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Really sorry for the late update!
It's difficult to start functioning and sleeping less after so many days of lying under covers all Day *sigh*
But as i promised, i am here with the update yet again.
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Chapter - 8 - Half Lies and Half Truths
Daya turned his head a little to hide his own tears when the lady grew quite in order to keep her sorrows restrained. He looked towards Salunkhe sir and Freddy to see whether they were okay and if they had finally reached the more happier conclusion that he had but what he saw on their faces stilled him completely. He saw so much unrestrained anger and agony on their faces that it even stilled his tears and for a moment his heart. He gulped shortly and then said in soft tone so as to not to disturb the silent environment in the room...
" Freddy, Salunkhe Sahab...aap log...(both men closed their eyes after hearing his voice while Daya continued) Aap log please kuch bura mat sochein...haan shayad ABHI ne hum logon se yeh sach chupaya magar woh khud...
Salunkhe sir interrupted him in a barely restrained voice... " Daya, please...(he took a deep breath after feeling freddy's shuttering breaths and daya's stillness and said more softly) Please..bache...abhi yahan nahi...hum log yeh sabh baatein baadme...
All heard a small gasp from outside the door turning their attention to that side over the shadow that was blocking the door. The three men recognized it easily and Daya stood up after saying in low tone as got the lady already slipped in deep sleep... " main dekhta hun..."
Salunkhe sir wanted to stop him but freddy's restraining hand on his arm stopped him and he glared at the younger man while freddy kept his eyes trained towards daya's form and whispered softly to him... " Abhi yahan nahi...sir please...".
Salunkhe sir stiffened for a moment and then after Daya left jerked his arm away from freddy's grip and wiped his eyes with his arm, hiding his eyes and all his pain and everything restrained till now behind that gesture. Freddy silently slipped a chair beside him on which the older man slumped gratefully without any words but just tears. The pain now increased tenfold as both men easily realized that Daya's brain accepted a theory where in his best friend of all these long years never really lied to him, never really fooled him so deliberately and so devastatingly.
Freddy's soft voice brought him out of his reverie... " Salunkhe sir hume abh chalna chahiye...(looking towards the lady sleeping peacefully over the bed) yeh bhi sogayi hain...(when didn't see any movement in older man's posture) sir please...yeh...yeh baatein abh kal hi karni hongi...iss samaye bahot raat...
His words were cut off by a soft yet a loud enough call of " ABHIJEET!" which shocked both men to attention and then immediately moved towards the door and outside in the corridor. Both saw an unconscious Abhijeet being handled carefully between Daya and an orderly who told Daya about taking Abhijeet to one of the rooms and both men followed silently either their hearts easily fighting each other over concern or anger or sadness or betrayal. Everything just seeming so confused everywhere that both just wanted to take a break, a deep breath and hoped that this nightmare over after that breath.
But it's only hope as both men brought back from their own world by some words in an unrecognizable voice... " Sir...he is fine. BP thodha low hogaya tha issiliye behosh hogaye hain...kuch stress bhi hai shayad...he'll be conscious within an hour most probably sir...otherwise you please call the doctor..."
Daya sighed and thanked the man while frowning over both Freddy and Salunkhe sir's expressionless faces. Salunkhe sir can't help but comment after seeing that expression in a voice that left no argument that it is really meant to be a barb... " Sachme behosh hai ya natak kar raha hai abhi bhi...(smirking either only he could feel how much pain and hurt his heart boring within those moments) kyun freddy, nahi? Abh toh adat hohi gayi hai isse in sabh...
He stopped after seeing daya's gaze turned more hurt and teary than angry as he only meant to release some of his anger and hurt over the truth they still not got enough time so digest and to just see what the truth having effect on daya. He said again after taking a deep breath as can't handle all this anymore...
" Freddy chalo mujhe ghar chod do please...(without looking towards Daya or Abhijeet) Daya toh haihi yahan Abhijeet ke saath..."
Freddy looked towards Daya for confirmation whose head was towards Salunkhe sir gazing towards him with a confused and sad expression over his face. He called softly... " Daya sir...(Daya's unfocused gaze turned towards him and he said softly and slowly to make the man understand) hum log nikalte hain sir...kaafi raat...
Daya wanted to say something more but after seeing Salunkhe sir already turned and Freddy seeming too tired and in too much hurry to leave he nodded with a low tone so as not to disturb his buddy more... " Haan theek hai...pahonchke phone kar dena freddy...(to both) Take care..."
After both Freddy and Salunkhe sir left, Daya turned his attention back to his friend who right now laid over the white sheets comfortably while still some deep frown lines were present on his slightly pale face.
