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December 13, 2023
CHAPTER: - 1
In early 2010, there lived a man named Harvey Dent. He was good to honest police officer. He was deputy commissioner of police force. He blonde hair, physic of an average body builder and had a skin tone white. Harvey was an honest man but sometime in greed of money. He could betray anyone. Police job paid him well but he like the thrill that money gave him. The one thing Harvey loved more than money was his kid Jeff. He had a family of three. Himself, Jeff and his wife or soon to be his ex-wife. His wife's name was Melisa. He wasn't on a good terms with her. He and Melisa had a love marriage. But eventually Melisa understood that Harvey loved money more than anything in this world. He was constantly working, going to parties. So she was fed up of that so she decided to separate ways from Harvey. Melisa was an astronomer with a decent pay at Starlight studio. Melisa was red headed with a slim body and very attractive. At Variety Hotel Los Angeles, she came to visit her husband who was invited there for an event. Harvey didn't know she was there. He attended the event and got bored was going to his room in the hotel. He unlocks the door keep the keys on the table and starts to remove his jacket and he sees his wife sitting on the couch. Harvey smirks and put the jacket on the bed and says "What a nice surprise honey." He goes near her. Tries to hug her but she pushes him aside and starts crying. Harvey got worried, 'hey hey what's wrong?' Melisa turns toward Harvey and says, 'Harvey I can't do this anymore.' Harvey got confused, 'What are you talking about?' Melisa wiping her tears says, 'you. I cannot live with you anymore'. Melisa starts crying again and sits on the bed. Harvey is at loss of words so he leaves the room and comes outside the hotel. Orders a taxi and goes to a bar. Drinks there a bit and the bartender ask for the payment. He picks out his pocket and pays it with the card while the transaction is happening. He started looking towards his wallet and there he finds a coin with both side rough and it was very dirty coin. So he left it on the table of the bar and went home.
With the very next flight Melisa and Harvey came back to Philadelphia. They didn't talk to each other during whole fight. Melisa taught if she made a mistake. Harvey didn't ask one reason why she was divorcing him. Did he saw it coming? These taught were rolling in Melisa's mind. They reached home in a taxi and Harvey asked to go on forward he'll bring the language. As Harvey was carrying the luggage and entering his home. He felt for the first time that he was being watched. He taught it was just imagination and entered the house.
That whole day Melisa and Harvey didn't talk to each other. Harvey had a day off so decided to roam around in the bar. While driving in the city there was a car behind him for a long time. He taught that he was being followed as soon as decided to stop his car, the other car turned right. So he ignored it and then he went his friends house Teddy. Teddy was colleague of his. His rank was just below Harvey. He was black in appearance. He was well-suited man. Harvey and Teddy were close friends.
Teddy opened the door for his friend and invited his friend inside. They sat outside in Teddy lawn drinking bear and Harvey told everything to Teddy and Teddy said, 'everything is going to be alright man'. They were sitting in a wooden chair. Teddy looked at his side and found that his bear were finished so he called his wife Trisha, 'Hey darling bring us some bears'. Trisha was Latin women with an accent. She was cooking with headphones on her ears so she couldn't hear what teddy said. Teddy got up and went in to take the bear by himself. Meanwhile Harvey was lost in the taught and then he suddenly had feeling someone watching him and he got up saw here and there but nobody was to be found. Then he had dinner with Ted's family and as his was driving home. He saw the same car behind him so geared up. The car behind also geared up and then turned right and the other car also turned right. So stopped his car and order the car behind to do the same. Both cars stooped. Harvey came out of his car. His saw an old maruthi Suzuki of green colour. There was a man in a black hoodie in a driving seat. He couldn't see his face because of the light of the other car, 'Turn of the engine jackass' said Harvey angrily. As Harvey was closing in on the car the driver punched reverse gear. Harvey ran behind the car but couldn't stop it.
As soon as Harvey came home and parked the car. He came outside the car and was entering the house and he again felt someone's glare at him. So he searched the area and found nothing. While he was searching, Melisa was watching him from the window she felt something was wrong with him. Harvey couldn't found anything so he went back to his house.
