This is a story about Chuck's older less known brother.
The mission was a bust, Casey and Sarah had to shoot their way out of a volatile situation.
As they were running back to the Crown Vic they saw that one of the bad guys had bailed up Chuck. Chuck was standing at the front of the car with his hands up in a surrender pose. The bad guy had started to raise his gun and extend his arm out to possibly shoot Chuck in the head. We don't know because Casey fired a shot the hit the bad guy in the side of his head and that made his brains explode out the other side where the bullet passed through.
Sarah gasped as both men in front of her instantaneously fell to the ground. As she drew close she could see that the bad guy was missing the top of his head but what about Chuck? Chuck was lying on the ground in a foetal position rocking and shaking uncontrollable next to the dead goon. He appeared to be having a seizure.
Casey was first to the car, he briefly looked at his handiwork and got in the driver seat and started the car. Sarah slid to a stop once she had reached Chuck and grabbed his to see if he was alright.
Sarah found that Chuck was non-responsive and she called Casey to help her lift Chuck into the back of the car. Casey got out and assisted in picking Chuck up and throwing him into the back seat before getting back in the driver's seat and driving away. Sarah was candling Chuck's head in the back seat as Chuck was lying across the back seat. During the drive home she thought she hear Chuck say one word; "Brian". She was unaware of any Brian's in Chuck's life, no employee at Buymore was call that, no one Chuck had ever mentioned was that name either. She wondered for a time if in fact he said Bryce but Chuck said nothing more. The two spies decide to take Chuck home and put him to bed and then file a report to Beckman. Sarah opted to stay the night in an effort to kept an eye on Chuck. As the day turn to evening she decided to wear one of Chuck's t-shirts and climb into bed and cuddle him for the night.
The next morning she was woken by the noise of Chuck's best friend trying to enter through the Morgan door. Morgan was around because the boys had organized a car pool as Morgan's bike had a puncture. He was just as surprise as Sarah being there but he gave a sly smile.
"Sorry for interrupting, he apologised, "We had agreed to carpool this morning! So you two had a good night sleep?" He said with a sly grin.
The illusion that Morgan had that the couple had sex during the night was shattered when he noticed Chuck's non responsive state.
"What exactly did you two get up to last night?"
Sarah lied, "We had been to a movie and that it had a violent ending. It was very graphic and Chuck was affected by it. He's been like this for most of the night."
Sarah took the opportunity to quiz Morgan.
"Morgan, does Chuck know anyone named Brian?
Morgan's face dropped, he lowered his gaze and started muttering to himself. He also commenced walking in very tight circles and before he raised his head and started to recollect a long repressed childhood memory.
"Chuck had a brother!" Morgan just blurted it out.
"Chuck had a brother!" Sarah gasped in shock. "Chuck has a brother!"
"Had!... He's dead." Morgan's gaze once again was focused on the floor.
Sarah's mind started to recall all of the CIA briefing notes on Chuck, there was no mention of a older brother. Here was Morgan who had let the cat out of the bag by mentioning a family secret the agency didn't know about. Sarah needed to get Morgan to talk. She also wondered why Chuck had never mentioned him, she had thought that Chuck was an open book but it now appeared that he was capable in keeping a few secrets himself. A part of her wanted to scold herself for not finding out about this family secret. As a skilled interrogator getting Morgan to talk would be no problem, but would he do it in front of Chuck, even if Chuck is non responsive in his bed?
By the time Morgan had lifted his gaze, Sarah was up, out of bed and casually dressed. She beckoned Morgan to follow her out the door and into the apartment's kitchen where she indicated to him to take a seat on one of the a little encouragement, Morgan told the story of Chuck's older brother, Brian Frost.
"Brian was actually Chuck's half brother, Brian's mother Mary, had Brian to another relationship before she had met Stephen Bartowski. Brian was eight years older than Ellie and eleven years older than Chuck. Brian was difficult person to like, in fact Brian had behavioural issues and he was at times uncontrollable to everyone except his mother. Morgan didn't like Brian because he was a bully to Chuck and himself. While Chuck could keep Morgan safe from the bullies at school, at the Bartowski's it was a different story. Brian who wasn't like his step siblings, he was a short stout person and had a ruddy complexion. Stephen could not control him, but Stephen was using some unconventional ways to what he believed could help Brian adjust to adult life. Mr B was always running tests on the boy."
"One day just before Chuck's ninth birthday, I was visiting and we were playing a game of Monopoly. Brian had returned home later that afternoon and he found us in Chuck's bedroom and deliberately set about to upset the game. Brian's favourite trick was to pinch some of the playing pieces; he had a habit of taking a few pieces out of the jigsaw box and hiding them so no one could complete the jigsaw because of the missing pieces. He would do this regularly, so a 500 piece jigsaw was useless because of the missing bits."
"On this occasion Brian had entered Chuck's bedroom without being invited in, he had noticed that the two young boys were playing a board game on the floor. After Brian made a few unflattering comments which the boys tried to ignore, Brian then moved in and upset the game by lashing out and kicking the board and the pieces away with his foot. Brian slipped when he did this and he lost balance and fell to the floor, landing on both of us. It hurt and I struck out and kicked Brian with my heel to Brian's head. Brian responded by swinging his arm and punching me in the stomach. Chuck wanting to protect his friend then jumped on top of Brian making sure he drove his knees into Brian's ribs. I quickly recovered and jumped on Brian as well. The volume of the shouting, screaming and crying coming from Chuck's room alerted Mrs B that an fight was happening, Mary rushed in as Brian , who had managed to free himself had reached out and grabbed Chuck's baseball bat and was now using it as a weapon, he swung it around and he threatened to beat us with it. Mary snatched the bat out of Brian's grip and then ordered him out of the room. Brian was forced to exit but as he did I let fly some very vulgar language. Mrs. B wanted to send me home but first she had to stop the bleeding from my bloodied nose. Mrs B administered some first aid in the bathroom."
"Brian had gone outside and went to his car. He called Chuck out to come a see this. Chuck knowing the vindictiveness of his brother went to see what disaster the older sibling would commit. When Chuck was watching from the relative safety of the front porch of the house, Brian pulled a pistol out and shot himself in the head. He died where he fell. Chuck could visibility see the blood and brain matter oozing out of the head wound. On hearing the gunshot, Chuck's parents came rushing out from different parts of the house to see the end result. An ambulance was called and a coroner was dispatched. Everybody had to give a statement, me included."
"Chuck later told me that at the time, a very loud yelling match his parents had that night, and the tension in the house was tight for days. Chuck's birthday plans were ruined because of Brian's funeral. The only present he received that day came from his sister as his parents attention was on other matters."
"Shortly afterwards Mrs B disappeared and hasn't been heard of since that day. She had sent the kids to school and that's the last they saw of her. I don't know whether Mr B even reported her missing. I do know that Mrs B was an accomplished cook but Chuck's dad was close to useless in the kitchen.
"Whatever Stephen had been working on in his workshop was left unattended for weeks as Stephen questioned his role in the whole drama. A short while later Stephen would lock himself in the workshop for days at a time and that left Ellie to cook and feed her younger brother."
"Now you know why Chuck doesn't like guns." Morgan finished his recollection.
Sarah went to the display fridge and pulled out a couple of Grape soda's and gave them to Morgan.
"They're on me" she said, "Thank you for sharing."
Morgan smiled as he accepted his bounty and after bidding farewell he then proceeded to find another way to get to work.