Chuck vs Say You Will Part 5

We pan back to the TV viewing room with Sarah and Casey standing in front of the TV. Casey is explaining that after the Marco incident that Chuck has become independent. He also lets them know that he doesn't think that Sarah has control over the asset any more.

Beckman: So your telling me that you two have failed in your assignment? That the intersect is now uncontrollable and lose? How could this have happened!

Casey: Chuck has become attached to Agent Walker. So much so that he has fallen in love with her. The problem is that Agent Walker has been professional with him and he wanted more than just a cover.

Graham: And why is this a problem Agent Walker? This is not something that you are not familiar with? What are you not telling us that is obviously missing!

Sarah: I did not want to compromise myself for the good of the mission. I felt that Chuck is smart enough to realize the false nature and I would cause a backlash effect.

Graham: What, like losing control of you asset. The same as just happened Agent Walker! This is completely unacceptable! I will have to have you reassigned and this will be noted!

Casey: There is one problem with that Sir. Chuck seems to have been able to access new abilities after the Marco mission. I am not absolutely sure, but I think that Agent Walker is the key that triggers this in the intersect. If I recall from the briefing on the Omaha project, they were also working on accessing knowledge based training via the combination of Subliminal images and Hypnotherapy? If what I believe happened to Chuck at the end of the mission is correct, he may be able to access any type of training or abilities that was part of the intersect at the time he received it.

Graham: Are you sure about this Agent Casey? It was theory only, but studies did indicate it was possible. If this is true, not only is the intersect invaluable, he has just become much more deadly. The intersect contained all of the training courses that both the NSA and the CIA use for all levels of the companies and now it is combined into one person? With Chucks knowledge of computers and electronics he could become almost invisible to our detection. He will have knowledge of all of our tracking techniques as well as how to counter them. I can only imagine the asset that he would become either for us or against us!

Beckman: If this is true, then we need to find out asap! Do we even know where his loyalties are? If he becomes uncontrollable, then you must take him out. We cannot afford to have such a weapon lose without our control.

Sarah: Chuck would never go against his country! I may not have control, but he would always work with us. He trusts Casey and myself completely. I am sure that we will not have any problems!

Casey: I agree with Agent Walker for most of it, but I believe that she needs to give the intersect some personal space for a while. I know that if we bring in someone else, that he will be able to recognize them and may not work with us. He has mentioned that he would rather die than be placed in a bunker as well. ( you see Sarah's head snap towards Casey )

Graham: Casey, I hope your right, because I would not want to think about what could happen if your wrong. You need to start testing him to see if your correct. If not, we will have no choice but to put him in a bunker! If he resists then you both know what to do.

Casey/Sarah: Yes, Sir.

The screen goes off and Sarah turns and faces Casey. She is seriously pissed that he had withheld information from her. What else is he not telling her? What new ability was he talking about? She could not ask him in front of Beckman and Graham or she would have lost even more credibility with them.

Sarah: What where you talking about Casey? Why did you hold back this information and tell them without discussing this with me!

Casey: Don't get your panties in an uproar there Walker. If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed Chucks sudden ability with weapons. He is certainly not a pro at it but he handled that knife and gun much better than any amateur! Then when he was mad at you he threw that knife like he had been doing it all his life. That is not natural and could only have come from one place.

Sarah: Why do you think that I am the key? I have not done anything to compromise myself. The only thing that the two events have in common are .... OMG how could I have missed it.

Casey: Because you are too emotionally involved already. Something serious must have happened to Chuck to trigger it and he must have been thinking of you. Not like that is any big news. The way he looks at you when your not looking, I just want to swat him on the nose like the puppy dog he looks like. ( that image brings a smile to Caseys face )

Sarah: Why did you not tell me Casey? You could have gotten Chuck killed!

Casey: I just may have saved him from being killed! You're the one that almost got him killed by your denials to Chuck that you don't care for him.

Sarah: We both know that he is better off with someone else! My life is not stable and I could be taken away at any time. That would just hurt the both of us and I for one don't think either of us could take it.

At least this way Chuck will not be hurt as much.

