"The wounds are the ornaments for a warrior"

Sia, strumming the guitar was in deep thoughts spacing out and staring out of the window which was opened; and cool breeze was swirling her opened long silky hair. Rish was observing her each and every gesture with a slight smile on his face. After sometime to break the silence and to spread his liveliness, Rish said;

Rish: "Hey!! Little cub you are becoming a weakling. You are getting injured every now and then." He said by observing Sia's expressions.

Sia: "I am not a weakling brother that you know very well. I have outsmarted you, the champion; in fighting skills. And also if you are saying me weakling that means you are disgracing yourself cause you are my mentor." She said still not bothering to look at her brother and continued staring at the dark, outside the window.

Rish "Oh Girl, how can you be so witty I wonder." he said with a pretending frown on his face.

Sia: "As I'm your sister, so I have to carry the legacy." She said with a calm face without looking at her brother.

Rish: "I'll take it as a compliment" he said with a grin.

Sia: "It was indeed a compliment, brother." she said with a calm face.

Rish: "Tsk...tsk...This sister of mine is so ignorant and heartless. Little cub you even don't care about your adorable brother. You are a bully, little cub." he said by wiping the invisible tears.

Now, Sia kept the guitar at the other side of the window bed but still in deep thoughts without looking at her brother. Rish could notice each and every gesture and expression of his sister without even telling. So he was there to make her mood vibrant.

Sia: "Thanks brother." she said.

Rish: "Really Sia? You really don't care about me. You will cry a lot when I'll not be with you and leave you one day." he said with slight seriousness in his tone.

As she heard those wordings from her brother, she snapped at Rish and said;

Sia: "BROTHER!!!!!" She said in anger, glaring at her brother.

Her eyes got moist slightly while staring at her brother and when she realised it, she averted her gaze to hide her moist eyes from her brother, but how can she hide her any expression from her brother. Rish, getting up from the chair and sitting on the bed beside Sia, held her shoulders slightly by making her face towards him. The tears were on the verge of falling but she pressed her lips to control them from falling. Rish became serious and hugged her tightly.

Rish: "You need not to hide your tears from me, little cub. I'll always be there with you. I was just kidding. I'll never leave you my little cub. You are my precious treasure which always make me lively. I know, there are so many wounds which, you have burried inside your heart and you never let anyone come close to you. You are not weakling my dear. You are the strongest human being I've ever seen." Consoling his sister, Rish's eyes also became moist.

These siblings were the toughest before the world and never let anyone know about their internal chaos or pains. Rish loved his sister from the core of his heart. And except her brother, Sia never showed her pitiful condition to anyone not even her parents.

Sia, started sobbing softly hugging back her brother. Her eyes were teary now and Rish was continuously caressing her back softly and consoling her. This certain side of her was just confined to her brother.

When Rish noticed that Sia calmed down, he said;

Rish: "I am blessed to be the only person to witness the pitiful side of the Wildest Lioness. The Cry baby side of the invincible Sia." He said with a smirk.

By pushing her brother slightly, with a pout, she said;

Sia: "I'm not a cry baby, brother."

Rish: "You are. CRY BABY." he said chuckling slightly.

Sia: "I hate you brother." she said with a frown on her face.

Rish: "I love you too CRY BABY." he said enjoying the moment.

Rish: "Alright! Now show me your injured arm." he added.

Sia: "I'm fine. I've already applied a band-aid." she said ignoring her brother's scrutiny.

Rish: "I'm not asking you." without any word from Sia, he held her arm softly. He, removing the band-aid slowly and started scrutinizing the wound which was little deep.

Rish: "It's a deep cut. How can you avoid the required treatment for this injury. It can lead to the septic." he said narrowing his eyes towards his sister which was not even concerned about the wound.

Sia: "It's not a big deal brother." she said trying to pull her arm from the clutches of her brother's grasp but was futile cause Rish didn't allow her to do so.

Rish: "Are you even a girl? Don't you get scared from these deep injuries which can even leave certain ugly scars for life time." he said with serious tone this time.

Sia: "Wounds and injuries are the ornaments for a warrior. And the ornaments can't be ugly." she said with a smile and sparkling eyes with pride.

Rish: "Alright! Miss. Invincible Warrior. You Won, I lose." he said with a proud face like a mentor, who feels proud when he witness the greatest success of his student. And while hearing these words from her brother, she felt familiar.

And without any other word, Rish started dressing the injury as; while coming to Sia's room, he brought the first aid kit with him. He noticed the slight actions of her even when she hid the wound so meticulously.

Rish: "As the cut is because of knife sort of thing. I have to apply an injection to prevent the wound from any septic." he said with a serious face.

Sia gaped at her brother for a while and said;

Sia: "What?? No!! not at all brother. There is no need for injection. It's a small cut. I don't need any injection. Nooooo!!! You know, brother I have trypanophobia, I'll faint." she said with a scared look.

Rish: "Such a brave and strong girl, is afraid of an injection, I really wonder. And I know you have trypanophobia and will faint but I'm there to support you and hold you. So no need to bother about that." he said with an ignoring look and proceeding to fill the syringe from vial.

Seeing this, Sia got horrified and got up instantly to run but Rish was one step ahead of her and before she could run, he caught her and held her tightly though softly; and said;

Rish: "Sia, stay still. Otherwise it could hurt you." he said.

Sia, shaking her head in horror, said;

Sia: "No brother, please. Let me go. I don't need any stupid injection." She said by giving an angry look to the injection as the culprit was the injection for her distress.

Rish: "Alright! Tell me about the lion who somehow outsmarted this lioness of mine." he said by glancing at Sia with anticipation.

With a surprised look, Sia snapped at her brother and started staring at her brother like saying 'how do you know about that'.

Meanwhile, Rish was also staring at her but injected the tetanus toxoid at her humerus of other arm. When it was done, Rish said;

Rish: "It's done." he said casually.

While, Sia was again in shock as first time she was not fainted just by thinking about HIM and didn't even realise about her phobia. This made Rish surprised too and was staring at Sia with intriguing look.

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Rish, beside a super cop, he was a doctor of medicine (MD) too; as the whole family was known as the doctor family and they owned their own hospital. All three generations were following the same criteria of medical field whereas these siblings opted for the fields out of the box. One became a super cop now and one was persuing law.

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