Sarah Walker sat in a dimly lit Italian restaurant, bored out of her mind. It wasn't that she technically having a bad time, it was more or less that she was wishing her company was someone else. Maybe a 6ftish curly brown haired nerd who happened to have all the government's secrets inside of his head.

"So then the guy was like, I don't even own a catfish!" Her date laughed out, loudly.

Sarah forced a laugh along with him. She had been seeing Seth Johnson, secretly, for about a month. Chuck had asked Sarah if they could at least be friends, and since that moment she had been depressed and in pain. She thought of she started seeing someone, maybe things would get better, but they had only gotten worse. It was hard to keep her relationship from Chuck a secret, and every time she kissed Seth, she pictured Chuck. Things were just not working out in her favor.

"Seth, I don't think this is working out." Sarah suddenly announced, interrupting Seth from another one of his weird stories.

"What, why?" Seth asked shocked, he thought everything was going great, he was sure he was going to seal the deal tonight.

"It's just me, not you…" Sarah was quickly cut off from her speech by her cell phone. "Sorry I have take this." Sarah said as she looked down and saw Casey's picture on her Iphone.

"Walker, the kid flashed. Meet us at 101 Atlantic Ave." Casey quickly growled into the phone.

"Uhh I am already there." Sarah stumbled, this didn't seem good. "What is going on?"

"Why is she there?" Sarah heard Chuck asked. "Shut up moron." Casey groaned, followed by a crash that sounded like Chuck being pushed into something.

"Casey! What is going on?" Sarah begged.

"Bartowski flashed on some guy, Seth Johnson, he is a lower end Fulcrum agent, he is here looking for information on Bryce…not that Larkin is anywhere near us.

Sarah dropped her head in annoyance. Perfect. A mission involving her soon to be ex-boyfriend, and Bryce…just perfect.

"Um, Case, I will bring him in. No need to come out." Sarah whispered.

"What, why?" Casey asked intrigued.

"Because of course I want you to meet Seth, my boyfriend of a month, why wouldn't I?" Sarah growled out, while smiling at Seth.

Sarah heard Casey mutter a laugh before agreeing to wait in the Castle for Sarah's return.

"Sorry, that was one of my friends." Sarah covered to Seth.

"I guess we aren't breaking up?" Seth asked with a smile. "Seeing as they want to meet me and all."

"Looks like it." Sarah replied with a forced smile. Quickly she had Seth pay the check before they walked out, hand in hand sadly, to Sarah's Porsche.

Sarah drove to the Orange Orange in silence. She knew things were about to get real bad. She was sure Casey had told Chuck the news of her awesome boyfriend choice.

"Why are we meeting at your work?" Seth asked as they pulled into the parking lot.

"Who doesn't like a late night ice cream?" Sarah asked with another forced smile.

Sarah saw Casey come out the front door, with a miserable looking Chuck trailing behind him. Perfect.

"Walker! So glad you could make it." Casey smirked, opening Seth's door and dragging him out of the car.

"Hey!" Seth cried out.

"That's him." Chuck announced, just barley glancing at Seth.

"Are you sure?" Casey checked.

"Yup." Chuck replied, looking up at Sarah for the first time. His brown puppy like eyes looked so sad.

"Chuck…" Sarah started, only to be met with Chuck retreating form.

"I'll be home if you need me." Chuck mumbled.

"Looks like it is just you and me…and Seth." Casey replied, dragging Seth down into the Castle.

"Wonderful." Sarah whispered, watching Chuck go. She could do nothing but helplessly follow Seth's scared cries of what was going on down the stairs to the integration room.

Two hours later Sarah and Casey watched the van carrying Seth drive away.

"That guy doesn't know a thing." Casey mumbled, upset that he barley had to threaten the guy before he spilled everything he knew about Bryce, which was barely anything.

"I am going home." Sarah replied angrily, marching off to her car.

"Walker, wait!" Casey called after her, Sarah stopped but she didn't turn around.

"Why did you tell him?" Sarah asked Casey.

"I didn't, you were on speaker. I didn't know you were going to admit having a boyfriend." Casey answered honestly.

"Did he say anything?" Sarah asked.

"No, he was real quiet." Casey answered soothingly. "I am sure everything will be ok, just talk to him…I mean you guys decided to be friends, he must have known this would happen."

"You know I am hopelessly compromised, right?" Sarah bit out sarcastically.

"I know you love him, but I think if anything, that makes his protection better." Casey whispered.

"What do I do John?" Sarah asked, finally turning around.

"I don't know Sarah. This is why agents shouldn't fall in love." Casey replied.

"Yea…I guess it is to late now." Sarah sadly replied.

"You could fight for him." Casey said after a minute of silence.

"And if Beckman found out?" Sarah asked.

"We convince her it is for the better." Casey replied.

"You would help?" Sarah questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Look, I am not a mushy emotion filled guy, but…the kid has given up a big part of his life to serve the country, I can respect that, at least you and I get paid…he deserves something out of this." Casey admitted.

"So…that's your advice, I go against everything I was trained to do?" Sarah asked with a amused smile.

"Just this once." Casey replied with a smile of his own.

"Thank you Casey." Sarah said, this time with a real smile.

"We never had this discussion." Casey growled out.

"Never." Sarah replied with a megawatt smile.