Don't own Chuck
Chuck got Morgan situated then he walked back to his bedroom where he found Sarah already in bed waiting for him. She smiled at him when he walked into the room. He started to change his clothes and put on his pajamas for bed as Sarah continued to watch from bed still smiling. After a while he had to ask her what she was smiling at.
"I was just admiring the floor show is all," said Sarah as she pulled the covers back. "Come on to bed. Is Morgan okay on the couch? How's he doing anyway?"
"Yeah I got him taken care of," said Chuck as he climbed in bed. "Morgan's having a hard time with Alex leaving with Ettore actually."
"Why? She was tricked like the rest of us and that goes for Casey too. Even he fell for Ettore's act. I think the only one who saw through Ettore was you but that's because you and Morgan have been friends for so long."
"Maybe but don't tell him that. He's upset that Alex didn't realize she was kissing Ettore instead of him. He's comparing Alex to me when that clone tried to steal me away…"
"Tried to, she did. You went with her to her plane. I have to admit I did get a little upset over that; however, I understood the situation but I didn't like it."
"But I knew she was a fake you the first time she kissed me. Mrs. Bartowski I know the taste of your lips and when she kissed me I knew her lips weren't yours."
"Oh really and what else did you realize when you kissed her?" said Sarah as she rolled over and put her arms around him looking him in his eyes.
"That I love you but I knew that before I kissed her as well as no one else can take your place in my heart not even someone who looks like you," said Chuck as he kissed her. "I told him it was because of the intersect but the intersect had nothing to do with it. When I'm with you I feel complete… I feel whole and if Alex doesn't feel that for Morgan… well maybe he's not the right one for her."
"Correct answer about the other me but don't over think it with Alex and Morgan. I'll talk to Morgan tomorrow. Sweetie, it's not fair for him to compare what they have with what we've got. Maybe if they go through what we've gone through then they can call what they have the same but for now I think Morgan needs to give Alex a break."
"I agree and Casey told him the same thing…" said Chuck. Sarah looked at him like he was crazy. "Yes Morgan told Casey the same thing."
"What! Oh no he talked about this with Casey? Why did he talk to John? He's the wrong person to talk to about this for a couple of reasons. First of all he's Alexi's father and secondly he's Casey."
"I know but he was onboard the sub with no one else to talk to and I guess one thing led to another. He was sad and depressed and opened his mouth. Before he knew it, it just came out. However, it explains some of the conversation we heard going and coming in the car."
"Yes it does," said Sarah. She kissed him and he kissed her back.
"Now this is the real thing," said Chuck as he brushed back her hair and looked into her eyes. "I love you and let me say it again because it was just so nice to say I love you and that will never change."
"I love you too," said Sarah as she rested her head on his chest. "And that will never change."
[Meanwhile in the Living Room]
Morgan found Ettore's plane on a deserted airfield outside of Bogotá where he said Ettore would be. His first thought was to go and get Sarah and Chuck but he decided against that. Instead, he went over to Casey's apartment and rang the doorbell. He heard John and Kat talking about Alex inside so he braced himself for what he expected to be a cheerful greeting.
"What do you want Troll? Do you know how late it is? Go away and come back tomorrow when I'm not here."
"John don't be rude and let Morgan it. It's not his fault Alex is missing," said Kat as she pushed Casey out of the way. "Morgan would you like a cup of coffee or tea. I'd like to hear your version of what happened."
"Thank you but I'll pass on the coffee," said Morgan as he came inside. "As far as what I know I was unconscious the whole time so I really can't tell you much but John I found him."
"You found who? The boogeyman? You want me to come next door and put you to sleep. Can't Chuck or Sarah tuck you in? On second thought I can put you to sleep permanently."
"Funny John funny, no I found Ettore's plane and it's right where I told you it would be on an airfield in Bogotá, Columbia. If you don't believe me come next door and I'll show you it."
