A/N: OK, I have to admit that I'm enjoying writing this so much that I don't want it to end. So, I will continue. I was originally going to end it with the next chapter but I think I can squeeze oout a few more. I hope you like it as much as I do.
Sarah vs The Missing Asset
Chapter Fourteen
"I can't believe ten days have gone by already. Devon this is the best vacation I've ever had, just look at that morning sun." Ellie said wearing dark sunglasses, a red bikini and sitting in the outside bar drinking gin and tonic.
"I couldn't agree more, babe. This is awesome."
"How did you win this trip again?"
"That's just the thing, I don't remember signing up for a free vacation but I had to, right?"
"It doesn't matter. I love Jamaica. We have to come back next year and bring Chuck and Sarah."
"Sure thing Babe." Devon sat his drink down and quickly glanced at Ellie.
"Speaking of Chuck, have you thought anymore about making that move?"
"Oh Devon, I want to do something else just as bad as you do but I don't think I can leave Chuck right now, he's not got his feet on the ground yet."
"He's twenty eight years old. You can't wait forever for him to take on responsibility. 'One of these days' may never happen."
Elle reached for Devon's hand. "I know, but can we give him just a little more time? He's got Sarah now and that may make the difference."
"What he needs is confidence. I doubt if anyone ever tells him that he's great at anything…and I don't mean Sarah."
"Wouldn't it be great if someone could just tell him what a great guy he is? Wouldn't it be great if he were appreciated as something special?"
X-X
"Ok, we've got a visual." The room full of technicians looked tired. They had been at it for two days now and had gone on minimal sleep. The early morning hours were the worst.
"Search the grounds. Find out how many guards there are and document their location," Greg said walking from station to station looking at the work each person was doing.
"Thirteen bad guys. I've got their locations marked." The technician went back to scanning the facility.
"Uh Greg…I've found something else that might be of interest to you."
"What is it?'
"You might want to see for yourself," the technician said smiling back at his boss.
"Put it on the monitor," Greg said and walked up to get a closer look.
As the monitor flashed on the image everyone turned to get a look at what was so interesting.
"Woo, would you look at that or those or…just look." One of the males in the group chimed in.
As the picture grew clearer, the group found themselves looking at the nude forms of a man and a woman sunbathing.
One of the guys in the group made a comment about what a beautiful sight it was to see.
"I couldn't agree more," Millie said as she too stared at the screen.
"Greg, doesn't that look like our target? She doesn't look like she's in any trouble as Agent Walker described in her briefing," one of the girls said. The guys in the room had not bothered to look at her face.
"It sure looks like her," he said. Can we get audio?"
"Working on it." The technician began to turn some dials and flip some switches. "Got it. Here it comes."
The sound coming from the speakers was scratching but it was distinguishable. The woman was talking.
"What's it like working with your girlfriend? I would think that might get a little tiresome."
"Sarah is a lot of things but tiresome is not one of them," came the male voice.
Everyone practically jumped out of their seats at the sound of the name 'Sarah'. One by one, people began to leave their stations and walk over to the monitor to get a better look. But this time they were not looking at the naked bodies of a man and a woman sunbathing in the Caribbean. They were looking at spies.
"Agent Walker is an intense woman, I bet you two have had some great fights and…some great make up sessions?"
Before Chuck could respond, the whole room exploded with excitement.
"That's him. That's badass. Get a closer look. Can you get a close-up of his face?" Everyone was talking at one. But finally the shot got even closer.
"Oh my God, he's fantastic. Just look at him. You can tell by looking at him that he's a badass," Millie said.
"He's sooo cool." Angie chimed in.
"What would it be like to be that guy?" From one of the guys in the room.
"Are you kidding? Agent Walker's his girlfriend and look at him. Lying naked with another beautiful woman and he's not even looking at her. Or at least not at her breasts…That's what it's like to be him. So cool a naked woman doesn't even phase him."
X-X
"Well John Casey, Major, United States Air Force, I'm not hearing what I want to hear."
"That's too bad because I'm not doing what I want to do, either."
Rich Trask's man had been put in charge of getting information from Casey about whether Amanda was part of a CIA operation to kidnap him. He had tortured Casey to no avail.
Realizing he was getting nowhere he decided to take a different route.
