A/N: This one and one more.
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck
"Come on," the man that looked like Jack said, punching something on his wrist. And that was how Sarah knew it wasn't Jack. Jack didn't believe in technology, and this was beyond any technology Sarah even knew about. A portal opened and she followed him. She was sure this wasn't the brightest idea in the world, but Sarah knew she had a history of doing what the man he looked like thought best, even when it wasn't to her best interest. She blinked at the place they arrived in.
"So, that's my place," Jack said, pointing off toward the left. "And that…that's yours Darlin'," Jack told her. She looked at the opulent building in front of her. "Hey, see that flashing red button there on your arm?" Sarah looked down at her computer. "Hit it." She gave him a look. "Trust me."
"Cause nothing wrong ever happened when he said that," Sarah groused. She pushed the button and the opulent building disappeared. In front of her stood a house, with a red door and a white picket fence.
"Huh," Jack sniffed. "Figures."
"What does that mean?" Sarah asked, spinning on him.
"Your grandma's house," Jack said. "The place you lived with your mom." Sarah looked back at the house. "That computer knew exactly what you wanted and gave it to you."
"No, it didn't, because Chuck's not in there," Sarah said. "And what do you mean this is my place, this is Order's place…or that Shaw look alike, not me."
"Darlin', that guy is no more…well…he is but…for the sake of this argument, you are now Order," Jack told her.
"Me?" Sarah asked. "Me?" Jack tilted his head, and she found herself thinking about missions, about doing the right thing, even when it got her in trouble. "Oh, God," she groused. "I am…but it won't matter soon. I'll be gone."
"What do you mean?" Jack asked.
"Well, as soon as I save Chuck, I'll disappear," Sarah told him, shrugging.
"Hmmm," Jack said, nodding. He put his hands in his pockets and walked over to her house.
"What does that mean?" Sarah asked. Jack opened the door, and tilted his head, gesturing for her to come inside. She followed him and sighed. She looked around at the home she would never get to experience. The love she would never again get to feel with Chuck. "God, I wanted this so bad."
"You do know that you're not going to…. 'disappear,'" Jack said with fingerquotes. "You're not the same person you were." Sarah turned to him. "You are now Order."
"So…I'm immortal?" she asked. Jack winced, started to shake his head no, and then shrugged. "It's a yes or no question."
"Eh, it's not," Jack said, shrugging, walking further into the house.
"Jesus, you are Chaos," Sarah said, shaking her head and following him. "Okay, then let me ask this as precisely as I can, does the Sarah of that time-line, end up with Chuck."
"In that moment? Yeah," Jack told her. "They get married."
"And live happily ever after?" Sarah asked.
"You ever do something, and realize, perhaps you shouldn't have?" Jack asked, not looking Sarah in the eye.
"Are you responsible for all of this? For me not getting to be with him?" Sarah asked.
"No, you are," Jack told her. "You made the decision that you can't go too far for love."
"Did you make this happen?" Sarah asked, gritting her teeth. Jack shrugged. "I've already taken out one celestial thingy, I have no problem taking out another."
"I believe you," Jack told her. "But believe me when I tell you, I'm on your side." She glared at him. "There's going to come a day when you understand all of this, I promise you, but until then…until then, if I say anything…well, as much as I like chaos, that would be too much chaos."
Sarah glared at him, set her jaw, and crossed her arms. "I've been alone for a very long time, and apparently I am going to be alone for a lot longer."
"And you're okay with that?" Jack asked, sincerely.
"Will he be with her?" Sarah asked. Jack nodded. "Then yes. I did what I was supposed to do. I did it for love. For him. I saved him."
"You beat up entire universes and cosmoses for him," Jack said with a smile. Sarah nodded, fighting not to cry. "You're at the end." She nodded again, not trusting herself to speak. "And you'd do it all again just to save him." She nodded, losing the battle to tears.
"In a heartbeat," she got out.
"Okay," Jack said, walking over, and pulling her into a hug. "I know I'm not your dad, but…seems like for a second you need one." She held onto him tight. "Sarah Walker, crying over a schnook." She snorted a laugh. "I think it's time you go save your man."
"Yeah," Sarah agreed.
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She quickly took out the forces that had slowed her down before in the past, and she watched as her younger self, saved Chuck. She saw them hold each other, and she let the tears flow. "I get it, I'm different now, and you can't change that."
"No, you can't," Jack told her. She nodded, watching the two. "Come on."
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"I'm going to miss this place," Jack said as they stepped through the portal. He took off his wrist computer, and picked up a smaller one. He put on the smaller one, and looked over at her.
"I can't be both," Sarah told him.
"Of course you can't," Jack said.
"I don't understand," Sarah said.
"It's usually best when Order and Chaos start together," Jack explained. "Besides, I'm ready to retire."
"But who's gonna be Chaos?" Sarah asked. Jack grinned. "What?"
"Remember those pistols that couldn't hurt you and the guys kept saying one body, one soul?" Jack asked. Sarah nodded. "They didn't work on you."
"Why not?" Sarah asked. Jack walked over, placed the wrist computer on her opposite arm where her computer was, and hit a button. She felt a vibration. "What is going on?"
"Later, Alligator," Jack said as he pushed a button on his new computer and disappeared.
"In a while, Crocodile," she replied, not even thinking. She looked down at her arm that Jack had put the wrist computer on and her mouth gaped. She saw two arms there. Hers without the wrist computer, and a male one. A longer arm, that had the computer. "Chuck?" she said. The vibrating continued and while it wasn't painful, it felt odd as she watched him, seem to separate from her. He was the same age as her, as though he went through everything with her. And then…then it was over.
"You did it," he said, a stunned look on his face. "You saved me."
"Always, Chuck, always," she murmured, pulling him into her arms.
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Now…in a barn, somewhere near Sadie, Kentucky
"You know of all the Sarah's, you intrigue me the most," the older woman said watching the Vet helping a pig give birth.
"While I love our chats, if you're gonna be here, you're gonna help me," the vet told the older woman. She sighed, slipped on gloves, and got down beside her, as the two women worked on the sow.
"Pregnant yet?" the older woman asked.
"I thought you knew everything?" the vet shot back, grinning at the older woman. The older woman shook her head. "I'm surprised you haven't figured this out yet." The older woman looked at the vet. "He's having these dreams, everywhere?"
"Yeah," the older woman said.
"Sounds like….Chaos to me," the vet said, as she got the piglet free.
"Sonofa….I gotta go," the older woman said, snapping off the gloves, striding away, and hitting a button on her wrist computer. The portal took her away.
Sarah held up the piglet and looked at it, as it took it's first breaths. "Seems like we're just trouble in whatever universe we're in," she told the piglet. It squealed at her, and Sarah laughed.
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Sarah strode toward his "apartment". He lived with her. They had a happy life in her house, but he did have to keep his place so he could do… "Chaos things". She yanked open the window to his bedroom, formally known as the Morgan door, making him jump. "CHARLES IRVING BARTOWSKI JUST WHAT IN THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE!?"
"Sarah, I can explain everything," Chuck told her, looking terrified.
A/N: …..Come on back for the finale.
