What he saw next surprised him a lot! He was shocked and scared to the core of his being. He could not help the tears that were beginning to come in his eyes. A loud sob left his lips and then another. His sobs were so loud that Ibrahim also started to stir. He also looked around him and he was shocked to see Zamid crying and then he looked in the direction where he was looking. He was as shocked and sad as Zamid. But, his eyes were red with anger instead of tears.
It was hana lying on the ground in a very bad shape. Her shirt from right shoulder was torn and her White bra was seen till the top of right cup. Her light blue tights were also torn from knees and her knees were scraped and bleeding. He neck and right arm (Since the cloth was torn from that area) had angry red hand prints and her face was also having bruises. Her light brown mid length hair were spread on the floor around her in a hollow. She was unconscious but was breathing softly through her bleeding nose. Her lower lip was also bleeding.
By her condition, everyone can see that she was forced into something that was a worst nightmare for any girl. After sobbing a little, Zamid came to his senses as he thought of a way to get out of here. He can’t bare to waste more time this or he knows that something more worse is coming there way.
“Ibrahim, what is going on? Who were they?” Zamid asked in a hoarse voice due to crying.
“I am not sure but maybe they are from Dubai!” Ibrahim replied in a confused manner as he was not sure who they were.
“Okay but we need to get out of here! I will come towards you and will try to open the ropes with my hands. I know we are both tied but I will turn with my back to your back and will try to open the knot!” Zamid nodded and then explained his plan of escape. Ibrahim nodded but he was still looking at Hana’s unconscious body that was on the other corner from them. He was seething in anger.
Zamid crawled towards Ibrahim and tried to open his ropes. After trying for a little while, he got frustrated and tired but he still did not give up as his motivation was in this room and unconscious in a very bad shape. After trying a little bit more, he was able to free Ibrahim’s hands. Ibrahim hurriedly opened Zamid’s hands and both of them started to free their legs too from the ropes.
Zamid was the first one to get free from the ropes and he stood up and hurriedly walked towards hana. Before he could reach her, Ibrahim and he heard shouting and gun shots. The metal door to the dim cellar in which they were kept was banged opened and before they could enterprete what was going on, a person stood in the threshold with gun pointed towards Zamid. The person looked here and there and when his eyes fell on hana, he pointed the gun at her and shot. Zamid shouted and ran towards her as he was closer to her. One shot hit her in the right shoulder, just about her breast. She screamed in pain and awake from her unconscious state. Before the second bullet could pierce her, Zamid covered her body with his own body and got shot on the backside of his left shoulder. He groaned in pain but did not get up from his place. Ibrahim had reached that person before he could shoot more and he kicked that person’s hand and the gun fell to the ground. Ibrahim kicked the gun and without looking at where it went, he started to punch the person in his face. He was punching with so much anger and red eyes that the person lost consciousness within some punches but he still had not left the person.
He was tugged from that person away before he could kill him with his bare hands. He finally started to see what was around him now. He saw that the police was here and they were tugging him away from the shooter’s bloodied face.
“Honey, baby uth na yar! Uth ja please! (Honey, baby please get up! Get up na!) Nothing is going to happen! I am here! Just don’t close your eyes! Stay with me! Please!” hanan’s pleading voice reached ibrahim’s ears and he looked in the corner where hanan and Zamid were leaning over her body. Hanan was trying to keep her awake till the ambulance arrives while Zamid was stroking her face gently and looking at her with pain on his face. His shoulder was bleeding profusedly but he was ignoring it. Ibrahim knew that he will only feel pain after the adrenaline had stopped the rush that was why Zamid was not feeling his own wound right now.
Hiba gave a very mournful sob and fell to the ground. Asfand helped his wife in trying to stable her but he was also crying. Rayaan left Samman’s arms in shock and took some steps back. Zayn was shocked and just looking at everyone. He was not able to grab the reality and just stood there in shock. Daniyal was also not aany better as he had already accepted as his younger sister and someone to tease. Both of hana’s uncles were just trying to calm Asfand and hiba but then they left to do all the formalities of the hospital as no one else was in their senses.
“Why always my daughter? Why, Asfand? Why is my child always going through these misfortunes? Why is she having these many obstacles? Why can’t somebody else? Why only my baby?” Hiba started to ask her questions in hysteria! She was not even able to think her words. She was not able to think her words that she was just asking for the same fate for someone else and not her child.
“Don’t say something like that, hiba! You should not say like that! Just pray that no one gets to have this fate! Don’t ask for the same fate on anyone else! Never do that! Come to your senses! She needs us to be stronge for her and not to break down! Who is going to help her if we are going to lose ourselves like this? Huh?” Asfand tried to console his wife and tried to bring her back to her senses. Hiba just cried more but nodded. She thought about her husband’s words and understood the meaning behind his and her own words that she used a while back. She just started to pray in her heart to protect her children and also to never make anyone go throught he same fate as her own child had gone through just now.
Everyone was now just waiting for the doctors to come and inform them about both, Hana and Zamid. A nurse came out of the OT and told them that they needed blood for hana. Her blood group was AB and there was no one except hiba and Zamid with the same blood group. Hiba could not give the blood as she was already weak but it was a relief that Ibrahim and Hanan both had the same blood group as her. Another nurse came from the adjesant OT and said the same because Zamid also needed blood and that too, Asap. Hanan and Ibrahim both went with the nurses and gave blood as much as they can. They came back after giving blood and again waited with all the others.
Rayaan was the most shaken right now after getting to know that her clothes were torn. He knew what that means and there was no science to tall what must have happened to ensure that. The abuse marks were also a giveway to it. But the thing that mostly concerned him is the mental health of her now. He knows she will be in great trauma IF she wakes up. Not only that, but he was afraid of his family’s reaction after getting to know that. He knows how their society is going to react and treat her after this incident. Our society is just like that, never trying to ensure the person instead always blaming her for this unfortunate event. People are going to blame her no matter what! He was not worried about the society as no one knows this and no one will know this, he was sure of it! But, his family is going to be tested for this! He will get to know what his family is really like after she gets up! He is going to know the real face of his family and he was in for a surprise! Even he did not know that they could go to this extent.
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