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Chapter 5 all! Read, enjoy and comment!

Chapter 5

Padmini's hysterical shouts permeated through the silence that had fallen over the hall. She pushed the guards away, grabbing at a still standing Madhu, who was looking at her brother in astonishment. The hole in the column where the bullet had gone through was still smoking as Yuvraj stared at Madhu.

"What is wrong with you?!" Padmini wept. "These are your sisters! Your sisters!"

"Ma." Yuvraj's voice was hoarse from the sobs he was surpassing. "Father always told me that the family reputation was everything. We are what people see us as. We need to keep the respect of the villagers. I can't have people laughing at our family. I can't."

"Raj, please, please, just talk to RK. Please, let us call him'he'll marry her, I know he will. You don't want to kill Madhu, you missed, you never miss! Please my son!"

Yuvraj closed his eyes. "I can't." His voice was helpless. He raised the gun again. Madhu pushed Padmini away, eyes locked with her brothers. Yuvraj's hands were trembling on the gun, and try as he might he could not steady them.

The strange tableau was disrupted by another gunshot. Trishna shrieked as Yuvraj staggered, the gun falling from his hand as the bullet ricocheted along with barrel. He cursed, spinning to see who had dared to shoot at him, only to stare in shock at RK, who was staring back at him coolly. Daima and Ram Singh stared aghast at the spectacle before them.

"I always thought that a scene like this would belong to one of my movies." RK said calmly, striding quickly towards a stunned Madhu. He planted a hand on her waist, pulling her close to him, shielding her from her brother's gaze. Madhu's grip on his arms was tight, but RK was proud to feel no trembling in her hands. "Imagine my surprise that I came across it in real life. The Lord plays such tricks on us!"

"Get away from my sister!" Yuvraj growled. The bodyguards made a move towards RK, only to be pulled short as RK's bodyguards came in with Bittuji, guns ready.

"Get away." Yuvraj repeated, ignoring the drama around him, eyes fixed on RK and Madhu.

"To give you a better shot? Good luck with that. So much for loving your sister." RK snorted, pulling Madhu further behind him. The sight enraged Yuvraj even more.

"I do love her! You tainted her, you B**tard! You ruined her in the eyes of the village! In the eyes of our family! You ruined her!"

"Be quiet you stupid boy!" RK growled back. "Your sister is not tainted! She is not ruined! This woman is the purest person I have ever met! Stop speaking rubbish."

"You don't understand!" Yuvraj shouted, running his hands through his hair in frustration. "Who will marry her now? How will our family survive this scandal? You think it's about the kiss? It's not! It's about the fact that she let you touch her before marriage. My sister will be nothing but a cheap tramp in the eyes of'"

"Shut up!" RK shouted, losing his temper as he finally felt Madhu trembling from her brother's harsh words. "You're so concerned about your family? About your reputation? So concerned that you'd kill Madhu? Fine!"

"Fine? What do you mean fine?" Dadima asked, finally interjecting herself into the conversation.

"I mean, fine! It's my fault, isn't it? Then I'll make amends." RK paused, turning around and bringing Madhu to his side, gripping her hand tightly.

"I'll marry her." The tone was final, inviting no debate.

Yuvraj sputtered, shaking his arms in futile motions, trying to make sense of what was going on. RK felt Madhu grip his hand tightly, but did not turn to face her. He did not think he could face the look in her eyes right now. How Madhu must hate him for putting her in this position, for almost getting her killed! RK wanted to bang his head against the wall at the mess this had become.

"Done." Dadima's voice sliced though Yuvraj's stutters. "We shall make marriage preparations immediately. I'll be needing your assistant in this."
"You can have him." RK said nonchalantly, as if what was happening was not a huge deal. "Bittuji will make sure this marriage is like nothing your stupid village has even seen." He stifled a smile as he felt Madhu pinch his wrist in reprimand for calling her village "stupid". It was good that she still had her spirit.

"Dadima'"

"Be quiet, Yuvraj. You have proven yourself a child today. Now you will let the adults speak." Dadima paused, looking at her dazed grandson. "I indulged my son endlessly and he almost bought ruin on our family numerous times. I won't make the same mistake with you. Foolish boy."

"My father'"Yuvraj protested.

"Was a passionate fool. Now be quiet." Dadima railroaded over him again.

"RK." She turned to the superstar. "You will take Madhu from here. You will not return for at least a few years. It is better for us all if Madhu does not come back to our village for some time. Yuvraj is right in that respect. It will take a while for her suitors to forget the insult your marriage will bring them. It will be better for all if the matter is buried here."
"What about your audience?" RK inclined his head to include the people still milling in the hall, silent.

Dadima scoffed. "They know the consequences if they speak. It was different if you did not say you will marry her. There is nothing to gossip about now, is there? Just a small matter between a soon to be husband and wife, a rishta that was agreed upon before you touched her, am I right?" She added, glaring at the assembled crowd.

