TADA! Here's the sixth one. I wrote this while I'm at work and sadly I'll be on fieldwork for the next few weeks. But maybe I can find time to squeeze chapter 7. Thank you for all the reviews you've given. I appreciate each one. You guys are the best.

Again, I don't own Chuck because if I do, it would never have ended.

Strange Decision

General Beckman was pleased to have him back. It's not like he had a choice. But of course he could just choose to sit down and mope or fight for what is his. After all, everything started in CIA and everything began from the Intersect. If there is one thing he is absolutely sure for now. Is that, it should end where it all began. So he came back to finish everything.

He knows that the cause of coming back will require greater price in return. But it wasn't all about him coming back that's the issue. It's his "mission" for coming back that weighs heavily for what has to be traded in.

Looking out the window from his office he recalls the conversation he had with General the moment he enters her office.

"It's good to have you back, Chuck and I'm sorry for what happened to Sarah". The General started while sipping her coffee. It's been a cold afternoon. The rain started when he came into her office. It's as if the weather has his sentiments for what he is about to tell the General.

"Like I said, I don't think I have much choice given I'm still the Intersect." He replied sitting down in one of her chairs. But the General knows that there is more to what he is saying. Chuck Bartowski isn't really good in keeping his feelings. His in plain black suit, looking dapper and spy like. Neat and well dressed for a mission but his empty chocolate brown eyes can't betray the emotions he buries deep within.

As if sensing that the General is going to ask him for the inevitable, he turns his eyes away from her and made a point to begin delivering his proposition.

"I came back for Sarah, if that is what you are going to ask. I'm not going to hide the obvious. We both know I'm not good at that. I know she doesn't remember me. She doesn't remember the past five years. But it doesn't mean I can't do anything about it. I want her memories back, General. I'm done having my life watch people that I love leave or taken from me." He ended with determination.

"We want the same thing, Chuck". The General replied feeling for him.

"Believe me when I say I hate Quinn but I don't blame him for Sarah's memories." He continues. "I came here not just for Sarah. I came here not just for finding answers to getting her memories back. I came here because this where it all started. I came here because I am the Intersect. And the Intersect started all of this. Bottom line is: I came here to finally terminate the Intersect Project."

The General was taken aback by his statement. He doesn't sound like the Chuck Bartowski she knew for the past five years. He seems lost or probably he has grown and learned over the years. Though seeing the benefit still, the General knows he is pain because of Sarah and this present Chuck is unpredictable and at the same time dangerous. Remembering her words before to Sarah, maybe she is indeed right. Chuck needs to be protected from the world, and now, the world needs to be protected from Chuck.

"But you know Chuck that the agency won't allow it. The Intersect that your father built was by far the greatest weapon our country ever had. I don't think the Directors will approve to ending the project." She replied with a little concern as to where this conversation is going.

"I know that's why I only asked to stop the project but I never said that you will terminate the Intersect itself". He answered her seriously.

"What are you saying Chuck?" She asked with a little confusion as to what he is trying to reason.

"When my father built the Intersect I know that he meant it for good. But being a spy of CIA comes always the possibility that it will fall into the enemy's hands. So he left the agency to protect it & to protect us from it. But I'm his son and he is my father and even it was supposed to be for the country, it was actually meant for me. I know that no matter what I do and no matter where I go, the Intersect will keep finding its way back to me. I don't know what got into my dad to create this up but I can't deny that it destroyed me as much as it hurt the people that I love. I thought that being the Intersect will help me protect them but I guess I was wrong. Look what happened to my father, to our family, to my best friend and especially to Sarah". His voiced cracked upon mentioning Sarah's name.

"But it did save many lives Chuck. Most of all it saved you. Look at you now." Dianne stood up trying to make him see the silver lining within.

"General, you don't have to tell me so I can feel good. I'm an asset with or without the Intersect, you said it yourself." He quips. "My point is, I want the agency to end the project in return of myself. After all, I'm the Intersect. Let us not waste tax payer's money and other agent's lives conducting test because we both know that the Intersect will still be short lived in the brains of other agent. Eventually, it will end up on me. The more the agency tries to develop the project the more people get hurt and more lives lost.

