Ok, so here's the next chapter :D

P.S. I'm having so much fun writing this, I can't help but update it.. hopefully I didn't make this chapter too choppy though.

P.S. x2 : Thanks so much for the reviews! I was beginning to think you guys didn't like my story :)

Chapter 3- Baby Awesome vs an 'A' for 'effort'

Morgan rushed into Chuck's bedroom after baby Clara. There were a hundred different worst-case scenarios going through his mind as he reached to open the door, one of them involving her being abducted by angry ninja tuna fish. But nothing he'd thought of had prepared him for the moment of terror he experienced when he saw little Clara in front of the intersect computer.

"Oh no, oh crap, Clara? Clara?" he cried as he charged up towards her. He quickly picked her up and checked her over. Other than having a slightly dazed look on her face, Clara seemed completely fine.

Morgan sat her on the bed, and breathed in a huge sigh of relief as he swept a hand through his hair.
"Don't you ever do that again," he said to her, even though he knew she couldn't understand him. "You nearly gave Uncle Morgan a heart attack!" He said, trying to catch his breath.

Clara simply stuck her hand in her mouth, and looked up at him like he was nuts.

Morgan checked her again once more to make sure she was all right, and carried her out of Chuck's bedroom, this time making sure that the door was shut tightly.

In his worried frenzy, however, Morgan didn't realize that the blinking screen on the intersect computer read, "Download Complete."


Luckily for Morgan, the next few hours were pretty uneventful, and he didn't let Clara out of his sight even once. Heck, he'd even managed to get her to eat her cheerios, and now they were both sprawled on the couch watching TV.

Well, Clara was watching TV… Morgan was half asleep.

Suddenly there was loud knocking on the door. "I'm awake! I'm awake," he shouted as he jolted upright.

"Morgan! Open the door!" A voice came from outside. Morgan picked up baby Clara and hurried to the door. He opened the door to see Ellie and Devon standing there; they were finally back, and both of them looked exhausted from their long hospital shifts.

"Well hey guys how was -" Morgan started to greet them, but was cut off by Ellie as she reached to take baby Clara. "Hey baby! Mommy missed you so, so much!" Ellie exclaimed as she held Clara close.

Ellie was busy fawning over little Clara and making sure she was ok, so it was Devon aka "Captain Awesome" who came up and thanked Morgan.

"Didn't think you had it in you bro, thanks a lot!" he said, as he gave Morgan a high-five.
"Sure, no problem," Morgan replied as he high-fived back.

Morgan waved to them once more before they left, and then he went back inside the apartment.


Somehow or another, Morgan had fallen asleep on the couch while waiting for Chuck to come home and relieve him of his intersect laptop guard-duty.

However, he was jolted awake when he heard a strange noise coming from the kitchen.
Huh… it almost sounded like there was someone in the kitchen.

Someone, in the kitchen…

Wait, what?

Morgan's brain finally processed this information and he shot straight up off of the couch and grabbed the tall lamp which stood in the corner.

Very slowly, he made his way over to the kitchen with the lamp in his hands raised baseball-bat style.
"Whoever you are, I'm warning you! I have a lamp and I'm not afraid to use it!" he shouted as he peered through the kitchen doorway and saw…

Chuck. Rummaging through the fridge for something to eat. He was still dressed in his black "mission clothes" and had probably just gotten home.

He turned around to see Morgan in his "attack stance," and nearly choked on the sandwich that he had found to eat.

"Chuck?" Morgan's mouth hung wide open. "H-how did you…?" He managed to say as he stood there in shock. Chuck eyed him curiously.

"Uh, Morgan, what are you doing with my lamp?" Chuck asked.

"I…t-there was, and you, a-and-" Morgan tried to explain, but that's all that came out.

"W-when did you get back?" He managed to ask after he regained himself a bit.

"Ah, about ten minutes ago…" He replied as he took another bite of his sandwich. "Sarah and Casey had to stay a little longer though, to...*ahem,* to um, question someone…"

At this, Morgan shuddered slightly, and almost felt sorry for that unlucky someone.

"So, anything interesting happen while I was gone?" Chuck asked as they walked into the living room.
"Nah, nothing much," Morgan replied as he put the lamp back down.

"Well, um, I guess I'd better get going," Morgan said quickly; he was looking forward to being home after his long day.

"Sure thing buddy, see you later," Chuck said back.

Morgan was nearly out the door when Chuck stopped to thank him.

"Hey, I'm really sorry it took so long for me to get back," Chuck said to him as he turned to leave.
"I can't thank you enough for keeping an eye on things here for me while I was gone."

"Hey, no biggie! What else are best friends for?" Morgan replied. "Plus it wasn't so bad here. In fact, it was actually kind of fun," he said, thinking back to baby-sitting Clara.

He was about to leave again when Chuck stopped him a second time.

"Uh, Morgan, what's this?" Chuck asked, pointing to a blue tote bag filled with baby supplies, lying in the corner of the living room.

"Crap!" Morgan shouted as he went back in to get it. "I forgot to give that back to Ellie; I was baby-sitting Clara."

"Ellie let you baby sit Clara?" Chuck asked, incredulously.

"Yeah, why?" Morgan asked back.

"No reason," Chuck said, as he sifted through the tote bag. He stopped suddenly.
"Morgan, you didn't try to give Clara red bull, did you?" Chuck asked as he held up a sippy-cup that was filled halfway with a dark, fizzy liquid.

"What? No, of course not!" Morgan replied as he took the bottle from Chuck's hands.
"I gave her grape soda."


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