A/N: I just fell in love with Zootopia just like so many others and I decided I needed to write at least one story and I got this idea stuck on my head after watching one of the deleted scenes from the movie where Judy accidentally calls her mom after her first day in the force. You should see it before you read this. At this time, Nick and Judy are already partners at the ZPD and dating as well when they visit Bunny Burrow for the first time. Hope you enjoy it because I'm a bit rusty.
It was exactly 3 months since Nick and Judy started dating and 6 months since they solved the Night Howler case. It had been some wonderful months, especially to Nick who enjoyed life at the force as Judy's partner and also his relationship with her. She was one amazing bunny and he cared for her in a way he never thought he would care for anyone, but this dumb bunny sure changed him in a lot of ways.
One day after they were done at the ZPD and clocked out, they were walking back to an apartment they shared just a month before Nick asked her to date him. It was great weather and they smiled as they walked home holding hands. Some looked at them in wonder of seeing a fox and a bunny together, but they often get saluted nicely as being known for their role of keeping Zootopia safe and making a difference for mammals. He was still getting use to it, but preferred this way over being a con-artist who lived on the edge of the law.
"What's on your mind Carrots?" Nick asked Judy as he noticed she was lost in a lot of thoughts. Judy looked up at him, but turned away again as they reached their apartment as she went for her keys. As they got in, Nick gave her a questioned look, but decided to leave it for a while, but she wasn't to get away that easily because he knew something was bugging her and he was pretty much able to get her to tell every time.
When they having dinner later, Nick decided to try and get whatever she was thinking about out of her.
"What is it Judy? You know as well as I that something's on your mind. Tell me, please and say it's nothing because I know you better than it" Judy were looking around trying to get distracted, but when she looked at Nick, she saw a sincere look that softened her and she knew she had to talk to him about it at some point anyways. Plus he was always serious whenever she was called by her real name by Nick.
"I was wondering how'd you feel about meeting my family. You know go to Bunny Burrow to meet them?" That took Nick aback. It's not like he hadn't thought about it as he knew he had to meet them at some point, but he didn't know how they'd react to their daughter dating a fox from the big city or just a fox in general even if they were working together with Gideon Grey back home. Judy saw the half distressed look on Nick's face and feared she said something wrong or maybe pressed him a bit too much even if he had wanted to know.
"Are you alright Nick?" hearing his name brought him back to reality and when he saw it Judy with a distressed look on her face, he tried to think of something quickly to calm her down.
"It's alright Carrots. I was just taken back by that. I have been thinking about it to be honest, but I'm just not certain about it"
"Why?"
"I'm a fox. You're a bunny and you said your parents are a bit overprotective, then how do you think they'd react to us dating? I know from your phone calls you haven't told them" Judy knew he was right, but she wouldn't let that change for feeling towards Nick at all. It was like the time they tried to change her mind about joining the ZPD. She did get through that, she could do this too. Couldn't she?
"That doesn't matter to me Nick. I'll make them see how wonderful a fox you're-" Judy was speaking and as much as it touched Nick, he decided to interrupt her speech.
"It's also just that I don't want to put you in a situation where you feel you need to choose between me and your family. I don't want to cause that" Nick seemed dead serious and it touched Judy knowing he loved her enough to do so. Judy stood up from her chair and walked over to the couch and patted the spot besides for Nick to sit beside her as he happily applied to.
When Nick had settled on the couch, Judy put her paw on his arm as he looked down at her with a sincere smile on his muzzle she kissed his cheek and assured him he'd do fine and she wouldn't mind standing up to her family for his sake because he meant so much to her and as they went to bed, Judy fell asleep very fast and cuddled herself into Nick's chest as she slept peacefully, Nick didn't close an eye as he laid wondering about his life.
Was he overthinking it? How could he avoid it forever if he wanted to stay with Judy? How should he proceed to get on good terms with her family and would they respect him easier with their partnership with that fox back in Bunny Burrow? All those questions ran through his head as sleep finally overtook him.
