
Repentance & Forgiveness...Action & Consequences
Another Sugvi Fan fiction...by Vinnie R.
Chapter one.
She opened her eyes and blinked at the white overtly white light of the florescent bulbs above. Where was she? Her head hurt, come to think of it, everything hurt. She let out a soft pain filled moan. Her throat felt dry and scratchy.
Turning her head and noticed the IV pole at her side her eyes followed the line that went into her hand. The antiseptic smell and the eerie quietness revealing to her that she was indeed in a hospital she frowned as she tried to recall how she got here. Her mind gave her nothing.
She closed her eyes and shook her head, bad idea as a shooting pain enveloped her skull.
"oye maa!" She moaned. Feeling like she was about to black out. Taking a deep breath she closed her eyes letting the darkness overtake her as the pain subsided...
She was awoken a short while later with the feeling of cool hands on her skin taking her pulse.
"Hey you are awake." The nurse said smiling. She left to call the Dr. Who came in shortly after.
"How are you feeling ?" the Dr. asked checking her chart...
"ummm Ok I guess ...my head hurts terribly... What happened to me...where am I ?" she asked.
"You don't remember what happened?' He asked looking at her.
She began to shake her head then thought better of it. "Umm No.."
"Ok that is understandable...Is there someone we can call for you? We don't have anything on you...your name?'
"uhh ummm I am...my name is...Um..." Her head started pounding. Try as she might nothing was coming forward. Why...She had to have a name ...everyone did ... A panic started deep inside her as she could not recall simple things she was asking herself names faces nothing!!!
"Ms. Calm down...shhh calm down...take a deep breath..." The Dr. said "its ok with injuires like the one you were brought in with...It is normal to be a disoriented...but little by little it should come back.
"Huh? What happened to me?" She asked. Feeling lost and scared.
"Well two weeks ago you were brought in by a couple of local fisher men, they said they found floating in the sea caught in one of the nets... you had a swollen skull, and lots of scrapes and brusies...consistent with a fall maybe? Luckily no broken bones but it seems you hit your head on something solid. You were unconscious. Any of this sounding familiar? "
"No.." She answered as she took in what he was telling her. It sounded unreal . She had the overwhelming urge to cry.
"As I said sometimes the when the brain goes through a trauma you experience memory loss but it should come back in a few days. Just try to relax, now that you are awake it will come back to you." He said smiling sympathetically.
"Ok...Um where am I exactly?" she asked
"Ohh sorry you are in Banaras Government Public Hospital" He said.
"Banaras?"
"I'll send the nurse to give you something for the headache..." he said as he made to leave.. "ohh dose the name Thakur Mallick ring any bells?"
"Umm no.."She frowned "Why?"
"because you were saying it a few times while unconscious...its ok just rest..." He left with her staring at him.
She lay down trying to come to terms with what she just learnt. Trying to do as the doctor say and not panic. As the nurse came and gave her an injection for her headache.
As she fell asleep , she mumbled the one name that was any clue to her past...
"Thakur Maalick..."
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He sat at the bar watching the man opposite him , his face emotionless as he waited for him to show. " Three tens...read em and weep!' The man said as he placed his cards down triumphantly, he reached over to take the pot in the middle of the table...
"Uh uh uh...not so fast...that is good but see these three queens are much better, right Jack!" he said softly...
"That is impossible ...no one can win five hands in a row...you're cheating Mister!' Jack said watching him across the table angrily.
He smiled as he shrugged... "Seems lady luck is on my side, ironically when I don't want her to be...but what to do...and believe me...I have no interest in cheating for a measly $900 ...But maybe some one else dose...I am done." He said. As he took the money.
"Not so fast Mister..." Jack said as he held his hand. "I know you are cheating, and we don't take lightly to cheaters around here...now I suggest you leave...without my money!" He stood up looking down at the ruffled stranger.
The stranger looked at his hand then up at Jack. "I just told you I am not a cheat...now get your hands off of me before I do something we both will regret. I said I was leaving I am about to..."
The commotion was starting to draw a crowd in the seedy bar. As other patrons were looking on gleefully at the confrontation hoping to get some entertainment in this otherwise dull night.
"Ohh yeah... what you gonna do ?" Jack asked squeezing his hand tightly. He closed his eyes as he smiled " Hey Bhagwan!' taking a breath he quickly turned his hand reversing his grip in the process bending Jack's hand so painfully that he let out a scream...
"you want to keep those fingers son ...or not..."
Five minutes after he walked out the bar and into the lane. His winnings in his pocket and a warning never to return to the bar again. He stopped by one of the food vendors feeling hungry.
"Excuse me sir..." his attention was caught by a small boy who could not be more than eight. "Can you spare me a dollar...please sir..." he asked looking at the vendor's stall longingly.
how old are you?' he asked looking at the child disheveled state
"nine"
"you are out here late...where do you live?"
"Down the lane, sir please...one dollar... before he leaves..." he said again looking at the vendor.
"Where is your parents..."
"Chotu ...stop bothering the man!" the vendor said..." Wait a minute I will give you something..."
"Sorry Mister...Chotu lives in the slums with his mother she tries but fell really ill last year...since then he comes out here asking strangers for help.." The vendor explained
"Hmmm...listen give him two of whatever he wants... and I will take a cheese sandwich to go...'
After paying for the purchases he handed the boy the bag and walked him to his house. On the way chottu explained about his mother and her illness.
"Thank you so much sir you are very kind." The little boy said as he was about to go into his small shack.
"Listen I want you to take this and give it to your mom, its not much but it can help until she goes to work again..." He said as he handed him the winnings form the bar.
The little boy looked at him in shock. All that money . "But sir..."
"Take it..." He said. "And you make sure and go to school..., no skipping you want to help your mother the best way you can do that is by getting yourself an education you understand? "
" Yes sir... Thank you sir" he said tearfully as he hugged him. This money would not only get his mother the medicine she needed ...but help them until she can go back to work .
"Its ok...now go on and be careful ok..." he said awkwardly as the boy turned and left...
"Well Well Well aren't you just the good Samaritan.!" Jack was back and apparently he brought company. "Giving away my money and all!'
He looked at him ..." Hmm you don't give up do you...really?'
"Not with cheaters I don't... Now gimmi my money." Jack said ..."Or my boys and I will get it from you one way or another...right boys?' The three burly looking men stepped forward.
"Look I..." before he could finish the sentence one of them jumped him punching him in the gut. Ambushed by the four of them defending himself was not easy. Especially when he really did not want to . He closed his eyes almost reverently as her face floated into his brain. The blows inflicted feeling like a balm on his tortured soul. Is this the end he was looking for . In his ears he was not hearing his attackers but her sobs and that blood curling scream as she fell ...
The blow to his head sent him onto the ground as he felt his skull crack open. He smiled he was so close to the end...as he sank into the darkness of unconsciousness he whispered... "Sugni..."