When they got to the warehouse, Nick was very surprised to find out that is where the four of them live.
"You wanted to keep us safe." Adalind explained.
"Where we in danger?"
"At the time, yes."
"Are we still in danger?"
"No, and we are actually looking for a bigger place."
"Well that's good. I'd hate for our kids to be raised in a warehouse."
That made Adalind realize she had to explain some things to Nick.
"Diana isn't your daughter, biologically. Although you are just as loving and protective of her as if she were your own. But her father is my ex, Sean Renard, who is your captain."
"You had a baby with my boss?"
"It's a long and complicated story." Adalind explained. "And you are in no condition to hear it. I only told you Diana wasn't yours by blood, simply to explain when she leaves to visit her father."
Nick looked at Diana. There was obviously an age difference between her and Kelly. So, it stood to reason that what ever happened between Adalind and his boss, happened before she and Nick got together.
"It's ok, Nick." Diana said cheerfully. "I know you love me as much as you love Kelly.
"That's good. Do I tell you all the time?"
"No, but that's alright, because you show me all the time how much you love me. And mommy says you like action more than words."
So he was a man of action. His family knew and understood it. "So, I show you guys how much I love you? Does that mean I hug you a lot? Hold your hand?" He looks at Adalind. "Do I kiss you a lot?"
She smiles at him. "You are a very hands on family man. Always hugging. Always touching. And you're never stingy with your kisses. Although we do have to keep them toned down at times."
"Because we have kids?"
It was at that moment that a young woman with short dark hair rushes into the loft.
"Nick!" She near shouts and pulls him in for a tight hug. "I just heard. Are you alright? What happened?"
"Trubel." Adalind says to the woman. "Nick doesn't have any memories of his life. The doctor said it's due to trauma to his head. There is a good chance his memories will come back. We just have to be patient and explain things to Nick until they do."
Than Adalind looks at Nick. "This is Teresa, but she prefers to be called Trouble."
"Trouble? Are you my sister?"
"No, but you are the only family I've got." She answers.
"I'm going to make dinner." Adalind said. "Why don't you guys sit on the couch. And Trubel, you can explain to Nick how you see him as family."
"Could I hold Kelly?" Nick asked, wanting to spend time with the child who they said was his son, but felt that since he didn't remember any of them, that he should ask.
"You don't have to ask to hold your own son, Nick." Adalind smiled. "And I'm sure he would like to spend time with his daddy.
The two grimms sat on the couch. Nick held Kelly close while Diana sat between him and Trubel.
The young woman told him about being on the run. Never staying in any one place for too long. But Nick had found her and had given her a home, guidance and just a safe place to go when she felt lost.
Trubel stayed until after dinner, then she said she had things she had to take care of and headed out. She gave Nick a hug and said she was glad he was ok, and hoped soon he would remember everything.
When it was time to turn in for the night, Adalind felt a bit of awkwardness on how the sleeping arrangements should be. She wondered if Nick would feel comfortable sleeping next to her and thought maybe it would be best to give him Diana's bed and have her daughter in bed with her.
Diana, ever the perceptive child, decided to ask "Nick, are you still going to sleep next to mom like you do every night, even though you don't remember her?"
"I would like to." Nick answered honestly.
Adalind released a breath she hadn't known she was holding. Relieved to know that she would still have the man she loved beside her at night.
As his family laid sleeping, Nick couldn't help but stay awake and just look at them. The woman on the bed was so beautiful. He couldn't believe she was actually his to love and hold every day. That he was loved by her in return.
Diana may not be his, but he felt like she was. That he loved her like she was his own daughter.
And he had a precious little boy. Nick slipped out of bed to look at his son sleeping peacefully. He felt his heart swell with an intense love as he watched Kelly sleep.
He looked back at the bed and gazed at Adalind, sleeping.
Then he felt a sense of familiarity. He had done this before. A memory came of Nick standing in a room that looked very different from this one. His son had just been born. They were in a different house.
