The phone rang. It had been been about a week since they'd last heard from Trubel, back when she'd been injured. Rosalee had stayed on the phone until they saw her stabilize and had gotten hourly updates from her friend until five in the morning, letting her know that Trubel was fine.
"Exotic Spice &tea shop, Monroe speaking."
"Hey Monroe."
"Oh hey Trubel, how're you doing?" It was a pleasant surprise to hear from her, as they young Grimm almost never called.
"Hm? Oh, I'm good. I tore my stiches on the first day fighting the Grosersauger again, but I got them done again after winning."
"How did'ya manage to run into him again so quickly? And weren't you supposed to be resting?"
"I realized that I'd run into a big guy right before I found a fresh victim, and I'd seen that guy in a bar the night before, so I went there with Charlie, the other Grimm, to identify him. Turns out I was right, we fought, and then I did what Grimm's do."
Despite Trubel's euphemistic tone, it still turned his stomach to talk about killing people, dangerous or not. It was the one thing about his friendship with Nick he couldn't quite get over, even after years of doing it himself, and he quite honestly hoped he never would.
"Speaking of," Trubel said, "the strangest thing happened when we fought. I had broken my arm just a few days earlier but when the cast broke in the fight my bone had healed perfectly."
"That is strange."
"What is?" Rosalee asked. She was preparing an order for three different mixes, one normal tea and two medicinal blends.
"Trubel's broken arm healed in just a few days." He answered.
"The one from last week?"
"Yep."
"Maybe it got fixed when her bones melted, then re-solidified." Rosalee said, while going through her shelves looking for some ingredient or other. It really amazed him how she could make connections like that, off the cuff, while focusing on something completely different. Then again, it was what she did for a living.
"What did she say?" Trubel asked.
"That it could have happened when your bones turned liquid, when it hardened afterwards it could have just hardened as a fixed bone."
"That makes sense."
"Did you get any other side effects from it? I know Nick had some weird side effect whenever he almost died." Like giving him super hearingor crazy high stamina. He thought.
"Now that you mention it, I've been more flexible lately. And the Grosersauger hit me really hard but it didn't break any bones, not even fracture them."
"That sounds good. Just make sure to get a check up so you know if there are any negative sides to it." Not that he knew who you'd go to to get something like that checked without getting ignored for sounding crazy.
"Alright."
"So why'd you call anyway?"
"Right. So I'm working with the Wesen Council and HW to set up a Wesen court here in Seattle, that way we can convict the reinybashers without having to frame them. If it goes well we could make it a regular thing all over the country, figure Nick and you guys would be interested in getting in on this." Monroe did a double take.
He'd never even heard of something like that being attempted, though on second thought it was stranger that it hadn't been done already.
"Of course, that'd be great, do you need any help setting it up?"
"Naw, got it covered mostly.
"Only problem is making it so that HW doesn't get a record of the Wesen who attend but can still be sure that the Council didn't stack the jury to get whatever result they wanted. Hopefully we'll figure it out."
Trubel had really come a long way from being that scared girl who was constantly on the run, and it gave him a strange feeling of pride. Sort of like how an uncle might be proud of his nice, he hadn't raised her, or even been all that instrumental in shaping her into who she was, but he was still proud.
"Well, good luck with that, and we'll call if any of us come up with something."
"Thanks. So anyway, I realized something lately, and I don't know why, but when I tested it with Hasle it worked really well."
"What did?" Monroe asked.
"It's a bit hard to explain but when I see or hear just tiny little bits I can piece together a lot more than a normal person, and it gives me super-intuition. Especially about dangerous things. Like, I can spot a tail in half a minute, which is way too fast to reasonably know if they're tailing you or just walking in the same direction, but somehow it actually seems to work. And I think I realized where the Grosersauger was hiding before I saw him."
"So kind of Like how Nick has super hearing, that's cool. So when did this start happening?"
"I think it was really gradually over my entire life, maybe it'll get even better with time."
They talked some more, about her plans with the Wesen court, about what she'd do after, and quite a bit about her new friend, Hasle. The two had been growing closer as they kept spending time with each other, to the point that Trubel wasn't sure she'd want to leave the city even after they'd settled things with the Wesen court.
Charlie came up a few times too. Apparently he was sticking around for a while to see how she did things, and he might start digitizing his books too so they could share them around with any Grimm they met along their future travels.