Disclaimer: Don't own Chuck or Anna.
A/N: This one got longer than I thought it would be, but I liked it, and I revisited that Anna's parents storyline that I introduced a few chapters ago. Hopefully it is to your liking. Enjoy, and read and review. Thanks!
Anna vs. the Crown Vic
Anna can't believe just how much Morgan doesn't get it! It's not him at all, it's her. Well, more specifically, it's her parents. The same parents that never see her. The same parents that only seem to pop up to ruin her life. The parents that took away her future, in a career that excited her, and she thought would make her happy.
Anna wasn't excited at all to hear that they were coming into town. She's learned to live quite well on her own, with just the support of her friends, and now, her boyfriend. That's why she insisted that they only see one another in fancy restaurants, and yacht clubs, and country clubs, and any other place that she is sure her friends will never go.
But when Morgan got insecure, and demanded to meet her folks, she couldn't deny him, could she? It would have just driven his suspicion, and she would have hated for him to think that she was actually cheating on him. She would never do anything to hurt him like that. Anna Wu might be a lot of things, and in fact, she is, but unfaithful is not one of those things.
She'd hoped that Morgan would get the hint when she wasn't acting like herself in front of the two people that she shared a bloodline with, but little else. That he would notice that her normal dark makeup and short skirts had been replaced by a sensible hairstyle, very little makeup, and a conservative dress. She'd hoped that he would take that all in and act accordingly.
Anna knew the consequences she could suffer if things didn't go exactly right, and if her parents didn't approve of her new beau. They'd shown in the past that they wouldn't hesitate to pull her out of a situation that they were uncomfortable with, regardless of how Anna felt. And she couldn't bear to think about what it would do to her to be yanked away from the life that she'd come to enjoy. She hated to think about losing all of her friends. She became almost sick thinking about losing Morgan when she'd just found him.
So she was freaked out after Morgan's, well, Morgan-esque behavior at the yacht club, and his repeat performance on the boat of that Taiwanese guy, whatever his name was. She just knew that she would be snatched away from Burbank. That she would be forced to leave the life she'd carved out for herself, despite her parents' interference. She knew it was coming, so it came as no shock to her when the argument started.
"Anna Wu, you will go back to your apartment, pack your things and come with us this instant. This is not up for discussion," her father bellows.
"No," Anna replies softly.
"Excuse me?" he asks.
"I said 'No'," Anna replies again with much more force.
"I will not have this kind of behavior out of you!"
Anna turns and walks away, paying no attention to her father calling after her, or his demands of her acquiescence to his wishes. She continues on her own path, determined to cut her parents completely out of her life if they won't consider what she wants for once. She doesn't have time or more discussion, anyway. She has a Christ- err, Holiday Party to get to.
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