Nick awoke.
He felt a pain in his chest and a sharp object in his arm.
Everything was dark. He could make out slight details of things, like how he was in a bed, and he was in a room; that there were chairs at the end in front of him, but it was dark, almost terrifyingly dark. Darker than anything he'd seen before (except pitch dark, of course).
He wondered, "What the hell happened?!" "Where am I?"
He saw a figure walk into the room, he seemed like he was going in slow motion.
Then, it was like the universe turned on again. A flash of all colors of things that didn't make sense, first, a flash of purple light down the hall, that quickly went through all the colors of the rainbow in backwards order. It went dark again, only for a moment. The lights turned on, he heard a beep, and he could see the full room.
The figure was gone, Nick remembered back a little to figure that it walked out during the strange multi colored flashing.
The room was a hospital room, the beep went off again. A heart monitor. Was he on drugs that just wore off? Why was he put on drugs? He looked up to his right, an IV was dribbling a clear liquid into his body, that's what the object in his arm was. He looked left, Chief Bobo was there, how did he not notice sooner? He was gigantic.
"Nick, you're awake. Finally…" Chief said to him. What was he talking about? Finally?
He spotted Judy behind him, asleep as well, in a chair. She was covered in a blanket obviously not placed by herself.
"Chief? Why am I in a hospital? How long was I out? I feel like crap, like I overslept." Nick asked.
"Three days, Nick. You've been in a medically induced coma for three days." Came his answer from the bull.
"Three days?!" Nick thought out loud. "What happened?!" He exclaimed.
"You were shot. Five times. Twice in your left leg, once in the hand, your shoulder, and finally your chest. I'm not surprised you don't remember. You were 'dead' for about two and a half minutes. Judy was traumatized, I doubt even I could stay conscious seeing someone I knew personally in a pool of their own blood that large."
Nick's mouth was agape. He was thinking so hard about what happened, no memories of the event, but he did remember the case he was on.
"The drug bust, huh?" He asked slowly, as if he was going to pass out himself.
"Yep. Judy saved your life. She actually slowed the bleeding just enough so your heart could go long enough that you didn't go brain dead. She looked like she murdered someone with so much red on her hands, but she did just the opposite."
Nick couldn't say anything. There were no words for what happened.
A nurse came in to check on him, a buck. He told him "Hey Nick, glad you're awake." The Buck looked at Judy with a sad but compassionate look. "She saved your life twice that day, because she was the one that could find your mother so she could give you a transfusion. Your phone was destroyed because it was drenched in blood, if she didn't have your mother on the line, you might not of gotten the blood in time."
This was a bit too much to handle. But right now he couldn't catch a break, because as soon as the Chief and the Nurse left, Judy woke up.
"Nick!" She almost screamed as she came over, stretching her left arm over his chest, covered in white gauze, and interlocking her fingers with his.
"Hey Carrots, you're a bit friendly today." Nick said slyly and weakly, he realized his mouth was dry. But like the nurse read his mind, the deer came in with a glass of water.
"Oh shut it Nick… I'm just so glad you're alive! I… I was so worried… I haven't left this room since I walked in. The nice nurses here fed me, but I wouldn't leave even if they didn't." Judy said as she laid her head on his upper chest that wasn't covered in bandages. Nick could feel that she was crying.
"Oh, Carrots..." Nick said, unable to get a coherent thought to reply to the fact that she was the only reason he was alive, and she didn't even boas about it.
"I don't knowwww-" Nick started to say something, but the sounds coming out of his mouth ceased. In fact, there was no sound at all. The heart monitor stopped beeping, Judy was no longer crying. She was still, like she just died. She wasn't breathing, at least not that he could see.
Nick sat up in his bed and yelled at the top of his lungs, but nothing came out, he reached and tried to touch her, but his left arm (the one shot in the hand and shoulder) wouldn't move, and his right arm couldn't reach her head.
A fox walked into his room. He was wearing a suit. He realized it was the same shape as the figure he saw earlier. The fox turned to Nick. It looked like a twin brother to Nick, he looked exactly the same.
The fox didn't move his mouth, and pointed to his head.
Sound came into his brain like he was listening through earbuds.
"Hello, Nick. My name, is Nick."