"Is there any other way out of here?" He asked her as his mind was sifting through different ways to approach this.

"There probably is but I didn't have much time to search when I was here. Would have been too suspicious." She wondered why she felt so self-conscious about telling him about her past now.

"Okay, well I don't think they are going to shoot at you." He said & for a moment Adalind wondered why he thought that. Until she remembered what this was all about in the first place.

"Because of Diana." She concurred.

"How many cars are usually out there?" He asked her next.

"Uhh, I don't know. Usually a town car or two. I was in a hotel more than the castle so I'm not too sure." She was a little upset to keep disappointing with the vague answers but she really didn't know much.

"I'll think of something." He reassured her and if it comes to coming up with a plan rather quickly, he has shown a knack for it that's for sure. Nick knew he better hurry because it's not like they had all day, maybe only a minute or two before they stop waiting for them to go out there & storm them at the door.

One thing for sure was, Nick knows he needs to be the one to strike first or it probably won't end well for them if they wait to go on the defensive. They needed something that could cause something big or do something big. He truly believes he could fight them all if he had even a little advantage but he didn't.

"Is your hand bleeding?" Adalind asked him as he was slightly pacing for a moment. He looked down at his left hand which was previously injured from being stabbed through by that knife in Frau Pech's house. That was the blood he felt earlier when he was blown through the wall by Diana.

"When I changed back, I think the wound re-opened." He said calmly because it wasn't a big deal right now & they had bigger problems right now. "Too bad we can't have that damn blade help us ou-" Nick trailed off what he was saying & didn't even finish. His mind started getting the light-bulb feeling in it.

Her brows furrowed. "What?"

They may didn't have a magical blade to try & kill everybody but they do have a magical person amongst the three of them. Well two of them had powers but he was referring to Adalind here.

"Remember when we first came here & you lost it when Renard wouldn't say where Diana was?"

"What's the plan here? Try and piss me off to see if rage will help us kill them all out there?" She said peeved, she wasn't too fond of remembering that moment.

"If that helps sure but no. You shattered or cracked almost everything that was made of glass."

"I'm still not following." Adalind wasn't exactly sure what he was trying to say at all this time.

"So every window of every car in there has to at least be broken or cracked then."

"Yes, but why would that matter?" She knows he was trying to get at something but she can't put it together yet.

"And you have telekinesis powers..." He raised his eyebrows at her, seeing if she would get what he was implying now.

"Yes I do, I still don't see how that...Oh" All of a sudden it clicked in her mind. "Ohh!" She exclaimed quietly. "I don't know if I'm powerful enough. Especially for it to make a difference." She shook her head. Her powers or fighting ability weren't really her strong suit. Potions, spells, that kind of thing was more up her alley. It takes her some time to focus when asked to use her more physical powers on some things. Especially for what he was asking.

"It doesn't have to be much, I just need an opening, even if it is only a distraction.

She still wasn't convinced. "I can't do it." She shook her head once again & looked down as she rocked Diana a little bit. She was a confident person & in her abilities but her faith in herself and what she can do has been tempered slightly ever since the verbal lashings from her mother & Sean. Not to mention finding herself in more trouble than she can handle lately.

He took a step toward her but she didn't look up. He didn't speak yet, it's like he wanted to try & put a calming effect on her before speaking. "Look at me." He said gently. Placing his hands on each side of her shoulders. She gulped for some reason & felt a little nervous with him being so close to her & staring directly into her pupils like that.

"You can do this." He said tenderly but quite firmly. She didn't speak but kept gazing at him. "We both believe you can." He took a look at Diana to show her what he meant by 'we'.

She nodded her head slowly, somehow he captivated her at that moment. Like her panic subdued as soon as he allowed her slight showing of vulnerability to not only be okay but to use it as empowerment.

"Okay?" He asked but more as if he was kindly asking her if she not only was ready but if she believed him for what he said. He rubbed her shoulders gently.

"Okay." She said softly. She nodded her head once more. "Okay." He nodded his head at her this time and gave her shoulders he had a grasp on a little reassuring squeeze. "But I'll need to focus in order to do it."

"I'll buy you some time."

