77A/N: I think this is it for this one, for now. Maybe I come back to it one day, but with everything going on in the world, I need a very happy ending, and this is gonna give us a very happy ending.
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck
"They're late," Casey said, pacing.
"They are not," Beckman replied, popping onto the monitor. "I told them we would be meeting in two hours. It has only been an hour… and… I may have interrupted them…"
"Wait," Ellie said, straightening, her eyes going wide. "They're…"
"They are very together, Dr. Woodcomb," Beckman replied dryly. "At least, that was the impression they gave this morning. Also, I really need to make sure and never call into their bedroom again."
"So, what's the plan, general."
"Have you ever heard of a move called 'the magnet'?" Eight smiles popped onto the faces of those watching her.
}o{
"Sorry we're late," Chuck rushed out, walking in, trying to run a hand through his hair.
"Is Walker… I mean, Mrs. Bartowski, strutting?" Carina asked Zondra.
"Yup," Zondra replied. "Looks like someone is back in the saddle."
"That's my son you're talking about," Mary said, to the two. "But he is glowing," she said, taking a second glance.
"And he's giddy," Morgan added.
"Kind of like you," Carina and Alex said at the same time. Both women turned to each other.
"Sorry," Carina said.
"I mean, it's true," Alex replied with a shrug. "It's sort of adorable."
"Strangely enough, it was," Carina admitted.
"I'M RIGHT HERE!" Morgan yelled, making Chuck and Sarah, and everyone else, look at him. "In case you didn't… know where… I was," Morgan said trying to cover up his blunder.
"Team, we believe that Shaw is trying to have his wife brought back to life in the same container that brought Bryce back to life," Beckman began.
"Uh, General… isn't that a bad idea?" Morgan asked. Everyone turned to him. "You know, like, hasn't too much time expired, and now she'll return all weird?" He turned to Chuck. "Those books you read, about the dragons?"
"Game of Thrones?" Chuck asked. Morgan snapped his fingers. "Oh, you're talking about the mom that they left dead too long?"
"That's the one," Morgan said. Everyone was staring at them. Sarah leaned over and kissed her husband on the cheek. "Why don't you kiss me, when I do something, like she does Chuck?" Morgan asked Alex.
"Because I haven't lost my memory of how many times you two have done this," Alex replied.
"That's very fair," Morgan said.
"General, do you have a plan?" Chuck asked.
"Yes. You two go open the unit, and see who's in there," Beckman said. "And we'll take care of everything else."
"Why do I feel like we're missing something?" Sarah asked.
Chuck turned to her. "Do you remember 'the magnet'?"
}o{
They made their way through the dock, finding the loading platform they sought. They opened the container, and they glanced at each other. "This looks familiar," Sarah said.
"Same life pod they used for Bryce," Chuck replied. He turned to the clock that was counting down, and he flashed. It was the mother of all flashes. "SARAH! You have to run! That's not a life pod, that's a bomb! It's got…three different timers, and… we don't have time to stop it!"
"You go, I'll work on it," she said shoving him away.
"NO!" Chuck snapped, making her turn to him. "I'll stay, you run. I have the Intersect, I have at least a chance to disarm it."
"I'm not leaving you here!" she snapped at him. They moved nose to nose. "Chuck! LEAVE!"
"NO!" He screamed. "I'm not living without you! Don't you get it? Don't you see? You! I love you! The way you are, the way you were, the way you will be! I love you, Sarah! You are, and always have been, right here! I cannot go through life without you, not after having this time with you!"
"Chuck! You have to go!"
"I'm not leaving without you," he said in a low voice. And then he pounced, his lips capturing hers.
}o{
Shaw saw them, kissing, in front of his wife's life pod. He slowly stood, aimed his gun, and eight gunshots went off simultaneously. He dropped dead, never having the chance to pull the trigger.
Eight people slowly moved toward the body. Casey was in front, and bent down, examining the body. "Seven bullet wounds," he grunted. Casey, Gertrude, Alex, Carina, Zondra, Cole, and Mary all turned to look at Morgan.
"What?" he asked. Casey shook his head and turned back. He found a bullet lodged in a pallet a few feet away. "Oh," Morgan replied, looking at the place where his shot had landed. He then looked across the pier to Chuck and Sarah. "Do we need to do something about them?"
Casey snorted a laugh. "I put some bomb timers together, and made it resemble a bomb. That's just a life pod." He watched them move closer together. "Uh."
