A/N: Okay, my take on the finale. First of all, I absolutely loved and I mean loved the two episodes minus the last minute of vs. Goodbye. Not sure if its just me but damn I love Sarah when she goes Valkrie mode, haha. Anyway, the episodes were incredible, believable, and I think you could really see the emotion between the characters. I, like so many others, obviously had some gripes about reactions in certain situations, the biggest being when Chuck just let her go at the fountain. After looking at it though, I could see where he just wanted to give her space. I mean he chased after her and it took 3 years, so he's a smart guy, he probably just figured to give her time. With that said, any of my Chuck's would never had let that happen, but that's just me.

As for the ending, here is the problem I had with that. This was supposed to be a "love letter" to the fans right? I read somewhere that Fedak and Shwartz wanted to leave it open so fans could interpret for themselves. Okay, what exactly is there to interpret? Either they get together or they don't, I really don't like the second choice there so why would they do that? Also, I would have been completely fine if after Chuck finished their story, Sarah turned to him and said, "Shut up and kiss me." Adding three extra words, at least to me, would have changed everything. But the morons couldn't even do that, really?

I know everyone can always do it better, but I think too many times Fedak and Shwartz have been hit with the stupid stick. Which of course reminds me of said fountain scene where Chuck lets her walk away. Could there possibly have been a hug, or better yet, how about a lingering handshake like the one they had in a previous season, something, for heavens sake.

I would love to be a fly on the wall in the writing room. I honestly can't believe no one could have come up with something in those situations. So I'm frustrated at some minor tweaks that could have happened, but it really is what we should have expected from F & S. If they did it the right way, there would be no fan fiction so maybe their just really big fans of this site. Yeah that's the ticket.

Okay, so enough of that, thanks as always to my beta Gladius who is still putting up with me.

As always, I don't own Chuck.

Chapter 36 - What Would You Do?

Chuck was finishing up a service issue when he glanced down at his phone for the time. "Damn it!" Chuck quickly stood up as he realized he had gotten so preoccupied with his service call that he had forgotten to call his wife. He knew she was finishing up some paperwork for her retirement, and so he wanted to give her some space, but they had promised to go look at baby stuff and he honestly couldn't wait.

He quickly scanned the Buy More looking for Casey but the big guy was no where to be found. They were supposed to hook up later at the gun range but he thought for sure Casey still had to finish his mid day shift. Matter of fact, he hadn't seen Casey for a while which was strange in its own right considering the issue he just finished up started with someone Casey referred to him.

Oh well, Chuck thought as he made his way over to the Orange Orange. He had tried calling Sarah as he was walking towards the entrance but there had been no answer. He really didn't think anything of it considering that she was probably taking a nap down in Castle. He made a sad face as he thought of what a trooper his wife was being. He knew without a doubt she was the strongest person in the world and she was trying to stay tough, but she had her moments where she would just give in. He would never tell her this, but he loved those moments because that was when she let him take complete care of her.

Chuck couldn't think of a job he loved more… of course job wasn't even close to defining what it was. Either way, he loved taking care of his wife, really taking care of her. It was the greatest thing in the world to him.

Chuck walked through the Orange Orange and down the stairs. As he descended the stairwell, he instantly noticed Casey having a heated conversation with what appeared to be General Beckman on the monitor. Chuck could tell right away that something was definitely up.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Chuck asked as he approached the conference table. Beckman quickly shut up as a look of dread was upon her face. Chuck had to do a double take as he never saw such anguish on the General's face before. He knew something must be wrong, a new case involving National Security some how maybe? He walked up to Casey to once again inquire what was going on, all the while scanning the room for his wife who he was sure should have been at this meeting.

Chuck turned from looking down the hallway where he looked directly into Casey's eyes. "NO!" Chuck started shaking his head. "No Casey. No." Chuck's emotions were quickly boiling over. He knew from the look in his best friend's eyes that something had happened to his family. Casey may had been the most cold hearted assassin in the world, and that is why his current demeanor made Chuck certain something horrible had happened.

Beckman was having a hard time controlling her emotions too as she knew the pain that Chuck would soon feel. Still, she was the leader of this team and it took everything she had to swallow her own emotions and lead this team so that they could get Sarah back. "Chuck, please listen to me." The General paused as Chuck snapped his head around at her.

"Don't bull shit me guys. Tell me know what has happened." Chuck's fist were clenching as he was moments from running down the hall to check on his wife.

Casey placed a strong hand on Chuck's shoulder. "Kid… its Sarah, she's been captured." Casey could feel Chuck trembling.

"What?" Chuck was in disbelief. He knew he must have heard Casey wrong as he quickly ran down the hall to find his wife. This was just a big mistake and he was sure Sarah was sleeping soundly in one of the side rooms.

Casey knowing things were about to get out of control, quickly followed Chuck, motioning to the General to just give them a minute.

"Chuck, listen to me." Casey caught up to Chuck, pleading with his friend to stop and listen. This was wasting time and he couldn't let Chuck handle this by himself. The quicker the kid came to dealing with this the quicker they could come up with a plan to get Bartowski back.

Chuck ignored his friend as he frantically searched every inch of Castle, each step of the way the panic and pain in his heart growing worse and worse. As Chuck checked the last of the rooms he thought she would be in he couldn't help it as tears started to form in his eyes. He felt a strong hand grip his shoulder to turn him around.

"Kid, she's not here and the faster you realize that, the faster we can get her back." Casey's heart broke at the sight of the broken man before him. "Chuck I know this hurts, but we need you. We need Agent Carm…"

"Screw you Casey!" Chuck shouted as he slammed his much bigger friend against the wall. "Screw all you. Screw the damn government; screw this damned Intersect in my head. Screw everything." Chuck was pushing a boundary that he was quickly not going to be able to come back from. There was never a time he felt this much hurt.

