A/N: Thanks again to all the reviewers who were kind enough to leave a note. Just a lil aside; I started this AU story over a year ago when we were still enjoying season 2 of Chuck. Now we have a full spy-capable Chuck...in a relationship with Sarah...who admitted that she loved him from the start. His father was a top notch spy for over 20 years..underwent missions the government couldn't take on their own...passes down his legacy to his son. Not as AU as I thought, but then I remembered I made Beckman his godmother and then the AU really sticks out. Enjoy!
Sarah sighed. The so-called easy in-n-out rescue mission they were tasked with turned out to be a much longer and much more annoying affair.
It all started when they were contacted by the British intelligence unit MI-6 regarding an agent of theirs that was being held within one of Fulcrum's strongholds in Barstow. All they needed to do was to storm the base, rescue the agent, and blow everything up. That was the simple part; now according to that agent, Cole Barker, they needed to raid additional Fulcrum bases located in Southern California in order to recover encrypted discs containing some of MI-6's more sensitive data.
Sarah wouldn't be half as annoyed with the mission if it wasn't for the agent himself. Cole Barker fancied himself as the second coming of James Bond: the kind of guy every man wants to be and every woman wants to be with. The constant overt flirting from the brit started to wear on her and Chuck. Unfortunately this was due to the General advising that they keep him from knowing anything other than what was required for the mission until they could determine his loyalty, including her relationship with Chuck and the intersect. So for now, she and Chuck had to pretend they were partners and nothing more; which was hard on everyone, especially Chuck. Every once and a while she'd see a fire burn in Chuck's eyes, clearly expressing his desire to throw one of his knives into the back of Cole's skull.
Truthfully, she'd wish he did so that she could finally be done with all the flirting (one sided of course). Like the other morning when she came into the castle where they were temporarily housing their British counterpart, Cole just 'happened' to be coming out of the shower and stood there in his towel as he said hello to her. If not for the extreme patience she learned from the agency, she would've shot Cole in such a place as to help Britain with it's population control. She knew she could justify it as something done for the greater good of all women everywhere and she was sure that the General would've backed her up. Hell she could've gotten Casey to do it no questions asked but he was enjoying the fact that it was bothering Chuck so much. So for now she had to just grin and bear it.
Things went even more south a few days later before another mission when a surprise guest from their past decided to show up and help out with the takedown of one of the Fulcrum bases. Sarah swore she could hear Chuck's mind chamber a bullet into his gun as Bryce Larkin strolled down the stairs into the castle. If one wasn't bad enough, Sarah now had to contend with two agents who thought they were God's gifts to womankind and somehow along the way it was also decided that they would see who was the better man by competing for her affections.
On the upside of things (if there was an upside), Chuck did his best to deflect both her suitors and helped give her some breathing room. Sometimes it would consist of him being slightly clumsy and spilling some super-hot coffee (she saw him nuking it extra long in the microwave) on their laps or accidentally bumping into them and making them fall. But the most amusing one was when they were all in the Castle one afternoon.
On that day, Casey and Chuck were on the far end of the conference table away from her. Casey was cleaning his guns (of course) and Chuck was fiddling with his tranquilizer gun (even if he was a super-spy, he confessed to still seeking out non-lethal solutions first). Barker decided to work out shirtless in full view of everyone in the room while Bryce sat on the table in front of her while he tried to "work his magic."
Sarah could see the fire burning in Chuck's eyes as both these men tried their hardest to win her over. Sarah figured that he had seen enough and what happened next surprised her. She watched as Chuck nudged Casey in the elbow in order to get his attention. Once he did, he raised his tranq gun and aimed it towards the far wall. Casey and Sarah both looked a bit confused of what he was trying to do. That was until they saw him pull the trigger and watched as the dart bounce off three walls and finally lodge itself into Bryce's neck. The dark haired man quickly fell like a sack of potatoes onto the table. Sarah barely could contain her laugh when she heard her ex-partner snoring on the table.
Sarah looked over and saw a look of total amusement on Casey's face that she had never seen before. That was until Chuck handed him the tranq gun and nodded in the direction of the British secret agent. A sinister smile grew on his face as he took his time to aim the gun at a distant wall. Once he believed he had the right trajectory, Casey looked over to Chuck for final approval. Chuck looked to where he was aiming and then to where Barker was standing and gave him a single nod. Pulling the trigger, they watched as the dart flew through the air and bounced similar to Chuck's, finally hitting it's intended target in the buttock. The tranquilizer quickly took effect and the three agents watched as the brit fell over like a log. Casey looked over to Chuck and they gave each other an approving nod before going back to what they were doing. Chuck gave her a wink and went back to his fiddling with the gun.
Sarah knew that if Chuck had joined in the competition, there would be no doubt to who would be the victor. It was then that she decided that she would hold a little competition (in her mind of course) and see in how many ways Chuck would prevail over these two gigolos.
A/N extra: So the next chapter will be the last in the story and the last I write. I had fun writing them and reading the great reviews but I really can't get back into the swing of it.