Hola forumwasis, so it's a Fatejo two shot... I wanted to write some naughty FaTejo stuff but gotta lay the grounds for that, so here it's reconciliation. Naughty fatejo in next one😆
Reconciliation
Tejo's head was resting on Fateh's shoulder. She was exhausted, completely done with everything. Fateh was anxious, wondering what was she feeling and if he could make things better.
*Few hours earlier*
"Angadji aapne soch bhi kaise liya ki main sach mein aapse shaadi karungi? Ye kya bakwaas hai... Aur sach jaane ke baad bhi aap papa ke saath taiyari mein busy hain?" Tejo stared at him unbelievably, she really thought he was a decent man.
Angad and Tejo had come to visit Mr. Sharma when Tejo accidentally read through the texts between KSV and Angad. Despite the fact that their engagement was fake, Angad was planning the marriage for real, and emotionally manipulating KSV as well.
"Kyon...kyon nahin kar sakti aap mujhse shaadi? Kya kami hai mujhme? huh..." He grabbed her shoulders, and shook her. He had finally found his happiness, and his solace and he wasn't gonna let her get away. He knew, once they were married, she would understand where he's coming from. She'll love him.
"Aap bhi jaante hain ki main kyon aapse shaadi nahin kar sakti. Kyonki main shaadi ke liye taiyar nahin hoon. Kyonki aaj bhi mere dil aur dimag mein Fateh ke alawa aur koi nahin hai. Aap mere achhe dost THE. Aapki iss harkat ke baad main aapki shakal bhi nahin dekhna chahti."
Fateh, who had been hiding from Angad and Tejo, heard all this.
Just next moment, in a fit of rage, Angad pinned Tejo to the wall... "Listen..."
"You listen Angad..." Fateh held him back and dragged him away from Tejo.
"How dare you talk to her in that tone? How dare you touch her like that?... HOW DARE YOU?" Fateh had murder in his eyes... He thought Angad was a good guy for her. But he's shocked to see him treating her like this. He put his hands around his neck and choked him... Angad tried to free himself but in front of Fateh's raw strength and rage, he had no chance.
Tejo on the other hand was shocked. Fateh had left... with Jasmine. He'd married her... He's in Canada. Then how was he here...her thoughts were only interrupted as she heard Angad gasping for breath.
"Fatehhh...fatehhh...please leave him...pleasssee...I'm begging you...please we can just talk...please...'' She immediately ran to him trying to get him off Angad.
The moment Tejo's hands touched his arms, his grip loosened.
Angad fled the scene leaving two behind.
Now these two were sitting in a cafe, after leaving Rampur once and for all. Despite their despairing past, uncertain future, they're sitting beside each other, Tejo completely enveloped in his embrace, while Fateh had his arm around her protectively.
"Tejo,you're very tired. Please have something..." Fateh pleaded.
Tejo looked at him, still exhausted, but nodded.
He took the menu from another hand, not disturbing her at all, and ordered coffee and cheesy garlic bread and a walnut brownie. She loved those.
He knew they had to talk. He knew she would probably leave him. He knew he deserved loneliness. But he wasn't scared. He just let this moment join rest of their memories, to be recollected and remembered when she'd leave.
They ate in silence. Although after eating she seemed a little better. He had filled her in with the whole Jasmine, airport saga though now he just wondered whether he should ask something or not... he's in a dilemma whether he should say something or not when he heard Tejo's voice "We need to talk."
"hmm...ok" Fateh looked at her, trying to avoid her eyes, he still could not see them without wanting to bury himself in the ground.
"I don't know where to start..." Tejo tried to say what was going on, but there was so much, so many different thoughts running in different directions, that she found it incredibly difficult to process any of them.
"Tejo... before you say something about anything, please, don't worry. I know I've lost every right, I know I mean nothing... but it doesn't matter, as long as you want me by your side, in whatever way you want, I'll be with you. I don't need anything in return, your friendship, or love. I know I'm not worth it..." he tried to ensure her.
"Did you not hear what I said to Angad...and that's what makes it so complicated." she blurted out with tears in her eyes, almost breathless.
Fateh hesitated to look at her. He had heard her confessing her love for him... but he wanted to ignore that, forget that. He wanted to keep himself away from any hope, scared that maybe he won't be able to let her go again. Terrified that he might hurt her once again.
"Yes... I love you... but I'm also aware that you don't and now we're here and when we go back there'll be lots of questions..." Tejo was rambling when Fateh cut her off in between.
