After having a lovely lunch, all leave for Riddhima's home. RiAnsh with their baby, Siya and Angre are in same car while others in another one. RiAnsh are seating in back seat with Vanya in middle. All the while coming to home baby is not leaving her parents' hold for a second as if they will run away from her if she leaves their hold.

Angre is driving the car while Siya is sitting on passenger seat. Siya is looking at her back to have a look of her munchkin while Angre too sometimes is checking Vanya through the rearview mirror. They are chuckling at her antiques as Vanya for a single time also hasn't stopped to ramble upon some different topics..but at the end of her each sentence it will be " Vanu lob momma..Vanu lob papa" and with that she will be kissing her each parent. Such a cute bunny she is!

Suddenly she stops her rambling and looks at Riddhima and then pouts her face cutely. Riddhima chuckles in her mind because she knows now her baby has some demand. So Riddhima just wiggles her eyebrows at her questioningly. And baby says so cutely : Momma..hungli..momma .. dudu..With that she puts her right hand upon her momma's breast and looks at her expectantly with innocent eyes.

As she completes saying, Riddhima gets shy because before all she is asking for her milk and that also by touching there. Riddhima lowers her eyes and from a corner looks at Vansh who is actually looking at her directly. Both pair of eyes get locked for a moment but their baby again breaks their trance by saying : Momma..dudu..momma..Vanu baby hungli..Both get back their senses and lower their eyes. To remove discomfort, Vansh unlocks his phone and gets busy with it while Riddhima picks up Vanya in her lap and unhooks her blouse and bra..then she places her left nipple in her mouth. Baby starts to drink momma's milk happily..but she is still holding her Papa's hand with her left one while right one is around her momma's breast.

Meanwhile, to give privacy to the couple Siya and Angre are busy in talking with each other. While Vanya baby is swinging her legs upon her Papa's lap at which Vansh chuckles softly at her..he really feels guilty to miss her till two years..he has missed the precious pregnancy period of THEIR LIFE..he has missed to hold her in his arms when she is born..he has missed when she has spoken her first word..he has missed when he has started walking..he has missed every damn moments of his daughter's life till two years. If Riddhima forgives him for a second also, then how could he forgive himself to push away the two most important persons of his life? He could never. He is their culprit and for his whole life, he would be their culprit only.

Suddenly he feels the touch of something soft..frowning a little, he looks at that direction where his baby is holding his hand. He gets shocked to find it's touching with Riddhima's right breast. Gulping his raging hormones, he takes back his hand and looks other side. Riddhima too feels embarassed while baby starts sniffing. Riddhima quickly places her nipple in her mouth but Vanya refuses to take it and starts to cry loudly. Seeing that Vansh quickly takes her in his arms by keeping his phone in his jean's pocket. While by taking Vanya hurriedly from Riddhima, Vansh's left hand touches with Riddhima's left one and both try to look other side. Vansh starts to say sweet nothings in her ear at which she stops crying while Riddhima corrects her blouse and saree. Listening Vanya's cry, her pua (bua) and tachu (chachu) both have looked back but seeing the couple in another world they have kept silence. Because they believe Vanu can only bring her parents together.

With that, the car stops before Riddhima's apartment and all come out .. even another one too reaches. All enter together. Her neighbours who have only seen Ahana and Bajaj couple in her apartment get astonished seeing so many people whom by one look people can say they belong to elite class and they get really surprised seeing Vanya in the arms of Vansh Rai Singhania. Some ladies come forth to ask from her who are they. Before Riddhima could answer, her baby answers them enthusiastically from her Papa's arms : Vanu baby papa (by poking Vansh's cheeks at which Vansh lovingly gazes at her) .. Vanu baby phimili(family) {by showing everyone and then starts to say} ..tachu, pua, dadi..bali(badi) dadi..Vanu baby phig(big) phimili.

All start to laugh at her cute way of pronouncing everything. However, all get inside her house and get the homely vibe from it at the entrance only and they are in love with it at first place. While Vanu baby starts to jump like a bunny in their home feeling ecstatic as today her papa and all family is with her. She is way too happy. All smile contently at her antiques. Riddhima asks all to be comfortable and change their dress..she has women clothes with her but for men, she calles her one assistant and asks her to bring some men costumes in her home quickly. All feel happy at her sweet nature and Vansh feels proud for being the husband of such pure soul. Though this family has lowered her many times before all but she doesn't hold any grudges against anyone.

