Nandu's Note :

Its a flashback + Present story.

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Past

One and Half year ago....

Dehleez Zindagi Ke

Tak tak Tak.....

Standing at the Dehleez of his guilt world, he knocked the door, which directly opened towards the eyes of pain, helplessness, sadness, fear......

Mr. Ahluwaliya looking once again from head to toe of a fully uniformed Army officer standing at the Dehleez of their home labeled as traitor's,
" Ji, aap kaun???..." asked with eyes filled with confusion...

Rajveer - " Capt. Rajveer Singh Shekhawat....
From KMA......"

He said not exactly meeting his eyes, trying maintain a stern face of an Army officer, thinking several times to step inside the Dehleez or nor.....

Mrs. Ahluwaliya - " ab kyaa chahte ho tum???...." asked not hearing what he said , as she was a few steps away....

Asking his wife to keep quiet, through eyes,
Mr. Ahluwaliya - " ander aayiye..."

Rajveer touching the pocket which held the last breaths of Naveen, he entered the new world of happiness unknowingly, with tortoisic heart beats refusing it's duty.....to pump the blood.....

Composing himself,
Rajveer - " it's a routine checking process...
Main bus yaha Cadet. Sin....I mean Cadet. Naina Singh ke baarein mein...."

He stopped as his his eyes fell on a pic where Naveen was pulling Naina's cheek.....eyes filled with mischief.....
And his pupils widened realising his doubts to be pointing towards the
' Dehleez ' of his fear world..
" Naveen "....

Mr. Ahluwaliya who followed Rajveer's eyes, immediately covered it and asked him to sit.....but found him to be rooted lost in some deep thought.....

Mrs. Ahluwaliya observing these scene, stepped forward with fire filled face, still dipped in sadness,

" Zyada sochne ki zaroorat nii he Captain.....
Mera beta he woh.....
Capt. Naveen Singh Ahluwaliya....
jise aap...." pointing index finger at Rajveer,

"apke army ne traitor ka naam deke maar diya..." said in a disappointed tone.... cluching the edge of the chair tight ...

Mr. Ahluwaliya sharply glared at his wife as she unknowingly pushed their daughter to a hell filled trouble by revealing her to be Naveen's sister in front of a armed officer.... which may inturn be dangerous to Naina's life....

Mr. Ahluwaliya holding her hands,
" Era...."

He called her making her realise what's she was spitting out...which indeed was a slow venom....affecting Rajveer's soul....

Mrs. Ahluwaliya fell on the floor, tired with the hide and seek the fate was playing with them,
" Kitne din....aur kitne din apne hi bete ka naam lene mein Hume jijhakna hoga...." looking at her husband,

" Mera Naveen deshdrohi nii tha Shekhar....
Nahi tha woh deshdrohi...."
She sobbed holding, Shekhar's feet....

Shekhar - " Era,
lekin duniya toh maanti he na use....
Shayad kismat ka yahi faisla he ki humare dono santan desh ke liye apne shaheed do...."

He hugged her from side ways.... without caring about what Rajveer might think....about knowing that Naina is Naveen's sister....

A traitor's sister.....

This what whole world thinks of her....

This mere thought made Rajveer's fist crush it's own fingers and closed his eyes cursing himself for not meeting Naina's..... Naveen's family before....

He went on and on, in a round where his own self blames are trying to burry him in himself.....

He was putting together the pieces, which, he broke on the words of Naveen.....
If Naveen hadn't been forced Rajveer to shoot him....the all cyclones gyrating around Rajveer wouldn't had been even existed.....

Before he could start to curse Naveen along with his own self,
he heard....

Era - " aapka kehne ka matlb kyaa he??Naveen ko bhoolade hum????....."

And her words made him look at them with pale face....

How could they even talk such words???

Naveen was the only creature, he trusted and was leaning upon till now....
Naveen was only source of light filled who lightened up dark shadows of his life...

His every decisions were followed every second on Naveen's words...till this second....

