Nick and Adalind's weird crossover summer vacation

Chapter three

Going batty

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Nick was stopping off to visit some old friends he had made when he was on the run with Aunt Marie.

First was Bruce Wayne in Gotham. Aunt Marie and Nick stayed with him for a few years.. Bruce is a Grimm, but he's the Vigilante type.

Bruce smiles a big smile when the four of them walk into Wayne Manor "Nicky! It's so good to see you! I can't believe it's been what - 27 years? I'm glad to hear you finally Grimmed! It was about time."

"Brucie! I'm so glad to see you! It's been too long! Hey, I bet you have never met my wife and kids. This is my wife Adalind and my two daughters Diana and Catherine. We are on the way to pick up my two sons. You know, one last summer fling before Diana goes off to college."

Bruce smiles a big smile at his old friend. "Nicky! Four kids! How is that possible? Your Aunt Marie was totally against having kids. And what - you started over with a new wife or something! Wow, she's a looker! I'm proud of you Nicky!"

"Bruce, no, we've been married for sixteen years now. We have four kids."

"You gotta be pulling my leg! She can't be a day over twenty five! She looks like your daughters' sister. She could be your daughter! Wow! I swear your younger daughter looks exactly like your mom, though."

Nick smiles "Nope, she's three months younger than me. She just looks young. Would you believe she's a senior managing partner at her law firm?"

Bruce is amazed. "A lawyer too! You sure got the better end of that deal didn't you. Hey, I was so sorry to hear about your mom."

Nick smiles "Thanks, but Mom is fine. She lives in New Orleans."

Bruce is confused "Huh? Your mom got her head chopped off. You were the one who told me."

Nick wrinkles his brow "It's sort of a complicated explanation but Mom is fine. Catherine here has been living with her for the past three years now. Here, look at some pix." and shows Bruce his phone.

Bruce looks at the pix " Wow, she really is too cussed to die - that's what your aunt always said wasn't it? She's one tough old broad, I never figured anybody would get the jump on her. Glad to hear she's ok. So is your Aunt Marie still alive too then?"

Nick wrinkles his forehead and sighs "No. She's still dead." Truth was he wished Mom had stayed dead and Aunt Marie had come back. She had been his mom and he loved her so much for so many years. She never been the constant source of chaos and trouble in his life that his Mom had. Adalind had her hand on his back. She knew he was thinking about Marie and how much he missed her.

Bruce turns to Catherine "Wow, I swear you look exactly like your Grandmother. So, has your grandma been working with you on your knife work? Nick, If I know your Mom, this one's got half a dozen knives on her right now."

She smiles politely "Mom's been working with me on my knife work for 10 years now."

Bruce smirks "Nick? Did you marry a Grimm? They don't usually, you know, age so well."

Catherine smiles "Not my Mom here, Mom, um, Dad's mom."

Nick smiles "The kids all call her Mom. She raised Diana here as a baby and it just stuck. Adalind hates it, but we could never get them to call her anything else."

Bruce smiles "So, have they Grimmed yet?"

Nick smiles. He's not going to dodge it. "The girls won't Grimm. They are Hexenbiests like their Mom. The boys are Grimms but haven't Grimmed yet."

"A Hexenbiest?" Bruce jumps backwards and instantly whips a bat shaped throwing star at Adalind but it swerves around her head and sticks into the wall. She crosses her arms with a stern look.

"Come on Bruce! She's my WIFE!" Nick is aggravated. He knows his wife is being good but one more star and the witch will come out.

Bruce is backpedaling and has already thrown two more bat stars. They both swerve around Catherine's head and stick into the wall. Now Catherine scowls.

"Come on, seriously Bruce? We're really going to do this now in your house? You don't want to do this with me and three Hexenbiests!" Nick has his arms crossed with an angry look.

Bruce had already flicked out a fourth Bat-star at Diana and this time it swerves completely around her head and shoots straight back at him. Bruce goes diving out of the way and it chases him behind the furniture and slams deep into a desk leg one eighth inch from his eye.

"Diana" Nick says sternly "Remember we are guests in his house."

*grumble* "Yes sir."

Nick knows his daughters "Bruce! She won't miss next time."

Bruce already has a knife in his hand, but so does Catherine.

"Bruce, you seriously want to play slicey-dicey with the half-Grimm Hexenbiest my Mom knife trained?" Nick smirks.

Now a smirk crosses Bruce's face and he changes his posture.

"Catherine." Nick says sternly and holds out his hand.

*Grumble* "ok, fine." And she puts the knife into his hand.

What Nick said finally sinks in with Bruce "That's impossible! Grimms and Hexenbiests poison eachother. Everybody knows they can't have kids!"

Nick is firm "Come on Bruce. These are my wife and daughters right here! I have two sons who are half-Hexenbiest Grimms."

Now Bruce smirks again. "Hey Catherine, how about I show you some knife moves?"

