Hieeeeeeeee
Finally back in writing, boy have I missed it.

Anyways let get going.....

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"Um doc...hey..." Dev stopped an ongoing doctor, who intubated Sonakshi before, almost covering her pathway from proceeding further.

"Well Mr.Dixit, I'm afraid I might need some MRI films of her because I'm very much sure there's something more than just anxiety and we don't even have patient's history so, it's kinda hard to formulate any statement to assure her state right now, now if you will excuse me I have got to go."

"Oh yeah yeah sure..." He said while leaving a little space for her to go to which she nodded with a tight lip and went forward when suddenly he called her again..

"Hold on doc..." She stopped and let out a groaned sigh and turned to him with a pressed lipped frustrated smile.

"I'm..I'm sorry..I'm really annoying you I know....but...I was just saying... actually asking..yeah ...when exactly are you guys planning to take her...films you know..." He asked hesitantly because obviously she was frustrated and irritating a doctor won't turn into much good.

"Mr.Dixit... I scrubbed in a five hour long surgery, right after I intubated your wife, now as far as your wife's films are concerned, if I can get some peace for at least TEN MINUTES so that I could pee and eat something, I'll come to take her for scans right after that...now do you have anymore questions..?"

"Oh no no...I'm sorry .. extremely sorry...(she turned back to her way feeling relieved...) It's just this small....small thing...that..(she turned again gritting her teeth and planning all the ways to MEDICALLY kill him and make it look like an accident.) small thing...she is....she is not my wife... really"

"DO I LOOK LIKE I CARE MR.DIXIT????" she yelled to which dev just ran away muttering sorries to her.

It was past 10 pm. Tina along with Natasha, Robb and Jatin went off to Dinesh's home for the dinner. Dev was sitting silently clutching her diary on the sofa in her room. She was sleeping, her tubes were removed half an hour ago when her lungs started breathing on it's own and she started choking as her body was fighting the tube attached to her oesophagus. Dev panicked again and called the nurses who then extubated her after which that same doctor came again and took her for scanning. Dev wasnt allowed to go so he had to stay in the room only.
Now she was just lying peacefully while doctors were probably examining her films.

He looked down at the diary again, she said this diary was her all past but murder of her parents wasn't mentioned anywhere...but then again..he hasn't read it all, has he? He, without making any noise, turned it's pages again finding the one where he left. Found it!

Hie Dory,
It feels so stupid to write in you again, and more stupid is I used to feel like I'm talking to you and used to really wish you could talk. Lol. Anyways, I was a kid, duh! So one year of gap again huh! How have you been? Well actually I was in therapy throughout this year. I'm sixteen now, this stupid therapy and all made me waste my whole year. Now have to Ace college and do pioneer a startup ASAP. I wanna have money you know, alot and alot of money. See ya soon!

Therapy? What therapy? This girl doesn't know how to write a journal...moron dumb girl. One mentions everything in it and here he have to play KBC with all these stupid small hints. He should tell doctor about it. No...read further.

Dory Dory...
Doctor Vedant says I should talk it out. To somebody who would listen to me. He even offered his help and said he could hear me out but I couldn't just gather it up and say it out loud. How can I tell him things like that, he would never even like me. I like him, it's better not to tell him, I know nothing is gonna happen between us, he already has a wife, but argh I hate married men.
Would ya listen by the way?
Of course you would ..thats all you do right..
So I have PTSD( post traumatic stress disorder) and Bipolar disorder.
That's it.
I can't talk anymore.

Holy mother Jesus of unexpected events.
She suffered with ptsd and bipolar disorder too. Well, that explains the faint in the garden after seeing dev reading her diary, she got attack of her trauma, her past revealing to someone else. And wait..! She used to crush on her doctor...hmmmmm....
Oh come Dev she was a teenager. She hates married men though....whyyyy did he marry....!!!
Gotta tell doc now, of course, without liking her!

He immediately shut the diary close and put it inside the nightstand drawer silently. He rose to go outside and reach the doctor when fortunately she herself, along with a man in his mid-thirties, wearing the white court came inside the room.

