WHAT DO WE WANT? A CHUCK MOVIE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? NOW!
Aside from High School Sweethearts where it's nothing but geeky Charah, I always look to include geek references in my stories, and I couldn't resist editing into the last chapter a Defense of the Ancients reference about Pudge, I've always wanted to add that in to one of my stories, and finally got the chance haha. Now I just need to find an ideal moment for Sarah to say "Ahhh…. Fresh meat!" and my life is complete. Actually, look out for that one in 'New Beginnings' When Morgan and Charah actually play Dota together when I pick that story up again some time after this one is completed xD
Speaking of Dota, I need to hurry up and finish this story as I'm getting very antsy to play games again (I have a 1500 steam game library, only played 6% of it, lol) as I try to avoid gaming while I'm working on a story, otherwise I will get distracted and one week becomes a month and a month becomes etc..
I'm still seeing a few people being stuck in the mindset that Sarah is a CIA super spy in this story. I know it's not easy, as when you think of the CIA you think of Sarah being trained in martial arts and always carrying a gun, but that is NOT the Sarah Walker in this story. I strongly advise you to watch the movie 'Zero Dark Thirty' and look at the character 'Maya' as that is who I am basing Sarah on in this story. Another good example is Claire Danes in 'Homeland' or the British TV Series 'Spooks/Mi5' All of these examples are how an actual intelligence agency employee would behave in real life, unless of course they were part of a Clandestine Black Ops division (Such as the CIA's Special Activities Division or Israel's Mossad) to which Sarah is not. It's just not possible to send Sarah on a mission with somebody as highly trained as Chuck is. If Sarah were to go on a mission with Chuck's team, she would be considered a liability to the team and would slow them down and she is not trained in military strategy and tactics. However, the upcoming three chapters are the only scenes besides two more that I have at my disposal that involve Charah being on some sort of mission together.
This chapter will also prove why a Navy SEAL and an Intelligence Agent in love with each other just doesn't work as they are too personally attached to each other and it's extremely dangerous and risky for everybody involved to have them on a job together.
Disclaimer; Don't own anything in this chapter, or any other chapter. Wish I owned Chuck though, as I would probably attempt to make it the longest running TV show in history if I did.
Word Count for this Chapter; 4790
Chapter Twenty One
Trouble in Paradise Part One
Baghdad, Iraq
Inside Red Zone
28 September 2006
14:00 hours
Chuck, Sarah, Second Class Ryan Smith and Second Class Phillip Wilson had just arrived in central Baghdad at a busy market inside an unmarked though tracked by satellite vehicle. The three SEAL's were assigned to Sarah's protection for the day per Chuck's request as Sarah has set up a meeting with a high level figure directly involved in the Iraqi insurgency. Sarah has spent the best part of six months building up an informant/handler relationship with this high level figure and he contacted her three days ago wanting to meet with her, which he has never done before though they had attempted on two previous occasions and has promised Sarah game changing information. The fact that he has never met with her before has made Sarah very excited as she is sure that the information her informant is about to give to her is going to be huge and career defining, her bosses at the CIA station at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and the even higher ups back at Langley were also in agreement with Sarah and were very interested in hearing what her informant has to offer. Sarah has been very excited the past three days and has had an extra spring in her step as she planned the time and place for the meeting with her high level source who had insisted on this chosen place where they are right now.
Sarah and Chuck were in a final discussion on where Chuck should wait, the three SEAL's were armed with Heckler & Koch MP7 sub machine guns and had heavier weaponry inside the trunk of their unmarked vehicle.
"Chuck, this guy spooks very easily and has aborted two previous meeting attempts in the past, so I don't want you guys to do anything stupid and jump the gun. I have spent six months building this up to where it is today and I need you all to stay back and out of sight." Sarah warns to the three SEAL Operators.
"Sarah like I said back on base, I have no problem with leaving Ryan and Phil in the vehicle but I'm going to be on your six, it's either that or we go back right now, that's the only compromise I'm prepared to make, if I had it my way this guy of yours would be meeting on a base or at the very least in the Green Zone." Chuck replies, leaving no room for discussion in his tone.
Sarah puffs out a sigh in resignation. "Okay, just please don't do anything stupid Chuck, you are here just in case you are needed and trust me you wont be." Sarah says in desperation as today could be the biggest moment in her career and she wants everything to go perfectly without any hitches.
