Hi buddies, here is the fourth shot of “MANZIL… The unknown destination…” “IT’S THEM!!!” . Guys relax all your confusions will be cleared in this and upcoming chappy, so chill and have fun with all the suspense.
MANZIL… The unknown destination…
IT’S THEM!!!
@OUTSIDE SHIVAAY’S ROOM…
After checking the kids Saumya comes out.
Shivaay: Saumya, how are they?
Saumya: Calm down bade bhaiya they are fine. It’s just that due to shock they got fainted.
Shivaay: There isn’t anything serious. Right?
Saumya: Ya bhaiya. But I need to talk to their parents.
Shivaay: Say…
Saumya: Bade bhaiya, their parents.
She says pointing at the kids who were sleeping inside the door.
Shivaay nods.
Om: Gauri!!!
Gauri looks at him and he points at Saumya who repeats her question.
Gauri: I don’t know.
Om: What?
Rudra: But di, you were with them. Right?
Gauri: Ya.
Shivaay impatiently feeling irked, shouts: Can you hear yourself, Gauri.
Gauri composing herself: Saumya, I don’t know anything about their family but if it’s something urgent you can tell that too me.
Saumya sighs helplessly: Didi, as a doctor I can’t say the matter to anyone but family. You need to understand that.
Gauri: Please, Saumya if there is something needed to be told, tell that to me. I may not be connected but they are my responsibility.
Shivaay: Cut it. Will you explain what do you mean by you don’t know whose kids they are? What are they doing with you? Why did you lie? And all.
Gauri abruptly: I am sorry bhaiya, but I don’t owe any answers.
Shivaay pushing his hands in air in frustration: What the wuck?
Saumya: Wait a second guys. This is very serious.
All move their eyes towards her giving complete attention to her.
Om: Right now you said there is nothing serious. What are you up too?
Saumya: Right, bade Baal waale bhaiya there is nothing serious with them right now but something very serious has happened.
She says emphasising her words by the end.
Saumya continues: Let’s sit somewhere and talk, please.
They all walk in the room and sit at a distance a little away from where the two kids are lying unconscious.
Saumya calmly: Gauri di, please tell how did you find them? Where? How come they are with you?
Gauri looks at the kids with moist eyes and her hope dwindling: Fine. But no word should reach out and if mouths aren’t sealed, we may loose them.
She says pointing at the kids, making the rest shiver in shock.
Shivaay: What do you mean?
Gauri: I will explain. But promise me no one word, crosses the walls.
The rest nod in agreement.
Gauri: For the coverage of my report I had gone to Srinagar and there I stayed with my aunt. The day I had to fly back I found them lying in the patio of my aunt’s house. They told me that they have lost track of their parents and live in Mumbai, so I brought them here with me. On reaching here when I asked about their parents they told me their reality.
Om: Reality???
Gauri nods: Yup! They never lost track. Certainly, they were kidnapped.
Shivaay in shock repeats: Kidnapped!!!
Gauri nods in agreement: When I refused to believe they offered to leave. I though they maybe lying, again, but when they themselves offered to leave. I was in, a fix. Their eyes told me a way different story. Pain- that’s what I saw in them. Unexplainable; pain. Hollowness. When I asked them about their age, they exactly didn’t know. Their words made my heart clench. I can’t explain but something pulled me towards them. I didn’t get another chance to ask about their past. That’s all I know.
All look blankly unable to give emotions to their expressions.
After a short gap, Shivaay turns to Saumya who seemed to be in deep thoughts.
Shivaay: Saumya, what’s the matter with them?
Saumya didn’t reply to his words so he shook her getting her attention.
Saumya: Ji….
Shivaay: What’s wrong, with them?
Saumya looks at the two lying figures and at a worried Shivaay, heaving a sigh she speaks: Hmm…. When I was examining the duo, I saw marks on their body.
Rudra confused: Marks?
Shivaay ignoring Rudra’s statement: What sort of marks?
Saumya trying to drive a correct word: Whip! Whip marks; maybe.
All look taken aback with her words. Shivaay walks briskly towards bed and scoping Sahay pulls his shirt up only to meet with bluish-violet and brownish marks on his back and few lining his abdomen. The sight shakes him so deeply that he drops Sahay on bed as his hands lie flat. In a zombie move, Gauri walks with baby-steps towards Asya and slowly makes her lie on her stomach and pulled her shirt up from the back. The back of little girl wasn’t fair as her skin rather a rough shade of black and brown marks. Unable, to hold on to herself Gauri rushes to washroom to puke out. While the rest pull their eyes off. Saumya makes the two kids lie back normally. After few minutes, Gauri to returns with her eyes flowing in tears.
