Chapter 7
A/N: I didn’t realized I hadn’t updated this one in awhile, so I began to work on it, and then I realized why…Jill. It’s such a shame, I like Jordana Brewster, but this character….yeah. So I’m condensing Fat Lady and Gravitron into one, just to get it over with. I’m beginning to realize I’m really about to leave cannon completely with the changes I’ve made because obviously there’s no Prague, no Shaw, no Hannah, none of that stuff. Bryce’s return should be fun….hehehe…okay, on with this chapter before Mojo01 hunts me down. He needs his laugh quota. Today’s chapter title is inspired by Halestorm. Ch 7, Beautiful With You
Disclaimer: I don’t own Chuck, or Halestorm, but I do own a guitar…that I can’t play…I am beautiful with you…You want me for myself…Look at me like no one else…
Sarah smiled at Ellie as she leaned up against the counter at Carmichael Solutions.
“If you look any happier you might explode,” Ellie said. Sarah just beamed. John started into the kitchen when he saw Ellie and paused. “Any more bugs in my house, John?” she asked. John shook his head and scampered off.
“Five bucks says he send Morgan in here to get his coffee,” Sarah said.
“Perhaps I should talk with him,” Ellie said. Sarah laughed.
“He’s not happy with Chuck and I right now,” Sarah said, a grin on her face. Ellie perked up. Sarah looked around to make sure Chuck was nowhere nearby. “The last mission, we thought we were poisoned, so we jumped in the shower to wash off whatever we could.”
“Makes total sense,” Ellie said.
“Chuck took off all his clothes,” Sarah began and Ellie’s smile lit up. “I asked him last night why, and he said he didn’t know he shouldn’t. He thought he was doing the right thing, I’ve seen him naked, so, what the heck.”
“Again, perfect sense,” Ellie said.
“So, Chuck’s thinking we’re going to die, he’s naked, washing me all over, and…” Sarah trailed off.
“And Bob’s your uncle,” Chuck said, walking in. “Really you have to tell my sister?” Chuck asked.
“I am the physician of this team,” Ellie said.
“Co,” Chuck said. “And don’t you deal more with brains.”
“We both know you weren’t using your brain right then,” she said. Chuck blinked and went back to his coffee. “Casey walked in?” Ellie asked Sarah. She nodded.
“Yes, he got to see my backside, and yelled something about brain bleach,” Chuck said. Ellie was crying she was laughing so hard. “But, it gets worse. My diabolical, sexy girlfriend convinced Beckman that Morgan has to be protected, so he’s moving in with Casey. That should also help keep Jill from trying to sleep with him, I hope.”
“She’s bad news,” Ellie said.
“Speaking of protection,” Sarah began, and Chuck and Ellie both looked at her a little wide-eyed. “Not like that,” she said. “Ellie, I need you to look into seeing about getting Chuck some physical skills loaded into the Intersect. He’s not going in the field, but if he could protect himself…” Sarah trailed off. Ellie was nodding.
“That makes sense,” Ellie agreed, thinking. “Plus, I want to see you flash while you’re hooked up so I can scan your brainwaves. I want to make sure there is no damage and make sure it’s as smooth as possible. What about physical training? Knowing how is no good if the muscles can’t keep up.”
“I’m going to be working with him on that part,” Sarah said. “We’re going to train and spar. Plus I may get Devon to help us. Part of me thinks we should have opened a gym, but I guess Mr. Computer nerd over here would look out of place.”
“Hey, the nerd has feelings,” Chuck said.
“We’re all quite aware,” Ellie replied. Morgan came in to get coffee, and Ellie and Sarah began to laugh. “Hey, why don’t you come down to the lab and I run some baseline sequences on you?” Chuck shrugged and followed Ellie. He jumped when something hit his backside.
“Sarah, careful,” Chuck said.
“Your sister is aware of what we’re doing,” Sarah said, smiling.