"And I'm going to need you to hold Diana." She said as if she was worried he wouldn't want to and like she really didn't like the idea of not being the one to hold her at all times.

Nick also knew her trust for him must be rising for her to be willing to allow him to hold her. Well that or because she felt she had no other choice but for some reason, he could tell it wasn't the latter.


"We're coming out! I know you all already know we're here anyway!" Nick called out as Adalind opened the door & raised her hands in surrender. Nick held Diana cradled in his right hand up close to his chest with his non-bloody hand and the rifle he obtained held in his bloody hand as he walked out behind her. He raised the rifle to show he was going to put it down as Adalind stood there, not saying a word but focusing on what was in front of her.

Nick scanned to see how this was going to work as well as he placed the gun down in front of his feet. He watched a smug Rispoli standing in front of what appeared to be around twenty Verrat. There were two limousines, a couple of town cars & a black van in there. The windows weren't blown out but severely cracked. They all were facing forward so the driver's side of the cars was on the inside and the passenger sides were on the outside. Also means they would have to back up first to get out of there.

He peeked over at Adalind whose eyes haven't blinked once since she was focusing so intensely. Nick told her to hold her hands up in surrender before they came out here so she wouldn't have to just use her mind alone & that way it could help mask what she was actually doing.

Rispoli squinted at her but decided to deal with whatever reason she was standing there like that after he retrieved the child. Didn't appear like she was doing much anyways. Her face shook a little though.

Nick took a look at what they were going to be dealing with again in terms of how far they would be from retrieving one of the cars in the first place. The place was so big that the cars were all behind Rispoli and the Varrat yet there was still maybe eight to ten feet between where Rispoli is and where Nick and Adalind are.

Rispoli pulled out his phone & he could tell he called Viktor because who else would he be informing that to with the words of "I've got the Grimm, Ms. Schade & the child." Then a "Yes sir" after that. Answering whatever Viktor said.

"My orders are to leave you alive. Rispoli took a few steps forward towards them but mostly to get in Nick's face. "I personally believe we should kill you." He looked over to Adalind again who he was wondering why she hasn't spoken, barely moved & kept looking so straightforward.

Nick watched him for a moment before speaking. Looking out at the now dimly dark sky & the snowfall had slowed. "For your own sakes, you should."

Rispoli scoffed as his arrogant smirk grew back on his face. Rispoli looked over at Adalind again now who still hasn't budged. Now he was beginning to feel a little uneasy about this. "Ms. Schade?"

"Don't mind her, she just needed me." Nick interrupted.

"Really. For what?" Rispoli asked sarcastically.

"Time." Nick said shortly & Rispoli furrowed his brows at him as Nick nodded his head forward, signaling for Rispoli to look at what was going on behind him. At first, he didn't understand until all of the cracked but unbroken glass had come apart and was floating into the air. Rispoli's eyes widened and it caused all of the Varrat to turn around to face the directions he looked and they saw the numerous amounts of floating glass now as well.

"Duck!" He screamed at them as Adalind sent all the glass shooting in the direction all the Verrat stood. Some were missing and smashing into the ground, but some were piercing into some of the Verrat men. They had trouble moving out of the way of the big pieces that would be followed up by smaller pieces. Some were killed & some were wounded as the last few pieces began falling.

Rispoli turned to go attack Adalind but Nick moved faster as he made sure to tighten his hold on Diana and deliver a very violent punch to Rispoli's ear that knocked him back for a moment. Nick took the time to quickly go over to Adalind as the cries of some of the Verrat were either of pain or anger played in the background, he could tell some begin to Woge as well. "Adalind!" He exclaimed to her and it knocked her out of her trance and she let out a breath like she had been so focused she forgot to breathe. She seemed somewhat confused for a moment but locked in quickly as she realized Nick was handing her Diana back.

As soon as she grabbed ahold of her Nick heard a growl and felt a sharp searing pain in his right shoulder. He snapped around to realize Rispoli was back on his feet & just stabbed him in the back of his shoulder blade. He went for his throat but Nick caught his arm and snapped it downwards causing a bone-popping sound & Rispoli snarled at the pain as Nick headbutted him then Kicked him in his stomach to gain some distance. "Go!" He yelled towards Adalind.

