3 years after defeating Zestörer:
"Mother are you sure this is going to work?" Renard asked his mom as he stared down at a vial full of some sort of liquid. She looked at him and placed her hand on his shoulder giving him a reassuring look.
"It will Shaun, but it's only a last resort. If Diana tries to resist then this will temporarily disable her powers. But I would prefer you not use it on my only Granddaughter." Shaun nodded in understanding as he loaded his gun up. Elizabeth looked at the gun and shook her head in confusion.
"What are doing son? We're only their to get my Granddaughter back, not to kill anyone." She eyed him furiously as he continued to arm himself.
"It's just a precaution. Nick is a Grimm and has other kids." Renard looked smug as he put the gun in his holster. He stood up and put the vial In his pocket with a syringe. He put another vial of liquid in his other pocket with a different syringe, but this vial was marked and had a different purpose.
"Lets just do this, get my Granddaughter and hope we don't die." Elizabeth said as she walked out of the small motel room they were in. Shaun followed putting on a black zip up jacket to cover the gun. They both made their way down to a black Jeep and got inside it.
"Shaun I know your angry at Adalind and the Grimm but you must not hurt them. Else it could end badly for you and me." He nodded at her in agreement before she started the car and drove to take Diana.
"Don't worry I don't plan on hurting then physically. Mentally on the other hand is what I will do." Elizabeth shook her head at him as she drove down a road. Shaun was visibly happy with himself, smiling as he looked out the window.
It was a rainy night in Portland and the winds were picking up quite a bit. Shaun was looking at a picture of Nick and Adalind's house, his mind was processing the image analysing it maybe to have a plan of action.
"Shaun you never did tell me why Adalind and Nick wouldn't let you see Diana. Every time I ask you, you always avoid the topic." She was now curious about it. Before when he had first approached her, Elizabeth let her emotions get the better of her and barely wanted to know why but now they were actually doing what they have planned, the reason behind it dwelled on her.
"Nick turned my own daughter against me, spurting lies and got her to call him Dad. Then I found out that Adalind was backing him up and let him do it. But when I confronted her, she threatened to kill me and told me to leave." Shaun's voice was riddled with anger yet held a scripted tone to it. Elizabeth nodded at this but began to doubt it.
"Then why didn't you take them to court, to get custody?" She was clearly sensing that something he was saying wasn't true. Shaun looked nervously out at the distance.
"Like I said they threatened to kill me and for no reason as well!" Now she knew he was lying about something, his tone suggested it. But it was too late to turn back and continued to drive.
Nick and Adalind's house…
"Yeah Nick they're all asleep, Diana is with me on the couch and The Twins are in the carrier next to the couch. Diana fell asleep watching a movie with me. Ok honey I'll see you soon, love you, bye." Adalind put down the phone and continued to stroke Diana's head as she slept. It was a rather peaceful day for her. The kids hadn't really fussed and nothing extraordinary happened. But she did miss Nick and hoped he would be back soon.
Kelly was in his room surrounded by Grimm books that Nick normally read to him before he went to sleep. Kelly was only 3 but was embracing the Grimm life like a champ. Nick was hoping to teach him how to fight when he was around 6 or 7 years old and hoped Adalind would agree.
Nick was on his way home from work and would be home soon, Adalind couldn't wait to snuggle up to her husband for the night. Adalind was watching the TV whilst thinking about what she was going to do tomorrow, she thought of going next door and spending some time with Maureen but didn't know of she would be available. She had grown to like the next door neighbours, Nick definitely did with John both of them loving vintage bikes.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Adalind looked over to it. Who could be calling at this hour? She thought to herself as she began approaching the door. Reluctantly she reached for the handle and turned it. She slowly cracked open the door and saw a woman there and she had a pleasant smile on her face. The women looked rather old and looked vaguely familiar to Adalind but couldn't quite place her face anywhere.
