A/N: Today I come to you with a heavy heart. One of my former students, Destiny, died in a car wreck last night. She was 19. Do me a favor. Hug those you love, tell them you love them because we may not have tomorrow. If you pray, please say a prayer for her family. Destiny was joy, happiness, and one of my favorite students ever. Thank you guys for being so awesome. Welcome to Ch 7, Team Moron vs The Three Words, Part II.
A/N 2: I apologize about scene breaks. I was doing something fancy on my writing program but it didn't transfer over. I've now stopped doing fancy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck.
Sarah sat there over his body. This had been her fault. She knew him. She knew him better than anyone else, and this was all her fault. He hadn't come home last night, and that was the first sign something was terribly wrong. He had text her that he was staying with Morgan until he woke up. Sarah had offered to come over, but he told her no. This was something he had to do. This wasn't spy related. That had hurt, a lot. She had text him a few more times but he hadn't responded.
The next morning she tried to catch him, but he said they could talk later. He looked like he had barely slept a wink. They were getting ready for the party, in separate rooms, Sarah helping Carina, Chuck in their bedroom. Carina watched her, knowing something was off. As soon as Chuck was ready he told her he had something to take care of, and left the house. Sarah was nearly beside herself.
At the party Sarah tried to talk to Chuck several times and he kept putting it off. Chuck and Sarah made their way to the vault and Sarah slid the door open.
Chuck panicked and looked at her. "I can't do this. I can't."
"It's okay, Chuck, you can do this. Just clear your mind."
"Sarah, I did something terrible last night, and I don't know if you'll ever forgive me."
She turned to him, her heart fallen into her stomach. "Chuck, whatever it is-"
"I betrayed your trust," he said softly.
"Do you love her?" she choked out.
"WHAT?! What are you talking about?" Chuck's eyes were wide with shock.
"The woman you slept with, do you love her?"
Chuck stared at her. "You think I slept with someone?! You think after two years of all we've been through and I FINALLY got my shot with you, I would blow it by sleeping with someone else?!"
Sarah thought about that. "Well, what did you mean by betraying my trust."
Chuck lowered his head. "I told Morgan….everything."
"Bartowskified," Bryce laughed into the comms.
"Not now, Bryce," Sarah hissed. She turned to Chuck, cupped his face with her hand. "You did the right thing. The thing we've been saying we were gonna do. You did what you told us had to be done for this to work, and again, we didn't listen to you. That ends now. We listen to you."
Chuck nodded. "You're not angry." Sarah shook her head. "But something's still wrong?"
Sarah nodded. "It's not bad wrong, it's just there's something I want to talk about with you. But, it's something we can do after you get out of there."
Chuck looked at the lasers, flashed, winked at her, and made his way through the room. He got the briefcase, and got back to her, out of breath.
"Now we can talk." The briefcase hit a laser and the door slid shut. The room began to fill with gas.
"Damn it!" Sarah yelled. She tried to get in, but had to take to the vents. She found the gas, and cut it off. She came back, took out the guys and got Chuck out of the room.
Now she was sitting in the bowels of Castle, watching over him.
"He'll be okay, Sarah," Bryce said softly. She looked over at him.
"It's my fault, I'm going to get him killed."
Bryce laughed out loud. She glared at him and he put his hands up. "Whoa, momma bear. That is why I don't believe you'll get him killed. Yeah, a mistake happened, but you know what else happened, you protected him. You tried to fix everything."
"But I didn't."
"He ain't dead, Sarah, which means you still have a chance." Bryce gave her a soft smile. "Now, think you can watch him for a bit. Carina is taking the weapon to Langley and then back here."
"I got him," Sarah replied. She heard a buzz coming from his pocket. She reached in his pants and pulled out his cellphone. "Bryce, any idea why Morgan would send a text of 007?"
Bryce looked at Sarah. "Did Chuck tell Morgan?" Sarah pursed her lips. "Sarah?" She nodded. "I bet it's a warning, where's Carina?" Bryce ran to the monitors and pulled up the screen. They saw Karl. "We gotta go save her!"
