A/N: Ever heard the song West Coast by Coconut Records? I recently learned to play it on guitar, and now the pads of my fingers hurt and I like the lyrics. So here is my middle of the night contribution to the Chuck fanfiction database. More is to come. I don't own Chuck, or the song. Though I highly suggest viewing/listening to both.
For a second there I thought you disappeared
Look around, around, around again. Casey's behind a barrel, which isn't providing very good cover for the man. Chuck's crouching behind an overturned steel... thingy. It's large, it looms, and seems to be currently very bulletproof. Casey is making hand signals, to Chuck they may as well be rabid squirrel shadow puppets. Casey pulls off a couple quick shots before running over to Chuck all doubled over.
Are you hit?
Uh, no.
Come on moron, we gotta get out of here.
Where's Sarah?
We're getting out of here.
Well O.K., but Sarah is still missing. Where'd she go? The abandoned warehouse... which wasn't all that abandoned... also wasn't all that big, and Chuck had had a pretty good view of the area. She has simply vanished. Poof. Magic.
The next couple days are weird without her. No lunch breaks at the fro-yo place, no looks during ridiculous briefings. Things are emptier. No Sarah. Some spy analyst top-level security guy says he saw:
A flash of blonde hair, I don't know, it might have just been the sun... I mean the satellite is accurate. But sometimes... well if it's her, Agent Walker was taken into a van heading towards Los Angeles.
Thank you Agent Rurke. A team will be sent in after her. Good day. No 'But's' Mister Bartowski. Good day.
And then she is back, with just a couple new scratches. They are smiling again and talking again and having poorly made government yogurt again. She has changed a little bit, she is more hesitant, more protective.
I don't want it to happen to you.
I don't want it to have happened to you.
You can't prevent the past, Chuck.
He too is more hesitant, more protective. They both have changed. But it's O.K.. He's Chuck and she's Sarah. You know those two, the love's still there. He just doesn't want her to disappear again, even if only for a couple seconds.