The next morning Casey ducked out of the house to see if anyone was on to their location. He was gone an hour, making the gang nervous, it was supposed to be a fifteen minute job.
"Where is he?" Ellie asked in a panic.
"Calm down sis, Casey can take care of himself." Chuck soothed as he held Sarah's hand.
"But still, what if he is hurt and needs a doctor? That is why Devon and I are here!" Ellie cried out.
"He is fine." Bryce replied back soothingly.
"What do you know?" Ellie yelled, glaring at the man who messed up her brother's life.
"Ell, you really have to stop hating him." Chuck laughed.
"Just because you have decided to forgive him, doesn't mean I do. I took care of you those five years, I remember your pain." Ellie snapped back.
"I really am sorry." Bryce replied quietly.
"Whatever." Ellie snarled.
"Ok babe, I think you need to take a deep breath and count to ten, Casey is fine, Chuck is not hurt now and he is happy with Sarah, Bryce is helping…everything is awesome, just…calm down." Devon tried, taking his fiancé into his arms.
Suddenly the door leading to the garage burst open as Casey ran in, shaking rain out of his hair.
"Casey!" Sarah shouted, noticing his black eye.
"I am ok." Casey announced, putting his hands up to stop the advances of Ellie and Devon. "Just a black eye, I can take care of that myself."
Ellie nodded and walked over to the freezer, he may be able to take care of himself but she had to do something, even if it was just wrapping up some ice for him.
Casey accepted the ice and gingerly held it against the growing bruise, before taking a deep breath. "I guess this house isn't as off the grid as we hoped."
"What do you mean?" Chuck asked.
"The place is swarming with agents and police, our pictures are in the newspapers, I ran into one guy and we got into a fight, I had to knock him out before he could report seeing me." Casey explained.
"I guess hiding out and hoping this all goes away is a dumb dream now." Chuck replied.
"Sweetie, that was always dumb." Sarah laughed, kissing him lightly as Chuck mocked pouted.
"Right, well…I think we should call Beckman, strike a deal." Casey offered, throwing himself into a chair.
"What kind of deal would she take?" Bryce asked.
"Well I am the intersect…she needs me." Chuck replied softly, realizing their one option.
"Chuck we aren't trading you for our safety." Sarah chastised.
"But then you would all be safe!" Chuck argued.
"That is…heroic, but not an option, you are to important to everyone in this room, especially me to sacrifice your life and freedom." Sarah explained gently, cupping the side of his face in her palm, smiling as he leaned in and closed his eyes at the contact.
"I just don't want anyone getting hurt." Chuck whispered.
"We will be careful." Bryce assured, snapping out of his deep thoughts. "In fact I have an idea."
"Well, share." Devon prodded, wishing he could be more useful, at least Ellie got the ice.
"We call her, tell her Chuck will go back to cooperating, all we need is Sarah back with Casey really…we apologize for shooting a bunch of people but I mean in the NSA they take an oath to protect the rights of all citizens so Casey just had help keeping his oath…" Bryce trailed off.
"So we just…talk to her?" Sarah asked.
"We can't fight the entire NSA and CIA, not without knowing we are going to die, and I didn't risk everything to die…so I don't see another option." Bryce replied.
"He has a point." Chuck put in.
"Unfortunately." Ellie retorted.
"Ok…lets call the General." Casey said, jumping up to hook up the TV.
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Beckman sat in her office staring straight ahead. Her week was just going fantastic. She lost the intersect, three of her top agents, order the termination of them, and now was alone with every agent and cop out looking for them. Oh but joy, they may have found the state they are in, but not them. Things were just not going her way. How did she lose control.
As she dropped her head into her hands her computer suddenly beeped, a video chat invitation popping up.
"General Poopey Pants Lover? Oh you have got to be kidding me!" The General cried out as she approved the connection.
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"Chuck! That is a horrible screen name!" Sarah complained as the general came into view.
"What can I say, the general and I go back, we joked around, right Diane?" Chuck asked, turning to the TV where the general now appeared.
"Bartowski." She gritted out. "What do you want?"
"It is actually what we want ma'am." Casey replied, stepping into view.
"What you want? What puts you into position to barter here Major?" The general snarled as she glanced around noticing Bryce Larkin, and Ellie and Devon as well.
"Well, we have the intersect…" Bryce trailed off.
"And well we did take down Fort Dix with just three agents." Sarah added.
"And, we did it without a few minor bruises." Casey finalized.
"Ok, so you three are very amazing agents, there is a termination order out for all of you so your actions won't be remembered for to much longer." The general replied.
"Or you could cancel the order, and forget all of this happened." Chuck offered.
"And why in hells name would I do that?" The general yelled.
"Because you would get your top three agents back and full cooperation from the intersect." Sarah replied, her voice cool and confident.
Beckman sat back amazed. They really were trying to strike a deal! This was outrageous!'
"You must be kidding." The general spat out.
"Not really, and see you kind of don't have a choice." Casey replied.
"Why not Major Casey?" The general asked sarcastically.
"Because one call to the president and you are fired, you took away a citizen's rights! That is against the oath all members of the NSA took!" Casey boomed out.
"Oh because I am sure you have his number." The General replied smugly.
"Actually, back in November I was put on his security detail for election night, by your orders of course, we got to talking, I did him a favor, he said he owed me, so yea I do have it." Casey answered with shit eating grin.
Chuck leaned over towards Casey. "Really?" He whispered so no one could hear.
"Not a chance." Casey replied equally as soft.
"So let me get this straights, you want this whole couple of weeks to disappear, and Bartowski will go back to helping the country, Walker and Casey will be his handlers, Larkin will go undercover and the family will pretend this all never happened?" Beckman asked with a sigh.
"If you can pull your head out of your ass and except some changes." Sarah replied sweetly.
"You are really pushing it Walker." Beckman growled.
"Chuck and I would be a couple. I would move in with him." Sarah retorted.
"You can't be with your asset!" Beckman boomed.
"You are right, which is why Casey and I would train him, he would be paid, he would become an agent." Sarah offered.
The General looked stunned. Her face contorted into one of confusion and anger. It amused everyone in the room watching.
"Look at it this way General, you get a permanent Intersect, like you have been wanting, and you gain an agent, and since I seem to know everything in the company I know you have someone with at least an update to the Intersect, let Chuck have it." Bryce offered.
Beckman knew she was screwed, it was either lose everyone or gain one.
"….Ok." Beckman gritted out. "Everything will be erased, the termination orders cancelled, BUT I have one condition." Beckman replied slyly.
"What?" Chuck asked, still smiling after hearing Sarah wanted to move in with him.
"I send an agent, who will be covered as Casey's girlfriend to come rate your performance. If everything checks out and you guys work like a team, not some creepy threesome, everything will be done." Beckman offered.
"Deal." Devon shouted.
"Hey!" Casey yelled.
"Oh grow up, it is the best deal we have." Bryce laughed.
"I expect you in LA by morning." Beckman replied, signing off.
"But…" Chuck said aloud.
"Oh we are so partying this up! AWESOME!" Devon boomed.