SS: Marrying Miss Kashyap *COMPLETED* Epilogue@pg-130 28/09/15 - Page 58

CHAPTER-8

Kabir and Ananya walked the next morning to an open restaurant for breakfast... Ananya deliberately decked up like a new bride on honeymoon... Ananya fed Kabir the first loaf from her hands, and was all smiles... Though Kabir was enjoying the PDAs showered on him by Ananya, but the intention was also to attract some tourist guides there... By the time they had finished their breakfast, and started walking out hand in hand that one of the guides walked to them asking if they needed one... Kabir hired one immediately, and started towards various tourist spots that the guide showed...

Three days had passed, and Kabir and Ananya enjoyed time visiting the beautiful locals of Gangtok along the guide telling them all the information about the places... On day four, Ananya stretched her arms tiredly... And spoke to the guide- "Hunh! Bhaiyya, main toh buri tarah thak gayi hoon... I wish I was in Delhi... Kam se kam ek spa hi le leti... I would have felt rejuvenated..." she spoke with the expertise of acting she has been doing all along her career in Journalism, whenever she did sting operations...

The guide's eyes twinkled, as he spoke- "Madam, spa toh yahan bhi milti hai... Wo bhi ek dum Ayurvedic... Na koi chemical, na kuch artificial! Humara ek dost hai... Wo le jaa sakta hai aapko wahan..."

Ananya looked towards Kabir... The slight bat of his eyes, and Ananya knew his answer... She looked at the guide- "Ka...Kahan hai wo spa bhaiyya?"... "Arre Madam... Nirogya Ayurvedic Centre... sheher se thoda door hai... Kya hai na, ye sheher ki bheed-bhaad, shor, gaadi, pollution, sabse door ki jagah jaayengi toh shaanti se aap khud ko fresh feel karengi..."... Ananya nodded at the guide, promising to join tomorrow early morning with her husband...

It was the next morning 4.30 when Ananya after twisting and turning in the bed for long finally walked to the closed window of their hotel room... Somehow she felt nervous about something... Something was making her so restless... She immediately opened the glass windows to have the gush of chilled breeze on her face... She turned her face away from it, trying to breathe the cold air... A few seconds, and she was normally breathing, caressing her arms that were visible from the half sleeved robe of her nightie she wore from feeling too cold... A few minutes past, and she felt the warmth of Kabir's chest engulfing her back, and his warm arms covering her cold ones...

Though it weren't very long since he had started sharing his nights with Ananya... Hardly a week had passed since their wedding... But something had started making him used to her being around... And he could feel the emptiness... And thus, walking to her at the window, and engulfing her in his warmth... The stubble on his cheek rubbing against her jaw causing the contradicting affect on her... Where his warmth was soothing her against the cool breeze, warming her up; his stubble running chills down her spine, Goosebumps rubbing all over her body... Unable to take it anymore, she turned around in his embrace, hiding herself in his chest... Kabir smiled a loving smile to himself... Holding her with one arm and with the other hand closing the window to stop the chilling winds blow anymore in the room, and the heater setting its warmth again...

Bringing her back to the bed, and making her sit, taking her in his arms again, and his fingers grazing and caressing her arms... He politely asked- "Kya baat hai Ananya? Neend kyu nahi aa rahi?" Ananya just rested her head against his shoulder sighing- "Pata nahi, Kuch ajeeb si ghabrahat ho rahi hai... Itne sting operations kiye hain, kabhi aisa feel nahi hua...".. Kabir just soothed her, caressing her arms, boosting her confidence- "Ananya, tum aaj tak kitne khatarnaak stings kar chuki ho, ye bhi kar hi logi... I'm sure... And tum akeli thodi na ho, main hoon na saath mein... Tum dekhna, tomorrow shall be another milestone in our lives... I believe so..."

Was it the tiredness of the past many days, or the cradle of his arms, and the gentle touch if his fingers, that finally Ananya's eyes drooped in the sound sleep until it's time for them to wake... Kabir too did not know when he slept off, only to wake up with the buzzing of the alarms... It was the big day of their sting operation...

