/ / / This is where 'You Made A Fool Outta Me' fits into this story / / /
The first time Roddy went to Nick's house the entire place was full of food, Juliette was gone and Roddy could see the sadness in his eyes, the evidence of the fact he wasn't sleeping but if the copious amounts of food everywhere were any indication then he was a least eating well.
"Where on Earth did you get all this food," Elly asked when they caught sight of the baskets and boxes covering the floor of Nick's now empty dining room. "Hey is that homemade chilli jam, excellent."
"Apparently this is how Eisbiber show their appreciation," Nick pointed to the stuff in the kitchen. "The rest of it came when Bud found out Juliette had left."
Elly laughed. "Eisbiber women are known for their amazing baking skills."
"You all have to take some home," Nick said. "Roddy, you have to try the rhubarb pie they sent over and there are triple chocolate brownies that I am thinking of asking to be my last meal."
Roddy followed Nick into his kitchen. "Juliette's gone?"
"Yeah," Nick said cutting the pie and keeping his back to Roddy. "She left last weekend, probably for the best with all the Grimm stuff, she could never know and that just put her in danger."
Roddy nodded, he knew being dumped was horrible, he could still remember that hollow feeling of pain when Sarah had dumped him so easily and they'd only been dating a couple of months. "I'm sorry."
Nick turned and handed him the pie, his eyes were sad but he had a small smile on his face. "Thank you."
They went back into the dining room to find Elly in the middle of the baskets and boxes looking through all of the goodies with glee. "We should separate out the food from the other stuff, that blanket I found is so cute."
"Take it," Nick said. "I'm not really that worried about cute blankets."
Elly beamed at him like that was the reason she had mentioned it and Nick smiled for the first time that night and Roddy had to wonder if this in front of him, between Nick and Elly was also part of the reason Juliette left him because if someone Roddy was dating ever looked at someone else like Nick looked at Elly he'd have to think she was cheating on him.
Elly and Nick waded into the stack of gifts and Roddy sat back eating whatever looked good and was near him while Elly told him to leave room for dinner.
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TBC...