"So you want to sacrifice yourself for other's lives? The General asked. "Always the hero eh, Chuck? She asks teasingly hoping to lighten his mood.

And as if for the first time, he smiles to her question. "Why, it's not like I do have a choice again, don't I? He answers."I want to do this for my family but most of all for Sarah. I want to find out the answers for getting her memories back. I know somewhere in this Intersect and to what the equipment on the facility has will help me discover it. Quinn didn't just came up with a device to wipe her memories, did he? I know he got it all from here. So I'm getting whatever device it was to bring back her memories. But primarily, I want to end this all. That's why I'm giving myself to the agency. To be the only human intersect as long as the agency needs me. "He ended with more determination in his voice.

"But Chuck, you know that bad guys don't just die without another bad guy being born." The General replied. "Evil doesn't stop, that's why we keep fighting. If you work for good as the only Intersect it will never end. You don't know when it ends. You can't always protect your family and Sarah by leaving them. You've seen that from your father."The General is trying make him realize, after all, she tried to deny it but came up short and Chuck Bartwoski had made her soft just like the rest.

"Nobody said I'm leaving. I maybe my father's son but I'm not going to do what he did. I'm staying to protect them. It's a win-win situation, General, He emphasized. "CIA needs me, I stay, do what I'm supposed to do and I get to keep my family, friends and Sarah safe.

"You can't be so sure; nobody is safe in this world. Remember, there are still many people out there who want the Intersect. You are not even safe in here." General added.

"Then why are you in the agency if it is not what you think it is? Chuck asked back knowing he had the General's full attention. "I'm here because of the same reason why you are here. You of all the people should know that." He continues with a hopeless tone knowing he is doing the right thing.

"Whatever you want Bartwoski, but I can't deny that the agency is happy to have you back." She answers with a little trepidation if Chuck knows what he is talking about.

As the General got closer to bid him a goodbye handshake he stands up meeting her hands and added his long been prepared requests.

"I'm going to protect Sarah and the rest of my family at whatever cost. But I just want three things from the agency in exchange for my service and freedom. When this is all over, when the people that want the Intersect are all apprehended, I want to go back to my life. But I will stay if it doesn't happen even if Sarah's memories are back.

"Are you sure, Chuck? The General can't believe what she was hearing from him.

And slowly he nodded in reply. "Well then, I'm going to take you for your word Chuck. That's going to be tough and you should know that we don't have a timeline for taking all the bad guys out there, God knows where could they be and I don't think Sarah will be pleased with this decision."

"She's a spy and for once she sacrificed her life for the greater good. She did this before to save my mom, and both of us against Volkoff. I just hope she will understand". He assumes.

"Alright, so what's the second one?" The General continues to ask with all curiosity.

"Let there be no other Intersect than me so that it ends here. Ends with me. It is my destiny and hero or not, spy or not, I know I'm the only one who can efficiently control and stop this thing. And basically we can't end this if the rest of the world still knows about the Intersect. Eventually, the people who want this will find it out. So we end everything here by eliminating the Intersect."

"I'm not sure if what I'm getting is right, but do you want us to kill you?" Dianne asks in disbelief.

"Relatively. I can't think of any better way to put an end to all this unless you have any options for me?"

He asked gently putting a lighter tone to the conversation.

The General ponders but gives up. "You're right, we can only end this if there is no more you because if they will track down the Intersect then definitely they will come looking for Chuck Bartowksi". Then a deafening silence looms into the room and she asks the sensitive question. "What about your family and friends? How will we tell them Chuck?"

And as the rain continues to pour outside and the lightning flashes from the dark sky. He answers trying to hide the pain building inside. " Don't tell them…just show them I died".

The General nodded in agreement understanding what he meant and with a handshake Chuck slowly lifted himself from the chair and stressed, "As for Sarah," He paused. "Don't tell her."

Then he walked closer to the door and with his back facing the General, he added his last request. "By the way General, before I leave, I'd like to get that signing bonus you once offered. If it's not much to ask, hope you could make it little higher than before because I'm going to buy that house… and my wife is going to need her own spare of key…'someday'."

See the catch in there? "Don't tell them..just show them I died". "As for Sarah, don't tell her".

I think you know what Chuck means about that because what you have been waiting for will happen on the next chapter. Please R&R… thank you for reading.