It was inevitable that Hank and Wu should find out about the wesen world.
Everyone knew that the two men needed to know. Especially since they were dating wesen.
When the group got together, it was sometimes difficult to carry on a conversation. Everyone feared letting a detail slip that would only apply to someone who was wesen.
A plan had been made.
The idea was to have the more pleasant and less dangerous looking wesen woge in front of the men.
Rosalee and Felicia had forms closely resembling animals. Rosalee like a fox. Felicia like a leopard. Caroline looked like some sort of fairy tale elf being, her skin sparkling a light pink color.
The group planned to have the big reveal when Nick and Adalind moved into their new home and would be hosting a little dinner party for their close friends.
Unfortunately, some very bad wesen decided to cause a scene at the same restaurant where the gang was having another group date. A 24 hour diner that boasted the best pie in Portland.
It was late. Or, technically, early morning, around two in the morning. Nick, Hank and Wu had just wrapped up a case that they had been working around the clock on non stop for several days.
The case involved sex trafficking. Nick had not told Hank and Wu about the wesen aspects of the case. About how certain perverts would pay extra money for a specific age and type of wesen.
But everyone had breathed a huge sigh of relief when Nick called Adalind that they had caught the people responsible and those that had been taken were reunited with their families.
To help the men wind down after such a grueling case, their friends had insisted on treating them to a favorite diner of theirs, and enjoy a slice of pie, a la mode.
Which is how they found themselves at the diner at the same time four drunk men came stumbling into the place.
Nick had been the one to catch sight of the troublemakers first. Every instinct told him they were in the mood for a fight.
Sure enough, just a few minutes after Nick spotted them, their table was flipped over and one of the men was yelling at a waitress, who looked to be in her late teens and was so frightened she woged.
"Eisbiber." Adalind said softly in Nick's ear. "They're hard working wesen but are mostly very passive. Most likely to run from a dangerous situation."
Nick rushed over to protect the girl. The poor waitress was frozen in fear. Nick grabbed her shoulders and pushed her away from the scene, hoping her legs would get the hint and get her to safety.
When Nick turned back toward the men, he saw that each had pulled out a knife. Adding to the fact that the stench of alcohol was heavy around them and the grimm knew there was zero chance of calming the men down with just talking.
And then they woged.
"Grimm." One snarled angrily, lunging for Nick, with the clear intent to cause harm.
His three friends followed his lead.
Nick's friends were already there. All five wesen woged. Adalind used her powers to pull the large knives out of the bad wesen's hands. Nick grabbed the arm of the one closest to him and used his own momentum against him, causing him to slam onto the floor.
Monroe, Rosalee and Felicia had each taken on a troublemaker.
Flying chairs, courtesy of hexenbiest magic, knocked the men to the ground.
Hank and Wu, though very shocked at what they were seeing, were still well trained officers and tied the men up as soon as they were on the ground.
The incident was called in and the trouble making wesen were hauled away.
When the scene had been cleared, Wu was the first to demand an explanation by saying, "What the hell!"
The young waitress, whose name was Ashley and said she was working nights at the diner while going to school during the day, poured the group coffee while Hank and Wu were told about wesen.
Felicia and Caroline woged again so Hank and Wu could fully grasp who they were dating.
The others also woged again when requested to do so. Of course, Monroe's and Adalind's forms were the most startling for the human men.
"But we're still the same people." Monroe assured. "We have these forms you normally can't see, but that doesn't change that we are still your friends."
To the relief of the rest of the group, Hank and Wu seemed to be understanding everything and dealing with it fairly well.
Than Wu looked at Nick. "Do you woge?"
Nick chuckled. "No. I'm not wesen. I'm what they call a grimm. I sort of inherited this ability to see wesen even when they're not fully woged."
"Nick can only see our other side if we're in some state of heightened emotion." Monroe said.
"It's not just the sight though." Adalind explained. "Nick is also stronger and faster than humans. He has more stamina. And I am sure there are even more unique things we haven't discovered yet."
"Did you each know what the other was before you started dating?" Hank asked.
"I knew Adalind was different the moment I laid eyes on her." Nick grinned. "She's the first wesen I saw woge."
"That's why you got that weird look on your face!" Hank said in realization.
"Nick and Adalind are an inspiration to us all." Caroline said. "Wesen legends claim that grimms and beisters should be mortal enemies. And yet I've never seen two people happier or more into one another."
