Juliette's change
"Juliette are you OK?" Nick asked as he closed the front door, shaking rain off his jacket and hanging it up on the stand in the corner. "What is so important that you couldn't tell me on the phone?" Juliette bit her thumbnail and walked over to the sofa in the front room.
"I think you are going to want to sit down for this." said Juliette as she sat down. Nick crossed the room and sat beside her, turning so he could look at her as they talked, she showed visible signs of worry. "I don't know why it should be hard for me to talk to you now, after all that we have been through and seen, I am having a hard time beliving that there could be anything that would be hard to talk to you about. But I am really struggling with how to bring this up." She looked up at Nick and paused. He looked worried too, and that just made it harder.
Suddenly Nick's eyes opened wide and half jumping out of his seat he blurted "Oh my God, you're pregnant."
"No! I'm not pregnant." Juliette found herself a little relieved that Nick looked suprised and happy and not suprised and scared. Good news for their relationship but not very useful in this conversation. "No it is about some of the things that were happening with Monroe and Rosalee and that tribunal thing a few weeks ago."
Nick sat back down and said "Oh yes, that was pretty bad. I guess we haven't talked at all about it. Hank and I rushed off to protect those two on their honeymoon right after and I guess we just haven't talked about it since we got back. You shot one of them didn`t you. I should have said something, at the department the officers talk with a therapist after a shooting, helps them deal with it. I should have set something up before I went away. I`m sorry. Do you want me to call someone?"
``No, that`s not it. Well it is a little it, but not all of it. I actually didn`t shot anyone.``
"What do you mean? We found that one guy that was chasing you with the back of his head blown off."
"Yes you did. That is what I want to talk about." Juliette got up and started slowely pacing back and forth in front of Nick, talking with her hands for empasis. "That guy grabbed me and knocked the gun out of my hand and pushed me to the ground. He pinned my arms back and then he woged, blutbad, and then he lunged in like he was going to rip my throut out." She stopped pacing a looked right at Nick, "and then I stopped him, froze him so he couldn't move, and then I just...blew the back of his head off. "
"I thought you said that he knocked the gun out of your hand?" Nick said, confused.
"He did."
"Then how..."
"I talked to Captain Renard about this while you were gone and he seemed to think that I should just come out and say it, but I am worried that you will..."
"that I'll what?" Nick sounded worried.
"That you'll... I am worried that you may think differently about me."
Nick stood up and took her hands in his, pulled her close and said "Juliette I told you that I could see monsters when you couldn't see anything, and you didn't think differently of me. I have asked a lot of you these past few years. It has been pretty rough at times, but we have come through it stronger every time. What ever it is, you can tell me. If you are worried that I will think less of you for blowing that guys head off then you are wrong, I'm kind of proud of you. You did what you had to do."
"Well it is a good thing you said that because I can't think of how to say this so here it goes." Juliette said as she woged into a Hexenbiest. Nick jumped back, startled. For the first time Juliette got to see those cold lifeless black eyes that mark a Grimm when he sees Wesen. She knew it was coming but it scared her more than she thought it would, more than the first time that she saw herself woged in the mirror unexpectedly.
"What the! How did you do that? How did that happen?" Nick tried to sound calm and supporting but it all sounded surprised and confused. Juliette returned to normal and waited. She didn't know what she expected Nick to say. He hadn't tried to kill her yet so that was good. Finaly she spoke
"You remember after the potion that I drank to become Adeline so you could get your powers back, how I was having all those headaches and stomach pain?"
"Yes, Sean's mother said that there might be some consequeces to the transformation but I just thought that it was pain or side effects or something." Nick came back over to Juliette and said "are you OK?"
"No, well not at first. I was freaked out. Of all the Wesen that we have seen so far I have always been the most scared of Hexenbiests. And I HATE Adeline. I hate her." Juliette started to pace and talk with her hands again. "I always though that if I was going to turn into a Wesen I would want to be something like a Fuchsbau, like Rosalle, Fuchsbau are cute." Juliette pouted "Hexenbeast are the ugly."
"You've obviously never seen a Skalengeck" said Nick.
"Ha ha funny. seriously Nick I am torn about what am I going to do?"
"What do you mean, this is an easy one. I made Adeline normal by making her drink the blood of a Grimm. That's a pretty easy one for me to get. We could take care of this right now."
"I know that" Juliette said a little louder than she intended. "That is exactly what I thought when this first happened. The problem is that I am not sure that is what I want anymore."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean I have been a Hexenbiest for a month now and I am kind of starting to like it." Juliette suprised herself with how sure she was of what she just said. " Are you going to be OK with that? Most of the Hexenbiest that you have met have tried to kill you. And I know that they give you the willies." Juliette looked up a Nick and paused, then said " I really need to know Nick. Are you going to be OK with this?"
Nick took a deep breath and smiled out of the side of his mouth. "If you can accept that I can see Wesen and that I have special powers to kill them, and have done so on many occasions, then it should be pretty easy for me to accept you for who you are, what ever you are. I always thought that if we ever had children that I would love you no matter how fat you got." Juliette hit Nick but he kept going "this is just a different kind of change that you are going through but it doesn't change who you are deep down inside and it doesn't change how I feel about you."
"Don't just say it. I want you to mean it. I don't know why, but part of me really thinks that this is how things are supposed to be. I was really scared at first but now, after seeing what I can do, I feel strong. I used to feel so helpless and afraid, you going off against who knows what, and me unable to do anything. I don't feel like that anymore. And with the number of times that you have had trouble with that blonde sluttly little Hexenbiest, these powers might come in really useful."
"Well one of my best friends is a Blutbad and from what I have read about Grimm' s that has never happened before. So why can't a Grimm and a Hexenbiest be together?" Nick smiled and put his arm around Juliette's waist. "So what kind of powers do you have?"
Juliette leaned forward bringing her lips close enough to caress Nick's ear and said "Oh all kinds of powers." and then she smiled.