However, with time all settle down and as per Anupriya's decision, boys take one room while ladies take Riddhima's bedroom. With chitchatting and happy family time, it's night. All the ladies make dinner happily while Vanu is with her papa and tachus. At dining table there is only four chairs around it, so dadi proposes to sit on ground and have their lunch like the picnic. All happily follow her words and sit on the ground. After so long days, they are finding Vansh to take his meal happily and in between he is feeding Vanya too. All family members get astonished to see him sharing his food with his baby and then he is taking the left over too..because he has never shared his food with others. Meanwhile, Vanu baby is continuously clapping her hands and enjoying the meal from her father's hand.

After dinner, all help each other in washing the dishes and other works. While Vanya is busy to listen stories from her father and tachus and that too about ghost. Aryan is telling her stories with different styles to create more imagination in it while Vanya is sitting in the position of a coil..all chuckle at her admiration to listen stories. All of a sudden Vansh's phone rings and he goes outside by seeing the caller Id while placing baby in Angre's lap.

By going outside, he takes the call and listening the other person, he takes a breath to calm himself and says in a strict yet mature tone : Listen Officer, I don't want to listen anything. I just want them to feel that much amount of pain which they have given her in her twelve years of staying in their house. I'm even trying to find a strong proof and when I'll get it, they will be standing before MY RIDDHIMA..I know law will give punishment to these murderers but before that I want MY WIFE should feel the pleasure by seeing their defeated face. But till then it's your duty to torture them without any mercy. I want justice for my wife, if it suggests me to go behind bars too.

Riddhima who has been coming from kitchen with a water bottle listens his talk but indirectly taunts him when he cuts the call : The person who is talking of my justice is the real culprit of mine and if he thinks I'll be melted by his this innocent act then let me remind him, I've learnt the acting from him only.

Vansh will go to enter into their room but suddenly stops listening Riddhima's indirect taunt. He chuckles sadly yet softly at her because he knows it's hard on her part to believe him and he will never pressurise her to believe him. Moreover, she has spoken atleast with him, may be it's her taunting but her response matters to him most. Rather he just takes a minute to see her face closely and softly says " RIDDHIMA ". The way he speaks of her name, she feels different..yes, she has once wanted this voice from him but now this love and emotions all are just some facades for her. She without any reply goes from there while he stands for few minutes to grasp the air she has been breathing in. Now he knows how it's felt to be ignored by the person you LOVE..but alas! He can't go back to the past and mend his every damn mistakes.

Soon it's 12 o'clock. All are asleep in deep slumber. Suddenly Vansh's sleep gets broken and he feels thirsty so he wakes up to go to kitchen. Here Vanya who has been sleeping by wrapping her papa with her hands and legs..she is sleeping after climbing upon him and placing her head on his chest and then hugging him, but suddenly she gets cold as her dearest papa is not close to her. So she frowns in sleep and opens her eyes a little to find her papa is not beside her. Feeling afraid that may be he has left her and her momma again, she gets up to search her papa. She is feeling to cry, not finding him. But then also she tries to open her sleepy yet teary eyes widely to find her darling papa.

With slow and little steps, Vanya goes outside in the hall and suddenly the words of Aryan's start to ring in her ears .. when she has been listening some horror stories from him. She gulps hard and looks at her back to find a black thing on the wall. Now she is very afraid.

Meanwhile, Vansh is drinking water in kitchen so little dim light is on inside there. And through the door of kitchen, the light is coming outside. Suddenly he will go to keep the empty glass on the kitchen slab by drinking the last drop of water but before that he listens a muffled voice of someone. Getting curious, he goes outside without switching off the light as the voice he suspects is coming from hall only.

Here Vanya is afraid but without showing it to the black thing, she starts to act bravely. Showing hands to the black thing, she speaks stammering : Go..go flom hele..Vanu baby momma papa..tachu pua dadi .. go..Vanu baby kol(call)..(Vanu baby will call her all family here if you don't leave from here.)

But she gets afraid when the black thing too follows her and shows her its black hands. She gulps hard but suddenly listening footsteps behind her, she turns back to find her papa is coming from kitchen. She with baby steps runs to her papa and wraps her tiny arms around his legs. Vansh gets alert when his little baby starts to weep. He quickly bends down at his level to find her crying. He takes her in his fatherly embrace and wipes her tears. Then he softly asks her in worried tone : What happened, baby? What are you doing outside and why are you crying?

Baby starts to cry more listening this and Vansh without saying anything just pats her back. When baby gets silent, she starts to speak : Vanu baby papa..no lib(leave)..Vanu baby lob papa..

Vansh smiles a little thinking her daughter's fear regarding him that she thinks he will leave her this time too. But he feels bad too seeing her insecurity towards him. However, he replies her : Papa too loves his princess..but baby, papa has come to drink water in kitchen. Okay tell papa, why you are here in this time and why are you crying?

