I still don't own Chuck. But I did just get the season one DVD for Christmas. So I've got that going for me, lol.

Let's see if we can crank up the tension a little. It may just be getting a little to cozy in Chuckland. This is the calm before the storm. Thanks to Happydayz for the ideas. And, of course, thanks to BrickRoad for keeping me on the straight and narrow.

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"We're going to have a baby?" Chuck whispered in disbelief.

"Yes, Chuck," Sarah said as she couldn't keep the smile at Chuck's reaction off her face. "We're going to have a baby."

"And that's why you threw away the condoms?" Chuck asked in relief.

"Would you forget about the stupid condoms?" Sarah said with a laugh. "Did you hear the first part, Chuck? The most powerful organization in the world is trying to kill you?"

"I heard." Chuck said with a grin. "So what. It's not going to happen tonight, is it?"

"So what?" Sarah said incredulously.

"We're going to have a baby!" Chuck exclaimed as he picked Sarah up and twirled her.

"Put me down," Sarah said as she tried to control her laughing.

"I'm so sorry," Chuck said, suddenly serious. "I didn't mean to hurt you. How are you feeling?"

"Don't worry, sweetie." Sarah said with a grin still on her face. "You didn't hurt me. It's going to be a few months before we have to worry about that."

"How are you feeling?"

"I have a little morning sickness." Sarah said calmly. "It's nothing to worry about. Other than that, I feel great."

"No," Chuck said even more insistently. "How are you feeling?"

Sarah wanted to tell Chuck how scared she was. Make him understand how long their odds were. That before this morning having a baby was the furthest thing from her mind. That she had no idea how to be a mother. How she just wasn't ready for this. But she couldn't. As soon as she looked into Chuck's brown eyes, all those thoughts were driven from her head.

"I feel fantastic." Sarah whispered with a smile. "I'm going to have the love of my life's baby."

"It's a good thing that we got married." Chuck said with a smile as he took Sarah in his arms and gently kissed her.

As the kiss quickly intensified and Sarah felt the weakness growing in her knees, she quickly realized that there was no way of keeping this from ending up in bed.

Thank goodness.

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Sarah had just resumed semi normal breathing patterns from the most intense experience of her life. Not even Chuck's silly concern over possibly hurting the baby was able to make a dent as they connected at a level they had never approached before. But Sarah had long ago stopped trying to figure out why Chuck and she clicked so well in bed. Part of it had to be due to the fact that they were so fiercely in love. But it was more than that. It's funny, in most relationships the newness made the first times the most exciting. But with Chuck and Sarah there was a growing trust between them that just kept getting better and better.

As Sarah lay on her back trying to catch her breath, Chuck had his head gently resting on her stomach whispering softly. Even though Sarah couldn't tell what Chuck was saying, he was obviously talking to the baby. Whatever he was saying, he was simply beyond adorable saying it.

"I don't think that she can hear you." Sarah said with a smile. "She doesn't have ears yet."

"What makes you think that it's a girl?" Chuck replied with his patented grin.

"Just a guess," Sarah whispered back.

"I'm not so sure," Chuck said as he finally lifted his head to look at Sarah. "Bartowskis are famous for having boys."

"Oh yea," Sarah said as she sat up. "Then explain Ellie."

"Exception that proves the rule," Chuck said with the blazing smile that could melt Sarah's heart and get her to do anything that he wanted, as he sat up with her and pulled her into a soft kiss.

"Once he learns the power he has with that smile, I'm really in trouble." Sarah said to herself as she closed her eyes and simply yielded to the warmth that enveloped her.

But Sarah knew that they had to talk. Their problems were just not going to go away. And if the intensity of their kissing was any indication, she had about ten seconds to act or get ready for round two.

So Sarah reluctantly broke the kiss and got out of bed. As she threw on Chuck's t-shirt she could see the obvious disappointment in his face.

"It can't be time for me to go already." Chuck said sadly as he sat on the side of the bed.

"No, sweetie," said Sarah with a grin. "You're spending the night. But we have to talk."

"I'm spending the night?" Chuck repeated with the enthusiasm of a ten year old who had just learned that he was getting a new puppy.

"This day just keeps getting better and better."

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"Can't we just talk to Beckman?" Chuck asked with a smile. "We'll tell her that we're married and we're not looking for any trouble. Maybe she'll just leave us alone."

"I wish that would work." Sarah said with a sigh. "But it won't. Right now she views you as a national security risk. You still have a ton of vital secrets in your head. If Fulcrum captured you, they could use you very effectively. You are still very valuable in the wrong hands."

"If I'm so valuable," Chuck said in a confused voice. "Then why is she having me killed."

"Cause she is a machine." Sarah said sharply. "She is just looking at this from an asset perspective. Since they have a replacement intersect, you're no longer worth two of her top agents to protect you. She doesn't understand that you can't measure people's value like that."

