EXT. EMPTY HIGHWAY – NIGHT – RAINING
The sky weeps.
Heavy rain lashes down in sheets.
Thunder cracks like a warning — but Mahi doesn't stop walking.
Her hospital gown clings to her body, soaked.
Barefoot. Bleeding from the feet.
Her hair hangs down in knots, and her eyes—
Empty. Hollow. Gone.
MAHI (murmuring):
"Why did you shoot me... Ahaan…"
Her voice is gone. Her soul is numb.
Up ahead, a truck speeds toward her.
She doesn't flinch.
She just lifts her face to the sky and closes her eyes — ready.
TRUCK HORN BLARES.
The world slows.
But in the final second—
A figure rushes from the darkness.
SLAMS into her.
They tumble into the muddy grass beside the road.
The truck screams past.
Missing her by inches.
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EXT. GRASS FIELD – CONTINUOUS
Mahi coughs — soaking wet, dazed, weak.
She tries to lift her head.
A man kneels beside her. Face hidden in shadows.
Wearing black. Gloves on. Hood up.
But his voice… it's soft. Familiar. Gentle.
STRANGER (Saif):
"You're safe now."
MAHI (struggling):
"Wh-who… are you…?"
He doesn't answer.
He pulls out a small vial. A syringe.
MAHI (pulls away weakly):
"What—? What are you doing?"
STRANGER:
"Letting you rest.
That's all you need right now."
MAHI (dazed):
"Why… would you help me…?"
STRANGER (after a pause):
"Because you once saved a stranger without asking his name."
Her breath catches — somewhere deep in her memory, something flickers.
But it fades.
Too lost.
She whispers faintly:
"I'm tired…"
STRANGER:
"Then sleep."
He gently injects the sedative into her arm.
She falls limp in his arms.
Peaceful.
Gone into sleep.
And he just holds her.
Staring at the woman he's loved silently for a decade.
STRANGER (softly):
"You may not know me now…
But I've never stopped knowing you."
He lifts her carefully.
Steps away from the highway — into the night.
Rain soaking them both.
And just like that…
Mahi disappears from the world again.
But this time — into the arms of a ghost she once saved.