"Hello there my name is Elizabeth and I've just moved into the neighbourhood. Sorry I'm calling late I just wanted to make myself present that's all." Adalind's worry died down and she shook hands with her.
"Hey I'm Adalind Burkhardt it's nice to meet you and welcome to the neighbourhood." Elizabeth was still shaking her hand as she grabbed something from her back pocket.
"Adalind I just wanted to say that I'm really sorry for this. But you have 3 others so..." Adalind looked really confused before Elizabeth lunged at her and stuck a syringe into her arm that she held in a handshake. She gave Elizabeth a frightened and confused look, why was she doing this? Adalind began stumbling backwards and fell on the floor. Then she saw Renard enter with a smug smile on her face and instantly Adalind began crawling desperately towards Diana in fear of what was happening.
"Diana! Baby! Run!" Adalind's vision began to blur before she fell unconscious on the ground. Shaun looked over towards the direction Adalind was crawling to. Diana had woken up at that point and saw her mom on the floor. Her face was covered in dread and fear.
"Mommy!" Diana ran towards Adalind but was grabbed by Renard before She could make it to her. Diana struggled greatly in his arms trying to get out of his strong grasp.
"Diana! Stop it's me! It's your Dad!" Renard shouted which woke up the Twins and they began crying. Diana looked up at him with shock in her eyes and knew that the situation was bad.
"Dad? Let me go now! You hurt Mom, again!" Again? Elizabeth looked at her sun who was holding his daughter in a tight grasp. What actually happened and why was Diana scared of him?
Diana began kicking his shin and Shaun was confused why she was resisting. Surely she didn't feel threatened by him, her own father. Again he tried to hold her down and try to calm her but When her eyes went purple Shaun knew he had to use it. He grabbed the syringe which was pre filled before he got in the house and readied it.
"I'm sorry Diana but it's for your own good. You belong with me." He stuck the syringe in her neck and she fell unconscious looking at her mother on the ground. Elizabeth was kneeling over Adalind and checking her pulse hoping that he didn't overdose her. Shaun passed Diana to her and all sue felt was guilt, the realisation of the situation was worse than she imagined. Why was Diana so scared? And what did she mean when she said, 'You hurt mommy again'? Elizabeth walked outside and towards the Jeep with Diana and hoped they would leave soon.
Shaun walked upstairs, slowly pulling out another vial and filling the syringe he used on Diana with the same stuff Elizabeth used on Adalind. He looked around and saw Kelly's room door and walked towards it. When he entered the room Kelly was still sleeping and Shaun approached him slowly.
"Sorry kid but if anyone's to blame it's your Dad." Shaun said as he stuck the needle in his neck. Kelly woke up to this and fear was in his eyes as he looked up at him. He fell unconscious then Shaun picked him up and swung him over his shoulder.
Shaun made his was back down the stairs and his attention was pulled back to the living room. The Twins were still crying and Shaun sniggered slightly as he entered the room and grabbed the carrier they were in. He looked down at Adalind with a smug, satisfied smile.
"You took my kid away from me. Now I'm doing the same with yours, all of them. An eye for an eyes, see you Adalind. Have a… nice life." Shaun walked out of the house laughing at his comment and made his way to the car. Elizabeth looked in shock when she saw him carrying all of the kids. She exited the car and stomped towards him.
"Shaun! What the hell are you doing? Put them back before you get us killed! The Grimm is their Dad and he will obliterate you." He completely ignored her and put them in the back with Diana. Closing the door he turned back Elizabeth and eyed her down with a look of sinister evil. It made her back away from him and she crossed her arms.
"I'm simply doing what they did to me. And if anyone's gonna die it will be Nick not me." Elizabeth was extremely stressed and now gained a new feeling, paranoia. If taking one child wasn't bad enough but 4, and 2 of them still needing to be nursed, was not good at all. She looked around one last time and entered the car before driving away.
An hour later…
Nick pulled up into the driveway of the house and began making his way in. He was stressed after his hard day at work and was excited to see Adalind again so he could snuggle up to her.
