When Anna got to Castle she looked at Brice and then looked back to Chuck. "Orders?" She asked.
"I want to know everything he knows. I want to know why he's here in the US. Why he's here in L.A. Why he was staying at the hotel. Who he was there for. Then I want you to ask him about the Intersect. Ask him where it is and who has it. If he starts talking don't interrupt him. I want it all." Chuck said.
"What's my angle?" She asked.
"Fulcrum agent." Chuck said holding up a small black suit and white shirt.
"Restrictions?" She asked taking the clothes into the room across the hall.
"Nothing physical, but if he tries to get fresh with you put him down hard. I shot him three times in the chest so he might have cracked ribs." Chuck said receiving a nod from Anna and a shocked look from Sarah.
Anna shucked her t-shirt and jeans and donned the suit and shirt. She pulled a pair of black heels out of her purse and pulled her hair into a tight bun at the back of her head. "How do I look?" She asked in perfect English without even a hint of an accent. In fact she sounded a bit nasally like she was from the mid west.
"Where did your accent go?" Chuck asked.
"I'm a mimic. I pick up accents. This is Melissa. I've spent a lot of time with her over the last few days and I picked it up." She said wiping her bright red lipstick off, and adding a pair of black rimmed glasses from her bag of tricks. "All right. Lets do this." She said hitting the button on the panel and walked into the room. She saw Brice flinch when the door banged close and she smirked. "Mr. Larkin. I know you're up. We can start the questioning like grown ups or I can tazzer you and we can start from there." She said taking a seat on the other side of the table.
Brice sat up and smiled at Anna in what she figured was a charming smile, but on her it did nothing. "Hello beautiful. My name is Brice, what's your's?" He asked.
Anna took his hand and sat up leaning over to give him a long look down her shirt. "Mr. Larkin, I'm a highly trained agent." She said in a sexy voice. She took his fingers in her hand and violently bent them back to just before the breaking point causing him to yelp and turn red. "So your bullshit wont work on me." She said in a cold voice as she flexed his fingers a little bit more pulling him half way out of his chair. She let them go back to the position she had them in before and waited till she had his full attention. "Mr. Larkin, we here at Fulcrum pride ourselves on being civil when we can. I would like to try holding a civil conversation with you, but if you keep fucking with me I'll be forced to do things to you. Things you wont like very much. Now I've been instructed to obtain cretin information from you. I will get this information out of you one way or another. The question is time. How long will you be able to hold out on me? You might think days, a week even, but the truth is you know you wont last that long. Every one breaks. We all know this fact, it's just how long it takes." Anna said calmly.
"I don't know anything." Brice said.
Anna let go of his fingers and stood up from her chair making sure his eye traveled over her well toned bare legs dangling out of her skirt. She walked around the table to stand over him. "Mr. Larkin…" She said laying her hand on his shoulder. "Brice," She said in a sexy voice as she ran her hand over his shoulder stopping at his neck. "I can make your life very miserable for the next few days, or I can make the next few days very pleasurable." She said sliding her hand down the front of his chest under his shirt. "The choice is yours, and if you're a really good boy we might even offer you a job." She said running her hand over his right nipple making him grown. "lets start with something very easy. Why are you here in L.A.?" She whispered next to his ear.
"I'm tracking an information broker." Brice said closing his eyes and letting his head fall back until it was resting on Anna's chest.
"Good boy." She said kissing him on the neck. "Where were you before you came here?" She asked.
"I was in Rome." Brice said enjoying her hands as they unbuttoned his shirt.
"Who is the information broker?" She asked slipping another button through it's loop.
"Greta Vongetton." Brice said.
"Why did you want to meet her?" She asked running her fingers over his chest under the vest.
"She was going to sell me some information about Fulcrum. I wanted the name of a contact I could talk to about joining the group. I want in." Brice said turning his head so his lips could kiss Anna's shoulder.
"Why do you want to join Fulcrum?" She asked giving him better access to her long slender neck.
"No one respects me in the CIA after the Intersect thing, and I'm tired of getting the cold shoulder. They have me running around the world chasing leads that go no where. I want to be in the action again." Brice said kissing his way along her jaw.
"To join Fulcrum you have to offer up something we want. Do you have something to give us for letting you join?" She asked running her hands over his lower belly.
"I know where the Intersect is." Brice said.
"Where is it?" Anna asked running her hands over the bulge in his pants making him shudder.
"Not an it, but a who." Brice said running his tongue over her lips before kissing her.
Anna let him kiss her for a few seconds before she pulled back. She undid one side of the cuffs and re cuffed Brice with his hands behind his back. She pulled his chair out and sat across his thighs. "Who is it?" She asked.
"Chuck Bartowski." Brice moaned out as she started to grind on him.
"Where is this Bartowski guy?" She asked thrusting her chest into his face.
"He's undercover in Fulcrum right now under the name Carmichael. Charles Carmichael." Brice said as Anna slipped out of her jacket.
"Carmichael is deep cover? How? He's done things to prove his loyalty." She said popping a few buttons on her shirt as she did a little lap dance for him.
"It's all bullshit. Chuck is a nerd that works at the Buy More. He's a nobody. With out Walker and Casey he'd be dead by now." Brice said with a cocky laugh.
