African Arc Chapter 137: Nightmares Are Not Real (short)

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5:49 AM.

We see Rakezh asleep on his bedroom, on the right side next to him is a sleepy Gemini. She sounded peaceful and happy asleep.

Rakezh on the other hand he slept with a frown and a disturbed look on his.

"???"

We see Rakezh who was just a cub in a forest, presumably in India.

He was hiding inside a bush, he heard gunshots fire which made the cub flop his ears down and closed his eyes.

He slowly opened them to see his leopard parents with bullet holes to the head, lying dead on the ground.

The cub began tearing up and cried whilst having hiccups from seeing his family die by the hands of poachers.

"Back to reality"

Rakezh woke up and began panting, nearly jumping out of his bed, he calmed down eventually and looked over to see Gemini hadn't woken up.

He looked over to the shoulder he got shot in back at Botswana, it was bandaged and sewn after he recieved surgery.

Rakezh: *sigh* माँ....पापा....मुझे आपकी याद आती है.... (Mom....dad...I miss you....)

Scene changed to the kitchen where we see Rakezh who was making coffee for himself as it was nearly 6AM in the morning, he couldn't sleep anymore so he figured he'd get up early and let Gemini rest.

He was going to the living room, he then stopped next to his children's bedroom. He slowly and quietly opened the door and entered.

He saw 3 seperate cribs each one with a name. Carla. Priya. Libra.

He looked down at his baby girls with a sincere smile on his face, eyeing the girls one at a time. But his focus was shifted more to Priya.

Rakezh then lowered one of his hands and lightly stroked the baby's hair.

Rakezh: *silently* Daddy will always love you three...you are my angels...

He then stopped and quietly exited the room with his mug in hand, and went straight to the living room.

He turned on the TV and watched Criminal Minds, one of his favorite shows recently when he began living amongst humans.

He took a sip from his mug until he got a message on his phone, he looked to see Marcus typing.

"Texting"

Marcus: Can't sleep too huh?

Rakezh: I had a shitty nightmare.

Marcus: I got woken up by the kids 😑

Rakezh: Mine are still asleep, how's the Ms doing over there.

Marcus: She's alright, trying to calm down Raphael and Juana. I'm gonna jump in to help, how's your shoulder doing?

Rakezh: Well it's not screaming in agony, that's for sure.

Marcus: 😂

Rakezh: So when's your next shift gonna be at?

Marcus: Namibia with Dario in a few weeks, should be fun. But right tomorrow I'm getting sent to Algeria solo.

Rakezh: Well good luck tomorrow pal.

Marcus: You too, take care Rak.

"End of text conversation"

Rakezh: Well that went better than expected...

He puts down his phone and kept watching the show. He sighed.

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