Hi Everyone this is another chapter!

I love this story-Graceland is a fandom I very rarely indulge in and I am desperate to carry on this story but I need prompts! so please give me a prompt! I am unashamedly begging here!

A big thank you to all those who have read this story so far it is a big encouragement!

I am not a medical nor a geographical expert so I have no idea what to do in the case of a Jellyfish sting- I read this online so I apologise for any inconvenience.

These oneshots are not in chronological order just to remain clear.

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Chapter 3-Jellyfish

When at the beach Carina is stung by a jellyfish and while Brigg's is panicking it's Johnny that comes to the rescue

When Carina is five, Brigg's enrols her in school. If the local elementary school is surprised that nearly five different people put their names down as Carina's secondary contact they don't show it and Brigg's parental glower (something he prides himself on very well-thank you very much) is enough to dissuade any questions.

It also frees most of the day to go on cases. The biggest so far is tracking down the bastard that killed Charlie-the ringleader and most of the crew are either dead or inside however there are always more members of the crew still around. Sometimes he looks and sometimes he doesn't-but now when he finally has a plausible lead on a small group whose MO matches the one that killed Charlie he'll be dammed if he wastes it-especially and it's a frightening thought but especially if they come after Carina.

When he gets to that place he switches the light off (or on depending on the mood he's in) and goes to see his daughter sleeping using her as a buffer for the shaking in his hands and her face as protection from the nightmares.

So he enrols her in school. He's not an idiot-he knows he can't protect his daughter forever and if he drills in the no stranger rule more efficiently than other parents then he can blame it on his FBI training. And Carina is adorable in her school uniform but that's really another story.

He's working on a phone call to the lead that is also Russian a language Brigg's is unfamiliar with at best when it happens. It serves to age him nearly ten years.

Johnny was downstairs prodding what looks like a large lump in a black pot looking confused "You ok dude?" Mike asks as he comes in fresh from his run eyeing Johnny wearily-it's no secret Johnny isn't the best cook, two near gas explosions and Johnny's ability to burn coffee have proven that. Mike didn't even know it was possible to burn coffee but there you go.

"It's lumpy" Johnny says poking the discarded food moodily. It's the two of them and Brigg's in the house today, Jakes and Paige both in the field on a joint task force that places them with a violent gun smuggler.

"You should have stirred it" Mike points out compelled to speak the obvious and Johnny pouts playing with a corner of Carina's book bag which is strewn all over the kitchen table, "Where is Brigg's junior" Mike askes getting himself a bottle of water and Johnny shook his head "Went down to the beach I think" he said Mike nodded "You told her not to go to in the water right?" he asked remembering just as he was heading up the stairs.

Johnny rolled his eyes "Yeah and I told her she only had five minutes before Brigg's finished his phone call" Mike snorted "Five minutes in the real world or five minutes in Carina's world?" and Johnny chuckled, it was common knowledge Carina had the skill where she could turn five minutes into twenty.

Their chuckles caught in their breath however when a scream of glass shattering proportions rang through the house. "Holy…" Johnny shouted his eyes wide and glassy and he dropped the spoon he was holding to race out the front door, Mike following.

But neither of them was a match for Paul Briggs who upon hearing his daughters scream had dropped the now ended phone call, and bolted down the stairs out the front door his legs moving so fast it was like the sand was flying out from under him.

Carina was sat on the sand her face streaked with tears holding her leg and her breath coming in trembling grasps. "Peanut" he said dropping down next to his daughter, his hands trembling and his eyes wide and scared. Mike skidded to a halt next to him and winced when he saw the white colour of Brigg's normally sun-beatened skin.

Now Mike Warren had seen Paul Brigg's anger, hurt, scared, and destroyed in the aftermath of Charlie's death but even he fell short at the look on Brigg's face. It was the look of stark terror.

"Daddy" Carina sobbed when she saw Briggs as Johnny came to a stop next to them sand flying.

"It's ok peanut" Paul crooned pulling his distraught daughter into her arms "What happened where are you hurt?" Johnny bent down his eyes focused on a red spot on Carina's leg. Carina pointed to it and Johnny nodded his gaze now focused on the sea. "Paul" he said his voice sharper and Mike understood that this was Agent Tuturro speaking and not Johnny, "We need to get her inside"

Briggs nodded wrapping Carina up and carrying her inside. Once they got inside Johnny cleared the table and Brigg's sat his distraught daughter on the table wrapping her in his strong arms.

"We need to call an ambulance" Mike said eventually through numb lips and winced as Brigg's seemed to go even whiter his hands increasing in their trembling as he cradled his daughter closer to him as she choked on her own sobs.

"Nah we don't" Johnny said soothingly from where he was eyeing Carina's leg with a critical eye "She's been stung by a jellyfish" Mike blinked, growing up in Washington he didn't have access to jellyfish but even he knew that jellyfish stings were bad.

In one quick fluid movement Johnny dumped a whole bottle of vinegar over Carina leg. She gave a small cry and Briggs flinched silently looking like he had been shot.

"It's ok kid" Johnny said soothingly "Mike" he said keeping his voice calm and even managing a smile "Go and get me some shaving cream and either a credit card or a razor blade then fill the bath with hot water ok?" Mike nodded and disappeared upstairs.

