Mrs. Vaishali (Nahar) Basu  ( Nandini's great-grandmother) {EMERALD}

"We gotta make a decision, 
We leave tonight or live and die"

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CHRONOGRAPH ROOM 

Nandini's POV

 My blindfold was removed and after adjusting my eyes for few seconds I saw Raj uncle standing in front of me giving me a smile. 

Raj-" Oh my god Nandini, you really look marvelous in this dress. Simple and elegant beauty, I must say miss Mary always does magic with her dresses and you are giving it full justice with your beauty." He complimented me making me turn crimson. I really couldn't handle praises it always made me shy. I thanked him politely and turned to see Manik standing just at some distance. He was looking dapper as always even in his 50's outfit. 

Raj-" Manik and Nandini, you both are going to meet Mrs. Nahar Basu in the year 1952. She changed her name from Vaishali to Nahar after marriage. You both are suppose to meet her at her new house but will not tell your real name to anyone. If someone asks you who you people are just say that you Nandini are Anusha Goenka her childhood friend and Manik is your husband Palash Goenka. Only she is the person whom you should introduce yourself as Manik and Nandini. Got it?" 

" But why should we meet her at her house that too with a fake names? And how will we recognize her?" I asked him while still thinking that I have to introduce Manik as my husband. 

Raj-" Nandini we can't let anyone in the past know about your existence even if its your name. I know none will know you in the past but there are always chances of someone being in the past to attack you, now that Siddhant and Sanvi are in the past itself. We need to be careful of not letting them know about your visits. It's just for your safety nothing else and don't worry Manik knows how your great grandmother looked in the past. He had met her once so there won't be an issue. Just try convincing her to trust us and give her little amount of blood to you both." I nodded and then Manik as always came in front to go before me. He stood beside me while Raj uncle was adjusting the date and time of the travel. 

Manik-" Nandini, are you ready?" He asked me slowly giving me his small but encouraging smile. 

"I'm ready when you are." I also reciprocated his smile while he put his finger on the flap waiting for the red light to consume him. 

I nodded and kept my index finger into the flap and with the needle pricking me and making my stomach churn a bit I saw a white light filling the room and my vision blurred while I elapsed in the year 1952. 

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YEAR: 1952

TIME: 4PM, EVENING

I opened my eyes only to find Manik holding my shoulders to steady me. I stood on my feet and caressed my dress and adjusted my dupatta. We were just outside the church backdoor in the year 1950. The place had changed a lot but the essence and the charm of it was the same. I saw banners of movies put up and there were vintage cars. 

Manik-" Nandini, lets grab a cab." He held my hand and started walking outside. 

Nandini-" Manik can we go in horse carriage? Please I really want to have a ride on that. Also Mrs. Basu's house is near they will allow us. Chalo na." I pleaded him looking at the horse carriages lined up near Victoria memorial.

We took a carriage which looked exactly like that of Cinderella's horse carriage. Manik made me sit first and the took his seat beside me after giving the rider the address.  A horse ride like this had always been my dream. Back in our time we can have rides like these but only around the Victoria memorial and at a short distance. But here in 1950's people use to even have these rides at a farther places and the atmosphere was really calm and less polluted. 

We reached in front of a house in about 15 minutes. Manik got down and then held the door for me giving me his hand to get down.

Manik-" Nandini be careful and come hold my hand and get down. "I held his hand and got down slowly. After that Manik gave the rider his money and we moved ahead. 

A man opened the door when we knocked on the door. 

Man-" Aapni ke? ( Yes who is this)?" He asked in bengali. He looked like a servant here.

Manik-"Amra aekhane Mrs. Basu er sathe milte ashechi. Ayita Anusha onar chotobela' r bondhu aar aami Palash."

(We are here to meet Mrs. Nahar, she is Anusha Goenka her childhood friend and I'm her husband Palash.)" He replied while I smiled. He let us in and asked us to sit in a hall while he would call the lady. 

" Manik how old would be my great-grandmother right now?"

Manik-" Umm... 30 years old. I had met her first time in the year 1965 that time she was 43 year old and trust me she was really hard to convince. That is why we have taken year 1952, she is much younger and maybe we can convince her also you are with me now so I don't think there will be any problem. Well you would still look too young to be her friend." He chuckled while I elbowed him but then smiled myself. 

" It feels strange meeting your own ancestors but not telling them about yourself. I wonder how would she react when I will her that I am her great-grand daughter." Manik smiled looking at me and nodded. I started looking at my surrounding, the house was a large 3 store one and this hall was looking like a visiting room. 

We heard someone descending downstairs from the staircase. We got up at once seeing her approaching us. A lady wearing a typical bengali saari and jewellery smiling came towards us. She was indeed beautiful and so tall and her features matched a lot with my grandfather. She came closer to us and looked at us. 

