SANJEEVNI
Armaan enters the locker room, still no Riddhima. He goes to Dr. Keerti's cabin for briefing. She gives him the status of the night duty and the new patients. At the end, Armaan gathers enough courage to ask.
Arm - Doctor Keerti, in the interest of knowing how much time I can give to each patient, main jaan sakta hoon agar...I mean...koi aur intern bhi duty pe hai, ya...
Kee - Haan Doctor Armaan, Dr. Riddhima is on night duty as well, vo abhi aap se pehle briefing lekay gayee hain.
Armaan gets out of Dr. Keerti's cabin with his notes closing the door behind him, and keeps looking for Riddhima. As he's walking by a room he stops because of a sudden feeling his heart gets. He looks through the window and sees her. She was carefully dropping some solution into a test tube with her goggles. He looks at her with his arms crossed 'hmmm tho Basket yahan chupi hai'. He smiles like a guy in love and heads inside.
Arm - Riddhima...
Rid - (looks up only briefly enough to say) kya?
Arm - Vo(scratches his head, forgetting what to say)...kya karrahi ho?
Rid - party karrahi hoon...(looks up thinking 'seriously?') dikh nahi raha Armaan...experiment karrahi hoon (she looks back down and carefully pays attention to her experiment, dropping the solution drop by drop, and Armaan looks at her, a dmg wind blows through, and Riddhima notices that Armaan is looking her way, so she stops and looks up)
Arm - (looking away) Vo to bas main yun hi...umm(still trying to formulate his words)
Rid - (one arm on her hip) Armaan tumhe koi kaam nahin hai kiya?
Arm - haan main...
Rid - Tho phir? (puts down her test tube. She's done, so she writes her findings down and heads out the room leaving a nervous Armaan in the experiment room)
Armaan walks out after Riddhima...he wasn't leaving without asking her, he then catches up with her.
Arm - (finally) Main tumse kuch...umm...poochna chahra tha.
Rid - Tho pucho na Armaan.
Arm - (looks at her) Tum uss din mujhe chor kyun ayee thi?
Rid - (stops in her tracks) Armaan...maine Atul ko kahata ke vo tumhe batade, uss ne nahin bataya kiya?
Arm - haan par...apne papa se gaadi mangwaane ki kia zarurat thi? (says in a quieter voice) Main tumhe chod deta.
Rid - (starts walking again) Mujhe tho laga ke tum bohot khush hogay...I mean mujhse chutkara aur vaise bhi...tum ne motorbike itni tez chalahithi...koi itni tez chalatha hai kiya?
Arm - I'm sorry (says genuinely looking down on the ground)
Rid - (stunned, stops walking) Kiya kaha?
Arm - (looks at her) I'm...sorry.
Rid - Doctor Armaan Malik...aur sorry kehrahain hain? Tumhari tabiat tho thik hai? (she says as she puts one hand on his forehead like you do when you check someone's temperature, thinks 'isko kya hogaya?')
Arm - (mesmerized by her beauty once again)
Rid - (shakes her head, puts her papers together) Doctor Armaan Malik, ab aap duty pe chalne ki kripya kareinge? (looks at him, and points a finger at him) Tum mujhe sataanay ke liye aisa karrahe ho na?
Arm - No. Never!
Rid - hmm...tho phir?
Arm - Vo...main...
Rid - Haan haan...vo main...kiya? Children's ward jaana hai. Main samples submit karke aati hoon, aur tum children's ward itne chalo, I'll be there in a bit.
As he's walking towards the children's ward, he's walking forward and looking back to see Riddhima walking away. He runs into someone and hears a thud. He looks down and it's a little girl. The little girl falls, gets up and wipes herself off. Her name is Minnie (Min).
Min - (angrily) Dekh ke nahin chalsakte kiya?
Arm - I'm sorry, tumhe chot tho nahin ayee?
Min - (puts her hand on her mouth and looks back, then at Armaan) Mujhe chupalo, please please please! Main tumse sorry karti hoon, MUJHE please maaf kardo (puts her hands together in a 'forgive me' way) lekin mujhe bachalo! PLEASE!
Arm - (concerned) Kiya hua? Kisssay bachaloon?
Min - Vampire se!
Arm - Vampire? Aur vo bhi Sanjeevni hospital mein...nuh-uh, not possible, I don't believe you (crosses his arms, cuz he now knows that this little girl's just got a wild imagination)
Min - (Grabs his arms and hangs from them, she looks up and Armaan sees her cute innocent little face) Please! Main tumhe na sab se achi chocolate khilaoungi!
