A/N:
Zootopia is NOT MINE, the only things that I own are the plot and the OC's in the storyThis is my first fanfic so please use constructive criticism to improve the way I present the story, you may also help in the development of the story and I hope you enjoy this fanfiction!
- Nicholas Phillips
Chapter One – FST NML
"All right, all right enough. Shut it!" Chief Bogo walked into the room, in his usual stoic self, apparently to keep his image clear to the officers of Precinct One after the incident with Clawhauser in his office "We have some new recruits with us this morning including our first fox, who cares?"
"Ha! You should have your own line of inspirational cards sir!" Nick said with his usual smirk, riling up the Water Buffalo "Shut your mouth Wilde!" the officers trying their best to suppress their laugh, amused by the fox's attitude towards the Buffalo, trying to focus on Bogo handing out assignments.
"Assignments, Officers Grizzoli, Fangmire, Delgato, Tundratown SWAT."
"Snarlov, Higgins, Wolford, Undercover."
"Hopps, Wilde, parking duty. Dismissed!"
Upon hearing those words, Both Nick's and Judy's happy and hopeful face shattered to a shocked and confused one "Just kidding!" then they both started breathing after realizing the Chief's prank, his face becoming that of a serious one "We have reports of a street racer tearing up Savannah Central, find him, shut him down."
"So are all rabbits' bad drivers or is it just you?" Nick asked, fed up of the way Judy has been driving in the past few minutes, and her response was that of a sudden stop. The fox hitting the dashboard with a pawpsicle sticking on his left eye.
"Oops sorry" Judy said innocently keeping her innnocent farm girl face.
"Hehe sly bunny" Nick said, earning a Dumb fox remark from Judy "You know you love me" Nick said, only to get a reply that he expected.
"Do I know that? Yes, yes I do."
Just as Judy was putting the car back in motion, an orange and white car ran a red light, immediately Nick put on his aviators, pressed the siren button and chased the car.
After a relatively short chase, even for a street racer, Judy got off and approached the driver's side of the car asking "Sir you were going 115 miles per hour I hope you have a good explanation" as the car was rolling down its window Judy threw a shocked face when the driver was revealed to be a sloth, Nick's friend sloth from the Department of Mammal Vehicles.
"Flash Flash Hundred Yard Dash!" Nick said with a rather amused face, expecting a slow response from the sloth.
"Niiiiiick," as of this moment more than a thousand questions were on Judy's head, oblivious to the fact that her mouth was slowly opening, 'How the hell did he drive like that?!, he's a sloth for crying out loud!' 'Maybe he ran the red light because he can't take his foot of the gas fast enough' 'Should I give him a ticket? or impound his car?' 'Should I report to…'
Unknown to Judy, Nick was holding up his iCarrot phone and took a picture of her shell-shocked face, when that was not enough, Nick turned on his camera flash on purpose to grab her attention, which worked like a pistol firing a bullet.
"Nick! What was that for?" Judy asked Nick only for him to smirk and reply.
"That my dear Carrots, is blackmail. Now, I will let you delete it, in 48 hours, BUT, you should by me a Grande size coffee cup from Snarlbucks every morning until then." Judy's face was now steaming red, knowing that she did not have anything to balance the status quo and also because she knows that she has to do anything he has to tell her for the next two days or risk being humiliated in social media.
Going back to Flash, Judy informed Chief Bogo that Flash was having trouble taking his foot off the gas pedal to let him off the hook, he did help them crack the Nighthowler case after all.
The rest of their patrol was uneventful, with Nick trying to keep his mind off what both of them said earlier, 'Does she really love me?' 'Was she being serious about it?' Nick snapped back to reality when Judy asked him, "Hey Nick, I was wondering, where are you going to sleep?"
Nick have a grin, hiding his true reaction. "Are you talking about the bridge?"
Judy quickly replied "Yeah."
"Actually Fluff, I don't live there." Now Judy was shocked again, 'If he does not live there, why was he there when I was looking for him?' as if answering her silent question, Nick said, "I only stay there when I'm planning hustles with Finnick, I have a better place to call home, familiar of a place called 1 Cypress Grove Lane?" Judy only gave him a confused expression, "You know, the place where a decent house? You passed by it en route to the warehouse" Judy still did not know, much to Nick's amusement, he gives up and finally tells her, "Ok Carrots, here's what I want you to do, get your things from your wretched apartment, terminate the contract, and tell me when and where to pick you up. You are officially moving in with me; I don't want my partner to live in an old apartment."
Judy was stunned, he did not know where and how his place looks like, but from the look of things, it sounds better than Grand Pangolin so she quickly responded, "Really Nick?" She asked, trying to get a trip on the situation.
"Yeah, really."
"Thank you." She began to cry, losing her serious stature.
"Oh you bunnies, so emotional." Nick comforted her.
"Okay, okay now, so when and where am I going to pick you up?" Nick asked dead serious about the moving in.
"6:30 PM, Grand Pangolin, don't get lost dumb fox." Judy told him.
"Got it. So where is it?" Nick asked then Judy punched his arm, leaving a pain to last for an hour. "It would be a miracle if I can still drive after that Carrots."
Judy just rolled her eyes, "Bye Nick."- "See ya Carrots, be back in an hour!" and with that, Nick drove off, heading for 1 Cypress Grove Lane.
'Okay, keep your head together, she is going to live with you now, so tidy the hell up!' When he arrived, everything was a mess, old take-out boxes, cans, crumpled papers, and every mess that seems to come from an architect, a very focused architect, an architect of hustles. Realizing that he can't do it himself, he decides to call someone, after all, he does know everyone.
"Zootopia Cleaning Services, how may I help you?"
"This is Nick Wilde; can you patch me in to David Thompson?"
