A/N: Today's prompt is a double date in the restaurant turns bad, blah, blah, blah, but I'm putting my spin on it. This is so stupid fluffy that I'm almost embarrassed to publish it….yeah, I don't believe me either. Ch 3, The Restaurant.

Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck

Chuck shook his head. This was a dumb idea. Bryce had told Chuck he needed to date, but he had been so busy creating the tech to get their company off of the ground that he rarely had any time to socialize. Tonight he was going on a double date with Jill, and her friend, Sarah. Apparently Sarah was in marketing at Jill's company, Roberts Pharmaceuticals. Bryce thought Jill and Chuck would be absolutely perfect for each other. Chuck had asked Bryce why he wasn't dating Jill, and Bryce admitted, she was super smart and he was a little intimidated by her.

Chuck had reached the restaurant and had gone inside when his phone went off. Bryce was running late. Chuck shook his head, chuckled, and walked in telling the hostess that they needed a table for 4.

"Great," came the muttering voice behind him. "She's running late and I have to entertain some nerd. He'll probably want to talk about Star something or another." Chuck gave her a glance, and was absolutely gobsmacked by her beauty. "I never should have agreed to this."

"Mr Bartowski, your table's ready," the hostess said to him.

Chuck glanced at the muttering lady, and thought it was time to throw her a life preserver before she drowned. "Uh, miss," he said to the woman who had just came in. "Are you waiting for Bryce?" Her eyes widened. "He's running late." A look of horror came over her face but he gave her a soft smile, and offered her his arm. "If I may?" She gave him a look, and an amused smile crossed her face. She took his arm and they followed the hostess to the table. He pulled out a chair for her and she sat down. He started to go around, when her hand grabbed his wrist gently. He looked down at her, and with a grin she tilted her head to the chair beside her. He took a seat.

"I'm really sorry about that," she began. "I'm Sarah," she said, offering her hand.

"Chuck," he replied, shaking hers and swearing electricity shot through his hand. "And your right, I can talk Star something but I can talk other things as well." He was grinning to let her know he was teasing.

She looked away with a modicum of embarrassment on her face. She turned back to him. "Really, I'm sorry. Jill convinced me I needed to come on this date. She kept describing Bryce and I finally asked her why didn't she date him."

"I asked Bryce the same thing about Jill," Chuck replied with a grin. He picked up his glass of water. "To surviving the night."

"Surviving the night," Sarah replied, clinking her glass to his. "I hope you like Italian. Apparently Jill told him I did and that's why we're here."

"Nothing wrong with carbing up every now and again," Chuck replied. "Pharmaceuticals, huh?"

Sarah rolled her eyes. "You ever do something you're good at, just not what you want to do?" Chuck nodded. "What did you do?"

Chuck grinned for a second. "During the summer I used to work at the Buy More as a Nerd Herder. I repaired a LOT of computers. I'm good at it, I just…the job was a dead end."

"So now you make apps and video games?"

"And other educational software," Chuck replied. "That doesn't get as much press though. We're offering it for free, so I make the other stuff to make sure we can survive."

Sarah put down her water. "Wait? Who are you giving these programs to?"

"Schools," Chuck said with a shrug. "A lot of them with low income kids who parents haven't been to college."

"You should be marketing that everywhere!" Sarah replied. "Listen, people will respect that and buy your other products even if they don't use it, just to help out. Chuck, you could even sell a version that costs ten or fifteen dollars more, with the disclaimer the money goes toward creating and providing educational content for children."

Chuck was grinning at her. "I thought you didn't like what you did?"

She gave him a look, and he thought for a second she was going to swat him. "I don't like marketing drugs, but what you're doing, that's the kind of work…well…I wish someone had done stuff like that for me when I was in school."

Chuck started to ask her more about that when Bryce and Jill walked in together. Chuck raised an eyebrow in Sarah's direction and she just grinned and shook her head.

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The small talk had begun between the four, and the meal were ordered. It was a family style restaurant so they decided on a couple of dishes and a salad and went from there. There had been a lull in the conversation for a few minutes, and Chuck noticed Jill and Bryce were talking softly to each other.

"So what grades?" Sarah asked him.

"Hmmm?" he asked, turning towards her.

"What grades do you aim the software at?" Sarah asked him.

"I have some aimed at elementary, some at middle, and some at high school," Chuck replied.

Sarah was shaking her head. "I wish more people cared like you do."

"That's our motto you know," Bryce said to Sarah. She turned to him. He was beaming his smile at her. "We're the company that cares."

"We are," Chuck agreed trying not to laugh at Bryce. Bryce hated that tagline, but here Bryce was using it to try and impress Sarah. Chuck looked over at Jill, he realized he hadn't spent a lot of time getting to know her, but she seemed quite happy talking with Bryce. "Bryce really cares."

Jill giggled, and Bryce turned to her. Chuck and Sarah shared a look and just shook their heads.

"I'm really glad we did this," Bryce said.

Chuck nodded. "Yeah. Listen…you two…" Chuck looked over at Sarah, who nodded. "You two seem like you're having a better time together-"

"Which we're both fine with," Sarah said, backing Chuck. Chuck nodded. "What we're trying to say is, you both seem to have a bit of a crush or something for the other. Why don't you two go see if there's something there. I'm okay with, are you?" she asked turning to Chuck.

"Jill, he's done nothing but talk about you for weeks, and not in the, you'll like her because of this kind of way, it's more of the, man, she does this thing where.." Chuck trailed off and Jill looked over at Bryce.

"And Bryce, Jill has done the same thing." Bryce glanced at Jill. "It's fine, really."

"Are you sure?" Bryce asked, looking at Jill.

"Positive," Chuck replied. "Jill, really, it was lovely to meet you, but…"

"Just wasn't right, was it?" Jill asked. Chuck shook his head.

"Listen, I'm paying for this," Bryce insisted. "I ruined it." Chuck held up his hands, grinning and Bryce returned the grin. "You never do turn down a free meal do you, Buddy?"

"Don't stay out too late," Chuck said to Bryce as he got up to leave.

"Yes, Mom." The two walked off, leaving Chuck and Sarah alone.

"So, about that software," Sarah began.

A/N: Part of me REALLY wants to keep this going but I have so many others. I hope you enjoyed it.

DC