Better late than never!

Episode 288
United Hearts
Love has finally succeeded. Freedom for her loved one. It took some tricks and fast maneuvering but she has saved him from a fiery death.
And now here she lies, lifeless, him calling her name..."Khushi, Khushi...everything's all right...Khushi?" Each time he calls her, a questioning of her existence.
She lays lifeless under a tree in the bushes when she cascaded down the cliff from the forceful push from an evil goon.
Arnav is devastated but quickly brings her lifeless body out from the dangerous position she was in to the safety of the ground above.
"Khushi?...Khushi?"
He frantically calls her name, about a zillion times it seems.
Each time my heart feels his pain.
It has taken so long for him to realize his love for her and now? How could God allow it? No, she can't leave him, no, he won't let her leave him...he hasn't told her in person how much he loves her.
She put her life in danger for him.

He cradles her in his arms and her limp, lifeless form, lays dormant. Her hand, the one that always grabbed his collar, lay idle and pale. As he was warming her hands it just slipped to the ground..."NO..." he wouldn't accept the obvious. As he remembered all the times she held on to him in her unconscious state, her limp, pale, lifeless hand lay on the ground. "NO" he wouldn't accept it.
"Khushi, Khushi...everything is fine!" He shouted at her. He rustled her body, shaking it as if to wake her from the deep sleep she had fallen into.
"We are safe now," he reminds her. She has saved him using all her might and sacrificed herself for him.

"KHUSHI, SAY SOMETHING!!!"
His frustration and increasing panic plainly seen and he shouts her name again.
"KHUSHI, TALK TO ME DAMMIT... SAY SOMETHING, DAMMIT! THIS IS NOT FUNNY!"
He sees the blood from her head on his hand, finds she is not breathing,
"KHUSHI, I AM TELLING YOU TO BREATHE, DAMMIT!!!"
The despair and franticness is heard in his voice; he knows the worst has happened.
But there is no Arnav without Khushi and he will not accept this.
He starts CPR.
He remembers her saying, while he was playing Ranja, that her worst day and his happiest will be when she dies.
"KHUSHI, WAKE UP, DAMMIT!"
Will she become that brightest star? Not if he can help it. His love is deep and he will be damned if he doesn't bring her back. He is nothing without her. Their hearts are united.
With a tearful voice he reaches out to her,
"NO, KHUSHI YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME!"
He breathes for her, giving her his own breath. Gathering her in his arms, he caresses her face and desperately whispers to her pleadingly, "Khushi, please say something...please."

Kissing her on her forehead, tears in his eyes, he hugs her and begs her to open her eyes one more time pleading to say something for she can't do this to him.

He recalls the momentous occasion on Holi when they revealed their true feelings. Khushi innocently asking him,
Why when you come close my heart beats faster?'
He begs her don't, she can't...
Leave him.
Our heartbeats are untied,' he said to her in their inebriated state on Holi.
But it was true.

He takes her lifeless hand and places it on his heart...
The heart that beats for her.
He closes his eyes holding his lifeless love in his arms.
And the miracle of great love is seen before us on the screen.
The magic of a love so profound it still affects all of us. We haven't forgotten it and never will.
The great Arnav Singh Raizada has fallen for Khushi Kumari Gupta,
And he wills her to live.
Her hand placed on his heart, her ear on his chest,
Dhak dhak, dhak dhak,
It calls to her.
Unite with me again?
Fingers twitch...
One last tearful, "Khushi..."
"Hmmm?"
She answers.
His eyes pop wide-open...Rabba Vey playing softly in the background and our magnificent love story answers the question right then and there,
"Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?"
Arnav and Khushi
With a smile and a hug he greets her as she coughs ever so slightly, since she has just returned to him from the stars.
He cries, "Khushi?"
She tries to answer, "Arnav..ji?"

And he shushes her, telling her not to shed tears as they both reach out to caress each others cheek. He kisses her palm and her forehead and the two loves, united by their heartbeats hold each other on the cliff top.
A few moments later he gently places her dupatta over her shoulders and picks her up.
She gently grabs his tee shirt and he smiles...his Khushi is back from the stars.
*What an episode and now the drama begins and the downfall of our marvelous show. But I must say the actors were brilliant and love shone through on this one! I was so elated when Barun finally came back and thought now we will have what we wanted...some romance!!! Boy was I mistaken but I don't care about that anymore for everytime I rewatch any episode I get happy again. They will never die for me.
Great job as always ladies!!!
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