"You're such a pretty girl," Nick smiles near drunkenly at Diana, "Just like your mom." He starts playing with her hair. " My two pretty blonde witches."
Diana giggles as Nick tries to hold the tip of her nose between his thumb and forefinger and move her head from side to side. "What's wrong with Dad?", she asks her mom.
Adalind thinks for a moment on how best to explain to her daughter, and then says, "He got hit with something that's going to make him act a little silly for a while."
Nick had been hit with an honesty potion. He and Hank had been questioning a woman about her link to a large number of Identity thefts. Every single person who had had their identity stolen had been on a date with her a few days prior. The woman had gotten irritated and had woged, revealing herself to be a hexenbiest. Seeing that Nick was a grimm, she had gotten scared and had thrown the only weapon in her possession. The truth potion. Of which, she had used to make all her dates reveal every last bit of their personal information. Of course, that hadn't slowed Nick down one bit and he and Hank quickly got the woman handcuffed and taken in.
But that still left a very honest Nick. Though the potion wasn't deadly, and had worn off after a few hours on those previously affected, there had still been concern. Nick was a grimm, and nothing ever affected him the way it did everyone else, so they all knew they would just have to wait and see what happened.
At the moment, the potion looked like it was affecting Nick the way it did all of the other's, making him seem a little drunk, and causing him to say out loud, whatever he was thinking.
Which was why Hank and Wu were no where around. Feeling it the wiser decision to not subject themselves to a Nick who was even less filtered than usual.
"I like having you back with us. You make our family complete." Nick pulls Diana in for a tight hug, she smiles and huggs him back just as tight.
"I like being back with you guys too, Dad. I like this family."
"We do have a nice family, don't we?" Diana nodded in agreement. "Everyone in our family is very different, but we all fit together perfectly." Nick looked at Adalind and smiled. "My beautiful Adalind. Woman that I love and mother of two really cute kids." He looks back at Diana. "I really love your mom. She's not just really pretty, but she's also very smart. She knows so much stuff. Monroe knows a lot of stuff too. So does Rosalee. And not just the same stuff, but different stuff. I'm very lucky. I'm surrounded by a lot of people who knows a lot of stuff."
"You said stuff, a lot." Diana giggles at Nick.
I did, didn't I, I should probably stop that." Nick gets distracted when Rosalee entered and he blurts out. "You shouldn't be moving around so much. You've just had a litter, you should take it easy."
"I'm fine, Nick." She said, rolling her eyes. Then Rosalee turns to Adalind and says, "I've looked up all the information I have on this truth potion, and it all says it should wear off on it's own."
"But with Nick being a grimm,,," Adalind began, voice full of concern.
"I know, I was worried about that too. But, so far, he seems to be reacting to it as normally as everyone else.
Nick see's the concern that is still on Adalind's face. He reaches out and pulls her onto his lap. Grabbing the back of her head, he pulls her in for a deep and passionate kiss.
Diana, seeing that her mom and other dad are getting all mushy, decides to go see what Kelly and the triplets are doing.
When the couple pull apart, Nick smiles at Adalind. "I enjoy kissing you, and I noticed that you seem to enjoy me kissing you, too. I was hoping a kiss would make you feel better."
"Your kiss always makes me feel better." she tells him softly, a smile and blush spreading on her face.
"God, you are so beautiful. And you're so smart. I love you so much. I'm happy with you. I like the way you are with me. You don't hold back on how you feel. I guess you never did." He twirls her hair around his fingers. "I never expected to fall in love with you. But, I'm glad I did. Nothing is the way I thought it was going to be, but I wouldn't trade what I have now for what I thought I had. I like my life. I like my family." Nick looks into Adalind's eyes. "I really like you." He strokes his fingers down her face. "My angel. My goddess. My nymph. You're so many things to me." He wrapps his arms around her and holds her tight. "You are everything to me."
"You're everything to me too, Nick." She softly murmurs to him. "No one has ever made me feel the way that you do. No one has ever cherished me for my intelligence. Everyone else has only ever wanted me around for my looks or my powers."
Monroe walks in, "He still being honest?" Catching sight of Nick holding Adalind in his lap, he snarks. "Does the potion make you clingy, too? Why are you holding Adalind?"
"I like holding Adalind. She feels good in my arms. Plus, when I'm holding her, I know she can't be taken from me."
"Oh, Nick" Adalind says achingly, cupping his cheek, her eyes going moist.
He places his hand over her's and says, "I can't lose you again. I can't spend anymore time without you in my life."
"Hey" She lays her forehead on his. "I'm yours, forever. I'm never going anywhere, not without you."
His smile is big and bright as he wraps her tightly in his arms again and peppers kisses all over her face.
Monroe rolled his eyes and went over to his wife, who was going over the segment in a large book about truth potions.
"Well, that explains a few things." Rosalee says outloud.
"What?" Monroe asks.
"It says here, that that particular truth potion tends to make a person less inhibited. It's why they are so willing to reveal anything asked of them. If someone has strong feelings of love and affection, they are unable, unwilling, to hold back on expressing how they feel."
"Which explains why Nick is holding on to Adalind and confessing his undying devotion to her." Monroe said with another eye roll.
"Well, we may be in luck. It says here that the potion can leave the system faster if the one infected engages in activities that causes heavy perspiration. Basically, the more Nick sweats, the faster the truth potion will leave his system." Rosalee announces.
"I doubt it would be a good idea to take him jogging. Who knows what he might say to someone passing by." Monroe observed.
"Plus, after that encounter with the cracher de mortal, Nick doesn't get overheated and sweaty from exercise." Rosalee added.
"I get sweaty from being in a hot place." Nick said, overhearing the wesen couple's conversation. "Oh, and when Adalind and I have wild sex. Like when I'm holding back as long as I can so I can make her mmff nmfm"
His sentence was cut of by Adalind covering his mouth with both of her hands.
"I don't think you really want to tell them about our love life, honey." She assures her husband.
"I told Monroe about the first time I slept with you." Nick said matter of factly.
"He only told me that he did, and that he was confused about everything he was feeling!" Monroe shouted, to clarify.
"Monroe's a good person to confide in, about anything." Nick says, nodding his head as if he were agreeing with himself. "I know he would never judge me. And since he is very smart, I know he will give me good advice. He's a good sounding board, too. When I'm just trying to figure things out, He'll give me the pros and cons, but he won't try to tell me what I should do." He smiles brightly at everyone. "I am so lucky to have him as my best friend."
The blutbad's demeanor softens. "I'm lucky to have you as my best friend too, Nick."
Monroe looks at his the two women, "He does this all the time. Just when I think he's gotten on my last nerve and I can't put up with him for one more second. He says or does the sweetest thing, and I just can't stay mad at him."
"It's one of his many talents." Adalind nods in agreement.
"I thought you said one of my many talents was mmmfmmfm"
I really need to get him out of here before he says something that will make it impossible to make eye contact with the two of you ever again." Adalind says to the two wesen, keeping her hand firmly over Nick's mouth.
"We'll watch the kids." Rosalee promised her. "You go take care of your husband."
It was crystal clear that Nick wanted to say something in response, but Adalind refused to uncover his mouth, and quickly dragged him out the door.