Chapter 4: A Dinner For Grimms

We arrived in Portland at 6 that evening, Trubel took us on to Nick and Adalind's house. The beautiful blonde woman was cooking dinner. She greeted us with a warm, welcome smile. "Now, who's this young man, I don't think you mentioned him coming." She said looking at Maysen.

"This is Cember's boyfriend, Maysen." Trubel told her.

"What?! No, no. No. No, no, no. He's just my friend." I looked over at Maysen who was now shy and blushing.

Adalind smiled with a hint of disbelief in what I was telling her. "Oooh I see. Well, welcome to la casa de Burkhardt, just friend Maysen." She laughed. "I'm Nick's wife, Adalind, by the way."

A beautiful blonde girl looking to be about the age of 10 walked into the room, she looked just like Adalind. "Mommy, who are these people?" She asked curiously.

"Diana, these are our guests. Say hello."

The girl smiled and politely said hello as her mom had instructed her. She walked up to my mom and looked at her a moment. "You're sad. You lost someone you loved a lot. Your sadness will soon be eased though."

My mom stood quiet not saying anything, Adalind seemed to pick up on my mom's feelings because she quickly jumped in, "Diana.. honey why don't you go get your brother ready for dinner."

"But mom, Kelly's old enough to get himself ready." She argued.

Adalind gave her a stern look. "Diana, I said get your brother ready."

The girl sighed. "Fine."

I soon found out who Kelly was, he was a 5 year old, and he absolutely loved to talk. "My best friends, Justice and Monlee, are coming over! They're my best friends in the whole world. I don't like their sister, Rosabell."

"Hey, you leave my little Rosabell alone." Trubel said getting onto him jokingly.

"That's right Kelly." Said a man just as he walked through the door, following him were two more guys. "She might end up being your wife some day."

Kelly made a disgusted face. "Eww no! I'm not marrying Rosabell, I'm marrying mommy." The boy laughed.

The guy who was talking to Kelly ran over to him and began tickling him. "You can't marry mommy, mommy is mine." Oh, so this was Nick Burkhardt, I realized.

When the tickle fight was over Nick walked up to me, "Cember?"

I nodded.

"And April...and I think you must be Maysen." My mom and Maysen both nodded to confirm. "Great. we're so happy to have you all here. This is my partner detective Hank Griffin, and sergeant Wu."

Both men shook each of our hands. "Nice to meet you all." They both said at the same time.

"Monroe and Rosalee are on their way. I just got off the phone with Monroe and he said that he and Rosalee were chasing three 4 year olds around the house getting them ready." Nick said with a chuckle. "Is there anything you need me to do to help set up the table?" He asked after giving Adalind a kiss.

"Nope. I've got it all set up already."

1 hour later:

Nick answered the door, on the other side was a bearded man and a beautiful, but very tired looking, woman. 3 young kids ran passed them and Nick through the door. The little girl bumped into me, when she looked up at me she nervously woged. She was probably the cutest little fuchsbau I'd ever seen. "Our little early bloomer." Said the man walking into the house. This had to be Monroe and Rosalee and their triplets.

Adalind grabbed Rosalee pulling her to a chair at the dinner table. "You look absolutely exhausted!"

Rosalee sighed resting her head into her hands. "They're little monsters. I thought the terrible 2's were bad, but this is the terrifying 4's. I'm telling you I liked to have never got them dressed. I mean they were literally bouncing off the walls!"

Adalind poured her some warm tea. "Drink this." She insisted. "And after dinner, you're taking a little power nap. There's enough of us here to entertain all these kids for you to get some much needed rest."

"Thank you." Rosalee smiled.

All the kids took their seats around the table, as did everyone else. Nobody really talked while we were eatting, I watched Trubel get a second and third plate of food. She really loved to eat!

"Ok, off to a nap for you." Adalind said pushing Rosalee to another room.

