Tushar Srivastav
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Chapter 3
🕑 Added 2023-05-31 07:44:33 +0000 UTCChuck saw the stunned face, and when it became clear that no one would say anything, he took control in his own hand and said, "Good evening General, Cornel Casey, Agent Walker and Agent Larkin", while looking to said person.
This seemed to bring them out of their shock as they replied in the order of Sarah, Casey and the general word being
Chuck
Moron
Mr Bartowski, what are you doing
"Hey guys, so you missed me anyway. That's not why I am here; I am here to ensure that I do not end up six feet under the ground now that I am useless to you," Chuck said
"What are you talking about, Chuck," Sarah asked in a stunned voice.
"Do not act innocent, Agent Walker. I am talking of this; please look closely at the signature and the date," Chuck replied as he pressed a button on his keypad, and paper appeared on full screens. There was a minute of silence as they all read the paper. Sarah paid close attention to the signature and the date it was signed by both Director Graham and General Beckman and was dated the day the intersect was to come online. It was a termination order for Chuck.
"And this some protection I was getting," Chuck said when everyone had finished reading. Again a video began to play. It was surveillance of that day, or it was the surveillance of Chuck's termination. It showed Casey with a gun which had a silencer, and aiming at Chuck. As Casey was going to shoot, Chuck's doorbell rang. It showed how Casey decided to wait as Chuck went to open the gate or how Sarah said to Chuck that the intersect was destroyed and he was the only intersect. The video ended with Casey returning as Chuck and Sarah talked.
Again Sarah was stunned for the second time; by looking at the video, it seemed that Sarah knew about the termination order and was there to stop Casey from carrying it out as the intersect was destroyed, which was not valid. She was there to deliver the sad news.
Sarah had no idea of the termination order and that Casey was in the house, but she could understand how Chuck would think that. Moreover, the paper was the nail in the coffin. She was beginning to understand the Agent Walker thing.
Sarah opened her mouth to tell him she knew nothing of that order and was just there to tell him about the news of the intersect explosion, but Chuck cut her even before she could say the first word.
"I know you were doing your job, Agent Walker, as you have told me many times, and I do not blame you or Cornel Casey for it", Chuck replied; even though he said these world, Chuck's face showed for the first time how betrayed he felt about the termination order, and that was not lost to the four of them.
He continued without giving them time to recover, "So you will understand that I have to take some precautions so you do not hurt anyone I care.
I have recorded all my life from my time at Stanford till today. Suppose you hurt even one hair of Ellie and Morgan or cause any difficulty for them. In that case, my friend Lisa here will upload it to the internet and think about the general public's reaction if my story comes out" Looking directly to the General.
"Madam, I respect you greatly. You are a great general. Still, you must understand that I have to take measures to protect myself and my loved ones. It is not a threat Madam, and I do not like it any more than you do, but family comes first."
"I will be leaving Burbank for some time, and before I forget Lisa, please," Chuck said
LOCK DOWN INITIATED was echoing throughout the Castle. As all doors leading in or out of the Castle closed.
Sarah, Casey, and Bryce were all looking around as the Castle went to lock down, hardly believing their ears.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the General had recovered from the nuclear bomb that had been dropped on her and said: "Mr Bartowski, you know that what you are doing is a Federal crime."
Chuck got angry for the first time and replied: "So is killing an innocent citizen, but it didn't stop you from issuing a termination order for me, did it generally."
Chuck quickly controlled his emotion and, happily, to diffuse the tense atmosphere, said, "A citizen with all your secret in him but still an innocent citizen."
"Look, general, I am not your enemy. It is just the circumstance like this, and I want to ensure my family's and mine's safety," Chuck continued.
"Agent Walker, thank you for keeping me safe during the mission. I know it is your job and all. Best of luck for you and Agent Larkin's future mission," He said to Sarah.
He then looked at Casey and said: "thank you, Cornel. I know it was not your dream assignment, but thank you for keeping me safe."
He then looked at Bryce and said: "Agent Larkin, If everyone has a friend like you, then they wouldn't need an enemy, and please tell my Dad to not try to save my life as he did in Stanford. He gave up that right when he left us."
"Do not worry; the lockdown will end automatically after four hours. It is the same time that your backup team will require to come to the Castle.
I will text you the problem, which lets me put you on lockdown so that you can fix it. It is the problem of most of your bases; it would not do for our best agent to be locked up, would we.
Oh! Don't look surprised. Some of the problems that nerd in the CIA has been taking credit has been done by me till I found out about the termination order. Chuck Bartowski is signing off for the last time." With that, the screen containing Chuck's image went black.
After the video chat, Chuck quickly changed the security code so that only Ellie could open it, and anyone with her could enter quickly, putting every system to sleep mode so that the CIA or NSA do not detect them. Which is undoubtedly going to search his room? Till Ellie once again activated it.
Yes, he was going to tell Ellie everything. He would not put his sister through the same pain that they went through when their parent left them. He would have told her everything sooner if it was not for the fact that the CIA and NSA may question his sister, and she shouldn't know about anything till then.
With a last look around his apartment, which he and his sister shared for eight years, and got in the black BMW which was waiting for him to a new chapter in his life
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