Title – Defining Moments
Author – Blaney
Disclaimer – Chuck is not owned by me… I only take them out to play with them for a while, I promise to return them in 'mostly' the same manner I got them
Summery – This is my first attempt at a Chuck story, and I will warn you its a little dark. And one of the main characters is dies but please give the story a chance I tried to keep it dark but not too dark. Not every thing can be summed up in an hour like on TV and the only constant in life is change so our main character goes though some changes. I'm not very good at summaries. I do want to know what you'll think, good, bad, and indifferent. At the time of this posting I have the first of three main parts done. I may do some touch ups on these first few chapters but this is the main jest of it. The first section is from Casey's POV the next one will be Chuck's POV the last chapter will be a joint Ellie and Devon POV.
Timeline, Spoilers – I don't really touch on any specific episode but it would be after Chuck vs. the Marlin. And is an AU or Alternate Universe story, it starts out with the show then follows its own path… I do reference several other stories in this it is on purpose as a way to honor the stories, and story writers.
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(Casey's POV)
Life is full of defining moments… at least a well lived life. Your wife leaves you, or you get cancer… there's your life before it and your life after it. Sept, 11 was a defining moment for the whole nation. For Chuck, Walker and myself, Bryce was the herald to our shared defining moment… both of them; He sent the Intersect to Chuck that started it. Then by coming back from the dead he created another defining moment… although at the time we didn't know it.
One week after 'it'
You see a reporter was at the Buy More during 'black Friday' to do a piece on capitalistic greed at it's best or some crap like that. When he spotted Bryce and the CIA agents who well to say they stood out would be an understatement. The reporter recognized Bryce as having been killed in a bank robbery and to have him alive and well, and on the other side of the country he believed that Bryce was in witness protection and must have witnessed something big. He hid in the back when the fire alarm was pulled and witnessed fulcrum try to kill chuck and me. When he saw the fake firemen he ducked out the back and made his escape. We didn't know about him, but fulcrum found out, their last agent 'lizzy' was able to communicate that to them. When she disappeared, the leadership of the organization; tired of losing agents decided to have someone else do the leg work. They infiltrated two agents in to the paper and carefully fed the reporter information, which caused the reporter to want more.
It all happened about a month after the 'pita girl' incident as Chuck called it. The reporter was smart he laid a trap of sorts. He leaked some 'info' to homeland security about possible terrorist activity, and waited for our team to get called in to check it out. Then he had Chuck's name, Walker's and mines cover names and that fact that she was CIA and I was NSA… I'll admit we were getting sloppy, mine and Walker's instincts didn't feel right but we ignored them… that can get you killed. The reporter wrote a story about how the CIA and the NSA were conducting joint missions' right here in L.A. and they were using civilians to help the cover. He didn't name names but there was enough information to piece together who we were.
The story got published the next day… but the fulcrum agents already had all the information. They figured out that Chuck was the Intersect and Sarah could lead them to Bryce. What the powers that be were not counting on was the agent they sent to capture Walker and Bartowski, hated Agent Walker he had once been in love with her and she didn't reciprocate the feeling. He planned on killing them both and reporting back that they died tried to escape.
Walker and Chuck were out on a date, a real date, not for a mission so I was at home spending some time catching up on the stuff I have to put off when we are on a mission; my bonsai trees, email (the usual kind not the top secret classified ones) and of course cleaning my weapons. I knew that Ellie and Devin were home alone so I didn't need to turn on the bugs. (I'm not that perverted) it almost cost them their lives. I have Chuck's window wired so that if it opens I know. When it went off I almost ignored it figuring it was the hairy troll Morgan, I was wrong, it was two fulcrum agents they were sent to take out Ellie and Devin and make it look like a home invasion gone terribly wrong, they knew Devin's parents were a state senator and a federal judge. Also they knew what we knew that Ellie would move heaven and earth to find her brother if he went missing and with her connections she could cause trouble. They didn't want to take any chances. Of course I didn't know it at first I thought they were going to rob the place I was going to go scare them and try hard not to kill them. But fulcrum knew I was living here and they had sent someone after me. So not long after Chuck's window alarm went off my own place was broken in to. They bypassed the first and second sensor but I'd put Mister Chuck 'computer brain' Bartowski to work and we designed a better system which was a double good thing because the agents that broke in to Ellie's house bypassed the normal sensor. I was ready for the first one but not the back up they had. The second agent got a shot off before I killed him. Just below my heart snapping two of my ribs, nearly missing my aorta, just a half inch higher and I would have bleed out before I could even get to the door. I grabbed my cell and called in the emergency and taking my weapon staggered over to the other apartment, Chuck would have never forgiven me if I let his sister die, and I really like Ellie and Devin they are good people who try to make the world a better place. I kicked in the door, surprising the agents so I was able to shoot the first one when the second one started to swing his weapon around to me, Devin came out of nowhere and knocked the guy out cold. Then Ellie rushed over to me seeing the blood on my shirt she and Devin went into doctor mode, I don't know what happened next about the same time that Ellie got to me I passed out. The doctors said I was lucky to be alive… I'm not sure I can believe that, Walker… Sarah and Chuck were not so lucky, they were captured as planned but the fulcrum agent took them to an abandon warehouse he had set up it was shielded so we couldn't track them either with the watch or the nano-tracking devices I had 'slipped' to Chuck in his coffee. I don't know the whole story, agent Walker played along seeing no other way out yet bidding her time. She must have found it but she didn't know that fulcrum agent had wired the building to a dead man trigger. I found out later that the building was destroyed and the Sarah had gave up her own life to save Chuck… he was badly hurt but still alive.
I can't believe it all only happened a week ago, I'm still in the hospital well a secret location because now thanks to that damn reporter's story I'm to high profile to be out in public. Chuck is at another location also recovering. He didn't take the attempt on his sister's life very well. General Beckman told me he has retreated in a shell, physically he's well enough to be awake and semi mobile but the doctor's think he couldn't handle Sarah dying and his sister almost dying.