Chuck vs. Life
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Chapter 9: Part II
Chuck had been strung up and beaten like a piñata at a kid's birthday party, but no candy was coming out, that was certain. Tommy had been frustrated with the lack of progress they had made. Right now, he was leaning back and watching one of his men use Chuck as a punching bag and just smiled.
His back was covered in cut and blood, his face was badly bruised and bloody as well as his left eye being swollen up, nose broken, a cut across his right eyebrow, and his head pounding and the bat that they put to his leg didn't help any. The front of his body was no better. He had probably a couple of broken ribs, cuts that were bleeding profusely. His right shoulder dislocated and his wrists cut from struggling to get to Tommy.
"So you ready to talk?" he asked watching the beating that was going on.
"Ok, how's the weather?" Chuck said sarcastically earning him a punch in the face. "Really, you have to go for the face. Why don't you work the body some more because the ladies love the face." he told him.
"It could be worse, Charles." Tommy replied to him.
"Really, that's great." he said to him. Tommy pulled a gun and shot him in his thigh.
"Remember this gun, Charles" he said waving the gun in front of him, Chuck just stared clenching his jaw. "It's the same one used on that agent that night." and smiled seeing Chuck struggle to escape his chains.
"You son of a bitch, if it's the last thing I do, I will kill you." he told him.
"Not if we kill you first. So let's end this, tell me who the intersect is?" he said to him.
"What's the intersect? Never heard of it. New game or something?" Chuck responded to him. He saw one of the guys grab a bucket and then felt ice cold water on him.
"You show some great courage, Charles. But we will get you to talk." he told him while putting on some gloves and grabbing pair of jumper cables. "Bryce never told me you were going to hold out this long."
Chuck's eye went wide when he heard Bryce's name come up and then felt electricity go through him.
Back at the castle, everyone was everywhere, grabbing files and ammo. They only stopped when they heard a voice clear their throat.
"Agents, it has come to my knowledge that Fulcrum has captured Agent Carmichael. Is this true?" General Beckman asked waiting for an answer.
"Yes ma'am, this is true." Casey answered with his arms crossed over his chest.
"How in the HELL does that happen?" she yelled.
"It seems like they knew about the surprise, ma'am. We don't know how but they anticipated it and set a trap for us." Carina said to her.
"Your telling me we a leak in the team. This is NOT good." she told them rubbing her head.
Sarah intensively looked at Bryce who was looking at the ground. Sensing that someone was looking at him, he turned and saw Sarah's dangerous stare and looked back at the monitor and asked
"What do we do from here, general?"
"We look for Agent Carmichael and hope to god he's still alive and hasn't talked. You have full permission to go guns blazing. A backup team will be waiting. Beckman out." she told them.
Sarah did NOT like what Beckman said when she said if he was still alive.
"He has to be alive. He just has to be." she thought to herself.
"I think I know where to start looking." Bryce said to them leaning against the table.
"How in the hell would you know tha-" Carina started but soon realized "Your Fulcrum, you're the leak." she said in disbelief.
"You son of a bitch. I swear I'm going to kill you." Casey said to him running at him and putting his hands around his throat.
"Casey, you can't kill him if he knows where they are keeping Chuck. Unfortunately, we need him." Sarah said as calmly as possible. Casey reluctantly released his grip and punched Bryce in the face before walking away. Bryce took it and slowly got up.
"You all have to understand, this was not suppose to go down like this. When Director Graham came to me with this, I couldn't do it. But that changed when" Bryce started but got interrupted by Sarah.
"What changed Bryce, huh, what would make you change your min-" she started but pieced it together "It was when I ran after Chuck and told you nothing could happen between us, isn't?" she finished and when she didn't get a reply, she went over to him and slapped him hard.
"You son of a bitch, you betrayed Chuck because you were jealous. He was your best friend and you betrayed him. What did I ever see in you?" she said disgustingly.
"Look, I'm sorry but right now we need to get to him before Tommy gets what he wants. I know where to find them ok, but I HAVE TO come along because they will kill him on the spot if they see you. You have no other choice but to trust me, even if you don't." he told them, waiting for an answer.
"Fine." Carina answered for them.
Chuck was in and out of conciseness after the shock he had been through. What kept him awake was them throwing ice cold water on him.
"Wh-what d-do you me-mean Bry-Bryce is inv-involved?" he said to them.
"How do you think we knew what your team was going to do? Bryce called and told us." Tommy told him. "Looks like you can't trust everyone in your team, Charles." he finished and smiled.
