A/N: Just read an interview with Clair Coffee, thanks to a PM from a follower. This Hexenbiest dilemma won't be wrapped up for another six episodes, Grrr. It's unclear how long she hides it from Nick, how long he takes to digest this new information, or even if they reconcile (they better!), but get ready for a rocky road ahead for Nadalind. I'm not very appreciative of the writers' deviation from Adalind's characterization.

Adalind POV

She didn't even try to wipe those tears away. What's the point, she thought. He must know leaving them was tearing her up inside. Nick came around to face her. He didn't look like his usual self. His hair was a mess and there were shadows that shown under his eyes as if he hadn't slept at all. Neither had she. Trying to meet her eyes which she averted, Nick began, "Kelly missed you last night." Then sighing he said, "I missed you, too. I've been missing you. Kelly needs his mother." Adalind inhaled sharply with his words, then her own fears squashed the beginnings of hope.

Finally meeting his gaze with challenge, she countered, "You don't know what it's like being a Hexenbiest. That part of you is aggressive, it wants out and it wants its own way. You remember how I was. Do you really think you could live with that?!"

She watched as Nick press his lips into a thin line, considering her words, and she looked away again disappointed. What did she expect? Then he began again, "Yes, I remember you were devious and driven without any real moral direction," she couldn't help swallowing her sorrow at his words. Then he continued, "That is right up until Diana was born." Gently lifting her head to meet his eyes, he said, "The only time you did anything against me after that was to get your daughter back. When you left yesterday and I realized you could have taken Kelly too, but chose not to, I knew that you were not that same terrible Hexenbiest. You knew how that would have devastated me." After a moment's pause he said, "Each time since the birth of your children that you've done something shocking, it's been in their defense. Taking my powers, making peace with your enemy, drinking the suppressant. You could never be a bad mother and I'm sorry it's taken me so long to say it."

Taking a few moments and a couple of breaths to accept this new confidence Nick had in her, Adalind found he had more faith in her than she had in herself. Feeling restless, she began to pace. "The night my other half started to resurface, I was so distraught I couldn't eat and just sat at the table agonizing over it all. The glass of water beside me started to boil and the more I tried to stop it, the worse it got. Finally that glass shattered," she finished with the memory still freaking her out. That sickening, panicked feeling returned to her in a rush as she faced Nick again. "What if I boil Kelly's bottle while he drinking it, or shatter something too close to him. What if he gets injured because I can't control myself?" Her voice rose with her frantic state of mind as several items around Meisner's room started to vibrate erratically, her eyes shifted back and forth around the room. Not again!

Abruptly Nick firmly grabbed her and said, "Don't fight it, Adalind! If your Hexenbiest will always be a part of you, then you have to accept it. You have to integrate it back into your life or you'll never be able to control it." Nick's words triggered a memory. Adalind had been just a teen and this powerful, vicious part of her was coming out. Her mother's words came back to her...

"You can't fight this Adalind, or you'll be a danger to anyone around you," Catherine said in her haughty way. "You must accept her, embrace your other half." Adalind didn't want to be anything like her mother, so she was resisting the Hexenbiest inside of her and didn't even realize it...

Currently taking a big breath and looking directly at Nick, she asked, "Are you sure?" He returned her honest question with a decisive nod. Swallowing, she tilted her head and Woged for the first time since that day when she 'drank her mother'. Everything settled down and the gut wrenching cramps subsided. She looked away from him. He didn't need another good glimpse of her uglier side, but Nick hadn't let her go.

"You're not that bad, Adalind. You don't have to look away. I'm taking you home and, if we're going to live together, it's probably not the last time you'll Woge," Nick stated as a matter of fact.

She tilted her head again, reverting back, as she responded, "Not yet. You don't need to see that." Facing him again she asked, "What about Kelly? I'm still not comfortable being alone with him, not until I get a better handle on this." Her resistance was crumbling, but her doubt was not assuaged.

Holding her gaze, Nick replied, "Maybe we could arrange something with Rosalee or Trubel so you wouldn't have to be alone with him. I haven't worked it all out yet, but Kelly needs you." His eyes soften further. Reaching over, he tucked a hair behind her ear and said, "I need you." Adalind felt her eyes grow huge and her breath catch at his words. "I don't want to spend another night without the woman I love." What? What did he just say?! Adalind thought maybe she heard him wrong because that couldn't be true. She was a Hexenbiest. However, Nick broke through all her reservations when his lips descended to hers, kissing her as if he was hungry for her. Giving over to her need of him, her passion for this remarkable man, Adalind joined him completely deepening their kiss and the contact of their bodies. Nick gripped her to him, fisting the back of her shirt. For a moment she almost forgot where they were, having an intense desire to get him out of those annoying clothes. Then she came to her senses and drew away reluctantly.

"You better watch out," she began slyly. "I had to wrestle with my Hexenbiest, just now, not to rip your clothes off right here."

He went for her lips again, as he said in a sexy whisper, "Just wait till I get you home." He teasingly nipped at her bottom lip with his teeth. Adalind's breath hitched and she had to battle herself again. She firmly placed a hand against his chest and pushed him back.

"Seriously, Nick," she stressed feeling her other half fighting her restraint. He gave her that deliciously wicked smile that he seemed to only have for her Hexenbiest. Boy, was she in trouble.

"See you have more control than you realize," he smirked.

The End

**Too bad I won't get this much satisfaction from the show, at least not for a while :(. If you were hoping for more of their life after the Hexenbiest's return, I've already written a whole trilogy and several post-trilogy one-shots to that end. Just visit my profile and start from the bottom :).**