Hey everyone, sooooooooooo sorry about the long delay. I'm again blaming my uni because it's just too busy! But I will try to get the next part out quicker, and within one week.
Now I realise my story from now on will be different to what's going on within the show because I started writing it before the new season, so hopefully you will all like it anyway. Here's the next part for you!
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Chapter 3
In the four days before they went on vacation, almost every cadet in the academy visited Captain Rajveer in hospital – every cadet except one.
Raj had been hoping that Naina would come to see him. It didn't matter to him if she screamed at him, or still hated him, he just wanted a chance to talk to her and to try to explain himself again. But the holidays began, the cadets all left for home and Naina never came. Raj started to count down the days until she would be back.
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Naina tried to enjoy the two weeks she would have with her parents, but she just wasn't able to. She kept thinking about HIM. For the first four days her thoughts were mainly angry, she hated him. She hated him so much for what he'd done to her brother, and then when he might have been dying for trying to make her forgive him. She knew he was fine now, and recovering. She'd asked Dr Shalini. And when she'd heard he would survive she hadn't known whether to feel relieved or disappointed.
But by the fifth day her hate was beginning to lessen, and she began to think about why it had happened. Why had her brother asked Rajveer Sir to kill him? Didn't he have any hope left? Rajveer Sir had told her that while there is breath, there is hope, and while there is hope a soldier continues to fight. Despite her Navin still having breath he had lost his hope and stopped fighting.
She thought of it over and over again, if she had been Captain Rajveer then what else could she have done in that situation? How could she have saved Navin? She came up with dozens of solutions, none of which would have actually worked. By the tenth day she realised that she no longer hated Captain Rajveer, in fact she pitied him for the choice he had been forced to make.
Her parents were confused by Naina's silence. She wandered around the house as if she was lost, not speaking a word but often stopping with a look on her face like she was concentrating hard or puzzled.
"Kya hua, beti?" They would ask her "Koi pareshani hai?"
"Nahin Ma, Nahin Baba" she would say, and try to behave normally.
Naina thought about telling her parents the truth about her brother's death, but she finally decided not to. There was so much they still didn't know about why Ritu Ma'am had trapped him. And she knew that while she had finally forgiven Rajveer Sir for what he had done, her parents would never be able to. She wasn't sure why, but she just didn't want them to find out the truth.
When it was time to return to the academy, Naina was finally ready to see Captain Rajveer again. She knew what she had to tell him.
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Raj had been expecting Naina to avoid him when she came back to the academy, so he was surprised when he heard a knock on his door and opened it to find her there.
"Naina?" he asked hesitantly "Ander ao"
"Thank you, sir" she replied quietly.
"Please, sit down" he asked her, "Do you want anything? Chai, coffee, water…"
"Nahin, sir." She interrupted him "Main bilkul tikk hum"
Trying to hide his nervousness he sat down in the chair opposite her.
"Sir, I need to talk to you." She started to say nervously, "I did a lot of thinking in the holidays and I've made my decision."
He stayed silent, waiting for her to tell him.
"I've forgiven you, sir, but I don't know if we'll ever be as close as we were again. I've lost my trust in you and I don't know how I'll get it back" Naina finally said.
Raj felt like he had regained a lost treasure, she had forgiven him! It meant that she finally must have understood why he had to kill her brother.
"I understand you didn't want to kill my brother, but that you didn't have any choice." She pauses and thinks for a second "But sir that doesn't change the fact that you lied to me about it and you tried to stop me finding out. I trusted you!" Tears come to Naina's eyes as she says this "You were the only one that I trusted, the only one that I thought would always tell me the truth, and now I don't know how to do that anymore."
"Naina, I'm so sorry that I lied to you. I didn't want you to know the truth because I knew how you'd react, that you wouldn't trust me anymore. And I didn't want that because," Raj stops, he can't tell her the truth, it's better if she doesn't know he loves her "Because we still didn't know the whole truth about Navin's death. I wanted to find out who trapped him first." It's not the best excuse he's ever thought of, but it is partially true "I always intended to tell you, I just needed it to be the right time."
Naina nods her head, as if she understands it. "I know sir, but things are going to be different between us from now on, you can't expect me to treat you in the same way as I used to."
"I understand Naina, but please know that I'm always here to support you, whatever it is that you need."
Naina nodded sadly, and stood up to go.
"Wait, Naina." He suddenly said. "How did your parents react when they found out the truth?"
She stopped and turned around, "They didn't sir. I thought it was best not to tell them." She smiles at him sadly and is gone.
So Naina has lost her trust in him. He would do anything to get it back, anything at all. He could never expect her to love him, but it was important to him that she could rely on him, and come to him for help. She would never do that if she didn't trust him.
He would've gladly died to regain her trust, so what was the harm in sacrificing his one chance of happiness for it?
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