AN!: I just wanted to cover some questions/comments. First off I would like to say I wrote this story over the course of two-ish years. Every time I ran out of ideas for one of my other stories I would sit down an pen out another half chapter of this story. I saying this now because it never occurred to me how much extra marital sexual touching is in this story. With that being said I still don't think it's as bad as some people think it is because you guys are forgetting one key piece of information. Chuck has split personality disorder. He's two very different people. When he's anywhere but with Sarah at Castle he's a totally different man. I know you guys are going to call bull shit on that fact but later in the story this is a very key fact that really brings the story together. Chuck is only "Chuck" when he's with his wife, or when one of the Angels are crying on him and he's talking to them like a little sister. Any other time he's "Carmichael" and he could care less if he touches some woman, he's not married. He has no wife waiting for him at home. He's everything Chuck wishes he could be but he's too shy to be. Too weak to be. Too Chuck to be. And every time Carmichael does something worse, like rounding second base with Melissa that first night, or talking to Roark and acting like his friend even though he knows the man killed his parents. Everything not as bad before that becomes Okay to him. Later as he does more violent things and more agent type things in the chapters to come, barely touching some needy women and making her get off is not even going to faze him. Like I said if you can get to the end of this you'll see this will cause him some real problems. I know things are coming up roses for him at every turn but you have to keep looking at the big picture. The more Carmichael does the harder it's going to be for Chuck to be Chuck.
As for the sleeping with the Angels thing, that part didn't even register with me until I got the reviews and PM's. I guess I'm more of a tactile person but cuddling up to someone really doesn't faze me. He's not doing it in an incorporate way, and all of the Angels really need to it. In fact when Carmichael isn't feeling them up inappropriately Chuck treats them all like he does his sister, and we all know how tactile Ellie is. Haven't you ever held someone when they needed it? And Sarah knows about that part, remember the conversation she had with Melissa the first time they meet in Castle? She said Chuck was going to spend his time comforting the female agents on the team. Because that's the kind of guy chuck is. There's nothing inappropriate with that and if Sarah was the least bit comforting and Casey or someone other male agent on the team was in as bad of a situation as the Angels then Chuck would have absolutely no problem with the reverse situation. In fact in a few chapters the team goes on a mission where both Carmichael and Sarah have to seduce someone and Chuck doesn't even bat an eye. This isn't even that bad. This in sleeping with someone. Spooning, not Forking! :) so relax and see where we go from here. Things get more and less fun for Chuck, Sarah, and the whole team.
Chapter 22,
Chuck was shook awake by Melissa the next morning. "Get up Chuck, it's almost ten." She said.
Chuck came too holding Kate tightly around the waist with his leg thrown over her hip. "Why do I have to get up? It's nice and warm in bed. Come on join us Melissa." Chuck said
"Yeah. Come to bed. I'm still tiered." Kate said.
"We can't. We have a lot of work to do today. I have to go back to Castle and help them look over the files on the drive. And Chuck has to keep working on the download so he can zap us next week. Plus Sam is getting back today with Carina. Lets go, get up." She said pulling Chuck out of bed.
"Fine. But I want bacon if I have to get out of bed." Chuck said with a pout as he stumbled into the bathroom.
"You'll get bacon. Now get your ass dressed." She said pulling out a gray three piece suit for him, a light blue shirt, and gray tie. "Your clothes are on the bed." She said through the bathroom door. She came around the other side of the bed and brushed Kate's hair back. "How are you feeling?" She asked with a big smile.
"Special, and loved." She said blushing.
"I know the feeling. Come on, lets get you out of bed and get some food in your belly." She said pulling Kate out of bed and handing her a bath robe.
A little while later Chuck came out of the bedroom tying his tie. When he sat at the table Melissa put a plate of French toast with Bacon and eggs in front of him. "Thanks Melissa, this looks great." He said digging into his bacon.
"You're very welcome Chuck." She said with a smirk.
Chuck looked over at Kate and smiled. "Did you sleep okay last night? I tend to snore if I'm really tired like last night." Chuck said smiling.
"No, it was perfect. I liked it very much Chuck. Best night's sleep I've had in a long time." She said blushing.
"Well I'm glad some one got some sleep last night. Before I forget, was there anything you needed Chuck? I'm going to be out most of the day, I'll bring you lunch around two." She said stealing a piece of French toast off his plate with a smirk.
"Not that I can think of, oh! Can you make me dinner reservations for two at a nice place Jordan might like? I owe her a night off from Ted and I figured I'd do it tonight. In less you had something planed for us?" Chuck asked.
"I'll ask her about it later when I come to the office." She said.
"Good. I'll see you later then." Chuck said as he stood up from the table. He kissed Kate on top of her head and Melissa on the cheek before taking his bag and walking out.
Chuck spent the day downloading everything he could into his brain. He had the speed just right now and he was working out a brain level test that would determine the downloading speed needed for the rest of the team. It was mind numbing work, and Melissa spent most of her time sitting at Chuck's desk watching moves or playing video games.
Later that night he took Jordan out to dinner. For the most part it was a very relaxed evening for both of them. Chuck took the time to get to know his oldest Angel and Jordan soaked up the feeling of a normal date. She was also very happy that she wouldn't have to spend the night with Roark. That night after dinner they went back to Chuck's apartment. Melissa was spending the night with Sam and Kate so they had the apartment to themselves. "Have a seat on the couch. I'll get everything ready in just a few minutes." Chuck said as he plugged his computer into his big ass TV.
"What are we doing?" Jordan asked.
"I thought it would be nice to continue the relaxing feel of the night by watching a movie." He said bringing up the movie he downloaded earlier.
"What are we watching?" She asked sitting back on the couch.
