HEY BUDDIES!!
HERE'S THE NEXT PART...ENJOY!!
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AND I HAVE WRITTEN TWO ONE SHOTS...IN CASE YOU HAVEN'T READ...
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/qubool-hai/4095496/we-will-be-together-asya-drabble
https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/qubool-hai/4094849/the-bet-asya-os
PART 15: YOUR LOVE BECAME MY STRENGTH...

BANNER CREDITS- Immortallove😊
With Imraan by her side, it was not very tough for Zoya to trace the hide-out of Rashid and Shireen. Within few minutes, they tracked the car in which Asad had been taken away. Imraan and Azaad geared themselves up to face the devils. Imraan pulled the strings and used his influence and the police team was ready to surround the whole area efficiently.
Just as they were setting out, Zoya stopped them, "I am also coming with you two!!" Azaad and Imraan shared a glance uncomfortably. Azaad spoke up, "Zoya, we'll bring back Asad safely...you just relax!"
"How can I relax when my life is at stake...I want to go to my Asad as soon as possible!! He'll panic if he doesn't find me there. Don't know what they are doing with him..."
"But..." Imraan began but was cut off by Zoya.
"It is my fight...mine and Asad's...I have to go!!" Zoya said in a tone that Imraan and Azaad had no choice but to comply.
Zoya hoped into the jeep with the duo and they ventured out in search of the place where the culprits were hiding. While Zoya was busy in praying to Allah to keep her Asad safe and give her strength for the ultimate face-off...Azaad was pondering over his the move which he had made but was feeling skeptical about.
Finally after a drive of half an hour, they reached the eerie place. It was dark outside and the area was far away from the city. Zoya gasped on realizing what must have Asad gone through when he was brought here. She panicked and looked around here and there...no one was visible in the vicinity but she felt like Asad was there. His fragrance hung around in the air. She whizzed past Imraan and Azaad while they were waiting for the rescue team to come.
Seeing her run towards one of an isolated building, Imraan tried stopping her, "Zoya...Zoya..stop!! We can't alert them..." he whispered.
But like Zoya was in no mood of listening...she just ran and ran till she was at the door of that building. She stepped inside and felt a strange feeling gripping her heart. She understood that Asad was waiting for her...the bond that their hearts sealed hours before...kept the two in sync. She wanted to call out for him but the words didn't escape her mouth...she located the door and ran towards it only to be stopped by a strong grip on her arms.
"Ay! Who are you? What are you doing here?" A scary looking man asked her while another one held her captive.
"Where is my Asad?? Kahan hain woh?"
"Asad?" they laughed. "Maybe she is talking about the poor guy whose game bosses want to finish...maybe he had been transported to the heavens till now..."
Zoya felt goosebumps on hearing something so sickening. How can a man think of killing his own son?? She closed her eyes in disgust. She wriggled in their hold while they laughed. Suddenly, she heard a gunshot and her eyes flew open...
"ASSSAADD!!" she shouted for him. Her fears overcame her senses and she felt herself trembling.
"Leave me...Asaaadd! Asad...I am coming..." She started pushing and attacking those goons with her tiny hands. Till then, Azaad and Imraan reached the place and set Zoya free. They started beating the goons while hearing the noises some more of their companions gathered around.
Zoya felt her heart constricting at the thought of losing Asad. "No, no! I can't lose him...I have got him today only...they can't snatch away my Asad from me..." She started running once again...leaving behind all those fearful thoughts and the notion that something has happened to Asad. She ran at a speed that she didn't know she was capable of...Asad and his safety was the only thing in her mind!! Every moment that she had spent with Asad flashed before her eyes and boosted her will to save him from the clutches of evil. She ran for her life...
Once at the door, she saw Asad lying down on his back and Rashid and Shireen standing few feet away from him. She rejoiced seeing him safe...and alive. He was pleading them for his life...shaking his head vigourously and shifting behind in fear. His predicament ignited the fire inside Zoya...she had seen him in his fears...she was constantly trying to bring him out but these people...they had made him go back into that state.
