Chapter 9

RECAP -(In the flashback part)          The story started 3 months ago when Abhijeet's friend Rajeev sent him a letter which told him to fight against some terrorists who were planning a attack on Mumbai... Rajeev died while saving the city from those terrorists and told Abhijeet to catch them all... Abhijeet started investigating the case but the 'gaddar' from their own department came to know about it and informed the terrorists... They tried killing him on the forest road where Abhijeet himself dashed his car onto the the tree and then was saved by Dr. Avinash... With the help of Dr. Avinash Abhijeet proved himself dead to the CID team and the terrorists so that he could investigate the case properly... Daya didn't believe this and so the story continues...

(Present)         Abhijeet has fired on Daya due to some unknown reason... Daya was in coma for 2 months but now is back in his sences... Dr. Avinash who is now treating Daya is the same doctor who saved Abhijeet then... Daya spelled it out that Abhijeet fired on him but then denied his own words in order to save Abhijeet... Abhijeet doesn't want Daya to tell the team that he is alive as it will be a threat to his plan... Some goons are planning something wrong and have also decided to kill Daya as he is a threat to them too... While Daya was unconscious in the hospital Abhijeet kidnapped him... ACP sir is doubtful about Daya's behaviour from the time Daya came to conciousnes from coma and has decided to investigate the matter... He has figured it out that what happened with Daya 2 months ago is somehow linked to what happened to Abhijeet 3 months ago... No one else but Dr. Salunkhe knows about his plans__________________________________________

                               Chapter 9                             *Flashback*        (A fortnight after Abhijeet proved his fake death)

         The morning noise, the evening smiles and the afternoon cheers were all missing from the CID bereau... The cops were only coming to bureau, completing their work and going back... Even their work had a bit change in it! What? It was those little attempts that they constantly kept making to keep others happy... But even they knew that it wasn't possible to smile with a hole in heart... They couldn't be happy with a part of them missing

(ACP sir was sitting in his cabin when Freedy approached him)

ACP - Haa freedy?

Freedy - Sir woh pichle case ki report tayar hai... App ek baar dekh lijiye

ACP - Haa rakh do mai dekh lunga

Freedy - Ji sir (He kept the file but did not move out of the cabin)

ACP - Kuch kehna hai?

Freedy - Haa sir... Woh daya sir ke bare mai... Sir mujhe kabhi kabhi na dar lagta hai unko dekh ke! Sir dekhiye na kya haal bana rakha hai unhone apna... Na theek se khate hai, na sote hai... Yaha tak ki kisi se baat bhi nahi karte! Jitna zaroori hai bas utni hi... Sir abhijeet sir ko gaye hue 15 din ho gaye (with tears in his eyes) aur ajj tak unke akah se ek aasu bhi nahi gira! Mai unhe rote nahi dekhna chahta sir magar yu unhe ander hi ander ghutte nahi dekh sakta... Please kuch kariye na sir!

ACP - Tumhari baat bilkul sahi hai freedy... Hume daya ko iss sab se bahar nikalna hi hoga... Mai kuch karta hu__________________________________________

*Beach*

         It was evening time and Daya was sitting on a rock with his legs submerged in water... His eyes still and he was staring at the beautiful scene in front of his eyes... The sun was about to go below the horizon and the birds were flying back to their nests... The blue sky was painted in orangish yellow with setting sun on one side and the moon coming out from another... Tall coconut trees were silently witnessing all the happenings around them... But there he was, so close to the beauty of nature yet far away from all of it... He was lost in his own world which was colour less and life less right now          Just then he felt a hand on his shoulder and he turned back to find ACP sir standing there...

ACP - Tumhe disturb toh nahi kar raha na? Baith jau yaha pe? (Pointing to a place on the rock beside Daya)

Daya - Sir app puch kyu rahe hai... Ayena please

ACP - (Sitting down) Kitna khobsurat nazara hai na?

