AN – And now for Myka and anyone who isn't caught up in the series go watch it and come back, this includes a bit of a spoiler and how I'd solve it. This was written before the season finale and before I found out how this plot line is really solved. Once again I own nothing and please support the official release.

"Come on Artie we have had a great capture rate even with that thief still out there," Pet said jumping off the steps of the office into the warehouse trying to get a reaction, any reaction from Artie. Shaking his head Artie through his hands in the air to get Pete to stop, it was a few days ago when Artie had sat them all down and explained everything he found. They had been sitting in the office, everyone there including Abigail, and Artie had explained what he knew. The agents before Pete and Myka were on a mission with Artie to locate the Mayan Calendar when they noticed they had been reliving the same day over and over again. The agents, Torres and Lockhart managed to save Artie's life by pushing him out but the Calendar made them both vanish with no sign. As far as Artie could tell that meant they were trapped in the same day forever and he hoped that meant they were together. With the reappearance of Torres it meant they were wrong, his link to the warehouse was one of the strongest that Artie had ever seen, actually both had. They were on track with their goals in life, he wanted to become a Regent and she wanted to become Caretaker. They knew who the thief was and what he wanted but only Myka and Artie had actually seen the former agent. Now he pushed pass Pete and into the office where Myka was absently reading the same paragraph in a book over and over and Claudia was upgrading the security. Coming in with some coffees since Artie hadn't had any real sleep lately Steve handed them out as the computer started to been a ping. Sitting down Artie brought up the information.

"Looks like inmates on Death Row at the Badlands Maximum Security Prison are dying before their due date. The warden seems unfazed and the other inmates aren't talking but a few guards are concerned about the lack of concern. It's only a few hours away, Myka you and Steve go."

"Aw are they the new team?" Pete whined and Steve laughed.

"No but unless you can sense if the warden is lying about using an artifact or not then be my guest," Pete smiled and walked towards the warehouse door so Artie continued, "Without the use of an artifact."

"Aw man," groaned Pete as he felt Myka place her hand on his shoulder.

"Next time partner," she said with a smile and he nodded. Once in the car they settled in as Steve punched in the location of the prison in the GPS and settled in for the drive busying himself with the autopsy reports. There were five victims so far whose hearts simply stopped, no connections aside from gender and they were locked in to be executed at the end of the year. Setting the folder aside he looked at Myka.

"Alright what's wrong?" Steve asked.

"Nothing," she said but catching his eye she sighed, "Nothing I want to talk about."

"Is this about the trace you got caught in?"

"Yes and no, yeah I'm worried that something will happen to one of us like with those missing agents. Endless wonder and a ton of danger what if one day Pete gets sucked into some artifact forever or one of you guys," she added a moment later and Steve smiled nodding and leaving it at that for now, he knew that she would tell him when she was ready. Pulling up to the gates it was Myka's turn to read the reports, the warden was named Victoria Gates and was by all purposes the perfect warden, sever but fair. The only other person who saw the convicts on a fairly regular basis was a priest who would read them their last rites. His duties took him between the prison and a local hospital, the guard that escorted them to Gate's office said that he was currently at the hospital but would be returning later. The block that held death row inmates was out of the way and the rest of the prison was loud like one would expect but entering the office areas it grew quite. They passed by D block, the Death row block, on their way to the office, the guard explained that at most they held ten prisoners which was cut in half now by the recent murders. Holding the door open for them the guard left after given the sign by Gates.

"Agents Jinks and Bering, why would secret service be interested in a few inmates?" she asked getting right to the point.

"It's not the inmates but how they died that we're interested in," Myka started, "Don't you find it strange that your inmates are starting to drop like flies for no reason?"

"Yes but these are men who murdered, raped, stolen, these are all self-affirmed thoughts by everyone there. They look forward to the redemption death provided." She explained handing them the files of all ten of the inmates of which they looked through as she spoke.

"This is Pedro Salvador, a drug lord, how did he get on death row? He has lawyers that bail him out any time he gets in jail."

"He confessed to everything, all appeals were thrown out"

"Don't you find that odd?"

"I don't look a gift horse in the mouth," she said walking towards Steve and pointing at one folder, "That man set his house on fire after locking his wife and fourteen year old daughter inside. The rest of the family will have closure; I don't lose sleep over their deaths."

"Have you received any odd items later? Heirlooms or anything?"

"Nope, nothing," she said as the phone rang, picking it up she spoke into it then nodded and set the receiver down, "Pastor Ruiz is here, I'm needed elsewhere. Feel free to explore but stay on this side of the prison, the other inmates might get excited and we don't want that. Also if you look in on the inmates I'd suggest Agent Jinks does it, no offense but one is a serial rapist who hates women wouldn't want to upset him." They nodded and she left.

"Steve go check out the D block, I'll find and speak with the priest, maybe there's a cross or gargoyle on the wall that effects people to confess their sins or something, I'll call Artie and see what he says." Splitting up Myka walked down the hall towards the entrance as she called Artie. "Artie we think it's an artifact that causes confessions then kills them or something like that."

"Off the top of my head the artifact that could cause that is Paulinus of Milan's Thurible, a case that Catholic Priests use to cleanse patrons of their sins."

"There is a priest working here, I'm about to meet him."

"Don't breath in any smoke Myka, be careful" Artie warned as she closed the Farnsworth and turned the corner running right into someone. Apologizing she rose to see who she ran into and saw Agent Torres.

