Nick and Adalind's weird crossover Summer Vacation

Chapter two

Over the river and through the woods

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They finally made it out of California and were heading out across the plains towards Iowa. Nick was grateful for having a giant thermos of coffee as they drove.

Nick was telling Adalind about the latest case he was working on at the FBI. Afterwards she was telling him about the briefings she was preparing for oral arguments in the Oregon Supreme Court. He sighed thinking about it. It hadn't been powerful enemies or the forces of evil - it had been him taking good job at the FBI and his wife making full managing partner at Berman. She had nearly 75 lawyers and clerks working for her. He had a team of twelve forensics and junior detectives working for him along with dozens of resources in police departments all over Oregon.

Time together is what made their marriage work and they hadn't had dinner together once in over a month. The house was about to be empty for the first time in seventeen years and he wasn't looking forward to it.

Finally they crossed the Missouri river into Iowa. Adalind was smiling looking out over the country as she remembered the place. She had grown up out here and the place looked largely the same. Adalind was excited. She hadn't been out here since she was in college.

Nick was worried. Every single one of Adalind's "Grandma Schade" stories were trainwrecks about how she was so old fashioned, ultra concerned about blood purity, and always hated all her boyfriends. She was two hundred eighty something this year and had never met Nick or the kids.

He pressed Adalind several times whether she had told Grandma about the family and only got a lot of vagueness and changing the subject. He was pretty sure he knew what that meant and was really in no mood to fight with her grandmother. He knew it was going to be bad when they arrived and Adalind made Diana and him wait in the car while she went to the door.

Grandma Schade had been happy to see Adalind at first. Adalind had no more than walked in the door when Grandma sensed the Grimm blood in Adalind and started screaming insults at her about being contaminated by a Grimm.

Nick knew it was going badly when he saw the entire contents of Grandma's living room blast out the front door into the yard followed immediately by Adalind running out crying.

She was sitting on the porch crying and yelling back into the house about her husband and daughter but Grandma wouldn't hear any of it. Nick opened the car door and heard Grandma cursing her for mixing blood with a Grimm.

Nick came up to comfort Adalind who is still crying. As soon as he walked up on the porch, the doors and windows all slam and all the curtains slide shut. All he can hear over his wife's crying is Grandma screaming at him about contaminating her grand daughter and yelling at both of them for cursing her family's blood line forever.

Nick sees all the house stuff that blasted out the windows lift up and start flying at them including all the pics of their kids Adalind had mailed her Grandmother. He grabs A couch cushion and covers himself and his wife as a flurry of things pelt it. All he can hear is the witch inside the house grinding bony teeth and screaming about a Grimm contaminating her blood forever.

Adalind starts yelling back that this is her husband and that HER great-grand daughter is in the car.

All she hears back is "I have no granddaughter or great-grandchildren!" Adalind picked up their wedding picture that is curling up and smoldering on the ground. She sees the other pics of the kids curling and smoldering out in the yard. She is crying as her wedding picture turns to ash in her hands.

Nick helps Adalind up and tries to comfort her. They slowly pull away in the big SUV with Adalind crying and looking out the window.

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Now they were heading east to pick up the kids.

Next stop was New Orleans to pick up Catherine at Mom's place. Nick grumbled to himself because Adalind was already in a bad mood and his Mom always made that worse.

Mom was always standoffish around Adalind. As usual, she wanted to argue and fight with Adalind.

At first he thought it was Hexenbiests - but Mom absolutely loved Diana and Catherine even after they grew older and got their powers. Mom was also good friends with Elizabeth Lascelles and seemed to be fine around all her old witch friends. The two had known eachother nearly fourty years though Elizabeth knew her as Elena. They had become friends years ago in Romania when Elizabeth was on the run.

Nick had finally realized that Mom just could never get over the hatred she had towards Adalind for hunting her like an animal in the other world through the mirror. Adalind had killed Aunt Marie, Juliette, and Nick, and she had caused Sean Renard to murder Diana.

Nick grumbled to himself - most of his problems with Adalind stemmed from his mom being disagreeable and causing problems. It didn't help that all the kids called his mom "Mom". Diana refused to call her anything else and it had stuck. He always sided with Adalind because he knew his mom was the problem, but it was still stressful to his wife.

Now Catherine was fourteen and seemed to be getting strange and very "witchy". He knew this was coming from his mother as well. Years on the run as an assassin had made her extremely cold and results oriented. He was certain she was teaching Catherine how to dance and how to use her powers to manipulate men. Mom had spent years moving around on the run and that meant extremely limited career prospects. Elizabeth had confided in him that "Elena" had been a stripper for years in Europe. As a son he hoped his mother was teaching his daughter differently, the police officer in him knew the truth.

While he loved his mother - he dearly wished Diana had brought Aunt Marie back and left Mom wherever she had been. Now every time they took Catherine away from his mother - she would run away and track "Mom" down. Luckily Catherine was a "Straight A" student and would certainly go to college.