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Here's the next chapter. Evelyn has been quiet of late but I haven't forgotten her. There is a plan that both me and Evelyn are sticking to lol. Again, not much action. I just want to focus on Chuck and Sarah enjoying the holiday, action will soon resume though. Enjoy.

Chapter 10 – Unsuccessful Attempt

Whilst Chuck and Sarah were waking up to a beautiful sunny morning in Venice, Casey was back home with Verbanski and being 9hrs behind he was jetting off to bed as it was approaching 11pm. Verbanski was with him and had gone to sleep a few moments earlier. Before Casey could hit the pillow, his phone began to buzz, it was Beckmen. Casey quickly answered the call to a distressed Diane.

'Colonel, we have a situation.'

'Evelyn,... what has she done?' he quizzed.

'She broke into the CIA facility holding Daniel. She somehow got inside, but was detained before she could go any further.'

'So we've got her then?'

'No Casey we haven't. She had backup, Diana. She managed to escape once again, I had agents following but she dispatched them before they could capture her.'

'This woman is really starting to wind me up. I've have been searching for her and have come up with nothing and then she does this, how did it go unnoticed?'

'It's as you said before, she has been perfecting this plan for some time and she will not stop. We can't keep Daniel at the facility, we have to move him.'

'How did she find out which facility he was at? Where is she getting all her information from?'

'I think Diana must have hacked into our database. I dug up information on the ring agent who's accompany her and not only was she a field agent but she had sufficient knowledge into hacking computer databases, that's how the Ring picked her up when they noticed her work. We will be moving Daniel soon and I want you and Verbanski to over-see the transfer. '

'Of course General. When will it take place?'

'I will be in contact. We will notify you a few hours before, we don't have a planned date at this time. We don't want this getting out.'

'General, who else knows about Evelyn?'

'The team, me and 2 other agents. This is off the books, remember if CIA find out she is alive they will kill her as the order will still stand. I will be in touch soon regarding Shaw's transfer.'

Damn she is good. Evelyn had managed to avoid capture once again. This angered Casey even more, he had her in his grasps and she got away. She was now becoming more dangerous and clearly unnerved; she will stop at nothing from getting to her husband. But why? Daniel turned into a monster and tried to kill both Chuck and Sarah more than once, how could he ever be a father to his daughter Lily? If Daniel was to get out, he would bring down the entire CIA and will not rest till Chuck and Sarah were dead. Why would Evelyn ever want to break out her husband when he had turned into such a man? Casey was wide awake and contemplated waking Verbanksi to inform her of the update. Instead he headed downstairs and poured out some scotch. This was something he had to tell Chuck and Sarah.

In Italy….

Chuck and Sarah were waking up. Last night was something; in a place they barely knew they became lost. But it was something to remember, something to laugh about. Made a huge change from previous adventures with the CIA where either Chuck was getting kidnapped, or Sarah being drugged. Sarah was the first to fully wake and had opened the curtains, where the sun began to blaze through. It was just gone past 8am and Sarah had pushed Chuck to get up.

'Come on Chuck, we have a whole city to explore. Ellie texted me and they want us to go with them for some site seeing.'

Looking at the clock, Chuck grunted. He wasn't ready to get up, after all last night when they got back to their hotel, the couple clearly hyped up after a little adventure and being in a wonderful city, with no worries and being together…alone in a bedroom, things…happened. The bed was in such a mess with the covers half off and clothes scattered all over the floor.

'Sarah it's still early, give me another hour.'

Sarah slipped on a dressing gown and jumped onto the bed.

'Chuck…come on, get up.'

She sat on top off him and demanded he get up, politely of course. She always knew how to work Chuck, how to get him to do anything she wanted. Such power.

'Are you that tired?' Sarah asked.

'A little bit. I mean we did take full advantage of being alone.'

'Come on, the fresh air will wake you. I'm gonna shower before we head down for breakfast and when I come out, you better have clothes on. Unless you want to jump into the shower with me?'

Chuck needed no convincing and headed with Sarah into the shower.

20mins later…..

Chuck, Sarah, Ellie and Devon were tucking into breakfast.

'So where did you two get to last night?' Ellie asked.