"Get the pentothal, I'm gonna get the truth one way or another."
Casey began to struggle because he knew that they would get the information from him. But two men held him down while he was injected with the drug.
"When I get out of here I 'm gonna enjoy putting a bullet in your head."
The man ignored Casey and waited for the drug to take effect. After about ten minutes he came to where Casey was secured and sat down beside him.
"What's your name?"
"John Casey."
"And do you work for the government?" He asked the question broadly to save time.
"Yes."
"Good, good. Now answer this for me. Is Amanda Irving a CIA agent?"
"Yes."
The interrogator stood and smiled. He looked to the lone man guarding them at this point. "Kill him. Mr. Trask will want to hear this right away."
The interrogator left the building before the guard made a move on Casey. Casey's chin was on his chest and the guard walked up to him and pulled his head up by his hair. He had a knife and he was going to cut Casey's throat.
Casey had long ago secretly freed his left arm and pretended to be out. When the man showed the knife, Casey grabbed it and rammed it into the man's abdomen. He fell to the floor writhing in pain. Casey kicked him in the head knocking him out.
With some effort, he was able to reach the knife and cut his way free. He then took off after the interrogator to silence him before he told Trask that Amanda was a spy.
Casey saw the interrogator getting into a helicopter and began to run after him.
As he got closer, the chopper blades began to rotate. At about twenty yards away, the interrogator saw Casey running towards him fast. He got out and fired one shot missing Casey. He got completely out of the helicopter so he could aim better. His second shot hit Casey in the leg. Casey recovered his balance and threw the knife striking the man in the chest.
Casey hobbled up to him and before he died Casey grabbed the gun from his hand and shot him in the head. "I always keep my promises," he said, hobbling toward the helicopter when he noticed he was bleeding profusely. He went back to the dead man and took his belt. He got into the chopper and tied off his leg. In two minutes he was in the air and speeding towards the island compound of Rich Trask's. He estimated that he would be there before the mid-morning sun reached the top of the sky.
X-X
Amanda and Chuck had showered, together, and got dressed. They had been told that Trask wished to speak to them. They were escorted to his study by one of the thirteen bodyguards on the island.
The guard knocked on Trask's study door and ushered them inside.
"Come in, come in. Have a seat. I hope you've been enjoying your stay here?"
Chuck babbled on about how nice it was and Amanda smiled and said that she was.
"I have to go away and tend to a little business. When I get back in two days I should know whether you two have told me the truth or whether you've lied to me." He stared hard at one then the other. "I really don't like liars," he said.
Chuck babbled some more, agreeing with Trask and watched the man go to the study door and wait for them to leave.
"Aren't you afraid the place will go to hell when you leave," Chuck asked half seriously.
"Why no, my dear boy. This island is nuclear powered. It's self sufficient and we have power for a lifetime here."
When he closed the door behind them, Chuck rushed while holding Amanda's hand back to their bedroom. "I just had an idea," he whispered to her.
"What? What do you have?" she said.
"Come with me to the pool. We can talk there."
X-X
Sarah looked at her watched. 11:00 AM, she thought as she contemplated an hour's swim under water. Standing on board the small ship, her scuba gear was heavy and she was anxious to get into the water. She had double checked her equipment and went to speak with the man who had brought her here.
She was excited to get the swim behind her and make contact with Chuck. She had imagined every night what horrors he had endured during his captivity at Rich Trask's villa. She knew what a villain Trask was. When she found out who was the target of the mission Casey and Chuck had been sent on she knew immediately why she had been passed over. She and Trask knew each other and the emotions on both sides ran deep. The primary emotion being hate. As she thought about it, she had to agree that it was the right call. She just didn't understand why she had been excluded from planning the mission.
She paid the ship's captain and fell into the water. She watched the small vessel speed away before she dove under and began to swim for the villa and the man she loved.
X-X
Chuck and Amanda watched Trask and five of his guards leave via helicopter. Chuck looked at his watched and noticed it was twenty minutes after eleven.
"Come on, let's do this thing, he said with mock seriousness. He was surprised when Amanda did not laugh. In fact, she went along with the sentiment. It hit Chuck at that moment that even though Amanda was the only trained spy on the island, Chuck was in charge. It was his idea and he was leading the mission. It sort of stunned him to realize just what he was doing. Would he be acting this way if Sarah was here? He didn't know. But he liked the feeling of taking charge.