"Melissa told me you liked the classics. So I downloaded Sabrina." Chuck said hitting play.
"I Love That Movie!" Jordan said excitedly.
"I know." Chuck said uncorking a bottle of red wine and grabbing two glasses. He filled one and handed it to her. "Your drink." He said. He then sat down next to her on the couch and pulled her legs up into his lap, and started massaging her feet.
"Oh Chuck, this is perfect." She said relaxing back deeper into the couch.
"I like taking care of you girls." Chuck said working on her feet and legs.
When the movie was over Chuck lead her to the bedroom and handed her a t-shirt. "You can change in the bathroom if you'd like." Chuck said getting undressed. By now it was becoming second nature to get undressed in front of a woman.
"That's okay, we're both adults here." She said letting her black dress fall to the floor showing off her insanely tight body incased in a black silk bra and thong set. Chuck also saw the bruising on her back and her ass. Chuck felt rage flow through him as he though about how she could have gotten those bruises. She turned around and unhooked her bra dropping it next to her dress. She pulled the t-shirt on and slipped under the covers next to him.
Chuck reached over and shut the light off. "Good night Jordan." He said softly.
"Chuck," She asked in the darkness of the room.
"Yes?" He asked sliding closer to her.
"Can you hold me please?" She asked just above a whisper.
"Of course I can Jordan." Chuck said sliding up behind her and pulling her to him. He felt her tense up at first and then, slowly she relaxed back into him. A few seconds later he felt her start to shake. "Jordan?" He asked softly. That's when the sob escaped her clenched jaw. "Oh Jordan. Let it out. I've got you. You're safe with me." Chuck said clutching her tightly to him as her body was rocked with sobs. The whole time he held her tightly to his chest and brushed his fingers through her hair the way Ellie liked. After a few minutes she stopped shaking and tried to pull away. "No, Jordan. It's okay, just relax, I've got you. You don't need to pull away. Just stay with me. I'll try everything in my power to make the hurt go away. To make the heart ach stop. Just let me." He said kissing her on the neck, and rubbing her side.
"Chuck, can you… can you please make love to me?" She asked softly.
"I can't Jordan, but a can make you feel loved." Chuck said softly. Kissing her on the shoulder.
"Please, Chuck. What ever you can do to make me feel human again." She said crying again.
Chuck rolled her over and kissed her. The kiss was long and full of love and passion. He trailed little kisses down her chin to her neck. He laid on top of her kissing her and running his hands through her hair. He broke the kiss. "I can't give you what you need, but I can make you feel pampered." Chuck said rolling her over. He started rubbing her neck. Rubbing the tension and stress out of her. When he was done with her neck he moved down to her shoulders. As he worked he felt her relax more and more. "Jordan I need to pull off the t-shirt." he said. She sat up a little and Chuck pulled the shirt off her head. He then went back to her shoulders. When he moved down her back she sighed softly. Chuck kept at his task until he worked over all of her back and arms. By then she was purring softly. Chuck rolled her over onto her side and spooned up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, and tossed a leg over her thigh. "Jordan. I love you very much. We all love you very much." Chuck said softly.
"I love you too Chuck." She sighed as she fell asleep.
Melissa slipped into the apartment just as the sun was coming up. She saw the wine glasses on the table and shook her head with a smile. Chuck really knew how to wine and dine them. However her smile slipped a little when she saw Jordan topless in bed with Chuck, and disappeared when she saw Chuck clutching Jordan's bare breast. "Jordan." She whispered waking the older woman. "Slide out of the bed nice and slow." She said holding out the shirt she had on last night. Jordan blushed when she saw Chuck's hand, and slipped out of bed as carefully as she could. She took the shirt and slipped it over her head. She followed Melissa out and watched as she shut the door. "What happened last night?" Melissa asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I, well, I may have had a bit of an emotional breakdown last night. He held me and massaged my back and I fell asleep in his arms." Jordan said turning red.
"No," Melissa said crossing her arms. "You don't blush like that for a massage, and some cuddling. Not even topless. What did you do?" Melissa asked.
"I Don't like your tone, and why do you assume I did anything?" Jordan asked indigently.
"Because you're red, and acting defensive. Plus Chuck wouldn't do anything. You asked him to have sex with you, didn't you?" Melissa asked with knowing eyes.
Jordan looked down. "I did not!" she said but then she looked down and turned red "I did." She said feeling shame.
"It's okay. I can see it happening to someone in your shoes. It's a heady emotional high to be in that position. Being held in loving arms after close to a year of being used by that animal, but Chuck would never do it. You have to understand that." Melissa said leading the other woman to a chair by the table.
"I know. I don't even know why I asked in the first place. I was afraid he was going to kick me out of bed last night. I don't know if I could have taken that kind of rejection at this point." Jordan said softly.
"Chuck would never do that to you. He's the most understanding man I've ever met." Melissa said hugging her around the shoulders. "And if you ever need to feel loved you just come up and lay with him. He will hold you and kiss you, and make you feel special. And if you ever need to get fucked come to me and I'll make you cum till your eyes pop out." Melissa said smirking as she kissed Jordan's neck.
Jordan shot out of the chair. "Um.. No that's. um, no thank you. I um, I don't, you know, swing that way. Not that I'm judging you or anything. I just. I, I like boys?" Jordan said tongue tide.
Melissa held it together just long enough for her to finish her ramble before she lost it and started laughing. "I know that silly." She said in between giggles.
Jordan went form unsure to angry in a split second. "I'm Going To Kill You!" She said lunging at Melissa.
Melissa saw it coming and ran for the bedroom. She pulled open the door and dove into bed with a half awake Chuck. "Chuck! You have to protect me from her." She said pointing to Jordan as she ran into the room.
