Chapter 10

"What the hell are you doing here?" Joe shouted angrily, stepping away from Chuck and towards Sarah, gripping the needle tightly in his veiny hand.

"Do you even need to ask, Joe?" Sarah smiled evilly, she held up her gun and pointed it at him. Joe quickly ran and stood beside Chuck, holding the needle right next to his neck. Chuck felt the needle pricking him slightly and shuddered.

He looked at Sarah, with the gun in her hand, and felt useless.

"Would you want me to kill your fiancé?" Joe said maliciously.

"L-look, Joe, we don't have to do it like this." Sarah tried negotiating. "Just let him go and no one gets hurt."

Joe didn't even flinch, he stood there, Sarah's arm was beginning to ache, but she refused to lower her gun. Chuck at least felt at peace now Sarah was alive for some reason that seemed an even better outcome than his own death. He looked at Joe and again and then at Sarah, he felt himself tense, his eyes squinted slightly and he began to see pictures in front of him.

He saw figures doing flips, twists and turns and performing high-class karate moves. Finally, he had flashed.

Sarah saw Chuck smile slightly and she tilted her head slightly in confusion. Why is he smiling in a situation like this? He then winked at her and he drew his head back and head butted Joe in the chest. Joe was caught off guard, he gasped for breath and fell to the floor.

Sarah quickly got the laser mascara out from her belt and shot at Chuck, he was free. He gripped the arms of the chair and did a back flip through the air just as Joe was getting to his feet. He kicked him squarely in the jaw, Joe only wobbled but didn't fall over.

Joe tried punching Chuck but he blocked every single blow, he did a forward flip over to Sarah and gripped her by her hands, he swung her around and she gracefully knocked Joe out.

Gratefully, Chuck smiled at Sarah and didn't let go of her hands. He gazed deep into her eyes, something which he'd never thought he would ever do again. Joe stirred slightly, his arm moved near to Sarah and he tried to curl his horrid little fingers around her ankle.

"Chuck! He's waking up, come on!" She pulled him by the arm and they raced out of the room. "Take this!" Sarah panted as she pulled a tranq gun out of her belt.

"Thanks." He said appreciatively. Agents kept appearing on every corner, Chuck and Sarah stood back to back and shot at each of them. There were only a few rooms, they found that they were at a dead end, they were in an empty room and they could hear voices and footsteps coming their way.

Sarah noticed a vent above their heads.

"Chuck, up here, come on!" Sarah whispered loudly.

Chuck nodded vigorously, Sarah climbed on the table and pushed open the vent and hoisted herself up into it, Chuck had a little difficultly. He heard the footsteps getting closer, anxiously, Sarah pulled him by the arm with all her strength and managed to pull him up just in the nick of time.

Luckily, it was quite a spacious vent. They both held their breath and looked down below through the checkered vent window, they saw huge beefy men looking around the room for them.

When they had noticed they were not in there, they scattered in different directions in search of them.

"That was close." Sarah breathed.

"Too close." Chuck agreed, slowly edging closer to her "I can't believe your alive, Sarah. I honestly thought you were dead."

"Oh Chuck." Sarah sighed, falling into his chest. He held her tightly and stroked her hair. She slowly turned her head so that she was looking up at him. Her eyes met his, they were shining with emotion and relief. She reached up and moved a single curl away from his face.

She moved her head closer to his and just before she kissed him, she gazed deep into his eyes. She was searching for something in them, she wanted to feel that he felt the same as she did this moment.

"I love you, Sarah." Chuck whispered, he was so close to her by now that she could feel his warm breath brushing against her cheek, it sent an electric shiver down her spine.

"I love you too." She said truthfully. He moved closer to her and pressed his lips against hers, letting all of his longing and hope erupt into his kiss. Such a simple thing that he had taken advantage of before, a thing that he had been deprived of the past few months.

The kiss deepened and he wound his arms around her. Sarah couldn't believe he was actually here, she never wanted to let go of him.

All of a sudden a loud noise erupted from beneath them, followed by a bump which caused them both to shake.

"What was that?" Chuck asked, pulling away slightly.

"I don't think this vent can hold us anymore, we've got to get out of here." Sarah said climbing off of his lap.

"Which way?" Chuck asked, looking nervously from side to side, expecting the vent to give way from underneath them at any moment.

Sarah saw a tiny glimmer of light bouncing off of the shiny metal towards the left of her.

"This way!" She pointed to where she saw the light. Obediently, Chuck followed. They crawled as quietly as possible through the narrow tunnel and eventually they came to a different room. Glimpsing downwards, Sarah saw that this was the room where Chuck had been tortured, she saw Joe sitting up and rubbing his aching head.

Sarah reached into her pocket and pulled out her gun.

"Sarah!" Chuck exclaimed. "What the hell are you doing?" Sarah didn't reply so he followed her gaze. She was looking down at Joe, she was getting ready to shoot him.

"Do you have to? I mean.. you could just arrest him or something.." Chuck tried, he knew Joe was a very bad man but he didn't believe in killing people. He wouldn't mind if he rotted for eternity in prison though.

"I have no choice!" She argued, drawing back the trigger.

"Take this!" He pulled out his tranq gun. "You can send someone to pick him up later, don't give him the easy way out! Let him spend a long time in jail."

"Well.." Sarah wavered. "Alright." She tore her eyes away from Chuck and tried to focus on Joe. A tranq dart wouldn't fit through the tiny grid square so she silently opened the lid and aimed the gun. Chuck held his breath as Joe got to his feet.

Sarah pulled it and a tranq dart flew through the air and skilfully landed in the side of Joe's neck, he instantly fell to the floor again, his head slamming against the corner of the wooden chair which Chuck had previously been tortured on.

"Come on!" Chuck whispered, he lowered himself out of the vent and landed awkwardly on the floor, Sarah followed but her hand slipped on the gleaming metal surface and she was heading to the hard concrete face first. Chuck caught her before she had a chance to hit the floor and he fell backwards with her in his arms.

"Thanks!" She grinned, kissing him softly on the lips. "We have to get out of here, let's go!"

They ran to the staff only door of which they had entered when arriving there. Sarah quickly surveyed behind herself to check that they weren't being followed. Once certain that they were safe, she pushed open the door and stepped out into the abandoned warehouse with Chuck following closely behind.

They stepped out of the warehouse and just ran, ran as far away as they could get, they came to a greenery with a field covered with buttercups and a tall tree laden with emerald leaves.

Sarah didn't know where to go yet, so she climbed up to the top of the tree and found a nice little branch for Chuck and herself to sit on. She patted it lightly and invited him up.

He perched beside her and placed his hand over hers.

"I just want to stay here forever." He admitted. "You and me, it's utter bliss there's no missions, no people interfering in my life. It's just so simple."

"I know what you mean." Sarah squeezed his sweaty palm. "It's going to be okay, Chuck."

She pressed her hand against his cheek and brought his head close to hers and she planted a soft kiss against her lips.

"So what about this wedding?" Chuck grinned.

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