Chuck vs. Six Months
AN: I own nothing. Nothing like a double-whammy, right. Mistakes are my own.. Enjoy.
Chapter XI
Chuck noticed a change in Sarah's actions. It's like she was a different person and he didn't know why. She was being secretive and weird. And not the good kind. She had even snapped at him for asking if she wanted some water.
"What's going on with Sarah, man?" Morgan asked as he watched Chuck play Fallout 3.
"I honestly don't know. She hasn't been herself since that party, something happened but I don't know what." he said putting the remote down and headed towards the kitchen.
"Have you asked her about it?" he said.
"Dude, what am I supposed to ask? It's not like I'm asking about the weather. 'Hey, why are you acting weird?'." he said to him in a sarcastic voice as he placed the strawberries out on the counter.
"Met anyone new lately, that could be it." Morgan said reaching out for one.
"No, wait this Larkin guy at the party. Said he was a friend of Sarah's." Chuck told him as he bit into a strawberry.
"Ask her about him, maybe that it." he said, hearing the front door open and whispered. "Now's your chance." and walked out the door and pass Sarah. "Hi Sarah, Bye Sarah." he said closing the door behind him.
"Hey." Sarah said as she watched Morgan leave and turned to Chuck and asked "What's with him?"
"Wanting to get a new controller for the 360, he's very eager." Chuck answered and smiled.
"Oh, good for him. How was your day?" she said giving him a quick kiss before letting him reply.
"Good, got a good run today and hung out with Morgan. Your's?" he said as he saw her grab a strawberry and notice something off.
"Uneventful and boring." she said lying knowing it was anything but that as she took a bite.
"So, whose this Bryce Larkin guy?" he said bluntly catching her off guard. Chuck watched Sarah expression and knew he had to be someone to her.
"Where did you hear that name?" she asked him.
"At the party, I actually met him. He introduced himself to me, seems like a good guy." he said, still watching her expression.
"He-umm-he's a family friend." she said as she turned her back to him and closed her eyes.
"Really?" Chuck said wanting to believe her but something inside of him told him that it wasn't true.
"Yeah, can we not talk about this right now." she told him.
"What you want to talk in public because we can go outside and do that." he said to her, trying to lighten up the mood.
"He's a friend." she said and went towards the living room. Chuck knew what was off, she wasn't wearing the ring and wonder why but knew better to ask right now.
"Look, I don't want you to get the wrong idea but I sort of read one of your texts before realizing it wasn't my phone." he said and saw her expression change. "Not good Chuck, not good at all." he thought to himself.
"Who was it from?" she asked as she walked towards him.
"Umm, Bryce." he said standing his ground as she continued towards him.
"How come I didn't see this text?" she questioned him once again.
"I sort of deleted it on accident. Sorry." he said looking at her.
"You have no right to be reading my text or even deleting." she said.
"It's not like I meant to, alright." he said walking away before she yelled.
"He's a friend and that's all. No need to get jealous." she said following him.
"Jealous, oh ok, look I need to head to the fire house. I'll see you later." he said with amusement in his voice as he walked towards the front door.
"Actually you won't because me and Carina are going to have girls night out. Oh, wait, I didn't check with you first." she told him.
"Awesome, have fun." he told her with a hint of sarcasm on the side and walked out..
Sarah watched him leave and once the door closed, she pulled out her cell phone and dialed a familiar number that she memorized a long time ago.
"Hey, I need to speak with you. Dinner tonight at the regular place. Bye." she said and closed her phone before they could respond.
As the day went by, everyone had been busy. Casey with making sure the new camera's were getting installed right, Morgan trying to impress this Anna girl, Carina watching movies, Sarah wondering how this would, and Chuck making sure everything was going smoothly since the chief left him in charge.
Morgan had swung by with Chinese food and was talking about how great Anna was. Chuck was happy for him because he had only heard him talk about a girl like this once and knew this Anna girl was good for him.
"So she says we should try it sometime. Of course, I said I would consider it." Morgan said telling Chuck how Anna said he should try kung-fu. "So what's with this Bryce Larkin guy, did you ask her?" he said.
"Sarah said that they were only friends. Her and Bryce." he answered.
"Then why didn't you call her dinner?" he asked.
"Girls night with Carina." he said not looking at him.
"Weird." Morgan said to him with confusion in his voice.
"What, why?" he questioned.
"Casey was taking Carina to a movie and a dinner." he said watching Chuck close his eyes and sigh. "Maybe she didn't know and planned it at the last moment. That has to be it." he said trying to convince him.