The next morning, Judy was fresh as ever while Nick was the total opposite. He wasn't much of a morning mammal, but due to him falling asleep faster than usual, it didn't help him at all.
"Morning Nick" first a few seconds after she greeted him, she noticed his closed his eyes once more and she went over and tore off his rouge and she saw him flinch a bit from the warmth of the carpet taken off him.
"Come on, Carrots. Give it back" Nick complained and she noticed his voice sounded extra tired.
"Why so extra sleepy Nick? Problems falling asleep last night?" Nick merely nodded and sat up stretching every muscle of his body. Judy walked over and made eye contact with him.
"Is it because of our talk about seeing my family? Please be honest with me, Nick" Nick nodded, but held up his finger to shut her up before she could even continue.
"I thought a lot about it and I think we should do it. Am I nervous about it? Yes, I am, but I also know we have to do so if we want to make this work out. We can't keep avoiding it forever and I'll just have to put on my charming self and then I can also enjoy some blueberries while we're there. Then they should be bound to love me as you do" Nick was serious at the same time as he was making a bit of a joke of it which was another thing Judy really enjoyed about him. He was just him and that was enough for her.
"I'll talk to Bogo about us getting some time off and I'll then talk to my folks about visiting them" Nick just nodded as they walked towards a coffee shop near the ZPD that they stopped by every morning before duty due to Nick being a non-morning mammal. They reached the counter and were greeted by a camel named Carlos.
"Hi Nick and hi Judy. The usual?" Nick nodded and he yawned. He just smiled at them and prepared their coffees. For Judy he got a café latte and for a Nick a strong cappuccino to wake him up. Nick paid him the 10 dollars he requested and then they walked to the ZPD where they, as usual, were greeted by an enthusiastic cheetah, the one and only Benjamin Clawhauser. He sat by his desk getting his daily morning donuts and waved them over as he did every morning.
"Hi guys!" Clawhauser almost shouted, as they got closer to his desk.
"Hi bro" Nick greeted with a fist bump for the friendly cheetah.
"Morning Clawhauser" Judy greeted politely. Clawhauser turned wide smiled towards Judy who shared his passion for the famous pop singer, Gazelle, and showed her a special contest on his phone.
"There's this competition where you can win a VIP ticket for her upcoming concert. Person greeting and all that! Can you believe it?! It'd be so AWESOME! Judy stood in awe at Clawhauser's news. How awesome would that be? She had never met her in person except for at the peace initiative she held after they found the missing mammals and Judy's unwise words at the press conference. It would be so awesome to just talk to her about more personal stuff and such. She was so jealous at Clawhauser, but she wasn't about to compete and maybe take that chance from him. He was too great of a friend for her to do that.
"Roll call isn't until 25 minutes, so why are you guys so early?" Nick looked at his watch as he saw Clawhauser was right. He looked down at Judy whom winked him as to say she had planned it out already.
"I have to talk to Bogo about getting some time off to see my family. I was thinking about bringing Nick along to meet them for the first time since we're dating and such" Clawhauser smiled even wider and Nick was wondering how he could manage to smile so wide, but it was also very funny and it was Clawhauser after all.
"That's nice. Well shall I say you're coming? He is in his office as I know" Judy just shook her head.
"I'll just go up and if doesn't have time, then I'll talk to him after roll call. See you at the bullpen, Nick" Nick nodded as Judy left for Chief Bogo's office as Nick decided to just stick around and chat to his friends as he had lots of time left before he had to get ready.
Judy stood just outside his office as she knocked the door.
"Come in" she heard a gruffly voice from the other side of the door and she then entered as allowed. Bogo looked down at Judy as she entered the office seeing him with his reading glasses being lifted from his eyes.
"Morning, Hopps. Sit down if you have something to say"
"Morning, sir. I come to request come vacation for Officer Wilde and me. We have 3 weeks to spare and I request to use them" Bogo nodded and looked into his notes and looked down at the papers before turning attention towards Judy.