She held Diana close as she waited for a second for Nick to pick up the gun before she took off. The Verrat who were still alive which appeared to be a good amount of them were all rising back up now. She ran around the side so she could head for the passenger side as Nick opened fire with the rifle so he could cause them to have to move back for cover as he ran right behind her. He managed to hit a couple of them but his goal wasn't to kill all of them, just to hold them off long enough.

Adalind got in the town car closest to the way out which was smart because they wouldn't be able to leave if she got in the one in front of it. Nick hadn't caught up yet though as he ran out of ammo and moved to quickly pull out the other and only one he had left. He bashed the butt of the gun into one of the Hundjägers that leaped at him. The others were on their way to try & maul him now along with Rispoli, rising back to his feet.

Adalind pulled out her bone key as she saw Nick getting closer. Wanting it to hurry up & and makeshift its way to fit the keyhole in the car. Her damn hands were shaking & she kept looking up in fear and panic to make sure Nick was okay but he was still fighting on as she watched him duck a strike from one Hundjäger that hit the other and gave him the time to finally shove the ammo in place of the gun so he could shoot again but he was clobbered in the face before he could up & aim.

"Nick!" She yelled.

Nick just knows that one left a bruise on his cheek but he took advantage of being hunched over & shot the same Hundjäger in his foot then bashed him in the nose with the gun. He needed the bullets for one more rapid-fire so didn't want to waste too many on one Hundjäger.

He backed up some more now towards the car Adalind was in and shot rapidly at them once again causing some to duck behind the other cars & Nick ended up shooting two more & killing them before he officially ran out but he was close enough to the car now. He threw the gun as hard as he could at Rispoli who was sprinting in his direction & Rispoli had to break stride to dodge it.

He got in the car quickly as he could and he saw Adalind looking worried about the stab wound in his shoulder, his now bleeding again hand & the bruise on his face. "Can we go?!" He asked her frantically as the Varrat were approaching in a hurry once again.

"My damn key is taking forever! There it is!" She exclaimed as it made a clicking noise & Nick turned it and the engine purred finally. He saw one Varrat was about to claw him through the now missing window. He ripped the bone key out of the ignition and stabbed the Hundjäger directly through his eyeball as soon as he came up on the car. Adalind gasped & held Diana closer at the sight of that killing.

He quickly put the key back into the ignition and begin to back up as he saw some of the Varrat pull out their guns but Rispoli yelled at them. "No! You may hit the child." He screamed. "Cars!" He yelled now and they all begin running back to enter as many as they could to chase them as Nick already spun around & was speeding off from the castle.


"GODDAMMIT" Viktor bellowed at the top of his lungs in rage as Rispoli called him and informed him of what was happening. "More will be on the way to back you up. Don't fail me, Marcus!" Viktor hissed.

Viktor put his fingers to the bridge of his nose to try his best to calm down. Taking steady breaths. His eyes then peered up to see Sean standing on the other side of the room. "Perhaps you should go help with the retrieval of your daughter." Viktor was more of telling him than suggesting.

Renard didn't say anything but walked out to do just that.


Nick knew they probably had at the most a four-minute head start because he was having to balance the lines of speeding but also not being too reckless but also not enough to draw the attention of the law. He knows they are right on their trail though because every time he looks back, they are making a turn he already had.

"What do we do now?" Adalind asked him calmer than her panicked face was showing.

"The phone, do you still have it?" He asked her but it wasn't really a question.

"Yes."

"Okay, I want you to remember this number 448-301-0896." He said to her as he made a sharp turn to the right.

"Wait why? What's going to happen." Everything was happening so fast now & she just wished it could slow down but she knows it can't, it felt like everything was becoming so much so soon very rapidly.

Nick turned to her "It's going to be how you contact Meisner & my mother." He went back to looking at the road now. Checking the rearview and seeing they were still well behind but not far.

Adalind was so confused about how that was even possible. She was about to ask but he spoke so quickly once again. "He's going to be wondering why it wasn't from the burner phone. You can tell him everything that has happened to this point." She could tell he was just as panicked as she was but he had the luxury to not only have some sort of a plan but also he was pretty level-headed as a person in general.