"Woah, doc, I was just coming for you only" Dev said half smilingly in relief.

She snorted a suppressed chuckle and nodded to him, felt like she would have preferred to run on the opposite side of him instead. The other man, sophisticated looking but warm face, shifted his looks from Dev to the other Doc and tried to disturb.

"Well Mr.Dixit, I'm Dr.Mathur, head neurosurgeon of this hospital. This is Dr.Shirke, you know her probably, she is the resident here. So Dr. Shirke approached me with your wife's case and her films I would like to talk to you about."

It's amazing how these doctors manage to have the best polite ways to talk to every patient and their family they come across throughout the day. Dev felt really nice to have him talk.

"So Mr.Dixit, your wife's films don't really show anything. No tumour, no bleeding, no swelling inside her brain, which makes us think why would she fall into such deep reaction. So I would like you to recollect your memories and think what exactly happened when she fainted and think of all the possibilities of that. Why? Is the bigger question here. Okay"

"Well Dr. Mathur, that's what I was coming for to Dr.Shirke, she said she didn't have any patient history of her's and also...she is not my wife really..but of course you don't care.
Yeah so...
Im sorry...I'm kinda not normal right now...too much happening.
Anyways..forgive me..so yeah she suffered with PTSD and BIPOLAR disorder. It's mentioned in her diary, something.... something really bad happened with her in her past and that's why I guess...she suffered through that...so this afternoon when she found me reading her diary, I guess she got one of her traumatic attacks and she fainted.
Now why her lungs are week and why she is still not waking up and cussing me I don't know...but I need her fixed, tell me you could do that please..."

He practically was on verge of crying when Dr.Mathur put his hand on his shoulder in order to console him a little.

"That's all the difficult part of the job you have done for us Mr.Dixit. don't worry now, we will talk for a psyche consult and they will fix your wife...I'm sorry, not wife really, as soon as possible okay. I'm not really needed here. It was good meeting you Mr.Dixit"

Saying so Dr.Mathur ascended out of the room to somewhere else in the hospital. Dr. Shirke was standing there holding sonakshi's chart which included everything. She wrote about PTSD and bipolar disorder in it and came to dev.

"Dev, is it..?"

"Umhm" he was upset clearly.

"She will be alright. People die here, in our watch...and we are just helpless to let them go...away from their loved ones, but what gives us all the strength and potential to give our best everyday is when we fix someone. When we actually save people's lives and they thank us. We don't have people's fate in our hands but we do have our best in our grip, and so do you. You are doing your best, and right now, you may feel like drained completely watching her in this state, although she is NOT YOUR WIFE REALLY, it sucks, I know...but you gotta hold on.
I'mma go put a psyche consult okay. Relax."

She moved out.
Fortyfive minutes later a nurse asked Dev to go outside as he was called by Dr.shirke.
Dev went only to find out Dr.Shirke standing with another women, aged than her, looking at him smiling weirdly.

"Dev...meet Dr.Madhu she is head of psychiatry in our hospital. She wants to talk to you".

Dev didn't say anything rather shook hands with Dr.Madhu and went in her office with her.

"So Mr.Dixit, I need to know whatever you know"

"Uh... doctor see..a) it's confidential so I can't tell you everything about her past life when she is sleeping lifelessly in one corner of a hospital, b) I won't hesitate in telling you what's required. So yeah I read in her diary that she suffered with PTSD and BIPOLAR disorder, she did have a therapy session of one year...where I don't know..but some Dr.Vedant was mentioned. And today she fainted after she saw the diary in my hand...which is because she didn't want me or anyone to know about her or her life. That's it!"

"Ohkay...and do you know when all this happened, where she used to live?"

"Um she used to live in Kolkata till her nine, I'm not sure if she was there only in her sixteen too because she took the therapies in 2007, when she was 15-16"

"Alright Mr.Dixit, there are few tips I would like to give you to follow when she wakes up, for now:-
A) don't stress her
B) but don't hide anything too
C) and definitely don't hide that she is going to stay here for a little more longer now
D) take rest, you are as much needed to be strong as she is.
Okay, now sleep I'll come up in the morning and talk to her."

