"Do you know a good professional photographer?" Nick asked Monroe. "I want to have some family photo's taken. Real ones, not just the kind you snap with your phone. Having Diana back with her mother, I think we need a family portrait.

Monroe gives a glance at Rosalie, fighting the urge to say,

See, see, he wants a photographer, he is obviously planning a future with Adalind. Any day now he is going to propose, and they will be planning their wedding. I was completely in the right to be stressing about finishing that clock.

But since that would only cause him trouble, and have him in the proverbial dog house for a month, Monroe thought it best to just answer Nick's request.

"A friend of Bud's has his own studio, and from what I hear, he will even go to the location of your choice if you want natural scenery."

"That's a great idea, as long as it's a rare clear day in Portland. Pretty sure both of my hexenbiests would want to look their best, and would throw a fit if the weather messed up their hair."

"You're not planning on just springing the idea on Adalind are you?" Rosalie asks. "I know you think it would be a nice surprise, but Adalind would want time to plan how she will want everyone dressed."

"Oh, don't worry." Nick laughed. " As soon as I make the appointment I'll tell Adalind, so she will have plenty of time to drive herself, and everyone around her crazy with obsessing over having the perfect portrait."

"You're really doing the family thing now, does that mean you're thinking of popping the question to Adalind, soon." Monroe asked. Hoping to get confirmation on his suspicions.

"I've been thinking about it. I would love to make my family officially mine, but Adalind has always had an independent nature and I'm not sure if she see's herself as somebody's wife, I know she loves me. And I hope she knows I love her. I'm just not sure if she wants the whole church, vows, and being committed to each other till death do us part thing." Nick looks at Rosalie.

"Has Adalind ever said anything to you about how she thinks, or feels about getting married"

"Sorry" Rosalie answers sympathetically. "The topic of marriage or weddings has never come up." She pauses, then continues remembering something "But she did say she wants with you what Monroe and I have. So that might include you putting a ring on her finger."

The look on Nick's face was hopeful.

Rosalie was grateful she had remembered that conversation with Adalind, after Kelly was born. Nick was a family man, with or without legal document's, Nick lived and breathed for the people he loved.

He deserved, more than anyone, to have all his dreams come true. He had been through enough. Suffered enough. Lost more than anyone should. Life owed him some happiness.

"Dude, of course Adalind wants to marry you. She's probably already planning your wedding." Monroe joked. "Or Diana is. Going by the look on her face when we watched that movie at Bud's."

"Anyway," Rosalie injected. "I think it's pretty certain you have nothing to worry about, at least in regards to Adalind's interest in a life with you."

"Though, you know" Monroe supplied. "The best evidence will be Adalind's reaction when you tell her you scheduled a family photoshoot. If she's happy or excited, that means she believes you are already family and it's a great idea. If she fakes a smile, or suggest that you not get a picture with her or Diana, then that means she think's you're making presumptions and crossing boundaries.

Later, when Nick got home and told Adalind they had an appointment with a professional photographer, he saw tears well up in her eyes, a smile spread on her face, she then wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him near senseless.

He was pretty sure the kiss would have continued if not for the giggling little girl in the room.

Adalind blushed and removed her arms from Nick's neck.

Still smiling brightly, she said "I've been wanting a family portrait. I just wasn't sure how to ask you about it."

"Well, now you don't have to ask." Nick replied, looking at both of his hexenbiests. "All you have to figure out now is what you want us to wear."

Adalind's smile got bigger, and she gave Nick another kiss, though this one just a quick peck.

Diana saw the exchange. She would be in a family portrait. Further proof she now had a real family.

The fact that Nick had been the one to arrange it meant he viewed Diana as much his child as Kelly.

She wondered if there was anything else Nick was planning for his family.