This is an edited version, as I found a few grammatical errors when I read through it again. I will try and be more careful in future projects.
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Sarah had not been looking forward to this part.
Well, to be completely honest with herself, she hadn't looked forward to any of the events of the past 24 hours, but the entire situation had been taken out her hands, so she just had to take it.
Having to explain to her commander, General Beckman, why she, Sarah Walker and Chuck Bartowski, regular Buy More Nerd Herder who got a computer with all of the governments deepest darkest secrets in it called the Intersect downloaded in to his head and now has to be guarded 24/7 by herself and CIA agent Colonel John Casey on all the dangerous and deadly missions to save the country, and even the world, as well in his normal everyday life, which primarily included setting Chuck and Sarah up in a cover relationship to put a reason as to why she was around Chuck all of the time, had now ended their fake relationship, was easily in the bottom three of experiences she wished to have in her life.
But here she was, standing in Casey's home, staring at a screen as General Beckman finished the report that Sarah had compiled and sent. And the look on the General's face was not happy. At all.
"I don't like the idea of this break-up at all," Beckman said as she closed the report and looked up at Sarah and Casey through her monitor. "What the hell happened?"
Before Sarah could begin to explain herself, Casey beat her to it.
"She got dumped," he said bluntly.
Sarah shot the back of his head a withering glare, but spoke up to answer.
"We decided that it would be best for Chuck to date a civilian. It will help secure his cover in the event that someone I.D.'s me," said Sarah. 'There, that is a reasonable, logical explanation that should quell Beckman's anger, if not satisfy her altogether, without getting into the real, personal reasons that she wouldn't care about,' she congratulated herself.
"Yeah, because she got dumped," Casey repeated, not at all caring about the feelings and emotions that Sarah was trying to dance around.
Sarah let out a sigh of frustration at Casey's bluntness, but luckily it wasn't heard by Beckman as she went on saying, "Let me get this straight, some woman comes in off the street and starts dating the asset, and this doesn't strike either of you as suspicious?"
This actually angered Sarah a little and forced her to come to Chuck's defense. "It's not completely unfeasible; he is reasonably charming." 'It worked on me,' she said to herself. She could practically feel the eye's rolling in Casey's head.
"I've heard enough," said Beckman, and it was quite clear that she really did didn't want to hear more about the charming personality of Chuck Bartowski. "I want to know everything about this woman before she gets too close."
"How are we supposed to do that," asked Sarah. "It's not like we can just start hanging around her all of the time. I mean, a random Buy More employee and her boyfriend's ex aren't exactly the best candidates for 'People-I'm-going-to-spill-my darkest-secrets-to'."
"I don't care how you do it," snapped Beckman, making Sarah flinch at the severity. "Buy her a car, take her to Jamaica, pay off her student loans, hell fuck her yourself for all I care, I don't really give a damn. As long as you can't get arrested for it, do whatever you need to do to find out everything there is to know about this woman before she's selling Chuck's brain to the Iranians. This is goddamn national security I am talking about. Do I make myself clear," she finished with a glare so fiery, Sarah could feel the heat coming off the screen.
"Yes Mam!" Both agents sounded off, as even Casey was a little afraid of Diane Beckman when she was pissed.
"Good," said Beckman, and with nothing more to say, the screen went blank.
Sarah instantly slumped against the nearest wall, feeling as if Beckman had just ordered her to befriend bin Laden himself. 'Get close to Lou.' The idea was as foreign to her as breathing under water, and seemed just as likely.
The Lou she was think of, the Lou that they had just finished getting ordered to find out everything about, was in fact Chuck's new girlfriend, Lou Palone.
Why a mother and father would christen their baby girl Lou was the last of Sarah's problems revolving around the girl, even before Beckman's order.
There they were, Chuck and Sarah, having a fun time with the cover relationship they used for Chuck's sister and his friends. What started out as just another assignment quickly became some of the best times of her life, for while she was often fighting for her and Chuck's life in on their missions, the rest of the time, she spent hanging out with Chuck, his sister Ellie and her boyfriend Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcombe, and Chuck's best and closest friend, Morgan Grimes. She felt closer to Chuck than she had with anybody else in her whole life. And she knew that Chuck felt the same about her.