Dev left the room.

Next morning!

Natasha, after the dinner came back to the hotel with Tina and others. She thought of calling Dev and ask about how sonakshi is and when will they come back.

He picked up.

"Hello" he said in a hoarse rough voice probably tired and just woke up from sleep.

"Hello Dev... You didn't sleep better last night? And how is Sonakshi now?"

"Um she is fine, it's alot more than we see here natasha...we will have to stay here for a bit more longer. How are you?"

"Ouh... oh god....achha Dev I was saying Robb has left last night and Tina is boarding her flight today after she will pay visit in the hospital for London, to commence the work. I'm alone Dev, I need to go back to home."

"They are leaving??....oh natasha...I'm so sorry you are suffering because of me..you should go back, I'll...I'll see how to send you back"

"Dev listen....I can go alone..."

"Hey I can drop you.....if you don't mind.." Jatin came outta nowhere and jumped in between the call, Dev heard his voice and wondered who is that while Natasha looked at him.

"Who's that natasha?" Dev asked.

"Uh...uh...Dev..it's jatin...Tina's cousin... remember"

"Oh yeah of course...ask him to stay out of it. And come to meet me with Tina"

Saying so they cut the call. Dev was already handling so much and now this Jatin was intruding out of nowhere hitting his wife. Although he is not that kind of possessive for natasha but even as a friend, it wasn't likely to know that.

An hour or so later, sonakshi woke up slowly opening her eyes. Dev was in the bathroom. She found herself alone and panicked at first finding herself in the hospital that too alone, hitting nostalgia to her. She looked here and there at the drip tubes attached to her wrist and thats when her eyes fell on the shirt laid carelessly on the nightstand beside her, along with the phone and a watch. Dev's watch. He is here.
It gave her immense happiness to find out that he was here, unlike all these years she suffered through heinous treatments in the hospital all alone. No visitors no stayers.
She rose a little and tried to sit resting her back on the headboard and took the shirt to her and sniffed it a little.
Yucks...sweat...!

Not romantic...!

Her mouth twitched in a bad one when suddenly the door knob of the bathroom twitched and the door opened welcoming hot, recently showered Dev, just in his pants with the towel in her neck and hair dripping wet. He came ruffling his hair when he saw Sonakshi woken up sitting with his shirt gaping at him.
He was delicious, at that moments. Immense hatred for the drip and tubes filling inside her now.

He immediately rushed at her throwing the towel away and sat beside her.

"Sonakshi...when did you wake up, why didn't you call me...are you fine...do you need anything...should I...should I call the nurses...doctor...? "

"You are so hot"

"What..?"

"Huh..um...nothing..I didn't know you are here until...I found this foul odorous shirt of yours...why dont you wash your clothes..."

Dev was kinda panicking...is she  normal or NOT?

"I... I sweat alot ohkay...but do you need anything...are you feeling okay Sonakshi....? Should I call doctor?"

"Oh no Dev...I'm good. And don't you know it's normal. Dr.vedant will come now and take me for the therapy sessions...don't worry, fainting and all is normal. You would get.......!"

She stopped suddenly, as if something hit her head and she realised which is horrible. Dev, himself, was panicking inside as if what was happening exactly. Last time they talked she was all angry and fuming with hatred for him, moreover why she mentioned Dr.Vedant and therapy sessions but before he could say or do anything Sonakshi started pulling the drip tubes out of her hands in anger.
Dev immediately called for a nurse and tried to stop her by holding her arms together in his while she was trying to resist it all.
Nurse came running with three others and immediately gave her a sedative with lot more difficulties.

Dev looked at her going down and down in peace again. Oh how happy he was finding her all back in senses talking to him, complaining to him, but ironically she wasn't actually in her senses.

Dev slightly snatched the shirt from her hold slowly and sniffed it ouhhhh...bad decision.

