Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, okay, it's stopped being funny!
A/N: Do you think that Zoe will tell Casey about her pregnancy? Maybe not just yet but I'm not sure myself.
When I woke up, it was like he hadn't moved, I was still curled up beside him. "John?"
"Yeah?"
"I don't want to go to the Buy More." I stretched out, rolling out the bed.
"At least you get the pleasure of watching Grimes train with a gun…"
"I can't wait." At the Castle, it was hilarious to watch Morgan with a gun in his hands, I raised my eyebrows. This was going to be a hard experience. "How can I not teach a boy to shoot a gun properly and accurately? I can say I've managed to teach far worse. But when the time is right, he will become a little better. I'm sure of it." I smiled at Casey and he smiled back a little. I drove slowly back home and rustled up some dinner for the pair of us. Well, three if you count little Casey-Taylor. And boy was it good. I went to bed and was soon woken up by Casey.
"Bartowski is having nightmares." Instead of walking down the stairs, I latched onto John.
"I'm quite tired so why don't you just carry me?" I kissed his neck gently and he lifted me up. "Thank you." I smiled, resting my head on his shoulder. When we were outside Chuck and Sarah's apartment, he put me down on the ground. I looked down momentarily and I realised I was wearing the baggiest grey top, long tartan pyjama bottoms. I looked a total mess.
"Come on in you two." Sarah smiled as she opened the door. I listened wearily as Chuck droned on about these dreams.
And to be honest I had had a recurring nightmare-ish dream myself. It would always end the same way, with General Beckman taking my baby when they were born.
Now, the next day, I was working at the Buy More and also being a spy. I was helping sort Morgan out and I walked out with him in his tux. Lester and Jeff were busy oogling the unfortunate women of the store when I noticed the fiery girl called Anna Wu walk towards us.
"Morgan?" she said. "So, you move on quick, who's this sla-"
"Hey now. Nothing going on here. I'm just here to pick up the pieces you throw shattered across the ground." I nudged past her and went down into the Castle. "Okay, Morgan was saying something about the LA symphony with Chuck. You know anything about that?"
"No, it's probably about him trying to prove you wrong." Sarah tuned into the surveillance.
"Come on, let's go there now." Casey bounded up the stairs. I waited in the Castle and alerted General Beckman of the situation.
"Wait there until they return. Is there something you wish to tell me?" I held back my tongue. "Lieutenant Taylor?"
"I think it's best that we see how things pan out."
"Is there something you wish to tell me?" My breathing started to increase, did I?
"No, not at all."
"Well, you better be on your way Lieutenant Taylor."
"Over and out General Beckman." I wiped my eyes as I began to well up. This was getting so hard to hide from everyone. Especially Casey, the one man I think knows me more than anyone. I thought it would be easier once I told one person, but I was wrong. My phone began to ring, it was Casey. He told me about Chuck, and that he was taken to a psychiatric unit. I drove to the psychiatrists house. I had been there once before. He was surprised to see me, I had had a session with him before I joined the agency and it had been peculiar.
I heard another car door open and saw Casey coming up the path. As soon as the psychiatrist shut the door, the bell rang again, I pulled Casey to the side and we listened to Sarah.
"I love Chuck."
"It seems you're not the only one." The psychiatrist smiled, opening the door wider. Casey and I smiled at our fellow agent.
"Let's help Chuck, I've a feeling that he was right, I'm not ready to give up on him just yet." I said boldly. Before we walked into the clinic the psychiatrist grabbed my arm.
"How have you been?"
"I've been coping fine, another, different dream has been tormenting me."
"About?"
"Something private," I muttered. I walked inside the clinic after Casey and Sarah. Chuck was lying on the floor. I rushed to his side. "Chuck? Can you hear me? Chuck?" I patted his face gently. "Thank god you are alright." I let out a sigh
The next morning, after Casey had gone to work, I called Sarah over. I was hiding in the bathroom, taping a pregnancy test on my hand. When I heard a knock at the front door, I dropped it in the top drawer and checked the surveillance to see if it was Sarah. I opened the door and quickly pulled her inside, into the bathroom.
"Zoe, what's wrong?" she asked. Then the jitters got hold of me.
"I need to tell someone. But you have to promise not to tell anyone, I would say not even Chuck, but he found out first." I started to say in a panicky tone.
"Zoe, stop it, you're worrying me, what's wrong?" I opened the first drawer of the bathroom cabinet and pulled out the test. "Are you?" I dropped down onto the edge of the bath tub and I nodded. "But who? You haven't been with anyone since, since you came here. Unless…"
"I have been Sarah," I whispered. "No, it was not Chuck. I would never do that to a fellow agent."
"Casey."
"Well, before I was Zoe, I was Lauren. And when I was Lauren, he was Alex. Alex Coburn. Who later changed their name to John Casey." I stopped when I saw her expression. "Don't look at me like that, you have suspected something, I'm sure of it. But after realising he was the NSA agent that I would be staying with, I wanted to see if he felt the same way. He did. And things- Happened. And here I am, totally pregnant."
"Wow. Are you going to tell him?"
"I have to, I tried to run away from it all but Chuck stopped me from doing it. I can't run away from the truth Sarah."
"Well Chuck has good intentions, but I should get back home, I should tidy up the house. You going to be okay?"
