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Chapter 3: "A Picnic?"
Previously on 'Chuck vs The Octagon'
He constantly replays the one sentence over in his head as he slides into his car and pulls out of is parking space.
How in the hell am I supposed to impress a woman like Sarah Walker?
The next day, at precisely 6pm Chuck was knocking on Sarah's door, and ten seconds later the door opened to reveal a beautiful blonde wearing black jeans, a grey t-shirt and a black leather jacket.
"Hi, Sarah you look amazing." He compliments her overall appearance.
"Thank you." She blushes despite retaliation.
"I must say, you picked the perfect outfit for what we are doing tonight." He comments, smiling brightly.
"And what, dare say, is that?" She questions with a thoughtful smile.
"That, my beautiful companion, is for me to knw and you to experience." He replies sweetly.
She blushes again, despite protest. This is the most I have blushed in years. What is happening to me? There was only one possible answer, Chuck.
As they walk into the parking lot, they turn towards a black motorbike.
"You're taking me on a date, riding that?" She questions accusingly.
"Why yes I am, are you scared Sarah, Sarah Walker?" He raises an eyebrow, while also grinning like a fool.
"No, not scared of anything. Just… curious." She rocks her head side to side with a playful smile.
"Okay, well you shall not be as curious when we reach our destination." And with that, he passed her a helmet while also grabbing his own. And two minutes later, they where on the road.
30 minutes later, they arrived at a parking lot in the middle of nowhere at the bottom of a park.
"Where are we going?" She asks ten minutes later as they trek up through the forest.
"You'll see…. Ah! Here we go!" He ran up to a tree and wiped some leaves from the bottom to reveal a wooden basket.
"A picnic?" She asks, slightly confused.
"Yep, I know it's probably not your usual first date type of location but… I wanted this to be original, creative and… romantic." He blushed slightly at his confession.
She walked up to him, leaned up on her toes and kissed his cheek. "Thank you Chuck… no one has ever done anything like this for me before. I don't date much, due to the lack of nice guys like you."
He grins brightly at her kiss. "Well, what can I say? I'm a die hard romantic at heart." He jokes.
They arrive at the peak of the hill above the forest, and Chuck begins laying out the picnic.
"Wow, Chuck. I'm impressed." She says fondly.
"Why thank you Madame Walker." He then offers his hand to which she gladly accepts, and helps gently lower her onto the blanket. They then begin to eat their dinner in a comfortable silence. Only speaking up to offer the other food or wine.
"So, Chuck tell me about yourself." She asks.
"Well, I'm a nerd at heart. Die hard romantic." She giggles at that. "I live with my best friend Leo, a five year-old golden Labrador. I was adopted by the Montgomery's but raised by my coach/trainer/role model/father figure/best friend, John Casey, who is Diane Montgomery's little brother. My father drank a lot, beat my mom until she ran away with some Russian billionaire. My dad kept drinking until one day, he tried to rape my sister Ellie." There where tears streaming down his face now.
"It's okay Chuck there's no need to go on." She soothed, sliding over to put an arm around his back, allowing him to put his head on her shoulder.
"No, I need to get it out somehow, I've been bottling this up for years. So, anyway, yeah, my dad tried to rape my sister, so I grabbed him and threw him out of the window… he landed on the fence… face first. I killed my dad, my sister was traumatized, so I called the police, they came and took us both to the local police station, I told them what happened and they sent us to an adoption home. We were in and out of adoption for 2 years until the Montgomery's decided to adopt us. 3 months of staying with them, and I was finally starting to settle, that is, until I found my sister lying dead in the bathroom with her wrist pissing out blood and a knife in her hand." He finished, quietly sobbing into her shoulder.
"Oh, god look at me. I am on a date with the single most beautiful woman in the world and now I'm crying all over you. I am such an embarrassment." He wiped his eyes. And looked at her eyes afraid of rejection. Instead he found a palm on his cheek and a gentle kiss on his lips.
"No, Chuck you're not an embarrassment. It takes a lot to let it all out and you just did that. It was a very brave thing, and thank you for sharing this very private and personal story with me and now I guess I should tell you about me huh?" She says with a sad smile.
"You don't need to if you don't want to." He replied.
"No, I owe you it and I want to." She replied with a brighter smile.
"So I guess you could say our pasts where fairly similar. My mom was a prostitute, she regularly cheated on my dad which drove my dad to beat my mom, he drank, gambled, smoked, everything a bad father did. One day he walks into my room and tells me that we are broke and that we are leaving in 10 minutes and to pack everything valuable. He told me that my mom was already at our new home. I didn't see her for 15 years. My dad was a con artist and he used me for his cons, the cute little girl distracts the people while he breaks into their home and steals everything they own.
When I was 17, we got caught, he went to jail and I got adopted by the Graham's. Langstrom is my adoptive father and also my coach. He sent me to tons of classes and private schools to give me the best life possible. The only downside is that I don't really have any friends. What about you? Many friends other than Casey and Leo?" She asks curious.
"No, not really. I used to have a best friend called Morgan but that all changed when he made a comment about 'me not being fun ever since my sister offed herself.' She was my rock. Every night I would hear mom and dad fighting, I would sneak into her room and sleep in her bed. She would give me a shoulder to cry on every time my dad would hit me for screwing something up. So after her death, I shut my old life out, begged Roan and Diane to move away to someplace new, so here we are, in Las Vegas." He gave her a small smile at that.
"Well, some people just don't understand people like us." She then kissed him again gently, this time he responded.
"Wow. That was the best kiss of my life." He commented.
"It's funny, you're the first guy I have ever kissed." She told him, blushing from his complimenting her kissing skills.
"Well, thank you for choosing me, for a test subject." He gave her his famous Bartowski smile.
"Sarah, can I tell you a secret?"
"Sure." She looks in his eyes with a smile.
"My real name is Chuck Bartowski, not Charles Carmichael, Carmichael is just something I made up to keep my private life, well, private." They both laughed at his joke.
"Well, thank you for trusting me with your secret Chuck, you can trust me to keep it close to my heart forever." She smiled sweetly at him.
"More wine?" He asks, then realizes there is none left. " Or, not." He smiled weakly at her.
She pushed the food out of the way. "I've got a better idea." She smiled seductively at him. They then smashed their lips together and made out for 10 minutes straight. They were both panting and struggling for breath when their lips finally parted. Sarah snuggled into Chuck.
"Chuck?"
"Yeah?"
"Can you stay over at my place tonight, not to do anything, but just hold me?" When she looked into his eyes, he could see the vulnerability in them.
"I would be honored to."
A/N And that was chapter 3! Do you think Chuck and Sarah are moving too fast and I know some people will be like: "How could Sarah have never kissed a man?" Well it is simple really. Her mom was a prostitute, she gave her body to multiple men for money, to Sarah that is absolutely disgusting. This also gave Sarah the impression that all men are pigs and are only looking for a bed warmer. Having a criminal father didn't exactly help either. This chapter was a very emotional one, next one, however, we shall see some gym time and a fight between Chuck and another fighter. But who? Tell me your thoughts in the reviews. ADIOS!