After a while, natasha along with Tina and Jatin came to see her. Dev stood up and hugged Natasha lightly.

"How are you?" She asked whispering.

"Hm good...you brought a shirt?" To which she nodded and picked out a shirt from a polybag she was carrying and gave to him, he immediately changed and came back to the visitors.

"Dev...what happened to her, why is she still here?" Tina asked looking at sonakshi with panicked voice but not so high pitch.

"Tina...it's her past...it's haunting her again and this time..she needs to end it all so...it's gonna take a little more time..I'm sorry" and put a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm leaving for London today and proceed the work as she wanted to. You know she never shared anything with anyone...it's all coming now..."

"Yeah..." He said sadly.

"And Dev...Im leaving today too" said Natasha with a hint of guilt in her voice for stealing attention from the patient.

"But natasha...no you can't go alone...listen give me sometime ohkay I'll manage something here and then will come to drop you...just little more time.." he said frustratingly.

"But Dev...that's all I don't have anymore.....I can't wait anymore...don't you understand, I need to live on my own..and when am I going to begin doing that...look I'm sorry I'm troubling you when you are already in so much tension but....I need it Dev..."

Dev looked at her and there was nothing he could hate her for. She was one hundred percent right.

"But alone...it's a three hour long journey...highways...what if something....Natasha please.....this is the last time..." Was cut in between

"If you dont mind Dev...I would take her with me, I'm anyways heading to Mumbai only" Jatin offered again which hit the height of Dev's patience. He rose immediately and clutched his collar with gritted teeth.

"Don't you dare try to hit on my wife...she is my wife ohkay....don't come in between.....we will sort it out we don't need your help"

Jatin stood firm in calm while natasha immediately unhooked Dev from jatin's collar.

"What do you think you are doing huh...?" She yelled.

"And when have you treated her as your wife Mr.Dixit?" Asked Jatin fixing his shirt.

"Shut up Jatin. I have said this before and I'm saying this again, you got no right to speak in between us. It's our matter. Stay out of it.
And you....angry young man, who do you think you are? God or something?
You can do everything, and everything is your responsibility huh? Marry Natasha...drop Natasha home...take care of her...! Dev please....stop... really stop trying to be with me all the time when you clearly are not.
Sonakshi needs you here, and more than that, you need to be with her. I don't want you to come running extra hours for me. Let me learn to leave you, no...!"

Dev hung his head low while Jatin was trying so hard to not smile because that would irk Dev even more and he will think he is hitting on her while all he was doing was trying to give a hand.

"I'm proud of you Natasha..." Tina said while patting her shoulder and left the room not before glaring Jatin with mischief as if she is sensing something. Jatin rolled his eyes on her.

"Alright fine...I won't come..but still you can't go alone... I'll....I'll talk to Dinesh bhau if he can drop you"

"Argh...you hell-bent stubborn asshole" Natasha cussed to which he glared shockingly at her and she made a learnt-it-from-you look. Jatin couldn't stop chuckling.

"Listen brother...I know you think I'm making an opportunity  here for myself when your marriage is falling apart, but it's not true. I understand what you are saying but trust me, we are not even good friends. Just kin. So let me drop her I'm going that way only, why are you hell-bent on making someone suffer unnecessarily" he kept his voice as calm and as convincing as he could.

Dev didn't look at him but Natasha who was looking at jatin and for some reasons was getting overwhelmed by his behavior.

"What do you want? Are you okay with him?" Dev asked her.

She looked at him and nodded assuringly. Jatin smiled at it.

"Fine...fine...go...but(asks her to come closer,.to which she did hesitantly, and whispers in her ears) keep sending me your picture every half an hour without letting him know, ill be relieved you are well and good"
Natasha chuckled and stood afar with him.

"You will make such a weird dad Dev..."

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Woof done..
Wattpad glitches irritates me more than Dev does to doc. Font issues😑😑 in this chapter. I'm hating it but before Wattpad delete my draft I should let fonts go..😫

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Precap:- "Mr.Dixit, meet Dr.Vedant"

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