Originally posted by: Dee-Dee
Why does it come as a shocker to Anupama? What is her role in their family? Why can’t she just stay fly away (Udaan) 
I knew it the minute she was shot in the stomach... Classic ITV...
I want this to happen...
Shruti lay on her bed staring at the window by her bed. It had been a week since her shooting and she had almost completely recovered. Thinking back, she shuddered a little as a vision of her daughter at gun point flashed before her eyes. She remembered thinking of nothing but her daughter as she rushed madly to tend to her fallen daughter. Then all of a sudden, it had happened. One shot and the bullet had struck her stomach and penetrated her uterus. The pain searing from her lower abdomen to her legs was so strong that she had fainted. She had been rushed to the hospital and in the OR, the doctor had realized that there had been internal bleeding and her uterus had to be removed. She had not been conscious and Anuj the only one closest to her had given consent. The surgery had been successful and she had been saved but she had lost a part of her. When the surgeon gently broke to her the news, she felt shattered. She lay numb with a sense a disbelief for a while until Aadhya had entered.
"Maa?"
"Uh... Aadhya, I think Joshi Ben is outside... are you looking for her?"
Aadhya had scoffed a little.
"Of course not... How are you, Maa?"
"Maa?"
"Yes... Maa."
She had said with confidence and the love shining through her eyes had touched Shruti's heart. But then her fiancé had entered, his face looking pale and drawn.
"Shruti.. I heard the doctor... I..."
He looked at the door where she had seen Joshi Ben standing. She saw her motion something to him, her face looking longingly at him.
"Shruti... I uh... I will... uh... I will marry you... yes"
He had told everything looking at his ex wife. She saw Joshi Ben smile encouraging him although, her eyes kept watering. He had looked like a lost puppy. Seeing them, she felt something inside her snap.
"Anuj, look at me."
He had obeyed and in his eyes she had seen only pity for her and nothing else. That day, the day after she had almost lost her life, she realized that she would rather live alone than live with a man who only married her out of pity.
"No."
"What?"
He looked at her taken aback. Aadhya looked startled.
"But, Maa... he..."
"He doesn't love me, Aadhya... And perhaps never will.. I love you and I know you do too. I dearly want to be your mother... You mean a lot to me... but marrying your father will be a mistake... We can never be a family."
"Shruti, I... will..."
"I don't want your pity AK... Thank you very much for saving my life... My insurance covers my medical bills here. You may as well leave."
"Shrutiji... Is it because of me...I will go away.."
"I was about to marry AK not you... Now please leave I need to rest..."
"Maa..."
She had looked at Aadhya and her heart had melted.
"Aadhya, I..."
"You are right, Maa... Pops, I want to stay with her..."
"But kiddo I love you..."
"I know you do... You just love her more... I know I can't live with her knowing she will abandon me the minute she wants... I will visit you often... But I will stay with Maa... Right now, she needs me more..."
And... Aadhya had stayed while AK had left. Today was the day the doctor had promised her discharge. She was to go back to her little apartment again. She was not engaged to anyone anymore. She was single again. Only this time... she wasn't alone... A knock at the door broke her thoughts and in entered the one person who had all of her heart.
"It's time... Let's go home, Maa..."
***
But nothing of this sort will happen as this show is about Maa and sab sab sab revolves around her, we will see Shru becoming a villain in MaAn's love story by being clingy with AK. While AK is 'majboor" to stay in the relationship because she can't have a child... Maa will give bhashan and force him to stay while looking longingly at him.
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