And it was the fact that she knew that caused all of this trouble.
Having more than friendly feelings for the man she was supposed to protect was very dangerous and unprofessional. So when Chuck finally told her his feelings, how he wanted to be with her, in a real relationship with out the lies, Sarah had to lie and tell him that she didn't feel the same way, basically ending all possibility's that Chuck might have had about a relationship.
This, of course, is where Lou comes in.
Right when Chuck was having doubts about their fake relationship, Lou comes in, is all cute and flirty, and Chuck is totally smitten with her. But he can't cheat on his 'girlfriend', so he can't pursue Lou.
Unfortunately, with Sarah cementing the fact that nothing could ever happen between the two of them, Chuck decided to end the cover-relationship. He just couldn't pretend to be dating a girl with whom he is heads-over-heels in love with, and never have it go anywhere. It was just too hard. So he ended it, and now he's over at Lou's every day, having the sandwich that Lou named after him, and having make-out sessions in his car.
Sarah is now forced to watch every night as the man she really does care about goes on dates with another woman.
Now Sarah is going to be forced to get close to that woman.
Sarah put her face in her hands and gave a deep sigh. 'What have I done to deserve this'
"Oh suck it up," said Casey, not even looking at her as he began putting away the briefing material that littered his apartment.
"Shut up Casey," shot back Sarah without looking up.
"I'm serious, Walker," Casey said, now looking at her, his face all business. "You were given an order. You have to do it, like it or not, plain and simple."
This caused Sarah's head to snap up. "Oh, really John, it's that simple is it? Well thanks, I didn't know it was so 'plain and simple'. I thought that getting close to my fake ex-boyfriends new girlfriend so I can tell if she is a terrorist psycho was going to a bit hard. But now that you've told me it's "plain and simple", I guess I'll just get over it!" She didn't even realize that she was now pacing up and down Casey's sitting room, the agitation and irritation she felt at this entire situation forcing her body to act on its own.
"Yes you will," said Casey firmly. "You will treat this like any other job. You won't let your girly parts compromise yourself any more than they already have. You are a soldier and one of the best field agents I have seen in a long time, so do your damn job." With nothing more to say to the angry blond, Casey, turned, saluted the framed picture of Ronald Reagan sitting on his side table, and headed toward the stairs. "Lock up on your way out," he called back to her.
Sarah was so angry; she wanted to either beat somebody or fuck them. She picked up her discarded coat and stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind her as she left, not locking the door.
Her dramatic storm out ended the instant she stepped outside.
The downside of having John live in the same apartment complex as the Bartowski's was that now when Sarah and Chuck were in an awkward stage in their friendship, running into each other outside work was now painful. Thankfully, there was no face to face contact with Chuck, but the reality was almost worse.
The blinds in the window were open, so Sarah now had an unobstructed view into the Bartowski living room; specifically the couch; specifically the two figures who were locked in a passionate embrace on said couch. And unfortunately, the two weren't Ellie and Awesome.
Strangely, the sight of Chuck and Lou kissing like they were didn't have the effect on Sarah that she thought it would. While the twinge of regret and the pull of longing to be where Lou was were still there, playing around in her stomach, it also hardened her at the same time.
She was Sarah Walker. She once fought her way out of a gymnasium full of Mexican drug dealers without breaking a bone or killing a person. She squeezed vital information out of men and women who were at the heels of Sadam, bin Laden, and Gadafi. There are parts of the world where the mention of her name caused all in the area to run and hide. She was not some heartbroken little girl who was going to have a cry in the corner because the boy she liked didn't want to play with her.
Like Casey said, she was a soldier. She was given an order, and Chuck or no Chuck she was going to do it and come out on top, no matter what the consequences.
"I'm sorry Chuck," she whispered, as she turned away from the Bartowski residence.
On her way out of the complex, Sarah made sure that Casey's door was securely locked.
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