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Here is the hundred and fifty sixth chapter. 

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Third POV

In Hastinapur

"Maha Raj." Vidor bows his head in greeting. 

"Vidor?" Maha Raj Dhritarashtra's voice held confusion. 
"Kya Hua? Sab theek na?" (What happened? Everything alright?)  

"Hume aapse baat karni thi." (I wanted to talk to you.) Vidor's voice held slight hesitation. It was not hard to catch on to. 

"Kaho Vidur." (Say Vidor.) 

"Akele Mein baat karni thi, Maharaj." (I wanted to talk to you in privacy, King.) 

Dhritarashtra felt where the younger stood, his nervousness was coming in waves to the blind man. 

"Parihar." (Leave us alone.) He orders. 

"Baitho Vidor." (Sit down, Vidor.) Dhritarashtra gestures beside him. 
"Aur kaho Kya baat Hai." (And tell me, what is it?) 

Vidor did as directed, he took a deep breath before beginning, "Maha Raj, itne varshon se na jaane Kyun main yeh bhul Gaya tha ki aap mere bhi Jyestha Hain. Na jaane Kyun, mere kartwayaon ne Mujhe kab aur kaise aapne hi pariwar se dur kar Diya. Aap se yaahan aakar baat karna itna kathin Ho sakta Hain Mujhe pata hi nahi tha." (King, all these years, I don't know why but I had forgotten that you are my elder brother too. I don't know when & how, amongst my duties I was pushing myself from my family. To come here, today & talk to you could be so difficult, I had no clue.) 

Dhritarashtra at the moment was speechless, he had no idea how to feel and what to say at the raw Vidor opening up in front of him. 

"Maha Mahim hamesha kehte Hain ki maafi kabhi bhi mangi ja sakti Hai, aapne galti ko sudharne ka samay kabhi bhi jaata nahi Hai." (Maha Mahim always says that there is no time to apologize, the time to rectify your mistakes never goes away.) Vidor takes a deep breath before continuing. 
"Aaj main aapse maafi magne aaya Hun. Shayad aap meri galti ko maaf kar denge." (I have come here to apologize to you. Hopefully you will pardon me for the mistake.) 

Dhritarashtra could feel the genuine feeling of Vidor behind his words. 
He could feel that the younger was nervous, worried and tensed. All just to apologize to him about the treatment all these years. 

Oh! How much Dhritarashtra had missed his younger brother! 

"Mujhe maaf karein Jyestha!" (Please forgive me, elder brother.) Vidor kneeled in front of his brother, hanging his head down in shame. 

Dhritarashtra may not be able to see but his other senses were all heightened. 
He had felt his youngest brother kneel in front of him. 

"Anuj!" Dhritarashtra himself also fell on his knee in front of his younger brother and hugged him, wrapping his arms around Vidor. 

It was the feel of the protective arms that made Vidor cry. The feel of the fatherly arms around him after a long time. 

"Aapni anuj ki galti par usse maaf karna toh mera dharm Hai." (Forgiving my younger brother on his mistakes, is my Dharma.) Dhritarashtra says. "Tumhare maafi mange se pehle hi Maine tumhe maaf kar Diya tha, Anuj." (I forgave you long before you apologized, dear brother.) 

The soft & warm words only made Vidor cry more. 

"Youn rona band karo." (Stop crying like this.) Dhritarashtra says sharply. 
"Tum maarte haathi ke tarah sunai de Rahe Ho." (You are sounding like a dying Elephant.) 

Vidor gasps in surprise, "Jyestha!" (Elder Brother!)

This makes the elder laugh. "Kya jhut thodi kaha Maine?" (What I didn't lie!) 

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Third POV

Day after Marriage

In Panchal

Sleeping on the floor was really a pain in back. 
Yudhishthira thought that he must be trained until now but sleeping on the balcony floor proved him wrong. 

Yudhishthira did not remember when he feel asleep the night before, perhaps he would have thought to shift to the lone couch in the room.  

Getting up at the first sun light was nothing new for Yudhishthira but being tired like this was. All this thing of kidnaping & marriage was getting in to his bones, it was wearing him down to no end. 

He sighed heavily before getting up, he needed to find Arjun and Bheema as soon as possible they had to get back to the twins. 
And maybe also return to Hastinapur? 

Oh! How he missed his Jyeshta & Bhabhi Ma at this moment. 
Would they have stopped the wedding if he had asked? 
Would they have saved him from all this? 

The moment he learned about him having a Jyeshta a weight lifted off his shoulder. He for once could rely on someone else to take care of everyone around him, to be the elder brother.
And he had been freed, he had been reduced of the elder but why weren't they there when he needed them? 

Yudhishthira didn't want to complain. 
He didn't like to complain. 

Yet here he was. 

"Bhrata Yudhishthira?" (Brother Yudhishthira?) Arjun's voice broke him out of his thoughts. 

"Arjun!" Yudhishthira sighs in relief. 
"Main tumhe hi dhudne aane wala tha." (I was coming to look for you only.) 

"Sub Khushal toh Hai na, Bhaiya?" (Everything is alright na, brother?) Arjun's worried eyes started to scan his brother & their surroundings. 

"Hum Nakul aur Sehdev ko yahan la sakte Hain na ab?" (We can now bring Nakul & Sehdev here, na?) Yudhisthira says almost to himself, before looking at Arjun.
"Unhe yahan nahi lana galat hoga. Unhe bhi bula lete phir aage ka sochte." (Not bringing them here, will be wrong. We will also need to call them here and then think of what is of ahead.) 

"Aage ka?" (Of ahead?) 

"Ab Hastinapur lautne ka samay aagaya Hai, Arjun." (Now it is the time to return to Hastinapur, Arjun!) 

"Aapko kaise pata?" (How do you know?) 

"Bhabhi Ma ne kaha tha, ki jab aisa lage ki jab zindagi Mein kuch bada badlaw aaye toh samjh jana ki samay Ho gya Hai." (Bhabhi Ma had said that when it feels like that there has been a change in my way of life then know that its time to return to Hastinapur.) 

"Toh ab hum Hastinapur wapas jayenge?" (So, now we will return to Hastinapur?) Arjun's voice held a lot of happiness. 

"Haan." (Yes.) Yudhisthira nods. 

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Third POV

A day after Kidnapping of the others

In Forest

It was morning and the others were nowhere to be seen. 
Nakul & Sehdev had with great difficulty fallen asleep the last night, hoping to find the others on getting up. Their hopes had been crushed very brutally. 

"Ab Hume Kya karna chahiye?" (What should we do now?) Sehdev questions, looking all heart broken at his twin, elder only by mere minutes. 

Nakul had no idea what to tell his younger brother, in absence of the others, he felt that all responsibility of them came on to him. Yes, they were twins but he was still few minutes older.
Oh, it was now that he understood the madness their Bhrata Yudhisthira must have felt, handling the four of them together. 

Nakul wondered what they could do. What option did they have? It was not like they could trace their brothers anywhere. 
The vision of Sehdev also made no particular sense. Were they supposed to wait for that to happen or were they supposed to leave, after all Sehdev hadn't seen himself or Nakul in the vision. 

Nakul thought of what all he knew and what everyone told him to do in such conditions. But there were supposed to be dead, na! None of them worked. 

"Jab kuch na samjh pao, toh Dakshin jao!" (When nothing makes sense, go south!) 

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