This week\u2019s Friday Five comes to us from atcDave, Chuck<\/strong> fanfiction guru and all around nice guy. You can usually find him hanging out at Chuck This Blog<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Chuck and Sarah\u2019s romance is very much the heart of the show. This is even truer for fan fiction. Even\u00a0the very earliest works were usually very optimistic about our favorite couple. So I\u2019d like to share five\u00a0favorite stories that feature the Charah relationship front and center.<\/p>\n

1. Chuck vs The Missing Years<\/a><\/strong> by Malamoo.<\/p>\n

This is a Chuck amnesia story from before they were cool\u00a0(err, or obvious!). But in this early work its Chuck who\u2019s missing five years of his life. He awakens in the\u00a0hospital to a weepy nurse and few meaningful answers. Apparently he\u2019s drifted away from Ellie and\u00a0Morgan, and the things he learns seem to provide more questions than answers. A Charah story with\u00a0very little Sarah until about the halfway point, but what we get is terrific. This was written mid-Season\u00a0Two so Chuck\u2019s missing years won\u2019t quite match canon.<\/p>\n

2. Chuck vs The Campaign<\/a><\/strong> by Ersk4.<\/p>\n

This may be the definitive fluff piece. But hey, I mean that in a\u00a0good way! Set right after the arrest of Jill, General Beckman decides she can\u2019t have any more high risk\u00a0\u201cnormal\u201d girls getting involved with a high value asset, so Sarah is ordered to move in with him. For her\u00a0part, Sarah decides she will prove to Chuck she can be that \u201cnormal\u201d girl. Much of this plays out as a\u00a0very sweet friendship story. The only tension is what will it take for Chuck to learn to settle for\u00a0extraordinary?<\/p>\n

3. A Chuckmas Carol<\/a><\/strong> by Mikki13.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t quite sure how to classify this one. This is obviously a holiday\u00a0story, and Sarah starts as a pretty Scrooge-like character! But this is easily one of the best stories of any\u00a0sort in the fandom. It\u2019s set the Christmas after Season Two. Between Bryce\u2019s death and Chuck getting\u00a0the Intersect 2.0, Sarah has forced herself into an all business mode. This story was written about when\u00a0it is set, so the writer makes many non-canon assumptions about Sarah\u2019s back story. It often amazes\u00a0how great a story can be told by putting our favorite characters into a well-constructed classic.<\/p>\n

4. Chuck vs The Fight <\/a><\/strong>and Chuck vs The Fight: New Year’s Edition<\/strong><\/a> by KateMcK.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that a\u00a0significant number of viewers were unimpressed with the Season Three main story. The always creative\u00a0fan fiction community responded with a large number of modifications to the canon story. KateMcK\u00a0took a particularly interesting approach, The Fight<\/strong> is actually a series of short stories that start close to\u00a0canon during a number of Season Three episodes; then explores how differently things could have gone\u00a0with just a minimal sort of change. Her variation on Chuck vs The Final Exam may be my very favorite of\u00a0the bunch. But this whole project is clever and fun.<\/p>\n

5. Chuck vs The Sound of Music<\/a><\/strong> by Quistie64.<\/p>\n

Readers familiar with me will know I had to mention this\u00a0one! It\u2019s a very favorite. The simplest description may not sound very inspiring to many readers; this\u00a0puts the characters of Chuck into the classic musical The Sound of Music. The writer drew her\u00a0inspiration from the comment \u201cimagine Sarah Walker\u2019s version of Favorite Things\u201d. The result is nothing\u00a0short of amazing. The story is fun, funny and sweet. The re-written song lyrics are laugh out loud funny.\u00a0This is another of the very best things ever written for this fandom. But don\u2019t stop there, Quistie has\u00a0written a sequel (Chuck vs The Sound of Music II<\/strong><\/a>) that is more adventure, but with less singing than the\u00a0original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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