I Updated the chapter along with chapter 2-4 mostly formatting but a few dialogues changed if you want to reread it ;)
"That was so cool, right Nick? "Judy asked her Partner as they were walking out of the concert hall into the cool night. She, Nick and all their friends were personally invited to Gazelles concert for solving the missing mammal case and rescuing Zootopia. The popstar even thanked them personally again although it was almost six months ago that they tricked and caught bellwether and saved Zootopia.
Nick gave her a warm smile and replied "well I have to admit it wasn't that bad at all". The next thing he felt was the pain of a little grey paw punching his upper arm. "Ouch … ok ok it was cool" He added while rubbing his arm.
After a few minutes walking, it was time to part ways, but something inside Nick didn't want to be alone at his place again, which was quite abnormal because usually he preferred being alone than circled by mammals who either stereotyped him, pitied him because he was stereotyped by others, asked him if he would want to become a part of their own little businesses or were just dumb.
I have to do something, now he thought as the point where they would separate was only a few moments away and this feeling which told him to keep Judy around as long as possible got stronger.
"Ahhh … Anyway what do you want to do now cottontail?" Nick suddenly asked.
"What do you mean? I'll go home now, it's at least eleven if not later" Judy looked up at her partner with a puzzled expression on her face. Nick in return looked down at her with an amused expression and for a moment she thought she could see something else in his eyes, but it vanished before she could identify it.
"Ok, What?" She asked with an annoyed voice after staring at him for a few moments in complete silence. Without a warning his paw reached out and touched her forehead gently.
"Hmmm, that's odd, your temperature is normal, are you feeling ill carrots?" He asked, now suddenly sounding concerned. "
What? No not at all why?" she replied obviously confused by the sudden change of his behavior.
"why would you want to go home and do nothing on a Friday evening then, carrots?" He asked her now again a smile on his muzzle. The grey rabbit was completely perplexed, she wasn't the type of bunny who just went out to party and Nick should knew that by now. Besides she was already tired, the last week strained her way too much and she could really use a few hours of peaceful, deep sleep especially after this concert which had been nice, but also pretty loud and hectic.
"Did we ever really celebrate the solution of the missing mammal case fluff?" he suddenly asked. Judy thought about that for a few moments, sure they got their fair share of handshakes and compliments about their 'excellent police work' as the mayor called it.
She knew what Nick was trying to do and although she was tired, being this evening with him sounded way nicer than going home and do nothing. But she also could have a little fun messing with him before accepting the offer.
"What exactly do you want to celebrate Nick, the fact that I got a week of hospital food thanks to my leg, the completely destroyed subway wagon or the fact that bellwether nearly killed us both which was only prevented by your love of blueberries?" she asked with a what she hoped sounded like a stern voice. She had a really hard time trying not to burst into laughter as soon as she saw his smile fading while he tried to understand what was going on.
"Listen carrots I didn't mean it that way I … I …". He looked bewildered as Judy suddenly started to laugh and it took him a few moments to realize what happened.
"You're one evil bunny, you know that carrots?" He did his best to sound annoyed but he couldn't stop smiling at the laughing bunny.
"Thanks I try. But we did celebrate the whole bellwether thing, multiple times to be exact". "Don't worry" she added with quick look at him "we have something else to celebrate".
"We have? And what would that be" Nick was confused. Normally he was the one who kept track of all the celebrateable events, he used even the tiniest occasion to going out with Judy and he was quite sure he didn't miss a thing.
"You" She simply said and pointed at his chest with one of her paws.
"Me?".
"yeah, you went to the police academy for the past half year, graduated as the first fox ever and as the best of your class only to get less money and an annoying bunny partner, caught a speeder on your first day, which was one of your friends and successfully survived your first week at the ZPD without getting too much trouble" the gray bunny explained.
"Now that's a shame don't you think carrots? What about we correct this mistake with a few drinks, I heard about a nice bar not far from here, wanna try it?" Nick had a one of his sly smiles on his face.
"Hmm … I don't know it's pretty late don't you think?" She asked with a frown.