Ananya walked hand in hand with Kabir wearing a fitting Capri and a loose top, and Kabir too in easy wears, walked to the already waiting Guide and their taxi... The spy cams were ready... Ananya's studs looked pretty, only for both Kabir and Ananya to know that both studs are spy cameras covering both the sides of the sting field... While sitting in the back seat of the car, and the guide in the front passenger seat, Kabir pressed Ananya's hand and blinked a relaxed smile at her, telling her to take things easy... His wrist watch was already connected with the GPRS with Inspector Khurana; the local police department, who were in constant contact with Ananya and Kabir, and also an undercover in casuals following them continuously, just in case any harm is caused to them...

2 hours from Gangtok, and they reached the nearby district... The environment itself telling not much population existed there... The guide's supposed friend received the car at a certain Junction where they all walked to a Campus there... Not very sophisticated, but green, trees and medicinal plants grown all over... The board read "Nirogya Ayurvedic Natural Therapy Centre"... Ananya heaved a long breath... "It's show time..." Ananya could hear Kabir's voice in her mind, while he looked in her eyes, and the same words speaking through his eyes... She nodded towards Kabir, and they both walked inside...

Was the sting easy, or was it tough? Kabir and Ananya did not know, only their minds were highly active... Ananya had taken her cellphone smartly, and checked around the therapeutic room, where their spas were supposed to be... The network went and came at certain spots, technically indicating a hidden camera there... She eyed Kabir about the same... Their eagle eyes finding those hidden cameras, and recording the same in their spy cameras... She could detect spy cameras in the changing room too...

The police force had started surrounding the entire campus, as and when the GPRS directed them more signals... Kabir had been coding the police there of the presence of the malpractices done in the hides of natural therapy...

An hour or two, and the effect of their Sting were visible... The images of the hidden cameras were continuously sent to the police, and based on them; it didn't take the cops much time raiding the place...

The scene of utter chaos among the tourists and the shock from the managers at getting caught led hype around... While the police rescued the tourists, and catching hold of the culprits, and pulling up the hidden cameras, and their records, an unexpected event took place... The manager in order to escape pulled a revolver, and in a split second shot it in Ananya's direction, whose identity came open as a sting journalist... Was it her good luck, or Kabir's smart move to save Ananya, that instead of fatally hurting her, it hit her leg, but hurted badly... In a matter of second, apart from the gun's sound; Police's roar to snatching his gun, and get hold of him by his nape, was a scream from Ananya, and there she plopped down with the blow of the bullet that gave... Kabir's hoarse shocked shout in that second and he immediately scooped the falling Ananya in his arms, before she hits the floor... In another few seconds, he himself was sitting on the floor and a visibly painful Ananya in his arms... The blood oozing out of her feet started making a puddle on the floor...

The local undercover rushed towards them... Kabir urgently asked for help... The undercover sat on his hunches- "Saahab, ye toh bohot choti si jagah hai... Koi bada aspataal yahan milna toh namumkin hai... Gangtok hi yahan se 2 ghante door hai... Itni deir ghaav rehna sahi nahi rahega..." Kabir was paining even more with each cry of Ananya's pain, and the information by the localite there was even more disturbing for him... He was desperate to take pain away from his Ananya... And he urgently asked- "Arre koi chota-mota clinic, Vaid, Hakeem, Doctor, koi toh hoga... Please bhai bata do..." he looked pleadingly at him...

The undercover man returned running a few minutes later, and spoke- "Sir, Yahan se aadhe kilometre door ek doctor saahab ka ghar hai... Par koi zyada jaanta nahi hai unke baare mein..." Kabir stood up urgently speaking-"Chalega..." and he scooped a moaning Ananya in his arms and walked off urgently... All Kabir could offer his wife's wound was tying his handkerchief around it, to stop her bleeding some bit... He came out of the centre... The taxi driver in which they arrived here was also arrested with the guide, and so was his car taken... Kabir couldn't wait for another vehicle, and so he started walking with Ananya in his arms as per directed by the locals there...

Every few seconds he would shake Ananya in his arms, lest the pain was taking toll on her and she would get unconscious... Something in him was telling she shouldn't get in an inert state... The local people had knocked at the doctor's door and called Kabir in... He hadn't the time in the world to take his eyes off his wounded wife to see who the doctor is... But the doctor did look at the both of them... And looked all the more disturbed... It wouldn't have come in his eyes then had he not heard Ananya's name come as a whisper from the doctor's mouth... Kabir was shocked to see Dr. Kashyap in front of him... Dr. Sudhir Kashyap... Ananya's father...

