Chapter 2

Night of the Nurses Ball

After running into Sam again with Jason at the hospital, Drew went to the Quartermain's to watch Scout sleep. He checked in on the sleeping Danny. He still needed to talk to Sam about Danny. He still felt that something was bothering him. Sam had started spending more time with the kids between them being with Alexis and Monica so hopefully things were better with him.

He sat down in the rocker in the nursery watching his little girl sleep. She was so precious to him. All the kids were but Scout was different. Not only was he there from the very beginning but he had delivered her and breathed life in her. She was their miracle.

He hadn't been there long when he felt Sam. Soon she opened the door and slipped in the nursery. She was still in the gown she wore to the Nurses Ball.

She was reaching in to pat Scout on the back and hum her a lullaby.

"You just going to sit there again and wait until I start pouring out my heart to our daughter before you make your presence known?" Sam asked quietly as she turned around to face him.

"I like watching you with our daughter." He replied quietly.

"I don't want her to grow up without her father." She said to him with all the terror she felt in her voice.

"You don't want me to have the procedure, I'm guessing." Drew sighed.

Instead of answering him she pulled him out of the room and dragged him downstairs to the living room. She rounded on him in anger, "I don't want you to risk your life when you don't have to. Your children need you! I need you!"

She put her head down in her hands and began crying. He walked to her and put his arms around her. She started beating his chest. "You will not leave us that way. You can't take the risk."

"But I can't stand having Jason's memories in my head any longer." Drew said with exasperation as he put more distance between them. "I remember all the times he hurt you and watching you be with him after all of that is killing me."

"Drew, I'm not with him!"

"But, you are always with him!"

"I'm not going back with him," she insisted softly. "We need to be honest with each other if this is ever going to end with us putting our family back together."

"I agree." He said emphatically. "It's also not going to work if you keep lying to yourself."

"I'm not lying to myself anymore." She insisted. "I am starting to follow my instincts again and something hasn't felt right with Jason. Something has been off with him and I'm not sure what it is."

"Go on," Drew encouraged as he indicated she should sit down. He sat in the chair adjacent to her.

"At first I ignored it and put it off on him being gone for five years," She began. "But the more time I spend with him the more things seemed off. He was always about Sonny, Carly and Michael above all else." She continued, "But he seems even more obsessive now."

"It could be just because he has been gone for five years and he is making up for lost time." Drew reasoned.

"Maybe," She said thoughtfully. "But if that was true should he not also feel that way about Jake, Danny and even me. Even if it is just a little more. My instincts are screaming that something is off. Do you know how in depth the DNA tests that the police department ran on you two were?"

"I didn't think to ask or find out." Drew answered quizzically. "What are you suggesting? That they got it wrong somehow?"

"I don't know what I am thinking exactly." Sam admitted. "I just have doubts that he really is Jason. If you think about it, its not that far fetched. How many times has a DNA test been tampered with in this town. Whoever is responsible could have someone working in the lab at the police station. I know Sonny has moles there and he has for years. Also, 'Jason' was held at a clinic that specializes in plastic surgery. I just want to be sure. Danny is getting to know him as his father and I don't want Danny to get too attached to him especially if he is dangerous and not even Danny's father."

"There is that and Faison was alive at the time," Drew said thinking things through. "There is also Henrik to put on a suspect list. I bet you already have a time line and suspect list started?"

"Yes I do," She admitted with a smile. "I missed working things out with you."

"Well I think it is more likely Henrik because why would Faison want to help someone infiltrate Sonny's organization that would hunt him down?"

"You have a point there." Sam admitted as she began chewing at her thumb nail. "We could also be dealing with an unknown. Someone new to the game."

"Another thing to consider is that Faison lied that Jason's brain damage kept him from being brainwashed. We only have his word on it. Someone else could have a different technique that would work. Also, if he isn't even 'Jason', then there is probably no brain damage to prevent the brainwashing."

They were staring at each other and getting excited by sharing their ideas. Then a cloud came back into Drew's eyes.

"What's wrong?" Sam asked as she reached out and took his hand.

"Two things have occurred to me," Drew said as he pulled his hand away from her. "If he isn't Jason then where is the real Jason? You could still be legally married to him. Second, did you decide you wanted to put our family back together before or after you started suspecting he wasn't the real deal either?"

"I am willing to put in the work to earn your faith in me again." Sam told him sternly. "But, I knew almost immediately after I left town with the kids that I wanted to make my way back to putting our family together. I will admit I had fun running the con on the bank with Jason and Spinelli but it didn't take me long to realize that I had let go of the past a long time ago and visiting it again and staying there would be harmful to the kids and ultimately to me as well. I can't be selfish and do whatever I want without hurting the kids. I also know that Jason will not always put the kids first. He may for a weekend here and there while Danny visits him but he will never do it full time."