"So Carmichael is the intersect? This is too good to be true. We can use him once we break him." Anna said humping his crotch.
"I can help you with that. I know him. I can break him very easily. And if he's still resistant to talking then we can kidnap my ex Sarah walker. She trust me, I can call her and set up a meeting. We might even be able to bring her in as well. She must be board babysitting Chuck for the past two years." Brice said kissing his way down her neck to her chest still hidden by her half open shirt.
"I don't think Walker will get us very far, they had a falling out. Is there anyone else you can think of that we can use against him?" She asked undoing the rest of her shirt buttons to reveal her lacy black push up bra.
"We can kidnap his sister. Eleanor. She a doctor. I think if we hurt her in front of him we can keep him in line." Brice said kissing his way to her right breast, but it was soon out of reach as Anna stood up. "What?" Brice asked but he got a right cross to the chin as his reply.
Anna buttoned her shirt as Chuck stormed into the room with clod rage burning in his eyes. "Anna Leave the room please, and take Sarah with you." Chuck said in a voce so cold it made her shiver. When she was out of the room Chuck turned to Brice and jabbed two fingers into the center of his chest drawing a blood cradling scream out of Brice. "Kidnap my sister?" Chuck asked just above a whisper but the tone of his voice made Brice cower in fear.
"Chuck, Buddy! It's nice to see you. I was worried…" That's as far as he got before Chuck slammed his elbow into his nose.
"Speak to me again like I'm your friend and I'll fucking kill you!" Chuck said jabbing his two fingers into Brice's left shoulder joint.
"What do you want me to say?" Brice asked looking afraid.
"I'm going to ask you a few questions. If I think you're lying I'll make you wish you were dead." Chuck said pinching his broken nose and snapping it for emphasis. "Was everything you said true?" Chuck asked.
"No, I was trying to stall for time until I could escape." Brice said smiling.
Chuck jabbed his two fingers into Brice's lower abdomen causing Brice to vomit violently. When he empted his stomach Chuck picked his head up by his hair and looked him in the eyes. "I've known you for years, I know what you look like when you lie. Keep it up and I'll fuck you up so bad they won't be able to identify your corps." Chuck said staring him dead in the eye.
"It was all true. I didn't lie. I have a meeting with Vongetton tonight to get a contact for Fulcrum recruitment." Brice said.
"Has she seen your face yet?" Chuck asked.
"No."
"Have you told anyone in Fulcrum about me?"
"No."
"Have you told anyone I'm undercover?" Chuck asked.
"No"
Chuck took hold of Brice's right ear and pulled hard ripping it half off his head, and drawing screams from Brice. "Do you want to try that last one again?" Chuck asked pulling on the torn ear.
"I told Vongetton there was an agent in Fulcrum! It's how I got the meeting! But I didn't tell her it was you! I Swear!" Brice screamed in a panic.
"Good." Chuck said patting him on the side of his face. "See what happens when you tell the truth? I have to tell you Brice I'm a bit disappointed in you. I can't say I'm shocked that you would sell me out seeing as you've been fucking me over from the day we met but I'm disappointed that you would sell out Sarah that easily. Did you ever love her or were you using her to forward your carrier?" Chuck asked taking a seat on the table in front of Brice.
"I always liked the sex with her. She can be a real hot lay." Brice said before flinching but the pain never came.
"You tell the truth and I don't hurt you remember. You don't fallow instruction well do you? What were you hoping to gain by joining Fulcrum?" Chuck asked.
"Real action. I've been doing bullshit for the past two years." Brice said.
"But what would you have done when they found out you were full of shit?" Chuck asked but Brice just glared at him. "Right. This meeting you set up for tonight, what were the particulars?"
"There were none. I was going to attend the party, spot her at the bar and go introduce myself." Brice said.
Chuck jabbed his ribs again. "What is the password?" Chuck asked.
"What are you talking…" Brice said but stopped when Chuck grabbed his ripped ear. "TIME! SHE"S GOING TO ASK THE TIME!" Brice yelled.
"What is the pass code?"
"4:35 PM." Brice said.
"Anything else you want to tell me before I hand you off to the NSA for questioning? They will get everything but it's a lot easier to tell me now. They will be a lot worse them me, and you know it." Chuck said.
"That's everything I know." Brice said.
"Good. Oh, before I forget." Chuck said before punching Brice in the junk as hard as he could making Brice almost pass out. "If you ever even think about my sister again I'll show up at whatever hole they're going to hold you in and I'll cut your fucking balls off." Chuck whispered to him before walking out of the room. Outside the door he saw Anna, Melissa, and Sarah standing there with different looks on their faces. Anna looked impressed. Melissa looked vengeful, but Sarah looked sad and ashamed. "I asked you to take her away from here." Chuck said looking to Anna.
"She wouldn't go, and she needed to see it." Anna said looking down as if waiting for him to beat her.
Chuck patted her an the shoulder softly. "I know. Thank you for getting him talking." Chuck said nodding for Melissa to take Anna out of the hall before looking to Sarah. "How are you with this?" Chuck asked.
"I honestly don't know." Sarah said looking like she was going to cry and be sick at the same time.
"Well lets start with you and me. Are you okay with the things I did in that room?" Chuck asked.
"I am. I wouldn't have been able to stop myself from killing him. It's one of the reasons I stayed on this side of the door." Sarah said coldly.
