rajveer naina - fated

chapter 1

i have read this story in india forum.......i dont know how many of you have read it......
but those who haven't should definitely read this one.....long time back i had saved this story in my laptop....nd now if you people want to read further leave a comment ..and i will keep updating. .....and if you have already read it ...then let me know so i wont post this further. ....
This is not my work

They say Paradise is eternal comfort
What should one do,
With a place where the heart
Doesn't throb and burn
With the scar of your love?(Bedil)

Chapter 1

Aalekh is on leave when he receives the call; Neelu has given birth to their second son Jai a week ago, and he has a week left to spend with them before he has to go back to the border.Neelu watches the expressions on her husband's face. Afterfour years of marriage she knows him inside and out. The way that Aalekh's face falls, the way he closes his eyes briefly in pain, can mean only one thing.Naina.When Aalekh hangs up the phone and turns to her, Neelu doesn't even need to ask what it's about."Go as quickly as you can," she tells him, "I'll be waiting for you when you get back."Aalekh nods, thankful that she's so understanding. He quickly packs a bag, and then kisses Neelu and baby Jai goodbye, before going to the next room where four year old Veeru is sleeping, kissing him too and smoothing the little boy's hair."I'll be back as soon as possible." Aalekh tells Neelu, "But I don't know how long…" and his voice breaks.Neelu looks at her husband, her heart aching when she seesthe pain written on his face. "Stay there as long as you needto." She tells him."Can you call the others?" he asks her, giving her the address to tell them, and Neelu promises him that she will.Aalekh drives at breakneck speed towards his destination, knowing that if he doesn't stop, he can reach there in underfive hours. Time is of the utmost importance now, every second counts.He has been expecting this call for four years now, knowingthat sooner or later, though he had always hoped for later, he would receive it.Naina is dying./The reason Aalekh was the first to receive the call is that he's officially Naina's next of kin. Her parents died in a car crash two years ago, and Aalekh was Naina's first choice to replace them on the necessary forms.When he had asked her why, her explanation had been very simple."I know you'll have the strength to do whatever is needed." She had told him. Aalekh had prayed that he would never actually need to live up to her expectations.

Five hours later, he pulls up at the army hospital, barely waiting for the car to stop before he jumps out. He runs in, not bothering to stop when the nurse questions him, and heads straight to the ICU.He can see Naina through the glass, and it's then that the doctor spots him and comes outside the room."You must be Captain Aalekh Sharma," the doctor says, and Aalekh nods, still out of breath from his run. "I need to warnyou, her chances aren't good. Even if she survives, she's likely to go into a coma that she might not wake from.""Can I see her?" Aalekh asks him, not really caring what the answer is but feeling that he should ask anyway. Nothing will stop him from reaching her side right now."Yes," the doctor replies, "But she keeps drifting in and out of consciousness, I'm not sure if she'll be able to talk to you or not."The permission is all that Aalekh needs and he walks into the room, stopping by the bed to stare down at Naina, who looks impossibly small beside all of the equipment, wires and tubes surrounding her. He already knows what happened to her, she was injured fighting off a terrorist attack. There's internal bleeding, some of her vital organs have already begun to fail, and Naina is fighting a difficult battle for survival.Somehow Aalekh guesses that she's probably not fighting very hard.

He pulls a hard plastic chair over to her bedside, and sits down, taking her hand. Naina's eyelids flutter before she opens them, looking at Aalekh with a gaze that is clouded, unable to focus properly on his face."Hey," she tells him."Hey." Aalekh replies, the word getting caught in his throat as he chokes back tears."I was waiting for you," Naina tells him and she doesn't needto explain why, Aalekh knows perfectly well.She was waiting for him so that she could die."I'm here now," Aalekh tells her, "You just be strong Naina, fight to live." Aalekh's words sound hollow even to his own ears, and Naina smiles up at him sadly."You're the one who's always been strong, Aalekh." She tellshim, "And you're going to have to be even stronger now.""Don't do this, Naina." He begs her, "I know you can survive if you choose to, you've got such a strong will, you could always do anything you put your mind to."But Naina is already fading away, and Aalekh knows that shewould prefer to cast herself adrift than cling to the shore. She has already made up her mind, and she's decided that she wants to die.He has feared and expected this for four years, he has always known that it would happen."You have to let me go, Aalekh." Naina tells him, and there is no fear in her voice, only calm, and a peace that he hasn't heard for years. "This is how it was meant to be.""No," he tells her, crying now, unable to stop the hot tears from slipping down his cheeks, "It was never meant to be like this. It was all a mistake, this was never how it was meant to work out.""It's too late, Aalekh." Naina tells him tiredly, "It was fated. It was all decided four long years ago."Aalekh knows that she's telling the truth, because ever since they've graduated from KMA, Naina has always volunteered for the most dangerous work. She's thrown herself into mission after mission, only taking leave when she was forced to. Aalekh knows because he accompanied her on some of those missions, tried his best to keep her safe time and again.All of this time Aalekh has known that she's been trying to kill herself without actually committing suicide. Her parents dying two years ago was the last straw, from then on she saw no real obligation to stay alive.It was all decided four years ago, because four years ago was when Captain Rajveer died.And for these past four years, Naina has been dying over and over again, praying for a final blow to finish her off./Aalekh wonders what they could've done differently to prevent all of this from happening. In the end it doesn't matter, because nobody can change the past anyway.