Chuck vs. A good mood
Ed. Note: this one isn't that long but, it just kind of was something I wanted to write after seeing the events of Chuck vs. the First date and the whole Intersect exploding thing. It just always irked me that Chuck was upset that the Intersect exploded I mean, his life is significantly better because of the intersect, he has real purpose now and he has Sarah and If the Intersect had gone online than all of that would have gone away. PLUS, Casey would've shot him and while, he didn't know that at the time, I would say it would definitely be in the cons column. As far as I can tell the only downside of keeping the intersect is hang to lie to Ellie but, everything else seems to out way that one negative with a million positives. GAH! Why can't Chuck just be grateful for the darn thing and get over it! Well, now that my rant is over, This is a story about Sarah being grateful for the intersect explosion, ( minus the whole, Graham dying thing ) P.S. =10000 points for whoever acutlly reads the editor notes.
"Sarah, are you alright?" Chuck asked.
"Yeah, why?" She replied distracted. Something about her mood was throwing Chuck.
"I don't know. You seem… Giddy. What I mean is, you don't seem yourself." Chuck said as he spun her around. They were dancing, not to get close to a target, not to get a better look at the security camera's, no, they were dancing for fun. Sarah and Chuck were on a double date with Ellie and Devon.
Now Chuck wasn't much of a dancer but, when Captain Awesome had called him out on not being adventurous enough, and Chuck wasn't able to divulge any information on his activities with the C.I.A., Sarah had thought it best to prove Devon wrong on the dance floor.
She dragged Chuck by the wrist having explained/lied to Devon about Chuck and herself taking 'dance lessons' for the past month or so. Chuck, feeling uncomfortable, but determined to prove Devon wrong, played along.
Now they were dancing, Sarah leading of course, and Chuck was having a hard time understanding Sarah's overly exuberant disposition.
"Am I not allowed to be happy?" Sarah asked lightheartedly.
"Of course you are, I just don't see any reason for it. I mean, we just lost the Cypher and the whole intersect computer Console with it. Which we both know means, I won't get this thing out of my head and we… Well we can never be together…" Chuck still felt uncomfortable discussing their relationship. With the serious lack of a D.T.R. neither Chuck nor Sarah knew where the other stood in regards to their feeling for one another. Chuck could only hope that all the flirting going on between them was real, that she really wanted to be with him but, well, he could never tell with her.
Sarah looked at Chuck with understanding eyes but, her mood had yet to differ from its current course straight to sunshine and lolipoville.
"Are you back with Bryce? Is that why you're so happy all of the sudden?" He asked as Sarah dipped him, reminding him of the time that He and La Ciudad had tango-ed making him all the more glad that it was Sarah he was dancing with.
"I'm not back together with Bryce. How many times do I have to tell you that Bryce is a thing of the past before you believe me?" Sarah laughed, the sound made Chuck think of wind Chimes.
"42." Chuck said Sarcastically. "Will you just tell me?"
"Hm… no." Sarah smiled, Chuck couldn't help but smile in return. Her attitude was infectious.
He looked down momentarily to protect himself from her devilishly amused grin and noticed something. "You know… for someone who's got two left feet, you dance surprisingly well." Chuck chuckled.
Sarah followed his eyes to the floor to see that she had two left shoes on. Sarah laughed.
"How are your feet not killing you?" Chuck asked curious.
"I don't know how I missed that. I must have been pretty distracted this morning." She said as if it were no big deal.
"Sarah I'm worried. Did someone drug you? You're never this energetic and the Sarah I know is never distracted. What's going on, you can tell me." Chuck said stopping, effectively ending their dance.
"You want to know what going on?" Sarah whispered.
"Yes, please."
"I'm perfectly happy. Chuck, if the intersect had been functioning properly, I would've been sent away, sent somewhere far away from here. But, now that the intersects gone and seeing how it's going to take a while to rebuild, I get to stay. And well, I like it here so, I'm happy, I'm really," Her voice got softer as she stepped closer, "Really," She was less than a breath away from his face now, she could nearly hear his heartbeat, "Happy." She gently wrapped her fingers around the not of his tie and pulled him in for a quick soft kiss before she let him go.
"He guys, Devon and I were thinking about getting some ice cream, maybe going home and watching Casablanca?" Ellie had said nearly appearing from nowhere.
"Sounds like fun!" Sarah beamed and followed Ellie towards the exit where Devon was waiting. Chuck was still in Shock, over their kiss, and the conversation but, mostly the kiss. He pressed his fingers to his lips before he quickly followed and caught up to Sarah and Ellie.