Veer watched mesmerized as Bani walked down the stairs...
He walked to the bottom of the stairs and held out his hand to her...
Bani hesitated for a moment...
Realizing her predicament Veer smiled understandingly and was about to pull his hand back when Bani placed her hand in his...
Veer couldn't help but smile ear to ear at that gesture of Bani's...
"Veeranshu...Don't read too much into it ok...it's just that this is a +1 party and I don't want to look like a loser coming to the party alone..."
Bani said to him with a straight face making Veer chuckle...
"I'm serious..."
Bani said to him...
"Of course you are..."
He said to her with a smile playing on his lips...
"May I have this dance with you Sweetheart...?"
He asked her as they walked towards the dance floor...
Bani nodded...
"Sweetheart...You will never have to be alone in anything as long as I'm alive..."
He said to her genuinely as he lead her to the dance floor...
Veer smiled with his gaze never leaving Bani as they danced...
Cherishing every smile of her's...enjoying every gesture...
"Why are you smiling at me...?"
Bani asked him...
"I was thinking how much I can relate to this song..."
Faili thi siyaan raatein
Aaya tu subah leke
Bewajah si zindagi mein
Jeene ki wajah leke
Khoya tha samandaron mein
Tanha safina mera
Sahilon pe aaya hai tu
Jaane kis tarah leke..
Veer mouthed as the song played...
"Don't get me wrong...I never hated the darkness in my life...but the light in you made it even more beautiful..."
He said to her smiling...
Bani stared at Veer as they danced...
Kuch toh hai tujhse raabta
Kuch toh hai tujhse raabta
Kaise hum jaane humein kya pata
Kuch toh hai tujhse raabta
He was different from what she had thought of him as...And no matter how hard she tried she couldn't ignore this strange connection that was there between them...
Ab kya hai kehna
Humko hai rehna
Jannatein bhulaa ke
Teri baahon mein panaah leke..
What is this strange connection...?
What was it that kept drawing her to him...?
Why was she feeling like she could trust him with her life...?
Bani thought to herself...
"We haven't had a party like this for ages..."
Monil said excitedly as he danced with his partner...
"Didn't you guys have a bachelor party like a day ago...?"
His partner who was also one of Mayuri's friends asked him...
"Oh yeah...and it was delicious..."
He said grooving seductively...
Bani rolled her eyes while Veer slapped his brother's head lightly...
"Kya bhaiyya...?even you used to be like that only before...cool as cucumber...Aur shaadi ke baad...aap itne boring hogaya ho...bilkul vegetarian khane ki tarah..."
Monil said pouting...
Bani glared at him...
"Mera matlab voh nahi tha..."
He explained to Bani gulping...
"There is nothing wrong with vegetarian food..."
Veer said to him...
"Of course not..."
Monil said and redirected his partner away from the vicinity of his bhabhi's angry glare...
Meherbaani jaate jaate
Mujhpe kar gaya
Guzarata sa lamha ek
Daaman bhar gaya
Tera nazaara mila,
Roshan sitaara mila
Takdeer ka Jaise
koi Ishaara mila
Veer sang along and he twirled her...
"Vaise...Did you see him scurry away...he is so scared that you would make him take jaadu pocha again..."
He said laughing out loud...
"Even I was thinking that it is time for a second round of spring cleaning...these guys have way too much free time in their hands to go around gossiping..."
Bani said seriously...
Veer chuckled but then stopped when he realized that Bani was serious...
"Spare our lives...my lovely biwi...I'm still recovering from the last cleaning..."
He said with a groan placing his hands on his back exaggeratedly...
"I will let you know that, that was me going easy on you that time..."
She said to him...
"That was you going easy on me...?the horror..."
Veer muttered dramatically making Bani smile lightly...
He winked at her making her compose herself...
"I promise I didn't read too much into it...in fact I won't read too much into anything until until you tell me yourself that I can...so feel free to drop the top and go wild once in a while..."
Veer said to her whispering...
Ruthi hui khwahishon se
Thodi si sulah leke
Aaya tu khamoshiyon mein
Baaton ki jirah leke
Khoya tha samandaron mein
Tanah safina mera
Sahilon pe aaya hai tu
Jaane kis tarah leke...
