SS: RRR (2. Regret Page 4) - Page 3

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slightly sensible Virat here.... looking forward to the next chapter update soon.

Wonderful story telling with great detailing in dealing with the emotions of Sairat. You love them both that is why your stories look so real. Waiting eagerly for the next part.

Part 2: Regret.

Sai and Virat's bedroom

Virat saw the peacefully sleeping form of his wife when he entered their room. He was tired too but prepared to conjure up all the energy to talk to her if she questions him again. But seeing her sleep soundly, he went and changed into pajamas and lied next to her. There was no pillow fort today. The photo frame of the person who gifted her to him, lied on her forearm. He instantly felt a sharp pang in his heart at the thought that she might have feet lonely. He gently removed the frame without disturbing her and moved closed to her. Her soft face had water streaks spreading across her cheeks. Clearly she had cried herself to sleep and he hated to be the reason for it. "Just this night Sai, we will discuss everything tomorrow.", he silently spoke to her. And for the first time took the liberty to place his head so close to her that her breathe was fanning his face. Holding her hand with his, he instantly drifted into deep slumber.

Next morning, when Sai woke up she found herself snuggling closely to her husband. Their hands entwined and heads leaning against each other. Is this day going to turn into the best or worst day of her life! Looking at the calm face next to her, she was hopeful that everything will be positive. Today is her felicitation at college for topping the first year in Medicine. Her husband promised to be there right in front of her when she gets felicitated. She had lost the person who dreamt of seeing her as a doctor. Now her husband has taken upon him to make her the best doctor and fulfill her dreams. Life with him in this one year has not been easy, but whatever memories she made with him during this time have been the best moments in her life. She has started to envision her future with him, to the extent that she doesnt know how her life will look like if he is not present alongside her. The last few days had shown her how incomplete she is without him. Is this love? If it is, then why is it hurting her so much!. If this is the same he feels for her, then why is he torturing her with his silence. Today she will have to clarify everything with him. If it does turn out to be his mistake with Sruthi, then she will not be able to forgive him. And that thought frightened her. Staring at him for a minute and controlling her ready to gush out tears, she went to get ready for her big day at college.

He was still sleeping when she came out of the bathroom. She didnt want to wake him up, as she knows he barely gets any sleep these days. Before leaving the room, she went to his bed side to take a glance at his phone. She did not like what she was doing, but she convinced herself that she was just making sure he will not bothered by Sruthi again. She tapped on the phone screen and was relieved to see no notifications. Covering him with blanket properly, she went to college mentally noting to call him by noon to remind him of her felicitation function.

Nagpur Medical College Auditorium.

He did not come yet! He is not lifting his phone too. Just left a message that he will be at her felicitation function on time. "Surely must have gone to that Sruthi", Sai thought bitterly. Sai's family especially her brothers Samrat and Mohit are trying their best to cheer her up. Samrat was visibly angry at Virat whenever he remembered his absence. "Sai, today I am not leaving him before he answers my questions. You just see!", he assured his younger sister. Mohit kept on repeating the same rot he has been telling her from the time he disclosed about Virat pretending to be the husband of Sruthi. "Vahini, you are not suspecting Dada right? I know him from my childhood. He is my hero and he would not do anything wrong. You should believe him. Ok?", he reiterated. "Mohit Bhaiyya, will you please stop singing the same praises for once.", she told irritatingly to her younger BIL who has become her elder brother now. "I am not suspecting him. Happy?. But I will not forgive him either if he misses my felicitation. I dont know what I will do.", she muttered to herself not knowing exactly what her next plan of action is. She is tied to him, for life! and that hurts even more. "Why am I sitting here, I should go to DIG sir and reveal him all the details so they will force this Khadoos to tell everything", she thought momentarily. But then remembered that he was already risking his job in helping this pregnant woman. Who could be this lady, so important that he is risking his job! she wondered. Unless she is that important to him. "No Sai, dont enter that zone. It will only hurt you.", she tried to calm down her suddenly racing heart.

"Mrs. Sai Joshi Chavan", announced the Dean to a thunderous applause of audience. Sai was startled. Devi tai was already shaking her to get up and rush to the podium. She looked around to see if her husband had arrived, as he promised. Not finding him anywhere, she walked silently to the podium holding back her tears. She took the award and medal from the Dean. She gathered all her strength to induce some happiness in her being. Afterall, she studied very hard this year and she deserves this moment, for herself and her Aaba. With that thought, she smiled broadly at her new found family sitting in the front row cheering for her. The award felt even more deserving now that she is sharing the happiness with her family, her in laws who she had never thought would be able to accept her. But still there is a huge void, to not see the person who gave her this family. She was then asked to talk few words to encourage the next batch of students. She took the mike, confidently as ever and started her speech and thats when she saw her husband silently standing at the corner and staring at her. He raised a thumbs up to her and gestured her to talk cheering with claps. She never knew before that happiness could also hurt this muchTears of joy poured from her eyes seeing him made it to her function. It is not that this award is her biggest achievement yet , but his acknowledgement that her every small achievement matters to him made so much difference to her, especially when she was questioning her importance in his life.

