Life became more hectic.
Nick and Adalind's entire world revolved around was a small helpless little thing. And she was deeply loved.
Grimm duty was set aside so Nick could focus on daddy duty.
There were times he would get up in the middle of the night, just staring at Adalind and Diana. They were his two remarkable ladies.
Nick had never felt happier in his life.
But that happiness was short lived when a news station shared a report that he was a corrupt cop.
The story included accusations that he had been overly aggressive with those that he was arresting.
The report went to say that he had even planted evidence to justify many arrests.
The clip of the report was uploaded to social media. Soon, the whole thing spread like wildfire.
The DA's office, the Mayor's, the Chief of Police, and Captain Renard's office were bombarded with calls to fire Detective Burkhardt and lock him in jail.
A conference was scheduled.
"There are a lot of corrupt cops, but Burkhardt is not one of them." Renard announced with all of the power and authority in his being. "Not once in his entire career has he ever shown to be anything other than honorable and upstanding. His record is public. Everyone can see for themselves that the only people who have accused him of planting evidence, are those with far too much evidence against them for it to have been logically planted. As for the accusations of excessive force, consider those that have accused Burkhardt, are all rapists, child abusers, and those with a long history of committing violent crimes. Those are not the type of individuals who come along peacefully when placed under arrest."
The DA stepped forward. "My office has looked at Detective Burkhardt and found him to be nothing short of respectable. Therefore, we will be looking into the news station that aired the story falsely accusing him of corruption. An organization licensed as a news source and reporting unfounded information is illegal. We fully intend to prosecute them to the highest extent."
As it turned out. The news station manager knew nothing about the story. The first time anyone had heard of Officer NIck Burkardt, and accusations of corruption, was when it was read on the teleprompters.
Those that usually fed the information into the computer, claimed to have been given the report by a woman who they knew to be one of the researchers on staff.
Her name was Reagan Montgamery. Who just so happened to be a former friend of Juliette's.
At first, it was assumed that she was getting revenge on Nick due to Juliette being locked up.
However, in the interrogation room, when questioned, she had shouted,
"It's not fair! It was my turn to be with Nick."
Nick wasn't doing the interrogating, but he was watching from the other room. Curious to know what was going on, he called another friend of Juliette's, Michelle Tomerson, and asked what she knew about what Reagan was talking about.
"Reagan has always been interested in you, Nick. But you didn't seem to notice."
She went on to elaborate on the times Reagan had gone on drunken rants during girl's night, after Juliette had left.
"Reagan had shown up at your house. Wearing a sexy dress. Carrying a bottle of wine. But was informed by your neighbor lady that you weren't home. She tried again the next day. That time, you were home, for about five minutes. Just as she was offering to pour the two of you a glass, you got a call, and had to leave. I think there might have been a couple of times when you had company. Then you never seemed to be home. She tried you at your precinct. But never caught up with you.
When she discovered that Juliette had returned, she thought for sure that she had to wait for Juliette to mess up again. But then we found out you were with a blonde woman, a powerful lawyer, who was pregnant.
Someone shared with her a post of you and the blonde, standing together, holding a baby. The smiles on your faces were so bright. It was obvious that you had found happiness.
That's when Reagan lost her mind. They could probably hear her screaming all of the way in Portland, Maine."
"She is certifiably insane." Wu deadpanned.
"She has a lot in common with my first wife." Hank observed out loud.
"She's going to be going to jail for a good while." Renard's tone was even. He didn't raise his voice. Nick didn't see him woge. But there was still an air of danger and menace around him, that had many giving him a lot of space.
"It looks bad for him, having a corrupt detective under his watch." Adalind explained to everyone during the group's dinner. "He wants everyone to believe that he is all seeing. All knowing. That the very second someone under his domain acts inappropriately, he would put an end to them. When that bitch tried to ruin your career, she was putting a blemish on Seans. He's not just going to let that go. I would almost feel sorry for her, if she hadn't tried to hurt you."
"You didn't have a clue that she was interested in you?" Rosalee asked. "You're normally so observant."
"I remember seeing maybe a handful of times while I was dating Juliette. I didn't think it was important to pay attention to her, so I didn't. Whenever she came around, after Juliette left, I got a sense she was interested. But I wasn't ready to move on from Juliette, yet."
He stared off at nothing for a moment, then recalled something.
"She's not my type, anyway. I just remembered her saying once, at a party, that she didn't want kids."
"She obviously didn't know you all that well." Monroe laughed. "From the first second I met you, I knew kids were a major priority to you."
"That doesn't really count. He knocked down your door looking for a kidnapped little girl." Freddie reminded his sister's boyfriend.
"What I'm saying is; she wasn't interested in Nick as a person, or else she would have known they weren't compatible."
"She probably didn't care." Adalind pointed out. "Nick is a good looking guy. That was probably the only thing she was focused on. And if he treated Juliette as well as he treats me, it would be understandable that she would want him as hers. Completely ignoring of course anything that he wanted."
"Psycho and selfish. Sounds like your ex. No wonder you weren't interested in repeating that mistake." Freddie observed.
"I wonder if they're going to put Reagan in a cell with Juliette." Wu thought out loud.
Nick didn't care what happened to Reagan. Just like with Juliette, he was more than happy to put her out of his mind.
He knew that, even if he hadn't been mourning the break up with Juliette, he would have never been with Reagan.
She wasn't his type. And he wasn't the kind of guy to go out with his ex's friends.
He had wanted a fresh start. And he had found that with Adalind.
She had been there for him as much as he had been there for her. She had comforted and assured him everytime things had turned upside down. Her belief in him was strong.
Adalind was his sanity, and his comfort.
Knowing that he had her and Diana in his life kept him from spiraling.
The false accusation and the hate he received after the story went viral would have destroyed him, if it wasn't for the love and support he received from Adalind.
He might have gone out and done something very stupid, if he wasn't holding Diana in his arms.
Looking at the baby's face, how she was sleeping peacefully, putting so much trust in him to keep her safe, made him able to stay calm and be the father she deserved.
His life would be nothing without Adalind and Diana. So it was time that he made it clear he wanted them in his life till the day he died.