Ephemera

Barren

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In the tent, Draupadi, the 6 pandavas and dhriti had just finished eating when Draupadi asked pointing at dhriti.

"Who is she? I have seen her roaming here with us, I just want to know."

"We don't know love, we need to send her back to her family." Bheem said at which dhriti held yudhishthira's hand tightly, hoping he would say something, but he did not.

"Who is your family angel?" nakul asked softly as driti looked down and then at yudhishthira but he did not say anything, so she decided to take the reins of the situation in her hands.

"I am yamraj and his wife's daughter, making me your brother yudhishthira's younger sister." Dhriti said as silence echoed the room everyone looked at yudhishthira for confirmation but he just looked away.

"That is not possible." Bheem said subtly looking straight at his brother yudhishthira.

"It is." Dhriti said softly yet firmly.

"If it were, we have been together for more than a month he would have mentioned you." Sahadev asked furrowing his brows in confusion.

"She is." Yudhishthira said alarming the room "It is because of her I did not suicide, it is because of her I am alive and who I am." He finished with a nonchalant tone as everyone.

"So does that make her our sister also?" Arjun asked surprised, his brother had definitely done a lot in the time they had been away from each other. Dhriti, smirked as she saw arjun's alarmed face, she knew exactly why.

"well, not directly, so no." yudhishthira said smirking as relief flushed over both the archers.
"So, who will rule khandavprasth?" Arjun got straight to the point as everyone sat straight

"Jyesth." Yudhishthira said without a pause.

"No yudhishthira. He is everyone's dream." Karn said equally fast making yudhishthira snap his head towards him.

Draupadi and other pandavas just watched the drama unfold.

"I will not!" yudhishthira said turning grave but karn shook his head.

"Yudhi, it is not a choice." Karn said even more serious.

'I. WILL. NOT. RULE." Yudhishthira screamed pausing after every word leaving everyone agasp, they had never seen yudhi scream.

"You. Will. Rule." Karn said in a quick motion.

"I have an idea." Dhriti said as everyone turned to her.

"She will tell you to rule." Yudhi smirked his sister should take his side.

"No, she won't. She will tell you." Karn said without a moment wasted at which yudhi glared at dhriti.

"Wow, and they tell us not to bicker." Nakul said enjoying himself to the fullest at which arjun burst out laughing.

"SILENCE." Dhriti and yudhi shrieked at once at which everyone stopped laughing.

"That was creepy." Sahadev said staring at yudhishthira and dhriti.

"Can I speak now?" dhriti asked looking at everyone around in the room.

"Yes." Draupadi uttered softly smiling at dhriti. "Everything is in your hands dhriti." She said dhriti smiled at her, she loved the way Draupadi rolled her name in her tongue, no one had ever said her name better.

"Khandavprasth will be ruled by........

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In a remote part of khandavprasth a person mixed molten gold in the drinks of the royals for tomorrow morning and smirked but he felt a sharp push as it all spilt and he turned around facing a girl, young and beautiful.

"What were you doing?" she gritted her teeth.

"Ah! Devika! Satisfy me. My bed is waiting for you." The man licked his lip staring at her undressing her in his mind.

"Shut up!" devika, the jewel of sivis said as she pushed him again making him fall face first at the drink mixed with molten gold as his face burned, bleeding him to death.

Deviks sighed as she bowed to his dead body, no matter he tried to kill the pandavas, no enemity lies after death.

"Putri, what are you doing here?" she heard the oh-so-sweet voice of her stepmother who tried to sell her as she turned uncomfortable turning to face her stepmother.

"Yes." Her voice broke at the end as her step mom gripped her hand tight and pulled her from there away.

"What are you doing here?" she heard the sugar coated voice of her step mom as she tred to ignore the question, she did not want to die at home.

"I ASKED WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE BITCH?" she heard her step-mom scream at her as she gathered all her courage and broke her hand free from there and ran. Away from there, away from Khadavaprastha, in the abode of the ever heavenly god, in dwaraka searching for solace.

"Bhrata!" she gasped as she saw balram out who was shaken at her condition and took her inside.

Softly tending to his wounds, Balram looked up at devika and smiled.

"You are my sister." He grunted as he tickled devika who laughed.

"You deserve happiness after everything you have been through." He added as Krishna nodded sitting in the meet where dhriti was about to say who will rule khandavprastha.

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"Khandavprasth will be ruled by Karn." Dhriti's voice echoed in the room making yudhishthira smile and karn frown.

"No! I don't want to-" karn started ut dhriti put a finger on her lip.

"I am not done yet." She said softly, her gorgeous look somehow satisfying karn, enough to trust her instinct. 

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What does dhritihave in her mind?

Did you like this chapter?

How was devika killing the man for adding molten gold to yudhishthira and everyone's drinks?

Finally, she is away from her step mom forever.

Any more suggestions?

Whom should I pair dhriti with? I need suggestions, I am out of ideas.