Chuck had told the twins it was going to be late upon his return from the mission. He had let Morgan, who was babysitting, know that he was on his way back from a date and that Morgan could go home if the twins were asleep. They couldn't get into too much trouble if they were passed out in their beds. Sometimes it wasn't a matter of combat skill when it came to the twins' protection. Sometimes it all boiled down to trust. While Morgan wasn't an agent, or knowledgeable of Chuck's status, there wasn't anyone else outside of their little circle they trusted to babysit while Ellie and Awesome were away.

He didn't even care after this mission. Casey had them doing actual plumbing, and none of them knew how to do that. Chuck and Sarah were left in the courtyard while Casey continued to his apartment after calling them a bunch of Nancies.

"Sarah, have you heard anything from Beckman about Orion?" Chuck asked. He wanted the Intersect out of his head very badly, but out of a couple of nine-year-old brains even more so.

"Uh, not yet. These things take time."

"Okay. She gets how important it is, though, right? I mean, you know, if we could find Orion, then maybe we can get all these secrets out of our heads and go back to our old lives." He wanted them out of the crosshairs.

"She gets it, Chuck. We all do."

As skilled at lying as Sarah was, she had some tells Chuck would normally have picked up on after a year and a half. On this night, however, he'd chosen to overlook those tells because he really wanted to believe he and the twins weren't going to spend the rest of their lives under a microscope.

The amount of hope in his voice as he asked if Sarah wanted the same for him held doubt. The encouragement of her telling him they all deserved to resume their normal lives did little to raise his hopes. But he covered it well by making a joke.

"Great. That's-That's great. I mean, I've only seen that little bit of Beckman's office behind her chair, but I can only imagine she's got a whole crack squad of brilliant analysts working hard trying to find Orion in the next room."

"Chuck, leave the search for Orion up to the team of brilliant analysts," Sarah said. She hadn't known of Chucks other secret life with computers, so telling him not to crack government servers or firewalls didn't seem all that necessary. "You need to get some sleep. You've got work in the morning and the twins have school with their new teacher."

He silently saluted and walked away. But he didn't go to sleep.

After multiple times through the shower to wash off the sewer smell, he dried himself and changed. The girls were still sound asleep as if they didn't hear the shower running for two hours or Chuck talking to himself. He didn't move them to their beds until he was clean.

He was still awake at four thirty in the morning. The Piranha was now secretly conducting his own search for Orion on the off chance that Beckman wasn't.

Chuck had been bringing the girls to Castle every day. Beckman arranged for an agent with a teaching degree to work with them. The teacher would come into Buy More wearing a green shirt to blend in with the employees. Then they would immediately disappear through a Castle entrance, never to be seen again until the end of a school day.

Sarah would drive the twins to Orange Orange. She'd ask them questions to show an interest in their lives. A few of those questions were to find out just how integrated the Intersect was in their heads.

The playroom was slowly turning into a classroom. Week by week, toys and games were being replaced by books. It was the only room the teacher had access to in Castle so long as she didn't know what they were capable of.

Had the twins been like most kids, the secret would have been out the morning after the email came through. They went through teachers faster than Beckman could approve. It wasn't due to behavior that the spies never returned. It was because the twins had outed them as Fulcrum agents. After Jill and Leader, Castle, while still a fortress for the real federal agencies, had become a little easier to access.

This morning was different. Not by Buy More standards, but different. The store had been toilet papered. There was so much of it one could have gone on a ski trip and used the toilet paper for snow. It was a revenge plot made by the Beverly Hills branch. Burbank was getting a new Roark Industries laptop display that Beverly Hills thought they deserved more all because of their location and nothing else.

Once Big Mike had ousted the rival branch, he ordered everyone to clean the mess up so he could go back to his office and eat his morning donut in peace. Chuck went to clean the Nerd Herd counter. Removing a few strands of toilet paper from the screen woke the device.

The twins liked to establish links with his Intersect from time to time. He still didn't know it could be done. This was one of those times

Orion's talking to Daddy Kelley said, drawing Maya's attention away from their teacher.

Maya opened her link. Now both were able to see through Chuck's eyes. The screen in front of him read I know your secret.

He looked up to see if anyone in the store was pulling his leg. It wouldn't have been a surprise if Casey was behind this as far as the joke part goes. It was just the kind of thing Chuck could see his NSA handler pulling to freak him out.

"Ah. Ha, ha, ha. Yeah, okay. Who's doing this? Your cleverness has been noted." Chuck was attempting to appear brave. That he wasn't falling for it.

On the screen were new words. You're the Intersect. He was officially on his way to freaking out. It took a moment for him to realize it was a live connection as the blocked letters answered his questions.

