Hey, waddup guys? I'm back. Again. So this is just a short thing, I guess. I don't really know where I'm going with this, if anywhere at all. But it's been floating around in my head for a week now, and this is the only way to get rid of it.
So I've seen Zootopia twice now, and I love it. And I've been shipping Nick/Judy really hard lately, and this is the result.
Judy's POV
My phone rang as Nick slowed the cruiser to a stop at a red light. Normally, I wouldn't answer it while on the job, but it was my mum, so I made an exception.
"Hey, mum, what's up? I'm at work, so I can't talk much."
"Oh, don't worry, this won't take long. I just wanted to know if you're still coming home this weekend."
I rolled my eyes. We'd had this conversation about six times by now. "Yes, mum, I'm still spending the weekend back home for your birthday. Don't forget I'm bringing Nick."
"Yes, that was the other thing I wanted to talk to you about. I know you two have been dating for a while now, but last time we talked you asked me and your father not to overreact when we meet him. What did you mean? What exactly aren't you telling me, Judy?"
This was something I'd been avoiding. I hadn't told anyone back home that Nick was a fox, and I'd been purposely putting it off. While my parents seemed fine working with Gideon, I wasn't sure how they'd react to their eldest daughter dating a fox. I was willing to bet that it wouldn't go down too well.
"Uh, what's that Nick? Oh. Sorry mum, I've got to go. Some guy just went speeding through a red light and we have to go pull them over. Bye, talk to you later." I hit the end call button before she even had a chance to answer me.
In the driver's seat, Nick shot me a questioning look. In reality, he hadn't said a word, and there was no speeding driver. I'd just needed an excuse to get off the phone.
"You still haven't told them?"
"I've been meaning to… it's just that I don't think that they're going to react to well. I had a … bad experience with this kid at school when I was nine, and because he's a fox, they've kind of been a bit, I don't know, weird about foxes ever since."
"They're not going to treat me like some savage predator, are they?"
"No. At least I hope not. It's not like that exactly, it's hard to explain. They're not as bad as they used to be. I mean, they work with that kid now. It's just that I never really expected to be in this situation, you know?"
"So what happened when you were nine?" Nick asked suddenly. We were sitting in the cruiser eating lunch.
"What?"
"You said that when you were nine, something happened with a fox at your school. What happened?"
"Oh. Well, my class had put on this play about how in Zootopia, anyone can be anything, and obviously, I had said that I was going to be a cop. But then after the play, this kid Gideon stole some tickets from my friend. I stood up to him. He was teasing me about how a rabbit could never be a cop. It got physical, and he scratched me across the face. I had to get stitches and I still have the scars. I did get my friend's tickets back, though."
Eh, I don't know how much I liked this. It's really dialogue heavy. And the ending sucked balls, like always. There were a few things that I added that were different in the movie. Like the scar thing. But whatever. I was going to make it longer, but my mum's yelling at me to go to bed because we're taking my 8 year old second cousin to the aquarium tomorrow. I had fun writing this, though, I listened to the How to Train Your Dragon soundtrack, then the Pokémon Diamond and Pearl one. So I'll try and finish this for tomorrow, Okay?