Daya - Haa sir

(Both were sitting silently for some time before they figured out what to speak to each other)

Daya - Sir ajj app yaha?

ACP - Kyu? Yaha sirf tum aur abhijeet hi aa sakte ho?

Daya - Nahi sir aisa kuch nahi hai...

(Again they had so much to talk but nothing to say... So after sometime they once again started)

ACP - Tumhe pata hai daya (He was still watching the setting sun)... Jab nakul 7 saal ka tha na tab maine usse ek khilone ki gun laakar di thi... Woh usse din raat khelta rehta tha... School le kar jata tha, khelne jate waqt bhi saath le jata tha, yaha tak sote waqt bhi saath rakta tha... Jab bhi koi ghar aye toh 'Hands Up'! Uss din maine ek sapna dekha tha... Sapna ki mera beta bhi ek din Police service join karega... (With a small laugh) Magar mujhe kya pata tha ki jo 7 saal ka nakul mujhe 'hands up' kehta tha woh waqai ek din mujh par goli chalaye ga! (Finally looking at daya) Janna chahte ho ki maine yeh sab ajj kyu bola tumhe? Isliye kyuki mai tumhe bas itna samjhana chahta hu ki iss duniya mai har chiz waisi nahi hoti jaisi hum sochte hai... Kitni hi koshish kar le daya kuch sachayi hum kabhi nahi badal sakte!

Daya - Sir bachpan mai jab mai Mamta Foundation mai tha na tab ek din waha ek amir ghar ka ladka apna birthday celebrate karne aya tha... Mai kareeb 5 saal ka tha tab... Us ladke ke paas ek khilone ki car thi... Mujhe achi lagi isliye bas usse dur se dekh raha tha... Uske paas bhi nahi gaya... Tabhi us ladke ki maa ne mera haat pakda aur humare ek teacher ke paas mujhe chod diya, yeh kehkar 'Apni aukat mai reh. Mere bete ki chizo pe nazar mat daal... Anath hai na! Iss duniya mai koi khushi tujhe nahi mil sakti'... Uss din mai bohat roya sir... Pata nahi kyu! Mujhe toh 'aukat' aur 'anath' ka matlab bhi nahi pata tha tab... Raghuvender sir ne mujhe bohat samjhaya ki bhul jau lekin mai phir bhi rota raha... Ajj bhi jab kuch khaas khota hu na sir mujhe lagta hai ki woh ladke ki maa sahi keh rahi thi (and a tear fell from his already teary eyes)... Kya woh sahi thi sir?

ACP - (He was already in tears listening to the pain of a 5 year old innocent boy who was sitting in front of him right now... Waiting for an answer... So he controlled himself from flowing away in emotions and said...) Nahi daya... Kisne kaha woh sahi keh rahi thi? Daya kuch logo ko naam wirasat mai milta hai, kuch logo ko baimani se... Magar tumne toh apna naam, apni izzat aur rishte sab apni kabiliyat se kamaya hai daya, woh bhi imandari se!

Daya - Toh phir mai jise bhi apna manta hu woh mujhe chod ke kyu chala jata hai sir... Maa baap kya hote hai maine kabhi dekha hi nahi, jitni baar pyar hua har baar kho diya aur ab app log kehte hai abhijeet bhi chala gaya... Abhijeet bhi chala gaya sir...

ACP - Daya

(But before he could say anything daya hugged him and started crying... He pacified him by patting his back but let him cry so that all his pain could come out)

Daya - (Whispered in a teary voice... Still in the hug) Sir abhijeet bhi mujhe chod ke chala gaya na sir?

        Now it was a question... A question to which ACP sir knew the answer but the reply didn't come out of his mouth... All these days, all of them had tried their best to make daya believe that abhijeet was dead... But today when a simple 'yes' could do so he didn't want to say yes... After all how could a father tell his crying son that his brother was no more... The hope in Daya's voice choked his throat... It seemed to him as if a single three letter word 'yes' would shatter his son's happiness, his hope and his will to live, forever