Adrika's POV
      
     If I thought the first surgery was nerve racking, I was far far away from the truth. In front of the anxiety level of wedding, that was just a little nervousness. I promised my bhavis that I would let them do what ever they want to get me ready, and they took as much advantages they could out of it. I was wearing jewellery would be an understatement, because the jewellery was wearing me. I could not walk. I was wearing atleast 5 kilos of jewellery and dress combined. Thank God for my brother and Karn otherwise no way I could climb the stairs. Karn went above and beyond helping me in all these cases. He made sure I was fed. Sat with me all the while bhavis get me ready. He got special permission and ordered for this from my brothers. I could sense amusement and shock while he helped me with my shoes. No one expect it from a warrior king. But one thing he did that shocked me the most was he silently instructed Nakul to hold my hand during ceremony as an emotional support. Then he covered our hands with my veil while hugging him. He did made sure I was ok during everything. The wizard bonding ceremony was tiring for everyone except for Bhrata Krishn of course. I was in my chamber after that trying to get out of all these while Droupadi and Subhadra came.

"Oh.. Subhadra... Thank God.. Come.. Help me get out of it." I said, expecting my sister to come immediately. But she just stood there.

"Subhadra..." I called again.

"Call me jiji, Chotibahu. I'm your husband's elder brother's wife." She said. I looked at them, Droupadi trying so hard to not laugh.

"Just wait until I get out of this monster of a dress then I will tell you who is who's jiji." I mock threatened her. She laughed out and came to give me a hug. Droupadi joined after.

"Jiji you actually kept your promise. You wore all the gold possible. Dress out of gold treads.. Unbelievable." She said.

"Say thanks to Bhavis. Their idea not mine." I said still trying to remove those jewellery.

"But it was sure the most beautiful, magnificent and memorable weddings of all time. I can imagine people will make folktales about it. Songs will be written about it. No one will ever forget the holy bond of the Prakriti Kanya and the most charming prince of his time." She said again while helping me removing my jewellery.  I smiled. Droupadi was removing from my arm. She looked at ring she put on years ago.

"You are still wearing it." She said.

"Why not? It is technically my engagement ring." I replied.

"But Adrika it is a hand me down. It wasn't made for you." She said.

"No. It is your legacy Droupadi. And the most important jewellery for me." I said. She hugged me.

"Ok. Let's get you ready for bed." Subhadra said.

"No. You just help me out of this, then I'll be wearing something comfortable. I'm not wearing any of your elaborated monstrosity for bed." I said. Hell no.

"Jiji.... He will be expecting this." Subhadra said. I blushed at this. I mean of course. They were talking about my husband.

"No he will not. Now just do as I say." I said. I changed into a Comfortable lehnga with no jewellery.

           It was customary for those two to stay with me until my husband arrive. But they started bore me really fast with a discussion about some more celebration thing. They didn't seem like they needed me in their conversation, so I just stand at near the balcony looking at the beauty of my home. My home. My Island. Beautiful and mysterious. Just like myself. For the first time I wasn't thinking about my life beyond this time. I was thinking about my life here. I was married to the love of my life. I had a home. Family. Friends. That was what it matter.

Nakul's POV

I still thought I was in a dream. My own dream. The second I landed my eyes on her I was mesmerized. Although it wasn't the first time I was mesmerized by her but it sure was different. Because all I was thinking about what deed I could have done in my past lives to have this amazing woman as my beloved. The thin veil covering her face gave her a reddish glow. That was making her more beautiful. I was getting ready and yes expect the unexpected, Angraj Karn was helping me with Aeser.

"Nakul which one you are planning on gifting Adrika from these?" Angraj karn asked while sitting in front of three knives that are disguises as jewellery I costom made for her. Aeser was helping me with my uttariya.

"Oh.. Yah that one. I needed your help with that. Which one you think will be good? Well eventually all of them will go to her. Just which one will be good for today?" I said. I liked him. If you are in his good books he was very very pleasant man.

"I think this one will be good. Adrika loves green. She will most probably use this one a lot." He said admiring the one with emerald. Strange. Bhrata Arjun also liked that one.

"Ready Nakul." Bhrata Arjun said.

"Bhrata Arjun did Nakul looked this flushed before?" Sahadev asked.

"No. Seems like our brother is ready. What do you say Angraj? Given him tips already or we need to do that now?" Bhrata Arjun asked. Angraj karn just laughed.

"Bhrata Arjun it's really rude of you to make fun of me right now." I said.