He can't forgive Abhijeet this easily, not yet. Not until he knows the reason or the story of the lies leading up to this moment where they all are walking on egg shells around each other, throwing barbs and unnecessary angry fits. He knows he had gone over the line while carrying out the plan with Abhijeet and that knowledge as well as the pale drawn face he had come across in the lobby outside the lady's room had left him feeling a ache deep inside his gentle concerned heart. The reddened eyes and erratic breathing he had sensed then, had made the decision easier only. He couldn't help but provide sooth to that heart he had scarred himself a few hours back.
And the further stuttering and glazed look in his buddy's eyes had made Daya take back everything he had said in the earlier hours, almost, but he had compensated that by giving physical comfort to the man who rarely accepted it and hadn't in those moments either. But it had given Daya's heart the assurance he had needed.
Daya sighed and sat down on a stool by his buddy's bed and said softly... " Kya yaar ABHI...yeh harkate karte hi kyun ho tum haan...abh dekho Salunkhe sir, Freddy sabh kitne dukhi hain aur gussa bhi...(very soft tone) yaar i am sorry...main samajhta hun abh...per yaar (sad tone)tum bhi toh samjho na yaar...uss samaye jabh inhe dekha aur phir inki baatein and test results...yaar kuch aur dimaag mein hi nahi aaya...sabh ulat pulat gaya tha yaar...aisa laga tha najane kya hogaya ho...(low tone) Main abh bhi naraaz hun ABHI...bahot jyada magar shayad abh samajh raha hun ki kyun tumne yeh sach hum sabh se chipaya hoga...tum khud uss waqt kuch nahi jante the...kuch nahi maloom tha and suddenly...(closing his eyes and thus he can't witness the tears that fell from behind the closed blankets of darkness) yaar hum logon ko toh batana tha na...ACP sir ko bataya magar aur kisi ko nahi...kyun ABHI? Kya itna bhi bharosa nahi tha hum logon per tumhe...(trembling voice either he still kept his eyes closed too) maine najane kitna waqt iss guilt ke saath bitaya ABHI...kitna socha...najane kitne hi alag alag scenarios soche ABHI jinme maine tumhe bacha liya hota...maaji ko kuch nahi hone diya hota...sabh nahi toh kam se kam tumhe woh ek dukh na milta (very low tone) mujhe kya pata tha ki woh dukh kabhi tha hi nahi? (painful voice) Kabhi toh batana tha na yaar...maine bas woh ek jalti hui chita dekhi...aur kuch bhi nahi...kuch nahi pata kabh kya kaise hua...bas woh chita aur tum aur tumhara chehra...(angrily) Kya acting ki hai ABHI tumne...sach yaar..."
Getting up from his place beside his buddy and roaming inside the small space, he tried to calm himself down. His anger was spiking and he didn't knew how he managed it right now when Abhijeet be right there but unable to answer, unable to clear anything. He couldn't even look towards his buddy right then. The anger more towards the way Abhijeet kept fooling all of them with those emotional scenes, emotional talks and everything whenever his memory getting involved with anything. How the man fooled all of them with keeping that one photograph of that lady he thought his mother but was not and yet he made all of them believe that she really had been. He felt a maniac laughter bubbling inside him thinking of all those times, in all these years, they proved Abhijeet back through that photograph.
The laugh escaped a little and then a little more and soon Daya was more sobbing than laughing while roaming the room and rubbing his hand through his hair. After few minutes of that, when he felt the slight movement in his periphery where Abhijeet was laying he turned towards that side and looked towards his buddy who was still lying perfectly still. Too still.
Daya took a deep breath and moved towards the bed but didn't sit down again. He stood there calming himself and after a few moments said in a low forcefully calm tone... " Aaakhein khol lo Abhijeet...i know you are conscious...(bitterly) itne bhi ache actor nahi ho akhir kar tum...(softly) hum log hi shayad jyada bewakoof hain..."
Abhijeet opened his eyes slowly and after seeing daya standing there with tears and pain in his eyes and his face turned in a hurtful smile, tried to close them again but heard...
" Nahi Abhijeet...abh bhagoge isse toh...(painful tone) toh mujhe nahi lagta tum phir kabhi wapas aa paoge...believe me abhijeet..."
Abhijeet forced himself to keep his eyes open but avoided meeting Daya's piercing gaze. So he said while looking forwards, towards the entrance of his room, his hands completely still beside him... " Daya...meri baat..."