So his franticness was making her even more unsettled. "But how did you even meet him?! And I thought your mother was gone!"

"I don't have time to explain!" He exclaimed it but there was no attitude behind it. They were back at the hotel now & he barely even parked straight but got out of the car in a rush & so did she to follow him.

He began taking off the suit in a hurry that was way too oversized for him now. Grabbing a handful of his clothes he came with and headed to the bathroom but also signaled for her to follow. She was so lost right now it was insane.

He was already down to his boxers by the time she came in as he was shoving on his jeans quickly as possible. "Alright, I want you to go through this window." He opened up the window that was in the bathroom before he buttoned up his pants. "Go to Frau Pech's house okay? They wouldn't expect you to go there & they would still think your with me." He began shoving on a white T-shirt now.

"What?! No, I want to stay with you!" Her panic and worry flared extremely when he said that.

"You can't!" He exclaimed back to her. To her, it felt protective. "I can hold them off but I have to make sure you are safe first. We don't have a lot of time. You go now, they won't see you leaving from the back of this place." He shoved on socks quickly along with the black timberland boots he usually wears.

"I can't just leave you." She said slightly angry at the fact he was going to in a way sacrifice himself for her. She doesn't know why it made her angry though but she felt it for some reason.

"Your not leaving, you're protecting your daughter. I'm protecting you both. Now go!" He urged insistently.

Her heart felt a weird ache. "But Nick"

"Go!" He held Diana for a moment so she could step through the window then gave her back to Adalind as she gained her footing. She wanted to say something, anything to him but he already shut the window. She ran around the side to see how bad it looked and it was what she feared, Viktor sent Reinforcements to help. "Oh my god." She said to herself and that weird heartache feeling came back again. A car pulled up along with the all-black van. There were so many storming out of the vehicles already.

She felt her cheeks tremble for some reason but knows she would waste everything Nick had just done for her if she were to get caught here. She felt her eyes water and she chalked that up to the cold wind blasting her face. Had to be right?

She felt like such a coward but she turned around & began running as fast but as safe as she could with Diana to Frau Pech's house so she could call Meisner apparently.


Nick didn't have a gun and knew he needed to hurry up and change that because soon they would see Adalind wasn't in the room and start just shooting at him. He saw out the window the cars had pulled up. Holy shit that was a lot.

But he would fight till the end. He had to. He wanted to. He needed to.

He hurried up to turn off all the lights so the night and the dark could be his friend or ally as much as he could use it in this situation. He closed the curtains fully so they couldn't just see in there and open fire on him.

He looked out one more time to see how it was looking. There were already six on their way to the door. Three were Woge and the other three had their guns out.

Here they come. Nick stood on the side of the door that would cover him. He knew they were going to kick it in so he prepared for the impact it would cause on his body to absorb.

Right on cue, he heard a Hundjäger boot the door in and heard him come growling in but he didn't see Nick yet, not that it would take long for him to. Nick was waiting for the second one with the gun who wasn't Woge.

There he came & Nick grabbed his hand with his left then punched him in the cheekbone with his right, he yanked the gun out of his hand then shot at the Woge Hundjäger that came in first then quickly back elbowed the one he took the gun from & shot another one behind him around the chest.

He was going to shoot at the next four who were coming in but the same one he took the gun from grabbed his arm from the ground and punched Nick in the right knee. It may have been lucky for Nick though as his crumbling down caused him to duck a couple of bullets sent his way. He quickly yanked his arm free of the one holding it and headshot him before rolling behind the bed as quickly as he could because one of them let off rifle shots at him.

He watch as bullets plucked holes all over the wall behind him & some came dangerously close through the bed. He waited until the round stopped shooting and rose up to fire two shots of his own that killed the one shooting at him but he got mauled by a Hundjäger coming from the side. It stood over him but Nick grabbed his gun back and shot him in the stomach twice & he Woge back to his normal face as he was about to collapse. Nick was going to let him until another one came up behind that one with a gun to shoot him so Nick quickly grabbed the one he already shot and pulled him on top of him so the bullets would hit the dead Hundjäger instead of him.

