Chuck was tied to the ceiling, his feet just barley touching the ground.
"We know you know who the intersect is, tell us!" The Fulcrum agent shouted.
"No! I am not going to turn against my country like you." Chuck answered, spitting out the blood as another punch rammed into his jaw.
"Fine, then the girl will die." A man said, dragging Sarah into the arm.
Chuck immediately started struggling, trying desperately to break free in order to save the love of his life.
"Chuck?" Sarah cried, as a gun was pointed at her head.
"Fine, I will tell you!" Chuck shouted, anger flowing through his veins.
"Who is it then you little snot?" The Fulcrum agent shouted again.
"Me." Chuck answered simply.
"You pathetic liar! Shoot the girl." The Fulcrum agent cried out.
"Nooo!" Chuck screamed.
Down the hall Ellie heard her brother's screams and quickly raced into the room, Devon hot on her heels.
"Chuck, Chuck sweetie wake up!" Ellie said soothingly shaking his brother softly.
"Sarah!" Chuck shouted, sitting up roughly, hurting himself a little.
"Shhh Chuck, she is next door, everything is ok, calm down." Ellie soothed.
"Not Awesome." Devon replied, worriedly looking at his soon to be brother in law.
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"What do you mean Agent Walker?" General Beckman asked, confused at the fear Carina and Sarah were showing.
"Chuck, he was on pain killers, and he started saying don't let them get me, and he is just mixed up ma'am, he may have endured the torture but I am not sure he knows how to cope." Sarah explained.
"Yea, and ma'am I know Chuck, he is a sweet kid, this could ruin him, which will inhibit his ability on missions." Carina put in.
"Sleeping pills may work." Casey offered. "If he gets nightmares I mean."
"To dangerous, we cannot do anything that may cause side effects with that brain of his." Beckman replied. "Walker, I know you love him, but all agents have these dreams, they suck it up."
"But Chuck isn't a trained agent, and even when he is it will be in combat only for the most part, there has to be something we can do. He is hiding something from us, I know he is. Something happened there that he is not sharing." Sarah replied, getting a tiny bit misty eyed, but not willing to let any tears fall in front of the General.
"Does Fulcrum have an intersect?" Carina asked suddenly.
"What?" Beckman asked. "That is insane, why if they have one would they be looking for ours?"
"Because their information is different from our information." Casey replied.
"Do you think Chuck could have had the Fulcrum type intersect uploaded into his head too?" Sarah asked.
"It would freak me out, Chuck doesn't seem to be the type to turn into a baby, even on pain medicine, he may freak out but he goes on." Carina replied.
"We will look into this possible option, but for now, team, please relax and heal. Be there for Bartowski, I swear I am about to send you all on a vacation." Beckman sighed, feeling for the agents standing before her. "In fact, yes, that is what I am doing, you four, and the Bartowski sister and fiancé are going to Malibu for two weeks, the cover will be Sarah won a vacation I will fax the information. Get a tan, relax and for God's sake if that boy flashes knock him out!" Beckman ordered, as the screen went black.
"A vacation?" Carina asked. "Damn you NSA and CIA agents have it easy."
"Watch it Carina." Casey warned.
"I am just saying, I never got a vacation." The stubborn DEA agent replied.
"Why is she brushing us off?" Sarah asked suddenly.
"Maybe because she thinks we are wrong and paranoid, hence the vacation." Casey put in.
"Maybe, but if Fulcrum did upload an intersect that would mess Chuck up." Sarah replied.
"Walker, so would torture, we don't know what he went through, all we know are facts we can get from the wounds, until he is ready to talk we won't know what his issues are, but Fulcrum having an intersect is probably not it." Casey answered.
"Hey, I thought that was a good idea." Carina cried out.
"Yes, but it doesn't make sense. Think to the first time you were caught during a mission. The first time is always the worst, we just had training, Chuck hasn't. He doesn't know how to deal." Casey advised.
"How do you tell your lover to just get used to the nightmares?" Sarah asked.
"He isn't, this is one of those we are going to have to be emotional moments." Casey mumbled.
"I vote Casey does it!" Carina grinned.
Casey only grunted in response, causing a small smile to form on Sarah's lips, however the pounding at the door quickly ended the fun. All three agents went on high alert and reached for their guns. Casey peeked out the eye hole and sighed.
"Lower the guns, it is Devon." Casey replied opening the door.
"Devon?" Casey asked, acting surprised to see him.
"Sarah here? Chuck just woke up from a crazy nightmare, he is calling for her, Ellie can't calm him down." Awesome rushed out.
"We are on our way." Sarah replied, showing herself after hearing the conversation.
"All of you?" Devon asked.