"You're telling me Morgan hid Carina in the Buy More, text Chuck a secret code, Sarah saw it on the phone, and Bryce figured out what it meant?!" Beckman was flabbergasted reading the report. She opened the bottom drawer and pulled out a bottle.
"General, maybe that's not the best idea….never mind," Casey said, watching Beckman take a shot.
"Larkin, what went wrong?" Beckman asked.
"Why would you say anything went wrong, General?" Bryce replied. "I'll admit it wasn't optimal, but what op is? We have mistakes to fix, mainly, we need to listen to Chuck. But, we've all said that."
"He read Grimes in on his own," Beckman muttered out loud. "And the other two?"
"They are our secondary mission," Bryce replied.
"I'm assuming by Agent Walker and Bartowski being absent, that the other mission is a go?" Beckman asked. The smirk on Bryce's face and the look of disgust on Casey's answered that question. "Take care of Mr. Grimes, bring in the two Woodcombs, and fix the problem."
"The problem, General?" Casey asked with a smirk.
Beckman leaned forward. "The Bartowski Agents."
"Is that an order ma'am?" Casey asked. Beckman nodded and cut the feed.
"Chuck, I need you to wake up." Sarah was setting over him, holding his hand. "I messed up. I tried to run an op and I did it as a CIA handler, not as your partner. I did it in a way that I would have done it when I first came to Burbank. I'm not the best at this. In fact, I'm terrible, but Chuck, I can't do this without you. I don't want to do this without you. I'll quit tomorrow if you want, but I'm not going back to the way things were before. Chuck, you're my life."
She sat there, holding his hand, tears running down her face. Bryce came in and she started to wipe her face, trying to hide the tears.
"You need to see this," Bryce said, holding up a flash drive. "I got this off of Karl. Trust me, Sarah." He laid it on the table and left the room.
She walked over, put the USB in the drive and saw the video of Chuck locked in the room. "Sarah, I need to tell you this. If I don't make it out of here, you need to know something. I'm better having met you. I know you're worried being a spy would change me. I realized at the club when you guys left Morgan behind, how wrong that was. I realized that night, that's how you start down the path of becoming an agent. I know I keep you grounded, but I needed someone to keep me grounded. To keep me from becoming the type of spy you despise. I need my family. That's you, and Casey, and please don't tell him because if I'm not dead, he'll kill me." She giggled a laugh at that. "But I need Ellie and Awesome, but most importantly. Most importantly, I need Morgan, because without my little buddy, we wouldn't be here. He always thought I was good enough for you. He always thought we belonged together, and he's even the one who has pushed me to do something you probably won't want to do."
She looked over at him, a tear running down his cheek. He was awake and faking it. She grinned at him and turned back at the monitor. "Morgan has this crazy idea that we should….okay, full disclosure, I think I'm going to die in here so I need you to know how much I love you. I need to say something to you, and if I make it, please know I'm quite drugged and I will understand if you don't ever want to mention this again."
She reached up and turned off the monitor before he could say anything else. She got up, walked over to him, took his hand, and with her other smoothed back his curls.
"Chuck, I love you. I have three words I need to say to you. I'm not on drugs, and mister they are binding, so make very, very sure you understand what I am saying to you. Please marry me."
Ellie was pacing the floor, and Devon looked gobsmacked.
"You are telling me that Chuck is working for the CIA," Ellie said, turning toward Casey quickly. He flinched.
"Ellie," Bryce said calmly. "Listen I tried to keep him out of the CIA back in the day, that's what got him kicked out of Stanford. We tried to keep anything like this from happening." Ellie stared daggers at him. "Ellie, please, he uploaded a computer program into his head saving all of our lives."
"You can't load a computer program into your head!"
"Babe, please, calm down. He's trying to explain," Devon pleaded.
She spun on him. "Chuck is working for the CIA!" Devon gulped. She turned to Bryce. "So all of this has been happening since Stanford. You've known John that long."