Om: Saumya, do you have any idea what this could mean.
Saumya trying to maintain herself but fails by the end: There can be possibilities. I really don’t know. Please, I can’t take this… I agree, I am a doctor…. but even I can’t see them like this…. Only they can tell what’s the truth.
Shivaay ruffles Sahay’s hair as his eyes tear up but something catches his eyes and he pulls Sahay to his lap and moves his hand on Sahay’s neck. “SHIVIAANSH” is the only word that comes out of his mouth.
Saumya: What???
Om rubbing his hand on Shivaay’s shoulder: Shivaay, Shiviaansh is no more you need to accept it.
Shivaay in traces: Could you?
Om looks down as he too could never accept the fact of Shivika and Shiviaansh’s death but that’s what they received all in all and nothing else and four years down the lane, two kids appear from nowhere. Just to remind them of the loss of their life. Loss that came as an omen in the family, bringing the darkest hour for the Oberoi’s.
Shivaay repeats: Shiviaansh!!!
Saumya: What are you saying, bhaiya?
Shivaay repeats again pouring all his fatherly love in the word: Shiviaansh…
Rudra back hugs Shivaay as tears flow down his eyes: Bhaiya, I wish he was our buddy.
Shivaay creasing Rudra’s hand: He is.
All look at him.
Gauri: How can you be so sure, bhaiya?
Shivaay turning to Saumya with a smile: How many people are supposed to have a same birth mark?
Saumya looks on being confused but replies: Almost, none. Why?
Shivaay pulls Om towards himself and Sahay: Look here, Om.
Om looks at the place where Shivaay was pointing It was his hand placed on Shiviaansh’s neck, which Shivaay removed slowly only to reveal a two inches long finger like birth mark on Shiviaansh’s neck, to utter shock of rest, Sahay and Shiviaansh have similar birth mark or maybe, Shivaay was right. Sahay is Shiviaansh… SHIVIAANSH SHIVAAY SINGH OBEROI. Om moved back cupping his face in shock and tears flowing down his eyes as his eyes gleamed in the dim light of the room.
Gauri: Saumya, can you tell their blood group.
Saumya hears Gauri after a while as shock she has received didn’t sublime and nodded. Soon she walked to her bag and taking out two pins, two slides and few bottles of liquid chemical she settled besides Sahay and pinched his middle finger with the pin and took a sample of his blood, after performing a short and quick test on both Asya and Sahay, her face turned pale under shock.
Shivaay: What’s the result?
Saumya being totally zoned out, still managed to speak: O-ve.
All the eyes in the room gleamed.
Saumya completes: Same as Shivika and Shiviaansh’s and same as bhabhi, Ariana and yours. Ummm….. Is it possible.
She looked at the hopefully eyes of the Oberoi brothers and Gauri and smiled at them.
Saumya: Give me few days I will perform the DNA test for assurance.
Shivaay: But still…. They are my kids only na.
He completes with tears and chocking voice.
Saumya: I really wish bhaiya but let’s not keep any prenotions we should be sure about it first. Right?
Shivaay turning to Asya and Sahay just nods without a word from his mouth.
“Aaaaahhhhh…..” Sahay’s painful voice catches everyone’s attention and rubbing their tears off they all look at him.
Shivaay helps Sahay to sit properly, while Om corrects his pillow. But Sahay didn’t bother about anything, his eyes start roaming around as soon as they open only in hope of seeing someone. He doesn’t bothers about any pleasing affection going around. His face shows panic as he isn’t able to see the other side of bed as Shivaay is pulling him towards himself. Finally he shouts in fear “ASYA…”.
Shivaay: Shiviaansh….
Sahay looks at him: Asya… Asya…
That’s all he repeats. Shivaay turns him towards the other side of bed and Sahay sprints out and reaches for Asya. It’s not the first time he is seeing Asya lying with bandage on her head or in hurt state but as always he gets scared for the girl. He shakes Asya repeatedly, enchanting her name all the while.
Shivaay pulls Sahay away being afraid of his state as he had right now recovered from his unconscious state: Shiviaansh… She is alright relax.