Chuck took one look between the two and then turned to Melissa. "What did you do?" He asked smirking.
"Nothing." She said looking innocent. Chuck raised an eyebrow and she smirked. "Okay, I might have made a really dirty pass at her and then laughed when she tried to reject me." She said smirking.
"Right. It's way too early for us to be up. Jordan come back to bed." Chuck said holding up the blanket for her.
"I really think I should go work out or something." Jordan said blushing as she thought about last night.
"I don't, get your ass in bed. It's way too early." Chuck said waving her over.
"Okay. I'll stay." She said slipping into bed with them.
"Good." Chuck said rolling up to her and pulling her to him. "And you, trouble maker. Get in too. We don't need to be at work for a long time yet." Chuck said reaching behind him for Melissa and pulling her into his back. "Now let's get some sleep." Chuck said kissing Jordan on the shoulder.
They slept in late and ended up not getting to the office until after ten. They walked in together and Chuck Kissed Jordan in the lobby before they split up to go their separate ways. When Jordan walked into Ted's office she saw the smirk on his face. "You're late. Carmichael must have kept you up last night." He said.
"You have no idea. The man is insatiable." She said blushing to sell the lie.
"Good, keep him happy and we'll have the Intersect up and running soon. I see more of myself in that guy every day. Hell I might even be proud of him." Ted said smacking Jordan on the ass as she handed him a stack of files. Jordan barely held in her need to rip his arm off and beat him to death with it.
Chuck spent the rest of the day loading anything he might have missed into his head. He then went over every skill he downloaded and weighed the pros and cons. If the skill was useful for the up coming missions then he wrote it down on a list. by the end of the day he had a good list of skills he wanted every member of the team to get. He handed Melissa the list.
"Look this over and see if you can spot something useless." He said.
Melissa looked at the legal pad he handed her.
The top 13 languages spoken in the world
Driving skills
10 fighting styles
Lock picking
Safe cracking
Shooting
Knife throwing
Knife fighting
Sword fighting
Parcore
Gymnastics
Skiing
Snowboarding
The CIA Spy craft handbook
Stealth
Dancing
Bomb construction and disarming
Three different sex guides
Rock climbing
Hacking
Skydiving
Flying
Survival skills
"This looks good to me, but you missed a few things. You told me that thing you did to Jordan the other day at breakfast when you put her on her ass was a mix of fighting and acupuncture. You might want to think about the fastest way to put someone down and add the other skills you use for it." She said handing the list back to him.
"You're right. I forgot about that. I also want you all to have the full Fulcrum agent list uploaded so you guys can spot a threat." Chuck said stretching.
"That's a good idea Chuck." She said standing up.
"Lets get out of here. What are we doing tonight?" Chuck said tossing things into his bag.
"Your taking me, Kate, and Sam out to dinner. Or your car and our phones are going out to dinner. We are going to Castle for a mission briefing." Melissa said.
"Right. I can also spend some time with my wife. Let's pick up the girls and get some pizza." Chuck said heading to the elevator.
Sarah was feeling off all day. She slept in late. She stepped on the bar of soap in the shower and took a fall that almost killed her. She got strawberry jelly on her favorite gray top, and lastly, when she got to Castle she found out she had nothing to do. Anna was torturing all of the information she could out of Sidorov. Casey was spending the day with Major Snow and his family. Victoria and Richard were working with Melissa over the phone to coordinate the fake date they were going to have later. Jenifer was out shopping for clothes to better blend in with the crowd in LA. Alex was reviewing financial records, and Carina was looking over Fulcrum files trying to pin down the people looking after Bobby in the conference room, or at least they was trying to. Sarah kept pacing back and forth and distracting the two. On her fifth pass Alex looked up. "Was there something you needed Agent Walker?" She asked.
"Yes, no… I don't know. I, I have nothing to do and I need something to do." She mumbled as she kept pacing.
"Just ignore her. She's got a craving for Chuck. She needs to get laid real bad." Carina said without looking up.
"I Do Not!" Sarah said stopping in her tracks. Carina raised an eyebrow. "Okay. So maybe I do, but it's more then that. For the last two days I've been clumsy, and out of it. I have no idea what's wrong with me." She said plopping down in a chair at the table, or at lest she tried to, she ended up missing the chair, losing her balance, and falling on her ass. "SEE! THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!" She screamed in frustration.
Alex shot out of her seat and helped her up. "You said this started happening yesterday?" She asked looking her over with a flashlight she pulled off the shelf.
"Yes and it keeps getting worse." Sarah said rubbing her hip.
"Well, you don't have any signs of brain trauma, or an ear infection. Can you stand up for me?" She said making Sarah stand with her arms out to the side. "Do you feel dizzy?" She asked as she slowly pulled on her left arm making her lean over.
"No, not at all." Sarah said starting to get worried.
"Then it's not your balance. Huh?" Alex said motioning for her to take a seat again. "Is there something you can do that almost no one else can?" Alex asked.
"What do you mean?" Sarah asked.
"Like a skill, you know, like throw a ball really hard, or play darts, or something like that?" She asked looking puzzled.
"She can throw a knife like no one else." Carina said coming over to see what was going on.
"Okay." Alex said grabbing a zipplock bag of trail mix off the table and a roll of tape. She stuck the bag to the wall opposite where they were sitting and stood back. "Hit the bag." She said.
"Okay, but I don't see what this will prove." Sarah said pulling a small knife out of her boot and threw it at the bag. The knife landed three inches away from the bag and dented the metal wall.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?" Carina yelled.
"It's what I thought." Alex said shaking her head.
"What!? Am I dieing!?" Sarah asked panicked.
"No, but you definitely have a case of the yips." Alex said picking up the knife.
"The yips?" What the hell is that?" Sarah asked.