"Johnny" Paul whimpered and Johnny caught his eye before smiling softly "It's ok" he said much to Paul as to Carina and he dropped his eyes to her wide eyed gaze "Sweetie does your chest hurt at all?-it's really important that you tell me" Carina shook her head her hair bobbing and Johnny breathed a sigh of relief "Ok you have to tell me the second that that changes ok?"

When Mike returned he carried a credit card of Jakes and what looked like his shaving cream handing them both to Johnny without a word.

"Ok" Johnny said squirting a decent amount on Carina's leg "The vinegar should had removed all the toxins from her leg but this will take away all of the stingers that are left" he scraped the card up and down in a quiet moment for nearly five minutes until he said "Ok kid you are all done, let's get you in the bath and then Uncle Mike can help clear things with your school and doctor"

Paul nodded lifting Carina up and carrying her upstairs. The bath tub was filled with warm water and once Carina was able to move her leg a little Johnny smiled before patting Brigg's on the shoulder "I'll get her a change of clothes and when her leg is washed bandage it up and take her downstairs ok?"

There was no emotion from Brigg's other than a curt nod. Johnny left the change of pyjamas by the door and staggered downstairs to Mike who was just hanging up the phone looking like a man trying to grasp reality.

"You did everything right" he said finally and Johnny breathed a sigh of relief. "They said to keep her off school for the rest of the week". Mike nodded to himself "How did you know what to do anyway?" he asked and Johnny grinned "You grow up near the surf, you know what to do in case of a jellyfish sting"

Once Carina came down dressed in her small fuzzy white sleeping jumper and shorts, her leg was heavily bandaged and to Mike and Johnny's surprise without her father.

"Hey kid" Johnny said once she had got herself seated on the sofa, "Where's your daddy?" Carina shrugged wincing slightly "Upstairs" she said her little face creased in concern "Is he alright?" she said and Johnny shot Mike a look who nodded heading for the stairs. "Course he is darling" Johnny said cheerfully "He was on a phone call when you screamed-now come on lets go and pick out a movie"

When Mike got up to the stairs he paused at the bathroom in Charlie's room, the water had gone from the bath and the steam was rapidly cooling from the walls and windows, the only thing solitary in the room was Paul Briggs who was sat on the floor near the bath looking utterly wreaked.

It created a flashback in Mike's head of another time when Briggs had looked like that, so utterly helpless, so close to losing everything all over again.

"Hey" he said standing his ground and the noise made Brigg's jump but still didn't focus his eyes on anything "So I called the school and then the local hospital-they both told me that Johnny did the right thing, unless she starts having breathing trouble we should be in the clear"

Brigg's nodded forcing himself to stand up before something ran across his face too fast for Mike to see it and he just crumpled, he swayed slightly and Mike gripped his elbow hard. Then he pushed Mike aside so fast he stumbled slightly and threw up hard in the toilet.

Mike winced as Brigg's continued to dry-heave until Mike was sure he had thrown up even his stomach lining, when he was finished Mike handed him a glass of water and Brigg's sipped it looking older than he had in a while.

"She's fine" Mike said soothingly "its ok" Briggs laughed humorously at that and when he opened his eyes they were dark with pain. "When she screamed Mike I swear my heart imploded, I couldn't move-I had just put the phone down and I couldn't move until I heard you move downstairs, and then she's sat crying and screaming and then she's just silent and I couldn't… I didn't know what to say to her because if I had opened my mouth downstairs…" he shook his head and Mike patted his arm softly.

"She's fine Paul" he said his voice low and unquestionable and Briggs took another shuddering breath before nodding to himself. "Come on" he pulled Briggs to a standing position and forced him down the stairs.

"Daddy!" Carina cried as she saw Brigg's and he smiled gently pulling his daughter close to him, another look of relief passing his face. "What we watching peanut?" he asked as he shot Johnny a mock glare for handing Carina the Ben and Jerry's ice cream, Carina grinned again her face lighting up "Tangled" she said and Johnny, Mike and Briggs all collectively groaned inwards.

"Of Course" Mike muttered "I'm gonna go get a shower" he groaned leaving Johnny and Briggs with the happy five year old. "Hey John-boy" Paul muttered finally when Carina's head became heavy against his chest indicating that the events had tired her out, "Thank you" he said his voice becoming thick and Johnny smiled his face crinkling to look younger than he actually was.

"Don't worry bro" Johnny said patting Paul on the shoulder "Your family-you'd do the same for us" he ruffled a sleeping Carina and going back into the kitchen.

"Yeah" Paul said stretching out and covering his sleeping daughter with a blanket calming himself completely with the feel of her small and utterly precious body tucked in near his own.

"Yeah, Yeah I would" he said finally too low for Johnny to hear him and he leaned back utterly exhausted both emotionally and physically.

This right here, this house, these people, they were his family.

I will hopefully update soon x

Next Chapter-Brigg's gets the final information on what's left of the cartel that killed Charlie but they seem to have other motivations and Mike is forced to step up and protect Carina at the possible extent of his own life.