RK nodded, seeing where the old woman was going with this. If Madhu and he were already engaged before he kissed her, much of her reputation would be salvaged. He finally glanced at her, apprehensive about what he would find. Her expressionless face alarmed him even more.

"Now." The old woman clapped her hands twice, scattering all the servants. "It is late, and it has been a very long and tiring day. I say we all retire and sleep away this eventful night. And you can do that in your own home RK."
"I need to speak with Madhu." RK replied flatly, turning to look at Dadima.

"It's late. Tomorrow." Was the equally firm reply.

"I'm not asking." RK sneered. Yuvraj looked back and forth the two equally stubborn people. Into this terse standoff, Madhu's voice interjected.

"I want to speak to him too." She told her surprised grandmother fiercely. "You've decided my life in a few minutes and I have raised no objections. I deserve to speak with him."

Dadima looked back at her granddaughter, nonplussed. "Very well." She finally grunted. "See to it that you don't do any too'shameful."

Madhu scoffed, ignoring her brother's pleading glances, and her mother and sister's surprised stares as she dragged RK further down into the hall. Ram Singh and Daima followed silently. Bittuji was left in the hallway with the bodyguards, trying to talk awkwardly with both Dadima and Yuvraj. Needless to say, he failed.

XXX

RK and Madhu entered the room, both lost in their own thoughts. For his part, RK for the first time in a very long time, had no idea where to begin. He had ignored all the unspoken rules of the village, and had effectively entrapped Madhu. What if she hated him? Then and there RK decided it did not matter. Madhu was alive. Very soon she would be his. He would make her love him. RK would not be satisfied with just her lust-she would belong to him body and soul.

"What were you thinking?! You could have been killed!" Madhu shouted, bringing him out of his thoughts.

"What was I thinking? You-you brother tries to kill you, I stop it, and you ask me what I was thinking? What do you think I was thinking?!" He replied flabbergasted.

"Yuvraj could have shot you! Or his bodyguards! Did you think this was a film set? What were you thinking?!" Madhu shrieked, hitting his shoulders as she spoke. RK captured her wrists in one hand, pulling her close. The other settled on her waist. Madhu struggled half-heartedly, finally resting her head on his shoulder. RK could feel her silent tears soaking through his shirt, and his heart hurt for her. In one night she had lost everything. And he was to blame.

"I don't say this to anyone, so listen up." He whispered to her. "I am sorry for what happened, and for my part in it." Madhu's head shot up at the proclamation and she glared at him fiercely.

"Are you sorry you kissed me?" She asked angrily.

RK shook his head, unable to lie to her. "No. I don't regret that at all. I needed to know'"

"Know what?" Madhu echoed, looking into his eyes, searching for her answers. RK released her wrists in order to brush away her hair. His hand lingered on Madhu's cheek and her eyelids fluttered in reaction to his touch. He didn't reply and Madhu moved to another, more important, question.

"Do you'love me?" The question was asked with a lot of hesitation, and Madhu's eyes were downcast as she waited for his answer.

RK thought of all that he had suffered, all the hurts he had endured- all administrated by those who said they had loved him.

"I don't know love." He answered honestly. "All the people who said they loved me betrayed me, so what do I know of that emotion? I know that I need you. I know that I crave you-your voice, your thoughts, your lips, your touch. I want everything that you are, everything that you can be'to be mine. I want'" A hand settled on her cheek, fingers whispering over her lips as RK spoke.

"You want?" Madhu whispered as RK paused, dazed by the intensity of what he was saying and the feelings his touch was evoking.

"I want to brand your soul'so that everyone will know: Madhubala is RK's."

Silence reined in the room as they stared at each other. RK asked the question that had been plaguing him since he proposed the marriage.

"Do you have a problem with any of this? Tell me now Madhu, but I don't think I can walk away."

Her hand fisted on his shirt at his words, and her gaze burned into his.

"Listen to me." She whispered fiercely. "I was ready to die out there because of what I felt for you. You say you don't know love. Neither do I. What I know is this- what I feel for you? Outstrips whatever I have felt for anyone in my entire life. RK, you opened my eyes to what my life was lacking. You made me want things I had never dreamed of. And you did it by being you. I don't care if you're a superstar. I never have. I just want you."

"Just RK?" He said, smiling at her, relieved at her words. She didn't smile back.

"Just Rishab Kundra." Madhu corrected. "I want all of Rishab Kundra. An equal exchange."

"Well'I don't know about that. RK is often thought to be too much for hundreds. Can one person handle him?" The corner of RK's mouth lifted in a soft smirk, teasing. Unfortunately, Madhu was in no mood for a ribbing. Fisting her hand in his collar she bought his face down to hers.

"Be sure that this is what you want." She told him flatly as he started at her amused. "Because I will never let you go."

"Never let me go huh?" RK grinned at his fiery soon to be wife.

"Yes," Madhu replied grimly, tugging him closer. "You are mine."

"Shall we seal the deal with a kiss?" RK whispered against her lips. In response, Madhu closed the meager distance between them, capturing his lips with hers.

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