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✨𝑱𝒖𝒏𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝑲𝒆 𝑨𝒂𝒈 𝑴𝒆𝒊𝒏 𝑼𝒃𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒊 𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒊 𝑲𝒐𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒏 𝑲𝒐 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒉𝒊𝒚𝒆 𝑵𝒂 𝑲𝒐𝒊 𝑨𝒖𝒓 𝑺𝒂𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂✨

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AUTHOR's POV-

2 : 03 am

" We are almost here! " Flying officer made an announcement.

" Boys! Ready for the mission? "

" Yes sir " A chorus was heard by a man in late 20s.

" 3, 2, 1 Jump! "

And with that all the army men in their proud combat uniform jumped from the Chinook with the help of rope.

Once all were on the ground, their leading officer MAJOR VIHAAN SINGHAL led them through the dark forest towards their respective destination.

Currently they were near the Pok and were entering the terrorist sensitive area.

" Sir, are we good to move? " Vihaan enquired through his connected walkie talkie once they were near the terrorist camps.

" Yes Major ! We are good to go! " Army chief, General Nishant Parwane informed him. General Parwane was in the army headquarters of Delhi. He was tracking the location of the teams that were on the mission today.

" Over and out sir! " He kept is walkie talkie back .

While looking at the base camp, his best friend Major Jai Rana whispered to his side " Saalon ko chhodna nahi hai Vihaan! Aaj khoon ka badla khoon se lena hai. "

{Bastards are not to be spared Vihaan! Today blood has to be avenged with blood.}

Vihaan glaced at his friend and after giving a short nod, he actioned silently to other Jawaans for attaining there position.

Jai quickly changed his position and moved to the behind of banyan tree. Vihaan actioned another Subedar to start the firing.

And soon the revenge for the martyrs of Udhampur started.

There was a terror attack 7 months back in Udhampur and almost 29 Army and CRPF jawaans were killed. According to intelligence bureau, the terrorists involved in the terror attack of Udhampur were spotted near Pulwama and this was a golden chance of holding them .

The firing soon turned into a graveyard, where all terrorists were killed and 2-3 jawaans were injured lightly.

But somehow finishing the mission, they made their way back to the area where Chinook was supposed to pick them up.

4:30 am

Assembling everyone, Vihaan cheered - " We did it Boys! "

And everyone in the team had a content smile on their face.

Jai cheered " Jai Bhadrakali! "

And everyone cheered behind him - "Jai Bhadrakali".

And as soon as Chinook came everyone sat with satisfaction and chatted till they reached back to the Pulwama base camp. Meanwhile the two best friends were talking.

" Waah mere sher! Tune toh aaj sabki waat laga di. " Jai patted Vihaan's back hardly with a proud smile.

{Wow my lion! You showed them their real place today.}

"Iss nacheez ka shukriya qubool karen Jai Rana!" Vihaan said teasingly while keeping a hand on his right chest.

{Accept this thanks}

And both of them chuckled at this.

Both Vihaan and Jai are best friends since their NDA days. People give example of their friendship as they are even closer than real brothers.

5:22 am

Soon Chinook landed and all the gentleman exited the helicopter.

General Parwane was present there with a proud smile. As soon as everyone assembled, they saluted General Parwane and vice-versa.

"Well done boys! I am proud of you, infact pure bharat desh ko aap par naaz hai! Good Job! And Vihaan! Very good leadership my boy! " General Parwane addressed and jawaans smiled while looking at each other.

{I am proud of you, Infact whole India is proud of you!}

" Get freshened up and Major Viraaj and Maj Jai!" General Parwane said.

" Yes sir!" They answered.

" I want to meet you guys in the evening at the unit meeting hall before the Bada Khana. " He ordered.

" yes sir!" They saluted and made their way to gypsy that was to pick up the officers and the army trucks for other jawaans. And those who were slightly injured were picked up by the army doctors.

Vihaan's POV-

*click*

As soon as I entered my room, I directly went to the bathroom to freshen myself up.

I changed my uniform and put them into laundry and I was just in my briefs. I stood under the shower with warm water cascading down my back, through some scars and wounds.