Arm - (Sees her innocent little face, how could he not help her, so he bends down on his knee and comes to her level) Sab se achi vaali chocolate?
Min - Haan...jis ke andar cream hoti hai na...vo vali.
Arm - (signals her to lend her ear and puts up two fingers) Mujhe aisi DO chahiyen, and you've got yourself a deal (holds his hand out to shake)
Min - (thinks for a minute and shakes his hand, then quickly hides behind him)
A nurse comes running.
Nur - (to Armaan) Aap ne ek choti si bachi ko dekha idhar se jaate hue? Uss ka blood sample lena hai.
Arm - (he points to behind him with his eyes, but then puts a finger on his mouth, quietly says) don't worry, I'll take care of it.
Nur - (samajh jaati hai) Ok (smiles and leaves)
Armaan turns around and the little girl is sitting there with her hands hiding her face.
Arm - Tho ye thi tumhari vampire?
Min - HAAN!
Arm - Lekin...lag tho nahin rahi thi...I mean vampires ke tho bohot bare bare daant hote hain...and...
Min - Arey, tum kuch nahin jaante! Vo naa har din aati hai, raat ke waqt, mera khoooon lene (makes a face to scare Armaan...but ends up looking cuter than ever.)
Arm - Acha...tho ab?
Min - Ab?
Arm - Meri chocolate (holds out his hand)?
Min - (slaps her forehead) OOOOhhhh haan! (starts running but then stops) Lekin agar uss ne mujhe dekh liya tho?
Arm - hmmm(picks her up and carries her to the children's ward and puts her down on her bed carefully...he had an idea) Arrey...uss nurse se itna mat daro, I'll protect you, don't you worry.
Min - hmmm (puts a finger to her chin) tho tum mujhe har waqt bachaogay?
Arm - (sits beside her on her bed) haan...lekin uss ke liye tumhe ek baat manni pareygi.
Min - Kaunsi baat?
Arm - Tumhe apni ankhen band karni pareyngee, aur sleeve upar.
Min - Tum bhi vampire ho kya?
Arm - Nahin...main ek jadoogar hoon, jo tumhe protect karne ki promise karchuka hai, meri baat nahin manogee?
Min - Dard hoga na? (with tears forming in her eyes)
Arm - Bilkul nahi...main koi aisa vaisa jadoogar nahin hoon, I'm very experienced.
Min - Thik hai (closes her eyes tight anticipating lots of pain and puts up her sleeve, 30 seconds later, she feels a cool sensation on her forearm, so she opens her eyes) Aur kitni der?
Arm - (rubbing a cotton ball dipped in alcohol on her forearm) kya matlab...it's done!
Min - (suprised, her eyes go wide) WOW! Mujhe tho dard bhi nahin hua!
Arm - Dekha, I told you...Dr. Armaan Malik is a jadoogar.
Min - hmmm...doctor bhi ho aur jadoogar bhi?
Arm - Aur tumhara personal guard bhi!
Min - Mere boyfriend bano gay?
Arm - (laughs...'she was so little, yet talked so maturely for her age') Boyfriend?
Min - Haan...aise na, tum mujhe vampires se protect karoge, aur mujhe tumhe chocolates bhi nahin deniparengi...because that would be your job if you were my boyfriend.
Arm - Acha...aisa hai? (tickles her, and she giggles. She's a sweet bubbly little girl but talks very logically)
Riddhima walks in.
Rid - Hello...(looks at the chart quickly) Minnie. Kaisi ho?
Min - Pehle tum batao doctor, tum kaisi ho? Itne saare patients aur sirf 2 doctors...thak gayeen hongeen?
Rid - (surprised at this mature answer) Hmmm..
Min - Main tumhari help karoon?
Arm - Inn se milo Riddhima, hamare children's ward ki choti si Naanima (looks at Riddhima and winks, signalling her to play along)
Rid - (Riddhima understands his signal) main tho bohot thak gayeen hoon...lekin kya karoon...job hai na (sighs like she's tired and sits beside Minnie on her bed)
Min - (sits up) bolo kya karna hai mujhe?
Rid - Tum ye pakro (hands her the end of her stethoscope, the end that goes on the heart) aur apne dil pe rakho, yahan (tells her exactly where), and take deep breaths for me.
Min - (does what she says, while Riddhima listens)
Rid - Good job! (Armaan looks at Riddhima and smiles, now it's his turn)
Arm - Ab, ye lo (hands her a thermometer) aur apne moon mein rakho, under your tongue.
