Posted November 1, 2019

A/N: Early on, the team always had missions after Chuck saw random things. If Chuck and Sarah each saw different random things, they'd have different random missions in the middle of canon inevitabilities. Starting off, Sarah would flash on Zarnow as a traitor before Chuck underwent testing at the Buy More. No dinner magic trick and no helicopter. Sarah would call Casey on the tango idea, then would teach Chuck herself. Whether Sarah was in a towels like Devon is up to your imagination. I'm not going to worry about big Sizzling Shrimp differences. The spastic colon excuse wouldn't work because Sarah would be living with Chuck and the doctors by then. I'm thinking there would be a make-up Evening of Morgan. This is the next day.

October 24, 2007

"Everything's clear," Casey said into comms. In place at the security front desk desk of the downtown office building reporting the lack of activity. He knew Sarah was advancing down the hall of the 32nd floor, even though the monitor in front of him showed nothing. A tiny part of him hated when Chuck's hacked video loop worked so well because Sarah would go on and on about it, normally while doing things like playing kissy face with him before as they were waiting to have a video call to complete their post-mission report.

"Uh oh. Sarah, we have to change the subject, now that we have someone listening," Chuck said, from his position in the back of the spy van in the parking garage.

Sarah innocently asked on the radio channel, "You mean I we can't talk about what we did last night, or how we are going to celebrate a successful mission?"

Casey said in a disgusted tone, "Please don't." He really wished they would quit.

Sarah sassed back, "What's your problem?"

"I didn't sleep well. It was noisy. Just because Doctor Ken and Doctor Barbie were working doesn't mean your neighbor couldn't hear you."

Sarah admonished Chuck, "I told you we were too loud. It had to be you. Spies do it silently."

"Could you stop before my ears start bleeding, again?" Casey painfully said.

"Buck up, Marine. We're just talking. We'll be quieter for tonight's encore," Sarah promised.

"Maybe you should stay in a hotel room." Casey suggested. "Isn't the CIA paying you a stipend?"

"That place was really green," Sarah said with derision.

Casey didn't think that was worse than her current situation. "Your room is like a geek threw up on the walls."

"Isn't it clear to you by now that I like my nerd the way he is? I know as a No Secrets Agency agent, you really want to know what happens in there. Sorry, you don't get video. If we're loud, it's to compensate for the lack of microphones," Sarah teased.

"I'll manage. Don't feel you have to do me any favors," Casey said.

Chuck said something that was related to the mission. "I'm past the door." The door by Sarah clicked as Chuck remotely unlocked its electronic lock. Then he went back off-mission. "Do you need anything, Casey? What's the score of the game?" Casey grunted in response.

Sarah opened the door and entered the office, which was her destination for the mission. Sarah was to download files from the computer of this financier who had been laundering money for the Triad, according to the Intersect. So far, everything had gone smoothly. Chuck had looped the cameras. Casey had taken out security at the front desk. Chuck got her past the door faster than she would have thought possible, even if she brought a hand-held electronic device herself. The plan was for her to download some hopefully incriminating files, which would let them trace the money to various criminal organizations. They'd be home early for some of that activity which Sarah had promised Casey would be quieter.

Chuck asked, "Casey, how did you take out the guard on duty at the front desk? Kareem to Worthy to AC to Magic, back to Worthy?" Casey grunted again.

Sarah didn't know that distraction technique. "What's that mean?"

Casey answered, "It was the distraction the terrorist/thieves used in Die Hard before they shot the security guard at the front desk of an LA office high-rise."

Sarah said, "I don't know what Chuck is talking about most of the time when he goes into movies tangents with Morgan. Why do you know about that movie?"

"That one actually isn't too bad," Casey said. "It has Bruce Willis, gunplay and explosions, and it makes fun of the FBI. I knew what he meant because Chuck has been needling me about it since he heard where we were going. It's R rated, so he had Lester put up some illegal, but censored version on the TVs today at work."

Chuck added, "Don't forget it's the greatest Christmas movie ever! Sarah, expect to be heart-warmed when we watch it for Christmas, drinking eggnog."

Sarah asked, "Will there be snuggling?"

"Of course."

"G—," she started, but comms suddenly when silent. After a few seconds, Sarah said, "We have a problem. I flashed."