"They're different but they make their relationship work." Monroe said while looking affectionately at Rosalee.
"I just have two more questions." Wu said. "One, if Nick doesn't woge, why did those guys call him a grimm? And two, what kind of wesen were those guys?"
"Apparently, when a wesen woges, my eyes become completely black and wesen can see themselves reflected." Adalind had already explained to Nick what wesen saw when they woge in front of him.
"To be fair, it's a lot creepier than how Nick is explaining it." Monroe defended. "It's not just like looking into a black mirror. It's like seeing yourself surrounded by an abyss."
Before Monroe could get started on a tirate for why grimms were the scariest being in existence, Adalind thought it best to answer Wu's second question.
"Those wesen we fought were hundjager."
"What are hundjager doing in Portland? I thought most of them were lap dogs for the royals and the verrat." Felicia said.
"Verrat?" Hank asked.
"Wesen who are supposed to be keeping order in the wesen community but are more like mercenaries. Killing anyone who they think is a threat to their power or the power of the royals." Felicia explained.
For the first time in her life, Adalind felt terror clench at her heart. If the royals or the verrat were sending people to Portland, that meant there was a good chance they were after Nick.
Adalind realized the time had come for her to tell Nick the whole story of why she had turned her back on Sean Renard.
Nick, Hank and Wu each had 48 hours of personal time.
Each man had decided to spend his forty eight with his girlfriend.
Hank and Wu wanted to get to know their girlfriends' wesen sides. Neither one was going to allow the newly discovered differences to interfere with the potential of a wonderful relationship.
After taking most of the first day to catch up on sleep and making love, Adalind made a lovely dinner and told Nick what she had been too embarrassed to reveal before.
"Nick, there's something I need to tell you. It's about my mother." Adalind took a deep breath. "One of the reasons I turned my back on Sean Renard was that I discovered he was sleeping with my mother." She could see Nick's jaw drop open in shock and she rushed to continue, afraid if she stopped she wouldn't be able to get it all out. "I found some messages they had been sending to one another. My mother told Sean to seduce me. She knew that if I was in love with him, I would do anything for him."
Unbidden, her tears began to flow. Nick got up from his chair and pulled her into his arms. He guided them to the couch, where he held her tight.
"Why didn't you tell me this before?"
"I was ashamed. I was embarrassed. I couldn't bring myself to say out loud that the man I had loved and trusted and the woman who gave birth to me were having an affair. It made me feel sick to my stomach to even think about my lover being with my mother."
Nick felt his hatred for Renard grow. And felt that same hatred forming for Catherine.
The fact that any woman could betray her own daughter like that was disgusting.
Then Nick remembered Catherine's behavior toward him. Looking at her behavior with new understanding, Nick realized Adalind's mother had been trying to pull that same repulsive stunt again.
Interrupting his thoughts, Adalind continued, "Sean Renard is a half beister half royal. A bastard who will never be recognized but that doesn't stop him from trying. Both he and my mother are obsessed with having power. Having control of a grimm would certainly give them an advantage. I'm terrified that their quest for power will put you in danger. I love you Nick. I can't bear the thought of something happening to you."
"I promise to be careful." Nick said to comfort her. "And I'll let the others know about the potential danger."
"With the chance that either the verrat or the royals are coming into Portland. They could suspect Sean of becoming too much of a threat. Or they could think your the biggest threat to their power. I'm scared that Sean or my mother will try to use you to protect themselves."
"We won't make that easy for them."
"I'll feel better once we get our own home. I'll be able to set up spells and charms to keep out any threat with property that I and the man I love own."
"Maybe we should look through my ancestors' journals and your hexenbiest books, try to find out what threats we could be vulnerable too and how to guard ourselves from them." Nick advised.
" And while we're looking for a house, maybe we should look for a safer spot for the trailer." Adalind suggested. "And the property it is on should be in a name not connected to either one of us."
"Have I ever told you that you are incredibly sexy when you're being clever and cunning?"
Adalind rolled her eyes. But secretly loved hearing Nick's compliments.
"You think everything I do is sexy."
"Because you are the sexiest most beautiful woman in existence and I love everything about you." Nick said with a grin.
They decided to wait until the next morning to tell their friends about the new plan and the research that had to be done.
They had much more pleasant things to do that night.