Chuck vs. Life
AN: I own nothing. Thanks to everyone for leaving reviews. And for those who gave me ideas, you will see i used them.
Chapter 3
The day started as casual as it could be. When everyone awoke, Ellie, Abby and Sarah started to make breakfast, ok maybe not Sarah but she helped by making the coffee, while Landon, Awesome, and Chuck took a morning run, Casey cleaning his gun getting it prepared for the mission. As the three ladies were chatting, the guys came back from their run. And Ellie was the first one to speak
"How was the run guys?" she asked. She already knew the answer that would come from her husband and it would be
"It was awesome, babe. What do you three gorgeous ladies have cooking?" he asked in return.
"Oh you know, just some eggs, waffles, bacon. Stuff like that." Abby had replied and saw what awesome was about to do and elbowed Ellie. But before Devon did what he had in mind, was pushed away and told to take a shower before he even thought of giving her a hug or kiss.
On the way to the bathroom, Devon had yelled "NOT awesome, babe. Defiantly not awesome." Landon had given Abby a big brotherly hug for behind and started laughing when she screamed
"You loser. GET OFF ME!" and when finally put down swatted at him and stuck her tongue out. "Love ya too, Abby." while jogging up the stairs. Chuck was about to do that to Sarah but mouthed "I know a hundred different ways to kill you." and smiled when he backed off.
When he passed her he replied "So do I, Walker. So do I." and smiled and walked up the stairs.
After breakfast was done and the dishes were washed, everybody settled in the living room talking about random things. Then Sarah asked
"So do you have any clue what the mission will be about, Chuck?" she finished and then everyone waited for a response.
He just shrugged and said "Nope, they didn't give me any information on it. Just said it was an important mission." He looked at his sister and saw the look she always gave him before missions.
"Don't worry sis, everything will be fine." but that didn't falter the look she had on her face.
"Look Chuck, I'm your older sister and I have a right to be worried. But I'm also your doctor." Ellie said looking straight into her brother's eyes.
"So its bout that time that we get going. What do yall think?" Landon said while getting up and giving his sister a hug and kiss on the cheek. Breaking the staring contest between his cousins, he gave Ellie a hug and kiss whispering to her that he had Chuck's back. Casey gave his good-bye too but only gave Abby a hug. Sarah just said bye and thanked them for having her over. Chuck first went to Morgan and told him to keep an eye things and gave him a hug, then Awesome came up and hugged him to. Abby gave a kiss and hugged him tightly, Ellie hugged and kissed him while whispering to be careful and watch out for Sarah because she actually likes her.
The group of agents finally took off and got back to the building with five minutes to spare.
"Damn it, Chuck, you know how the bosses get when were late." Casey told him.
"Hey we got five minutes to spare, so don't be complaining. Besides we would have gotten here a lot sooner if you didn't talked to Abby on the way to the truck." he smirked but then got backhanded if his remark.
"Shut Carmichael, before I shut it for you." Casey said, adding a grunt towards him.
"As much as Sarah and I are enjoying yall two's little catfight here, we actually need to get down to business now." added Landon before the bosses came on the TV.
"So looks like Agent Walker made it. Welcome to the team." Director Graham said. Sarah just gave a nod and Graham continued "Tonight's mission will be a dinner party hosted by a Nikolai Balmont" as soon as Graham said his name, Chuck got a far gazed looked. He was having a flash. Seeing buildings, flowers, a car bomb, dead bodies, Balmont holding a gun with a silencer, missiles and mountains. Noticing Chuck's eyes, Casey nudged Landon and whispered "Hope Walker doesn't noticed this." but she did and would question Chuck about it later.
Snapping out of it, Chuck looked at everyone and said "Hey pay attention, we're getting briefed here." and nodded for the general and director to continue.
"Ok, so as we were saying Nikolai Balmont is a very dangerous drug cartel. He has murdered or tortured over twenty-five agents just to make a statement. He has two of our agents and is torturing them for information. And will be getting another shipment tonight. Be on the lookout." said Graham.
"Agents Carmichael and Walker are to pose as a couple and Agent O'Brian is going to be working the valet parking and Agent Casey will be one of the bartenders. As for the objective, Carmichael and Walker will need to retrieve information and blueprints from Nikolai's hotel room. 508 is his room, you are two get it and get out before anyone spots you. We need to find these two agents. Do I make myself clear?" Beckman said.
"Yes ma'am." they all said in unison.
"Oh and Agent Carmichael, would you please stay behind while the others are to get ready." Graham said and Chuck just nodded. When the other's left, Graham spoke up first "Chuck, have you received an upgrade yet?"
