Chapter 195: Lena's truth

"Wait a freaking minute. I didn't hide anything from you!" Lonappan argued as he heard Thankappan's frustrated voice.

"Oh, really? Then how come you didn't telling me about that?" Thankappan asked.

"Why? Because you didn't ask." Lonappan shrugged.

"You sound like it was common sense to ask such a thing. I mean, you are the one who deliberately came up and said that your wife works in the school. So, I would've expected you to take up that enthusiasm and talk about Lana or whatever her name was as well." Thankappan spoke.

"First of all, it's Lena. And secondly, I talked about my wife because she's MY wife and I knew she'd be fine with it. However, I don't know whether Lena would get offended if I talked about her with someone else." Lonappan explained his part.

"Weird. Why would she get offended if she doesn't hear about it at all? I mean, would you snitch on us if we were to talk about her? At least, that's how it sounds like when you say it like that." Thankappan replied with a sour look on his face.

"I didn't mean it like that." Lonappan argued.

"But it sure did sound like that." Thankappan countered.

"Okay, listen to me. I don't like talking about people behind their back." Lonappan spoke.

"Huh? That's the most bizarre thing I've heard from you. Look, just because you gave a heads up to us about this woman, it wouldn't mean that you're talking behind her. Rather, you'd be helping us avoid her. I mean, she teaches in Taro's block, my dude. He's the one person who shouldn't come in contact with people who got close connection with you people." Thankappan replied.

"Nothing wrong happened, right?" Lonappan shrugged it off, not even batting an eye towards Thankappan's concerns.

"Ha… I just can't believe what you're saying! I mean, I've never seen you act so irresponsible. I don't know the exact reason behind what you're doing, but whatever it is, I hope it works out well for you. I… Fuck it. I don't care. Just go now." Thankappan headed back to the room leaving Lonappan stranded.

It did seem that they had a fallout at that moment.

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Early morning next day. Lonappan headed out for what seemed like a nice walk to Mundur and back. However, the agent took a pit stop at a house on his way back home.

He knocked on the door and it was answered by a man who looked abominable. He looked as if he didn't get a good night's sleep for the longest time.

"Why the hell are you here?" Ponnappan asked as he rubbed his eyes to stay awake.

"I wanted to talk." Lonappan replied as he invited himself into the house.

"Then what the hell are we used to doing in my office, huh? Play checkers or what?" Ponnappan asked as he tried grabbing Lonappan by his shoulder and shove him outside the house. However, he was too much like a weasel and he weaseled his way out just like that.

Once Lonappan escaped his commanding officer's clenches, he made himself comfortable on the couch placed right at the centre. "So, are you gonna hear me out?" He asked.

Ponnappan sighed. "It does seem like you won't leave until I listen to whatever bullshit you spout… So, what do you wanna say?" He asked.

"Cool. It seemed like your dear wife met up with the boys from the Holy Land." Thankappan revealed, much to Ponnappan's surprise.

"What? When did that happen?" Ponnappan asked.

"Yesterday, it seems. The lads, especially Thankappan looked really pissed off by this." Lonappan explained.

"Oh, really? I didn't want that to happen like that. I just wanted to meet the guy that hus hyped up as one of the strongest aliens that he have ever met. I mean, that's a solid praise, you know?" A feminine voice came from the side.

Lonappan looked to his side and saw Lena waving her hand like crazy, to which the agent sighed yet again. "Why would you do something risky like this? I meant there are ton of other ways." He spoke before turning towards Ponnappan this time around. "And you, don't hype up about job things like this to your wife next time on. I mean , it would be a direct dismissal if someone is to complaint about it to the headquarters." He explained.

"Don't blame him on that. I'm the one who asked him about the events in the base and with the aliens and stuff. So, yea." Lena shrugged.

"You do know that you are no longer an MIB agent, right?" Lonappan asked.

"Ha, don't remind me of that. It's making me wanna go back on a mission one last time." Lena spoke as she reminisced about the good times.

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Chinnappan and Konappan; two brothers recruited by the MIB when they aced their written and physical tests. It was a first for the MIB that two brothers passed it on the same batch.

Thus, they were in a conundrum. They didn't know whether they should wipe their memories completely or not. In the end, they decided to wipe it all off other than one selective memory that the brothers choose.

Thus, when the brothers were asked of it, they requested them to keep their relationship intact. They were basically orphans who were abandoned by their parents. They stumbled upon this opportunity by pure luck. However, they didn't actually expect to ace the tests which made it hard for them in a way. They simply didn't want to forget about the one relationship they have.

So, in the end, even though they forgot their origin and stuff, they still knew that they were brothers and that familiarity was something that kept them going until that one point came when they had to be separated.

Two of them in the same place meant wasting potential, so the MIB sent Chinnappan to Snehatheeram and Konappan to Hyderabad. Both became commanding officers and all was going well.

Since marriage wasn't actually forbidden, both got into a wedlock of convenience and both were blessed with daughters. While one thought that his daughter shouldn't end in the same path as his and choose one for her own, the other thought of having the daughter succeed him. Thus, Leia became a teacher and Lena became an MIB officer.

However, Lena simply didn't like being an MIB agent since it wasn't her own decision. Thus, the first ever decision she made for herself turned out to be a big one as she eloped with her fellow colleague Ponnappan and eventually married him.

Since there's no other person who could possibly save her from her father's wrath, Lena headed towards her uncle, who actually helped them.

However, this created a bad blood between the brothers. This only increased once Chinnappan recruited Ponnappan into his squad and eventually made him the commanding officer since he had no choice at that point.

In Lena's case, in order to stray further away from what her father paved, she looked to learn anything non physical. It ended up with teaching, something that her cousin, who was eight years younger than her suggested.

And it did work out for her which made it even more sweeter for her. She was finally independent of everything that shackled her. Although, the pay was significantly less compared to what she used to receive, she was happy and that was all that she wanted.

A few years later, her cousin entered into the teaching business as well, so things were relatively fun for her that way. However, through all that, she never stopped training because she didn't know when it would come handy.

Although everything seemed fine, the main problem arises when she gets reminded of the thrill of going on a field mission with her husband. Eventually, she starts missing the MIB and then begins to nag her husband into spilling the events occurring at that place.

Ponnappan is an upright officer, but he was weak to his wife's words. Thus, he spills the beans way too easily and that's usually enough for her.

However, this time around, she actually wanted to meet up with the Wadorian whom her husband spoke so highly about. After hours of back-and-forth talk, Ponnappan actually agreed to Lena's conditions—that is, if she doesn't directly involve in any of the Holy Land aliens' actions.

But her curiosity was immense and she wanted to meet up with the said strong guy. And in the end, she actually met up with Taro, creating all sorts of problems along the way. She felt bad for doing it and asked Ponnappan if she could be of any help including a brief return to MIB to clear the mess up, but her reliable husband promised that he'd deal with those problems himself and deal with the problems is exactly what he did.

Ponnappan decided that he'd personally walk around to resolve the situation. This turned out to be a huge news for the Snehatheeram sector, many of whom were gonna see their captain in action for the first time.

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