At exactly eleven thirty nine, he attached the alligator clips to the alarm system for the nuclear reactor deep in the lower level. Immediately, alarms began to blare.
"Stay in our bedroom," he said to Amanda.
"What are you gonna do?" she asked confused.
"Get rid of the guards, what else," he said looking back at her with a grin on his face.
She had decided she liked that grin.
When he made it outside, Chuck saw that the guards knew what the alarm was for which made it all the easier.
"Get the boat, the reactor has overheated. It's gonna blow any second now," he said to three of the guards.
They began to talk on their radios and called their comrades together.
"Guy's, wait for me. I've gotta get Amanda. Jeez this is gonna blow any second," he said running back to the house.
When all of the guards had gathered at the last remaining boat on the island, they appeared as though they were actually waiting when all of a sudden they began to climb onto the boat and they sped away.
When they were out of sight, Chuck and Amanda came outside and bade them farewell.
"Come on," he said. "Let's turn off the alarms and give someone a call." He walked nonchalantly back into the house and down to the lower level.
X-X
Sarah emerged from the ocean like Bo Derek in 10. Except she wore an air tank and a full scuba suit. But to her credit, she made the wet suit look very good.
She made it to the area where Chuck and Amanda had done their sunbathing and noticed a bikini top laying on a side table. She made a face that showed surprise and walked into the bedroom. There, she saw both panties and bras lying on the floor. But it wasn't until she saw the boxers on the other side of the bed, that she stopped and her eyes darkened.
She looked at the ceiling for hidden cameras and finally found what she was looking for. So, there must be a control room for these cameras, she thought.
It didn't take her long and she found herself looking at numerous monitors. She was most interested in the monitor labeled Guest Bedroom.
Flicking a switch, she brought up what had been recorded in that room for the last three days. The first image she saw was the man that had just told her that he loved her taking off the bra of a female spy he hardly knew. She pause the tape and moved her head around popping the joints in her neck. Just as she was about to watch some more.
"Don't watch that…I'll tell you what you'll see," Chuck said as he stood in the doorway with the most serious expression Sarah had ever seen him wear.
"And what might that be?" she asked equally serious.
"Two people trying to stay alive."
Sarah considered his words without giving him a clue as to what she was thinking. Without warning she closed the distance on him and kissed him as passionately as she knew how. He was shocked but only took at second to recover and retuned the passion.
"I could say get a room but I'm afraid you'd do just that," Amanda said smiling at the two still in an embrace.
Sarah pulled away from Chuck. "I'm cutting him some slack but you and I need to talk," she said seriously.
Amanda laughed. "Seriously Sarah. Chuck's right. We did what we had to do to sell it. We're all agents here. This is no surprise to anyone."
Amanda did not catch Sarah's look of confusion at what she had just said and that she looked to Chuck for some clarification. Chuck just kept on agreeing with Amanda.
"Let's get a call though to Langley. We need to call in the Calvary," Sarah said.
But just then they heard a helicopter. "It's probably Trask coming back," Chuck said as he went through the drawers of the room finally finding a handgun. Sarah watched in stunned silence as Chuck took off ahead of both female agents to meet whatever danger lay before them.
But she quickly recovered and was right behind him, followed closely by Amanda.
As the three made it to the front of the villa, they saw the chopper shut down and out came a very weary Casey. They all three began to run towards him as fast as they could.
Casey was hurt. He had been shot in the leg and had lost a lot of blood. They half drug half carried him into the villa to tend to his wound.
They spent five minutes filling in the gaps for each other and everyone except Amanda was surprised when Chuck described getting rid of the guards. When Casey caught Sarah's frown, he whispered in her ear.
"Amanda thinks that Chuck is Agent Bartowski. That's what we told her. It would appear that he's done nothing to make her disbelieve it."
Sarah looked at Casey somewhat awestruck. "You don't know the half of it," she said turning her attention back to the group. She stood and moved to the center of the room.
It would appear-"
Just then and two Chuck's absolute horror, he watched Sarah get shot with an arrow from a scuba gun. It went right through her chest.