'I have no idea sis. We just kept walking till we got lost. Luckily, my gorgeous wife here can speak Italian, which may I add was so sexy. We had to ask for directions back.'

'You got lost? Of all the things you can do, you got lost?'

Having finished breakfast the 4 headed out to explore the city. Every which way they turned they were surrounded with water. Checking out the gondola's passing by, Devon wanted on.

'I say let's grab us one of those.'

'Devon they are called Gondola's. Traditional Italian boats. They take you around the city.' Ellie told him.

'I want on, don't you two?' Devon asked Chuck and Sarah.

Chuck looked at Sarah for an answer if she wanted to check them out; Sarah was more than happy to hop on board. Devon and Chuck went over to enquire how much it would cost and splashed the cash. They picked out 2 boats for each of them. Jumping on the gentleman operating the Gondola's took off. Devon and Ellie were ahead and closely behind was Chuck and Sarah. Arm around his wife, Chuck began to apologise for bringing up Bryce and Shaw last night.

'I'm sorry for yesterday Sarah. I didn't mean to bring up Bryce and Shaw; I don't even know why I did to be honest.'

'It's ok Chuck, don't worry about it. I know why you asked though; I mean I probably would if I were in your shoes.'

'I know, but I shouldn't have asked. It was silly, why did I have to bring up your past relationships with those guys.'

Chuck feeling guilty, Sarah wanted to reassure him everything was fine and there was absolutely nothing to worry about.

'Listen, don't think about it. You'll drive yourself mad. Just know I loved you then and it was very hard for me to follow my heart especially in Prague and after I thought you completed your red test. Hey, I married you and we're happy, in love and on a gondola.'

Gazing at Sarah and smiling, he had to kiss his wife. Lips entwined the two couldn't take their eyes off each other. Separating, Sarah had to tell Chuck what was on her mind.

'You know the real reason why it took me so long to follow my heart is because I loved you very much Chuck. You were the one person to really make me happy but you were also the one that could really hurt me. I was so scared of what could happen…if I lost you or if you left, I had so many reasons why I shouldn't floating around in my head.'

'We always think of the reasons of why we shouldn't but we forget the reason why we should, gets overlooked. I know that in my mind, my goal was to get the intersect out of my brain as fast as I could so I could be normal again and so we could go on a date with you. But I had so many reasons why we shouldn't be together. Telling you that night of why we couldn't be together before joining my sister and Devon was extremely hard. I was going against everything I wanted. I'm happy that Casey told you the truth in the end, because I don't know if I ever would have. Maybe its Casey's fault we're married.'

Sarcastically looking at Chuck, Sarah wasn't that entirely smiley anymore. Chuck knew where he went wrong, but Sarah wasn't all that mad, but she had to play him a bit.

'Fault? We're married by fault?'

Arms folded and creating a gap between her and Chuck, Sarah waited for his response.

'Ermm, I'm going with no…? What I meant to say is that if Casey didn't tell you what happened that night at the train tracks we may not be where we are now. It came out all wrong.'

Still playing Chuck, she had to put a little act on. Turning away from Chuck she began to ignore him as he pleaded with her to say something. Ellie looked back and noticed the clear divide between the two. Turning back to Devon, she whispered,

'Lover's tiff back there.'

Devon had to be stopped by Ellie from looking over his shoulder at Chuck and Sarah.

'Don't look. I don't want them thinking we're spying.'

'Oh c'mon babe, it's what they always do.

There was no way Devon was going to win this little battle, bowing down to Ellie's feet he resisted turning back. Meanwhile, Chuck was trying to find a way to get Sarah to talk to him. Poor Chuck was stumbling over his feet, trying to make things better he inadvertently made it worse. Lapping up Chuck's stumbling, Sarah couldn't keep a straight face. Having enough of watching Chuck squirm, she thought it was time to let him off the hook, turning back to face him she shot him a blank stare before giving him a smirk.

'Come on Chuck, did you really think I'd get all upset and funny with a silly comment like that? It was good watching you fret though, might have to try it again.'

'Ah ok….yeh hahaha you got me.'

