MADHUBALA - TS; LAST WISH - Page 5

Originally posted by: aDarkAngel

Wow..she is actually his childhood friend and RK is actually in Love 😳..that's so aww !! Btw is she some undercover cop or she is here just to save Rishabh .. And how did she know about the attack before hand ?

Originally posted by: DevilClan

When r u updating?

3.
COVER

I heard muffling and hammering
sounds and that brought me out of the sleep I was having. My visions got
cleared and I saw Maa and Bhai sitting on either side of the bed I was lying
at. What was wrong? Why were they whispering and then from where that crashing
sound was coming. My eyes shot open as soon as I realized that the sound wasn't
of something but of the gun shots I had heard. My head was splitting with pain
and my mind was a little foggy. How in the hell did I get here? A second ago I
was hiding behind my car with... Crap! Where is she?

"Where is Madhubala?" I asked
loudly and my mother who was whispering and talking with my brother now
concentrated on me and told me to stay put.

"Stay Rishu. Don't worry she's
fine and will be here in a minute." She answered more than I had asked for.
Well good for me. Maybe she had seen the concern in my eyes. She had always
been like this. Reading me as accurate as anyone could ever do.

"You're up." Just then I heard
her, walking inside the door with a cup in her hand.

I wasn't a patient man when it
came to getting answers for my questions and I jumped up on the bed. Almost.
"What happened?"

She glanced at my mother and
something exchanged between them because the next moment she left the room with
my brother behind her.

"You know about Sultan and his
phone calls to you." She stated and when I nodded she continued. "We were
tracking him for over 2 years now but we couldn't hold him at one place, long
enough to arrest him. And then Aunty contacted us for help and there we planned
everything out." She told.

"So the girls in the
portfolios..." I started but she finished for me. "...are all agents."

"What had happened at the set?" I
asked the next question while she settled on the chair near the bed.

"My informers missed that you were
going to be attacked today." She answered avoiding my question but I wasn't the
one who was going to let it go.

"How did you know someone was
watching us?" I asked.

"Call it my training or sixth
sense but I felt it. I tried to take you inside but you are one hell of a drama
king you know. You fainted." She mocked me and I grinned. I fell in love with
her over again. This Madhubala was something else and I liked this Jungli Billi.

"So what now?" I took the offered
cup, gratefully, ignoring her tone. I needed a cup of tea and she had brought
one. She knew me inside out.

"I am leaving." She told looking
straight into my eyes.

"Leaving?" I asked sipping my tea.
Her eyes had said something and I wanted a distraction right now. I didn't want
to think what my mind had read in them.

"Headquarters had called. I am
exposed and we don't work like this." She said. For a minute I just stared at
her trying to gather what she had just said and then it sank into me. I was
right. She was leaving me.

"Stay. Please." I pleaded. They were
the words of a drowning man who needed just one push to reach the shore. And she
was that push.

"Will you do something for me?"
She ignored my words and asked something I knew about. I nodded helplessly knowing
it wasn't her decision. Her eyes had a kind of restlessness and I knew she didn't
want to leave. "Don't try to kill yourself or something." She paused for a
minute giving me time to absorb whatever she was saying. So she knew I wanted to die. But not now. I had my reasons to live
now. Only one.

"I know what had happened in your
childhood and what's happening now. But you have to fight them. Past is past
and you can't change it. But you can shape your future. Tell your brother about
Deepali. It's better he live alone than with her. He'll find a nice girl. Truth
doesn't hurt always. Live for your mother. Your brother." She finished looking
at me intently. She took my hand in hers and I felt her warmth, her words
seeping into my bones.

"But I can't tell him." I told
her. My brother loved Deepali. Too much to need anything else.

"Then stay away from her, from
them. Live Rishab. Don't wish for a death. Life is beautiful." She said leaving
my hand.

"But it's not. Without you." I told
her. Finally. I knew she would be disappointed and sad, maybe angry, but I didn't
want to leave a chance, a shot at a better future.

"My car is waiting outside for me.
I have to leave now. I am sorry. Promise me that you will live. Everyday. Happily."
She finished and I nodded reluctantly. There was no future for us. But I would
wait for her.

"Promise but I'll wait for you
Madhu as long as I'll live." I said and then she was gone. Gone from my life.

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It had been 2 weeks since she had
left me but sometimes I felt like she was near, watching me or something. So
keeping my promise I was living with my mother now, away from my brother and
his vile wife. I had stopped taking her name and true to Madhu's words I was
feeling a lot better. Maybe her physical harassments were affecting me more
than I had ever thought. I was free but not happy. In the first week Bittuji
hired a new assistant for himself. A real one this time. I didn't want a repeat
of what had happened with me earlier. I was living but I was miserable without
her. I missed her every day and every night. I tried calling her at her number
but it was switched off. Always.