"STOP IT...YOU TWO!!"
Rashid and Shireen momentarily backed off on hearing a voice so fierce but when they noticed Zoya standing at the door, panting and gasping for breath...they just shared a knowing glance.
"Soulmates!! Have you heard of it Rashid?" Shireen asked sarcastically.
"No...What is it?" he played along.
"See these two for an example...one is dying and the other has come to finish her life herself...dono saath saath marenge...haina yeh soulmates??" Shireen laughed.
Zoya, who was standing at the door, didn't hear any of the nonsense that they uttered. Her eyes were fixed on Asad and his panicking state...her senses were meant for him only, it felt so. With his every gasp, Zoya felt a storm brewing inside her...the pent up rage for these devils was something that she just want to let go but her priority being Asad...she just rushed to him and sat knelling down besides him. She just cradled his face to her chest and he hugged her tight. His trembling figure brought Zoya to the verge of crying.
"How dare you?? Himmat kaise huyi aap logon ki mere Asad ko haath lagane ki?" Zoya roared.
Rashid and Shireen were stunned for a moment but then burst out laughing, "Ay! You are at our mercy and then too you are talking to us in such a voice...Zoya you don't know whom you've messed up with!!??" Shireen warned her again.
"I know!! I know whom I have messed up with...I have poked a spineless man who couldn't love his wife and child...I have messed up with a killer who killed his own wife for the sake of money and fulfilling his lust...I have messed up with a woman...who has no right to be called a woman!! A shame you are for all women!! I have poked those people who'd tortured their own son to an extent that he became lost and cut off from the world...I know I have messed up with cowards..." Zoya shouted at them while they just burnt in rage.
As Zoya finished, a hand flew to her face...it was Shireen who'd slapped Zoya. She fell backwards while Asad was bewildered and he patted her head and soothed her hairs. He sobbed when he saw a tiny streak of blood oozing out at the corner of Zoya's lips. Zoya held his hand and drew herself back in a sitting position. She shook her head in a no...denying Asad not to be afraid.
She stood up and faced Rashid, "Truth hurts Mr. Rashid Ahmed Khan!! You killed your own wife and left your child to die...it was by Allah's grace that he is alive, otherwise you had made him go through such brutality that he would have died...but he is my Asad...whatever you did with him is a matter of past...mere hote hue ab aap Asad ko choo bhi nai sakte!!" she warned at the end.
"Yes!! We killed Zainub...she was a hindrance in my progress. She was an epitome of truthfulness...that caused her death. She just wanted me to follow her beliefs...sanctity of marriage!! What a shit!! I couldn't leave Shireen and she threatened to divorce me...what could I do?? I tried making her see sense but she was adamant...I had no choice, I killed her...KILLED HER!! And now...this Asad is an obstacle in my path...I had to uproot this thorn...enough of his nonsense...I won't spare him now!!" Rashid confessed his crime non-chalantly.
Zoya was disgusted by the man. He had no regret of whatever he had done...he was just trying to prove himself right. She just smiled at the irony of his situation, "If you had not acted like a demon...Ammi would have given you the whole empire by herself...you are running behind money and your son...what about him? You made him go through such phase in his life...aaj darte hain Asad aapse...it is your defeat. In your greed for money and fame...you forgot what love and family is!! You are a loser Rashid Khan...a mere loser!!"Zoya just couldn't stop herself...the adversities she and Asad had faced due to him and Shireen made her blast him.
Rashid couldn't take it anymore. He couldn't believe someone was speaking the truth in front of him. The truth that he had in his sub-concious...his fears which he had hidden somewhere deep inside. His jaws tightened and he casted a furious glance at Zoya.
"You know everything, right?? Now I'll tell you what you don't know...I AM GOING TO KILL ASAD AND YOU CAN'T STOP ME!! You can't save him...I have worked so hard...I stained my hands in blood to get the status in this society. You crushed my reputation...you got us arrested!! I will punish you...I will snatch away your happiness from you. You have to lose Asad."
