A/N: Hey guys thanks for your support. I managed to get some free time to edit this latest chapter. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks to BDaddyDL for his time betaing this chapter. A special thanks goes out to my wife and daughter and most of al to all of you who continue to read this story. I don't own chuck and probably never will. By the way for some reason my line breaks keep disappearing hopefully that doesn't confuse anyone too much.
Chapter 10
It was 10:45pm and Sarah had just left Dr. Kent. She had had fun, and Lauren said they should do this once a week. She had liked it, and she didn't have any other girlfriends except Ellie. But the smile on her face was really due to thinking about Chuck.
She was hoping that he was back from the mission and waiting in her quarters.
When she got to her door, she noticed it was slightly ajar, and she was hoping that Chuck didn't realize that he hadn't closed it.
"Chuck, are you in here?"
But as she opened it, she saw the silhouette and it defiantly was not Chuck. She stepped in slowly and the person turned around and it was Ellie.
"Ellie! What are you doing here, is everything ok?" Sarah asked coming into the room.
Ellie was almost in tears, "Devon and I had a fight."
"OK, but it can't be all bad; you guys will work everything out." Sarah said comfortingly.
"Sarah I don't think so, see I found out that everyone has been lying to me, including you and Devon."
"Ellie, whatever you think you know, I am sure everything will be ok."? Sarah was getting worried.
Wiping the tears from her face Ellie looked up and asked "So when were you guys going to tell me that you worked for the C.I.A.? As Sarah finally looked at Ellie all she saw was her face contorted into rage.
"Come Mr. Michelson the last boat launch is about to leave the ship and I have the poker table all set up." De La Huerta said as he led Chuck and Sammie, back to the casino. Trying to come up with an excuse to make that last launch Chuck looked behind him again and the three men with the weapons were following them back to the poker table.
Casey stared at the stern of the sip and watched the retreating frame of Chuck walk back in, "Good luck Chuck, you're going to need it, I'll be back."
As Chuck walked to the table Sammie intertwined her fingers with his and whispered, "Kick his ass".
As Chuck sat down, there were four people at the table, De La Huerta, Boogins, Fulcrums middle man, and two industrial men. Chuck sat at the table, and Sammie draped herself over his shoulder and kissed him hard on the mouth and whispered, "For luck".
They started the deal and Chuck smiled inwardly, "Lets start this off with a bang, I raise 50,000."
The boat Casey was riding, arrived at the dock, and he pushed himself threw the gates and up the ramp, just pushing people out of the way. Mary's black van pulled up to the dock, and Casey jumped in and they sped off.
"What is the status of the seal team Mary?" Casey asked.
"They are 3 hours in route should be here by 2:00 AM", Mary replied.
"Look Casey I put the call out to them the second I heard Chuck suggest it. The closest team was being used to help the coast guard perform a raid on a suspected barge bringing in drugs."
"Damn Squids, well, I am going to get the boats and weapons ready."
"Ellie, I am not sure what you think you found out, but I assure you that Chuck and I are not apart of the C.I.A. "Sarah replied trying to sound as honest as possible, knowing full well she could lie to Ellie about as well as she could lie to Chuck and that wasn't much at all. Those Bartowski's have a way of seeing right threw her.
"Sarah don't insult my intelligence, I was cleaning Chuck's room, just trying to keep it ready for you guys when you get out of here, but I knocked his TRON poster down and I saw his diagrams on the back and speaking of Chuck, where is he by the way?" Ellie, demanded to know.
"Look Ellie…." Sarah tried to get out. Damn it Chuck were are you when I need you. How could you have left that poster up.
"WHERE IS MY BROTHER!" Ellie screamed.
"Ok Ellie, calm down, just give me a few minutes. I have to go speak with someone, and then I will try and answer every question that you have. Ok, I promise. As for where Chuck is, he's not here and I am not sure what time he will be back. Hopefully it will be soon, ok."
"Sarah you have 15 minutes; then I will tear this place apart my self if I have to."
"OK Ellie, 15 minutes be right back." Sarah said.
Sarah still sore from overdoing her PT workout the other day hobbled to the communications room as soon as she could. The tech on duty knew who Sarah was so she didn't question why she was there.
"I need a direct communication dispatch to General Diane Beckman, ASAP. "
"Agent Walker this better be good, you are not even supposed to have privileges at this point in time. Why am I speaking with you at this late hour?" The General asked.