Being an army officer is not an easy task at all! Especially when you are the CO (Commanding officer) of that particular team, you have to ensure everyone's safety as well as have to make the correct decisions in seconds. That's a hell of pressure.

It might look cool to the world that we handle weapons and fights but it is much more than that. We have a family behind who waits for months to meet us. Like right now my parents doesn't know about this mission.....again, I might add.

My father is retd. Major General while my mother was a lawyer but she stopped practicing when she realised that she couldn't give enough time to my brother and me and I strongly disagrees with that. Never mind.

I didn't even realise when I came out of my shower. I went to my wardrobe and picked out my track suit to change in.

Once I was ready, I picked my phone that was kept on my bedside and switched it on only to see 92 missed calls of my mother.

Ummm, okay! I am so dead now!

I prayed to God and called my mother and guess what, she picked up the call in the 1st ring itself.

"he..." She didn't even let me complete.

" You son of Singhal!! The hell with you! Phone kyu nahi uthaya mera, huh? Tujhe pata hai mai kitna darr gayi thi. Woh toh bhala ho Capt. Anuj ka jisne mujhe tere mission ke baare mein bataya, warna maa ko batana aap toh zaroori nahi samajhte. Bada kya hogya, maa ko bhul gaya. Tune bataya kyun nahi tu mission pe jaa raha hai. Tu humesha aisa karta hai! Mujhe kitni bechaini ho gayi thi pata hai? Kaise kaise khayal aa rahe the dimaag mein, tu thik hai ya nahi. Lekin nahi, maa ka concern toh bakwas hai haina! All you care is about your bloody mission!" Finally she stoopped her rant.

{Why didn't you pick up my phone, huh? You know how scared I was. Bless Capt. Anuj that he told me about your mission, else your sweet self wouldn't have even informed me. He grew up so much that now even his mother wouldn't know about this. Why didn't you tell that you are going on the mission? You always do this! Do you know how restless I was? Absurd thoughts were clouding my mind, that are you even fine or not. But no, Mother's concern is useless, right?! All you care is about your bloody mission! }

Pheww..... I thought she was gonna speak for the whole day.

" Maa chill! I am absolutely fine. Wait, lemme face time you. " Saying so, I quickly changed the voice call to video call.

I could see my mother. She had concern, fear and love etched on her face. I could even see trace of unshed tears in her eyes.

" See maa! Bilkul thik hun mai! Kuch nahi hua aapke sher ko! Aap befaltu ka tension le rahe the! " I showed her my face clearly.

{ See mother! I am totally fine. Nothing could harm your lion! You were taking stress for no reason. }

But whom I was kidding again. Her lawyer brain + mother's brain was working together.

" Tera right hand dikha! Haaye rabba! Enni Vaddi chot!" She said in her hindi punjabi accent.

{ Show your right hand. Oh God! Such a big wound! }

That's when I noticed a very ignored wound. I was not even feeling pain. Fuck that, it was not even that big.

" Maa, nothing happened....." But again she didn't let me complete and ranted on how I should take care of myself and show myself in the MH (military Hospital).

I could do nothing except nodding my head. And then started the ultimate drama.

" Dekh mai tere paas nahi hun, mujhe pata bhi nahi kaise khayal rakhega tu apna. Isiliye bol rahi hun shaadi karle! Biwi ke darr se atleast apna dhyaan to rakhega warna maa se toh darr ab lagta nahi janaab ko." She said with sarcasm in the last line.

{ Look, I am not with you, I don't even know how you will take care of yourself. That's why I am saying, get married! In the fear of wife, atleast you will take care of yourself else you don't fear your mother anymore, right!}

" Mumma yaar! Aap har baat pe meri shaadi ko kyun ghaseette ho! " I literally whined like a child.

{ Mumma! Why do you bring the topic of my marriage in every conversation we have?! }

" Arre! Then when will you get married! You are 29 for God sake Vihaan! I had you as 5 year old, when I was of your age" And ladies and Gentlemen, here started her rant on how I should get married and how she have list of candidates for my marriage!

Finally after almost 30 minutes of bickering, we bade goodbyes to each other with a promise of myself showing to the doctor which I knew I was going to forget.

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