"Hey, Chuck," Sarah said from behind him. The sudden appearance made him want to jump out of his own skin.

For a moment, he wasn't sure if what his brain told him was correct. He could have sworn he heard children laughing. But the store wasn't open yet, so the possibility of a customer with a laughing child was out the window.

"There's something I should probably tell you," Chuck said right before the twins cut their link.

Uh-oh. Maya thought. Daddy's going to tell them about his search for Orion.

Casey's laptop Kelley replied. At least one of their secrets was soon to be uncovered whether or not they came clean.

They needed a distraction, but in trying to cover up this secret, they forgot about their latest teacher who had managed to knock herself out while the twins weren't paying attention. From the evidence Kelley could see, the woman had stepped on a toy car, lost her balance, and fell to the floor. With what the twins new based on the spies who had entered their lives, this woman's training consisted of desk work.

"Daddy's not going to be happy, Kelley," Maya said from behind her sister.

Kelley stood over their teacher. The woman was unconscious. Considering their history of having Fulcrum agents lining up to be their teachers in hopes that the girls would somehow know about the Intersect, it should have come as no surprise. They were simply trying to protect themselves while alone in Castle.

Fulcrum only put together that the Intersect had to be someone who worked at the Burbank Buy More because every time they sent operatives there, very few, if any, returned to their base.

"Forget Daddy. What about Beckman?" Kelley asked. "We just knocked out one of the good guys without checking with the Intersects first."

Their eyes went wide at the realization of what was used to accomplish this feat. One of the weapon vaults was open.

"Forget Beckman!" they both squeak.

"We weren't supposed to touch the cage."

"We didn't! Not with our hands anyway!"

The gun cage was now wide open. Neither of them knew how it got opened because the door to their room was closed until the toy car had gone flying.

"They're gonna be mad."

Kelley moved closer to the woman on the floor. One of the guns from the cage was lying beside her. The bullets were scattered on the floor having been removed from the clip. A bruise was forming on her face where the butt struck.

"Casey had the locks raised for a reason."

Three sets of feet were heard coming down the stairs. The scene had Sarah and Casey alarmed and ready to fight for the few moments it took before they realized everything was fine.

Maya and Kelley held their hands up to say they had nothing to do with it. They didn't touch anything.

Casey muttered to himself about how much he was starting to hate this whole family and how the twins were more and more like Chuck with each passing day. They were the cats, and their actions were curiosity, or the handlers were the cats, and the twins were the mice depending on how one looked at the situation.

Because of something Chuck had told Sarah before they raced down to Castle, figuring out what happened with the twins was put on hold. The gun was picked up and locked away, the bullets packed up, and their teacher in one of the cells since the benches in them were built for an adult unlike the girls' bunk bed.

Casey checked the security footage.

"Chuck, take them to their room," Sarah said. "They don't need to be out here for this."

"Why can't we hear about Orion?" they asked. All three adults shuddered. Still not used to that.

"What did Uncle Morgan let you watch last night?" Chuck asked as if he already knew the answer.

"The Net…" Kelley replied.

"Why?" Maya asked. They had yet to see a resemblance between the movie and their current predicament with an unknown entity because when the movie started playing, the twins were five minutes from crashing.

It was a distraction so that Chuck could get them away from the possible trouble he was going to be in for admitting to Beckman that he went slightly rogue conducting his own search for Orion. He justified his taking them to their Castle room as not wanting them to hear the potential outcome of his actions.

While Chuck was taking care of the girls, Sarah prepped a secure line to Beckman. It was almost ready when Casey called her over. She started the segment over again.

"This was minutes before we come down." The feed played.

"Daddy's not going to be happy, Kelley," Maya said from behind her sister.

Kelley stood over their teacher. The woman was unconscious. A gun on the floor beside her.

"Forget Daddy. What about Beckman?" Kelley asked. "We just knocked out one of the good guys without checking with the Intersects first."

Their eyes went wide at the realization of what was used to accomplish this feat. One of the weapon vaults was open.

"Forget Beckman!" they both squeak. There was a panic in their voices that could only be missed by someone who didn't know how frightened a child could get.

"We weren't supposed to touch the cage."

"We didn't! Not with our hands anyway!"

The gun cage was now wide open. Neither of them knew how it got opened because the door to their room was closed until the toy car had gone flying.

"They're gonna be mad."

Kelley moved closer to the woman on the floor.

"Casey had the locks raised for a reason."

The feed ended on the scene they found when they entered Castle.

"'Not with our hands'?" Sarah asked. "They weren't anywhere near the vault the entire time they've been down here. How could they have messed with the digital locks?... You don't think… I know they've done this before, but… Is that even possible?"

