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Ch 9 – Crap X 10
Devin, now (barely) able to breath again and returning a lovely shade of pink, was feeling Sarah tears soak his scrubs.
"Listen Sarah, I'm not even going to come close to understanding what is going on here. But I know that Chuck loves you. This thing about your.. other job may make it harder to express, but if I know anything, it's hearts, and I know that your heart belongs to Chuck."
On the other side of the curtain, Hawk listened to their conversation with renewed interest. He remembered one of the last reports was Chuck's brother in law being told about Sarah and Casey's real reason for being there, so to him, Sarah's reply would tell volumes.
It was then he heard through the earwig Virginia use the name 'Ellie'. He realized that between coaching Chuck and listening in to Sarah's conversation, he was forgetting something important.
"Ooooh Crap" Hawk sighed "Ok Chuck, we seemed to have crossed that bridge, why don't you invite your sister to come grab a coffee and have a chat." Going back to the drama behind the curtain, all he heard was 'Not Awesome" "Grrr I missed Sarah's response"
Taking a deep breath, He turned and walked through the curtain. "Hello Dr Woodcomb. I suggest that you check in with your wife. She will need you over the next few hours, her life is about to be turned upside down, inside out and backwards. I'll take care of Agent Walker, no worries"
Devin looked at the new doctor and realized that this must be the person Chuck mentioned on the phone.
Sarah stiffened and with the best smile she could muster, just mouthed"it's Ok" and gave Devin a final hug whispering "take care of him for me" before he went back the way he came.
"Hello Agent Walker. I am CP Scott. I was appointed this week as the new Director of the CIA."
Sarah eyes went a little wide "Oh crap the director, in his first week, flew down to fire me for compromising myself with Chuck. Oh crap what did Beckman tell him. It must have been going rouge. I kew it was way too easy for her to believe that I played Chuck. I should have known that Beckman wasn't fooled. I'm.. no .. was CIA. He can overrule Beckman without blinking. Now he is going to send me away without ever seeing Chuck again. Well I prefer to be in a dark hole of it keeps Chuck with Ellie. OH Crap Ellie needing support- upside down, backwards? Is he going to put Chuck in a bunker."
"What are you doing to my Chuck!" She demanded. She stood up and keeping the bed between them looked quickly for something to use as a weapon.
"Agent Walker, we have a briefing in a little more than an hour and you can see him healthy, not exactly happy, but in one piece."
"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH MY CHUCK"
"So what say we go grab a coffee, somewhere more private and we can talk about Chuck. Really what happens to him depends on a choice you must make."
Hawk took off his lab coat opened the curtain. Taking only time to grab a trench coat from a chair close to the exit, he led Sarah to the parking lot where her porche was waiting. As he opened Sarah's driver's door and waited for her to sit down before going into the passengers' seat. Sarah noticed the director moving her speared iphone and Bryce's weapon off the seat before he sat. "We will have to talk about that as well. I read how good you were with a knife, but to get them to hit close together from 150 feet in a strong wind, that was beyond impressive."
Reaching into his coat, he pulled out a DVD and handed it to her. "Video coverage of your little fight with Virginia. Someone on a crowded beach had a cell phone that could take video. I'm amazed that there is only one so far."
"You are a big hit on Youtube. Oh yes, may I call you Sarah?"
Sarah nods, not sure how to read him. "He's my boss for the moment, he could change my name to Rubella and I would have no say about it". "Whatever you want sir".
"Fine then lets all grab a coffee at the new coffee shop across from the Buy More and then we have a briefing back to Castle." Looking at his watch, he sighs. "I've only got a couple of hours before I have to go head to head with Beckman for the rest of the night. Oi it's been a long day."