"It's the yips. You've never heard of the yips before?" Carina asked smirking.
"No. is it bad? Can I take something for it?" Sarah asked.
"No. The yips is when an athlete falls off their game. They start over thinking things and they can't do simple things like throw a tight spiral or hit a ball. For some players it just effects their game on the field, but a bad case can make the player clumsy, and feel disoriented. You must have them real bad." Alex said
"But I'm not an athlete." Sarah said.
"In a way you are. It's just your sport is field work." Carina said deep in thought.
"But I can't have the yips. This is crazy." Sarah said.
"There's a way we can test this you know?" Alex said.
"How?" Sarah asked.
"We set up a bunch of tests and if you fail most of them you've got the yips." She said. "So far you failed one test. Knife throwing. What else are you good at?" She said picking up a note pad and drawing two columns.
Two hours later Carina, Alex, Casey, Major Snow, Anna, Richard, Jennifer, and Victoria were standing on the roof of the Orange-Orange watching Sarah fail to make the sharp left turn into the alley behind the Buy More and almost hit a Nerd Herder. She spun out skidding to a halt next to the loading dock. She came around the parking lot slowly and parked in her spot. When she walked into Castle she looked sad. "How bad is it?" She asked.
"Well you passed the advanced hand to hand combat test." Alex said with a happy smile. "But you failed the knife throw, the handgun test, the assault weapons test, the lie detector test, and you almost wrecked your car in the parking lot." Alex said which set Carina off.
"Laugh it up bitch. This is the only time you'll be better then me." Sarah said throwing a pen at her which sailed clear over her head and almost hit Anna. "Sorry." She said looking sad. "How can I break this?" She said.
"It's different for everyone. One time, when I was playing softball in college I got a case of the yips and they lasted two games. Then I get hit by a pitch in my first at bat on the third game and went on to hit two homeruns. Then again I knew this one girl that got them so bad she broke her leg sliding into third base and never played again." Alex said.
"Great, so all I have to do is get hit by a pitch." Sarah said letting her head droop onto the table top.
"What you need is a mission Walker." Casey said. "When was the last time you were out in the field?" Casey asked thinking.
"What are you talking about? We had a mission two night's ago?" She said.
"No I mean a real mission that required you to do some real work. It was before the holidays. You haven't had to think on your toes since before Chuck went undercover. Since then Chuck's been doing almost all of the planning." Casey said.
"Do you really think that could be it?" she asked looking hopeful.
"Yes, I really do. You're not used to down time. Maybe Chuck will have something for you. He'll be here for the briefing soon. I have a three man tactical team making the car exchange right now." Casey said.
"You're right. I just need to get out in the field again." She said with hope in her eyes.
Chuck, Sam, Kate, and Melissa showed up a few minutes later carrying a big stack of pizza boxes. "I Brought Dinner!" Chuck said dropping the boxes on the conference table. "I figured we could eat while we talked out the missions. We have 36 target location spread out over 10 cities so I grouped the mission files together by city, and assigned a team member to each city based on skills and experience. If I got it wrong and someone else would be better suited then speak up and tell me. I'll make adjustments to the plan. Are we all on board so far?" Chuck asked and got a lot of head nods. "Good we are going to start with D.C. first. There are 9 target locations in and around the D.C. area." Chuck said pulling up a file marked D.C. and clicking on target 1. "Now I assigned my wife to this location because one of the targets is a sleeper agent on the President's protection detail, and she has friends on the PPD. That's target one. Target two is this warehouse that is used for weapons storage. Targets 3&4 are two offices in this building. They are fronts for agents. Every person working there is a Fulcrum agent, but most of them are annalists so after you shoot a few agents they should come quietly. Targets 5&6 are this dock, and this warehouse. They are the import and illegal trade ports. Target 7 if this up scale manor house. Most of fulcrum high command live here so expect a lot of resistance. Target 8 is this office that houses their spying station for the Pentagon. Target 9 is a hanger with two Blackhawk helicopters and two G6 jets. This location just needs to be secured. When I was first making these files we only had nine team members, but with you three we have a lot more fire power then I first thought, because of this I would also like to assign Casey to help out with the D.C. mission. I figured you could start the day off by picking Bobby up and then shooting the sleeper agent before he goes to work." Chuck said.
"I like it. It's clean, and well planed." Sarah said smiling.
"I can see why you would want the two of us in D.C. are any of the other missions as bad as this?" Casey asked.
"Yes, and no. target wise this it the worst, but a few of the other mission come with their own set of problems. Like the New York mission headed up by Sam. This has 6 targets spread out over three burrows. It's a total pain in the ass to get to a few of them. Starting with target 1 which is this office building in Queens. It's a small building housing an accounting firm. The kicker is none of the employees have accounting degrees. It's a logistics center for the east coast. a few guards and about forty computer geeks. Target two is this warehouse containing everything from a tactical response team to a few tanks. The worst part about this place is it's right next to a few other warehouses full of very expansive import/export business so we can't blow it up. Target 3 is an old underground subway station used as a black site for prisoners. This place is big and there are only a few entry points, but it looks like it's rarely used. Target 4 is this hotel used as a front for their drug trade. Figure everyone in the place is ether a Fulcrum agent or junky, or a hooker on the payroll. NYPD Vice is going to have a field day with this place. Target 5 is the hardest of the hard. It's this factory in Staten Island that houses the Fulcrum training and shooting range like the one here in L.A. but if you think you could take it out easier by blowing it up go right ahead, the area is pretty dead. And lastly target 6 is a hanger with two Harriers, and a G6." Chuck said.
"Shit Chuck, way to throw a girl right in to the fire." Sam said looking a little pale.
