Chuck was getting ready to leave for work when as soon as he opened his door, Casey was standing there and Chuck jumped a little.

"What, are we carpooling now?" Chuck asked sarcastically.

" Just heard back from Washington. They confirmed Mei-Ling's story. Her brother Lee Cho's a low-level bureaucrat from Beijing. He was kidnapped on a business trip to L. A. By local triads. The Chinese received a ransom call asking for the release of a triad captain in Beijing. They refused." Casey explained.

All of a sudden, you and Sarah appeared in front of Chuck, both dressed in your uniforms as well.

"Mei-Ling was here on her own. Her government never signed off on a rescue op." Sarah continued.

" What's the connection to the guy in the wheelchair? " Chuck asked.

"Well, the feds have always suspected that he had triad roots, but they could never prove it."

Sarah said as you and her began to link arms and walked along with Chuck and Casey.

"Okay, so what do we do now?" you asked.

"Nothing. We stay out of it." Casey said looking at you.

" Hold on a second. I watched that guy get stuffed into a trunk. And it's because we got it wrong." you said stopping in your tracks and turning to Casey.

" We're not going to start an international incident over someone not even the chi-coms care about. Let it go, Y/N, huh?" Casey said walking away.

" Sarah, I screwed up, okay? It's my fault." you said turning to look at her now.

"Y/N it's not your fault." Chuck said trying to reassure you.

"But it is! I'm the one who decided to get out of the van and help that man Chuck. You wanted me to wait."

"But I still got out and helped you too. Y/N don't..." Chuck said putting his arm around you.

" Her brother's going to die, and it's all my fault." you said looking down at the ground.

"No, it's her fault. She went off the grid and she disobeyed orders coming here." Sarah said. "Yeah, but her superiors didn't even give her a choice. Come on!" you said frustrated.

" Sarah, I'd have done the same thing, if it was Ellie. I'd have done the same thing. Minus the shooting apart the club part." Chuck said trying to help you.

"I know how you feel. It was hard for me, too, when I first started. But the truth is we can't save everyone, guys." she said walking away.

Chuck looked over at you and can see your still upset. He still had his arm around you and rubbed your arm a little.

"Come on Y/NN." he said softly and you both followed Sarah out and headed to work.

Chuck was now behind his desk at the Buy More. He was busy with the computer when the phone rang.

"Nerd herd. Bartowski speaking."

"I'm looking at you right now."

"Oh, you're looking at me right now. Who is this?" Chuck said in a joking way since he believed it was a prank.

" Let's just say you owe me. For ruining my rescue operation." Chuck then stopped and knew this wasn't a prank.

" Mei-ling. " he then waved over at Casey trying to get his attention.

"Put your hand down. If you signal your friend, it's the last thing you'll ever do. By the way, nice mustard stain."

You then came in to see Chuck on your break and could see Chuck panicking so you quickly walked over to him. He started pointing at the phone when he saw you.

"Oh good your friend is here too. She can stay."

"Where are you?" he said looking around. You were so confused.

" Not near the Kelly Clarkson display."

"What exactly do you want?"

"Chuck who is it?"

"Mei-Ling."

Your eyes went wide.

" The triads put a clock on my brother's life. He dies in nine hours, if I don't do something."

"Okay, yeah, about that. About that. Listen, we are both really, really sorry. And if there's anything that we can do to make up for it... "

"Help me rescue him."

Morgan then came approaching the desk. "I'm a dead man. Dude, I'm in last place in the sales competition. If you do not help me, I am gonna get fired."

" One word to him and you're a dead man too." Mei- Ling said.

" Not now, Morgan, please. I have a really, really upset customer." Chuck said to him trying to get him to leave. You looked over at Morgan feeling bad.

Morgan tried to say something but Chuck cut him off and Morgan walked away. You watched him leave then turned back to Chuck.

"Listen to me. Listen to me. We are good smaraitans. We just helped the wrong guy. I help people run computers, Y/N works in a restaurant, we don't do rescue operations." Chuck continued on the phone.

"I tailed you and your handlers. You have a team watching your every step, which means you can help, and you will. I'll be in touch soon." Mei-Ling finished hanging up.

" Hello? Hello..."

You and Chuck just looked at each other then Casey came walking by.

"Want a hot dog?" Chuck asked him.

Casey looked at you then at Chuck wondering why we would ask him that.

" It's an emergency."

They then looked at you.

"Follow me gentlemen."

You, Chuck, Sarah and Casey were now all sitting at a table at Weinerlicious.

"So, listen, I've been thinking a lot about last night. And, you know, you guys were talking about how the spy could be valuable to us. So, I was thinking, what if we could convince her to, I don't know, like, uh, give up some secret stuff... " Chuck started.

"You mean defect?" Sarah asked.

"Defect! Yes!"

" People do that kind of thing all the time, right?" you asked.

"The hunt for red October. White Knights. White Knights-- Gregory Hines, baryshnikov, dancing their way to freedom." Chuck continued.

" Well, as long as you've done serious research on the subject. You get her to defect, I'll help rescue her brother personally." Casey said as he continued to eat his hot dog.

"Why are you bringing this up?" Sarah asked.

" Well, she sort of... Just... Called me."

" She called you? Where?" Casey asked.

" At the Buy More. I think she might've been in the store, too, because she knew my every move. She knew when Y/N walked in. She even knew that I had mustard on my tie."

Casey and Sarah quickly got out of their seats and headed towards the store. Once they got there they began to look around. You stuck by Chuck though and waited to find out what was going on. Chuck saw Morgan coming up and stopped him.

"Hey! Hey, Morgan... Hey, buddy. Listen, I'm really sorry about last night. I got home really late."

