Fichain #2 | Last part P.44 - Page 29

List of characters;

Samarth Varma: 29 years old, Micro graduate, currently works in a biotech lab. He lost his father, Vishwas when he was 14, his mom, Prerna is clinically depressed and his grandfather, Jairaj has also passed away due to illness. He has had jiu-jitsu training and used to work for Abhay's family as a chauffeur cum bodyguard. Has silently loved Veronica for years but did not admit it. He and Abhay are acquainted through their grandfathers who are best friends. Later it is revealed that Abhay and Samarth are fraternal twins. Samarth has self-esteem issues and briefly saw a therapist, he may also be suicidal. He wants to feel valued. He may have enabled Abhay by 'giving in' to him, & felt unworthy of Veronica. He has the idea that Abhay is a prince. He used to admire Abhay but now after Veronica's termination is deeply angry at him.

He supports Veronica through her divorce & abortion, & they are currently dating. He has been told the truth of his parentage by Abhinav and is set to go to Maldives to 'protect' his brother, Abhay.

Veronica (last name unknown): 29-year-old computer science graduate. Was orphaned at Age 10 and went to live with her uncle, Ashutosh Gupta. She meets Abhay in college and equates him to the prince of her dreams. They get married and in 2 years she discovers he is cheating on her. She walks out & after learning that he doesn't want their child, she decides to terminate. She has been hurt, deceived too many times and is shattered when she realizes Samarth too had lied to her. Eventually, she forgives him and they begin to date. She is close to her cousin, Shweta and her friend, Saikat. She's on her way to Maldives with her family to support them after Shweta and Saikat's accident.

Abhay Mehta (Varma): 29 year old rich, entitled, bratty young man. He thought Veronica was clingy and began an affair with Jiya whom he loves. Told Veronica he did not want anything to do with her baby that prompted her to terminate. He is in Maldives when Shweta & Saikat are fatally injured and relays the news to people back home. He may now be in danger because of Chhada, a druglord's erstwhile relationship with Jiya. He seems to be protected by his grandfather and does not know the truth about his birth.

Other characters:

Veronica's family and friends

Shweta Gupta/ Dutta: 27 years old, Veronica's cousin and Saikat's wife currently battling for her life in Maldives. She’s also friends with Samarth.

Saikat Dutta: 29 years old, Computer Science graduate, Veronica's friend, and Shweta's husband. He and Jiya were engaged and about to marry, he called it off. He has been in an accident in Maldives and it is implied that Jiya's ex, a druglord may have had something to do with it.

Ashutosh Gupta: Veronica's maternal uncle. He raised her after her parents' death and paid for her marriage as well.

Abhay's family

Abhinav Basu: Abhay's maternal grandfather. He owns Basu Finance. He forcefully got his daughter married to a business man instead of the man she loved, and lied about her pregnancy, responsible for separating Abhay and Samarth at birth. Has now revealed the truth to Sam and asked him to protect Abhay. Sam respects him deeply. He is generous (has helped Sam’a family) but also dotes on his grandson (implied many times in the narrative) and may be blind to Abhay’s faults (yet to be established but Sam thinks he will not believe him over Abhay)

Kangana Basu/Mehta: Abhinav's daughter, Manav's wife and Abhay and Samarth's mother. She was in love with Vishwas Varma and the children are his.

Manav Mehta: Owns Mehta Enterprises, Abhay's father, Kangana's husband very particular about maintaining appearances and respectability. Hasn't appeared in a scene yet.

Jiya (last name?): Abhay's girlfriend, Saikat's ex-fiance, and Vikrant Chaddha,aka The Panther's ex-girlfriend

Samarth's family

Jairaj Varma (deceased): Samarth paternal grandfather, close friends with Abhinav Basu,

Vishwas Varma (deceased): Abhay and Samarth's father. Was in love with Kangana but agreed to give her up and married Prerna. Raised one of the twins, Samarth. Died in an accident in Dehradun.

Prerna Varma: Samarth's mother. Is clinically depressed.

Samarth's ex-girlfriend: He dated her in college, no name given

Other characters:

Vikrant Chhada aka The Panther: A dangerous druglord with a crime ring in Maldives. Is obsessed with Jiya and maybe trying to kill all the men in her life i.e Saikat and Abhay.

