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Nick ... in another long night he would spend alone awake in his bed while the cold air breezed in through his open window he left open on purpose he would think. Think of all he could have had if he wasn't a fox, all the happiness, the joy, the love. It was something a Fox wasn't allowed to have; a fox wasn't supposed to come home to his mother and say I passed all my classes I'm going to graduate. A Fox isn't expected to say I'm going to university to follow my dreams. No, I fox is supposed to come home to his mother disappointing her not having the courage to tell her you're sorry that everything fell apart, a Fox is expected to walk away from his loved ones when all they ask of him is to be hugged to know they still care. A fox is supposed to be alone and has no one while his life dwindles away and all hope of finding someone who can care for the emotionless, red furred, beast dies.

He would close his eyes while tears fell from them the thoughts changing from what he could have had to what he should have been for his mother. How he cried as he hated himself for not being there as she lost who she was, how he wasn't there when she got sick and died. How to this day he avoids the street with the cemetery where his mother is buried because he can't make up the courage to go say to a tombstone that he loves her so much and he's sorry for never being there. How he wishes he could go back and change it.

Then as Nick drifts off to sleep and the tears dry on his cheeks he dreams of her before he lost everything, when they had no money, but they were happy, and they loved. He dreams of a time before he was nothing more than what the world sees him as, a good for nothing lowlife fox.

Judy ... in her new bed for the second time tired ready to sleep but can't because she's too angry at some fox who took advantage of her. Hating that she could be so dumb to fall for his tricks, but also hating herself for thinking that she could have ever have been more than just a bunny, her first day proving that.

She sheds a tear as her dreams are crushed and thrown away by the very animal she works for by her parents when they said they were so glad she wasn't a real cop. How it turned to anger when she thought how can they be so heartless and not care that she wants to be something more than just a carrot farming bunny. How she hated how much what that stupid Fox said was beginning to become real to her.

She turned to her side and pulled the blanket over herself, closing her eyes while she tried to get some sleep so she could go back to work and be nothing more than a meter maid.

The Fox and the Bunny, one hated by himself and other, the other seen as useless and weak. They would need each other not wanting it to be true but does it ever becomes more real when the Fox finally takes a stand and helps out the little Bunny who is too afraid to help herself. How the trust they built the bond they made is broken by the words of her, how he hates her, but doesn't want to. When she comes back begging for forgiveness, does he want to grab her and hold her tight because as much as he denies it in his mind his heart screams I need you to fix me because what I feel is something that can't be denied? How he wants her to save him and when they saved the world they saved each other.

Both of them wanting to become something more to each other, too afraid to say it fearing that the other would reject them. How they were wrong, when their feelings took over what they wanted began to grow what they were to one another became so much more than friend or partner, how it became lover, husband, wife.

Nick ... no longer alone in his bed having the bunny he cared for so much by his side holding her tight. his thoughts wondering how they always did before bed, he thought of how happy he was, how all his pain was falling away every day the closer he became to Judy, his wife. Being able to open up to her letting out all the darkness that surrounded his past, how she helped him, comforted him. Nick thought of how Judy held him in her arms while he cried in front of the tombstone that read, "Maggie Wilde." After he poured his heart out to a rock, it only being important for who it represented. Nick thought of how Judy forgave him for all the bad he did, all the pain he let happen, knowing his wife could forgive him, made him understand that his mother would do the same.

Judy ... beside her Fox, Nick, she laid there staring at him while she thought of how lucky she was to have run into him, how lucky she was to have fallen in love with him, and how he was able to fall in love with her. Judy slowly began to drift off to sleep as she thought of how she had proven to the world she could be more than just a carrot farmer, but that it wouldn't have been possible if it weren't for the same Fox who told her that she was never going to make it.

They fall asleep knowing that all they would ever need was each other, that the world, the city they both swore to protect could never tear them apart, that they would do whatever it took to keep each other safe, anything for the other.