Nahar-" Oh my god, Anusha what a surprise my dear friend. I'm really happy to meet you after so long." She hugged me making me confused, she should be surprised and confused herself and how can she know me when this is the first time she is meeting me and definitely her friend wouldn't be like me. But she cleared my confusion in the next second when she whispered in my ears. 

Nahar-" I know you are not Anusha but someone from the future. I was been informed by someone that two people will come to meet me. After all even I'm a time traveler it's nothing new for me." She winked at me breaking the hug while I looked at Manik who though looked a bit suspicious but smiled at her. 

Nahar-" Come we will go upstairs to my room and have some chit-chat. Palash what will you do there between two girls talk. Why don't you take a walk around the garden on our first floor. "She told and took hold of my hand and started walking. I looked back at Manik asking him what to do. He just blinked his eyes asking me to go ahead and convince her. 
    
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Mrs. Nahar had set up the entire tea table for us and asked her butler to get more snacks. When the butler went she turned towards me. 

Nahar-" So who exactly are you and from which year have you come?" She asked excitedly sitting on her huge mahogany chair. 

" I'm Nandini Rajvansh and I come from the year 2020. Actually do not get panic. I'm your great grand daughter and I need your help that is why I have come." I told her softly not trying to shock her after all she was just 30 years old now. 

Nahar-" You... you are my great grand daughter. God time traveling has really its advantages, I get to meet you. So yes why have you come here and what help you need?" She asked sipping on her tea and asking me to do the same. 

" Okay, so in our time we have lost our chronograph, actually it got stolen by someone from our own family and circle. After that the Guardians found out another chronograph which was hidden in the walls of a cellar which we currently use and with it's help we came here to you. The only problem we have is that we don't have the blood of yours and some other travelers of the past in that read. To cut the long story short I need some of your blood so that we can go back to our time and feed it in the machine." I said the entire speech I had learnt by heart in one go and then looked at Nahar who was blinking her eyes and being all confused. 

Nahar-" Okay, so this is the case, but how can I be sure that you are saying the truth and you really are my grand daughter? You maybe a fraud or some rival I can't give you my blood just like that. Aami tomarke kothay keno bishwaash karbo?(Why should I trust you) " She said keeping her cup on the tea poi and looked at me intensely. Now I really wanted Manik by my side, I didn't know much about all this myself how the hell they though I would convince her. 

" Mrs. Basu, I'm saying the truth. shotti kotha bolchi aami." I tried convincing her at the same time I saw Manik entering the room which removed some stress from my head. 

Manik- "Mrs. Basu, Nandini is saying the truth. Even in my earlier meet with you I tried explaining you the situation but you were hell bent on listening the same from your descendent so I have got Nandini to you. Look our meet is yet to happen from your time span i.e. after 13 years but for me it had happened already. I don't know who has made you against us but all I will say is that we are saying the truth." 

Nahar got up slowly and started walking around us. She was looking intently at us while we shared a quick glance. Mrs. Basu stood infront of Manik and looked into his eyes. 

Nahar-" Okay, I'm ready to agree with you. I'm giving you my blood but only because she has said and somewhere I feel she is saying the truth." She looked at me while I smiled genuinely thanking her.

Manik-" Please have your seat ma'am. It won't take much time." Manik opened a bag and took out the syringe and a small pipet. He is a management student right? So how does he know how to take blood sample? I thought but then remembered he had done this with other people also. 

He took some blood carefully and filled the tube. I just turned my head towards other side as I couldn't stand this. As soon as the work was done Mrs. Basu asked us to wait for some time while the butler will get some sweets to eat. 

Manik-" Thank you very much Mrs. Basu but we are in a hurry. We need to go back to the church before the time ends. It was really nice meeting you." I got up and hugged her once while she patted my head lovingly. 

" It was really nice meeting you Granny. I really feel lucky to meet you and got to talk with you." I just got a bit emotional. I'm like this, I get emotional very quickly and sometime for no reason. 

Nahar-" Me too my dear. Though it feels really odd of you calling me granny." She laughed and along with her even we did. 

With this me and Manik left her place. I felt someone was watching me but then I let it go because from past few days this is a normal thing happening with me. 

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Manik's POV 

Finally we have Mrs. Basu's blood with us which left only 3 more. We took a taxi which was standing just outside the house from here to reach the church. It was good that we still have some time left and it won't take much time to reach the church. 

" So Nandini how did you felt meeting Mrs. Basu?" I asked Nandini who was lost in her own thoughts from the time we have left. 

Nandini-" It feels strange Manik, but ofcourse in a good way. I have heard about her a lot from my grandfather but meeting her just made me emotional. She agreed with us that is the biggest thing. Btw, you know using all this medical instruments also? Management chodke doctor hi bann jaate." She said while I laughed. 

