She reached inside the ICU and slipped her hand in his hand and he opened his eyes , at that time what she poured out was only sympathy.

One hour before...

They had reached hospital long before and after operation abhijeet was out of danger but was weak due to the intense closeness of bullet to his heart.

Back to the scene….

"Abhijeet", a soft voice called his name which was almost not about a whisper.

He looked at her and then averted his eyes to a side, don't know what it was for whether he was guilty or he was broken due to lack of her support for him in the times when he needed her and she needed to understand him.

"Boss", daya called his best friend patting his shoulder…

" tum ne toh humein dara hi diya tha"

" daya… kuch nhn hua mujhe", he replied in a feeble tone.

The whole team was very happy that their sir is back and then they had sometime spent together then Salunkhe got a call from the head forensic lab from Delhi and he got to know that there is a meeting and tarika and he has to go so they went to delhi although tarika was not willing but he said, " Tarika tumhe jana chahiye", in the same plain tone but this flat tone brought storms in her heart and she went to the meeting.

They remained in Delhi for three days and during those days abhijeet was in hospital and daya was with him with perpetual visits of their team.

Tarika was back from Delhi and she came to the hospital when daya was out to get juice for abhijeet.

She entered in the room with her blue frill of top swishing around and her hair blowing in the AC air as she plugged them in a clip, she had a great meeting but still her face was stressed and it seemed she had worked hard as an horologist at road side. She moved towards him and he was sitting on the bed with his eyes closed and back supported with a pillow, as he saw her he became more conscious and started looking at his hands on the bed .

She sat on the bed besides him and placed her hand on his and he placed his other one on her hand.

"kese ho", she asked.

" tumhe kesa lag raha hun"

" mujhe toh theek dikh rahe ho", she lightened her talk

Fixing his expression, " meeting kesi thi?"

" theek thi"

" sirf theek!"

" nhn achhi thi but mein har waqt tumhare bare mein soch rhi thi"

" itna mat socha karo mere bare mein pata nhn kab mar jaun, huh!"

" abhijeet!, tum har waqt aisi batein kyun karte ho!"

" nhn mera matlab hai k ek cid officer ki zindagi ka koi bharosa nhn"

She touched his face with her hand and made him feel very special in the way and said, " lekin agar ek cid officer ki bohat logon ko zaroorat ho toh phir uss ki zindagi lambi hi hoti hai God ki taraf se.

" hmmmm", he raised his doubt.

" yes", she ensured her husband.

He got hold of her hand and secured that in his hands and was about to proceed in the talk when daya entered and she stood up to greet him.

" hi tarika!"

" hello daya, kese ho"

" mein theek hun. Or… or tumhare husband ka bhi bohat khayal rakha mene"

" dikh raha hai", she smiled at abhijeet.

" koi khayal wayal nhn rakha hai, kuch khane hi nhn diya bas juice, milk or khichdi….."

He made a face to show disgust.

" abhijeet ab goli lagni ki khushi mein hum tumhe biryani toh khila nhn sakte naaaa", she took the side of daya.

And he made a sad face.

" han or yeh lo boss abhi bhi juice laya hun", daya gave the glass to abhi and he again made a face but then he looked at her and quickly took the glass from his hand and gulped the juice in one sip.

She gave him a good boy look and daya raised his eye brows in a way that " kya baat hai"

" wese daya abhijeet ko discharge mil sikta hai?"

" han na kyunke iss ki wife bhi toh doctor hai toh koi problem nhn hogi, mein discharge papers ready karta hun"

Daya left the room and abhijeet went to change and tarika waited for him.

He came out of the washroom with clothes changed and he called her, " tarika challo".

He walked past her but she was standing at her place so he reversed back and stood in front of her with a questioning look.

She walked a little bit close to him and raised her hand then swayed her middle three fingers of her right hand in the left side of his hair to set the strokes of his hair into his usual puff, which is always fiddling over his closed his eyes as she swayed her fingers in his hair, this whole scene was about of five seconds and then she moved back.

" ab theek hai", she said smiling.

" challein", he said.

And they went outside with daya, he dropped them to their home and then Daya went to bureau saying," boss sham ko duty ke baad sab tum se milne aayen gay, take care"

Abhijeet sat on the sofa spreading his arms on the sofa arm as tarika closed the door and poured him a glass of water .He drank the water slowly and she took the glass from him. He gave an expression of pain and touched his chest and stretched on the sofa.

" bedroom mein chalo", she said in an ordering way.

He followed her and he sat on the bed with her help.

" abhijeet tum rest karo"

" tarika mein itne dino se toh rest kar rha hun"

" abhijeet but you need a sleep"

" abhi nhn"

" ok toh phir kuch khao gay tum"

" bhook nhn hai"

" lekin tumhe dawai deni hai toh kuch khana pade ga"

She went into the bathroom to get fresh and after that she went into the kitchen to prepare soup for him and came back with a hot bowl of soup in her had with a tray.

" abhijeet tumhare liye soup layi hun"

He raised his eyes from his phone and looked at her.

She sat besides him and filled a spoon of soup and blew that to get it considerable cool and without thinking she moved the spoon towards his mouth and then she found it odd to make him eat with her hands so she was about to move back when he moved his mouth closer to the spoon and ate the spoon fill. She looked at him and he smiled warmly , she brightened at once and then he finished the whole soup with her hands.

She gave him the medicine and it was now 10 pm night, she ate nothing and was sitting besides him, she was tired of the journey they had and the work at meeting. But still she was attentive for him.

" Tarika , tum thak gayi ho naaa?"

" thorra sa"

" kuch khaya bhi nhn"

" bhook nhn hai abhijeet"

" sure"

" han"

" mein kuch kayun tumhare liye", he said.

" koi zaroorat nhn hai"

" toh you take a sleep"

" nhn abhijeet"

" tarika"

" ok toh tum bhi mere saath so jao"

" abhi mujhe neend nhn arahi hai"

" phir mujhe bhi nhn arahi hai", she made an angry face.

He looked at her and then sighed. He put the file on side table and laid in the bed covering him with the blanket.

" ok", he remarked.

She smiled and settled back in the bed, she leaned over him towards his side table to turn off the lamp and as she did so , she found her wedding necklace rocking around his face and he was looking at her with a blank expression. She looked back at him and kept on looking for 10 seconds and moved back with some awkwardness, she laid back and as she placed her hand on the bad he got hold of her hand and entwined his hand with her hand and strengthened his moved a little bit close to him , facing him and raised her head and placed her arm beneath it to provide a support, sh leaned over him and kissed his forehead. She ruffled his hair and he closed his eyes feeling cozy and she kept on swaying her fingers through his hair. Soon she dozed off in sleep and in some hour of night abhijeet woke up and found her hand still in his hair and she was sleeping in an awkward pose. He settled her with some difficulty and looked at her , he took her hand and kissed it thinking " abhi toh kiss kar sakta hun because she is my only wife"

.They were trapped in midway and were still in midway because there was a gap built up in between, but some how they were getting out of the trap and they were getting to their previous relationship, He went back to sleep with her hand in his, trying to show that he would always need her and will always protect her and also showing the countless things they wanted to share, the grip intensity of hands was showing this…..

ABHIRIKA TOGETHER FOREVER...!

A/N: That's all I ended this but have some other plan, I will try to write a sequel for it showing some clear moments of abhirika, if you all want then i will write the sequel otherwise not, but while reviewing do tell that was this story bearable for you as you read it so far…

AND HAPPY EID :D