Beginning of Flashback
All the elders left the office through different doors but came all to the same center area. Everyone said bye, and as Nihat and Mevkibe were going to walk away, Aziz stopped them. "Can we talk to you?" Nihat looked at Aziz confused., "It's important." Nihat nodded, and everyone walked back to the office.
"Ok." What is going on?
"I have something to show you." And Aziz took out a picture of Can when he was 16 years old.
"Why do you have a picture of my son?" Nihat asked not liking what he was seeing.
"I had a similar question."
"Excuse me."
"Nihat, you and I have known each other for many, many years." Nihat nodded. "But, I think this rebellious war we have between the North and the South is taking things too far."
"I'm sorry?" Nihat was confused.
"Your 'son,'' Aziz placed a quotation under the name son, "I know it's not. It can't be."
"What makes you think that."
"As I said, we have known each other for a very long time. We have made sure everyone follows the rules, and whoever doesn't, we scare them with the story of Nazli and Ferit, but the reality is that they are both alive and in the dungeon. Living together, eating rats and whatever they can, but they are not fighting like you and me for something that we had no control thousands of years ago."
Nihat looked at Mevkibe, who was also surprised by what she was healing because it was true. "Nihat, all of us, all the elders, know that they are not dead. We know it, and we don't care, but we still place this rule on our children."
Nihat sat down on his chair, placed the picture infront of him, and nodded, in regret. "You're right. Weve been fighting for nothing." He said tired. "I've been fighting for years, for a cause that makes no sense, the more I think about it the less I understand it." He said. "All of this started when you and I were not even born." Nihat was tired.
"Exactly." Aziz sat on his chair, and Mevkibe sat next to her husband, and Huma next to hers. "What if we were wrong?"
"What if Sanem and Can, got together in secret, what if John is his son," Aziz said it.
"What?"
"He is identical to Can; they could be twins." Aziz pointed at the picture he gave Nihat, and Nihat knew Aziz was right.
"One of the reasons I asked Can to come was to confirm it. When Sanem and Can would meet again, I was going to confirm it, but, nothing they were like nothing."
"That's true; I was also observing them because we thought the same."
"How?" Huma asked, curious.
"Sanem's reactions and I started to narrow down the possibilities, and I just ended up with him. So, because of what is happening, and you all made the decision to give the rings to the young ones, this was out opportunity, to force Sanem to go to the 4-region meeting, we wanted to see how they would react when they saw eachother, but they acted like they hated each other."
"What if it's all an act." Huma asked.
"Again, what makes you think he is not my son?" Nihat said in a higher tone of voice.
"Nihat." Mevkibe said, he looked at his wife, and saw that there was no need to hide it. "Honay, it's obvious." She was gentle with her words. "Don't worry, you raised him. Butm the trusth is coming out." She grabbed his hand, and he squeezed it at the pain he was starting to feel.