"Yes sir, received it last night before I went to bed." Chuck answered.
"Good, now tells us what you saw and inform Agents Casey and O'Brian later." Beckman spoke.
"Nikolai is also here to do business and possibly combine companies with Felix Vasquez. He brings firepower and acts like security for any with the money to do so. With Felix's help, he will be unstoppable." he stated.
"That's not what we like to hear. Take him out and you are to explain this to Agent Walker, understood?" Beckman said.
"Yes ma'am." he replied, then the TV turned to black. He then saw Casey and Landon and explained what he saw and they just nodded. They knew this missions was going to bloody but exciting and they couldn't wait. Chuck then told Sarah about Felix and was confused but didn't question it.
"Hey Chuck," Sarah began
"Yea, what's up?" he replied.
"During the briefing, you had this look, like a zoned out look. I was just wondering what happened?" she finished.
"Oh that, I guess I was really just concentrating on what both Beckman and Graham were saying. I get like that sometimes before missions." Chuck lied hoping Sarah would take it and she just nodded but knew he was hiding something.
"Hey Sarah, I didn't even get to ask you but do you have a place here yet or are you just in a hotel? " Chuck asked.
"Oh, just a hotel for now. Why?" She answered .
"I kinda need to know where to pick you up." smiled Chuck. She wrote down the address and handed it to him.
"6:30 sound good?" he asked while folding the piece of paper and sticking it in his pocket.
"Sounds great. See you then." she said while leaving and just before she got out the door, Chuck said
"Red." and she turned around and looked at him curiously. "Your dress. Seems like that would be your color" he said while going back into the break room to see what Casey and Landon were doing. She just stood there shocked but then smiled left thinking to herself again "How did he become an agent"
As soon as he got down into the castle, Casey asked looked up while packing a bag full of guns
"Does she suspect anything, Bartowski?" and Chuck just nodded his head no and started helping put together some of the thing for the mission. "Knives" he thought "I read in her file she really got good at throwing knives" while getting finished. Landon broke the silence and said
"Dude this mission is going to be, and I quote the Captain, "AWESOME!"" and Chuck and Casey just nodded. When they got done packing up Casey's truck and Chuck's car, they all left to get their tux's and Chuck thought to himself "A red tie and vest should do for tonight."
Later that day, Sarah was just about finished getting ready for the missions and looked over at her clock that read 6:15. She heard her phone go off and sighed.
"Walker, secure." she answered.
"Agent Walker, just wanted to make sure everything is going as planned. Is Agent Carmichael trusting you?" Graham said on the other line.
"I think I'm gaining his trust." she answered.
"Look Agent Walker, this isn't fun and games. We need him to trust you to be able to protect him just in case. I'm not saying he's not capable of doing that himself but to watch his back." Beckman stated.
"He does have Casey and O'Brian here with him to watch his back. I think I know them well enough to know that they wouldn't let Chu, I mean Agent Carmichael get hurt." she answered back.
"Yes, yes. Well we need him to trust you. Like we said date him if needed but strictly professional and Agent Walker " then there was a knock at the door, looking through the peep hole and said "Carmichael is here, Walker out." she whispered.
Opening the door, she smiled at Chuck taking in his appearance and Chuck was doing the same. She thought "Wow, I thought Bryce look good in a tux" and Chuck used all his training to keep his jaw from hitting the floor. She then saw Landon and Casey outside holding a bag and stepped aside to let them in.
"Looking good, Agent Walker. Red really suits you." Landon said earning him a slap in the back of the head from Casey.
"Thank you and what's in the bag." she asked, already knowing the answer.
"Just some toys for tonight. We are gonna need them you know. Here Walker, these are for you." Casey said while throwing a bag over to her. She opened it up and saw that they packed knives for her and smiled. Casey and Landon left about two minutes later, Sarah finally said to Chuck
"I'm done. Ready to go?" and Chuck just nodded and stepped aside, letting Sarah go ahead of him.
Arriving at the building, Chuck and Sarah were greeted by Landon. Chuck started to say a joke but was immediately elbowed by Sarah as she whispered "Be nice." Scanning the room, they saw Casey standing at the bar serving drinks and he then nodded in the direction of Nikolai.
"There's Nikolai. I guess we should go make nice and introduce ourselves. Shall we?" Chuck said while extending his elbow to Sarah and she looped her arm through and responded "We shall."
"Hello Mr. Balmont, my name is Charles Carmichael and this here is " Chuck started saying but Sarah interrupted him
"Sarah Carter, very nice to meet you." she finished. Nikolai grabbed her hand and kissed it and responded
"Very nice to meet you Miss Carter. And good to meet you too Mr. Carmichael, I've heard a lot about you company." as he replied while shaking his hand. As Chuck and Nikolai continued to talk about business, then Chuck heard the Wallflower's Closer to You come on and decided to ask Sarah to dance.