"Two years ago, the answer would have been no." Casey had been thinking the same. "But now, with the weird poltergeist things those two can get themselves involved in compared to Chuck… all bets are off."

"We're forgetting about something from a few months ago. One of them was able to unlock the nursery without touching the screen," Sarah reminded.

Casey closed the window on the screen at the sound of Chuck's footsteps coming closer. The secure line was established, and Beckman's face appeared on the large screen. The woman wasn't pleased to hear about this misadventure. She was edging on livid. This was the worst he could have done in her opinion.

Unlike Fulcrum, the only proof Orion existed was a heavily redacted file in connection to the Intersect. Any mention, even if only in reference to the constellation itself was blacked out. Photographs of the man or woman in question didn't exist in a government database. All that was known was Orion.

"I found him. I found Orion. Or, actually, he found me." Chuck corrected himself. "About ten minutes ago in the Buy More. He tapped into one of the Nerd Herd computers using, I might add, a very cool kind of hack."

They know Kelley thought.

Let's check Castle's cameras.

We can see what they're hiding from us.

They worked together in establishing an Intersect link with Castle. Beckman's face greeted them. They had seen many different emotions from the woman… irate hadn't been one of them until now.

"Chuck. How is that possible?" Beckman's voice rose at least an octave.

"I-I... It probably has something to do with my search."

"Your what?" Cassey was on the verge of being angry with their charge. Well, angry for Casey since that had been determined to be his center.

"Chuck put together everything he knew about Fulcrum and Orion, and then he built an automated Web search," Sarah explained. She turned her attention toward Chuck, tension growing in her voice as she tried to hold back in comparison to her partner.

"I think I hit one of his security nets," Chuck almost sounded proud of himself for being able to get ahold of someone the government had been searching for over the last decade or longer.

"That's not how this works, Bartowski," Casey grit out. "You don't conduct your own operations."

"What did he say? Orion?" Beckman asked in a demanding tone.

Orion knew Chuck was the Intersect. But the words on the screen never got around to saying anything about Maya and Kelley. Not that Chuck had let on, anyway. Orion was sending Chuck a computer. No one knew its destination. The only know factor was Chuck.

"I want that computer under lock and key. Orion's computers are next-gen, capable of overriding military defenses, even hijacking computerized weaponry. God help us if it falls into the wrong hands," Beckman said. There was hope in her voice. With at least one known destination, there was a chance Sarah and Casey would get their hands on it before Fulcrum found out.

Kelley and Maya looked at each other. Something like a spidey sense didn't feel right. Minutes later, all five Castle occupants would find out what that was. Someone upstairs had gotten their hands on Orion's laptop, probably thinking it was the display model Buy More was waiting for.

Chuck and Sarah wasted no time heading back up to the Nerd Herd desk in the hopes that it hadn't arrived yet. The disappointment on her face and in her voice as she spoke was even more evident than it was in Castle.

Based on the sign-in sheet on the counter, nothing had come in. Nothing looked off about the signing of his name. He didn't bother to check the date beside it

"Why didn't you tell me? Chuck, your search for Orion was a rogue operation. Do you know how dangerous that is? Not just for you? Very."

"And I didn't tell you."

"And you didn't tell me." She tossed the sign-in clipboard back down on the counter.

"Okay, you're right. Completely and totally right. But, Sarah, I want to get this thing out of our heads so we can go back to our old life, and I can have a chance at a real relationship. Do you really think the NSA and the CIA are going to be cool with that?"

"You should have trusted me."

There seemed to be a lot of back and forth between the Buy More and Castle. The latest had to do with an armed Predator drone being hijacked. At first the question was: why is it coming to the store? Then it changed its course to Beverly Hills. There was no longer a doubt in Chuck's mind where the laptop was.

Morgan. Wherever Morgan was, Chuck was sure the laptop was going to be there as well. He may not have signed it in, but the Beverly Hills branch was Morgan's idea.

Chuck wanted to be the first to find Morgan, Jeff, and Lester. It was for their own safety because Casey wasn't just toying with the idea of killing them this time when he asked, "Which one dies first?"

He knew exactly where to start looking but gave his handlers a false start with the loading dock. Jeff's office. Only two people were ever truly comfortable being in there, as it was a stall in the men's restroom. And it required being in close quarters with Jeff.

There was a bit of a scuffle, but Chuck managed to get his hands on the laptop and end the termination order. His possession of the laptop didn't last long when Big Mike also thought it was what they were waiting for and locked it away in his office.

Team Intersect watched as the laptop was put in Big Mike's safe. They were going to rob the Buy More after the store closed. Kelley and Maya were going to spend the night in Castle.

