Devakshi FF #Krpkab (Sona in the Hospital - scene 20)

Act 1.. Scene 2

Jenny and Sona waiting outside the doctor's chamber... Dev was being examined for injuries and Sona is still shivering as the after effects of the whole ordeal. When she reached the location the beam was still easier to remove as most of it had broken down by the fire the door was another story all together.. she had to kick the cubicle door to submission and break it.. The temporary structures are never made for sturdiness. But getting a unconscious Dev out was so impossibe a task but sense prevailed and Sona has managed to use the wheeled office chair to transport Dev till the first floor only and then she had started to choke... thank god that the fire fighters had broken the glass wall of buildings front and had been trying to get inside to save them... Had it not been for those fire fighters Dev and Sona both would have choked in that smoke. But now the wait is becoming too much... Her prayers are going unheard it seems, every minute that passed by was actually killing her...

Doctor came out and started towards Sona...

Dr. Ritwik : hi, he is alright (holding Sona by hand), I think that he was already quite drunk by the time the fire broke out and thats why could not manage to come out... but his injuries are minor. But I heard you have incurred few injuries which needs attention Sonakshi.. Please let me check them atleast..

Sona : Ritwik, You checked him thoroughly, right? No.. no internal injuries and all... there was this gash on his forehead which was bleeding very badly...

Ritwik : Sonakshiii... he is totally alright...believe me, i will not be standing here with you otherwise... and yess he got 11 stitches for that gash... which will only make him look more romantic at the end (smilling to ease of the stress in S eyes)

Ritwik was more worried for Sona...she has a look which was totally unhinged as if something was just caving in..in her... and she might just ...and then Sona just fainted...

Sometime later...

Dev opened his eyes and woke up to a head that felt like it had been to a boxing session without tellin Dev. Gradually opening his eyes he noticed Jenny sitting on the visitors sofa and is asleep. He turned around trying to absorb his surroundings when he saw Sona lying on the other bed of the same room he started to get worried... she seemed pale and unwell...panic started deep within him... Sona..what was wrong with her?

She had a few scratches on her when he went to examine her closely... rest she just had a plaster on her right forearm.. and she apparently had some problem on her chest area too... he needed to talk to the Doc...

Sometime later...

Sona wakes up suddenly searching for Dev..

Sona : Dev (whispering)... Dev Kaha gaye...Dev

Worry, medication and injury making her groggy and her inability to get up and ensure that Dev was alright made her cry of helplessness, she was crying silently scared to death that something serious has happened to Dev... thats the reason his bed was empty.. but then she notices that she is not in a hospital bed but in a bedroom... infact she is... what was she doing here? ...

Dev enters the bedroom his forehead had a bandage and a few scratches but otherwise he looked perfectly alright. He just came and sat down on the bed beside her as if it was his right ... ande wiped the tears rolling down the sides of her eyes... made her sit and held her to him with so much tenderness that Sona felt her heart will break... he just popped in few pills in her mouth and held the glass of water to her lips to drink from it...

Sona: I must go... i need to... at home... i mean...i forgot to inform, and it must be very late and they would be very anxious about me...mera phone...i mean mera bag... (she was looking everywhere else than at Dev)

Suddenly she looked at the music system and the plate on it saying ...

And realizing how true it was for their lives a tear just slipped past those eyes... She was still groggy...but she could still recognize this place blindfolded... the smell of the Raat Ki Raani still lingering the air from the breeze coming in from the sliding door... their Devakshi... their dream house where they spent best of their marrital life together...

She had to leave this place soon before it destroyed all her strength she gained in all these seven years... if any place could do it to her it was this place... she just tried to stand up and immediately the whole world tilted on it axis... Dev just held from behind her but she just lost it then... giving a violent jerk trying to walk out of his reach she turned around... and backed up a few steps...

Dev : Sonakshi tumhe bohot chot lagi hai abhi tum yeh tantrums afford nahi kar sakti... yahan aao aur rest karo...(while he tried his best to sound all stern n nonchalant about it... he was trembling inside... Sona was not only badly hurt but emotionally also she was shattered...and he didnt know why? or how to deal with it...)

Sona: Dev mujhe ghar jana hai... main yahan ruk nahi sakti...main (and tears started to roll down her face and she just closed her eyes trying to breathe and hiccupping in between )

Dev: Sona (lowering his volume and talking in soft tone) maine mere friend ko bheja hai tumhare ghar to inform that you had to travel to Jaipur for few days... tum yahan reh sakti ho koi pareshan nahi hoga... tum bas unse phone pe baat kar lena... i mean

Sona : What? what do you mean main yahan reh sakti hun? Main yahan kyun rahungi Dev? What for? How could you bring me here without my permission? Don't you have any idea of decency Dev?

How dare you tell my parents lies about me? You had no right to do it? NO RIGHT AT ALL.. DO YOU GET IT? (she was screaming and trembling and also there was something that was totally shattering inside her... she had to get out of this house ASAP... damn she will loose it all otherwise)

All her energy had sapped after that she had to stand with the support of the wall at her back ...and then Dev came to hold her again by her hands... and she couldn't hold it in... slapped him hard on his face she just stood there with horror of what she had done seeping in her eyes...