"If you don't mind I would like to ask my girlfriend to dance" Chuck said as politely as he could.
"Of course not. I would be insulted if you didn't." Nikolai said while watching as Chuck whispered into Sarah's ear and watched her nod as she let him led her to the dance floor.
How soft a whisper can getWhen you're walking through a crowded spaceI hear every word being saidAnd I remember that everydayI get a little bit closer to youAs Chuck danced with Sarah, it seemed like everything just fit and it didn't feel like a mission for once to Sarah. "How is it possible for this man to be an agent? I think I'm starting to develop feeling for this guy." she thought to herself again. "Like Graham and Beckman said he was trained by both agencies, so he does know how to manipulate things." the agent within her said "But he wouldn't do that to me though" Sarah thought.
How long an hour can takeWhen you're starting into open spaceWhen I feel I'm slipping further awayI remember that everydayI get a little bit closer to youAs they continued to dance, Chuck was look at Sarah and trying to read what she was thinking but really couldn't. He didn't have a reason to not trust her. "How could I not trust her. Maybe it's time for her to know that I'm the human intersect and that's the reason why I knew about Felix and Nikolai. I should tell her that I'm starting to develop feeling for her" he thought.
These are the daysThat I won't get backI won't hear you cryOr hear you laughAnd when it's quiteAnd I don't hear a thingI can always hear you breathe"I didn't get a chance to tell you how beautiful you look tonight." Chuck said while smiling down on her.
"Thank you. Your not looking to bad yourself ,Chuck. And you were right, red does suit me, it also suits you to." she replied while smiling. They heard Landon laughing in their ear pieces and heard Casey mumble "Please don't make me kill myself." But ignored them and started slowly lowering their heads to one another. "STOP!" the agent within Sarah screamed but the voice was a little too late. They started off with a low and gentle kiss but then it intensified.
You know there's nowhere elseI've wanted to beThan be there when you need meI'm sorry too
What they failed to notice was that Felix Vasquez had entered the building and was now talking to Nikolai. They had gone into the VIP room and started talking
"Ahh, Felix glad you could come. Now lets get down to business, shall we?" Nikolai said.
"Yes, let's begin. You have the money and we supply the weapons and muscle." he responded.
"Yes, here are the suitcases." showing Felix the money and handing them over.
"I can guarantee you that no one will be bothering you Mr. Balmont." Felix stated.
But don't give up on meAnd just remember that when you get asleepI got a little bit closer to you
Needing air, they reluctantly pulled away and put their foreheads together, then Chuck spotted him. His smile quickly vanished and Sarah saw who he was looking at and automatically knew who it was.
"Casey we need to get that information from Nikolai's room, now. Felix is here." He said while walking towards the elevator with Sarah. Hitting for the fifth floor, Sarah quickly added "What if there's someone in there?"
"We improvise. We need the information to leads us where the agents are and save them if they aren't dead already." Then the elevator doors opened and they quickly found Nikolai's room but heard someone coming from down the hall. Chuck quickly kissed Sarah again. Sarah was surprised at this but then started to kiss him back.
Chuck saw that it was a maid and quickly thought of something. "Excuse me, can you help us out?" Chuck said.
"Yes sir, how can I help?" the maid asked.
"It seems as though my wife here left our card in our room. Could you help us out by opening the door for us, please?" he said
"Well were really not supposed too," she started
Then Sarah said "Please, it's our honeymoon and I just want to spend the night in bed with my new husband." she said.
"Oh ok, I see no harm, Besides I remember my honeymoon. Best night of my life." she said, and Chuck and Sarah smiled and thank her for her help. They shut the door quickly and started looking for what they came for. Chuck quickly saw the blueprints and snatched them up. Then a few moments later, Sarah found the information containing everything that would help put Nikolai away for good.
Then they heard Casey say what they really didn't want to hear.
"Guys get your asses out of their. Nikolai is on his way up there and isn't alone." Casey told them. They looked at each other and ran towards the door and got out and ran in the other direction. They heard a very loud "Damn it" coming from Nikolai.
"Find whoever stole the prints and information. And bring them to me, I want them alive." Nikolai ordered. And his men took off with Uzi's in hand.
"Casey, Landon, we got the information. Meet us out back." Sarah said. "Roger that." she heard Casey say. Running through the kitchen and straight out the back door, they jumped into the car and drove off.
