A/N: Here is a sneak-peek (and the first chapter) of my new fan fiction, "Back To December." I'm doing something different with this fiction. I'm basing each chapter off of a song. A lot of them will be based off of country songs since I listen to country music, but not all of them.

I'll let you know that updates will come a LOT slower. I'm starting school in a week, so don't expect an update every few days. You'll be lucky if you get a chapter once a week. So…just give me time. Updates will be slower, but PLEASE bear with me.

Enjoy this first chapter!

(This chapter is based off of Deana Carter's song, "How Do I Get There?")

1

How Do I Get There?

Judy Hopps lay wide awake on her bed every night, thinking about the kiss that she gave to Nick Wilde. She just couldn't control her feelings anymore. She didn't know if Nick felt the same way that she did, and sometimes she got embarrassed thinking about the kiss. Every once in a while, she wished that she hadn't kissed him. She hadn't meant to express her feelings for him so quickly. Maybe she should just lay low and make him think that it was just a friendly kiss. But they both knew that it wasn't. Especially with the way she kissed him.

It had been a week since her kiss with Nick. He always gave her a warm smile at work and she tried hard to hide her blush. They didn't talk too much, but their work was pretty busy. Especially since Nick had to catch up on a lot of his work that he missed when he was sick with rabies. Chief Bogo had let him go pretty easily, but he hadn't let his work go easily. Nick was a busy fox.

It was Thursday morning, exactly 8 days after their kiss. Judy ran into the ZPD with a bright smile on her face. The late summer morning was beautiful with the light shining through the white, puffy clouds. She walked up to Clawhauser and handed him a box of doughnuts.

"Hey, Clawhauser," Judy greeted. "How are you today?"

"I'm great, Judy," he grinned. "But what's the special occasion. Your attitude and this box of doughnuts are making me suspicious."

Judy giggled. "Nothing, Clawhauser. It's just a wonderful day and I did promise to give you doughnuts last week."

"Oh, yeah. I guess so," he said. "I think that you're supposed to be in the bullpen right now."

"Really?" Judy's eyes lit up. "Do Nick and I have an assignment today?"

Clawhauser shrugged. "I don't know, but I'd go and check it out."

"Okay, thanks!" Judy jogged off towards the bullpen but waved at Clawhauser before fully turning around and jogging faster towards the bullpen.

The bunny entered it and got many greetings from the fellow officers. Hermit grinned at her and winked. Judy blushed and waved at him. They had become good friends ever since he saved her and Nick.

Judy found Nick sitting in their usual chair in the bullpen. She climbed up into the seat next to him and sat up tall.

"Hey, Carrots. What's up?" Nick asked.

"Good morning to you, too," Judy replied. "I hope that we get a good assignment."

"Me too," Nick said. "I wanna go kick some badass butt!"

Judy giggled. "Yeah."

Then Chief Bogo walked in. He eyed the officers carefully before clearing his throat.

"Good morning, officers."

"Whoa, did he actually just greet us?" Nick whispered to Judy.

"Shh!" she hissed, listening to what the chief had to say. Meanwhile, Nick ignored most of it and waited to hear what the assignments were. His ears perked up and his mind drifted away from his thoughts when he heard his name called.

"Officer Wilde and Officer Hopps, speeding patrol."

Nick sighed and slid off of the chair after Judy did. "At least it's better than nothing," Nick said to Judy once they were outside of the bullpen.

Judy nudged him with her elbow. "Hey, it's not too bad," she replied. "It's kinda fun, considering we can kind of hangout in the car."

Nick shrugged. "I guess. I just think that Chief Bogo hates me and he's giving me—us—the worst assignments possible."

"That's not true. You know why?" Nick looked up at her. "Because we didn't get parking duty."

"True that," Nick chuckled. "Okay, Carrots. Let's get going."

Judy grinned and hopped forwards. She got the car keys from Clawhauser and then said goodbye to him before Nick and she walked outside to the police car. Judy drove them to where they were supposed to patrol at first: Tundra Town. It was chilly, but they stayed in the car with the heat on. Judy settled down into the back of her seat and grabbed her phone out of her pocket.