Dev just kept on looking at her face without a single reaction to the fact that he has just been slapped... what he saw was a balm to his heart... he saw the pain of 7 years of separation... he saw that this place still had a special place in her heart ... he saw that she was in highly volatile frame of mind right now... but what he wanted to know was what triggered this state of hers... in the last few weeks Sona had been portraying the Coolest and Calmest persona then what had brought in this extreame reaction. He had been hoping against all odds that somewhere Sona got affected by him ... that somewhere she suffered the same way that he has been suffereing... but this hurt, disllusional, burning with anger and pain Sona was not he wanted after all... he wanted to somehow soothe those pains and hurt... to hold her in his arms and protect her from every storm in her life...but will life ever give him that chance again... he didn't know... but today he wanted to try...

Sona: I am Sorry... I didnt mean to hurt you... I just need to go home...

Dev: You once said this was your dream home... that no other place in this world made you feel more secured, more loved or more at peace... so i thought... i did not mean to hurt you ... I just...

Sona: I dont believe that Dev... I dont believe a single word you just said... you have only been trying to hurt and embarrass me since the day i came back to Delhi... i didn't encroach on that office property your CEO sold it to me for proper price... but you have made my life hell since before that day... why? Why Dev?...

You hate me I can understand but what the hell were you doing drinking so heavily while signing those copies of your book... where are your senses FOR GODS SAKES?... you were so heavily drunk that you didn't even realize that you were in the midst of a BHATTI DAMN IT...

Have you totally lost it?.. You didn't once think of your family, your sisters, your employees... not even your mom.. Your MOM Dev...Do you have any idea how it feels to think that probably you have lost your most loved one...your one reason to live... your whole life crumbles around you (she had been coming closure to Dev but with the last question she just had to hold him by his collar and shake him for good) Do you have any idea ...

(Sona had been crying and screaming all this time not even realising that her tirade had been restoring the sense of elation in Dev... he had his answer. Sona was angry... NOPE SHE WAS SCARED... scared to death after finding him trapped in that cabin all senseless after drinking heavily... Dr. Ritwick had told him that Sonaz injuries were much more serious than his own... Fire fighters and Jenny told him that she had rushed into that furnace of a bulding with just two blankets when even the professional fire fighters had not dared... Jenny had also told him that Sona had been very stubborn about not getting any treatment before she was sure that He was safe and well treated for his small gash on the forehead... Jenny had been ranting on and on about how much Sona still cared for him... but this outburst of Sona ... her scold and slap was the best thing that has happened to him in the last 7 years so ... )

Sona was suddenly picked up by Dev in his arms and was kissed good and hard for few seconds... she was so stunned that she did not know she had gone all in shocked mode... before she could start her screaming again... Dev just lifted one eyebrow in that highly irritating way and looked at her as if trying to say..

"Are you sure you want to start again, i have my hands well occupied so my way of closing that mouth of yours might be interesting... Wanna try it Babe?"

Sona was carried to the bed placed in the middle with utmost care... but she immediately said

Sona: i want to go home... my...

Dev : No one is waiting Sona... They have been told that you are heading to Jaipur for certain business need... I have a genius young friend Debu actually its Debjyoti Neogi so he has taken care of it all... belive me if its Debu there can be no loopholes... I found him in this college in Kolkatta...

Sona: Dev I cant stay... I need my phone...

Dev : Sona..

Sona: Its Dr. Bose for you Mr. Dixit... Do you get it? You better do... I am not interested in any of your juvenile games... so just lemme get the hell out of here...

Dev: Hummm... uh hun... foul language and you huh?... I must be really getting to your nerves ...you see now that you talked about juvenile games... I have something to show you...

(he switched on the TV Screen where there were pics of Sona holding Dev in her arms while getting in the ambulance ... Sona holding one hand of Dev and touching it to her forehead while crying... Sona pacing outside doctors checkup rooms ... and many more...)

Sona: What the hell... who did this... i am gonna kill him...

Dev was trying his best to hide the excitement to see that Sona has gone all red with embarassment...oh he was enjoying this too much...

Dev: Oh there is one more very pertinent one you see (and he showed the last pic which had Sona kissing his cheek while he was being taken to the doctors chambers for check up lying unconscious on a stretcher, anyone would think she was sending him away for a war, eyes all wet with tears her own face had soot smudges and tear stains but there was so much love and concern that one could see it from beyond 20 feet distance...)

Now about those games, you see these were taken by a wannabe tabloid reporter of hospital staff... I managed to glean these out of him but I think if you don't stay here and listen to what I say... I might like to have them send to some choicest tv channels to show the world that how much my wife loves me ...

what do you think people will say?

Sona was so embarrased and enraged by Dev's behaviour that she just threw the first thing she got her hands on n that was a coster set which flew in six different direction not even one making it to the target it was intended for.. that head of one very dead stupidly smilling Business tycoon.

Dev : Oh so you are staying... (Coming closer to her face and whispering) its okay darling we will tell everybody after your stay here that you just did not recognise it was your husband...sorry Ex-husband under all that soot... You were just trying to save your favourite poet KHANA-BADOSH and was in grief in finding him all stuck up in fire and hurt...

Sona mouth just fell open... among all the hullaballoo...she had forgotten that she had found him with the copies of his books ...each one of them had a copy residing in the bookshelf in her bedroom... so many nights she has dreamt of meeting her poet... talking to him about his poetry... and now this was too much to take in...

AAArrrggghhh