A half hour later and Sarah found Chuck. It was easy really, you just had to follow the sound of gun shots. She found him in a grassy field off to the side of the resort shooting clay pidgins in the setting sun. Something most people couldn't even try to do, but he was hitting them as fast as the attendant was setting them off. "Nice Shooten' Tex!" She said walking up behind him.
"Time!" Chuck called and the attendant stopped. "You can go, I'll finish of the box." Chuck said handing the young man some money.
"Very good Sir. You are amazing. It was fun to watch you." He said before walking away.
Chuck waited until he was gone before loading up the six orange disks left in the box at once and hitting the catch. As the six shot into the air Chuck pulled his Sig229 from his back and blasted them all.
"I see Mad Dog is still your emotional, as well as your physical protection." She said taking the gun from his hand and walking him over to a bench off to the side.
"Sarah, I don't know what I said, I can't even remember what set me off in the first place, but I gave it to my father with both barrels." Chuck said looking close to tears.
"You spoke your mind and you told him the truth. You resent the fact that you have to take care of parents that didn't take care of you. It's even worse for you. A month ago you though your folks abandoned you and Ellie. Then a couple of weeks ago you read that file that said Roark killed your parents. After that you felt guilty for hating them all these years. Then you found out they were alive yesterday, and you don't know what to feel. Chuck I can't tell you how to feel, but if a part of you resents the fact that you have to look out for your folks then you need to tell me. You need to talk to me. It's what I'm here for. It's also what Morgan and, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but, what Melissa is here for. You can talk to us. Tell us things like that. If you let things like that bottle up then you end up telling off your father and shooting things. Now do you feel better?" She asked.
"Maybe, I don't know." Chuck said leaning into Sarah and sighing.
"Well what do you feel now?" She asked holding his head to her chest and running her fingers through his hair.
"Embarrassed and guilty." Chuck said.
"And what about the other two guys?" She said
"Mad Dog doesn't care. Carmichael, well he's torn. He thought the tell off was warranted, but, he also thinks I need to get over this to get on with my life. I agree, but I don't know. I'm just so pissed off inside I don't think I can go apologize right now. I just want to go somewhere quite and be with you. I missed you. It's been close to a week since we've been together and I think the tension is adding to the stress I'm under and that's just pissing me off more." Chuck said running his hand over her ribs.
"I think that might be a good idea. We have a beautiful suite with a big ass soft bed about a hundred feet from here, let's go." She said standing up and taking his hand. She pulled and he stood up stiffly. "You okay?" She asked touching his chest.
"Fine, it's just, when Mad Dog takes over for too long I feel stiff afterwards from the rigid way he stands." Chuck said stretching until he heard some pops and snaps in his back. "Ohhhh, that felt good." Chuck groaned.
"Come on tough guy. I'll rub your back. Then you can rub my back, and then you can rub my front. It's been six days and I'm hungry." She said running her hand down his chest to the front of his pants. "Some one likes the idea." She said cupping his package.
"All of me likes that idea. I don't think I'm going to be able to hold out long enough the do the rub downs. I think I'm just going to have my dessert first." He said grabbing her ass and pulling her close. "I think afterwards we can go for the romantic shit, for now I just want to fuck my insanely hot wife." He said kissing her hard, and then picking her up by the ass. She wrapped her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist.
"I like the sound of that. No cute shit just sex, raw a nasty. Later we can cuddle and pamper. Right now I need it too." She said as he walked them to the room. It took a bit of fumbling with the key card but they got it on the third try. Chuck walked her over to the bed and set her down. He started kissed her but she pushed him off her. "No, I want you to strip. Make it hot for me and then fuck me. No kissing or touching or any of that soft bullshit you use on everyone. Now get me excited. Strip." She said smiling a dirty smile that did things to Chuck.
"Oh, you want the show?" Chuck asked smirking as he dropped his jacket. "You want the Chip and Dale?" He asked pulling his tie off and tossing it at her as he kicked off his shoes. "You want this sexy body?" He asked unbuttoning his shirt to show off his skinny body. "Is this getting you going?" He asked trying not to laugh as he swung his shirt over his head and wiggled his eyebrows.
At this point she was laughing so hard she could hardly breathe. "Honestly. I thought this would be hotter." She said between gasps.
"What? You don't do like this fire I'm throwing your way?" He asked pulling his belt out of his pants with a flourish.
"I'm actually less attracted to you now then I was a minute ago." She said holding her side giggling.
"You're just trying to hide your lust behind the laughs because you know I make you hot." He said letting his pants fall leaving him in his red silk boxers and his black socks.
"Just, please stop. I might divorce you if you keep this up." She said rolling over on the bed.