Min - (she does this)
Arm - (leaves the thermometer in for a minute and takes it out and checks it) Perfect! No fever...vaise bhi (bends down at her eye level) fever tho 10 baar sochtha hoga tumhare kareeb aane se pehle.
Min - Haan!
Rid - Ok Minnie, ab tum sojaao, raat ho gayee hai. Ok? Good night.
Min - (lies down...she noticed that Armaan had been smiling and looking at Riddhima all the while)
Armaan is standing behind Riddhima. Both reach for the comforter at once to tuck Minnie in. Armaan reaches from behind Riddhima. They finish tucking Minnie in and Riddhima leaves quietly and closes the children's ward's light, as all are asleep.
Min - PSSST boyfriend (grabs Armaan's lab coat from the back)!
Arm - (whispers) kya hua girlfriend?
Min - Tumhe Doctor Riddhima pasand hai?
Arm - (sits back down) Pata nahin.
Min - (hits him lightly on the head)
Arm - (overreacts) Ow!
Min - Duffer ho bilkul duffer...itni der lagao gay...tho vo nikaljayegi!
Arm - Tho phir main kya karoon?
Min - Uss se baat karo!
Arm - (no matter how little she was, she was right! Riddhima wouldn't be single forever...he had to do something about it...varna vo to itni achi hai ke ussay koi bhi mil jayega)
Min - Ab bhete bhete kya dekh rahe ho? JAO!!
Arm - (stands up starts running towards the door, but then stops, goes back to Minnie and kisses her on the head) Thank you! (runs out)
Min - (laughs and says to herself 'kya duffer boyfriend mila hai!')
SUBMISSION COUNTER
Riddhima is on the phone. There was no one else around the counter, the patients were all sleeping and all other interns and doctors were in the other wards. Armaan has been charting for awhile and he keeps pretending he's still charting thinking 'kab iska phone khatam hoga?'
Rid - (on the phone) Ji di, maine apke charts sahi se check karliye. They're all perfect.
Arm - (still waiting, tapping his foot...)
Rid - Haan di, vo aap ki closet mein rakhi hai.
Arm - (his patience is being tested...)
Rid - Papa se puchlena, ek aur opinion bhi miljayega.
Arm - ('Ye Anji bhi na...apni behen ka peecha hi nahin chodti. Basket, come on...put the phone down' he thinks, shaking his pen)
Rid - Nahin di...aap lelo, main dusra leloungi.
Arm - ('that's it' he thinks. He snatches the phone from Riddhima, and hangs up)
Rid - ARMAAAN!!!
Arm - Kiya?
Rid - TUM apne aap ko kiya samajhte ho?
Arm - Main?
Rid - Haan tum? You think you can go around snatching the phone from everyone? (reaches for the phone again)
Arm - (stands in front of the phone)
Rid - (she tries to reach it from his left)
Arm - (he moves in front of her again)
Rid - (she tries to reach it from his right)
Arm - (he moves to the right in front of her again)
Rid - Armaan, hato yahan se!
Arm - Nahin...pehle tum meri ek baat ka javaab do (serious).
Rid - Aur agar main mana kardoon tho?
Arm - Basket...(he puts the pen down beside him on the counter and doesn't take his eyes off her while doing this, he then takes a step towards her slowly)
Rid - (attempts to correct him) Mera naam Riddhi...(but she stops midway and takes a step back...she lost her string of thought when she stared into his eyes)
Arm - Tum mere saath...(takes another two steps towards her while looking her straight in the eye)
Rid - (she looks at him while she takes a few more steps back)
He keeps moving closer and closer to her.
Rid - (as Armaan keeps approaching her, Riddhima's heartbeats keep getting louder. Suddenly, she hears a beeping sound, it was her pager. She moves back a few steps in a sudden movement and steps to the side and walks away from Armaan. He turns around to look at her...he wasn't gonna let her go this time, he reaches towards Riddhima's hand to stop her, just then, he hears his name being called. He turns back around. He sees Dr. Keerti.)
Kee - Doctor Armaan, apke ek patient ke results vapes aye hain. Aap se baat karna chahraha hai.
Arm - Doctor Keerti, main abhi...
Kee - Aap ke paas aur koi important kaam hai?
Arm - (with his head down) Jee nahin doctor Keerti.
Kee - Tho please...mera time math waste karein!
