p style="text-align: left;"Chapter 1br /br /Sarah looked at herself in the mirror, saw the wedding dress she'd tried on, and knew that Ellie was right, she'd found the one moment when it all clicked. "We're getting married". br /br /Sarah turns when she hears the door open, fearing Chuck might walk in and see her in her dress prior to the wedding. Instead it was Casey. br /br /Casey saw Sarah in her dress and thought she looked very lovely. Truth be told, he'd always thought she was beautiful, but since they became partners and shared in the responsibility of protecting her now fiancee, he looked at her in a bit of a different light. Everyone said that Chuck had made them both softer. Well that might be true of Casey, but in his opinion Chuck made Sarah better, a better spy, a better person, a better friend and /br /Casey, being Casey, would never share his true thoughts so he simply said, "It's very pretty." br /br /Sarah looks at him, beaming and says "I know".br /br /Casey notices something wrong with the dress and says "Uh, you might want to find another dress, looks like this one has been on a mission", pointing to the bullet holes at the back of the /br /Sarah notices and while disappointed, she found the one thing to start and build her wedding around, so she was determined to find another perfect dress. Sarah had also needed to talk to Casey for awhile about something important, but she didn't know how to broach the subject. Casey wasn't the touchy-feely type and never talked about his personal feelings and what Sarah wanted to talk to him about was very /br /Casey was walking away and Sarah decided to just go ahead and do /br /"Uh Casey can I talk to you for a minute?" Casey got this puzzled look on his face and felt an uneasiness. He could sense that she was going to talk to him about something not work related. Casey hated talking about his personal feelings to anyone. Heck, he could barely tell his own daughter, Alex, that he loved /br /Casey stopped in his tracks and grunted but didn't turn around. Sarah, feeling like she was having second thoughts about talking to Casey, proceeded cautiously "I wanted to ask you a favor, a personal favor." Sarah was trying to choose her words carefully. She didn't want Casey to clamp up or to cause friction between /br /"What?" Casey asks. br /br /"I was hoping that you would give me away at my wedding." Sarah paused for a moment to let the words sink in for both her and Casey. Casey turned and looked at her and said, "Shouldn't your father be the one to walk you down the aisle?" Casey knew of Sarah's history with her father, but being a dad himself now, Casey knew the one thing he would never miss was his daughter's wedding someday and he hoped that Jack Burton would feel the same /br /Sarah continued, "Well you know that my father wasn't around much, he was in and out of my life, and honestly even if he were to come to the wedding, which I don't know if he is or not, I don't know that I would want to grant him this honor. I'd constantly worry that he would be on the grift."br /br /"Over the past few years, I've come to think of you as more than just my partner and friend. You are the closest thing I have to a brother and it would mean more to me than you can imagine if you would give me away."br /br /Casey's mind was reeling. This whole touchy-feely thing was still very new to him, but listening to the words that Walker was saying Casey felt his heart swell with pride. Wow, he'd never thought he'd be asked to do something so /br /Sarah, seeing Casey was lost in thought, kind of hung her head a bit, but to try and break the friction, "Look, forget I asked, ok?"br /br /She turns to walk out and change clothes when she heard him mutter "Walker. I'd be honored to give you away." Casey continued "But if your soon to be husband tries to hug me, you will have one of the shortest marriages on record." Casey was joking about that, although he would never tell Walker or Bartowski /br /Sarah couldn't suppress the grin on her face. Now that the ice had been broken, she says, "I promise I won't tell anyone. I don't want to ruin your reputation. And I promise, no hugging."br /br /At that they both smiled. Sarah walked out the door to change, but Casey just stood there and thought it wasn't just Chuck who had changed him. Sarah changed him too./p