A/N: I've been working on some fics that you all haven't seen yet, and they've been a little heavy (well for me they are, for everyone else, eh). We went from tomfoolery, which I always enjoy, to maybe a touch of angst. You know I hate angst. So let's try and find a spot somewhere in the middle. Welcome to Ch 7, The Coup d'Etat
A/N 2: I've just struggled with this chapter for days. I'm not in love with it, but I'm posting it and moving on. I don't think it's the best, and I'm sorry, but I just don't know how to fix it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, but neither does Emmett.
Chuck woke up, opened his eyes, and stared up at the ceiling. He felt around him, and realized he was alone in bed. He heard sounds in the kitchen, thought for a second, and pulled the covers over his head. Today…today he refused. Today he just didn't care, and no one could make him go in. This was him adulting, and today he was going to take an F in adulting. His mother was back, causing more problems in his life. He knew it was a bad idea to say anything to her about the play, but it was the only way they could afford the rights. He groaned. Hee just wanted to stay in bed, but it was lonely, but what was going to be even lonelier, was after lunch when he was with Roan Montgomery, and Sarah was with Cole Barker. UGGGHHHHH! Cole. Barker. He was good looking, smooth, and had that British accent that made all the girls swoon. All the girls swoon? Was it the 70s? He bet Cole Barker never used the phrase, make all the girls swoon.
"Are you going to hide in bed all day?" he heard Sarah's voice ask. He loved hearing that voice, and he was going to miss it today. Today SUCKED! So hard. UGGGHHHHH!
"Yes," he said as poutily as humanly possible, burrowing further under the covers.
"Are you going to pout all day as well?" she asked, humor in her voice. Why was there humor in her voice? Didn't she realize today was going to SUCK? Didn't she care?
"Maybe," he huffed, a little irritated that she wasn't bothered by this at least as much as he was. Weren't girlfriends supposed to be sensitive when their boyfriend was feeling insecure about the British hunk?
"Charles Irving Bartowski," she said. Welp, she was done kidding around.
"Uggghhhh," he replied, throwing back the covers and seeing Sarah. He paused in mid-throwing of the blankets. Sarah was wearing a pink button up blouse, and a tan skirt. Chuck got a grin on his face. That wasn't Buy More attire. "Saarrrahhh," he said, sing-songy and grinning. Maybe his girlfriend was more sensitive to his needs than he realized.
"See something you like?" she asked, the smile on her face enough to light the room.
"Emmett is going to be so mad," Chuck said, laughing. How did he get so lucky to have this amazing woman in his life? He'd take having the worst mother in the world if the trade off was Sarah freaking Walker. He got an idea.
"What is he going to do?" she asked. Chuck smiled, hopped out of bed, and grabbed his shoes.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"I'm going to get my own clothes," he said gleefully. He bound out of the house, stopped, and then came back.
"Keys?" she asked, an amused and knowing smile on her face.
"Keys," he confirmed.
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Sarah glanced at Chuck. His light lavender button up shirt and black slacks were a whole lot better looking than the nerd herd outfit he had been forced to wear since school started. She asked him if he was okay with her teaching with Cole, and he quickly said no, but that was his problem, not hers. She squeezed his hand and he grinned at her. They pulled up into the parking lot, and exited the car.
"We got this," Sarah said, winking at him. He gave her a quick hug and kiss and started toward the school when he felt her hand yank him back. She kissed him hard, and he forgot where he was for a moment. She released him and ran her thumb over the back of his neck. "We got this," she said again.
"Walker, Bartowski," Casey grunted walking by. He looked…pleased, which worried Chuck. They started toward the school and Sarah took his hand in hers. He looked at her, a little surprised, and she smiled at him, encouraging him. They heard footsteps behind them.
"Charles, Sarah, good to see you both," Roan said, a mysterious smile on his face, like he knew something they didn't.
"I'm sorry about yesterday, Roan," Chuck said. "I just needed sometime to adjust to some…personal conflicts." Roan waved his hand.
"Think nothing of it, my boy," Roan said. "Diane told me the entire situation."
"I guess I need to get caught up," Chuck said, a little worried about teaching history. Roan grinned.