The kids all got up from the table and started up their own little game of hide and seek. I could hear Kelly's voice carry as he counted for the rest to go hide. Rosabell ran to me, "Help me hide."

I giggled. "Here, under the table." I whispered.

when Kelly had counted to 20 he yelled out, "Ready or not! Here I come!" And he quickly began searching for his friends. He found Justice first behind the long window curtain, and then found Monlee next, in Kelly's toy chest. He continued searching for Rosabell walking into the den, as soon as he spotted her under the table, he quickly lifted the table cloth and yelled excitedly, "Found you!"

Rosabell screamed and woged again. She climbed up into my lap, "I don't want to play this anymore."

Apparently Diana had heard the girl say she was done playing, she walked out of her hiding place, "I won! Nobody ever finds me in hide and seek." She said skipping off to her bedroom.

"What's wrong with my little Bell?" Trubel asked her.

"Kelly's eyes scare me." She said curling up to me yawning and rested her head against me.

"What's that mean?" Maysen asked, looking at me.

"Kelly's eyes scare you?" Hank asked Rosabell.

"Mmhmm."

All the men shared a glance. "You don't think Kelly is...?" Wu started.

Nick looked at his son. "How would we even tell for sure?"

"Well I'm not really sure, I think one of us would need to woge to find out."

Monroe started to shift his face but Nick stopped him. "Probably not you."

"Yeah, you're probably right. Well, who of us could do it without scaring him? Even Maysen might be a little too much, being a Coyotl."

Nick looked puzzled a moment, then looked at me as if a light bulb had just went off in his head. "Cember.." He suggested.

I agreed to woge in front of Kelly to find out if he was also a grimm. Nick called his son over. "Cember may look a little different for a second. Ok?"

"Different how daddy?"

"Just, different."

When Kelly's attention was on me I woged, one of his eyes were just like I had seen Trubel's, an empty black pit. His other eye was normal.

"Is Cember woged?" Hank asked.

"Yeah, she is." Trubel answered.

Kelly smiled, "Daddy, Cember is an angel!"

I shook off my woge. "Yes. At least partly." I confirmed.

Nick, Monroe, Hank, and Wu all walked to another room to talk amongst themselves.

"Kelly's part grimm. He's starting to see what I can see now." Nick said with concern in his voice.

"What does partly mean?" Hank asked.

"I don't know. I didn't want to go into it in front of the kids, it might scare them."

Monroe nodded in agreement to Nick's statement. "Yeah let's not do that. Wouldn't want Rosalee waking up from her nap finding out we might have scarred our children for life."

"Bit dramatic on your point, but I agree with you." Hank said. "Maybe when you and Rosalee go home we can ask Cember for further details on what she saw?"

"Nu-uh. No chance. This I want to hear with my own ears with you guys." Monroe insisted.

Nick had all the kids to go into another room so the grown ups could talk. Rosabell was fast asleep in my lap. "Lets not wake her." Nick said.

"I'll take her to the livingroom and sit with her." My mom volunteered, then I felt the little sleeping girl being lifted from my arms, she floated easily into my mom's arms. She left the den with her still sleeping soundly.

Nick grabbed Adalind. "Honey, the kids were just playing hide and seek, and when Kelly found Rosabell he startled her and she woged... when she crawled into Cember's lap she said Kelly's eyes scared her. Cember woged in front of him and said that he was also a grimm, at least partly."

Adalind's jaw dropped. "Wait, what does partly mean?"

"We don't know yet." Monroe chimed in.

"We didn't want to talk about it any further in front of the kids." Hank told her.

They all looked at me. "Ok, go ahead and tell us." Nick said.

"when I woged only his right eye was like yours and Trubel's. His left eye was completely normal."

Adalind, still in disbelief, and clearly not ready to hear this new information, looked to Nick. "What are we going to do? If wesen see it they might kill him." Worry filled her voice.

Nick hugged her tightly. "No-one will ever hurt our children." He assured her.