"You can have as it's really silent at the moment and you two have done a great job on the force. You'll have to wait until Friday though" Judy smiled, not only did they get their request granted, but also being praised by Bogo wasn't something that happened every day, you had to earn that.
"Thanks, sir. I'll see you at roll call" Bogo nodded as Judy exited the office and walked down bullpen to see many of the officers as McHorn, Fangmeyer and Delgato had taken their seats besides her and Nick. Nick had as usually saved their seat at the front row.
A few minutes later, Bogo entered and silent the joking officers and handed out the assignments for the day. Judy and Nick were asked to patrol in Sahara Square for trouble as speeders, thefts or whatever came up as no special rapports had been turned in over the night. They went to fetch the keys for their cruiser at Clawhauser and went out to check out Sahara Square for any sorts of trouble to handle. As they sat in the car, Nick turned to Judy who was focused on driving and keeping her eyes out for any action to grab hold to.
"So how did things go with Chief Buffulo-butt?"
"We get 3 weeks off starting on Friday" Nick was surprised and raised his eyebrows not believing they got off so easily with such short notice.
"He said there wasn't anything mature at the moment and praised our work. Said it was a well-deserved time off" Judy smirked confidently as Nick wouldn't believe it. He just smiled smugly back.
"Of course he did so. We're the dynamic duo. The top of the pub and he knows he can't show emotion. Has to be rough and tough" Judy just shook her head, but couldn't keep her smile off her muzzle due to amusement Nick often made by his snobby attitude.
The rest of the day went off uneventful and they went over to clock out again and walk home as they talked about what to do. Judy had so many people she wanted to introduce him to. Her folks, her 275 brothers and sisters, her uncle and aunts, nephews and nieces and lots of different friends, and especially Gideon, as he was one of the only foxes around Bunny Burrow.
At night, Judy called her mom for Muzzle time and as she picked it up, her mother who seemed as happy as every time, she called greeted her.
"Hi Bun Bun. How's the big city?"
It's great mom. I was wondering if you remember I said I had a boyfriend?" her mother, Bonnie, nodded as Stu came
"Hi Jude the Dude. Are we going to meet him soon?" Judy smiled and nodded. Her parents
"I just got some vacation starting on Friday and going on for 3 weeks and I was talking to him about if he wanted to meet you guys and he agreed, so we were thinking about spending the time with you guys. Can we do so?"
"Of course Jude. Just come as quickly as possible. We'll get ready for you guys to get here. We'll see you then" Judy smiled as they ended the conversation. She really looked forward to see her folks. She turned to see Nick on his phone sitting on the couch as she joined him. She noticed a not amused look on his face.
"Is something wrong Nick?" Nick didn't flinch or turn attention away from his phone as he swiped over updates on Furbook and Judy didn't like it when he did so.
"Why didn't you tell them I'm a fox. Your folks aren't going to use any Fox Repellent on me or something like that, right?"
"I don't know. They really didn't give me the chance as they said they had to prepare for me coming home even if it's not until the day after tomorrow. And don't you worry, my father won't use any of that stuff on you or I'll cut off his tail" Nick grinned a bit at Judy's attempt to play tough and dangerous. She again put her paw on his arm to assure things would be all right as they went for bed. Judy, like always, snuggled into Nick and this time even if he a lot on his mind, he smiled down at Judy knowing she'd keep this promise and fell asleep as he had some sleep to catch up on and he had to get fresh for their vacation. It was going to be a challenge, he knew that already, but it was also a challenge he was ready to take.
This is chapter 1. I was thinking about making it a one shot as my past 2 stories for How To Train Your Dragon, but after consulting my best friend on fanfic, Tangled4ever, I decided to make this more chapters. I really hope to see many reviews as I don't know what to expect from all the stories I've read here, I'd say the numbers of reviews are very different. Take care until next time.