"Oh come on! You're so turned on right now you're panting." He said humping the air to an off beat tune in his head.
"Just get in bed. I'm as dry as a desert right now." She said pulling him into bed.
"You just can't handle the Chuck!" He said confidently as he pulled off his black socks by the toes like a burlesque dancer.
"I think the Chuck handled me. It's like you dumped a bag of ice down my pants." She said.
"Well if you such an expert then you try it. You have one of your least sexy outfits on. Yoga paints, baggy ones at that, and a tank top. Lets see you rock my world. Go for it." He said laughing and feeling about a thousand times better than he did twenty minutes ago.
"Is that a challenge?" She asked hopping out of bed.
"That's right. I'm throwing down the gauntlet." He said sitting up.
"You asked for it." She said before walking over to her bag and pulling out her small workout iPod.
"Hey no fair! I didn't get music." Chuck said smiling.
"Shut up, you're really going to like this. You know that yoga class I go to with Ellie once a week?" She asked looking for the song she wanted.
"You mean the one you supposedly go to but yet you come back drunk. So, yeah, your weekly trips to a bar. What about it?" He asked.
"Well you're half right, it's not yoga, it's stripaerobics." She said hitting play. A sexy slow R&B beat came on and Chuck knew he was going to love every second of this.
Sarah walked over to the light switch and dimmed the lights until they were just a soft glow. "What is this song?" He asked liking the beat.
"The Weeknd, Wicked Games. Now shut up I'm trying to work here." She said. Pacing to the beat and getting the feel before she started swaying in a very hypnotic way that had Chuck breathing funny. She turned around and played with her shirt, lifting it and dropping it to give him just a hint of her back. On the chorus she pulled her shirt off and tossed it at him leaving her in a sexy black bra. Turning around he looked at her chest encased in the black silk as she rocked her hips. Spinning around she played with her yoga pants. She got them half way over her hips before she bent over and slowly pulled them down showing off her black thong and her perfect ass. Chuck almost choked on his own spit at this move. Smiling at his irregular breathing she kicked her pants off and moved closer to him "You liking this?" She asked in a sexy whisper.
"So much." He groaned out.
"This is the fun part. The part I've only practiced at home." She said turning her back to him and grinded her hips to the song. She reached behind her back and unhooked her bra and teased the straps down her shoulders. Turning around slowly she let the bra fall and saw him shiver. "Am I making it hard for you Chuck?" She asked running her hands over her chest.
"You always make it hard." He said softly, as though speaking to loudly might break the spell.
"Good." She said turn away from him and sitting in his lap. Taking his hands she placed them on her rib cage and slowly drug them over her abs to her breasts. "You like my tits?" She asked softly as he played with her nipples.
"So much." He muttered as he pinched and twisted her hard nipples making her moan.
She brought his right hand to her mouth and sucked his finger. When she felt him shudder and grunt she swirled her tongue around his finger and sucked as she pulled it out causing him to make a choked sob in the back of his throat. She took his wet finger and ran it down her body until it was resting on her panty clad sex. "Feel how hot I am? Feel how wet? You do that to me. You make me so fucking hot Chuck. I want you to rip this panties off and fuck as hard as you can. I want to feel you use me. I want to feel dirty." She whispered and Chuck couldn't take it anymore in a mad rush she found herself on her back with Chuck deep inside of her. "Yes! Now Fuck me!" She cried as he pumped into her with fast deep strokes. The sounds of their bodies slapping drowned out the sound of the song ending. Beyonce's Naughty girl came on and Sarah froze. "Hold up Chuck. I have to go changes the song!" She panted out trying to get up.
"Leave it!" He grunted as he rolled her over and drove into her harder from behind. "You're my naughty Girl. Now I'm going to fuck you like a naughty girl."
"You're going to regret it later." She cried out in a gasp as Chuck found a good rhythm that sent her over the edge. As she was climaxing Chuck came too falling to the bed holding her to his chest panting.
"Oh God that was hot." He grown rubbing her belly as they came down from the high.
"Tell me about it, we definitely need to do this again." She said still twitching and clenching from her climax.
"Sarah why did you want to change the song?" Chuck asked holding her and rubbing his hands all over her body.
"If I tell you now you'll want to die. It's better you not know and stay happy." She said rolling over and kissing him as she stood up on shaky legs. She walked over to the stereo and killed the power.
"Oh God!" Chuck said looking green. "Oh God! Naughty Girl is Ellie's song isn't it?" He asked.
"It's a very popular song in the class, it's a lot of the girl's pick." Sarah said dropping into the bed on top of him.
"Including my sister." He said feeling a shudder of revulsion.
"I told you to let me change the song. If it's any consolation she's danced to Wicked Game for Devon." She said smiling at his unease.
