Chapter 3

Sarah and Chuck were walking out the hospital when they heard someone behind them call their names out, Chuck turned around, but Sarah merely stopped and just looked over her shoulder, it was Dr. Stevens.

"Hey you guys you need directions to Ellie's place?" she asked.

Chuck tilted his head to the left, Sarah thought it kind of resembled a dog, but she would never actually say that out loud... "Oh yea I totally forgot about that. Where do they live? I guess they wouldn't still be living in the apartment in Burbank." Dr. Stevens raised her eyebrows in shock, maybe even a little disbelief, "Actually they do."

Chuck looked kind of surprised when he heard this; he looked over at Sarah and saw that she too had a shocked look on her face.

"Oh, I was just kidding about that but since they still do live there...I guess we don't need directions." He let out an awkward chuckle and Dr. Stevens looked at the couple and saw that they were looking a bit shocked, nervous, disbelief...take your pick and they looked it.

"Well I guess I'll see the two of you tonight then." She said getting ready to turn around to go back to her office.

"See you then, Dr. Stevens." Sarah made a quick wave gesture to her and then started to turn in the opposite direction.

"Oh, please call me Emily. If you're a friend of Ellie's then you're a friend of mine."

Chuck looked at her and gave her a small smile "Okay then, see you there, Emily."

And with that the couple headed out the door to leave. Emily watched them leave, confused by their sudden behavior after being invited to the party. One would think that if you hadn't seen a friend of three years you would be excited to see them... Hmmm, maybe Chuck is Ellie's ex or something that would make sense on how they suddenly got a bit edgy bringing her up, she thought to herself. Chuck being Ellie's Chuck, the runaway brother with no word what so-ever; was the farthest thing from her mind.

Once they were in the safety of their car Sarah looked at Chuck with a concerned look,

"Do you think its wise to just show up at the party and just surprise Ellie and Devon like that? Don't you think that maybe we should skip the party and just maybe drop by tomorrow instead? We don't want to put her in shock, at her own party. You know?"

Chuck sighed, "Yeah Sarah I know, but its just, now that I know that she's still here in town, in the same place that we lived at...it just really hard not for me to go visit her. I mean I just want to drive over there now. I don't know if my heart can wait till tomorrow." Sarah gave him a small smile that said 'Yeah I know what you mean'. Sarah looked at the clock and it said 4:30 PM.

"Well, this probably isn't the best idea I've ever had, but I guess we could go see her now... So that way she isn't in to much of a shock at the party?" Chuck looked at her with his eyebrows up so high that it almost hit his hairline.

"Are you serious, Sarah? I mean this isn't something that we should take lightly. What if she freaks out and calls the cops or something?"

"Chuck, either way if we show up at the party or if we go there a couple hours early...she's going to freak out." Sarah reaches out to grab his hand, "We're going to have to take a risk here." Chuck looked at her, "What are we going to tell her about me just disappearing with out and everything."
"We'll tell her the truth. She won't believe anything else we would say."

"What if it makes her unsafe?" Sarah looked at Chuck straight in the eyes and said,

"You haven't had a flash in 2 and half years. I think that she'll be safe enough."
"I hope you're right." He gave her a hopeful smile then started the car and started to pull out of the parking lot, "Ellie and Awesome, here we come." He said out loud pretty confidant, but under his breath thinking Sarah couldn't hear him, "Please don't freak out." After he said that he felt Sarah give his hand an extra squeeze.

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Chuck and Sarah stood out side by the courtyard as they had done so many years before, but instead of the feeling of awkward with each other, of them trying to hide their feelings for the other as they had 3 years ago, they felt nervous, anxious, and scared.

Chuck was afraid his sister would hate him forever not forgiving him for abandoning her with out a word. Sarah was nervous because she wasn't exactly sure if the CIA or the NSA had stopped looking for them or not and if they had spies here just incase they came back. So Sarah for the first time in years was back feeling like a spy protecting the man she loved.

"Do you think we should go up and knock?" Chuck asked Sarah without breaking his stare at the door.

"I think that would be the best idea, they're not telepathic." She joked trying to make the situation lighter. Chuck barely smiled to it. Chuck, taking a deep breath, grabbed Sarah's hand and took a step toward the door reached a hand to the door and paused. That scared feeling came back and he felt as though he was going to throw up. He glanced at Sarah and at the same time she looked at him, "You can do this Chuck. I believe in you." With that she gave him a reassuring squeeze. He took another deep breath trying to steady him and finally knocked on the door.

"What if they're not home?" but just as he asked that he heard his sister's voice yell to, he was guessing, Awesome. He felt his heart stop and he heard Sarah's breath catch.

They saw the knob turn.

The door opened slowly, to slowly for Chuck's liking.

"Hell..." Ellie's voice trailed off and just stared at Chuck with her jaw dropped, "Chuck?"

Chuck wanted to say something, but he couldn't seem to speak so he just nodded, next thing he knew Ellie was hugging him crying into his chest, tears falling from his own eyes as well. Finally when he felt he could speak he whispered, "I missed you so much, sis." He heard Ellie mumble, "Me too."

About 3 minutes later when they got all of their tears out, Ellie finally realized that there was some one standing next to Chuck. She wiped her eyes and blinked away the last little bit of tears that she had left there, and realized that it was Sarah standing next to her little baby brother. She looked from Sarah to Chuck, back to Sarah, then back to Chuck. She was slightly confused about why Sarah was there, before Chuck ran off, he broke up with her and told her that he never wanted to see her again. So she was very confused. Chuck seemed to pick up of her confusion and said, "Ellie, you remember Sarah right?" Ellie nodded and smiled at Sarah, still confused on why she was with her brother. "Well, Sarah is my wife." Chuck said with a very, very proud smile and Sarah took a step toward Ellie and enveloped her in a hug whispering, "It's so good to see you Ellie, I've missed you and Chuck has missed you so much, you don't even know how much."

Ellie pulled back from the hug, a little surprised, "How long have you too been married?" She asked in awe. Her little brother, married. To Sarah none-the-less, nothing will ever surprise her again. That's for sure. Chuck cleared his throat and took Sarah's hand, looking at Sarah and then smiled at her then looked back at Ellie.

"We've been married for three years." Ellie at first smiled brightly and replied,

"That's great! You have been married longer than Devon and myse..." Then realization hit her. If they had been married for three years that must mean that Sarah knew that Chuck was going to run away.

"You two never actually broke up did you?" Sarah and Chuck looked at each other and nodded simultaneously. "So you knew the whole time where Chuck went and didn't tell us?"

"Ellie, I couldn't." Sarah said sadly.

"What do you mean you couldn't? You saw how torn up about this I was and you still didn't tell me?" Ellie was starting to get angry at Sarah.... and Chuck.

"Ellie, Sarah couldn't tell you because it would have comprised myself and her. We had to leave separately so no one would follow her to me."

"Why would some one be after you Chuck?" her anger subsiding and confusion growing.

"Because, I have every government secret in my head."

Okay so this is my story so far it might be a little while till I repost anything because I have a lot of things to do for school and the Airforce. But I'm going to try and get at least 3 chapters a week.

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