"We might ought to stop them before they do something that gets them arrested," Mary suggested.
"On the other hand, we might learn something," Carina countered.
}o{
Chuck pulled away, realizing that the bomb should have exploded by now. "Damn it," he said, and then thought about how it was okay that the flash was wrong this time.
"I swear we keep having real bombs not go off. But I do like the others we have that do go off," Sarah said, with her arms still wrapped around him. "You don't think it's Bryce again, do you?"
"I didn't think it was the first time," Chuck replied.
"He's gonna be shocked this time. We've gotten married since he 'died', thought we were pregnant, lost my memory," Sarah began. She noticed Chuck slowly turning to her. "What?"
"Sarah?" he asked, a little breathlessly. "What did you just say?"
"About being pregnant?" she asked. Chuck nodded. "We… well, I, thought we might be pregnant when Gertrude hired us to do that job, and I made the mistake of almost walking in on them… that would make anyone nauseous. Then we were going to switch to cybersecurity, and I found us the place we are now."
"Sarah," Chuck said, as his famous smile slowly began growing across his face. "On our date, the stick thingies in your hair-"
"The ones dipped in knockout juice?" She asked. Chuck nodded. "I put them in there in case you tried to run, on our date." Her face softened. "But you wouldn't have… you didn't. You liked me… and I liked you." Her eyes grew wide. "CHUCK! I REMEMBER!"
}o{
The group stood there as a team arrived to safely open the pod. They all watched with anticipation as the door opened. Everyone gasped at who they saw, but three of the group were in total and complete shock.
}o{
Two weeks later
Chuck sat beside his wife in their building, looking at the mountain of paperwork in front of them.
"I said I'd let you out," Beckman reminded him. "I didn't say how much paperwork would be involved."
"And we're sure he's dead?" Chuck asked.
"Chuck he was shot seven times," Beckman began.
"YOU DON'T HAVE TO RUB IT IN!" Morgan yelled across the room.
"Love you, buddy," Chuck called out, making Sarah snort with laughter.
"Love you," Morgan replied.
"He's dead, Chuck," Beckman said with a smile. Sarah signed the last piece of paper, and Beckman glanced from one to the other. "If you two ever decide you want back in…"
"Thanks, General," Chuck began.
"…I'll kill you both, personally. Do you understand me?" Beckman said, straightening, scaring Chuck a little. "You two keep this life, stay out of that life. Are we clear?"
"Crystal," Sarah replied, grinning. "Besides, we have a family to start."
"We do?" Chuck asked. Sarah gave him an amused look. Chuck turned to Beckman. "We do," he confirmed.
"There he is," Morgan said, as the door opened, and Stephen Bartowski walked in with Mary. "How you doin' Mr. B?"
"I'm-I'm okay," Mr. Bartowski replied, uncomfortably patting Morgan, who was hugging him. "Charles, Sarah," Stephen called to them. "I hope you don't mind me coming down here."
"You're always welcome, Stephen," Sarah said, a smile on her face.
"I think you should call us Mom and Dad," Stephen began.
"No," Mary replied, surprising Stephen. "Sarah and I…" She smiled at the younger woman fondly. "We have our own special relationship."
"But if you want me to call you Dad, I will," Sarah told him, walking over to hug the elder Bartowski.
Chuck stood back, watching his family. "I couldn't have done this without you," he said to Beckman softly.
"Oh, I think you could have," Beckman said, turning to him. "You are a remarkable young man, Chuck." She smiled, turned, and headed out of the building.
"You okay?" Sarah asked, coming over to him.
"It's weird… a few months ago, I thought I'd lost everything, and now, I have it all," Chuck replied. He looked at her. "I'm was wrong though. We hadn't lost anything. We just didn't know where to find it."
"Dork," she said shaking her head with a grin.
"You love me. You never forgot that," Chuck replied.
"And you're never gonna let me forget it, are you?" she asked. Chuck grinned at her. "Good." He leaned down to kiss her, but she stopped him. "Do you have any idea why I remembered everything in front of the not-bomb?"
"The same reason I did in Thailand," he replied. "Because we had everything to lose in that moment."
"Chuck," Sarah began with a smile. "Shut up and kiss me."
He did.
Cue Rivers and Roads
A/N: For clarification, the Ring setup Shaw. Evelyn is dead, Stephen was in the pod. I like that ending. That's how you end a series. I SAID WHAT I SAID.
