Chuck walked into the conference room, and saw it was almost empty except for his wife. "Where is everyone?" Chuck asked leaning on the door frame.
"Casey is taking a nap. Alex is looking over blueprints for the Four Seasons Hotel. Kate's sleeping in one of the holding cells totally drained. Adrenalin crash, you know how it is. Noble and Dunwoody are scouting the parking garage, I also think they might be sweet on each other and are using this as an opportunity to be alone together. Melissa agrees with me. Jenifer Daily is watching Sidorov. Melissa walked away about ten minutes ago and she didn't say where she was going. I sent the tactical guys out for beers. Those guys do not like to sit around and wait." Sarah said turning to face him smiling.
Chuck smiled back "My second in command is in the interrogation room having girl talk whit a Russian assassin right now. By the way this makes three enemy agents I've flipped now." Chuck said buffing his nails on his shirt.
"I'll give you two, but I don't think Melissa counts. She would do anything for you. It's kind of cute how she follows you around acting as your greatest advocate. So what did Volok want?" Sarah asked putting her feet up on the chair next to her.
"Not much. She's AWOL, and on a revenge mission to kill Sidorov. Trust me she has a very good reason for wanting to. She wants to kill him after she's gotten every little scrap of information out of him, and she want's to stay in this country. I offered her a spot on the team and she jumped at it. She's going to handle Scott Rodgers' extraction. She's going undercover in a few days as a new student taking the same classes he's taking. I figure she could pull an us and take up the cover of boyfriend and girlfriend." Chuck said.
"Ah, the old cover. There are some days I miss it. At least back then we got to see each other every day." Sarah said sadly as she sat up in her seat.
"Sometimes I miss it to. I miss the dates and the reassuring touches you would give me when you thought no one was looking." Chuck said as he took the seat at the conference table next to Sarah and picked up her hand. "But of all the things I miss about not being together everyday, holding your hand is a lot higher on the list then I though it would be." Chuck whispered in her ear.
"What's at the top of the list?" She asked smiling a sexy little smile.
"I know the manly answer would be to say the sex, but to tell you the truth, it's your scent. Whenever I smell lavender I see your pretty smile in my head, and imagine the feel your soft skin under my finger tips." Chuck said kissing her neck as he ran his finger tips up her stocking clad leg.
"Well, I miss this." Sarah said as Chuck's hand traveled up under her skirt. "I miss your touch. You always know how to touch me." she moaned as he found the top of her stockings.
"That's another thing I miss." He said playing with her stocking top.
"What's that?" She asked breathy as his hand made contact with her silk panties.
"The sound of you moaning." He said slipping his hand under the flimsy material.
"Oh god." She cried out as he played with her pink pearl.
"OH! um, Excuse me?" Jenifer said from the doorway.
Chuck removed his hand and turned to her. "Yes, what can I help you with?" He asked without a hint of a blush.
"Um, Sidorov is moving around a lot, and Alex said that was the first sign of him waking." She said turning bright red.
"Good. I want you to get Anna and tell her to meet us at his cell. Then I want you to find Casey a new pair of black BDU pants." Chuck said.
"Right away Sir." She said before turning around and running off.
"I think that was the first time she's ever walked in on two people fooling around. Thank God she came when she did. I was planning on taking you on top of this the table." Chuck said kissing Sarah on the neck and making her shudder before he stood up and walked away.
Sarah tried to stand up too, but her legs felt like jello so she had to sit back down. "Wow. He's getting way too good at that." She said shuddering.
Chuck met Anna and Melissa in the hall outside of the holding cell. "So what's the play boss?" Melissa asked.
"The play is that me and Casey are going to go in there, smack him around a bit, black bag him, and put him in an interrogation room. We're not going to talk much, and when we do, I'll do it in Russian. When we pull the bag off his head I want the first thing he sees to be Anna with us standing with her. I want him to think he's been captured by Anna. If he think's we have him he knows we can't kill him, but if he thinks she's in charge of his questioning then he'll crap himself." Chuck said.
Casey limped over to them with Alex and Jenifer and looked in at Sidorov. "So he's finally coming around?"
"Yeah, just not fast enough. Melissa can you get a bucket of cold water?" Chuck asked.
"Sure Chuck." She said following Alex.
Chuck walked into the interrogation room and found the hand cuffs. He turned to Casey and smiled sadly at him. "It's time for Victor to meet Mad Dog Carmichael. We're going to play it like we're Russian thugs working for Anna." He said.
