Chuck Versus a Man called Crescent
This is my first story arc guys so be cool…..
Disclaimer: I don't own Chuck, but I do own the characters I create. No-one steals Crescent from me, oh no no they don't.
We'll Always have Paris
Shaw hits Chuck in the face and lets him collapse on the ground, winded. 'Stay here,' the rogue CIA agents says. 'I don't want to hurt you. None of this is your fault. I haven't told them your secret. But if you follow me, I will kill you.' He drags the disorientated Sarah with him towards the bridge, leaving Chuck gasping for breath in the mess that was a café table. What Shaw forgets is that he has left a gun behind, and Chuck drags himself up, picking up the gun. I've got to go after them, he thinks, I love Sarah and I won't let that monster touch a hair on her beautiful head. With this new sense of determination he runs as fast as he can to the bridge.
As he pushes the drowsy Sarah to the side of the bridge, Shaw looks at her. He thinks how helpless she looks, and for a second he thinks of letting her go. But the face of his smiling wife Evelyn smashes these thoughts away, and his resolve is concrete; he will kill her to make her pay for destroying the one thing he loved so much. Suddenly he hears the click of a gun being cocked and turns to see the stubborn Chuck pointing it right at him.
'Put it down Shaw!' Chuck shouts out. Please, he thinks. I don't want to kill you. It'll change me and I wouldn't be able to live with it hanging over my life.
Shaw laughs. 'Put the gun down Chuck. We both know you won't pull the trigger.'
'Please, it doesn't have to be like this...' Chuck responds. 'This isn't you, Shaw. You can't do this.' As he says this, he begins to lower his gun.
The rogue agent hesitates, and for a second, it looks like he is going to lower his gun as well. But Evelyn pops up in his mind and Shaw speaks out.
'No Chuck. I can. You can't.' He raises his arm again and a shot rings out in the silent streets of Paris.
Chuck's life flashes before him. From the instant he found out Bryce had gotten him kicked out of Stanford, he sees all the moments in his life. He remembers the day Sarah came into his life, walking through the Buy More doors and straight to him. He had fallen in love with her then and there; she was so very beautiful and every time she smiled at him or laughed at one of his slightly mundane jokes just made him more crazy about her.
He then recalls a very recent memory. It was after he found out Shaw was going with Paris and taking Sarah with him, and started to drink himself out of his senses whilst playing Guitar Hero. Morgan, being the caring best friend that he was, had tried to stop him but instead fell victim to the Intersect 2.0's restraining flashes. He ended up being tied up by a variety of different game controllers, whilst the drunken agent continued to drink and to quote 'Pretty in Pink', albeit completely getting it wrong. Then Sarah walked in. She had a knack for catching him at awkward moments, and this was one of those moments. He was sitting in his underpants with the plastic Guitar Hero guitar, and after he asked the love of his life whether she actually had any feelings for him at all, he felt very vulnerable. But at the moment she finally admitted her love, Chuck wouldn't have given up his life for anyone else's.
The blonde agent's eyes flutter open and Sarah finds herself lying in a bed in a spacious hotel room. She looks around and sees Chuck, who immediately gets up and asks her how she is feeling. That is one trait that she finds most endearing in her boyfriend – he always looks after her no matter what, making him so unlike the other spies she has ever met. But then again none of them had a normal life before their jobs and ever had a supercomputer full of government secrets downloaded into their heads.
Sarah starts to talk, and out of the blue memories of the night before spring back into her mind. She looks at Chuck in a way the Nerd Herder cannot define.
'You shot Shaw.' she says, and the expression of her lover changes into a more uncomfortable one. 'You saved me.' Chuck looks as though he wants to say something but Sarah won't have it. 'Shut up and kiss me already.' she says, and the two of them jump at each other, crashing their lips together and pulling the covers over them. They share an intimate moment where all thoughts of the CSI, the NSA, and the Intersect disappear, leaving only the love they share for and their relief at the resolution to all the tension they had before.
Afterwards, Chuck goes out to get some food for the ravenous Sarah. Damn, he muses, those tranqs are too powerful. Someone should really to change what they put into those things.
As he strolls through the local French marche, past all the happy couples smiling and kissing, Chuck feels his phone vibrating in his pocket, and he fishes it out. Unknown Caller? he thinks as he hits the accept button.
'Hello Chuck.' says a British accented voice. 'Or do you prefer Agent Carmichael?'
'I don't know who you're talking about. My name isn't Chu-'
'You can't lie to me, Carmichael. I know all there is to know about you and your team. In fact, I would like to say how beautiful your little girlfriend is looking. This sniper scope doesn't do her any justice at all.'
Chuck's blood ran cold. 'If you touch one hair on her head, I assure you, whoever you are, there is no power on this earth that will stop me from hunting you down and making you pay.'
'There really is no need for all these threats, agent. I'm not going to hurt anybody, especially you. You're too important to my contractor.' responds the mysterious caller.
'Who do you work for?' questions Chuck. His confidence regaining, he continues. 'If you're working for the Ring, then forget about receiving your payment. We took them out yester-'
Laughing, the voice responds. 'Do you think I would ever take a contract from the most useless faction on the stage? Please. I'm a professional. No, I work for an organisation that, in fact, I think you already know about. I did my job for them last night already. Oh yes, and just a reminder: I don't like people taking credit for my kills.'
Chuck tries to ramble his way through, but the voice cuts him off. 'We both know what happened last night. I shot Shaw, not you.'
The line cuts just as Chuck opens his mouth. A message flashes on the screen of the iPhone. It says, I'll talk to you soon.
How did you like my take on Chuck vs. The Other Guy? How about the twist at the end? Is this mysterious man the one they call Crescent? Of course he is, but you'll have to read the next chapter to find out how he gets involved with Charah.