" Yeah, don't sweat it, man. It's just my livelihood at stake."

" What about tonight? Maybe after mother's day."

" Working a double shift, you know. It's my last chance to kind of make enough sales to, uh, not get fired. Thanks, though, pal."

Morgan walked away and you could tell Chuck felt bad. You put your hand on his arm to comfort him.

"Chuck... " Jeff called out coming out of nowhere. "There's a delivery of hard drives in the storage cage you need to sign for."

" Great. Thank you... Jeff."

Jeff walked away and you looked at Chuck.

"I know I don't work here but since I have known you forever and how it goes here ever since you began to work here... Don't your deliveries come later?"

Chuck looked at you thinking about that.

"Maybe it came early?"

"Maybe....Maybe I should come with you to check this out."

" Sure!"

And you followed Chuck to the storage room. As you looked around for the delivery person you saw a girl standing in a corner.

"Chuck over here!" you called out to him as you approached her. "Oh, hey, I think that's for this man down there."

All of a sudden the woman turned around and had a gun pointed at you. It was Mei-Ling.

"Please tell me that's not real. The gun, not the clipboard." you said panicking.

" Real enough?"

Then Chuck came down. "Y/N where is this..." then he saw Mei-Ling with her gun on you.

"Oh! Listen, listen, they agreed to help if you would just defect." Chuck started.

" What?"

" It's really not that bad here, you know. The chinese food's pretty good. Have you tried sizzling shrimp?"

Then Casey and Sarah came busting into the storage room, guns pointing at Mei-Ling.

"Drop the gun! Drop it! " Casey yelled.

Mei-Ling then twisted your arm to the back, pulled you close to her and now pointed the gun at your head.

"Y/N!" Chuck yelled getting really nervous now.

"Let go..." Sarah said.

" Shoot me, I shoot her."

"Hey, hey, I got an idea. How about a new plan that involves less shooting. Especially one that involves someone I really care about." Chuck said looking back at Casey and Sarah.

"Casey... Casey... You agreed to help if she defected, right?" you asked.

"I would never..." Mei-Ling said.

" Why? Too much loyalty to your government? The same one that left your brother for dead" Casey asked.

" If I defect, I can never go back to China. I will never see my brother again."

" And if you don't, you'll lose him forever. And you don't want that." You started to say feeling awful. "Guys... Promise Mei-Ling you'll help rescue her brother if she defects. Please. Please? " you pleaded with Casey and Sarah.

"Promise. Now let the kid go." Casey said.

"How do I know I can trust you?" Mei-Ling asked.

"You don't have any other choice." Sarah said.

Mei-Ling finally pushed you away and Sarah and Casey lowered their guns. Chuck ran to you and hugged you. You hugged him back tightly.

"You okay Y/NN?" he asked still hugging you.

"I'm okay Chuck. Thank you."

Chuck drove you back to his place where your car was parked. You both got out of the car and he walked you over to yours.

"Thanks Chuck. For walking me to my car and for earlier."

Chuck looked down nodding his head.

"Of course Y/N. You would have done the same for me. You have done the same for me."

You both stopped walking and turned towards each other.

"That's true. I have. And both times I was terrified."

"Yeah today...Seeing her hold that gun to your head. I knew she probably wouldn't have done anything but...It was a sight I didn't want to see."

You can see Chuck was very upset so you walked over and went on your tip toes to kiss his cheek and then gave him a hug. Chuck hugged you back tightly.

"Now, you go in there and get ready for your Mother's day with Ellie."

"You know you should be apart of it as well. You've been a part of our family for forever. You were there when this all started."

"Aww Chuck you have no idea how much that means to me. But this is yours and Ellie's day. Enjoy your time together."

Chuck smiled at you. He still couldn't believe after all these years how amazing you were.

"Thank Y/N. Well have a good night. See you tomorrow?"

"Absolutely. Bye Chuck."

You got into your car, waved goodbye and drove off.

Later at night you were called to come down to Casey's place for the night's mission. You knocked on the door and Casey let you in.

"Hey."

You walked in and saw Sarah and Mei-Ling standing around.

"Hey Sarah! Mei-Ling."

You were still uncomfortable with her after earlier. All of a sudden you heard and knock on the door and when Casey opened the door you saw Chuck standing there.

"Hi. Hey, I brought Ellie's secret recipe." Chuck said holding up a plate of chips and dip. " Just trying to help out the mission any way that I can. Can't really stay."

He then looked over and saw you standing there.

"Hey Y/NN."

"Hey Chuck."

He smiled and came over and stood beside you.

"There are at least ten guards we know of stationed at these points here, here, here." Mei-Ling said pointing at spots on a map of a house.

"The security cameras are tkx-50's. They're a little outdated, but they're equipped for remote access. Either of you familiar with them?" Sarah said.

"I am. Yeah, we used to sell them at buy more. Did a bunch of installs a few years back. They're pretty easy to access." Chuck said.

"Good. Every warm body helps." Mei-Ling said.

"I'm sorry... Me? No, no, no, no, no. Look, as much as I wish that I could help you, I can't. I made plans with my sister that are non negotiable."

"Yeah this is a real important day for them guys. Can't he get a break?" you said stepping in.

Casey, Sarah and Mei-Ling just stared at you both. You knew you weren't getting out of this.

"But, of course, I know that you wouldn't be in this mess if it weren't for me. I want to be with my sister and you obviously really want to be with your brother. We're like one big whacky transatlantic family. I owe you. I'm in. " Chuck said.

"I guess me too." you added.

"Okay, fine. But you don't leave the van under any circumstances." Casey said.

" I just need to be home by 8:00, if that's at all possible."

You and Chuck were really hoping you could make this work.