I'm writing this off of memory so I apologize if I get anything a little too wrong. But what if Nick & everybody had no idea about Renard giving Diana to Viktor? What if when Adalind asked for help, he decided to be the one to provide it? My take on how this could have gone a little differently haha. Hope you guys enjoy this short or maybe long story. Haven't decided too much yet. Based around the end of Season 3. Nadalind of course!

*I Don't Own These Characters Or TV Show*


Nick was glad to sit on the couch finally & just relax after the eventful last few days he has dealt with. He scoffed at his thought of just summing up everything that has happened with the word 'eventful' but he was tired of it all & couldn't wait to go to sleep because a break from this madness would be nice.

Although it was going to still be a problem on what exactly they were going to do to keep Adalind & the baby safe, at least he get some peace from it for a little while.

Juliette walked into the living room with a glass of wine & a bottle of beer for him. She stares him down on her walk there, concern in her eyes but a small smile on her lips. She can tell how stressed out & tired he is, she wishes she could do more to ease it all but there wasn't much she could do nor think of.

He was sitting down with his elbows & forearms resting on his legs, leaning down in what Juliette could tell was 'his hunched-over after-work tired look he has usually but this of course was something way more than the usual unusual of a case he works.

He rubbed his hands down his face slowly with a deep inhale of his breath. He looked up to see her holding out a beer for him as she just got over to the couch & he gave her an enduring smile as she sat down with her wine glass. She took a sip from it as he placed the beer down on the table in front of the sofa & she couldn't help but do the same so she could massage his shoulders from the side a little for comfort.

He turned to look at her with another tired smile, placed his hand on her thigh & gave it a little squeeze to show his gratitude before leaning into her touch more.

"I know this may suck to ask, but are you okay?" She asked softly as she just started rubbing her hand on his back after he looked at her again after she asked. "Just thought we were going to have our normal-unnormal stuff to deal with for a little while before everything got insane again & here we are." He said with a voice of amusement but mainly sarcasm.

She gave him a sorry-full look at that but she understood perfectly because she felt the same way.

It would be nice to have some stability for once but that's the life he was given & the life she chose to live with him so that's just how it is. "Where's your mom?" She asked once again softly. She knew she had been arrested but not much after that.

He still was staring at her in her eyes as he answered. "I know she was released. To where she went though, I have no idea" Juliette gave him a questioning face at the last part he said.

"Well it is my mother" He said with a knowing voice. "Escaping & evading has kind of been her thing my whole life so" He trailed off as he picked up his beer to sip on it. "She'll turn back up eventually, she's probably just trying to figure out who called the police on her in the first place. Something I'm wondering myself actually."

"Well, I hope she comes back soon." She said in her most comforting voice.

It was all she could think of to say on that. She hated how she doesn't know much of a way she can help in much of his Grimm life. Many times she was glad to know everything now & that he tells her the truth about what is going on or about what is happening but now she feels like she has even more insecurities because of it.

The world he has to deal with is full of many powerful things with many incredible things on top of that. Some good, some bad...Some were really bad but still, she just felt so basic sometimes. Helpless even. Not in the usual meaning either, for her, she felt helpless as in she thinks she doesn't provide any value to the life he introduced her to. Hank was his partner & one of his closest friends who has his back out there.

Monroe & Rosalee are also some of his closest friends as well who are both not only Wesen but deep in the depths of knowledge about the stuff he encounters.

He doesn't trust or even really like Renard but he was way more helpful than she could ever hope to be. Even Officer Wu who they hang out with sometimes & doesn't even know what's going on provides more help to him than her.

It was a messed up feeling to have to feel like you can love a person so much, but not see how you fit into their life barely at all. Made her angry sometimes, and then sometimes it just saddened her. It wasn't his fault he was born with the curse of being a Grimm either so not like she could even get mad at him for it. She then realized she thinks of it as a curse, so that doesn't help at all.

She hears him complain about the life of a Grimm sometimes, but she can tell he loves being one. Why shouldn't he either? It's who & what he is, his purpose in life as well. She just wishes she saw herself in it more & a dark part of her sometimes wishes he wasn't one at all so they could live normally.

Juliette just realized she must have been zoned out this whole time because the knock on the door almost spooked her. She was about to get up to get it before Nick placed his hand on her leg again. "No, I'll get it" He said as he eyed the door.

"Who is it? Your mom?" She asked as he reached the door to look out of the window of it. He looked back at her with a confused face. "No, It's Adalind" Which even made Juliette's face contort in confusion as well. "And she doesn't have the baby" He said as he began to open the door & Juliette was now even more confused because the woman she saw yesterday refused to even let anyone look at her baby let alone not have it.

Nick opened the door & immediately picked up on the obvious signs something happened as her eyes were tear-filled, her face wet from the previously fallen ones & she looked like she was in an extreme, emotional upheaval & disarray. "I need your help, can I come in?" She asked in a calm, frantic tone. Nick didn't plan on saying it, but he felt like if he said no, she would snap immediately.