He sang while waltzing with his Sweetheart...
Absolutely enjoying every moment of this proximity to a slightly flustered and yet adorable Bani...
"I...I...need some fresh air..."
Bani said as the song ended and Veer holding her sideways by her waist, took her out of the dance floor...
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Bani stood in the balcony looking at the moonless night sky...
Her mind was on an overdrive after whatever Veer was saying about Jay...
Her heart kept saying that she could trust Veer...but Jay was Jay right...?She had known him from Satyug...would he betray her trust and backstab her like that...?
Veer walked out to see his wife lost in thoughts...
He leaned with his back against the railing and looked at her...
"Want some...?"
He asked raising his flip flask towards her...
"I don't drink..."
Bani said to Veer seriously...
"Oh...I forgot ki tumhe ek bunnd se hi chad jaathe hein..."
Veer said smirking...
"Patha hein tho why are you asking...?"
Bani asked him...
"Just checking if you wanted to let yourself go for once...to forget everything and have fun...I swear I won't take advantage of your nasha..."
Veer said sipping the alcohol winking at her...
"Like I would trust you..."
Bani said raising her eyebrows at him...
Veer smiled noticing how her tone of speaking to him had softened considerably after their talk today...
"Sweetheart...I'm not denying that I have slept with countless girls...you already know it as well...until this day I have never taken advantage of anybody...and I am not planning to start now..."
"Vaise bhi I had no trouble whatsoever finding girls willing to roll on hay with me...after all mera charm he kuch aur hein..."
Veer said with a smirk oblivious to the conflicting emotions of Bani...
"Well...thank you for letting me know...I'll keep a note of that AND stay away from you..."
Bani said to him...
"Kab tak mujhse bhagoge Sweetheart...?"
He leaned towards her and whispered...
"Jab tak hein jaan..."
Bani retorted making Veer chuckle...
"You know what...?Now that I think about it the idea of getting you drunk and making you confess your feelings for me that you have tactically hidden in the deepest corners of your heart...seems appealing..."
He said thoughtfully...
"Dream on...Veeranshu Singhania...that day will never come..."
Bani said to him...
"Oh it sure will Sweetheart...maybe not the drunk part...but the confessing your feelings part will surely come true...voh bhi jald..."
He said confidently...
"I think you are drunk...isiliye he aise crazy veham maan mein aa raha hein..."
Bani said to him...
She sighed...
It would be better to leave...because she was feeling so suffocated right now...
His earlier comment had made her so uncomfortable...
To hear him say that her best friend Noor was just one of his conquests...
She already knew that...but still hearing it from him made her sick....
To think that Noor lost her life because of him...
How can she forget so easily about what happened to Noor...?
But then again she had also seen the good in him...
He was the one who saved her from dying when she was a child...
He was the one who inspite of being instigated by her to the maximum extend when he was under the influence of Naagfani didn't even raise a finger at her...
"Bani...you ok Sweetheart...?"
Veer called her seeing her stand there all lost...
He sighed realizing that unknowingly he had prodded at her wound...
Damn it...
He muttered to himself...
Bani turned and was about to leave when Veer held stopped her holding her wrist...
"Bani...about Noor..."
Veer started...
"I admit that I was wrong about announcing about it to everybody like that...all I had in my mind was I had to save my friend from a gold digger like her...Personally I had no issue with her decision...it is her choice...In fact I wouldn't judge her either....but the issue I had was that even when she was committed to my friend she cheated on him with me...but I admit that I had acted thoughtlessly..."
"To be honest...I didn't think of how it would affect her or her family...trust me when I say this Bani...I didn't think of the humiliation it would bring to her...I didn't think that it would be so humiliating as to make her commit suici..."
Veer said sadly...
"NOOR DIDN'T COMMIT SUICIDE...SHE WAS MURDERED...SHE WAS BRUTALLY AND MERCILESSLY MURDERED BY YOU...BY YOUR BROTHERS...BY YOUR FRIENDS..."
Bani roared in anger...And she could feel the uncontrollable urge to transform because of the rage...
No...
She couldn't lose control now...