"That's why you're getting help. Take Jen, Rick, or Vicky with you." Chuck said pointing to the three new comers.
"I would like to go, I have a brother on the NYPD SWAT team that can help us with the mission." Rick said.
"Good, Anna, you're going to handle Scott's extraction, but if I gave you some help could you handle the other two targets here in L.A.?" Chuck asked.
"What are the targets?" She asked sitting up in her seat.
"Well we have target one being this warehouse/shooting range and this hanger housing two G6 jets and three Blackhawk choppers is target two." Chuck said bringing up the plans for the two targets.
"Da. I will take the tall blond." She said.
Victoria smirked. "I Guess she's talking about me?" She said.
"Okay then it's settled. Moving right along we have Boston. There are 3 targets in Boston. I would like Major Snow to head up this mission. Target 1 is a warehouse full of guns and bad guys. Target 2 is this office building full of computer geeks, and target 3 is this hanger with a G6. You don't need any help with this I'm guessing?" Chuck asked.
"No I think I got that. Hell I got off light it looks like." He said.
"Carina, I need you in Austin Texas. Fulcrum has two drug processing plants there. I need you to team up with local DEA and hit them both." Chuck said pulling up the two locations.
"Can do Chuck." She said winking.
"Good, I knew I could count on you. Melissa. I need you to go back home to Chicago. Fulcrum set up 5 locations in the city. Target 1 is this office in the downtown Loop it houses the logistics guys and a few agents. Target two is this Warehouse next to O'Hair airport. They use this place to ship things back and forth between the east and the west coast. Target 3 is this factory it looks like a supply house. Target 4 is this Hotel that houses their drug trade, and hookers. The last target is this hanger with a G6 in Midway airport. Not too hard but I would take some help." Chuck said smiling.
"That's okay Chuck, I have some family on the Chicago PD. I think I'll call in a few favors my cousin owes me." She said smiling.
"I would still like you to take Jenifer with you. It's better to be over prepared." Chuck said.
"Okay, Chuck. This could be fun." She said bumping shoulder with Jenifer.
"Okay. Alex, you're going to the city of brotherly love. Bring back cheese stake sandwiches will you?" Chuck asked
"That depends on if you make me work hard Chuck." She said laughing.
"Not too hard. 3 targets only. A warehouse, a dock, and this hotel where they run drugs and hookers. So am I getting a sandwich?" Chuck asked.
"If I have time I'll pick you up some." She said looking at the blueprints.
"Now that's what I'm talking about. Kate, have you ever traveled to the Mile high city?" Chuck asked opening the Denver file.
"No I can't say that I have." She said looking at the file.
"Well you will in two weeks. 2 target locations. This warehouse and this office building." Chuck said bringing up the building plans.
"Not too bad." She said excitedly.
"with those missions covered we only have two left. This building in the Nevada desert could be nothing, or it could be a secret underground base full of guys. The problem is I just don't know. I think we send a tactical team to scout it out and the first person finished with their missions should go there and lead the team. If it turns out to be something bigger we will hold position and everyone will converge on the target." Chuck said bringing up the almost empty file. "This last mission is going to go to Morgan. I'm going to upload him next week and I'm sure he'll be ready to go by the time of the mission. He only has one target, but it's very important. He's going to hit this air base on the Mexican border. It houses a B1-B bomber and with a nuclear cruse missile on board. If however you think he is not ready for the mission by then we will switch out Victoria for him and send her down there to get the plane. I read her file and saw she had some experience with nuclear tomahawks." Chuck said.
"Do you really think you could trust Morgan with a nuclear missile?" Sarah asked.
"I do. He's one of the most trust worthy guys I know and I know with a intersect download he could pull it off. In fact a want all of you guys to get a download. Not a full one like I got but at least the Fulcrum personnel file and the mission files so you guys can lead your team through the building without getting lost and be able to spot agents in a crowd. I think it would also be a good idea for you all to pick through the master list I'm uploading into Melissa, Morgan, and Kate. You guys all saw what I could do, I think it's crazy to not take advantage of the skills you could gain." Chuck said.
"I don't know Chuck, won't it fry our brains?" Casey asked.
"No, it's all about the download speed. I am in the process of writing a program that will help us find your download speed. I should have it done by Sunday. I also need a few things. I got the list right here. Two dentist chairs. Tube steal. Six 20" computer monitors. Two RI 3000 series towers. A grinder and welding gear." Chuck said reading off the list. "I need all of those things by tomorrow night."
Everyone broke up at about nine and Chuck dragged Sarah into holding cell three for a little alone time. They made the car switch at just before eleven and they all piled into bed by midnight.
Saturday morning Chuck awoke to someone elbowing him in the chest. "Oh. Who did that?" He asked looking around. He was laying under three women. Melissa was sleeping on his chest, Sam was hugging his left arm with her head on his shoulder and Kate was plastered to his right side with her head on Chucks pillow. He looked at the clock and stretched, waking Melissa up.
"Hay, why did you move for, I was dreaming." She said sliding up and kissing him in the chin.
"I had to, my whole body is asleep. I can't feel anything. I have to get up. It's after nine and I have to finish encoding the speed program. I want Roark to see me working hard on the weekends so he wont question where we go tonight. I have to build the two downloading stations tonight." Chuck said.
"Why are you two talking? You woke me up with your chitchatting." Sam said.
"Me too. I was having a very nice dream thank you very much." Kate said stretching out her long frame and pulling down the dress shirt she took from Chuck last night.
"Come on lets get up and have some breakfast." Chuck said sitting up.
"Okay, but I want bacon." Melissa said rolling off Chuck so he could get up,
Twenty minuets later Chuck was dressed in the blue pants and vest from the suit with the bullet hole in it. "Do I have to go in to work with you today or can I lounge around the apartment all day?" Melissa asked munching on bacon.