Casey turned and shot the assassin wounding him in the stomach and neutralizing the threat.
Casey, Amanda and Chuck rushed to Sarah's side but she was unconscious. She was holding on to life by just the tip of her pinky.
Amanda was doing triage and looked at her two colleagues.
"If she doesn't have surgery in less than an hour, she gone." Amanda looked at Chuck with sad eyes.
"What are we going to do? There are no doctors around here. We can't just let her die." Chuck was close to losing it.
Casey remembered were they had sent Ellie and Devon to get them out of the house to throw Walker off the trail.
"I know where there are a couple of surgeons, and if we hurry we can have them back here in an hour," Casey said as he began to walk to the door. "Chuck, you remember how to fly a helicopter."
" No."
"Well I'll talk you through it."
"Why don't you just fly it?"
"Because I might pass out."
Chuck was too afraid for Sarah to be afraid for himself and ran to the helicopter to start it, hoping to save time. He knew seconds might make the difference.
Casey called back to Amanda. "Call Langley and have them air drop what surgical supplies we need. Have them here in an hour. Got it?"
"Just get those doctors. She doesn't have much time."
X-X
"Devon, the food here is fabulous. And look, it's time to get some sun. Let's take a shower and then slip out of something comfortable and lay out in the sun."
"That's an awesome idea, babe." Devon looked away from Ellie because his attention had been diverted to a helicopter landing in the middle of the resort.
"What in the world," he said as the machine sat down very hard. In no time, he saw a man get out and look around the resort. "Are you seeing this," he said to Ellie.
She had been watching too. She saw the man look towards the restaurant and began to run toward them. She thought briefly that there was something familiar about the way the man ran. But the bizarre situation kept her from focusing on that detail.
As he got closer, she began to feel strange. And just when she was about to say something to Devon, the man stopped and screamed at the top of his lungs. "I need a doctor. I need a surgeon. It's an emergency. Is there a doctor here?"
She didn't remember standing but Chuck looked at her and Devon with such relief on his face. He bound up to them and grabbing her hand practically jerked her off her feet. "Come on, Ellie. It's Sarah. She's hurt real bad. She needs surgery." They were halfway to the helicopter when she realized she had nothing to operate with.
"Chuck, I don't have equipment. Surgical tools and-"
Chuck cut her off. "Everything will be there by the time we get back."
Ellie watched in amazement as they strapped into the helicopter and Chuck lifted off the ground.
"Chuck, when did you learn to fly?"
"Oh, about an hour ago. How am I doing?"
Ellie looked at Devon with a shocked expression.
"Relax babe. He's pulling your chain. He's probably been taken lessons for a while."
Just then, she noticed Casey and the blood that was pooling beneath him.
Before she went to work on Casey's leg, she turned to Chuck.
"What's going on here?"
Chuck looked at her without expression. "Ellie, I can't even think right now. You save Sarah's life and I'll tell you everything. I promise."
X-X
"Damit, I can't believe we lost audio just as Agent Walker made the island. I want that audio back. We have to find out why Badass and Major Casey left in such a rush in that chopper. I don't like the feel of this," Greg said to his team.
"Got it. Got it. It's still fuzzy but I think we can hear."
"Ellie, that's it. You did everything you could," Devon said.
"No, no. Hit her again 500 volts. Hit her again," she screamed.
"No, she's gone. I'm calling it. Two thirty in the afternoon."
There was complete silence from the speakers. People in the control room began to wonder if they had lost contact again. But then,
"Agent Walker gave her life for her country. And the likes of you-"
"No, Agent Carmichael, he's not worth it. Let him rot in prison."
There was a general murmur throughout the control room. Agent Carmichael had been uncovered. But everyone's thoughts were on Sarah Walker.
As everyone began to cry, the door opened and in walked Director Mella. "What you just heard is a lie. It is a ruse played out for the would-be killer of Sarah Walker." The director stared at various members of the room. "I can tell you that he almost succeeded."
The people of the room continued to cry but now they were tears of joy. One of their favorites would be coming home. Some of them said as much.
"Yes, Agent Walker will come home. But for one last time." He stopped as numerous gasps could be heard around the control room. "You see Agent Walker died today."