"We have…history." Carina explained, and quickly the three agents hopped through the Morgan door, Sarah immediately rushing to Chuck's side.
"Ellie what happened?" Sarah asked noticing Chuck in hysterics.
"He just started screaming!" Ellie cried.
"Carina, help?" Sarah asked.
Carina nodded as she and Casey soothed Ellie and led her out of the room, leaving Chuck to be cared for by Sarah.
"Chuck sweetie, shhh it's ok." Sarah soothed, finally moving to sit on the bed next to him.
"Sarah!" Chuck cried. Tears were pouring down his face as with his good arm Chuck tightly clutched the young woman. "They killed you." He continued to cry. "They killed you right in front of me.
Sarah sighed, trying to hold back her own tears.
"Well I am right here, see? No bullet wounds, no scratches, perfectly safe." Sarah soothed, calming down Chuck.
"They…they." Chuck stumbled out incoherent words before finally burying his head into his lover's shoulder.
"Don't leave me Sarah." Chuck pleaded.
"Hey, I live here, remember? I am not going anywhere, until I smell then I will go to the shower but you are more then welcome to join." Sarah joked, smiling at the grin that appeared on Chuck's face.
"I was…that nightmare was just so real." Chuck answered.
"I know, it is a common thing for agents to have horrible nightmares, most of us don't sleep very heavily." Sarah explained.
"Do you?" Asked Chuck.
"Oddly enough when I am in your arms I don't have the nightmares, but nights when I am not, yes I tend to have them." Sarah answered truthfully.
"Can you lay with me until I fall back asleep? I know it is early, and I know there is some cover maintenance to fix with Ellie and Devon, but can you just stay with me?" Chuck pleaded, his face holding onto such a look of innocence Sarah saw the true scared little boy inside of him.
"Of course baby." Sarah whispered, pulling Chuck into her arms, and softly playing with his hair and he slowly stopped shaking.
"I love you Sarah." Chuck answered. "You are like…my teddy bear, my Sarah Bear, protecting me even in my sleep." Chuck whispered.
"I love you to Chuck, always will. Forever." Sarah soothed, smiling at being called Sarah Bear as she continued to sooth and calm her lover down.
Forty-five minutes later Chuck was in a deep, peaceful, sleep. Sarah walked out into the living room, glancing at the clock seeing it was only 9 at night.
"What was wrong Sarah? Why did he have a dream like that? That isn't normal!" Ellie cried, running up to give Sarah a hug, which Sarah gladly accepted.
"During the accident, he thought of me and well it just was bad, so he had a dream where when I was with him I didn't make it. To him, it felt so real, and then waking up the injuries and me not being there…" Sarah trailed off, knowing Ellie got the point.
"That boy is so hopelessly in love with you." Carina laughed.
"So um I am sorry in all the drama I didn't get to introduce you two." Sarah said, motioning between Ellie and Carina.
"Oh best buddy, I told her all about how we grew up together, and how we have stayed best friends, all of the details you know." Carina said with a wink.
"Well thank you for being so…you." Sarah laughed. "Oh Orange Orange, had this contest and I won." Sarah said as an after thought, remembering the general's orders.
"Oh wow, what did you win?" Ellie asked.
"A trip for the six of us!" Sarah exclaimed. "To Malibu."
"Wow! The six being?…" Ellie asked a bit confused.
"John and Carina, Chuck and me, Devon and well you silly." Sarah replied.
"Awesome." Devon said, coming out of the kitchen with drinks for everyone.
"When?" Ellie asked, getting excited.
"Two days, can you get off?" Sarah asked, knowing if not Beckman would pull some strings.
"Devon and I are on vacation these next couple of weeks, with what happened to Chuck and everything." Ellie answered with a smile.
"Well great, then how about you and I, Chuck and Devon, and John and Carina if they want, go shopping tomorrow? We will need suits and everything. Plus I have been meaning to give Chuck and updated look, maybe on pain medication that won't be to hard." Sarah laughed, Ellie joining in.
"I am sure he will be ok going out, his shoulder is fine in that sling, and the bruising, well it fades." Devon sighed, thinking of his little Chuckster.
"Ok, say like 8? We can go out to breakfast first." Sarah proposed.
"Sounds good." Ellie confirmed.
"Are you guys in?" Sarah asked Casey and Carina.
"Ahh no, we have some work we have to…catch up on." Casey replied.
"Ok, then just the Bartowski's and me!" Sarah laughed.
"Sarah, you are one of us." Ellie grinned back.
With a smile, Sarah said her good nights and went to go back to bed where Chuck was still laying peacefully. As she slid in next to him, she loved the automatic feeling of his arms wrapping around her. Safe in those arms, Sarah drifted off to sleep.