Chapter 2

Friday, that same week

Tyler Bartowski bolted in through the front door with SJ nudging in behind him. It was the first Friday of the school year and after a week of school, both were eagerly trying to get to the TV. Tyler elbowed his brother in an attempt to get him to stay back.

"The TV's mine, SJ!"

"No way, I claimed it first!"

"I got in the house first!"

SJ ran to the couch. "I got to the TV first!"

"Yeah? Well I was born first!" Tyler argued, trying to grab the TV remote out of SJ's hand. SJ was holding it out of his brother's reach.

"Me and Nick are playing Halo online, so the TV's mine!" SJ said.

"You can play Halo anytime!" Tyler argued. "Wrestlemania is today, and I am not missing it!"

At that moment Sam walked through the door, that the two brother's had forgotten to close, their little sister was looking rather irritated.

"Thanks for not waiting for me after school you morons!" she exclaimed at them. "If you stayed a bit longer, you would have gotten a lift from Uncle Casey," she said before dumping her bag and heading up to her room. Despite the short interruption with Sam the two kept fighting for the remote, until a certain former NSA Colonel walked in.

"What's going on?"

Tyler and SJ turned around to see their 'Uncle Casey' with some papers in his hand. SJ stopped struggling with the remote and Tyler used this chance to grab it out of his hand.

"Hey!"

"Haha, too slow."

Casey ignored it. "Um..are your parents in?"

"Nah," SJ said. "How come?"

"Work stuff," Casey grunted. "Anyway, when they get home tell them to give me a call." Casey turned to leave when SJ had an idea.

"Uncle Casey, wait," Casey turned around. Had it been anyone else (excluding Alex and Kathleen) Casey would have been irritated or kept walking, but the Bartowski kids did have a way of making him more tolerant, something he thought only Alex could do.

"Yeah?"

SJ looked atr Tyler, who was already watching WWE and then back to Casey. "Me and Tyler both want the TV, me cause I want to keep a promise and play Halo with a friend and him because he wants to watch some stupid wrestling show."

Tyler scoffed. "Stupid? These guys train everyday and make millions of dollars a match, do some math in your head geekazoid and guess how much they make a year."

SJ rolled his eyes and turned back to Casey. "Well?"

Tyler quickly spoke up. "Mom's also taking me to karate at four thirty so SJ will be able to have it for like two hours."

"SJ, why don't you let Tyler have the TV now and you can have it while he's at karate," Casey suggested.

"Sure, I guess," SJ mumbled as Tyler found his channel and was watching the Big Show rematch Daniel Bryan at Wrestlemania. "How are Uncle Morgan and Aunt Alex?" SJ asked Casey, who cringed at the mention of his son in law. He didn't exactly hate Morgan but he always had a feeling that he couldn't quite put his finger on.

"Fine, I guess," he muttered. Morgan and Alex had one five year old daughter, Katherine and Alex was pregnant with their second child. "I have to go," Casey muttered again. "Tell your parents I stopped by," he said before walking out the door.

Buymore, Break Room

"Hey, Buddy," Morgan said walking to Chuck and giving him a pat on the back. "How are you doing?"

"Fine," Chuck replied. "Just the usual, you?"

"Good, good, awesome, fantastic, great, over the moo..."

"Morg, buddy, we both know something's wrong so tell me," Chuck said.

"Well, it's just that with Alex pregnant, I have to take care of Kate and we're discussing names and we really can't think of any that we agree on and it's just getting pretty stressful..."

"What names have you thought of?" Chuck asked, taking a sip of his coffee.

"Um, see, I'm kinda going for nerd names. You know from Star Wars, Mortal Kombat, stuff like that. But Alex keeps shooting them down. I mean I want my son to have a cool name but Alex won't accept any of my suggestions."

"What exactly did you suggest to name him?" Chuck asked.

"Luke, Han, Chewie..."

"You actually suggested to name your son Chewie?" Chuck asked, surprised, he never thought Morgan would go that far.

"Middle name, Han Chewbacca Grimes. Or Luke Chewbacca Grimes, either one would do."

"Morgan um...don't take this the wrong way but your son would get bullied at school a lot. Come on, what else did you suggest?"

"Kano, from Mortal Kombat or Johnny Cage Grimes. I also suggested Bruce."

"Bruce?"

"You know, like Bruce Wayne," Morgan said.

"Bruce Wayne Grimes?"

"Exactly, Alex won't even think about any of those."

"Morgan, I hate to burst your bubble but I think Alex is right. I wouldn't want to name my kids that stuff," Chuck told his best friend. "What did she suggest?"

"Borring stuff. You know James, Peter, John, Keith. I think she wants to name him after Casey actually."

Chuck raised his eyebrow. "Casey?"

Morgan nodded. "I dunno man, I think so. How did you and Sarah deal with the whole naming thing?"

Chuck thought for a moment. "I dunno, dude. Tyler was kinda hard to decide but by the time we got to SJ and Sam we kinda just went by people who were important to us. But with Tyler, we had to compramise you know?"

"I guess, I'll talk to Alex, see if she'll be open to anything else. See you, buddy," Morgan said heading off. Just as Morgan left the Buymore Chuck got a text, he looked at his Iphone, it was from Casey.

Get Walker, meet at my apartment soon. It's a matter of national security.

-Casey

Chuck wondered what this could be about after thirteen years of not spying what could be going on, nevertheless he put his phone back into his pocket and headed to find Sarah.

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