"Okay. How do feel about turning him over to the NSA?" Chuck asked.
"I feel nothing." She said looking sad.
"How about your feelings on the things he said in there?" Chuck asked.
"Sick, I feel sick to my stomach. Not that he broke, like you said he was weak so I knew he would break, but for him to turn us in so he could join the other side is just too much for me to handle." Sarah said letting her tears fall.
Chuck pulled her into his chest. "I know. I felt sick too when he first said it." Chuck said.
"How can he turn on us like that Chuck?" She asked.
"I don't know. I would never do it. Neither would anyone else on the team for that matter." Chuck said.
"No they wouldn't." She said.
"Not to sound callous, but do you think you're up for this mission tonight?" Chuck asked.
"Yes. I should be fine."
"Are you sure? We have other people that can do this. I know I'm mostly running on anger right now and I think hurting him took most of the sting out of it for me, but you just heard some things in there that can really mess with your cool." Chuck said holding her close.
"I can handle it. I'm just shocked I think." She said shaking her head.
"As long as you're sure, because we have Alex , Anna, and Carina on stand by. You can run the op. from the van, or the bar." He said walking her back to the conference table.
"I know, and I'm glad we have back up, but I think a mission will take my mind off of this whole situation. Later you can hold me, and I can have a good emotional breakdown but for now I think I just have to forget about this whole situation." She said.
"Then maybe you should take Anna and Melissa to the kitchen and talk about the mission tonight while I brief Beckman on the situation." Chuck said.
"That's a good idea Chuck." Sarah said.
When the three women left the room Chuck called Beckman on the big screen. "General. We have a situation Ma'am. Major Casey spotted Brice Larkin at the Belmont hotel. His being in the US, and at the location of a mission was suspicious to both the Major and I so I thought it would be a good idea to bring him in to Castle for questioning by a new team member to see what information we could shake lose. This is a tape of his interrogation." Chuck said playing the video for her. By the end she looked shocked and sickly.
"My God. We are very lucky that you got to him when you did, good work Agent Carmichael. I'll have an NSA transport team get him off your hands ASAP." She said shaking her head.
"Thank you Ma'am. We are going to be a little busy tonight with the mission but I will have Agent Grimes standing by for the transfer." Chuck said.
"Yes that will be fine. How is tonight's mission coming along?" She asked skipping the Agent Grimes line all together.
"Good Ma'am. Agent Walker will be ready for a full briefing in a few hours, I can tell you there are going to be three major players there tonight." He said.
"Thanks' for the heads up. Keep up the good work." She said ending the call.
Six hours later Chuck walked into the ballroom of the Belmont hotel. He looked around and spotted Casey at the bar, and Alex walking around the room with a drinks tray. Fixing his bow tie he brushed a spot of lint off his tuxedo lapel and spotted Melissa walking in. She had a black dress on that hugged everyone of her breath taking curves and showed enough cleavage to stop traffic. Catching her eye he smiled and winked at her making her smirk. Chuck spotted his target at the bar. She was tall, with a slim figure and her short blond hair cut into a bob accentuated her long neck. She was wearing a gold dress with an open back showing of her graceful spine. She was drinking a glass of white wine and rolling her eyes at a guy that was trying to hit on her. Chuck walked over to the bar and ordered a black label on the rocks from Casey who gave him the drink on a napkin that said three drinks on it. That meant she was working on her third drink. Chuck nodded, wiped the condensation on his glass with the napkin to make the ink run, and left it on the bar ink side down for Casey to take. Chuck stood with his back to the bar looking at the crowd. He spotted Melissa talking to her target. She was sitting next to him touching his arm and smiling. She played the bimbo slut very well and soon she would get what she needed from him before taking him upstairs where Anna was waiting to drug him and cuff him. Looking around he saw Sarah walking around the room. She was in a long red dress that had a low cut bodice and a long slit up the side to show off her sexy legs. He locked eyes with her and gave her a look that said they were both going to enjoy him getting her out of that dress. Sarah saw that look and blushed as she bit her bottom lip. He knew just what to do to get her turned on.
Chuck drained his drink and shifted down the bar to stand next to Greta. "I'll have another Black label on the rocks and a glass of white wine." He said without glancing at Greta. When Casey gave him the two drinks Chuck handed him a hundred dollar bill. "Keep it." He said. He turned to Greta who was looking at him and handed her the glass of wine without saying a thing, but his eyes promised sex that would be unforgettable.
She smirked. "Do you have the time?" She asked.
"4:35, Greta." He said with a smirk.
"Brice Larkin I presume?" She asked rolling her eyes.
"You may." Chuck said taking her hand and locking eyes with her. "Care for a dance. The bar is a bit crowded." He said pointing to the dance floor.
"I would love to." She said.
Chuck walked her to the floor and slipped his hand around her waist. In doing so he felt her small gun on her thigh. "Walter PPK?" He asked.
She smirked. "Sig229" She asked grabbing his ass.
"Glad we got that out of the way. You have a contact for me?" He said.
"You have a name for me?" She asked.
"I do. But before I give mine up I'm going to need to know your contact is on the level. Can I trust you Greta?" Chuck asked in a hypnotic voice as he pulled her close.
"You know I don't play around when it comes to work. I have a good reputation. The only way to keep it is to trade good intel." She said in his ear.
