Rudra - The Spark of Justice

Chapter 9

He was sitting on the bed and applying bandage on his burn marks when he felt like someone was passing near the window. He checked the time, it was 9pm. suddenly the door opened up and she came inside. "How are you?" she asked and saw the small burn marks on his hands as she came in.

"Weren't you pushed before the fire was lit? How can you have burn marks?" she exclaimed, "are you fine or not... answer me" she asked, sitting near him and looking at his wounds. He was still searching for words and she continued, "Am sorry for hurting you all these days... I was so arrogant. But when that guy kicked you out through the window, my heart missed its beat and since then I've been thinking only about you"

"He didn't kick me, I was the one who lured him to get out of the place" he said, to remove her thought of underestimating him.

"What do you mean?' she asked and he stayed silent without answer again. "I'm sorry if am questioning you too much... I was just confused with fear if something happened to you" she answered herself.

"What do you call this affection Varsha?" he said. She bent her head down, "Will you marry me?" he asked, looking at her.

She turned her face away, but saw him again. She got up and ran downstairs to the basement without replying anything. Getting up from the Bean bag with a small struggle, he followed her.

She passed the two bikes covered in sheet and went near the painting that she had left off in the middle. She unpacked her painting materials that she had left earlier. "Can't you see that this place is lightless without your presence" he said and looked at her hand as she started painting again. He then understood that she was getting ready to paint instead of packing the stuff. He was watching her with tired eyes and as the painting neared completion, it was 12pm. He was literally dozing while she turned back with a face full of smile, seeing this his face started glowing with smile as he understood her reply. It was a pair of wolves, sitting on a cliff's edge on the moon light where the female wolf was leaning on the male wolf and they were looking at the moon. She completed it and turned back. "I was thinking all this time about loving you, and let my hands flow as they wanted. Now I got the answer" she said.

"What?" he smiled.

"Varsha loves Shiva" she said and hid her face in shyness with her hands. He pulled her towards him and hugged her. Something in the bottom hindered their first hug. They parted away for a second and he took the lens ball out. They hugged peacefully again. The ball, 2.3 inches in diameter was Suspended in the air behind him, hiding it from her sight and getting her by the hand, he took her near a refrigerator like box near his bike. One of the bikes beneath the sheet seemed familiar, and before she could recognize it, she saw the roll out chamber having the suit of the man who saved all the people at the fire accident on the same day. "It's you!" she exclaimed and he nodded in agreement. Just then she saw the shimmering lens ball behind him and her eyes opened up in astonishment. She walked back in the same amusement and stepped on something uncommon and turned back to see what it was, or who it was, "why is Jeeva lying here?" she asked "and who is this guy tied next to him?". "That guy is the one who set the place on fire today... do you remember?" he asked.
She got back to her senses and replied "yeah".
"I knocked him off when he jumped down, and hid him nearby. When the spot got cleared, I got him here" said Shiva.
"And Jeeva?" she asked.
"he came to see me just like you some time ago and I told him these secrets as I told you... the poor guy fainted" he replied with a laugh.