"So it's Anna now? Just two hours ago the situation was a lot different. We trust her?" Casey asked touching his nose.
"Yes we do. She's here in to kill Sidorov. He, He did things to her when she was very young." Chuck said looking green.
Casey looked confused for a second and then Chuck's words sunk in, and his eyes took on that dangerous edge. "I get it. So she's working for us now?" He asked looking out in the hall at the small girl.
"Yes. I figure since she gave you such an ass kicking she can take something off your plate. She's going under cover in a few days as a new student in Scott's classes. I figure she can handle his extraction." Chuck said.
"Can she do something like that?" Casey asked.
"She can. She's like the Russian equivalent of Sarah. She can handle this with her eyes closed." Chuck said.
Casey nodded. "Your going to have to do the talking in that room. My Russian is too rusty to sound good." Casey said.
"I know." Chuck said. Melissa walked up with the bucket. "Melissa can you take Sarah away from here with Alex and Jenifer? I don't want her to see this." Chuck said softly.
"I can, but why? It's not like she's never done something like this before." Melissa said.
"I know, but she's never really met Mad Dog Carmichael in person and I don't want her to see this." Chuck said looking at the bucket.
"Okay, but you're going to have to tell her to go. She won't listen to me." Melissa said.
Chuck turned to Sarah and smiled. "Can you take Alex, Jenifer, and Melissa out of here? I don't want them to see this." Chuck asked Sarah.
"Of course Chuck." She said looking him in the eye with a sad look on her face. She knew why he was asking her to go. She knew it and he knew she knew. She pulled the other three away. She looked back before she rounded the corner and didn't recognize the man standing there holding the bucket.
"Come on big guy, lets give this asshole a wake up call." Chuck said opening the door. They stepped into the room and Chuck dumped the bucket over Victors head. He flew up off the cot sputtering and yelling. Chuck bashed him in the head with the empty bucket. "Quiet! You rapist dog!" He yelled in Victor's face.
"Who are you?" Victor asked in Russian.
Chuck put the bucket over Victor's head and slammed his fist into it a few times. "I Said Quiet!" He yelled.
"I Demand to know where I am!" Victor yelled.
Chuck pulled the bucket off his head and using the cuffs as a set of brass knuckles he punched Victor in the face snapping his head back and sending a tooth flying. "Hold him so I can cuff him." Chuck barked at Casey. Casey grabbed Victor and slammed him into the wall face first. He then twisted his arms behind his back violently and Chuck cuffed him. Casey dragged him back to the cot and tossed him down. Chuck pulled out a knife and advanced on the terrified man. "I would love nothing more then to cut out your eyes and tongue, but my boss, she say's I can't hurt you before she get's her turn. When she's done with you, you're going to wish I would have cut on you." Chuck said running the point of his knife down the side of his face leaving a paper cut in it's wake. Chuck cut away Victor's shirt, and pants leaving him in just his boxers and black socks. "Bag him!" Chuck said.
Casey pulled out a black bag and tossed it over Victor's head. They grabbed him and drug him out of the room and down the hall to an interrogation room. They slammed him down on the chair and zip tide his wrists and ankles to the metal chair. When Anna was standing in front of him Casey pulled the bag off. "Hello Victor, long time no see." She said smiling a smile that was anything but nice.
He took one look at her and lost control of his bladder. "No." He said in a soft panicked voice.
"Yes. I've been waiting for a very long time for this Victor. A very long time. I see your taste in women has changed since I last saw you. You like them tall and blonde now. You used to like them young and afraid before. I know because you told me that once. You told me that I was your favorite because I was so afraid of you. You told me the fear made it more fun for you." Anna said walking around him. She grabbed a fist full of his hair and pulled his head back to look at her standing over him. "Was that true? Did my fear make it more fun for you?" She asked in a dangerous voice.
"Please, I'll tell you anything you want to know. Please don't hurt me!" Victor pleaded.
"You didn't answer my question Victor." Anna said taking the knife from Chuck's hand and making a long shallow cut across Victor's chest. "I'm going to cut you every time you don't answer my questions." She whispered in his ear. "Did my fear make it fun for you?" She asked playing with the black throwing knife.
"Yes." Victor said clinching as if waiting for the end, when nothing happened he opened his eyes. That's when Anna struck. Her elbow impacted his face.
"Why are you here? Why are you in L.A." she asked.
"To make a sale." Victor said shaking.
"What are you selling?" She asked.
"C4. I have it in my car in the hotel parking garage." He said.