"What the hell?" Nick noticed that his house door was wide open. Instantly he felt dread in his heart and he entered the house quickly drawing his gun as he did so.
"Holy shit, Adalind!" He saw on her on the floor and fear grew all up inside him. He began shaking her to wake her. What happened? Who could have done this and why? Adalind woke up and looked at Nick, at first she had forgotten what had happened but she slowly remembered what had happened.
"Adalind! Are you ok, what happened? Grief instantly slapped her and she looked around. Nick was looking desperately at her for an answer.
"Nick it was Shaun, he came with a women and oh no the kids." Quickly he ran up and went to check the living room. None of them were there and he threw his gun on the floor.
"No, No, No. This isn't happening, why did he do this? Why?" Adalind was desperately trying to get up from the floor.
"Nick! What about Kel?" He had almost forgotten about him and ran up the stairs with haste. The door was wide open and Kelly wasn't their.
"No, Kelly! That son of bitch!" Nick began punching the walls in rage. His knuckles began to bloody and tears flowed down his face. He needed to go back down stairs and check on Adalind, she would need him now more than ever.
When he got downstairs he saw her sitting on the floor crying as she was huddled up against the wall. She was banging her head softly against the wall as Nick approached her still crying himself.
"Adalind, I promise. I will get our children back and when I find that Kidnapping, murderous snake, I'm gonna kill him. Slowly and painfully." She looked at him and saw the look of anger and sadness in his eyes. Suddenly she Wooged and balled her fists tightly before punching a giant hole in the wall.
"No we're going to kill him together and I want him to know that Diana will never even want to remember him." Nick hugged her tightly as he tried to figure out what to do. He thought of all the places to go and decided that going to the spice shop was the best bet, so they could gear up and track him down. Before that though he pulled out his phone and dialled Wu.
"Wu I need your help. Renard is back in town and had taken all my kids. I need you to see what hole he is hiding in and put out an APB on that asshole." He put the phone down and Adalind nodded as they stood up to leave to find their children.
Renard and Elizabeth's Motel room…
"Why did you do that Shaun. Have you got a deathwish?" Elizabeth was pacing backwards and forwards in the room whilst rocking Jackson who was crying clearly habeas hungry and wanting Adalind.
"No I have not mother. Stop worrying about it." He was looking down at Diana who was unconscious still. Although she resisted him, he still loved her dearly and hope she would see reason.
"You took a Grimms Children. He'll be at home now planning on how he's going to kill you. You Bloody idiot!" Shaun quickly stood up and stared down his mother who was backed away from him.
"You had better phone him up Shaun and leave his children here and let's just take Diana. Like we planned in the first place." He just laughed at her before moving back to Diana. Elizabeth was extremely pissed off at him for this.
"Was this your plan all along Shaun? This was never about getting Diana back was it? It was about getting revenge on Nick!" Elizabeth was now furious and Gemma was now waking and began crying as well as Jackson.
"Of course I want revenge on Nick! He ruined my life, stole my family, my future. Everything I held dear." He was furious and his shouting woke up most of the Motel. Then Elizabeth knew what was going on.
"You attacked Adalind didn't you? Was it whilst she was pregnant?" Shaun sighed deeply and nodded at her. She couldn't believe what She was hearing at this point. Elizabeth didn't even recognise her son anymore. All she saw was a petty jealous Oaf who had stolen another man's children, and she helped him.
"I am dropping off these 3 off at the police precinct Shaun. I can't do it, I only want Diana." Instantly he grabbed her arm and squeezed it tightly as he wooged.
"Sit, down, now." Elizabeth saw the rage in his eyes and she obeyed him in fear for her own life. She knew that it was a big mistake to do what she did. It was just time now, she had to take her time to try and figure out what to do. But she knew that it was going to end with bloodshed and just prayed that her son could see reason before it was finally too late.