I did enjoy this first part Thank you for continuing to write Chuck stories. The whole premise of this may or may not be fanciful, but what is the whole Chuck story if not unlikeliness of the highest order? How will Chuck meet Sarah again? Will he get another job? Yes, and yes, I'm sure. But it's in your hands and I look forward to reading on.

Touching. Gentle. Beautiful. Hopeful.
Very well done. I'll definitely be back for more.

Certainly an interesting idea. Obviously things will be different from the show, so does that mean no Sarah and bryce together? How do Sarah and chuck meet again? Will be interesting with her being an agent and chuck not being her asset. Obviously chuck is gonna get a better job, and maybe Sarah is investigating the company he works at? The possibilities you have with this story are endless. Curious to see where you go with this.

Interesting story, even if the premise of Chuck not being able to get a job with a Stanford degree is fairly unrealistic. I get that he's not confident but it's likely he'd have gotten a job within his first couple interviews, thus not losing his confidence. Also, is the date right? Sarah's backstory in the show is honestly really terribly done (way too much stuff, though you cut out Harvard so maybe you changed this on purpose), but to my knowledge the CATs would have ended maybe 2004. Finally, I never commented this on your other story but I have to now, it's just super annoying. You use 100 watt smile, but that's like, a regular light bulb. It's 1000 or million watt smile, lol. When you say "not quite his 100 watt smile" it's simply confusing. Keep writing!