In the conference room Sarah looked at Melissa and they shared a sad smile across the table. "How long do you think this is going to take?" Alex asked pacing the room.
"As long as it has to. But with the methods they're using I'd say anywhere between twenty minutes and an hour. With a guy like Sidorov, it's probably going to take an hour." Sarah said, and to prove her very wrong, Chuck and Casey walked in to the conference room with Anna behind them as she finished her sentence.
"We're meeting a group of Christian extremists that are buying the C4 to blow up abortion clinics and maybe a church. Sidorov is not sure. They have never seen his face and the meeting is going to take place on the second floor of the parking garage at 2 AM tonight. I'm going as Sidorov. Anna and Sarah are coming with me for back up. I want Casey and Alex in the van on the first floor, and Noble and Dunwoody in a car on the third floor with the engine running. I want Melissa and Daily in the stairwells on both sides of the parking garage. At the first sigh of a gun I want the targets taken down. I want all of you to try to go for non-lethal shots tonight but if it comes down to you or them they are not worth it. Am I clear?" Chuck said looking at everyone in the room. "Good it's midnight now I want everyone in place in an hour. If anyone locates a possible target I want you to snap a picture of them and send it to me on my iPhone. Are there any questions?" Chuck asked. "Good. Melissa, you're in charge of telling Tac. team one that we won't be needing them anymore tonight. Daily, you're in charge of briefing Noble and Dunwoody. Good luck out there and I'll see you in an hour." Chuck said. Every one got up and went their separate ways. When the dust settled Chuck was left in the room with Anna and Sarah. "Sarah I need some help with the temporary hair dye. I'm going to need a little gray." Chuck said.
"I can help you with that. Come with me." Sarah said standing up.
"Anna. Why don't you rest for a minute. I think there's a few burgers left. The microwave is through those doors along with the fridge. We'll be leaving in about an hour." Chuck said following Sarah out.
When he got to the dressing room he found Sarah sitting in a makeup chair looking at different bottles. "Do you want more of a silver tone or are you going for a white look?" She asked.
Chuck walked over to her and picked her up. He sat in the chair and put her on his lap. "I trust you to understand but I just didn't want you to have to. I'm not proud of the things I just did in that room, but I also don't feel very bad about them either. Does that make me a bad person? Does that mean I'm losing Chuck to Charles?" Chuck asked dropping his head on her shoulder.
"I don't have the answers for you Chuck. I just know what I've been through. I can tell you that for the longest time I thought I had lost the normal person inside of me. The person that I grew up as. The person I was before I joined the CIA. It took falling in love with you to realize I didn't lose that side, I just turned it off. I didn't need to be normal. I didn't need emotions. I didn't want love in my life because it would open up a weakness in my armor. I needed to be tough, and strong, and ruthless. I think you're fine. I think the fact that you're questioning yourself means you still have feelings. You're still a good person Chuck, and no matter what you do, or how far you fall you will always be Chuck. Because I didn't marry Charles, I married Chuck. My sweet, funny, nerdy, Chuck. and no matter what, you're always going to be my Chuck." Sarah said touching his face.
"Thank you. I needed to hear that." Chuck said softly.
"But next time I want to be there with you. I think The Enforcer has to get along with Carmichael at some point. I think it can be a bonding opportunity for the two of them." Sarah said.
"Do you think we're crazy for referring to ourselves in the third person like that?" Chuck asked smiling.
"No. I think it's the only way to stay sane, and do this job. Almost every good agent does it. Casey is the first person I've met that doesn't do it, but even he separates the things he has to do from the man he is everyday. You remember the first time you met him. That was not Casey. I don't know what he calls that person but that was not the John Casey we know." Sarah said smiling softly.
"I know. I base a lot of Carmichael off of him that night. The coldness. The calmness. The absolute disregard for human life. That smile that never reaches his lifeless eyes. That's all Casey. The trigger happy, crazy, and unpredictable side of Carmichael is all Carina though. Carmichael goes from zero to crazy in a split second. Always keeping them on there toes. Carmichael's temper is all General Beckman." Chuck said laughing.
"Did you base anything on me?" Sarah asked smiling.
"I base a lot of the confidence, charm, and seduction on Agent Walker." Chuck said.
"Really?" Sarah asked smirking.
"Oh yeah. Agent Walker knows she's hot and knows how to use it. So does Carmichael. He looks at every woman he meets as a potential asset. He understands that eye contact and light touches mixed with a low hypnotic tone of voice can get him anything he wants. And if I'm confident in bed Carmichael is a total predator." Chuck said blushing.
