A/N: Sean is finally let in on what has been happening.
Includes moments from the episodes Blood Magic and Where the Wild Thing Are
*Sean's POV*
"Hello."
"You want to tell me about the stuff our daughter's been drawing." It had had taken a couple of days, but Sean finally bit the bullet and called Adalind. He needed to know more about this secret room Diana had seen.
Adalind paused for a moment. "I don't know what you're talking about."
So, she was going to play dumb. "Oh, no?" Sean said feeling frustrated. "Then I'm on my way over. We can sit Diana down and we can talk about those symbols."
Adalind sighed. "All right, all right, all right, all right." She said. "We don't have to put her through all that. "
"What do those symbols mean?"
Another pause. "I don't know."
"And I think you're lying."
"I don't care what you think, Sean. I don't know." Adalind told him.
Sean clenched his jaw. "I want to see this secret room." No answer. "Damn it, Adalind, our daughter is in the centre of something big."
Adalind sighed. "You think I don't know that?" She asked him angrily.
"Then I need to know everything you know." Sean retorted. Adalind paused. "Now, tell me about where the secret room is."
"You're gonna have to take that up with Nick. Goodbye."
Damn it. Sean had been hoping he could avoid interacting with Nick. He hadn't spoken to the man since that day at the precinct. The two had managed to avoid one another when Nick would come to see Lorelei and the twins. Sean could try speaking to Lorelei about those symbols and the secret room, but since it wasn't her secret to tell she'd more than likely defer to Nick's judgement. Sean sighed. He'd try talking to Nick.
Sean spent a few hours determining how to approach Nick about the symbols and this secret room. Slipping back into the office, Sean sent a photo of Diana's drawing to Nick before calling the man.
"I wanna see the secret room where these symbols are." Sean said as soon as Nick answered the phone.
"Hello to you too."
Sean clenched his jaw. "I wanna know what the hell is going on, and why my daughter is involved in something dangerous."
Nick paused. "Who told you it was dangerous?"
"You show me the secret room, and I'll tell you."
Nick scoffed. "No, it's not gonna happen that way."
"This is my daughter we're talking about, and you're putting her at risk." Sean told him angrily.
"Share what you know. And I'll do the same."
Sean almost threw the phone across the room as Nick hung up on him. Damn it. Why was Nick being so difficult? Surely as a father, he knew where Sean was coming from. Where was this secret room and why couldn't Nick just show it to him? Yet Nick wasn't willing to show Sean the room unless Sean shared what he knew. Sean wasn't willing to share what he knew until Nick showed him the room. Neither man trusted the other. Neither were willing to give him before the other. Sean, again, considered bringing it up with Lorelei. However, he wasn't keen on putting his wife in the middle. Did she even know about this secret room? But, if he did speak with her about it, she may be able to convince Nick to work with him.
Sean spent the remainder of the day debating what he should do. There was a part of him that was hoping Nick would just trust that if he showed Sean this room, Sean would tell him what he knew. He knew Nick cared for Diana, surely, he could put aside his animosity towards Sean for Diana's benefit. Or at least for his sisters. Lorelei adored Diana. Diana was her oldest child. As the hours ticked by, Sean realised that if anything was going to happen, it wouldn't be today.
The man was resting in bed. Lorelei would be joining Amanda to take care of the twins overnight. Sean had tried going to sleep but found himself unable to. When Lorelei returned to the bedroom after feeding the twins, Sean decided to say something to her. Pulling Diana's drawings out of his bedside draw he handed them to Lorelei. "What do you know about this secret room where Diana saw these symbols she's been drawing?" He asked her.
Lorelei frowned, looking at the drawing as she sat on the bed. "I don't know anything about a secret room." She told him as she started shifting through the drawings.
Sean sighed but tried to quell his frustration. "I know the room exists. Nick and Adalind, both confirmed it. I just don't know where. I need to see where Diana saw these symbols."
"Sean. I'm being honest. I don't know anything about a secret room. You seem to know more about it than I do."
Sean looked at her closely. He believed she was being truthful about the room. "What about the symbols?" He asked.
Lorelei sighed. "You really should talk to Nick about this."
"I tried. He won't tell me anything."