"Yesterday we talked about bloodless coups," he said, a grin on his face. "We talked about leaders and the styles of leadership they use, and how a good leader can adapt. I think today we'll try a social experiment, we might all be in for a suprise." Chuck nodded, having no idea what he was talking about. Roan parted from them once they got inside. "Charles, Miss Walker," he said, nodding. They watched him walk off.
"Do you feel like that should have meant more than it did to me?" Chuck asked. Sarah shrugged and grinned.
"You better read up on your history, Mr. Bartowski," she said.
"I would but my mate keeps me busy most nights," he replied.
"Well, your mate should probably stop then so you can catch up," she said, looking at him, pointedly.
"Uhm, well, you see, I'd rather she didn't," he said. She nodded, an amused smile on her face.
"I thought so," she said.
"What are you two wearing?" they heard the voice of Emmett say. The two kept looking at each other.
"Do you think if we ignore him the bad man will go away?" he asked. The two started down the hall away from Emmett.
"I'm talking to you," Emmett said. "Beckman, tell them I'm talking to them." Beckman was walking down the hall toward them.
"If you two would join me in my office," she said. "Also, Emmett is talking to you."
"We're ignoring him," Chuck said. They walked into Beckman's office, and Diane locked the door. Emmett pounded on the door for a minute and then went away.
"I loathe that man," Beckman said. She turned to Chuck and Sarah. "We should hurry, I have a feeling he'll be back. I owe you two an apology for yesterday."
"I think I owe you one," Chuck replied, looking ashamed.
"No, Chuck, what we did to you yesterday was…inexcusable," Beckman said. "If I were you I'd be prepared for anything today." She looked at them for a moment. "I approve of the wardrobe."
"We felt there were no real consequences to not dressing the way we wanted," Sarah said. The door opened and Emmett had the keys. Beckman was fuming at the invasion into her office.
"What do you think you are doing?" Beckman yelled.
"Talking to these two for their inappropriate dress," Emmett replied. Beckman gave Chuck a look and nodded.
"I talked to Mrs. Vanderbeak yesterday," Chuck said to Beckman. "She wanted to thank you for the recommendation of the hotel."
"How is she?" Beckman asked.
"Excuse me," Emmet said.
"She seems to be doing wonderful," Chuck replied.
"Ahem, I need to talk to you two about your dress," Emmett said.
"She said she's finally getting the time to be the aunt she wanted to be," Chuck said.
"I'm talking!" Emmett bellowed. All three continued to ignore him and he stomped out.
"Quick, let's go out this side door," Beckman said, and they all hurried out. Emmett came back in holding a megaphone.
"EXCUSE ME!" he bellowed into the megaphone. It was then he noticed the office was empty. Chuck and Sarah found themselves in Chuck's classroom, laughing about the insanity of the situation.
"You know," Sarah said, walking into a hug, with Chuck sitting on the edge of his desk. "In a few minutes, this could be scandalous."
"Well, we wouldn't want to upset the students now would we?" Chuck asked.
"God forbid they see a couple in a respectful loving relationship," she said. She saw something in his eyes. "What?" Chuck shook his head, an amused smile on his face.
"Loving?" he asked. Sarah blushed, but stayed where she was and bounced a shoulder.
"Gotta problem with my terminology?" she asked.
"I do believe we have already established you are the linguist in this real-"
"Ahha! There you are!" Emmett exclaimed. "Now, I'm going to need you both to get into your proper uniform."
"I'm really getting tired of this tool interrupting us," Chuck said to Sarah, making her laugh.
"We are within the school dress code, Emmett," Sarah said.
"We had a deal," Emmett said, trying to draw himself up to look important.
"We did, and then you altered it," Sarah said, pulling away from Chuck and walking toward Emmett. He started backpedaling. "Pray I don't alter it further."
"I don't know if you could be any hotter," Chuck muttered. She turned to him and winked. Emmett fled the room before Sarah hurt him. She gave him a kiss on the lips with an emphatic smack and headed toward her room. For the next several hours the two of them taught their classes, and then the bell rang for what used to be their joint planning period. Sarah and Chuck had decided they would keep this period together until someone told them different. Chuck noticed very little traffic in the hallway as Sarah came in. He kept watching the halls, until it looked like a ghost town well before the bell rang.
