Adalind opened the door to the sight of her oldest child crying and the child's father looking confused.

"Dad is mean!" Diana shouted, then ran upstairs.

Given the fact that she was supposed to be staying with Sean that night, something very big must have happened for Diana to become upset with her father and force him to return her to her mother.

"What did you do?" Adalind asked, her eyebrow raised and her arms crossed.

"I didn't know it would be that big of a deal!" Sean tried to defend himself.

To no one's surprise, Adalind looked as if she didn't believe him and had no intention of showing sympathy.

"I found a locket in Diana's things. I opened it and saw a picture of a boy who looked a couple of years older than she looks. I thought it was a photo that came with the locket, so I threw out the picture and suggested to her that we should put a picture of her and I together in it. She got upset, asked me what I did with the picture, then dug through the trash and got it back out. She told me it was a picture of Nick when he was a little boy and that the locket was the only thing she had left of her mamma Kelly. I thought it was costume jewelry she had bought with the allowance I give her! She actually accused me of trying to keep her from being apart of Nick's family."

"You did try to turn her against Nick. She told me." Adalind pointed out. "So you can't blame her for thinking you were being spiteful by throwing out his picture."

"I learned my lesson. There is nothing I can say or do that will make Diana hate Nick. Right now, I've somehow managed to turn her against me."

"Well, I'm sure Nick will fix it. He's gotten really good at cleaning up your messes."

Adalind slammed the door on Sean's face. Her behavior might have been juvenile, but she felt Sean more than deserved it.

She made her way upstairs and to her Diana's room. There she saw her husband and daughter were sitting. Nick had his arm around Diana and was holding her tight, comforting her, assuring her that she would always be a part of his family and that his mother would understand that mistakes happen.

"Why did dad throw the picture away!? Why is he always trying to make you go away!?" Diana shouted, her eyes filled with tears. "I was able to hide it from everybody! I took care of it. Kept it with me always. I wouldn't let anybody see it so they couldn't take it away from me. I thought I could trust dad! But he,,,," The little girl broke off, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Adults make mistakes." Nick said softly, soothingly. "I know hurting you was the last thing your father wanted to do. Now that he knows what that locket and picture mean to you, he won't make that same mistake again."

"He keeps trying to get rid of you!" Diana said forcefully. "Even though you saved my life, he keeps trying to take you out of it!"

"Your dad is a little broken. He doesn't fully understand that he is upsetting you." Nick tried to comfort the girl.

Not wanting to commit the same mistakes as Renard, he did his best to mend the fracture Sean made between his daughter and himself.

"He said he wanted to replace your picture with a picture of himself. But mama Kelly would have never had a picture of him in her locket."

"You're right. She wouldn't have a picture of your dad. But she would have a picture of her grandchildren." Nick said as a thought came to his mind. "So if you would like to place a new picture in the locket, we could get one of you and Kelly. And place it in there next to my old one?"

"But your picture is ruined?" Diana reminded him, tears welling up in her eyes again.

"It just got a little scratched and dirty. It can be fixed. Your aunt Rosalee knows someone you could easily repair it."

The little girl smiled brightly and threw her arms around Nick in a tight embrace.

Adalind smiled warmly and gazed at the two lovingly.

Later that night, when their children were sleeping in bed, Adalind showed her gratitude to Nick in their own bed for being such a thoughtful and considerate father to Diana.

Rosalee's friend was able to repair the picture, and Nick, ever the diplomatic grimm, got Diana a charm bracelet where she could have several lockets. Each charm containing a picture of an adult loved one.

Adalind couldn't help feeling a bit of smug pride toward her man, especially when Sean all so obviously was irritated with how easily Nick handled the situation and had to begrudgingly thank him for coming up with the idea of the multiple lockets charm bracelet.

"Like I said." Adalind told Sean when their daughter was out of ear shot. "Nick has become very good at cleaning up your messes."