"Wait a minute how did you find it? The only way you could've is through the mainframe at Castle with a spy sat. How did you get access to the mainframe? Chuck…you gave him a sob story and he log on for you so much for national security."
"Does it matter how I did it or is it more important that I did it?" said Morgan as he smiled at John. Kat nodded her head.
"You know the boy has a point John. But what does it mean that you found the plane? Now someone needs to go down there and get her."
"I agree," said Morgan. "John, this is why I brought this to you. If we take this to Chuck and Sarah they'll follow protocol and notify Beckman and after the way she harped on us today about us being too personally involved she won't let us go to Bogotá. She'll send in another team…"
"That Ettore will wipe out. Grimes you're showing some smarts here for once. We need to go get Alex. I have some friends at Travis we could hitch a ride with to go down to Bogotá with but we need to orders..."
"Or we could charter a Learjet out of Bob Hope. Chuck gave me a Carmichael Industries credit card which is good for chartering planes and I chartered us one already from a twenty-four hour service."
"Good we can get out of here before anyone knows we're gone. It will be hard for them to call us back once we're in the air," said John then he turned to Kat. "I'm sorry I hope you understand but I'm going to have to leave you alone…"
"Don't worry about me John do what you have to do just go bring our daughter home. I want you both to watch each other's back down there," said Kat.
"Roger that," said John as he started to head out the door but Kat stopped him.
"Oh no you don't get away that easily marine," she said as she stopped John and she kissed him. "Now you can go but I want you all back safely when this is over."
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At La Vecchia Fattoria, Alex and the person she thought was Morgan were led into a room in the Villa then locked inside. The room was like a nice hotel room with a private bath. In the room was a large double bed and with some furniture but no TV or internet connection. All the windows had grates on them so they weren't going anywhere. In the distance they could hear the sound of night animals in the jungle.
"Morgan come here and help me test these grates," said Alex as she tugged on the bars but they weren't moving. As they were pulling there was a knock on the door then Paolo came in.
"You're wasting your time pulling on those bars they go into the wall. Mr. Grimes, I need you to come with me. There's a phone call I need you to make for me. Agent McHugh you've got to be hungry so I had some food thrown together for you." Paolo stepped aside and a maid brought in a platter of cold cuts, cheese and fruit along with a plastic bottle of red wine.
"I don't know if you should go," said Alex as she grabbed Morgan by the sleeve. "Do we really trust this guy?"
"Don't worry about me," said Ettore eating up the fact that Alex was concerned about his well-being. "It's okay I'll go and come right back. Eat dinner while I'm gone we need to keep our strength up. I think Paolo is going to offer me something to eat for my troubles."
"Most definitely and the food is safe if that's what you're worried about," said Paolo. He grabbed a grape and ate it. "See, all our food we grow or is raised here on the farm. I apologize for the plastic bottle of wine but I was afraid you'd try to break a glass one over my head."
"Proving you're not that dumb," said Alex as she smiled at him. "Morgan, you be careful I still don't trust him. Paolo if anything happens to him you'll answer to me."
"Yes ma'am I'll have him right back," said Paolo as he led Ettore out then closed the door behind him and locked it.
Alex looked over the platter for something she could use as a weapon but there wasn't a fork or a knife. There was not silverware for that matter so she opened the wine and took a sip.
"Not bad," she said to herself as held the bottle up and looked at it through the light. She then picked at the platter waiting for Morgan to return.
[On the other side of the Wall]
"What is it?" asked Ettore as he followed Paolo to the room next door. There Ettore was distracted for a second watching Alex sampling the food on the platter. She looked like she appreciated it. Paolo kept on talking but he didn't hear a word he said. "I'm sorry can you repeat please."
"Yes, what I was saying was I just got off the phone with our mole in Interpol. He said that the new Chief here is following in the footsteps of her predecessor. How do you want to handle her? My suggestion is to nip this in the bud before it gets out of hand and turn this over to the FARC."
