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Roddy received a call late one Friday afternoon, Nick asking him to come to Elly's. When he got there Nick's partner was hyperventilating on the stairs while Nick tried to hand him some water and Elly ranted at Nick's back.

"I told you it was a bad idea; most humans cannot handle knowing about Wesen."

"Elly," Nick threw over his shoulder. "He saw one already, I could not leave him to think he was insane."

"Because knowing he is insane is better," Elly said. "Water is useless," Elly elbowed Nick out of the way and handed Hank a glass of something amber.

Hank took the drink and swallowed it quickly.

"See," Elly said to Nick. "Oh hello Roddy."

Nick turned around. "Hey Roddy, thanks for coming over. I have a huge favour to ask but not yet," Nick looked back at Hank.

"What's going on?" Roddy asked staring at Hank.

"Hank saw a Wesen as part of a case and Nick thought it would be a good idea to bring him over so he could see me and I could explain what Wesen are and that Hank isn't insane, so far this excellent," Roddy thought as a teenager he was good at sarcasm but the amount dripping from that word made him grin at Elly. "Idea has led to Hank thinking we are all insane."

Roddy laughed. "Okay, so I'm going to Reinigen out for him to prove that there are more of us, did you call Holly and Rosalee too?"

"Rosalee?" Hank asked looking up sounding shattered.

"Yeah," Roddy said looking at Nick as he watched Hank. "She's a Fuchsbau."

Hank sagged back down into the stairs.

Nick looked at Elly who raised an eyebrow and through a strange series of eye movements, wiggling eyebrows and twitching facial muscles they seemed to have a conversation until Elly nodded and looked at Hank with sad eyes.

"It doesn't change who she is," Elly said softly.

"So, this last year when you kept doing things on your own, it wasn't because you thought you could do it better, it wasn't some informant it was because they were Wasen?"

"Wesen," Elly corrected.

"Yeah," Nick said. "I wanted your help but I couldn't explain most of what I did and honestly if it wasn't for Elly I would have been mauled by now."

"That's why you suspected Elly?"

"Yes, and she was the one who helped me track that man down, he was also a Blutbad."

"A what?"

"That's what I am," Elly said helpfully.

"And Roddy is one too?"

"I'm a Reinigen," Roddy volunteering sitting on one of Elly's chairs so he could watch everything comfortably. "But Holly is the same type of Wesen as Elly."

"And Rosalee?"

"She's a Fuchsbau," Elly said. "Different again."

"Roddy," Hank took a deep breath. "Can I…"

Roddy smiled and allowed the change to happen watching Hank carefully as the policeman stared at him.

"You look a little like a rat," Hank said then grimaced. "Sorry."

"Don't worry," Roddy said. "Reinigen are related to rats like Blutbad are related to wolves."

"And Fooshba?"

"Fuchsbau are related to foxes," Elly said gently. "Rosalee is a good person, this doesn't change who she is."

Roddy frowned, obviously Rosalee was important here but he couldn't figure out how; he knew Elly had been helping her get organised with the shop, he'd gone down one Saturday afternoon to lug things around for them and Roddy decided he liked Rosalee; she was very little like most of the Fuchsbau he'd heard about or met – she was nice and honest. Elly had been helping her and Rosalee had provided some help and information for Nick on cases but Roddy didn't think the Grimm had involved his police partner since it was Wesen business. Hank seemed to know her though, seemed to be more distressed by the fact she was Wesen than the fact they existed at all and Roddy wanted to know why - he really wished he had been clued into the secret language that Elly and Nick shared.

"I need to get out of here," Hank said suddenly standing up and making for the door.

Nick followed him out gripping Elly's forearm and thanking her before he disappeared.

"What's going on?" Roddy asked when he and Elly were sitting on the couch and Nick was long gone.

"A couple of my friends were involved in a plan to control their impulses using drugs, it had some bad side effects namely they went berserk and tried to, or did, kill people. Nick and Hank had the case, the other side effect of the drug was that they didn't change back to human when they were dead, and they could be seen by anyone. Hank shot the doctor behind the trial when he was holding some people hostage and saw his Wesen face, saw him change and he didn't believe Nick when he told him it was any of the reasons he was able to come up with so he came here and I showed him what I am."

"Your friends?"

"Some guys I knew who I used to meet up with to talk about how hard it was - a support group basically."

"Are you okay?"

"No," Elly admitted. "But I will be eventually, it's never nice to lose someone and these guys were where I am, if things were different it could have been me trying that drug out."

"You don't take the easy way out Elly; your best friend is a Grimm there is nothing easy about that."

Elly laughed. "Yeah, he is a pain in the arse."

"How about I make you some of that weird coffee you like?" Roddy offered.

"That's okay I'll do it."

"No," Roddy said standing. "Let me okay, I can do it."

Elly nodded and let him go. "There is some pie in the fridge if you want some."

"Do you?"

"Sure," Elly said. "A small slice."

Roddy went through the process of making Elly's coffee, which he'd learned to do when she had been recovering, and then got them both some pie. He sent his dad a quick message saying he was going to be at Elly's for a while. Nick was busy with Hank and Elly didn't need someone to be with her but she shouldn't be alone after losing her friends so he settled in to watch something on TV and eat her amazing pie. He stayed until Nick arrived with a six pack of German beer and a grateful smile when he saw Roddy was still there then left Elly in the Grimm's hands. It wasn't until after he'd returned home that he realised he'd forgotten to ask more about how Rosalee fit into all of this.

TBC...

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