"I sincerely hope you are right Sarah, the last thing I want is to get in to a firefight with only three operators in a market full of hundreds of people." Chuck replies reassuringly which helps to ease some of Sarah's tension.
20 minutes later
Chuck and Sarah were now inside the centre of the busy market and were at an outdoor café which was the chosen meeting spot and Sarah was due to meet her informant in ten minutes. Chuck's senses were working overtime as he continued to survey and scan the entire area around Sarah and himself to keep her safe.
"Sarah I don't like this." Chuck says uncomfortably as Chuck has eyes on the pair being eyeballed by several idle military aged males around the market.
"Chuck it will be fine trust me." Sarah replies reassuringly with a smile as she touches her lovers arm affectionately while scanning her eyes around to look for the arrival of her informant.
3 minutes later
Chuck and Sarah were still waiting for Sarah's informant to turn up when the elite Navy SEAL suddenly noticed a green van arrive maybe fifty metres away and the driver and passenger were looking in the direction of Chuck and Sarah.
Every single one of Chuck's instincts were screaming at him to get Sarah and himself out of here right now as something didn't smell right to the battle hardened SEAL but Sarah kept attempting to reassure Chuck that everything was fine. Chuck couldn't ignore the obvious though, there were at least five males paying heavy attention to them and the entire situation just screamed kidnapping to the battle hardened DEVGRU operator.
Chuck continued to study the van in particular as the side door to it had now opened with the driver and the passenger still looking in the direction of Chuck and Sarah. Chuck had to make a split second operational decision and he immediately shook his head at Sarah who immediately became very anxious.
"Chuck… What are you doing? Please don't do this, I'm begging you Chuck please!" Sarah begged her lover, her eyes now watery as she tried to stop him from blowing what she had spent six months working so hard on.
"Sarah I'm sorry, something bad is going to happen here, we need to call off the meeting." Chuck replied sympathetically as he removed his arm from Sarah's grip so he could adjust his hands onto his concealed MP7 submachine gun.
"No Chuck please!" Sarah said frantically, tears full flowing in her eyes as everything she had worked so hard towards began to fall apart around her and she was powerless to do anything about it.
"Ryan bring up the vehicle I'm pulling this op." Chuck commanded to his expert driver.
"Aye sir." The operator replied as he fired the ignition and began to head to his CO and the CIA Agent from where he had previously parked their vehicle.
"No!" Sarah cried as she began to hit away at Chuck's chest with her hands.
"I'm sorry Sarah, I really am." Chuck said apologetically before he had to physically push Sarah away from him because she was stopping him from drawing his weapon. On pushing Sarah away from him, Chuck immediately drew out his sub machine gun from where it was concealed on his person to scare off any would be attacker and Chuck positioned himself in a protective position in front of Sarah in case any rounds were fired off at them so he would take the hit instead.
The green van had begun to edge closer to Chuck and Sarah with the side door still open and Chuck immediately raised his weapon in the direction of the van while making sure to move and adjust to keep Sarah protectively behind him. The green van immediately came to a stop as the driver and passenger began to panic while still looking in Chuck's direction as he had his weapon trained on them, his finger itching ready on the trigger for the first sight of a weapon.
Second Class Smith had just arrived at the location of Chuck and Sarah with their exit vehicle and Second Class Wilson immediately exited the vehicle and drew his own MP7 in the direction of the green van as he too deemed it a threat to them as he began to grapple Sarah into the vehicle who was still being resistant to the SEAL's attempting to fight her way free from them but the frogman was too powerful for her and quickly put her into the vehicle.
"Get us out of here Ryan." Chuck commanded to his driver while Chuck and Second Class Wilson were still scanning around for any would be attackers as the SEAL's and the CIA Agent began to exfiltrate.
Several minutes later
"WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU DO!" Sarah yells as she begins to sob. "WHY DID YOU DO THAT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLES!" Sarah begins to see red as as she slaps away at Chuck's chest with her arms which didn't really hurt him whatsoever inside the vehicle.
"WHAT THE FUCK!" Chuck's two operators yelled disapprovingly at seeing their CO getting attacked and were getting ready to intervene but Chuck waved his hand warning them not to say or do anything else as Sarah was already a ticking time bomb and they just needed to get back to base safely, the damage was already done it was too late to change things now.
"YOU'VE JUST BLOWN SIX MONTHS OF MY HARD WORK I HOPE YOU'RE FUCKING HAPPY WITH YOURSELF!" Sarah aggressively yelled into Chuck's face.
