Chuck vs. Six Months
AN: I own nothing. First off I'm sorry for the delay, once again. So if you're reading this, thank you for waiting and sticking with me. This chapter was hard to write. So again I'm sorry. Mistakes are my own. Hopefully you enjoy.
Chapter X
It had been almost a month since Matt was born and everybody took notice at how Chuck and Sarah's relationship changed. For one, they both started wearing rings on their left hand. Lauren even commented on the change and was very happy for them. Happy ending for them, not even close.
Now they were having lunch and just enjoying each others company. Chuck had been trying, unsuccessfully, to steal Sarah's fries but got his hand swatted away every time.
"So then he say's 'this is how you throw a party.' What a jerk." Sarah finished the story she was telling him.
"Right?" Chuck said raising an eyebrow at her.
"You weren't listening were you." she questioned.
"Eh, it got boring. You really need to work on your story telling methods because they suck." he replied, causing him to get hit by a fry she threw at him. "Hey, I finally got a fry." he said, picking up off his lap and throwing it into his mouth.
"I'm never telling you another story again." she told him.
"That's what she said." he replied and laughed at his own joke. Sarah glared at him as he continued to laugh but stopped when he saw her staring at him. "What, that was so appropriate."
"Look I need to get something from my office before we go shopping. My dad's party is tonight." she said getting up and waited as he threw some cash on the table.
"Man, shopping with girls is like, well it's hell. I'm not doing it, that's where I draw the line. And I have clothes." he said then tried to do a Scottish accent "You can take my freedom but can't take my manhood." and smiled at her as Sarah laughed. Opening the door, Chuck noticed that her office wasn't far from where they just ate.
"Weren't we just, but now were. That's weird." he said, making Sarah smile at him and nod her head.
"Chuck it's across the street from where I work, or haven't you noticed." she told him.
"Not really, I don't pay close attention to any details. Hey, did you know that today is our first official month of being together." he said with a smile.
"I thought you said that you don't pay attention to details." she said raising her eyebrows at him as he shrugged.
As they walked, Chuck thought Sarah was being quite for her own good especially after telling her that he wouldn't go shopping.
"Sarah, here are the papers you wanted and the box is on your desk." Sarah's assistant Ryan said, as he smiled at the two.
"Hey, Ryan." Chuck said to him.
"Hey, Charlie, how has your day been?" he asked him.
"Well, I'm pretty sure I finally won a fight. So it's all good. Yours?" he answered him but didn't see the evil smile Sarah had on her face as she walked to her office.
"It's going great, I have a date for the party tonight." he replied with a smile.
"Awesome, who is this man?" he said.
"A cute one. I'll make sure to introduce him to you." he responded as he handed more copies to Sarah.
"He's like meeting the mafia. He knows that once he's in, he'll have to die to get out right, or get severely beaten." Chuck said, as thoughts rolled through his head about numerous torture scenes he's seen in the movies or on television.
"Sorry, he watches too muck television. Is this all of it?" Sarah asked, leaving Chuck to his thoughts.
"You have a visitor in your office that you might not want Charlie to meet right now." Ryan said, trying to give her a hint.
"Oh no, I can't be. He wouldn't even think of coming here." she said with a sigh, which caught Chuck's attention.
"Something wrong?" he asked but didn't really receive an answer.
"Oh, I have tons of papers to do, I'm gonna have to cut this day of ours short. Maybe Ryan can help you pick something good out for the party. I need to go." Sarah said really quickly, leaving a very confused Chuck behind her.
"What just happened?" Chuck asked to nobody in particular.
"Come on Charlie, let's go get you all handsome." Ryan said pulling Chuck with him towards the elevator.
Sarah watched as Ryan pulled Chuck behind him and then took a long breath before continuing to her office. She couldn't believe after all this time, he would have the nerve to even show his face. Opening her door, she saw the person who she didn't want to be here.
"Hi Sarah." he said.
"What the hell are you doing here?" she replied back closing the door behind her.
"Sarah's not even here yet, and it's a Friday." Chuck said as he paced the room.
"Calm down, buddy, she'll be here." Morgan said from the couch.
"She probably just had some extra stuff to take care of before the party." Casey said as he was adjusting the tie he was wearing. "Are you sure I have to wear this?" he asked them.
"Yeah, just loosen it up at the party." Chuck told him as he was trying to will his phone to ring.
"Why do you have to go, Casey?" Morgan started to wonder.
"Carina." Chuck said with a smirk.
"I thought that was non-exclusive." Morgan said earning him a slap in the back of the head from Chuck.
"It is but we're also not seeing other people." Casey said grabbing his jacket.
"Another words it's complicated." Chuck said laughing as Casey growled at him.
"By the way, Ryan did an awesome job on picking clothes for you. Even convinced you to get a hair cut and it's styled. He did a number on you." Morgan said looking at his best friend.
"Yeah he did, he calls it extreme makeover: Chuck edition." Chuck said as they laughed.