She looks at Dad. He smiles "It's Ok if you want to honey." She smiles a big smile as they all head towards a big gym room with judo pads on the floor and walls. They start practicing with rubber knives. Bruce has the advantage of a LOT more training and experience but Catherine keeps slamming the point of the rubber knives into his neck every time he lunges at her. "How are you doing that? That's exactly the same thing your Grandma always did to me! I could never figure out how she did it." She just smiles. "Mom" had drilled it endlessly until it was pure instinct.

"Diana? You want to roll a bit too?" he smirks

"Nah, I'm OK." she smiles politely.
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Now things are starting to calm down. Diana asks if she can have some lunch and go to the basement.

Bruce calls Alfred. "Alfred, can you get the girls some lunch and take them to the basement."

"What do you want for lunch Master Wayne?" Alfred asks

"I don't care Alfred, just get them whatever they want" Bruce smirks

"Uh, You really don't want to say that. I mean I love my daughters and all, but they're still Hexenbiests." Nick has been around the block with them a few times. He's got a feeling Diana is up to something.

Bruce smirks "Nah, it's fine Nick. Alfred, just do whatever they want."

Nick smiles "So, Bruce, you fell completely off the face of the earth. Where did you end up going?"

Bruce snickers and thinks back to his training and world travels "Meh, you know, here and there. I had to clear my head."

They spend some time talking about what has happened in the years that have passed.

An hour later elevator door opens and hundreds of bats pour out revealing Diana and Catherine both smiling ear to ear and an exasperated Alfred looking very concerned. Diana smiles and says "Hey, I like your bats!."

Nick and Bruce stop and are now staring at Diana and Catherine feeding bits of bananas and peanut butter to hundreds and hundreds of bats as they flap and zoom all over the place.

Bruce face palms and grumbles "See! This is why I don't have kids!"

"Alfred?" Bruce calls out. "Bats!?"

"Master Wayne" old Alfred responds dryly "You specifically told me 'Do whatever she wants.' You made it very clear. You were the one who told me to get the bananas she asked for and take them to the basement!"

Nick snickers. He had specifically told Bruce *NOT* to let Diana get bananas and peanut butter and take them downstairs. This was not the first time Diana had filled a house with bats. The first lesson with Diana is *NEVER* let her just do whatever she wants! She is just so incredibly tricky. You never know what she is coming up with. It's nearly impossible to get out in front of her.

"Alfred!"

"Yes, Master Wayne."

"Get these bats out of here!"

"Sir?" Alfred points to the two girls. Catherine was now talking to the bats and throwing bits of banana up in the air for them to catch. Diana was catching them on her fingers, naming them, and teaching them to do tricks for bananas. The girls were laughing as the bats licked peanut butter off their fingers.

Bruce and Nick have a talk about family. Yes - it's unconventional but Nick has a family he loves. This isn't the world of 100 years ago when Grimms killed Wesen just to kill them.

Bruce is still surprised "But she's a Hexenbiest! Your wife is a WITCH!"

This is his wife. He doesn't have to explain Wesen to her, lie about them not existing, constantly rescuing her from a world she can't see. She is a part of the world just like he is. She knows the truth and so do the kids. And guess what else? Nobody wants any part of going at it with an angry Hexenbiest. It's pretty nice not having to deal with the endless headache of Wesen constantly trying to harass or murder *her* to get to him. That's all but gone.

Nick smiles "You know I haven't had nightmares in years? Wouldn't you maybe like to sleep one night without endless nightmares?"

Nick continues "Bruce, you can do whatever you want, but I inherited 19 trunks of Grimm stuff and I've already ended up with two more. That's twenty Grimm families who left no kids. And when you die - it'll be twenty one. You won't have anybody to leave this to. Bruce, We gotta have kids and bring Grimms into the world."

Bruce simply waves him off. "Bring kids into this? Are you serious? They try to kill me every week! Why would I want to bring kids into this? It's every single week!"

Nick is insistent "Yes we bring kids into this! Just like our parents and grandparents did! Do you think Wesen didn't go after them? Do you think they didn't have to fight? This is the world we are a part of. It will exist with us or without us - like it or not."

Bruce scowls "No, Nick, I just can't! I won't bring kids into this curse!"

Nick pats his old friend on the shoulder "Then the bad ones have already won. Have somebody send your Grimm books on over when they finally kill you, because they'll never stop coming."

They both look over at Diana and Catherine who are laughing and still feeding bits of bananas to the hundreds of bats. The bats are now following them around like weird creepy flappy little puppy dogs.

Afterwards Nick is now getting extra close to Adalind. He's thinking about how things would have ended up the way they had been with Juliette. They did nothing but fight there at the end. She made no bones about resenting the existence of the entire Grimm and Wesen world.

Sure Adalind and him had their rough times but he was always thankful for her.