Before they started their investigation of the magic stick, Nick and Adalind decided to notify Renard that Diana had been returned.

Adalind wasn't happy about Sean getting anywhere near her daughter, but Nick advised her that it would be better to tell him right away, before he heard from some other source that a little blonde child was seen in Adalind's company while she was running errands.

So after hiding the chest containing the stick in the tunnels, they call Sean and asked if he would meet them at Monroe and Rosalee's home.

The blutbad and fuchsbau offering to host the father daughter reunion, as a form of neutral and friendly territory.

It was agreed by all involved to not tell Renard about the stick. All that he was informed about was that Nick had called in a favor to the wesen council and Diana had been found and given back.

Monroe commented on the wisdom of withholding information by saying, "The guy tends to take the easy way out. He doesn't want to appear as week so he hides a lot of important information. What to keep him from trying to gain favor with the royals by giving them that weird stick?"

No one had argued his point.

Sean arrived at the time requested and was ushered to the couch.

Adalind looked to Nick to take the lead, so he began.

"I called in a favor to the wesen council. They came through with what I asked. That's why I was gone. And the reason Adalind went with me. I asked the council to find Diana. They did."

On hearing those words, Sean sat up strater and looked around.

Rosalee and Monroe, who had been waiting and listening with the little girl in the kitchen, came out on their cue.

Diana ran to Sean and the extremely tall man picked her up and held her tight.

Everyone looked on as the always put together half royal was near trembling with emotion.

Renard sat down with his daughter in his lap, unwilling to let her go.

Nick decided to tell Sean just how special the little girl was.

"She is really powerful. She can move things with her mind already. Just like Adalind. But she can also see wesen, even when they aren't woged. She is extremely powerful, but I haven't seen her woge. The only thing that changes about her is that her eyes glow violet."

Diana beamed up at her father proudly. "Uncle Monroe said I was a prodigy."

"Uncle Monroe?" Sean questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"Monroe and Rosalee are like family. Diana is with us now, so they will be like family to her." Adalind spoke defensively.

Sensing that a conversation needed to take place before his hexenbiest exploded, Nick suggested, "Diana, why don't you have uncle Monroe show you all of the really cool clocks he has upstairs? They make all kinds of different noises."

The little girl jumped off her father's lap and headed upstairs with the blutbad.

"I take it Adalind has something she wants to say?" Sean made the mistake of speaking with annoyance, setting off an already angry hexenbiest.

"I don't trust you, Sean! What's to keep you from taking my daughter from me again!"

"Our daughter." Sean attempts to defend.

"I gave birth to her!" Adalind shouts angrily. "You stole her from me and sent her away! As far as I'm concerned. You gave up your rights as a father!"

Sean looked to Nick, as if hoping for the other man to help. "I said it too many times already, I was trying to protect Diana. Nick, you know this. You agreed to help."

"I'm sorry sir." Nick said to Renard. "But I have to back Adalind up on this. At the time, I believed you and my mother. I thought Diana would be safest with her. But that decision set off a chain of events that turned my entire life upside down. First I lost my powers. Then I lost Juliette. Then I lost my mother. You'll have to excuse me if I have serious doubts about your wisdom. Your decision came at a great cost to me. I had doubts about Adalind's ability to be a mother, but I don't have any of those doubts anymore. And frankly, now that I'm a father, I really can't understand how you could give up your child without a fight? I would kill anyone who tried to take my son from me. So if your looking for my help, you need to look somewhere else."

Renard sighed, realizing he was in a losing battle. "What can I do to be able to spend time with our daughter?" He said, deciding to say our instead of mine, not wanting to irritate Adalind further.

"I want to perform a trust me knot." Adalind stated. "That way, if either one of us is involved in any way shape or form of trying to take Diana away from the other, that person will face deadly consequences."

Rosalee brought out the rope and handed one end to Renard and the other end to Nick and Adalind.

Sean raised his brow at seeing the united front the two former enemies were presenting.

"I never realized the two of you would fall in love with one another." Sean commented.

"And I won't be making the same mistakes you did." Nick replied. "Now that I know what it's like to be loved by her, I am seriously doubting your sanity."

Sean chose not to reply, fearing what else the younger man might say.

Adalind's irritation had calmed and she was now standing smug and proud at the words expressed by the man she adored.

They went through with the ritual of the trust me knot, each vowing to never attempt to take Diana away from the other. Whether or not by physical force or conspiracy.

The rope turned itself into a noose and the spell was in place.

Adalind was assured that if Sean tried to conspire to seal her daughter again, he will be choked on the spot.

With that knowledge came relief, and she felt she could discuss how they would parent their remarkable child.

"For now, I'm willing to alternate nights on who Diana spends time with." Adalind said. "One night with Nick and me, the other night with you."

"That's fair." Sean agreed. "But if there are several nights in a row, where I can't have her do to meetings, I would like the chance to make up that time."

Adalind sighed, calming herself, she didn't like the idea of her daughter being away from her for several nights in a row, but knew she would have to learn to compromise. "That's fair." She said with reluctance. Then decided to offer another olive branch by saying, "If we plan any group activities for fun, like cookouts, picnics or carnivals, we will invite you."

Sean smiled and nodded. "Thank you. That will mean a lot to me."

Any love she had ever felt for the man was long gone, but for their daughter's sake, Adalind knew she couldn't hold on to her anger and resentment.