Casey groaned and said, "Not you, too. I thought you weren't flashing on this one, Walker. We're here because of someone Chuck flashed on when you two were having dinner with the bearded gnome at Bamboo Dragon last night."

"I guess I didn't get a good look last night. I flashed now. It turns out this painting in his office is stolen. If we leave it here, it could me 'misplaced.' I don't have a tube to secure it in. It'd be better to carry out the entire frame, but that's bulky, and I'd stick out if anyone saw me."

Chuck said, "Sarah, you know you're kind of noticeable, anyway, to any man with a pulse. I'll pick you up at the front door."

"No! You stay where you are."

"I promise I'll stay in the van. I'll just drive it out of the garage."

Casey said, "Yes. Please come quickly. The sooner we get of here, the sooner I stop having to listen to you two flirt."

"And the sooner you can listen to us—," Sarah started.

"Ugh." Casey complained. "The sooner you two get done so I can sleep. How long until we're done here?"

Chuck chimed in, "Do you need my help from here?"

Sarah said, "No, I've already bypassed the alarms and have the painting resting up against the desk, by the computer. No nibbling necessary."

"Could you please quit with the sexual euphemisms?"

Sarah said back to Casey, "That wasn't what I was talking about. My name for the magic he does with computers just happens to be the same as what I call some of the magic he does in the bedroom."

Casey let out a pained noise. "I don't need to know more. Just please hurry."

"I'm heading out now," Sarah said. "I pulled the entire hard drive because with the painting gone, there's no reason to hide the fact we've been here. The elevator is bringing me down now. Chuck, with all of this talk about flashing, I can't wait to get home to do some more."

Casey lamented, "I really wish I never learned what that meant."

Sarah laughed, "Your job is to help with all of our flashes. We just make it so you don't have to do it every time."

"That's a different kind of flash."

"Chuck actually Intersect-flashed on a couple scars the first time."

Casey groaned again.

Chuck said, "I'm out front. Please stop torturing him so much. When he's angry—when he's angrier than usual—he takes it out on me at the Buy More. He won't mess with you."

"He shouldn't mess with you either. If you don't like it, I don't like it."

Casey said, "Fine. Take away my fun."

A/N: That's all this time. Really.

I hope you've enjoyed this view of how an Intersect couple would be inseparable, bringing their own skills to make a powerful team.

What's next? I think Chuck would be reluctant about getting rid of the Intersect, leaving Sarah the only one. People at the Buy More probably have seen Sarah's Porsche, so a cover job like the one in "The Bartowskis vs the Spy World" might make more sense.

(Later A/N insert: I had some other ideas listed, but I went a slower dual Intersect route with "Chuck & Sarah vs Trust.")

Back when the show was on the air, I never did (non-crossover) stories that were AUs when I wrote them. The show was still coming up with its own twists, and there were a lot of other good AUs out there. A few months ago when rewatching season 1, ideas started flowing. Now I've done several stories in four alternate universes. Here's how I keep them straight in my head:

- "Chuck vs His Former Handler" and "Chuck & His Roommate vs the Next Mission" - post 1.04-1.13 and 2.01-2.08. (post-Wookiee through the Jill arc) 0 Intersects.

- "Chuck vs the Nemesis's Ex" and "The Bartowskis vs the Spy World" - pre-series-1.01 and 1.01-1.10 (Nemesis). 1 Intersect. Chuck and Sarah waste no time and get married, before Chuck downloads the Intersect.

- "Chuck & Sarah vs the Email" - 1.0.1+. 2 Intersects.

- "Chuck & Sarah vs Trust" - 1.0.1-Christmas, though this is very different after the parallel events for 1.08. This story line will probably be continued.

I known the sequel titles might be considered minor spoilers, but saying so takes the position that Chuck and Sarah getting together in some way is a spoiler. I don't like putting off the inevitable. (I did all of my fanfic writing post-canon Charah. The spoiler of the episode title "Chuck vs the Honeymooners" got me through the back half of the show's "misery arc." In my head, they were fated, even when things were at their worst.)

I have a fourth AU story, a two-shot taking place at the tail end of Suburbs and the first couple minutes of Beefcake, before the mission: "Sarah vs Her Best Friend."

Oh, another idea for the start of a title: "The Piranha & the GBSM vs All Comers." I won't write that one because I don't have a plot idea. The title idea is cool.