The Choice:
Sarah had never known fear like the fear enveloping her now. The last spirit before her was herself and yet a darker version of her. Sarah could see the spirits right side was her face gleaming back but her left side was one of death itself incarnate. A cold chill filled her bones and flesh as the apparition spoke to her.
"Are you ready Sarah?"
"Wait!", Sarah said.
"What Sarah? We have a lot to see and not a lot of time to go where we need to go!" was the reply the spirit retorted.
"Spirit can I change the outcome to the better of what you will show me?"
"Sarah the choice is yours to make, but I see either life and love , or death and sorrow if you choose wrongly."
"Then let's go spirit I am ready." Sarah exclaimed back.
The spirit took Sarah by her right hand and led her to a 2 story white house with a red door and a white picket fence. A beautiful Christmas tree showed itself on the window and the sound of laughter filled the air. Once inside the spirit and Sarah viewed an older Sarah and Chuck sitting on a couch kissing.
"Ewwww, Mom dad could you stop all this lovey dovey, stuff," the older child said.
His sister the same age corrected her brother. "Stevey leave mom and dad alone, it looks so cute and romantic to see. But the other kids are giggling seeing mom and dad so lovey with each other.
Sarah confused, saw 6 children in the home, the spirit explained that these were hers and Chucks children. Stevey and Emma were there oldest both fraternal twins, then next were the three girls, all identical triplets, Samantha, Ella, and Lisa. These were the splitting image of Sarah, with blond hair and their mothers blue eyes. Lastly was Charles Casey their last child the splitting image of their father. All the children were beautiful, very smart, very athletic, and with a huge heart like their mother and father.
"These are the children you and Chuck will have if you open your heart Sarah. You and Chuck will be very well off. You and he will begin Carmichael Industries and will stop your spy lives and will have the real life you have always yearned for Sarah." The spirit explained to her.
"Because of Chuck your, mother and the girl you saved with live also because of him. You family will be happy and your love for your husband will be unmatched.
Plus the lives you and Chuck will also prosper and be blessed. Casey will find his long lost daughter he never knew he had. All this because you opened your heart Sarah, and fought for that love Sarah."
Sarah was sobbing realizing what was being shown to her, the future she had dreamt of.
A future of love, a husband, children and a real home. It was everything her heart dreamed of, all because of Chuck.
Suddenly Sarah wasn't afraid anymore, she was no longer afraid of the 49B, Beckman, or the CIA. All she wanted now was her Chuck.
The spirit however now told Sarah what lay before her if she chose to not include Chuck in her future.
"Sarah let us go to what will happen if you don't open your heart."
"Please spirit , I learned my lesson please don't ." Sarah pleaded
"No Sarah you need to see it all", the spirit replied.
With that Sarah saw her spirit take on the dark and menacing appearance. Her left hand came out and it was not a hand but a skeletal hand grabbing her wrist. Sarah tried to pull away but the skeletal hand gripped her wrist like a steel vise.
She was led to a room and there sat Chuck, a pale image of the man she knew. Tears came down his face as he wrote something on a letter she had seen previously. Sarah knew what the letter was and knew the meaning. Sarah then saw him pull a gun from inside a drawer in front of him. Then cocking the gun , his last words were, " I can't go on without you Sarah, I miss you." Then the gun going off filled the room and it vibrated her very soul and the pain she felt was one that eclipsed her very being.
"Why Spirit why show me these things!" Sarah cried out.
"It is to show you what is at stake, Sarah!"
"Because of your actions Sarah, you will affect many others. Casey and Carina will die in some god-forsaken hole because you were not there with Chuck. Your mother will die because of you, as well as the little girl."
"How no one knew." Sarah replied.
"That is not true, you will go with another man Daniel Shaw, who you think will love you like Chuck. But in the end he will betray you and kill you, and then take over the CIA/NSA. He will get the intersect from the Ring group and let Ryker know where you hid her. You actions will lead Ryker to your mother and he will kill her and then the little girl will die horribly once he has her fortune. All because Chuck was not in your life, to help save them all. "
"Sarah I will show you now your death", said the ominous spirit.
She saw as Shaw threw her incapacitated body over the bridge in Paris.
"This is your death Sarah, no love , no family, and friends who will also die because you made the wrong choice. So Sarah are you ready ?"
Sarah crying openly sobbing , her body shaking as her heart finally burst oopen and the walls she had for so long erected came crumbling down.
