Epilogue: A year later....................................
The path to the cliff was sequestered. Thick trees and bushes covered the ground with a barely visible trail. The wind, bolstered perhaps by the raging ocean below, seemed as wild and uncontrolled as the fury of the solitary man who raced up the path. It had taken him close to an hour but Manthan Karan Virani finally reached the summit of the narrow bluff. And looked around narrowly, searching for his adversary.
"Well...well well..... You made it in good time Manthan Virani. I was thinking I would have to endure your habitual unpunctuality. " A cool, mocking voice sounded from right behind him. He turned instinctively, throwing his arm out to parry the blow which the speaker aimed from behind. "And as alert as ever....".
"I think your ears and your brain lack coordination. I explained to you, didn't I, that it would be in your best interests to stay away from my sister?" Manthan said, "Then how dare you............" This time, his opponent smashed a fist straight into Manthan's jaw, sending him reeling back. His voice lost its cool octave as he heatedly answered Manthan's unfinished question with, "I only did to her what you did to mine, you wretch..."
"D-O-N-T D-R-A-G M-Y W-I-F-E I-N-T-O T-H-I-S, S-C-U-M." Manthan enunciated, rolling out of the way of the potentially fatal knife edge, the other man lunged at him with. "T-H-EN S-T-O-P A-B-U-S-I-N-G H-E-R, T-O-A-D." he countered. For a minute, Manthan considered telling him that he had the victim-of-marital-abuse incorrect, but then, the shorter man never had a head for reason. And no excuse, revenge or love, gave a human being the right to violate another. His sister would never be safe till this reprobate still breathed. Jails, asylums, nothing had been able to keep him away. He still remembered the way she barricaded herself within her room, refusing to come out in fear with a tearful , "Woh bahaar hai.....Mujhe bahar nahi jana......Kahin nahi jana....." Earlier he had fought to defend himself, to avoid hurt. Now he fought to inflict it.
The struggle lasted for a good hour and half before Manthan finally dragged his foe to the edge of the cliff. Wiping the blood off his mouth and cheek with the back of his hand, he slowly drew a gun from his pocket.
"I want to make sure you're truly dead and gone before I toss your body out to dirty that expanse of water." He said with uncharateristic hostility. He placed the gun on his almost senseless rival's forehead and was just about to pull the trigger when he heard his wife's heartbreaking "No............."
Ira ran to her brother's side, sobbing. "No Manthan......Please don't........He's all I have left....My only family.....Please....." She knelt down, holding her brother in her arms. "I'm begging you Manthan......Please spare me his life...........I'll never ask you for anything else........Please Manthan...." Manthan refused to relent. "He does not deserve to live, Ira.....And if you don't stand aside, I'd rather push you down the cliff too...." He said ominously. "Fine then...go ahead.....I won't let you kill him while I am alive...."
It took Manthan fifteen seconds before he lowered the gun and with an embittered, " For once think about right and wrong, Ira.....Not just about the person you love the most in this world. I didn't expect you'd give me such a choice." He put his weapon back and walked away. "I wouldn't have given you such a choice if I wasn't sure of the outcome, Manthan. " Ira said almost inaudibly, her voice rife with sorrow.
Jai Vardhan got up to his feet slowly,painfully . " He won't trouble you anymore Ira.." he said drawing his own silencer-fitted-revolver and aiming it at Manthan. Only to stagger back as a sharp weapon sliced his spine. He turned back and sagged against Ira, falling down. "If I can't let him hurt you......I can't let you hurt him...I can't let him suffer what is essentially my punishment......I'm sorry Jai....." Ira's emotional anguish changed into a physical one as her brother shot her. Point Blank. With his last words being "I'm sorry too.... Ira."
Please let me know if I shoul continue with the Manthan Ira fanfic......Fanaah.....
Edited by anut - 18 years ago
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