With this new timeline, every event Nick had lived previously felt very different. With Adalind by his side, NIck couldn't help but notice how he felt happier.

He was certainly getting a lot more affection.

Adalind never seemed to keep her hands off of him. She was just as affectionate as during his previous time, after they had gone through so much and then joined alliances. But with this new timeline, without having to go through so much pain and suffering, Adalind was proving herself to be just as giving and affectionate as the Adalind he had lived with before the time shift.

Nick had always loved how open Adalind was with her sexuality. That she never saw a reason to hide her interest. And it was thrilling to be with someone who wanted to be with him at any moment.

Unlike with the other timeline, there was no other person living with them that they had to be considerate of. Nick got to experience what it was like to be with Adalind when they were the only two people in hearing range and no one could walk in on them at any moment.

Nick certainly took advantage of that fact by making love to Adalind on or against every area he could.

From the moment they were alone together, their lips and hands were all over one another.

Nick wished he could spend every night with Adalind. He hated the fact that they lived in separate places. But it was too soon to suggest they move in together. So in order to spend as much time with Adalind as possible, Nick had to always call Adalind and suggest they do something together, or find any way possible for her to help with a case.

Some cases, that turned out to be very easy.

Remembering there was going to be a spinnetod woman who needed to kill men in order to remain looking her age, Nick asked Adalind if she knew how to help.

"If anyone can find a way to help, you can." He told her.

There was so much love and pride in his voice, Adalind couldn't help but blush.

"I'll look into my books."

That made Nick realize that he needed to let Adalind into his world a little more.

He knew he needed to show Adalind that he trusted her and was willing to share all that he was with her.

And that included The Trailer.

Grimm

"My daughter is dating what?!" Catherine Schade screamed.

Renard had to pull the phone away from his ear to protect his hearing.

"Adalind seems to have developed feelings for a grimm. A grimm who happens to be one of my detectives."

"How could you have let this happen?"

"Me? As I recall, you're the one who seduced me."

"You think Adalind turned to a grimm because she found out we've been having an affair? But why should that matter to her?"

Because in order to gain your daughter's loyalty, I charmed and seduced her. I made her believe that when I gained the throne, she would be by my side, as my queen."

"And now you have a scorned hexenbiest on your hands."

Sean could practically hear the eye roll.

"There's nothing I can do about it now. Adalind won't listen to me. I need you to come to Portland and talk some sense into her."

"That won't be easy. My daughter has always had a problem with thinking with her heart. And if this grimm is treating her the way men treat their ladies in paperback romance novels, she might not have the sanity to realize that she is betraying her heritage."

"I can guarantee that Nick Burkhardt is treating Adalind really well. It's in his nature to be a hopeless romantic. I tried telling him it was unwise for him to get involved with Adalind, but he won't listen to reason either. He's someone who holds on until there's nothing to hold on to. He won't walk away from Adalind until she out right tells him she wants nothing to do with him. And knowing her, she won't push Nick away unless there's a good reason to. I think maybe her mother disapproving of the relationship would work."

Grimm

Nick caught Lena Marcinko and stopped her just as she was about to go into the art gallery where she would have met her first victim.

Part of him wondered if he was messing with fate but there was no warning he felt from the staff, so he intervened.

Lena was obviously frightened upon encountering a grimm, and she tried to push him away and run. But Nick told her he was dating a hexenbiest who was booking into an ulterior way for her to molt her skin without killing. That there was a chance she could remain looking young.

Nick remembered Monroe's friend, Charlotte, who had turned wieder and looked in her late sixties, even though she was only twenty six.

Since he just couldn't go up to the woman and say, "Hi, I'm a grimm who met you in a different timeline because we're both friend's with a wieder blutbad." Nick pretended to be interested in meeting any of Monroe's friends that were spinnetod and might be interested in trying out a little experiment, courtesy of his smart and beautiful girlfriend.

And that was how both Charlotte and Lena, along with Monroe because he was just too curious for his own good, came to sit at Adalind's kitchen table.

After asking the women how they each felt and what they needed to do to either maintain or regain their looks, she came up with an idea.

Adalind theorized that using grimm's blood might help the spinnetod. It was something no one had ever thought to try, as far as anyone knew.

Nick didn't hesitate to offer his blood.

The first experiment was for the women to ingest it, since normally they would have to ingest what they took from their victims.

To make sure it was absorbed better, Adalind placed the blood in a glass of wine. Red, of course.

Charlotte agreed to go first, since she was already aged and Lena had a daughter.

Everyone in the room held their breath as the aged spinnetod drank everything in her glass.

"How do you feel?" Monroe asked.

"You need to give it some time, Monroe." Adalind told him. "It has to work it's way to her system."

Suddenly, Charlotte gasped and fully woged. Her whole form tensed for a moment, then her human form returned and flecks of skin fell away.

Where before an old woman was sitting, now sat a woman in her mid twenties.

Lena smiled brightly and downed her whole glass. Though unlike with Charlotte, nothing significant seemed to happen. Even after fifteen minutes.

"Lena wasn't as far gone as Charlotte." Adalind surmised. "So the effects won't be as severe to those who take the treatment before the aging."

Nick gave Lena and Charlotte his card. "Any other spinnetod you know, tell them about me and this treatment."

Lena hugged Nick. "Thank you. Please take care of yourself. My daughter will need you in twenty years."

"If Nick and Adalind make a couple of grimm's, she could get the blood then." Monroe commented.

Adalind blushed and Nick gave a pointed look toward his friend. As much as he wanted to have children with Adalind, he didn't want her to feel pressure to do so.

"I put my foot in my mouth again, didn't I?" Monroe needlessly asked.

Nick wondered if there was a way to get Rosalee to Portland early. It would really help to have someone else around to censor the blutbad.

Grimm

While working on the spinnetod case, Nick was reminded of the vulnerability he and Adalind face regarding their powers.

He brought it up that evening when everyone had left and they were sitting on the couch, his arm around her as she was nestled against his side.

"There's something I have to tell you." He confessed softly.

"What is it?"

"I know that grimm's blood can kill your hexenbiest."

"I wasn't even aware of that." Adalind looked at him with surprise. "How did you come about that information?"

"From a book." Nick wasn't sure how to explain that in another timeline, Adalind had made some choices that had caused him to look for a way to end a spell she had over Hank and thanks to his wesen friends had found the way to kill a hexenbiest. So he hoped his answer would make her think it was in a grimm journal without the need to actually lie to her.

Nick saw no reason to tell her about the staff or jumping through time. There was no point. At least not yet. The way he saw it, the fewer people knew about the staff, the better. No one he loved could be tricked into revealing anything if they didn't know anything.

The Royals had no clue that the great treasure they were searching for was a giant stick. That gave Nick the advantage.

But protecting them both was important. Nick knew better than anyone that enemies could and would do anything to have the advantage.

Taking away Nick's grimm abilities or Adalind's hexenbiest would certainly be on the top of that list.

That concern grew more when Adalind's mother arrived in Portland.