Casey: You have got to be kidding me! The crap is getting pretty high in here from that BS! I need a shovel to get out of here. You need him and he needs you, but now he may not trust you. Keep it up and you will not only get him killed by his own Country, but it will be because of you.

Sarah: I am tired of this argument! Lets just get out of here and see if we can prove your theory.

We pan to Chuck sitting in his car. He has recovered from the flash and was now thinking on how to execute his plan. He had to be very careful or Casey and Sarah would find him out. This would take a few days to set up but once he is done, it should be enough to buy his freedom from death or the bunker. Chuck was thinking to himself that this is operation de-bunker with a smile on his face. There was so much to do and so little time to do it. Hum, he thinks about the TV show he was watching and decides that he will have to cut down on TV.

You see Chuck pull up to a customers office building that he had just installed several systems in last week. The owner was grateful to him for all of the extra work he had done for him. Chuck believed that great customer satisfaction was worth the extra effort and would pay back some day. Well today was the day and he needed to use their systems for a bit of programming. This brought back memories of his days in Stanford where he had reprogrammed several of the older games for his own benefit. He was actually a pretty decent programmer and would have used those skills to become Charles Carmichael. Little did he realize that he would be using them to protect his life and Sarah's. He could not fail, after all he still loved Sarah very much. There was no changing that, no matter what happened.

As he got to the room where he had installed the computers he began to go over how he was going to integrate a cracker program with Satan. He would use that to gather the information on how to access the NSA database from Caseys system at his apartment. He had an Ace in the hole that neither Casey or Sarah knew about. He logged on and downloaded both programs to the linux box that he was working on. He was thinking that it would have been much easier if they has used Solarix X86 OS, but it would due. After all Satan was developed for the NSA, how poetic. Now he recognized the images that he had flashed on.

After downloading the programs he was looking for, he was able to mesh them together so that it not only bombarded the system for holes, it also would try and crack his password. Now all he needed to do was access Caseys system at his apartment or the one in the TV viewing room. It would be better from Casey's apartment as he could use it to send him the information via wireless to his computer without Casey knowing it. Well unless Casey was a computer genius and not just muscle.

Now to get Casey to invite him in so that the could install it from his flash drive. Good thing he has a few of them, because he still doesn't remember what happened to the one he had with his COD saved games and Sarah's pictures. He would worry about that later.

He is leaving the building when he gets a call from Casey. He has to calm himself down and play along like he doesn't know anything.

Casey: I need to talk to you Chuck. When will you be done there?

Chuck: I am done already, what do you need? Is there a mission that I am needed for?

Casey: No, I just need to discuss some things with you.

Chuck: Ok, do you think we can do it after work? It is close to the end of my shift and I was thinking I would go home first.

Casey: Sure, I will give you a call when I get to my place.

Chuck: Cya then. ( Chuck hangs up the phone before he does something to tip off Casey )

As Chuck gets into the car, his phone rings again. This time it is Sarah. He ignores the phone and heads towards home. He doesn't want to talk to her as he had a hard enough time keeping quite to Casey. The phone rings again and this time Chuck turns it off.

Sarah gets the sudden forward to voice mail and knows that Chuck has turned off his phone. This is not good at all. How is she supposed to fix this if he will not even talk to her. She needs to talk to him, but if she does will he even believe her now. Well, she cannot see him tonight as Casey has already told her to stay away for a few days. She really doesn't have much choice at the point. She has failed both Chuck and the CIA. Now she is about to fail herself as well. All of her CIA training and she still cannot keep it together when she is around him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GluCM_ggMvw Love stinks and she feels her heart pump faster at that thought.

We pan to Chuck getting home and he heads straight to his room. The first thing he does is lock the door and start looking for bugs and video surveillance. He finds about 8 mics but no video thank goodness. He puts all of the bugs in a fishbowl and puts that in bubblewrap and into a box. After that he goes to his computer and starts looking through his virtual CD drives. He is looking for his ace in the hole when he finds it. He uses a DOD approved encryption program and selects a 256bit pattern for the encryption key. Once this is done he makes 5 copies of the disk with the file on it and 1 without the files encrypted. He also places the file with his latest program on the flash drive. He will use this to download it onto Caseys system. He removes the bugs and places them back where he found them, well all but the ones outside of his room. He was tired of Casey spying on his sister.

