Absence.
Summary: One year ago she was ripped from his and presumed dead they were all forced to move on with their lives. Piecing together the shattered hearts wasn't easy, and she's back. Eventual Chuck/Sarah.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Set after the season 3 finale.
So I'm back writing, it's summer, really hot yet still raining and currently 1:11 ( a little freaky I know!) in the morning. Nothing like a bit of fanfic to help reign in the anger that guys seem to cause! My new story's not got a beta (anyone interested? :L) so all the mistakes are mine. I'm not very good at English with little patience, a mix that seems to cause bad spelling and grammar. Enjoy...
RIGHT! so this was reposted as people weren't getting the idea that IT WAS NOT SARAH'S CHOICE TO LEAVE! She wasn't disappearing off for a mission or seducing a mark for a year to just fan back into Chuck's life right as rain! Now i've sorted that out, please feel free to review :)
Prologue.
2010 June 19th – Burbank.
"Marry me?"
Sarah Walker's neck snapped round to look into the very serious eyes of the man whose arms she was currently laid in.
"What?" She asked confusion and alarm evident in her usually controlled voice.
"You heard me, marry me?" Chuck asked again, pulling her closer to him on the sandy beach that they had come to think of as their own. "I had it all planned out. I was going to take you to a fancy dinner and then a walk along a beach, the water running over our toes. I wanted it to be perfect. But this moment, right now, is perfect. Or at least as close to perfect as possible." Chuck took a breath, looking deep into her blue orbs. "You once asked me to trust you, right here in this spot and Sarah Walker, I trust you more than anyone else in the world and I'm so in love with you. That's never going to change." Chuck reached into his messenger back than he'd brought with him.
"Wait, you carry this ring around?" Sarah asked, suddenly drawn away from his words.
"Babe, you're a CIA agent, you'd find it in a heartbeat and I'm not about to trust Morgan with it. This ring was my Grandmother's and then my Great Grandmother's before that! If he lost it Ellie would actually skin him alive." Chuck laughed, pulling out a box and opening, "So I'm asking you, Sarah Walker, will you do me the honour of becoming my wife?"
"Yes." Sarah answered without thinking.
All the issues, the complications, could wait. She'd already agreed with Beckman that her and Casey's final mission would be their next before she would be relieved of her contract. She was actually going to start a normal, happy life with Chuck. Well as normal as could possibly be between the two of them.
"I love you." Chuck told her, unable to keep a wide grin of his face, "Sarah Bartowski, has a nice feel to it."
"Excuse me? Who say's I'm taking your name?" She teased, admiring the ring on her finger. It was a classic diamond solitaire cut with three smaller, round cut diamonds on each side set in a platinum ring, "It's amazing." She said dreamily.
"My Great-Grandfather on my Mum's side proposed to my Great-Grandmother a few seconds before he was shipped out for WW2. She was already pregnant with my Granddad and when he didn't come home she eventually gave him the ring, to give to the woman he loved. They only had a daughter though, my mother, so when I was born and my Grandma was ill, she gave me the ring and told me to give it to the woman who was the love of my life." Chuck grinned at Sarah, "I guess I just did that."
"Wow." Sarah breathed, placing a tender kiss on Chuck's jaw line and sinking further into his embrace as they watched the sea ripple.
"She would have loved you." Chuck told her confidently, "She always loved strong woman, said I needed to marry someone who's tough on the outside but a softie inside."
"If she's anything like her grandson then I'm pretty sure I'd have liked her too." Sarah said quietly.
"What time do you leave tonight?" Chuck asked, suddenly sobering the mood.
"Six. It's a simple one Chuck. Nothing to worry about." Sarah's smiled showed that she too believed that, a simple last mission to finish a record perfect career.
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Ellie was waiting for them when she got back, her senses immediately alerting her to the change in their relationship, "What's going on?" She asked, half curious and half suspicious.
"Hey guys." Morgan wandered past them before stopping next to watch the encounter, "What's up?"
"We're engaged!" Chuck exclaimed happily.
"Yay!" Ellie's squeal was sound loud and high pitched that the three victims closest to the noise had to cover their ears, "That's great!"
"Everything ok!" Devon and Casey had come running out of their respective apartments at the commotion.
"Chuck and Sarah are engaged!" Ellie squealed again.
"Congrats Walker." Casey grunted, clapping them both over their shoulders in a way that was to Casey what an excited bear hug would be to most others.
"I'm so happy for the two of you!" Ellie jumped over to them and pulled them into an example of an excited bear hug.
"Babe, I think they need to breath!" Devon cut in smoothly, prying his wife off the newly engaged couple, "Dudes, this is awesome!" He high fived Chuck and pulled him into a hug before giving Sarah a hug, lifting her off the ground slightly.
"Nice work man." Morgan hugged Chuck, "Nice work indeed." Morgan then went to hug Sarah, who let the little bearded gnome wrap his arms around her for slightly longer than necessary before Chuck coughed loudly.
"Alright alright." Morgan mumbled, letting the blonde go and taking a few steps back.
"Engagement party, tonight!" Ellie said happily.
"I can't." Sarah looked down sadly, knowing that they were now touching a very uncomfortable topic of her actual job and all that fell into that category, "I have to work."
"This weekend then?" Ellie asked, noticeably stiffer.
"Sure." Sarah smiled.