"But isn't that putting you in an awkward spot." Chuck said. "I understand how important your duty and following orders are to you…"

"Not anymore," Sarah interrupted. "Beckman just eliminated herself from giving me orders. Even if I wasn't in love with and married to you. You don't defend freedom by violating its principles. Especially when your motivation is your own convenience. No, Chuck. We're in this together. You're my husband. I took a vow. For better or worse. I'm respecting that vow."

"What are we going to do?" Chuck said.

"Well," Sarah said. "I was talking to Casey and he had three options. We can run. We can make them need you again. Or we can make you no longer a threat. For right now, I think that we need to run."

"Can we make it?" Chuck asked.

"We have a good shot for a while anyway." Sarah said with a smile. "Casey is going to give us a three day head start. That's huge. An agent is always ready to go off the grid. I have a house in Denver that nobody knows about. I have enough cash to last us a while."

"What about after that?" Chuck said softly. "Can we get jobs?"

"That's the problem," Sarah said. "Once we have to go out into public and make money, we're much more likely to get caught. You have a degree from Stanford. But the day that Chuck Bartowski fills out an employment application, they will find him and kill him."

"They would let you go, wouldn't they?" Chuck said softly. "I mean they want me. You're no threat to them. They would probably let you and the baby go."

"What are you saying?" Sarah asked.

"Maybe I should just give myself up." Chuck said with a sigh. "That way you and the baby would be safe."

"No, Chuck…" Sarah whispered.

"But Sarah," Chuck interrupted. "That's a dad's job. To sacrifice for his child."

"No way," Sarah said flatly. "A dad's job is to take the two o'clock feeding. It's to play catch in the backyard. It's to scare the crap out of her first date. It's to walk her down the aisle on her wedding day. I just found you. There is no way on earth that I'm letting them take you away from me."

"So what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to show them what a huge mistake they just made." Sarah whispered. "I'm going to prove to them that I'm really the top agent that they had. I'm defending my husband and my family. Even if that means that I have to kill every one of them."

"I'm sure glad that you're on my side." Chuck said with a smile.

"More than you know." Sarah said with her own smile. "But I want to warn you. You're going to see a side of me that you've never seen before. Are you up for that?"

"Yes," Chuck said softly. "They have it coming."

"They definitely have it coming."

"You're bound and determined that this baby is a girl." Chuck said with a laugh. "Aren't you?"

"It's a girl." Sarah said with a laugh. "I know it. But tomorrow we need to go over and explain things to Ellie."

"What are we going to tell her?" Chuck asked.

"The truth," Sarah said with a smile. "What else?"

"How much truth?" Chuck asked cautiously.

"We're going to tell her everything." Sarah said as she smiled at Chuck's shocked expression. "For one thing, we need her help. But mainly, she deserves to know."

"Wow," said Chuck. "Be prepared to be hugged to death when she finds out about the baby."

"She already knows," Sarah said with a smile. "She's the one who told me. Wait till she finds out that we're married."

"That reminds me," said Sarah as she walked over to the desk and picked up a box. "It's time that we started wearing these."

"We going to wear our wedding rings?" Chuck said with a grin.

"Yup," Sarah said as she slid Chuck's ring on his finger and held out her own finger for Chuck.

"Sarah," Chuck said softly as he slid Sarah's ring in place and kissed her tenderly. "This is the best day of my life."

"Sweetie," Sarah said with a pained expression. "You really starting to scare me. We are in big trouble. A lot of things have to go our way for us to even survive. In seven days, the entire U.S. government is going to be trying to kill you."

"I know that." Chuck said softly as he kissed Sarah again. "I'm not stupid. I know that things are going to be desperate. But I get to tell my family and friends that I tricked the most wonderful girl in the world into marrying me. We're going to start living together as husband and wife. And we're going to have a baby. How could this not be a great day?"

"Ok, Chuck," Sarah whispered as the kissing intensified. "You win. Today is a great day. But starting tomorrow we are in survival mode."

"We're going to win." Chuck said. "I know it. We're smarter than they are. We have surprise. And we have you. I'm starting to feel a little sorry for them."

"I'm not."

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Sarah was lying in bed with her head on Chuck's chest after round two. He was lying on his back. They hadn't spoken in some time.

"Sweetie," Sarah whispered as she drew little circles on his chest. "Are you asleep?"

"I'm just thinking." Chuck said softly out of the darkness as he rubbed her back.

"If we have a little girl," Sarah whispered. "Would it be ok with you if we named her Kate after my mom?"

"You really miss her, don't you?" Chuck said.

"I really barely remember her." Sarah whispered. "But I just figured out how she must have felt once."

"I'll tell you what," Chuck said with a smile. "If you give us a baby with ten fingers and ten toes, you can be in charge of the naming."

"Thank you sweetie," Sarah whispered.

In order to keep her vow of not letting Chuck see her cry, Sarah snuggled closely to his chest. If he felt the tears, he didn't say anything. All he did was continue to gently rub her back.

"You're very welcome."

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