Hope the withdrawals are going alright.

**I do not own Chuck** (I really want to though)

Chuck and Sarah enter the poorly lit room in the hospital. The bed is empty and Chuck looks puzzled.

"Hello?" Chuck asks unsure. After a few seconds, Chuck and Sarah look at each other with raised eyebrows.

"I don't think anyone is in here," Sarah suggests politely. Chuck swallows loudly thinking if his mother isn't in the room then she probably didn't make it. Chuck then turns around and looks for a doctor in the hallway.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for the patient Mary Bartowski. Do you know where she is?" Chuck asks a random doctor concerned.

"Uh… The patient in this room here?" The doctor is unsure so he points at the room to clarify.

"Yes, that room," Chuck replies quickly. The doctor walks up to the door and looks at the clipboard for a few seconds as Chuck and Sarah wait expectantly. The doctor finishes reading and turns around to answer Chuck's question.

"It seems that she was already checked out by a Charles Bartowski. Her son," the doctor says questionably.

"How is that possible? I am Charles Bartowski," Chuck clarifies with anger.

"That is what it says. I cannot help you any further. I'm sorry," the doctor responds knowing how busy a doctor is and that he needs to get back to work. The vein in Chuck's forehead starts to emerge as he gets furious.

"Thank you for your help doctor," Sarah steps in before Chuck goes homicidal. Sarah then tries to calm Chuck down. "There must be a reasonable explanation for this," Sarah tries to comfort Chuck.

"Like what?" Chuck asks hoping for a possible reason to her disappearance.

"Uh, I don't quite know," Sarah is hard-pressed to think of any reason. "I'm sure she's fine. Lets just go back to your room for now." Sarah almost has to drag Chuck as he is hesitant to believe her. Casey and Morgan see Chuck and Sarah walk by and proceed to follow them. Sarah and Chuck get back to his room and go inside. There is a doctor with his back turned to them.

"Can I help you?" Sarah asks trying to be Chuck's bodyguard when Chuck is in such a weak state. The doctor turns around slowly and looks Chuck in the eyes.

"Yea, we need to run some additional tests to make sure you didn't get any poisoning from the bullet," the doctor says coldly and monotone. Chuck looks at the doctor and immediately flashes. He sees a criminal record of 51 assassinations, 28 passports with the doctor's picture on it, a line of undetectable poisons, and a security footage of him walking outside a Spanish villa as his target dies from poison. After the flash, Chuck immediately starts seeing random images and hearing scratching sounds like nails on a chalkboard. Chuck yells out in pain as his vision blurs, flips upside down, and flashes with brightness. Sarah immediately attends to Chuck and knows exactly what that pain is from. It is from when Chuck flashes and he doesn't have the Governor on. Sarah quickly takes a look at Chuck's feet which are in some cheap, patient slippers. The Governor is gone and Chuck's mind is going haywire and deteriorating. Sarah obviously knows that Chuck flashed on the guy and so she takes him out with a swift hook to the stomach and a knee to the forehead. The doctor who is actually an assassin didn't know his cover was blown so he didn't expect the punch or knee. Sarah immediately attends to Chuck's fragile state as he rubs up against the wall and sits down on the floor in pain.

"Are you ok?" Sarah asks concerned. "Where is the Governor?"

"Ahhh!" Chuck just screams as he feels like a drill is piercing through his skull and brain. The vein on Chuck's forehead is pulsating and a new vein on his neck emerges. Sarah quickly runs out the door and bumps right into Casey who was making his way to Chuck and Sarah with Morgan.

"What's the hurry?" Casey asks not even being unbalanced by Sarah running into him.

"Chuck lost the Governor!" She responds quickly.

"That does not sound good," Morgan adds.

"Go check up on Chuck and the doctor in there is a bad guy!" Sarah orders in a hurry as she then runs towards the receptionist booth to find out where Chuck's clothes and belongings are.

Casey and Morgan walk into the room to see Chuck struggling to stay sane and an assassin who looks like a doctor lying on the ground.

"Oh crap, Chuck, are you all right?" Morgan asks concerned as he has never seen Chuck in so much physical pain. I would say emotional but Morgan has already seen the worst with the whole scruffy beard and cheese balls act Chuck had before he got back with Sarah.