" Well Miss Rajvansh if you are forgetting I have taken blood sample of our other ancestors so of course I had to learn how to use them. You also would have learnt if you had been trained before, Aliya knows all this..." I stopped abruptly as soon as I took Aliya's name. She just rolled her eyes and sighed. 

Nandini-" Yaa right, the' know- it-all' Aliya. Well frankly speaking I really don't want to learn all this as much as first-aid and other things I have known is enough for me." She just shifted her gaze towards the window and was looking out. 

" Look Nandini I didn't mean that. Why do you always..." I stopped when I noticed that the driver had stopped the car abruptly and we saw some people coming towards our car. Nandini was also alerted she looked at me while holding my arms in fear.

They opened the door of the driver's and pulled him out of the taxi, I got myself freed from Nandini's hold and slowly opened the door and we both got down from the taxi and hiding ourselves from their eyes we hid near a tree. 

" Nandini do not come out of here, just stay here till we travel back, I will handle outside but do not get out." I pressed her hands a little while her eyes held fear, she was not ready to leave me.

Nandini-" Manik are you mad? You... you are not going anywhere. Just be here ." 

" Nandini if I don't get there then they will come here, this will hurt you in return. I know how handle them, just trust me it will be over soon and we will travel into our own time. But dare you come out of here." I told her and slowly walked towards them. 

"Hey stop, don't kill him." I shouted getting far from where I have hid Nandini. They started fighting with me. There were a total 4 people and it looked like they were here to kill. They didn't ask for anything but each and every attack of theirs was a kill move as if they were here to kill. 

The fight went on for a long time now. The only disadvantage of mine was it was me alone against 4. Though I managed killing 2 of them. I had my own own mini sword and a pistol which I was grateful that I kept with me at the last moment.

"MANIK !!!!!! SAMBHALKE!!!!" I heard Nandini shouting my name which made me turn my head at the back only to see a man was holding a gun in his hand and was aiming at me. I jumped towards the taxi side making it my shield but still it went close through my left arm and blood started flowing. 

" Nandini why you came out... run from here. GO!!!!" How the hell did she came here and why. They will be after her I have to distract them. I shouted her to run to a safe place and launched on a guy who was about to go towards her making his gun fall on the ground.  But another partner of his came from back and held me draging me with him. 

Nandini's POV 

I was hiding near a tree from the past 15 mins. This was taking a lot of time. I don't get it that why were we not traveling back in our own time or Manik was coming. I really was feeling scared now. I just hope he is okay. I think I should check once. With this I slowly came out only to see the sight which made all my blood dry. A man was standing just behind Manik aiming a gun at him. I shouted 

"MANIK !!!!! SAMBHALKE!!!!" 

He looked at me and got saved but still his forearm got hurt. He was telling me to leave the place but how could I when I know that he needs me. Why the hell I didn't know those marshal arts. Well boxing won't work there. 

I saw Manik fighting with two people and was injured a lot. He fell on the road and the guy was about to Stab him with a knife. I didn't think of anything at that moment and just saw a gun lying near my foot. Picking it up I aimed at him. I just shot him on the spot but with the sound of it I closed my eyes out of fear. 

Manik-" Nandini !!!! run !!!!!" 

Manik was shocked but he retrieved fast and held the last guy who was marching towards me. He was busy fighting with the guy and finally he broke his neck with one hard move making him lie straight on the road. And ran towards me. 

I KILLED THAT MAN. I AM A KILLER. I saw Manik coming near me but my eyes felt blurry and suddenly I was swept out of the floor ready to travel back in my time. 

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VAISHALI IYER AKA NAHAR BASU

She is the only lady in the female line of time traveling who was at par with the men in her own time because of her strong personality and intelligence. She is beauty with brains and is been known for her evergreen beauty. A fun loving and a highly determined lady. She is the EMERALD. Nandini's great grandmother. Let's see what will happen next. Is this the first and last meet or more to come?

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HAPPY DIWALI MY LOVELY READERS. MAY THIS DIWALI BRINGS LOTS OF HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY AND GOOD LUCK IN YOUR LIFE AND FAMILY. 💥🎆🎆

So, how did you find today's chapter? Diwali dhamaka in 1952. 💥💣!!!!!! 

Nandini's meet with her Great- grand mother? 
(dramaqueen_Nahar surprise for you😉)

MaNan cute talks in middle? 

Who attacked on MaNan? That too in the past? 

Nandini killed the guy, do you think she will be able to handle it? 

I will see you people next week with another exciting update. Till then enjoy reading with having sweets on diwali. 

Toodles !!!! 

Your crazy writer

Neha (Satakshi)❤