"I think I'd like to meet her and have a talk before we do anything," said Ettore as he continued to watch Alex. "It looks like our guest likes my wine too. I had those clippings brought in from the South Tyrol."
"I know you did I was the one who got them for you. Oh, Ettore not again, why do you want to meet this woman? Don't you think one woman at a time is enough for any man?"
"Can I help it if I was born a butterfly? Give me a phone and put her on the line. We can organize a diner tomorrow evening and I can invite her here."
"If she's smart she won't come. Need I remind you that it was a female Interpol agent who arrested you the last time and I had to go to Rome and bust you out?"
"And I said thank you but now I want to talk to this woman face to face. Don't worry Paolo this is a part of my plan. You're going to dine with us," said Ettore as Paolo still not convinced but he pulled out his phone and dialed the woman's number putting the call on speaker. The phone rang then a female voice came on stating her name.
"Chief Swanson this is Ettore La Barba just the person I wanted to talk to," said Ettore. He smiled a Paolo who just shook his head.
"Is this some sort of joke," asked the woman. Paolo wanted to say yes and he hoped she would hang up thinking someone was playing a practical joke on her but she didn't.
"No this is Ettore La Barba and I never joke about who I am. I'm having a small get together tomorrow a soirée if you like and I'd like to invite you. It will be an evening party so black tie if you want to know what to wear. I'll send a car and driver to pick you up at your office so there will be plenty of witnesses of you getting in." Paolo looked at him with a puzzled expression and rolled his eyes as he shook his head.
"Wait I haven't said I was coming yet," said the Chief. Paolo so hoped this meant she was going to turn him down but Ettore wasn't someone who took no for as an answer.
"I would think this would be the perfect opportunity for you to get to know your... well me. If you're worried about your safety I'll give you my word that no one will touch you unless you want them to." Ettore had thrown the line out now he was hoping his fish would bite.
"What do you think this is the moth and flame effect?" There was a paused for a few minutes but that was exactly what Polo thought and it seemed to be confirmed when she said, "Okay, all right I'll come."
"I thought you'd be curious. Good I'll send my driver around about seven. I look forward to our meeting and breaking bread together. See you tomorrow evening," said Ettore then he hung up.
"You're never going to change are you? Come on I had a plate set aside for you. I think you're going to like what I had put back for you a green lasagna."
"I love green lasagna and we can share a bottle of our pinot noir. Oh tell the chef I want something special tomorrow for dinner not too elaborate but nice maybe a nice bacalà alla vicentina."
"I'll take care of it as usual," said Paolo with a sigh.
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In a dark backroom of an underground casino a group of men sat around a table while gambling went on outside. Guards on the door keeps unwanted people from snooping around too close. Inside the men sat at the table drinking expensive Scotch and smoking cigars with their lieutenants standing behind them. As they wait and waited from Mr. Big to show up tensions mounted until old grudges start to surface.
"What are you looking at," said a man wearing a Fedora and an eyepatch. "You want to take a picture it'll last longer."
"Hawkeye, I was just wondering if you had a parrot to go along with your eyepatch and maybe a peg leg too," said an Asia man sitting across the table.
"Really Lee well I was wondering if you were a second child and if you were I was going to enforce the one child law with a post-natal abortion," said Hawkeye as he laid a Glock nine on the table. There was silence in the room but Lee wasn't backing down.
"You and what army but answer me this do you keep one eye closed when you shoot," said Lee smiling as he laid a type 54 Black Star on the table."
"Now, now," said a man in an Armani suit Mr. Big's Lieutenant and the man in charge at the moment. "Our host… my boss will be here any moment we need to be a little patient is all. Can everyone put away their hardware? Let me have your glasses filled," said the man as he signalled for the man behind the bar the pour.
"How much longer do we have to wait," asked another man from the circle. "I came here because I was curious…" But as the man was talking another man walked in.