Dr. Malhotra: A doctor at the Maldives hospital where Shweta and Samarth are being treated.

Inspector Mehra: The inspector investigating Shweta and Saikat's accident in Maldives.

I hope I've covered all the characters

He doesn't see a therapist coz of explicitly Ver. He sees.one because of all the issues he has. His insecurities make him feel that no one would care about him, least of all, Ver, and the inner lying feelings lead him to address the diary entries to her

Originally posted by: ExoticDisaster

Segment #11

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“You know we cannot do this, it’ll break our family apart,” Abhay's grandfather Mr. Abhinav looked at his daughter in law helplessly.

“My family was broken apart when you took a decision years ago for the sake of your friendship,” she said in anger as tears rolled from her eyes.

“I understand,” he said in guilt. “But we can’t reveal this truth to anyone after so many years. Have you thought how would Abhay feel about this?”

“And have you thought, how Samarth would feel when he will know, that the family he is serving as a chauffeur, is his own family? That Abhay and him are twin brothers, separated at birth?”

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And how come Abhinav have so much influence in his daughter's family after marriage, so much that even he separated the twins and noone is even aware of the fact that twins were born, plus he has the power to appoint someone like Samarth at the Mehtas' too. Apart from that, to repay Abhinav, Samarth should work for the Basus, not the Mehtas in that case.

Please throw light on this writers.

Originally posted by: Quantum-Dot

@Bold : Abhinav was introduced as Kangana's FIL, just now I remember.

And how come Abhinav have so much influence in his daughter's family after marriage, so much that even he separated the twins and noone is even aware of the fact that twins were born, plus he has the power to appoint someone like Samarth at the Mehtas' too. Apart from that, to repay Abhinav, Samarth should work for the Basus, not the Mehtas in that case.

Please throw light on this writers.

My entire retconning of this twin backstory hinged on the fact that Kangana is Abhinav’s daughter. If she was the daughter-in-law, the plot just won’t work. Shiri - ye tune kya kiya? 🤪 Now either Shiri can change that part in her segment, or I delete my entire segment. And someone else can write that part. 🤷🏽‍♀️ You all decide.

As for the other question- it’s established that Abhinav is a powerful businessman of some influence. And he’s also alone apart from his daughter and her family, it’s natural he’ll be connected to her family after marriage - lots of parents are. I don’t see anything unusual in Abhinav being this involved in the whole twin exchange, especially since he’s also connected to Samarth’s family. No one knows again because Abhinav has the power to keep it quiet. He also arranged the marriage between Kangana and Manav right? If he can do that, he can also be involved in her life post-marriage. We’re in an urban location in present times.

His son-in-law has cutthroat business rivals - I’ve mentioned this in my segment, hence it made more sense that he’d need a bodyguard and not Abhinav and since Samarth owed a favor to Abhinav he had to go where Abhinav asked him to and he asked him to protect the Mehtas.

It’s up to you all what you want to do.

Originally posted by: LizzieBennet

🤣 I missed that. I went by the fact that Abhinav is called Naanu - Naanu means Mother’s father right?

My entire retconning of this twin backstory hinged on the fact that Kangana is Abhinav’s daughter. If she was the daughter-in-law, the plot just won’t work. Shiri - ye tune kya kiya? 🤪 Now either Shiri can change that part in her segment, or I delete my entire segment. And someone else can write that part. 🤷🏽‍♀️ You all decide.

As for the other question- it’s established that Abhinav is a powerful businessman of some influence. And he’s also alone apart from his daughter and her family, it’s natural he’ll be connected to her family after marriage - lots of parents are. I don’t see anything unusual in Abhinav being this involved in the whole twin exchange, especially since he’s also connected to Samarth’s family. No one knows again because Abhinav has the power to keep it quiet. He also arranged the marriage between Kangana and Manav right? If he can do that, he can also be involved in her life post-marriage! We’re in an urban location in present times not in the Dark ages.

His son-in-law has cutthroat business rivals - I’ve mentioned this in my segment, hence it made more sense that he’d need a bodyguard and not Abhinav.

It’s up to you all what you want to do.

And I think, Shiri can change it to daughter since the background storyline which you came up with, is really very interesting.