Bani took a deep breath...
"Naina and Abhishek had seen what happened in the forest with Noor that day...and when your friends came to know about it...they tracked them down and killed Abhishek...and they went after Naina too...i saw it ok...i was there when she was attacked...i was there when they attacked her and took her away...."
She said to Veer...
"I followed them and reached the cave...and they confessed to us...they confessed that you all had killed Noor...they had no worries about confessing to us because they were going to kill us both soon after...afterall I was just a human and Naina even though she was a naagin was weakened by the death of her saathi...but what they didn't expect was..."
Bani said smirking...
"The red naagin coming to rescue you..."
Veer finished it for her...
"Huh...?"
Bani said...
"I saw it in their eyes...you were there...Naina, that other naagin was there and so was this magestic red serpent...she was the one who killed them right...?"
Veer asked her...
"Yes...she was the one who killed them..."
She said emphatically...
Veer sighed...
"Bani...I don't know why Harnish and Nithin said that to you...but I can say that I have no hand in Noor's death...when I reached there Noor was already dead...they told me that Noor committed suicide...I helped them dafnao the body as I didn't want to get into trouble with the law and order..."
Bani snorted...
"Fine...mein maan lethe hoon that you are dhood ke dhule and that had no hand in all the kand your brothers did...and that you have no knowledge whatsoever about your family's illegal businesses especially women trafficking..."
She said to him...
"Ergh..."
Bani sighed frustrated...
"I have always told you Sweetheart...I not a good person...I am a beast, a monster, a villain...and unlike in that fairy tale I'm not going to suddenly turn into a prince because I fell in love...."
"This is who I am...and I love what I'm...but even as a beast I'm different...if I attack I do it samne se...if I do something I own it up...I don't like hiding things to make myself look good in front of you or anybody else...in fact I don't want to look good by deception...what I am...I will show it you without any inhibitions..."
"Sweetheart...All I want you to know is that monster or not...you can trust every word I say...because i won't betray you ever...I know you don't trust me...But I can show you what I really am...and I'll prove it to you that you can trust me..."
Veer said to her and walked out...
Bani was about to go inside when she saw a Veer's family assembled in the lawn...
Transforming into a her serpent form she slithered towards them and hid in the bushes...
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Veer reached the party pad and found countless unfamiliar people grooving to the tunes...
He looked around for his family and found his father, uncle and brothers gone...
Veer frowned remembering the last time this happened...
And it hadn't been pleasant...
He walked out of his house into the lawn and found them by the garage...
"Today's shipment has already gone out right...?make sure it reaches them by 11:30...after the mess that happened the last time as we had to kill that blasted witness naagin, we had immeasurable loss...make sure that it doesn't happen this time...you have to ask our people to be more careful about it..."
Balwant trailed off looking around...
"That said in case things go wrong...ask our men to finish them all off...nobody must be left alive to tell tales..."
Balwant added...
"And...I can't stress on this point enough...Under no circumstances should Veer know about it..."
He said to them in a lowered voice...
Veer clenched his hand to a tight fist...
Bani was right...
She was right all along about this...
His family was indeed trafficking women...
All of them were in on this except him...
He wanted to give them a piece of his mind then and there but he had job to do...he had to rescue the women first...
As soon as his family went back inside Veer was about to transform when he heard a light hissing sound...
"Guys...I think I heard the hissing of a snake..."
Daksh said out loud...
Groaning Veer transformed in lightning speed (if that was even possible) before his family came out and noticed him...
Veer flew into the sky looking out for the tempo that his family had sent with the women...
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Bani growled in anger as she slithered through the road in the forest after the truck...
What sort of people are they...?
Monsters...
Kidnapping girls from the parties they organize and then trafficking them..?
Balwant Singhania I would get back to you about this...you wait and watch...
I'll not leave you...
She thought to herself...
She could see the truck ahead of her...It angered her that even after what happened last time they were still going on with this....
As she watched she saw a magestic cheel fly down in front of the truck...
Worried that some new issue was going to arise Bani slithered faster towards the vehicle when the cheel transformed as he touched the ground...
Veer...?
The truck came to a stop abruptly...
"Veer sir aap..."