"That's not the only reason you came," said Mr. Big. "You came here for the same reason everyone else came here. We're tired of the way Ettore does whatever he pleases then runs back to Columbia where he things he's safe."
"He just screwed over," said Lee. "I paid for a load of canisters of VHF… I paid him like he asked but he never delivered because the Americans intercepted. When I asked for my money back he told me he wasn't FedEx and kept my money even though he never delivered the goods."
"I think we've all experienced that with Ettore and on more than one occasion. I'm here to say we need to take care of him and we need to send a message to everyone else that if you stiff any of us in a deal there will be consequences. Mr. Lee I know you've put out a contract on Ettore how's that working for you?"
"Not well actually, I sent a wet team to take him out in Tijuana but he anticipated my move and eliminated the team. However, the reason they didn't succeed was he received assistance from the CIA who helped him make good his escape."
"See Ettore is also working for the Americans. He can't be trusted and now is the time to move against him while he's sitting in his fortress in Bogotá thinking he's safe. I propose we put together a good size force and we go in and rip him out of hideout then shoot him down in the street like the dog he is."
"I hear you," said Hawkeye. "We've all thought about doing that at one time or another but found it impossible to get done because he's in thick with the people down there. What makes you think that you can succeed where we all failed?"
"Because before you all went at him individually, what I'm proposing is we all go at him together and from different angles. It just reasons that one of us should be able to get him. If nothing else if we strike close enough to home the rabbit will run and when we flush him out we can take him out."
"It sounds good to me. Okay, I'm in what do you want from us?" said a man at the end of the table. "If you want men, weapons or money it's yours."
"What I want is that this group becomes an organization that I preside over like a CEO. For you nothing changes just when I ask for something you give it to me unconditionally. We can call ourselves Terror Inc."
"I don't know," said Hawkeye. "Some of these people… Most of these people I don't really want to have anything to do with. No offense but most of you I hate your guts and I think the feeling is mutual." There was a general head nodding around the table in agreement.
"So what I'm hearing you say is you want out of our little organization, is that what you're trying to tell us?" asked Mr. Big.
"The truth is I never wanted to be a part of this and I really didn't want to come. My Lieutenant and my people were the ones who urged me to come and hear you out. Well I did and all I have to say is no thanks.
"Well that's too bad. Are you sure there's not I can say or do to convince you otherwise. If not I think you should go," said Mr. Big as he looked at Hawkeye's Lieutenant.
"I just can't see where this is in my interest. If that's it I'm going to go," said Hawkeye. He downed his Scotch them he started to get up but before he could move his Lieutenant walked up behind him and planted a knife in the back of his head. Hawkeye fell forward on the table then the Lieutenant pushed the body out of the chair and sat down.
"You can call me Earl. Our position has changed and we're in too," said the Lieutenant as the man from behind the bar placed a fresh glass in front of him and poured him a Scotch.
"I think we can adjourn for now but I will be calling on all of you as I need you. Ettore will be ours I can assure you."
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Ettore and Paolo went back to the room. Ettore took a few minutes outside the door to think about what he was going to say then Paolo opened it up. Ettore walked in then Paolo closed it behind him then went over to the surveillance room to watch.
"Oh Morgan what did they make you do?" asked Alex as she came and looked him over. "Is everything all right?"
"They made me make a call to this woman, she's an Interpol agent. I'm going to have to have dinner with her tomorrow. I think they're trying to turn her but I don't know."
"You need to be careful until you know which side she's on. But this could be good if you could figure out a way to tell her who you are. She might be able to help us get out of here."
"So you think I should have dinner with her?"
"Yes of course, continue to play along and we might be able to bring the whole organization down. Now you go to bed..."
"Yes let's go to bed," said Ettore as he kissed her but she pushed him away.
"No Morgan not here there are hidden video cameras I found and I think that pervert Paolo is watching us. I'll take the first watch you can have the second."
"Of course he is," muttered Ettore.
"What did you say?"
"I said of course you're right." This wasn't how he pictured this night going.