"You don't play around when it comes to work, but do you like to play around outside of work?" He asked, his warm breath on her neck making her shiver.
"I do but I don't mix business with pleasure Mr. Larkin." She said her voice hitching as his hand slipped down to hold the small of her back.
"How about we do pleasure first. Then we can talk about business." Chuck said brushing a soft kiss across her neck.
"I'd like that Brice. I must say I was expecting to be hit on, but I'm pleasantly surprised with this." She said arching her neck.
"What can I say Greta, I'm inspired to work hard." He slipped his hand down to her ass and grabbed it forcefully as he sucked on her earlobe. "Very hard. Two or three times before you pass out." He said sucking on her pulse point.
She pulled back and attacked his mouth. Chuck kissed her back just as hard without any hesitation. "I have a room." She said.
"So do I, but I also have champagne, and strawberries in my room." He said walking her to the lobby.
"Your room it is." She said kissing him again. He called the elevator and pushed her up against the wall next to the doors, pinning her to the wall and kissing his way down her neck.
"You're very good at this Mr. Larkin." She said panting as Chuck found a sensitive spot on her neck.
"I told you, I'm inspired to work hard." He said grinding his hip into her center making her shudder. The doors opened and Chuck spun her around and into the elevator. He hit six and latched on to her neck again. She pushed him back into the other wall of the elevator car and shoved her hand down his pants. Chuck had a split second to get her out of there before she saw he wasn't the slightest bit aroused so he spun her around and pined her to the wall lifting her leg with in his left hand. The move pulled her hand free from his pants. He used his right hand to pull the strap of her dress aside and attacked her soft pink nipple with his mouth. She threw her head back and moaned. The doors opened and he lifted her up so she could wrap her legs around his waist. He carried her to Brice's room and unlocked the door. He saw Anna over her shoulder holding a tranq gun but he shook his head. "Greta." He said slipping his hand up her dress, and over the front of her small lace panties. "What was the name of your contact." He asked nipping her neck with his teeth.
"Tiffany Carson." She moaned.
Chuck waved his hand and Anna shot her in the back with the dart. Almost instantly she fell limp in his arms. Chuck set her on the bed and Anna cuffed her arms behind her back and put duct tape over her mouth. Chuck put her in the huge bath tub and shut the door. "I'm the first one up?" He asked taking a seat in the chair across from her.
"Yes." She said.
"That's strange. I thought I'd be last. I had the hardest target. Former German secret agent. I was sure it would have taken longer then it did." Chuck said straitening his tie.
"Melissa said you can do things with your mouth. You have red lipstick on your face and neck." She said smirking.
"Yes, well, she was a bit of a feisty one." Chuck said wiping his hand over his face.
"I saw you had her dress half way off." Anna said.
"I had to. She put her hand down my pants. I'm telling you she was really going for it." Chuck said laughing.
"How can you do what you just did and not, I don't know, not feel anything?" She asked.
"I just did it. I felt nothing because I wasn't really doing it for fun. I put no emotion into it. You know all this you've been doing it a lot longer then I have." Chuck said.
"I know. It's just what happens when you feel something. What do you do then?" She asked.
"I don't know. I've never really felt anything before when I do it." Chuck said.
"What if you did?" She asked.
Chuck looked at her sitting there deep in thought and it finally clicked for him. "Anna, did you feel something when you were working over Brice?" He asked.
"NO! God no. He was disgusting. I wanted to kill him the whole time I was in that room. When he said those things about you and your sister I almost lost my temper and killed him. No I did not feel anything for him." She said.
Thank God Chuck thought. She didn't feel anything for Brice, but she didn't say she didn't feel anything for Scott. "How was your first day of College?" Chuck asked.
"Good. The campus was nice. I found the classroom easy enough. I waited to go in right after Scott so I could get the seat next to him. I found the class to be very boring. Scott helped me fallow along with the professor. After class I asked him if he wanted to get coffee at the little café on campus. I clocked the Assassin room mate. He's a cold one. I can see it in his eyes. He smirked when I asked and Scott was kind of shy. We sat and talked. Well he talked. I listened. I was going to ask him to dinner and tell him then but you called me. I ended up telling him in the coffee shop. He was so nervous and freaked out about the whole situation. I held his hand. He wasn't sure he could handle being in the same room with his room mate Jeff. I slid in to the booth next to him and wrapped my arm around him. I told him he had to be strong. He had to hold it together for his mom. Chuck he started asking me things. Things about his mom and why his room mate was going to kill him. Who I was. Why I was sent to look after him. He was shaking, and he looked panicked and I knew he would make a scene in the café so I,… I kissed him. It was just to get him to stop talking, you know, shut him up. But he kissed me back…" She blushed and smiled softly. "It was soft. Almost fearful. Like I would pull away if he pushed too far. When I broke the kiss he had this look on his face. Like he was drunk, and happy, and lost. I, well, I kissed him again." She said smirking. "Harder this time, and he responded. I pulled back and he came with me. He had this funny sad look on his face when I broke the kiss. Like I took away his toy or something. I told him to get his things and follow me. He did. He never said anything until we were sitting in Melissa's car." She said.
"Her Miata?" Chuck asked.
