AN: Okay, I haven't updated this in forever. Lot's of excuses, going overseas, working on other fics, wirters block, yadayadayada, you probably don't care. I know I wouldn't. I felt like I had kind of cheated you guys by not updating this one so a random scenario popped into my head and then I had to try work my way from there. This chapter in pretty much Chuck vs The Other Guy, anyway, I hope you enjoy.

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The Bedtime Stories

5. Together at Last

Bartowski Residence
2019

Chuck and Sarah Bartowski loved their kids. But man little kids had so much energy! Between that and running their own software company, there were few nights they could get a break and just relax after putting the kids down for bed. Casey had his own work to do with Gertrude and Morgan and Alex had their own daughter to take care of, they couldn't leave the kids with them all day.

But tonight, they decided was going to be relaxing, tonight was going to be just for them. They put the kids down to bed and had finally settled with some wine on the couch. Their was a bottle of white on the coffee table and two glasses. It was actually going quite well until...

"Give it!"

"It's mine!"

"No it's not! It's mine!"

"No! It's mine, you give it here!"

"No! Why should I?"

The parents sighed. They had three great kids, but apparently, when you raise said three kids in the same house, they were going to end up fighting sometimes. Probably more often than preferred over something small that would be forgotten the next morning.

Chuck was about to pull himself off the couch, when Sarah stood up first and put down the her glass of wine.

"I'll take care of it."

"You sure? You know how much they'll argue."

"Yeah, it's okay, I'll handle it," she headed off to where the fighting was coming from.

Chuck leaned back and sunk into the sofa, taking another drink of wine. He glanced at his watch. They were supposed to be asleep by now.

"Daddy."

He turned around to see his daughter had come out of her room and walked towards him.

"Hey. Hi, baby girl," Chuck smiled as Sam climbed onto his lap. "What's the matter? Your brothers wake you up?"

"Yeah. Arguing about a lightsaver or something."

"Lightsaber," he corrected.

"Yeah. They fight too loud."

Chuck laughed a little. "Yeah, I guess they do." Chuck just observed his daughter. She looked just like her mother. Sam was only three, but he could see how she looked just like Sarah, blonde hair, blue eyes, the only difference was that she got her dad's nose and smile.

"Where's Mommy?"

"She went to go sort your brothers out."

"Oh. Can you tell me a story?"

"I just told you one before you went to sleep."

"But I'm awake again now. Please," she said with that look in her eyes that he couldn't say no to. He had to learn how to say no to that otherwise her teenage years could be hard to deal with. After all, she did look just like Sarah.

"Alright then. Ah..." His brained tried to rack up one of their old mission. Something he could tell her, and then he found the perfect one. "Okay, Sammie, have we told you about the time that the maiden knight and the blacksmith knight finally got together?"

She nodded. "But you should tell it again."

"Really?"

"Yeah, it's one of the best ones."

"Okay then," Chuck smiled. It was one of the best ones, to him too.

"Well, the blacksmith knight had been freaking out. All he knew was that the wooden knight had taken the maiden knight somewhere he had no idea. This was especially scary since he knew that the wooden knight had found out about the maiden knight killing his wife as her final test to become a knight."

"How come the maiden knight had to kill again?" Sam asked. "Sorry I forgot."

"It's okay, Sammie. She had to kill because it was the final test. It was an awful experience, but the Kingdom of Knights ordered it, they thought of it as a test of loyalty and strength. It caused the maiden knight and many others so much pain over the years."

"Anyway he went to the ex Colonel for help. The Colonel gave him the quarters of a man where he could get a cavalry of knights from so that he could rescue the maiden knight. He did just that. But when he arrived at the location he saw the wooden knight and the maiden knight hugging. He'd been wrong. It looked as if he'd forgiven her.

When they returned to the knights secret lair, the blacksmith knight was seriously reprimanded by the Queen for misuse of the cavalry and was benched from any quests. but assigned the maiden knight and the wooden knight to go to a kingdom to follow up the quest. The blacksmith knight wanted to make sure that the maiden knight was okay.

"I'm fine, thank you for saving me. I appreciated the cavalry."

Before going home, the blacksmith purchased some ale and went home to get drunk. The bearded apprentice tried to take away the bottle of ale, but the blacksmith knight used the magic images in his head to tie him up and kept on drinking. When the maiden knight arrived at the quarters of the blacksmith knight and the bearded apprentice, she found the bearded one tied up and untied him and he revealed everything to her about what happened to the blacksmith knight before going off.

The blacksmith knight told her that he had sobered up from all the ale and asked her a simple question.

"Do you love me?"

And the maiden knight said yes. She told him that she had loved him from the very beginning, when they first met and before he had started countering evil spells with magical locks. Because he was still her blacksmith knight.

"So this is where they're finally together for real, right?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, finally," Chuck answered with a smile.