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Ellie Bartowski-Woodcomb was staring in disbelief at her brother wearing something that he could be buried in if he didn't come up with a better answer than:
'Complicated'. "COMPLICATED IT'S COMPLICATED. First, the cops warned me that this lady" Ellie points at Virginia while trying to stay between Chuck and her. "was highly dangerous and you stroll in dressed to kill, OR BE KILLED, having what looked like a seizure and all you can say it's COMPLICATED. Charles Irving Bartowski, so help me if you don't come up with something better than it's complicated I will make sure that Sarah does not have to worry about any sort of protection for the next six months!"
Virginia found it took a lot of effort not to laugh as Chuck turned from a very white colour then a very red one. This looks like it would be a good time to step in. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but we are a bit short on time, Can I call you Ellie?"
Ellie stepped back and slightly in front of Chuck, the protective instinct clicked in immediately. "Must run in the family."
Ellie showed a very visible relief as Devin came though the other side of the curtain.
Virginia turned "You must be Chuck's Brother in Law. Tell me are either of you hungry. There is Orange Orange near here, why don't we head over. I know my husband would want us to all go for coffee, but I'm more in the mood for FroYo since I heard that is where Sarah was working. Besides I'm sure Chuck would like to see Sarah sooner rather than later. Now come along I think a long discussion is in order.
All of a sudden Ellie could have sworn that she hears Sarah's voice mention something about Chuck, and she does not sound happy. Ellie goes and grabs both Chuck and Devin's arms and holds them back.
"Babe" "Sis" comes from the guys.
Virginia opens the curtain and waves to someone in the waiting room who comes over.
"Please show Dr. Bartowski-Woodcomb your ID please and then gather the group and have them report to Scorpio"
"Yes Mam" and this young man goes over and shows a CIA ID to Ellie.
"See sis complicated"
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Sitting in the same coffee shop that was surprising still empty since the Director and Chuck was there earlier.
"Sarah, what do you know of Graham's old partner, Hawk Percy?"
She looks up. "Oh Crap, are they after him Are they using Chuck against me to get information on him?"
"They were partners from the day they left the farm until Graham was seriously wounded. Hawk saved not only his life by doing a risky field surgery that allowed his injuries not to include being paralysed from the waist down. Even so Graham could never get medical clearance to return to the field. I heard he went rogue just before Graham's death. My turn, what are you going to do to Chuck?"
The director smiled "You took Chuck and ran, you went rogue yourself. You could have used help. Graham gave you a number to contact him. Why didn't you use it?"
"I have no idea what you are talking about"
Hawk looked directly into Sarah's eyes "She's good, got to give her that. No information not in the file, and directly denied the phone number. She could probably pass a polygraph."
"Ok then what you really meant to say was: you didn't know who to trust, especially since he might have gone rogue. Everything happened fast and … You couldn't risk it, and you are not going to give me that number so just get to the point where you are going to tell you what are we going to do with your Chuck? Therefore the next question is do you love him?"
"Yes" without hesitation or looking away from the director. Sarah knew that there is no way that she would ever see Chuck again, she would be lucky not to be bunkered herself. Her career was finished she was done with denying it. The only bargaining chip she had was information on Hawk, and if that could be somehow used to keep Chuck safe, then she was going to use it, especially since she destroyed the number years ago to make sure it didn't fall into the wrong hands in a previous captured moment. She didn't have anything that could help the CIA track Hawk down, but the Director didn't know that. "Now no more information until you tell me what are you going to do with my Chuck."
The director once again brings out the smile that drove Beckman nuts and pulls out three envelopes and goes over the three choices for her same as he did for Chuck.
Sarah thought the only time she was more scared in her life was when she realized how much she loved Chuck. Thanks to her training though, she didn't show it.
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Back at Castle
Casey headed over to the ammo room while Forrest staggered at his 6 when Casey's alarm he set earlier in the Orange Orange went off.
"Forrest; did you enter through the front door of Orange Orange?"
"Nooo back"
Bringing up the feed Grunt#93 (ELLI COMPLICATION)
"Well look like Lady found his way back home"
Forrest looked at the feed and saw what must have been Chuck in a black suite "Ok even He looks good wearing that." "Who are the others?"
