Was It Destiny?

Notes:
Ranishek fanfic, inspired by the amazing on-screen chemistry;
For the effects of this fiction, Abhishek is single;
The actors only give body, carreer and curriculum to the characters of the story;
I've never been to Mumbay or anywhere in India and I don't want to do research for a fiction, so the locations mentioned here are from places in my city or in my country;
This story is exclusively romantic, don't say I didn't warn;
I apologyse for the english mistakes, I'm sure there's lots of them!


Was it destiny?


"-Cut!" - said the director - "we're through for the day!"
Rani retreated to her dressing room in the studio. She changed and decided to stay there for a while reviewing her lines for the next day's shoots instead of going directly to her place. Time flew, she realised when she looked at the clock. The crew form her film had probably left by now.
She heard a knock on the door and went to open it.

...


Abhishek was coming down the stairs with John. They had just shot a scene for Dostana and were heading to their dressing rooms chating entusiastically. The last shot had ended late, the studio on that alley was almost empty.
When they reached the corridor Abhishek thought he had heard something and told John to be quiet. Then he heard it clearly, someone was screaming and objects were being thrown to the floor. John also heard it this time. They ran through the corridor trying to realise where it came from.
They realised it came for Rani's cabinet, but it was locked. They could hear her clearly now, she was crying and screaming for help.
After a few attempts, they managed to thrown down the door. They grabbed the man from top of her and punched him several times. John called the securities an brought the man outside he room.
Abhishek found a robe and involved Rani in it. She was shaking and crying. Her clothes had been ripped off and she was almost naked. They had came just in time to stop the man from actually rapping her. He conforted her and brought her to the couch trying to calm her. He hugged her for a long time and after a while she stopped shaking. She told him she had gone to open the door and that man told her he was a big fan and was hoping to get an autograph. She asked him how he had entered in the studio and then he stepped in against her will and shut the door...she stopped there with tears rolling down her face again.
"-Hey!" - he cleaned her tears - "you're safe now. The police took away that man, and I'm here. I won't let anything happen to you, ok?" - he said stroking her face.
She nodded and held on tigh to him.
A while later Abhi said he was taking her home. He told her to dress while he was changing in his cabinet and got up.
Panic took over Rani.
"-No, don't leave me! Please don't leave me alone!"
"-Rani...you're safe now, ok?"
"-Stay!" - she said desperatly - "Please!"
"-How will you get dress with me in here?"
"-Just don't look. I trust you."
"-Ok" - he said, and turned to the wall.
He noticed he could still see her due to one mirror that was reflecting her. He tried to look away, but irresistibly looked again and didn't desviate his eyes until she said she was ready.
He brought her home, kissed her good-night and hugged her saying that if she needed anything she could count on him.
He finally brough a light smile to her lips.
"-Thank you!" - she said hugging him back - "you're a great friend, Abhi..."



Abhishek was surprised when he heard John saying that he had just met Rani in the studio. Apparently John was surprised as well. After her rap attempt just the day before, both of them expected her to stay at home, recovering.
Abhishek wanted to talk to her, but when he managed to finish his shots, she had already left, so he decided he would stop by her place.
Her mother opened him the door and indicated the living room where Rani was.
He greeted her and she invited him to sit next to her.
"-I heard you went to work today. Why didn't you stay at home? Everyone would understand..."
"-I'm fine. Thanks to both you and John nothing happened."
"-How can you say nothing happened?" - he asked surprised, remembering her the day before when she couldn't stay alone and was desperatly asking him not to leave her side.
"-I'm trying to move on" - she said looking away first and then directly into his eyes.
Abhishek had no idea his friend was this strong. He was suddenly admiring her.
"-Can I take you somewhere?" - he said out off the blue.
"-Where?" - she asked surprised.
"-You'll see."
"-But, now?!"
He nodded.
"-Sorry Abhi...I'm really not in the mood for walks right now..."
"-Come on, you said it yourself that you wouldn't let what happened affect your life!"
She looked at him.
"-Let's go!" - he said getting up and grabbing her hand.
She was reluctant at first but then she got up as well.




