AN: SO THIS CHAPTER IS ABOUT CHRISTMAS AT THE BARTOWSKI'S YES I KNOW IT IS AFTER CHRISTMAS BUT IT WAS THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE IT WORK.
AN: THIS CHAPTER IS SHORTER THAN MOST SO I APOLOGIZE
AN: PLEASE REVIEW CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM GREATLY APPRECIATED.
AN: I DON'T OWN CHUCK!
9 Years Without You
By CharmingCharles2896
Chapter 9: Wasted Time
"I promise you Chuck I will never hurt you again, for as long as I live you will never hurt again." They continued to hug for several minutes as they grieved over the past together.
"I love you Chuck."
"I love you too Sarah with all of my heart."
2:00 P.M.
Chuck's Private Estate
The rest of the morning was filled with passionate love making the likes of which neither had ever experienced. They lay in bed just talking and enjoying the afterglow. Chuck called it making up for wasted time; she just called it practice for their honeymoon.
"Honeymoon? What honeymoon? Sarah I love you but we're not even married anymore let alone newly weds." Chuck was confused why was she talking about a honeymoon they weren't married and quite frankly he didn't know if he really want to be married yet.
"Yes but, I don't know maybe I want to be." A timid almost desperate smile appeared on his as a lone tear rolled down his cheek.
"Sarah what are you saying?" he looked into her eyes searching for answers to the questions left unsaid, those deep pools of Sapphire looked so beautiful. Almost piercing blue, like they could see into your soul blue.
"I want to be your wife Chuck I want to marry you." She broke out into a smile that would light up a dark room. She wanted to marry him? His heart busted at the seems with joy it was as if he was a kid in a candy store.
"Oh my" Chuck leaned over in bed and kissed Sarah, not the frantic kiss like the one on the docks so many years ago, no this was a sweet kiss filed with love and hope for the future.
"So what do you say Chuck? Wanna get married?" she flashed him her mega watt smile that could brighten up anybody's day.
"Yes, yes I do." Chuck was elated; she wanted to get remarried! In what could only be described as acrobatics Chuck leapt on top of Sarah and started kissing her neck in that one spot that always got to her. Sarah gasped at the wonderful sensation; Chuck kissed Sarah with a renewed sense of purpose any remaining thoughts or worries about the past were gone replaced by an eternal love for her, his Sarah.
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2 Days Later
4:00 P.M.
December 25th
Chuck's Estate
Chuck and Sarah had slaved most of the day cooking the Christmas dinner to be enjoyed later that day. Things were moving along as planed cooking wise and everybody was expected to arrive shortly. Chuck hadn't told anybody about Sarah and him yet not even Ellie; of coarse everybody new that they bumped into each other a little over a month ago but they all thought that was it. Sarah was walking down the stairs into the main foyer when the doorbell rang.
"Honey can you get the door I'm kind of busy with the food at the moment." Chuck bellowed from the kitchen of coarse he would join her in greeting everybody once his hands weren't so covered in food. Sarah went to the door and looked at the security screen, seeing that it was Ellie, Awesome, their son Steven and their daughter Clara. Sarah opened the door with a big smile on her face.
"Hey everybody come on in!" Ellie was in total shock; she was never told that Sarah would be there.
"Sarah what a nice surprise! How are you?" Ellie gave Sarah a huge and a quick kiss on the cheek before walking inside the massive house holding Steven in her arms.
"I'm fine come in come in." Chuck walked up behind Sarah and gave her a kiss on the cheek before greeting the Awesomes.
"Hi Ellie good to see you." After giving Ellie a kiss and a hug he walked over to Awesome and shook his hand. Steven waved hi to Sarah as they walked into the living room.
"And who is this handsome devil?" Sarah asked waving to Steven.
"This Sarah is Steven. Say hi to Sarah, Steven." Steven waved at Sarah.
"Hi Sarah." Sarah waved at him before spotting Clara; she jogged over to Clara and bent down to speak to her.
"Hi Clara I don't know if you remember me or not but I'm your aunt Sarah." Clara looked at her in bewilderment.
"Hello Auntie Sarah it's been a long time since I've seen you." Sarah was very impressed with how mature Clara was.
"Sadly yes it's been a long time so tell me Clara how old are you now?"