He couldn't see Daya nod from his angle but he knew daya did when the younger man sank in the chair beside Abhijeet's bed and said in only a slightly audible voice... " main sun hi rahan hun Abhijeet...(in calm but with a warning in his tone) aur mujhe sach janna hai Abhijeet...poora sach aur sara sach...aur sabse pehle...(softly) Kyun Abhijeet? hume kyun nahi bataya tum logon ne...itna badha sach...(his hands clenched in tight fists by his side, Abhijeet didn't flinch at that just because he was trained enough to not to) itna badha sach chupaye rakha...(after taking a deep breath in which abhijeet kept his silence) main janna chahta hun Abhijeet...sach...main...main samajh ta hun...kuch problem...per...ABHIJEET...i am sorry maine jaisa bartaav kiya uss samaye...magar Abhijeet...(forcefully) i WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH..."
His messed up words and trembling voice with all the angry words sometimes and then low tones told Abhijeet about the deep emotional stress Daya be in right then. He couldn't help the slight frown coming over his features as he readied instinctively to ask Daya to calm himself down, to ask about him and his health. But the clenched fists stopped him completely along the last words said in that forceful tone. Abhijeet didn't knew how he would manage the truth right now. He had always thought he would tell Daya or anyone if any day on his own with at his own terms. He had never thought it would be revealed to anyone in such a manner where Abhijeet left with absolutely nothing in his hands rather feeling his heart and brain emptying out too. He closed his eyes and began... " Main...uss waqt...
Just then there were some voices outside their room, some loud noise like some heavy metal colliding and then a loud BANG!
Daya immediately straightened from his place and moved out the door while pulling his gun forward while Abhijeet took some more time due to the machine attached to his body and his weakened state but managed to reach the room the clutter belonged to just few minutes behind Daya. He was shocked to note whom the room belonged to. This whole thing just kept getting messier. He entered the room and saw Daya trying to talk to her and ask something but her eyes didn't focus on him and after seeing Abhijeet at her room door she immediately fixed her gaze on him and started calling loudly... " ABHIJEET!...ABH...ABHIJEET...mujhe...baat...bache..."
Abhijeet shook his head slightly to escape the dizziness he felt and moved ahead taking Daya's place who after seeing her settle down a bit after Abhijeet's entry, looked towards both suspiciously but then moved out of the room reluctantly when heard more clutter from outside.
Here Abhijeet moved ahead and gripped her palm tightly in his with whispering in low yet harsh tone... " aap theek hain? (after receiving a nod from her and himself cataloging that she really didn't have any injuries whispered again) aap yahan kya kar rahi hain...humse wada kiya tha aapne...aise woh wada...
She gasped softly and Abhijeet eased his grip a little after feeling that it may be too tight for the weakened state of the lady in front of him and heard silently... " Woh log...ABHIJEET...(taking deep breaths) unn logon ne dhoondh liya sabhko Abhijeet...(sobbing now) sabhko Abhijeet...sabh khatam...main..main...(crying harshly again) tumhe bachane...agah karne ABHIJEET..."
The doctors swarmed inside the room then pulling Abhijeet away from the heavily gasping woman and her words. But Abhijeet heard nothing beyond those words, he didn't understand anything beyond the crying of that woman they saved all those years ago who in turn had saved them too. He realized nothing beyond the pain and anger and the feeling of revenge of those days. He didn't acknowledge being pushed out of the room by the swarming medical stuff, he didn't know how he found the lone bench and when he sat down. He just heard and understood and tried to acknowledge one thing clearly... " unn logon ne dhoondh liya sabhko Abhijeet..."
He whispered the words back slowly to himself not knowing whether they made him happy or sad or terrified or just a pure mixture of all he had felt above anything else in those days. A feeling of terrifying fear mixed together this time along with everything else calming that feeling of Revenge into something cold and hardened like diamond.
Daya was running down in corridors of hospital at as much speed as he could maintain with the medical staff coming and going, trying to look through every door so as to catch that frame of body that he had seen earlier running out of the lady's room. He had seen it turning corners here and he had made sure to get each and every door that lead to outside closed. He was standing beside a door and looking here and there while his grip on his gun tightened in anticipation, he slowly backed and in a sideways manner so as to look both outside and inside the dark space, opened the door.
It was the door that led to staircase going both above and below the current level. Daya took a deep breath and after once more looking for any other signs outside the door entered inside keeping the door open to provide some light. He climbed down the stairs cautiously, looking everywhere as knew the guy had a gun with him. He reached a level below when his nose caught the smell of burning tobacco in the air before he saw the smoke wafting through a hidden corner in the staircase.
He slowed his steps down more and this time with more caution turned the corner and pointed his gun towards the point from where he saw the smoke coming.