Melisa and Harvey decided to live together until the divorce. It was awkward around the house every now and then. They weren't really talking to each other. In the afternoon while Jeff was playing with his toy truck of red and yellow colour on the floor. He looked there he saw his father wearing a regular t shirt and some shots reading a book and drinking tea. And his mother doing chores of the house looking like typical maid. Although he was just 6 but he understood human emotions. He sensed something is wrong and asked a question to both of them, "Why are you both sad?" That sudden question startled Melissa and she dropped a utensil she was holding. The question also took Harvey by surprise but he maintained his composure, kept the book aside and called Jeff. He carried Jeff and put him on his lap and explained , " Listen Jeff you are really small for this but I want you to know that sometime in life we are not happy with the decision we made but that's okay. Knowing that we made a bad decision and going through it, is not okay. What matters that how make that wrong decision right. To suffer through it or to have a courage to call it quits? We just have one life and everyone deserves to be happy." By saying this he saw towards Melisa and nodded. Seeing Harvey, Melisa started crying and she ran upstairs hiding her tears. Harvey sent Jeff to play with his toys and Harvey sighed in grief. He got up to put the book back in the shelf of his study room. After going in there he kept the book at its location and then he sat on the chair near the shelf. As soon as he sits on the chair he noticed that he saw his paper weight was missing. He thought to himself, "I have the only key to this room and other than myself no one knows where I keep my key and as I last remember paper weight was still on the table" He got up and started searching for paper weight. He found it under the table. Questions rambled through his mind. He searched entire house saw if anything was stolen but nothing was stolen. He thought it may be nothing and went in the hall room and sat on the sofa and the night went trough.
The next day, Harvey was going through some files in his office at his police station. Suddenly someone knocks the door, Harvey says "come in" .It was victor his lieutenant. Victor was wearing a police uniform and had a thick moustache and brunette hair. Victor came in to do some daily chit chat ," I heard you are getting a divorce. How are you doing?" Harvey replies, "Wow. Word gets out pretty fast around here. And we are still thinking there is mole between us." Victor smiles and says, "No but seriously?" Harvey nods while peeking through some papers. "I will let you work. Just wanted to know how you are doing? That's all" Victor says this while moving backwards to the door. Harvey interrupts, "Listen. Can you please do me favour and ask someone to guard my house. I know it's nothing but I think someone intruded my house, I know it's just a hunch but better be safe than sorry" Victor replies, "We'll do" and suddenly phone rang. Harvey asked Victor to excuse him and victor went outside the cabin. Harvey picked the phone and on the other side there was Melisa, Crying, weeping. As soon as Harvey listens to Melisa crying his heart skips a beat, he asks, "What's wrong Melisa? Are you okay? Why are you crying? Is everything alright?" Melisa wiping her tears, controlling herself says, "Jeff is kidnapped."
CHAPTER:-2
In the Police Station, Harvey is talking to someone on the phone, yelling to other person on the other side of the phone. Behind him Melisa is sitting on a chair crying. Her makeup is messed up and she is constantly wiping her tears with her handkerchief. "I don't care have many police officer you have, send everyone to find my child." By saying this he bangs the phone down, Melisa gets sacred. Harvey looks at Melisa and starts crying.