"Is that how you see me?" She asked blushing.
"No, that's how I see Agent Walker. She's sex on two legs and she knows it. She can spot a mark from across the room and she can have him spilling his secrets with just a smile and a flash of her ice blue eyes." Chuck said smiling.
"I see. Well I mean, I knew all that, it's just, I've never heard it put like that." Sarah said with a thoughtful look in her eyes. "Hey you took something from every agent you know, but you left out Bryce. I thought Carmichael's charm was based on Bryce." Sarah asked.
"No. it's all you honey." Chuck said laughing.
"Then what did you get from Bryce?" Sarah asked.
"Nothing. Carmichael is a mix of good agents and people I respect. Bryce is neither of those two things. He's a crappy agent that road your coattails for three years and I lost all respect for him after I figured that out." Chuck said laughing. He sobered up though when he saw her frown.
"What do you mean he road my coattails?" She asked.
"Come on Sarah, I've seen the mission files. They read a lot like the old Carmichael file. Now I fully admit that you and Casey did almost all of the heavy lifting on our missions together. Think back to your missions with him Sarah, who did all the killing? Who did all the grunt work? Who did most of the surveillance? I'm looking the files over in my head as we speak and I can only find two examples where he did anything but pretend to be a spy and look good as your date undercover, and how hard is that? I used to do it all the time and I never had any training at all." Chuck said looking her in the eye.
"He did more then that! I know he did. I was there you know, I saw him… um he. He went undercover with the Russian mob for three months!" Sarah said in a 'take that' voice.
"What was the mission objective?" Chuck asked smirking.
"What?" She asked.
"What was the mission objective? I'll help you out because I'm looking at the file in my head right now. The mission was to find and locate all of the arms and drug dealers associated with the Ivanov crime family. A mission that could have been done by just hanging out in the many clubs and restaurants the family owned. They were not very secretive about there dealings. They run most of Moscow. You said so in your own report. So who's idea was it for Bryce, your boyfriend of a year and a half to hook up with the bosses daughter and live the fast paced fantasy life of a Russian mobster for three months?" Chuck asked.
"His." She said confused.
"And who did all the real work while he was off plying mobster?" Chuck asked.
"I did?" She said confused.
"And when you pissed off the Hungarians and they sent a ten man hit squad after you where was your partner and boyfriend?" Chuck asked sadly.
"He was finishing the mission." She said in a lost voice.
"Finishing the mission by running down magical leads that just happened to pop up after the news of the hit squad got to you two. And the mission was to kill the crime boss that was funding terrorists groups, who killed him and his top advisors?" Chuck asked.
"I did." She said softly.
"And when you were being watched by the Columbians on your first mission together, who came up with the husband and wife cover? Who jumped at the idea that you two should put on a show to throw them off your trail? Was it him?" Chuck asked.
"It was." She looking green around the edges.
"So the great Bryce Larkin. Ladies man and super spy is about as real as the great Charles Carmichael, Mad Dog killer and all around badass." Chuck said holding her close.
"My god. Was I that blind?" She asked.
"I don't think so. Bryce is very good at pretending to be a good agent. I think you fell for the idea of Bryce Larkin, supper spy. I know I thought he was, until I flashed on your file. Until then I was competing with an idea. I was chasing a ghost that never really existed. The same idea that you fell in love with." Chuck said smiling sadly.
"How?" She asked softly.
"I think you just wanted to see something in him that you were looking for. Bryce is charming. He's very devious that way. I could tell you so many stories from back at Stanford. He used to bag women like a trophy hunter. It was a game to him back then. I thought he changed. I guess not." Chuck said holding her tighter.
"We need to change the subject. You trusted this new girl very fast, what did she say to you?" Sarah asked.
"She told me the reason why she want's to kill Victor Sidorov. You know he was one of the people running the program to turn kids into killers right? It turns out he was put in charge of their well being and he took advantage of that fact." Chuck said looking green.
"He didn't?" She half said half asked.
"He did. He made a game out of it. He would go after the ones that were the most afraid and then he would…" Chuck couldn't finish saying it.
"For how long?" Sarah asked as the tears pooled in her eyes.
"I'm guessing from the start of the program till it was disbanded. So for about five years." Chuck said fighting the bile in his throat.
"How could someone do something like that? I'm mean I've done some very bad things in my life but never anything even close to that. How is she even sane?" Sarah asked holding Chuck as he shook with rage.