Chuck knew it was useless to try and say anything as it would just make Sarah even more angry so he just let Sarah vent by allowing himself to be used as a venting machine as a pissed off Sarah Walker vented her frustrations.
FOB Midnight
15:00 hours
The three SEAL's and Sarah had just arrived back on their main base of operations and Second Class Smith pulled the vehicle to a stop. Sarah immediately darted out of the vehicle to put as much distance away from the three people who had just collectively blown her biggest operation since joining the CIA.
Chuck quickly caught up with Sarah, which probably wasn't the smartest of ideas right now but he needed her to know how sorry he was.
"Sarah..."
"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME!" Sarah turned to aggressively yell into his face.
"Sarah, I'm…"
"YOU'RE A FUCKING ASSHOLE!" Sarah continued to rage in anger as she pushed Chuck in his chest forcefully with her hands which caused Chuck to grunt discomfortingly.
"Sarah, call me whatever you want, I can live with that, as long as it means you're okay. I would sooner you call me a million names under the sun than having to watch a clip of your head getting chopped off on national television!" Chuck began to yell back at her, as he was starting to get annoyed at Sarah shouting at him and physically attacking him.
"He was legitimate Chuck he has given up two cells!" Sarah yelled back into his face.
Chuck shook his head disagreeing with her, he knew what he saw at that market. "They could have been his rivals Sarah, his competition." Chuck tried to say to her but Sarah had turned and began to walk away from him once more. Chuck caught up with her again and put his hand on her shoulder to stop her.
Sarah snapped back around to face Chuck. "Get your hand off me RIGHT NOW or I swear this will end badly Chuck! Leave me alone!" Sarah warned menacingly with a scowl on her face before turning to storm off again once more.
Chuck sighed deeply as he put his hand to his face and ran it over his face aggressively as he began to vent in frustration.
FOB Midnight
Situation Room
16:00 hours
Conference Call with CIA Director Graham, Special Agent Shaw, Agent Walker, Lieutenant Commander Bartowski and other Intelligence officials
"WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED OUT THERE!" Director Graham yelled into the video transmission as he demanded answers on the tits up operation.
"I have absolutely no idea Director, ask the Commander..." Sarah replied coldly without any emotion, she could not bear to look at Chuck right now, she was still pissed off and if she seen his face she would probably do something that she would later regret.
Chuck kept trying to initiate eye contact with Sarah, so that she could see how sorry he was in his eyes but she wouldn't look at him so he sighed.
"Well?" Chuck was interrupted by the CIA Director still waiting for an explanation on what had happened.
"We were being eyeballed by at least five military age males and I made the tactical decision to pull the operation." Chuck replied to the intelligence officials glaring disapprovingly at him on the screen.
Sarah immediately scoffed on hearing Chuck's explanation of him ruining what she has spent a good portion of the past six months of her life working on.
Chuck glanced in the direction of Sarah once more, his body language showing signs of resignation as he sighed deeply.
"I demand a written report of your actions on this operation Commander Bartowski, we agreed to you providing protection for this meeting but that was all we agreed to, you were there purely for backup purposes." The Director said distastefully.
Chuck continued to sigh and nodded his head in acceptance.
"Could have fooled me." Sarah muttered under her breath.
"What was that Agent Walker?" Director Graham demanded impatiently.
"I said you could have fooled me Director. From what I seen first hand, he acted like he owned the show." Sarah replied without any emotion, still refusing to meet Chuck's gaze.
FOB Midnight
Situation Room
19:00 hours
Since Chuck made the decision to pull the operation five hours ago, he still hasn't managed to have a civilized discussion on the subject with Sarah, and he still feels incredibly uneasy on the topic. Chuck expected that it would be incredibly hard for Sarah to accept his decision, but he was sure she would understand that her safety had to come before anything else. Unfortunately however, it doesn't appear that Sarah shares those same sentiments as he does.
Chuck was busy writing up his report that the CIA Director had demanded when Sarah walked past him. Chuck immediately stood up and followed Sarah as he wanted to make another attempt to talk to her.
Chuck quickly caught up with Sarah just outside the situation room.
"Sarah please can we talk about what happened earlier?" Chuck asked with his eyes pleading as he attempted to make eye contact with Sarah.
"I don't want to talk to you right now Chuck." Sarah replied while stood stationary, still avoiding Chuck's gaze.