"No, and now I can never hear that song again." Chuck said rolling them over to hold her to his chest.
"Well aside for the song choice, did you like that?" She asked smiling.
"I loved every second of it. It was the hottest thing ever in my whole life. Not even the night Not-Richard picked up Sarah the sales rep. at a bar was this wild." Chuck said petting her body the way she liked it.
"Yeah this was hot, you were like a man possessed. I don't think I've ever been fucked that hard in my life. I loved every second of it." She said shivering at the memory of him driving into her sex with such power and dominance. Her pussy was still tingling.
"Now I think we need to take a nice hot shower and relax, maybe we'll order some room service and give each other those mesasags we were talking about earlier. My abs are burning right now." Chuck said.
"Your abs! every time you make me cum like that I feel like I did PT in boot camp again." She said laughing as she stood up, "now come and wash my back." She said.
"Get the shower hot, and I'll make a call down to room service and order up something good." He said grabbing the book next to the phone. "Do you want something heavy or light?" He asked sitting up next to the phone.
"Light, I plan on going at it a few more times before we pass out tonight." Sarah said before walking into the bathroom.
"Right." Chuck said looking over the menu. "Here we go, this sounds perfect." He said calling down. "Hello, yes this is Carmichael, Suite 345, I'd like your romantic sampler and take your time sending it up… A hour should be plenty of time." Chuck said hanging up and joining his wife in the huge shower.
Forty-five minutes later Chuck was drying Sarah's body with a big fluffy towel when someone knocked at the door. "That's probable room service." Chuck said grabbing a bathrobe and pulling it on. When he opened the door he saw his parents standing in the hall looking hesitant. "Mom, dad, um what's, um. How's everything going?" Chuck asked unsure of what to say or do.
"We just came to talk to you about…" Mary started but was interrupted by Sarah coming to see what was taking so long.
"Chuck what's… Hey guys. Sorry for the robes but we just got out of the shower." Sarah said holding Chuck's arm.
"That's okay. We were young once." Mary said smiling. "Anyways, we came up to talk about… things." Mary said looking unsure again.
"That's fine but I think tomorrow over breakfast would be better. We have kind of a busy night ahead of us and I don't want Chuck distracted." Sarah said looking at Mary.
Mary looked back and understood what she was trying to say without saying. "That sounds good. It gives us a chance to sleep on things." Mary said smiling. "Well, we'll see you in the morning." Mary said dragging Steven as she turned around to leave.
As she took a step she felt arms go around her from behind. "Look guy's, I love you, and I'm happy you guys are here. I just need some time to process it all. I'm sure Ellie is the same. Let's all relax and see if we can't make this family whole again. It's going to take time and now I know this, over the last two days, it was too much too fast. I just need time to adjust to you guys. I will eventually, but I just need some space and time and I'll get there. Just know that I love you and I will get there." Chuck said holding the two of them.
"Okay, Chuck. Okay." Mary said turning around to hold him. "I love you so much, but I understand. We both do. Now I see the room service guy coming. We'll leave you two kids alone for the night." Mary said kissing Chuck on the cheek and pulling Steven away down the hall. After years of leading him around she found it easier to just pull him along.
Chuck tipped the room service guy and pushed the cart in with Sarah. "I feel better about everything you know?" He said lifting the lid off the plates full of small finger foods and sweets.
"Good. I don't have what you can call a reliable parent, and I know your situation is far from normal but it's a hell of a lot more stable now then my relationship with my dad is." Sarah said picking up a big chocolate covered strawberry.
"I'll work it all out, like I said I just need time. Time to get used to them, for them to get used to me, for me to start being comfortable around them. Yesterday and today was too much. I need the slow walk into the cold pool to get acclimated. The jumping in to the deep end approach did not work." Chuck said opening the bottle of sparkling pink wine.
"I'll talk to Ellie in the morning, we are going to run on the beach." Sarah said.
"Good I want to know what she thinks about all this. I kind of sprang it on her too. Now I feel bad." Chuck said taking a drink from his flute.
"I wouldn't, she's taking things better than you are. Your sister is a strong person, she raised you after all. Showed you how to act. Taught you to be the man I love. Your sister is someone I admire greatly. Now feed me sweets as you give me a rub down." Sarah said dropping her robe and laying out on the bed.
"Yes My Queen." Chuck said smiling as he took the tray with strawberries to the bed and started on her shoulders and neck.
For the rest of the night they shared sweets, love, and passion. Nothing rough or fast, everything nice and gentle and full of love. Sarah loved every minute of it and when she fell asleep in Chuck's arms she knew this was the reason she loved him. Not anything else but his ability to make her feel like a Queen, like a goddess. As he held her she feel asleep with a big smile on her face and Chuck's arm holding her tummy.
