Part 6

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They called him doctor 100%. He four years ago decided he never deserved that at the first place. Four years later, doctor toh door ki baat, mein insaan bhi nahi nikhla aakhir. Kaha gaya mera conscience, kaha gaya mera senses mera responsibilities. He thought. I alone dragged her into this pithole. And there she is suffers for my sins. He thought as tears rolled down his cheeks.
He didn't sob anymore, but as he kept the scalpel on her skin to make the first cut, he felt someone stabbing him right into his heart. The blood that oozed out of her cut eventually got rohit's hands wet. He felt like his legs are shaking and that he is going to loose control anytime now.
Nahi, itna weak tu ab mat ho, rohit sippy. Weak to tume tab hona ta jab tum iski zindagi barbaad karaneka faisla liya. Lekin nahi, chal pada revenge lene ke. Itna aage nikhla tu ki jab wapas mudne ko chaha, uske liye bhi tumare paas wakth nahi bachaa ab. He cursed himself.
Looking at her face he wondered how much in life she has endured. He too added more to it, as if all the sufferings she had weren't enough. His memory went back in time. How she shared hidden pain inside her.
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"Pata hein rohit....mein aaj jitna kush phele kabhi nahi raha...." he remembered her telling when they walked through the marine drive at a midnight after a dinner date. Both of them decided to have a whole night walk, sending Ravi for a off-shift. He held her hand, which was a habit that got into him unknowingly, but later became his most favourite thing to do. They came to a lone bench at a corner in slight darkness, where they chose to sat. Seated facing the sea, they both stayed in each other's embrace without uttering any word. She laid her head against his chest circling one arm around him and hugged him tight. He hugged her back, fiddling and entwining his fingers with hers.
"When i was little, papa used to take me to a lake near our house at night. There we used to sit in benches like this and stare at the silence. It was a beautiful feeling rohit."
"Papa kahaan hein ab?" He asked.
"Chala gaya. Bina bataayein achaanak.without giving a reason at least. Without even a proper good bye."
"Wapas aanekha umeed lekar gaya honga, sonakshi. Issliye bina batayein chala gaya hoga"
"Rohit... wo waapas aayenga ?" She asked. He noticed the shaky voice which clearly was sounding tearful.
"Of course.jab koi good bye kahe bina chala jaate hein,always believe that it is not the end.adura hua kaam poora karne keliye ek na ek din wo saroor aayenga." He said and kissed her and rested his head on hers.
"Shaayad papa ne tumein bheja ho mere liye... " she whispered, kissing his palm.
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Rohit felt his eyes renewing the tears. She assumed he is her saviour, and what did he offer in return. Jaanwar bhi eisa nahi karta hein kissi ke saat. Even hell will not have a place for a sinner like me. He thought.
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Rohit Sir has never ever been like this in any surgery, thought simmi. Back then four years ago, not even at his first and last unsuccessful operation. He has been a fun, witty and a sarcastic combination whom they have never seen shedding a tear ever. Today he didn't utter a word, only if he moved it was when he raised his arm from time to time to wipe the rolling tears from his scrub sleeve, that's it. Looking at the way his mask and scrubs were getting wet, Simmi just wished sonakshi madam to never leave rohit sir because looking from a distance, even she knew that sir toh madam ke bina kabhi rehe nahi paunga.
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Ten hours surgery came to an end when surgeon Chopda, visiting seniormost gastroentero of the surgery declared his work's end. Rohit all this time didn't move an inch from where he initially stood near sonakshi, not even for a single second.
As they brought her in the trolley, out of the theatre, rohit held sonakshi's cold hand in an equally ice cold hand of his. He stared at her face in a shock, and he kept having flashes of how he first saw her at the ET all covered in wounds and blood oozing out of her mouth and nose. He felt numb and lifeless. The two families came towards him.
"The operation is successful.She is stable,but is in a very critical state. We will only be able assure you all once she regains consciousness." Said surgeon Chopda to all.
"Thank you so much. Aap nahi hota toh pata nahi kya hoga mere bahu ko." Said veena.
