Chuck Ficlet: "Musings On A Killer"

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for leiaweasley, who wanted a missing moment from Chuck vs. The Tooth - the conversation Casey had with the Doctor before Sarah arrived. Dr. Leo Dreifus, Casey, talk of Chuck, Sarah, Casey/Chuck, spoilers for “The Tooth” obviously. ~ 620 words, teen.

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I'm a sucker for outsider POV fic, if it's done right (which means, if it's still all about the canon characters, not about the outsider, who I don't care about). I used to write it all the time in the HP fandom. But then again, I wrote you outside POV fic about Gaeta, so I've probably told you all this before. ;)

It's so interesting how you make Chuck the focal point of the conversation and yet not at all the focal point of the fic, despite the fact that Casey and the doctor keep talking about him.

I hear that shrinks always make everything about you, even if you aren't talking about yourself. :D I had to do a website check for a psychologist one time and he was all, "The complexity of your answer shows that at least, my website has managed to raise your interest" (which prompted me to say, "All the complexity of my answer shows that I'm good at my job. I'd rather be surfing website on vacation spots right now.").

I like the idea that assassins would get psych support and therapy on general principle, but that they'd be encouraged to compartmentalize and rationalize their missions, rather than analyze and understand them the way normal people would. Sarah, for starters, gives me the impression that she has no idea how to explore herself, yet she has a lot of ideas and assumptions about how being a spy should work, which she must have gotten from somewhere.