Nick just gestured for her to come in & she walked quickly pace through, panic & grief written all over her. "Sean gave her away" She spoke with such a heavy voice of anxiety & worry as she took her place standing in the middle of the room between them.

"What!? What are you talking about" He exclaimed as he shut the door. Looking back at Juliette as they both shared the same reaction of shock at her words.

More tears started swelling up in her eyes before she spoke. "That bastard Sean gave my baby to Viktor & I really really need you to help me get her back please" She said with venom but more pain than anything else. Nick never thought he see the day Adalind was begging him. Nick's face still hasn't lost the shock in it but he looked over to Juliette who was trying to get Adalind to sit but Adalind had no plans of it. "No no I can't stay I have to find my baby" She spoke so quickly that her words almost ran over each other. Her panic was increasing along with her nerves.

"Look you have to get your mom out of jail okay? She can help & I know she killed my mom & I don't care she didn't care about me anyway & that was all my fault anyway I just really need my baby back Nick please" Her rambling & frantic pace of speaking was showing how more & more she was beginning to become unhinged. Her eyes widened with every word she spoke & it showed off the redness that was in them even more.

He quickly gained traction of himself though & spoke. "She was released a couple of hours ago Adalind, they didn't have enough to hold her" He said in his own quick tone but completely calmer than hers has been. Adalind's face lit up from the despair she had ever since she walked in what felt like an eternity ago already.

"So she's here!" She said with this wide-eyed hopeful expression along with this small hopeful, but sad smile & Nick couldn't help but actually feel bad for her right now. A feeling he never thought he share for her out of all people. Before he could even speak she began walking deeper into his house to see if she was around.

"No Adalind she's not here." He watched her snap her head back around with a lost expression on it now.

"Wha-What do you mean" She asked & Nick was really surprised right now. He never knew she could care about anything at all, let alone have her reacting like this. Once again he didn't let his thoughts hold him up from answering so he began to speak but she cut him off.

"Okay okay so then you have to get her back! She'll help me get her back" Her face perked up in that hopeful way again. She was clinging to anything she had left at this point.

Speaking from his own place of pain on this subject, his tone went a little darker but more sincere. "Look Adalind, one thing about my mom is when she leaves, She's gone. Until she feels like coming back." She remained quiet for a couple of seconds & Nick wasn't sure if she was trying not to rage out or because her lip was trembling from holding back tears again.

"Well, then you have to help me" Some anger started to come out in how she spoke that time. She never even blinked once as she held his gaze. Begging & pleading in her eyes with rage borderline boiling on her face.

He kept staring at her back, surprised that she was at that point to ask him for help & was also more surprised that the more he thought about it. The more he realized that a dark place inside of him feels like he has to. He could see her eyes losing more of the begging & starting to get some anger in them at the fact he hadn't answered yet. Not that it was even that long of silence from him but every second felt like an eternity to her right now.

She was about to start truly acting out but she was stopped by two words.

"I will" Was all he said, simply but it still shocked the three people in the room. Her face moved back slightly from being slightly stunned. For a moment her face lost all the emotions she had so far & went into more of a bewildering & disbelief look on it. Agony began resurfacing quickly though before she spoke. Nick said it with certainty but his face had a bunch of emotions on it at the moment. Like he was shocked he said it, while also being sure of himself but transitioning into a little squint of his eyes at the fact he wasn't bothered by the fact of who she is to him. Two days ago she was number one on his kill list if he had one & now he has agreed to help her.

For the sake of the child & what it means to the world of course but still, he wasn't as bothered by it as he was the first time he had to agree to help her.

"You will?" Adalind said in this shocked but squeal-sounding voice, most likely speaking through the surprise & cries in her throat.

"You will?" Juliette said from his side in more of the same way he spoke when Adalind first came in to say Renard gave Viktor the baby. Without question, her voice had some slight anger in it as well.

Adalind's face immediately shot over to a glare of pissed-off rage at Juliette but she didn't say anything yet & neither of them notice since Nick turned to look at her as well when Juliette tugged his shoulder a little for him to face her. Giving her his full attention.

"Nick if the royals have her baby, their definitely not here anymore & there is nothing you can do now." Juliette stated, trying to persuade him out of this insane idea. "Juliette-" He started but was interrupted by a very loud hiss from Adalind whose head whipped into her woge Hexenbiest form at Juliette's statement.

"I'm not giving up my baby!" She roared in an irate bellow that was only made deeper by the Hexenbiest form of herself. "Who gives a damn about your opinion! You are completely useless anyway!" She motioned toward her a little & Nick pushed Juliette behind him so he could stand in front of her.

"Adalind Adalind!" Nick said as he held his hand up in a settle-down kind of way. She looked up at him & woge back to her normal face again but the rage was still embedded in it. Nick reached in his pocket to pull out his car keys & he held them out to her. "Calm down, take these" He gestured them toward her "Go wait a couple of seconds in my car, we going to Rosalee's & Monroe's"

She stared at the keys for a moment and then back to him. "I don't want to go to them, I want my baby back" She said with annoyance.