"Yes, she said she didn't need it because she said you got her a car. So she gave me the keys. She said I needed a girl car." Anna said giggling.
"She special like that. She looks out for us." Chuck said thinking about his second in command.
"She does. When we were sitting in the car he tried to say he was sorry for kissing me, but I just grabbed him and did it again. He was stunned. A few minutes later I ended up in his lap. Chuck I've never, I've been with a lot of men, even a few women, but I've never…." She looked lost but Chuck smiled. This was going better then he first thought.
"Enjoyed it? Felt something deep down inside your gut. Something warm, and fun. Like falling off a tall building or being on a roller coater. Like time slows down and things are right in the world." Chuck said smiling softly.
"Yes." She said sharing his smile.
"Love." Chuck said.
"No." She said dismissively.
"Love Anna. I just described my feelings for Sarah." He said taking her hand.
"But I can't love someone, it's against my programming. Everything I've been taught. All of my training." She said getting agitated. This was obviously a sore spot for her.
"What did you do when you made out with him?" Chuck asked getting her off that train of thought for now.
"I told him about how his mom was working undercover with some bad guys and to keep her honest they have a guy watching him. It's what we talked about telling him until she could sit him down and talk about the things she had to do." Anna said looking cold again.
"What else did you tell him?" Chuck asked.
"I told him to just keep calm and treat Jeff the same way he always did. I told him if Jeff started getting suspicious of his behavior to just say it was me. That he was thinking about me a lot. You know distracted and I programmed my cell number into his phone. If he ever felt like he was in danger he was to call me and I was going to get him out of any trouble he might be in." Anna said.
"Anything else?" Chuck asked.
"No,… well," She blushed.
"What?" Chuck asked smirking.
"I walked him back to his apartment and I kissed him again. Jeff found us making out on the steps of his apartment building." She said turning red.
"It's okay. It happens to all of us at some point. I remember the first time I fell for a girl. I met her in Stanford. Her name was Jill. She was perfect in every way. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life with her." Chuck said sadly.
"What happened to her?" Anna asked.
"Brice got me kicked out of school and stole her from me." Chuck said smirking.
"I kill him!" She said coldly, her accent back in full force.
"Sit down Anna. Please. It's fine. I got over it. I found my Sarah." Chuck said pulling her back to her seat.
"Your Sarah?" She asked confused.
"My Sarah. You see Sarah is different things for different people. Like right now she's down stairs pretending to be her target's perfect woman. She's also the tactical mind that came up with our mission tonight. She's the Enforcer when she has to be tough. She's also a cold ice queen agent Walker. But sometimes, when it's just the two of us and nothing is going on, and the world doesn't need us to be anything else she's My Sarah. Soft and warm and cute. She's my dream girl. She likes to be touched, held, and loved. She pulls down her defenses, and opens up to me. In those moments she's My Sarah. And I'm her Chuck. Shy and self deprecating, and desperate to keep her happy. That's who we are Anna. That's us for real. Do you think I'm always that guy from the interrogation room? Do you think that guy's always running the show? No I only just found that guy, and to tell you the truth he scares even me. Anna what you found today with Scott was your inner Anna. I've seen you work Anna. I've watched you move through the world and I know under the cold, hard steal exterior you have something soft and sweet. The little girl that never went out with a boy. The little girl that needs to be loved and taken care of. She's been hurt before. When she thought she could trust someone and found out they were dark and evil under the kindly face of a mentor." He said softly and watched as she fell apart. Her eyes began to tear up and her face fell in on it's self. Her big light blue eyes lost there edge and she collapsed into a small ball. Chuck picked her up and sat her in his lap holding her head to his chest as she cried. "Let it out little one. No one is here to make fun of you or punish you. You can be a little girl again with me, and I'll protect you." He said rubbing her back.
"I trusted him and he did things to me. The more I screamed the more he hurt me. The others just stood there and watched. No one came to my rescue. No one." She cried.
"I know, but he can never hurt you again baby. No one will. Never again. We will watch you. Take care of you. Love you." Chuck said softly.
"I Love you Chuck. Like a brother. A big brother to look after me." She said pulling back to look at him.
"I know, and I'll watch over you. We all will. Look you already have a sister in Melissa. But one of the major break troughs in growing up is your first love. I know you've been hurt before and I know opening up will be very hard to do but I want you to spend some more time with Scott. In fact I want you to bring him by the shop tomorrow so we can talk to him. He sounds like a nice guy and I think sharing some time with him will help you heal some of the damage done to your little heart." Chuck said holding her small chin in his hand.
"You think so?" She asked.
"I do. Look at Sarah. When she first met me she was hurt, and sad. She didn't know what she wanted. The guy she loved just died. She was supposed to work me over to get what she wanted and she couldn't do that to a nice guy. She was unsure how to go about things and in the end she fell in love with me. I think you're in a similar boat Anna. You're hurt, you're lost and you just felt the first real thing that you ever had. Now you're emotions are exposed, and you feel venerable. Does Scott have his own room?" Chuck asked.
"Yes, but it's probably bugged." She said.
"Then I want you to call him and ask him to meet you at your hotel room. Talk to him and tell him the things you told me, or just lay with him and cuddle. Nerdy guys are good for that sort of thing. Was his phone bugged?" Chuck asked.
"No, I checked before we started talking." She said.