"Something's going on," Sarah said. The two walked out of the room, and saw no one in any of the halls. No one was in the classrooms, no one was in the lunchroom, or in the gym. They walked to the front office where Emmett was fuming and Mary Bartwoski was watching him.
"This is your doing," he said, stomping toward Chuck and shoving his finger in Chuck's face.
"Would you like me to remove that for you, Chuck," Sarah said, venom dripping from her voice. Emmett pulled his finger back, quickly. "Now what are you talking about?"
"Those children," Emmett said. Chuck looked outside where all the teachers and students were.
"Some of those are teachers," Chuck replied. Emmett was stewing.
"Don't be smart," Mary said. Chuck turned towards her slowly.
"Chuck, she's not worth your time," Sarah said, putting her arm around him. Chuck looked at her, and the two walked outside, their arms around each other. The crowd cheered.
"What is going on?" Chuck asked.
"A coup, Charles," Roan answered. "A bloodless coup." Emmett came outside with his megaphone.
"If you are not back inside this school within one minute, all of you will be given failing grade," Emmett said. Students began to panic, and many started back inside, apologizing to Chuck and Sarah. They told them they understood, and not to worry about it. Chuck thought they would all go in, but they didn't. In a bit, only the teachers and the students that had Chuck and Sarah, or were in the play, were outside. "Seems your little stunt didn't work, Mr. Bartowski," Emmett said, gloating.
"He had nothing to do with, you pompous twit," Casey yelled out. "We just all hate you." Emmett's eyes were opened wide in shock.
"Students, you have been led astray," Emmett said into the megaphone. "I will give you one more minute to come inside or you will all be given failing grades."
"Why did you split up Miss Walker and Mr. Bartowski?" one of the students yelled.
"Because of their inappropriate behavior," Emmett said, with a tone in his voice that the student was stupid for asking.
"What inappropriate behavior?" a voice yelled. Chuck found the student. It was Luke Carter.
"They were making unprofessional sexual advances on each other," Emmett said.
"When?" Luke yelled back.
"At the football game," Emmett said, proud of himself.
"No they weren't," an adult female voice came from the same direction as Luke. He looked over and saw it was Luke's mother. "They were watching a football game, cuddled together, like any other couple out there. I saw the entire thing. They also saved my sons life at the dance. How is any of that unprofessional?"
"Well, it's not proper," Emmett said.
"I wish I had a boyfriend treat me the way Mr. Bartowski treats Miss Walker," a voice yelled. Chuck was pretty sure it was Olivia.
"I wish I had a girlfriend as hot as Miss Walker," some boy said.
"Hey, watch it," Chuck warned.
"See," Mrs. Carter said. "They are not unprofessional."
"It's out of my hands," Emmett said, proud of himself.
"Well, so is the check I wrote you," another male voice said. Emmett paled.
"What?" he squeaked.
"I'm going to move my son to a private school since he can't learn from those two, and I won't be making the rest of my donation," Dr. Carter said. Chuck thought Emmett might pass out.
"Now, wait just a minute," Emmett said. "We had a deal."
"It got altered," Chuck said. Sarah smiled at him and Emmett went pale.
"What do you want?" Emmett choked out.
"Everything back the way it was, plus whatever those two want," Dr. Carter said.
"I can't just go and fire Mrs. Bartowski," Emmett said.
"I didn't say you had to, but those two go back to teaching together, running the play, and whatever else, and if they don't, I don't pay the instalments that I planned on paying," Dr. Carter replied. Emmett looked defeated.
"But you said a lump sum," Emmett whined.
"He altered the deal, Emmett," Sarah said, shoulder bumping Chuck.
"I hate Star Trek," Emmett muttered. Chuck just shook his head.
"Why don't you use Mrs. Bartowski with curriculum, testing, and helping you run the school in an environment more suited for the students," Sarah offered. Chuck looked at her.
"That's a great idea," he said.
"You can live with it?" she asked. Chuck shrugged.
"She's good at what she's good at," he replied. "Another thing," he said out loud. "These stupid Buy More uniforms go." Emmett nodded.
"Mr. Bartowski, Miss Walker, I will check in with you before I release a check to him each month," Dr Carter said.
"Thank you, Sir," Sarah said. "You're helping these kids."
"You save child's life, I figured it was the least I could do," Dr. Carter said.
