Chapter 26

"What the hell" Sean said and was about to turn towards Nick but before he could even react to he saw Nick walk quickly towards Katherine and with a zip he extended the wire from around his wrists and started strangling her.

"Do not move, do not make a fucking move" Nick spoke in a tone of aggression while looking at Sean who was about to reach for his gun inside his coat and tightened his grip on Katherine making her cough and hold her neck on desperation.

With a kick to the back side of the knee, Nick made Katherine drop to her knees and continued to tighten his grip. "Do not struggle or make a single move or I'll snap your pretty neck, you bitch".

"No, no…. Dont, don't kill my mother, please" Adalind only managed to react now. She was so shocked by the sudden turn of events that she froze. Looking at her mother being held by her neck and looking at how much her mother was struggling to breath, Adalind's eyes teared up. She was not used to violence as she had focused only on studies throughout her life. This was the first time she ever came near violence and the person who was the target of violence was her own mother. 

This scared her, she did not want to lose her mother, despite her mother's actions always disappointing her, she knew that her mother, in her own twisted way cared for her. 

"You, go get his cuffs from his room and quickly cuff him, also bring two more ropes and make it quickly. I don't have the patience to deal with your outburst. Be fast or else you will return to see your dear mother dead". Nick scared Adalind, making her scamper inside Sean's room and brought two handcuffs and a zip tie. 

Sean could only watch helplessly as his hands got cuffed by Adalind. He tried to do a trick to escape the cuff at a later time to launch a surprise attack and wanted Adalind to assist him, but Adalind didn't dare do anything that could threaten her mother's life. 

"Give me the other cuff" said Nick and released his grip from Katherine's neck making her fall to the ground gasping for air. The wire was too tight making her face go purple from lack of oxygen. The only reason she was able to keep her consciousness was because Nick didn't tighten his grip. 

Her vision was blurry and her head was all messed up and before she could gather herself she felt her hands being cuffed and dragged to sit on a chair. 

Gathering herself she saw Sean seated on another chair opposite of her with his hands behind the chair, obviously cuffed just like hers and saw her daughter seated to the left of her with her hands zip tied. 

Just as she planned on escaping the cuff by expanding the cuff using telekinesis, she felt a stab on her neck and a sense of helplessness washed over her mind when her body became paralysed.

"No, what did you do to my mother? You said you wouldn't hurt her" Katherine heard her daughter cry.

"Relax girl, I just tranquilized her. She will be alright in a few hours" Nick said. Nick felt kind of bad right now as he looked at a tear filled Adalind watching him with a grievance. This was completely different from the Adalind in the Grimm's first season. 'Is she capable of changing so much in such a short period of time?'.

Clearing his thought, Nick glanced at Renard in a cold manner and said,

"Go on, shoot it. I know you have questions to ask me".

"Do you think you can escape from this? You have taken a police captain into custody. So let me give you a piece of advice, release us and I'll turn a blind a blind eye to this indiscretion". 

Despite the strong and arrogant words from Sean, he couldn't hide the tremor in his voice. He knew that he was bluffing. A guy like Nick, with his skill set, is more than capable of making people disappear without any trace. But he doesn't have much choice. Making Nick believe that he has a contingency plan was the best course of action.

"Wrong choice of words my friend, wrong choice of words" said Nick and before Sean could even react, he saw Nick pull out Sean's gun which he had confiscated, walked over to him and placed the barrel on his right temple.

"You see captain, you are a right handed and all I have to do is pull the trigger. The burn marks will indicate that you were shot with a gun against your temple. Cuffs won't leave any marks on your hands and this will make them think why was the captain not struggling if he had a gun against his temple. The cameras in this apartment building are all connected to a central server and all I have to do is hack into it and create a loop, just a glitch to make me dissapear from the cameras. The only loophole would be your maid Patty, and nothing like drowning her in the ocean and there won't even be a corpse to investigate.

Now comes the question what wil the police think in this situation?".

Nick grazed Sean's skin against the cold barrel and brought it down to Sean's chin.

"Go on, I asked you a question".

"They either think of it as a suicide or that someone else had killed me and made it look like suicide".

"Yeah, that's right. Now comes the suspect. You see I'll make sure that in the autopsy it will turn out as murder. I'll inject you with a tranquiliser just like I did it with the bitch opposite to you, then I'll steal all the money and jewellery that you have in the house. If I don't remember it wrong, the maid carried a bag when she left your house. I'm sure that it was the things which she carried around for work. But the police will not think it that way. She will end up as the prime suspect, but no matter how much they search, she will not be caught. Bizzare, right? This will end up as Maid murders the Captain of Portland PD. I'll make sure that I personally lead this investigation, give an emotional speech and after everyone leaves, I'll make sure to take a piss at your grave. I'm sure I would have missed something, but I'll make sure that they never get to the light of the day".

There was silence in the hall. Everything was so silent that the sound of heartbeat and ticking of clock seemed to sinchronise.

"Well, how was it? Impressive right. Murder mystery of Police captain" Nick gave a cold smile while pressing the gun against Sean's temple and looked at Katherine who couldn't do anything but show fear through her eyes. Adalind was officially bawling her eyes out. She seemed to have taken a mental hit and was shaking and groaning, trying her best to not let a sound lest the madman before her turn his attention to her. Snot ran down her nose making her loose all her beauty.

"What do you want?" Sean finally broke his silence.

"Oh, finally a right question. Well I was just joking with you. I won't kill you after all I do not have any need to. You see, this past year I haven't been idle. After gaining my Grimm powers, I developed a healthy dose of paranoia. I failed most of the men in our precinct just to see who were Wesen and who are not. That's when I came across many ancient and illegal stuff which the Wesen still take part in. One such form of entertainment was the Lowen games". At this point Sean's face turned green. He knew he was caught.

"Guess who I found at the VIP seats of these Lowen games? Police captain Sean Renard, judge of Oregan judicial department Stancroft and some famous Wesen business men in Portland. I don't think I need to tell you, that if this ever gets out, you are fucked mate. At this point I had diligently started to tail you and the more I failed, the more I knew about you, Mr. Bastard prince of Kronenberg".

Sean's face went blank. He did not expect that Nick would find out everything about him. Just like Nick had said, he had a part in the Lowen games and was receiving a cut from the profits made by Leo Taymor in exchange for protection. Not only him, but many businessmen will get caught if this ever gets out. 

'Why is he saying this to me? What does he want? At this point I don't care if he is not my ally, it would be enough if he doesn't turn into an enemy. I'm at a critical stage of my planning to return to my rightful throne. My mother's promise. I'll fulfill it no matter what. Anyone who stands in the way will be killed and if they cannot be killed, I'll make sure to satisfy their needs'.

Sean made up his mind and so did Nick. Just as they were about to enter the final stage of negotiation, a trembling yet soft voice came from Adalind.

"What about us?".

This made Sean and Nick turn to look at Adalind and a paralysed Katherine.

With a strange smile Nick asked "Good question".