So here is my second Chapter, I hope that everyone liked the first chapter that I wrote. This one is a cliffhanger.

I do not own Chuck.

Frustration, Lies, and the Pursuit of the Truth

"I'm so damn tired of this, Sarah!" Chuck burst out. "What am I going to tell Ellie? I can't believe we missed Thanksgiving."

"Chuck, just tell her that you and I went on a trip, then your car broke down and you had no cell phone service." Sarah replied calmly. "It's kind of half-true, I mean, we DID go on a trip and the car DID break down."

"Well I do suppose that minus the part where I was held hostage, Casey was poisoned and you killed three mercenaries, it's totally true." Chuck laughed quietly, but Sarah could sense the resentment in his voice.

"Chuck, I know that all the lying has been getting to you. Just know that I understand." Sarah said comfortingly. "And rest assured, sweetheart, General Beckman has promised to figure out a way to make it easier for you."

"Yeah, right, Sarah, How could she possibly make it easier for me to lie?" Chuck was getting frustrated.

"She is sending another person to the team. Basically a professional liar. I just found that out a few days ago, and that's all I know." Sarah said.

"No name, codename, not even a picture?" Chuck probed.

"Chuck, they will be here soon enough, and you'll know everything about them that you need to know." Sarah reassured him.

"Okay, well, right now I'm going to go explain to my sister why I missed one of her most important days of the year." Chuck said bitterly.

"Chuck, you'll do fine. Just remember, Trip, Car trouble, no cell phone." With that, she kissed him lightly on the lips and finished with "see you when you get home."

Chuck half smiled and went over to his sister's apartment.

Well, it was hell. Oh, Ellie wasn't upset, no, no, Elle was furious. Finally Chuck was able to calm her down and explain his half truth story to her, which, when she heard it, she forgave him. Chuck still felt bad though, and knew in that moment that if he ever had to come up with another lie without some help, he would have to tell her the truth.

NEXT DAY— BURBANK BUY MORE

Chuck sat at the Nerd Herd desk, thinking about the girl that he had met in the fender bender about a week before. Who was she? He hadn't really had the time to do any research, but he couldn't wait any longer. He pulled up a search engine on his computer and typed "Jamie Bartowski" into the box. A couple Facebook pages came up, but neither of them was hers. He was beginning to wonder who this girl really was, and there was only one way to find out… ask her.

He took the rest of the day off and drove to the Beverly Hills Buy More. Their Nerd Herd desk was in a far corner of the store, so he didn't see it right away, but when he did, he walked over there and saw her sitting at the desk with a clipboard in one hand and a pen in the other.

She looked up "Well, well." She exclaimed, "if it isn't my probably cousin! What are you doing here Chuck?"

"Actually, I was wondering if I could talk to you. But if now's a bad time…"

Jamie cut him off. "Now's a good a time as any. It's just that I have this computer that I have no idea what the problem is with it and I wrote down all of the things that could be wrong with it, and no diagnosis fits the problem completely. I could actually use a break." She smiled.

They went around the corner to a little coffee shop and sat down at one of the tables.

"So, probably cousin, what's up?"

"It's just something that you said in the parking lot the other day. About your father." Chuck was starting to get really nervous. Maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all.

"All I said was that my father's name is Stephen..." Jamie looked confused, but then Chuck cut her off.

"My Father's name is Stephen!"

Jamie no longer looked confused, but what confused Chuck was why she did not look surprised or shocked. In fact she looked completely emotionless.

"Jamie who are you really?"

"Well, in high school my friends called me Renegade, but other than that…"

Jamie said more, but Chuck didn't hear her. He flashed.

He came out of it just as Jamie was saying "Chuck, are you alright?"

"Yeah, yeah," he half-grinned. "Just got a major headache all of a sudden." He rubbed his temples slightly. Oh, God, this girl was a spy. One of the best in the CIA, her codename was Renegade and the only person in the CIA better than her at most types of combat was one, Sarah Walker. What did this girl want, and why was she here under the alias of Jamie Bartowski? Or was it an alias? Could it be possible that this actually was his sister and that the CIA had assigned her here for some reason? Chuck knew that the intersect could be wrong about some CIA agents who had just been recruited into the Ring, so he knew that he would need to walk through these next few moments very carefully.

"No you didn't Chuck."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, you did not just get a headache."

"Jamie, what are you talking about? You know that that did not sound the least bit crazy right?" Chuck asked sarcastically.

"Chuck," she leaned in closely and whispered, "I know that you just flashed on me."

Cliffhanger, right? So, is Jamie really Chuck's sister? I'll try and answer that in the next chapter. Please review, and please be kind.