Devakshi FF: Reaching Out

Chapter 12

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Here's Chapter 12!

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Sonakshi stepped into her cabin, placing her bag on her chair with one hand and receiving her ringing phone with the other.

" Good morning Ranveer, boliye" Sonakshi said cheerfully putting her phone to her ear. "Good morning Dr. Sonakshi. Maine yeh kehne ke liye call kiya tha ki aapne jo mind exercise diya tha, woh kaam kar raha hai. Kal raatko maine ussey use karke ek attack ko aney se rok paya." Sonakshi smiled from ear to ear, " Yeh news toh fantastic hai. Chaliye aapko iske liye aaj shaam ko ek chocolate toh zaroor milegi. Phir hum next phase ki baat karengey, okay?" Ranveer chuckled lightly on the other side, " Okay Dr. Sonakshi. Shaam ko miltey hai, Dixits ke ghar." Saying her goodbye Sonakshi hung up.

Sitting down on her chair she took out some papers that she needed to go through, before going for a session with one of her patients. This one was a girl who had resorted to self harm due to problems in her family. Sonakshi had almost been in tears when she first met the girl. She was too young to be going through something like that, yet fate had been cruel to her. Now it was up to Sonakshi to give her the life she deserved, to restore the courage and faith that the girl needed to break free from all this. As she skimmed through some of her recent reports, she smiled. The girl was improving. Suddenly her mind connected Dev with that young girl.

She thought back to the day Dev told her about the incident. She imagined little ten year old Dev pointing a knife at his father. Like this girl, Dev must also have needed someone. An anchor, to try to get back to normal. But he had willed himself to be strong. He tried to get on with life by putting the incident at the back of his mind, by showing to the world that he didn't need any saving. But Sonakshi knew better. He needed saving, and he needed it soon, before something else later in life triggered a complete breakdown when the defense mechanisms stopped working. The day Dev confessed, Sonakshi had made up her mind. She would be the one to set him free of this burden and she didn't care how much time it took. She wouldn't stopped trying.

It is because of that very reason that she had made the plan to bring Dev to her chamber today. After her session with the young girl would finish, she would bring in Mr. Shukla's wife and daughter to meet them. And she would make sure that Dev would be there when the meeting took place. Last night after she reached home, she had found Dev already sprawled on her drawing room couch, remote in hand, waiting for her to arrive. They had fun watching the animated movie. It was during the break between switching DVDs that she had given him a hint about how she would be really busy all day long and wouldn't even have time to breathe. Then she had strategically told him the gist of what Mr. Shukla had been through, leaving out certain details. She thought back to it.

**Flashback**

Sonakshi eyed Dev as he put in the second DVD into the DVD player, "Pata hai Dev, aaj Mr. Shukla bohot khush lag rahey the." Dev turned around and came to sit beside her, " Achha? Aisa kyun?" Sonakshi smiled and faced him, " Kal unki beti aur wife unsey milne aa rahey hai. Woh pehli baar milengey unsey, hadse ke baad." She waited expectantly for Dev to ask the obvious question. After a minute it came, " Unke saath hua kya tha Sonakshi?" Sonakshi grew serious, " Main aapko pura toh nahin bata sakti due to the privacy policy between a doctor and her patient, gist bata sakti hoon." Dev nodded at her to go on. " Mr. Shukla jab chote the toh unhey apne papa se bohot abuse sehna padha. Woh unhey har baat pe maarte the. Toh tab se hi unke andaar ek chipa hua gussa tha. But koi bachha apne parents ko kuch nahin bol sakta, toh unhoney bhi kuch nahin kahan, buss sab seh liya." She observed Dev's face, but it didn't give away any emotions, so she continued.