They parked in Belém and walked through the gardens. They stopped at the famous "Pastéis de Belém" and bought half a douzen. Then they went to the CCB and sat against a tree in the garden next to the coffee and chat, while they ate their pastéis and saw the sun go down, reflected in the river.
Abhishek meant to cheer her up and was managing to do it. She was smiling again and he even made her laugh.
When they were heading back to the car, Abhi remembered to stop at a jeweller' store. He had spotted a beautiful silver necklace and was insisting on offering it to her. She tried to dissuade him from it but he was determinated.
"-Will you wear it if I buy it?"
"-Yes, but..."
"-Then we'll take it!"
"-Abhi..."
"-You deserve it, Rani. You've been incredibly brave. Just let me offer it."
"-But..."
"-No buts!" - he bought it and put it around her neck. It looked beautiful on her.
He dropped her home. She gave him two kisses on his cheeks and thanked again for the walk and the necklace.
"-You're welcome! This was really nice, we should do it more often..."
"-Sure!" - she smiled at him - "Thanks again!" - she waved and entered her home.



Rani and Abhi had become friends during the shots of their first film together, but they weren't very close. They were more like seasonal friends. When they were working together they got along well but then they could stay months without talking or seeing each other. What happened that night had brought them closer and now they talked almost every day and saw each other at least once a week. As months passed they became great friends and very close to each other.
They agreed to make another film together and they signed another Yash Raj film where they played a romantic couple and were the lead actors.
During the shots they became inseparable. They were shoting the outsides in Algarve and were staying at a hotel with a private beach.
While their characters were becoming more intimate and romantic with each other, Rani found herself wishing more intimacy with Abhi too, but she put the idea away, thinking she was confusing friendship and protection with love.
It was only during their characters first kiss scene she was sure that her feelings for Abhishek had evolved much beyond friendship.
They had to repite that scene over and over. She couldn't disconnect from herself and enter the character. Every time she kissed him, it wasn't Sanjana who was kissing Raj, it was her kissing Abhi in a Kiss full of sentiment and passion and everytime she quickly retrived from the kiss.
The director was becoming impacient with her. Bajen told her to complete the scene and not to end the kiss halfway again.
Rani tried to relax and concentrate.
-"Action!"
Abhishek held her against him tightly this time. He leaned to her and kissed her lips gently. She kissed him back and moved her hands from his chest to behind his neck, and they started kissing again with passion in a complete real and deep moment. When they finaly stepped a little from each other the director told them to repite the whole scene again. Rani looked at her in disbelief.
"-And no tongs this time!" - she added.

After dinner Rani and Abhishek walked around the beach near the sea and eventually sat near the pool with their legs and feet inside the water.
He was talking about their profession. How they got the chance to do things they would never do in real life. It even allow them to do things they wanted but were too embarrassed or too scared to do as themselves. Theirs characters in a way realeased them.
Rani's mind remembered their akward kiss scene earlier and nodded along without saying anything.



They were back in town at their usual Yash Raj studios. The film' shots were almost complete, there were only a few scenes left, including a love scene between the two of them.
The part of the studio were they were filming was practically empty since the scene was intimate and they would be exposed. Beyond them, the only two other people in the room were Bajen, the director, and Hannah, the assistent director.
The shot meant to show them making love. They would be naked from their waists up, but Abhi would cover Rani, so that it seemed real to the public but they wouldn't be exposed to their view.
Rani was wearing an open skirt from the shot before and a light robe. She took the robe and quickly slipped under the sheets.
Abhi took his shirt, leaving his shorts on and followed her.
When the shot began he started romancing her and moved on top of her. The memories she thought dead and buried in her mind were suddenly released when she felt Abhi's body on top of her. Flashbacks from her rap attempt were poping up in her mind without any control and she started shaking again and tears formed in her eyes.
"-Cut! Rani, what are you doing?" - Bajen asked.
Abhi got out of the bed and talked for a while with the director.
"-We'll be right back!" - Bajen and Hannan left.
Abhishek joined Rani and told her the director had allowed them twenty minutes to prepare the scene. He talked to her conforting and giving her confidence. They tried the position again and he started telling her jokes, making her to laugh.
He romanced her according to the scene and everything went well. She was finally ready for the shot.
"-Thanks, Abhi! I couldn't have done it without you..."
"-That's what friends are for." - he smiled and winked at her.
"Are you ready now?" - Hannah asked, entering the room.
"-Yes!" - Rani answered.
When they started shoting it happened again. Not the flashbacks, but the realism of the scene. Sanjana was gone and it was now Rani who was below Abhi, feeling his kisses as herself. Involved psycalogically in such a way, she allowed his hands to move to places where they were never supposed to be. They both knew the angles the cameras were shoting and Abhishek made sure those off-scene/screen touches weren't noticed by anyone else.
When they finished the shot, Bajen was emotioned,
"-You really brought Raj and Sanjana to life. It was beautiful" - she had also written the script - "We'll finish the shottings tomorrow."
When the director brough her to reality she realised what had really happened. She grabbed her robe, put it on and rapidly left for her dressing room.
She was angry and dissapointed with him. How could he had taken advantage of her? And how did she let him?
She needed to put it all out. She opened his dressing room door, closed it with a bang and started screaming at him, hitting his arm and his chest. She was feeling disgusted with him and with herself, and had tears rolling down her face.
He grabbed her arms and hold her against the wall with his face close to her.
"-How could you expect me to control myself when I had the woman I'm in love with naked below me and kissing me? How?" - he asked her.
She looked at him surprised and speechless.
"-Rani, just say something!"
She couldn't move. Her feet seemed glued to the ground and her muscles had frozen.
He was looking directly into her eyes and she saw disapointment at her lack of reaction. When he was starting to move away from her, her muscles came to life and she kissed him passionatly. He kissed her back holding her arms up and against the wall. Then he grabbed her back pulling her against him. He kissed her neck and was preparing to take her robe off. He predicted she was going to stop him and stopped himself. He looked into her eyes.
"-I'm in love with you..."
"-I'm in love with you too..."