She thanked her Aaba first for raising her to be the person she is and her new parents and brothers who showered love and warmth on her. Then she finally thanked her husband, IPS Virat Chavan pointing to him, proudly and making him an equal partner in her achievement to which she was received with cheering applause and whistles. That brought a huge smile on her face finally! She is still angry with him and decided not to talk to him till he begs for her forgiveness and comes clean about Sruthi, she thought. She refused to go back home along with him in his car and went back with Samrat, Pakhi and Mansi bua hoping that Aai and Baba will give him an earful while riding back with him to their house.

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"Why are you late Virat? And what is so important for you than attending the felicitation function of Sai? She had been waiting for you till the last moment. Why are you torturing her and entire the family with your silence? You have to answer us today. You cant behave like this with Sai. " Samrat bombarded Virat with questions as soon as he entered the house.

"Haan dada, you have to tell about that pregnant lady with who are pretending to be a husband", Mohit said aloud now revealing the secret he has known to the entire family. Virat was shocked because he had no intentions to reveal to this information to the family. Ninad was also fuming now. "Virat, I hope whatever you are doing will not cost your peace and happiness. What is there for you outside of the line of your duty that you are not going to the police station. Your mother was saying that the DIG had come to our house looking for you. I did not expect this kind of negligence from you. Now you are helping a pregnant lady pretending to be a husband! That doesnt sound right to me. Do you have any explanation for it", he questioned. Bhavani picked up from there and asked worriedly, "Virat, I hope you did not do anything that could put our family name under shame and your Kaku's Saheb's honor to disgrace. I was always so proud of you child. But this?! I would not agree. Tell the truth, everyone especially your wife has to know that big reason why you have to pretend being her husband. Or you really are one to her?. ", she asked in her sharp tongue.

"Kaku! Please stop it." Virat stopped before the words could reach Sai's ears. This is the last thing he wanted his wife to suspect him of. "Kaku, I am a married man. So better you all not forget that.", he said looking directly at Sai. "Please believe me that the pregnant lady I was helping is a very important woman. I did not know her before my mission. But now her safety is my responsibility. So please understand it and take this as my duty. Yes I am hiding few things from my department. But now it looks like, I dont have to anymore.", He paused for a while as if thinking about something. "I want you all to be safe and vigilant for few days. That is all I could say for now. There will be a couple of security guards from tomorrow outside our house. Samrat or Mohit would have to drop and pick up Sai to college till I come back.", he urged them.

"So Shiva, are you going on some mission again.", Samrat asked exchanging concerned looks with Sai. For which Sai added " Virat Sir, you did not tell me about this. This is a news to me. See again you are hiding things. Is Sruthi also coming with you?", she started questioning again. Not getting any answer from him again, she stormed off to her room, wiping her face again.

"Badi mami, thank god Virat is not bringing his new responsibility home like he did an year back. This home I believe is not a dharmshala where he can offer his duty to unknown women and we have to bear the consequences.", Pakhi spoke sarcastically.

Samrat turned wild at her words but this time before he could stop her nonsense, Virat yelled at her. "Just stop it...", he shouted. and slowly added with his finger directly pointing at her "Pakhi, dont forget that last time I brought my wife. She was my responsibility then and now, but she is my wife first. Nobody, Nobody else on this earth would take that place ever.", he stressed each word.

No one spoke after his words. He rushed to his room to have a word with his wife, before he could leave to GC.

Few hours back that morning.

