Fortune favors the well prepared

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Adalind rubbed her swollen belly and scowled as Prince Kenneth dripped scorn and disdain upon her head.

Nobody cared one whit that she had gotten this way because of THEM, doing exactly what they sent her to do.

But, she did learn the one certainty in the Wesen world: Everyone hates witches.

She was still a witch, though.

They had something she wanted - the resources to recover her daughter.

She had something they wanted - Leverage over all the people in the world who could connect The Royals with the woman who had her child.

And so she made her deal. Distract The Grimm and turn his now-Ex-girlfriend. In return, she would raise her daughter in the castle, under full Royal protection. She would receive protection from The Grimm, his crazy girlfriend, and anyone else who wanted her dead...

She had finally smartened up. Taken stock of who and what she was, as well as her strengths and weaknesses.

Weaknesses:

-Not an assassin. That always went badly.
-Not a physical fighter.
-Spells and potions - same, train wreck every time.

Strengths:

-Able to manipulate anybody she wanted to. In fact, witching and manipulation was literally her day job, and she excelled at it.
-Able to attach herself to men at will. It literally did not matter one bit who it was, even the crown prince.
-Able to manage her emotions situationally. She excelled at being the person you wanted her to be.
-Her looks
-Juliette already hated her
-And last, a strange one for a Hexenbiest... She was surprisingly fertile. She was on Number Two when the average Hexenbiest never made it past number one. In fact, had she never actually met another Hexenbiest who had more than one child.

This deal was different. She carefully took stock and worked it out to her benefit. She had ten ways to succeed, and zero ways to fail.

And the plan was deliciously simple. It lacked the gordian complexity and Rube Goldberg-esque million moving parts of The Royals typical schemes and her own prior machinations. All she had to do was:

-Be pregnant with Nick's baby - Check
-Juliette turned into a spiteful and revenge driven Hexenbiest - Check

The only thing left was to throw herself at Nick's feet, and witch him crosseyed until he didn't know which way was up. The rest would take care of itself. Juliette would wind up and go sideways, then she would simply step back and be the damsel in distress.

Nick's softspot for Damsels in distress coupled with Juliette's all encompassing rage and spite would take care of everything.

And so she needed the hook to catch Nick. She had the baby, but she needed another ace up her sleeve. The promise of fixing Juliette - perfect.

Luckily, The Royals had plenty of old-school Hexenbiests on retainer, who knew scores of ancient potions, but it had to be exactly the right one... The sort which would sound promising but promise nothing, and it had to guarantee driving Juliette into a white hot rage... She needed a potion which, at the same time, would cast herself at Nick's feet, the helpless girl carrying his baby..

She smiled as the plan hatched in her mind, and she knew exactly what she needed.

The Royals or Nick would protect her from Juliette, and she knew Juliette didn't want to raise her kids anyway.

The Grimm's mother already had her daughter, so attaching herself to Nick ensured that took care of itself. Giving his mother an actual grandson would only sweeten the deal further, if Grandmother Grimm survived.

If The Royals secured Diana - of course she would simply wait till things quieted down and then they would retrieve her. She could probably bring Nick and the baby along. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy, with the icing on top of her very own Grimm, giving Sean Renard that one last middle-finger-salute.

If The Royals killed The Grimm, she got a return trip to Vienna with her daughter and baby.

And if The Royals failed - she was still the pregnant damsel groveling at Nick's feet... The Grimm and his friends would provide a soft place to fall back on.

The only wildcard was Juliette, and Kenneth's job was to ensure Juliette found a place for herself once Adalind did her job, driving Juliette straight into his arms. He understood results, and would do whatever it took. Barring that, she had to send Juliette at Nick and not herself.

And, well, dealing with deranged Hexenbiest ex-girlfriends comes with the territory. It wasn't the first time she had driven another Hexenbiest into a white hot rage over a man, and it wouldn't be the last...

But since Juliette was the wildcard, she had to do the dirty work some place safe. Some place where Juliette wouldn't risk killing her. Some place she would receive protection. And she knew exactly where that place was.

And so she spent the rest of the week focusing her powers, prepping a story, connecting with old Hexenbiests in Austria, and getting everything exactly right. She planned the whole thing out carefully, and then waltzed right into Sean Renard's office in the Portland Police Precinct and dropped an atom bomb.

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Adalind, S04E19 Iron Hans