The driver stuttered trying to maintain a straight face...
"What is in truck Prakash...?"
Veer asked him in a dangerously calm voice...
"Crockery hein yeh maat bolna...because the last time they said that only..."
He added seriously...
"Veer sir...voh...actually..."
The driver gulped and patted his face...
"What is in the damn truck Prakash...?"
Veer asked slamming his hands against the door causing the vehicle to wobble a little...
The girls started crying in fear...
Veer's eyes narrowed hearing scared sobs from the back...
He pulled the door open and grabbing the driver by throat dragged him towards the backside...
"OPEN THE door...Prakash..."
Veer roared at the man...
"Sir voh...balwant sir would be angry if..."
Prakash said sweating profusely...
"If you don't open the door right away...my father's anger would be the least of your worries..."
Veer said to him grabbing him by throat...
"Sir...I will...I'll open the door....i'll open the door..."
Prakash said and opened the door immediately...
*RING...RING*
The driver jumped listening to his phone ring...
Veer saw that it was Shukla calling...
"He is calling to check your whereabouts...Tell him that everything is ok and that you are on your way there..."
He said to him...
"A word about me or what happened and you will be dead even before you cut the call..."
"Now go..."
Veer said to the driver dismissively and the driver ran to the front to attend the call...
"I know you are in there naagin...You can come out now..."
Veer said looking at the bushes where Bani was hiding...
He had seen the red naagin some time ago while he wa flying tracking the truck...
This was the same one that he saw in Harnish and Nithin's eyes...the one who saved his Bani's life...
And no matter how much he hated naag naagins he owed his life to this one for saving his Sweetheart...
Bani slithered to the front in her serpent form...
Not wanting him to know her identity Bani took the roop of some random girl and walked towards him...
"Veeranshu Singhania..."
Bani said to him...
For a moment Veer looked at the girl in front of him as if she reminded him of something...
There was something about her...something about the way that she said his name that triggered his cheel sense...
He thought to himself...
What are you even thinking Veeranshu...?
Veer thought shaking his head...
"I think after what happened it would be better if you deal with the girls...there is a chance that they would be scared if they see me..."
He said to her...
"Didn't expect to see this hero side of the bad boy cheel prince Veeranshu Singhania...especially not foiling something that is a part of your cheel family illegal business transaction..."
Bani said to him which Veer snorted...
"Don't ever mistake me for a hero naagin...even now I can rip you apart...there is a reason I'm not doing that...so it would be better if you don't push it..."
He said to her...
"Though I tend not to believe in anything that slithers on the ground and sheds its skin...But I'm giving you a benefit of doubt of doubt...because of certain reasons...and these girls need somebody powerful near them to protect them from a possible attack from cheels...I'm not sure if the girls would trust me...so that leaves you...and from the looks of it you don't seem to be a ordinary naagin...so I think you can hold up against the cheels in case things go wrong..."
"Especially if there are any more of them around who are sent to ensure that the whole shipment happens smoothly...not that there would be any after I break their bones today..."
"My private apartment is about 2kms from here....it is a safe place and nobody else from my family knows about it...so hopefully you won't be ambushed there...you can take the truck till the guest house...and then take my SUV from there and drop these girl home....here are the keys to the SUV..."
He said to her handing over the keys...
Nodding Bani stepped inside the truck and opened the cylindrical drums...She found the girls tied up inside them like before...
Veer gritted his teeth and clenched his fist seeing them like that...
Bani looked at Veer and saw him step away from the line of sight...
She understood that he was doing this in case the girls sees him and freaks out after the trauma of being kidnapped...
"Shh...shh...everything will be alright...we are here to save you ok..."
Bani said to them as she opened the drum and untied the knots...
Veer was equally or even more involved in rescuing the girls...and even though he had to stand in the background now she wanted to give him the honor of being the saviour...
Bani saw the girls shivering with fear...
"Kuch nahi hoga...we are here with you...nobody will hurt you again..."
She said to them softly...
"I want you to trust me...i'm going to take you home..."
She then said to them softly...
"we are here to save you...so I want you to not panic ok...we will protect you no matter what...we won't let anybody hurt you..."
