Part III
BLoood Trial
Woman sweetly-"consider this as a farewell gift from your love"
And Nancy charged screaming. Calculating the body's position from Sanskriti's voice, she landed a crucial blow with her walking stick on what she hoped was sanskriti's head. Hearing a satisfying thud of a person falling down, moaning, she turned quickly towards nick.
"Did she inject u?!!"
"Yessss..."nick swallowed hard, the drug he was injected with, was showing its effect already.
"Quick!! Get rid of it!! Take out the tubes!!! What are you thinking?!!!!"
"I..cc.ccant..I ,..reach.. hel....ppp", nick muttered as he felt his windpipe constricting due to drug reaction. Nancy frantically thrashed around, searching for IV pole or any tube.
Nancy screamed with mounting frustration "What do I do!!??? I can't see anything1! Dammit! Oh great! Thank god!" Nancy finally got hold of the pole and tried to somehow disconnect the tube from nick. Suddenly she felt a stinging pain in her calf, making her scream with pain.
"U think you can defeat me so fast bitch?!"
Sanskriti clawed at Nancy's feet and brought her down, the syringe attached to the needle struck in her calf broke. Nancy howled as she felt the needle entering her leg completely and kicked back. Sanskriti received another kick at the her already sore head but this was her revenge and she would not be defeated be some ninny-pinny-tiny-blind-bat. Gathering all her strength she stood on her knees and dragged Nancy away from nicks tubes and IV pole. He had to die!! She won't let Nancy stop her.
Nancy felt herself falling down, her right leg giving away, her body being dragged back, she clawed for support.. For anything. Finally catching the feed tube, attached to nick. this would hurt him the force of Nancy's pull disconnected the tube from nick and the IV pole attached to its other end came crashing down beside her. Nancy quickly deserted her walking stick for the longer weapon, grabbed the edge of pole with both hands for maximum impact. Nancy once again kicked sanskriti to be sure of her position and before sanskriti could even curse her, she twisted her body, keeping her legs low and swung down the pole hard b/w her legs. She felt the pole tip hitting something and getting lodged. Thankfully it wasn't her leg coz she was not feeling pain.
When Nancy tried for a 2nd attack the pole got caught somewhere, she didn't know where. Nancy became frantic, I have to free the pole to attack again!!! But ... I can't
Nancy struggled for a few more seconds and then stopped, she was only 1 making any noise.
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Sam, Sid, Kaveri and Rin looked at each other for the briefest second and nodded. Sam and Sid moved in front to cover Kaveri and Rin. While the women got ready to defend their husbands in case the thugs foul played. Plus they had to get to nick as soon as possible.
"He has a gun!!!" Rin screamed b4 anyone could attack.
"They both have guns" Kaveri calmly corrected. Was there no hope now?
"Which they will be fools to use here..", Sam continued equally calmly please god let them not draw their guns
"Coz it would be too noise here in the hospital.. I am sure stupid as they are.. They wouldn't do that.", Sid finished managing to smirk if they do we are finished..
thug1, "of course we won't, we only got'em coz we didn't want 'em gals screaming so we thought we might scare 'em a little... but we not need 'em now.. Right harry?"
But by now harry (thug2)had already removed his gun and taken out its bullet..
Fools always underestimate their enemies
Thug1 followed suit and aimed the empty weapon so suddenly at Sid that he didn't get to duck. Continuing the surprise attack as if being guided by some unseen signal, both the thugs lunged together at Sam.
They were criminals, outlaws. They didn't play by the law. They didn't play fair.
But then no1 had expected them to. Just as thug2 was getting ready to punch Sam's guts out while thug1 help him pinned. Kaveri with the IV pole (its multipurpose heeeheee) struck thug2 with all her might, it wasn't enough force and the punch intended for her husband was received by her, but her attack had been distraction enough.
By then Rin had quite stealthily ( with her little size) slunk up behind thug1 who was holding Sam and emptied the a syringe filled with...well the closest thing to instant poison was floor cleaning soln..On his neck.