Shiviaansh pulls away: No… No… Asya…. Asya… Wake up Asu…
He continues pulling Asya but to no vail and same goes with Shivaay, whose every try goes futile and he couldn’t calm Sahay even a bit. Finally, Om scoops a sobbing Sahay in his arms who is trying his best to push away but Om holds on strongly and takes him out of the room.
Sahay hits Om’s shoulder as he brings him out of Asya’s sight. But Om calmly holds Sahay’s hands and stops him.
Om: Relax Baccha. Calm down. Asya is fine. Perfectly, okay.
Sahay in between his sobs: But she isn’t waking up.
Om in affirmative tone: Right, she is under the effect of medicine. She is resting. Now you calm down.
Om was so calm and polite and his words full affirmation and soaked in so much affection that Sahay believed him at once.
Om rubs Sahay’s tears while, Sahay adjusts himself in Om’s arms, sitting their silently and looking much relaxed then before. Om smiles remembering his time with Shiviaansh. What a-bond the duo shared. Shiviaansh, loved Shivika more then his life and the reason behind the deep bond was the affection that he had inherited from his Omi papa. Om had been the best support and company to Shiviaansh. Nobody could have ever said that Shiviaansh wasn’t his son, together they had had the best moments to their account. Today holding Sahay in his arms brought back all those memories and in addition was the hope that Sahay was their Shiviaansh.
Om stroked Sahay’s back to make him feel comfortable.
Sahay who had absorbed the fact of Asya being safe was reminded of the incident because of which they were injured.
Sahay: That man!!!
Om: He is gone. You need not to worry, he won’t be back.
Sahay nods and looking around as if confirming his own self, rested his head on Om’s chest throwing his arms around Om’s neck, who smiled back cherishing the moment to the fullest.
Om offers politely: Shall I narrate a story.
Sahay raises his head to look at Om and then rests back, understanding the meaning Om begins to narrate a story. Definitely – not fairy-tale but one that’s to the liking of Jr. Oberoi.
Om while stroking Sahay’s hair: Years back in the empire of Rajput’s lived a valiant princess. Sword fighting, horse riding, playing bow-n-arrow – all added only to her skills. An ethereal beauty. Women like never seen before. Philanthropist and kind but a big tadibaaz.
Sahay chuckled.
Om feign seriousness: Hye! Why are you laughing?
Sahay squeezes his lips together while Om laughs at his antics and after earning a glare from Sahay he continues the story.
Om: She was married to a rich, handsome, dashing man with a dazzling personality but with similarity of tadi.
This time both chuckled together.
Sahay: What was their name?
Om: SSO and ASSO. Both had two…ummm… sorry three little kids two elder twins Miss. SSSO, Mr. Jr. SSSO & Miss. ASSO the youngest of all. Miss. SSSO loved two things the most in the world, no. 1 was family and no. 2 was irritating Mr. Jr. SSSO; naughty but she was light and smile of the family.
Sahay chuckles: Just like Asya.
Om smiles but acts to be astonished: Oh!!! Hmm… Maybe. Okay let’s continue (Sahay nods) Mr. Jr. SSSO was sweet, kind but no less then his sister he loved his sister more then anything in the world but pretended that his sister was his biggest enemy.
Sahay smiled shyly as Om noticed each and every antic was his with great zeal.
Om continued clearing his throat: The youngest of all Miss. ASSO was smarter and mature and very cute. She was family’s soul. If her elder sister was smile, she was peace and their lovely elder brother was their edifice. Three of them pulled up the best trio pair in the world.
As Om continued the story Sahay placed his head back on Om’s shoulder while Om patted his back moving back and forth in the garden.
After an hour or so Sahay was fast asleep on Om’s shoulder. Om walked back to the room. All smiled seeing them. Shivaay knew it well, people who can take the best care of his kids – Anika and his brothers. Om placed a sleeping Sahay between Asya and Shivaay.
Gauri: Saumya, when will Asya gain conscious.
Saumya: Not any sooner. I have given her medicine, she will wake up by morning. I think we should let them rest.
All nod.
Shivaay: Saumya!!!
Saumya replies before he could ask: Don’t worry bade bhaiya they both are fine and I will be here only. So you relax and about DNA reports, they will come soon.
She says squeezing Shivaay’s hand in assurance. Shivaay nods.