Shiri, thanks babe! 🤗

Originally posted by: WildestDreams

Segment 2 by Quantum-Dot

Segment 3 by DreamOfEndless

Segment 4 by Shibani

Segment 5 by Bee222

Segment 6 by Quantum-Dot

Segment 7 by DreamOfEndless

segment 8 by Shibani

Segment 9 by Bee

Segment 10 by Simi

Segment 11 by Shiri

Segment 12 by Shibani

Segment 13 by Tia

Segment 14 by WD

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Segment 16 by Riya

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Segment 18 by Simi

Is this up to date?

Originally posted by: oh_nakhrewaali

Is this up to date?

Yup, it's up to date.

I am gonna post by today evening.

Segment #17

The only solace for Sam was that Veronica was also there. He had told her that he came to Maldives because he didn’t want her to face Abhay alone after everything she had been through, which was true, but he also didn’t want to face Abhay alone. He needed her to be his strength. The truth about his shared parentage with Abhay was gnawing at his chest. He wondered if their whole life was a lie. And if it was whose life was a greater lie, his or Abhay’s.

It was only Veronica’s presence that kept Sam sane. But his predisposition to depression, like his adoptive mother, kept pulling him into a dark state of mind.

It was how Veronica found Sam sitting in the hospital corridor in such brooding manner. His smile had looked bright when she found him outside the Velana International Airport. But now, he looked exactly the opposite. Before landing, she was torn between her grief for her sister and her brother-in-law, and her turmoil at the possibility of seeing her ex-husband again, this time with his current girlfriend. But the moment she had seen Sam she was giddy with happiness. That didn’t make her grief any less. She was only happy because she had someone who cared for her, and who had offered her his hand to walk this difficult path together.

Looking at Sam, it looked like he was fighting a battle too. Veronica sat beside him and held his hand, he wrapped his arm around her.

“Are you okay?” Veronica asked.

“I don’t know,” Sam murmured. “Saikat, Shweta. They have been my friends for so long. I am still shocked about the accident.”

“They are still alive, they are with us. I am praying to God for my sister…” Veronica’s voice chocked and she broke down, “I am thankful you didn’t let me come alone. I can’t see them like this. To top that, I saw Abhay again, with Jiya, and this hospital keeps reminding of my baby.”

Veronica sobbed in his arms and Sam held her close as if promising her silently to never let go. She sat straight and looked into his eyes.

“Thank you Sam, I didn’t expect—“

“I came for you, Nica. But there is another reason why I was sent here.”

Sam couldn’t hold it in anymore. The more she thanked him, the guiltier he felt for hiding another truth from her. He didn't want to break her heart again by hiding something.

Veronica was stumped. Sam's downcast eyes brought out her old insecurities and fears.

“What is it, Sam?” she asked, “Is there anything you are not telling me? And what do you mean by ‘sent here’? ”

“Abhinav Naanu, he sent me to work for the Mehtas, again. Abhay Mehta.”

“Sam! And you accepted!”

“He put me in a moral dilemma, Nica. I couldn’t refuse Naanu.”

Veronica felt suffocated. She was getting pulled to the very past that she wanted to leave behind.

There was a scream and a commotion outside the ICU. Sam and Veronica ran to look. Somebody had got in and tampered with Saikat and Shweta’s oxygen supply. The protective side Sam resurfaced and he ran after the man. The man, who was pretending to be a doctor, had gone inside the ICU when no one was looking. This was what Abhinav Naanu had feared. But if Vikrant Chhada’s men could tamper Shweta’s oxygen supply then it could mean that… Nica was also in danger, apart from Abhay. Who else was in danger?

The man escaped. Sam returned back huffing, with sweat all over his face. The doctor’s couldn’t save Shweta and Saikat. Their condition was already delicate, and intentionally tampering with their oxygen supply was like the final straw. The local police was already outside the ICU investigating the murder. The police was questioning Abhay again since he was seen arguing with Saikat at the hotel. They also asked Sam to describe the man he was running behind for making a sketch.

In another corner of the hospital, Jiya texted the Panther: “Thank you <3”

Whoa!😲 So Jiya is the mastermind behind the whole thing? What is this babe up to?

Is she after Veronica now??