How can be forget that Naveen was the one for whom he was breathing....
To prove Naveen's innocence, to free Naveen's name, to bring honor to a true soldier,he was fighting...
with whole world....
and with himself....

Rajveer kneeing down with single breath, masked with the overflowing emotions,
" Aap Naveen ko bhulane ki baat kaise Kar sakti he????
Woh aapka beta he ..."
He said almost like a whisper .... eyes shouting the pain he was going through....

Era glanced at him not believing someone to be so possessive about her son apart from her....

She slowly kept her hand on his one which was on the floor, unconsciously...
reading his eyes shouting the things, her heart was eager to read....

Rajveer - " Naveen ne kuch nii Kiya Tha...sub ne milke phasaya tha use..."
He whispered again....like a kid, asking it's mom to believe his words....

Era raised her head, which was bowed with love for her child,
" Kyaa kaha tumne ???...."

She asked him as these words worked like medicine to her pain....

The pain of living under a grave....
with a festered heart.....

Rajveer meeting her eyes,
" Mere Naveen deshdrohi nii tha....
Usne kuch nii Kiya...."
He repeated, trying to fulfill each of their wish.... and his one too....

Era cupped his face out of tears filled with happiness,
" Tum Navu ko jaante ho???...."

Rajveer placing his hand on her hand which was on his cheek, whispered a yes....

Era kissed his forehead feeling Naveen's aroma in his presence, and pulled Shekhar down from another hand,
" Yeh humara Naveen ko janta he....
aur use doshi bhi nii maanta..."

She said like a parrot, being happy for finding a Oasis in this desert filled with only curse radiating with her son's name....

Rajveer eyes glittering with confidence, as he was among the people who trust Naveen like he does,
" Naveen ke kurbani u hi nii jaayegii....uska samman usko mil ke hi rahega.....

Main Naveen ko Azad karunga...saare ilzaamonse...
Uske naam ko Azad karunga...."

He said to himself loudly, as his mind was busy in calculating the things he has to do to end his life where there was only guilt...

Era - " Aapne suna Shekhar..
Isne kyaa kaha ????...." taking Rajveer's palm in her hand,

" Mere bete ko yeh Azad karega....
Saare ilzaamonse....saare dard see ..."
She recited and Shekhar hugged her, not believing what they heard.....

The moment Era's tears dropped on Rajveer's palm, he came out of his pool of oaths, and uplifted his wet eyes lids making himself believe that he was with Naveen's family....

That Naveen who took the last breaths in his arms....
And that last breath was indeed a result of the bullet stormed through his gun....

His head spinned as the scene rewinded in his brain....cursing the Destiny which only wrote tears in his life....
First his parents...
then his best friend...

Everyone left him.....taking their last breaths in his arms, asking him to be happy, without them .....after snatching away all the reasons to happiness....

Rajveer casted down his eyes, not being able to penetrate through those loving emotions trying to reach him,
" Naveen ko Maine maara tha...." whispered with all his strength, tired of handling the weight of the crime he committed.....

As soon as these words reached Era's heart, she felt herself thrown away, from the world.....

and her hands Rajveer's collar,
" Mujhe such Janna he...."
She asked her son's murderer, staining his soul with red color again......

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Present

He stirred in sleep, rubbing his nose, and sneezing two times as a tickling object was disturbing it...

Halfly opening his eyes, he corrected the blanket which held them, and tightly hugged her, snuggling his hand into her waist...dipping his head in her neck covering his head completely with her hairs....kissing the area softly... as he knew the upcoming nights will be filled with tears again....

And the border between them....which existed from the first night of their marriage was laying somewhere on the floor....a army of pillows.... which never allowed their love to enter Dehleez of each other's world freely....

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Good morning guys,

Yeh raha subka ud,
Joh mere drafts ke
Dehleez mein thi....

Aur ab aapke phone ke
Dehleez pe...

Yeh Happy endwala romantic kahani he, Jismein villain bilkul na he...
Just like mere " Ulte Ishq " ,
Sirf akal ke dushman he....

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Aapke gayab,
Nandu...