Judy walked along the street swinging her baton in a circle looking around. The city of Zootopia was a somewhat quiet place with all the predators wearing tame collars. Tame collars were designed to give the predators a good shock if they gave into their anger, and that kept them in line for the most part. Of course there were a few times when the predators somehow got the collars off a wrecked a good amount of havoc. Judy rounded the corner and saw Nick selling his pawpsicles to passing animals. She walked up to him and glared at him.

"Wilde, what have i told about selling your pawpsicles?!" Judy asked him, very annoyed.

"I have a permit and license to sell them Carrots." Nick replied as he continued to hand them out.

"I warned you that I would shut you down if you didn't heed my word." Judy replied.

"Like you did the past seven times?" Nick asked her as he sold the last of the pawpsicles. "Once again sweetheart, this is called a hustle."

Nick easily started packing up his stuff and prepared to roll his cart away until Judy put herself in the way.

"What is one little bunny gonna do?" Nick asked her.

"Nick Wilde, you are under arrest." Judy replied.

"You have nothing against me officer." Nick retorted as he went around her.

As he walked away Judy ran to catch up with him but as he rounded the corner she lost him. She looked down the alleyway and run down the street but he was nowhere to be found. Judy cursed to herself as she made her way back to the ZPD.

"Hey Judy." Clawhauser called from behind the reception desk.

"Hey Clawhauser." Judy replied, forlorn from losing Nick once again.

"Whats wrong?" Clawhauser asked her.

"The fox got away again." Judy replied.

"Whats up with you and Nick?" Clawhauser asked her.

"He just acts so smug; like he knows he has us beat." Judy replied.

"He kinda does Judy." Clawhauser replied as he wiped the sweat from his fur right under his tame collar.

"I don't see why they make you and some the other officers wear tame collars." Judy told him. "It puts a lot of the best police officers behind desk, due to it amount of hindrance upon their ability to do their job."

"Its mandatory." Clawhauser replied.

"Its utter stupidity, thats it; nothing less." Judy replied.

"I wonder what Nick is up to?" Clawhauser thought out loud.

"Wherever he is he better hope I don't find him." Judy replied.

Nick had stashed away his cart and supplies before climbed the stairs to his forth floor apartment. He opened the door and looked around the rundown apartment with peeling and moldy wallpaper, severely chipped tile, and definitely no heating or air conditioning. He grab a thin quilt of random patches of fabric and wrap it around his shoulders as he walked to his fridge. He open it and took in what he had to eat; which was barely anything. He grabbed a tub of blueberries and a half full jar of beet puree.

"Blueberries and beet again it seems." Nick told himself. "Oh joy."

Nick sat down on his ragged couch and popped a few blueberries into his mouth as he smelled the beet puree. Oh dear lord how he hated beets by now, but they were all he could come along other than the blueberries. He poured some the puree into his mouth and almost ended up throwing up but he forced himself to swallow the stuff. After he finished the puree and a fifth of the blueberries he laid down on his couch and fell to sleep; dreaming of eating a filling meal and living somewhere with heating.

Judy looked up at her ceiling as she lay in her bed after video chatting with her parents for an hour or so. She didn't understand how Nick had gotten away; it was like he vanished or something along those lines. Though she could focus on it right now because she had been assigned to help protect a cash convoy that was to make its way to the bank in the rainforest district. While she thought about that she slowly drifted off to sleep.