"Chuck, we will find Sarah, but we can't do this without the one person that has the greatest chance of finding her. She's your wife damn it, and my partner. She needs you to be strong right now."

Chuck was still shaking his head as the anger overpowered him. Even so, he could not help but really feel the words Casey was speaking. He had to calm down. He had to get his wife and baby back. "What happened?" It was all he could ask, his emotions still overpowering him.

Casey took a deep breath as he too was trying to calm down. "They left a tape."

Chuck grabbed Casey by the shirt as he held him against the wall. "Show me the tape Casey." Chuck wasn't asking.

"Chuck first you have to calm the hell down. This is doing no one any good." Casey broke Chuck's intense grip as he knew what they were about to do could destroy Chuck. "No; when you calm down, I will take you to talk with Beckman." Casey grabbed Chuck by his shoulders so that he could look him in the eyes. "Listen to me Chuck. Sarah needs you and she needs you to use that brain of yours to figure out what is going on. It will take analysts days to do what I know you can do within minutes. But we need you to stay calm. We'll get her back I promise you that, but how quickly that happens depends on how fast we come up with a plan." Casey took a deep sigh. "And how quickly you can calm down."

Chuck knew Casey was right and summoned up all his will power to calm down. It was incredibly hard to think of anything but his wife and baby, but he had to suppress his emotions right now.

After a few deep breaths, Chuck had calmed down enough to know what he had to do. He was still no where near stable but he would do anything to get his wife back. He would do anything to save his baby and now was the time to man up to all that. "I'm good. Let's do this."

Casey nodded his head and brought Chuck back to the conference room where both men noticed General Beckman busily ordering people around in the backrgound.

Casey looked to Chuck one last time and then turned to the General. "He's ready General. Play the tape."

Beckman gave Casey a speculative glance, not sure exactly this was the best scenario. But then she looked at Chuck and knew that even though the tape was brutal, it was their best shot at Chuck finding his wife. She regretfully brought up the video and hit play.

Sarah was tied down in a chair in what looked to be a dimly lit room. She had a bruise over her left eye and her hair was clinging to the sides of her face. She looked exhausted but her eyes were still their bright exuberant sapphire orbs.

Chuck's heart burst inside seeing his wife helpless and hurt. His instinct was to reach for the screen as if there was some way to interact with her through the pixels. He stopped himself as he tried to take in every detail of her. It was then a voice, obviously scrambled, began speaking.

"As you see, the Ring has the Intersect's wife. She has been most uncooperative, but I'm sure the Intersect will be the voice of reason in this family."

Chuck noticed his wife roll her eyes to the right and give a slight tilt of her head. It was then a figure came into view and slapped Sarah across the face. Chuck could see his wife react to try to deflect the impact, but another strike and then another came as blood started dripping from her mouth.

"Now hopefully we won't have to continue damaging such a precious item of the Intersect, but we do enjoy it so much. If the Intersect wants to see his wife again… alive and unharmed, then he will follow our demands."

Chuck didn't hear the rest of the video as he stared at Sarah who was looking straight into the camera. The video ended with one final blow to the face of Sarah by her captor and then blackness.

Chuck stared into the blank screen for a good five minutes before finally lowering his head, his fist clenching by his side.

Casey looked to his partner and could see Chuck initiating the Intersect. He wasn't quite sure why the kid was doing this now, but he could tell the flash was consuming him. Casey turned to the General, "General, we'll be in contact shortly. We'll give you an update on our mission plan as soon as we can." With that Beckman gave one last thoughtful glance at Chuck and then disconnected.

Casey waited a few more minutes as he could tell Chuck was in a zone and he didn't want to interrupt whatever he was doing. Casey tried to get a look at Chuck's face but he still had it looking down, his hair hiding some of the features.

Casey was about to say something when Chuck finally lifted his head. Casey waited patiently as Chuck slowly turned to him. What Casey saw was an all too familiar look.

"Casey I know where she is."

Casey was still stunned by the look in Chuck's eyes. He wasn't even sure if this was Chuck. "How did…"

"Casey, what is the penalty in the United States for treason against our government?"

Casey did a double take at the question. "Uhh, its penalty of death."

Chuck still showed no emotion. "Casey, they have my wife and my baby. They have my everything." Chuck was clenching his fists as the veins in his neck were practically popping out at the adrenaline flowing through him.

"So what do we do about that Chuck?" Casey had been in agent mode since the beginning that until this exact moment, the realization that the two most important people in the world to him, besides his daughter, were suffering. In his world, he didn't allow that sort of thing to happen as he too started to build with an anger inside that he thought dormant for too long.

Chuck turned to him with no sign of emotion other than undeniable determination. "We kill them all. This ends now!" With that, Chuck turned and headed towards the armory.

Casey knew this was a slippery slope. He knew what the darkness was like but this was different. This was deeper than duty, honor, or country. This was for family and that, no matter what they had to do, he knew they could live with.

A/N: Now I know that this is beginning to be a darker Chuck and my Beta has already warned me about taking this route with Chuck. Chuck will never be some psycho Chuck or the "Dark Intersect", but with my story, Chuck has a set of balls, unlike the tv show sometimes. So put yourself in his situation. What would you do if everything was taken from you by traitors of the United States Government? People that would kill woman and children if it meant progressing their agenda. What would you do if someone took your spouse and children with the intent of harm and possibly death? What would you do?