I loved this grisly dark story. I love Charah as much as the any Chuck fan, but if one of them was murdered, I would NOT want to be in the same room as the other if that other one held me responsible.

THis is a amazing story but I dun think chuck would kill vivian .. that's just not him..

I usually love your work, particularly that of "May the Best Man Win" and its sequel, but wtf? You just had Chuck slowly torture and kill Vivian, not only is that completely out of character and really fucked up, but there's no fucking way Sarah could or would forgive him for that.

good story...

Nice chapter...

Nice start to the story...look forward to more.

Very Graphic even though I understand its an AU I don't think Chuck would ever do that even if Sarah was killed. Interesting Idea though.

great story

Knowing Chuck the character the way we do, he would have an extremely difficult time recovering from this. It is not that he killed someone, it is the fact that he used the intersect to purposely torture a woman before finally killing her. I know that if Chuck thought that Sarah needed to be saved he would go to extremes to try to save her. However, torturing a woman in front of her father than putting a bullet in her head is just another different animal.

By the way you did leave what happened to Volkoff completely out. Having witnessed what happened to his daughter in front of him would probably illicit some kind of revenge. I suppose that could be another story all on its own. Either way I liked this chapter and enjoyed the Charah reunion at the end.

Hooray for a fifth season...and a solid short story. JT

I can actually see them trying to compare Chuck and Shaw in a last ditch effort to salvage early season 3. But there's a lot of huge differences between the situations. For one thing we know and like Chuck and Sarah but Shaw at best made you wonder what was up with him and we never knew Eve or if she really had turned.

Chuck has managed to avoid killing . The one time he thought he had was when he was protecting Sarah and backed into a corner. Shaw claimed to not like guns but killed easily (I thought killing Sydney in his first onscreen ep was poor planning since she'd turned people and she could have been questioned for info or used as bait to find out who would come rescue or kill her to keep her from talking .)

I love the way you've gone with this story.

Ah, the redemption! The best part of a dark fic! Well done! You give us three chapters of pure epicness and I have to thank you for that!

Awesome chapter and great story.

I nearly spewed the water I was drinking on to my computer screen when I read Casey threatening the person on the other end who turned out to be Sarah.

WOW! this was a really great chapter!

i'm really glad you decided not to kill sarah,

and it was a great way to end the chapter with

her coming back to life.

i cant wait for the next update! hopefully its soon :)

Damn. Chuck lost it on Vivian, but it was Sarah after all. hope he can forgive himself now that Sarah is alive. Good story.