Earlier that morning, he woke up to umpteen missed calls from the DIG. DIG had sent a secure message to him which had a blurred image of Sada infront of what looked like a store in Nagpur. Virat was called to work immediately to discuss the possibilities of Sada being alive and roaming in Nagpur. DIG initially had suspected Virat's intentions of hiding things from him in the pretext of personal work. He suspected Virat might be helping Sada in some way, and perhaps had involved in the disappearance of his body too. Virat assured him of his ignorance in any of this, but did express the doubt that someone from Sada's gang infiltrated into the department and was part of the operation that day when he shot Sada. Virat was quick to figure out who that could be. So Sada was here in Nagpur and the anonymous person who sent them the picture should have known the cell phone number of DIG. Hence concluding that the same officer who assisted him in the mission would have sent it. Right then, the hospital called Virat to inform that Sruthi went into labor and could expect the baby anytime soon. Virat was in a dilemna again whether to reveal about Sruthi to DIG, so they can trade Sada's surrender by turning Sruthi into witness. For that he needs to know that Sada is indeed alive. If he is not, he cannot expose Sruthi to the police. The only way to confirm this is to find the Policeman who betrayed them. He asked DIG to immediately convene a meeting with all the Policemen who went with him on mission. That officer could be the one who drove the bodies to the mortuary for postmortem too.

Virat took permission for an hour so he could attend Sai's felicitation and check on Sruthi. He was almost sure that Sada is alive, because of Sruthi's behavior the previous day. He just needs confirmation so he can gather the police around the hospital. He is sure Sada will send his men to move Sruthi from the hospital. The missing point is why he leaked his picture to Police that he is in Nagpur? So he will be more vigilant here and ignore GC?! DIG also thinks if he is alive and planted this picture in Nagpur, then they must be diverting attention of the Police from GC. Sada must be recovering in GC, he has the whole system set up there. Then the only reason they wanted to divert their attention from GC could be due to their mass movement out of the jungle. There are atleast 20-30 people with Sada and they might be moving out of the Jungle with all their arms and ammunition. Virat thought that would be an incredible opportunity to arrest them all and seize their weapons. Then he can persuade Sruthi to turn into witness and acquit her legally from this mess. Praying that Sada was alive, and he is indeed placed in GC, he decided to immediately start to GC that evening.

Sai and Virat's bedroom.

He was about to enter their room, when his phone beeped with DIG sir's message that Sada is indeed alive but still not sure whether he is placed in GC. Virat replied back that he is 100% sure of his guess and that he would start immediately in his civil dress to GC. He requested police for the arrest and not a shootout this time, but asked for a backup any how. DIG promised anything in his capacity but he warned Virat if Sada escapes now, Police will definitely think about his involvement as most of them came to know about their past friendship. Virat assured him that nothing would go wrong this time around but still wondering at the corner of his mind about how Sada would have survived his bullet wound!

"So she called agian?", howled Sai who was fuming at him standing near the doorstep and typing his response on the phone.

"Sai!! This is DIG sir. Look here", he showed the phone to her. But she is till angry.

"You skipped my function only to come at the very end. I would not have bothered a bit if you had not come too.", spoke her tongue.

Virat went close to her and cupped her face. "Sai, I dont have time to discuss anything with you now. Please give me few more hours. I will be back. And this is not related to Sruthi. Sruthi is my friend Sada's wife. I cant tell you more than this now. If you dont believe me. I will give her number to you and you can talk to her. She just delivered a male baby in Nagpur General Hospital. I was protecting her from the Police, because she was also involved with Sada's mission.", he revealed everything in urgency. "So if you send me off with your smile, I will finish the remaining work related to the mission and come back.", He said.

"So you are going back to the mission? Will it be dangerous?", She panicked.

"NO Sai, this time it is not dangerous and I cannot reveal you much. I wanted you to not step outside the house without Samrat or Mohit. Dont take any cabs or public transport. Please be a good girl, will you?, said Virat softly and rushed back to pack his bag.

Sai could not ask for Sruthi's phone number even though a part of her wanted to know why he posed as her husband. He was in a hurry and after explaining everything to her, she could not question him more. She silently helped him pack the bag noticing that he was involved in a deep thought. She then rushed to puja room to bring the red daaga and tied it again on his right hand. This time also she hugged him and asked him to come back to her like before to which he promised. "Always!".

Nagpur General Hospital Maternity ward.

Sai wanted to know more! She had many questions. She is too worried for him this time because he himself said what he was doing could be dangerous to him. But Virat warned her not to leave the house alone. She doesnt want to disappoint him anymore when he is already stressed out. So he went to Samrat and asked if he could drive her to college as she had forgotten some notes in her locker. Samrat who knows that situation could get dicey when Virat especially warned them to be carefull suggested against it but later seeing Sai's persistence he agreed to drive her to the college. She later asked him to drive her to the Hospital in the pretext of checking on a patient she was attending to in her case studies. Samrat obliged and took her to the hospital and waited outside when she went inside alone.

