Board Thread:General Grimm Discussion/@comment-27720018-20160906015503/@comment-33528609-20180924191036

Between S1 and S4 Nick loved Juliette and only her. However, Nick may have loved Juliette/Eve but by the end of the show, he was in love with Adalind. I know some argue against the probability of this but some things in life aren't about how you start, it's about how you finish. By season 4 Nick and Juliette were pushed to the extreme exposing certain truths about who and what they were to themselves and to one another. With or without Adalind, these two would have broken up regardless. Circumstances were pushing them further and further apart.

Hard as it may be to believe but Adalind didn't trap Nick when they somehow ended up together. That didn't happen on the show. Nick falling for Adalind wasn't beyond his capacity to stop it at any given time after finding out he was Kelly's father. He was the one that invited Adalind to stay with him. He was attracted to her and told her so. When Eve returned, he didn't turn Adalind out so he and "Juliette" could pick up where they left off. When Adalind went to live with Sean, he went after her and more than once he confessed to wanting Adalind back in his life, first to Adalind, then to Sean and lastly to his mother and aunt. Nick was the furthest thing from trapped when he had plenty of occasions to be free of Adalind. Just because they shared Kelly didn't mean they had to be together. Adalind and Sean certainly weren;t and they shared Diana. Nick could have worked out a custody agreement with her, if that was what he only wanted. Adalind wouldn't have objected. She didnpt expect much from Nick as it was. I mean why saddle with the woman you despised for YEARS unless you actually love her?

I don't remember Nick (calling) wanting to tell Eve he loved her at all in S5 and certainly not in S6. He called Eve Juliette when she landed in hospital and felt terrible for bringing so much pain and suffering in her life ever since he became a Grimm and he thought she wanted to go back in time and live a normal/problem-free life (re:Grimm-free) when they were in the mirror world. He thought she was miserable as a hexenbiest and he had blamed himself because he's a grimm and remaking him one had cost her her everything.

Nick has thought about his feelings for Adalind since S5. He may have thought he didn't feel too deeply for her separate from her being Kelly's mother but the first episode of S6 showed other wise. He'd found happiness with Adalind and Eve sensed he in fact loved her but he couldn't truly move on with his life because of the deep guilt he felt over Juliette. In the hospital he had the flashback to a warning given by his aunt. Nick had ignored that warning and we know what it lead to. Juliette became a hexenbiest and his mother was murdered as a result. Nick carried a lot of guilt and Eve finally released him from his guilt and misplaced obligation to always protect her and told him so. (I think it's what made her snap in the first place. Nick had switched to fixing Juliette's hexenbiest instead of accepting their new reality. Nick is naturally a protector and Juliette felt abandoned as he focused of correcting a problem he helped to create and no matter the love between the two, the connection was severed.) He would alway care for her and instinctively want to protect her as he'd always done for years. And he thought she wanted to go back in to a simpler time when none of the terrible things had happened because he thought it was what would make her happy but she set him straight.

I think people also forget that in S6 we saw that Eve still had residual feelings for Nick but she saw that their circumstances had changed, she accepted it. Both of them had to let the past go and moved on with their lives.