Graceland - The Letter Part One -

Set after Mike is stabbed in 'Smoke Alarm', the end with Briggs and Juan did not happen. Mike leaves Graceland after writing a letter explaining what happened with Juan. Jangles take's Mike and it's up to the agents of Graceland to save him, if they want to. Totally love in at the end, because we all know that the people in the house all are in a relationship.

FallenQueen2: I'm leaving Jakes out because he is on assignment and I don't think he really cares for Mike the same as the others and this is not in the same universe as my 'Being Truthful'.

The Letter Part One

Mike winced as he turned half way around to look back up at Graceland. He shouldn't even be out of the hospital since he was stabbed only a few hours ago by Jangles. He was still in a lot of pain and he knew the meds had taken would wear off in a few hours. After he spilled his assignment to Paige and she left him in disgust, Mike couldn't be in that room anymore. Not surrounded with get well gifts from his housemates... His friends… Well maybe not after this. He adjusted his duffle bag, his whole body hurt. Thankfully no one had been in the house so he quickly packed up his clothes and wrote a letter explaining what really happened. He left his house key on top of the letter on the kitchen counter. He wanted to be gone when they read the truth, he didn't think he could stand the look on Charlie's, Johnny's; hell Briggs face would be the worst after the man saved his life over and over again. He let out a shaky breath as spotted movement inside the house; he turned his back on the house and started down the beach.

"The doctor said Mike signed himself out against his orders!" Charlie gnawed on her bottom lip in utter worry as Johnny, a silent Paige and a slightly hung-over Briggs walked into the house.

"I'll check his room." Johnny offered as he ran up the stairs to the upper level, a few second later Johnny was back with a confused look on his face.

"What is it Johnny?" Briggs asked getting a cup of water.

"All his clothes are gone and that one photo he had is ripped out of his frame. Mike's not here." Johnny wrung his hands together.

"This might explain why he's not here anymore." Paige said quietly holding up a key and a white envelope with their names written on it.

"What does it say?" Charlie rushed over.

"I don't think I can read it." Paige swallowed cradling the key in her palms.

"Alright, it's okay. I'll read it." Charlie said soothingly opening the envelope.

"Dear everyone, I just wanted to start of by saying you don't know how sorry I am and please do not judge me before you hear my whole story. Paige knows the start of this but left before hearing the rest. I understand that after reading this you will all hate me and I will not blame you. I hate myself more than I thought possible. I was blinded by my ambition, of wanting to be on the fast track to becoming the director of the FBI, now I see that what I was ordered to do was wrong. I was placed in Graceland to investigate Briggs." Charlie paused and stared at the letter.

"What?" Johnny exclaimed slamming his fist on the counter.

"Mike..." Briggs shook his head.

"You knew?" Charlie looked at Paige; she had decided she wasn't going to judge until she heard the whole story like the letter said.

"He told me when he woke up in the hospital... I called him a rat and left as be was trying to tell me something else..." Paige whispered closing her eyes shut.

"Keep reading Chuck, don't judge him until the end." Briggs suggested, eyes narrowed because he knew that something was up with Mike.

"But after my 1st day with you all and how Briggs saved my life and took me under his wing. I knew that be FBI was wrong about Briggs, but orders where orders. Every time I thought Briggs was doing something shady it turned out to be something to help out the house and I always felt guilty for even thinking Briggs was doing something illegal. The therapy sessions during the week where actually meetings with my handler Juan. Up until yesterday I was updating him, he kept showing me heroin that disappeared from shipments Briggs oversaw. When we recovered that H from the missile in the ocean, only half was inside and I really thought Johnny had died. The proof was piling up against Briggs so I followed him and he explained what had happened to him. I betrayed his trust and told Juan, he said he would help Briggs and I thought that meant be would leave Briggs alone and drop all the other ideas he had about him being shady. I saw him yesterday after I found out he bugged my room; he heard everything that went on in my room. I confronted him about it, he told me about 'The Estate' and how it was burned. Juan was determined to prove Briggs was the one who burnt the house. He is obsessed with taking down Briggs, I know Briggs is a good guy and I couldn't do this to him anymore. I told him I was out, he tried to stop me but I left, I couldn't do it anymore. Before I came here I found all my reports, no one other than Juan ever saw them so I burnt them. No one knows about anything I said about Briggs. Now you know the whole story. When I became friends with you all it was real, not a lie I truly felt like I finally had a family. Every day I had to lie and every day I felt sicker and sicker to my stomach. I know me saying I am sorry now is kind of pointless but I am. I am truly sorry and you will never see me again, unless you want to and I don't see why you would. Like you said, there are no secrets in Graceland and now mine are all out. I love you all and will never forget any of you. Good-bye, Mike/Levi." Charlie finished dropping the letter onto the counter.

"Goddamn." Briggs braced himself against the countertop.

"I should have let him finish." Paige whispered.

"He was following orders but this Juan was using him just to try to set you up Paulie." Charlie punched her fist into her palm.

"I knew something was weighing on his mind." Johnny gritted his teeth. "Levi..."

"I don't know about you all but I'm bring back Mike. I for one do not blame him. He was following orders and Juan always hated me and he used Mike to get to me, that bastard. Mike is part of my family and he's too close to my heart now." Briggs growled straightening up.

"I'm with you Briggs Mikey has been used and I still consider him to be my friend, maybe something more..." Johnny said remembering all the good times they had and how worried mike had been after the explosion underwater, no one could fake that much distress.

"I'm with you both. I love Mikey and I won't let him go this alone." Charlie agreed.

"I owe him an apology. I'm with you." Paige tightened his grip on the key. "Let's try the beach he loves it down there."

The four agents rushed out onto the deck and down the steps onto the sandy beach with the foamy tide crashing onto the shore washing up driftwood and shells.

"Foot prints, come on hurry!" Johnny pointed to a single trail of prints leading from Graceland up the beach. The four rushed as quickly as they could up the beach in the sand following the prints.

"Look that's Levi's duffle bag!" Charlie sprinted forward picking up the bag.

"Blood." Briggs squatted down by a dark patch of sand.

"It looks like someone attacked him." Paige said worried studying the mess of footprints.

"Check what I found!" Johnny cried from the road, he ran back down to the other three holding up a bandana and a large key chain that he ratted and Briggs froze up. "Paul?"

"Jangles... Jangles has Mike." Briggs whispered horrified.

"Jangles? Paulie who has mike?" Charlie asked worried and confused. Briggs shouted up into the sky falling to his knees.

"Paul! What is it?" Paige touched his shoulder.

Briggs sighed before launching into the story of Jangles and the cartel, how Jangles was in town, the feet in the shoes and Jangles had been on the one to stab mike after torturing Bello.

"We need to find him, right now." Briggs growled.

"Where do we start?" Johnny was the 1st one to snap out of it.

"Bello, we start with Bello." Briggs growled heading up to the road where his truck was parked, he quickly did a scan of the vehicle and found a tracker there. One above Mike's pay grade so Briggs deuced it was Juan who placed it there. His blood boiled at the thought of the FBI agent who manipulated Mike, but that was nothing to the feel he had coursing through his veins at the mere thought of Jangles having Mike in his clutches. Even though Mike sort of betrayed him he would never want to subject HIS agent to that kind of torture. He was going to get Mike Warren back and put a bullet into Jangles at the same time. Mike was his; well mainly his and no one would get away with taking him.