Before throwing the Hundjäger off of him he shot the one who tried to just shoot him as he stop firing bullets, thinking he had killed Nick.

Nick rolled under the bed and took advantage of the viewpoint he had. Shooting at least three of them in the foot. But then the Gun made a clicking noise. "Shit!" He was out. All of a sudden he felt his ankle get grabbed and he was pulled from under the bed with two Hundjägers ready to stomp his head in.

God, why did the Verrat have to be full of Hundjägers?

He slid out of the way of one stomp and moved in the other direction to duck the other. He kicked the one on his right in the ankle & Nick knows he heard a bone-cracking sound. As that one growled in pain the other took advantage & picked Nick up by his shirt and threw him into the wall by the TV. The wall didn't break but Nick sure wished it did because that impact knocked some wind out of him.

He let out a cough but didn't have time as he had to roll over from his seated position before his throat almost got cut open by another one taking a swipe at him. He saw the cauldron from earlier and picked it up in a hurry with his left hand and swung it upwards as hard as he could to uppercut the one who threw him. The impact caused it to bite through its tongue but he wasn't dead yet.

Nick stood to finish him off by bashing him in the skull but the cauldron slipped out of his hand, he was confused for a moment and looked at it then was upset at himself for forgetting that was his reinjured hand and the blood caused it to slip.

He shouldn't have had the lapse though because he heard a gunshot and he got hit directly in the front of the shoulder, the same shoulder that was just stabbed earlier. He fell down an gripped it for a moment before seeing another gun on the floor from one of the dead.

Worry about the pain later he told himself.

He was going to stand and fire it but more shots came so he rolled into the bathroom and stood behind the wall there. He needed to regain some sort of advantage here. Bullets came through the walls but Nick waited for the round to stop once again before looking around the wall and firing off his own shots, hitting one that was reloading.

He could either shoot another Woge Wesen or the one at a further distance who was aiming at him with a gun so he chose the latter. Missing the first shot but making the second as he got him in the chest.

The Wesen came into the bathroom and it had pushed Nick against the sink and attempted to grab his throat but Nick shot him in his stomach so he wouldn't immediately die then grabbed the same arm he tried to choke him with and used it to twist him around so he could use him as a body shield.

Nick walked him back out and was glad he could finally start getting his own shots off cleanly as they were shooting at him but hitting the Wesen he was using as a body shield and Nick shot another Hundjäger in the head. Saw another one coming and shot him then shoved the now dead body he was using as a body shield into the one coming into the doorway and used his last bullet to kill him.

He saw one of the rifles on the floor & picked it up but as soon as he rose back up, he was met with three more rushing at him. One punched him in the ribs as he blocked a punch from the one coming from the side, he attempted to swing at that one next but he got hit by a running knee to the chest and he just knows that if his ribs weren't cracked they for sure were heavily bruised now.

This ended up helping him though because it knocked him back to a point where he could get some distance and he didn't hesitate as he shot all three of them with the rifle and watched them all collapse down.

Dear god, there was more. He didn't have time to complain though, he hopped back into action. Two more came & one took a wild clawing at his head as he ducked under it but dropped the gun on accident as he reached the other one and grab him by the back of his head and hurl him into the window causing it to crack but also neutralizing that one. He turned around to the one he previously ducked & shifted to the right then ducked down to dodge a combo from this Hundjäger.

He had him set up perfectly to put his own combo on him this time but Nick heard another gunshot and felt a warm, searing pain in his lower left thigh just above the knee. Maybe that was his quad. He looked down and saw he had been shot again.

Again, no time for pain.

He was lucky that the next shot missed him since he crumpled to one knee for a moment and used it as an opportunity to jab the Hundjäger as hard as he could in his testicles and it either yelled out loud in rage or pain. Who cares.

He rolled albeit a very bad one since his leg was hurt so he could be back behind the bed. He wish it was a rifle again but it was a pistol by him this time as he grabbed it. He looked up to try and shoot but had to go right back down as another one started shooting.