“Not that, you don’t want to damage the Intersect,” Chuck said. Sarah rolled her eyes.
“Chuck, the Intersect is not in your ass,” Sarah said, smirking.
“It would explain a lot if it was,” Casey said, walking by.
“How does he do that?” Chuck asked.
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Chuck found himself hooked up to a bunch of machines with multiple nodes sticking out of him.
“Did I tell you I once had a dream that you were a modern day Frankenstein?” Chuck said.
“You do mean the doctor, and not Frankenstein’s monster?” Sarah replied.
“You know how much I love it when you talk literary nerd to me,” Chuck said. Sarah played with the curls that were available to her.
“You mentioned a Fibonacci sequence earlier, what exactly is that?” Sarah asked.
“Tsk, tsk, did you sleep during those classes at Harvard?” Chuck asked.
“I may have been saving the world with the CAT Squad,” she said. Chuck flashed. “He’s flashing, Ellie!” she yelled.
“Wow!” came Ellie’s response watching the monitors.
“Wow!” Chuck said, looking at her. She gave him a wink and leaned down.
“I have that suit at home,” she whispered. Chuck’s eyes glazed over.
“Sarah, easy,” Ellie called. “And don’t tell me you didn’t do anything, his prefrontal cortex just shut down.”
“Sorry, Ellie, I was just playing with my Chuck,” she said, grinning.
“Sarah,” she said warningly. “Now I know how Chuck feels around me and Devon,” she muttered.
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“So it was fruit punch?” Jill asked.
“Rootin’ Raspberry flavored Hi-C to be exact,” Ellie said, still not comfortable with Jill being there. “I had it run on the mass spectrometer just to be safe.”
“Guy is very paranoid and always has crazy ways to even open emails,” Jill explained. Chuck was looking at the box.
“High C as in a music?” Chuck asked, looking at the box. Casey cocked his head to the side, and let out a perfect note. The box opened.
“That is so impressive, dude,” Morgan said. He turned to Jill. “Isn’t that impressive?” She just shook her head, looking at him. Morgan had turned back to Casey. “Why don’t you sing in the shower?”
“I do, I just haven’t since you moved in,” Casey said, shrugging. Morgan shook his head.
“No, no, no, John. You don’t cage that heavenly voice on my account,” Morgan said. Jill leaned in toward Sarah.
“Should I be worried?” she asked. Sarah shrugged.
“I would have said no, but now…” Sarah trailed off. “Don’t let Ellie become single is the one thing I can tell you.” Jill leaned away. “I hate this assignment,” Jill thought to herself.
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“I don’t like this,” Chuck said to Sarah.
“I’m not crazy about you doing all you did today,” Sarah said. Chuck nodded.
“They had my little buddy, Sarah,” Chuck began. After they had found the USB, Morgan and Jill were captured. Chuck called Sarah, with a plan, and she had approved it. The trade happened with no bloodshed and the assassin was captured. Jill asked Morgan to go out with her, and Morgan, having no good reason not to, did. Casey put a tracker on Morgan. Chuck didn’t even want to know where it was.
“I know,” Sarah replied. “I just didn’t like it. I’m just glad you trusted me to tell me.”
“I’m glad you listened,” he said. Sarah smiled at him.
“Always, Chuck, always.” She started to kiss him, when Casey groaned.
“Do you two have to break in everyplace you are together with your bodily fluids?” Casey asked.
“I’m pretty sure it was in the new agreement Sarah and I signed,” Chuck said.
“Common spy problems, Casey,” Sarah said. Casey grunted, and then grunted again. The second one got Chuck’s attention. He looked up, saw Jill was Fulcrum, then saw her codename, Sandstorm, and flashed. Sarah looked at him, he nodded, and they all dashed out of the room without a word said.
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“Don’t worry, Jill, it happens to a lot of people,” Morgan said. “Everyone just thinks it’s easy, but then they try it, and they’re so wrong.”