"Mujhse zyaada dugna kaam kiya aapke bete ne mrs. Sippy. She arrested thrice during the surgery, and as you all might already know iss halat mein ek patient ko resuscitate karna aasan nahi hota. Lekin rohit ne karke dikhaya. Aaj rohit nahi taa toh shayad hum iss patient ko kho bhi sakta ta...your son is at his best at 100%. Naren, i am So proud to have a chance to save a life with him." surgeon Chopda said as he left.
Veena came closer to rohit.
"Log kuch bhi kahein, mein srif yahi kahoonga ki sonakshi ki iss halat tumari wajeise hua. Naa tum hota, naa sonakshi iss tarha maut se lad raha hoti."
Rohit looked away all this while.
"Abhi toh yeh fakeness bandh karo,sonakshi ko hosh nahi hein tumara jhoota pyaar dekhne keliye. Chod lo meri bahu ki haat, sharam nahi aata tujhe...."
Veena uttered at him.
"Tulsi,chalo sonakshi ko ICU mein lekar chalte." Said rohit totally ignoring what veena commanded, as he yet held her hand and moved her to the nearby room. They set her to the machines and Rohit bent and kissed sonakshi's forehead. Then he came out of the room back to where veena was.
"Aapki bohot izzat karta hoon mom mein. Lekin sonakshi mera patient hein is wakt, aur uski post operative follow up ke liye maujood hone ke poora haq hein mujhe. Toh request karta hoon mein aapse,iss maamle ki beech mat aaiye please." He said.
Veena raised her hand to slap him hard. But naren held her back.
"Dekhona naren,itna sab hone ki bawajood ye kya kehena chaata hein.toda bhi sharam nahi hein iss aadmi ko.naa koi regret, naa koi guilt. Seriously naren.pyaar karke karke ek saap ko brought up kiya hein mein neh. " veena started sobbing. Rohit opened up his mouth at this moment.
"Mom,i am guilty.I regret so damn much about what i did. And haa,sonakshi ko muh dikhana door ki baat hein, mujhe apne aapko bhi muh dikha nahi sakta. Itna sharminda hoon mein. Lekin ek baat kehe doonga aapse, me iss ladki ko apni jaan se zyaada pyaar karti hoon. iss duniya ki ek lauta sukhoon ki jaga hein wo mere liye. Issliye kabhi usko chod nahi sakta mein."
He finished. Nethra, who was witnessing all these all this while  stared at rohit who walked into the ICU and leaned on the wall next to where sona was kept.
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Sonakshi was walking along in the dark marine drive at that beautiful night,post talking about paapa with rohit.listening to whole soothing words he said, she felt As if she is now in peace. Looking at the way rohit was holding her hand, she felt as is she owned everything in the world.
"Poori raat yahaan bitaaneka man kar raha hein, pata hein tume rohit?"
"Achcha so aaj madam ko need nahi aa raha hein kya?" He said moving to her back and snaking his arms around her.
"Nahi aa raha.tumare saat iss tarha rahoongi poori raat."
"Kya karoongi mere saat reheke...." he chuckled.
"Kyu doctor surgeon. Kya iraada hein aapke..."
"itni romantic raat hein....mera iraada bhi romantic hona toh banta hein sweetheart... " he said stopping mid way and moving her hair to one side, and keeping his cheek on her shoulder.
"Aapke iraadein toh kuch teek nahi lagta janab." She said cuddling to him.
"Dil ki saaf hoon mein mautarma. Iraada toh srif hugging kissing aur etc ki hi hein..." he said planting a kiss on her cheek.
"Elaborate your etc. haa?"
"Batakein elaborate karu yaa karke elaborate karu..." he asked.
"Hawwww....badmaash."
"Kyun? haq banta hein mera haa."
"I don't remember giving you a haq, rohit."
"But i remember getting the haq,sonakshi"
"Achhcha baaba. Ok so karke elaborate karo. Come on."
"Nahi ab mood nahi hein. Weise tumne abhi abhi kaha ki you dont remember giving me a haq." He made a face, leaving her and walking ahead.
"Arey to mein mazaak kar rahi thi naa..." she ran behind him. He too ran ahead.
"Nahi nahi mein kissi ladki par jabardastee nahi karna chahata.... "
"Toh mein kissi ladki bangayi ab aap keliye ah?"