She went to the reception and before she could use Sruthi's name to find her room, she stopped herself a bit and changed her inquiry to 'Mrs. Chavan'. She now understood why Virat could have used his name. He was trying to protect her identity. And as expected he did not fill in the details with his First name also. Most of the doctors here know him as her husband and ACP of Nagpur. So he must have gotten away with filling the forms yet she thought. She was guided to Sruthi's room without any questioins because she was also student from the same institution. She quickly went inside and greeted her with "Sruthi!"

Srurthi was startled to hear her name for the first time by a person other than Virat. She was panicked at first but after seeing the kind face of a young girl, she was relieved. She guessed who she could be.

"You must be Virat's wife right?", she quizzed. "I expected you would come. When a wife is after husband's secret, it will not be secret for long.", she quipped.

Sai smiled gently and went to her bedside to see a healthy male baby sleeping blissfully.

"Very cute baby", she said. "How are you feeling now?", she asked Sruthi, her doctor instincts kicking in.

"I am fine! Thanks to your husband.", she said. "If Virat had not supported us in this situation I would not have died in that jungle.", she answered her without Sai asking for anything.

"I ... I am sorry for speaking to you rudely that day", Sai said taking Sruthi's hand. "Virat sir never hid anything from me before. And the situation we are in, I had to react that way.", she explained. "I am not usually like that",

"I know that. Virat told me how nice you are as a person. That you would never ever think bad about any person let alone speak bad to them.", Sruthi spoke to a surprised Sai.

"Did he tell about me?!", Sai asked not masking her curiousity.

"Why would he not?", Sruthi asked surprisingly. "Whatever little he talks to me, it is either about my safety or about you. He cannot stop but bring you in every conversation.", she smiled. "Please dont misunderstand him. It is easy to judge him based on this situation we are in but he was genuinely helping us because of his vaada to my dying husband", Sruthi spoke forgetting her guard not to reveal the details.

"Your husband, I mean Sada died?!", Sai shrieked only to control her voice when Sruthi's pulled her in to be quiet. "Sorry, I mean Sada was my husband's best friend once.", she mumbled.

"And he shot him.", Sruthi said not revealing the latest information. "So it was my dying husband's wish to take care of me and my baby that he was fulfilling.", she said.

Sai now connected all the dots from the time he returned from the mission to the time he left for it again! Then if Sada is dead why did he go back she wondered.

Right then Sruthi suddenly asked her to leave. She was looking out of the glass door towards a man who just turned and walked back.

"See you have to leave now. It is not safe here anymore. I hope you did not come alone. And does Virat know you are here?", she asked, little worried.

"No I came here with my BIL. Virat sir went to .... ", Sai did not reveal much. She is a police officer's daughter and she knows not to give away any more than required.

"OK please go now. It is not safe for you.", Sruthi said clearly agitated. "you should not have come here. I could not show my face to Virat if something happens to you.", she said. "Call Virat immediately if you can and leave from here. I think my husband's men have come to move me from here. ", she blurted out.

"Why do your husband's men move you if your husband is dead and you are in hiding?", questioned Sai as if understanding something. "That means Virat sir came to know your husband is alive and went for him?", This time Sai could not contain her fear.

"What? Virat knows he is alive? Then they must have lured him into the GC.", Sruthi spoke out loud what her husband said to her on phone the previous day. "Look you are in danger. They might be planning to use you as bait and therefore must have lured Virat into the jungle so they can find you alone. Please leave immediately with your BIL. Virat will kill my husband if he comes to know that you are in trouble. Please!", Sruthi begged.

Sai stopped listening to anything after she heard that Virat was lured into GC by Sada's men. She knows what luring means in this field of action. Everything happens according to the plan! Her heart fell into her stomach. If only she had one moment with him, she would have told him what he means to her.

NOTE: IT WAS NOT EASY to write this plot. But I should say, writers have good material to build an engrossing plot around this situation and lead to a confession. I hope they have a better plot. I am not a very good one when it comes to thrillers. So please help me find any loopholes in my story with your feedback.

Love the way story is shaping up and the way you have portrayed the characters. Can’t wait to read the final part to know what happens next

this was definitely an interesting turn of events. the story keeps getting interesting.... can't wait for the next update...

Apprehending Sada alive and turning Shruthi into witness - that would be a good plot to get Virat out of this mess of a situation. Good job

But makers will not use so much brain .

Please send this to Vankar. He needs this to save Virat’s reputation.

Awesome piece of writing connecting every dot possible.

Thanks for the tag.

Can’t wait for the next part.

Much better version of the story than the show! Thank you!

Makes total sense now.

Virat keeping Shruti hidden even from police because there is a mole. She has to be hidden from Sada's friends also because they fear she may betray them.

Wow. Sai is real GC ki sherni.

Awaiting next chapter now.