Love & Betrayal

~ His Wife

He stood there like rock, firm on his place. His jaw clenched while expressions were scary a bit. Karan gave him though looks as somehow he found it wrong. Yudhishthir meanwhile was focusing just on his draupadi and his son. He couldn't manage to loose them at whatever cost.
"You are king but that doesn't make you disrespect my son. Leave before we end up in wrong situation."

"Forgive me Radheya but i can't. I have come here to take my family back to me. Please don't be a hurdle in my way." He told and tried to walk near draupadi but karan kept his palm over his chest stopping him again. "Say whatever you want from here only. Draupadi don't wish to meet you." He said respecting draupadi's decision.
Whereas yudhishthir decided to be calm and looked towards draupadi who was standing a little behind karan with prativindya in her arms. "Panchali,why are leaving? Please don't do this, I want you in my life, I need you and my son."

"With what relation you are speaking this maharaj? You left me on your own will and now you are asking to come with you? Am I looking like a show piece to you that whenever needed you used me and whenever wanted threw me?" She fiercely stood up as the words hitted him sharp. He joined his palms and sat on his knees. "Forgive me for whatever happened. I want to correct my mistake, please come with me panchali. Please!" His throat filled with pain as he couldn't speak more than that.

Karan looked at draupadi, he could clearly see the pain in her eyes. She was controlling herself so hard and managing her emotions due to the fear. Fear that she would again fall for his goodness and do the same mistake again. "Bharata karan! Please let's go from here." She told and started walking but before that only yudhishthir held her hand and then immediately took prativindya in his arms. Draupadi suddenly was scared of his move. She tightly held over her son's hand and tried to resist but yudhishthir also held her hand.
"I won't seperate you from your son. I want you both." He told her and with some forceful moves dragged her with him to the chariot.

Karan stood there without doing anything as vrushali came running and held on his arm. "Arya, stop them!"

"No vrushali! Let him take her, I trust yudhishthir he won't do anything wrong with draupadi. They both love each other and it's visible in their eyes. We should stay some time here." He told. Vrushali wasn't satisfied as she was tensed for draupadi.

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"Pranipaat rajmaata!" A maid came inside as kunti looked up at her with her maithili, subhara and arjun too looked towards the maid. She permitted to speak and she told. "Maharaj has come with his wife and son!" As the words left, all the members stood up with shock. Maithili felt numb at her place while the others couldn't belive what they heard. Without hearing anything more kunti made her way outside towards the entrance.

There on the entrance yudhishthir came out of the chariot with sleeping prativindya on his arms. He forwarded a hand for draupadi. She looked at it but then came down without any help. Yudhishthir didn't mind. He just crawled his fist and asked her to walk. She was still in those same clothes but the thing changed was her hair line, it was coloured red showing that she was now married with the man she always wanted but it wasn't the way she expected. It had costed many things from her.
She looked at the grand entrance of palace. It was beautiful seeing it she remembered her home. Her father's palace, how many things she had left behind. She saw a man and woman standing at the stairs, then she realised it was bheem. Her face glowed with a smile as she remembered the teasings she had bore. She loved all the brothers like her own. The way they cared for her, though they didn't get much time. She then looked at the beautiful lady beside bheem and felt happy to see them looking beautiful together. They were just perfect for each other.

The three of them walked upstairs as valandara with the aarti thaal came near them. Though everyone was shocked and unable to act but they both decided to first welcome the new bride with whole respect and love. Valandara applied kumkum over draupadi's forehead then to yudhishthir, she then did their aarti and asked draupadi to come inside.
"Jyesth! He? I don't know what to say." Bheem said as draupadi lowered her head as her palms fisted. Yudhishthir noticed her hesitancy and said "He is my son bheem!"

Bheem looked at the small child. He couldn't belive that it's his brother's son. He had so many times teased his brother for having a cute baby but never imagined that it will come out this way. He smiled happily and forwarded his hands. Yudhishthir nodded and securely passed his son into bheem's arms.

"Jiji, come inside. You must be tired!" Valandara came near draupadi and said. She held on her palm and started showing her up but before they could move out kunti came in their way. Yudhishthir's heart feared a little but then he calmed himself as he has to look for draupadi, at this time she was the one who is uncomfortable.
"Maa__"

He tried to say but kunti showed her hand. She wasn't at sense at this time. She couldn't belive on what she heard, her son came married and that too with a child. She couldn't trust on what she saw and heard. Her eyes went towards the woman and she didn't take much time to recognize her. It was draupadi. The same princess she had once wished to have as her daughter in law for her eldest and now it's real but she had a son?

"Who is the child, yudhishthir! You don't lie, tell the truth!" She directly asked looking at the child in bheem's arms. "Maa, it's jyesth's son___" Bheem tried to say but she stopped him and told "I asked to yudhishthir!"

Yudhishthir lowered his head, he felt embarrassed of himself, taking a deep breathe he looked at his mother and spoke out with courage. "He is my son maata!" Kunti felt shock, she was feeling like her trust was breaking with every second. "How is it possible!"

"We were together from the time i was crowed as yuvraj. I had broken all relations from draupadi and then varnavart happened. Draupadi too disappeared but few days ago I got her. I didn't know that draupadi was pregnant." His words felt heavy while saying that. Draupadi looked down with both anger and pain. She couldn't forget the sufferings she had gone through. She looked at his side and then left from there taking her son to herself. Valandara followed her as bheem indicated the same.

"You can't be my yudhishthir, these are not my teachings. You left her, you disrespected a woman that to the one you should have loved the most. How could you do this adharm yudhishthir? What was the reason? Why did you break relations with her? Tell me what has happened that you abandoned you own son and wife?" Kunti yelled as she grabbed his arms with little force. But yudhishthir couldn't speak anything. He was hearing everything with his head lowered. Kunti was feeling betrayed by her own son, she had always trusted him blindly. When she always was trying to marry him off he always denied her requests, she had thought that maybe he loves someone else but what her son did was unexpected. She was feeling bad for draupadi. She suffered because of her son. She carried the heir of their family alone after suffering from the betrayal too.

"Maa__"

"Don't call me maa, maharaj! You have lost the right of being my son. From now I'm just a random lady for you, your maata died for you today!" She announced which broke his heart. He held her palms with tears in his eyes and begging, but she didn't stay there and left from there. The brothers felt bad but couldn't speak anything, arjun went behind kunti as she must be in pain too. As nakul and shadev weren't present so bheem tried to stay with his eldest but he asked him to leave and so he did.

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