"Give me his number to so I can pass it around to the rest of us. In case something happens." Chuck said pulling out his iPhone.
"Here is his number." She said handing him her phone.
Chuck put the number in his phone and took the tranq gun. "I got this, you go see him, call him first so you know he's free. Go into the bathroom to get some privacy. I won't listen in." Chuck said waving her away.
"Okay, I'll go call him." She said blushing as she walked away. A few minutes later she came out smiling "He said he's not doing anything." She said trying hard not to look excited.
"Good, go talk to him, we'll see you tomorrow. Bring him by the shop so we can brief him." Chuck said.
When she left Chuck called Scott. "Did you call to cancel?" he asked.
"I'm not Anna, my name is Chuck and this conversation is Top Secret. Say yes if you understand." Chuck said in his most official sounding voice.
"Yes Sir." Scott said.
"Good, son I want you to listen to me very carefully. Agent Anna will be your handler for the next week. It's going to be very important that you fallow every instruction she gives you. Your cover is boyfriend and girlfriend. It's very important that your room mate believes your relationship is real. Both of your lives depend on that. Say yes if you understand." Chuck said.
"I understand Sir." Scott said.
"Good. Now the next few questions are going to sound strange but it's all information I need to know. Do you find Anna attractive?" Chuck asked.
"Very much so." Scott said without any pause.
"Good, next do you like her?" He asked smirking.
"Yes I do. I think I'm in love sir." Scott said blushing so bad Chuck could hear it through the phone.
"Nothing to be embarrassed about son. In fact can I trust you with a secret?" Chuck asked.
"You can Sir." Scott said.
"She likes you too."
"No, no way a girl like Anna would like me Sir." Scott said.
"She does son, and I know how you feel right about now. I started off as an annalist son, you know what that means right?" Chuck asked.
"Computer geek?" Scott said.
"That's right, and when you meet my wife tomorrow you'll understand me when I say I understand your situation son. But I called to ask something of you. I called to ask you to treat her right. She was hurt before. Growing up she was trained to be a stone cold killer. She had no life and men did things to her growing up. She felt something for the first time today when she was with you, and I want to foster that feeling. She need love, she needs to be taken care of. But the last thing she needs is you coming into her life and breaking her heart. You understand what I'm saying?" Chuck asked.
"I understand sir." Scott said.
"That's what I want to hear. I know a lot about you from you mother, from everything she told me I can tell you that if you treat her the way you were raised to treat a lady then you found the key to keeping her happy for the rest of her life. She's a good girl. The kind of girl that will stick by you forever, but you have to be the man I know you can be." Chuck said.
"I would never treat her with anything but respect." Scott said.
"Good Scott. I want you to do well with her, but more importantly I want to see her heal the scares on her heart. That means you treat her right or else." Chuck said.
"Or else what?" Scott asked sounding fearful.
"Or else I'll tell your mother. And we both know what she can do to you." Chuck said.
"I understand sir." Scott said fearfully.
"Good, we're on the same page then son. She's on her way over to you now. She's going to take you to her hotel room tonight. You will be spending the rest of the week there to avoid your room mate. Just because you two are sharing a room does not mean this is your chance to push for sex." Chuck said coldly.
"I would never!" Scott said.
"Good. I'm not saying don't I'm just saying let her set the pace and do the pushing." Chuck said.
"I understand sir." Scott said.
"Good. I'll see you tomorrow and we can talk some more then. One last thing before I go." Chuck said. "The best advice I can give you is, be yourself. The geeky, nervous, and un-cool guy that you are. These spy girls love it." Chuck said smiling.
"I understand sir." Scott said.
"Call me Chuck. See you in the morning." Chuck said hanging up.
Chuck sat around for a while until he got a call on his phone. "Chuck Sarah's on her way up with her Mark. Stand by to tranq him." Alex said.
"Got you, thanks for the heads up." Chuck said pulling out the tranq gun.
A minute later he heard the door lock click open and the door was tossed open. Sarah was making out with a short Hispanic guy. She pull up and looked at Chuck. Chuck smirked and shook his head before raising in eyebrow. When she nodded Chuck shot him. He helped her pull him into the room. "Why are you here, I thought Anna was going to be here." She asked.
"I sent her to be with Scott. I think our little killer is finding girl feeling for the first time so I told her to go be with Scott. Besides it's not like this is a hard job I got Greta up here in like five minutes." Chuck said cuffing her guy and taping his mouth. "Come on help me get him to the bathroom, we can put him with Greta." Chuck said.
"And I can brush my teeth. He had tequila breath. I hate making out with scum." Sarah said wiping her hand over her lips.
"Greta was an aggressive one. Tried to get her hand down my pants so I had to go for a nipple. I am really sorry." Chuck said sadly.
"I get it. She really tried to get in your pants?" Sarah asked looking at the tall blond in the tub.
"Right in the elevator." Chuck said dropping her guy in the tub.
"Wow, that is aggressive. Did she give you a name?" Sarah asked swishing mouth wash around.
"Tiffany Carson. Former NSA, now Fulcrum recruiter. She spots talent in people that hate their jobs." Chuck said. "She would have loved Brice." Chuck said coming up behind her. Sarah spit smacking her lips. Chuck smirked. "They say after the wedding all the mystery goes away. I can see what they mean." Chuck said.