"Haa to tum bataata nah ko haq nahi diya gaya hein mujhe..." he could hardly complete when she caught her in a moment and drew him to her by dragging from his tee. He tried to get released but she quickly turned him to her.
"Tum bohot bolta hein doctor surgeon." She said dragging him down to her by holding his collar and kissing him. Rohit didn't see this coming, but soon started to tighten her to his embrace and kiss her back with so much of passion.
Suddenly there was a thunder and lightening, parting them aside. She turned back and looked at the sky.
"Koi toofan aane waala hein.... rohit" she said looking back, to find rohit nowhere. Sonakshi wondered this is not how their date ended that night. It actually wasn't supposed to end at all, he came to me to stay not to leave ever. But she was all alone. Suddenly a heavy storm flew causing all the leaves and dust covering her.
"Rohit.... kahaan ho tum. Please mera saat eisa mat karo.please kaho ki tum mazaak kar rahaa tha. Please waapas aao rohit.... rohit.... please mujhe chod ke mat jaao...."
She started screaming to get no reply from anywhere. A darkness engulfed her and she was about to faint in fear when she saw someone coming towards her.
"Kaun hein? Kaun hein wahan?" She asked shivering.
"Pagal hein kya tum.kahaan gayi thi?" The voice asked. She recognised it though she still couldn't see.
"Mein nahi gayi. Tum ne gaya taa mujhe chod ke..." she started crying.
"Naa mein tume chodunga, naa mein tume mujhe chod ke jaane dunga." said he, coming out from the darkness.
"Rohit...." she said.
He came infront and held her hand in his.
"Chalo mere saat,sona. Waapas jaane hein ab." He never called her sona before, what has happened to him. But she couldn't think of anything else when he dragged her to him and the next moment he took her into his arms.
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With that she split opened her eyes. Where am i?  What was that i saw. Was that a dream.It was something mixed up with the reality.The last part of that date never happened that way.then what was it.She heard a vague sound of machines beeping and her whole body felt numb and immobile. She tried moving a hand to see an IV line running and she felt a sharp pain suddenly on her chest.
Reality slowly started dawning upon sonakshi rastogi.so i survived. I survived the innumerate number of bullets that mhatre shot me. While i didn't even want to run away from death,life has dragged me back. So here i am alive.
She turned her head only to have her eyes met his. He stared into her eyes with... is that tears rolling down? Why is he crying....
He bent and kissed her forehead. And then he held his forehead against hers and started crying. He felt like he just started to breath properly in a long time. She was very much alive now and was out of danger.
All this while she didn't give any reaction. She had nothing to talk to him. She had nothing to offer him. She stared emptily at the ceiling, feeling completely useless and blank. She felt like she has been murdered alive, though for some reason she still was breathing. Letting him cry and kiss her till he finished, she waited.
As moments passed, rohit sensed that sonakshi didn't want him there. No matter how much he loved and yearned to be there to hold her, kiss her and beg for forgiveness he knew that his presence there will only strain sonakshi more. When he looked up to her face, he realised how unwanted she felt about him just by analyzing her blank gaze.
"Tulsi. Madam ko normal room pe shift karo."
Said he, walking away for now.
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Sitting down in order to not loose control again, rohit weighed himself to the chair. The adrenaline was still rushing up his body, and he felt numb all over yet.
He tried to close his eyes, in order to avoid all surrounding away from him.he started getting flashbacks of how sonakshi was kept in the ET with blood oozing out from her every wound and how he screamed holding her to him. He split opened his eyes feeling his heart racing in a phase that he couldn't catch up.
A knock at the door, then it opened.
"May i come in?" Asked nethra to whom rohit nods, trying to wipe away his tears.
She came and sat down.
"Not here to console you rohit."
"It's ok. Batao aapko kya kehena hein."
"Sona says she wants to go home."
"Can't." He replied in one word.
"Sid karti hein wo. Batati ki yahaan aur nahi rehe sakta"
"Jitni wo hein, mein bhi utna hi hoon. I am her surgeon,nethra ji. She cannot leave against medical advices. I do not allow. She got to stay at least till tomorrow afternoon."
"Ye baat wo nahi samajti."
"Toh samjaao usse please.Itni mehenat karke yuhi nahi bachaaya mein uski jaan.i cannot and i will not take any risk with her life."
