December 24, 2011

"Welcome to our Annual Christmas fundraiser for the hospital's Children's ward. My name is Charles Carmichael, and I am happy to sponsor this party for the Kids' Night of Awesomeness. Please feel free to eat, drink and bid on the outstanding artwork created by many of the children here tonight. And I hear there is a jolly guy in red that might be visiting tonight. So tell me before he might show up... who like CLOWNS?"

Morgan dressed as an elf stepped away from the center of the stage as the kids in the audience started screaming as clowns came on stage to start their act. Lots and lots of clowns were not the kids wanted to see tonight…or any other night, for that matter.

"Good job, little buddy," he heard Chuck say in his earpiece.

"Ellie really outdid herself this year with all the planning," Carina's voice moaned over the earpieces next.

Looking around, Morgan noticed she was in the back of the room with his lady, "little Alex," placing various artwork on tables. Ellie was placing auction sheets while jumping up and down, feeding off the excitement of the children watching the first of several acts she had arranged. Morgan smiled and waved at his girl before he walked through the double doors in the back. He ripped off the elf suit, and in less than minute he walked into a banquet hall dressed in a tux with tails.

Unfortunately he was just checking to make sure that he was put together and ran right into the other Alex in his life, nearly causing her to go head first into the punchbowl beside her.

"Watch it, Charles, or I will personally take one of Walker's knives and skin that tux off of you," Alex Forrest whispered to him, never losing the large smile on her face.

"Sorry, Alex," he mumbled as he looked at Sarah mingling with L.A.'s crème de la crème.

"Morgan, the man we are looking for is a jolly fat man in red with a white beard and goes Ho Ho Ho a lot," Orion's voice come over his earpiece next, causing Morgan to roll his eyes. Orion laughed as he watched the reaction on the big screen in the middle of Carmichael Investigations.

"Steven, behave!" Mary "Frost" Bartowski scolded her husband as she sat down at the desk at Casey's desk.

"Mom, Dad, don't fight," Chuck said with a chuckle as he went from one laptop to another, typing away at a maddening pace.

He glanced at the live feed. "SARAH, STOP THAT!" Chuck screamed. 'CRAP, you are going to be the death of me,' he thought as he grabbed a large bottle of cold water and chugged the whole thing in one go.

Sarah glanced at the camera that she knew Chuck was watching and giggled as she put the bows that she was holding up in various places on her body into the garbage and blew a kiss before she walked back through the doors and went back to her hosting duties.

"Just letting you know what your present is, sweetie," Sarah teased.

"Uh, you know my parents can see you, right?" Chuck glanced to his left at his parents. "Could you two be at least a LITTLE creeped out?"

Morgan went up on stage and took the mic. "Good Christmas Eve, Ladies and Gentlemen. Welcome to the 'adult' side of our children's fundraiser for the hospital. I am Charles Carmichael from Carmichael Investigations, and we are a proud supporter of this event, and this year we are having..."

The lights dimmed and a spooky red spotlight shone on Morgan, revealing what looked like blood stains all over his tux.

"An evening of murrrrder."

There was a loud clap of thunder and the lights return to normal. There was a small round of applause, during which Morgan took several bows to until he heard a growl come over the comms.

"Yes, from New York's newest theater school the Martha Rodgers School for Actors, we have their original play, Murder Under the Mistletoe. Please remember that there is the children's art auction going on in the other room which you may go look at any time tonight, and on your way please note the two tables at the back. On the left is Dr. Temperance Brennan and on the right is Mr. Richard Castle. Both authors will have copies of their latest books they will be autographing, with all the proceeds going to the fund. So sit back, open the pocket books, and enjoy tonight's festivities."

Sarah appeared out of nowhere and took Morgan by the arm and walked off stage "Lover, the game is afoot." Sarah whispered into the comms and then winked into another camera she knew was just off stage. She heard the school matron, a woman named Martha, issuing last-minute instructions to her acting troupe.

"Chuck, the actors are taking their places," Alex said as the lights came back up.

Chuck looked over the new intel from the FBI and NYPD servers that he just hacked into.

The CIA was certain someone was going to kill one of the authors tonight. Both of them had put away several people in the Chinese mob, and the mob was looking for revenge. By asking them to come here, the CIA was hoping the shooter could be lured out into the open and it would be up to Chuck's team to eliminate the threat without anyone knowing the CIA was involved. Not a plan that he would have done, but with Beckman setting it all up with Ellie behind his back, he was not surprised that suddenly a picture of a tipsy Beckman making out with Santa suddenly got e-mailed to all the people that were at the CIA Christmas party while she was giving her annual speech. He really got to get a look at those old albums of his father someday.

"Oh, crap. OK, team. Ready…set…action!"

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OK, this is a last minute Christmas challenge, and this chapter was written in about an hour. So of you might remember I have a friend, and former Fan Fiction reader that use to every-once and a while give me a strange challenge, one of these actually lead to the Chuckies Angels.

She was home for Christmas and for old time's sake, gave me a challenge, and this one is a pain in my... well you know.

The challenge: write a Christmas story that includes the main characters from CHUCK, CASTLE, and BONES.

THEN she said to use the Sarah's from CA. So I decided to use the CA AU.

This is a a fly by the seat of my pants story, and hopefully it will be done before New Year.

Huge thank you to BDaddyDL and PJ Murphy who both really made this make more sense and I think more fun.

Well here's hoping you enjoy, and please give me my Christmas wish, review whatever you read, mine and everyone else please.

Merry Christmas and Bah Humbug every one and all

JC