"Ma'am, I have Ellie Bartowski in my room. I came on from a night out, and found her in there. At first she was hysterical, but after a moment she told me why she was here. Ma'am she knows that I am C.I.A. and she thinks that Chuck is also."
"Do you really think that she can handle finding out the information Agent?"
"Ma'am I think she can, I think at fist she will feel betrayed but I think that she can be a huge asset for us. First as a doctor to help when we are injured and secondly Ellie is the only person I know that he doesn't argue with." Sarah said flatly.
The General took a deep breath and let it out slowly. She then looked down rubbing her temples for a second and said "Have her sign the necessary forms and give her all the information she needs. However do not tell her about the Intersect, do I make myself clear?"
"Will there be anything else Agent Walker? The general asked as politely as she could.
"Ma'am is there any word on Chuck's op yet. I know that I am not in the loop at the moment, but I was just wondering when they will be back and if everything was going ok."
"You are correct Agent Walker, at this moment you do not need to know and as such, I will forget that you even asked this of me. Goodnight, Agent Walker." With that the screen went blank.
Sarah stopped by the base exchange on her way back and grabbed a bottle of wine and went off to find Ellie. As she neared her door, she knocked just to make sure that Ellie was not going to jump her.
"Did you get permission to talk to me now? Ellie asked dryly.
"I did, but first I need you to sign some paperwork for me. While you do that I need to open this bottle of wine." Sarah said with as much of a smile as she could muster.
"What are these papers for, and where is Chuck?"
"Ellie, this is serious, they are confidentiality papers. Basically it says that if you ever repeat or talk about that you and I are going to talk about outside this room, with out myself or someone else from the DOD present, then you can go to prison on acts of treason. As for Chuck, I honestly do not know where he is or when he will be back. At the moment I am not cleared for such knowledge."
"Ok I think I will take that drink now." Ellie says while she signs the papers.
They had been playing poker for an hour and half. Sammie was mesmerized at the complexity of Chuck's play. He had won nearly all of the hands, either through sheer bluffing or out right with the better hand. Chuck had already knocked out Fulcrum's Peter Boogins, and one of the industrialists.
As the dealer was starting to deal the cards, Chuck started staring at his final 2 competitors. He had started with only a $100,000 from the winnings, but after taking out the last two opponents, he was up to nearly 1.4 million. He looked closely at the industrialist to his left. As he was looking at his cards, he noticed that the man to his right had just under a $800,000 on the table and that De la Huerta had just about the same amount that he did.
Then he snapped his fingers and put his cards down. "I know were I know you from."
"Who me" the industrialist says in a shaky voice.
"Yeah you were the guy who party crashed his way into the President Obama's first state dinner. What is your name M. Salahy."
"No that was my cousin. Stupid idiot going thru all that just to try and land a shot on a reality T.V. show?
"Wow, I am going to enjoy taking your money. Alright guys here's the deal, it's almost 1:00 Am and I am not sure if either of you have children, but my normal bedtime now is 10:00pm at the latest. So how about we make this a winner take all hand. The Cards have been dealt and we will just go all in and see who wins?"
"I must say Mr. Michelson that you do have an adventurous spirit, and like to live a dangerous life there." De La Huerta said, "But I am in" as he glances down at his cards.
"Well I guess I have no choice" said Salahy, "I am in as well."
"Gentleman, all the cards have been dealt now lets draw for the flop" announced the dealer.
The flop was a king of spades, a jack of spades, and a 10 of diamonds. Salahy looked at his cards and he had a pair of 10's, trip threes aren't a bad start he thought to himself.
De La Huerta, had the faint traces of a smile, he had the makings of a straight flush. Meanwhile Chuck just sat there not even looking at his cards. Sammie thought this was very strange but she had to give him credit he had been holding his own up till this part of the game.
The dealer thru down the turn card, a queen of spades. Salahy burst out into a grin, not exactly poker etiquette but he didn't need to bluff on the last hand of the game and having trip 10's was looking good he was praying for the last 10 on the river to seal the deal.
De La Huerta no broke into abroad grin himself, along with the king, queen, jack and 10 he had an ace of diamonds and an ace of clubs. He had a full straight with one card to go. He had the game in the bag and that fool Michelson hasn't even looked at his cards yet.
The dealer pulled the river card and thru down the 10 of spades.