Before either of them could say a word, now an unconscious Ananya moaned once again... And the doctor in the father rose once again... His assistant and Dr. Kashyap fled wheeling Ananya in a small room, a makeshift OT preparing to take the bullet out, as informed by the local people who brought Ananya with Kabir...

Kabir couldn't remember when he had been so tensed and had such an agitated state of mind... Had he ever been in such a state? Not even at Tarini's case or his divorce with Shreya had made him so over the edge... He felt highly sorry for Ananya... He had promised not only her mother to take care of her always, but also had he swore to himself in front of the holy fire of their mandap to be her guardian angel... And what did he do? He couldn't save her from a bullet... Tears were forming in his eyes... Each second was turning into eons for him... Every few minutes he looked longingly at the closed door of the room she was being treated in...

That reminds him of Dr. Sudhir Kashyap... He did not know how to react... Cry for his wife's state, or feel happy, that finally they found the destination of the long roads of life... Found that one man, Ananya and her family had longed for an almost decade... He just did not know... He needed to talk once he's done treating Ananya... His thoughts again shifted back to Ananya... He was dying waiting for that one news about her well being... He looked at the closed door for the umpteenth time in the past hour... He sighed tiredly, his fingers running through his dishevelled hair... His head was pounding with the stress... He sat down on a chair looking unblinking at the door...

He didn't know was it his imagination or did the door finally open... Dr. Kashyap walked out... Kabir could see Ananya lying on the cot there... He walked to the doctor, also Ananya's father... He spoke- "Theek hai Ananya... I took her bullet off... Unconscious hai... Kuch deir mein hosh aa jaayega..." Kabir felt as if his breaths have returned with the news... A little smile glittered his tired face... Dr. Kashyap could read that... He could even read questions in Kabir's eyes... He walked off to a small kitchen in his cottage, and prepared two cups of coffee... And taking the tray with him walked to the back yard... Full of greenery, Dr. Kashyap looked a nature lover... Placing the tray on the top most stair of the three steps leading to his backyard, he sat on it, indicating Kabir to sit along...

Once seated Dr. Kashyap couldn't resist asking-" Tum dono yahan kaise... Aur Ananya ko goli kaise lagi?" Kabir could feel more like a father is asking the guy with whom his daughter was... "Ananya meri tarah Journalist hai... Mere hi under KKN Channel mein kaam karti hai... Hum yahan sting operation ke liye aaye they... Aur..." Kabir was cut in between with Dr. Kashyap's audible sigh... He had misty eyes, the eyes of the father who saw his daughter after so long, as he spoke- "Kitni badi ho gayi hai meri beti... 8 saal mein kitni mature lagne lagi hai... Kiske... Kiske saath rehti hai wo? Apni maa ke? Armaan... Aur Armaan ke saath?" the father wanted to cope with his lost family in a millisecond... But was disappointed to see Kabir shaking his head in negative... He waited for Kabir to explain... Kabir turned his neck facing Dr. Kashyap as he spoke- "Ananya ab apni maa aur Armaan ke saath nahi, mere saath rehti hai..." before the creases of confusion marks more of its presence in Dr. Kashyap's face, did Kabir continued- "Ananya ab meri patni hai... Pichle hafte hi humari shaadi hui hai... Wo chooda, mangalsutra, sindoor sirf sting operation ke liye jhoot nahi tha... Wo sach hai..."

A father grows ages higher when his daughter's hands are put into the hands of the man of her life. But Dr. Kashyap felt that emotion a week later of his daughter's marriage to the most responsible and eligible man he knew... He knew how capable and worthy man Kabir is... He didn't need to prove to be the best choice a father could select for his daughter. The happy tears in his eyes solemnly told, how happy he is... He caressed Kabir's unkempt hair, and he pulled him in a crushing hug... A hug that a proud father must have given to his deserving son-in-law, after he rightfully takes his daughter into his world of love...

The hug broke unintended when he heard a glass fall... They knew it is from the room Ananya was sleeping... May be she was trying to get up... They ran in that direction to her room... She indeed was trying to get up seeing an unknown setting, and a little worried... May be not seeing Kabir around, she must have got worried... Kabir ran to her side, to hold her... But as soon as Ananya's eyes met the other person in the room, her eyes went shocked, and all she could utter amidst her clogged throat was- "PAPA!!!"

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