A/N: I decided I might as well join in with this. I haven't read the other ones (except Wepdiggy's) so I apologise if I may have inadvertently copied someone. My focus for these little drabbles is everyone's favourite CIA agent: Sarah Walker. Please read, enjoy, and review.
Sarah couldn't help but feel that she should be feeling something different to what she was now. She was in love with Bryce, wasn't she? Now she wasn't too sure; she thought she should be feeling some sense of loss at his passing. All she felt was betrayal. Since Graham had called to tell her that Bryce had broken into the Intersect facility and had subsequently been shot and killed, none of the feelings that Sarah was expecting had bubbled to the surface. Sure, she had been angry, but not at whatever had conspired to take Bryce from her. She had gone through the apartment she and Bryce shared and systematically destroyed anything connected with Bryce. Photos, music, even his favourite mug had been unceremoniously flung out of the window.
What surprised her was that she was only angry at his betrayal of his government, his country, and her. She had briefly wondered if all her years as an agent had stunted her emotions enough to be indifferent to death. After all, more enemy agents had met their end at the sharp end of a knife expertly thrown, or a bullet fired with deadly accuracy, than Sarah cared to count. But she couldn't help feeling this should be different. Bryce was her first partner. Since the age of 23, she hadn't worked with anybody else. Obviously there would have been a connection formed somewhere along the line, even when the sex was just a way to blow off steam from a particularly challenging mission, she had felt something. They weren't a normal couple by any standards, and Sarah had come to accept that; she had long given up any hope of a normal relationship and a normal life. The Agency was her reason for being now, and emotional connections only got in the way of a successful mission.
So now, staring at the dossier in front of her, one Charles I. Bartowski, a Nerd Herd supervisor at a Buy More, Sarah had been pushed even further down than before. Further down than Bryce had ever managed to coax the girl within the agent out of the stony-walled shell that had been built up over years. Agent Walker was in control now, as she had been before Bryce came into her life, and as she would be from now on.
Because Agent Walker was determined to never let emotional connections get in the way of the mission again.