The Frost Dragon
By Alex H S
Summary: What if Chuck had grown up with Alexei Volkoff? What would have happened if his mum had left him when he was younger?
Disclaimer: I do not own Chuck, it would be awesome if I did but I don't. [5457]
-T.F.D-
Chapter 1
The Visit
Without, the wind was raging and the rain was pounding on the windows. The rain was forming streams that turned into one big river when they joined in the centre of the road.
The street was abandoned apart from a lone man standing in the middle of the road. As the lightning flashed, you could see the man smirk. For he was here for Frost…Jr, his Frost Jr, he reminded himself.
He looked towards no. 25 Palm Avenue, Burbank, California USA. Outside the house, everything was deathly silent aside from the thunderstorm, but inside the house was a different matter.
In the second bedroom from the right of the staircase was a child's room. A 6 year old child's room to be exact; inside the room it was pitch black with only the lightning as a source of occasional illumination. When the lightning flashed, you could see a child struggling against the sheets of their bed, as if trying to escape them.
The boy was having a nightmare. A nightmare about how his mother had left them. She had left his dad, sister, and him.
-T.F.D-
-Nightmare-
He was alone; it was dark. He could not see. Suddenly, he saw his mother walking; surrounded by light as if she had a spotlight on her, like the ones from the theatre his parents had taken him and Ellie to once. He tried to call out to her, run to her and hold himself close to her but he couldn't. She was fading, becoming one with the darkness. He cried out, but it didn't help. It never did. She stopped, turned and looked at him. Her voice drifting towards him as though she was singing but her mouth did not move.
"Always remember that I love you Chuck, everything I do, I do it for you. Trust me Chuck, for everything is about to change."
She turned around and faded into the darkness.
"MUM!"
-End Nightmare-
-T.F.D-
"MUM!" All of a sudden, he shot up ramrod straight, face covered in sweat. He calmed himself as he realised that he was still at home, safe in his bedroom.
'I wonder if mum misses me?' he thought, 'I wonder where she is?'
However, all of this thought stopped as he heard his bedroom door creak open. For he knew that it was not his big sister, for he would always go to her, not the other way round, and it was most definitely not his dad as he was out for the night at a friend's house; so he started to wonder who it was.
"Hello…" he called softly, as if fearing an answer, "… is anyone there?"
There was a lengthy pause until someone answered, "Yes, I am here Chuck."
Chuck, as was the boys nickname, stopped and listened to the voice, for some reason he felt connected to this man, as if he should know him from somewhere, but then he realised that the man knew his name; so he felt it only fair to know his.
"What's your name?"
"My name is Alexei, Alexei Volkoff."
This time Chuck noticed something odd about the man's voice. It didn't sound American.
He frowned and asked, "Where are you from?"
He heard a light chuckle, "Just as smart as your father I see, Britain as it so happens. But I live in Russia."
"Where's wrus…wusi… wrush-a?" he asked with a frown on his face as he tried hard to pronounce the word, but looked pleased with himself after doing so.
"Russia," he corrected the small boy gently, "is where your mother and I live."
"Is mum alright?" he questioned the man urgently, but then paused before he said his next question softly, "Does she miss me?"
There was a pregnant pause before Alexei answered the small boy, "She is fine and she misses you very much."
Chuck smiled at this but stopped when he realised that he still didn't know why Alexei was here.
"Why are you here?" he asked once again curious.
"Just as curious as well!" Volkoff chuckled softly, before answering the boy seriously "because I want you to come and live with me and your mother."
"Does Ellie get to come too?" he asked, excited.
"I am afraid not Charles, as she has to stay with her father."
Chucks excitement disappeared in an instant, replaced with confusion, "But why can't she come with us?"
"Because your mother no longer loves Eleanor's father, and because there are two of you, you stay with your mother and me, whilst Eleanor stays with her father."
Chuck felt saddened by the news but he really wanted to see his mum so he nodded, "Ok, when can I come with you?"
Volkoff just smiled at the boy's quick agreement, "Now, if you hurry, but you must be really quiet because you don't want to wake Ellie do you?"
Chuck shook his head seriously, but he was going to miss his sister and he wanted to say good-bye.
"Can I say good-bye to her?" the small boy asked so softly that if Volkoff's senses weren't really strained right now he probably would have missed it.
He sighed, "No Charles, as she must not know what is happening yet"
Chuck just nodded in resignation.
-10 Minutes Later-
"Are you all packed and ready to go now, my boy?"
Chuck looked around his now empty room; the room was bare of his film posters, engine diagrams and videos. The only things that remained were the books he found boring, on his bookcase. He cocked his head to the side as if trying to remember something he had forgotten.