The room phone rang and Chuck blindly reached around for in the dark room. "Yeah Carmichael." Chuck said.
"Oh, I have the wrong room, I'm sorry." Ellie said.
"Wait. It's me Chuck. Carmichael is my name now. It's a security thing. What's going on?" Chuck asked sitting up.
"I called for Sarah, she said she wanted to join me on my morning run." Ellie said.
"Right I remember her saying something like that." Chuck said.
Sarah rolled over looking cute with her hair all tussled and sticking up. "Is that Ellie? Tell her to give me about ten minutes." She said rolling out of bed.
"Did you hear that?" Chuck asked smiling.
"I did, ten minutes. Chuck, I heard about what happened in the bar from Devon last night and I want to say thank you. I've been feeling weird about the whole situation and I didn't know how to say anything. I, I didn't want to say anything because I feared they would leave again." She said.
"Well I didn't. There's nowhere for them to go. They have only a cursory knowledge of new tech. They have no money, no jobs, and nowhere to live. They're stuck with us this time. So say what you have to, they're expecting it. I think Mom talked to dad about it. Ellie, the fact is we can't go from only having us, to having parents this late in the game without some bumps in the road. We don't need parents at this age. But we do need them." Chuck said tiredly.
"I can understand that, and I think mom is trying to go that way with this. We talked like friends and not mother and daughter, and that's helped things." Ellie said thoughtfully.
"We'll work it out. It can't be harder than with I just did to get them out." Chuck said laughing.
"You still on the phone?" Sarah asked as she came out of the bathroom. "Tell her I'll meet her out front." She said pulling on her shoes.
"She said she'll meet you out front. Maybe later we'll all get breakfast and talk." Chuck said.
"Sounds good." Ellie said hanging up.
Chuck looked at his wife in her shorts and sports bra. "Sexy." He said grabbing her around the waist.
"I'm un-showered, and I'm wearing workout clothes. There is nothing sexy about me right now." She said bending down and kissing him.
"You're always sexy to me." He said kissing her exposed belly.
"That's good, when I'm old and gray you'll still find me sexy." She said playing with his hair.
"Till the day I die." He said smiling.
"Damn Chuck, you say things like that and I end up wanting to stay and go back to bed." She said holding his face.
"Then get back in bed." He said kissing her abs.
"You're sister is waiting." She said biting her lip.
"Let her wait." He said slipping his hands around her waist to her ass.
"I can't, kiss me and let me go." She said leaning down. Chuck kissed her and leaned back making her fall on top of him with a start. "Smooth, but I'm still going. See you in an hour. Maybe I'll let you wash my back." She said before walking out the door. She ran to the front lobby and saw Ellie stretching. "Hey Ellie, sorry I'm late, Chuck was extra handsy." She said.
"Don't feel too bad, I just got out here myself. I think it's in the air." She said laughing.
"I showed off my strip class skills last night." Sarah said.
"Did you?" Ellie asked smiling. "Are you still sore?"
"Yes, we've never went at it like that before." Sarah said blushing.
"Devon pulled a muscle in his thigh the night I showed off my little dance." Ellie said.
"Wow. We didn't hurt ourselves or anything but we did have a hell of a good time." Sarah said laughing.
"I'm telling you it's this place. We've been here for a month and we've had twice the amount of sex we've had since we've been together in this one month. I've found this deck of cards that will change your life." Ellie said as they ran up the beach.
"That sounds interesting, but I wanted to talk to you about some… things. First off I wanted to get your honest opinion about me now that you know the truth, and it's just us two." Sarah asked not looking at her.
"What, oh the spy thing? I've gotten over that, the lying to me was a tougher thing, but I got over that too. Look, before all this we were starting to really connect right? We started talking more, and you took the class with me. I knew you were holding out on me. I just figured it had to do with something personal. Like a bad ex-boyfriend, or you were disowned by rich parents, or something like that. I figured you'd get hammered one day and tell me. That really didn't matter to me. All that mattered to me was that you loved Chuck, and when you talk about him I can see it in your eyes. So I figured why push it? You're going to be around for a long time, we can talk about it later." Ellie said smiling.
"Good, I think I love talking to you as much as I love Chuck. You're like the best big sister ever." Sarah said stopping and pulling Ellie into a hug. "I was really worried you would hate me." She said softly.
"I could never hate you." Ellie said smiling. "Now come on, we have about a mile more to go before we turn back." Ellie said as they pushed on.
"Wow, you really got in great shape." Sarah said watching her sister-in-law push just as hard as she could.
"All I've done is eat healthy, workout, lay in the sun, and have sex with Devon. This place is paradise." Ellie said smiling.
