Battle for Love (Comp)

Team Bonding

A/N: Fluff, team bonding and heart to hearts.

Warning : Auto corrects and typos are always behind my back so please forgive me for any mistakes. And please don't get mad at my attempt at typing Hindi, it is NOT my First or Second language so I am prone to make mistakes.

Till now he'd only heard of the team's mother hen from the tales recounted by the team and now he was experiencing it first hand. And Khalid wouldn't admit it to anyone but... personally, Kabir as a mother hen is way more scarier than the Kabir he'd seen while he'd been bashing up everyone in the mission.

Yeah you heard it right. Major Kabir, the mother hen of the team was a person you would have to look out for... and defy his orders, you'll be smothered to death. He took the 'team is my family' thing very seriously. It was like he was witnessing a new side of Kabir right now, a caring side that would be quite impossible to imagine if you haven't experienced it.

After the initial scolding about how reckless he'd been and all that, he'd praised him for his work before scolding him again for not taking care of himself properly. And then it started. Since Kabir had gotten off the bed and Khalid was allowed to be discharged but to be at bed rest, let's just say that Kabir and the team had been beside him almost all the time, not letting him get off the bed and taking care of his every need, without taking any nos for an answer.

And Khalid was basking at the affection the team seems to shower him with, a care he'd only gotten from his mother till date. The way they are taking care of him reminds him of how his ammi used take care of him while he was sick or had come home with bruises blooming all over his body.

It was also quite overwhelming at times, not being used to these many people coddling over him, taking care of him... it was all like a new experience for him and he often had to swallow down his irritation and hold his tongue from lashing out at them to leave him alone for sometime as he didn't want to look like a person who's not appreciating the way the team is caring and loving him...

But it seems like Kabir understood what was going on in his mind and explains it to Khalid. "Main jaantha hoon ki you are feeling smothered aur tumhe tumhara privacy chaahiye. Par yeh team... we consider each other as family. Aur agar is parivaar mein kisi ko chhot lagi toh... everyone gets worried and thoda overboard jaayenge affection mein..." Kabir had said.

"You had us worried, you know. Teen din laga tha tumhe hosh aane mein... aur is team ke anusaar, you are the baby here, the newbie jo sabka dil churaliya. Get used to it, sabke saath yahi hota hai" he'd explained and left.

In the course of the bed rest, he'd often found himself sleeping on one of his team mate's lap at least once, a sleepover with all if them piling into his room on day one, one of them was caught spooning him from behind, some were caught sleeping on the chair while they were on watch duty... All in all, they even never let Khalid sleep alone and always kept him company all the time.

And thus, the two weeks passed with the team slowly backing off Khalid, to let him do somethings by himself but strictly prohibited him from doing any strenuous job that might strain his injuries by the end of it.

By this time, Khalid was itching to get out and spend some time on his own, get his own alone time which the team hadn't given him with all the smothering and love they were showering on him.

And that's what he did. The minute he saw the opportunity, he grabbed it and sneaked out of the house without anyone noticing and just lay down under a nearby tree that was usually not visited, just taking in the solitude and nature that surrounded him, no noise from people chatting, no clanging of pans or clicking of the keyboard. Just the chirps from birds, the gentle breeze rustling the leaves and grass and the vast blue sky.