Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, but in my dreams I own Sarah and Ellie

Not beta'ed' all mistakes are mine

My first attempt at a long fic, not related to my other fic Chuck vs. Karaoke, if you haven't read it yet, check it out.

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Prologue:

A week before Valentine's Day

It was another slow day the the Orange Orange as usual. The customer she was was serving at the moment was the first of the day, and it was almost noon, the gaggle of teenage boys will come in about 4 more hours, till then, there is really not much to do.

She lets her mind wander back to the previous day, when she let her guard down for a moment,

They were watching Jeffster play Toto's Africa, when she tells Chuck 'I don't really have anyone in my life who cares about me."

Chuck turns towards her, "Yea, you do."

Sarah was shocked back into reality when she slightly overfilled the cup and some of the contents spilled onto her finger.

"Here you go, a raspberry and peach frozen yogurt and raisins on top, that would be $4.25." The man counted his change and handed it to here, "Thanks and have a good day." "You too."

It was not what Chuck said, it was the most innocuous statement, however, it was the way Chuck had said it and how he had proved countless times in the past. He said it in a way that was more like a husband than an asset or a friend. She was touched to the deepness of her heart. She remembered what she did after. Sarah grabs onto his hand and squeezes it. The gesture says more than words itself.

Sarah took a quick look at her watch, and sighed. There was still exactly 2 minutes and 34 seconds till the bright spot of her morning comes to spend his lunch break with her.

At that moment, a delivery man walks in with 2 sandwiches from Lou's, Sarah pays him and awaits Chuck's arrival.

Sarah thought back to the previous year when they first started this tradition. It was only a way for Sarah to remind Chuck on how to keep his cover or mission debriefings. When Chuck complained that it was taking his lunch break away and that he rather spend time playing Call of Duty with Morgan during that time. Sarah tells him that it is to keep their cover, "If your girlfriend worked 2 minutes away from where you worked, wouldn't you visit her during lunch break?" Chuck caved in eventually and stopped complaining about his 'lost time'. But to Sarah's massive surprise, he started to come over even when she had nothing to debrief him on and he came over every day without fail so far. Sarah knew she should have stopped it from happening, but she really enjoyed his company and allowed it to continue on and talk about trivial matters. It was a time when she could truly just be herself.

The bell rings, Sarah tilts her head up and sees the million watt smile of one particular man named Chuck Bartowski. He calls out "Hi Sarah, what's for lunch today?" leaning over the counter and giving Sarah a kiss on the cheek, then a light kiss on the lips.

Sarah smiles back at him and asks, "What was that for? There's no one around to protect our cover."

Chuck shrugs, "I can never resist doing that with a beautiful girl." Sarah looks cross, "So, have you been kissing other girls? Have you been cheating on me and on our relationship?"

Chuck corrects her, "Cover relationship, and no, why would I do that when I already have the most beautiful girl in the world as my cover girlfriend."

Sarah smiles at the compliment, "You're off the hook this one time, don't even think about cheating on our cover relationship." Sarah reaches under the counter and takes out the two sandwiches she just bought, "Here you go, a special delivery from Lou's, don't worry, I asked for extra olives on yours." Leading Chuck to one of the tables.

They had an enjoyable lunch together, talking about latest antics of the fearsome duo, Jeff and Lester. How they wanted to do a concert at the Buy More Parking Lot and how they are going to become famous after the success of their playing at the Buy More last night. Sarah laughs as she remembers the reaction of half the audience present.

Chuck suddenly goes completely silent, and stares at his half-eaten sandwich and mumbles out a second.

Sarah stares at him blankly, "What did you say?"

Chuck takes a deep breath, looks up and says almost impossibly quickly, "Um, Valentine's Day is coming up as you might, actually probably might not know, unless Bryce celebrates Valentine's Day with you, but that's not the point, so basically Ellie and Awesome is hosting a Valentine's Day party at the Hyatt hotel and more or less confronted me with a knife until I promise that you and I would attend it. So in a nutshell, what I am trying to ask you is do you want to be my Valentine's date." Chuck says that all in one breath and is now trying to catch his breath again.

Sarah looks at him, smiles and replies, "I wouldn't miss it for the world."

Chuck gave Sarah a smile that was probably bigger than his face, "Awesome, I'm gonna tell Ellie right now, actually she asked me to ask you whether you want to have dinner at our place tonight, so we can tell her tonight."

Sarah replies, "Sounds good, I'll meet you at around 7."

Sarah thinks, "Nice, another Ellie dinner, something more to look forward to other than lunch."

So basically this is just the prologue and if you haven't deduced it yet, this is going to be a Valentine's Day themed fic, I will introduce the mission soon. I'm hoping that this fic will last a good number of chapters and can give you guys something to look forward to.

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