Chapter 6- The Alarms

This is the last chapter so I thank all of you for reading and especially thank Dr. Kevorkian, freak4wb, Saucy-Duck, red lightning, nattylovesjordy, shadyrenee, Nemo30, HJB, and Go-Chuck-Go for reviewing. I hope to start another story soon but enough about that, lets just get back to the story:

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As Chuck walked through the door of his apartment, he was thankful that Ellie and Awesome were both at work. He was too tired to handle the burden of coming up with a lie to tell them about what him and Sarah were doing. He just wanted to try and sort out everything that had happened in the past few hours and he knew that Sarah was the perfect person to help him do that.

Chuck led Sarah down the hallway to his room and sat down on his bed, Sarah doing the same right next to him. "So, what do you want to talk about Chuck?" Sarah asked, looking into Chuck's bloodshot eyes. "I don't know...I mean...I just...What happened?...Well, I know what happened, it's just that I killed someone tonight and I don't even feel anything. Shouldn't I be sad or at least have a little bit of grief, but instead I'm just confused." Chuck blurted out, trying to sort out his feelings.

"Chuck, you are feeling something, it's just that you don't know what it is yet. This will hit you soon, and you will be extremely sad. You just have to remember that you saved my life and took down a man who would have killed a lot of people if he wasn't stopped." Sarah said, trying to reassure Chuck that he did the right thing. "How do you do this job then? I mean you and Casey, well more Casey, you guys kill people every day. How do you deal with all of the grief that comes with it?" Chuck asked, not totally buying what Sarah said.

"Everyone has their own ways of dealing with it. Personally, I like to sit out on my balcony and just think about every aspect of it until it doesn't even seem real. I know that Casey likes to go to the gym and work out for hours at a time to work the sadness into oblivion. Just try to do something that you love a lot and after a week or two you won't even think about anymore." Sarah replied, seeing that Chuck wasn't sure about what she was saying.

"I just wish that it had never happened, that Casey would have stayed and you two would have gone in to take them down. I guess everything happens for a reason, but I can't see any reason for everything that happened today." Chuck said as he fell back to lay out on his bed. Sarah followed him by crawling up and laying her head down on his second pillow. "I guess I get what you're saying, I just hope that I can push it away so I won't have to live with it in the front of my mind forever," Chuck continued, "But what about you, I mean you almost died today. I always look for help from you without ever returning the favor but you've had a tough night. Are you going to be ok with what happened?" Chuck asked as he also layed his head down on a pillow.

"Well, I'm fine mostly because we both made it out with only minor injuries." Sarah said, moving her hand up to the bruise on her face. "Do you want some ice for that?" Chuck asked as he saw Sarah flinch when she touched it. "No, it should heal up in a day or two, I'll be fine," Sarah replied, speaking from the experience of having more than a few bruises in her life.

"So, do you think we'll have any more missions this week?" Chuck asked, changing the subject and letting his mind wander, feeling the exhaustion of the day's events. "We won't know for sure until tomorrow's briefing but I think the General and Director will probably give you the week off, considering all that's happened," Sarah replied, hearing how tired Chuck was and realizing her own fatigue. "I should probably get going and you should definitely try to get some sleep, hopefully you can catch up on it this week," Sarah said as she looked at Chuck's alarm clock and saw that it said 3:00 AM. "Why don't you just stay here? There's no point in going back to your place at three in the morning just to come back at seven for the briefing. If you stay here, we can just go over to Casey's tomorrow morning. It saves you a trip," Chuck said nervously, hoping that he didn't sound too awkward while saying this to Sarah. "I guess you're right. Well, we better get to bed then," Sarah replied, seeing Chuck feel relieved that he didn't totally screw up. They both shut off the lamps on their side of the bed and fell into an exhausted sleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow.

------(The next morning)------

As the light hit Sarah's eyes, she immediately woke up and was confused. Her confusion subsided when she remembered where she was and all that had happened. She loved the warmth that she felt under the sheets of Chuck's bed. She had found out where Chuck had bought them, but hadn't had the chance to buy some yet. She also loved how comfortable she felt next to Chuck. She thought about how she would be perfectly fine with staying here for the rest of her life, which immediately made her think of the time. She looked at the clock on Chuck's nightstand and saw that it said 6:00 AM. She knew that she had at least a little time left before she had to start getting ready so she buried her head into her pillow and started thinking about Chuck again, losing herself in her thoughts…

------(About 10 minutes after Sarah woke up)------

As many mornings before, Chuck felt the sun from his window hit his face and instinctively shut his eyes tighter. He loved feeling the warmth from it wake him up in the morning. His mind felt like something was off this morning and then immediately snapped to what had happened the night before, which made him just barely peak open his eyes to see Sarah next to him. He loved the warmth that she added to the bed and quickly basked in her beauty before he moved his head to the alarm clock beside him. He saw that it said 6:12 AM and then brought his head back to where it had been. He very quietly put his head on his hand and stared at Sarah, her head pushed into her pillow. He started to think about Sarah, as he had the day before and soon was lost in his thoughts.

------(6:30 AM)------

Chuck and Sarah were both rudely awakened because, for the third time in the past 24 hours, an alarm knocked them both out of their thoughts…

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