Hi again guys! So here we go chapter three! Hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck.
A small ray of sunshine fell on the big bed. Chuck stretched and yawned wide. He groped with his hand for his wife but she was not there. He opened his eyes and saw that her side of the bed was still made up. Then he remembered what had happened.
One week later
"Chuck put the computer down!"Casey ordered."This is insane!"
"No Casey, I think I've found something! Look at this!" Chuck replied excitedly and turned the laptop so that Casey could see too. Casey just sighed: this was the eleventh time that week that Chuck thought he'd found something that would lead to finding Sarah. He didn't eat, he didn't sleep, he just searched for anything he could find about Shaw or the Ring. And when he finally took a break, he just sat and blamed himself for everything that had happened.
"No I'm serious Chuck, you need to take a break! This is not healthy. I know that you're worried, so am I. But you need a break! This won't help you find her, Chuck. Following meaningless clues won't help you. We need to be smart."
Chuck just sat there and looked rebellious.
"Casey you don't get it! What if one of these clues actually helps me find her? How could I live with myself if I skipped the clue that made me find her? Casey I can't just sit around waiting for her to just show up!" Then he calmed down again and sighed.
"What should I do? What if it's already too late? What if she's…if she's…dead?"Chuck said with a voice filled with despair.
"Stop it Bartowski! If you want to find her, then you have to get rid of those thoughts. Besides, if he was going to kill her, he would have done it right away. Then he wouldn't have kidnapped her." Casey replied. "And now, we really have to hurry." He added while he glanced at his watch.
"Where are we going?"
"To your sister's place. We are invited to dinner. Does she know about Sarah?"
"No, she thinks she's at a girls-weekend trip to Milan with Carina." Chuck replied to him, while wishing that that was the truth.
"Good, keep her out of this, the fewer who knows the truth, the better."
They got up from the couch and walked across the courtyard to Ellie's apartment. Chuck knocked on the door, and a few seconds later the door was opened by a stressed Ellie, carrying Clara.
"Hey guys! I'm so glad you made it! Chuck here quick take Clara, I think the chicken is about to be burned!" Ellie said quickly, dropped Clara in Chuck's arms and ran back to the kitchen.
For the first time in a week, Chuck actually smiled.
"Hi sweetie!" he said to Clara while he sank down in the couch with her in his lap. She just giggled and started playing with a loose button on his shirt. As Clara giggled Chuck started to think about Sarah again, and about their baby. Would he ever hold his own baby like this? Hear his baby giggling?
Casey sat down next to Chuck and handed him a glass of wine. "I'm sorry I was so tough on you before, but we really need to learn to ignore all the meaningless clues and to focus on what's important. We can do this if we're smart, smarter than Shaw. And Chuck, you are smarter than Shaw, you've already won over him once. Now we just have to do it again.
"Thanks Casey, I need all the pep I can get."
"Dinner's ready!" Ellie shouted from the kitchen.
"Come on Chuck." Casey said while he stood up. "And hey? We'll find her, I promise."
In a disused factory somewhere in California
Sarah opened her eyes. Where was she? Then she remembered what had happened. Shaw had taken her.
She struggled for a while to get out of the ropes that tied her arms together, but after minutes of struggling, she gave up. She looked around in the room. It was a large room with loads of old machinery that looked like it hadn't been used for years. She was alone in the room, and she quickly realized that yelling "help" wouldn't work.
When Shaw came in to the Buy More she'd panicked. She'd been considering different ways to protect herself and others. If she had started screaming and trying to beat him up he'd probably killed others in the store too. Including Ellie. So she did what she thought was right to protect everyone else. She followed him to the back of the store like a sheep follows its owner to the slaughterhouse. Once outside, she had tried to hit him, but he had been too strong. After that everything went black and she couldn't remember anything else. She felt tears starting to roll down her cheeks when she thought about Chuck. He must be so worried!
Her thoughts were interrupted when a man came in to the room. He was tall, with dark short hair and an evil smile on his face. Daniel Shaw had entered the room.
"Sarah ... it's been a while. I need to confess that I was a bit shocked back at the store." He said and pointed at her belly.
"I guess your perfect romantic story will have a bizarre ending. But no one wins over me. Especially not Chuck."
"Shaw what do you want?" Sarah said with disgust.
"Don't worry, I won't kill you Sarah. That's not my plan."
"Then what's your plan?"
Shaw looked at her with a creepy smile.
"I'm going to make it easy for Chuck to find you, and when he gets here, I'm gonna make him feel the same way I felt when Evelyn died. This is all a trap."
Echo Park, Casa Bartowski
"Hey Casey look what I found! I'm serious this time, this could really help us!" Casey came running from the kitchen and Chuck showed him what he'd found. "It's an old factory and someone bought it in cash last week. It has extremely high electricity consumption and lots of underground tunnels beneath it. Plus I can't hack into the buildings security system. If it had been just an ordinary building, it would have been much easier to hack. Someone wants to hide something about this building." He said with enthusiasm.
"How long does it take to get there?" Casey asked.
"Maybe three hours if we drive fast."
"Good job Bartowski, let's go save Sarah."
Sooo, a bit of a cliffy there. It might be a while until next chapter because I have absolutely no idea where this story is going!
I again apologize for any grammar errors!