Lorelei bit her lip, deep in thought as she picked up one of Diana's drawings. After a moment she sighed. "I know this one is some kind of ancient mapping of the constellations and planets." She told him as she held up the same one, he'd given to Dasha. Lorelei glanced at the others. "These other ones might be the ones Eve drew while in some kind of a trance. I think they're also constellations, how they were represented by different ancient civilisations."
"Where did Eve draw them?"
Lorelei shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe at Nick and Adalind's. She was staying with them."
That was news to Sean. He wasn't sure how he felt about Eve being in such close proximity to his wife and children. Especially considering her history. Evidentially uniting against a common enemy had led to Eve being returned to the fold.
"Are these symbols linked to whatever it is led to the entire group meeting at Nick and Adalind's the other morning?"
Lorelei paused for a moment. "Yes."
Before Sean could ask any further questions, his phone started ringing. As he grabbed it, he noticed it was Adalind. "Adalind?"
Less than an hour later, Sean and Lorelei were entering the back door of Nick and Adalind's place. It seemed everyone was there. Everyone except Nick and Eve. Sean had only been expecting Nick and Adalind. "Well, this is a surprise." Sean said as looked at those gathered. They may have been happy to see Lorelei, but they certainly weren't happy to see him. "Everybody's here."
Monroe glared at him. "Everybody's not here."
"That's why you're here." Hank said in a low voice.
"Let's get one thing straight. I'm only here because of my daughter. My wife is here to make sure we don't kill each other."
Rosalee spoke up. "We're here for Diana as well. And we're for Nick and we're here for Eve."
"Daddy, Mama."
Sean looked up to see Diana standing at the top of the stairs. Sean felt his expression soften at the sight of his daughter. Diana came down the stairs and ran into Sean's arms. "I'm glad you're here." Diana told him.
"Me too."
Diana looked at Adalind. "Am I going to Mama and Daddy's?"
Adalind shook her head. "No, sweetie, Daddy's just gonna help us find Nick and Eve."
Diana looked back at Sean. "That would be good, Daddy. They're in a bad place."
Sean frowned. "Where are they?"
"The other place."
"What other place?"
Diana looked confused at Sean's confusion. "Through the mirror." She said as she looked at Adalind. Sean followed her gaze to the blonde.
"It took hexenbiest blood to cross over." Adalind informed him.
"You got a lot of catching up to do." Monroe said.
Sean nodded. "Yeah, I guess I do." He said slowly, glancing around at the others.
"We'll start with the secret room." Adalind suggested as Sean set Diana on her feet.
Diana frowned. "I thought that was supposed to be a secret."
"Not anymore." Adalind said as she headed to a set of stairs leading down, presumably to the basement. So, the secret room was in the house.
Sean and Lorelei followed Adalind and Diana down the stairs. The footsteps behind them let him know the others were following them as well. Once in the basement, they continued back to what appeared to have been a wine cellar. Monroe stepped forward and moved one of the shelves to the side, revealing a door which he then opened before stepping back. Sean raised an eyebrow. "That is so cool." Lorelei said under her breath.
"How long has this been here?" Sean asked.
"It's possible this was a cellar of an house or cabin that was here long before this area was developed." Monroe answered. "Whoever built this house decided to keep it."
Monroe offered Sean a flashlight. Sean accepted it, turning it on before he took a tentative step towards the room. Shining the light around it, Sean could see the room was quite large and constructed using bricks. He looked back at Monroe. "After you."
Despite Sean insisting Lorelei stay outside, she entered the room. Adalind handed her another flashlight, directing her to shine it on the walls and the ceiling. "Wow, that's a lot of carvings." Lorelei commented, looking around in awe.
"So, that was all here before?"
"No. Eve carved it." Adalind replied.
Sean frowned. "Why?"
"We don't know and neither does she."
Sean looked at Diana. "And you drew these because you saw them here?"
"No, I saw them on the cloth."
"What cloth?"
Diana glanced up at Adalind. "It's a long story." Monroe answered for Adalind. He glanced at Lorelei and Hank who indicated he should continue. "Nick and I found something in the Black Forest."
The Black Forest? "Wait…This have anything to do with the keys?"