"I don't see why you would need to be there. If I needed anything I could just ask Jordan for it." Chuck said cutting his waffles.
"You could always come shopping with me." Kate said. "I Need more clothes now that I'm staying in L.A."
"I Guess I could tag along if both of you are going." Sam said.
"So all of you are going out shopping and having fun, but I have to go to work?" Chuck said
"Yep, sucks to be you Chuck." Melissa said.
"Life is totally not fair." Chuck said. He didn't know how true those words were. At lest not until Ted showed up at his office door and insisted they go out to dinner on a double date with Jordan and Melissa. Dinner that night turned out to be not so bad considering two people at the table wanted to kill Ted and the third wanted to help. Dinner dragged on until nine and by the time Chuck made it to Castle it was close to ten.
Sarah was waiting for him at the door to Castle. Chuck pulled her into a heart stopping kiss. "I've missed you Mrs. Carmichael. It's been almost a whole day." He said looking her in the eyes with his wolfish grin. "I have a lot of work to do tonight, but I think I can spare an hour for a little us time. What do you say Mrs. Carmichael, would you object to spending an hour with me someplace private?" Chuck asked in a voice dripping with sex.
Sarah's knees got weak when she heard his proposal. She attacked his mouth. "I would like that very much Mr. Carmichael." Chuck picked her up and carried her off to holding cell three.
Chuck spent the rest of the night building two download chairs. The set up was simple really. A dental chair, with three monitors on a frame work that swung into place in front of your face. But it was time consuming to cut the tub steel and weld the frame together. At about midnight Melissa, Sarah, Carina, Anna, and Alex left him to go out and get something to eat. After they left him alone to work in peace Chuck lost track of time.
Chuck was roused from his sleep by the ringing of his iPhone.
"What?" He asked dumbly.
"Chuck we've got a problem." Sarah slurred out.
Chuck shot out of his seat and saw he was sleeping in one of the Intersect transfer chairs. "What's the problem?" He asked rolling his neck.
"Morgan came through the Morgan door, and Alex kicked his ass. He's laying on your bed right now knocked out, but I'm sure he saw her. This is going to be very hard to explain to him." Sarah said giggling drunkenly.
"How did you guys end up at the apartment? The last I saw of you four you were going out for something to eat." Chuck said scratching his head.
"Well the only place we could find open was a bar. We had burgers and beers and that lead to more beers which lead to a club that Melissa knew that stayed open till six in the morning. We got back to the apartment about… um I'm not even sure how we got back to the apartment to tell you the truth. I think Alex drove? She was kind of holding back on us last night I think. I know I sure as hell wasn't. Nether was Melissa and Anna. They got into a drinking contest about half way through the night. Never try and out drink a small Russian girl Chuck I'm telling you now. She can just keep putting it away. Melissa passed out at the bar and she didn't even wake up with all of the commotion in the apartment. In fact hold on." He heard Sarah yell at Alex to check if Melissa was still breathing. "Yeah she's okay. She's a very quiet sleeper." Sarah rambled on.
"Do you think you can move him without waking him up?" Chuck asked trying not to laugh. His wife was obviously a fun drunk. So were the other girls it seamed.
"No, he'll get up eventually." she said laughing. "Stop poking him Anna. He's not a toy. What!? No you can't keep him, he's Chuck's friend. No he's not Russian, I think he's some kind of Spanish. Hold on! Chuck, what kind of Spanish is Morgan? Anna want's to know. I think she likes him." Sarah asked.
"Sarah, honey can you put Alex on the phone please?" He asked holding his face.
"Did I say something bad again?" Sarah asked sadly.
"What makes you say that baby?" He asked softly he didn't want to have another fight with her over the phone.
"Because the last time you wanted to talk to someone else besides me, you was mad at me. You're not mad at me again right?" She asked close to tears.
"No honey, I'm not mad at you. I love you very much, but Morgan might be hurt and Alex has medical training. I just need to asked her some questions okay? Can you put her on the phone please?" He asked sweetly.
"Oh okay. I love you too Chuck, very much. I don't say that enough you know that? I need to say it more often. Melissa thinks I need to appreciate you more. Is she right? If she is I'm very sorry Chuck. I love very much. Hold on. Anna put his shirt back down… I don't care if he's hairy like a wolf. You put his shirt back down and leave Chuck's friend alone right now young lady! Oh really? You think you can take me!? I'M SARAH FUCKING WALKER! Alex hold this phone while I go show this little girl who I am. Come at me Bitch!" Chuck looked at the phone and didn't know what to do. On the one hand this was the weirdest conversations he'd ever had, on the other hand he was trying very hard not to laugh at it. He heard Alex tell Carina to pull the two off each other.
"Hello?" Alex asked picking up the phone off the ground.
"Alex what the hell is going on over there?" Chuck asked walking into the conference room.
"Well last night Melissa pointed out that Sarah never had a bachelorette party, so they all got really hammered last night, and went dancing. I spent most of the night keeping them out of trouble. At about four in the morning after Melissa passed out from trying to out drink Anna I asked the bartender to start watering down their drinks. I dragged them out of the club at six when they were closing the doors and cleaning up. I had some of the bouncers pack them all into the big SUV I took and brought them back here. I put Sarah in the master bedroom and Carina climbed into bed with her. She said something about them being sisters before she passed out. I put Melissa on the sofa and Anna curled up in one of the chairs in the living room. I passed out in your bed about an hour ago. I woke up when I heard someone open the window. I thought I was a burglar so I slipped out of bed and clocked him in the head with the but of my gun when he climbed into the window. That was about fifteen minutes ago." Alex said exasperated.