"Nakul I don't see a point of you being worried. You know her for a long time." Angraj  karn said. Did I say I liked him?

"And been in a relationship for so long." Jyesth bhrata said.

"You two having dinner together everyday for last several years." Bhrata bhim said.

"You two know each other's likes and dislikes so much well. And have known your feelings for one another." Sahadev said.

"This is the privilege not many men have. Not in this room at least." Bhrata Arjun said.

"They are right. I know my Luna for a long time. She is from my pack and we both practically grew up together. Trust me it's make everything easier. Adrika loves you madly. So bottom line is you are sorted. Now chop chop..." Aeser said while pushing me.

       They were right. I know her. We have spent several years together. It's like we were practically married. I walked to her room. It was subhadra bhavi who saw me. Adrika was standing in the balcony. They both smiled at me. Droupadi silently left. Subhadra bhavi came to me and see everything about my appearance was pristine. She was the sweetest. She cupped my left cheek lovingly.

"This is the day I have been praying for you. I don't know how much power is there in my blessings Devar ji but If I may, I bless you two stay together not for births but yugas.." She said.

         I leaned into her hand. She left and closed the door behind her. I looked up to my wife. She was in deep thoughts maybe. I went to her and hugged her from behind and said

"How is your guards down love?"

"I'm home. Safety is the main reason we crave home so much." She said. True. She turned. "You are more decked up than me."

"You get to be the Smart one. Then I get to be the good looks. Don't take this away from me. It's hard in front of your devine beauty." She blushed. "Before I get lost into those beautiful blue eyes. Here." I presented the knife. She took out and examined.

"Beautiful. And resourceful. My  gift is not that resourceful but.." She said and take the cover up from a painting.  My painting. That was the most beautiful illustration of me. Then I noticed something on the bottom. 'Adrika'

"You paint this yourself. Just from your memories." She nodded. The rosy glow of her cheek told me I could wait any longer. I leaned in for a kiss and she closed her eyes.

Adrika's POV

Things were peaceful yet again. After spending a while in Island we returned to Indraprastha to focus back on getting as many kingdom as our ally to perform the Rajasuya yagna to be independent as soon as possible. The day of my return from Island was one of the most memorable days. Everyone else except bhrata bhim left some days prior to took care of preparations. We took our blessings from my family. Although I hadn't spend a lot of time with them, It was still evident that vidai wasn't easy. The fact that now I wasn't their princess anymore was devastating. I saw my brother's tear. Baldau tried to hide it but bhrata krishn, his tears were statement of his love for me. My deity's love. We reached at Indraprastha. Something weird happened, seemed like indraprastha  was taken into nature. Trees loaded with fruits. Fields covered with grain. Flowers were heavied the plants. Water became glass clear. All of a sudden it was turned into nature paradise. Even I didn't understand. A commoner came running and kneel down on the road infront of our procession. I signalled my people to stop and we both came down. He looked up in awe for a long moment then said.

"Mata Annapurna...!" I looked everywhere for anyone for an explanation. Then the sage who is practically the in charge of  our education came forward.

"Maharani! With your holy feet.. The whole city is covered with food. The lands which are not able to produce anything is loaded with crops. I can understand your confusion. When you were here.. You were not the badhu of this family. Now you are. So for the city people you are the Mata Annapurna who saves us from starvation if any." He explained. I bowed down to him.

"Akhanda Soubhagyavati bhava!" He blesses.

         We reached the palace. After all the rituals it was time for everyone to meet me. I was sitting in my room while only subhadra was with me. They all came.

"Do we really always need to look at you from behind that veil bhavi? Or we will get our fierce Adrika back?" Chhote kumar asked and I smiled at him. I was wearing all my wedding jewellery as per custom.

"I am enjoying being a bride chhote kumar. But don't worry looking at the amount of jewellery involved we can say it will bore me very soon." He laughed at this and came to touch my feet. I held his shoulders to stop him. "You are and always be my best friend. We don't want this to change in anyway." He held my right hand and placed my palm on his head and said

"I want to be selfish to get blessing from you. "

"But sure and be hold Adrika we need to work fast. Get rest for some days then we need to proceed towards Rajasuya." Jyesth said.

"For that here is something that might help." I said looking at my maid that was a widow shewolf. She joined me as a protector and assistant from Aeser. I could not say no. She nodded and hand him a box. He opened and read the letters. A smile came to his face.

"What are these?" Parth asked.

"Some letters from the kings of 52 kingdoms as they are accepting our leadership as per my wedding gift." I said.