“But I can dance!” Jill retorted, hating this assignment.
“But as we can see you can’t Dance, Dance Revolution can you,” he said smiling. Jill just stared at him. “Yeah, let me go get some ice for that ankle you twisted.” Jill waved him off, and was stunned when Chuck crashed into Morgan.
“You’re okay!” Chuck said.
“Yeah, I’m fine,” Morgan replied, confused. Chuck looked over at Jill.
“Oh, Jill was the one hurt,” Chuck said, thinking fast. Casey and Sarah ran up behind Chuck, looking worried. “Calm down, guys,” he said turning to them. “It’s not that bad.”
“Yeah, she only sprained her ankle,” Morgan said slowly, trying to figure out what was going on. Sarah looked like she could cry and grabbed Morgan in her best Ellie simulated hug she could muster. When she let go, she looked as thought she was wiping tears from her face.
“But, how did they know I was hurt?” Jill asked.
“Well, you know Casey, he’s worried about his little buddy,” Chuck said. “You know, the way you broke my heart, he wants to be nearby. The big guy is worried.” Casey wanted to throw up in his mouth, but he quickly gave Morgan a hug.“I’m so glad you’re alright,” he said, and shot Chuck a death glare where only Sarah and Chuck could see it.
“I can’t save you from this,” Sarah whispered.
“Totally worth dying for,” Chuck whispered back. Casey let Morgan go, and walked off.
“I’ve got to get some ice,” Morgan said, and Chuck walked away with him. When they were out of earshot for Chuck, he pulled out a phone. “This is Jill’s phone, it got a text.” Chuck looked at it, it said Have you heard from Uncle Tobias? – Mom, and he flashed. The flash let him read the code, Meet Leader, Urgent.
“Jill is Fulcrum,” Chuck said, shaking his head.
“We know,” Morgan replied. “No, she’s been confirmed,” Chuck explained.
“Thank God, there was no way I was sleeping with her, man how did you stand her all those months,” Morgan asked. Chuck gave him a look. “Sorry, bro,” he said, realizing that was a bit of a shot. “Now I can get out of here.” Chuck just looked at him. “NO, Chuck, no!” Chuck gave a tight smile. “You’re lucky you’re my best friend.”
“Sarah said we get a Call of Duty night,” Chuck offered. Morgan thought.
“Chance of dying by an enemy organization, or a Call of Duty night,” Morgan said.
“On the big TV?”
“Sold!”
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“Are you okay?” Sarah asked Chuck. They were in their apartment, after Jill had been taken back to her place. Morgan was with Casey, talking about the best way to prune a bonsai tree.
“You mean am I okay, that my former girlfriend works for a terrorist organization and my best friend is having to fake date her, while the tree of us just sit here and watch?” Chuck asked. Sarah gave him a tight smile. “No, I’m not, but you’re here with me, and I know you’ll watch him, just like you would me. So, that means he’s safe.” Sarah just stared at him, and Chuck was looking around again. “I swear you don’t move anything, so I’m not 100% sure that noise is coming from you.”
“Bartowski,” she said, making Chuck’s eyes go wide. “I’m going to need you to lock it in so I can focus.” Chuck gulped. “Unless you can tell me something to stop…this…you need to stay quiet.”
“Once this is over, you’re going to owe Morgan several Call of Duty night,” Chuck said.
“That’s a start,” she said.
“No, you don’t understand, all four of us,” Chuck said. Sarah blinked several times.
“You mean, Casey and I have to join you?” she asked. Chuck waited for the explosion, but what happened he wasn’t expecting. “You mean,” she said, laughing. “I get to watch you and Morgan constantly kill Casey in the game, while you go on about one of your sandwich debates?” Sarah was laughing so hard she was having trouble breathing. She had been sitting on the arm of the couch beside Chuck, but with that, she fell onto the couch, her head on his shoulder, guffawing. Chuck heard a knock on the door.
