Nick adjusts his sunglasses as he sat in the passenger seat in the police car while sipping on his morning coffee from a local coffee shop as he waited for his partner. The fox sighs in content as he shifts in the leather seat and places his feet on the warm dashboard enjoying the moment of peace in the large vehicle. He knew he should take advantage of it now before his partner spots him, because once she does his moment of peace will go out the window. Nick presses his mouth against the rim of his foam cup to took a long sip of his hot beverage.
"NICK!" Judy shouts as she pokes her head through Nick's side of the window scaring the fox.
"AH!" He yelps as he fumbles with his hot coffee, but ends up spilling it all over his uniform shirt. His green eyes widen behind his dark pair of shades as he bit his tongue down preventing himself from screaming bloody murder. Judy was oblivious to what had happened to Nick until she got in the car and sat in the driver seat.
"Oh! Did… Did I do that?" The bunny asked as she watched her partner try to clean himself up with a few thin napkins. Nick scoffs mildly irritated as he grumbles under his breath.
"What, this? No, no I just enjoy spilling burning hot coffee on my uniform, that I just dried cleaned last night as my morning ritual to get me ready for a day full of crime. Nothing scares mindless criminals like a cop with coffee stains on them." He answers sarcastically making Judy giggle.
"I'm sorry, I'll pay for the next dry cleaning bill." she offers to him making Nick chuckle.
"You bet you are." he cracked back making Judy roll her eyes. But the bunny smiles widely as she sat in her seat looking at her partner with hopeful eyes. She just wants to ask him so badly, but she didn't want to come off "pushy" as he likes to word it. The bunny practically bounced in her seat waiting for the fox to bring up what happen last night, she was so excited to know!
When Nick was finished cleaning his shirt he shifts his green eyes over to his partner who sat quietly next to him staring at him with her large purple eyes and perked up ears. Ugh, he really didn't want to talk about it.
"Sooo?" She slightly pushes as she leans forward wanting the fox to talk.
"So?" Nick responded back obviously trying to dodge the conversation which made Judy's ears droop as she crosses her arms over her chest.
"So how was the date last night?" She asks the fox impatiently. Nick lifts the glasses away from his eyes and stares at Judy.
"It…went" He says vaguely as he buckled up. Judy grunted as she scowls the fox.
"Please tell me you at least tried to get to know Jessica, she a sweet girl." The bunny pleads as she stares at her best friend. Nick rolls his eyes and pulls out his smart phone and began to browse through his apps.
"I've never said she wasn't a sweet girl. She cute, for a weasel but there was no connection with us carrots. Now can you please stop setting me up on blind dates." he begs the bunny. Judy has been setting Nick up on blind dates for a month now and honestly he is getting very frustrated. He didn't enjoy telling every girl he was set up with that it will never work out between them. He couldn't stand the sad look in their eyes, he felt like a jerk. Judy sighs in defeat and clicks in her seatbelt and started the car.
"Fine. I just don't understand why you won't give yourself the chance to find a special someone Nick" The rabbit stated as she pulls out into the busy streets of Downtown, Zootopia. The green eyed fox rolls his eyes and places his sunglasses back on the bridge of his nose. Not this lecture again.
"Look carrots, just because you found yourself in a wonderful relationship doesn't mean you have to push me into having one too. Sides I like having my options open, I'm not the type of mammal to be tied down. I'm Nick Wilde! It wouldn't be fair for the rest of the ladies in Zootopia if I were off the market." he says with his signature sly smirk. The purple eyed bunny shook her head as she kept her eyes on the road.
"Have you ever had a serious relationship before?" Judy asks genuinely curious about her friends past relationships. This question strikes a chord with Nick and he flinched slightly, but Judy caught it.
"Nick?" She asks softly as she peeps over at the fox who seems to be zoning out. Nick is currently thinking back to a time when he actually did have a relationship back in his youth. After some time, he blinks himself back to reality and spoke.
"Yeah, as serious as a three year relationship can get from the age 12 to 15" he answers softly as an image of a smiling female raccoon with icy blue eyes flashed in his head. Nick's pointy ears lowered as he thought back all those many years ago. The bunny sat quietly as she drives, she so badly wanted to know what happen, but she felt like it was not appropriate. Nick turns his head over to Judy and he could tell she was curious. He smirks as he leans back into his seat.
"You know when I told you about the night when I was supposed to be a scout?" he questions her.
"Yes." Judy answers back recalling Nick telling a year ago.
"Well, that wasn't entirely true. The hazing is 100 percent true, but after that I might have told a white lie." he admitted with a sheepish grin. Judy made a sharp turn and parked the car. She unclicks herself, then she turns her figure and attention to Nick with a small smile.
"Go on." She encourages the fox. Nick smirked and adjusted himself in his seat.
"Well aren't we an eager beaver? If you most know after the kids muzzled me I ran outside to take off the muzzle, but I couldn't take it off myself."
-20 years ago-
A young Nick was crying against the building where he thought he was going to an initiation but turned out to be a horrible haze. He cried as he tried to reach the latches that held the muzzle to his face, but he couldn't reach it and it is on really tight. Nick sobbed as he did his best to tug off the muzzle but it caused him more pain when he did so.
"Let me help." a soft voice spoke. Before Nick could protest he felt the tight straps on his face loosen and soon enough the muzzle was removed. The fox opened his large glossy green eyes to only stare back into large icy blue eyes.
"Are you ok?" The sweet voice asked. The unknown mammal steps back to give the fox some room and it gave Nick the time to take in the appearance of his savior. A short raccoon girl with large icy blue eyes hidden behind large circle black framed glasses, a dark purple nose, and black bangs swept across her forehead stood before him. She wore a white tee shirt with a worn out denim overalls and she had a black backpack.