"Jacob what are you doing here?" she asked taking out her tesla not aiming at him but keeping it down.

"Torres or Jake please," he said getting up.

"Show me the artifact you're using!"

"Which one?" he asked with a smile reaching into his long coat pockets and removed two items neither one was Thurible. "Confessions thanks to William Joseph Chaminade's Prayer Beads which grants such clarity that the inmates beg for death so I use the beans from this," he held a pouch by its strings heavy with the weight of the beans inside. "I discovered that if a terminally ill child holds the pouch their illness is transformed into a bean, whoever eats the bean soon dies but takes the illness and the child instantly becomes better but only when the bean is eaten." Myka's gun lowered even more as he held the pouch up and walked over to her, wanting her to make the choice to feed the inmates. Robotically she lifted her hand, holding out for the pouch which he set in her palm. Once it touched her skin it glowed and the glow was sucked into the pouch which Jake took back. "You were sick," he said not asked, "Give an hour then you can have both of these items." He ran away before she could answer him.

There was always the temptation of finding an artifact to cure the cancer in her body but all of them had a downside she couldn't live with. She didn't think could live knowing someone died in her place. Sucking in air she shook the thoughts away, no matter what she couldn't let Jake get away with murder and she started after him only to realize she didn't know where she was.

Checking the cells from the hall Steve couldn't see anything except for desperate men seeking a way out, no one spoke to him as he searched. Finally giving up he decided to interview one and took a seat outside the cell on prisoner number seven.

"My name is Steve Jinks, secret service and I'm here investigating why your cellmates have been dying lately."

"Robert, but I don't know anything, please leave me alone." Before entering the block Artie called and told Steve what the Thurible looked like.

"Okay but one last question, have you been around any smoke?"

"No, just that one time three years ago when I…" but he didn't finish just turned away. Sighing he walked to the end and turned away from the prisoners calling up Artie.

"Artie there's no smoking artifacts around here, no decorations that look artifacty either. How about two artifacts, one that causes confessions and one that causes death?" As they spoke Jake entered the room and opened his jacket revealing his priest garb, seeing Steve he quickly and quietly started to hand out the last four, now five beans. Steve turned around just as Jake slipped the bean to the arsonist and chewed it quickly. As the men swallowed the beans a dark shadow surrounded them then vanished.

"You're that agent," Steve started but caught the now empty pouch that was tossed at him. "Betty MacDonald's pouch, can cure any illness only when it is passed to another." Then he handed over the beads as well before running out of there. A few moments later Myka ran in just in time to see the final inmates drop dead.

"We missed him again," she groaned and Steve nodded.

"Got these though."

"Did they all eat them?" she asked and Steve nodded, she bagged the beads but left the pouch out for a bit longer, Steve didn't even question why. Back in the car Steve was explaining the event to Artie without revealing who the priest was.

"So we believe that Gates had the beads first and when she discovered she could up her rate of executions with confessions she used them, the priest just so happened to locate the pouch and used her greed for justice no matter what to save ten kids from death."

"Very admirable however it is not our place to play God, he's still a killer. Any word on him?" Artie asked as Steve turned the phone to Myka.

"His church said that he went to Ecuador to for a missionary trip."

"That's it then, you two coming home?"

"Yeah."

"Any sign of Agent Torres?" Turning the device back to himself Jinks shook his head.

"Not this time."

"Good job you too, see you when you get home." Once Artie was gone Steve looked at Myka.

"Not yet, but soon I need to see someone first." Steve nodded and they drove on in silence.

God it was just last week that she was sitting on this very same table receiving news that she couldn't believe was really happening. The doctor was an official warehouse doctor so he knew about artifacts; he treated all agents and wished they'd approve some artifacts for him to use to keep more of them alive. As far as the statements go the artifact was used on Agent Bering against her will but for once he was glad.

"The results are great Myka; all signs of cancer are gone." He laughed and smiled as she started to cry tears of job and hugged him." Later that night everyone was silent as Myka told the tale of her discovering she had cancer and that before she told anyone about it she was cured. There were more tears of joy and plenty of hugs from all but she also noticed Pete walk out onto the viewing platform so she followed him there.

"You okay Pete?" she asked.

"Is this why you didn't want me to come with you on those assignments? Myka I would have supported you no matter what, don't you trust me?" He asked obviously hurt by her not telling him.

"Of course I do Pete we're more than partners we're best friends and I just needed time to process it all. I wanted you to be the first one to know but I was scared that you'd leave me." She said starting to cry again.

"Mykes I could never leave you, we're in this together no matter what," he said pulling her into a hug and stroking her hair as she cried into his chest.

Deep in the warehouse the mechanical fairy flitted about coming to a rest on a shelf before looking at what was stored there before moving on, she finally stopped and looked at a picture of a door before marking the location of it and moving on. Seeing the Trojan Horse sitting there she smiled and flew to the top to wait for the next move.

AN 2 Featured Artifacts –

Betty MacDonald's Pouch – seen in her children's book series Mrs. Piggy-Wiggly it was stated that she carried her cures in it. Used to transfer illness from one person to another.
William Joseph Chaminede's Prayer Beads – Used to pull confessions from people, leaves them feeling guilty and suicidal
Paulinus of Milan's Thurible – When the smoke from the incense in inhaled it makes one confess before turning your insides to ash