From a distance they here a footstep coming, the guy enters the cabin, it's victor, "I've got lead." Harvey face lights up and he gets up takes his jacket. Melisa also gets up and wanted to go with them. Harvey stops Melisa, grabs her on the shoulder and looks into her eyes and nods in an approval that he will find their child at any cost, Melisa also nods of trusting him with the tasks. Harvey and Victor exits the cabin and they are talking while walking. Harvey "Did you find somebody?" Victor "Not yet but we got an eye witness who saw someone near 008 laker street with a child who was crying" Harvey "That's got to be him. Where is the eye witness?" Victor "He is in the custody room." Harvey and Victor bangs the custody room door open. There is a man sitting on the chair behind the table. With a big beard and smells like he didn't had a bath in maybe a year. Harvey puts his hands on the table and looks him in the eyes and Says, "Where can I find him?" The bearded man " Can you believe it my left pocket is empty I swear there was at least $100 dollars in it in the morning" Victor "I can't believe this prick" Victor opens his wallet and put $100 dollar in bearded mans pocket. Victor "Sir we found it on the stair while you were coming here" Bearded man "Thank you sir. I really grateful for policemen service in this town" Harvey "Enough with this act can you give me more details." Bearded Man "Geez... chill down. What can I tell? He wore a denim jacket of maroon colour. That was a good jacket but the guy wearing it was not so much. He was a really a slim guy I couldn't see his face. But he was trying to stop the kid from crying putting his hands on his mouth but he couldn't stop the kid from crying. And then they went on the direction of Avenue street." Listening Avenue street Harvey gets up and starts running towards his car. Victor also start to follow him but comes back and takes the money out of bearded mans pocket. Bearded man "Hey but that's my money" Victor "Go file a complaint. And that case will come to me and I will find the culprit behind all this Mr. Sucker!" He laugh and exits the cabin to follow Harvey. The breaded man is awe struck "I should never have trusted this cops" Harvey is in a vehicle and orders victor to hop in while he is driving and the rush towards avenue street.
They reach avenue street. Victor on the walky-talky "Send all the reinforcement to Avenue street as quickly as possible" They both exits the car. Harvey signs Victor to go straight where he goes to the right in the very small tunnel. He passes the tunnel. Runs around searches everywhere and starts shouting his son's name but there is no reply. He continues searching for about an hour but there is no response. Victor comes from around the street and asks Harvey "Any luck?" Harvey disagrees. Victor " Alright why don't we call it a day. The some guys are searching near your house where he got kidnapped and remaining guys are searching for him here. Lets go try to get some sleep" Victor picks Harvey up and put him in the car. Victor sits on the driver sit and he was trying to get the car in reverse. Meanwhile Harvey is broken, he couldn't process anything and suddenly he looks at the ice cream truck where he sees a guy making a scoop and behind him he sees a jacket of maroon colour. Harvey jumps out of the car and starts running towards the truck. He enters the truck. The guy "You are not allowed in here" Harvey punches the guy in the face and grabs him by the collar and yells "Where's my boy you piece of shit?"
The guy is sitting in his truck all beaten up and he says "You got the wrong guy. I am not a kidnapper. I am just a small time ice cream sales man. My name is Joseph Fernando and I came from France in search of work. Please let me go." Harvey and Victor stare at each other in doubt and then a policeman bring Bearded man into the truck. Police officer "Is this the man you saw?" Bearded man "first of all I have a complaint to file. My $200 dollar got stolen and I want it back" and he looks at victor. Victor "Sorry sir we found just $150 from your stolen money" and victor puts $150 dollar in Bearded mans pocket. Bearded man "That'll do for now. Ok I don't remember this guy exactly but I sure do remember the jacket. I have seen the child's face maybe I could identify that." Victor shows the picture of Jeff on his phone. Bearded man "This is not the child." Harvey looks at him confused and then Joseph says "You are mistaken I was with my nephew a few hours ago. He was crying so I took him to my sister who was in the town for a visit. I could show you. There a photo on my phone." Victor picks up the phone, finds the photo and shows it to the bearded man and he says "Yes this is the child I saw." Harvey exits the truck and walks a mile and starts screaming. Victor watches him from behind.
Harvey comes back home. He opens and close the door silently and starts walking towards the hall. He sees his wife lying on the sofa. Seeing Harvey Melisa gets up and looks toward him in hope. Harvey sees down and Melisa starts sobbing. Harvey turns around and starts walking on the stairs with a shed of tear in his eye. Melisa gets up and says "Is there hope?" Harvey responds "I don't know". Melisa crushes down on the floor. Harvey sees her and goes up without doing anything.
CHAPTER:-3
One month passed after the Kidnapping still there is no sign of Jeff. Harvey is angry, frustrated and sad. The upper level officer made rest of the staff work on the other cases and assigned Harvey to his own sons case. There was no Negotiation with the Kidnapper so the upper level officer thought that kid maybe lost so instead of arguing with Harvey. They assigned him just one officer that's victor. Harvey and Melisa both were depressed. On suggestion of Victor, Harvey took a leave of 10 days from the office while Victor will look into the case. Harvey and Melisa still weren't talking to each other much.
