"Me, Shirley! Can you believe it? I actually saw Krampus tonight and lived! And I got to see Nick fight him and win, which was like something out of an action movie! I mean, sure, I was terrified the whole time, but it was still all so surreal and brilliant! I still can't believe I got to see all that!"

Shirley Wurstner smiled patiently as she watched her husband nearly dance around the house in excitement. He had been as calm as possible once he had gotten home from saving Quinn and those other poor children, and had checked up on their own brood in their beds – and then he had allowed what she called his inner fan-boy to finally come out like she knew he had been waiting to.

"And then Nick was fighting him, and it seemed like Krampus was going to win, and I was really worried there for a moment. But then Monroe woged and jumped on him so fast that I didn't even notice it happening, and then Nick and Hank were pointing their guns at him. And then, if you can believe it, I actually saw Krampus woge back to his human form when it turned midnight!" Bud exclaimed as he continued to babble.

Shirley Wurstner was an eminently sensible eisbieber. When she was satisfied that the Grimm was not, in fact, a danger to her family, she was more than happy to deal with him calmly whenever she had to. Her Bud, on the other hand, wasn't like her, she knew that.

Honestly, she was rather glad that he had tagged along with Nick on this case. At least he had Hank and Monroe along with him to make sure Bud didn't get into too much trouble. Because she had always known that Bud would eventually get pulled too deep into one of Nick's Grimm cases, and she had worried. It had become even worse after that awful case with the ziegevolk lawyer where Bud had been right in the middle with no one to help.

"And then it turned out that Krampus didn't even know he was wesen and Krampus at that, so Monroe just went home and Hank and Nick took him to the police station to try and figure out what was going on!"

"The poor man," she finally murmured. "Do you know what's going to happen to him?"

As Bud started babbling once again, this time about how it had happened before and about the wesen council, she allowed herself two contrasting thoughts.

One was to thank all the stars possible that that horrible creature – the wesen, not the man – hadn't targeted any of her children, who tended to run wild as the holidays approached. The other was far more pragmatic, as she started to think of more ways to insert herself into the conversation. Bud was always apologetic when he spent too much time talking about his favourite topic – Nick and how different he was from other Grimms – and it was always worse when she took part in the discussion. He always did worry that he was wasting her time going on and on.

But today it would serve her well. After all, they were going shopping for Christmas presents tomorrow, both for the children and people they knew, like other eibiber and Nick and his team. She would need Bud's desire to fulfill all of her wishes as far as possible.

A/N: Because really, someone as excitable as Bud would have a hard time surviving in the big bad wesen world if he didn't have someone sensible to look after him.
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