Today was no exception. At the
crack of dawn I parked my car at the beach just to get her images out of my
mind. It was my routine to come here and sit around for a while. The sound of
waves colliding with stones gave my mind a soothing effect. I thought to take a
walk outside. It was deserted like always. I had just got out of my car when I heard
the same sound again. And then everything happened so quickly that I didn't get
the time to breath. Within a minute I was lying on the sand with something on
my chest crushing me down. A piercing pain shot through me and then I saw a
face. A week ago I had seen the same face on the front page of the newspaper
with a caption. I recognized him instantly. How could I not? He was the one who
had threatened me and had already tried to kill me once. Sultan. He laughed
like a maniac, his lips moving but I couldn't hear him. I was going to die. I knew
it. And then I wished for the last thing I wanted to see. My last wish. Her face.
But it wasn't heard. I heard loud voices and sound of bullets again before blacking
out. I knew I was dead.

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Whirring of machines and a soft
voice woke me up. Wait! Am I not supposed
to be dead?

"Rishab?"

I heard my name again and I opened
my eyes blinking several times. There she was patting my cheek, smiling. Maybe my last wish is heard. But then how
can I be in a hospital?

She understood my confusion and
explained me why I was here. "How can you be so reckless Rishab? Why were you
at the beach? And that too alone? Had I was not following you, you would have
been dead by now. You idiot."

"You were following me?" I asked
sitting up. My ribs hurt but I didn't care. I wanted answers as long as she was
staying here. I knew she would go away as soon as I'll recover. I wanted all
answers now to spend some quality time with her later. I knew I sounded
pathetic but it was the plan of a desperate man who wanted nothing but a little
time with a woman he loved.

"I am sorry for the last time. But
I had to lie. We wanted Sultan out of his hole and I knew he wouldn't do it until
I leave you alone." She told.

"But then why did you made me
believe that you were leaving me?" I held her hand with both of mine. I wanted
to verify that she was real and I was not dead.

"I had to. My operation chief told
me that someone in your house was leaking news to Sultan and we wanted to catch
him red handed. And we did after we killed Sultan. It was your new servant
Raju. It would have been harder for us, with you knowing the truth. Maybe you
are a good actor but in real life things don't work like this. So I had to
leave you." She explained.

"Do you know how I lived without
you? I died every minute thinking I'll never see your face again." Anger like I
had never felt before flowed in my every vein. She was following me and I didn't
know. How many times I had thought to end up my life in these two weeks and had
to end that thought just to keep my promise to her. She could have told me. Told
me the truth. Was it all about acting? But then the anger disappeared as soon
as it had come. She was out there. For me. To keep me safe and I was accusing
her of my condition. Her face was twisted with the agony and pain she had gone
through. As I concentrated on her, the lines on her forehead, dark shadows
under her eyes stood out on her face. She looked like she hadn't slept for
days. Her lips had dried out, maybe because of the air conditioner or
tiredness. But still she managed to look beautiful in this condition.

"What happened at the beach?" I asked
the question when I felt like asking. She was quiet since the time I had blasted
her off with my questions, my pain.

"I was following you, you know. I was
keeping my distance but then out of nowhere Sultan appeared with his men. I
called for backup and it took five minute for them to arrive there. Till then I
had to hide behind the rock. But when he shot you on your arm and you fell on the
sand, he threw a boulder on you and then I had to step in, if not he had killed
you right there. My team arrived just then and after a lot of firing we were
successful in finishing off Sultan and his men." She finished shuddering maybe
revisiting those depressed memories again. "You don't know how hard it was for
me to hide there when he was laughing there. I wanted to kill him right there
and then resurrect him and kill him again and again and again till I find it I had
had enough." She chuckled at the idiocy of her thought and I joined her. Things
like resurrection and reincarnation were well suited for reel life only.

"You won't leave me again, will
you?" I held my breath. I knew I couldn't live with those feelings again. They would
kill me for sure this time.

She didn't say anything but how
she answered my question left me breathless. My heart beat monitor slowed down first
and then jumped up as she placed her lips on mine and I didn't care. I had got
my answer and I was happy with it.

Sometimes I think that maybe my
last wish was heard. That day when I had almost died I had seen her face. Not in
real but in my imagination. Maybe last wishes are always heard.

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Phew!. At last I updated the last part. It was one hell of a hectic week.

Do tell me how this TS was.

Love

Ron