"I'm eleven."
"Wow it has been a while, last time I saw you, you were a one year old."
"Auntie Sarah where is Uncle Chuck?" it broke Sarah's heart, she missed so much of everybody's life, the birth of Ellie's son Steve, Casey getting married, Morgan getting married and Her own sister's childhood. This was all a rude reminder of her mistakes.
"He is in the kitchen I bet if you go in there he'll give you a Christmas cookie." Clara gave her a big smile then ran into the kitchen to find Chuck. Sarah giggled at Clara's cuteness then joined everybody else in the holiday activities.
After about an hour almost all the guests had arrived, Morgan and Alex, Casey and Gertrude, Big mike and Bellonia Grimes. Seeing all of them so happy both touched her and reminded her of leaving. When she left Morgan was still just dating Alex. When she left Casey hadn't even returned yet. She was distracted from her sad thoughts by the sound of the doorbell, wondering whom it was she walked over to the door and opened it.
"Mom? Molly?" she gasped at the surprise they were here. She never thought they would show up after she left everybody behind, she even left them behind. Molly was growing up she must have been fifteen years old if Sarah's math was right.
"Hello Sarah merry Christmas" Emma gave Sarah a big hug and a kiss then walked in to join the party. Sarah was in shock when she first saw molly, she was growing up so fast and she had missed most of it.
"Hey Sarah." Molly just walked by Sarah leaving her saddened and bewildered. Sarah turned to her mother and spoke.
"Mom did I do something wrong? What's Molly's problem?" Emma walked over to Sarah and spoke.
"Oh it's nothing just a teenager being a teenager you know how that goes." Emma chuckled then rejoined the party.
After all the gift giving and such everybody sat down for Christmas Dinner. Sarah stood up to make a toast.
"So as you all can guess this is my first Christmas with the Bartowski Clan in a long time, I see all these familiar faces and it reminds me of all my mistakes, but I now know one mistake I won't make. I'm here to stay everybody; I have a ring to prove it. Cheers everybody, merry Christmas and a happy new year." Sarah held up her glass and took a small sip. Ellie took a sip of her wine when it dawned on her.
"What? Sarah when?" Ellie starred at Sarah waiting for an answer.
"Two days ago, we flew to Vegas and had it done." Sarah held up her hand showing off her ring, which had retaken its rightful place on her finger. Ellie squealed in joy causing everybody to laugh. Chuck leaned over to his left and kissed Sarah. They talked, everybody laughed and all had a good time.
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11:54 P.M.
Chuck and Sarah's Bedroom
Chuck and his loving wife laid in bed in each others embrace.
"Today was fun." Said chuck as he stared at the sealing.
"Yes, yes it was. I think Ellie took the news very well." Chuck laughed quietly before kissing Sarah on the top of the head.
"Can you believe that Molly is fifteen years old?" Sarah talked with a tone that suggested bewilderment.
"Yeah she's growing up." Sarah shifted in bed so that she could look at him.
"Chuck does she know about Ryker and the rescue in Germany?" Chuck simply nodded yes.
"How I never even told my mom how could she know?" she realized what he hadn't said.
"You, you told her didn't you?" his smile faded as he shifted his position so that he was looking her in the eye.
"Yes I did. She was asking about you two or three years ago so I told her your whole story." Sarah looked at him in horror before speaking.
"Everything?"
"Yes then I still couldn't quiet explain why you left so I showed her the note. She still didn't under stand so I told her regardless of how you treated me that you love her." Sarah couldn't believe this he told her everything.
"She has a very strong personality kind of like you. She told me that even though you made a mistake in leaving she still loved you and nothing would ever change that. She is just trying to get to know you again so give it some time." With that he kissed her on the head one last time before lying back down to sleep after a long, long day. Sarah laid back down and snuggled up close to Chuck draping her arm over his chest, resting her head in the little nook next to his neck. They fell asleep peacefully in each other's arms.
AN: WELL HOPE YOU ENJOYED IT.
AN: IN THE NEXT CHAPTER IT'S CHUCK'S TURN TO TELL HIS STORY.
AN: EVENTS IN THE STORY ARE GOING TO START TO MOVE AT A QUICKER PACE SO PREPARE YOURSELF :D