Wanting to play her at her own game, he made out he wasn't best pleased with her little charade. Now Chuck was the one doing the ignoring. Sarah calling his bluff knew exactly how to handle the situation, by doing the exact same back to him. Neither wanted to break, to give in. Ellie, curious to find out what exactly was going on in the boat behind; she did exactly what she had told Devon not to do.

'Right, so you can look and I can't? What's up with that?'

'Yeh yeh Devon, you got me.'

Sarah knowing she could win this battle, decided to drop first. Resting her head on his shoulder, she whispered into his ear whilst at the same time gently poking his back,

'Chuck…..I love you.'

This game was up; Chuck threw up his arm indicating for Sarah to rest on him. Head against his chest, Sarah was smiling from left to right. Enjoying every moment she was in Chucks arm, she was lapping up the scent of his aftershave.

'Yeh, I do smell good. I know.'

Soon the small boat ride was coming to an end. Pulling in, the 4 leapt off and headed off to find somewhere to stop for lunch. Finding a small coffee/café bar they headed in and ordered lunch. Chatting about anything and everything, Ellie then brought up the intersect that was in Chuck's brain.

'So Chuck, when you guys leave the CIA, are you going to keep that thing in your head?'

Chuck really hadn't thought about it, in fact he almost forgot he was holding a super computer in his brain.

'I dunno. I only uploaded it so I could stop that bomb from going off; I hadn't really thought what I was going to do with it afterwards. I've not really flashed since the accident because apparently I turned it off, yeh because there's a switch for this kinda of thing.'

'Switched it off?'

Sipping coffee, Chuck didn't want to go into it and shrugged off the question. Finishing lunch, Sarah and Ellie wanted to sit for longer whilst Chuck and Devon went off for a little bit. Walking through Venice, Chuck asked Devon for advice.

'So I want to buy Sarah something, but I have no idea what. What do you buy a woman who can throw knifes and take down an army?'

'Ah well that's difficult bro. Ellie, now she is easy to buy for but your wife, that's something you're going to have to think about. But I'd get her something that has meaning.'

Looking back into the past for any ideas, he remembered the day in the Buymore whilst they were all being held hostage. He'd given Sarah a bracelet, a bracelet that mean a great deal to him and in turned meant a lot to Sarah. Maybe another charm bracelet Chuck told himself. He got the idea sussed; now he needed the shop. Finding it wouldn't be so hard.

'Right I know exactly what to buy, look for a jewellery shop.'

'Yes, jewellery always works; I got your back on this Chuck.'

The two headed off in search for a jewellery shop and soon came across not one but half a dozen. Standing there looking like 2 lost tourists, they had no idea which one to go into. Pointing and counting, Chuck began picking off the shops one by one till he found the one he wanted to shop in. They both headed in and began a search for a charm bracelet.

'Pricey or what.' Devon told Chuck.

But Chuck couldn't put a price on this; he had to find a special one that would stand out. He'd pay whatever they wanted to find the perfect gift for Sarah. Looking over the bracelets the shop had, Chuck soon spotted the one he was looking for. With no price tag on this particular one, Chuck had to question the price, but whatever it was he was willing to pay. After all he still had some money in the bank from Carmichael Industries. Pointing out the one he wanted to the clerk in the store, the lady pulled it out of the glass cabinet it laid it. Language still a barrier, Chuck holded up some notes indicating he needed to know the price. In broken English, the lady told him,

'799 euros.'

Not caring for the price, he wanted it. Exiting the shop they headed back to Sarah and Ellie.

With Sarah and Ellie….

'So Ellie this is the first time we've been alone since…'

'Since you had a gun pointed at me, yeh I know.'

'I am so sorry Ellie, I would never do that. I can't begin to explain it, but…' Ellie stopped Sarah midway.

'Sarah it's ok. I've forgotten all about it, you should too. Chuck's got his wife back, I got my friend back and we're in Italy on vacation. It doesn't get better than that.'

Evelyn was still weighing on Sarah's mind, but not once had she let it show. Not wanting to worry Chuck, Sarah told Ellie of her reservations.

'At first I didn't want to come considering the situation back home. I mean there is someone out there who wants to kill me and break out her psychotic husband.'

'Well Diane couldn't really go into details but she assured me that we would all be safe, I won't be surprised if she has agents out here following us to make sure we're safe.'

