The Undercover Brother…In-Law Part 1

Wanted to give credit to Engineerd for his great work and advise. Also for Bryce's first line. I read it and thought 'Wow!' And also for Bryces second line that made me laugh.

This is 3 days after the dinner incident. Chuck and Sarah are still deciding where to go on vacation.

Chuck and Travis are out getting dinner. Sarah home alone doing laundry in her new washer and dryer Chuck bought her after fixing the basement plumbing.

At Sarah's house

There's a knock on the door. Sarah walks to get it thinking it's just Chuck and Travis. She had to remember to give Chuck a key to the house.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Sarah says when she opens the door to find the one person she has been trying to move on from… Bryce

"I needed to see you Sarah. I miss you. I just don't feel like my life has been complete with out you in it. I need you to be the best I can be. Come back to me Sarah, you know you miss me, and I know how much you need me."

Sarah slaps Bryce across the face. "Go the hell away Bryce, I didn't need you then and I don't need your cheating ass now!"

Bryce touches the spot where Sarah slapped him. "Why weren't you this rough when we were dating, maybe I wouldn't had to look elsewhere if you were this spicy?"

Bryce let's himself in. "Cozy little place you got here..." He says looking around the

"What do you want, Bryce?"

"What do I want, I want you. I want what we had together, we were so great together and I want the passion we had." Bryce pulls Sarah to him and forcefully kisses her.

Sarah tries to pull away but Bryce is too strong. "Get off me!" Sarah yells.

Bryce pushes Sarah to the floor, she falls hard on the hard flooring, hurting her wrist. "Fine, why don't you be a little more cold hearted towards the father of your child." Bryce's eyes were searching for any sign of his son, but all he finds is an empty play pin and an equally empty high chair.

"Where's my son?" Bryce asks angrily.

"Go to hell!" Sarah says messaging her wrist.

Bryce walks around the house looking for Travis but doesn't find him. He goes back to Sarah and pulls her up by her hair. "Where's my son?!" He says sternly with gritted teeth.

"You have no son." Sarah says and receives a slap for it.

"I wanted to do this the easy way, Sarah, but I see like always you want to do it the hard way." Bryce stood in front of Sarah and smiled evilly.

"What are you going to do?" Sarah asks scared.

Bryce turns to leave. "I'll be back and I'll be taking my son."

Meanwhile, Chuck is buckling Travis into his cars seat. After Travis is safely in his car seat, Chuck puts the groceries in the truck. He remembers to take out Travis' animal crackers so he can eat them on the way home.

When they get home they see another car pulling out of the driveway and speed away.

Chuck quickly gets Travis out of his car seat and runs into the house. They see Sarah on the floor crying.

"Sarah." Chuck puts Travis on the couch then kneels down next to Sarah. "Sarah!"

Sarah embraces Chuck and cries louder.

"Sarah what happened?" Chuck asks worried. He pulls Sarah away from him to look at her. "Sarah, what happened? Who did this to you?" He looks at Sarah's busted lip and wrist which is turning purple.

Sarah shakes her head and doesn't respond.

"Sarah tell me who did this to you." Chuck gets angry and stands up. "I'm calling the police. Nobody's going to do this to you and get away with it."

Sarah stands up and stops Chuck before he gets to the phone. "Chuck, no, please don't."

"Sarah I need to call the police."

"Please don't. I'll call Carina, okay?"

"Okay. I'll get you some ice for your lip and wrist." Chuck gives Sarah a kiss on the forehead and goes to the kitchen.

Travis, who had gotten off the couch, walks over to his mommy and looks at the blood on her face and starts crying. Chuck runs over and takes him to the kitchen.

"It's okay, Travis. Mommy's okay. She just fell. There's no need to cry."

Chuck sits him on his high chair and gives him a piece of ice to play with.

Minutes later, Carina and John storm into the house. Carina sees Sarah on the couch with a bloody napkin on her lip and an ice pack on her wrist. Then she looks at Chuck.

"Did you do that to my sister?!" She says really pissed off as she walks toward him and pulls out her gun.

Chuck eyes widen so big they almost fall out.

"Carina, no!" Sarah yells.

"Did you hurt my sister?!" Carina yells while pointing her gun at Chuck.

"I didn't do that! I swear! Carina I would never hurt her." Chuck says while backing away from a very pissed off big sister.

"Carina put your gun away, it wasn't him." Sarah says.

Travis starts crying again. Chuck rushes over to get him.

"Put the gun away Carina, you're scaring him." Chuck says.

Carina puts her gun away. "If it wasn't Chuck, who was it?"

Sarah looks down and takes a deep breath. "It was Bryce." She says so softly they don't hear her.

"Sarah, speak louder." Carina says as she sits next to her.

"It was Bryce." Sarah says louder.

"Bryce! Bryce Mother-F-ing Larkin!" Carina yells.

Sarah nods.

"That can't be." Chuck says under his breath while looking away. "It can't be him."

John looks at Chuck with a raised eye-brow after hearing him.

"Sarah we have to call the police so they can arrest him."

"You can't do that. Bryce has family who work for the police, here and in D.C. Even if you call the police, he won't go to jail. They'll find a way to make the report disappear."

"How do you know that?"

"This wouldn't be the first time he hit me. It's why I really left Bryce."

"Why didn't you ever tell me?"

"I was scared."

"Look Sarah, John and I will find him and we'll make sure he goes to jail. He won't hurt you ever again." Carina hugs Sarah. "Now let me see that wrist."

Sarah unwraps the ice pack.

"Sarah that is really purple." Carina says.

"No, I'll be fine, it's just bruised."