Nick felt excited at remembering something. Especially something really good.
The next morning he told Adalind. "I remembered something. The first night we brought Kelly home. I know it was in a different house. The room we were all in was different. But I remember standing by Kelly's crib and watching him sleep. I was so happy to be a father. I kept looking at you. I was so amazed by you. You had brought this life into my world, given me a family."
Adalind's eye's became shiny from tears and her voice trembled. "I never knew you did that." She cleared her throat and took a deep breath to compose herself. "Were you doing that last night? Is that why your memory was triggered?"
"I think so."
"We should take Nick to his work. He can talk to daddy and all of his friends. Then maybe he'll get all of his memories back." Diana suggested excitedly.
At the precinct, "Hey, Burkhardt, how ya feeling." Nick heard a few of the men in the room call to him. He held on tightly to Diana's hand. Trusting her to anchor him.
Sean came out of his office. "What are you guys doing here?"
"Diana thought it would be good for Nick to see where he works. That it might jog his memory." Adalind explained.
"Hey buddy." Wu greeted Nick.
"That is Drew Wu" Diana giggled, obviously at the name. "He's one of your friends that works with you." Then she pointed to another man. "And that's Hank. He's your partner."
"Hey, man" Hank greeted. "Glad your out of the hospital. You really had us scared for a while."
"Sorry" Nick said quickly. Not liking that he had his friends worried. Even if he didn't remember them.
"Not your fault, partner. No need to apologize. Not like you intended to get attacked."
"Do you know who attacked me?" Nick asked.
"We're looking into it." Renard answered.
Adalind pulled Renard into his office to talk to him privately. Nick was startled to find that when he focused, he could hear what they were saying.
"Sean, tell me you had nothing to do with this."
"Of course not. Why would you think that?"
"Gee, I wonder."
"Nick saved Diana. Hell, he saved all of us, apparently. And Diana is really attached to him now. I've learned my lesson. Being on the opposite side of Nick Burkhardt is being on the losing side. And will likely get me killed if I keep choosing it. So, you can look somewhere else to focus your wrath, Adalind. I did not, in any way, attack the man you love, or send anyone else to." Sean assured the blonde. Who had a look on her face, if he had given the wrong answer, was likely to make the man twice her size suffer in unimaginable ways.
"Does Adalind have a temper?" Nick didn't realize he had spoken out loud until he heard Wu and Hank snort a laugh and Wu comment "Not that you seem to mind."
Nick and Diana exchanged confused looks. Then Nick saw Hank elbow Wu and point to Diana, and Nick figured it might have something to do with the passion he felt between he and Adalind.
He wondered if he was really that obvious with his affection.
"Are you remembering anything, Nick? " Diana asked.
Nick shakes his head. "Not really. Everything here feels familiar, but there is no memory attached to it." He touches the papers. Sits in his chair. He gets impressions of being angry, happy, frustrated, excited, and confused. But it seems either his mind won't produce a memory, or there are just so many that they are all blending together.
Two officers bring in a man who keeps struggling against the restraints and cursing at anyone who so much as glances at him. The man's face suddenly changes, becoming green and scaly.
Nick is shocked at first, wondering if the blows to his head have made him start to hallucinate. But then the man notices Diana and actually licks his lips. In a flash Nick is out of his chair and putting himself between snake man and the little girl.
"Grimm" The man hisses. He finally stops resisting the two officers and allows them to take him into an interrogation room, just so he can get away from the grimm.
Nick turns around and see's Adalind and Sean come out of the office. A memory comes of her walking out of a coffee shop, laughing until their eyes lock and she morphs into a rotting corpse.
Diana comes up to him and takes his hand. "It's ok Nick." She assures him.
He takes a deep breath and releases it slowly. The knowledge of the wesen world comes rushing in. He knows that he's a grimm. Trouble is a grimm too. He knows that some of his friends are wesen.