Sarah had already guessed back at the airport there were in fact agents accompanying them, she had counted 3. In fact they were at a café opposite them. Ellie wasn't stupid and had watched Sarah as she turned around to look at the café opposite them.

'There are agents here, aren't they?' Ellie asked.

Sarah nodded her head, there was no way the 4 of them would have come out here with no protection what so ever. They were still CIA and precautions had to be taken.

'Does Chuck know?'

'Don't think so.' Sarah replied.

Ordering another coffee, Ellie had a burning question she wanted to ask Sarah.

'Do you mind if I ask you something?'

'Go ahead.'

'What did it feel like when you had your memories supressed?'

'Weird, very weird. Looking back and my memories now intact, I really have no idea what I was doing. It was like I was someone else you know.'

'Chuck was devastated. I even told him to forget you, I can't believe I did but at the time we all thought you were gone. For once I am glad he took Morgan's advice, when he found you on the beach I can't begin to imagine what was going through his mind.'

'I'm glad Chuck came to find me.'

'Me too.'

Before finishing their conversation, the two guys had returned. Not wanting to wait to give Sarah his gift, he pulled her away.

'Sorry to be rude, but I need a sec with my wife.'

Grabbing Sarah's had, he ushered her to follow.

'Chuck where are we going and what's that bag in your hand?'

Not giving anything away Chuck was heading back to a spot he picked out when he passed it on the way to the jewellery shop. It was perfect; they were in the pigeon square. A traditional place where many people would go to feed the neighbouring pigeons. Of course he wasn't going to stand directly in the middle; he headed for the statue that lay behind the square.

'Are we going to feed these pigeons or something?'

'Afterwards if you want. But I want to give you something first. Remember when I gave you that charm bracelet? It was my mothers, my dad gave it to her when Ellie was born…but I already told you that story. I wanted to buy you something that symbolised my everlasting devotion to you, even when I thought I had lost you again I wasn't about to give up. I will always be right by your side, no matter what.'

Reaching into the bag, Chuck pulled out a small box.

'Chuck…..'

Sarah was stunned as Chuck began to open the box. It was a charm bracelet and a beautiful one at that. Taking out the bracelet Chuck gently put it on Sarah's wrist. Still holding her hand he asked,

'Do you like it?'

Staring down at the bracelet, Sarah remembered that day back in the Buymore. In a flash she was brought right back to that moment. Whilst everyone was calling their loved ones she looked around and had wished she had someone to call, before she could think about it more her phone rang, it was Chuck. When he presented her with the lovely bracelet she was so overcome with emotion. A gift that should be given to someone he loved someone he wanted…he gave to her. She treasured that bracelet and here in this moment Chuck had presented her with another stunner. Looking back up to her husband, she gave him the biggest hug. Kissing his cheek, she thanked him for the gift,

'Chuck, I love it. Thank you so much.'

Hand in hand and not a cm between them, they began heading back to the café where Ellie and Devon were.

Meanwhile back in Burbank with Casey….

His clock reading 3am, Casey hadn't slept since Beckmen gave him the update. Looking over to Verbanski who was fast asleep, Casey headed back downstairs and poured another glass of scotch, only this time Verbanski had spotted him. Following him down, she took the glass from his hand and pressed him.

'You got a call from Beckmen didn't you? What did she have to say?'

'She nearly broke into the facility where Shaw is. That woman got away again and now we have to move Daniel to a new location. The general wants us to oversee the transfer.'

'Ok, but that's not why your pouring a scotch or waking up at 3am, something else you want to tell me?'

Like Sarah knew Chuck, Verbanski knew Casey. When something was bothering she would know. Having sussed at the dinner before Casey was still hung up on the fact he let Evelyn escape, she tried to reassure him.

'Casey, you have to move on. We will find her; you can't blame yourself for this.'

Her words weren't getting through; she needn't say more as she would be wasting her time. In a time like this, Casey would either head off to the firing range or jump right into a mission, but before she would let him go, she had to ask wherever Chuck and Sarah were informed of the latest update.

'Do they know yet?'

'No, I will tell them though. Just not tonight.'

With that, Casey headed out and went straight to Castle to continue his search for Evelyn.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed. Please review. Next chapter up soon.