Lorelei sighed. "It has everything to do with the keys."
"You got all seven?"
"No, we got five." Monroe replied. "But…It was enough."
Sean shook his head. "I don't believe it."
"Believe it." Hank told him.
Sean looked at Monroe. "You found what the Crusaders buried in the 12th century?"
Monroe smiled nervously. "We did."
"What'd you find?"
There was silence as Monroe glanced up. The carvings in the stone were glowing purple. "Woah." Monroe whispered.
"Me too." Hank added.
"Daddy, do you like that?" Diana asked. They all looked at Diana, her eyes woged.
Adalind looked concerned. "Our daughter is connected to this, Sean. We need to figure out how."
They returned upstairs, Monroe carrying a box he had retrieved from the room. The group gathered around the kitchen island as Monroe opened the box. "That's the cloth, Daddy." Diana told him as Monroe pulled an old looking piece of material out, carefully laying it out in front of Sean. "It has the symbols on it. Eve can see some of them, but only I can see them all."
Sean glanced at her. "The same symbols you showed me in the room?"
"Yes." Adalind added.
Sean peered closely at the cloth, frowning slightly. "I don't see anything." He looked up at the others. "This is what the Grimm Crusaders buried. This is what the Royal family has been looking for for centuries?"
"That. And this." Lorelei said as she reached into the box and pulled out…a stick.
Sean raised an eyebrow. "A stick?" He asked sceptically. "They buried a stick?"
Monroe carefully took the stick from Lorelei. "It gets that reaction a lot."
Hank jumped in. "But there's more to it than that."
"It's not just any stick." Rosalee added.
"For one thing, it can heal." Wu informed him.
Sean looked down at the stick, wondering if they were pulling his chain. This small piece of ancient wood could heal. "The stick saved Monroe after they got back from Germany." Lorelei told him.
"And Eve." Rosalee added.
"How?"
Monroe shrugged. "Nobody knows. The last people who might have known were slaughtered when the Crusaders sacked Constantinople in the 13th century –1204, to be exact. And it's how Nick was able to follow Eve into the…Other Place."
Adalind looked at him. "Sean, if you or your friend know anything about any of this…"
Sean sighed. "I don't know if she does or doesn't, but we're gonna find out. I'm gonna need a computer."
Adalind went to grab her laptop. Sean set it up on the table, taking a seat as everyone crowded around him. Thankfully Dasha was available to take the call.
"I need to know more about this Other Place." Dasha said once she had been briefed on the situation. "Diana, what can you tell me?"
"It's behind the mirrors."
"Have you been there?"
Diana shook her head. "No one should go there."
"Is it like our world?"
"A little. But its full of wild things."
Dasha was silent for a moment. "Schrodinger's Cat."
"Wait a minute, are you talking about that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the posion."
"What are you talking about?" Sean asked.
"Exactly." Dasha said. "Cat in a closed box with poison. 50% chance the cat will be killed by the poison or will survive.
"Right…but because the box is closed, two dimensions exist simultaneously." Lorelei said slowly. "One where the cat is alive. One where it's dead. And as long as the box stays closed, both realities exist."
Dasha nodded. "It's only when we open the box that we close off one of the dimensions."
"So if Nick and Eve went through this other dimension…" Rosalee started to say.
"It'd be like opening the box." Hank finished for her.
"That would not be a good thing." Dasha informed them.
Sean thought about it. "So, if we're alive in this world, does that mean that… in the other place, they're not?"
Dasha shook her head. "Not necessarily. What we consider death in our world is something very different somewhere else. Or, possibly, a pre-life or an afterlife."
"Are you talking heaven-ish, or…hellish?" Monroe asked tentatively.
"Those are just words we use for when we're not here." Dasha replied.
"But someone very bad lives there." Diana added. "It has a scary face."
Adalind spoke up. "It's the skull guy."
Sean looked at her in confusion. "What skull guy?"
"It's who Nick and Eve went to kill." Wu answered looking serious.
The silence was broken by Dasha. "Are you saying that there was someone there with a skeleton face, like, a Koschie?"
Sean looked at Adalind. "You saw this?"
Adalind shook her head. "I didn't see it. Nick and Eve saw it."
