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First, I missed the Chuck that I know very much. And second, that even if I never got my Chuck back, I would stay with this Chuck no matter what. . .
A week more had passed and nothing had changed. It had been twenty-three days since Chuck woke up in the hospital. As it was getting closer to the one month mark of Chuck being in his current condition, I was beginning to wonder if Chuck would ever be normal again.
But still I refused to give up hope.
Besides, being with eight-year old Chuck was actually kinda nice. It showed me a part of Chuck I'd never known anything about. What Chuck was like before all of the events that have made him the man he is today.
"Sarah are you listening?" Chuck's voice brought me back into the here-and-now.
"I'm sorry Chuck, what did you say?"
"Can I get some more yogurt?" He asked holding his empty yogurt cup out across the counter.
"Yeah sure." I smiled, taking his yogurt cup and filling it back up with frozen yogurt.
"Thanks Sarah." He grinned as I gave the cup back to him.
My phone went off and I looked down to see a text message from Casey.
Come down to castle now.
I rolled my eyes and put my phone back in my pocket.
"What?" Chuck asked, noticing my eye roll.
"It's nothing, don't worry. I have to go downstairs, you think you'll be okay up here by yourself?"
Chuck nodded.
"I'll be right back." I said, heading downstairs to castle.
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Walking down the stairs, I could hear Beckman's voice from the satellite video feed. It sounded as if she were arguing with Casey. About what, I had no idea.
"Agent Walker, so glad you could join us." She said with an underlying hint of spite.
I defensively crossed my arms and braced myself for whatever scolding I was in for today.
"It has been twenty-three days now, and there is still no change in Mr. Bartowski's condition. Am I correct?"
"Yes, General." I replied, not sure of where she was going with this.
"You have been off assignment for almost a month, and obviously in your current condition you aren't going to be doing much work at all in the near future."
I couldn't tell if she was referencing to my upcoming maternity leave, or the fact that I could be dismissed from CIA service entirely.
"Agent Walker, you have been one of the most vital parts of operation Bartowski, but now your services are no longer required. You are to be back in DC in two weeks maximum to talk with your superiors regarding all of your current actions. One of the CIA's best agents is being used to babysit. You need to be doing useful work for this country."
"General, I can't leave Chuck while he is in this condition." I said defensively.
"You can and you will Agent Walker. You have your orders."
"No, I won't."
"Agent Walker, if you defy orders you are going to be in a world of trouble, so much more so than you already are."
I don't care.
"Two weeks maximum." She repeated as the screen went black.
"I tried to convince her not to do this, Walker, but I couldn't talk her out of it." Casey mumbled.
"I know. Thank you." I said quietly.
"Though, I did convince her of one thing."
"What?"
"I convinced her not to bunkerize our pint sized asset."
"What? You kept Chuck out of a padded cell?" If twenty-eight year old Chuck were here he would have a field day.
"Don't act so surprised. I told the General that I would monitor him in his current condition."
"Thank you Casey." I said starting to walk back up the stairs to Orange Orange.
I got a grunt in response, which I took as 'you're welcome'.
I made it a point to compose myself before reentering Orange Orange. I walked back to my place behind the counter and found Chuck sitting over by the window messing with his Iphone.
"What was that all about?" He asked, putting his phone in his pocket.
"It was nothing, don't worry." I replied.
And as I looked into those innocent brown/green eyes I knew that nothing, not even direct orders, could make me leave him.
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When work was finished, we headed back to the apartment. The day passed swiftly as Chuck spent the hours teaching me how to play Call of Duty.
After dinner, the phone rang and I answered. It was Dr Faraday, the man who had first informed us of Chuck's condition.
Chuck had an appointment scheduled for tomorrow morning, and the tone behind Dr. Faraday's words had me worried about what he was going to say.
"Who was that?" Chuck asked when I hung up the phone.
"It was Dr. Faraday. You have a doctors appointment tomorrow." I replied. Chuck's behavior changed as soon as I mentioned a doctor visit.
"I- I really don't want to have to go back there I mean, what if- what if they want to stick me with needles and take my blood or something? I really don't want to have to go there."
I put my hand on his shoulder.
"Don't worry Chuck. I'll be with you the whole time."
His worry melted away at my words and his bright smile lit up the room.
"Thanks Sarah."
"It's my pleasure, really."
"So, you want to watch a movie?" He asked.
"Sure, what'd you have in mind?"
"How about. . . " He ran over and started going through the collection of sci-fi DVDs.
". . . X-men?"
"Sounds fun." I smiled, as he hurried to put the disk into the DVD player.
Once the movie got started Chuck came and sat beside me on the couch. Halfway into the movie he slid his hand over on top of mine and we laced our fingers together. He looked over at me and smiled nervously, and then turned his attention back to the movie.
When the movie finally ended he jumped up to put the sequel in. And after that the third movie in the trilogy. Though halfway through X-men 3: the last stand he started getting tired, and he laid down across the couch, and put his head in my lap. He was asleep about five minutes later.
As I sat there playing with his hair, I felt a wave of worry wash over me. I had no idea what Dr. Faraday was going to tell us tomorrow, but it didn't sound like good news.
And though I would stay with Chuck no matter what the doctor said, the finalization of knowing my Chuck would never come back, would be far too much to handle. . .
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