"I'm going to follow your lead for the next few weeks. That sounds great. A huge change from work." Sarah said.
"How is everything? I know you guys can't tell us everything but, how did everything go?" Ellie asked.
"Surprisingly good. Chuck has a real head for planning, and a lucky streak a mile wide. Every part of his plan work as good, or better than he thought it would. The only part of the plan that didn't work was us fighting all the time." Sarah said shaking her head.
"Fighting? What happened?" Ellie asked.
"Well, how can I explain this? When an agent goes under for a long stretch they lose themselves to the part they play. For Chuck to walk the walk and talk the talk he had to become his cover. He had to be an A class spy that turned on his government. He had to be cocky, and cool, and charming. He had to be James Bond. The thing is we're not used to working like that. I'm usually the eye candy, Chuck is the information and IT guy and Casey is the heavy hitter. For the first time since we started, I had to sit on the side lines and watch Chuck play the eye candy. Worse yet he played it for four weeks straight. It caused a lot of feelings in me I never felt before. I mean you're a woman with a hot boyfriend, you know what it's like to get jealous." Sarah said as they reached a stone wall marking the edge of the resort's private beach.
"It sucks. Women hit on Devon all the time." Ellie said sitting on the low wall.
"Well imagine a situation where beautiful women were hitting on Devon and Devon had to play along." Sarah said sitting next to her. "On top of that, Chuck starts collecting these beautiful, but broken women. You know how Chuck is, they start crying and he holds them. They need comfort and he's there to give it to them." She said sighing.
"Did Chuck cheat on you?" Ellie asked shocked.
"Not really. He never had sex with them, but with a few of them he did, things. Chuck is a master of playing women now. Getting them excited, and getting them off without really doing anything. It's something agents learn." Sarah said blushing.
"You can do it?" Ellie asked.
"I can. It's a something they teach you as an agent. What I forgot was how addicting it is. The power rush you get off it… when I first learned how to do it I went on a tear. Think back to when you first figured out you could pull any boy. When you found out you could walk up to any man, bat your eyes and give him a smile, and you knew he would do anything for you. Remember how that felt?" Sarah asked smirking.
"Junior year of High School. I got these bad boys and ended up causing some fights between boys." Ellie said pointing at her chest.
"I bet you did, I've seen pictures of you and Chuck growing up. You were always a looker. Now imagine you're an ugly duckling that never turned a head in your life. Imagine learning how to play someone for the first time, but unlike when you were young you have the power to make that person climax without even touching them too much. With just your words and soft kisses. That's what I learned and for the next three months I fucked every guy I thought would be a challenge. I didn't even do it for the sex. I did it for the power trip. It's a heady feeling. I showed Chuck how to do that, and then sent him into the world. Worse yet I sent him on a mission undercover with those skills. I'm surprised he didn't fuck all of the women he recruited." Sarah said trying to get it all off her chest.
"Wow. Could you teach me?" Ellie asked looking flushed.
"No, I'm not teaching anyone, anything, ever again. I've learned my lesson." Sarah said shaking her head.
"I can see why you two fought though, just thinking of Devon flirting with another woman… I'm not really the jealous type, and I know Devon would never do anything, but I would kill any woman cozying up to my Devon." Ellie said coldly.
"Whoa, down Kitty. Put the claws away." Sarah said laughing.
"I'm just saying. At least you never had to deal with these women." Ellie said.
"Oh no, that's the fun part. They all work for Chuck now." Sarah said.
"You're kidding?" Ellie said shocked.
"Nope. They call themselves his Angels and they are super dedicated to him. All of them are emotionally damaged, so he takes care of them like Chuck would, but the whole thing really made me crazy." Sarah said rolling her eyes.
"I can see why! Chuck built a harem!" Ellie said looking like she wanted to kill her little brother.
"It's not his fault, it's Melissa's, but I get to that. The reason I'm not killing them all including your brother, came from something he said to me. One time we were fighting over the phone and I asked him how he would feel if I slept with men, and he said if they were team members like Casey, and they were hurt and needed comfort then he wouldn't mind. He went on to say it would require me to be comforting in the first place, so we ended up having a big fight, but the idea still stuck with me. Chuck takes care of people, and when he met these women they needed comfort and he gave it to them. I think I'm okay with it. I think I'd be okay with him cuddling one of his Angels if they were having a really bad day. I'd even be willing to let him sleep with them if the need was real." She said deep in thought.
"What? Are you crazy? How can you let Chuck sleep with these women?" Ellie asked shocked.
"Because I know that no matter what they ask for Chuck will never have sex with them. I know because Melissa told me Jordan, she's this NSA Legend that was forced to have sex with Roark, every night, or they would kill her son." Sarah said, but stopped when Ellie interrupted her.