"I wanted to hurt him so bad Sarah. I cut his face with my knife and I wanted to do more. I could see it in my head. The things I wanted to do to him I mean. I didn't really have to try to be scary in that room. I was close to killing him very slowly. I have no remorse for the tings we did to that sick fuck. Not even a little bit. And I think that's what scared me the most. I wanted to do more. So much more. I flashed on things I didn't even know I had in my head. The Intersect was combining the fighting skills I know with my knowledge of the human anatomy, and knife skills I learned. It was giving me suggestions about how to cause the most pain while inflecting the lest amount of damage so I could make it last longer. When Anna took over I felt both relief and disappointment. Relief that I didn't have to do those things and disappointment because I wanted to." Chuck said shaking with fear.
"It's okay Chuck. I would have done a lot worse. I don't know if I could have stopped. I know I've done things to people like him before. Things that I never put in my file, and things I don't want to tell you." She said shivering at the memory.
"I feel dirty." Chuck said.
"Then let me make you feel better." She said kissing him.
A half hour later Anna was walking around Castle looking for Chuck and Sarah. It was twenty minutes to one and they said they wanted to get there at one. She heard a sound coming from down a hallway and followed it. The further she went the louder the sound got. She wasn't sure what the sound was. A mix between a banging and a squeaking. She turned a corner and saw the door to one of the holding cells was open. She was about to look in the room when she heard the distinct sound of a woman moaning. She was confused for a split second before she heard Sarah yell out "Oh God. Harder Chuck!" She blushed and smirked before she walked back down the hall. She found an intercom panel on the wall and leaned on the wall next to it. She look down at her watch and waited. Five minutes later, when the bumping stopped she hit the intercom button.
"Excuse me, but it's about ten minutes to one and we are late." She said. She smiled when she heard Chuck say 'Crap' and started counting in her head. She only got to 48 before Chuck came running down the hall buttoning his shirt.
"Sorry about that. We lost track of time." He said running his hands over his wrinkled shirt. Sarah came down the hall next and the only sign of their love making was her messy hair.
"It is fine. It happens sometimes. After all it's hard to keep track of the time and keep it hard and on track at the same time." Anna said smirking as she walked away.
"Well it seams like we keep getting busted by our team." Sarah said smirking.
"I don't really care if they keep catching us, we're on our honeymoon after all. Isn't that what people do on their honeymoon?" Chuck said as he picked up the bottle of hair coloring and handed it to Sarah.
"True. I know we really need to get away after this mission and have a real honeymoon. I'm thinking somewhere like the south of France, or the Amalfia cost." Sarah said adding gray on the sides of his temples, and in two strips down eater side of his chin. "You look good, very distinguished, and Connery-esq." She said.
"Proving I'll still have it in thirty years." Chuck said with a smirk.
"Come on Mr. Bond it's time for the mission." She said pushing him down the hall towards the front door.
The three of them arrived at the parking garage at a little after one thanks to Chuck's new driving skills and the performance tune up Sarah put on his Mustang. Chuck entered the garage doing 60 and kept up the speed by drifting the four right Angel turns and coming very close to a few parked cars and a pillar or two. When he slid to a stop in front of the van and the Dodge Charger Sarah and Anna both jumped out of the car looking a little green. Anna looked at Chuck like he was crazy. "I get ride back to my hotel from someone else!" She yelled in Russian.
Casey laughed at her. "It couldn't have been that bad." He said looking at Chuck, who was looking very innocent at the moment.
"It was Casey. I'm tempted to not ride with him either. I've been taught to drive aggressively and I don't know half of the things he just did. I was sure he was going to hit that parked car taking the hairpin turn coming off the expressway doing 110 without any lights on." Sarah said looking at Chuck like we was nuts too.
"Well I didn't want to attract any attention to us. It's a black car in the middle of the night. No one even saw us." Chuck defended.
"Wow. You even spooked Walker. That's some kind of achievement son." Casey said patting Chuck on the back.
"I know. I'm quite proud of myself. The car handles like a dream honey. Thank you for buying it for me. I love it." Chuck said running his hand along the fender.
"So the car gets an I love you but I don't?" Sarah asked smiling.
Chuck walked around the car and pulled her into a heart stopping kiss against the side of the car. "I love you more then life itself. Don't ever think I don't. I'm just very happy with Sarah the Mustang." Chuck said.
"Sarah? You're naming the car Sarah?" She asked.
"Sure, she is the Boss Lady after all. Besides, she's sleek, and sexy and has all the right curves. But don't let her beauty fool you, she's got some real muscle on her." Chuck whispered in her ear as his hands found their rightful places. His right hand tAngeld in the hair at the back of her head and his left hand firmly on her ass.
