Prerish || The Journey that made them

The guilt of our decisions

"What nonsense main regular checkup karwata hoon we do all the tests, she is a 1 day old kid aap log kya bol rahin hain."

"Mr Bajaj aisa hota hai it is uncommon but sometimes it happens and there is nothing that you could have done and there was no way to know and for now we are going to do need to do more tests."

"Ok then do the tests what are we waiting for and then what do we need to do?"

"Liver transplant, we only need a part of the liver. Usually parents ke match kar jate hain ya phir family members ke."

"ok so lets us get all tested. I don't care what comes in test results I want to be prepared. Prerna ki family hain yahan aap unke samples le lijiye. Mrs bajaj ko koi kuch nahin batayega. But take her sample. With that agar unka nahin hota hain aap donor khojna suru karenge abhi se. Is that clear? Aur mujhe update dijiye har minute ki."

Mr Bajaj came out and with shaky legs moved towards prerna's room and saw her happily talking to her family and snuggling with Kukki from the door. He sat near the bench outside the room and tried to grasp what was happening. Unknowingly his legs moved towards NICU and he saw Sneha through the glass. She was sleeping and the moment he saw her all his determination to not do this and be strong died away. He had tears in his eyes.She was connected to all tubes and wires and Mr Bajaj just wanted to snatch her from the pain and hide her in his arms. Just then a nurse came.

"Excuse me aap aise NICU main nahin aa sakte hain." But Mr Bajaj was looking at Sneha directly and it was almost as if he couldn't hear what she was saying.

"father hain aap"

"Yes. I want to be near her?" wiping the tears

"I am sorry but you can't" A look from him and the nurse stopped midway

"I can allow you to touch through the gloves are and just for a min. But please be very very careful, wires are connected"

"Thank you" she asked him to sanitize his hands and then showed the gloves area from where he needs to enter his hands inside the incubator.

Mr Bajaj caressed the baby hands and face slightly as if she knew it was him, she moved and Mr Bajaj got scared and tried to take his hand out. The nurse was surprised that whether he was the same man who had almost demanded from her that he let her see the baby and now he was scared of even touching the baby.

"Its ok she is fine; you can keep your hand a bit more. I think she recognises you."

"Kuch nahin hoga aapko kuch bhi nahin. Aap Papa ki strong beti hain champ hain Mujhe pata hain you don't need someone else to fight for you aap yaha ladiye aur aapke papa aapko bahar se support karenge. After all we are a team aren't, we? Waise bhi aapki mom aur di ki aur dadagiri nahin seh paonga." And she moved a bit again and Mr Bajaj laughed through the teary eyes and then again, his face was set. Mr Bajaj was ready to sit there for a lifetime but he had arrangements to make. He knew that if things got worse,he might have to call someone and what that might lead to. He wanted to be prepared. Just then he looked at his back and saw Prerna on a wheelchair followed By Kukki.

"Kya kya hua hain? Haan Kya hua hain? Kuch puch rahin hoon main. Sneha theek hai na."

Rishab relaxed her and took her and Kukki to the room. Once in the room he made sure that Prerna was relaxed and he sent Kukki home with Shivani and Veena who would be staying with her today and then he explained everything. Prerna was stunned and then she looked at Rishab.

"They are wrong the tests are wrong they are mad,she cannot be born with cancer aap kahin aur lekar chaliye use, jhooth bol rahin hian, pagal hain sab. Who meri bachi hain mujhe pata hota agar use kuch hoga agar" And he looked at Rishab his face set and it hit her that the man who was not scared of anything in his life was scared? The helplessness and guilt on his face broke her minute by minute as they kept looking at each other for don't know how much time. She cannot do this not now not in front of him.Wiping he tears and composing herself she went near him hugged him and he held onto her as if holding on to his dear life.