"Fluff, you can't be looking at your phone when we're supposed to be looking out for speeders," Nick spoke.

"You're right," Judy said. "So we'll alternate. Every five minutes, one of us will look out while the other can look at their phone. You look out first."

Nick rolled his eyes and huffed. "Fine, rabbit. You win."

Judy chuckled lightly and scrolled on her phone. She scrolled around on her Tumblr and laughed at funny posts.

"Hey, Nick. Look at this one!" Judy giggled.

"I can't. I have to look out for speeders, remember?"

"Aw, come on, Nick. Don't be sore," Judy said. "Come on, read it. It's great."

Nick glanced at her phone and read out loud the post. "When your crush…"

Judy's ears widened and she pulled the phone away, panicking.

"Oh my gosh, um…wrong one." She scrolled up on her phone and showed Nick the post again. Nick smiled at chuckled at the post.

"Haha, that's great, Carrots."

Judy pulled the phone away and read her post again. "Yeah, I know. It's great."

"I liked the first one, too," he said. Judy dropped her phone and looked out her window, not daring to look at Nick.

"It's your turn on your phone now," Judy said, shortly. Nick pulled out the phone from his pocket and turned it on. He began to tap away on his phone, texting Finnick. Judy soon became irritated with Nick's repetitive tapping, but she didn't say anything. She just continued to look out for speeders.

"Maybe it should be 10 minutes for us each instead of 5 minutes on our phones," Nick said, continuing to text Finnick.

"So that you can have the first turn with 10 minutes?" Judy looked at him. "I know what you're trying to do, Wilde. Stop trying to hustle me."

"Oh, so do you want the first ten minutes?" Nick crossed his arms and let his sly smile on his face. Judy smirked at him and crossed her arms too.

"Ladies first."

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Judy entered her brand new apartment that night. She turned on the lights and walked into her kitchen. She grabbed out some leftover carrot stew that she made earlier that week and heated it up in the microwave. Once she was done with that, she sat down on her couch and turned on the TV. She watched some random channel while eating her dinner.

Judy then let her mind drift far off into her thoughts. She almost blew it today was that post. She knew that Nick was suspecting some things. But it was too soon. Nick was still healing from his wounds—in fact, he was visiting Marcy tonight. She couldn't tell him that she loved him quite yet. But when she was going to tell him. How would she get there? How would she tell him that she loved him? The kiss explained a lot, but she hoped that Nick wouldn't think of it as a big deal. Recently, she'd been acting like it wasn't a big deal. But it was. And every time she saw Nick, she wanted to run up to him and hug him tightly while she kissed him.

Judy had a hot spoonful of her soup. She managed to swallow it, but it burned her tongue. She cussed lightly, mattering things like, "Crap," but she went back into her deep thoughts again.

How would she make him see how much she truly loved him, when the time was right? She watched him almost die and sat by his side during his 'last hours.' If that isn't love, then what is? Judy and Nick had always been the best of friends and rarely held secrets from each other, but Judy had recently been getting feelings for Nick. And Nick probably didn't feel the same. What if he was ashamed of the kiss? What if he never wanted to kiss her, but he didn't want to pull away and make her feel bad? Judy grew a bit embarrassed and angry, thinking about these thoughts. That kiss was a very foolish move that she made back there. She never should have done that.

But Judy just couldn't help but let her feelings run. She wished that Nick would take her into his strong arms and hold her tightly, making her feel loved by him. Her feelings were growing stronger by the minute and she could hardly control her feelings anymore. She wanted him. No. She needed him. She waited far too long for him while he was sick with rabies, and she wasn't going to wait any longer now. She could help him heal and love him at the same time. Surely it'd work. It had to. Because Judy couldn't live one more day with these feelings stuck inside of her. Tomorrow, she thought. Tomorrow I will tell him everything.

Did you like it? I know that a lot of you expected fluff in this first chapter, especially with the way that the last fic ended. Well, be patient. Fluff doesn't come TOO easily…

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