Tarasha - Season 3 - Episode 147

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Tarasha - Season 3 - Episode 147

**NIS Underground Office**

A neat cropped photograph of Cole could be seen displayed on the desktop screen, Dave was seated behind the system. With the aid of the mouse, he selected and labeled the different features on Cole’s face one after the other. Then he clicked on the ‘search’ button just below the picture and a dialog box to show the processing progress displayed.
After searching for about five minutes, the dialog box indicated the completion of the process with the word ‘FOUND’. Dave clicked on ‘OK’ just below the main word and a new tab opened on the window. It loaded for five seconds and displayed on the new page the full profile of Cole, showing his full name, his date of birth and other birth details, his parent’s information and some of his other personal details.

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11:30am
The new sitting room was a beautiful one, carefully organized and decorated but not as big as the one in the main building. Cole and Tomi had taken time to clean up the living room and two other rooms after they moved in all the loads. The underground facility had other rooms but only the living room, kitchen, two bedrooms and the restrooms were for domestic purposes, the other rooms were either weapons’ stores, computer rooms or just empty.
‘I thought I was supposed to only work as a nurse here, how come I had to join you clean up the place?’ Tomi spoke for the first time since they finished cleaning up. She and Cole were the only ones in the living room, Henry had gone with Tarasha to bath and dress and dress her up.
‘Don’t talk as if you did any thorough clean up, the place wasn’t dirty, it was only a little bit dusty.’ Cole replied her.
‘Oh! But how come I had to join you at all?’
‘Why are you complaining after we’re done with it? You didn’t say anything when I asked you to join me,’ Cole said.
‘I didn’t know we were going to work so much,’ she replied.
Cole chuckled. He got up from the sofa and walked to her, he sat on the arm of the chair and placed a hand around her neck. ‘You don’t have anything else to talk about, that’s why you’re complaining, right?’ he said, looking into her face.
‘Oh! You think I’m just complaining because I want to talk?’ she eyed him.
He sighed. ‘Okay, Tomi.’ He said, raising up his hands in the air. ‘You win, I’m sorry for making you work like that.’ he tilted his face and made a funny expression at her. ‘Are you okay now?’
She responded by giving him a light playful slap on the face. He smiled and grabbed her hand.
‘Wait! Will we continue to see after I finish the treatment here?’ she stopped playing and asked.
‘Huh?’ he raised his eyebrows, looking into her eyes directly. He knew he had sparked off some feelings in her when he kissed her earlier but he wasn’t ready to return whatever feeling she was developing for him, he had only done that to attach the tracking and recording chip to her hair.
He remembered that he had not checked if the tracker was still in her hair or it had fallen down when she had her bath. But he was quite sure of the former, the kind of hair she plaited would require her to cover her hair while bathing so that it wouldn’t get wet and that meant she wouldn’t have touched the hair while bathing except while she rearranged it.
‘I mean, will you reach me again after tomorrow when I leave here?’ she explained.
‘Where are you going to?’ He questioned her.

‘Going back home and to my job of course,’ she replied.
‘I told Tarasha that you can cook,’ Cole said and looked away.
‘And what does that mean?’ she squinted.
‘The boss wants you to remain here,’ Cole replied. ‘You think we would have allowed you know of this underground facility if you weren’t going to join us.’
‘I can’t stay here,’ she refused.
‘You will.’
‘No, I can’t stay here. I’m not prepared, besides I’ve got a new job I have to go back to.’
‘You don’t have to go back to any job, you have another here, you’ll get paid monthly and I assure you that she pays nicely.’
‘No, but I can’t just leave everything like that,’ she argued.
‘Tomi, I advice that you don’t reject this offer,’ Cole said in a serious tone, getting to to his feet.
‘But…’ she stammered uncontrollably.
‘Listen Tomi, you have all you need here,’ Cole said, taking a squat position before her. He placed his elbows gently on her laps and looked into her eyes. ‘You don’t need to go back where you were working with the street thugs and riffraffs, the boss will pay you well.’
‘Its just that…’
‘Shhh…’ he hushed her and placed a finger on her lips as he rose slowly and brought his face closer to hers. His lips touched hers softly and withdrew immediately, he looked into her eyes as he placed his hands on gently on her neck and covered her mouth with his. His fingers found it’s way into her hair and he was able to locate the device, he took it out gently and dropped it behind the chair. He tried to break the kiss but she wasn’t ready to let him go yet as she continued to pull him closer.
‘Hmm…’ someone cleared his throat behind them. They quickly broke away from each other and Cole turned back. Henry had just wheeled Tarasha into the living room, she had been bathed and had changed into a white top and white shorts. Henry also looked refreshed, he had also changed his clothes and had his hair neatly combed.
‘You guys are going to stay in the same room tonight, you should have been patient enough.’ Tarasha said as Henry wheeled her to the middle of the living room. ‘Cole, you can have your seat.’ she said and waited for Cole to respond. Henry also joined Cole on the three seater sofa directly in front of Tarasha. ‘What’s your name nurse?’ She turned to Tomi with a smile.
‘Tomi,’ she replied with mixed feelings of fear and confusion. Her eyes met an encouraging look on Cole’s face.
‘To me,’ Tarasha said, pronouncing the name in a funny way.
‘Tomi,’ the nurse corrected.
‘Tomi,’ Tarasha pronounced again, getting it right this time.

‘Yes, Tomi.’ the nurse nodded.
‘What exactly is wrong with me? I’ve not been able to use my hands well, other parts of my body have also been so weak.’
‘I don’t really know what know what happened to you, so I can’t say or guess what the problem is. We will have to use an hospital facility to be really sure at this moment,’ Tomi answered, mentioning her words carefully and one after the other and also glancing at Cole frequently.
‘I was tortured by the enemy group and I also have a bullet wound on my back, I see that you redressed it earlier. ‘ Tarasha said to her.
‘Yes, I did. I only hope it wasn’t soaked by water when you had a bath. I thought I was supposed to bath you tonight,’ Tomi replied.
Tarasha smiled and her eyes met with Henry’s, ‘I can’t really say if it was touched by water or not.’
‘I did not allow water to get into…’ Henry said with his eyes blinking as he felt shy about owning up to have bathed an unclad woman.’
‘I can’t really trust that word,’ Tarasha cut in with a kind of mocking smile. ‘I need to get a more thorough bath tomorrow, I could even tell he closed his eyes when he got to some parts on my body.’ she said looking at Henry.
Cole could not help but burst into laughter and Tarasha joined in the laughter.
‘Well, I’m happy he did it anyways.’ Tarasha said after laughing. ‘So nurse, I’m aware you’ve him drugs for me already.’
‘Yes, I did.’
‘Thank you. And I also want to believe you’re aware that you have a job here.’
Tomi frowned and took a glance at Cole’s face.
‘Oh! I don’t mean the one you do in the room with him,’ Tarasha said chuckling. ‘You have an official one to do with me.’
‘Yes, I’m aware.’ Tomi finally answered shyly.
‘Good! I hope I get well as soon as I want but whether or not I do, we’ll start with what we have to do immediately.’
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