He was wearing nice black dress pants, a striped black button-up, a dark blue tie, and a black vest. His hair was not dramatically different but it was shorter than he normally cut it and had the messing yet sexy vibe going. Chuck felt his phone vibrate and quickly answered it
"Hello. Where ar-Your dad's but I thought w-Oh they did. Sarah, are y-Ok, We'll meet the two of you u-Bye." he said trying to get a word with her. "Her dress was delivered to her dads and her and Carina will meet us up at the club." he said to them confused by Sarah's tone.
"You ok, Bartowski?" Casey said going to his friend.
"Yeah, man, I'm fine. We should go." he answered, heading towards the door.
"Hey, why aren't you wearing a jacket like I am." he asked.
"Because I'm not an idiot. Bye Morgan" Chuck told him and laughed as Casey threw his off and mumbled something he couldn't hear.
Morgan waved but was confused to why Sarah would lie to Chuck because he knows for a fact that Sarah's dress was hanging in the closet because that's where he put it when he signed for it earlier.
"Sarah, what's is going on?" he asked himself as he got up to get some water.
"Sarah, why did you lie to him?" Carina asked as she looked at Sarah.
"I needed to, it's for his own good." she told her before she finished "Remember you promised to not say a word." and walked out the door.
"You need to tell him before he finds out some other way." she said following her to the door.
"He won't, now let's go because we're going to be late." she answered.
The party had already started when the guys had arrived and were now looking for the girls. Sarah had been impatiently waiting for Chuck as Ryan was talking to his date and Carina. Sarah caught sight of Casey and lost her breath when she saw Chuck.
Ryan and Carina smiled at the look Sarah was giving and thought she was going to push Casey out of the way to get to him.
"You see, nothing to worry about." Ryan whispered to Carina as Sarah got up and met with Chuck.
"Hey you." Sarah said as she looked him up and down.
"Hey yourself. You ok?" he asked worried but relaxed and closed his eyes when she ran her hands through his hair.
"I'm great. You?" she said fixing his tie that really didn't need fixing.
"Great, now that I saw you." he said and smirked.
"Are you trying to pick me up, Mr. Bartowski?" she said trying not to laugh.
"I don't know, you tell me?" he said.
"I think you and it's working." she whispered to him causing him to smile.
"Alright, well my work here is done. I should go." he said but felt her hand grab his and pull him towards her.
"Your not going anywhere." she said and pulled him towards her and kissed him. They didn't notice the person who was watching all of this and took a sip of his beer.
"Charlie, nice of you to join us. I want you to meet Adam, Adam this is Charles but feel free to call him either Chuck or Charlie." Ryan said as he smiled at them but mostly at Sarah.
"Nice to meet you, Ryan's told me nothing about you. Just kidding, he says you're a good guy." Adam said shaking hands with him.
"Nice to meet you too, and it's good to hear that. You seem like a good guy as well. By the way, welcome to the mafia, you have to fight to get out." Chuck said with a straight face but couldn't hold it any longer and started laughing.
"I don't plan on leaving anytime soon. So I'm glad to be in, what do I have to do? I don't have to kiss your ring, do I?" he said, laughing as well.
"Please, whatever you do, don't encourage him. He's bad enough." Sarah said, smiling at Chuck.
"I have your first job. Getting us some beer." Chuck said as Adam nodded and got up. Sarah elbowed him and say "Which I'll help you with if I want to keep from bruising." and followed him.
Everyone was enjoying the party, Sarah even got Chuck to dance a few songs and Casey made sure Carina took a picture of it. The guys were at the bar, leaving Sarah and Carina by themselves to talk.
"So it looks like you were right, no need to bring up the past." Carina said looking at how happy Chuck was right now.
"Yeah I know, and look at him, he's happy and I'm happy. That's all that matters." Sarah said and smiled at Chuck who was looking at her.
"So why bring him back into your life?" she questioned but Sarah never answered the question.
As the night wore down, everyone seemed to be leaving by the packs, leaving the group to be the last to leave. Everyone was already outside except for Chuck who was using the bathroom.
"Hey, we're going to call it a night. See you guys later." Ryan said giving Carina and Sarah a hug and patting Casey on the back.
"Bye." "Night" "Later" they all said at the same time.
Back inside the club, someone was waiting to introduce himself to Chuck and finally got the opportunity to when he came out of the bathroom.
"Hey, you're Charles Bartowski." he said extending his hand to him.
"Call me Chuck, nice to meet you too, sorry I didn't catch your name." Chuck said shaking his hand.
"I'm Bryce Larkin, I'm a good friend of Sarah's" he told him.
"Awesome. Look I would love to chat but it's getting late and people are waiting for me outside. So I'll see you around." Chuck said and smiled as he took his leave.
Watching him leaving, Bryce whispered "Really Sarah, this guy." and smiled.
End of Chapter X
AN: Yup, Bryce is back. This would be a longer author's note but you still got more to read. So keep going, you know you want to. Be kind and review. Peace.