“Come in!” he yelled. Sarah was slapping his leg, while still laughing. Morgan walked in and he saw her. He held you his hand. Chuck leaned forward, Sarah fell behind him, still laughing. Chuck stood, pulled out his wallet and handed Morgan twenty bucks. “I still don’t know how you got this right and I didn’t.”
“Simple,” Morgan said. “In the past she has asked me to talk with you about sandwiches to keep you busy. I didn’t know why, but at the time she was near tears laughing. Now I understand.” Chuck turned to look at her, impressed with her deviousness.
“You are absolutely evil,” Chuck said with a grin. Sarah, with tears streaming down her face and still laughing just nodded.
“Wait til April Fool’s Day!” she said.
“I feel like your great romance with Casey is over,” Chuck said. Sarah snorted and rolled her eyes. Morgan looked confused, so Chuck explained it to him. After he was done, Morgan was laughing, and then remembered why he was there.
“I just came to warn you, Ellie just burst into mine and John’s apartment,” Morgan said. Chuck looked confused. “The very Awesomes are coming.” Chuck groaned. “Something about a cleaning team to your sister’s apartment?” Chuck began to laugh.
“Does Ellie realize that you can’t just misappropriate a cleaning team like that, and that’s not really what one is for?” Sarah asked, sobering up. Chuck looked at her.
“You think John wants to cross Ellie, especially given the past few weeks?” Chuck asked. Sarah smiled.
“This assignment has turned out better than I thought,” Sarah said.
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“She also told John he needed to have them come up with a perfectly cooked Turkey, or he wasn’t invited to Thanksgiving,” Morgan said. “Casey tried to get her to uninvite me, but she said I was dealing with Jill, so there was no way.” He paused and got a faraway look in his eye. “She still wants me.”
“Buddy, you realize her future in-laws are coming,” Chuck said. Morgan waved his hand.
“Minor details, Buddy, minor details,” Morgan said going away to his Ellie happy place again.
“Doesn’t that bother you a little knowing he’s thinking of your sister like that?” Sarah asked softly. Chuck turned, gave her a look, and walked away. “I’m sorry,” she called after him.
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“I feel like this is all I ask you on this mission, but are you okay?” Sarah asked Chuck. Chuck ran his hand through his hair.
“You mean my ex-girlfriend trying to give us the slip and taking Morgan on a Farris Wheel ride the way I did her back at Stanford and then tried to hand her over to Leader, nah…all good,” Chuck said.
“Two things, one, good work on figuring out where Morgan and Jill were, two, I know your all good’s and that’s not an all good,” Sarah said. “Chuck, you wouldn’t be you if this didn’t bother you.” Chuck turned to her.
“This is hard, because of what we are,” he began. Sarah nodded and Chuck took a deep breath. “Her and I are so over, in fact, I’m not sure we ever were, because I may have been nothing more to her than a mission.” Sarah pressed her lips together in silent agreement. “It still bothers me, and that bothers me. I am with the greatest woman I ever met, and yet this woman who has done nothing but cause me pain….” He looked up at her. “You deserve better than this, and I’m sorry.”
“Wait, you’re apologizing over how Jill is making you feel?” Sarah asked, stunned.
“Yeah, you don’t deserve…Sarah? Not again!” Chuck said, hearing the low growl.
“Bartowski, you are hurting and you’re worried about me!” she said, slowly walking toward her. Chuck started rolling back in his chair, but the wheel caught on something. He looked down, and by the time he looked back up, she had managed to straddle him. He gulped. “I’ve got something to make you forget her,” she said as sultrily as she could. A minute later a door opened and Ellie walked in.
“Hey, Sarah, Oh! Excuse me!” she said. Sarah shot off her lap, and straightened her clothes. Chuck sat there, his mind gone. “What did he do?”