Two Years Later

"-No Abhi! I've told you this a thousand times…” – she said releasing herself from his arms.
“-But why, Rani? We’ve been together for two years; we’re going to marry in a few months…”
“-Because, I want it to be special.”
“-And it will be special only after we’re married?”
She looked at him angrily.
“-What will be the point of marrying if we’ll be already living as a married couple? What will be the big difference between dating and marrying?”
“-Why do you have to be so conservative? Even your co-stars get to see more of your body than me!”
“-Don’t go there! This is how I am. If you can’t respect my choices, maybe we shouldn’t be marrying at all!”
“-Please, Rani! Don’t make such a drama…” – he sighted
She looked at him and then looked away. He got up and involved her in his arms.
“-I love you and I want to be with you. We have a strong relationship, I think it’s normal and it’s not at all uncommon…”
“-You think I don’t want to be with you? You think I don’t desire you; I don’t long to be touched by you? You think I don’t dream or fantasize about it? You think it’s just you who wants this?” – she asked him, looking up at his eyes.
“-You want to be with me? You desire me?” – he asked her, smiling.
“Of course I want…” – they moved a little closer to each other.
“-You fantasize and dream about me?”
“-Uh-huh…” –they inched even closer.
“-Do you love me?”
“-I love you more than I ever thought I could love a man…” – she answered as they closed their eyes and met in a deep, long and passionate kiss…

“-You know, you’re totally overrating sex…” – Abhi said a while later when they ended the kiss in the couch.
“-At least this way, you can be sure that you’re going to be the first and only man in my life.”
“-That’s true…”
“-What, you say it doesn’t matter at all, if you knew that I had had sex with all my previous boyfriends?”
He looked at her with an interrogative look.
“-What other boyfriends?”
“-I’m just saying Abhi…See what I mean, you guys say it’s normal, it’s so common, why wait till after marriage, but in reality look at you, just at the mention of other past men, you get disturbed!” – he was still looking at her – “I only had one boyfriend before you Abhi and I was 10!”
His face relaxed.
“-Hum…you’re only mine!”
“-Yes, I’m only yours…”
She smiled at him and kissed him.
“-What about you? “You’re totally overrating sex…” With how many women have you been before me? Are you saying I’m not going to be the first woman you’ll be with?”
He looked at her surprised.
“Ah…well…actually…”
Now she was looking at him with an interrogative face.
“-No, you won’t. I’m sorry…” – she was still looking at him – “Come on, don’t look at me like that…”
“-Do I know her?!”
“-No, it was when I was studying abroad.”
“-Is she American?”
“-Brazilian.”
“-Do you keep contact with her?”
“-What? No…”
“-Was she a virgin?”
“-Definitely not!”
“-You felt you had a strong relationship with her?”
“-Is this an interrogation now? No, I didn’t. You two are completely different; we were just college students that weren’t looking for anything serious. For both of us, virginity didn’t have the same meaning it has to you…”
“-To me? And if I in the past wasn’t looking for anything serious either and had lost my virginity then, would you still want to be with me, would it be exactly the same?”
“-What? I don’t know…”
“-See?”
“-Ok, baby, you won, I won’t try anything with you again till after we’re married. But in our wedding night, you’re mine!!!” – he tickled her making her too laugh.
The door bell rang.
“-Stop it!” – she said laughing – “It’s probably our room furniture…”
The two go up and went to open the door of their new apartment.