"I'm going to go for a walk. Hold down the fort until I get back." he said, telling one of the guys who nodded. Morgan followed not really know where they were going but knew Chuck needed some air. They were about a good five and a half blocks away from the station when Chuck stopped and stared at a restaurant.
"Dude, what's wrong?" Morgan asked then followed Chuck glare and saw Sarah there with Bryce laughing..
"I think she knew." was all Morgan heard him saw as he continued. Sarah felt like someone was staring at them and looked out the window just in time to see Morgan go after Chuck. She excused herself and followed them into the park.
"HEY," she yelled at them and saw Morgan stop but Chuck kept going. "HEY, I'm talking to you, Charles Irving Bartowski." she said, knowing he hated his middle name.
"Sarah, wait I should" Morgan said, trying to warn her but she just walked passed him. "Hey look, Morgan a bench, would you like to sit? Why, yes, Morgan, how generous of you." he said to himself as he looked at the couple who had about a month of happiness before it went downhill.
"What are you doing here?" she said as she finally reached him and grabbed his arm to turn him to face her.
"It's a park, so I figured I would get some air." he told her, avoiding her by looking other places.
"Are you following me? You don't trust me." she said, earning a laugh from Chuck.
"Yeah, because I have nothing better to do than stalk my own wife. Trust, right. By the way where's your ring?" he said finally looking at her. Sarah looked at her hand, not really thinking about it that night.
"What afraid your ex-boyfriend might not want you back if he knew you were married?" he yelled back at her watching her expression change when she heard him say ex-boyfriend. "Yeah, that's right I know. Your little secret is out." he finished and allowed her to talk.
"How did you?" she said not finishing the sentence.
"I didn't, but now I do. He's your ex-boyfriend, the guy were trying to get over in Vegas." he said, then as if something hit him, his face dropped and Sarah noticed.
"What?" she asked him.
"I'm a rebound. I'm a fucking rebound for you." he told her, as Sarah felt her hand slap him hard as she yelled
"Don't you dare question my feelings for you. Every." she said in a dangerously low voice.
"Then why didn't YOU tell me. You talk about trust and I how I don't trust you, but I do. It's you that doesn't trust me, you never have. Why didn't you tell me?" he said as a single tear ran down his face.
"I don't know, I just want you to love me, Bryce." she said as she covered her mouth wishing for the words back and watch Chuck close his eyes and drop his head.
"Chuck, I didn't mean" she said trying to form the right words but they wouldn't come to her.
"Br-Bryce, right. I-uh-I need to go." Chuck said quickly and left even faster as Morgan sat there overhearing the entire thing and couldn't move as his best friends walk passed him. Sarah watched him go and couldn't believe she just said what she said. She walked over to where Morgan was and sat down and whispered
"What did I just do?" and leaned her head on his shoulder.
"I don't know." he answered, felling her tears land on his shoulders.
"Sarah, are you ok? I go worried when you didn't come back." Bryce said coming in view of the two.
"Dude, your lucky that there's a lady present or else I would beat the living hell out of you. Your damn lucky." Morgan said as he and Sarah stood up.
"Bryce this was a mistake. I should have never called you and you should have stayed away. I was happy for the first time in my life. Actually happy, with my husband." she told him as she walk passed him, Bryce attempted to grab her but Morgan kept him from doing so.
"If you come near her again, you will be lucky if you can walk again. Understand me. That's my best friend's wife, understand that, his wife not yours. You mess with my family again, I will hurt you. And it's not a threat, it's a promise." Morgan told him with anger in his voice and walked after Sarah.
Morgan had made sure Sarah made it back home. Of course, once she got there, she tried calling Chuck but his cell went straight to voice mail. She had fallen asleep on the couch when a banging on the door woke up both her and Morgan.
Morgan had answered the door and saw Casey and let him in. Sarah saw Casey whisper something to him and watched him close his eyes and go down to his knees. Carina was with Casey and whispered that she would tell her.
"Carina what is it?" Sarah asked waiting for a response.
"You should sit down." Carina said gesturing for her to take a seat.
"Damn it, just tell me." she said raising her voice a little.
"Ok, this is hard for me to say and it's going to be harder for you to hear." she told her before continuing "Chuck's fire station got an emergency call and the fire turned out to be bigger. They had to call in other stations to control the fire. They heard some screams from the inside so Chuck and a couple of his men went in." taking a breath before continuing "The building collapsed, Sarah, with Chuck and another guy still in there."
End of Chapter XI
AN: There you go. Hope you liked it. I already started working on the next chapter. Sorry for the long delay, but I hope I made it up. So like, no like. Be kind and review.