Author's note: I don't own Chuck. No copyright infringement is intended.

Date: 08/10/2012

Time: 23:40

Agent Walker looked down the scope of her crossbow as she put in the small earpiece that would allow her to hear as well as see her target.

"What?" she heard Carmichael say, "You thought you were the only kid on the block? You thought that nobody was watching?"

She adjusted the distance on her range-finder and kept an eye on the wind gauge. She wasn't that far away from Carmichael but crossbows weren't known for their long range accuracy. She angled the bow so she could see the lessor demon and hear him speak.

"You could at least have left one! Do you know what it's like for me?" the demon cried.

Sarah suppressed a chuckle. Yes, Carmichael knew exactly what it was like for him. The thought briefly distracted her and she lost track of what was going on. Her mind was taken up by images of Chuck, her sweet and innocent Chuck, draining the soul out of some small child in a dark back alley. No, that thing wasn't Chuck. It might have Chuck's body but there was a demon where he should have a soul. It was better that she thought of him as dead. It would be better if he were.

Sarah was brought back to reality by a sudden movement. The lessor demon had lunged at Chuck. The demon had gathered up what Sarah suspected was all of its power and placed it behind the movement. The move stank of desperation and Carmichael would have seen it coming a mile off. If she had been paying attention, Sarah would have too.

Chuck, no Carmichael, was gone before the demon had even started moving. Sarah had never seen anyone or anything shadow walk quite that effectively. It was a fairly common ability for anything but the weakest of demons but Carmichael used it so well that Sarah swore quietly under her breath. That changed things somewhat.

Sarah opened her small pack and pulled out a new crossbow bolt and pair of goggles. She placed the large crossbow bolt into the crossbow, put on the pair of goggles and went back to watching the fight.

"What makes you think I could ever get near to Lucifer?" she heard the lessor demon whine, "You will to exorcise someone more important than me if you want Lucifer to notice you. There is no reason to kill this human body."

His pathetic attempt to reason with Carmichael held no sway and Carmichael replied with a smug, "Just say that Charles Carmichael sent you. You would be surprised what that can achieve," and stabbed the lessor demon through the heart.

The demon died with little ceremony or drama. When Sarah had first started hunting demons she had assumed that you would see the demon leaving the host's body like a wisp of smoke or that the host's body would age rapidly and decay to a set of bones in mere seconds. None of that happened; he simply died.

That was Sarah's cue for action and she squeezed the trigger on her crossbow. The first bolt launched forward into the small clearing but shattered into a dozen smaller pieces that scattered all around Carmichael. Just as they clattered to the ground each one lit up to produce a brilliant white light, causing the many shadows to retreat away. Sarah grinned a grim smile; no shadows meant no shadow walking.

Carmichael glanced up and frowned just as Sarah fired another crossbow bolt at him. This one hit him with precision, right in the neck. Carmichael screamed in pain and ripped the bolt from his body but it was too late. The bolt was actually a syringe containing holy water – the very same liquid that he had used against the lessor demon earlier – and it had injected its deadly contents right into Carmichael's bloodstream. Sarah sighed in relief, that was entire supply of holy water and if she had missed she would have been in trouble. Chuck convulsed in pain and dropped to his knees, still screaming and Sarah's eyes widened in horror. His image flickered a few times – a sign that he was trying to shadow walk – but he remained on the ground.

"No," Sarah whispered to herself as she dragged Chuck's whimpering form towards the shipping container, "it's not Chuck."

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