As soon as they got changed and pin pointed were the agents were being held, they took off. Arriving at the abandoned warehouse, Landon mumbled "Why is it always an abandon warehouse, its so cliché. Why not something cooler." and heard Casey grunt at him. "Well it's true." he said while loading his gun while Chuck and Sarah just nodded their heads.
"Looks like we got ourselves a full house tonight, team." Chuck said while looking through the night vision binoculars then cocked his gun. He gestured to Casey to go, and then Landon.
"Chuck, " Sarah started while putting a hand on him
"Yea," looking at her and saw what she was thinking. "Sarah, its going to be alright, we've done this before. Nothings going to happen to you, I promise." He said while looking straight into her eyes then giving her a hug.
"Come one, you two lovebirds, we got a mission to do." they heard Casey say and took off after the two.
They came in contact with two of Felix's guys but took them down with no sweat. "Thought these morons were gonna give us more of a challenge." Casey said while grunting. Then they heard Nikolai say
"Seems like they got the calvary coming for you two worthless pieces of $h!t, but seeing as they not here yet, I'm gonna just kill you right now." Chuck then threw a flash bang and they took advantage.
"Put your weapons down and no one will get hurt" ,Chuck said with authority and everyone did as they were told, "Agent Casey and O'Brian go see if those two are ok and get 'em out of here." and they did. "I thought this was going to be more of a fight, damn." Casey said but spoke a little too early when he saw Felix and about a dozen more men with him. "I guess you got what you wanted Casey. TAKE COVER!" Landon yelled while getting behind a crate and pulling out his gun.
The gun fight started. Sarah and Chuck saw this and had already taken cover ready for battle. Seeing that Sarah didn't a vest on, Chuck took his off and threw it at her. She looked at him and yelled
"What do you think your doing? Trying to get yourself killed." thinking he was crazy.
"Put it on will ya. I'll be fine, but you need to put it on." Chuck replied firing at one of the guys coming near them.
Sarah shot another guy and replied "No, it's yours and I was dumb enough not to bring mine." she said.
But Chuck being stubborn, didn't take it back and said more forcefully "Damn it, Just put the stupid thing on. I'LL BE FINE." and to make his point came out of hiding taking at least four to five guys down.
Sarah finally put the vest on and started firing but not without thinking Chuck was a moron. Casey had called for backup when they got there and they had finally got there and helped out to clear some of the guys.
Chuck spotting Nikolai and Felix running chased after them but not seeing another man with a scar on his face across his left eye follow them. Sarah noticed that Chuck wasn't there when backup arrived started to wonder where he went to.
Chuck was had just shot both Felix and Nikolai but not long after was stabbed by the guy with the scar, from behind. He got a look at him and started having a flash. A word in the flashes kept repeating itself. FULCRUM, a rogue agency. Chuck hit the guy but not enough to knock him out and he got away.
Sarah, Casey and Landon heard the shot and took off looking for Chuck. They spreaded out and Sarah had found him. She saw that Felix was dead then was grabbed from behind.
"So, Mr. Carmichael, what would you for your little girlfriend here, huh?" Nikolai said while holding Sarah's gun to her head.
"Let her go. You don't want her, its me you want." Chuck said.
"What do you have that I couldn't get from her." he said while kissing her cheek and tried to head butt him but that didn't help. "A feisty one, that's how I like them."
Them Chuck lowered his gun and pulled out the disc that they stole earlier that day.
"Well I do have this." Chuck said waving it around. This caught Balmont's attention.
"Give me that disc, or I kill her." he forcefully said.
"Kill her and I destroy the disc and then I kill you very slowly." Chuck said while clenching his jaw.
"Ch, I mean Carmichael, what the hell do you think your doing?" Sarah asked "Take the disc and get out of here, NOW!" she yelled at him.
"Sarah have you never heard of the saying "never leave a man behind", so let her go and I promise I will give you the disc and I won't shot you." Seeing Casey come from behind and Nikolai took the bait.
"Ok, Mr. Carmichael, I let her go and you give me the disc." Chuck nodded his head.
Nikolai shoved Sarah towards him and Chuck handed over the disc, but as soon as he turned around Casey shot him. Chuck approached him and said
"Never said my partners weren't going to shoot you, I just said I wouldn't." then turned around and helped Sarah up.
"You ok?" he asked looking for any sign of injuries.
"Yea I'm ok. What about you?" Sarah asked
"Yup. I'm perfect." he lied making sure she didn't go to the left of him. He was pretty sure he lost a lot of blood but did a damn good job of hiding it. "Thank the good man upstairs for the training" he thought to himself .They didn't notice that Nikolai had gotten up and aimed his at Sarah.