Sunday 21st June, second day of Harvey's leave. Sun was shining like never before and whole neighbourhood looked lively except Harvey's house. There was a bit of glooming sadness surrounding Harvey's house. Melisa is sitting on chair near the window. Seeing neighbourhood happy, Melisa felt envious. The windows were not totally cleaned. Only a part of window was clean other was not. Melisa took her hand starts wiping the window. While wiping she saw a man standing in front of the house in a gray corporate suit. She couldn't see his face due to dust so she picks up a napkin nearby and cleans the window properly and there he is smiling like Devil. A young man with black glass , he does not much of a physique but he looks good. Melisa is startled with question. That young man waves at Melisa. Melisa does not wave back and goes to the door to lock it but suddenly bell rang. Melisa thought there is no harm in opening the door so she opens the door "Who are you?" Young man "Me. I am nobody Mam. Believe me what I am here to offer will be far more interesting than myself." Melisa "If you are here to sell something. This is not really a good time" Youngman "No mam I am not here to sell anything. I just want 10 minutes of you and your husband Harvey Dent." Harvey enters from the back and sees that someone's on the door and asks "Who's there?" Melisa "This guy wants to talk to us for 10 minutes." Harvey "Ok let him in."
In the living room, all two of them are sitting on the sofa opposite to each other. Melisa comes in with a beverage and offers it to the young man. He accepts it. Drinks the beverage and says "Ahh... this is good." He keeps the drink on the table. "So let's start with my name, which I am not going to tell you but you can call me antagonist. Everyone in this world is a protagonist in their own illusion. But I am not that way if everyone is going to be a protagonist , they need a antagonist to challenge them, help them grow. So I am here to be the antagonist of your story." Harvey this is some psycho who is here to waste his time "Cut the bullshit, If you have something on my child's kidnapping tell it now or get lost." Antagonist "Whoa... whoa...Whoa... Cool down Mr. Harvey" There is minute of silence. Antagonist adjusts his suit and wraps his legs around each other and says "I am the one who kidnapped your child." Listening this Harvey loses his temper and jumps on the table between them, he grabs his collar "Where is he?" Antagonist looks in Harvey's eyes and makes a gesture. Harvey leaves his collar Harvey understands he is in no position to attack him, so in a chivalrous voice he says "what do you want?" Antagonist starts cleaning his suit. Melisa goes towards Harvey and grabs his hand. Antagonist "Man they told me you are not nice. Even then I insisted on visiting you. Look I have your child he has no idea that he has been kidnapped neither he is harmed. If I do not go to meet your child in next half an hour, You know very well what will happen. So can we be civil. I am just here to talk to you guys, maybe bond with you and tell you how to get your child back. That's all. Maybe in upcoming days we become best of friends and go on a double date. Oh wait I don't have a girlfriend. Naah I know you will set me up the someone, won't you Melisa?" Melisa nods in terror. Antagonist "That's like my girl. Now can we be civil and hear my demands. Now sit down this is your home" All of them sit down on the sofa. Antagonist "So listen to me closely" Antagonist tells him his demand. Harvey responds "But it's impossible. If I do that every one will be in danger"
Antagonist "It's your choice either you kill this world or your child. Take day or two to think about it. It happens on Saturday I'll be ready. If you do not do what I asked you to do at 1:00 clock in night technically am but it's not important. Let's get serious. Focus. What was I saying oh yes, or make a death certificate of your child with the timing 1:01" Antagonist gets up and starts walking towards the door sees backward and says "Don't get confused between a.m. and p.m.. It's a.m. alright but night. You get it right" he laughs and walks out.
At dinner, Harvey is thinking and not eating his food meanwhile Melisa too is worried. Harvey looks at Melisa and asks "what should I do?" Melisa replies "Whatever you chose you are going to be bad. It's either the world will hate you or your only family. You have to choose between world's hate and your family's hate" Harvey "Why me? Why do I have to choose?" Melisa while sipping the glass of wine "If it's up to me I would've chosen the family because you two were my only world my life is around you. But your case is different you have a responsibility of this wo