"I'll show you mystery." She said kissing him.
"I see how it is, Mr. short stuff got you all hot and bothered and now you want me to take care of you." Chuck said.
Sarah pushed him away. "Ew that's disgusting. Now I'm not in the mode to even look at you." She said walking out of the bath room.
Chuck came after her and scooped her up tossing her to the bed. He kissed her pinning her right arm above her head as he shifted his weight on her letting her feel his hardness. He pulled back with her bottom lip in his teeth when she was panting he smirked. "Still not in the mode?" Chuck asked in a deep voice as he looked at her through half lidded eyes.
"God I want you so bad right now." She said panting.
"And I'm more then willing to give it to you." Chuck said going in for another kiss when he felt his phone vibrate. "Shit. Carmichael," He answered running his right hand up Sarah's dress.
"Chuck, I think we are going to have a problem getting Marcus Slater up to the room." Alex said.
"Why, is Melissa have trouble with the flirt?" Chuck asked playing with the flesh of Sarah's inner thigh.
"Yes, but not for a lack of trying. He's been talking to her all night but every time she goes in for a kiss he turns away. Melissa thinks he might be gay. How do you want to play this Chuck." Alex asked.
Chuck stopped his playing cold. "What?" he asked.
"Slater's gay and he's not going up to Melissa's room if he's gay Chuck. We can't pull him. How do you want to do this?" Alex asked in a huff.
"Well this is something new to me. His file didn't say anything about him being gay. I'll talk it over with Sarah and come up with something." Chuck said hanging up. "Sarah, Slater is gay and he's not taking the hint to come up to the room. How are we going to pull this off?" Chuck asked.
Sarah sat up. "This changes things. The way I see it we have two plays here. We either approach him with something for sale, or we pretend to be an information broker and approach him as a new contact." Sarah said.
"Or I can try to pull him." Chuck said.
"Chuck I can't let you do that." She said standing up from the bed.
"Why not. I'll just treat it like I did Greta." Chuck said standing up and going to the big mirror to check his tux.
"Chuck it's hard for male agents to do this sort of thing. It can throw them off their game. Plus you've never picked up a guy before, you might get caught in a lie and get hurt." Sarah said standing next to him.
"I can do this. It's not like I'm emotionally connected to the women I play. It's not like I have to sleep with the guy. I just have to pick him up and bring him back to the room." Chuck said playing with his hair.
"Are you sure Chuck?" Sarah asked.
"Yeah, sure. Just have Melissa meet me by the elevators to brief me on what he said so far. It will speed things along." Chuck said walking to the door.
"Chuck, if at any time you want to pull out and walk away just flag down Alex and she will spill a drink on you and get you out of the room. I can always try the other angle." She said.
"Got you." Chuck said fidgeting with his tie. Then he looked up at her with a smirk. "Toss me my wedding ring please?" Chuck asked.
"Here." She said pulling the ring from her bra. "Why do you want it?" She asked.
"Board husband on the prowl for an older gentleman." Chuck said slipping the ring on.
"I hope this works." She said.
"So do I." Chuck said walking out the door.
Chuck met Melissa at the elevators in the lobby. "Chuck are you going in there to pull Slater?" She asked looking worried.
"I am, what can you tell me, you've been with the guy all night." Chuck asked.
"He's been drinking Martinis all might. He thinks he's James Bond, but he's checked out every good looking guy in the room. He says he's in sales but won't give me anything else. He's using me as a beard. He's nice enough, but I can tell he's an aggressive one. I don't think this is a good idea Chuck." Melissa said.
"What do you mean aggressive?" Chuck asked.
"Men fall into two categories when it comes to sex, passive and aggressive. You Chuck are Passive, but Carmichael is aggressive. You get me?" She asked.
"I do. So this guy is aggressive? Will he try to pick me up, or should I try to play him?" Chuck asked.
"If you give him the right set of looks you might find him dragging you back to the room." She said.
"Good. Because I've never tried to pick up a guy before." Chuck said smirking. Chuck clocked Slater at the bar talking to a tall blond. Chuck walked right up to the bar and took the seat next to Marcus.
"Apple martini please." He said and Casey did a double take before nodding and making the drink. Chuck took an experimental sip and almost spit it out. It was sweet and sour and bright green in color. He looked to Slater and when the tall Brit tossed a pick up line at the tall blond Chuck laughed.
Slater turned around and gave him a dirty look. "Can I help you?" He asked acting tough but Chuck saw him give his body the once over.
"Look stud, we both know what team you play for. I saw you dodge the hot red head all night. Lets cut the crap and get out of here already. We both know you're leaving this party tonight with a boy. I just so happen to be looking for a little company for the evening. Why bother playing anymore? We both know you're coming up to my room." Chuck said before draining his glass and handing him a napkin. "I'll be waiting for you. Come up when you're done playing with the blond." Chuck said standing up and walking away. As he passed by Slater he let his hand brush across the taller man's shoulders. He walked out of the ballroom without looking back.
Slater looked down at the napkin and saw the room number. He smirked and turned to the tall blond. "I'm sorrow but I have to go. Thank you for the company." He said handing the bartender a few bills. "What every the lady wants." He said before walking out of the ball room. He made his way to the elevator and got off on the sixth floor. He knocked on the door and Chuck opened it standing in the doorway with his jacket off and his tie undone. "My name is Marcus Slater." He said smirking and looking Chuck up and down.
