Chapter 11

She felt the waves hit her toes, the water was always colder in the night time. She watched as the tide went in and out, in and out and took the sand's treasures with it. After a while she stood up and walked aimlessly around, she wasn't concentrating on the spooky-but-beautiful scenery around her. Her mind was elsewhere.

A little while earlier Sarah had been watching the sunset, transfixed as the amber sun seemingly descended beneath the waves. It had been strange for her to watch it alone, a few times before she had been here and had watched it with Chuck. They didn't talk much during this time - but they didn't need to. A comfortable silence was always durable.

Chuck always told her that the sea could wash away his troubles, but not for her, not this time. And now as the hollow wind hit her face, tears made their way down her cheeks. She felt like she would never again watch the sunset with Chuck. She wouldn't hear that familiar laughter that she had once heard. He would forever be confused and lost.

She didn't deserve him anymore. She didn't want to put him through anymore pain, he was better off without her. But he was the only person she had, the only person that she would go to the end of the earth for. The only person who she loved more than anything in the world.

But as she ran over it in her head once more, she came to the conclusion that if she didn't exist, then neither would Chuck's pain. He was free to start afresh, with a new life and a new girlfriend. He wouldn't want a damaged, commitment-phobic woman. She found it difficult enough to tell him she loved him as it was. He deserved better. And what he didn't know wouldn't hurt him.

Chuck was probably happy now, amongst Ellie, Awesome, Morgan and his other friends. He needed people around him.

She hadn't come to this decision lightly. She took a deep breath and placed her half-empty bottle of vodka down beside her in the sand. With tears streaming down her face, she let out a low howl. Sarah went from crying silently to full blown sobbing.

Wiping her face with the back of her hand, she stepped into the cold, dark water. She couldn't really feel how cold it was, her legs were numb. She walked in further and felt a gentle current pulling her further in, she was soon up to her hips and not long after that she was up to her waist.

Still sobbing hysterically she let the water pull her along, and then she was just bobbing above the water. Her neck was also underneath it, she stopped moving her arms and let the sea overtake her. Her body slowly began to sink, water flooding into her ears and soaking her face.

"Sarah!" A faraway voice called.

She pretended like she had imagined it and carried on floating into oblivion.

"Sa-raaaaah!"

Hang on. Was that? No. It couldn't be. Sarah lifted her head up just when her head was nearly under. She looked into the distance, a tall figure was making his was towards her. Am I hallucinating? She wondered.

She slowly began to wind mill her arms again, but the water was pulling her under. Twisting and pulling her under, she coughed and spluttered, trying to keep her head afloat.

Chuck was swimming towards her, he was doing quick strokes, not letting his head go under. He paddled urgently, kicking his legs like his life depended on it. Though actually, it was her life that depended on it.

"Sarah!" He shouted.

"Chuck!" She coughed as the cruel, dark waters tried to squeeze every last bit of oxygen out of her lungs. It was dragging her further and further away. With every ounce of strength in her body she tried to get to him but she couldn't.

"No!" She screamed.

When Chuck swam over to where he thought she was, she was gone. He inhaled and held his breath, he dove under. The sea was misty and opaque. He couldn't see and thing his eyes were stinging and his lungs felt as if they were on fire.

He felt around, he dove deeper and felt something soft brushing his arm, he quickly grabbed it and made his way to the surface. His head rose above the water, with all his strength he pulled Sarah up to the surface.

Her lifeless body floated up and down in his arms. "Sarah?" He cried, swimming towards the coast. He pushed her in front of him and he quickly got to the sand.

On his hands and knees and tears streaming down his face, Chuck crawled onto the soft forgiving sand and lay Sarah on her back on the ground. He put both his hands on her chest and started pushing up and down, he parted her pale pink lips and began to breath gently onto her mouth.

Frantically, he carried on doing this while his cries echoed onto the empty beach, bouncing off the sand and diving into the sea. He would never give up. He saw her chest jerk upwards and her eyelids flicker.

He slowly lifted her so that she was sitting upwards, one hand underneath her and the other behind her head. Sarah started to cough, and she quickly took a breath in - greedily inhaling oxygen. She coughed once more and water came from her mouth and splashed all over Chuck's already wet T-shirt.

"Sarah, oh God, thank God your okay!" He rambled, pulling her close.

For a moment, she said nothing. She leant her head against his chest and clung tightly to him. After a few minutes, she turned and looked up at him.

"You saved me!" Sarah whispered, gazing up into his eyes.

"What the hell were you doing in there, Sarah?" He panted, looking down at her with a worried expression.

"I - I - I just couldn't bare it!" She put her head back down into his chest and began to cry softly.

"Bare it? Bare what?" He replied gently, pulling the damp, golden hair away from her face.

"Living without you remembering me. You would have been better off without me. And now you'll never remember me!" She sobbed.

"I remember everything, Sarah. I'm here now." He smiled a little.

"You - you do?" She smiled disbelievingly.

"I do, yes."

"Oh Chuck!" She cried and she arched her head towards his and kissed him passionately, absorbing up the familiarity of his lips, the touch of his skin. Chuck's skin tingled all over and an electric wave shot up his back, they lay down on the sand and continued to kiss like love struck teenagers.

He moved his hands to the back of her head and whispered "I can't believe I ever forgot you, Sarah Walker, from now on it's us against the world and no one else."

They were too tired to do anything else, she rolled off of him and nuzzled under his arm, she lay on his chest as they listened to the tide go in and out. Sarah couldn't believe that she had been so stupid, how could she have even considered leaving him?

She sighed contently, aware that they couldn't stay here forever and that they would have to face Casey eventually. Maybe they could negotiate with him or General Beckman? Chuck knew also that he would also have to confront, Ellie, Awesome and Morgan. He could run away, but his problems would still be there.

But for now, it was just the two of them. Side by side, together in the moonlight.

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