crack_van | Surrender by Guanin (NC17)

Fandom: GRIMM
Pairing: Nick/Monroe
Length: 24,054 words
Author on LJ:

guanin
Author Website: Masterlist on LJ, AO3
Why this must be read:

Author's Summary: Just when Nick's life is changing, Monroe is attacked by a Grimm, drawing them irrevocably together.

Canon only brings a second Grimm to the storyline on the very last episode of Grimm in Season 1 (which I hope fervently gets explored like crazy next season!). It's canon that Nick is, as aunt Marie puts it, "among the last" of the Grimms, but physically seeing how our moderate Nick would interact with a hard-lined, Marie-like Grimm is just a fascinating idea. We get to see that hard-line Grimm in this wonderful story. Nick and Monroe fight for survival (at least on Monroe's part) when such comes to Portland. Nick buts heads with this hard-assed woman and Monroe just tries to survive the encounter.

Nick and Monroe get together over injury recovery (so there's the ever popular h/c quotient!). This is also a fic that delves into Monroe's not-so-reformed past. It's only hinted at in canon that he wasn't always reformed but never anything explicit. Not so here! We get names of his past victims, histories, and really get our eyes opened to the Blutbad within. It's pretty fascinating, actually, to see this much depth to the Monroe character.

So, a wonderfully written Monroe/Nick get-together, Grimm-on-Grimm interaction, a suspenseful survival story, and introspective character study. Everything a Grimm fangirl/boy can ask for. :)

Surrender