"Are you sure he's okay?" Chuck asked remembering that Alex carried a Blackwater Sig226. That was a big, heavy gun, and Morgan was kind of a small guy.
"Yeah, he fine. I checked him over before I got Sarah. I didn't know her contribution to the situation was to yell at me and wake the rest of the house up. How the hell was I supposed to know he's your friend? I've never even met the guy." Alex said.
"Can you bring him here without waking him up?" Chuck asked.
"I don't think so. I knocked him out about fifteen minutes ago. I'd say he's going to start coming around in about five minutes.
"Can you tranq him without causing damage to his brain?" Chuck asked pacing the conference room.
"Sure if I hit him with a .2 dart, anything more and I don't think he'll get back up." Alex said.
"Well stick him with a dart and bring him to Castle. I needed him on the team anyways. This seams like a good time to tell him what's going on. And can you tell my assistant to bring me two huge Starbucks Carmel fraps with three shots?" Chuck asked picking up his dress shirt off the chair and sniffing it. He shrugged and put it on.
"Sure I can. I don't think it's a good idea for any of the other women to come. I think they all need to sleep it off. Especially Sarah, and Carina. I'll drag Melissa out to the car, but I don't think she's going to get you anything. I'm pretty sure she's still drunk like the rest of them." Alex said.
"That's okay. Just get them here, and after I talk to Morgan I'll take everyone out to breakfast. How's that sound Alex?" He asked with a smile she could hear over the phone.
"You got yourself a deal Mr. Carmichael. I'll be there in about twenty minutes. I need to get dressed and I need to get them both out to the car." Alex said blowing out her breath thinking about that fact she had to carry someone again.
"Why don't you see if Casey is up yet and have him lug the two of them out to the car?" Chuck suggested.
"You know what, that's a good idea. I'll see you in a bit." She said hanging up.
Chuck found the rest of his clothes in interrogation room three. By the time he brushed his teeth, washed his face, and got dressed Alex opened the door to Castle and helped Melissa walk down the stairs. "Your friend is in the back seat of the black Tahoe out front." Alex said setting a tray of Starbucks on the table.
"Good job Alex, and you brought me coffee too? You're really trying to get a spot on the team permanently aren't you?" Chuck asked with a smirk.
"No I know I'm on the team. Sarah said so last night, and Carina agreed. I'm going to be the newest Cat or something. I'm not sure what they're talking about, they were pretty smashed when they said it all last night." Alex said taking a cup and sitting at the table.
"So they got their claws into you before Melissa could give you an angel huh?" Chuck asked laughing as he walked out of the room.
Alex turned to Melissa who was just coming around. "What's he talking about?"
"He's pointing out the fact that they recruited you to the C.A.T. squad before I could offer you a spot on Charlie's Angels. Which is so not fare by the way. You didn't even get a chance to be around Chuck before they got to you." Melissa said acting affronted. "Is that coffee?" Melissa asked sniffing the air.
"Yes it is. What's a Cat and what's a Charlie's Angel, you know aside from being a cat and a TV show." Alex asked handing Melissa a cup.
"C.A.T. stands for Clandestine Attack Team. And being an angel is just like the TV show except we work for Chuck. Being a C.A.T. is cool I guess but being an angel is way better." Melissa said showing Alex her angel pendent. "Of course I'm not very objective. I'm head angel after all." Melissa said savoring her dark chocolate caramel cappuccino. She was glad she was awake enough to ask Alex to get it for her. It's the only thing that helped with a hang over.
"And how did you become the Head angel?" Alex asked as they watched Chuck carrying Morgan over his shoulder headed towards one of the holding cells.
"I told Chuck and he didn't correct me." Melissa said laughing.
"So it was a hard fought position." Alex asked laughing along with her.
"Hey I made it up so I get to be head angel." Melissa said proudly. This set the both of them off again.
Chuck walked up to them and smiled. "What's so funny ladies?" He asked grabbing his coffee off the tray.
"I was just saying that it's not right for Sarah to make Alex a C.A.T. without me offering her a spot on your team as an angel. She could be the smart angel." Melissa said.
"You do know that no matter what you guys call yourselves, Angel or C.A.T. we are all on the same team right? We all work together. I'm going to look after you girls no mater what, as will the rest of us. I will say that I'm very touched by the whole Angel thing, but Melissa not every woman you meet needs to wear an Angel pendent you know? I love you guys but, at the end of the day, angel or C.A.T. we all work for the same goals as one team. With that being said I think it's way cooler to be an angel then a C.A.T." Chuck said smirking.
"That's right. The C.A.T. squad's got nothing on the angels. We're cooler, we're tougher, and we're hotter!" Melissa said striking am angel pose.
"I think you Angels have an unfair advantage over the C.A.T.s you're all either Veteran agents Like Sam, Jordan, and Anna or you have a full Intersect download like You, and Kate." Chuck said. "Plus there are five of you against Sarah, Carina, Zondra, and Alex here. Not really fair if you ask me."
"Yeah but they have your crazy Amazon wife leading them." Melissa said.
"You really don't like Sarah at all do you?" Chuck asked smirking.
"I do but I promised to keep her honest and humble. We agreed that means we can't be friends all the time. Plus we agreed that if you two ever break up I get first dibs on you.
"You are way too in to the whole angel thing. You must have really liked that show growing up didn't you?" Chuck asked laughing.
"I really did. I loved that show. When I was first approached by the NSA all I could think about was being like the women on that show. I thought I was going to go undercover and route out the bad guys. I thought I was going to be so cool. Instead I was used as a sex toy and treated like crap. So when I got the chance to be an angel I took it. I latched on to the idea and ran with it. I work for Charlie now. He gives me missions. Real, honest missions. And soon I'm going to have super secret spy skills. So I try and get more girls to join me. Just because there were three angels on the show doesn't mean there can't be more in real life." Melissa said smugly.