"Anyway, the maiden knight told him about a three-man quest that was to take place that knight and she was choosing him as the third man. The bearded apprentice helped him get cleaned up a bit and then they were off.

The knights had been fighting the organization of rogue and traitorous knights called the Ring. Now the blacksmith knight was very paranoid of the wooden knight finding out about himself and the maiden knight and their relationship. The two of them end up being caught matched in a secret passageway with the Director and two Ring knights. When more ring knights showed up to help, they realized they were outmatched.

That was when the wooden knight showed up, fought of the knights and stabbed the Director. The three of them, then retreated back to the lair. The Queen was angered that the wooden knight killed the Director, but the blacksmith knight stood up for him and told the Queen that he'd saved their lives.

"Why would he do that?" Sam asked. "The wooden knight is a bad guy."

"Well, he didn't know it at the time," Chuck said. "And he did save their lives, or so he thought. And honestly, he felt just a tiny bit guilty for stealing back the maiden knight."

"Anyway, the Queen sent the wooden knight and the maiden knight on a follow-up quest to a foreign land, but had the blacksmith knight stay behind. The maiden knight assured him that when she returned, everything was going to happen between them. He was confident of the wooden knight's loyalty when he returned home, but the bearded apprentice wasn't so sure. The blacksmith cast a spell, which showed what happened at the Ring lair but the bearded apprentice saw how the fighting and stabbing had been faked as he was an expert on that.

The blacksmith knight realized that the wooden knight was going to kill the woman he loved and the two of them sought out the help of the ex Colonel. After some convincing, the ex Colonel ordered the bearded apprentice to fetch him his black cloak and before they knew it, the blacksmith knight and ex Colonel went off to rescue the maiden knight.

The wooden knight had taken the maiden knight to the place she'd killed his wife for her final test. At this point she relaized he'd been turned by the Ring and had been poisoned so she would be paralyzed. He intended to kill her by throwing her off a bridge.

But the blacksmith knight found them in time. While the ex Colonel was taking care of the Director, the blacksmith knight raised his sword at the wooden knight,telling him that he was under arrest. The wooden knight taunted him, telling him ti kill him, but the blacksmith knight did not. The two of them fought and eventually the blacksmith knight was subdued. The evil knight then told him that he hadn't told the Director about his identity and wouldn't as long as he did not interfere with his killing the maiden knight before going off.

The blacksmith knight was not about to let that happen. The three knights found themselves on a bridge overlooking the water where the wooden knight planned to drop the maiden knight. The blacksmith knight showed up and the two locked swords. In general the blacksmith knight was not one to take a life, but the woman he loved was in danger so, he thrust his sword into the wooden knight and vanquished him as he fell into the cold waters.

When the poison wore off, the maiden knight awoke in a classy, very beautiful private inn, the blacksmith knight was right by her side, making sure that she was okay. He explained what had happened to her and they kissed. The Queen of Knights sent them a message through a magic spell, telling them to return to the village as soon as possible.

But the two knights had other plans, they discarded the message and kissed once again, deciding to just enjoy being with each other for real. At long last, they were together. The end.

Chuck smiled as he finished the story. Of course they had done a lot more than just kiss in that hotel room in Paris, but those sort of details were not something you tell a three year old girl about her parents.

Sam was leaning against her father's chest, half asleep by now, but smiling. Chuck picked up his daughter and carried her to her room and tucked her back into bed, Sam then reached out to hug one of her stuffed animals.

"Good night, Sammie," Chuck smiled again and kissed her forehead. "I love you." He closed the lights and closed the door behind him.

Chuck settle back on the couch, less than five minutes later, Sarah joined him back on it.

"So what were they fighting about?" Chuck asked.

"Who got to be the jedi master and use the green lightsaber," Sarah answered. "Apparently being a huge nerd in genetic and you passed it on to your sons."

Chuck grinned. "How did you fix it?"

"I told them if they stopped arguing, they could go to Morgan and Alex's for a sci fi movie marathon," she answered. "They stopped arguing just like that."

"Really?"

"Yeah, actually, Morgan asked me if the kids could go for one next weekend. I said yes and just waited till now to get them to stop fighting to tell them."

"Mmm, you are a smart woman Mrs Bartowski," Chuck leaned over and kissed her on the lips. They pulled apart.

"Where's Sam I thought I heard her get up?"

"I put her back to bed."

"Well...The boys are asleep and Sam's back in bed," Sarah grinned with a twinkle in her eyes. "How about we finish off tonight like we intended?"

"The kids are kind of light sleepers. We'll have to be quiet."

"We can do that."

Chuck flashed his Bartowski grin and led her into their bedroom, closing the door behind them.

AN: I guess that was more future life than bedtime story but I hope you enjoyed nonetheless. Next chapter I'm debating between Morgan telling vs The Beard, Awesome telling vs Operation Awesome or Carina and Zondra telling vs The Cast Squad. Please review.