Chuck deeply sighed to himself for a moment.
"Sarah, what did I do that was so wrong? I made a tactical decision to keep you safe." Chuck replied dejectedly as he continued to sigh.
"You had no authority to do that Chuck." Sarah snapped.
"Well I disagree." Chuck snapped back in response.
"Okay, nice talk." Sarah says as the conversation was over as far as she was concerned as she turns away once more to continue walking again.
Chuck once more quickly caught up with Sarah again which caused her to sigh and stop walking again. "Sarah, wait please." Chuck said in desperation.
"Chuck it's best I'm not around you right now, please leave me alone." Sarah replied distantly.
"Sarah you're behaving childishly."
Sarah suddenly snapped "I'M BEHAVING CHILDISHLY? I'M NOT THE ONE WHO DID WHAT YOU DID!"
"And I would do it again Sarah." Chuck replied calmly in a tone that really pissed Sarah off as she got into his face again like hours previously.
"WHY ARE YOU SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING!" Sarah yelled into Chuck's face as she pushed his chest once more forcefully with her hand which caused Chuck to snarl aggressively this time as the two lovers entered into a fully blown argument in the middle of their base oblivious to everything around them.
Sarah's aggressive tone coupled with her getting into Chuck's face again caused Chuck to begin to get extremely pissed off himself. "I COULD SAY THE FUCKING SAME FOR YOU!" Chuck snapped back into Sarah's face and before either of them could retort or do anything else which they were about to with a certain part of their faces, they were interrupted by a small posse of four.
"Is everything okay here?" One of them asked the fighting lovers.
Chuck took his eyes away from Sarah to look in the direction of where the intrusion had originated from "Everything is fine." Chuck said as he nodded at them before looking back at Sarah with their faces inches apart, as this conversation was not finished, Chuck was seething inside right now. Chuck had, had just about enough of Sarah getting into his face and screaming at him and pushing him and hitting his body.
"Are you sure?" The same person replied once more but was looking right at Sarah instead.
Chuck suddenly lost it "WHAT DID I FUCKING JUST SAY!" He yelled with an almighty roar accompanied with a scowl on his face as he shifted his posture into an aggressive position to face the group of four ready to take on the whole lot.
"Woah, you are out of line Commander! HOW DARE YOU!" The same person replied very distastefully though himself and his companions were all immensely startled by the stance that the Navy SEAL had just put himself in.
Sarah suddenly moved to stand between Chuck and the group of four officers to calm the situation before anything happens to the man she still loves and always will love more than anything until the day that she dies.
"General, I'm sorry. We're both really sorry for arguing in the middle of base. We have both just came back from a very bad operation and it won't happen again I can assure you." Sarah said sincerely to the Brigadier General who had exited the bases situation room with three of his subordinates.
"Make sure it doesn't happen again! You're very lucky that I don't have you locked up!" The General warned to Chuck as continued to stare distastefully at Chuck a final time who was still seething inside and had to bite into his index finger from where his fist was clenched to control his anger.
Sarah waited for the small military posse to leave before she continued "Chuck, what the hell? Are you insane?! You can't talk to a General like that!"
Chuck didn't respond and his facial expressions showed that he was still at boiling point and Sarah sighed deeply knowing that it probably wouldn't be wise to provoke Chuck any more than she already had. This wasn't the same Chuck that Sarah knew from college, every single thing about him has changed and Sarah sometimes has a hard time remembering that. "Chuck, I will talk to you later when I have calmed down. I think it's best that neither of us say anything else because we are just going to regret it so I will come to you later." Sarah finished, before walking away once more leaving Chuck to be alone deep in his own thoughts.
Several minutes later
Chuck quickly rushed to his quarters once Sarah had left and as soon as he entered them he let loose an almighty fit of rage as he slammed his fist into several locations to release his dangerous anger levels that almost landed him with a court-martial or worse.
FOB Midnight
22:00 hours
Sarah just arrived outside Chuck's quarters and she has managed to calm down a lot in the hours that have passed since Chuck did what he did. Sarah hasn't forgiven him, and it will probably take a lot for her to forgive what he did, as he had well and truly tombstone piledrived her six month intelligence operation. But when Sarah actually took a long moment to sit and think inside her quarters, she realized that what Chuck did, he did it for her, and a pretty huge part of her loved him for that, she'd never had anybody protect her like that, but she also realized that Chuck was probably too emotionally involved and probably would not have done that, if Sarah was not his girlfriend and the past history that they shared together.
