PART 14 B: Realizations...
The doctors didn't take long for the scans and soon the results were out. Anjali's scar , which so many years old , was curable after all. "Call an Ortho and give me OR 3 now!" muskaan yelled as passed by the corridor. Nani grabbed her hands. "Beta...what is wrong with anjali bitiya?" she cried. "Naniji...no please don't cry. She is ok...perfectly ok...the doctors saw her injured leg and and they decided to operate on it too." "But its not possible right...?!" asked mami. Muskaan smiled. "Yes. It is possible! Just stay calm down...i just called for an ortho...she will be here by now!" she said. "Ortho???" NK asked. "Umm...ya...an orthopedic surgeon...the bone specialist that is..." she said and went away.
In the deep dark corner , he was sitting , while he hid his face with his palms. Arnav Singh Rathore was a man of pride and power but the his mate on the hospital bed in a critical state shook him to the core. "Its all my fault , Sid's in this condition , this all my fault..." he got and banged his hand on the floor , and saw a little shadow outside the door. It was Junior ASR's shadow. He saw the shadow now diminishing into the light. He sat down and cried again until he felt a touch on his shoulder. He looked up and it was the person , whom he least expected to be with now. Khushi.
He didn't know what happened to him but he quickly hugged her tightly and cried. Khushi too cried with him. After the whole day , all four of them would have been exhausted , if not that tragedy had occurred. "Khushi...khushi i never , never wanted to hurt Sid...i...i.." he couldn't finish as he started to look up to Sid , hoping that he was awake by now. "Arnavji...arnavji you didn't do anything wrong...Sid ko kuch nahi hoga...hum aapse vaada kaarte hain...aap please shaant ho jaiye..." she pleaded. Arnav looked into her eyes. She was so beautiful. Scared , but beautiful. He couldn't hold back for long. He grabbed her face and kissed her.
Khushi was taken aback. She didn't know what to feel. She found his hand resting on her hips and unknowingly she flung her hands over his shoulder. Arnav kept on kissing her as both their eyes welled up. Khushi remembering her passionate days , whereas Arnav , trying to remember what he had lost 5 years ago. He kept on sucking her lower lip and teasing her my cupping her face. "Ar...arnav...ji..." khushi moaned. Arnav opened his eyes and broke the kiss , slowly and gently. He looked up khushi saw her swollen lips and pink blush , which crept up from her swan like neck to her beautiful and radiant face. Khushi and arnav sat a bit distant from each other. "Umm...arnavji...i..." she started to speak but quite down when they saw NK entering the room.
"Khushiji...saach saach bataiye ki kya hoya...?!" he asked. Worry , etched on his face. Arnav and khushi looked at each other and sighed. Khushi started to play with the button of her jeans as she remembered how she got into them.
FLASHBACK:
"Maa..." came a soft cry. "Is ASR back with my ice-cream???" he asked as he came and sat beside sid. And it all came back to muskaan. "Ok...now i know which one...Damnit!!!" she yelled as she broke the glass door in anger. " I am going...come on sid..." muskaan ordered as she took her car keys. "I will also come..." khushi said. Muskaan was horrified. "What...no no khushi...i can't risk your life like this...its too dangerous..." muskaan huffed. "But my husband is stuck there...i need to go please...i can't loose him..." she cried. "Khushi you won't loose him...but please have a little faith on me...i promise that i will bring him back...safe and sound..." she said. Her voice was literally shaking. "Please muskaan..." she cried.
"No!!!" was her answer...again!
Muskaan went upstairs to load her gun. "Muskaan you can't keep me away from my husband!" khushi yelled. "I am not keeping you away from your husband , i am keeping you away from danger..." muskaan argued back. Sid came in. "Hey...i think we should take her..." he said. "What about her safely then??" muskaan asked. Sid sighed. "Give her a gun...!" he whispered. "what?" both the women yelled. "Well...she needs to be armed and since your having a spare gun , why not give her?" he asked.
Muskaan opened her closet and took out another spare of gun and handed it over to khushi. "Are you sure about this khushi?" she asked. Khushi nodded. "Ok...i am giving you some of my jeans and shirts , wear them. They small pockets and attached gadgets to help you out if someone tries to strangle you. Ok?" she checked.
After some time khushi came out fully dressed and was carrying her gun. She kept away her mangalsutra as she didn't want to loose it. "Ok...so we are ready right guys?" sid asked. He took out his car , which had too many gadgets in with it and started driving. "Khushi...stay with sid ok...i need to split up!" muskaan ordered. Sid didn't approve her plan but he had to listen to her.