Shivaay to Gauri: Can we be with them.
Gauri: Please bhaiya, I was scared to tell anyone anything. But I trust you more then anyone above that you people have always treated me as your family. I am sorry for hiding such a big thing. If it would have been about me I wouldn’t have lied ever but it was about these kids. I didn’t know what to do. I am sorry.
Shivaay nods in no and hugs Gauri with overflowing brotherly affection: No Gauri, whatever you did was absolutely right. Thank you so much for everything. And don’t say that you are like a family; you are family.
He says the last line emphasising at each word.
Gauri smiles and nods: I will leave then.
Shivaay: No! I am not sure weather Vidyuth is involved or not and to which extend but he has seen you and maybe try to harm you too. You aren’t going anywhere. Stay here only.
Gauri nods: As you say, bhaiya.
Shivaay looking at Om: Show her, her room.
Om nods and leaves with Gauri while Saumya leaves followed by Rudra.
@RIKARA
Neither of them had spoken a word, even though they were alone.
Gauri finally breaks the haunting silence: Are you angry with me Om?
Om looking everywhere but her, says curtly: No.
Gauri pulls Om and he ends up hitting the wall looking at her astonished by her act, while she stands in front of him looking directly into his eyes without blinking.
Gauri: Om, I said if it was about me I would have never lied.
Om: Didn’t you trust me.
Gauri being offended: Come on, Om. I trust you people that’s why I said everything. I didn’t know what to do all this happened in such a short span. I was scared.
Om looks away.
Gauri being agitated: Leave it. You won’t understand. But just once think, if you were in my situation with responsibility of two kids who meant nothing to you but you had formed a bond with them because of your voids. What have you done?
Om didn’t turn to her so she started to walk off but suddenly Om held her wrist and pulled her with a jerk towards himself and hugged her tightly. Firstly, Gauri didn’t reciprocate so he spoke.
Om: Sorry. I agree I would have done same. You know time has made me of this sort.
Gauri: You miss Ishaana. right?
Om still hugging her: Yup! But as a friend. Gauri nods coming out of the hug: Move on.
Om holds Gauri’s hand and like a kid takes her towards her room, narrating what happened between him and Sahay a while ago. While Gauri herd him with a great interest and a smile plastered on her face.
@RUMAYA
Rudra entangles his hand with Saumya’s as they were walking to his room.
Rudra: How are you?
Saumya placing her head on his shoulder: Much better.
Rudra enveloping his arm around her shoulder: Hows ma?
Saumya: She is also good. Misses you guys.
Rudra: Me too.
Saumya: Rudra…
Rudra: Hmm….
Saumya: I was thinking something.
Rudra: About what.
Saumya: If… Bhabhi gains conscious and DNA results are positive…. (she bites her lower lip and moving a little away from Rudra speaks in rush) where would you like to go for honeymoon?
Rudra’s eyes become wide hearing her and she giggles and runs towards the room and Rudra runs besides her.
After entering the room Rudra pulls Saumya as she falls on the bed and places his one arm above her head.
Rudra sheepishly: Honeymoon… Han…
Saumya chuckles and nods in no.
Rudra smiles and joins his forehead with her and in a guilty tone speaks: I have made you wait alot. I am sorry.
Saumya makes a disappointed face and pushes Rudra and gets up.
Saumya: Mr. Rudra Singh Oberoi, Anika Bhabhi isn’t only your Bhabhi you need to know that she was leader of girls gang and my sister first.
Rudra chuckles.
Saumya: You know, I want that we both have a grand wedding and for that we will need the best wedding planner and that place is of Anika Bhabhi so you only tell how can I take such a big risk.
Rudra smiles and lays his head on Saumya’s lap: I miss those times. In few minutes only everything changed. Ishaana di is gone, Anika Bhabhi drifted into coma and Shivu and buddy too left us.
Saumya places her head above Rudra’s and ruffling his hair speaks in affectionate tone: Don’t worry, Rudy. Everything will fall in place. See Shivika and Shiviaansh are back and I am sure, Bhabhi will also wake up, soon. And then I want my old Rudy back. That stupid, cute and childish Rudy.
Rudra smiled and kissing Saumya’s forehead nodded in agreement.
Rudra: I will leave now.
Saumya nods.
Keep smiling
Stay blessed
&
For now signing off
SHIVIKA ?…