Story Title: A Bitter, Better Truth
Fandom: Grimm
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15756336
Summary: He could still feel it, just under his skin - the force and the rush of it, and more than that, the way he'd let himself fall into it, resisting not at all. Letting go - that had felt better even than the clarity of anger, a release without shame or destruction, without collateral damage.
It had been a sham, of course. The collateral damage had been himself.
In A Draught of Deep Desire, a Zaubertrank made them do it. This is the aftermath.
Warnings: References to Past Noncon
Characters: Nick Burkhardt, Sean Renard, Juliette Silverton, Rosalee Calvert
Content tags: Magic Made Them Do It Aftermath, Sex Magic Aftermath, Slow Burn, UST, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Pairings: Nick Burkhardt/Sean Renard

When I Started: Once upon a time, back in 2016, I wrote a treat for smutswap which was supposed to be "magic made them do it" plus some aftermath.
How I Lost My Shit: The aftermath got away from me, and I didn't finish it for SmutSwap - or at all, because every time I went back to it I ended up with more ideas and more words (and once, a short interlude fic), but never with a workable structure.
How I Finished My Shit: I fought like hell with it this time, too, and I don't think I would have defeated it without the wipbigbang deadline, but deadline pressure did it in the end, so here we are.

Many thanks to shopfront and wojelah for their help, and to mekare for the fantastic cover artwork.

Art Title: A Bitter, Better Truth
Fandom: Grimm (TV)
Warnings: none
Medium: watercolour, markers and digital text
Link:
Bragging Rights: I'm pretty happy with how this turned out, I did a lot of experimentation during the process, especially regaridng colouring to convey the right mood. It was a pleasure to do art for asequel to a fic that I remembered well and got to see how it continued!
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