"I just need some time to get over how things played out." He admitted as he reached out and took her hand again. "I need to get your trust back as well."

She was about to interrupt him with a rebuttal when he went on, "I knew something was off with you and I didn't do anything about it. I willed it to go away and it ended up blowing up in our faces. We should have taken a break then and figured out all our feelings before we got married again. We both stopped being honest with each other."

She got an ecstatic look on her face. She hadn't felt this happy since Drew and her had danced at the Floating Rib before the earthquake. She wanted to jump in his lap and kiss him but he continued.

" I know continuing this investigation is your choice but you have to be careful." Drew said adamantly. "The kids need their mother. I don't want you to risk getting hurt especially since you believe this guy might not even be Jason. I want you to consider bringing Curtis in on this so someone I trust has your back."

"I know Curtis will want in on helping me find the flash drive." She told him biting her lip. "I will talk with him in the next few days, I promise."

She was thrilled when he pulled her into his lap and then kissed her forehead. She had missed that so much. She didn't realize how much she loved his little touches and kisses until she didn't have them anymore.

"I do still love you Sam," Drew admitted as he tucked her head to his chest. "Never doubt that I continued to love you even when you told me you still loved Jason. If we are going to do this we have to be honest and upfront with each other. We have to check in with each other and keep people from seeing us together at a minimum."

"I agree," Sam said, enjoying the feel of his arms around her again. "I don't think I will be able to get close to 'Jason' if everyone knows we are getting back together. I have to spend more time with 'Jason' so I can get a reliable DNA sample. I don't want to get something from his place. It has to be something he will not miss. I am thinking a water bottle or something I see him drink from like what Carly did with you when she ran your DNA."

"I have a demand of my own," Sam continued with determination. "You will not have the procedure unless we can find the flash drive."

"Ok, I will call Dr. Maddox and tell him I have changed my mind and that I am willing to wait to see if the flash drive can be found." Drew agreed, hugging her close. "I still think we do better when we work things out together instead of apart."

She was disappointed when he put her away from him back on the couch. When she looked up at him with disappointment with those sad brown eyes.

"We still have a few things to work out Sam," he said. "I would like nothing more than for us to go to my hotel room and have a proper reunion but I don't think either one of us are ready for that. But until then." He pulled her up to him and crashed his lips to hers with all the pent up hunger and desire he felt for her. When they pulled apart to catch their breaths they stared into each others eyes hungrily.

"We should set up a meet next week sometime to go over any progress." Sam said in a daze. "I'll figure out the details and let you know."

They walked out the door together. Because he couldn't help himself he reached down and kissed her on the forehead before they went to their separate cars.

The Next Day

Drew was sitting at his desk getting very little work done thinking about the night before when he heard his office door open a little bit. When he looked up, he saw a short red headed woman wearing a black business pant suit. She was maybe in her mid 60's. As she walked into his office he noticed behind her was a very tall man with curly brown hair. He was also in an all black suit. He was about to ask them who they were when the woman put her finger against her lips indicating she needed him to remain quiet. Her and the man had what looked like phones in their hands and they began sweeping his office for listening devices he assumed.

As he watched them move around his office a picture of the woman appeared in his head. She was dressing in a military uniform with ribbons all over the front. She was a general as well as the director of the NSA and her name was Diane Beckman. He was glad he had remained sitting because he became dizzy as a picture of the man appeared in his mind. The man was in black pants with a white dress shirt with a pocket protector. He was Charles Carmichael. Then Drew thought that didn't feel right. No his name was Chuck Bartowski. He had been a CIA asset turned agent. Drew shook his head to clear it of the images.

Both of them made their way to the front of his desk. They both held out their hands showing him the bugs they had found in his office. Drew had to stop himself from loosing his temper. He would hold onto it until they deactivated the bugs. He watched as Chuck pulled a box out of his pocket and they both put the bugs inside and closed it.

"Now we can talk Chief Cain." Diane said. Then she grinned and said, "First, I have to say I really like the new face."

"Thanks, I guess," Drew said uneasily. "I have so many questions going off in my brain. I don't know where to start."

"Do you remember either of us?" Chuck asked him.

"I know who you both are." Drew admitted. "Chuck BartowskiandGeneralDianeBeckman. HowdoIknowyou two?"

"You and some members of your team provided support on some of our missions." Chuck answered him. "You saved our asses many times."

"Drew," Diane said looking at Drew sadly. "I am so sorry it has taken us this long to get here. When you disappeared none of us believed you had went AWOL but we were forbidden to look into it. Of course, most of our team had retired by that time so we got together and tried to find out what happened to you. We all got not so unveiled threats if we didn't let it go."

"But luckily they didn't know who they were dealing with," Chuck said with glee then he sobered. "It shouldn't have taken so long but we all have experienced suspicious incidents that delayed our searches."

"What kind of incidents," Drew asked tensely.