As if on queue, his home phone rings and it is Casey. He had forgotten to turn his cell phone back on. He picks up the phone and gets ready to put his plan into effect.

Casey: Why is your cell phone off Chuck? I have been trying to reach you.

Chuck: Sorry, the battery was low so I turned it off. I will put it on the charger.

Casey: Ok do that and get over here. ( then you hear him hang up )

Chuck thinks, and hello to you too Casey. As he is leaving the apartment he sees a few kids playing in the parking lot. He goes over and talks to them, then hands them 20 dollars. He then walks to Caseys door and knocks. Casey opens the door and lets him in. He has already logged on to the NSA system which is good news for Chuck. Chuck walks over to the window and waves to the kids in the parking lot. Casey pays no attention to Chuck and goes to sit in his chair.

Casey: Chuck, I need to talk to you about the Marco case. I know it will be hard on you but we need to clear up some lose ends.

Chuck: Sure Casey, but I think you had better check your car out first. There are some kids over there sitting on it and who knows what else.

Casey: ( jumps up and rushes to the window ) What the .......

You see Casey run to the door and run out towards his car. Chuck knew that Casey took great pride in his car and would be distracted for a few minutes. He rushes over to the system and plugs in his flash drive. He downloads the programs onto the system and the places the file from his system into the spool directory. This is a good hiding place and is edited all the time by the system. It should go unnoticed unless Casey is a better admin that Chuck thinks he is. He also places his new program into /etc directory as root and executes a cron job to have it run at a specific hour when Casey should be asleep. It will gather the data and send it encrypted back to Chuck on a fake account.

As he is finishing up he can see Casey heading back his way. Chuck thinks to himself that phase 1 has been completed and if all goes well he should be able to start phase 2 by tomorrow. Since tomorrow is Friday, that will give him time to finish phase 2, before his date with Crystal. At least Crystal is pretty straight forward on what she wants from him and seems to respect him. Something that he has not gotten from Casey or even Sarah for that matter. Casey enters the door and Chuck is setting on the couch.

Chuck: Everything alright?

Casey: NO, not really. Those punks got fingerprints all over my windows. I will lock down my car cover from now on.

Chuck: so what did you want to talk to me about?

Casey: Oh yea, did anything unusual happen during your capture?

Chuck: well besides being tortured and shock therapy? Not to mention that I though that I was about to die!

Casey: Sorry, I meant did you flash on anything that night?

Chuck: No not really. I did have something like a flash but it was very painful and I don't remember much about it. I did not wake up till I was running out the door and not much of that either.

Casey: You had a painful flash? Do you know what you were thinking at the time? Anything at all would help.

Chuck: Not really. I just remember that I was in pain and that I just kept thinking about Sarah instead of the pain.

Casey: Nothing else? No one like Elle, Devon or Morgan.

Chuck: ( a bit red ) No, I don't know why, as I should have been at least thinking about Elle. At least she loves me and is good to me.

Casey: Thanks and I hope you and Sarah can work this out.

Chuck: Why, so that she can regain control of her asset? I don't see it happening Casey, after all of her speeches, I get the picture. I don't want her any other way, other than for real. I do appreciate it though Casey as I still love her and need her when on missions. She still makes me feel safe and I wish I could get over that, but I cannot.

Casey: She does care for you Chuck, she just doesn't know how to show it.

Chuck: Just stop, I will always be the job to her! I will just have to live with it now. Thanks for trying though. If done then I want to go to bed and get some sleep. BTW, I removed the bugs out of the rest of the house. You can spy on me but leave my sister and Devon out of it. Is that all?

Casey: Yea, that is it! ( he knows that Chuck is testing his limits )

Chuck walks out the door and you see a smile on his face. He was able to distract Casey and put his program onto their systems. Now he has to hope that it works and by the end of tomorrow he will be free to roam without bodyguards. Chuck looks up Crystals number and gives her a ring.

Chuck: Hi Crystal, it's me Chuck.

Crystal: Hi Chuck, you miss me already?

Chuck: Yea, actually I do, but I am calling to discuss what we are doing on Saturday. Do you know what you want to do?