"Charles. Now that we got that out of the way we can get to the good part." Chuck said leaning in to kiss him. As he did Sarah came around the corner and shot him in the back with a tranq dart. Slater looked shocked for a second before he fell into Chuck's arms. "I've never had a man fall for me you know." Chuck said to Sarah as she helped him pull Slater into the room.
"How are you doing?" She asked as they zip tied his hands and duct taped his mouth.
"Fine, I didn't have to do a thing. In fact this was the easiest thing I've ever done." Chuck said taking a seat on the bed.
"Well don't get cocky. I can tell you right now you got off lucky. How did you pull him anyways?" She asked.
"I did it the same way I picked you up in that bar in Vegas. Walked right up to him and told him he didn't need to play any games with me. I knew what he was looking for. Apparently the direct approach works for almost anyone." Chuck said pulling on his coat.
"I'm totally shocked. I would have thought you would have at least had to kiss him. Give him the Carmichael even." She said sitting next to him.
"The Carmichael?" Chuck asked smirking.
"That's what Melissa calls it. It's the set of moves you use on women to get them panting for it. She explained how you do it and I must say it sounded rather hot." She said turning to him and kissing him behind his ear.
"That Carmichael. I see. Are you going to try to do it to me now?" Chuck asked letting her kiss his neck.
"I was thinking about it." She said. The door flew open and Melissa was looking down at two guns pointed at her head.
"Sorry, wrong room." She said smirking.
"What do you want I was busy trying to seduce my husband." Sarah said pouting.
"I came in here to check on Chuck." She said flopping onto the bed next to Sarah. "I see he got the job done. "Did you have to give him the Carmichael?" She asked.
"No and I really wish you guys wouldn't call it that." Chuck said shaking his head.
"You take all the fun out of everything." Melissa said sticking her tongue out at him.
"And you couldn't get the job done." Chuck shot back laughing.
"Hay it's not my fault he likes boys. Because we both know I could have beaten you up to the room if he wasn't gay." She said in a huff.
"What ever you say master seductress. I know I could have pulled Greta even if she was gay. It's called skills, you have none." Chuck said rolling his eyes.
"How dare you!" She said laughing.
"Both of you shut up." Sarah said shaking her head. "I have a feeling I'm looking at my future here. Are you two going to fight like this all the time?" Sarah asked.
"No, just most of the time." Chuck said making faces at Melissa.
"Chuck! Act like a grown up." Sarah said but when she turned around she saw Melissa making rude hand gestures back at him. "Never mind." She said laughing.
"How are we going to get the three of them out of here without being seen?" Chuck asked.
"Food carts. Casey and Alex should be coming up here any minute now with three of them." Sarah said.
"Good I want to get out of this dress. It's smashing my boobs." Melissa said wincing. "Who's dress is this anyways?" She asked pulling at the front.
"Mine and it's not my fault you have huge tits." Sarah said.
"You're just jealous." She said smirking.
There was a knock at the door and Chuck answered the door with his gun in his hand. It was Alex and Casey. "Lets get these guys loaded up and get them out of here. We still have to interrogate them back at Castle." Casey said.
Three hours later and Chuck looked down at his watch. It was two AM. "Okay people lets call it a night. We have all of the intel we can get from these three, lets send it on to Beckman and get out of here." Chuck said looking at the group sitting around the conference table. As everyone went there separate ways Chuck pulled Melissa aside. "When we go back I think we should fake a family injury so you can head off to Chicago sooner. It will give you a chance to get to know your targets and do some planning with the team and Jenifer. It will also give you a chance to see your folks. They need to know what you do and what you used to do. It will help them understand your job and let them in. It will also give you a chance to talk things over with your mother. Talking to me is one thing but I think you should tell her what really happened. Tell her what you did and what you can do now." Chuck said.
"I don't know if I could tell them the things I did Chuck. I don't know how they would react to it. I don't know if I could survive them turning me away for being a call girl." She said looking like she was going to lose it any minute.
"Then don't tell them, the choice is yours, but I think telling someone about your past would be beneficial to you. Either way you really should talk to them. There's no reason to not keep in touch with them now." Chuck said hugging her.
"I will Chuck." She said.
"That's my Angel." Chuck said.
"I walk away for a minute and already you're touching another woman." Sarah said shaking her head.
"What can I say? She's hot and she's cuddly." Chuck said kissing Melissa on the cheek.
"Keep it up and you'll sleep here at Castle." Sarah said smirking.
"You would kick me out of your bed?" Chuck asked like a little kid getting his candy taken away.
"I would." She said trying not to laugh at him.
"But I like your bed. It's soft and warm and it smells nice like you. Plus you're in it and that's good." Chuck said.
Sarah laughed "Come on stupid. Lets get you to bed before you say something to get you in trouble again." She said taking his arm in hers.
"Okay." Chuck said letting her pull him along. When they got to here hotel room Chuck tossed his clothes on the chair next to the bed and passed out the second his head hit the pillow. Sarah came out of the bathroom and saw him snoring. She smiled and slid into bed next to him. "I love you Chuck." She said kissing him.
"Love you too." He mumbled wrapping his arms around her.