"Um, I hate to break this up but we have a mission to plan for?" Melissa said.
"Fine but after that I think me and the misses are driving up to the roof to christen the Boss Lady." Chuck looking Sarah in the eye with his wolfish smile.
"My god, how can you still be horny? They were just going at it before we came here." Anna said from her spot next to Melissa.
"Wow, good going boss! Twice in one day!" Melissa said giving him the thumbs up.
"Four time actually." Chuck said smiling.
"For you maybe, it's been like six for me" Sarah said smirking.
"I really didn't need to know that." Casey said face palming.
"Hey we're on our honeymoon people! Need I remind you that we just got married last week?" Chuck said.
"Yeah, we know. Now can we get back to the mission at hand?" Casey asked tossing a blueprint of the garage on to the hood of Chuck's car.
"HEY!" Chuck said snatching them off and giving Casey a dirty look. "Hands off the Car! She's fragile." Chuck said caressing the hood looking for scratches.
"Sorry, but it's not like I blew it up. I just used it as a table." Casey said smirking.
Chuck laughed. "Your never going to let me live that one down are you?" Chuck asked.
"No." Casey said giving Chuck the death glare.
"Melissa, I'm putting you in charge of finding Casey a replacement car. He'll give you all the specs. Money is no object." Chuck said.
"I'll start looking tomorrow boss." Melissa said excitedly.
"Now back to the mission." Chuck said as he turned around and toss the blueprints onto the hood of the Charger. "I'm supposed to meet these people right over there by that pillar. I want Victor's Mercedes S500 parked right there. Where is it?" Chuck asked looking around.
"I left it on the first floor Agent Carmichael." Jenifer said holing up the keys.
"Well park it over there when we're done here. I want Casey and Alex in the van on the first floor right here by the ramp. They're team one. Team two is Richard and Victoria in the Charger, I want them parked right here on the third floor with the engine running, and tactical weapons. Guys I'd go with an MP5 or an M4, but go with your gut we have a few of both in the van. I want Melissa and Jenifer in full tactical gear and weapons. I want you two in this stair well over here. I want you two to split up with one of you on the first floor and the other on the third floor. If we have a runner you'll be in place to catch them. I'll be playing the part of Victor and Anna and Sarah are going to play the part of my henchwomen. Ideally this is what's going to happen tonight, the buyers are going to pull up to Victor's car and get out. They hand over the money and when they do we'll arrest them. If more then the three people Victor said were coming to this meeting show up I want both teams to converge on our position and take them down. Hopefully we can do this peacefully and we can all go home. It's been a really long day for me and I'm looking forward to some sleep. Now are there any questions?" Chuck asked.
"Yes, I need a gun." Anna said.
"Right. I totally forgot about that. Did you have a gun on you when we knocked you out?" Chuck asked.
Everyone looked at each other not knowing what to do. Anna however didn't see the situation as being awkward. "No I did not. I was planning on drugging Sidorov and killing him slowly. Hopefully over a few days time." She said without any sign of emotion.
"Right. That makes sense. Um, what do you normally carry?" Chuck asked starting to feel the awkwardness of the whole thing.
"I don't care, as long as it's loaded." She said shrugging.
"Okay. Um Melissa, can you show your new friend to the van, and get her a gun please?" Chuck asked.
"Sure Chuck." Melissa said looping her arm with Anna's and walking to the van. "Come on let's get you a gun. You want something big or small. You're a small girl after all, but then again you are really tough." Melissa said excitedly.
Chuck looked at the remaining people still standing around. "Okay people I want this to be all over by 2:15 AM. I want to give the briefing to Beckman by three and I want to be in bed at Roark Tower by four because some of us have jobs to go to in the morning." Chuck said laughing. "Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to be indisposed for the next half hour." Chuck said jumping into his car with Sarah and peeling out up the ramp to the roof.
"Why was everyone so weird back there?" Anna said looking over the case of guns.
"Well I think the team is a little uncomfortable with the whole: we drugged you, and kidnapped you, and then now you're working with us. It's a little strange. I mean look at us. I was going to kill you earlier for hurting Chuck. Now were getting you a gun so you can back him up. I don't know what you two talked about in that room but you went from a dangerous flight risk to a trusted member of the team." Melissa said offering her a Glock19 like hers.
"How do you feel about it?" Anna asked making a face and handing the gun back.
"Chuck trusts you, so I trust you. It's that simple." Melissa said handing her a Sig229 like Chuck and Casey used.
