"Were you really that cold?" asked Chuck. "To Bryce?"

"Yeah," Sarah shrugged. "Like I said, I didn't need a partner and the briefing was in five minutes. No time to chit-chat. Agent Walker's all business."

"I've noticed," Chuck muttered. "So what was the mission about?"

"You weren't that cold towards him for too long Sarah, now were you..." Carina butted in before earning a death-glare from the woman seated comfortably on Chuck's lap.

"That doesn't mean I had really deep and true feelings for him, Carina." Chuck wasn't sure what to think about this statement, but only until his eyes met Sarah's and he saw the second, unmentioned part of that sentence written more than clearly in her wonderful blue eyes, "Nothing like the ones I have for Chuck…" and he smiled one of his 1000-watt smiles as Sarah continued with telling the story…

"You just had to start shooting, didn't you," accused Sarah, directing a death glare at Carina, as she, Bryce and the DEA agent all hid behind a desk in the meeting room.

"You know they didn't believe you," retorted Carina.

"We could have come up with something!" shouted Sarah.

"Ladies, would you just calm down? Or did you forget about the people still shooting at us?" said Bryce, attempting to mediate.

"Right. Sorry, Agent Larkin," said Sarah.

"It's Bryce," he responded.

"Right now I really don't care," said Sarah coolly. "Just start shooting on my mark."

"Gotcha," said Carina cheekily.

Sarah started counting down from three, using her fingers to avoid their assailants hearing and knowing exactly the moment the three agents would attack. As she closed her final finger back into her fist, she sprang up from behind the desk. Bryce and Carina followed suit almost immediately after, and the sudden onslaught surprised the drug ring members, who were then forced into cover themselves.

"Give up and we'll let you live!" shouted Carina to the cowering suspects. Her answer was an ill-directed shot that skimmed the side of the desk that had once served as their cover.

"I guess that's a no then," said Carina dryly, and with cat-like grace, she vaulted the desk and moved towards the area where the suspects were hiding.

Unfortunately, Carina hadn't noticed that there were other members of the drug ring circling behind her, but they in turn had made the fatal mistake of not noticing either Sarah or Bryce, who were rapidly reloading their weapons.

"Ah, screw it," said Sarah, instead drawing one of her many knives and throwing it with her usual deadly precision. The blade sunk to the hilt into the back of the trailing suspect's neck, which left only two for Sarah and Bryce to deal with.

Wow, hot, and she can throw a knife like that, thought Bryce in amazement. With unexpected synchronicity, Sarah and Bryce both dropped their weapons and moved to engage the two remaining suspects, while Carina, still oblivious to the commotion behind her, prepared to attack the hiding suspects.

Sarah moved quickly and silently to the first suspect, and silenced him with a hand over his mouth quickly before he could warn his comrade, who Bryce then jumped onto. The speed and surprise of the attack from behind meant that it was all over before anyone could blink, and the two suspects dropped to the ground, their necks broken.

"Your buddies are dead, one last chance to give up..."

"So what happened?" asked Chuck curiously. "Did you kill him?"

"No," Sarah said. "Like I told you, at the briefing we were told to infiltrate the drug ring. Carina just screwed it up."

"I did not!" Carina protested, making a sharp turn to prove her point. "I had to! They were getting suspicious."

"And you just reinforced that suspicion by shooting," Sarah argued.

"Then what happened?" Chuck asked.

"Well, the people we killed were at the bottom of the ring," Sarah said. "Nobodies. But of course, our cover was ruined thanks to Carina. And while we had that one guy on his knees, several higher level goons were heading our way."

"Why?" asked Chuck. "How did they know?"

"Alarm," Carina informed him. "The moment my gun went off, the alarm was set off."

"Then how did you guys shut the ring down?" Chuck asked. "You said you did. How?"

"Well, Chuck," Sarah said, "what happened was..."

A/N: Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all enjoyed this short chapter! More adventures to come!

I would like to thank the eleven individuals who helped put this together! And I'm sure we would all appreciate it if you'd review!

XOXO,

SLWF