Chuck just shook his head at the betrayal and slumped his head, letting the mixture of blood and water fall down his face. He couldn't believe Bryce betrayed him again, after giving him a second chance. "
"Never again." Chuck thought and heard someone coming in the room. He looked through his one good eye and saw Bryce standing with a smudged look on his face.
"So nice of you to join us, Agent Larkin." Tommy said with a smile.
"Yeah, enough of the chit-chat, did you get what you needed out of him?" Bryce said, looking at how badly Chuck was.
"No, he hasn't said anything. I'm quite impressed but more than willing to put a bullet in his head." he replied to him.
"Right, but we will make him talk." he said knowing Casey, Carina and Sarah were hearing everything and waiting for the code phase to bust in there.
"Let me take a swing at him, always wanted to do that." Bryce told him and watch Tommy step aside. "Sorry old friend, but you brought this on yourself." and punched him straight in the face. Seeing Chuck spit out more blood for his mouth, Bryce knew he would pay for it later.
As soon as Casey heard the phase, he yelled "Let's roll out." and raced to the entrance. Tommy heard the commotion and saw agents come in from everywhere. His men were a little to slow because they were all shot within minutes.
"Put your gun down, Delgado. Your under arrest." Casey said pointing his gun right at his head, wanting to pull the trigger. "Your surrounded so it would be wise to do as I say." never looking anywhere else. As soon as he did, Casey walked over to him and punched him hard in the face.
"That's for everything you have done. But trust me, you will want to be dead after we're finished with you." he stated.
Carina and Sarah both looked where Bryce was and Carina stayed back yelling for medical team to hurry up. Sarah sprinted to Chuck and saw how badly hurt he was, noticing that his eye were closed. Sarah slung her gun over her shoulder and reached out.
"Chuck," she said softly, "Hey, it's Sarah, I need you to talk to me. Say anything." she told. She was worried because he had yet to say anything but then heard
"What took you guys so long." he responded to her while coughing. "Could you please help me down, it's kind of uncomfortable." he said.
"Bryce I need your help with Chuck." she said not looking at him. Bryce did what she said and helped her get him down. Chuck yelled in pain, and Sarah hated it. She hated Bryce for what he put Chuck through, and she hated Fulcrum for torturing him.
"It's ok Chuck, the medics are on the way." she told him while placing his head in her lap. Moving some hair out of the way, getting blood on her hands.
"Agent Walker, is this the guy?" one of the medics asked.
"No, he just the one bleeding everywhere and yelling in pain for no apparent reason." she replied sarcastically. Watching Chuck go on the gurney, she had yelled for them to be more careful. Casey and Carina had told her to go with him in the ambulance on the way here and they would take care of everything.
She walked over to were Bryce was and whispered to him, "If you even dare come to the hospital, I will let Casey kill you. I will never, ever forgive you this. You can go to hell and take whatever we had with you." and walked towards the ambulance and climbed in, grasping Chuck's hand.
Carina walked up to Bryce and punched him. "How could you do that after everything that has happen to him."
Casey saw this and smirked but then put his full attention on Tommy and making sure his handcuff were less than comfortable. Escorting him towards the car and throwing him in the back. Bryce once again pulled his phone out but this time called the general.
At the hospital, Sarah called Abby who called Ellie and Awesome, who then called Morgan. Now everyone was just waiting word on Chuck from Doctor Carter. Abby had looked up and saw Doctor Carter headed their way.
Jumping up, she ran over and asked "How's he doing, doc?" as Ellie and Awesome got to her, waiting for her response. Ellie knew she was hired to be a backup for her in case she wasn't available, and she thank god she was because she was on call that night.
Before she started she had the doors closed and then said "Well, we finally got him is stable. He has four broken ribs, a concussion, a separated shoulder, a broken nose, had some internal bleeding , a torn ACL, his left eye swollen shut, many, many cuts and bruises everywhere. The gun shot wound luckily did not hit any ligaments. He will be in a lot of pain, but other than that he's going to be fine. He's lucky you got to him in time or else we would be having a different conversation." She told them.
Everyone let out a sigh of relief and heard Carina ask "Can we see him?" and Doctor Carter just shook her head and signaled to them to follow her. The others waited outside so that Ellie, Abby, and Awesome could see him.
"Hey, little brother, how's it going?" Ellie asked him with tears in her eyes.
"I'm in a whole lot of pain, but I'm just glad to be breathing." he told her.
"Yeah, bro, we know. The doc told us. I'm sorry you went through that bro." Devon had said to him looking at him with a sad smile.
"You scared me Chuck, when I got the call from Sarah telling me you where in the hospital, I thought not again." Abby said to him putting a hand on him.
