Chapter 7

Sarah heads for the door, and runs out of Echo Park. He gets in the car, the only thing he thinks about is to go back to his hotel. With tears flowing out of rivers in flood, think about how life is a disaster. Since she was a child she had lived on the ice with her father, she had nowhere to go calling home and had no friends.

After her father was arrested, Director Langston Graham had asked her to join the CIA, having no alternative she accepted. The director was very kind to her, she had begun to see him as a father, but he was dead. He had trained her to be the best, and treated her as his favorite.

When she completed her junior agent training and served a year in the president's escort, he had her join the CAT squad. With her friends Zondra, Carina and Amy she had had a good time, until Zondra also betrayed her. She had never been arrested as the evidence was not enough, but she no longer trusted her and the team, although she had remained on good terms with Carina, even with her having problems of trust during the missions.

After the adventure with the girls, the director decided to give him his red test, it was the worst day of his life. She never expected to have to commit cold-blooded murder. That was how she was assigned to Bryce, they both took care of each other, there had been real feelings between them, her boyfriend called him too, but when she disappeared and never let her know again, shethink he too he had turned away from her.

Following some missions by herselves, she followed that horrible mission in Hungary, where he had to rescue a poor child from a corrupt agent, decided not to tell the CIA and to protect the little girl handed her over to her mother.

She took her leave of her stating that for her safety, it was better not to see her again. After

go back to the CIA and the director informed her about Bryce's death and the fact that he had become a traitor, so to remedy her image she decided to officially take care of the case, even if after she had discovered the truth about Bryce, his betrayal still hurt.

But with all the pain and suffering hse had endured in those years, this mission proved to be a blessing the momentwhen she met Chuck Bartowski. Whens he walked into that shop and she saw him helping a poor little girl, in trouble due to her parent's had to admit to herself that she had fallen in love with Chuck within hours, even before he deactivated a bomb with a pornographic virus she was already in love with him.

Being close to them was easy, he was open, sweet, affectionate, sincere, ironic, extremely intelligent and heroic. She admired how he took care of his family and the people he loved, including her. The ways he treated her without judging, made her feel loved.

But she never expected him to refuse to run away with her and be with her, after all the times he professed his love. She had always been jealous of when other women approached him, invading her territory. First Lou, a beautiful brunette, who had a passion for sandwiches, then Jill, another beautiful brunette, was also a brilliant doctor. But never before has she felt so betrayed by the man she loved most of all. Arrive at the hotel, go up to the room, she let herself go on the bed. in tears, the only thing she heard for now were the sobs that occasionally kept her company.

Chuck was preparing to walk out the door to meet his father, he was still shaken by what had happened with Sarah, how he could ask them to run away when what was on his mind would make a difference, how could he ask them to leave everything he knew. He didn't understand that running away would only make things worse. It wasn't she who was on Malibu Beach, she told him she couldn't escape the CIA. He would try to talk to her later. Leaving the door, he starts to go to Malibu beach Once he arrives, he removes his shoes and starts walking the beach in search of his father.

He sees him near the sea in an isolated place, approaching him and giving him a hug, he begins to speak.

"Hi dad, how are you? Why did you run away again after the wedding. "

"Hi son, see it's a bit complicated, Orion has had a lot of enemies over the years. I am already happy to have been able to attend the wedding and have accompanied my daughter to the altar. Guess Ellie and Devon have already left? "

"Yes dad, she left a few hours ago"

"Well I'm sure they'll have fun. So how did it go last night, what happened? "

"Well we got there and we managed to save the cube and Bryce despite being previously injured. Anyway, I know he's fine "says the son reassuringly.

"Well, I'm glad, I've always liked Bryce, despite what he did to you at Stanford he tried to protect you. Now it's over, you can have a normal life.

"says the father. Chuck looks at him confused and worried. "Yeah, it has that purpose, I have a problem. To save Bryce, Sarah, Casey and the cube I had to download the intersect in my head again ".

"What did you do," the father roared. "Chuck, do you know what you got yourself into? After all the hard work we've done to get that thing out of your mind, have you saved it yet? "shouts Mr. Bartowski.

"I'm sorry dad I had no choice, if I hadn't dumped it and then destroyed it, we would be dead and the ring would have the intersect and all of us would be in danger. And then you should see what this intersect does, it's great, it can give me skills like kong-fu, I can do so much with this computer in my head, I can help people and save lives. "Chuck responds euphorically.

"Nooooo, Chuck you don't understand ! does it give you skills? I knew they had changed the designs, but I never thought such equipment ! The thing is worrying, they will turn you into a weapon, you will no longer have a normal life, there will always be a mission and this can kill you! ".

"I've decided now dad. You won't make me change my mind, I just have to find a way not to lose myself "

"No Chuck you don't understand, this intersect is too powerful, over time it can drive you mad, it will overheat your brain!" says the father looking at his son in a worried way.

"What? Will I lose my mind? "he says incredulously" oh man, we have to get it out of my head! But if I take it off what will become of me and what will I do with my life? "

"Listen Chuck, not having the original drawings of this computer, I won't be able to take it off easily, but I can create, in the meantime I find a solution, a governor, who will control the circuits of the computer, avoiding frying your brain! As long as I will try not to blink, unless you are in extreme danger ". I reassure the son.

"Ok, I think I have no choice, in the meantime they will come to take me to train me". "Here, damn, I don't want this for you" man is distressed "listen let's do this, keep my wrist computer, I'll build a smaller one for you and I'll use it until I see you again. We'll use it to keep in touch . Don't tell anyone what I just told you, neither on the cube nor on the computer ".

"Okay, I'll tell Sarah if need be." After hugging his father, he heads home.

Arriving at Echo Park, he finds the team hired by Beckman waiting for him.

"What are you doing here, the general said you would arrive this evening."

"Mr. Bartowski, we are here to take you to Washington where you will meet the general, we have our orders."

"Wait first I wanted to say goodbye to Colonel Casey and Agent Walker."

"I'm here Chuck" Chuck turns and sees the colonel behind him.

"Casey, thank you for everything you've done, hope to see you again soon, listen say hi to Sarah and tell her I'll talk to her. Can you give her this message from me? "he looks at him pleadingly. Responding initially with a grunt, the colonel says. "Okay Bartowski, I'll send her the message, think to be careful".

"Colonel Casey, excuse me, I have to take Mr. Bartowski away with me,". Says the team leader. Chuck, taking one last look at Casey, follows the resigned team.