Now Vanu gets little calm and says : Papa..Vanu baby pulo(follow)

Vansh thinks it's something serious that's why his baby is crying so he asks her to take him there. At which Vanya drags him towards the wall and points towards that area : Luk(look) papa..Vanu baby pulo.

Vansh literally face palms and chuckles softly much to his daughter's annoyance. Vanu pouts cutely and scrunches her little nose : Papa..Vanu baby no tok(talk)..papa no lob Vanu baby..papa thmile(smile) ath(at) Vanu baby..hmfh..Vanu baby angly..

Vansh sits on the floor and takes his baby in his lap and points at the floor with his finger, saying : Look there baby. You can see now there is not only a little cute baby like you but one big figure is also behind you. Won't you ask me who are they? (At which Vanya vigorously nods her head and curiously looks at her papa. Her papa smiles at her and starts to explain her softly.) They are none other than us.(At which a "Haww" comes out from a suprised Vanya.) Yes princess, it's our shadows.

Vanya cutely copies her papa : Chadols..papa, Chadols(shadows)?

Vansh just rubs his nose with her and nods his head. Now the chirpy Vanya again asks her papa : Chadols.. tho(so) hald .. papa (It's too hard to pronounce shadows, papa.)

Vansh chuckles at her complaint and softly says : Because Papa's princess is too small to pronounce these hard words, baby. Okay now leave it. Will you want to know more about shadows? (At which Vanya again nods her head in 'yes'.) Baby, you can see light is coming from kitchen..isn't it? ('Yes' says the excited Vanu.) And that light is falling upon this front wall of hall. But when we stand on the other side of wall by facing or backing it, we block the light..that creates our shadow in amidst of lighted area. As other portions are getting light except our shadowy area, that's why it looks black. Get it, baby? (Vanu gets excited and claps her hands by nodding her head.) Then Papa's princess will never get afraid of such little things, isn't it?

This time Vanu says loudly : No..Vanu lob papa.

Vansh chuckles because his baby always rants this. But when she will get angry, then no one can't calm her down. Really, she is exact photocopy of him. He looks forth at his little daughter who is busy to do different poses and she is getting excited to see its shadows on the wall.

While papa and daughter are enjoying each other company they are unknown to one pair of teary eyes following their each activity closely. It's none other than Riddhima who has waken up the time Vanya has been weeping. Getting panicked she comes out to get surprised. She gets to see a matured and father version of VR except of that arrogant snobbish spoilt brat. From the time he has taken a re-entry into their life, he is showing a different side of him. When Vansh has been understanding THEIR BABY about shadow thing, she has been feeling nostalgic. Because once she has dreamt of such life but with the passing of time, she comes to know nothing will happen like this in real life. However, she wipes her tears that has come out to see her one dream to be fulfilled.

Suddenly Vanya yawns and Vansh starts to take her inside the room while they found Riddhima to be standing on the doorstep of another room. Vansh and Vanya respectively gasps : Riddhima/Momma.

Riddhima comes out to take baby in her embrace and sits on the couch placing in the living area. Vansh too settles beside her, knowing well Vanya will start crying next second only if he doesn't sit beside them. Riddhima starts to pat her baby's back while she goes to deep slumber. Vansh thinks to start a conversation : Oh Vanu has been afraid seeing her shadow on the wall. You know Riddhima, she has been afraid of the 'black thing', my baby.

Saying this he chuckles a little while Riddhima too smiles and says or rather taunts him saying : MY BABY is innocent that's why she is showing the 'black' thing to the person who is nothing but a 'black' dot in the name of father. For his pleasure and so called ego, he has tried to deny his own baby and has gone to marry HIS LOVE. My baby doesn't know whom she is adoring so much has chosen someone else over her.

With saying that Riddhima gets up and by taking an asleep Vanya with her, she goes to another room. Here tears start to blow from his eyes drops by drops, continuously. He knows he is in fault and he has done many sins. But he wants to rectify it..he only wants a chance..if by giving up his entire property and status, he can get Riddhima and Vanya then he will happily do that. But he knows life is not an easy one so he is ready to do ANYTHING to get them back.

For some passing hours, he has been sitting at hall and it's when the sun comes out with its first ray, he wipes his teary face and goes to his place and lays down. Within few minutes his pillow gets wet. But soon with each passing second, due to tiredness and exhaustion, he goes into a deep sleep.

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A special thanks to amiable_2809 for suggesting me of the shadow scene between papa and daughter.

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