Sitting on the table were the King of spades, the Queen of spades, the Jack of spades, a 10 of diamonds and a 10 of spades.
Salahy jumped up in his seat and exclaimed yes, he had hit his four of a kind, the third best hand you can have in poker. "Sorry guys but I'll be taking that pot, oh and Mr. Michelson, the next time I shake hands with the president I will think of you." Salahy started pulling in the chips when De La Huerta put his hand over his, I am sorry Mikhail but the pot is not yours tonight.
De La Huerta threw down his two cards an Ace of hearts, and a 9 of diamonds. He had a straight flush. Salahy sat back in his chair and looked defeated. "Sorry old friend but I had to do it." As he patted his old friend on the back, "Mr. Michelson, ready to a admit defeat to me, you might as well as finally look at your cards and get it over with.
Chuck squinted and replied "I guess that you are right, I might as well." Without looking at his cards Chuck threw the first card on the table it was a two of hearts. De La Huerta almost made the same mistake as his friend but he sat back and waited for the last card to drop. Sammie had her hands on Chucks back now even she couldn't imagine how this would work out. Chuck picked up his last card and tossed it on top of the money. It was the Ace of spades.
Sammie erupted into excitement and sat in his lap and gave him a kiss that almost rivaled any of Sarah's kisses, well almost but not quite. Chuck had won almost 2.6 million dollars.
"Congratulations baby" she purred into his ear. "Ok so time to get out of here?"
"Right ok gentleman I think it's time my wife and I leave and make it home to our little ones." Chuck stated as he put his winnings in his wife's purse.
"Mr. Michelson, I don't think that you understand, there aren't any more boats till morning. I have a few guest bedrooms for you and your lovely wife to stay in don't worry you will be home by 7:00am." De La Huerta stated, "Who knows maybe before you leave you will give me a chance to get my money back."
As Chuck and Sammie entered their guest room Chuck went to the bathroom. While Sammie started looking around, Chuck came back into the room. Sammie spins Chuck around and grabs his rear and plants a ferocious kiss on his lips. She starts pushing him closer to the bed and he fell onto it, as she climbed on top of him and started ripping the buttons on his shirt to get at him.
"Whoa Saammie what are you doing. Sammie went into to lick his ear lobe but said something very low in a whisper like voice "In the top of the crown molding there is a little black dot in the middle. It's a camera. We are being watched so we are going to have to be very convincing."
"But Tammie, I'm tired. I had to think a lot tonight"
"Oh its ok I can make sure you stay awake." Tammie purred.
Chuck went into say as low as possible "Look I am not going to have sex with you, my under clothes are staying on, but I will try and make this as close to real as I can."
"Oh yes you will, Tammie started trailing kisses down Chuck's bare chest as she started to get further down and started to unzip his pants, but as she went to pull them down, Chuck flipped her over on her back, and pulled the covers over them. He threw her dress onto the floors and acted like he was going down on her, but in reality his mouth never left her neck, he just pulled the cover over his head.
But Sammie, was not having any of that, She thought to herself (if I am going to get him, I am going to have to get him turned on enough that he can't control himself anymore) She rolled him over on his back and started to dry hump him. Chuck could feel her grind her lacey panties into his crotch and part of him had wondered if he could really hold out. He was on the verge a few times, but Chuck held it in as best he could. (God she was driving him crazy he thought, I just need to think about Sarah, that's all yeah Sarah)
After about a half hour they gave it a rest and decided to play like they were asleep. Chuck had one eye closed and one eye partially open and so did Sammie. About 15minutes later their door was kicked in and two men entered right away. They each pulled out a taser gun and shot both Chuck and Sammie with 50,000 thousand volts of electricity and stunned them.
It was now just after 1:00am and Sarah had just finished her story about Chuck and the Intersect and Chuck's participation. She was fairly tired from making sure that Ellie never breathed a word about the Intersect, she truly didn't want to end up in Leavenworth but she refused to lie to Ellie anymore. On top of that she had worked out all day in rehab, went out with Lauren and drank a little bit, and now having polished off two bottles of Skywalker Wine with Ellie, she wasn't sure she would be able to answer any more of Ellie's questions tonight.
"So let me get this straight, for the first year and half that you were dating Chuck, it was your job?" Ellie asked.
Sarah had her hands propping her head up, "Yes Ellie, but as I told you even when I first met Chuck, I knew there was something different about him, that rocked me to the core. I finally figured out that I loved him, when we broke up that second time before he started dating Jill."