That was it for Zoya...she slapped the man on his face. She looked at him with such disgust that he stumbled back a bit.
"Let me see how you even touch Asad...let alone harm him!! Enough of your atrocities...aaj main bhi dekhti hoon ki aap dono kaise Asad ko mujhse door karte hain!!"
Rashid pointed a gun again at Asad while Zoya held his hands. She started struggling with him, trying to force him to drop down the gun. Shireen, who was standing aside till now, came to Rashid's assistance. She held Zoya and tried separating him from Rashid.
They both laughed at her plight. Shireen spoke to her, "What do you think? You will defeat the two of us?? We haven't spared anyone who had come into our way...if you are trying to save Asad...I think you have to die first!!"
"Yes! I will not let this girl come between my plan...she has to die...I will kill her first and then this Asad!!" Rashid spoke in a fearsome voice and Shireen pulled her by her hairs. She screamed and her hold on Rashid's hands loosened.
Rashid pointed the gun at her...
ASAD'S POV:
While Zoya was hurling her frustrations at Rashid, Asad tried to comprehend what was happeneing to him. He realized whatever he wanted to speak to Rashid, Zoya was speaking for him. She had always been his voice...his feelings were sensed by her. He never spoke to her after the day she left him but still she was here...fighting for him...rescuing him. They were indeed soulmates and he was sure that he had to live for his Zoya. he had to save himself and her...but how??
These two people in front of him were killers. They had once snatched away his childhood, his Ammi and his happiness. How will he face them? How will he save his life and Zoya's??
Blood was all that he saw!! Smiling face of his mother appeared in front of his eyes. He closed his eyes in fear but his mother's face persisited in his mind. He tried shaking it off but it seemed that she was near him...she was trying to say something. He concentrated at her...
"Asad...people write their own fate. If we get afraid...people will try to scare us off. You have to be brave!!" a young Asad listened intently to his mother...his innocent mind didn't quiet understand what his mother said but he put it somewhere in the corner of his mind...because mom is always right!
"Asad...you know! If a person loves us, he or she does it without anything in return. He cares for us...he understands us! His whole world revolve around us..." Asad now understood the words that once Zainub spoke and now that his heart has recognized that it loved Zoya...her glowing face came into his mind. He reminisced every moment he spent with her. Her every action spoke that she loved him...she cared for him...nurtured him...made him a man that his Ammi had once dreamt of.
"Love is the ultimate power Asad...it can never let you go weak. The ones you love will always be your strength!!" Asad recollected how Zoya had held him tightly all through his difficulties.
"Speak to me Asad...please...I want you to scold me...talk to me like before...just say anything!" he remembered Zoya's broken voice when she kissed his forehead a few days back while she lulled him to sleep.
He opened his eyes...a new found determination seeped through him. He saw Zoya struggling with the people he hated like nothing else. They had destroyed his everything but he will not let them take away his happiness once again. He won't let them win this time!! His love will be his strength and he will not succumb to his fears once again...he has to fight his way through his past...he has to let go the past and embrace the future that being with Zoya offered him...
His love called him this time and he heard the call without fail!! He will fight for Zoya...that was what his heart spoke!!
Zoya stood fearlessly in front of the gun-point. She smirked at the two who were looking at her with confusion.
"Scared? You can kill me but not my love for Asad...you lost Mr. and Mrs. Khan! Mere pyaar ne aaj aap ko hara diya...You are afraid to touch Asad in my presence. You lost!!" Zoya spoke to them in a victorious tone.
Shireen was enraged by her words and was going to hit her again when she felt an iron-strong grip on her hand. She turned around and her face grew pale on realizing who it was.
Asad stood strong in front of Zoya...shielding her from the gun-point. There was something in his eyes that scared Rashid to the cores...the gun automatically fell from his hands.
"Asad..." Zoya whispered.
Asad looked back and saw tears in her eyes. He held her by her shoulders and drew her close. Shireen tried pouncing towards the gun but Asad turned again on an instinct.