Bani said to them to which they nodded...
"I'll go to the front and drive you home...you will be able to see me through the window in the middle..."
She added to them closing the door...
As Bani stepped out she saw that Veer was already gone...
She sighed...at first she had thought that she had to go with him and get hold of the parties involved in this illegal business along with the Singhania's and get another naag naagin to take the girls home safely...but then she decided to stay behind as she couldn't trust anybody with these girls...in case the cheels attack like Veer had said...
She drove to the apartment Veer had given her the directions to....
As she parked the truck familiarity of the place knocked her off....
This was the place she woke up in after somebody rescued her from the bomb blast that happened during the previous rescue operation...
It was Veer who saved her...?
Bani thought to herself...
Of course it was Veer..
She was so caught up in her anger that she overlooked it...
The claw marks on her shoulder from where he held her in his cheel form...
The earrings that she lost in the dobbeghat...the only person who was there with her at that time was Veer...She had left the earring with him when he had tried to untangle them from the duppattas...
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Bani: "Mein janthi hoon yeh kaun hein aur kaisa hein...He is Jay...He is innocent...I can trust him with my eyes closed...Tum galath karthe ho...tum admi he galath ho...not Jay...."
Veer: "Tumhe mein itna bura aur voh acha kyu latha hein...?"
Bani: "Kyunki tumhare andar koi achai nahi hein...From the first time I laid my eyes on you I haven't seen anything good in you...all you have done is hurt people...sirf burai he burai hein tumpe..."
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"I have always told you Sweetheart...I not a good person...I am a beast, a monster, a villain...and unlike in that fairy tale I'm not going to suddenly turn into a prince because I fell in love...."
"This is who I am...and I love what I'm...but even as a beast I'm different...if I attack I do it samne se...if I do something I own it up...I don't like hiding things to make myself look good in front of you or anybody else...in fact I don't want to look good by deception...what I am...I will show it you without any inhibitions..."
"Sweetheart...All I want you to know is that monster or not...you can trust every word I say...because i won't betray you ever...I know you don't trust me...But I can show you what I really am...and I'll prove it to you that you can trust me..."
~~~~~~~~~~~
Bani sighed closing her eyes...
Oh boy...
She was snapped out of her thoughts as the the car door was shut after the last girl got in...
"Let's get you home shall we..."
Bani said to the girls smiling softly...
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A/N
Hey friends updating the next chapter of Mujhe Teri Zaroorat Hein...
Hope you guys liked it...
How was today's episode...?
It was a full on dramatic and gripping episode for me...from starting to end...
Loved how Aadi naagin was willing to sacrifice her life to Markat but wasn't ready to sacrifice her pride and honor before her no matter what..
*you go girl...*
And the scene in the temple...
Woah...Goosebumps...
Aadi naagin never fails to impress me...
Even in her weakness there is strength...
So Bholenath gave Bani new powers...
I was rejoicing about it when Pandithain did tai tai pis of the mood saying it is a curse...
Like come on you peeps never tell her anything...saying Aadi naagin has to find things herself...yahi bholenath ki marzi hein...
And now she can actually see the future and you are saying that it is bad...jealous much...
*Just kidding...not..*😅🤥
And Veer identifying that Bani was in trouble when his suhaag ka nishani fell down...
*Cries emotionally*
I was surprised why Veer and the cheel family didn't fly out of the house...
And I can't help but think that maybe they missed a scene while editing...
In last episode they showed Markat doing some kala jaadu on the mansion...that green pattern that was there outside the mansion...maybe it stole their powers...
Because today she was conjuring the spikes on the spot...so what does the green pattern really do...?🤔🤔
I'm not believing that Jay turned positive all of a sudden one bit...
Especially seeing how he stopped Veer from going after Bani...
Something is off about him...
Maybe I'm reading too much based on the off screen picture MD posted of the three musketeers...
But something isn't right here folks...
PS: I have a feeling that they are setting up for good VAni track with this future dekhne ka ability of Bani...
She is looking all lost in the precap...
Poor thing...
Unlike all seasons where there are two naagins working together...in this season actually they can make Bani and Veer work together as partners...
Hope they go that way...
*fingers crossed*