A man in mostly immaculate clothing with a burning cigarette dangling in his mouth came in view and before Daya could say or do anything the man showed his empty hands to him in a silent gesture of surrender. He pointed towards the cigarette in his mouth asking silently about taking it out and after receiving the nod from Daya very slowly moved his hand as if pacifying the officer in front of him and took the cigarette out of his mouth. He said slowly emphasizing his every word... " Found you officer...".
Before Daya grabbed him completely or asked anything more the guy took a deep breath and passed out cold in front of daya. Daya immediately looked around and after finding nothing and no one else there bent down and gripped the man checking his pulse. He cursed loudly after finding the man dead. He stayed there still for a moment, the three words repeating in his head again and again confusing him a little more every time and then wore his gloves before calling the police staff that had arrived after the hospital staff called them and handed the cigarette to the guy who entering first inside with telling him to take everything back to cid forensic lab as this case now dealt by cid.
He waited for a bit there then, seeing all officers working and trying to decide whether he should call Salunkhe sir at this hour or not. Finally deciding against that he called Tarika instead and told her to be at forensic lab and not calling salunkhe sir right now. He then jerked his head a little to clear it of the fog that was enveloping his head after the adrenaline rush of the moment faded away slowly.
He decided to first check up on aunty ji and Abhijeet and then he and Abhijeet could move their investigation forward from there. He didn't want to call anybody else at this late hour of the night.
This time he didn't use the stairs to move the floor up, instead entering the elevator to give himself and his nerves some time to settle. Soon he was moving towards the same room through the same corridor when he saw a familiar figure sitting on a bench near the room. He faltered in his steps after seeing that stubborn angry set to those shoulders but the drawn up image of the man easily told him about the fatigue and the emotional turmoil the man facing in those moments. He decided softly in his gentle heart to drop that matter for now and may be sending Abhijeet home to sleep for a few hours.
He also somehow thought that now this attack on the woman and this whole thing connected to something he can't point out yet. The whole mess only getting bigger and more confusing for him as he can't get anything from Abhijeet till now and not understanding anything beyond that Abhijeet knew about the deception and may be helped the lady by not exposing her to anyone else but then this attack and what about Abhijeet's real mother or family? The attack could be because of something may be in lady's recent past or in her past involving Abhijeet and if it's the later case, Daya can't help but feel afraid.
So a complete DUO chapter...I hope everybody who's been missing DUO are kinda satisfied now. Although i know it wasn't exactly HAPPY HAPPY but i hope it was within the tones of the story.
Hope you all liked the chapter guys!
Don't forget to review please! Your reviews encourage me to carry on and when i don't get them it just feels disheartening!
Individual replies ahead!
Tina - Hey dear! Thanks for reviewing on both chapters. About link between past and present, no there's not any link yet between any of the memories of maa jee and Abhijeet sir. That'll come in phase 2 of the story. Thanks again!
Priya - Hey dear! I am glad to hear you won't leave me alone ;). Haan koi bhi nahi likh raha DUO stories abh, even though i think CID has gotten more duo oriented recently. But i know it's difficult to connect again with the characters and bonding after being away for long. SO that may be the reason. Thanks for reviewing on both the chapters dear.
Js ABHI- arrey tabhi i thought ki aap kya keh rahe ho or what i mentioned which made you feel so. Anyways, i WILL complete the story yaar, albeit a bit slowly now since my classes have started again, but i am not going to abandon this. Thanks for reviewing on both the chapter dear.
Rhia Dubey - Hey thanks for reviewing on both the chapters dear! You are new as a reviewer i am guessing?
Shikha sharma - Hey! Thanks for reviewing on both the chapters yaar. About shocks and stuff...hmm...well what can i say, i enjoy the feeling of this line in every review every time.. ;). About the confusions...yaar sabh clear hoga but dheere dheere, an advice...just try and remember these lines seeming special, they have significance later.. :P. About those episodes...yaar i watched them, they are just..OK. I like an injured hurt ABHIJEET but i don't like a helpless and stupid one. So i can't say whether i liked those episodes or not. So sorry, no story on them.
I watched KHATARNAAK ABHIJEET episode though, it was better than expectation but again they ruined it with repetition of Daya dead and duo fight. But it was an improvement surely. How did you find it?
Krittz - hahaha i am happy to give a chapter that was not confusing... :P. Thanks for reviewing on both the chapters DI. About confusions...just remember some stuff from these chapters...this all will be cleared in later ones i promise. Thanks again.