"I will only admit this to you guys but I was so scared that I wasn't going to make it. But I thought about the future niece's and nephew's I'm going to have and told myself that I had to make it. Plus I can't miss seeing Casey being whipped by you Abby." Chuck told them with a smile but soon started coughing.
"Slow down Chuck, you need to take it easy." Ellie told him then heard her pager go off, followed by Devon's.
"Sorry we couldn't stay longer." she told him while leaning over to give him a kiss.
"It's ok, duty calls." he said feeling Devon grasped his hand softly.
"Later, bro." he called out to him.
"Well I will let the others come in. I will be outside." Abby told him and went outside to get the others. Casey, Carina, and Morgan came in next.
"You are a moron, Chuck." Casey told him crossing his arms over his chest.
"But a very brave moron." Carina said smacking Casey in the back of the head.
"Your are Han Solo, dude. This is so cool. You are going to have a scar on that right brow, man. Very awesome." Morgan told him trying his best to put a smile on his best friends face.
"Yeah, just what we always talked about if we ever got scars." he told Morgan. Morgan all of a sudden got serious.
"I can't believe this, but I'm going to agree with Casey. What the hell where you thinking? We lost one part of the three musketeers but now to think we almost lost you. Are you stupid?" Morgan told him. Chuck literally didn't know what to say to his bearded friend.
"Morgan, go easy on him. He just got the crap beaten out of him, so you need to stay clam." Carina said to him placing a hand on his shoulder.
"Morgan's right, what I did was reckless, but it had to be done, Morgan. I'm so sorry, little buddy. Sometimes we aren't asked to be heroes but need to be, so that lives are saved." Chuck said to him. Morgan wiped away a tear and shook his head.
"I understand. You were always the hero type, Chuckles. Look I have to go. Later." Morgan said leaving Casey and Carina to talk with Chuck. Outside Sarah, had been pacing the hall, not wanting to see Chuck like this. Abby who was planted on the floor against the wall, got tired of watching her.
"You're going to put a hole in floor if you don't stop your pacing." she told her slightly amused. Sarah just gave her a look and then planted herself next to her. Sarah was in deep thought, when she heard Carina ask her
"Are you going in to see him or not?" and when Sarah didn't answer, she just shook her head.
"He's asking about you, Walker. You need to go in." Casey told her and then turn to Abby and asked if she wanted to get something to drink. As they left, Carina sat next to Sarah and asked
"What's wrong?"
"What, nothing's wrong. Everything's just fine." she answered her.
"Then why don't you go in and see him. Casey wasn't lying when he told you he was asking about you." she told her.
"I just can't go in there. It's…I don't know." she said "What do you say to a guy that said he loves you right before he gets taken and tortured. I have never felt this way before, and knowing that he knows what I go through, that will understand and will be there when I need him. It's scary. I've never been the one who just openly talks about her feelings, I'm not good at it. What do I do? What can I say?" she finished.
"I don't know, Sarah. What I can tell you is that the guy in that room cares for you. Our line of duty calls for a lot of dangerous stuff, letting someone get close is dangerous and we could never let our guard down but when we do, isn't worth giving it a shot. Making sure that we hold on to it and never letting it go and hurt anyone who stands in the way. Sarah, you have your shot, right here, right now. The way you just described him, he sounds like the kind of guy every girl is looking for. But if it's not what you want, then don't go in there." Carina told her taking a breathe before continuing
"Sarah, I saw how you got when you saw him chained up and bleeding, you wanted to rip the guy's head off but had to restrain yourself. You can't just hide that fact and brush it under. Chuck's not definitely not Bryce, he won't run. Just know, if you decide not to go in there, and you walk away, its going to hurt him, but he's not going to wait for you. You have a good guy in there, Sarah, and there are very few in the world. I know, I've looked. You are going to have to decide, whether you like it or not. And yes, I know that sounded very weird coming from me. I'm going to get some coffee, you want anything?" Carina finish telling her.
Sarah just shook her head no and thought about what Carina just told her. Sarah knew if she walked away, Chuck would be lost to her. She honestly didn't know why she had this sudden doubt about her feeling for Chuck, but if she had doubts now then what would happen in the future. Seeing him like she had, scared her, and not in a good way. But holding his hand in the ambulance felt nature to her, and Carina had a point. He was not like Bryce.
"He's better." she thought. Standing up, Sarah turned around and stared at the door.
Chuck had been waiting for Sarah to come in, wanting to talk to her. Hearing the door open and seeing a shadow step in.
Trying not to sound like he was in pain, Chuck called out
"Sarah?"
End of Part II
AN: Sorry for taking so long with this chapter. I promise I won't take to long to update the next chapter. I feel an ending coming soon. So please be kind and review. Much appreciated.