"Sure, no problem." I let Sarah go and when I went upstairs to my room there was a plastic cover over a dress that hung on the wardrobe door. I pulled the zip down and the cover dropped to the floor. It was a nude or more beige coloured long sleeved floor length dress with gathered detail to the side. A label attached to it told me to go to a restaurant for a reservation. "John…" I sighed. Every woman should have a man like this.
I drove to the restaurant after slipping into the dress. I told the man at the desk the reservation. He led me to the table where John was sitting, it was a table that was tucked away which was nice for me, out of the way. No one would be watching.
"Zoe…" he gawped, pulling out the chair for me. "I thought we should have a little time together, for the first time in months, ignoring our little hiccup." We carried on talking. And then I noticed it, John was checking his pocket every now and again. The agent inside told me there was a little box with my name on it.
"Shut up John," I murmured. "What's in your pocket?"
"What? There's nothing in my-"
"Rubbish. We're both spies, and you are constantly checking your pocket, what for?"
"Nothing, well something."
Instantly he slid off his chair dropping down on one knee.
"John? Get up, what are you doing? You'll ruin those good trousers." I stood up automatically as I scolded him.
"Wait, let me do this. Zoe Taylor, when I first saw Lauren I told my buddies that I was going to get with you, none of them believed I had it in me. But when you were the one to make the first move, I was shocked, I didn't expect it. I know that Zoe Taylor and John Casey haven't been together long but when you add in the years we spent together before, the years that Alex Coburn and Lauren Bailey spent together, that makes it seem right. And-"
"Yes." I burst out before he could finish.
"What?"
"Yes, I'll marry you, you idiot." I leant across and kissed him.
"Thank you-"
"But before you say anymore, I have my own news, I have to tell you something."
"You can tell me anything. You know that."
"I'm…" No, I'm not going to back down, I have to tell him now. "Casey- I'm pregnant Casey." His mouth stayed open. "I wanted to tell you earlier, but it feels like the right time." I was ready to say more but he silenced me with a kiss. I took a proper look at the ring which he started to slip on my finger. A beautiful diamond encrusted in the ring. "Casey, it's beautiful." I kissed him again. "Are you ready to order?"
I don't think I actually slept, I spent nearly the whole night looking at the ring. This was my way of telling everyone I was engaged to John Casey. I was a little teary eyed. The following afternoon, I went to the Castle where Casey, Sarah and Chuck were.
"Hey everyone." I beamed as I walked down the stairs. Casey smiled at me. I smiled back, oh, what the hell. I ran towards him and kissed him. He looked shocked at me. Like I had just given everything away. "They know anyway," I whispered. I turned to Sarah and Chuck, holding out my hand cheerfully. "Engaged!" I squealed, I hugged Sarah and Chuck tightly.
"I don't believe it, I'm so pleased for the both of you. I didn't even know that you two were together." Chuck laughed, a little awkwardly.
"We've a history before I joined the agency after, after some stuff came up, and before John met Kathleen." I explained to them. "And whilst we are on the topic of this, I'm- I'm going to be a mom to a tiny baby. I'm pregnant guys!" I squealed again, squeezing Sarah tightly. "I can't even believe it myself."
"Yes, it is true." Casey smiled. Chuck and Sarah hugged him. "Now it's a pair of pairs, yay…" he added sarcastically, as he let go of Sarah and Chuck, he took my hand. "And I have a chance at witnessing my child's childhood." He kissed my hand and clasped it tightly.
"Now you know, that in a set amount of months, I will be stepping back from the line of duty. To the Castle. But for now, General Beckman has requested my presence." I drove carefully to the CIA base and stood beside General Beckman as she briefed the committee. They analysed me and the intersect within me.
"It seems that Miss Taylor has coped better at controlling the intersect than Mr Bartowski-" General Beckman added.
I jumped when Chuck burst in the door grappling with another agent.
"Chuck!" I yelled.
Sarah and Casey came in moments later. And were immediately forced to sit at a table together that faced the committee. The door opened again and Shaw entered this time. The man everyone thought was dead. His head jerked and twitched when he saw me, but he said nothing, instead, he just walked on, speaking to the others. He was an intersect.
"He's an intersect, Shaw is an intersect." Chuck exclaimed.
I tried to process this but I couldn't. Chuck suddenly threw a gold pen across the room and it struck Shaw. Chuck was right, Shaw's head jerked and twitched like mine and Chuck's did when the intersect activated.
"Chuck!" I screeched. I waited momentarily, staying exactly where I stood. Watching Chuck get carried away. Shaw grabbed my hand but I wrenched it from his grip, tempted to punch him. "John!" I yelled, looking about the corridors for him. I leapt into my car and pulled out a section of dials on the radio system, a tracking system to pinpoint my fiancé's location. I sped to the car park he was in. He was talking to a girl, it was Alex, Kathleen's daughter. I dived out the car. "John!" I screamed. I heard car tyres screech and men got out of the car.
"John Casey, Zoe Taylor, put your hands on top of your head." I slowly lifted my hands up, resting them on my head. They were grabbed and wrenched down behind my back, secured to the place by handcuffs. We were thrown into the car and driven back to the base and momentarily we were pulled out of the car to follow Shaw along the corridors.
"You won't get away with this Shaw." I struggled a little, stopping when I was jabbed in the side by a stun gun.
Thoughts from AspiringWriterGirl: Hey everyone, so the truth is out, but what's going to happen to the team?