Casey threw his hands up. "I killed the guy once, I didn't really even know him."
"So Sarah…"
"Ellie, they're in love," Bryce assured her.
"Ellie, that brother of yours had turned this whole project upside down because everything he does is so…" Casey searched for the word.
"Bartowskifing?" Bryce offered. Casey nodded. "Ellie, part of their problem has been the CIA, part of it was her former life that no one really knows about, and part of it…" Bryce trailed off.
"You were the ex." Ellie crossed her arms. Bryce gulped.
"Yeah, and I'm happy for them, seriously, but Chuck needs both of you." Bryce thought he had successfully navigated the landmines of his past.
"Wait, you said we, who else was in on this?" Ellie's eyes bore into Bryce. Bryce glanced at Casey. Casey looked extremely uncomfortable.
"Your father," Bryce said softly.
"MY WHAT!?" Ellie screamed. Casey fled the apartment leaving Bryce on his own.
"Something wrong, Casey?" Chuck asked, Sarah helping him into his apartment.
"Bryce just told your sister, this whole mission is fubar, pear shaped, done, we need to pack up and leave town now," Casey said, running.
Sarah gave Chuck a look. "We probably should go over there."
"Yeah," Chuck admitted. They walked across the courtyard, and Ellie quit yelling as they entered the apartment.
"Are you okay?" Ellie asked.
"No," Chuck replied. "I've been poisoned and my life is forever changed."
Sarah rolled her eyes. "He's fine, Ellie, he's being dramatic."
"I'm the doctor," Ellie snapped. Sarah blinked, but didn't move. "What does he mean his life is forever changed?"
"Ellie," Sarah said softly. "I know you are a doctor, however I also have had extensive training in medicine."
"She's one of the best, sewed me up more times than I can count," Bryce added. Ellie glared at him.
"Ellie, enough," Chuck said. Ellie looked at him. "I get it, your mad, but you wouldn't have even known if it wasn't for my insistence. I want you on this team, I need you, your a neurosurgeon for crying out loud. And I need you to be nice to your sister-in-law."
Ellie's eyes nearly popped out of her head. "Did you say…" She turned to Sarah, who was grinning….and then the grin fell as the brunette nearly tackled her to the ground with a hug.
"Awesome, Chuckster," Devon said, high fiving him. "Welcome to the club."
"It's real?" Sarah heard Ellie whisper to her. Sarah pushed her back a little to look into Ellie's eyes.
"I've loved him for two years," Sarah admitted. "We've danced around it for long enough, we've never been happier. It's gonna be a lot of work."
"On both sides," Chuck added, looking at her. "Hey, I'm not perfect, I screw up on a regular basis."
"Like telling Morgan Grimes about the mission," Bryce added.
"If I hadn't what would have happened to Carina?" Chuck asked.
"Okay, maybe I screwed it up by not telling the little bearded guy," Bryce admitted. "I was going to, it was just…"
"You've all been trained a certain way, I get it, and I don't have that in my life, but that's why I need them." Chuck looked around at everyone in the room. "You're all family, Casey, Morgan, all of you, we're all family, and that's how we win this fight."
"What fight?" Ellie asked.
"I love you, but you're on your own on this one," Sarah said. Casey, Bryce and Sarah fled.
Chuck looked around and saw it was just him, his sister, and brother-in-law. "Well, let me tell you about the Ring."
"Isn't that a bad horror movie?" Ellie asked, pulling her brother into a hug. "Seriously, little brother, you got a spy to fall in love with you?"
"You don't question it?" Chuck asked.
Ellie barked a laugh. "You should see her face somedays when no one thinks she's watching. She's all kinds of in love with you." Chuck smiled. It was all gonna be okay.
A/N: So there it is, episode two done. What's next, Team Moron vs the Angel de la Muerte. What am I gonna do? I have no earthly clue…yet. (I have several ideas if I'm totally honest.) Hope you enjoyed, reviews make my day. I'm always so much more likely to write if I know people are digging it. Take Care, see you soon.
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