You were all in Casey's house now. Chuck was pacing back and forth while you were standing by the couch. Casey and Sarah were at Casey's desk looking over stuff.

"So you don't know why I'm in the Intersect." Chuck stated.

"Well, you didn't appear on the NSA radar until after Bryce sent you the Intersect." Casey said.

"Same with the CIA." Sarah added.

"Why don't I find that reassuring?" Chuck said staring at them.

" The files that you saw were of you in college, right?" Sarah asked.

" Yes, yes. Wait, what about Professor Fleming? I was in his class, he was CIA. Could that be it?" Chuck asked.

"That's what I think." you said.

"If we can find Fleming, maybe he could give us answers." Sarah said.

" Okay. Let's do that." Chuck said agreeing to this idea.

"It won't be easy." Sarah warned.

" Intel suggests the professor's being hunted. The NSA interviewed one witness who ID'd a Magnus Einersson. He's an Icelandic spy." Casey said as you and Chuck walked over to them as Casey showed you the file of the spy on his computer.

" I'm sorry, Iceland does espionage?" you asked, a little amazed.

" Magnus buys and sells intel to the highest bidder. And Iceland isn't officially aware of his activities. It says here the crossbow is his weapon of choice." Casey explained

"Oh, what, slingshot's too ineffective?" Chuck asked sarcastically.

Chuck was at work, chilling at the Nerd Herd desk, when he looked up and saw you coming in, on your break. Chuck smiled and waved you over.

"Hey Y/N. What's up?"

"Well...after all that I just wanted to check in on you and see how you were doing. I mean we haven't had a chance to talk about all of it yet and you know you're my best friend and I care about you so...yeah. How are you?"

Chuck smiled warmly at you. Things like this are just some of the reasons he falls in love with you more and more everyday.

"Well uh...I don't know. Everything with Stanford and my professor being in the CIA this whole time and me being already apart of the Intersect? It's a lot to take in and I don't know how to feel about it honestly."

"Fair enough."

"What about you?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well after hearing all that, do you wonder if they may have been looking at you?"

"I mean...yeah I guess. I mean I know that email was not meant for me but the fact that we are the same when it comes to that and can handle it as well... They must have known and been looking in on me too."

Chuck nodded.

"Do you still have your student ID to see if you flash on yourself?"

"No... I got rid of it a long time ago. Guess I'll never really know right?"

"Yeah..."

Casey then came walking up to the desk.

"You didn't offer to kill Harry for Anna, did you?" Chuck asked

"What?" you asked Chuck confused.

"I'll explain later."

"No. Why, you want me to kill him?" Casey asked.

"No. No, just curious."

"We just got a hit off a traffic camera in Hollywood." Casey said handing Chuck a photo.

" That's Fleming."

"Thanks intersect. You saved me a lot investigative work there. The DMV told me that."

" Wow. Sarcasm, what a surprise."

"What did we say about sarcasm Casey?" you said looking at him.

"We located car Fleming's driving, local address. We're bringing him in a. s. a. p."

" What do you need us for?" Chuck asked.

" Yours is a friendly face. Professor sees you Chuck, he'll be more inclined to cooperate. Maybe Y/N's will help too. Copy?"

"Yeah, except that I wasn't the professor's star pupil."

"And he doesn't know me."

"We leave in three." Casey said walking away.

You turned back to Chuck and sighed.

"What are we going to do?"

FLASHBACK

"As you're aware, you scored perfectly on your midterm exam." Professor Fleming said.

" Yeah, yeah. Well, I was up all night studying. It was a monster. No offense. " Chuck said.

"You even aced the last section. Encoded images."

" Yeah, those were just kind of a shot in the dark. "

"You may be aware, I keep an answer key to every exam locked inside this office."

" No, no, I wasn't aware of that." Chuck said honestly.

"Really? Then how do you explain the midterm answer key... being found in your fraternity room? "

"I'm sorry. You searched my room?"

" We received the tip from a student this morning."

" What? You got a tip about my room?"

" I need to know how you broke into this office and stole the answers, Chuck."

" I didn't steal anything." Chuck said getting defensive." I don't have to, I'm acing your class. "

"Exactly. The student also claimed that you're selling copies. "

"What?"

" I know you're a scholarship student and Stanford is a very expensive school."

" Look, whoever gave you your tip was lying. "

"Our source was Bryce Larkin. Your roommate."