"Ellie and Devon are doctors, at least let me take you to them to check you." Chuck says as he can see the pain in Sarah's eyes as Carina continue to inspect her wrist.

Sarah nods.

Minutes later, Sarah, Carina, John, Chuck and Travis walk into Casa Woodcombs.

"Hey everyone." Ellie says, sitting up from her comfortable position cuddle up in Devon on the couch. "Is something wrong?" She says worried after she sees Sarah's lip and her wrist.

Chuck takes Sarah over to Ellie. "There was an incident. Can you make sure Sarah's okay?"

"Of course."

Devon sits up too. "What happen?"

"I fell." Sarah says quickly.

"She got pushed." Carina says. "There's nothing to be ashamed at, Sarah. We're all friends here." Carina turns to Ellie and Devon. "Her ex-boyfriend, Travis' father, Bryce Larkin, came by the house while Chuck and Travis were away and hit her."

At the name Bryce Larkin, Ellie and Devon steal a glance at Chuck. John narrows his eyes at that movement.

"Why? How did he know you were here?" Ellie asks.

"He wanted Travis. He has family that works for the police so I'm sure they helped him find me." Sarah says.

"Devon could you go get me a Icy Hot roll?" Ellie asks

Devon gets up and goes to the bathroom to get the bandage.

"Daddy?" Natty says as she sees her daddy walk past her bedroom.

"Go back to sleep, Natty. Every things okay." Devon says.

But Natty doesn't listen and gets out of her bed.

Travis, who was clinging on to Chuck, sees Natty walk into the living room with Devon. He released him grip on Chuck. Chuck puts him on the floor. He walks over to Natty.

"Hi." He says shyly.

"Hi." Natty repeats.

The two toddlers run to Natty's playroom.

"Ouch!" Sarah says in pain when Sarah wrapped the roll around her wrist.

"Sorry. This should help with the pain. Your wrist is sprained." Ellie explains. "It's swollen, that's it. You'll survive."

"Thanks, Ellie." Sarah, Chuck, and Carina say unison.

"Where's Travis?" Sarah says suddenly in panic.

"It's okay, he went with Natalie to her playroom." Devon reassures her.

Chuck goes to the playroom to find Natty showing Travis all her dolls.

"I see you two are becoming fast friends." Chuck tells the two toddlers.

The small children look up at him and go back to playing.

Chuck makes sure the windows are locked then walks back to the living room.

"I'll back." Chuck says, taking his keys out.

"Where are you going?" Sarah asks.

"To the house, get some things for you and Travis. I want you to stay here until this maniac leaves. I don't want him hurting you again." Chuck explains. "I don't know this Bryce Larkin. He doesn't know you're here."

"I think that's a good idea too. Chuck is right." Carina agrees.

"Yeah, you can stay here as long as you need to." Ellie says.

"Alright, well I'll be back in a little while. Ellie, can you show Sarah to my room, please?" Chuck says as he walks out the door.

"Chuck!" Ellie says, following him to his car.

Chuck turns around.

"Chuck, where are you really going?"

"Like I said, to get Sarah and…"

"Chuck, don't lie to my face."

"I'm just gunna find Bryce, see what he's up to."

"Chuck." Ellie warns.

"Ellie, I'm just talk to him, that's all."

"Just don't get into any trouble, I don't want to go get you from jail again."

"I Promise Ellie, Oh and Sarah and Travis haven't eaten so…" Chuck takes the bag of Chinese food out of his truck and hands it to Ellie.

"We need to talk about your eating habits, little brother."

Chuck smiles at his sisters concern. "Take care of them."

"I will."

Ellie watches Chuck drive away but she's not the only one.

At a local bar…

Chuck slides onto a stool.

"Rough day, Chuck?" Jim, the bartender, asks him as he pours Chuck some coffee.

Chuck looks at the coffee in confusion. Jim only makes coffee for Chuck because he's the only one that comes to a bar and drinks coffee instead of liquor. "How'd you know I was coming?"

"I had a hunch." Jim nods over to a table by the corner.

Chuck sees Bryce sitting there sipping a beer, just where he knew he'd be.
Chuck, Bryce, and Morgan would come here when they were having problems and just drink their sorrows away. Of course, Chuck would use coffee to drink his sorrows away but still.

Chuck grabs a beer and his coffee mug and heads over for the table. He slides the beer over to Bryce and sits casually in the chair across from him.

"Chuck?" Bryce says, looking up at him.

"Bryce." Chuck takes a sip of his coffee getting ready for the verbal chess match with his long time friend and enemy.

John walks into the bar and scans the room for Chuck. He sees him sitting with Bryce. Carina had shown him a picture of 'the SOB that got Sarah pregnant and kicked her to the curve' as Carina told him.
'How did Chuck know Bryce was there? Why'd Chuck lie about where he was going?' John thought to himself as he ordered a scotch.

He watched them start to talk like two buddies that hadn't seen each other in a while.

'Maybe Bryce and Chuck were friends and Chuck was watching Sarah for Bryce. Maybe Chuck knew Bryce was going to go to Sarah's house and let on purpose so Bryce could hit Sarah.' Hundreds of thoughts ran through Johns head as he watched the other two men. He had never paid much attention to the handyman but it was time he did. He was a government officer after all, if something bad was gunna go down between these two and Sarah then he was gunna stop them. The less trouble his girlfriends sister got into the more time he could spend with Carina.

Okay bare with me. I needed to add Bryce in the mix and get him out of the way…for now. They'll be one or two more parts but then we'll go back to the happy go lucky story and the vacation.

Thanks for reading and please review.