"I always hated her"
"Trust me that hate is here also. The problem is Ellie, I have never been good with my feelings and emotions, plus at the time, Chuck and I were not aloud to have a relationship. But I had decided to do it anyway, and tell Chuck how I felt then the "incident" happened and then I went crazy. But your brother never gave up on me; he put the Intersect back in his head and made a deal with the devil that would ensure that we could have a relationship."
"So just a quick recap, Chuck has a super computer stuck in his head, and you love him?"
"Yes Ellie, I truly love him with all my heart." Sarah replied.
"Then why is it, whenever we come here, all the women seem to swoon around my brother, surely they know who you are?"
"We haven't had time to let everyone know yet, and yes I know it makes me so jealous, because they are all brunettes and I know he has a weakness for them" Sarah said as she throws her head into her arms on the table.
"So where's Chuck now?
"He had a mission to go on tonight, but they were supposed to be back 2 hours ago, actually when I came home I thought he was waiting in my room, but I found you instead."
"Is he ok?" I don't know Ellie, but, hey did you call Devon and let him know were you are?
"No I will call him now and let him know that I am ok, but Sarah what about Chuck?"
"I will try and find out." Was all Sarah said as she left the room.
The Navy seals had arrived around 2:00am and they were in the zodiac boats with Casey making their way towards the "Isobel" (hang in their guys we are on our way).
"Mary has there been any contact or word on them yet?
"No not yet, I have been getting snippets, but their mics must be being moved around a lot. I think that Chuck is being tortured but I am not totally sure."
"Dammit, Walker is going to skin me alive. If you get anything more definitive, get back with me and monitor our progress."
As Chuck started to wake back up, he noticed that he was handcuffed to a chair and that Sammie was right next to him, handcuffed also.
"Welcome back Mr. Michelson, do you know why this had to happen to you?" Peter Boogins asked as his two men moved to their sides.
Chuck noticed the Raphel De La Huerta was sitting in a chair, in what must have been that downstairs office. He decided to play dumb and see how far that got him.
"Umm, I thought we were just getting some sleep, and then leaving in the morning. Why are you doing this to us?"
"Mr. Michelson, what does your wife do for a living?"
"She is a housewife, I make enough money that she does not have to work."
"Hit him please" and the agent to his left punched him hard in the jaw. Chuck took, it but could feel his eye start to swell, and there was a cut above his eye.
"Mr. Michelson, please don't lie to me again, if you do it will only hurt worse."
At this moment Sammie had woken up and saw that Chuck was bleeding. She screamed "Leave him alone".
"Ahh Mrs. Michelson, would you care you tell me then what you were doing in my private study?" De La Huerta asked.
"I have never been in here." Sammie stated. While Sammie was talking with Boogins, Chuck gripped his thumb and was trying to break it on his left hand so he could slip the cuff off of himself, he had seen Casey do it, and while it is quite painful, he knew it was there only chance.
"Tsk tsk, I guess we shall show you that lying to us hurts your loved ones."
"You see Mrs. Michelson, when I am not in that room there is no video surveillance that can be faked". De La Huerta said, as he knocked on the mirrored window. The window slid up to reveal a man in a security uniform. "You see when I am in this room, this little room is empty, but when I am in any other part of his ship, that room is manned at all times." De La Huerta nodded his head towards Boogins.
Boogins started motioning to his man, and the man walked up to Chuck and started wailing on his face. Sammie could see the damage being inflicted on Chuck's poor face. The man was hitting him with lefts and rights. Chuck felt his nose break, well no need to fake the pain anymore that just meant that when he broke his thumb no one would notice him flinch. With the next punch Chuck knew now was the time. When the man's fist connected with his face Chuck rolled with the punch, and knocked his chair over while breaking his thumb in the process.
"Please don't hit him anymore I'll tell you what I was doing" Sammie pleaded.
Boogins held up his hand and motioned for his associate to stop. Boogins leaned back against the desk and motioned for her to continue.
"Look, my husband does not know this but we are basically broke, I decided to just look around and see if I could something anything that was worth some money so I could try and get us out of the debt that we are in."
"If you are as bad off as you claim, how did your husband come here with 200,000 thousand dollars?"
"He sold a program, I handle all the finances, that was the new upfront money, but our accounts are tapped, I made a few mistakes when the market crashed and I just didn't have the heart to tell him."