Rohit snapped and then there was a one minute of silence may be. Nethra guessed she should really talk up at this moment.
"Wo sach mein tumse bohot pyaar karti thi,rohit."
Rohit felt something stuck up in his throat.
"Pata hein mujhe."
"Kabse pata taa?"
"......" he could only feel his throat tightening.
"Why did you do that to her then? While knowing all this even. Did you not for a moment think what will happen to her when she get to know all this?"
He stayed silent.
"do you know rohit? Do you why she got shot? She got shot because she didn't budge into what mhatre said. Do you know that?"
Rohit stared at nethra in a confusion.
"Mhatre ke paas aap ki choti behen pooja ki wardrobe malfunction ki sare footages aur photos tha. Wo sab choti choti newspapers mein aur channels mein jaana pata hein aapko kissne rokha? Sonakshi ne rokhi. While you were filing cases against her that was what she was busy with. Chali gayi aapke issat bachane keliye us ladki. Badle mein mahtre neh ek shart daala. That she has to come to pune for his brother'a wedding. Shoot beech mein chod kar chali gayi wo jab he threatened phir se that he will make all the videos of pooja go viral. When she went to Pune he asked her to be the dancer for the bachelor night. Do you even understand what she would have gone through, just for you?"
Rohit,When he imagined mahtre trying to force sonakshi to be some cheap dancer, he felt like his blood was boiling. So many emotions rushed through him all of a sudden. Sonakshi, why so much? Why so much for a loser like me? Agar us din tume kuch hojaata toh?
"And this story does not end here rohit. Police station se aaya hoon mein, aap ke father neh mhatre ko arrest karwa liya hein. He is the one who sent you the video footage of your girlfriend's accident.so that he can instigate you against sonakshi. And afsos, wo aadmi apne plan mein kaamyab hogaya. Finally to complete the revenge, he used you. And when sona got broken, he didn't stop there, he tried to kill her."
He felt like his head was spinning. What kind of a fool am i? Koi bhi yuhi aakar kuch video behja aur main.... i just looked at one side of the story and see what i have done now. He felt like smashing his head against the nearby wall.
"Told you.I am not here to console you. More like i came here to rub more salts to a already wounded you,rohit.because you deserve this pain, you have to be guiltier for what you did for a girl who did anything in and beyond her hands for you. I could have easily shut up and wait but you had to know all that so that you can suffer a little more."
Nethra snapped back at rohit.
"Serial chod diya hein ussne rohit. Din raat mehenat karke bani naam bigaadne jaa rahi hein wo ladki. Sab kuch barbaad karne jaa rahi hein wo. Sab tumare wajeise....jeena haraam kardi tum uski..."
now rohit was having tears rolling down his cheeks, not able to stop crying furthermore. He who never failed to hide his tears, was now totally helpless.
Nethra stood up to leave.
"I really love her nethra ji. I really really love sonakshi.I love her so much that it hurts me and i feel like dying now."
Nethra stopped on her track.
"Kya lagta hein tume rohit? Itna sab kuch hone ke bawajood bhi mein tum par barosa karenga?"
"Haa mujhe pata hein. Lekin mein sach keherahaa hoon.Aap ko mujh par barosa nahi honga..."
"Barosa hein rohit. Barosa hein. Tum jitna kehe raho nah, usse bhi zyaada pyaar kar raho hoon tum sona se...."
"Matlab?"
"Tumari aakhomein sona keliye pyaar sab se pehele mein ne dekhi ti rohit...aaj bhi jab tum rota tha usse bahon mein laker, us pal bhi mein neh dekhi,jab veena ji tume ussko chod ne keliye kaha ta, us pal mein bhi mein neh dekhi.. "
Rohit stared at her.
"However iss maamle mein me tumara koi madat nahi kar sakta rohit. Mein obviously sona ki saat honga hamesha.lekin Kehete naa, agar tum kisi ko puri dil se chahe toh, puri kaainat usse tumse milane ke koshish mein lag jaati hein. Agar eisa din aayegi jaha you are going to forever loose her, uss din mein bhi uss kaainat ki ek hissa ban ke aakar tum dono ko milaungi."
Said nethra before she left.

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