Sarah sighed for a long moment to gather her thoughts before reaching her hand out to knock on the door.
Chuck answered the door several moments later, and ushered her inside.
"Look Sarah, before you say anything, I don't want to fight Sarah please." Chuck begged dejectedly as his facial expressions showed just how dejected he felt.
"Chuck, I'm not here to fight." Sarah replied as she touched Chuck's arm comfortingly while pausing to sigh deeply. "But we do need to talk about what happened Chuck."
"Absolutely." Chuck agreed as they sat on the edge of Chuck's bed to face each other.
"Firstly, I want to apologize for however many times I hit away at you earlier Chuck." Sarah paused as she was interrupted by Chuck trying to say something "Please Chuck let me finish, violence is inexcusable in any situation, I let my anger get the better of me and what I did was inexcusable so please don't try to condone it and I wouldn't blame you if you didn't want to bother with me again." Sarah paused to allow that to sink in before continuing "But now Chuck, we need to talk about what happened. Chuck you let your personal feelings come before the mission." Sarah said while never removing her gaze away from his eyes.
Chuck began to shake his head in disagreement "No, that's bull crap Sarah, I would have done what I did for anybody."
"Chuck, I don't agree." Sarah replied quickly and more harshly than she wanted.
"Sarah, I don't care if you agree or not, I know how I feel. It doesn't matter if you were at that meeting or somebody I didn't even know. I would have done the exact same thing for anybody. Sarah, I don't want to come across as patronizing towards you and it will probably sound as such but I've served on operational tours with the teams for the best part of five years, and I can safely tell you with absolute certainty that if I had not have made a move like I did, there would have been no best case scenario for either of us. Sarah, you didn't see the van or the several males eyeballing us at the market as you were too focused and busy looking out for your informant."
Sarah shook her head, as far as Sarah is concerned her informant that she was supposed to meet today was reliable and nothing would change her opinion of that.
"I'm telling you Sarah, I swear to you, nobody was there to give us information, they were there to harm us, trust me." Chuck continued to implore Sarah to see reason.
"I don't." Sarah replied and as soon as she did, she began to regret it as she didn't mean it to come out like that at all.
Chuck suddenly began to get angry again. "That's rich coming from you! Please do tell me Sarah, what I have I ever done not to earn your trust? If anything, I should be the one with the trust issues out of the two, or have you forgotten what you did!"
"Oh trust you to bring up something that happened in the past to win an argument Chuck!" Sarah said as she shook her head disapprovingly as she began to feel anger building up again.
"You can be a real douche at times Chuck, you know that right?" Sarah replied distastefully.
"It takes one to know one Sarah!" Chuck replied in the same tone as they glared at each other with daggers as rage began to build again once more.
Sarah sighed deeply to attempt to regain her composure, her stupid curly haired nerd just made her so mad at times and Sarah doesn't have any more fight left in her after an emotionally draining day. "You know what Chuck, this isn't a good idea right now." Sarah said as she stood up and began to head for the door before they say things they regret.
"Yeah, run away Sarah! You're good at that!" Chuck yelled after Sarah, who immediately paused as she turned back to glare coldly at Chuck, the impact of his words evident on her face as she began to tear up inside.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean that!" Chuck yelled once more but it was too late, Sarah had already stormed out of his quarters and slammed the door after her leaving Chuck to sigh deeply as he knew that was uncalled for and petty and he had fucked up once again...
Sarah returned to her quarters and as soon as she entered them she began to fully sob as she collapsed against the door as she kept repeating to herself over and over what Chuck had just shouted to her. Sarah couldn't stop crying the rest of that night as her relationship with Chuck has just came off the rails and Sarah isn't sure how and if they can come back from this...
A/N
Next chapter, Trouble in Paradise Part Two :D
Okay, I'm going to predict it before it even happens. I'm going to have criticism coming my way over the General/Chuck scene.
So let me explain my reasoning for why I had Chuck behave how he did.
Chuck would NEVER snap out or touch a lady in any way. And Sarah had been slapping him in his chest all day, screaming in his face and pushing him so Chuck was extremely on edge and that is what caused him to snap like that to somebody much higher up the chain of command. Sarah had got Chuck so riled and his frustration boiled over onto the first male to confront him, which so happened to be a United States General, ouch... lol.
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