"Ahhhh!" Chuck just screams some more as he still cannot focus on anything and sees random images burning into his eyes.

"We need to help him!" Morgan yells to Casey. Casey knows there isn't anything they can do at the moment. Casey just grunts a sympathetic grunt because he doesn't feel the need to waste his precious words. Chuck's pain slowly starts to ease as he still sees images flashing every so often and hears 'nails on a chalkboard' sound. Sarah comes rushing in with Chuck's belongings and clothing. She tosses it all on the bed and scrambles around looking for the Governor. When she finds it, she quickly puts it on Chuck's foot and immediately Chuck is relieved from the pain he was feeling. The veins in his forehead and neck recede back under his skin and the visions and sounds stop.

"Ugh, thank you so much," Chuck says as if he had a migraine that he just took medicine for. Sarah looks up at him with a huge smile.

"Sorry it took so long, I had to stop for water," Sarah jokes.

"You gotta always stay hydrated," Chuck responds comically. They both get up off the ground and look at the assassin who is still knocked out. "That guy is a world famous assassin," Chuck explains. "He has killed over 50 people and is known for using poisons that are untraceable."

"Not bad," Casey throws in trying to act like this guy is no big deal.

"He must have taken your mom or knows who took her!" Sarah exclaims as the idea just came to her.

"We need to get some answers from him!" Chuck says loudly.

"Piece of cake," Casey says deviously with a smirk on his face that he is about to have some fun. They strap the assassin into the hospital cot and splash cold water on his face. He immediately wakes up and looks around not knowing where he is at first.

"Where is my mother?" Chuck demands.

"Let me handle this, Bartowski," Casey says pushing Chuck to the side. Casey immediately punches the assassin in the stomach. The assassin cringes. Casey smirks the same smirk as earlier. Another punch to the rib cage and the assassin clenches his teeth in pain. Casey makes quick work of the man's ribcage probably breaking a few ribs. Casey makes his way to the assassin's face. Two punches later, the assassin spits out blood.

"I'll never talk!" He spits out.

"Do we have to go through this every time?" Chuck asks annoyed.

"Yea! Everyone talks you dirt bag!" Morgan yells at the assassin. Morgan's face is only a few inches away from the assassin and the assassin cocks his head at Morgan and Morgan jumps back in fear. Casey just shakes his head at Morgan and then continues to pummel in the assassin's face.

"Can I at least be beaten by the beautiful blonde?" The assassin swallows some blood and asks jokingly trying to show he is not going to be swayed.

"Alright…" Sarah says with a 'sure, why not' smirk on her face. She hooks the assassin right in the left cheek and it causes the assassin's face to spin as blood soars out of his mouth. Morgan cringes as he sees the velocity of Sarah's punch jar the assassin's head almost off his neck.

"Ugh…" The assassin squeaks out barely. Casey looks at the assassin in annoyance. He is tired of beating in his face. Casey decides a downward elbow thrust to the abdominals would suffice. "Ugh!" The assassin yelps as the elbow crushes his intestines. Casey gets his elbow up and ready to strike again as the assassin interrupts him. "I-I'll tell you," he coughs out barely.

"Finally…" Chuck rolls his eyes and exhales loudly. Everyone looks at the assassin in expectance.

"Th-the Ring," the assassin struggles to say. Casey smirks, wanting to beat the assassin up more.

"Good try, but we ended them," Casey replies. Casey reaches his fist back for a hook to the assassin's face.

"No, wait! I'm not lying. There are a few agents that haven't been found yet. They want revenge on you!" The assassin says seriously. Everyone ponders on the possibility that there are some Ring agents that haven't been captured.

"Dammit! Why couldn't they just give up? It is over for them!" Chuck declares his hatred and frustration against the Ring. The thought of Daniel Shaw makes him sick.

"Where are they located?" Sarah asks determined to get a straight answer.

"I don't know. They set up a meeting point for me and gave me my assignment. They never told me anything else," the assassin pleads.

"You're assignment to kill me," Chuck shows his disgust.

"Yes, but I honestly don't know anything else," the assassin pleads again.

"I would love to continue beating in his face, but I do believe him," Casey states sadly.

"How do we find the Ring?" Morgan asks. Chuck, Casey, and Sarah look at each other and all get the same idea at the same time.

