Chapter 2
"Casey." She whispered loudly, "I know whatever we've done we have to face the consequences but please, help Chuck now."
"I've rang an ambulance. But Walker I'm afraid you have to come with me." Casey said, pulling her by her arm.
"I'm not leaving him." She said, putting Chuck's hand in hers.
"You can stay with him until the ambulance comes, you've committed treason, Sarah."
"I know." She whispered, laying her head on Chuck's chest. "Chuck, Chuck. Can you hear me?" She said desperately.
"S - Sarah?" His eyes opened halfway and he looked very confused.
"Chuck!" Her heart filled with hope, "it's okay, the ambulance is coming."
"Casey?" He said quietly, looking at the two of them again, before falling back into unconsciousness.
She said his name several times more, she felt a gentle hand on her shoulder, pulling her away. It was a paramedic, "let us do our job, ma'am." He said, and several other men hoisted Chuck up onto a stretcher. He lay limp and lifeless as they put an oxygen mask on his face, they started to walk away with him in the stretcher and the man that had pulled her away was now standing next to her.
"What are you to him?" He asked, whilst walking along side her and Casey to the ambulance.
"I'm his - his fiancé. Can I come in the back of the van please?" She asked desperately.
"Fiancé?" Casey whispered angrily into her ear.
"Sure you can. What exactly happened here?" The paramedic asked, examining Casey's red, angry face.
"He fell down the stairs, his suitcase was too heavy for him." Sarah said, tears threatening to escape from her glistening eyes.
"Okay, we'll do everything we can, are you coming too?" He asked Casey as Sarah was climbing into the van.
"Yes."
"What are you to him?" He repeated. Casey thought quickly.
"I'm his brother." He looked at the mans face, his eyes switching from him to Chuck. "Half brother." He said hurriedly.
"Ah, right."
They sat in silence on the way to the hospital, Sarah's pale hand covering Chuck's limp, cold one. She spoke to herself in her mind chanting over and over that Chuck would be fine, she couldn't, wouldn't let herself think that anything bad would happen to him, her lifeline right now was wishful thinking.
Casey grunted for a moment, and opened his lips to speak, "what exactly were you thinking, Walker?"
"I was thinking that I didn't want to be a spy anymore." She said, not taking her eyes off Chuck.
"So you ran off with our most important piece of intelligence?" He grumbled.
"Don't you dare speak about him that way." She shouted angrily. "His name is Chuck, he is a person you know."
"Your going to have to come with me soon." He said, ignoring her sudden burst of anger.
"Wait until I know he's safe, at least give me that Casey."
"Fine, you know what's going to happen to you, after all treason is a pretty serious offence. When Chuck is out of hospital, he's going to prison too, if he ever comes out." He said darkly.
Sarah winced at his last sentence, she just wanted to know that Chuck would be safe, whatever would happen to her she just wanted to be taken away, relaxing in the knowledge that he was going to be okay. Sarah never expected it to end like this and how could a stupid staircase do this to Chuck?
Sarah knew that the minimum sentence of treason was five years, how was she going to survive for that long, if not more? Then when she got out she would be a regular civilian again - just with a record. How the hell could she leave him? This was going to be the hardest thing she would ever have to do, but she had very little choice.
The ambulance came to an abrupt halt and the paramedics quickly brought the stretcher into the hospital and they lowered him onto a wheelie bed, they pushed him into an x-ray room and quickly figured out the problem, he had fractured his arm and he had a very server concussion, they thought it would be best to leave him in his coma and he should wake up on his own, but this could take a minimum of two weeks.
Sarah sat next to him on the bed, machines beeping loudly in the back round, his face was perfect except for the cuts on his face, but she was oblivious to it, he was still her Chuck. She stroked his hand and whispered "I love you, Chuck. Maybe one day I'll see you again." She started to cry, she nestled into his chest and sobbed hard, tears dripping onto his cast, Casey stood in the doorway and looked at the scene before him, but he felt almost nothing, she had brought this on herself.
"Walker, come on." Casey said, as several men came behind him, "don't worry they've called Ellie and Awesome they're on their way." All she could do was nod and she slowly let Chuck's hand go, she took one last longing glance at him and she walked out the door, just barely.
*
Ellie rushed into the ward the next afternoon, Awesome following closely behind with Morgan in tow. She panted as she asked for Chuck's room and she ran like a cheetah onto his ward. She looked at him and burst into tears.
"Oh my God." She whispered, perching on the end of his bed, "what the hell happened?" She asked the doctor, who was monitoring his blood pressure.
"He fell down the stairs." She knew what had happened already because the hospital had phoned her, but she was in such a deep state of shock that she wasn't able to process it. Awesome and Morgan sat on the bed opposite Ellie and were deeply shocked also and where the hell was Sarah?
"Where did Sarah go?" Morgan asked Ellie, bewildered.
She sighed, she knew, being a doctor that he probably couldn't hear her, but it didn't hurt her to try. Over the next week Ellie, Awesome and Morgan stayed by Chuck's side, she didn't mind because it may have been possible that she was suffering from insomnia but Awesome was exhausted and Morgan was slowly going mental, between all of them they had gone through all of Chuck's life and memories.
Ellie took care when she washed his hair because his body was so limp and lifeless but she couldn't let him get dirty, he was still a human being. They never lost hope that he would wake up.
Two weeks after the accident Chuck began to hear voices, at first they were quiet but then he recognised them as Ellie, Awesome and Morgan.
He opened his eyes - dazed and confused. "Where Sarah?"