"ENOUGH!" Asad spoke in a menacing tone.
"Enough of your nonsense! Aaj tak maine aap logon ko kuch nahi kaha...meri Ammi cheeni aap ne...main chup raha...maujhe ghar mein band kar diya...main phir bhi chup raha...mere saath kya kya kiya aap ne...main kuch nahi keh paya...par aaj...Aaj main chup nahi rahunga!! How can you even think of harming my Zoya?? She had been my pillar since the day she came into my life...I owe you this!! Thank you for bringing her in my life but now if you try to even glance in a wrong way at her...I will bury you alive!! Don't even think of killing her in your dreams!!" Asad finished while looking squarely into Rashid's eyes.
Shireen chuckled, "Oh! So you are a big boy now?? Who taught you all this? Your Khala...or this shitty woman??"
"One more word about my Zoya and I'll forget you are a woman!! My Zoya rightly said...you are a shame on the name of women..." Asad warned.
"Asad!! You are speaking too much...bhool gaye tum...hum kya kar sakte hain??" Rashid spoke this time.
"I remember...each and everything!! I bowed down everytime but not now!! I have her with me..." he pointed at Zoya, "she kissed away each of my fear...I know she'll never leave my side and I ought to protect her today like she had always did for me!! I won't let you even touch her..."
"I will kill you two! I wish I could stab you like I stabbed your mother" Shireen spoke loudly but Asad didn't flinch...he stood un-deterred...deriving his strength from the love Zoya emanated for him.
Zoya was shocked would be an underestimation of her condition. She didn't know whether to be happy or sad...Asad spoke up...that too for her. She had either read or witnessed such miracles in books or movies...but she never knew that her tale will take such a turn. Asad seemed like a protector...her perfect prince who took the risk to save his lady love. She felt a solace engulfing her being when she heard Asad's voice after such a long wait. But the situation didn't allow her to rejoice...she had to be safe...keep Asad safe. They had got each other again...it was like a re-birth for both of them...Zoya got what her heart desired for...what she fervently prayed for last two years and Asad got his strength back...he had grown to stand up for himself and the one he loved...he had defeated and escaped the clutches of his past...
Zoya and Asad intertwined their hands while Rashid and Shireen smirked at their condition.
"See! I am sending you two to heaven together...enjoy your trip!!" Rashid gloated on his nearing victory.
"Before that you will go to hell!!" a voice boomed and Rashid looked there...to find Dilshad standing with two men. Before he could react, he saw almost a dozen of policemen rushing towards them and surrounding them from all sides. He gasped and looked at shireen who was too dazed to even react.
Imraan grabbed his hand and snatched away the gun from him. He looked down, defeated in the true sense...
"You are under-arrest Mr. and Mrs. Khan...for killing your wife Mrs. Zainub and for attempting to kill Mr. and Mrs. Asad Khan!!" the inspector stated while Asya held each other tightly. Zoya looked up to thank her Allah Miyaan for bringing help at the right time. Asad just admired her while drawing her close.
Dilshad walked upto Asya and brushed their hairs lovingly. She cupped Asad's face and kissed his forehead. Then she hugged Zoya and kissed her forehead too. She looked towards the gate where police was busy dragging Rashid and Shireen away.
Rashid was walking lifelessly. He had failed...his efforts that he put all along came crashing down and his plan had back-fired. Shireen, on the other hand, was seething. She knew she was going to rot in hell...then why not finish the task that they aimed for!!
She drew the gun from the pocket of the officer dragging her and turned around after jerking her. She aimed at Asad who was smiling at Zoya.
Everyone heard two gunshots and then again the silence prevailed...
Zoya's scream filled the room...
"NOOO!!!!! ASSSAADDD!!!"
AND AGAIN A CLIFFY!! BUT DON'T YOU ALL WORRY...ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL...AND THIS SURELY GONNA END WELL!!
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Edited by -Crazy4AsYa- - 11 years ago
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