Chuck was stunned.

Present Time

Casey was waving you both over. Chuck sighed.

"I don't know. Come on Y/NN." he said softly getting up from his chair, and walking out with his hand on your back as he lead you out.

You were now all in the Nerd Herder, outside Professor Fleming's house, keeping watch.

"We'll extract the professor as quickly as possible." Sarah said.

" You'll keep watch? " Casey asked.

"If we flash on any bad guys, one of us will call." you said.

" Everything looks quiet, but..." Sarah started.

" We know, we know, stay in the car." Chuck said.

"Okay, good. Let's go." Sarah said.

You got out of your seat so Sarah and Casey could get out of the car. Once they were both out, you sat back down in the passenger seat. You both watched as Casey and Sarah walked into his house.

Not long after though, Chuck noticed the professor walking up.

"It's Fleming." Chuck stated.

"What?"

Chuck pointed at the mirror where you saw the man walking up.

"Are you sure?"

"Definitely."

Chuck looked over one more time then decided to get out of the car.

"Professor Fleming! Hey!" Chuck shouted going after him. You got out of the car as well following them. Fleming turned around and saw you both and freaked out and ran. You and Chuck started to run after him too.

"No, no, no, wait, professor, it's me, Chuck! Professor, stop! We're here to extract you! Glass Castle!"

That made him stop and turn around to look at you both.

" I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. But it's- It's Chuck. I was in your Psychology and Symbolism class at Stanford. I don't know if you remember me."

"Chuck Bartowski. Of course I remember you."

" Ha, ha. I guess it's not every day you kick a guy out of school, huh? At least, I hope not."

The professor then looked over at you.

"And this is my best friend, Y/N."

"Nice to meet you Y/N."

"You too."

"So you're, uh, with the Agency now. Why didn't you say so?"

" I don't think we're supposed to, really." Chuck said.

"Oh you are too miss?"

"Yeah I am too." you said, nodding your head.

" Well, we have code phrases. Didn't they train you?" looking between the two of you.

" We mostly just stay in the car." Chuck admitted.

" Next time, if it's a dangerous situation, say, "Are you coming to the toga party? ""

" "Are you coming... ? " A real code phrase. I like it. That's awesome."

"What are we doing? Who's bringing me in?" Fleming asked.

"Oh, right. Yeah. So Sarah and Casey will do that." you said.

" But, um, I was wondering if I could ask you something first. Why did the CIA have a file on me at Stanford?" Chuck asked.

"I'm sorry."

All of a sudden, Fleming just fell forward onto Chuck and he quickly grabbed him, thinking it was a hug.

"Oh, hey. Hey. Hey, hey, buddy. Let's not beat ourselves up. You know, the past is the past. Okay. Look, we didn't really know each other that well at college. And this is a little awkward, so..." Chuck said feeling uncomfortable now. As Chuck's hand went down his back though he felt something sticking out of it.

"Oh, boy. "

"What is it Chuck?" you asked concerned.

You looked over and saw the harpoon in Fleming's back.

"Oh God."

You quickly went to Chuck's side to help him.

"Hey, hey, hang in there. Hang in there." Fleming's weight became too much though and Chuck began to fall over bringing you along with them.

" I put in- Give this to Bryce Larkin." Fleming said handing Chuck a piece of paper.

" Bryce? Bryce Larkin? What-? What did Bryce have to do with this?"

All of a sudden the man with the crossbow came over and he harpooned the paper out of Chuck's hand, making you scream a little when you saw how close it came to your head.

"Ah. Ah. We are nobody, I swear." Chuck said.

The man grabbed the paper and walked away. You then heard Casey and Sarah walk out of the house.

" Casey, come on! Over here!" you yelled.

"Man down, man down! Help me!"

You and Chuck were back at his place now. You were both in his room, sitting on his bed, trying to process all that happened. You knew this was hitting Chuck more too and you wanted to be there for him and to keep him company.

All of a sudden you both heard a whistle and looked up to see Sarah and Casey staring in the window. You decided to get up and let them in.

"I'm sorry, guys, but we have to talk."

" Okay." you said as you went to sit back down beside Chuck.

Sarah took the comfy seat in front of his bed while Casey took the chair by the window.

"So how was the hospital? Is the professor gonna be okay?" Chuck asked.

" They're putting him into surgery now. " Sarah said.