They weren't coming as fierce in numbers anymore so maybe their numbers were dwindling. The guy stopped shooting but Nick went up to go try and shoot him again then another one beside him started shooting at him along with another one on the way.

Nick saw one of the empty guns he used earlier & came up with an idea. He picked it up then raised his hand and shot it so they would all hear the gun-clicking noise and think he was out. It must have worked because all of a sudden they stopped firing and he heard one snicker. Then the footsteps came. Nick, looked at the actual gun he was bout to use. Full clip.

He couldn't help but smirk himself this time.

Two came around the bed and he shot them both but needed two bullets to take out one of them. He stood up limp on his bad leg but shot at the other one who was by the door and then at the next one running in. Did he have a flare gun? Nick limped over to pick it up then got kicked in his ribs from the side and Nick wasn't too stable so he was sent hard into the TV stand and it broke down, causing the TV to fall on top of his body now as well. Must have been the one he slammed against the window earlier that did it but damn that hurt.

Why couldn't it have just been a flat screen instead?

The guy pulled him from the rubble and Nick went to grab the gun beside him but the guy stepped on his already-stabbed hand and twisted his foot into it. Nick's teeth gritted in agony. He muster up the strength he had to shove him off and used his heel to bash it into his calf as he ran back at Nick and it caused him to fall forward at full momentum and his head cracked against the wall and Nick was a little disgusted at some of the blood splatter ending up on him.

It took Nick a prolonged second but he got back to his feet & two more ran in. For once it was just going to be normal two one-on-one though & he was glad. One ran in and took a wild swing at his head and Nick got low to duck it and punched him in his stomach then backhanded him as the other one Woge but Nick took advantage & delivered a measured upward punch to his lower chest but was shoved off with the push of a kick by it.

Nick was mad about that kick though and he knew it was foolish but he delivered his own damn kick right back at it, connecting with it in the chest again. The other one came up from behind him and tried to roundhouse kick him with his heel but Nick manage to dip down out of the way of that one but got spinning kicked in the face by the other.

It led him to a punch in the back of his head that sent him forward into a punch to the bridge of his nose. Then that led to a punch to his back and then another one that sent him back forward into a very wild and violent swinging punch that connected with his cheek & Nick felt the blood come spitting out of his mouth. He was grabbed from behind by the arms and he looked up to see he was being held for the other one to deliver a killing blow.

He knew he probably couldn't snap his arms away but he rammed his head back as hard as he could and his head smashed into the one who was holding him in his nose and he let him go. The other one couldn't stop its kill attempt and ended up ripping the throat of the one Nick just headbutted.

It didn't waste too much time though, it snapped around & through three punches in a row at Nick but he blocked them all as he covered up his face with his arms. He bumped into the nightstand & he thought for a moment he was in a bad position until he felt by his hand the ladle Adalind used to mix the potion earlier. He grabbed it and as the Hundjäger lunged at him he drove the ladle forward & it stabbed through his mouth and it immediately stopped making fighting grunt noises and fell silent.

Nick watched as the ladle was sticking out of his mouth & the guy was just standing there. It Woge back to the guy's normal face and fell back slowly and thudded to the ground.

Nick panicked for a moment and stared at the door thinking more were coming through but nobody entered.

He let out a very hard breath as if he was holding it for hours. He dreaded the thought but he had to make sure there weren't any more outside. He let out a tired, pained-filled sigh as he went to walk forward but winced & hissed out in pain. he looked down at his leg and shook his head, he forgot he was shot there.

His limp became even heavier and it was even more difficult with his ribs issue.

He made it to the outside of the door eventually though & he saw another car coming up. Viktor sent reinforcements...

Having to fight anymore was haunting Nick. He then remembered the flare gun that they plan on shooting in here. He moved back a little and struggled to bend over to pick it up but he managed. He limped back forward and waited for the car to stop as he aimed it.

He didn't want to miss this one. He couldn't miss this.

He aimed it at the gas tank part of the car as much as he could & fired it. He watched as the red light glimmered in the night sky and he didn't hit it spot on but he was close enough as the car exploded as the flare collided with it. Not a major explosion but an explosion nonetheless. The fire consuming it now.