"Yes, Mr. Wilde, Patching you through."
"Dave!"
"What do you want Wilde?"
"Hey now, don't 'Wilde' me, you don't want that info leaked right?"
"Yes Nick. What do you want?"
"I need someone to clean the Cypress 1."
"When?"
"I need it cleaned in an hour."
"Okay, I will be sending one over."
"Thanks Dave, I owe you one bud."
Ten minutes later a cleaning van arrived, and cleaned the place in 20 minutes, now all he has to do is to wait for the time, or at least that's what his mind was thinking, he still has to haul all of the spare furniture he had such as a spare bed, desk, chairs, and even a spare desktop computer, after all that hauling, Nick sat and turned the air conditioner at max, he had only 10 minutes to rest before he has to leave and decide which car to use, either his regular Furd Ranger, or his Custom Built car.
Meanwhile, at Judy's apartment…
'Okay okay, it's all fine now, just wait for Nick to pick you up' Judy thought as she sat in her room waiting, waiting for another 30 minutes before Nick arrives, just as she was about to sleep, her phone rang.
"Hey there Jude, Jude the Dude, how was your day?"
"Oh, just the usual dad, patrols, some pickpockets and also…"
"Wait, why is your apartment empty?" Judy was cut off by a rather protective Stu.
"Oh yes yes yes, I nearly forgot, I'm going to move in with my partner, he offered me a room in his house at 1 Cypress Grove Lane" Judy said, trying her best to not get her parents to overreact.
"Stu, have you ever heard of a place with the address 1 Cypress Grove Lane?"
"Yeah, the fancy mansion!"
"Judy is moving in there; her partner owns the place!"
"Look at you; doing things on your own, anyways since you are moving out, we will give you time to fix things, be careful now, bye!".
'Wow, that phone call could have been much worse, only if they knew about him…' Her thoughts were cut off as her phone rang, it was Nick, she was waiting for her downstairs.
"Hey slick, how long were you waiting here?" Judy asked, unaware of that time that passed.
"Only for 5 minutes, honestly I thought you were still getting ready!" Nick said with a wide grin on his face, amused by the fact that she never wants to be late.
"What a car Nick! I never took you for a modern one, but sweet cheese and crackers this is a tank!" Judy said out loud, not knowing that Nick was already driving to his house.
"So Nick, how did you get this car?" Judy asked, not really sure of the answer she will get, Nick replied "Believe it or not carrots, I found this in a junkyard as a rusting hulk of junk." Judy was shocked, 'How can this shiny car that's built like a tank end up there?'
"Okay fluff, here is the backstory."
"Back then, when I was still making 200 bucks a day, I just had too many, so I decided to invest in a car, the perfect getaway car, but as it turns out, it's better as a luxury ride."
"So one day, after one of my hustles, I came across a junkyard and thought 'Maybe I can find something interesting here.' So I went inside one, then what I saw was glorious, an armored chassis of a Limited Edition Thumper H2 modified for hurricane chasing with an extended fuel tank, it was rusted as hell so I managed to buy it only for 50 dollars, so spent five years, fixing and polishing the chassis, and making a blueprint for a high torque and high speed hybrid engine and created a 7.2 HP engine out of parts from junkyards from Deerbrooke County to Downtown Zootopia, after getting everything fixed, I had a very big problem, the windows were fragile as hell, so with the money, I bought an Armored Bulletproof glass from Armored Firearms in Little Rodentia, that was where I lost 50,000 dollars and that's how I got this 'Tank'."
"But in total, I only spent 78,000 dollars on this beast, and it is worth much more than that as it would seem, it even has the Carrots Seal of Approval judging from your appearance." Nick smirked, apparently expecting a reaction like that from her, after all it was an engineering feat, even the mayor would kill to get a car like his but he can get it only through hard work and sheer determination, finally after what seemed like forever, Judy started talking again.
Judy threw her 'cop face' and asked. "Hey Nick?"
"Yes Carrots?" Nick grinned, knowing about what's going to happen next.
"Do you know that it's illegal to get a car like this? You need to have a license to operate an armored car…"
Judy was cut off by an unamused Nick. "You can find it all in the glovebox."
She gave him a confused face, only to realize about his past. "Of course I can sly fox."
Not long after their conversation ended, they arrived at Nick's house; a staggering house 4-stories high, a garden, a backyard, and a 6-foot fence covering it all, topped with the most advanced surveillance and security system in Zootopia. After all, he is going to need it to put his money somewhere, as transferring them to banks would be dangerous as they could freeze his assets and leave him penniless.
"Wow Nick! You did not tell me about this house!" Judy was very excited to see what's inside.
"Because Fluff, it does not exist in my records, the lot belongs to my grandpa, I just placed a house on top of it so technically, this house belongs to him." Nick explained in the lowest volume he can manage, to not alert anyone nearby as they went through the massive gates. "I'm surprised you're not calling it a fortress, why?"
Judy smirked, "Because I saw the Supermax Prison at Tundratown."
"Ah, but that was designed to not let anyone out, this was designed to not let anyone in."
Judy was stunned, it was everything everyone could have hoped for, a vault, a fallout shelter, and something that Nick claimed could keep out savage animals, "Nick, how long did it take to finish building this house?"
A small sogh escaped the fox, as if he aged five years older. "15 years, I had to scavenge things from local junkyards to save money, I only spent 460,000 on the house because I had to build it myself. I had a very hard time, because I built it at the same time with the Tank."
They rode an elevator and reached the top floor, Nick got Judy to her room and once she hits the hay, she went sound asleep not knowing that she hasn't unpacked yet. Nick silently went to his room and thought, 'Tomorrow is another day.' And with that he fell asleep.