“He’s worried about how it hurts me for him to be upset during this Jill mission,” Sarah said. Ellie shook her head.
“Casey and Morgan have a location,” she said. “You will be at Thanksgiving, right?”
“Wouldn’t miss it for anything,” Sarah said, grabbing Chuck’s hand, pulling him up, and leading him off. Ellie just watched them go, and headed into the room with Jill.
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“Chuck, you need to watch this,” Sarah said, bringing up the footage while they were gone. They both watched as Jill, hooked to a lie detector test, told Ellie, that she did love Chuck, that what they had was real, and that she didn’t cheat on Chuck with Bryce. Sarah stood there quietly.
“It doesn’t matter,” Chuck said shrugging.
“I mean she could fool the test, that’s true,” Sarah said. Chuck turned to her, smiling.
“No, it doesn’t matter, I’m with the woman of my dreams, the woman of my future, and the woman I want to spend the rest of my days with,” he said, grinning, and putting his hand to his ear. “I swear I-” Sarah pounced. Ellie and John walked in five minutes later.
“Chuck,” John began. “Oh what the fresh hell, my eyes!” John screamed.
“I need brain bleach!” Ellie screamed as she and John ran out of the room together.
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“Good work, Sarah,” Beckman said during their debriefing. “This could have gone horribly wrong at many points.” Sarah nodded in agreement.
“Without the relationship of trust and honesty he and I have been working on…” Sarah shook her head and looked away for a minute. “He could have let her go, hell, General, most civilians like him would have.”
“Did you ever see a moment where you thought he would?” Beckman asked. Sarah shook her head. “Then I think it’s time to take this to the next level.” Sarah raised an eyebrow. “Obviously, it would be best if you didn’t do seductions any longer, I believe it would impact Chuck negatively, plus it would affect his ability to access the Intersect,” she said with a smile. Sarah gave a tight smile and nodded. “You need another female member, and I’m not sure which way to go. There are two candidates, but only one is currently available.”
“Is it Carina?” Sarah asked, wincing. “She’s my friend, General, but she’s…”
“Unreliable?” Beckman offered. Sarah nodded. “No, Sarah, we won’t be using her right now. She is unavailable, instead we are going to try a different agent, and she WILL report to you, have no doubt. Agent Alex Forrest will be joining the team. Let’s not tell her about the Intersect until you are sure she can be read in with few problems.” Sarah nodded. “Happy Thanksgiving, Sarah.” And with that the screen went blank. Sarah left her apartment and made her way over to Ellie and Devon’s.
“Where’s the Very Awesomes?” Sarah asked.
“Couldn’t make it,” Chuck answered. “Instead we got to add Lester and Jeff.”
“Oh, goody,” she said. Chuck gave her a light shoulder bump and she chuckled. “We’re getting a new member to help with missions, specifically ones that would negatively affect our asset and his special skill.” Chuck grinned and pointed toward his head. She smiled and nodded. “Keep that special skill to your self right now, until she’s read in.” Chuck nodded. “Chuck, seriously, thank you, that mission could have gone wrong so many ways.”
“Sarah, thank you, for being there with me every step of the way, because without you…I probably done something stupid,” Chuck admitted. Sarah smiled.
“I’m really liking my new permanent assignment,” she said.
“I hear the asset is enjoying it himself,” Chuck said. He turned to her. “I despise you, Sarah Walker.” She gave him a quick kiss.
“I despise you,” she replied.
“Break it up, you two,” Casey grumbled as he walked by.
“He’s jealous,” Chuck loud whispered to Sarah. “I heard him tell Morgan he’s never been happier with a building in his life.” Sarah shook her head.
“Happy Thanksgiving, Nerd.” Sarah said, shoulder bumping him.
“Happy Thanksgiving, Sarah,” Chuck said, kissing her forehead and pulling her close.
A/N: …Does it make it weak if you’re needing someone I’m not hold back and I know what I want…Til next time!
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