"Do you remember Sarah?" Chuck asked him.

Drew saw the sadness on Chuck's face, then a picture of a beautiful blonde came into his mind. "She is your wife right."

"Yes she is," Chuck answered. "When she was seven months pregnant with our first child she was ran off the road. They arrested a man that was charged with hit and run and drunk driving. We were both focused on our unborn child at the time and didn't question anything. After a long month of hospitalized bed rest our son was born. After they were both well enough to leave the hospital and we had gotten more settled we decided to look into the man."

"Let me guess," Drew said knowingly, "He didn't have a history of being a drunk or reckless behavior."

"Oh no, he did." Diane answered for Chuck. "But he had been clean and sober for 10 years. We know he could have relapsed but their was no clear evidence. He said he went home after work and then the next thing he knew he was down the street from Sarah's accident site with his car crashed into a street light. Then suddenly he changed his story and pleaded guilty to all the charges. We looked into it and found out he had a wife and five-year-old daughter. The daughter had been in an accident and her arm was broke the day before he changed his story."

"Do we know who put all this in motion?" Drew wanted to know. Who ever they were they were still a threat to all of them including Sam and the kids.

"Do you have any memories of The Ring?" Diane asked.

"They were a group of high up leaders all over the world including some in our government. Something like a shadow government. They were manipulating world leaders into turning on each other to profit off of conflicts and wars around the world." Drew answered without hesitation. He didn't know where that information came from. It just popped into his head.

"When did you start getting your memories back?" Chuck asked.

"I haven't remembered anything until you two showed up." Drew said the shock all over his face. "I don't remember the details of any of the missions we were on together but I remember you two and Sarah but that is it."

"Well, this might help you get more back." Chuck said as he held up a writing pen. At Drew's questioning look he continued, "This comes apart and has a USB port. Plug it into your computer and you will be prompted to put in a password which I sent to you in an encrypted email. The files cannot be transferred and will not be accessible to your network here. This needs to be under lock and key when you are not using it."

Drew took the pen from him while looking at him intently. "Does this have some top government secrets on it?"

"That," Chuck pointed at the pen. "Has your unredacted mission reports on it. It also includes the missions you were on with us."

Diane looked at her watch and with regret she said, "Chuck we are running out of time. We can't keep the cameras on a loop much longer."

"But I have so many questions to ask," Drew said with desperation. "Is my family in danger from this Ring?"

Chuck and Diane looked at each other and she finally said, "Truthfully, we are not sure. Faison was the last known member that was not in custody or dead. We can hope so but we are not sure. We took pictures of the bugs and will see if we can find out where they came from and how long they have been here. We are getting our team back together to investigate. For everyone's peace of mind. We all have family now to keep safe."

Chuck pulled some cards from his shirt pocket and handed them to Drew. "These cards have our contact information on them. My team will be setting up a secure way for us to communicate our findings or if you have any quesitons. Also one of these cards is a neurologist that has experience with memory loss patients. She may be able to help you.

Drew looked down at the cards and the name of the neurologist stood out. Drew looked up at him questioning look on his face.

"It's my sister Ellie," Chuck answered the unasked question. "I have told her about you and she is expecting a call from you. She will want to work with Dr. Maddox and compare research. He will be getting orders from the WSB to collaborate their research. You should probably forward all of your records from the hospital here from your accident. She will want to see them."

"Thank you both," He shook Chuck's hand then Diane's. "I could never thank you enough."

"Our whole team owes you more than this," Chuck said as they started toward the office door. "You may want to decide you want to redecorate your office and those end tables should have a happy accident going out the door. I will also send you some ideas on how to keep your business bug free and more secure. Or you may want to leave them in place for now and the put them back in the box when you don't want a discussion to be heard."

As soon as they were gone, Drew went directly to his computer and checked his email for the password to the records of his adult life. He had some intense reading to do.

Disclaimer: I do not own Chuck or any of its characters but I have fallen in love with so much of the facfiction that has been written for this show.

AN: I wanted to include these characters because I love them and I figured the intersect technology could have been used to erase Drew's memories and implant Jason's. For those that have never seen the T.V. show Chuck it is a sort of romantic comedy spy show. Some of the comedy is over the top but it is a fun show. Basically, Chuck is a nerd in a rut because of his college best friend and girlfriend. Years later the college friend, now a CIA agent sends Chuck all the secrets of the CIA and NSA embedded in random photos. Chuck opens the email and all the data gets uploaded into his brain. He begins to have flashes on specific news stories and faces, then he is able to put the pieces together and with the help of the top agents with the CIA and the NSA, they go after the top bad guys of the world. The show ended in 2012 and there are many fans that still write fanfiction of all kinds. I am not labeling this as a crossover right now because I wasn't planning on having many of the other characters show up. They will be discussed but they will not show up like much of the GH cast.