Thug1 used his elbow to knock down the frail woman behind him, as he slightly twisted with great force with his arm raise and bent at elbow. He yelled, "Bitch!! What did you shoot ,me with?!!!"..
Unfortunately the person who could give him the ans was now sprawled unconscious from his attack and her husband was furious with his attack.
Selecting their targets with unspoken consent and fighting as if they had rehearsed it before, the twins went for the thugs with murder in their minds... Sam for thug2, Sid for thug1...
Thugs quickly realized their mistake of emptying their pistols... clearly they had overestimated their virtues and underestimated their enemy's capability.
Sam punched and kicked his adversary, trying to claw his eye out with one attack or break his jaw with another. He won't let any1 get away after hurting his wife. The effect of phenol made the thugs reactions weaker and his senses blurred. The battle b/w them was already over in their minds
On other hand Kaveri was ready to pull the odds in favor of her husband whenever the thug started to win... by artfully maneuvering the IV pole
Soon the fight ended with one thug fighting for his life and other deciding who was more formidable b/w the man he had been fighting or his wife...
None waited for the authorities to come, giving thugs the same treatment which Sid had received some time ago, they were bound and gagged with stripped bed sheets and everyone rushed towards nick's ward..
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The cab driver alerted Sujal that they have reached, but didn't tell him the fare instead he asked
"Sir are you sure this is where you wanna get off?"
Sujal nodded, but then waited. A safe house supposed to look safe... then why is this man worried?
"Why are you asking that?"
"Well I dunno.. It just seems creepy here..Ya know...and then you sir can't see.. No offence.... and I dunno.. If some1 tried to mug u.. It would be really easy... I guess I am just spooked coz one1's around in this street 'cept forus and that ...my.... get a load of that!!! Now what would baby like that be doing here?"
"Excuse me.. What?" Sujal was on alert now. This was too damm silent for his comfort too.
"Oh.. Sorry.. I was talking about that car.. Nothing offensive sir.. It's a brand new <<some car's name>>. It's difficult to get even in the market... well I be dammed!! How can any1 let it sit here unguarded and more so no1's around to admire it!!"
I am pretty much dammed too,, a safe house without even a single guard safekeeping it..."hmmmhm thanks for the scan out. Why don't you leave now..?" Sujal warned the cabby away and fished out his cell to call police..."yes I am reporting sighting of a stolen vehicle.. It's a<<<car's name>>> and its no. is.. You better come soon.. The address is.. I can see some weird looking people with weird looking instruments working on it.... how do I know it's stolen? Well sir no offence but babies like these just don't sit around in deserted area like this without a guard or an admirer. Good day "
Sujal now started walking towards the safe house direction, which the driver had pointed out to him. He had to make another call before he entered the house.
"Uncle? Yes it's me Sujal.. Well I know your entire family except Kashish and maybe me(he isn't sure if her is family or not), are in danger at the hospital and you wanna go save them first. But ,maybe you can come here first? .... The lady behind all this is here.. How do I know? Her car is here.. You better come here. Coz if anyone lives they will be brought here for her personal slaughter spectacle......yes I am sure.... the police isn't cooperating? Tell the prosecution office one of their safe locations has been compromised, and currently some criminals are torturing a witness here. That will bring them all!"
Disconnecting the phone and switching it off, Sujal bent low to tell his dog to be absolutely quite and then advanced towards the house.
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"Come to me child, accept me we belong together. I am right am I not? You hate them all too now right?"
Kashish paused only for a second, then ran towards the woman whose open arms hugged her....
Kashish flung her arms so that she can hug the woman back..The woman who might be her real mother.
Kashish tried hard to fight back tears and it did not help when the woman told her how happy she was to be united with her child again.." My dear , my love... you don't know, how I have craved to hold you like this..."
Kashish leaned away a little to look straight into the eye of the woman who had given her life and then changed it so drastically... only one scared word escaped from her trembling lips-
"Mother...?"