END OF FLASHBACK
Khushi saw nani entering. "How is sid beta doing??" she coughed. "His vitals look good bari nani..." they heard junior ASR chirp. Just like muskaan. Nani looked at khushi's disheveled form. "Khushi bitiya...go home and rest , you must be tired..." she said. But nani looked at closely. "Arre khushi...aapka mangalsutra kahan hain...???" she asked. Khushi's hand instantly went up to her vaccant neck as she remembered keeping it under her pillow. But realization dawned arnav. "I...i just kissed a married woman? Who has a five years old son and probably a lovable husband...what was i thinking...?!" his thoughts stopped its tracks as his eyes fell on hers. Khushi could see an unknown feeling of rage in her husband's eyes. The tired face was complementing his fiery eyes as he went out of the cabin with an ASR aura.
As arnav was going he didn't notice but he actually bumped into muskaan. The files in her hands fell on the ground and she was about to loose her balance when arnav caught her in time. "Arnav...are you...are you ok??" she asked as arnav put her back to her original postion. "Ya...ya...i am fine..." he said as he wiped away his tears from his eyes. "Hey hey...stop crying ok? Its not your fault...it just happened...don't blame yourself for it...ok?" muskaan wiped away his remaining tears and smiled. "Look at him..." she whispered as she turned him around and made him look at sid. "Jab usse hosh ayega na..." she cried , "tab...tab usse bohot datna aur kehna ki agar aisa phir se kiya na...toh humse bura koi nahi hoga...ok?" she wiped away her tears and smiled. "Bohot pyar karti ho na usse...?" arnav asked her.
Muskaan looked at him. Their hands were entwined together and they could see through each other. Muskaan saw how lost arnav was after this incident and arnav saw how broken muskaan was after all this. Muskaan's gaze on arnav broke , when the nurse came up to her and took her away for the surgery. Arnav let go off her hands and she quickly collected the files and went away. Arnav went up to sid's cabin and sat near his bed.
FLASHBACK:
After saving arnav , all the five sat inside the car. "We need to get out here...now..." muskaan yelled as she hit the accelerator , pushing to speed to 100 km/ph and took everyone into a roller coaster ride. "Hey...i don't wanna crash ok...!" sid yelled. "shut up sid...im an expert in rash driving..." muskaan said cooly. "Ya...that's what were afraid of..." huffed arnav , who clutching to Khushi for dear life. And suddenly , they hear a 'tick tick' sound. Muskaan and sid looked at each other.
And then they focused on the road. "There's a bomb in the car..." muskaan whispered.
END OF FLASHBACK
Nani caressed arnav's head , which brought him out of thoughts. "Beta...won't you eat anything...???" she asked. Arnav nodded. "No...not until he wakes up and has his food..." he said , his voice was commanding enough for nani to not ask anything more. Khushi silently walked by him and though arnav acknowledged , he just felt too guilty to even look up at her. For messing with her. For messing with the beautiful anf promising thing called marriage.
The nurse soon came up to them to inform them that anjali's surgery would start by an hour or so. This made arnav remember the dreadful sight he had to see , because he was being saved.
FLASHBACK:
"Sid get out of the way , i don't need your help..."arnav yelled. "No rathore , i am not going to leave you like this..." sid yelled.
As sid approached him , with the little strength left him , arnav saw how Sid pushed him out of the way and got hit a truck , which didn't even care to stop and check back.
And the last thing he heard was muskaan's agonised scream as she called out Sid's name and he passed out.
END OF FLASHBACK
"What's with you and these cases Musky...???" said Helen Torres , as she scanned through anjali's X-Ray thoroughly. "That i don't know , but Helen...you gotta take this case ok...i...i need thebest ortho on this case..." muskaan huffed. "Lucky patient it seems...the world's top neurosurgeon , the chief of surgery and now...the best ortho present in the country...one , damn lucky patient..." helen smiled. "so...that means your talking up the case...?" muskaan asked. "Yes...yes of course i am..." helen smiled , as they got ready for their surgery.
Muskaan came upto the board. "You know torres...it looks like a bone marrow failure...if you see closely then..." muskaan was stopped by torres. "Yes...it is a bone marrow failure but what astonishes me is that her previous doctor replaced her original foot with an iron one...that was absolutely a ridiculous idea..." she huffed. "But you know its just not a bone marrow failure...its something else too...look at bones near that cramp..." helen said. "They are broken..." muskaan whispered. "No...the are crushed...its a fresh wound..." helen said. "That explains her swollen leg which caught the chief's attention." muskaan concluded.
"I hope she will be ok...!" aditya came upto helen , as he looked back at his unconscious wife in the OR. "She will be fine Mr. Saxena!" Torres smiled.
" I am ready Musky...are you...???" asked Helen. "Oh yes i am...!" she smiled and wore her mask as they walked together in the OR. To save that woman's life , who would save other's , no matter what. "Let's change her fate shall we...!" helen smiled and they were determined to cure their patient.
"Change, we don't like it, we fear it, but we can't stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn't is lying. But here's the truth: the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes change is good. Oh, sometimes change is . . . everything."
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