"Say again? She was forced to sleep with the same guy that kidnapped my parents?" She asked.
"Yes, and she hated every minute of it. She had Chuck in bed and begged for sex. Pleaded for it. Begged him the make love to her. And she's a stunning woman. If I look half as good as her in twenty years I'll be shocked. She begged him and he didn't have sex with her. So if he can say no in that situation then I'm going to trust him." Sarah said.
"I'm still stuck on the part about forced sex with an evil shit. I think you better tell me the whole thing. I know you can't tell me state secrets or mission details but I think you better tell me everything about these women." Ellie said.
"Well we have to start with the ring leader, and head Angel Melissa…" Sarah said feeling a weight lift off her chest as she talked. For the last three weeks she kept bottling up her feelings and now she had someone to talk to. "And now she's totally in love with Scott, Jordan's son." Sarah said as they walked back to the resort.
"Wow. I can't believe those women went through such stuff, I'd have hugged and cuddled them too. Are all agents treated that badly? Were you treated like that?" Ellie aside holding Sarah tighter to her side.
"Not really. Women fall into three categories: Ice Queens, Sluts, and ditzy Bimbos." Sarah said.
"That's what the CIA calls its female agents?" Ellie asked shocked.
"No, but it's short hand for the jobs we do, and the way we are treated. I'm an Ice Queen. I don't sleep with marks, I don't mind killing too much if they're scum of the earth, and can get the job done no matter what. Sluts, like my best friend and sister in everything but blood, Carina, they don't mind sex, in fact they kind of like it. They can kill, but they're wild and unreliable. Then you have Ditzy Bimbos. Like Melissa and Kate. They're only kept around because you can't trust call girls to keep secrets. They get used as hookers to entertain assets, like Chuck was when he first started out. Generally we don't like each other. Ice Queens, look down on the other two groups and they resent us for not having to be whores. Until this mission I never really had to deal with other female agents." Sarah said.
"I'm starting to get a better picture of what happened over the last month." Ellie said smiling sadly. "Chuck goes under as a cool tough guy expecting to match wits with someone like you, and instead he meets Melissa. From the way you described her she sounds like the human equivalent of a wounded puppy."
"Kitten, Chuck said she acts like she's part feline. She's a lap sitter. You know the type." Sarah said.
"Even worse. I raised Chuck to be a tactile person. Hugs, cuddling, touches on the shoulder, playing with his hair. This girl, if she was a real danger, would have owned Chuck in a matter of days. I'm surprised she backed off. She could take Chuck from you, you know that right? No matter how much you two love each other she would have the upper hand because she can keep up the touching game. You should really watch out for her." Ellie said.
"I would but she honestly loves Chuck so much she would never do anything to break us up. In fact she fought with me to make me get back with Chuck. To patch things up. You really should meet her. She's a nice girl, she's just hurt and clingy. Also she loves adding to Chuck's stable of women." Sarah said.
"I'll believe you for now, but I'm telling you to watch her." Ellie said looking serious. "One good fight, and a shoulder to cry on becomes the one night stand that breaks a relationship. I've seen it happen. A friend of mine back in med school had a boyfriend with a hot female friend. They fought over something small and the next day he moved in with the hot friend." Ellie said.
"Oh, I know she's waiting for the break up to take him, she told me as much." Sarah said laughing.
"How can you find this funny? Your rival is Chuck's new friend." Ellie asked looking at her like she was crazy.
"Because Chuck, loves me, and he can control her. He says no, and she agrees. I think you'll like her. I know I do and I've tried really hard not to. Deep down she's a good person, all of them are. I've tried my hardest to not like them, to discredit them, to get them off the team and away from my husband, but they are all good. They're good agents, and they're extremely loyal to Chuck. A part of me, not a big part, but a part is glad Chuck has them. Our job, the life we lead as spies is very dangerous. I'm not going to lie to you Ellie, until I met Chuck two years ago I knew I would die in some third world country one day. Alone, on some mission I was too old to take but took anyways because the job is all I had, and I thought I was invincible. But having these women on the team, even Morgan and the three agents we picked up along the way makes the team strong, and the stronger the team is, the less likely we'll end up dead." She said.
"If you say so, but I hold the right to hate this Melissa." Ellie said as the walked in to the resort lobby.
"I'd love to see you try. Now I'm going to let Chuck wash my back, maybe my front too. I'll see you in a bit for breakfast." Sarah said laughing.
"It's this place I'm telling you." Ellie said laughing as they split up to head off to their rooms.
She found Chuck sitting at the table cleaning his gun. "Walker." He said with a nod.
"Mad Dog. Chuck letting you out?" She asked smiling.