AD Fan - Dekha, kuch toh clear kiya hi maine. YES! About chapter length...yaar meri side se toh it had 6000 words...2000 more than any other chapter before. Mujhe issliye lamba laga, heheh. Hmm, yes yaar i know...but the story still is in establishing phase, and i am reaching the end of a phase here, so a few chapters would be a little like filler now. But they are important as well. Thanks for reviewing on both the chapters yaar.
Duoayesha - Hey dear! hehe...i am glad some confusion is cleared now. About Daya sir change in attitude...i hope you understand it now. Yes i tried to show how this revelation effected everybody psychologically and emotionally. Because they all are essentially just confused and betrayed. Thanks for reviewing on both the chapters yaar!
Luvcidduodosti - Hey! Thanks so much for reviewing on 6th chapters dear! haven't you read 7th chapter yet? Yes, his anger is reducing or rather say calming down as he realizes that there may have been something bigger and really something more than the simple lie they saw earlier in this scenario. Thanks again dear! And yes thanks for liking and favoriting MINDLESS heart as well! I am glad you liked it.
Jyoti A - Hey dear! Thanks for reviewing on both chapters. About your request, yaar main pata karti hun, i really don't remember the name of this episode. Thanks for liking the FB in 7th chapter yaar,it's always difficult to portray that era and those times and relations. Thanks again.
Shubhangi's ABHI - hahaha, i can see bacha sudhar gaya hai...:P. Acha chalo phir continue your long reviews, but it's better if you PM me now because updates are going to be erratic and i can't promise to give replies always. Nahi khali Abhijeet sir hain, thats not a mystery so Abhijeet sir if fine with me revealing it. Haan i saw SATURDAY episode and absolutely loved that part where he tried to save Abhijeet sir from acp sir anger and was concerned for him. It was really heart warming to see that scene. Old DUO moments yaad agaye the. THanks for reviewing on both chapters yaar.
Duosun - Hahaha, yes that devil.. ;) i am trying to channel him..:P
Hmm...kuch toh gadbad hai, nahi.. ? ;). Hahaha i knew koi toh yeh zarror kahega that unconscious ABHI made their seengs visible...hehehe... maine bhi issiliye dala tha. It's just hard to resist that falling unconscious adrenaline rush that this man gives! hehehe... ;) Thanks for reviewing on both chapters yaar!
GD - Aww...no apologies!
Acha about your maa jee related query...yaar honestly, i know there are some laps in these things because i am not aware how these things would usually go. And there are some things that are revealed later in story so while editing i can't really think what reader understood and what not. So yes that's a big flaw in the story i accept. Khair, i am assuming you got that her son must involved with something dangerous and hence at least secretive at some level right? So it's acceptable that if she approached police force with the query of her son they can't really help her as either they are unaware like she is or are bound to not to reveal. So there's that about help from police. About police not keeping checks on her, hmmm...that's a lapse in this i believe but it may get cleared a little later but i accept it's one. SO sorry for that.
Aww... (bunni ears turned complete RED now) i am glad you found emotional stuff good and Daya sir's realization acceptable.
About your review on 7th chapter : Yaar, just waiting for future chapters more, because i am getting this now that it's really difficult for all readers to understand this the way i do because you don't know what's gonna happen next while i DID while writing. So i can just ask you to wait.
yaar log file? it was really not anything hidden, just something ignored from being too much in plain sight...i hope you understood what this means? ;) ;)
Hehehehe...YES. Professor...umm...yes..that's...just imagination...yes...nothing too much for parrot's innocent eyes.. :P ;) Bunni promise.
thanks for reviewing on both chapters Dada!
BFF - No need for apologies yaar.
I am glad you liked it dear! It's a pleasure because it's something i wanted all readers to take in notice, honestly.
Thanks for reviewing both chapters dear!
SS 1912 - Thanks for reviewing dear!
Andeta - yaar, the chapters are pre written according to their endings so i can't make them any longer. Really sorry. Hope you are enjoying the story dear! Thanks for reviewing!
AngelBetu - Hey dear! did you miss the 6th chapter? just asking. About daya sir's behavior..i hope it got cleared in this chapter. Baaki sabh yaar...abhi toh bahot lambi story hai..sabh kuch toh itni asani se i won't reveal... ;). Thanks for reviewing dear!
Misti - Thank you so much for reviewing dear.
Cid duo fan - thank you for reviewing dear.
I Am really sorry if i missed anyone in replies. It was not my intention, it just became confusing with 2 chapters to reply to. Sorry and thanks allot.
And loads of thanks to all those who are reviewing, your reviews are really encouraging guys! Thanks a ton.
Hope you all liked this chapter as well. The story may seem at a stand still but it'll gain speed once this phase is over, i promise.
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Next update on Friday, late at night. Or Saturday same time.
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