Disclaimer: Don't own... wish I did.

Summary: Looking for the strange dog who inadvertantly helped solve the Missing Child case brings Nick face to face with his Grimm destiny. Juliette faces a choice, plunge headfirst into this insane world she is introduced to, or run screaming. And Monroe... Monroe just hopes that all the stories his grandmother told him about the Grimm aren't true.

Notes: I don't know why, but I had to write this.

1. I wanted to see how the tv show would play out of Monroe was a kid, and how that would affect the characters and Nick's interaction with the Wesan world.

2. I wanted Nick and Juilette to have their happy ever after, and for that I needed her to find out early.

3. Please don't kill me!

Chapter 1

Nick pulled his jacket tighter around him and swung his torch towards the dense brush between the trees of the park, hoping to catch some glimpse of his quarry. He could hear Juliette in the distance calling softly.

"Here boy! Come on girl!"

He didn't hold out too much hope of finding anything, after all, the dog they were looking for was confirmed to run away from people. Nick doubted they would have much luck drawing it out of its hiding place.

But he kept looking, just in case.

xoxox

It had started with a murdered college student, and escalated by a missing child.

Since finding Robin's backpack in the woods they'd been doing a full canvass of the entire area, talking with everyone they could, but no one could remember anything odd happening. It was like she had just vanished into thin air.

"There's been a dog hanging round." One old lady told Nick, her eyes sharp behind her glasses. "Big and gangly looking. Follows some of the kids around. Doesn't do anything else, and when anyone tries to touch it, it just runs away into the park. Odd thing though." She said, giving Nick a small shrug. "It seemed pretty intent on the mailman this morning."

"Don't all dogs chase the mailman?" Nick couldn't help but ask.

The lady shrugged again. "Like I said, dog runs away if anyone takes a step towards it, just seemed strange that it was worrying at the mailman like that. He hit it pretty hard with something the way it was yelping." She offered up a small smile. "Sorry Detective. I've been inside or out in the back garden all day doing laundry, the only reason I looked out front was because the dog was making so much noise."

Nick nodded. "Thanks anyway m'am." He said, closing his notebook on her statement and turning to leave. He met up with Hank as he was leaving the next house and they compared notes. "I think maybe we should look into the mailman." Nick suggested.

Hank nodded. "Yeah, he could have hidden her in the van. At this stage we should investigate everything."

It didn't take long to get a warrant to search the mail truck, and a sniffer dog had picked up Robin's scent, and from there things looked to be easy. With a host of officers backing them up, they'd searched the mailman's house from top to bottom and found the terrified little girl in the basement. The fight that happened after was not what Nick had expected. But then, nothing had been really normal since his Aunt Marie had walked back into his life.

But it had ended up alright, with the mailman in custody and Robin back safe at home with her parents.

xoxox

Which did not, of course, explain what Nick was doing in the park, looking for a dog that really didn't want to be found. But he supposed it was inevitable, being in love with a vet, that when he'd mentioned the mailman had hit and possibly injured a dog, that Juliette would insist they needed to go out and check on it.

"It's the right thing to do." She'd insisted over his protests that the dog was antisocial, and while it hadn't attacked anything yet, it might do so when injured. "If it wasn't for it, you wouldn't have even known to look into the mailman."

So he'd armed himself with a torch and gone out looking, Juliette following him with a pleased smile. That had been hours ago, and the predawn light was starting to inch its way into the sky. He was cold and tired and wanted nothing more than to go back home to bed.

There was a small whimpering sound and Nick quickly swung the torch bean round. What he saw confused him for a moment, the sight of pink skin and too wide eyes staring at him. A split second later the whimper turned into a yelp and a body of fur slammed into his legs before scrambling to get away.

Shoving the odd sight to the back of his mind, where the rest of those strange things were being kept until he could really talk with his Aunt Marie, he reached for the dog, letting go of the hold he'd managed to get of his tail when the animal turned and snapped at him. The dog took off, but it was obvious it was injured, it stumbled more than anything and Nick really didn't think he was going to have to chase it for long.

"Juliette!" he called. "Juliette I found it!"

He could see Juliette's torchlight change direction towards him, and he kept his own trained on the dog. He was right, the chase didn't last long, the dog stumbled again and didn't get back up, panting hard and whimpering. Nick stopped just out of attacking distance and waited for Juliette to join him.

"Now what?" he asked.

"Now we sedate it and take it back home for me to look at." Juliette told him.

Juliette inched forwards and Nick tensed when the dog snapped at her, but Juliette pressed on, murmuring reassurances, and the dog gave nothing more than a startled yelp when the needle of sedative Juliette had ready prepared, sank into its back leg. It kicked out and tried to get back to its feet, but it was fast acting and seconds later the dog slumped.

Juliette crowded forward, pressing her fingers to the fur, checking for damage.

Nick's attention was stolen trying to work out exactly how they were going to get the bog dog back to the car when Juliette let out a started scream. Nick tensed again, ready for anything.

Anything, it seemed, but the very young, very human body lying where the dog had been.