Wedding Night

Abhi opened the door to their apartment. From now on, this would be their house. He lifted her up and they made their way in. He shut the door with his back and smiled at her with a malicious look. She smiled at him too, it wasn’t hard to know that he had one and only thing in his mind. He took her to their room, laid her in the bed and in a blink of an eye he was already half undressed.
Rani got up and kissed him.
“-Wait!” – she said and closed the bathroom door.
When she came out she was wearing only the lingerie she had picked up for their first night together. She started to walk in his direction. Abhi couldn’t be more excited, he had waited more than two years for this night. He took her waist and kissed her lips. His hands moved up her back and reached her bra, unlocking it. This time there was no resistance from her part. He guided her to the bed and made her laid down carefully. He kissed her neck and her body all the way to her waist, removing her last piece of lingerie, leaving her naked. He took off his shorts and came closer to her.
He kissed her while his hands felt her breasts and her legs. While his touches became more bold, she became visible nervous. He slowly departed her legs, uniting their waists. He tried to penetrate her but she retreated with a small scream of pain. He whispered to her ear,
“-Just relax, baby…”
She took a deep breath. He kissed her neck and moved to her chest, gently squeezing and kissing her breasts. She pushed him up and kissed him with passion. He felt one of her legs and this time penetrated her all the way down.
She let out a scream that expressed all the pain she felt. Her nails craved his back and her head was pushed back when she squirm with the pain.
She expired, but the pain persisted. He continued with a now cyclic movement, apparently indifferent to her reaction and enjoying her and himself. With time his rhythm increased and so did the force of his lunges. Feeling absolutely no pleasure and a pain that wouldn’t go away, her eyes filled with tears while she let out screams at each onset.
He reached the orgasm and slowed down. A tear had rolled down her cheek. He finally looked at her and realized something was wrong. He came out from her and saw she had bleeded a lot. Just then he realized how selfish he had been, with no concern but his own pleasure, knowing this was her first time.
She couldn’t be more disappointed. She wasn’t idealistic, she knew first times don’t always go well and she was nervous…
“-I’m sorry. It was my fault, I was selfish…”
She put a finger in his lips and hold on to him. He embraced her and they remained in silence until they fell asleep.

Abhi was stoking his wife's face and hair while he watched her sleep.
Rani was waked by his touch. She opened her eyes to see him smile. She smiled back.
"-You're beautiful!" - he said.
She moved closer to him and cuddled in his arms, shuting her eyes.
"-You aren't going to sleep again, are you?"
"-Why?"
"-Because it's going to get cold."
"-What's going to get cold?"
"-Our breakfast!"
"-Breakfast?" - she opened her eyes and looked at him.
He gestured with his head and she looked at the direction he pointed, where there was a tray prepared with their breakfast.
She smiled at him truly positively surprised. He took the tray and put it on the bed between the two.
They chat, they ate and fed each other and flirt with each other. Suddenly Rani realised Abhi was checking her out. They hadn't dress yet and his evaluator gaze was making her unconfortable.
"-Abhi..."
"-What?"
"-Stop it!"
"-Stop what?"
"-Stop looking at my breasts!"
"-What?!" - he raised his eyes to hers, caught off guard - "I wasn't looking..."
"-Yeah, and I'm blind."
"-So, what's wrong with admiring the beauty of my wife's nudity? - he asked with a mischievous look.
"-It's awkward!"
"-You'll get used to be naked around me." - he continued smiling and blinked his eye at her - "I'm already at ease!"
With that he took the tray and put it on the ground, since they had both finished eating, and draw closer to her - "And you know you have the greatest body we could wish for..."
"-We?" - she smiled.
"-Uh-huh!" - and they kissed passionately.