The woman heard the barely whispered word and smiled yes.... today at this moment she had all she ever wanted... and she felt the rush of happiness along the pain accompanied by a lone tear in her daughter's otherwise dry eyes.
"You killed my mother!" Kashish fiercely whispered as she stepped back, away from the arms which had hungered to hug her, leaving behind the broken glass piece embedded at the woman's back.
Kashish turned around and walked without a backward glance, numbing her senses so that she may not hear the heartbreaking cry of ultimate defeat and herself not cry out from the pain deep inside her heart.
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When Nancy's help arrived at hospital ward (which was b4 the hospital authorities) several eyes were momentarily blinded and many horror filled gasps were stifled. The scene presented was right out of some horror movie. A person dying on hospital bed, tubes and blood tangling his arm, a defenseless blind woman scared to even make noise for help and worst of all... a dead body with a IV pole stand lodged deep in her head.
Nancy-"who is it?"
Person 1- "Nancy!! Oh my god!!! H..How?!WH..What happen..-"
Few screaming people enter the room -"Nick!!! Are you all right!! Oh my god!! SANSKRITI!!!!!! Nancy .. What happened .. How did ..She..???"
Nancy-"nick needs help anti-allergics is my best guess... sanskriti was behind it all she tried to kill him.. I don't know how bad I have hit her"
"Bad enough for none of us to worry about her again. Let's get out of here." Kaveri managed to speak instead of throwing up when she opened her mouth.
"Yah.. I have never hated hospitals this much.. We need a doc." Rin said. I need a doctor!!!
Person2- "I can help! I have the injection here."
Sam-"alright we'll carry him out. You people support each other. What about her?" pointing to dead body. The sight nauseated him but anger of what sanskriti had done helped him.
Sid-"well why don't you two ladies give her same treatment and dump her in those thugs car?"
Person1- "I'll clean up the place"
Nancy-"am I gonna go to jail?"
Sid-"no Sujal is there..OH NO!!! He is alone!! I.. I am .. I.."
As Sid explained how he had told Sujal to go on his own, as he had believed that Nancy couldn't help nick, every1 glared at him and then rushed to where the final battle was being fought.
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Ashoke received the call from his sons and was relieved to hear that every1 who mattered was all right. What filled him with dread now, was the knowledge that he would probably lose his daughter and the man who had become his son if he didn't hurry up to help them.
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Kashish walked around the dim hallways oblivious to all, reacting to nothing-which gave Jake a pretty good shock. He hadn't expected Kashish to be walking around like THIS. For 1 she was supposed to be looking for a way to help him out and not roam around aimlessly and 2nd she was supposed to be running scared instead of trudging dumbly.
"Kashish?!" Jake ran up to her and hugged her, when Kashish just didn't respond he knew that something was veryyy wrong. "KASHISH!!!!"
At last Kashish looked at him but her eyes was listless and tears ran freely. Jake had never seen her cry b4 and this was sending him into deep shock, which he didn't want to go into right now. So ignoring her condn he violently shook her "WAKE UP!!!! KASHISH it's me JAKE!!!!"
Kashish somewhat came out of her trance but maintained the aloofness which had entered her body, "..So?"
Jake shook his head, she has gone mad, "let's get out of here" and he dragged her away.
Kashish followed, rather allowed Jake to drag her. She wouldn't be walking if wouldn't be pulling her...
Soon they reached a door which opened to the real world.
Jake pulled her out and soon they were running through the road out in the open, "c'mon lets go!! We have to-"
"Hurry?" a simple voice stopped them, a voice which brought back a little life to Kashish as she jerked around to see the person.
Sujal stood there, 15 feet away. His dog sitting near his leg, barring its teeth at them..Can it smell the blood on me?
Kashish automatically moved towards Sujal as if caught up in another trance and finally came back to earth when some1' didn't let her go. Whipping her head Kashish saw Jake muttering curses at Sujal, he had not a scratch on him. Why hadn't I noticed it b4? Kashish wondered forgetting everything else.
