The Game Changers - Bishma & Karn

|| Chapter 19 | First Talks ||

Hey Guys!!!! 

The nineteenth chapter. 

I don't own Mahabharat. 

Happy Reading!! 

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Maha Mahim Bishma POV 

I am a little lost.
The man that had returned, was someone else, not the boy I had sent. Of course, I never expected him to be same, but there was just something that I was not able to gauge. There is something un- known that has made place in him. Something that I do not know, how to define. 

Right now, as I was pacing in his room, I was trying to sort my thoughts out, after tonight. 
The two, Karn and Princess Ananya, had not returned after Princess Ananya had dragged him God knows where.
I did not mind them going, looking at how the two reacted, cleared they were very close. Though it came as a surprise to the me, I did not mind it at all. 

I just wanted to spend some time with my Putra.

"You know, Papa, you will make a whole in the floor if you pace more." A smooth voice said.
One that I would recognize anywhere. My sons voice, my Karn's voice. It wasn't the copied one, like I had heard down stairs. This was his voice. The voice I have been yearning to hear since last nineteen years. Me and Mata Satyavati both. 

In a whip lash, movement I turned to face my son, who was standing leaning against one of the pillar, his posture showing that he had been there for a while. But how? I did not even realize it.

"Karn? When did you come?" I question, un able to keep my surprise away. 

Karn did not reply, instead, he walked to me and pulled me in a hug.
"I missed you." He whispers. And I pull him to me tighter. Closer to my heart. 

"Me too, son. Me too." I relaxed in the hug, I felt after so long. The one that I had been yearning for, since a long time.

"Say, how was your student life?" I ask, once we pull away.

"Come here." Karn drags me to my bed and makes him lie down. "I am not going anywhere." He assures me, squeezing my hands. As he places himself, near his foot. Simultaneously, taking my leg in his lap and he starts to massage.

"My student life was wonderful." Karn began. "You know I met Ananya, after leaving from here, it had just been two months. She is half a year older than me. I didn't trust her, slowly steadily as we lived on each other's company only, we learnt to trust one another."

"Gurudeva had sent both of separately and directed to me to find a capable girl, while her a capable boy. We weren't even aware that we had been actually looking for each other." Karn laughed as he remembered his child hood days.
"One day, I got angry, it had been six months since me and Ananya living with each other, helping one another. She had a similar gloomy mood. And both of us together had blurted about Guru Parshuram's order."

"Then?" I ask, worried for my son. I was surprised that my Gurudeva gave such an order to the two kids, who were merely six- year- old. 

-- Flashback – 

THIRD POV