"Okay, if we're all good back to class," Beckman ordered. The students all turned to Chuck and Sarah.
"You heard them kids, back to class," Chuck said. Sarah gave him a hug. "Careful, we'll get separated," he joked.
"Give him a big kiss," one of the girls yelled out. Sarah laughed and they all went back inside.
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They sat in their booth at the restaurant that night, Ellie and Awesome joining them. Chuck raised a glass.
"To my big sister, who still watches out for me, and saved me, yet again," he said.
"Here, here," Sarah said, as they made the toast. Ellie grinned.
"So I happened to know a guy who could help you out," Ellie said, shrugging. "You two literally did all the work. All I had to do was point out how bad things were going and he had the solution." She looked at Chuck and Sarah and Chuck thought she was going to explode.
"What, Ellie?" Chuck asked, a grin on his face.
"So, you two, how serious?" she said.
"We're mates," Chuck answered. Sarah rolled her eyes, wrapped her arms around him and looked at him.
"I can't speak for him, but it's as serious as I've ever been involved with someone else," Sarah replied. "Oh, boy." Chuck looked up and his mother was heading toward them.
"What is SHE doing here?" Ellie hissed. Sarah was taken back at how much venom there was in her voice.
"Eleanor, how are you?" Mary asked as she approached. Ellie just looked at her. "Charles, I need a word with you in private."
"No," Chuck said, sitting there, shaking his head.
"Charles," she said, in a voice that was used to being listened to. Chuck continued to sit there. He took a chip, dipped it in salsa, and ate it slowly. He then began to choke, because he dipped it in the hot salsa. Sarah rubbed his back as he coughed it up. "It's obvious I have made a terrible error in the past, and have not been a proper mother, that's why I'm here." Ellie and Chuck both looked at her. "You're going to have to refinance your home."
"Why would I do that?" Chuck asked.
"Because I co-signed for it," she said.
"What?" Chuck said. "How, you were never there!"
"You were going to be denied and the loan officer knew me and that I was your mother," she explained. "She went around your back, and did break some laws, but we did it for you. I will not be on that loan as long as you are seeing her."
"First, what the hell business of yours is it who I see?" Chuck asked. "Second, you two broke the law, not me."
"I will sue to have my name removed," Mary said.
"Fine," Chuck said, throwing up his hands. "I'll refinance it. Now go away." Mary didn't move.
"You will be denied," she said. Chuck turned toward her.
"Then I'll figure something out," he said. "You know what, I won't pay it, then it will screw with your credit too." He turned back to the chips, but felt the eyes of the other three on him.
"I will refinance it in my name and you will quit dating her," Mary said. "Every since you've begun this dalliance you have made terrible decisions." Chuck turned to Sarah.
"You're the linguist," he said.
"A casual romantic or sexual relationship," Sarah said.
"I wouldn't call it casual," Chuck replied. Sarah bit her bottom lip to try to control her smile. This wasn't the time. "Like you said, it's the most serious I've ever been."
"That means nothing," Mary said.
"Why don't you go away," Chuck replied. "Just go far away."
"You will not live there and be involved with her," Mary said.
"Sarah Walker is her name, and you will not tell me what to do," Chuck said, his voice rising. Sarah grabbed his hear arm.
"Hey, hey," she said, and he turned to her. "Not casual?" she asked with a grin. He nodded. "I know how to fix this."
"Girl, do not get involved," Mary said. Ellie slammed her hand down and stared at her mother.
"You will not disrespect Sarah one more time or I will throw you out of here myself, are we clear?" Ellie asked, daggers in her eyes. Mary stiffened, turned, and walked out. "I'm sorry," Ellie said looking back to the others, ashamed. Sarah reached across and grabbed her hands.
"You have nothing to be sorry for," Sarah said, beaming. Ellie smiled at her.
"Welp, looks like she's back," Chuck said.
"This is my fault, I told you to talk to her," Sarah replied.
"No, that nut decided to act that way because," Chuck replied. "Now, what is your great idea that will fix this." She grinned and bounced a shoulder.
"Simple, you move in," she said. Chuck wasn't sure what to say.
A/N: David…are you seriously ending it there? Yep….til next time…hope you enjoyed it! Reviews and PMs are always welcomed!
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