Crystal: Yea, it has been years since I have been to an amusement part. How about going to Magic Mountain?

Chuck: Wow, that is an excellent idea! I would never have thought of that in a million years. What time do you want me to pick you up?

Crystal: I think we should leave here by around 9am. You do remember how to get here right?

Chuck: Yes, I will be there with bells on. See you Saturday. By the way. Is that boat of yours seaworthy? I mean have you ever sailed it to someplace like Cabo?

Crystal: Sure it is. All you would have to do is put food on board. The rest is all there including a GPS for navigation. Why? You thinking about a cruise to somewhere?

Chuck: No, was just wondering as it was such a nice boat. Thanks again and Cya

Crystal: Cya.

You can see the wheels turning inside of Chucks head. He has placed a mental note about the boat and that it is ready to go. His mind wonders to Sarah and how she would look on the boat. A bit of guilt enters his mind as he should be more respectful to Crystal. Then you hear the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzz1VEN1SEk&feature=related and it hits a deep cord with Chuck. How simple life can be if you just let it. He decides at that moment that he will live with what he gets. He may love Sarah, but like the Rolling Stones put it. You can't always get what you want, but you get what you need. Right now he needs someone to share his happiness and pain. If Sarah cannot handle a real relationship then he will have to get what he needs elsewhere.

The die have been cast and there is no turning back now. He is no agent and he has to save himself and Sarah both. After that he will always love her, but he will never get her. He wishes that he were Bryce as he would know what to do, but he isn't. He is just plain old Chuck! Well plain old Chuck is going to throw out the 5 year plan and live for today.

He walks into the apartment and Elle comes in right behind him. It jumps when he hears the door close. He spins around to see Elle and she is looking at him strangely.

Elle: What is the matter Chuck? You look like you were being shot.

Chuck: No just surprised that I did not hear you behind me. I though that I was all alone, sorry.

Elle: Well Chuck, you decided if your ready to talk to me yet?

Chuck: Elle, you know I love you, but I think that Sarah and I have reached an fork in the road. I need her to commit and she just cannot do it. I just don't want to spend years dating to end up like Jill and I did.

Elle: Sarah is not like Jill! She is a good person and would always be there for you Chuck. You should know that by now.

Chuck: Yes, she would always be there but not totally committed to the relationship. I have put a lot of thought into this and I feel that I need more and she is not willing or even able to move forward on it. It is time that I cut my losses and hope that when she is ready that we can get back together.

Elle: Do you love her Chuck?

Chuck: Yes, I do, with all my heart! But sometimes that is not enough. Life doesn't always work out the way you plan. Lord knows that I have had my plans derailed a few times already.

Elle: If you love her, then fight for her! Don't give up on a good thing.

Chuck: If you had said that yesterday, I would have agreed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxz7UkOQ5v4 But that was yesterday and today is a different day. I have made up my mind! I will be taking several weeks off from work. I will tell Big Mike tomorrow. Please don't tell anyone else. I will tell Sarah tomorrow, when I am ready. Promise!

Elle: I don't like it Chuck, but I promise. I just hope you don't go throwing away the best thing you may ever have, a true soulmate in Sarah.

Chuck: Well, it is like they say. I will let her go and if she doesn't come back, it was never meant to be. I guess we will find out.

Elle: Women are not birds, you bumblehead!

Chuck: Well, when you put on all that makeup when you were 9 I would beg to differ. You sure looked like a peacock to me! ( you see a huge smile on Chuck )

Elle: ( starts laughing ) Well I was 9 and you try putting on makeup without someone to show you. Hum, If I remember correctly at 8 you dressed up like a girl for Halloween! You looked pretty good in that makeup as I recall.

Chuck: I cannot confirm or deny that rumor. ( busting out laughing )

Elle thinks it is great to see Chuck smiling and laughing again. Maybe this will work out for the best. He has been so strange for quite some time. Not talking to her and hiding secrets. She hope that he knows what he is doing. She has no idea that if he screws up on this plan, that it may be the last time he does. There is no turning back now, even if he wanted to. Maybe this time his luck will hold.

End Part 5

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