This is a series of Grimm based one shots.

I welcome your feedback, suggestions, and ideas.

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No shop talk on vacation!

Grimm humor/adventure

Characters: Theresa Rubel, Diego Sandoval

Timeline: Sometime between the end of Season 3 and the end of Season 4.

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"Hey! Pretty lady! Fresh coconut water on a hot day!" The street vendor calls out at Trubel. She's on vacation in Trinidad with her boyfriend Diego Sandoval, a Grimm from Portugal.

She looks over at his cart as she is walking by. Another customer has just come over and handed him some money. *Clink* he whacks the end off a coconut in one swing with his machete. She stops and watches. *Clink* another coconut is chopped clean in half and he dumps the coconut water into a milk jug. A few minutes later he has chopped through a dozen more coconuts and filled the jug. Trubel now has a goofy grin running clear across her face.

Diego sees the look "Come on! We're on vacation. No more machetes!"

Trubel ignores her boyfriend "How much?"

Diego rolls his eyes. He already knows their entire day is now shot. Trubel has a thing for machetes and this fellow is chopping coconuts like they are carrots.

"One dollar a coconut." He answers with a smile

"Can I cut them?" She asks with a smirk

"You'll cut your hand off." He answers

She slaps a dollar on his cart with a sly grin "I'm cutting it."

He smirks

She holds the coconut and *clink* the machete whacks right through it. Her face lights up with giant goofy smile from ear to ear. "I want to do another one" and she lays another dollar down. The man smiles and hands her a coconut *Clink!*.

Diego rolls his eyes again "Honey? You coming?"

But it's too late. Her face is beaming and she looks at the machete lovingly. It's just a cheap common hardware store unit. She's got a dozen of these specific machetes at the house but they never cut right even when she sharpens them razor sharp. Somehow this one cuts like a light saber. She looks it over closely and realizes he's reground it. "How many coconuts do you cut before you resharpen it?"

He smiles "4 maybe 5 hundred."

Her eyes twinkle hearing that.

"I want to try mine" and she hands him another dollar.

Diego rolls his eyes again "Seriously? We're on vacation!"

She pulls her machete out and *thunk* it gets stuck in the coconut maybe 20% of the way through. The man is surprised she had a machete on her back but he is now chuckling at her as she wrestles with her machete. It's solidly stuck in the coconut. She's now banging the coconut on his cart trying to knock her machete loose while he laughs. Finally she bangs it loose and then takes another mighty swing. *Thunk* and it's stuck again.

She smirks "Hey, I'll give you 50-bucks if you will show me how you sharpen that machete!"

He hems and haws going round and round. He really doesn't want to fool with her.

She ups the ante "Ok, $100."

He smiles "meet me here at the end of the day. We'll go back to my shop and I'll show you. Go buy one of these at the store. Make sure the blade is good and straight."

Diego rolls his eyes. Now, not only is his day shot, but the whole evening is as well. Instead of seeing the sights, going out to the beach, drinking rum and coconut water, or snorkeling the reefs, his girlfriend is now totally obsessed with the guy's machete and how well it cuts. That means instead of dinner and dancing in the clubs afterwards - they'll be out head chopping all night long. She is now dragging Diego all over Trinidad to find a $10 hardware store machete.

After wasting most of the afternoon chasing all over the island, Trubel buys a machete and heads back to Coconut Tony's cart. The man sees her and laughs. "I didn't think you were coming back."

Her eyes are sparkling thinking about machete fun tonight.

Diego rolls his eyes "She's got a thing for Machetes."