When they ended the kiss, Rani was on top of him.
"-You know, we could name them" - he suggested while he stared at her chest.
"-What?! No!"
"-This could be Abygail, this could be Julia..."
She took his wrists and pinned them against the bed.
"-There's no way you're going to name my boobs. Unless you want me to start calling your penis Little Abhi!"
"-"Little"?!?!?" - he said with an ultrage face. Her teasing expression was provoking him so he turned her around and she ended below him.
"-Mr. Abhi is not "little"!" - he state with a confident voice.
"-Ah! You named your own penis!" - she covered her mouth with a stunned expression.
He turned red and she started laughing.
"-Stop it! Mr. Abhi and I will attack you!" - he threated, smoothly pinching her.
"-Ok, ok!" - she said trying to stop - "Now move, I want to go to the bathroom."
She turned at the door to see him checking out her ass. She rolled her eyes, but her ego was loving the attention.
"-Babe, don't walk in while I'm in the bathroom, ok? You know what they say, "love carries on, but the passion ends in the bathroom", lets keep up the flame of passion alive, ok?"
"-Unless you're in the bathtube, right?"
"-Sure" - she blinked an eye at him - "Unless I'm having a bath..."

...

Abhi walked her to the door. She was going to her parents house to pick up things she had forgotten during the moving and that she wanted to take to their honney-moon.
"-I'll be back in a couple of hours, ok?"
He bended down, took her waist and started kissing her lips. She moved her body closer to his and put her hands behind his neck, while her fingers passed through his hair. She slightly departed her lips, allowing his tongue in. She stepped back while he stepped foward, until her back felt the wall. One of her hands stroke his face, while they continued kissing passionately.
She felt Abhi retreating from the kiss and bit sensually his bottom lip. Then gave him a quick last kiss.
"-Bye!" - she smiled at him and closed the door behind her.

Later...

Rani revolved the keys inside the door lock and entered, putting down the bags. She dropped her wallet on the sofa and looked around. The house was dived in silence and darkness, the only light came from a few small candles on the ground, she noticed.
Along those candles were rose petals and the two seemed to form a path for her to follow.
She walked beside the trail that ended in the balcony, where she found Abhi at a table, beautifully decorated. He was smiling at her and immediately got up to help her sit.
Her heart completely melted at the surprise. She had never imagined he could be so romantic.
He served what he said it was an afrodisiac dinner, wich she found very suggestive.
During dinner Abhi was thinking how lucky he was for having fallen in love with his best friend and for that feeling to be mutual. He had prepared that surprise to compensate her for the night before. Tonight it would be all about her pleasure.
After having eaten and chated, he took the plates and the food inside, refusing any help. He took a while to come back and she soon found out why. He had made a trail similar to the first one that led all the way to their room. She walked the trail in his arms and found the room lightned by candles and the bed decorated with rose petals. Rani was completely enchanted, she stoke his face and kissed his cheek.
Abhishek did everything to make the night special, he was loving, caring, charming and dedicated all the due time to each of her body parts, with no rush, before slowly and carefully entering her. Their union was long and intense, sweet and passionate, profund and full of pleasure, for both.


Years Later

Black's credits were passing on the Tv. One of the twins jumped out off the couch when he saw his mom coming in.
He looked at her like he was seeing her for the first time,
"-Mom, you're amazing! You must, you absolutely must agree to be the lead actress in my first film! Please say yes!"
"-I would be honored to, but now what you have to worry about is school!" - she said smilling at her son.
"-I thought I was starring your film?!" - said his twin brother.
"-And you will, and dad too. I'll start writting the script right away!"
"-What you two are going to start doing right away is preparing to sleep." - said Abhishek, who had entered in the living-room in the mid time.
"-Dad, isn't mommy a superb actress?"
"-Of course she is. The most talented in India!" - he declared, embracing her from behind and kissing her cheek.
"-I want to be like mommy!" - said a sweet and sleepy voice.
Abhishek lifted Sussi up and put her in his lap. She looked a lot like her mom and, according to Rani's parents, she was like a two and a half years old clone version of Rani when she was that age.
"-And why do you want to be like mommy?"
"-Because mommy's beautiful..." -she said, laying her head down her fathers's chest and closing her eyes.
"-My beautiful baby..." - Rani said, lifting her up from her dad's arms - "...let's go to sleep now..."
When the children were already in bed, Abhishek pulled her close to him and whispered to her ear,
"-I love you..."
She answered in the same whispering tone,
"-I love you too..."
"Let's dance..." - he said.
And though there was no music, they sang in a low voice, holding on tight to each other, while they sway thoughout the living-room.

The End