"Letting me take over for a while to see if we have any problems switching back. The kid is weak-willed, and I'm too stubborn for my own good." Chuck grunted as he worked.
"Well you have five minutes to figure it out if you want to join me in the shower." She said kicking off her shoes. Chuck looked up as she pulled her sports bra over her head with a sexy smile. "You coming?" She asked.
"Not yet, but soon." Chuck said standing up and walking over to her. He picked her up and kissed her softly as he walked then into the bathroom and under the shower head. He turned the handle and Sarah shrieked as Cold water hit her back.
"That was not funny." She said as she tossed her wet shorts out of the shower stall.
"Let me make it up to you." He said tossing his boxers and grabbing the body wash.
"And how are you going to do that?" She asked.
"By washing you my queen." He said squeezing some soap onto her body and rubbing it in with his hands.
She shivered. "Good, I like when you put in a good effort for your queen." She sighed as Chuck massaged her whole body with his firm fingers.
They came stumbling down to the big dining room still wet from the shower and hour later. "I see you took your time in the shower." Ellie said smiling.
"Chuck had to make sure it was thoroughly scrubbed." She said blushing.
"I live to serve." Chuck said softly in her ear making her shiver.
"I like seeing you guys acting young and in love." Mary said reaching out to touch Sarah and Chuck's hands.
"So what's good here?" Chuck asked.
"We already ordered for you. It's the same thing we get all the time. Goat cheese omelet with fresh fruit and whole wheat toast." Ellie said.
"That sounds disgusting." Chuck said making a face.
"I knew you would say that so I ordered you steak and eggs with hash browns." Ellie said. "Because you eat like a trash can."
"No, I eat like a man. Men eat Meat, and Unborn Meat and Potatoes. When it comes I'm going to cover the whole thing in hot sauce and salt. I'm also going to order a side of bacon. How about you two men, would you like to share a platter full of the meat from the goods." Chuck said smiling as he tucked his napkin in his t-shirt.
"I'll bum a few strips if you don't mind." Steven said smiling at his son.
"Alright, now were talking. What are we doing after this?" Chuck asked.
"Well it's Tuesday, I go rock climbing and Ellie hikes the trail. We meet at the top for lunch. You guys going to join me?" Devon asked as the food arrived.
"I'm game, I have the skills and I need to start building some muscle mass." Chuck said
"Well, I'm too old to climb a mountain, I'll talk the hike with Eleanor." Steven said.
"My arm is still hurting, no rock climbing for me for a few days." Sarah said.
"I used to be able to do it, is it a big climb?" Mary asked.
"Not really it's a sixty foot cliff face with good hand holds and a rope system." Devon said.
"Then I'll tag along with you boys if you don't mind?" Mary said smiling. "I want to see if I can still keep up with you kids."
"Alright mom. Do we need any gear?" Chuck asked.
"They sell climbing shoes in the pro shop." Ellie said. "They also sell some comfortable walking shoes dad. We'll get you a pair before we head out. There's a small burger and taco stand at the top."
"This sounds like fun." Chuck said smiling.
Two hours later. "This is not that much fun. Every part of my ass hurts." Chuck said looking up at Devon.
"I told you it was harder than it looked Bro. and this is the easier side. The cliff face thirty foot to your left is much harder, but if you build up some endurance you can make the climb by the time we leave.
"Sounds good." Chuck said mockingly but Devon took it at face value. He looked over to his left and Saw his mother climbing like an old pro. "How are you doing?" He asked as she made it to his level.
"Good, I'm surprised my old bones can still do this." Mary said reaching for a handhold above her.
"You're doing good Mrs. B!" Devon called down for his spot ten feet above them.
"Thanks Devon!" She said sharing a smile with Chuck. "This is great Fun! Come on Chucky, let's get to the top." Mary said.
"I'm coming!" Chuck said.
On the trail leading up to the summit the two women were leading Steven up. "You okay dad? You want us to stop?" Ellie asked looking back at her father who was huffing about twenty feet behind them.
"No, I'm fine." He said wheezing.
"Right, there's a bench up here around this bend in the trial. We can stop for a few minutes. I'm sure the boy and mom are going to take longer than us anyways." She said looping her arm through his as he walked up.
"I'm not in as good a shape as I once was." He said with an easy smile.
"Years of inactivity will do that to you." Ellie said with a slight edge to her voice that she regretted the second she said it.
"We've got to get you into a gym." Sarah said quickly, she saw Ellie's miss step and pick up the conversation. "This is a very active family after all. Chuck used to be the lazy one until he got his download, I think you should join him in the gym. He's going to start going in the mornings. It's a good bonding experience." She said as they got to the bench and Steven collapsed tiredly.