"Let go of her Jake. Your game's over."
"M..My game? C'mon Sujal..What? You know me!! I am Kashish's friend why would I wanna harm her?!!"
"U tell me! Also if there's no game why aren't you letting go of her?"
Kashish stood listening as blood pounded in her ears... all the betrayal and shock was catching up to her slowly. Kashish felt her hands shaking perhaps I inherited some of my.. some of her madness... without waiting for more words to be exchanged or completely planning her action, Kashish with all that was left in her gave Jake the most surprised head butt of his life and then fell down. At the same moment Sujal let go of Juli and rushed towards Kashish.
As the dog attacked Jake. Sujal tried to wake up Kashish.
This is bad, although I can't see her.. I know her.. "What did you do to her?!!!" Sujal thundered as he lifted Kashish and helped her stand once again. He knew by now that Juli had Jake by his throat now. One word from him and Jake is a dead man.
Jake almost laughed at the scene, he was being threatened by a blind man!!! He didn't live dangerously this long to see this. He carefully reached for the knife in his boot. He was sure the dog wouldn't attack without command.
"I didn't do anything. If you wanna know I was the1 who actually took care of her, her injuries Piyush is responsible and her state.. I guess she found out the truth or something. I did nothing."
"Yes, nothing. NOT A THING to help her escape-"
Before Sujal could say more, he heard a painful yelp from Juli and Kashish screamed, amid chaos just for a moment, Sujal could have danced to hear a sound from Kashish again even if it was a scream.
"I am sorry man.. But there goes your dog... yah I know they are hard to replace, but don't worry you won't need one when I am done with u."
Sujal knew that Kashish cannot help anymore and in his condition he couldn't hold back a man carrying a knife for more than a minute, he had to buy more time.
"Just tell me why you did all this? You were her friend weren't u? I thought you cared for her"
"I did!! I still do. I know it's hard to believe but I really, genuinely like her. Haven't met a girl like her b4. But you see there is one thing I like more than her.. You see I really hate my job infact I hate any job, I hate working to be precise, but I loooove money. Who doesn't?!? So why I did it? I like money more than I like her! Simple!!"
Sujal kept his face impassive while his insides churned with disgust. Of all the ppl who had been hurting them, perhaps Jake was the most cruelest and coldest one. Hence the most dangerous one...
Sujal firmed his grip on Kashish as he felt her stir, she was unstable, her thinking wasn't clear and she reacted without thinking out the consequences.
Kashish whispered "killing Jake wouldn't cause even a dot on my bloodied conscious"..."no need . Shhh.." Sujal whispered back, it barely calmed her. But it was enough for now.
"Well good to know there's something you like. So why don't you just leave now. We won't come after u"
"Hmm.. you really think I got till here by being stupid? No, I won't leave without taking care of you 2 and no, I won't let you buy any more time. I am afraid your time..... Is up"
Sujal pivoted on his feet and hugged Kashish, turning his back to Jake, he hoped shielded Kashish completely. People only spoke such lines when they had a gun and sure enough not a second later there was gunshot.
Kashish felt as if she had been watching and hearing the entire scene some faraway place, all her reactions had been blurred and delayed... and when she heard a gunshot, her mind was unable to connect subsequent pain she felt to the noise. The pain is refreshing... perhaps it's a punishment of my own and my kin's sins...
Kashish drifted off to welcomed sleep finally, with no peace and no worries. Three simple words made her departure joyous.
"I love you" Sujal whispered for the first time and perhaps his last words as they both fell on the ground, him on top of Kashish. What he didn't know was that the bullet which had pierced him, had completed passed through his body to hit the person he had been shielding.
Far away Sujal heard the sirens and somewhere near scampering feet. He ignored it all just to hear her repeat those few words. But she didn't. What he didn't understand was she couldn't....
~~the end~~
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