"What part do we play?" the twins asked, hopeful that they had a part in this caper.

"You will play the part of sleeping children who aren't supposed to know the Buy More is about to be robbed by their own father," Chuck said as he draped the blankets over each twin's face. Their eyes closed to protect the orbs as the top of their covers were pulled down just enough to expose their heads.

He was still trying to figure out how they knew. Their Intersect ability to manipulate anything connected to the internet had been seen on Castle's security cameras. But everything else had only been speculated and had yet to be confirmed by the twins or Orion if they could ever find him. For all they knew, Orion could have been a woman. Everything about the spy in question had been redacted. His file was nothing but black lines. A waste of paper and digital space if that's all the CIA or any other government agency was going to do to it in Chuck's opinion.

Having Chuck's academic intelligence, and the years they'd lived with him, that was the only answer they were going to get since they weren't supposed to have any knowledge of the break-in as it was.

The twins pretended to sleep until it was quiet in Castle. Kelley quickly made her way over to Maya's bed, suggesting they open another link to watch the heist.

Jeff and Lester not realizing they weren't talking to each other and that they were one of three groups who had broken in on the same night had the girls laughing their heads off. It was like one of those Black Friday moments when you wished you had popcorn.

"Hey, way to go, Jeffrey. So throwing your voice really turned out great, didn't it? Huh? What other tricks do you know? When you saw a woman in half, do you actually saw her in half?" Lester said, not knowing he was behind Casey.

Then there was Jeff who came up behind Sarah, saying, "Listen, I thought I lost you. I'm scared, man. I think I wet my pants. Just a little." Not only were the twins shrieking how gross that was, but giggles had escaped at the same time. They were imagining Sarah's facial expressions after having to hear that and not turn around blowing their cover.

Kelley raced back to her bed, covering herself back up, facing the wall just in time for the door to open. It was Chuck, checking up on them before going back to the briefing room. He didn't believe for a moment that they were asleep, but the thought of being one step to having this thing removed from the heads and playing with a computer that was beyond the realms of the tech he was used to… He was fine with knowing they were safe, and if they didn't actually sleep, they weren't seeing their tutor.

However, all hope and excitement were diminished when Beckman made the surprising announcement. Fulcrum more than likely was who had actually contacted Chuck and that it was very likely he and the twins were leaving Burbank within the hour.

After having put the twins in their own beds at the apartment, he went out to the courtyard. He spent the rest of the hour searching his words, trying to figure out a way to change Beckmann's mind. Something he had yet to learn was not going to be an easy task.

He had given away the one person who mind he could change, even in the slightest by asking Sarah to help him in front of Beckman. Casey would have at least put up a front with Beckmann watching, but Sarah had to hesitate before saying she couldn't because of orders. Both handlers knew this action could lead to a 49B if their boss didn't hear the right words in a timelier manner.

Sarah had hoped her response was satisfactory and hadn't warranted suspicion.

"General, I implore you... Don't use implore. Only use words that you actually use. Here's why I think that Orion is legit. I don't say legit."

"Chuck," Sarah said, grabbing his attention. He begged them to let him talk to Beckmann until Sarah said the general didn't want to see him.

He entered his room through the Morgan Door seconds before Beckman authoritatively makes her entrance to the courtyard.

They were safe. He knew where the laptop was. His conviction that Orion wasn't Fulcrum led him to go against every fiber of his being as a father, leaving his kids in the hands of unwitting federal agents while he went to Castle without his locator. He didn't want Casey and Sarah to stop him if it meant they could almost get back the life they once had.

Once it was removed, their normal lives could resume save for the knowledge that such a computer exists and still not able to tell anyone outside of each other. The only downside that wasn't currently being considered was that Sarah would no longer be a part of their lives… a part of his life.

The forty seconds Orion had given him to escape was not enough to grab them on his way out. And if they were caught trying to leave, they would have been relocated. So he did what he had to do.

Orion had blown himself up along with the Fulcrum agents who had taken him captive. Chuck was devastated to say the least. As far as he knew, this was his last chance to get that normal life back. Now, because of his attempt to meet Orion face-to-face, the three intersects might never see the light of day again. And in their case, light of day was Ellie, Awesome, Morgan, and yes, even Lester and Jeff.

While Beckman would have preferred the Intersect no be in a person, especially if said person wasn't a spy, she would have rather it be on one person. Not three. But, since one can't undo the past, she didn't want it out of any of their heads. They were the first and only people to retain and recall every bit of information the Intersect held. And the twins were the first to go even farther if that was possible.

All that mattered to the NSA and the CIA was that Chuck and the girls could never meet Orion.