Oof, well that is the million dollar question, I suppose. short answer: yes, most of them, in time. there were enough signs in vs the goodbye to suggest that her memories could to some degree be recovered, and we all wanna be positive, so sure, she gets her memories back.long answer: ??? here’s the thing, i really don’t know what i want to have happened post-finale. it’s been years and I still haven’t settled on say, my ideal chuck movie plot, or one concept for the future for chuck and sarah. i’ve even written a post-finale fic and i just abandoned it because i truly didn’t know what i wanted to happen. but i do have a couple ideas about the memories that i like, and since i saw that you sent this ask to at least one other person, anon, since angie answered it really nicely, imma ramble you my ideas, which i’m sure is no surprise to anyone.
i think it’s super gradual. i don’t think that, after the One Magical Kiss ends, sarah magically remembers everything, she goes back to chuck, it’s all fine and they immediately settle down, have kids, become security people or whatever their idea for carmichael industries was, and that’s it. but i do think, in that kiss, sarah feels something. maybe the kiss is familiar, maybe she has a vague sense that she’s done this before, but it’s just out of reach, or maybe she just really likes the kiss, but there’s something there. enough that, even if she does go try to ~find herself, she comes back sooner or later. turns up on the doorstep of the apartment and tells chuck she can’t tell why, but she knows that wherever he is is where she’s meant to be. she maybe even says, “you’re my home, chuck”, and he just about stops from fainting. because she has no idea that what she just said has already been said by her, a lifetime ago with a suitcase.things come back slowly, with no rhyme or reason, and she hates it. she remembers little insignificant things that chuck didn’t tell her in their story– hanging up on Beckman after/in between their kiss in the hotel room in paris, but she can’t remember the kiss itself. it’s infuriating, everything feeling just out of her grasp, hidden behind something in her mind she can’t breach. one day they’re down in castle, say, and there’s that wall down there that’s painted bright blue right by the armory, with candy jars stacked on shelves in front of it, and as chuck’s walking around sarah finds herself staring at this jar of orange sweets, in front of the blue wall, and she turns to chuck and says “what was the orange orange? it sold yogurt, right?” and chuck just about stops from fainting again (this happens a lot, mostly with every memory. it’s a big deal.) because he hadn’t really covered the orange orange in their story, just said she had two cover jobs near the Buy More, and with the yogurt store shut down now it’s just a memory. but those colours put together, blue and orange, spark it. he tries it with other stuff, finds clothes she wore on particular missions, objects related to things they’d done, but it doesn’t work. there’s no sense to the memories, no idea what triggers them– much, i guess, like the intersect right at the start of the show. and so chuck has to be there for sarah, much like she was for him, just to listen to the memories and tell her where they lie in their past.they visit ellie and devon and clara in chicago and sarah can’t shake the feeling that only a few months before, she’d held a gun to her sister-in-law (because she still remembers all of that fine) and now she wants her in her house, with her child. ellie has pictures framed all over their new home, ones sarah hasn’t seen before, or at least not since her memories were taken, and there’s a candid of her and chuck dancing at ellie & devon’s wedding, and when sarah closes her eyes, she can hear the music that played. she remembers that she was about to tell chuck she didn’t want to save the world, she just wanted to be with him, and then she remembers, abruptly, Bryce lying dead in the intersect room, and she realizes that not every memory is going to be a nice one.but, of course, as this happens, as they get to know each other again, as she’s re-learning her life, sarah realizes that she’s falling in love with the man she’d already fallen in love with. so she gradually goes from sleeping in the guest room in the apartment to slipping between the sheets next to him, one evening, wordlessly, and he just nods and she nods and that’s that. she gets back into habits, making breakfast, making dinner, watching movies by his side, getting closer and closer on the couch. who gets to fall for the same man twice, after all?one day she walks up to him, in the middle of the day, rises on her toes and looks him in the eye and murmurs “don‘t freak out” and kisses him. it’s just as good as the beach, and once more she feels what she did then, that sense of knowing how to kiss him, knowing his touch, feeling like she’s done this before. maybe a memory comes back, maybe it doesn’t. it doesn’t seem to matter anymore.on their wedding anniversary, she wakes up early, cooks chuck an omelette and can’t work out why he stares at her when she turns around and greets him good morning. they’re both keenly aware that this day is not going to go as they’d both thought it would, on their wedding day just a year before. though she knows he’s trying, chuck looks sad and a little distant all day, until in the middle of the afternoon she cracks and asks if they can watch their wedding video. she’d found it inamongst their dvds months ago but hadn’t had the courage to ask. she has it now. they watch it, and chuck cries because he remembers it all, and sarah cries because she doesn’t remember much, and she doesn’t know how to be the woman she sees on the television screen, carefree and happy and hopeful and without the world ripped from under her feet. in the present, she just kisses chuck, holds him close, tells him she’s so sorry she can’t remember it, the dress, the moments, their twist-tie rings they’d used in their practise and then in the ceremony too, for some reason, except he pauses then and frowns and she realizes she hadn’t really known that. they were in the video, but she didn’t know the context as to why, and chuck had told her about their practise run but hadn’t mentioned the rings. another memory, appearing from nowhere. chuck just kisses her and they cry a little more, wrapped up on the couch, and sarah sighs against him, tells him she loves him and she’s not sure how but she knows she never stopped, really, knows it’s right. he just gapes and tells her he loves her too, and she almost laughs because, in all of this mess, that’s the one thing she never doubted.
from there, i got nothing. but i think my point amongst all that ramble^ is, maybe every memory comes back, maybe some always stay distant. eventually, they don’t need them. it sucks, yes, for chuck to recall moments sarah can’t, and it hurts, for both of them, but they have their present, and their future, and that’s enough, in the end. those two are endgame no matter what gets thrown their way, and they’ll find their way back to each other and back to love, regardless. and no amount of forgotten memories can get in the way of that.
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