"That's what we are going to do, so that's why we are going there" Nick said with a direct firmness in his voice & gestured the keys at her once more. She looked more annoyed & upset at the answer.

"Fine!" She snatched the keys as she looked back at Juliette one more time before beginning to walk out. "Hurry up" She said with a bite to it as she slammed the door slightly. Both Nick & Juliette looked back at the door before she turned to him again.

"You can't go after the baby, it's probably already in Vienna by now"

Nick let out a small sigh. "I know" He said softly, knowing how difficult it was going to be. "I have to at least try though."

"Why?!" She asked in a painful loud whisper. "For her?!"

Nick just shook his head immediately at that & put his hands on her shoulders. "Of course not. Look, for one, my mom already told us how influential this child is on the future." He rubbed her shoulders more as the worry in her eyes built. "Also I know what it's like to grow up without parents in your life & constantly moving around at an early age without no reason on why. I can't let someone else go through that. I won't. Adalind's child or not."

She just stared at him for a moment before, walking to get her coat. "Fine" she turned around to face him after grabbing it. "We'll do it together then."

"No way" He said firmly, shaking his head & grabbing the coat out of her hands & putting it back.

"I'm going to help you with this Nick" She said with a growing upset gleam in her eyes.

"It's already going to be hard enough with two people going there, it's safe here & what we are going to have to do there you won't be able to" He said endearingly & softly as he could. Slight beg in his voice so she won't think he was trying to insult her & hoping she listens.

Her head looks taken aback for a second. "I won't be able to?" She asked, repeating his words. "So you agree with her that I'm useless then" He heard the hurt but also saw the daring look in her eyes. Like she wanted him to say yes.

"No Juliette that's not what I was saying" He said shaking his head at her.

"Then why can you ask Monroe & Rosalee for help but I can't do anything."

"Because Rosalee knows someone who can make fake passports & I'm definitely not letting them come either." He said surely. Knowing it won't help her with this at all but hoping. "Look I gotta get a move on this okay?" He asked but it wasn't really a question. He kissed her before turning around to leave. She was really upset about the conversation they just had because she now thinks Nick thinks she is just some helpless useless person in his life as well but also because of what she was just thinking about before Adalind even walked in.

"You being a Grimm really will always screw up our relationship in some way will it." She said darkly but sadly. He stopped & turn to look at her after he heard that, still by the door as well.

"This has nothing to do with me being a Grimm." He was hurt & annoyed by the fact she just blaming him, right when their relationship was finally getting strong again especially.

"It always does sooner or later" She added on.

It's been a long night and he's going to be helping a woman he hates & possibly may die doing it & she wants to choose now to make him feel bad about what he is. Especially after she spent a good long time a while back saying she accepted him & what his life brought. He decided to just nod his head a little & eat his words because he didn't have the time for this right now. "I'm going to save this child, then come back" He said as he just opened the door & closed it.

His heart felt a lot heavier & not in a good way right now but he saw Adalind looking extremely agitated & tapping her finger on the dashboard in the passenger seat of the car. He needed to refocus so he could make sure he helped her out. Still can't believe this is happening right now.

He opened up the car & got in to get ready to go to Monroe & Rosalee's now. "Finally" He heard her say from the passenger seat but he just ignored it. His mind was still on what just happened with Juliette who just walked out the door with her arms crossed & a stony face expression. Clearly angry but watching as he backed out & drove off.

"Why do we have to go to Monroe & Rosalee's instead of trying to stop Viktor from leaving" She spoke way more calmer than she had been, maybe the short time to sit alone gave her a chance to settle down somewhat. Nick honestly thought she be more restless.

He let out a deep breath before answering, still getting used to having to not only protect her but have a conversation with her. Also because this was similar to the question with Juliette earlier. "Rosalee can help us with fake passports so we can go quietly."

"I don't care about being quiet"

"Look, this is already going to be considered a borderline suicide mission by most, so I'm trying to make it less of one as much as possible" He said as he looked his head to the right to make a turn. "Can't be a mother if you are dead"

He took a quick peek over at Adalind. Watching her leg anxiously shaking & she was looking out the window while nibbling on her fingernail. "Why are you helping me?" If Nick didn't have his Grimm hearing he was almost sure he wouldn't have caught that because it came out in such a small voice.

"I am, all that matters" Was all he said as it was silent the rest of the drive there.


Author Notes: I Hope that was a nice introduction! Reviews are always welcomed, good & bad.

Sidenote: Juliette I extremely dislike but I'm trying not to be biased as much as I possibly can when writing her. Nick always had better chemistry with Adalind in my opinion honestly even when they hated each other guts. Also loved when Nick & Adalind would banter, it almost was a little flirty besides all the hatred between them haha. Maybe I'm just looking too hard but once again reviews are welcomed!