avi, Nick was always there for us. When we had to get this girl's number, do some heavy  flirting and throw in some cool pickup lines, he was our Godfather. Sneak out at night? Nick was always our guide. But, he always made sure, we didn't fall in trouble or did anything wrong. He always had these Big Brother ethics- 'Help them do stupid things, but, never let them become one!' Every time I was with Avi and Nick, I always felt more like home than my own. I guess that's what made me more miserable during last 3 months. I didn't meet them even once. So stupid to even think of it, that I literally left food and people who cared for me over one bitch who didn't even deserve it. Every memory was like a pricking needle. She did all of it for fame and money. And I had actually fallen for her words. Now she's making another guy her Slave there, in Pune. Haha! The best part of having friends who are family is they never abandon you. They're always there, 11 in the morning or 3 at night. Avi and Nick were that for me. I treated them like strangers in the past 3 months. What was I even thinking? I could live without them? No. Noo!

Suddenly I was brought back to the present by April's talking, actually screaming. "When are we going and this time are we going with the keys, or breaking in, again?"

"Who said you are coming?" Nick said, with his face ready to give a long length explanation.

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