"We can't talk to him, sort this mess out. You sure it was Magnus you saw?" Casey asked.

" Gee, I don't know, Casey. How many psycho archers do you know?" Chuck said sarcastically." I asked Fleming about why I was in the Intersect. Should've brought him to you, sorry."

" It's not your fault." you said.

"I keep thinking about what he said. Why would he want me to bring those numbers to Bryce?" Chuck asked.

" Bryce must have been one of his CIA contacts. Fleming was probably never told of his death."

"List off the numbers you remember. " Casey said.

"There were like 10 of them. A couple of nines." Chuck started.

"Five, definitely started with a two." you added.

" That's it? You two have a computer for a brain and that's all-?"

" It was a very stressful situation, okay? We watched a guy get skewered by a crossbow." Chuck shouted. "Look, Fleming knew something. Before he fell, he said, "I'm sorry. " Why would he say that?"

" I don't know, Chuck." Sarah said.

"Yeah, well, I think he might know why I'm in the Intersect."

It was later in the day now and you and Chuck were still chilling. You decided to walk over to Ellie's room and see what she was up to.

Chuck walked in and you just chilled by the door. Ellie turned her head to look at you both.

"You guys okay?"

Chuck walked over to Ellie's bed and fell forward on it. You couldn't help but stiffle a laugh when you saw that.

"It's not late for you to change your mind about revisiting the old alma mater. And to cheer on for yours Y/N" she said as she was packing her suitcase for the weekend." Spending time with me and Devon."

"Oh, please." Chuck said looking up at Ellie. "You just don't wanna be stuck in a car alone with Awesome's frat buddies."

"Maybe, or maybe I'm your sister and I care about you, and you too Y/N." she said turning to you quickly before turning back to her brother. "And I think that going back to Stanford would help you to move on."

"I love you, sis. And I'd take a lot of bullets for you... but five hours in a car with Awesome and his bros, that is asking too much. Besides, if I came, you wouldn't have room for your fun old foam finger." Chuck said grabbing it and pointing it in Ellie's face which made her laugh.

"Stop it."

"What is this?"

" I don't know, but look at what I found." Ellie said holding up a book." See this?"

" It was in my old college stuff. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. ""

"You still have that Chuck?" you asked amazed.

"Yeah... Kinda forgot."

" You want me to return it to the Stanford Library for you? " Ellie asked.

"No. No, I'd kind of like to finish it. See how it ends."

" That book is like four years overdue."

"What do you think Stanford's gonna do, huh? Expel me?" Chuck said jokingly. " Come on Y/NN." he said leading you out of Ellie's room.

"I'll talk to you later Ellie." you said waving at her as she waved back.

As you and Chuck walked down the hall, he looked at the book and stopped in the middle of the hall. You looked at him a little confused.

"You okay Chuck?"

FLASHBACK

Chuck and Bryce were having an intense game with nerf guns in the library.

"You're a dead man, Chuck Bartowski." Bryce shouted, hiding.

" All right. Come on, Bryce. Give it up, buddy. I know you're out of ammo, I've been counting."

Bryce then appeared behind Chuck, hands in the air.

"Buddy. Whoa, whoa, whoa. You wouldn't fire at an unarmed guy."

" I might. It's hardly sportsmanlike." Chuck said with his gun pointed at him.

"What's this?" Bryce said turning to the books on the shelf. He pulled one book out. "Gynecology for Geeks. You read this?"

" No, is it a good read? "

Bryce then fired his nerf gun and got Chuck on the forehead.

"Got you. Larkin over Bartowski again."

Present Time

"Chuck?"

He then turned his head and looked at you.

"I know what the numbers mean Y/N."

"What?"

"The paper. I know what they mean."

You and Chuck were now over at Casey's place once again.

"I know what the numbers mean. They're for a book in Stanford Library. Bryce had a place where he would stash stuff. He told Fleming about it. Fleming must have left the intel there for Bryce." Chuck explained.

"It's a matter of time before Magnus figures it out and beats us to the book."

"Bingo."

" Unless we can beat him to it."

"Bryce kept his stuff on the third floor. There was a turn..." Chuck was now struggling to remember." There was a turn... I'd have to be there to remember."

You looked at Chuck wondering where he was going with this. He looked at you then back at Casey. "I can't believe I'm about to say this, but we have to go to Stanford."

"What?" you asked shocked.

"Cool." Casey said.