"Hello?" She asks again. Nick quickly wipes away his tears and stood straight. He didn't want a prey to see him like this.
"I'm fine and thanks for your help" he thanked the raccoon. The girl smiles as she waves it off.
"Happy to help! If you don't mind me asking, who put a muzzle on you?" She questions the young kit. Nick's ears droop down as he looks down at to the ground feeling utterly hurt and ashamed.
"Uh…I-its no big deal. It was just a prank." Nick stuttered as she rubs his left arm. There was no way he was going to tell her the truth. It will be completely humiliating and he was not in the mood to have another prey laugh his face. The raccoon hum in disbelief as she looked at the fox. Clearly it was a big deal if it made him cry.
"Well, it was a crummy prank then. So what do you say about getting even?" she asked with a sly smile on her face. Nick looks up at her and tilts his head.
"What do you mean?" The raccoon smiled widely and she places her backpack on the ground as she rummaged through her stuff.
"Bingo!" she cheers. The short girl whips out an egg carton in her paws that read sink bombs and it had a picture of a skunk on it. Nick's large ears perk up understanding now what she meant. The young fox stares at the carton of eggs that case in the pungent stink of skunk spray. Nick smirks deviously and nods.
"Let's do it!"
The raccoon and the fox sneaked into the building where the scout meeting are held at and Nick directs her to the room they have their meetings. The fox can hear the scouts still mocking him from the top of the staircase and it only fuels his anger. After going over the plan one last time, the raccoon began to carefully go down the steps.
"Hey, are you sure you wanna do this? What if the smell gets on you?" Nick asks her before she went any further. The raccoon smiles and winks at the fox.
"It's a risk I'm willing to take!" She answers and before Nick could say any more, she easily made her way to the bottom of the steps. She saw the scouts talking in a circle with their legs cross. They were still laughing about the prank they pulled on the poor fox. The girl snarls lightly before switching off the lights making the boys yelp in surprise.
"What happen?" one of them asked. As the boys were distracted the raccoon squints her eyes to see better in the dark. She aimed one egg at each of the scouts hitting directing in the face or head. Her ears heard the cries of the scouts when the egg would hit them.
"Oh, it stinks!" One shouted as coughing and sniffling were heard. The raccoon chuckles when she finished her ambush and she rushes up the flight of stairs and closes the door behind her.
"Hurry, cover the door!" She calls out to the fox. Nick nods and props a thick wooden chair under the knob. The two kids laughed when they are the painful screams of the scouts from behind the door and they both rushed out the building laughing their heads off.
"That was great!" Nick shouts happily as she doubles over laughing on the sidewalk. The raccoon held her stomach as she felt it ache from laughing so hard.
"You should have seen their faces! Priceless!" she cackles at she slowly gained control of herself. Nick too stopped his laughter and walked closer to the raccoon.
"Thank you, again." he says shyly to the girl. The raccoon gave a two digit salute with a large toothy smile across her face.
"Anytime slick. You gotta make sure mammals like that don't get to ya! By the way, the name is Rizzo Coon, what's yours?" Rizzo asked as she pushes her glasses back to the bridge of her nose. Nick looks at her with a playful smile.
"So you're really not scared of me? I am a predator after all." The fox proclaims as he folds his arms. Rizzo drilled her lips as she scoffs.
"As if I'm gonna be scared of a fox, especially one in a Boy Scout uniform. If anything you look non-threatening and cute." she states simply with a shrug. Nick's cheeks flush as his ears tuck back at being called cute. But he shook it off and reached his paw out.
"Nick Wilde" He introduced himself. Rizzo smiles and took his small paws into hers and shook it.
"Nice to meet you."
-Back to present time-
"We became best friends. We did scams together and pull the best pranks in school. We did everything together and we spent almost every day with each other." Nick chuckles softly to himself remembering a time he was sick and Rizzo came over to make soup, but she just ended up making a disgust concoction and making a huge mess in the kitchen. Though he never ate the soup, she stood with him all day helping him get better. Good times.
"When we turned 12 I asked her to be my date for our 8th-grade formal dance. I requested the DJ to play Whitney Howlton "greatest love of all" and we danced together. I then asked her to be my girlfriend and she said yes. I was the happiest fox in the world. I thought I found my one and only, heck I even told her I loved her and she said she loved me. When we turned 15 and we were going to go to the city fair as a celebration of being together for 3 years. But she never showed up to my house. I called and called and nothing. The next day she wasn't at school and when I went to her house I found it empty. Days turn to weeks and I haven't heard from her. And I kept telling myself, 'she'll come back, she not gone.' But after a full year of nothing, I gave up hope." The fox says softly as he looks away from Judy.
"I thought for the longest time I was going to marry her. I even had a coin jar to save enough money to buy her a ring. I knew I was too young to be thinking about that, but I was in love and I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. Hehe, I know it sounds so stupid." Nick ended his story with a sour chuckle. He turns his attention back to Judy who is obviously holding in her tears as she softly sniffles. Nick grins as he shook his head.
"You bunnies, so emotional" he teases his partner. Judy blinks back her tears as she sniffled louder.
"That was so sad, oh Nick" she whines softly. The fox chuckles and pats her head softly.
"Ok, ok let out. Deep breaths" he instructs the bunny. Even though it happened many years ago, he never forgot the feelings Rizzo made him experienced. It was like nothing he felt before and with his former girlfriends he never came close to having those feelings with any of them. And he knew it wasn't fair to the girls, so that's why he never had a serious relationship for the longest time.
When Judy finally gained control of herself she buckles herself back to her seat.
"Ok, let's bust some bad guys!" Judy cried as she drove into the streets in hopes to lighten the mood. Nick nods as he smirks.
"Let's do it"
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