"Oh come on carrots, give it a try it won't be bad and if you don't watch out you even might enjoy yourself" Nick said and gave her a wink. Judy wasn't sure she would enjoy going out to a bar and meet completely strangers, who were not only way bigger than her but they surely were drunken too, in the past six months as police officer she encountered a few drunken mammals and it was safe to say she wasn't looking forward meeting more of them. "If you promise me that I won't get trampled by a drunken rhino again, I'll try it" she finally gave in.
"Yeah sure" he said, quite confused by this strange request "wait, again? You actually got trampled by a drunken rhino in the past? You totally have to tell me this story". But Judy didn't want to come up with that a little embarrassing incident again so she just told him to save it for another time.
A few minutes later they reached their destination, a bar named The Three Humped Camel. From the outside it actually looked kinda boring, but the first thing Judy heard as they entered the grey painted building was laughter.
As soon as she took a look around she instantly felt like she was coming home after a long day. Judy didn't know what to expect when Nick told her to come along but she definitely didn't expect seeing animals doing nothing more than sitting there, talking and laughing which each other. There was no loud music, no giant dancefloor and not one animal who was completely drunk although there were a few who were definitely not sober anymore.
Maybe it's not gonna be that bad at all she thought as she noticed the amused look of Nick and realized she was standing there, mouth agape and staring.
"Ok … I admit, it's not looking that bad" She finally managed to say.
"Oh come on carrots I know you like it" he answered "Anyway let's look if we can find an empty place …. Ah found one, come on fluff". With a smile he walked towards an empty table on the left side. As soon as Judy was sitting on one of the really comfortably and soft looking couches a weasel approached them,
"Hey Nick, nice to see you again buddy how is it going, still selling pawpsicles? ". He asked with a surprisingly cold voice and with a look to Judy he added "And who is your little companion over there?". The instant Judy looked over only to see Nicks uncomfortable expression, she knew something was wrong here.
"Jack?" Nick asked. His ears fell and his eyes grew wide
"Yeah buddy it's me, last time I saw you, you were telling the cops all about my little business, but thanks to you I had a few years in jail to think about what I did wrong and now look at me, I'm a waiter serving my ex-friend some drinks, so what do you want?" the maroon weasel named jack asked with a look which Judy believed was nothing more than pure hate.
"Listen, jack I didn't know he was a freaking cop he just asked me where he could find you and I told him that's all, I swear" a now quite uncomfortable Nick was trying to defend himself.
"Yeah sure you just told him where he could find me … and my 50 catnip plants", Judy flinched slightly as she heard that, because catnip was highly illegal to produce, sell or own, although the plant itself only was affecting felines, but it was also the main ingredient for most of the drugs that were sold in Zootopia.
She also remembered that at her time in police academy she heard about somebody who leaked the police the location of a catnip producer who had information about the biggest network of catnip dealers of Zootopia and the only thing he wanted in return was the promise that his name wouldn't appear anywhere in this case and a reward money of course.
"yeah you heard right bunny" Jack obviously took her flinch as a sign of shock. He turned his head to look at her "This worthless fox who I thought were my friend, betrayed me just like that and if you don't watch out he will do the same thing with you, isn't that right fox?"
He turned his head back to face Nick again, who now had enough time to hide again behind his mental wall he built whenever he didn't want anyone see what he was thinking. Suddenly and without any reason, Judy started to get really angry at this weasel. Who does he think he is, trying that bad to ruin this fun evening for me!
"Excuse me jack, it was I believe?" the weasel turned his head to look at her again.
"yeah, what?"
"I know you would like to chat with Nick a little longer but I'm really thirsty and tired so I would really appreciate it if you could bring us something to drink and leave us alone, please?" she tried to say as polite as possible
"And who do you think you are, trying to order me around bunny?" came the blunt answer.
There we go, she inwardly celebrated "Excuse me, where are my manners my name is Judy Hopps, or Officer Hopps if you like that more, nice to meet you" she answered with a warm smile.
For a long time, there were no reaction on Jack's face and Judy began to fear that he just was standing there for the rest of the night staring at her We aren't done yet sweetheart she though.