"Thanks Sarah, that's a good idea." Steven said and Sarah knew he meant more than the suggestion, he was also talking about the timing.
"This I have to see, two computer geeks walk into a gym." Ellie said laughing.
"I'll have you know, I ran track in high school. What Chuck and I lack in bulk we make up for in lanky running." Steven said laughing too. "Come on. Lets go, we don't want the climbers to beat us to the top!" Steven said getting up with a spring in his step.
"Lets go." Ellie said smiling as she took her father's arm and started walking up the hill at a good pace for the two of them.
Sarah smiled at the two walking and snapped a pic of the two with her phone. "Wait up you two, don't leave the injured girl behind!" She said jogging to reach them.
"Injured! You out ran me this morning!" Ellie said looping her other arm with Sarah. "Come on, you can walk with us."
"This is nice." Sarah said smiling as they made another turn in the trail and saw two people on horse back. "Oh that looks like fun! It's been years since I rode a horse. That was at night and through a Bolivian jungle to avoid Rebels." Sarah said watching the two young kids clop by.
"This is a horse trail too. They rent horses at the bottom of the hill. I've been wanting to try it since we got here but I'm afraid of taking the trip by myself, and Devon really like the climb so I never asked him." Ellie said.
"I'd be happy to ride with you. It's been about thirty years since I've been on a horse but it's got to be like riding a bike right?" Steven said smiling.
"When did you ride horses?" Ellie asked.
"When I was a lot younger, my aunt, and your great aunt Tessa owned a ranch in Oklahoma. I would spend summers there." Steven said as Ellie leaned into him as he talked. "I used to help drive the cattle out to the fields and drive them back at night. We used to sleep out in the field to and hunt coyotes trying to get to the cows at night." Steven said as they walked at a nice calm pace.
"That sounds really nice. I would love to do something like that." Ellie said.
Back on the cliff Chuck could see the top. Devon was a few foot from it and his mother, who was a lot more fit then she was letting on, was two foot away from him. "You okay Chuck?" She asked smiling at him.
"Yeah, but I'm starting to cramp up. How far away are we?" Chuck asked locking his carabiner and resting on the rope.
"Ten feet I think?" She said looking up. "Hey Devon! How close are we?" She asked looking up at him.
"You're about ten feet! Keep it coming, the top gets easier!" Devon called down the then as he got to the top and looked over at them.
"See Chuck, ten feet! Lets do this!" She said excitedly. "Ellie did a good job with him. What an ass."
"Mom!" Chuck said laughing.
"What? I'm old, not blind." She said winking.
Chuck took a drink from his water bottle and smiled at his mother's exuberance. "I have a friend that you would get along with really well. She's just as hyper, and just as excitable as you." Chuck said following his mother up.
"She sounds like fun. Chuck, I have to tell you something. I've spent the last twenty-five years underground worrying about kids I couldn't take care of and trying not to do anything to get Steven killed, or you and Ellie hurt. Now that I'm out I can finally breath. I feel a weight lift off my chest. I don't have to worry about my actions, or the things I say, or watching Steven. As bad as it sounds I feel free. I'm sad that I wasn't there to raise you, but I honestly think Ellie did a better job then I could have. I was an agent that fell in love and got knocked up. I had Ellie and she and went back to work. I knew nothing about raising kids. I was a trained killer. Your father raised her." Mary said as they made the trip up.
"I'm sure you would have been a great mother if you had the chance." Chuck said.
"I did a piss poor job on Ellie. By the time I had you I was thankful she was around. I was called back to work and again I was gone. By the time I wanted to try being a real mother I was taken. Five years later your father showed up in my cell, and I knew we had doomed your sister to having no childhood." Mary said sadly as she reached over and took Chuck's hand.
"Mom, I think you should say this to Ellie, I think she needs to hear it." Chuck said holding her hand.
"I've tried to talk to her but she keeps changing the subject. I think it's a mom tactic and she's using my lack of knowledge against me." Mary said laughing sadly.
"Then we'll corner her and get her to hear you out. I also think I'm going to lay off my father." He said and was startled when Devon touched his shoulder.
"You made it to the top Bro. and if you can get up and over quick enough then we can beat them. I can see them walking up the path." He said holding out his hand.
"Thanks Devon." Chuck said letting the bigger man drag him over the top. He turned around and held out his hand for his mother but she grabbed a hand hold at the top and pulled herself up with ease. "I see, you were sand bagging me." Chuck said smiling.
"I wanted to talk to you." She said pulling him up.
"I see none of you fell off the cliff." Sarah said as they walked up.
"No, and when you say none I know you mean me. You're not fooling anyone." Chuck said pouting. That set everyone off and the heavy mood of the last two days was gone.