Lucky Chuck had looked back just in time and shoved Sarah out the way. Chuck fell to the ground with a loud thump and Casey unloaded a full clip on him. Sarah had gotten up and saw that Chuck was shot just above the left shoulder and put some pressure on it immediately.
"Crap" Casey thought, then saying "Landon we need a med-vac team. Carmichael's down with a gun shot wound." Casey heard Landon moan "Ellie is gonna kill me, ok they are on the way. Hey you, get Doctors Woodcomb on alert, we got someone hurt. Well hurry up, just don't stand there you moron. "
"What were you thinking, Chuck?" She said.
"Oh I don't know, I was just trying to save you." he said while laughing, making Sarah laugh as well.
"I don't need to be saved Chuck, as you know I'm also CIA, too." she said while seeing more blood come from a different spot.
"Just because Claire is invincible, doesn't mean she doesn't need to be saved every once in a while." he said while seeing her face go from concern to confused.
"Whose Claire?" she asked while looking for the spot where the blood was coming from.
"You know, from Heroes. Come on now Sarah" he said weakly. Sarah smiled and finally seeing where the blood was coming from, leaning Chuck on his side.
She yelled at Chuck "You said you were perfectly fine and you got a stab wound entry." she said.
"Oh yea, that kinda slipped my mind. By the way, does fulcrum mean anything to you. I feel sleepy, can I go to sleep Sarah? "
"You forgot, how do you forget a stab wound. And no it doesn't, why do you ask? And no you gotta stay awake, ok." she said then yelling at Casey to hurry my the med team cause Chuck also had a stab wound and she heard Casey say "Damn it Chuck, you gotta be more careful, or Ellie is going to kill us." and told them to hurry their asses up.
"Cause I flashed on a guy and the word fulcrum keep coming up. But I feel so sleepy, I'm going to sleep" Chuck said without thinking and started to close his eyes. But felt Sarah slap him softly
"Come on Chuck you gotta stay awake. Flashed? Like déjà vu." She asked him and felt Chuck stiffen.
"I guess I slipped, whoops. Sarah I'm sorta the human intersect" he whispered to her then passed out. Sarah just looked surprised and then looked at Casey and he knew that look and said "Chuck, you moron." and knew he was telling the truth. But then started screaming
"Chuck, come on Chuck, you gotta wake up. Where are they Casey, we need to help him, damn it. Chuck come on open those eyes, talk to me Chuck." she said, Casey was right by her side in an instant.
"Come on Chuckles, open your eyes." Casey said while shaking. Then about a minute later the medical team showed up and got a ear full from Sarah.
"Where the hell were you guys, we have an agent down and yall decide to play around. I swear if he dies I will kill yall with my bare hands." Sarah was beyond pissed. "What the hell are yall waiting for, get him in the chopper and to his doctor. NOW"
About an hour later, they were all in the castle debriefing the director and the general.
"What the hell part of get out of there without being seen didn't yall get? Agent Carmichael is stable and will be back on tomorrow." Beckham told them and they were all relived.
"Agent Walker, now that you know, you understand how important he is. " Graham said and she just nodded. "Look he's been through worse" Landon whispered to Sarah "A lot worse than any of can imagine." and put his arm around her.
"Now that we know that Fulcrum is not just a rumor, we wil" but Graham didn't get to finish because Casey interrupted and said
"What do you mean rumor? You knew these pieces of trash were out there and failed to inform us." Casey said now pissed.
"You will control you temper, Major. And we kept yall in the dark because they were no threat and now that they are, we are to find out who works for them. Yall are to start looking for these Fulcrum agents as soon as Carmichael is back, are we understood. No one tell Carmichael that what Fulcrum is looking for and that is the human intersect, understood" Graham
"Yes sir" they all said and the screen went black.
"How heartless can you be and not tell one of your own what's going on. We have to tell Chuck" Sarah said while grabbing the chair turning her knuckle white.
"Orders are orders, Sarah you know tha" Landon started saying
"HE'S YOUR COUSIN, HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT. He took a bullet for me and saved my life. And he would gladly do for either one of you as well. I know I've been here the shortest but I know that Chuck would do that. " Sarah yelled at them.
"Look we just can't ok, we can't. Look we need to know how to track down these Fulcrum agents, ok." Landon said not noticing someone coming into view.
"Did someone just say Fulcrum?" and all of them turned their heads and saw who it was.
"Bryce" Sarah whispered making sure no one could hear her.
AN: I'll leave it there. Yup, Bryce is back. Fulcrum has entered the picture. Now how will Sarah's feeling change for Chuck? Will Bryce cause some trouble?