"I don't think we will get something to drink in here in the near future, wanna try it somewhere else, Officer Wilde?" Judy asked Nick in return was staring at her, mouth slightly agape. It have to be said that this was nothing compared to the now completely shocked look Jack gave her, before he slowly and with an horrified expression turned around to look at Nick.
"Y ... You … you are a cop now?".
Nick snapped out of his thoughts and gave Jack a smile too "well, what should I say, selling pawpsicles got a bit boring and at the time I looked for something new this officer showed up, got me almost killed a few times and now I'm a cop", his smile even widened as he saw the reaction on Jacks face who was slowly realizing the situation he was in. "And if you don't want me to add a few things to your personal file which the officers might have missed back then, you better make sure to make this a nice evening for both of us, ok?". With a horrified look, the weasel turned around and ran back to the door with the Employees only sign on it.
As soon as the maroon weasel disappeared behind the door, Judy began to chuckle.
"Did you see his face?" but as she turned her head back to look at Nick she caught him starring at her again "What?" she asked joyfully.
"Oh, It's nothing I was just … surprised" he mumbled, more to himself than to her and for a moment Judy thought that his cheeks became a slightly brighter shade of red. But it was gone before she could really think about it.
"It's not like I can't have some fun now and then, especially when someone is giving one of my friends a hard time" she stated with a wink.
"Oww, I can't believe the great Officer cottontail finds time to help me with an evil weasel" he teased her with a cocky smirk.
"Sure, I can't just look away when an innocent animal gets threatened by an evil weasel and is unable to defend himself" she countered and now had the same smirk as Nick on her face.
"But I seriously never would've thought you were this nameless witness who helped the police back then" She stated and Nick's ears fell back on his head again.
"It wasn't a big deal, how comes you even know about it?".
"Are you kidding me Nick? Back in my time at the police academy they told us like a hundred times the story about this case where thanks to a nameless citizen the police was able to catch a criminal who then gave them a whole list of at least fifty names of catnip dealers and producers. With that the catnip has almost completely vanished and in the past two years there were not more than one or two cases including catnip, all thanks to you."
"That's odd. The only thing we heard about at the academy was a certain bunny and how she was better than anybody else" Nick said with his usual sly smile which even widened as he saw a slightly reddish tint on the cheeks of his partner.
"I think you're exaggerating it" She mumbled.
" Nope, she even had a picture of you, to show us how badass you are" He smiled as he remembered the days back then and how proud he was as the drill sergeant showed them the picture of Judy.
He was disturbed in his daydream as a squirrel approached them and took their orders which was the blueberry sunrise for Nick and the tropic thunder for Judy.
"This polar Bear didn't even let the littlest chance to tell us your scores slip. Mind telling me how you were able to cross this stupid icewall in only 2.54 seconds" he continued after the squirrel left them to get their drinks. Suddenly Judy was smiling uncomfortably.
"Well, I just had to jump … on my comrades, which wasn't that difficult at all, but they obviously weren't really happy about that, especially McHorns brother ".
"Do you mean the rhino you knocked out with one blow at your last boxing match, fluff?". Judy's cheeks started to burn as she heard that and it became even worse as her partner suddenly started giggling after looking at her, but thanks to the squirrel who brought them their drinks she didn't had to answer this question, not because she was embarrassed or anything. But she wasn't the kind of mammal who was bragging with her victories, that match back then was just a lucky blow nothing more.
As she tried her drink a mix of flavors exploded in her mouth, there was orange and pineapple and even a hint of carrot mixed in there.
"Woah, this is delicious, right Nick?" She asked.
"I have to admit it's not bad, carrots" he tried his own drink.
Only a few minutes later Judy's glass was empty and she ordered a second one.
"Slow down, or you'll get drunk, you know there is actually a lot of alcohol in there don't you?" He tried to warn her but she just looked at him bewildered
"You really think I can't handle a few drinks? Come on Nick there isn't much in there I can't even taste the alcohol". After she finished her second drink in only half of the time she needed for the first one, a warm and light feeling started to grow in her stomach and the last thing she remembered was the mix of yellow and orange from her third glass…
There it is, the first chapter of my very first story ever. feel free to leave a review or PM me