"So you are, how you say? Chuck's man." Anna said.
"I am, I guess. He's been kind of a great addition to my life and I feel very lucky to have met him. I was like you once you know?" Melissa said.
"A rouge assassin on the run from her Government?" Anna said handing the Sig back to Melissa with a smirk.
"No silly! I was working for people that treated me like crap and took advantage of me. Then I met Chuck, and he changed all that. Now I'm a part of an elite team of spies working for the downfall of a very bad group of people." Melissa said handing her a Berretta PX4 storm.
"For me it's a little different. My whole life I've been told what to do, and how to do it. Trained to dedicate my life to Mother Russia, and for what? I have no family. I have no life. I have nothing. We lived on a military base. I watched my brothers and sisters go off on missions and never come back. I made peace with the fact that I am a tool to be used against the enemies of my Country. I knew I was going to be next. I am the last one left." Anna said sadly.
"Well not any more. You're a part of this team now. You're family now. So you have at least seven sisters and two brothers. Plus if you play your cards right you could join Charlie's Angels." Melissa said holding up her pendent.
"What is Charlie's Angels?" Anna asked attaching a silencer to her new gun.
"You've never heard of the TV show Carlie's Angels?" Melissa asked in shock.
"No. is it good?" Anna asked
"One of the best shows ever! It's about three women that were treated like crap by their bosses…"
Meanwhile upstairs Chuck and Sarah curled up on the back seat of The Boss Lady sweaty and breathing hard. "That was not your first time having sex in the back seat of a car was it?" Sarah asked with a look of pride on her face.
"It was not, bit it was the first time I've done it on leather seats." Chuck said running his hand over her naked body.
"That was not my first time either, but it was definitely the hottest time I've ever had in a car." She said blushing.
"Well if I can't be the first I might as well be the best. That's what my dad used to say. I'm pretty sure he was talking about computers though when he said it." Chuck said smirking.
Sarah thought about what he just said and started to laugh. "I'm pretty sure that was one of the strangest things I've ever heard anyone say after sex." Sarah said between laughs.
"Thank you I guess?" Chuck said with a small smile. He was about to say more when his phone rang. He picked it up and saw it was Casey. "Chuck we have eye's on the target. They just showed up in a black van." He said in his gruff voice.
"They're a bit early. Did they bring back up or are they alone?" Chuck asked sitting up.
"Looks like they're alone." Casey said.
"Good, send Anna up the stair with the key, me and Sarah will meet her in a few minutes." Chuck said getting up and pulling his pants on.
"How you wanna play this Chuck?" Sarah asked pulling her shirt back on.
"I Figure we'll talk a little bit. Feel them out. After they hand over the money we pull our guns out and have them surrender. At which point Casey will pull the van around the ramp and we'll toss them in it. If at any point they act at all threatening then I'll shoot them like I did Casey and Alex can patch them up when we get back to Castle. Either way I want to get this over with as fast as I can." Chuck said. As they made there way over to the stairs and down to the second floor. Anna came out of the shadows in the stair way and handed Chuck and Sarah ear buds.
"The Major says the go phrase is for you to tell me to hand over the keys Chuck." She said holding up the keys.
"Right, thank you Anna. Are you two ready for this." Chuck asked adopting his Russian accent half way through the sentence, and adding a predatory grin to his face.
"Lets do this Chuck." Sarah said hanging of his right arm with an airhead grin on her face.
"Da." Anna said copying her move on his left.
"Let's do this." Chuck said pushing the door open. He stumbled out into the garage laughing and talking loudly. "Come girls, lets do this meeting so we can get back to the room."
The five guys standing by the van turned to them. "Mr. S, I believe you have something for me?" The guy in front asked.
Chuck flashed on the leader of the group. His name was Jacob Cooper. He was the leader of one of those crazy Baptist churches that protested solders funerals and carried the God hates fags signs. Chuck really hated these guys. They were the lowest of the low in his book. But he kept it together and smiled. "Da, and you have payment?" Chuck asked letting go of the to girls and stumbling forwards until he was stand by the car.
"Let's see the merchandise first." Jacob said.
"It's in the trunk. Anna open the trunk." Chuck said. Anna pulled the keys out of her small handbag and popped open the trunk. Chuck waved at the stack of C4 bricks. "There you go. Now the money?" Chuck asked.
"Right. Vergil give him the bags." Jacob said.