"Subhadra if you say your brother do not do anything  for one reason then maybe you haven't noticed your sister at work yet. While we were busy in 'your' wedding, you were plotting this?" Parth said.

"Parth don't speak like you don't know me at all. And besides I thought what would be the better wedding gift for my husband than this?" I said.

       Life was back on track. I was back on my duties in healers department. We still had had our daily discussion on breakfast session. Lunch with Subhadra and Droupadi. We girls need our time from all those masculinity. Then dinner with my loving husband. We were almost ready for Rajasuya when bhrata krishn arrived with the news of King Jaraasandh captivating Duryodhan and company, as we were not yet independent we have to go for help. This was the right time to leave the new bride vibes and get back to my old shelf. They were talking about city defence plans, as both Parth and bhrata bhim were to go. I reached the gate where they were.

"I wish we have some more time to discuss our plan but now here is no choice but leave the city with your supervision." Parth said to Nakul.

"He isn't alone" I said. They all looked at me.

"I can't express how satisfied I feel looking at you in warrior outfit Adrika." Parth said.

"Be successful on your journey Parth. Bhrata bhim, just crush every opponent." I said.

       They both gave me side hugs. Sometimes I thought it was such a taboo for the time period. But you have to change with the dynamic of the situation right. They had someone from future so it ought to have a little effect on the adequate. They took leave leaving us standing there.

        Our daily life got little affected after this. Mostly us girl's. As per heavy work I wasn't able to make time for having lunch with them sometimes. So Droupadi came up with an Idea of having a tea time in the evening. It was one of her favorite activities. I was a measure tea person so I successfully recreated some of my favorite flavors of tea. As soon as Droupadi came to know about it she learned the art of tea brewing and made a significant progress at that field. With my pointers here and there she now had a big collection of different flavor tea. She used to send me different flavored tea as per my request wherever I was that time. It was one such day when we were at my room balcony about to have our tea then I noticed Subhadra took the camomile tea from the box. She had a particular dislike about this flavor.

"Subhadra you never drink Camomile tea." I said. She took a sip and said

"I don't know jiji. I just want to have it today." I placed my cup on the table before sitting down beside her.

"Are you getting enough sleep lately sweet? " I asked examining her.

"No. I have facing a little sleeplessness in past days. How did you know?" She asked.

"I am a healer Subhadra. I got to know  about body. Camomile tea is excellent for Insomnia. Your craving to it is evident your body is carving sleep. Do you have any sore neck, nausea or cramps in lower stomach? Mainly in morning?" I asked already figuring out what her problem was.

"A little. Am I sick?" She asked.

"Adrika what happened to her?" Droupadi asked. I smiled.

"Why don't we heard from herself? Sweetie when was your last mensuration?" I asked. Subhadra blinked twice before finally realizing. She hide her face in my neck. I hugged her. "Congratulations my dearest."

"Oh my God.... Dasi.." Droupadi yelled. A maid entered.

"Get me a plate full of gold. Fast." She said.

"Get pearls Droupadi. My sister's favorite." I said. The maid left. Droupadi came and hugged Subhadra

"I'm so happy Subhadra... So happy." She said.

      We spend next hours talking about that. I made sure to give all information and advice about how to take care of her to Droupadi. When the brothers return, we had a family dinner over which Droupadi informed everyone about the good news. Everyone were thrilled. That was the first child of the family. Abhimanyu was coming. Days went by caring for Subhadra. In care of her two jijis my sister was having quite an easy pregnancy. At least the starting period. Bearing a child like Abhimanyu was not supposed to be easy. Meanwhile we heard about the news of victorious return of bhrata bhim, bhrata krishn and Parth. They came with the news of the last kingdom that we need in our alliance to do Rajasuya was won. And were delighted over the good news we had for them. According to the instruction of bhrata krishn Rajasuya jagyna was arranged immediately. Everyone joined. Pitamah bhishma and me spend some time together as promised. So was with Karn. The day of jagyna I saw an very evil looking man was with Duryodhan. He wasn't onev of the brothers. I asked bhrata krishn about him

"Bhrata krishn! Is he who I think who he is?" I had a suspicion.

"Your thoughts are right meri behna. He is our cousin Sishupal." He said.

"Oh dear.. Here we go." He chuckled at my words. We both knew what was going to happen.

       Everything was smooth until mahamuni vyash told jyesth to pick someone to give the ultimate respect as an emperor. Jyesth as expected choose bhrata krishn for this. And our dear cousin picked the exact moment to make the scene.

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