It was then that he heard Alexei mutter to himself, "He looks so much like you, Frost, my love"
It was then that it clicked as to what he was missing. He ran over to his bedside table and picked up his favourite book. He nodded to Volkoff, signalling that he was ready.
Volkoff raised an eyebrow at Chuck, and nodded towards the book. Chuck, understanding the gesture, showed him the book. The boys' book was called 'The Frost Queen'.
Upon seeing the book, Alexei shook with mirth, as it was obvious where the codename for the boys' mother had come from.
Chuck frowned upon seeing Alexei laughing at his book.
"What's so funny?" he asked defensively
"I think its best that your mother explains it to you" he replied, obviously amused. "Come on, outside as we've got to go. The driver's waiting."
Chuck's eyes widened "You've got your own driver!"
"Yes I do Charles, but he's not going to be happy with us if we keep him waiting now, is he?"
Although it was a rhetorical question, Chuck didn't know that so he shook his head urgently. Alexei just copied the gesture, and made a mental note to improve Charles' grammar.
"Come on Charles" he said whilst ushering the boy into his shiny, black hummer. When they were both in and settled in comfortably, Alexei tapped on the drivers' partition. "Lets' go." Was all he said and needed to say.
-T.F.D-
Alexei opened his eyes to see the young boy looking out over the ocean in awe. It was plain as day that the boy had never been on a private jet before; scratch that, any plane before. He smiled to think that he now had an heir to the Volkoff fortune, besides that stupid girl he had with that McArthur woman. Why he named the girl Vivian, he had no idea. The life that happened back then was a life, best-left long dead and buried.
All of a sudden, Chuck frowned, noticing something that Alexei said to him when in his room, and turned to look at him.
"Alexei, why did you refer to dad as 'Ellies father'?"
Alexei could have hit himself for the slip up he made, though a small part of him was rather glad that the boy asked, "Well…its complicated, Charles"
"That's what all adults say when they don't want children to know what happened or what is going on" he huffed, turning to look out of the window.
"I'll tell you on one condition"
"What?" he questioned eagerly, turning back to Alexei.
"You promise not to tell your mother what I am about to tell you."
"I promise."
"Ok. Well, your mother and I…" he started, "love each other, Charles, and she wants me to raise you with her so I will be doing the same thing as a father does. Protect you."
Chuck nodded and went back to staring out of the window, his forehead crinkled in thought.
'So that means that, if mum loves him, then she no longer loves dad!' he thought widening his eyes at the thought, though his forehead quickly crinkled again, 'so that also means that, Alexei is my new…dad?' he chewed his lip in thought.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the plane, Alexei was studying the boy he could now call his heir. He smiled as he saw the boy chew his lip in thought, 'He looks like I do when I'm contemplating something, right down to the wavy hair and chewed lip.' His face filled with so much surprise, it was almost comical, whilst his pale green eyes filled with anger and suspicion. He was about to open his mouth and ask Charles if his mother had ever said anything strange to him about his father, when he saw the boy sway sleepily.
'Oh well,' he sighed, 'I should probably get the boy to sleep now, so he doesn't get jet-lag, when we get there.'
"Charles," he called, to the small boy "come here and sleep so you aren't tired when we get there."
He smiled at the boy who nodded dutifully and headed over towards him, but the smile faltered when the boy stopped a couple of feet away from him, hesitating to come further.
He sighed. "What is it, Charles?"
The boy smiled shyly. "Can I sit on your lap, Alexei…?" he asked on a hopeful voice, "Dad used to let me do it all of the time." After that statement, the boy had unknowingly pulled the best trump card he could, for Alexei Volkoff would be the boys' father from now on. For he was not inferior to anybody, especially Stephen J. Bartowski. Codename: Orion.
Therefore, he patted his lap and nodded his head, whilst grimacing on the inside. For he had never been one for close, personal contact. The only person he was intimate with was Frost, and that was only after he had been dating her for a few months, up until then it hadn't even been anything more than the occasional peck on the cheek. But somehow, he knew, he just knew, that this child that looked so like his love, would work his way into his cold, almost emotionless heart.
Chuck smiled and ran the last few feet to him and then got up on his lap with some assistance. Alexei rubbed the boy on his back, in what he hopped was a comforting way. Chuck just smiled up at him in response and then decided to curl up in his lap to get comfy.
"G'night 'lexei" Chuck mumbled, as he fell into a deep sleep.
"Goodnight Charles"
So, that is the first chapter done, short I know, but this is my first Chuck fanfic. So how do you like it?
R&R please!
No flames!
Alex H S