"Beckman…" They all say in unison. Chuck thinks of his promise to Ellie about quitting the spy life.

"Ellie isn't going to like it, but it is for the sake of our family," Chuck is forced to go with everyone else and become a spy again; if Beckman takes them back.

"What do we do with this guy?" Morgan asks.

"Well, we could just keep beating him," Casey suggests jokingly. The assassin gets frightened.

"We leave an anonymous tip to the police about an assassin that is locked in the hospital," Sarah suggest optimistically almost sounding like it is so obvious.

"Do you guys mind?" Chuck asks as he needs to change out of his gown and into his dirty, ripped clothes.

"We're all family here," Morgan replies. Casey grunts in disgust and steps out dragging Morgan too. It isn't anything new to Sarah if you know what I mean but she was nice enough to cover the assassin's face and step out. Chuck slips out the door with his clothes back on.

"We need to get to Castle now!" Chuck demands politely.

"No gambling?" Morgan is almost teary-eyed.

"Sorry, buddy. Maybe some other time," Chuck apologizes to Morgan knowing Morgan had always wanted to go to Las Vegas for the girls and gambling; but mostly the strip clubs. They leave the hospital and go straight to the airport to get on the next flight back to Los Angeles.

They walk into the patio of their complex. Ellie obviously being the eagle-eye she is, sees all of them together and puts the pieces together like a mathematician finding the square root of 2.

"I thought you said you quit?" Ellie is generally angry. No one can think of a genuine lie that would work.

"You smell like angels," Morgan speaks up trying to distract Ellie as everyone else tries to think of a lie.

"Not now, Morgan!" Ellie growls at Morgan. "What happened to your shoulder?"

"Well, I got nothing," Chuck says comically.

"Me neither," Sarah says concurring with Chuck. They know that they have been caught and there is no way around it.

"If I tell you the truth, will you not freak out?" Chuck asks politely.

"Yes, just tell me please," Ellie calms down a little bit.

"I got shot in the shoulder," Chuck says nonchalantly.

"What? You got shot? Let me see it!" Ellie starts freaking out in concern for Chuck.

"I'm fine, I went to the hospital and they said I'll be alright," Chuck tries to reassure his safety to Ellie.

"We were looking for our mom," Chuck says almost like he just dropped 100 pounds of weight of his back.

"Uh, uh," Ellie rolls her eyes not believing Chuck. "So you got shot looking for our mother? That is ridiculous!" Ellie is angry and petrified that Chuck had been injured.

"No, no, Ellie it is true," Sarah tries to sway Ellie's conservative response.

"Yea and she is a spy just like you all, huh?" Ellie asks sarcastically.

"Well, actually, yea," Chuck answers in a giggly way.

"Are you kidding me?"

"No, she was captured by the Ring."

"Who?"

"That organization hell-bent on taking over the world," Morgan tries to refresh her memory.

"The ones who killed dad," Chuck states sadly.

"They have mom now?"

"Yes, we are going to get her back though. I promise," Chuck states with confidence. "But we have to become spies once again."

"Ugh, you know how I feel," Ellie doesn't want Chuck to expose himself to harm but knows it is the only way she will ever meet their mother. Ellie's eyes lock onto Sarah's like a hawk and Ellie puts the most serious look she can on her face. "You don't let anything happen to my brother," Ellie says so serious it brings chills to Sarah's back.

"I will protect him to the best of my abilities. I love him too," Sarah says trying to match Ellie's intensity.

"Team Bartowski!" Morgan screams in happiness as he breaks the concentration of Ellie and Sarah, and hugs Ellie. Ellie is grossed out by Morgan and quickly pulls out of his hug.

"I don't very much care what happens to Morgan," Ellie throws in kind of as a joke. Casey just grunts because that is definitely how Casey feels about Morgan.

"You are the best sister in the world," Chuck exclaims almost as happy as when Sarah first said she loved Chuck.

"Where's Awesome?" Morgan asks.

"He is on his shift right now," Ellie responds. "You better take care of him," Ellie says deathly serious to everyone there and then enters her place.

"Ok, lets clean up and then go to Castle," Chuck says with his ripped, dirty shirt on. They split up accordingly and clean up.

