Chapter 4

General Beckman pov

General Beckman didn't know how her excellent day turned into a disaster. This was again due to a particular asset; to think he had known about the termination order and kept acting as if nothing had happened was a massive shock to her.

He had been able to fool his two handlers and her. The pressing matter was how he got the termination order copy and the video. The order was released just minutes before the termination was to be carried out and was destroyed the second it was cancelled due to the death of Director Graham.

It was on the internet for an hour or so, but to access it, you should know what you are looking for, not to mention the firewall and inscription you must break.

Moreover, Chuck could break into the Castle server and interrupt and video conference, which had military version encryption. He had known the time that it would take for the backup team to arrive and had been able to put a secure CIA –NSA substation into lockdown.

Yes, now she was realizing that she had greatly underestimated the asset. Beckman knows she has to do some damage control. She had already informed the backup team to leave for the castle.

She had disconnected from the video conference the minute Chuck had left. It would not do for her juniors to see her gapping more than they have only seen. True to his words, Chuck sent the problem to her mobile with a giant smiley. Beckman had yet to understand one word of the email. Still, when she had shown it to one of the nerds after explaining to him that she had an asset to look into their base's security, this was his finding.

He looked at it and had an expression of a small boy who had been given a new toy to play with. His excitement grew as he strolled down the message, mumbling something she could not make head or tail off. Still, she had made this out that the person who sent the email was intelligent and then made his way out of her office or ran out of the office without saying anything to her. She would have suspended him for at least a week if it was another time.

Still, now she had another thing to worry about. She sighed, put her head in her hand, and thought, 'This would be a long night.'

Sarah pov

She watched in shock as Chuck's face disappeared from the screen. There was a silence of a minute or an hour, she could not tell;  then, as someone had slapped them, everyone came to their senses at the same time, general signed off without a word. Then she, Bryce and Casey ran to the door for the different reasons she wanted to get to Chuck before he left and to tell him how she felt. Casey to kill the moron, his words, not her, but she could see that Casey was impressed by Chuck though he would never admit that even to himself. Bryce to try his new intersect, but it seemed that no one would be getting their wish as the door would not budge. After fifteen minutes of trying, she had accepted that if Chuck didn't want you out, you were not getting out; Chuck must have been planning it for a long time, she thought as she watched Bryce continue to try and open the door.

What happened next will be in her memory for a long time voice from the speaker started to warn Bryce to stand down in its exact words, "Agent, stand down, or you will be restrained." After repeating the warning three times every five minutes and when Bryce ignored it and kept trying to open the door, a dart from the wall behind hit Bryce in his ass. He fell face down in seconds with dart still sticking in his ass through his jeans. They had carried Bryce to one of the detention centres and laid him on a bed. Casey had still left the dart in his word, "Serve the idiot for not listening to order."

Sarah then went to the control room to see what had happened. She will be the first to say that she didn't know much about computers. Still, she could gather that Chuck had somehow tricked the computer into thinking there had been a bio or nuclear attack. It was to protect them inside till the situation passed.

So here she was, staring at the timer to go off after four hours. Of course, she had searched for this Lisa person in and around Chuck's neighbourhood and found at least a hundred people with some form of Lisa in their name, her included.

A flash of jealousy went through her; why had Chuck not told her about Lisa? She reviewed Chuck's file repeatedly, but there was no mention of Lisa. Sarah would know she had read his file from top to bottom. She had tried to justify it as a mission requirement but knew it what not true she wanted to know everything about Chuck, like his dislike.

Moreover, today's performance turned her on; she liked the man who knew what they wanted and didn't hesitate to get it but still respected the other. Many men she had met in the agency or doing work for the agency fulfilled the first criteria, e.g. being the person in drug-induced sleep in the detention centre, but no one fulfilled the second till she met Chuck. Only Chuck had fulfilled both criteria.

She had been looking out for herself for as long as she could remember, and now she wanted to relax and let someone else decide for her. For this to happen, she had to first find that person. Sarah Lisa Walker admitted to herself that she loved Chuck Bartowski. Oh, she knew that she liked him from the start. Still, now she had never let herself accept that she was in love with him, perhaps from when he left her standing to help the girl whose father had forgotten to put the tape in his camera.

She would find him and make him understand how much she loved him and wanted to be in his life.

It would be her most demanding and challenging mission because she knew Chuck. He was the most brilliant man she had ever met, and if he didn't want to be found, he would not be found. Her only help was his father because if she was going to see him, she would need his father's help. Maybe he knows about this, Lisa. She would ask Orion the first chance she got. With that in mind, she returned to staring at the computer where the countdown was happening and waiting for the gates to open.

Norm pov

Will this be going on? The person of all their thought has made it to a private runway in Burbank airport where a jet was waiting for him to take him to New York? Sitting in his jet, taxiing along the runway, he let sleep engulf him as it was a very long day. He was out even before the plane left the runway.

The next thing he knew, he was being woken up by the air hostess as they were getting ready to land at New York airport. He gave her a nod and a polite smile as he looked at his watch. It was already zero hundred hours, and he had been sleeping for seven-hour. He must be more tired than he realized. The air hostess went to her seat and put on the seat belt as the pilot prepared to descend to the runway. The plane slowly taxied to a private hangar and stopped as he stepped out of the plane. He was hit by a missile of brown hair, knocking the wind out of him.

"Hannah dying here, please," Chuck said with difficulty. Hannah loosened her hold but didn't let go as she replied playfully, " Serve you right; I am seeing you in person after four years; you did not  miss poor Hannah?"

" Hannah, you know that it is not true as for poor well, the New York Times has a different thing to say HANNAH MCKAY, THE CEO OF CARMICHEAL INDUSTRIES, IS ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST WOMEN IN NEW YORK, am I wrong" Chuck replied playfully earning a small smack at the back of his head.

" Come on, let us go," Hannah said, leading to the three black BMWs waiting at the side. They got in the middle one, and the BMWs made their way through the New York street to his house, which he had not visited for years.

Sarah Pov

Valid to his words, the Castle door opened after four hours as She and Casey made their way outside, and the backup team rushed in. They had left Bryce in the detention cell as he was still sleeping on general order. They went to Chuck's house and went in through the door after some lock-picking by Sarah. As they expected, Chuck's room was empty except for his bed and computer; she and Chuck quickly searched the space they left the house to report to the general.

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