Ghost Orchid [2] - Chapter 95, p. 19 - Page 7

Came across this; not sure who the author is -- how appropriate!

Aaj Mausam Ko Kya Ho Gaya
D Jaane Kahan Kho Gayi
Hum To Uske GO_STORY_UPDATE Ka Intezaar Karte Reh Gaye
Par Lagta Hai Koi Aur Uske update Ka Haqdar Ho Gaya

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Another song to pass the time...

Chapter 94: Azadi – Part 1

She barely heard Salome's instructions to get a van ready to take her to the hospital. She was going to try to suck out as much venom as possible before the transport became ready. After the three of them carried her to the stream, Naren had walked away to find cell phone reception to arrange the transport and to alert them to call the hospital to prepare the antivenom.

Gaurav remained with her the entire time, not letting her close her eyes. He had been instructed by Salome to make sure that she was breathing without difficulty as respiratory failure was the main concern.

She found herself fighting the drowsiness for his sake, but each time she looked into his eyes, she felt as if she was floating away…

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She had died.

As her spirit left her body, there was a brief moment of panic, but then there was a lightness and it was as surreal as it was blissful. She floated into woods without looking back.

"Keep her awake. Keep her awake, Gaurav."

The voice of the woman followed her, asking the man in a desperate voice. But she gave it no thought. The woman meant nothing to her. The man… she refused to look back at him. He had no power over death... And death was inevitable...

This was a freedom unlike any that she had ever known. She didn't know why people fought it, or why people feared it.

She moved between the low branches and the overgrowth of green all around, her feet barely feeling the ground beneath. She had little awareness of the passage of time. And it felt as if eons passed in that state of bliss before she started to realize that something was amiss.

At first, she had paid little attention to what was around her. The woods looked as they always did... wild yet welcoming for those who wanted to get lost in the insulated solace it offered... But eventually a need to move on from this place grew inside her and she started to look for an opening that would let her leave the woods. It took her some time to realize it... she had been trying to identify particular trees and the rocks as markers, but she could not hold onto it; each marker disappeared into the mist as soon as she looked away.

There was a panic starting to build inside her, but she fought it back and stood still, looking at a bark carefully, trying to touch it, commit it to memory, so it wouldn't vanish… that was when the pain started. It intensified as the memory settled… she moved onto to another tree and then another, marking her route as a heaviness built inside her… the panic grew. She let go of the last marker of the tree that she had seen, and the heaviness eased somewhat. But then she went back to the tree and absorbed it again and the heaviness returned.

She walked more, a long time maybe, before she stumbled upon the cave. Something about it seemed familiar, but she couldn't place it.

She walked in and found a man inside. He was chained up to a wall and appeared to be waking from a sleep.

He looked right at her and she found surprised that he could see her.

"Vidya…" he called.

"I am not Vidya." She told him.

He appeared frightened, which made her feel better.

"What happened to you?" he asked.

She didn't reply.

"What happened to me?" he asked then.

She didn't answer that either. In truth, she didn't know what happened to him. Who was he?

"Where is Gaurav?" he asked.

She felt a pain suddenly inside her belly that made her double over.

The name echoed all around her until she dropped to the floor and covered her ears.

She had to let the markers go, she knew. This pain could not be appeased if she held onto the markers… but she had to leave the woods… she had to find out how to leave the woods.

Something changed in the air suddenly. Before she could figure out what, her form retreated farther back inside the cave.

A woman walked inside and stood for a moment looking around. Her glance passed right over her and the woman appeared not to see her at all.

Once the woman completed her perusal, she turned back to the man chained to the wall.

"It's been a long time, Jhaakar." The woman said finally, looking down the man.

The man drew back against the wall as if he had seen a ghost and the woman's laugh ricocheted against the walls of the cave.

"Never thought you would see me again, did you?"

"You are not allowed back in India." The man said in an almost pitiful voice.

"Oh Brahmanand, don't be naive. Many things are not allowed back in India and yet they are all here."

"Your daughter…" the man started.

"Ah, you mean, the one that you sired." the woman smiled, tilting her head at the man's shocked expression.

"Oh do not be so shocked. You think any daughter sired by Micah would be as duplicitous as Magdalena can be?" she sneered at the thought, then continued. "Magdalena was fortunate to have been reared by Micah. It was only saving grace that made her escape the complete dominion of your genes. You couldn't ask for a better daughter. She is everything that you would want in a thousand sons." The woman said, a pride like no other shining through her voice.

"I have a son who is everything that I would want in a thousand sons." The man croaked out.

"If you mean that little innocent thing that you coddle and protect like a mother bear…" the woman started.

"I have only one son. His name is Gaurav." The man cut in, his tone wielding an anger that made the woman rear back.

"You know?" the woman said, her voice slight in its surprise.

"Of course I know! He tried to kill me with a machete when he was only fifteen. The only one who has tried that and still survived to tell the tale, scar and all. Aditya cannot hold a candle to him."

"Aditya…" she started.

"Is Micah's son, of course. But you knew that."

The woman didn't respond and remained as she was.

"I took everything from Micah. Everything! His career. His wife. His son." The man said, taking a strange pleasure in the memory, even tied up as he was now.

"All the while he had your daughter." The woman said.

The man looked back at the woman, the news appearing to catch him by surprise yet again.

"Her name…"

"Her given name is Salome. Salome Feodorovna. She has always preferred Magdalena. Magdalena Micah."

There was a moment of silence between them. The man had become uncharacteristically quiet, almost somber. She didn't know how she knew it was uncharacteristic.

"She came back here to rescue Micah and kill you, Jhaakar. Until I told her that you are her father. Everything else she may be, and killed as many as she had, I did not want patricide to be on her list of sins when she goes in front of St. Peter. But you have to wonder, Jhaakar, both the seeds you sired want to kill you. There must be something to it, no?"

He looked back up at her and was silent for a moment more before saying, "If there is another breath left in me, I will see to it that Micah is taken back to his execution."

The woman glanced away for a moment before finally looking back, a certainty coming over her. "See, I knew you would say that. You would never let him go. Whatever your obsession with him is, you would never be free of it. And my daughter would never be free until her father is free. And her father, in her mind, has always been Micah. Not you. Lord knows I have been a terrible mother. But this is the one favor that I can do for her."

She saw the woman open the handbag that had been hanging around her arm, reach in, and pull out a gun.

"You must have known that I would come back one day to kill you." She told him.

"They won't let you get away." He told her.

She laughed out loud right before she shot him in the head.

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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much for the update!

Ahhh...I remember the build-up to this point! Still as good to read it again!

Vidya can't die .. Vidya can't die.. Vidya cant die..I will keep chanting until u tell me to shut up...

May be I'll try something else... Vidya shouldn't die ... Devi please don't kill her...

I can't wait to read more of it...

Why in the world SSP is so mean to Gaurav if he knows that Gaurav is his son? and why is he so nice to Aditya knowing he's Micah's son? By the way.. great update 😆

Oh my God...i cud never believe this FF is continuing...yipeee...i just thought of reading this FF with a kinda different name...wow...pls PM me whn u update next...i thought u wud never update this FF...!!!

Was thoolika ur blog..if yes why has it been closed...?

Now d climax of the story comes about...can hardly wait for it.