One of the lackeys standing by the van pulled out a pair of duffle bags and tossed them at Chuck's feet. Chuck pulled the bags open and found bricks of cash. "This looks good. Anna, My Angel, toss him the Keys." Chuck said. In second both teams converged on them, with assault weapons out. Chuck smirked. "Jacob Cooper, you're under arrest for terrorist arms dealing." Chuck said. As Casey and the team slapped the cuffs on them.
After dropping the prisoners off at Castle and debriefing Beckman about the mission along with Anna's turning Chuck looked down at his watch and saw it was after four in the morning. Chuck kissed his wife good bye, and hopped into a cab with Kate and Melissa. When they got back to the apartment Melissa handed Chuck Kate's Angel. "I think she earned this, don't you?" She said.
"Yes I think she has." Chuck said clasping the chain around Kate's neck.
"Thank you Chuck. You have no idea what this means to me." She said misty eyed.
Chuck pulled her into his chest and kissed her forehead. "I know. Now it's late, lets get some rest." Chuck said.
Melissa grabbed some stuff. "I'm going to go sleep down stairs in Sam's apartment. I'll see you in the morning. Good night you two." She said walking out.
"Chuck, Can you help me with this zipper?" She asked turning around in his arms.
"Sure." He said pull it down. She let the straps fall off her shoulder and the dress pooled at her feet leaving her in nothing but a red lace thong.
She turned around and smiled a seductive little smile. "I seam to have forgotten my PJ's Chuck." She said in a seductive voice.
Chuck pulled a t-shirt out of his draw and slipped it over her head. "Problem solved. Now lets get some rest." He said kicking of his shoes and pants. Chuck slipped into bed and held the blanket up for her. She blushed at his rejection and nodded. She knew he would turn her down, but she had to see for herself. She slipped into bed and cuddled up to Chuck's side. Chuck wrapped his arms around her slender frame and held her close. He picked up her Angel pendent and held it in his hand. "My silver Angel. You're a lot like silver aren't you. Tarnished from years of use. But that's over now. We've taken you in and wiped all of that tarnish away. You'll never be used for your body again. The closest you'll come in the future is what we did tonight. You're an angel now. You're more then just a sex toy to be used. Your in charge. You may be my most dangerous Angel you know that right?" He asked softly as he breathed in her flowery scent.
"ME? Not Sam or Jordan?" She asked shocked.
"After next week you'll have all of their skills and more. But you have something they don't have." Chuck said smiling.
"What?"
"Remember the first thing I told you?" Chuck asked.
"That I was a thirteen." She said blushing.
"Still true. The fact that your six feet tall, super model stunning, and you have a cute accent. The fact that your going to be one of the worlds most lethal killers I think adds to that hotness. The fact that you can use that to your advantage is scary. You had Victor so crazy tonight that Anna's not going to have much fun with him because he's sing like a canary. You're going to have to do something nice for our newest Angel. You took away all her fun." Chuck said letting go of her pendent and laying his hands on her flat mid section.
"I thought I was the newest Angel?" she said with a pout.
"Kate you've always been one of my Angels. From the second I saw you and heard your story I wanted to protect you. Like Melissa I've amended the plan for my future to include you ladies." Chuck said smiling.
"Maybe I can get her Angel for her. Like Melissa got mine for me. I'm thinking tungsten." Kate said.
"Tungsten?" Chuck asked.
"It's the hardest metal in the world. And for Anna to make it to the age of 22 means she's made of some pretty strong stuff." Kate said sadly.
"She is something isn't she? I thought Sam had it ruff growing up. Anna never had a family at all. She's going to need a lot of love and support from her fellow Angels. I'm going to talk to my head Angel about it. I want you girls to try to include her in things. She's going to resist at first but I think she'll come around in the end." Chuck said softly as he rubbed small circles on her back.
"I'll try. She's scary though. She's so young, but she's got such old eyes. And they're so cold." She said shivering.
"That's what we have to change. We have to show her that we will take care of her. She's not alone. In a lot of ways she's like Sam. Trained from a very young age, dedicated her life to the cause. In other ways she's like Sarah. Always gets the job done no matter what, always working alone." Chuck said.
"Maybe we can find her someone to love? It worked for Sarah right?" Kate asked.
"It did. But she was looking for love when she met me. She didn't know it at the time but she was. I don't think Anna is looking for love. I don't even think she knows what love is. I think we need to show her what family is first, then we can start working on her love life." Chuck said laughing. She yawned. "It's late. We need to get some sleep. Good night my tall Angel." Chuck said kissing the top of her head.
"Good night Charlie." She said burying herself into him.