EXPERIMENT ROOM
Riddhima was in the underground area, in the specialized experiment room, and there was someone else as well. She was told she needed to perfom further experiments on her sample. This other person was doing an experiment and she was too. She heard a fizzing noise and she looked accross the room to the other person who suddenly backed off and ran out the door, which closed behind him.
Rid - (to herself 'ye aise kyun bhaag gaya?') Umm...suniye...aap apna experiment chod ke...(As she was approaching the door, a spark lighted from the other person's experiment and landed on the doorknob. Riddhima touched the doorknob to open the door and her hand burned. She let out a scream) Ahh!
She pulled it back and immediately took a few steps back from that area...away from the door. There was no other door, no other way out. To her horror, as she looked towards the experiment, she saw that sparks were flying left and right and landing in other chemicals that were then causing the fire to grow. She started to remember something that had happened a long time ago. She was now at the furthest corner from the door and kept backing away. She closed her eyes and blocked her face with her hands. She tried to scream out but she couldn't produce a sound. She suddenly felt a strong grip pulling her towards a warm body.
Armaan held the hand of a scared Riddhima and pulled her towards him. There was no way to go back out because although he entered the room by jumping through the sparks and fire that was now almost everywhere, he couldn't go back out from there because it was too dangerous, especially for Riddhima. She was scared. He put her against a wall and stood in front of her, completely blocking her from the sparks that were flying in the room. She burried her face in his chest and grabbed his collar with her one hand, all the while her eyes were still closed, but she felt a certain comfort and familiarity. He searched around in his pockets for his pager so he could call someone and get them to call for help. No pager...he must have dropped it when he was jumping through the fire to get inside. He cupped one side of her face that was slightly exposed with one hand and put his face down onto her head and gently caressed her hair. He then caught sight of her hand that was burnt. He held it in his. She was sobbing with her face still burried in his chest and he could feel her tears dripping and landing where his heart was. They burned through his skin and onto his heart like acid and ached, really badly. He held her hand, it was red from the burnt doorknob. It stung Riddhima. He cupped her delicate hand in his hand and brought it up. He blew on it softly and kissed it once tenderly. He just wanted her pain to stop. His eyes got teary from watching her hurting like this. The room had gotten extremely hot.
Arm - Riddhima, don't worry, main tumhe kuch nahin honay dounga! Riddhima...
He didn't hear a sound anymore, there was no more noise from her, no more sobbing. He held her in an embrace, and next, to his horror, he felt her body go lifeless, her one hand dropped from his and her other hand let go of his collar.
Arm - (he yelled) RIDDHIMA!!!
No answer.
He then remembered 'she must have a pager too'. He searched her labcoat for it but nothing, then he searched her labcoat's inside pocket and there it was...he tried to dial a number but with vain attempt. The batteries of her pager had melted.
Arm - (A tear dropped from his eyes and he separated himself from her just enough to see her face, but not so much that any spark might reach her. He put a hand under her chin and lifted her face up to his. It was riddled with tears, but the tears had stopped. Her eyes were closed, not tightly, but just peacefully. Her face was still, her lips didn't utter a sound. It was then that he realized that she had fainted.)
Arm - Riddhima! Wake up! RIDDHIMA!! (lightly grazing her cheek with his fingers)
He said cupping her face with his warm hands. More tears dropped from his eyes.
Arm - (he yelled out as loud as he could) KOI HAI??? Koi...KOI HAI???(but his voice was cracking from watching Riddhima so lifeless. He then remembered that this underground Experiment Room was soundproofed so all the noise wouldn't bother the patients upstairs. Fierce and large tears dripped from his eyes at his helplessness to do anything. He grabbed the heaviest thing within his reach, a brown container filled with glass test tubes exerting his muscles, and threw it towards the door and hoped that a noise that loud would get through to people outside. 'CRASH' all the glass test tubes broke and scattered around the ground, but no one came. He couldn't move towards the door because the fire was all around that area.
He didn't know what to do. He looked around the room frantically trying to spot anything that he could use to call for help. He then saw the solution to his problems. The blue button they press when something critical happens in the hospital. He reached out to press the blue button. It was out of his reach. He couldn't let go of Riddhima. Flames were building around that area slowly. Now, he was sweating abundantly and felt slightly dizzy. He could feel sweat trickle down his back and pretty soon, the only area that would be free from fire would be the corner they were both standing in...so he would have do something quickly. He looked at Riddhima and at the moment, he knew it...he loved her. 'Why her? Why did she have to be in danger like this? Nothing else matters, lekin Riddhima ko kuch nahin hona chahiye!' he thought as he strived to reach that button...
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