"Well congrats guys!" Devon beamed, pulling Ellie into their apartment and letting the others go into theirs. Chuck however was watching Ellie with an odd expression on his face.
"I need to pack." Sarah told him, kissing his cheek before disappearing into their bedroom.
"I'll be right back." Chuck told Morgan, walking across the courtyard and into Devon and Ellie's apartment.
"She's quitting, quitted in fact. Tonight's her last mission." Chuck told Ellie.
"That's great Chuck." Ellie smiled.
"What's wrong then?" Chuck asked, "Because I know that you still haven't forgiven her. You've forgiven me but not her and I would really want to know why because she's going to need you."
"Chuck I know you, and even though you've changed over the last three years, you're still Chuck. But she's someone I was convinced I knew like a sister, I thought of her as one, a sister, as part of the family and it turns out I know nothing about her." Ellie said, slightly angrily.
"That's not true." Chuck protested, "Yes we lied and yes you may not know everything about Sarah but neither do I. I know what I need to know and I know who she is now. That's all I need to know. You know who she is as a person. She simply smudged the details."
"I love Sarah, I do and I'm happy for you guys but it's going to take time before I see her as a sister again." Ellie told him finally, a little sadly.
"Please, for me, forgive her." Chuck asked, pleading Ellie with his eyes before turning to leave the apartment, "That excitement you just had. Either you're the best liar in the world or a part of you is truly happy for us, if you are then you should forgive her."
Six o'clock came around far too quickly for Chuck's liking and soon Sarah was throwing her bag into the boot of Casey's Crown Vic. Dressed in her usual attire she re-entered their apartment, leaning against the doorframe and surveying the scene fondly. Morgan was cooking something, she wasn't sure what it was but it smelt good, good enough to make her stomach rumble slightly. Chuck however was sat on the table with his back to the door, working on something.
"Hey." She whispered, wrapping her arms around him from the back and placing a gentle kiss on his cheek.
"Hey, are you leaving already?" He asked, looking up from his laptop to turn in his seat and face her, a look of worry in his beautiful chocolate eyes.
"Yeah." Sarah nodded, "Casey wants to get on the road."
"Am I allowed any information?" Chuck asked.
"There's someone who we believe may be funding a domestic terrorist plot." Sarah told him, "I also looked into those groups we found connected to your mum, I'm sorry but all my databases and spy work came up empty."
"It's ok." Chuck sighed, "I wish you didn't have to go."
"Me too, but hey, this is the last time remember." Sarah smiled softly.
"I know." Chuck smiled, standing up and drawing Sarah into a tender hug, "Love you."
"Love you more." Sarah said, however she took off her ring, "Keep it safe for me."
"You're not going to wear it?" Chuck asked, slightly hurt.
"If I lost it I'd never forgive myself." Sarah told him, "Just keep it until I get back, that way I know my hearts it's in the safest hands possible."
"A little cheesy for Sarah Walker." Chuck teased, "Where's that badass spy gone?"
"I'll give you badass." She mumbled, poking Chuck in the side playfully before turning serious once again, "I have to go, see you in a few days."
"I'll hold you to that." Chuck teased slightly.
"Bi Sarah!" Morgan called from the kitchen.
"Bi Morgan." She smiled at the man, "Try not to get him in too much trouble."
"Me...never!" Morgan said innocently, his eyes already twinkling.
"Oh dear lord." Sarah mumbled as she left the apartment.
Just as she was leaving the apartment she saw Ellie doing the same, a bag slung over her shoulder that made it obvious to Sarah she was heading out for her shift.
"Hey." Sarah smiled slightly as they headed over to their respective cars.
"Hey." Ellie smiled.
"You know I love him, right?" Sarah asked bluntly.
"Yeah, I think so." Ellie nodded.
"I do, and I'm quitting everything I've ever known for him, for the life I want with him. That's a massive deal to me. So I love him, more than anything else." Sarah clarified.
"Ok." Ellie nodded.
"See you later." Sarah opened the passenger door of Casey's car and slid in.
"Ready to go out with a bang?" Casey asked, a small smirk playing across his features.
"Always." Sarah grinned, pulling on her sunglasses and effortlessly slipping into Agent Sarah Walker mode.
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2010 June 24th – Burbank.
John Casey was not usually a nervous man.
He'd fought of armies of enemy soldiers. Looked death in the eye a countless amount of times. He was as tough as they came. However something about the door of Chuck Bartowski's apartment suddenly terrified him. Was it because it would make it all real? The cold hard truth would suddenly become inescapable.
"Hey John, when did you get back?" Ellie asked, surprised to see him loitering outside Chuck's apartment.
"Just now." Casey mumbled in a tone that was defiantly not his usually confident, testy grunt.
"Casey, hey." Chuck had pulled open the door at that moment, surprised to see a nervous looking John Casey, something he was convinced was a miracle and a slightly confused Ellie, "What's going on, where's Sarah?" He asked lightly.
"Chuck..." Casey started, at a loss for words, letting his pained expression rip apart the dreams and hopes of the man standing in front of him.
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So this was the introduction to my new story, setting up how Chuck and Sarah are finally happy and complete-ish.
I'm mean so it obviously won't stay that way.
MWAHAHA!
Though also am a sucker for happy endings.
Most of the time :P
Please review, tell me what you think and if you want more.
If so, there shall be more.
But for now, adios.