Nick knew he better get out of here now though, wouldn't be long before the cops came at this point. It was odd that he hadn't heard any sirens or anything yet. Then again, maybe Viktor had whatever influence he does on the police force here causing a hold on any units getting out here as long as they could so he could get Adalind, Diana, and Nick back without dealing with the law.

Adalind

He had to get back to her. Just in case she needed more protection. Felt like it was way more than that though. Like he wanted to be around her, like a craving almost. But that for sure couldn't be it. That would be weird. He thinks.

He wasn't in the best of shape right now, but he could make it that far and let her do the rest. She probably knows something to help him at least make it a little longer. He wasn't shot fatally anywhere. He was just hurting. Everywhere. Every...where. He took a breath and limped to go grab a few things then leave.

"GRIMMMMM!" He heard being screamed in an angry shout from behind him. He snapped around to see Rispoli coming at him at a full head of steam. Nick tried to sidestep him but Rispoli was already there. He dropkicked Nick actually & Nick couldn't keep his balance in his current condition. There goes more blood.

Rispoli hopped up quickly and shoved Nick against the wall punching him in his ribs with jabs in succession. Nick tried to swing at him but Rispoli shoved it away and Nick didn't even put much effort into it. He threw Nick against the wall by the nightstand, grabbed his head, and drove him into the wall that was by the bathroom.

Punched Nick in his jaw but didn't let him fall over and punched him again then he looked Nick in his eyes with nothing but hate and rage. He was shaking even but then he grabbed Nick and hurled him over the couch & sent him flying through the cracked window and Nick felt the shards of glass cut him in some places as he rolled on the concrete full of glass.

Nick coughed but he couldn't even cough hard. It was just to cough out some more blood. His chest felt like ice was building in it but also burning with hot lava. Before he knew it, Rispoli grabbed him up and threw him back through the now-broken window. Nick thudded against the floor and crawled against the wall and Rispoli walked in and wrapped his hands around his throat as he begin to choke Nick.

A very satisfied, sick smile grew on his face. Nick put his hand on his wrist to try & pull it away but to no avail. He felt his ability to breathe slipping away & it already was difficult enough as it was.

His vision blurred slightly & he was seeing stars. Like little white lights flashing.

His mind begins taking over now. All of a sudden he wasn't there in the room anymore in his head. Like he was entering a daydream.

Everything turned white, angelic almost. He didn't feel any pain anymore. Rispoli wasn't choking him any longer. But a feeling of peace had washed over him now. He didn't see anything though, just endless white light.

He looked around. It was the same everywhere. Until he looked back forward and a woman was standing there with her back to him. Petite with this beautiful set of blonde hair. Her arms weren't by her side but in front of her like she must have been holding something.

The woman turned around slowly. Revealing her face to be Adalind Schade, holding Diana in her arms.

With this amazing smile on her face. He had never seen her smile like that ever, she looked happy and at peace. She didn't say a word at all, they just kept staring at each other.

Nick felt like he should be confused but he wasn't. It was like he was right where he should be. It was like she was right where she should be.

The light dimmed though and all of a sudden her smile left. The white light was surrounded by the hotel room he was in now & Rispoli came busting in and grabbed her. He was taking her away!

Nick began to chase after him, his rage building up.

Nick now still felt hands gripping his throat and Rispoli was giving him an odd look now as he was choking him. Like he wasn't recognizing what he was seeing. Nick didn't care though, that rage that built up in his daydream or whatever the hell it was was still present. His nose started huffing in rage and his anger added to his willpower.

"You won't take her." He strained to say through being choked and Rispoli intensified his stranglehold on his throat. Nick all of a sudden felt his mind go blank. Like he wasn't in control anymore & was blacking out.

Rispoli noticed his skin start to turn a disturbing shade of pale now. His brows furrowed as all of a sudden Nick's eyes looked like they grew more life but his skin looked like he was dying. Like he was a zombie.

What the hell? Was all Rispoli bein to think but then Nick's hand viciously shot up & grabbed Rispoli by his throat and the impact made him choke. He struggled to breathe himself now but then Nick took his hand off and delivered a punch to his throat so strong that even healthy Nick wouldn't have been able to throw that brutally.