A little while later, they are all cleaned up and meet at the courtyard. They quickly head to Orange Orange to get to Castle. They arrive in the parking lot and head in.

"You know what I just noticed?" Chuck says curiously.

"What?" Sarah asks.

"We don't have to do anymore PDA. No more 'showing' our boyfriend-girlfriend status," Chuck says with air quotes.

"I guess you're right. I was never a fan of it either," Sarah responds.

"I totally love you right now," Chuck says. Sarah smiles as they get inside Orange Orange. Casey grunts in obnoxiousness.

"Lets hope the password still works," Sarah states as she types it in. The password works and the door opens.

"You would think the CIA would have changed that by now," Chuck states in bewilderment. They head in and get down to Castle. It hasn't been used since the Buy More was destroyed and it seemed a little raggedy.

"We need to see if we can call General Beckman," Sarah states their plan. Sarah brings up the computer screen and tries to contact Beckman. "Lets hope she answers." The video feed pops up and General Beckman is sitting there surprised to see them all there.

"What are you doing in the Castle? What is he doing in there?" Beckman asks in bewilderment and then asks why Morgan is there.

"We want to become spies again," Chuck says in his nerdy tone.

"Well this is quite refreshing. I didn't expect you to come back," Beckman states surprised but happy because of Chuck's potential and Sarah and Casey's skills.

"We need to stop the remaining Ring agents," Chuck demands.

"I make the orders, Bartowski," Beckman barks at Chuck.

"Beckman, General, they took my mom," Chuck demands sympathy.

"What? You're mother?" Beckman is almost as surprised as Ellie was.

"Yes, why didn't you tell me my mother was part of the CIA?" Chuck asks reasonably.

"There is no record and it was only a myth," Beckman answers Chuck. "It is another secret Langston Graham has taken to his grave. I am sorry" Beckman actually showed some human emotion and caught everyone off guard.

"Thank you but I can save her if you tell us where the Ring is," Chuck pleads.

"We aren't sure. We did have a lead with one of our agents disappearing in Florence, Italy," Beckman informs them all.

"Italy? What is up with that?" Morgan asks curious to know why they are so randomly placed.

"It is your job to find out. You leave tomorrow at 1100 hours," Beckman states.

"How did you get us a flight in thirty seconds of us accepting the mission?" Morgan asks another question.

"Like this…" Beckman states, fed up with Morgan. The connection ends and the computer window says 'conversation terminated at 22.36.'

"She really doesn't like you, Morgan," Chuck says.

"I know. What did I do?" Morgan asks surprised.

"Shut up and stop asking questions," Casey suggests the reason is because Morgan asks too many questions. Morgan looks down in shame.

"Let's get packed then. We have a long plane trip coming up tomorrow," Chuck says optimistically. "We're going to Italy!" Chuck says exuberantly. Sarah cannot help but to smile at Chuck's cheerfulness. Casey just grunts and starts packing up his weapons and gear. Morgan has no idea what he is doing and stands there awkwardly until someone tells him what to do.

"This time pack lightly," Chuck growls at Morgan.

"Yea, yea, I've learned my lesson," Morgan replies. They all start packing up the spy gear they need while Morgan drools over every piece of spy equipment they put in the bags. After they finish packing everything they go back to their homes. They are now in the courtyard of their complex.

"Meet here tomorrow at 0600," Casey states seriously. "Don't be late," he looks at Morgan.

"Got it," Morgan says as they make their way to their apartments. Inside Chuck, Sarah, and Morgan's apartment, Chuck and Sarah say goodnight to Morgan and go into their room.

"So we get to go to Italy. I have always wanted to go there," Chuck states in happiness. "We need to see the David."

"Oh, and the Uffizi Gallery," Sarah adds jovially as Chuck puts his arm around her shoulders.

"Definitely. And the Ponte Vecchio," Chuck tries to remember other famous things in Florence.

"It is nothing special," Sarah says disappointed. "It is just a crowded bridge with overly expensive jewelry stores on it."

"Really? That's it?" Chuck thought it was cooler than that. They both lie back on the bed and get comfortable.

"Yea, but we can always go clubbing," Sarah jokes. Chuck laughs a little.

"We can always check out the Duomo," Chuck suggests.

"Yes, for sure," Sarah concurs playfully.

