A Broken Bond; Brothers

Betrayal

Sahdev POV

"Nakul!!" I yell as my oh-so-mature brother continues playing with his pet mouse in my library. The disgusting, dark gray creature crawls over his arm and onto my work desk. I sigh as the thing crawls into one of the rolled-up scrolls and I pick it up shaking it a little to make it fall onto the floor. 

Which sane person brings a mouse into a library!

"Oh come on dev she's harmless!" He says as the mouse skitter around on the floor and towards my brother's feet. 

"He's ruining my books!!"

"It's a she!!"

Right... my brother isn't sane... I roll my eyes

"I don't know if you noticed kul but I don't care!!" I say.

"You're so mean! My mouse is harmless! How is she even bothering you?"

"'How is it bothering me??' It's gonna ruin my books!! Do you know how-"

"Don't start your book rant!" Nakul says getting up... why? I don't rant! And books are interesting!

"Nakul I swear to god if you don't get that mouse out of my library I'll tell jun bhaiya about th-"

"No!! I mean why go so far anuj?? Let's just leave it na... I'll take my adorable mouse somewhere else," he says finally listening to me... blackmail always comes in handy.

I grin as he sticks his tongue out at me annoyed.

He leaves and thankfully takes his stupid mouse! Now I can go back to my reading.

Nakul POV

"I'm gonna go irritate jyesth then!" I say to myself gladly making my way to his room.

I walk down the empty palace corridors, softly petting my mouse, passing the gardens and paintings that adorne the golden walls of the palace... I reach jyesth's chamber pretty quickly.

"And you say it will kill him..." I hear his voice say...

Kill...? I pause in confusion, who would jyseth want dead?

"Yes, Yuvraj! It can kill anyone with even just a couple of drops" I hear a dreadingly familiar voice.

I stop in my tracks, immedieatly alret. My first thought is to burst into the room and find out the hell they're talking about, but my gut feeling stops me and I press against the door trying to listen. 

"...that voice," I whisper to myself.

No! No! It can't be real! I try to think logically, why would jyesth be talking to the man who attacked us?! The man who accused him... panic sets in the words from that night that is easily brushed off not seeming like a lie anymore.

"I've had the servants put a generous amount in the kheer being taken to Rajkumar," The man continues.

"Good! Finally, I'll get rid of that annoyance."

"Pardon me Yuvraj but I've asked you before... why do you want to kill your anuj?? Rajkumar Nakul and Sahdev ar-"

"Are not my Anuj! They're nothing but my stepbrothers... unnecessary and a possible threat for my future as the Yuvaraj of Hastinapur!" Jyesth says with a voice that's full of arrogance and pride... for the first time in my life, I heard him say something in such a cold and resentful tone.

"Threat? But they consider you their family do they not?"

"Do I pay you to ask questions?? I want to, and will kill them, I refuse to let anyone threaten my rights to the throne! They're nothing but unnecessary obstacles in my way." Numb... that's all I feel... hearing someone who's supposed to protect us. Care for us! Love us! Say that... he wants us dead..? He called us his stepbrothers... stepbrothers?! Hearing that it felt like everything was a lie, him protecting us, taking care of us... it was all a lie... just an act!

Tears well up in my eyes hear jy- no Yuvraj said that... how?! How can he say that?! Does he not even consider us family? What did we do?!

I'm brought out of my thoughts as I hear something that makes me see red... pure rage filled me as I heard the man speak again "Kumar Sahdev will be out of your way soon... the poison in his kheer is one no one can survive, nor will he expect such a painful demise coming his way"

I was so shocked beyond expression that I completely forget about the mouse who's still in my hands as it freed itself from my grip and fell on the ground... knocking a vase from a pedestal alerting them of my presence.

"Who's there?!"

My eyes widen and I hurriedly look for cover; I manage to hide in one of the many nooks of the palace used for vase decorations and other such things.

The man retreats back into the room and I take off running.

Forgetting about my mouse...

Forgetting about everything!

Dev, jyesths words, the kheer, poison are the only things I can think of as I feel dread and fear... the fear that the one person I trusted so much could kill my brother! But soon it was replaced by anger...I trusted him with my life, and he wants to kill my brother?! No. I won't let him! If he never considered us family... if it was all an act, I don't need to either! 

I'm almost back at Deva's library when I see a servant walking in with... Kheer!

I race into the room bursting the door open and knock the bowl out of the servant's hands.

"Nakul!!" Deva exclaims getting up.

I don't even bother to respond as I go and pull him into a hug, holding on for dear life.

He hugs back, clearly confused. Not even realizing tears were streaming down my face I finally start to regain my senses as the adrenalin calms down. I quickly wipe my eyes and try my best to calm my breathing.

"Nakul, what happened twine?" Deva says still not breaking the hug probably sensing my panic.

"You... the kheer I-" I say breaking away.

"Rajkumar-" The servant starts bringing my anger to peak again...

"Leave," I say with a cold tone, even deva flinches slightly.

"But ra-"

"I said leave! I want to be alone," I say again losing my patience with every second.

He leaves quietly but the second he does... "What the hell!!" Deva exclaims.

"Dev-"

"Don't 'Dev' me! What the hell was that?! You burst in here spill my kheer and yell at a servant! Why??"

"The Kheer!"

"Huh?" Deva looks at me confused yet again but I don't give him time to say anything as I pull him towards the spilled sweet.

"Yes, Nakul you spilled my favourite Kheer! Will you please explain something at least!!"

"It's poisoned..."

"N-"

"The Kheer is poisoned!"

3rd Person POV

Gandhar Raj Shakuni smirked... "The plan is going well... now all that's left is to break any little hope they have, and end this so-called 'unbreakable bond."

And in another corner of the palace sat Dharmraj... completely unaware of the plots being plotted that will soon ruin the family he cares for so much...

The 5 brothers... unaware that soon they would lose each other...

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