The answer to this question for me is always silverhardt, (although I do also ADORE Monroe and Rosalee, don’t get me wrong.) I will be on this ship for years, they have had me since I first watched the show.
They managed to be with each other through all of their troubles…..at least until season 4 (UGH. I WILL FOREVER HATE THE WRITERS.) Although, ironically, I do have a soft spot for Villain!Juliette, it was good to see her rightfully express her anger.
I am glad the later seasons gave them some sort of resolution, even if it wasn’t quite what I wanted for them.
(Also my copy of season 2 uses the phrase “the love of his life” to describe Juliette and I think about that a lot more than I should.)
The fierceness with which these two loved and protected each other just knocks me over every time. They fought so hard to get to a place where they could be honest and protect each other, and I was devastated when the final season teased a resolution for them only to never deliver. But I will never be over the sweetness of the early seasons, the longing looks of the last two, or the sheer euphoria I felt watching Eve relearn how to feel just from being in Nick’s presence (or kick ass from one side of Portland to another on a quest to rescue him). No matter how it ended, like Eve…
This episode!! There’s so much I could say about it. I could talk for days. The whole idea of this other, wilder world, the danger and also melancholy of it. Eve being there because she wants to atone for her mistakes, Nick going after her without a second thought. The two of them fighting side by side in a way we really haven’t seen before, finally equals and on the same page. The fact that they can trust each other like that after everything.
And that painful, heart-rending, cathartic speech Eve gives to Nick, absolving him of everything and assuring him she has no regrets. The fact that she makes the choice–she who has had so few choices up to that point–not to go back to what they were, breaking the love triangle by saying no, that’s not who I am or what I want anymore.
It hurts, my Silverhardt shipper heart especially, but it’s such a beautiful moment for them and for her.
The first time she looks at the ring she’s so excited. Happy.
The second time, there’s doubt. Sadness. I think this scene is where Juliette really fully admits to herself that she and Nick are not okay. That he’s changed.
This is where she realizes she can’t say yes when he asks.
Look, I am NOT writing 130k words of fix-it for grimm again. I’m tired Gandalf. BUT.
Nick is shocked, and hurt, and doesn’t understand
There is no wesen neighbours to save this time, and they talk
Through the night and well into the other day of the romantic escapade, Nick clamping up and getting more and more panicky because what if his aunt was right, was if he got Juliette killed or worse
Juliette getting sadder and sadder and more and more frustrated because she knows, she knows Nick has problems communicating but this is so much worse, it feels like he’s hiding something big, is it because he killed someone? Because his only family died at the same time? Does he feels alone and scared of her leaving?
And Nick sort of blunt out that he’s scared he’s going to get her killed, that everything is different now and he’s afraid their home isn’t safe anymore and he isn’t safe anymore for her
Juliette asks if he saw the police psychologist and Nick kind of… Looks down and grind his teeth because as if that’s going to help
Juliette, now so tired on top of being sad and frustrated, ask what exactly is going to help, because maybe he want to give up, but she’s not yet
Nick swallows hard and tells her if she thinks he’s crazy now, it’s not going to get any better and maybe it’s better if she leave him
Juliette get a little silent at that. He just went from proposing to saying she should leave, and she still doesn’t know why.
So she says ok, fine, hit me up with the crazy, what do we have to loose at this point?
They go to Monroe and Rosalee, Nick insisting that she needs to see or she’ll never believe him
She sees and she believe, because it’s better than going crazy. She understand now.
They still need time. But there’s not secret anymore.
Yes yes YES.
Or even…a few episodes later (and ONE EPISODE before he actually does try to tell her):
Juliette wonders aloud if things like Big Foot might be more than stories.
Nick takes a beat and says…“I want to show you something. But I’ll need someone else first. Give me a minute?”
He calls Monroe and asks him to come over. Tells him it’s time to tell Juliette the truth but he needs help, he needs proof.
Monroe has approximately 2.5 panic attacks, turns around 3 times on the way there, and finally tracks down Bud and makes him come too.
“Why me?” “You’re less scary! No offense.”
Meanwhile Nick goes back to Juliette and tells her she was right, at the cabin. He hasn’t been as open with her since his aunt died. But he wants to be.
Juliette is…a little weirded out to find Nick’s CI/friend and the refrigerator repair guy on her doorstep but she rolls with it. Nick is finally opening up to her, whatever it is at least once its out they can deal with it.
(She’s thinking it could be all sorts of things it is not. Undercover op? Polyamory?)
Nick rips off the bandaid, so to speak.
“What you said about the stories being real? This is going to sound…weird. But um…what if I said they were? What if I could prove it?”
Cue Bud. Juliette is…well. Weirded out. But not too badly. Eisbibers woges are adorable, after all.
Nick explains about Marie. His family legacy. The trailer. Who Adalind really is. Why Bud got so freaked out that time. How he really met Monroe. What was really up with the time he got hospitalized and the time she got kidnapped. How he can see Wesen when they don’t want to be seen.
Juliette is, above all, cool-headed. Logical. Nick picked a moment when they were calm, in a good place. A moment when she was already open to it.
All she really wants to know is: why didn’t he tell her sooner?
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