Chuck was getting ready to make his move, as he flashed on kung fu (Sammie just keep them focused on you). He slipped the left cuff off, and opened it up like a claw and gripped it in his right hand.
When they were 20 meters off the starboard side of the ship, Casey gave the go ahead for the two snipers to take out anyone on the deck. Casey watched with a set of night vision goggles on as two of the four targets were taken out with ease. He gave the order for the next two to go down. Puffs of blood sprayed off the next two bodies to hit the deck. Casey gave the go ahead for the second zodiac to go to the opposite side of the boat and to get ready for incursion.
He then leaned down and asked the sniper on his boat, "Miller can you hit the captain or the driver from here."
"Yeah I can do that."
"Do it then we board." Ten seconds later the captain was hit, and then Casey gave the go ahead, Search room by room, but leave the downstairs room for last. Fast, efficiency and stealth are our main objectives people, we have hostages aboard and trust me you don't want the Agent's girlfriend to come after you if he is injured."
Sarah was pacing back and forth in the communications room waiting for word that Chuck was on his way back, when she contemplated calling General Beckman again.
"Nah the Bitch would probably hang up on me again, and refuse to tell me anything anyway"
Sarah resumed her pacing and biting her fingernail until it was time to rejoin Ellie.
"Mrs. Michelson, you have 10 seconds to tell me what you took, and were you hid it, or I will shoot your husband." Boogins said, as he turned towards the desk to grab the gun Chuck made his move.
Barely able to see Chuck launched himself at Boogins with all of his might. He swung his right hand at him, and caught him in the jugular with the end of the handcuffs and ripped it out. Blood spurted from his neck and sprayed out all over the wall.
In one fluid motion Chuck, went into a leg sweep and took the legs out of one fulcrum agent and sent him crashing to the floor, but got hit from behind from the other man.
Sammie, started attacking the agent that Chuck had taken down. She nailed him with a right cross to the face and then knocked him out.
Meanwhile Chuck was back up on his feet and taking on the remaining fulcrum agent.
Raphel De La Huerta, seeing that his side was loosing, got up from the desk and ran out of the room, towards the deck. His guard that was in the small observation room, was getting ready to jump into the fight, when Sammie threw a roundhouse kick, that hit him squarely in the jaw and knocked him down, she then grabbed a letter opener on the desk and threw it as hard as she could at him. It hit him in the neck and he went down.
As Chuck was taking on the agent. Sammie stood back catching her breath and watched in amazement. The man was obviously pretty good with martial arts, but Chuck was more then holding his own, as he was throwing counterpunches and kicks.
The Agent sent a sidekick towards Chuck, who using a kickboxing move, brought his left knee up and blocked the kick, then sent a punch to the mans throat, in the next move chuck kicked straight ahead and caught the man in the stomach and brought his elbow down on the base of his skull, knocking the man out.
As Chuck was breathing hard, the pain intensified while he was making sure there were no other threats threw his one good eye. Suddenly there was a noise at the door and he and Sammie spun around to see Casey holding De La Huerta in his arms not letting him get away.
"Christ Bartowski, You let a little school girl kick your ass again. Come on Walker is already going to kill me when she sees your face let's get you out of here." Casey said.
Chuck went to respond, but some blood came out of his lip and he started to collapse to the floor, from the beating he received earlier. Sammie was by his side in an instant be for he hit the ground and tried propping him up on her shoulder. "CASEY" she shouted.
Casey turned grabbed his radio and shouted for an emergency evac Agent down. "Bartowski, you are determined to let Walker kill me aren't you."
"Serves you right Suggar Bear" Chuck said as more blood came out of his mouth, and then all went dark.
At this point Sarah was more worried than angry. She was angry at Beckman for not letting her know Chuck's status. She was worried about the mission and how I might change him, and she was defiantly worried that he hadn't come back and he was playing house with that bitch Agent Rhodes. But most importantly she was worried because she was not there to protect Chuck.
As she started to open the door, Ellie came up to her. "Did you get any word on Chuck, Sarah?"
Just at that moment, there was an announcement over the PA system.
"All medical personnel needed to the medical bay, all medical personnel needed to the medical bay!"
End Chapter 10
A/N 2: The next installment will probably be next week or the week after, but i will get it out as soon as possible, thanks again and please review and tel me what you think.