As it was with every other day, Zootopia was extremely busy. But no matter how busy the streets could be, it was fortunate that there had been no backups or lane closures. The sidewalks were also extremely crowded with mammals of all sizes, from the largest elephant to the smallest mouse. Though they could've almost blended into the cloud, a very energetic female rabbit and her somewhat more reserved fox partner made their way down the streets. This was perhaps the most famous pair of animals in Zootopia, Officer's Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde.

Since today was one of their days off, neither of them were in their uniforms. Nick was dressed in his normal clothes, a green button down, with a tie, and pants. No matter how cool he thought he looked with his uniform on, nothing made him feel more comfortable than his old con outfit.

Nick thought for sure that even though it was there day off, Judy would still wear her uniform. Sometimes he felt that she had a unhealthy obsession with her work attire. But today she surprised him by wearing a pink flannel shirt and jeans, with a sun hat that pushed her ears down. She was a little sour when Nick made the comment that her clothes made her look like a cute little farm girl.

Despite this, there was pep in Judy's step as they made their way down the street, almost skipping.

"You seem to be in a good mood Carrots," Nick said with a smirk. "You're neighbors finally stop listening to your conversations?"

"I wish, at least one of them tries to be positive and give me advice," Judy said, turning around and looking him. "But how can you not be happy on a day like today."

Nick had to admit that today was one of the better days in the city. The sun was shining, not a single cloud in the sky, and the temperature was just right. Of course, he wasn't going to tell Judy this.

"Besides I'm really excited about tonight," Judy continued. "It's not every day that you get to meet your partner's family for the first time."

Just the last part of that sentence made Nick freeze in his spot. It was true; he was taking Judy to meet his family for dinner tonight. On the outside he was still his regular cool self, but on the inside he was mentally freaking out.

This was a day that he hoped that he could've avoided. Sure they had been friends for a while now; heck they had saved the entire city from being torn apart by hatred and prejudice. In all honesty, and he would never admit this, but Judy was the first real friend he had in a while and he couldn't be happier in his new life.

"So I still don't know much about your family," Judy said, bringing Nick out of his train of thought. "Why don't you talk about them?"

"Because, unlike you I always like to keep my personal life to myself," Nick retorted back. "And I thought you wanted it to be surprise when you met them."

Judy smiled and playfully punched him in the arm. "Well yeah, but you seem more nervous than I am."

"Well it's been a while since I've seen my family," Nick said. "You should've heard my mom when I told her that I was a police officer and that my partner was a bunny."

"I mean yeah, we are kind of an odd pair, but I mean we've proven that it doesn't matter," Judy said. "I mean heck, my parents were nervous wrecks about me working with a fox, but they love you now."

That was true, when he first met Stu and Bonnie they put on a nice front, but they he could still feel a slight pang of tension on his first visit to Bunnyburrow. Luckily, they quickly warmed up to him and he ended up having a wonderful time wolfing down delicious blueberries throughout the night. Judy's parents kept giving embarrassing story after embarrassing story about her childhood giving Nick about a month's worth of material, much to Judy's chagrin.

"Yes, but my family is different from yours," Nick replied. "We didn't live in some bright sunny farm, we had to live on whatever we could. And after my dad died-"

"You're dad died?"Judy asked, and Nick nodded solemnly. "I-I'm sorry Nick, I didn't know. How old were you?

Nick looked reluctant to answer, and Judy mentally scolded herself. As an officer, even when she was little, she had a habit of being a little too noisy. She was actually surprised that Nick was being this open with her. She was about to apologize, when Nick answered.

"I was five years old," he said, rubbing the back of his head. "I don't really remember much of him, but my mom likes to talk about him. I wish I got to know him."

Judy's mind was racing about how she would feel if she never got to know her father, or what if she never got to meet her mother. As her world was spinning with these thoughts, she didn't notice that Nick had stopped. She must have gone ten feet before her ears noticed that she no longer heard Nick's footprints beside her.

She turned around to see him standing there, with a smirk as he tried to suppress his laughter. She quickly made her way back to him and punched him in the arm again, this time for real.

"Ow, that hurt!" he yelped, this time Judy smirking.

"That's for making me look foolish," she replied, placing a hand on her hip. "Why did you stop?"

Nick said nothing at first, but only turned to his right. As she followed his gaze, she noticed that they were standing in front a rather worn down looking apartment building. It was then that she noted that the neighborhood they were in was not the most cleanliest place ever. There wasn't a single building that wasn't covered in graffiti and trash littered the streets. Judy was also trying to avoid wondering what that awful smell was.

All Nick said, "This is it. This is… Home."

"It's, um, it's nice," Judy stammered over her words. "I have to say that I love the art. It's …modern, yeah, modern."

Nick chuckled, "Thanks for trying, now let's get in before they come out and drag us."

The two of them strolled up the stoop of the apartment and Nick pressed the buzzer on the door. They stood like that for a few minutes in silence. Judy wanted to say something, but the words would just not come out.

"Before we go in, I have to warn you," Nick said as he continued to stare at the doors. "My mother is… very protective of her kids. She's the strongest woman I know, and ever since incident with the Ranger Scouts, she's been very distrusting of other animals. So don't expect a warm welcome."

"What?" was all Judy could say before she noticed the door swing wide open. Standing there was slender, lovely vixen dressed in overalls and a tool belt. There was a slight grease stain on her right cheek and she wore a purple bandana over her head.

"Well, well, well," the vixen said looking right at Judy, a sly smirk growing on her face. "Look what you brought to dinner, Nick?"

This was back when I just recently watched Zootopia and I have to say it is one of my favorite animated films of all time. It was clever, emotional, and an all around good time. So I decided that I would just write a short story of Judy meeting Nick's family. I'll have the second part up shortly.