"Right. For the record we all think you're crazy, but we still love you, and that's what it means to be family." Chuck said slinging his arm around her shoulder.
"I know, isn't great." She said smiling.
"Alex, when do you think Morgan will start coming around?" Chuck asked.
Alex looked down at her watch. "Soon I hope. If he's not up in the next fifteen minutes then we might need to rush him to a hospital." She said looking really unsure which did nothing to curve Chuck's fears.
"I think I'll go sit with him." Chuck said grabbing the second cup of caramel cappuccino. He stopped off at the kitchen and dumped ten packs of sugar in it and continued on to the holding cell. Taking a seat in the chair Chuck looked at his little buddy. He had dark circles under his eyes and he looked beat. Big Mike must have him working overtime to cover the shifts he took off, Chuck thought. He watched as Morgan's eyes started to flutter, and his head shake. "Morgan? Little Buddy? You in there?" Chuck asked shaking his shoulder.
"Chuck? CHUCK! You're Back! Ouch! Why dose my head hurt?" He asked sitting up and holding his head.
"Because we had a house guest sleeping in my room and she clocked you over the head thinking you were trying to rob the place." Chuck said handing over the coffee.
"Really?" Morgan asked shaking his head. "Oh yeah, now I remember. Who was the hottie that hit me?" Morgan asked smirking.
"Her name is Alex. She's going to be working on the team. Which makes no sense to you now but in an hour it will. Lets start at the beginning. Remember my birthday party two years ago? Remember how odd I started acting after that? And Sarah showed up like two days later…" Chuck spent the next hour telling Morgan everything. From the missions he went on to the truth about his relationship with Sarah, and even the mission he was on now. "I'm telling you all of this because I want you to join the team Morgan. I need you Little Buddy." Chuck said.
"You know I'll follow you anywhere Chuck. Does this mean no more Buy More?" Morgan asked.
"It means no More Buy More. No more low paying, meaningless job. From now on it's going to be spy skills and jet setting around the world. I can tell you my two years of service have been some of the most fulfilling times of my life, and now I get to share it with you." Chuck said showing Morgan to rest of Castle.
"So I would be like your assistant?" Morgan asked excitedly.
"No you would be a full member of the team." Chuck said walking into the gun range.
"But I'm not like you Chuck. I don't have any skills. I don't even know the first thing about this stuff." Morgan said waving a the rack of assault weapons.
"Sure you do." Chuck said pulling a glock 19 off the wall. And checking to make sure it was empty. "Here, tell me what it is." Chuck said tossing him the gun.
Morgan caught it and looked shaky. "It's a Glock Chuck." He said dropping the mag out and racking the slide. "Empty thankfully." He said putting it on the table by the wall.
"And how do you know that?" Chuck asked.
"Video games, you know that. But knowing it's a Glock and knowing how to shoot it are two different things." Morgan said shaking his head.
Chuck clipped a target up and sent it down range to the end of the back wall. "See that target? It's at the back wall which is thirty yards out." Chuck asked.
"Yeah?" Morgan asked.
"Well what if I told you that in minutes you could do this." Chuck said before pulling his Sig 229 out and firing. He called the target back and showed Morgan to hole in the center.
"Man Chuck, that's insane!" He said looking at Chuck in awe.
"You think I came by that skill through practice? Look at that shoot, it's superhuman. No one could do that. It's something out of the Terminator. Remember the computer in my brain? That's what you could achieve in just a few hours. Morgan I want to give you those skills. I want you to be my go to guy out there in the field. I have a very important mission for you to do, but I can't send you out to do it without the skills. Would you want those skills? I want you to think about this very hard Morgan. Because they come with a job, and once you take that first mission there is no going back Little Buddy." Chuck said very seriously.
"I understand Chuck. If I'm in, then I'm in for life." Morgan said deep in thought.
"Yes. But you would be in with us. Me, Sarah and Casey. Also a bunch of people you don't know yet. Two of them being Melissa and Alex who we're going out to breakfast with." Chuck said.
"Can I think about it Chuck?" Morgan asked looking ashamed.
"Sure you can. Look you have until Monday to give me an answer, but no mater what you're going to be working for me now." Chuck said pulling Morgan's name tag off. "No more Buy More for you. You're way too important to me to be wasting away working retail. You can work logistics and planning with my two annalists or you can work at Roark Industries in any department you want. You are my Best Friend and I'm not keeping any more secrets from you." Chuck said.
"Hey I thought I was your best friend!" Melissa said coming in to the firing range with Alex.
"You are my best girl friend. How about that?" Chuck asked pulling her into a hug.
"Okay, now you said something about Breakfast?" She asked excitedly.
"I did. Morgan, meet Alex, and Melissa. Two of the best of the best spies in the world, and your future team mates." Chuck said.
"It's nice to meet you both." Morgan said shaking Melissa's hand.
"Oh non of that. We're family." She said pulling Morgan into a big hug smashing him into her huge boobs. When she let go Morgan had a kind of dazed look in his eyes.
"Right, I forgot to mention Melissa is a bit more hands on then you're used to. Alex was there something you wanted to say?" Chuck asked with a smirk when he saw her blush.
"I'm sorry I clocked you Morgan." She said smiling cutely.
"No Harm, no fowl. It's nice to meet you from this angle. When we met earlier you were upside down." Morgan said smirking.
"Yeah, well I really am sorry." She said turning red.
"You can make it up to me with bacon." Morgan said offering her his arm as they walked out of the room together.
"Wow, will you look at that?" Chuck said looking confused.
"I know, right. Love at first concussion." Melissa said laughing.