Where Rispoli's Adam's apple should be had been shoving back into his neck and his neck snapped forward and a sickening breaking of the bones noise filled the room. Blood spilled out of his mouth but he fell to the floor as his eyes remained with that shocked look as he died.

Nick's skin started regaining its color and he looked down to see Rispoli was now dead. He furrowed his brows at that image. Did he do that? Was this another one of those times that Hank or Juliette told him about before?

It must have been.

Well, it came in the Nick of time that's for sure. He would have been a little amused by that phrase if he wasn't in the amount of pain and discomfort he was in right now. He leaned his head back against the wall.

Fatigue was setting in quite heavily as he felt his eyelids become heavy. His face was for sure covered in bruises and some he felt but some felt numb. The cold air was taking its effect as well. Causing his body to feel even weirder.

The cold combined with the eerie feeling of the warm blood leaking down his arm from being shot in the shoulder, not to mention the stab wound in the back of it. Hi left hand bleeding once again from that damn blade injury that keeps being reopened.

His head was pounding like a drum.

His leg was throbbing from being shot there. he knows it's good if you still feel the warmth and the pain but man it was hurting really bad right now. His knee was even sore on the other side. His ribs felt like they had been crushed in. If none were broken or fractured, they all had to at least be bruised and some probably were cracked slightly.

It hurt to let out any breaths that weren't small. The glass he was thrown and rolled onto combined with the concrete scraped some of his skin in a few areas. He was covered in bruising, along with gravel, dirt & crumbled wall dust.

The white shirt he had on was barely even that color anymore. It was ripped, bloody & dirty as well. His jeans were dirty and blood was leaking down from where he was shot in the leg.

There was probably all types of other random blood on him and the cold sweat he was drenched in was increased by the cold air outside. Despite all of that, he may didn't have much fight left but he knew he had more than enough to get up and go to Adalind.

Thank god there are a few options for cars outside as well. He just needed a few more seconds to get his bearings for one more push of himself. Still no sirens he noticed. Viktor and the Royals had too much damn control of Vienna. No wonder why it is so hard to accomplish anything here if you were a part of the resistance.

He closed his eyes once more to take the last couple of seconds for a break. Letting his breathing even out but not too much, he probably was going to need that adrenaline still going despite how much he felt he had left.

As he sat there, he heard glass being stepped on outside. Slowly. He could hear it crunch even louder as it got closer. Damn, looks like he may not make it after all then he begins thinking. No gun was near him and he didn't have enough left to fight anymore. Not that he wouldn't try but he doesn't have much left to give.

The person is in the doorway now & Nick allows his eyes to open now.

Of course, it's him.

Renard was standing in the doorway. Gun in hand.


An: Sorry that was a longggggg one haha. I'm not the best at writing action scenes but I gave it a go, it'll be toned down more moving along in this story but I felt it was necessary considering the circumstances I put them in hehe. Probably have to rate this an (M) now too.

Firstly though, shoutout to Helga Happy belated birthday! Glad I dropped a chapter on that day for sure now. Did you enjoy your birthday though?!

GrimmFan, Moon cat, Helga I always love the reviews from you three a lot because you dive deep into trying to understand Nick & Adalind's thought processes and their feelings on situations and towards each other in every chapter even if it's not much between them in some chapters. Same for other characters as well like Juliette!

ReaderNotAWriter85 I'm glad you always enjoy the chapter uploads, love that you always love them haha:) Hope I can keep up the quality for you.

sakura is a bitch I'll make sure I update it as much and quickly as I can always! Glad you are enjoying it.

smoak999 Your welcome! Possible two or three chapters may be on the way hehe!

Rix1998 You called the zombie Nick out before I even wrote it because that was always the plan! Definitely had to do it! Hope you enjoyed it too even though it wasn't much.

Thank you to everybody who does review & especially you all who review most chapters I post! Honorable mentions to melissamary55 and Popeye220 as well!

PS: Sorry that I have been spelling "Verrat" correctly sometimes and then misspelling it other times. I didn't notice until recently and I'll fix it all one day.