It wouldn't be fair to Diana.

And it could hurt in building a future with Nick, if she became too focused on her past with Sean.

The the parents of Diana agreed to be civil to one another.

It was just a few days later when Nick saw Trubel.

The last time he had remembered the young grimm, was when they had gone to the mansion where the royals had been staying, in an attempt to get Diana back from them.

He always wondered why she disappeared after that.

And then he saw her.

On a case involving wesen and stolen antiques, Nick and Hank ended up in the middle of some kind of wesen family feud.

There was a dispute where one family claimed the other family owed them one hundred thousand dollars. And that was why members of one family robbed the houses of members of the other family.

As with most disputes, things escalated quickly, and Hank and Nick found themselves trying to keep the two families from killing each other. They had gotten most settled down and backup was on its way to take the thieves and anyone who had thrown a punch, (or scratched or bite, these were wesen after all) to lockup until a judge and lawyers could straighten the mess out.

One young idiot had decided to run, as if the detectives didn't already know his name and where he lived. Nick had given chase.

And that's when Nick literally ran into Trubel.

He ended up knocking, her, the young idiot and himself to the ground.

Moving with the speed given to him by his grimm ancestors, Nick cuffed the wesen runner, and grabbed ahold of Trubel, and escorted them both back to where Hank, the rest of the wesen wrong doers and backup were waiting.

Though he was surprised to see Trubel, Hank could tell by the look on Nick's face that the younger detective needed to stay back and have a word with his protege.

Hank promised to cover for Nick, and left with the rest of the police, calling a "Nice to have you back." over his shoulder at Trubel.

"Trubel, where have you been?" Nick said in confusion and concern, the moment the two grimms were alone. "I've been so worried about you. You just disappeared without a word. I was afraid something bad had happened to you."

"I couldn't stick around. I couldn't face you. I did something, Nick. Something I know you can never forgive me for." The young woman's voice shook with fear and shame.

"What on earth could you have done that would ever make you think I would want you out of my life?"

"I had to kill Juliette." Trubel sobbed. "She was going to kill you. When you left the house the royals were staying at. Juliette, followed you. She used you to find out where you were keeping Adalind. Nick, she was going to kill Adalind and your son right in front of you. I saw her look at you with nothing but hate and anger. I used a crossbow to do it. I'm sorry. I know you believe in helping everyone, but I couldn't let her keep hurting you. She had already taken your mother. I didn't want her taking your son."

Nick reached out and pulled Trubel tight in his arms. While he there was a part of him that mourned for the woman he had once loved, a greater part of him was pleased to know the monster she had become would no longer be a threat to his family. The fact that she had used him to find his unborn child with the purpose of killing another member of his family, showed the evil being she had become.

So he stroked the young she grimm's hair and said softly. "It's alright. You did what you had to do. You protected me, Adalind and our baby. And I could never be angry at you for that." He pulled back a little to look at her face, smiled tenderly and asked. "Will you stick around now?"

"You have a family now, Nick." Trubel said, sadness clear in her voice. "I don't want to intrude on that."

"Trubel." Nick lovingly scolded. "You're my family, too. I've been so worried about you. Hoping that you would come home soon. I want you in my life. I want everyone I love to be as close to me as can be possible." A wide grin on his face, he said, "We have Adalind's daughter now. I'm sure she would be very impressed with you."

Nick took Trubel to the loft and was relieved when she and Adalind showed no signs of being awkward with one another.

And chuckled to himself when he saw Trubel had a lot of awkwardness around baby Kelly.

Wide grin on his face, Nick asked what Trubel had been up to all this time.

"Josh still hasn't inherited any grimm abilities and he said he wanted to be away from that life anyway. That it was too dangerous." Trubel explained. "Some people from the government recruited me and now I kind of do freelance work for them. Grimms are rare. Grimms who get along with wesen easily are really rare. They asked me to come and convince you to join them. They said you could be like me. Mostly freelance. Choose your hours and if you don't want an assignment, you can reject it. I think they're desperate for grimms to be on their side. They're kind of willing to do anything." Trubel looked at the floor in shame. "I was supposed to talk to you a while ago, but I was to much of a coward to face you. After what I did to Juliette."

"Trubel. Stop." Nick said softly. "I told you. You did the right thing. Your not a coward either. You're one of the bravest people I know." He pulled her in, hugged her tight, kissed the top of her head, then leaned back and said, "Tomorrow, we'll talk more about this freelance job offer and what all that entails. But tonight, I think we should all try to get to know one another more. I'm sure Adalind would love to know more about your life. And I think you will find hers pretty interesting, too."

Nick and Adalind fixed dinner while Trubel filled them in on what her life had been like for the past few months. Diana listened intently and would chime in with her own experiences whenever Trubel mentioned meeting a wesen the little girl had also encountered.

Kelly stayed in his crib and made funny baby noises.

It wasn't long before a sense of peace and calm fell over the group. Sadness, shame and fear were long gone and everyone was able to enjoy dinner and the rest of the evening.

That night, as everyone was settled into bed, Nick saw an interesting smile spread on Adalind's face. "What's going through that mind of yours?" He asked.

"First we brought my daughter home, and now we have yours." She grinned.

Nick chuckled, pulled her close and placed a kiss on her head. "Our little family. One like me, one like you, and one to be determined."