"That is Chuck's sister Ellie and her husband and Devin Woodcomb. You should remember him; I still have pictures of you at his bachelors at the Buy More. What is the moron wearing?"
"That Colonel Casey is called a black suite. I'm sure you must have owned one at one time in your life."
Casey looked up and saw a small lady coming down the stairs now completely ignoring him or the the fact that he was pointing a gun at her heart. She was staring at Agent Forrest with a look between pity and stupidity.
"Agent Forrest, I believe that the Director arranged a vacation for you. He was not happy when he found out you were here." Virginia turns toward Casey "Colonel please put that gun down. We are all here for a briefing and from what I see both of you without weapons in your hands will be a good thing. Hope you don't mind I ran across your asset on the way, and invited him along."
Casey looks at Forrest who nods, "Colonel is it? When did that happen?", "Casey this is the CIA Directors personal something or other, sorry I missssed the name thisss morning. Hey, by the way that worse coffee you brought than what that crap was in the office."
The little lady limps up to Casey and extends her hand to the big guy "Virginia, and I have a feeling we will be running into you a lot Colonel."
She turns to Forrest "If I was you right now, I would put away the booze and come up with a better reason why you did not take the vacation offered then you wanted to come get sloshed with an old friend"
"He isss not a friend, I just happened to be the right place, right time sort of event."
"So that means Colonel Casey was drinking when he was solely responsible for the asset."
"No that.." Casey sputtered
"Colonel, you do not have to answer to me, you have to answer to General Beckman and the Director. Now I need two sets of non disclosure forms made up immediately for Devin and Ellie, Can you handle that for me Colonel, as you seem to be the more sober of he two and take it up to our guests to sign it before the enter Castle?"
Hearing the door open, Chuck could be heard saying "And sis we call this Castle. It's the main base of operations. Watch your step!"
"BARTOWSKI WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING BRINGING THEM IN HERE" Casey barks.
"IDIOT, YOU'RE AN IDIOT" Forrest yells, apparently at Chuck images that is still on the computer monitor and not the one standing at the door.
"Oh crap" Virginia stepped in front of the rampaging Casey "Both of you, you have guests behave now."
Virginia steps beside the two agents and lowers her voice "Casey Forms now, Forrest get rid of the booze. And I'll put the weapons back in the safe. This is going to be a bad night for them, and I don't want them even more freaked out by the large amount of firepower that is in this complex."
"Crap, Hawk I am really going to thank you for leaving me this mess tonight" "Ellie and Devin I have to warn you now you have to sign the non discloser forms or we will not have a choice but to arrest you. You have seen too much now, by the way, thank you for that Chuck. Why don't you sit here and tell them all about the day you opened an e-mail from Bryce Larkin." Casey returns with two file folders "And before you complain Casey, director's orders that nothing is classified for tonight in this room. Why don't you be a doll and show Agent Forrest where you keep the coffee." She then goes off with an armload of guns to the ammo room.
Devin however looks at Forrest then to Casey, then back to Forrest "Ok, something is wrong here, wronger than it should be. Where do I know that woman fro… OH CRAP NOT AWESOME!!!"
Ellie however did not notice the look of utter shock and embarrassment on her husbands face. She had a look of horror as she stared at the big screen on the far wall "Chuck, why is there a video of you reading comics in your BEDROOM. Oh Crap where else do you have cameras?"
"Sis it com….
"STOP SAYING THAT WORD!"
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A/N
One more chapter, and yes thank you to everyone that PM or left a message. I still have a couple to get back to, but your not forgotten, just a lot of travel the past week. I hate replying to people when I'm half asleep.
I have an idea for a sequel, and that will start sometime this month. I'm going to sketch it out a little more than this one, so hopefully when I start then I can keep a regular schedule for updates.
I'm also going to spend time figuring out how to get a beta reader. – I've got a lot to learn.
So Last Chapter
Flying Crap