The vacation went surprisingly well, being out by the ocean everyday was very relaxing for the group of spies, and doctors. For the sake of covers, Casey and Carina decided to act as a couple on the vacation, though Sarah and Chuck both thought it wasn't for a cover around Ellie and Awesome, and that something more was going on. Also, Chuck made a record of only flashing once during the week long vacation, and true to her word Beckman assigned another team to action.
When they got home, tanned beautifully, all were amazed at how much energy they had been able to gain, especially Chuck. His injuries had healed nicely and he was now back to almost full health. His endurance dropped, but that wasn't something that the training he was going to be taking part in wouldn't cure.
Sarah awoke first in her hotel room with Chuck sleeping peacefully. Beckman had given clearance to the move for Chuck and Sarah, the only change was they would be moving out of the Bartowski home and into the apartment right across from Ellie and Devon's apartment. They figured then excuses about coming in at late hours would not be needed, taking the stress off of the change.
When she and Chuck had gotten home, they decided to start burning the energy they had on packing up her things, so they had crashed in the hotel room for the last time last night, after taping shut the last box of things that would be moved.
The cover was, since the CIA had already purchased the apartment, that they were "buying" it today and moving in as a wedding present to Ellie and Devon, getting a home just for them to share and start a family.
Sarah gently caressed the curls of Chuck's forehead, pushing them away from his face as she watched him sleep. He looked like a little saint Bernard puppy who had been kicked a few to many times, with his deep dark brown eyes and his babbling skittish nature, but in his sleep he looked happy. She would have to start finding out more about his past, she knew the pain he had dealt with over the years had been emotionally draining.
"If you are going to stare at me, can you like do it at night time when I am really asleep?" Chuck asked, surprising Sarah.
"I thought you were really asleep." Sarah admitted.
"With you looking at me like that? No way." Chuck teased.
"Your eyes are closed, how do you even know I am actually looking?" Sarah grinned back, loving their playful banter.
"Please, I don't need my eyes to tell when you are looking at me. Plus you admitted it by saying you thought I was really asleep." Chuck sighed out, opening his eyes for the first time.
"Fine, you win." Sarah relented.
"I always do." Chuck replied.
"I don't think so." Sarah fought back.
"We don't have time for this fight, we have to go do moving out slash cover slash some more stuff maintenance at Ellie's house, remember?" Chuck said huskily, his voice still coated with sleep.
"Oh yea, I guess we better get up." Sarah laughed as Chuck just buried his head under a pillow.
"Well I am going to go shower, join if you like, otherwise be dressed when I come out!" Sarah whispered in his ear, giggling happily at the fact that Chuck immediately was wide awake when she mentioned joining her in the shower.
"Well what are we waiting for? We need to shower!" Chuck laughed, dragging Sarah to the bathroom.
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An hour later the duo was walking into Ellie's apartment ready to make the announcement of the move and cover the new job letter.
"Sarah! Chuck! I was wondering when you would come back." Ellie teased pulling both into hugs. "I made breakfast, Chuck you got mail, come on in and eat." She rambled off, walking back into the kitchen.
"Remember, you didn't know this letter was coming, ok?" Sarah whispered to Chuck.
"I got it." Chuck laughed, giving her a sweet kiss on the top of her head while pulling her over the table to eat.
"This smells great babe." Awesome announced, walking in from the other room. "Hey Chuckster, Sarah."
Everyone exchanged hellos and then sat down to start eating.
"So what were you doing at the hotel?" Ellie asked.
"Just packing up my things, I still had a lot over there." Sarah responded, watching as Chuck picked up the envelope and put on a show of examining it.
"What is that?" Ellie asked, noticing his brother's confused look.
"A letter from a software company I sent this game I had made to, I did like a couple months ago." Chuck replied, quickly forming a story.
"You designed a game?" Sarah asked, joining in on the story.
"Yea, I didn't tell anyone because I figured it would suck, but I don't know…I mean now I am afraid to open it." Chuck answered.
"You have too!" Ellie shrieked, excited for her brother.
"Um, ok…" Chuck quickly opened the letter and started grinning from ear to ear as he read on. "They liked it! They want to buy it!" Chuck shouted.
Ellie immediately was up hugging her brother. "I am so proud of you Charles!" She screamed, "Your aces." Ellie whispered as an after thought.
Chuck smiled and accepted the good jobs and kiss from Sarah, seemed like phase one of the morning was complete.
"Chuck, that's awesome." Devon said, shoveling more food into his mouth.
"I am so proud of you baby." Sarah said, putting her two cents in.
"Well I guess the Buymore is going to be No more." Chuck laughed, loving the look of pride that crossed Ellie's face.
"Really?" Ellie asked.
"Yea, with this game, they also offered me a position as a designer for their company." Chuck explained.
"This is so cool!" Ellie responded.
"Well uh this is a surprise, but we actually have one for you guys." Sarah said, grabbing Chuck's hand.
"Oh yea, sorry in the excitement I forgot." Chuck replied with a smile on his face.
"Oh? What is it?" Ellie asked.
"Well we know with you guys getting married, you are eventually going to start a family and well this new job just proved we can make it on our own so uh, this morning we signed lease papers for the apartment across from here." Chuck explained.
"Your moving out?" Ellie sadly asked.
"Only across the fountain Ell, I could never leave you for good." Chuck soothed.
"That's…awesome." Devon said sadly.
"Look guys, this is a good thing, you get the house to yourselves, and we get more then one room too. I mean like two couples in the same house, one getting married? It would be crazy in here." Sarah replied, trying to shine the light on the situation.
"I know, I guess, I mean Chuck and I have lived together for so long, we have taken care of each other." Ellie said softly, tears filling her eyes.
"Which is why I am only moving across from you, like five steps and you are there. We can have breakfast and dinner together whenever we want, and we will always being seeing each other, hell you could talk to me from the kitchen window." Chuck teased, watching as his sister started laughing.
"Ok ok, it isn't a bad idea." Ellie conceded.
"And with the wedding planning starting, if you ever get mad at Devon he has a place to sleep!" Chuck continued to joke.
Everyone laughed before going into small talk about the move and life in general. By the time breakfast was over it was planned that, since Sarah's stuff was already over in the apartment, everyone would help Chuck move his things, then Ellie and Sarah would go out an get the appliances they needed while Chuck and Awesome went and got furniture, which Awesome had a knack at doing really well.
"Alright, operation Bartowski/ Walker apartment is a go." Joked Sarah as they started the moving process.
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A van was parked a couple miles down the road, giving perfect view of the laughing couples as they moved boxes from one apartment to the other.
"Yes I see them sir. They are moving into an apartment right across the terrace." The man with dark sunglasses said into the phone. "Yes, Agent Walker and Bartowski. It looks like Agent Hassan and Major Casey live in the house in the middle of the two." The man went on saying. "Yes sir I will continue to do surveillance, we are going to get them this time, they will pay for what they did to your brother sir, Ron Thomas was a great man, we will make sure they feel the pain of hurting him."
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No one noticed the van, they were all to wrapped up in what they were doing, so when the van slowly pulled away, no one thought anything of it. That is, until Chuck flashed on the plates.