But there are still no memories that connect him to any of them on a personal level. He can't remember why they are his friends.
"I think Nick's remembering wesen." Hank said.
Nick's eyes widened, surprised to hear his non wesen friend knows about his secret world.
Sensing that there might need to be some kind of discussion, Renard pulls everyone into his office.
"Are you remembering things." Sean asks Nick.
"I'm a grimm. You're a zauberbiest. Adalind is a hexenbiest. Monroe is a blutbad and Rosalee is a fuchsbau. I know what we all are, I just don't know how we are together." Nick knew he sounded frustrated, but it didn't make sense to remember a secret world but not how he met the people who mattered in his world.
He see's Adalind reach out to him but hesitate, as if uncertain if he would want her near him. Nick takes her in his arms and holds her tightly to him. "I may not remember why I love you, but I still feel that I do." He assures her as they take a little comfort from each other.
It's decided that it may be more helpful to figure out what happened to Nick, by going to Monroe and Rosalee's house, since Nick lived there for a few months, and go over all the evidence they had on the event.
"Why do you have so many clocks?" Nick couldn't help but blurt out the moment he stepped inside his best wesen friends house.
"I'm a clockmaker and repairman." Monroe said, exasperated. This had not been the first time Nick had commented on his stuff. The blutbad had to remind himself that his friend's memory was hindered and that he wasn't trying to be a smartass.
"Nick's remembered the wesen world and that he's a grimm." Adalind informed the couple. "But he still doesn't remember anything about his personal life."
"I'm surprised Diana hasn't done her weird magic thing to fix him yet." Monroe says, the filter between brain and mouth once again on the fritz.
"Mommy asked me not to try. She said a person's brain is too complicated." Diana explained. "But, it's ok. Even without remembering us, Nick still loves us."
Rosalie thinks that is the sweetest thing she has ever heard. Her eyes fill with tears at the certainty in the little girl's voice.
At the concerned looks from the others, the fuchsbau says, "Ignore me. I'm dealing with triple the hormones."
Nick and the others sat down and went over everything they had gathered since Nick had been found.
"One of the problems we're having is that you were found in a park. A lot of foot traffic. So it's hard to tell which ones belonged to your assailant." Wu explained.
"Who found me?"
"A couple of teenagers looking for a place to make out." Hank said.
"Were we working on a case? Was I hunting a wesen?"
"That was the odd thing. None of us knew why you were in that park. You didn't tell anyone that you were going there." Monroe said.
"There hadn't been any crimes reported in or around that park recently." Wu said. "Unless you count underage drinking by the local kids."
"What kind of wesen is quiet enough to sneak up on Nick and strong enough to overpower him?" Hank asked. Knowing that with his partners super hearing, the wesen would either have to be very fast or very quiet.
"Maybe it was a hexenbiest." Renard suggested.
"Why would Nick meet a hexenbiest in a park and not tell anyone?" Adalind asked, clearly not liking where she thought Sean was going.
Trying to clear things up quickly before his daughter's mother decided to levitate something at him, Sean explains. "Maybe a hexenbiest posed as a damsel in distress. She may have intended to catch him off guard. Nick has made just as many enemies as he has allies over the years. Someone may have wanted revenge and figured playing to his soft heart was the best way to do it.
Rosalie shook her head. "Nick would have told one of us if he believed someone was in trouble."
"And a hexenbiest couldn't get the drop on him anyway. Back when he was still a newbie grimm, Nick was still able to pin me down." Adalind explained, remembering the fight she and Nick had at the ruins. And their bloody kiss.
"We fought?" Nick asked.
"We used to be enemies. But a lot happened and now we're lovers."
"Sounds like we have an interesting story. I really wish I could remember it."
"You will, Nick." Rosalee assured.
"Hopefully before you get attacked again." That comment earns the blutbad glares from the two women in the room.
