"Heal him please," Ahana said in a broken voice, looking at Gyaan with teary eyes.

"My healing doesn't work on emotions," Gyaan said in a slow voice, "And it is better that Neer is unconscious right now. Staying awake would only bring him pain."

"Let's first get out of here," Sameera said, as she saw that a crowd was starting to form around them.

"Do you need water?" A random man asked, forwarding his water bottle, as he saw Neer lying unconscious.

Ahana snorted internally at the irony, water for waking up the waterboy.

"No thank you, he has this illness where he falls asleep anywhere at any time. He will wake up soon on his own," Gyaan lied through his teeth, before moving to pick up Neer.

Ahana gave him a hand to help make Neer stand up. Placing Neer in the middle of them, and his hands over their shoulders, and their hands on his waist, they dragged him back to the alley way.

The alley was their safe heaven for now. Coming to their spot, they placed Neer at the exact same place near the tree where Gyaan had placed the unconscious Ahana earlier.

"What just happened?" Sameera questioned, still baffled by the news.

"This isn't something that came out of the air. All the things that happened in that video clip were within Neer's powers," Gyaan mused over thoughtfully.

"Are you doubting Neer?" Ahana growled angrily, covering her unconscious twin protectively from the peacemaker's eyes.

"No, I am not. I know Neer isn't a villain. But the video didn't seem morphed. All I am saying is that something huge must have happened for Neer to do this," Gyaan said to all, before moving towards Ahana and saying in a low voice so that only she could hear, "Something like what happened with us. We too burned the whole laboratory down. May be something like that occurred-

"Neer wouldn't do that even if he was facing death," Ahana replied through gritted teeth, furious that Gyaan could even suggest such a thing. "And how are you so sure that the video wasn't tampered with?

"Do you really think you can find out if it was morphed or not just by seeing it on television. In this day and age of technology!!" Ahana yelled the last sentence in fury.

"Neer said it was fiction," Sameera spoke up suddenly, breaking the fight as she remembered the last words Neer spoke before fainting.

"Fiction?" Ahana and Gyaan asked in unison.

"What does fiction mean?" Avan asked, not understanding the big words all others were throwing at each other.

"Something that isn't real. A made up thing for entertainment like in movies and stories," Ahana explained in a quiet voice, keeping her anger on the situation aside.

"Stories...,"Avan muttered thoughtfully. "Wasn't Maanvi didi trying to change her work from real documentaries to stories?"

"What?!" The other three exclaimed in shock, before reality of what happened started sinking in.

"How do you know that? None of us were aware about it," Gyaan asked Avan, before looking over at Ahana to see if she knew.

"Koko told me," Avan answered simply.

"Maanvi's dog is surely helpful," Ahana muttered.

"How about we wait for Neer to wake up? Let's get to know what happened directly from his mouth," Sameera suggested.

She didn't think Neer could do something so vicious, but even if he had, they had to know the reason and intention behind it, before they decided to judge him.

Gyaan nodded in agreement, "Let's wait." He took a step towards Ahana to comfort her as she was the most shaken one after Neer, only to stop when she took a step back away from him.

"Don't bother speaking with me when there is still doubt in your mind," Ahana warned, before stating with finality, "Neer comes first. He will always come first."

Ahana then proceeded to sit down beside Neer and moved him in a way that his head was resting on her lap. She wiped off the stray tears from his cheeks and started caressing his hair. Ahana all but ignored everyone, and focused on her unconscious twin.

Sameera pulled Gyaan by his elbows who was looking at the twins with a resigned face. "Give her some time. She will be back to bicker with you again once Neer is okay," Sameera assured.

Sameera, Gyaan and Avan sat quietly, patiently waiting for the twins to come back to them.

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Ahana was startled as Neer groaned suddenly. His body moved a little from right to left, before he woke up with a start.

He immediately turned towards Ahana, requesting her to believe him. "Ahana, I swear, it wasn't like it looks. I swear, I didn't har-"

"Sshh, it's okay, it's okay. Please calm down," Ahana held his shoulders as she assured him, praying that he wouldn't faint again.

Gyaan, Sameera and Avan stood up in an instant as they saw Neer was awake and came running to him.

Avan jumped between the twins, and fiercely hugged Neer, while asking, "Bhaiya, are you okay now?"

Gyaan and Sameera stood there watching silently. They just blinked at Neer with reassurance when he turned his face towards them, looking at them hopefully. He let out a sigh of relief when he saw that no one was looking at him with accusation in their eyes.

"Neer, what happened? Why were you in this clip...doing all this?" Gyaan asked, earning a glare from the ladies.

"You couldn't even wait for a few minutes?" Ahana shook her head at him in dejection.

"He just woke up. Let him get better at least," Sameera whisper-yelled.

"No it's okay. Don't yell at him. He has the right to know. After all, we all are suffering just because my video clip is being telecasted," Neer said, his voice hoarse from all the crying and begging.

"The clip was yours. It wasn't tampered?" Ahana asked shakily to Neer.

She avoided looking at Gyaan after this. He had been right all along.

"Yes, the clip was real. But believe this all was acting. I never harmed anyone," Neer pleaded, taking Ahana's hands in his.

"Maanvi's fiction?" Gyaan questioned, already getting a gist of what happened.

"Yeah...how did you know? It was something only between Maanvi and I," Neer asked in shock.

"Koko told Avan, but that's not the point. Explain clearly what happened," Ahana ordered.

"Maanvi wanted to shoot a sample. However, she didn't have all the tools as she was just starting. She asked me to help until she could get her hand on the technology that could create the effects," Neer explained, before looking at everyone pleadingly to believe him, "The fields, the dam, everything was fake. Even that man, he was an aspiring actor. I didn't do anything. His pale face was not because I consumed water fluids from his body. It was all makeup. I swear it was all for a short film."

Everyone was silent for a few moments as they understood what had happened.

"Maybe someone had forced Maanvi didi to share the clip, just like they forced my parents and other researchers to speak bad about us," Avan said optimistically.

"Yeah that must be the case," Ahana agreed instantly, smiling at the kiddo. before glancing at Sameera.

They had to keep Avan's beliefs up. He needed to think that they all were helpless. Elements needed to hide the fact from the kid that they were deliberately back-stabbed.

Sameera understood the hint and took Avan and Gyaan away, leaving the twins behind.

"How could anyone force her when no one was aware about that clip other than us?" Neer asked, looking at the sky, feeling pathetic.

"She shouldn't have done that, not to you," Ahana muttered, her fingers curling into a fist.

"Out of all of us, they chose the kindest one out there to ruin," She thundered angrily.

"Don't do anything stupid," Neer warned.

"Why not? They already have claimed us to be villains. If we are already being accused, then let's show them how much we can destroy," Ahana said in a deadly voice.

They should have known that Messing with Neer meant having the fire girl as their worst enemy.

They could have tried anything else, and she would have still forgiven them. But not now. Ahana could handle anything else, but hurting her twin guaranteed a death warrant.