"We should probably get some sleep. We have a long flight ahead of us," Chuck suggests.

"We can sleep on the plane, lets have a night of fun," Sarah says playfully with a naughty grin on her face.

"I don't think you can do anything that can make me love you more," Chuck says politely. Sarah takes her shirt off to reveal her bra. "I lied. You just made me love you more," Chuck admires her perfect body. Sarah laughs at Chuck's comments and jumps onto the bed next to him.

Chuck admires Sarah's beautiful face. She has those sympathetic, loving teal eyes; her sultry pink lips that pucker perfectly when Chuck goes in for a kiss; her angelic blond hair that parts perfectly to show her face; her sweet, soft skin; her perfect cheek bones; her cute, little button nose that compliments her smile perfectly. Don't even get me started on the smile. Her smile can light up a room, cure depression, and save Darfur.

Sarah slowly closes her eyes as Chuck swoops in and kisses her lips. Sarah is satisfied and smiles slightly while slowly opening her eyes. Chuck is impressed with himself that he has the most beautiful girl in the world cradled in his arms. (Please proceed to drool if necessary)

The next morning they all meet at the courtyard at 6 am. They then proceed to Castle to get updated on what to do.

"The last record of our spy was in the Piazza of Santa Maria Novella," Beckman reports to the team through the feed. "You will arrive at 1200 hours. You will check into the hotel Roma in two rooms. You will have a view over the piazza from the rooms," Beckman plans their stay. The team just nods in acceptance. "You need to search Santa Maria Novella that night." They all nod again. "Any questions?" Morgan looks like he is about ask a question. "Not you!" Beckman barks at Morgan.

"I think we're all good, General," Chuck optimistically says. The feed of her suddenly turns off and the team is on there way.

They arrive in Florence, Italy at noon the next day. There is a nine hour difference so they all slept on the plane except for Morgan (he had to cheer the plane on so it didn't crash). They arrive at the airport and grab their luggage and head through the terminal.

"Benvenuti a Firenze!" A female greeter says to them. They walk by with a smile on their face.

"Does anyone know how to speak Italian?" Morgan asks.

"I can just flash when I need to," Chuck responds.

"Yea, I am fluent in six languages and Italian is one," Sarah responds to Morgan's question.

"You're not going to pretend to be a Canadian again, are you?" Casey asks Morgan.

"Not after what Canada did to us last time," Morgan answers remembering when they were tasked with looking for Chuck and Sarah. They take a taxi into the city and get dropped off at their hotel.

"Buon giorno!" The hotel host greets the team. Chuck flashes on the Italian and sees all the verbs and conjugations within a quarter of a second. Chuck is learning to control when he wants or needs to flash.

"Abbiamo bisogno una stanza. Mi chiamo Carmichael," Chuck says in perfect fluent Italian that even Sarah is impressed.

"Ah, sì. Passoporto per favore?" The host asks for Chuck's passport to make sure it is the right person. After the host looks over it for a few seconds, he hands it back. "Grazie," the host says as he confirms the name with the room. "Stanza trecento due e tre," the host tells them there rooms are 302 and 303 as he hands them the key.

"Grazie," Chuck says thank you.

"Grazie," Sarah thanks the host too. Casey obviously doesn't.

"Gracias," Morgan says thank you in Spanish and the host looks at him weird. Morgan is confused and embarrassed and just walks quickly to catch up with Casey.

"Morgan, that was Spanish," Chuck tries to teach Morgan Italian. "It is grazie."

"Uh, ok." Morgan still doesn't know what it is. They wait patiently for the elevator and when it arrives the door opens.

"How are we all supposed to fit in there?" Morgan asks because European elevators aren't normally as large as American ones.

"We'll take the stairs," Sarah says to ease Morgan's worry. Chuck and Sarah take the stairs as Morgan and Casey take the elevator. Casey and Morgan shove themselves into the tightly-packed elevator with no room to move around. They each enter their rooms and Chuck and Sarah have room 302 as Casey and Morgan have 303. After they get settled into the rooms, Chuck and Sarah go into Casey and Morgan's room to discuss their plan.

My Italian is at a five year old level so don't judge it too harshly. Please review, they make me feel appreciated. If you have any ideas or suggestions, let me know in a review.