"Tejo..." he looked at her and cursed himself for ruining things to this extent where they wouldn't understand what other was feeling.
"I know it means nothing...considering the lies I've told you, and it's so hard to believe, but I do love you. As silly as it sound, I think I always have... Jasmine was an obsession, you, you're something pure. Divine. You'll be in my heart till the day I die."
Tejo looked at him. Her heart fluttered. It was a conflict she could not resolve. There were times where she could so clearly see unadulterated love and devotion for her in his eyes. But the next moment his public proclamations of love with Jasmine, all the time he lied to her would flashback in her mind. She was thoroughly confused.
"Fateh I don't know how to say what I'm feeling... I'm feeling so much and I'm so confused and I don't know how to say it all aloud... it's...it's all a mess." Tejo blurted out.
Fateh sighed. He took her hands in his and intertwined their fingers. As he ran his thumb over her hand, both felt right, like they are where they should be, where they belong.
"Tejo close your eyes." She did.
"Now take a deep breath." she did.
"Now imagine there's nobody around, and you're just talking to your own self, and there's no shame, no regret, no confusion... just say whatever you feel like, as much as you want. Nothing will change, especially for worse."
Tejo sighed. She's a little skeptical, but she just let it go.
"I don't know Fateh... I know I shouldn't be in love with you...you've hurt me in the worst ways... you're my best friend. You're my husband. You're the only one who saw how Jass broke me...yet you did everything. You should have been the man who would have been by my side, protected me from everything but you... You're the man who lied, cheated, humiliated me... you kept my sister, your mistress in front of me. You believed her over me. And...and yet I'm in so much love with you...that it hurts. It even hurts me to think about it. I don't think I can ever forget you...or anything we shared. Good or bad. I don't think I can ever trust anyone. I'll never ever believe in love, friendship or people again. I'll have to live alone forever, and that scares me. I don't want to live like that...but I also can't let myself get hurt once more." she said, now barely in a whisper.
Tears flowed from Fateh's eyes, and he's about to cry but he controlled himself. After all, this was about her, he didn't want to make this about him.
"I'm screwed. There's no hope for me..." said Tejo with a sad smile and started to withdraw her hands from Fateh's when he resisted. He kissed her hands, held them tightly and looked in her eyes and continued "Tejo...then just listen to me once... I don't expect you to believe any of my words, but I'd still like to tell you what I feel. I love you. I have always loved you. I will always love you. You're like that peace, that divine light, once you've realised its value, there's nothing beyond it. Jasmine, she's an addiction, an obsession, an escape from so much in my life... I was so weak, so scared, that Fateh wasn't half of a man I'm today. To love somebody, is to be pure, and with Jasmine, it's anything but pure. And it is not just because of the fact that I crossed our sacred vows... but now when I look back, I realise, how selfish I was. How selfish she was. It was nothing but a transaction. I understood the real meaning of love after we separated. It hurt me so much to see you with Angad, there's literally nothing more in my life I'd have wanted other than being with you, but I understood how wrong, how unworthy, how toxic I was for you. I saw you with Angad couple of times, and you're so happy. Despite all the pain, I was fine with living in your memories. I didn't want you back. Your happiness was the only thing that mattered. That's the difference. I love you... If you still love me, then maybe we should give it another try?" he looked at her, trying to keep his hopes low.
Tejo was silent for a long time, but then she said in a small voice"It'll be so difficult."
"It'll be. But we'll try hard." he replied.
"But what if I can't forget and forgive everything?"
"I don't expect you to." he said again.
"How long it'll take us to be ok again...?"
"This lifetime is all yours." he looked straight into her eyes.
"What if, after everything, we still fail... what if I end up hurting you? I don't want to hurt you."
"You can't. Even if we fail, I'll just have more memories of you. There'll be never any bad blood between us. All the responsibility, liability...it's all on me. I'm the one who messed up, and I'm the one who'll fix things up."
Tejo looked at him for a few moments and then threw herself in his arms, just forgetting everything for a few moments, letting herself go and enjoying the bliss. In response he enveloped her protectively, resolving that no matter what happens, she'll be safe and happy from now on. This will be his responsibility. He's making further promises in his mind about safety, security and happiness of Tejo when he got a little bit distracted by scent of her hair. It just took him back to another world and before he lost himself there and things became too inappropriate, he composed, disentangled himself from her body, and looked into her eyes.
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