"But it tried to pull Eve through the mirror." Lorelei added.
Dasha's eyes widened, and she sighed as she stood up, turning to look out the window. "Sean. Does your daughter understand Russian?" She asked, looking back at them.
Sean glanced at Diana before looking back at Dasha. "No."
"She could be the Shaphat." Dasha informed him.
Sean frowned. "I don't understand."
Dasha moved to sit down again, sighing as she did so. "This skull guy they speak of…could be what we call the devil."
Sean heard Lorelei exhale sharply beside him. "What?!" Sean asked.
"A lot of prophecies predict the coming of a devil." Dasha answered. "Satan, whatever you want to call it. And it was take a Shaphat and make her his bride."
"Son of a bitch." Lorelei hissed.
Adalind leant down and quietly asked. "What are you guys talking about?"
"Just give me a minute." Sean replied just as quietly, turning his attention back to Dasha. "Are telling me he wants my daughter for his bride?"
Dasha's expression was serious. "Yes. And to have a hundred children with her. That is the prophecy."
Sean was silent for a moment, trying to comprehend what she was telling him. "No, no, that can't be right –."
Dasha cut him off. "I am telling you what I know of this. And this is all the help I can give you."
"There must be a way to stop it."
Looking solemn, Dasha shook her head. "You should prepare for the worst." Dasha advised him. Sean could see her eyes were glistening. "We all should. I hope to God…I am wrong."
As Dasha ended the call and Sean closed the laptop, he felt his wife's hand squeeze his shoulder. This was worse than anything he could ever have imagine. Some ancient evil was going to take his eldest as his wife. "So, what did she say?" Adalind asked slowly.
Sean wasn't sure what to say, especially with Diana listening in. "It…wasn't the best news." Lorelei answered. That was one way of putting it.
When Sean and Adalind returned from putting Diana to bed, they found the others questioning Lorelei about what Dasha had said. Lorelei was remaining quiet, waiting for Sean and Adalind to return. Sean came to stand beside Lorelei as Adalind looked at Sean. "Ok, so what did your Russian friend say?"
Sean sighed. "This skull thing is not after Eve and it's not after Nick. There's been a lot of prophecies about something called Shaphat, that's what it's after."
Monroe frowned. "Shaphat is a Hebrew word, isn't it?"
Rosalee nodded. "Yeah, I think it means something like, 'deliverer'. It's from the Bible in reference to Deborah, one of the few female prophets."
"Well, in this case…it means child bride." Sean told them.
"I don't like the sound of that." Hank said frowning.
Sean nodded slowly. "That's why she was speaking in Russian." He inhaled sharply before looking at Adalind. "This beast wants our daughter."
"What?" Monroe cried before putting his face in his hands.
"Well, it's not gonna get her." Adalind said angrily.
"How do we stop him?" Rosalee asked.
Sean shook his head. "She didn't know." He replied.
Rosalee sighed. "Eve found her way into the other place through the books. Maybe we can find a way to stop this son of a bitch."
"There's still a lot of books in the shop." Monroe said his hands dropping from his face.
Adalind nodded. "And my mom's book is at your house with the mirror."
"So we should split up." Wu suggested.
"Sean, Adalind, and the kids should go to our house with Monroe." Rosalee said before holding her hand up as Lorelei went to speak. "Lorelei, you are still recovering and have newborn twins. You need to stay home. Maybe take to the internet, see what you can find." His wife nodded although she didn't look happy about it.
Hank looked at Wu before looking back at Rosalee. "We'll go to the shop."
Adalind started heading towards the stairs. "I'll get the kids."
Sean went to follow Adalind but stopped when Lorelei grabbed his arm. He looked questioningly. "Whatever you do, don't let Diana have anything to do with bringing Nick and Eve back through the mirror." She told him quietly before spinning around and heading towards the back door.
Sean frowned as he watched her go. The others were splitting up, Rosalee following Wu and Hank out the front door, as Monroe turned to grab the box containing the stick and the cloth. Sean wasn't sure what Lorelei was seeing, but her perception was usually spot on. If she said not to let Diana help bring Nick and Eve back, he trusted her thought process.
