In hindsight, she supposed the fact that it had only started after Nick had clued her in to everything was something to be thankful for.

There was barely over a week left for Christmas, which meant that Juliette was swamped with work. For some reason, festivals and holidays usually meant a spike in the number of patients that veterinary clinic received – it seemed animal accidents and festivities went hand in hand.

So when they brought in a raccoon that had been run over by a car, she didn't think much about it. Thankfully, the poor creature wasn't badly injured, and it didn't take her too long to patch it up.

Then it turned into a human woman who promptly ran out the door, which really only merited one reaction.

"NICK!"

Thankfully, once he heard her story, Nick was rather forgiving about the way she turned up at the precinct, screaming her lungs out at him. After all, animals turning into humans wasn't something even she, who knew about the wesen world, was particularly ready for.

"I must have forgotten to tell you," was his apology as he explained. "Wesen don't only woge, they also have the ability to actually shapeshift into their animal, though I've only actually seen it happen once."

"Nick," she sighed in reply.

"I know, I know! But I guess that whoever the waschbar you saw was, she didn't have time to turn back into human before someone noticed she was injured and brought her to you. I can't help it!"

"And how many times is this going to happen again?" she asked, arching an eyebrow at her ex-boyfriend slash best friend.

He shuffled his feet on the floor, looking sheepish. "I have no idea," he muttered in reply.

Another sigh. She had dreaded as much – but there was still a question that hounding her. "Why did she change back in front of me?" she asked curiously. "I mean, I could guess that it had something to do with the wesen, but I doubt any other vet would have realised that."

Nick looked even more sheepish at the question. "Well…" he started cagily, "Bud might have mentioned that you know everything to a few people, and I guess it spread?" he asked hesitantly.

She couldn't stop herself from reaching out and slapping him on the head at that.

After that, it was like the floodgates had opened.

With just a few days, she treated what Rosalee would later help her identify were two more waschbar, a faeteo fatalis, a couple of wütende taube, and, memorably, a klaustreich.

It could have been worse, everyone assured her, but she wasn't in any mood to believe them. Her emotions had already been strung dry by treating so many animals, all the while making sure she wasn't doing anything that would harm them when they turned back into humans.

And then a wolf that turned out to be a blutbad was brought to her, and she had had enough.

Really, she thought she was perfectly justified in asking Bud to tell all his friends to make sure that hurt wesen in their animal started spreading their business to other clinics too.

A/N: According to the wiki - waschbar: raccoon-like wesen
faeteo fatalis: skunk-like wesen
wütende taube: pigeon-like wesen

As for Juliette...well, as much as I like her as a character, the sheer and utter lack of chemistry makes it rather hard for me to accept her as Nick's girlfriend. So in this piece, and my headcanon for these two in general, they never got back together after the mess of Season 2. They're just best friends now.

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