Disclaimer: So there's probably gonna be 9-10 chapters in this (one for each hour) I'm gonna try and write this to a higher quality, this actually has a plan to it so it won't feel rushed and I'm gonna stick to the realism of characteristics of characters from the movie.
Oh yeah, this story's updates are going to be irregular but hopefully, one chapter will be posted every fortnight or every 3 weeks since as I'm writing other stories and each chapter's about 10,000 words. Also, each chapter's going to end with a flashback except for the last one.
(Yes I am aware rookie officers have to wait 18 months before being promoted and that there isn't a week break in between training, but this is fiction.)
So, yeah, I hope you enjoy :P
Hour 1
Nick and Judy sat in their personal unmarked car in the shadows after the month Nick had been on the force. They were somewhat lucky to even be partners especially after the incident they had a couple a weeks ago regarding the display of affection in the precinct, unfortunately in front of the chief. It didn't take a genius to figure out they were dating, however what they did in their relationship still remained a mystery. They never appeared more than affectionate towards each other, and the facetious innuendos Nick joked with Judy about weren't taken seriously by either of them and regarding sexual matters, nothing really seemed to go down to when first meets the eye. But behind walls a lot went down, very sexual matters were displayed in Judy's cramped apartment, and the gazelles who dwelled next door were sick of hearing the walls bang and bump for hours upon end. They didn't even think that banging for that long was possible and when the rabbit and fox acted out role-play they had to endure it through the paper thin walls.
Even for foxes, Nick was extraordinarily sly and sneaky at keeping the information that they were mates retained. They'd only once let it slip and that was in front of the chief through a drunk mistake. Most of the officers, however, didn't believe Clawhauser who swore they were a couple, and that left a couple of officers excluding the flabby cheetah to believe this disregarded view.
They didn't even know how they'd got to the point where they were flirtatiously murmuring quotes like 'Your tax evasion days over…' and using handcuffs from work in their 'role play', all they knew was that they endeavoured to be in each other's company and with the stakeout they were assigned to, they had no choice but to abandon the sexual time they had with each other. Not like they cared much apart from the sex anyway as the apartment and its rickety bed was only something to groan at.
When they first dated, Judy was anxious that Nick would be too open about their relationship and spoil their career for them by his relentless flirting that he was set on doing whilst he was feeling in the mood and in private, but he was the complete opposite which even surprised Judy. That was until he was in bed, he was a completely different mammal, as was she. Both setting any sort of naivety aside. He treated her like she wasn't a bunny and displayed all his predatory signs to her, that even meaning his knot, he didn't care if he clenched her with his paws or bit her neck lightly or even pushing his tongue in places it shouldn't be. When they took a weekend trip to bunny burrows Judy told only her mum the truth about them and in return received a promise she wouldn't tell anyone through a very awkward conversation about protection, which led to both Judy and Nick blushing, palms to foreheads.
Nick liked to observe her out of the flimsy work uniform she wore, not like he was complaining in the first place, but it was nice to see her relaxed and a little less on edge constantly. After she'd stripped from her work clothes right in front of him, he only felt a stronger desire to convey his lust for her. Judy on the other hand yearned to see her fox dressed in smart clothes, as to why he tried to wear his uniform the correct way just for her every single day before he plucked up the courage to ask her out. They were both dressed in causal clothing though to cause the least amount of suspicion. Nick wore a pink Hawaiian shirt and a pair of baggy pants that were navy in colour, whilst Judy wore a pair of ripped denim short shorts and a t-shirt with a loose collar stretching past her shoulder, with only a vest top underneath to prevent things showing that weren't supposed to. Their relationship up to this point had been nonchalant, free of big arguments and fallouts, however they did nonetheless hustle each other. They loved each other that was for sure, but the secrecy was unbelievable, thanks to Nick's witty attitude that rubbed off onto Judy of course.
She cleared her throat aware they weren't being monitored by the dash cam the chief had put it in place on their cruiser just to be sure that there wasn't any fraternisation taking place, further more they hadn't got a radio on Nick's cheap sedan. The only method of communication was their own personal radio transmitters, which couldn't be accessed by the precinct anyway. They were untraceable… apart from their cells.
Nick lifted up the seat release to reorientate the seat into a more recumbent position until Judy held it up and pinged the seat forward, almost smashing Nick's head into the dashboard. "C'mon slick, we've got keep watch." Judy had only been on 1 stakeout prior to this one and it didn't exactly go swimmingly, but as a lieutenant, Nick was technically under her command.
He sighed and returned to his original posture. "Uh, 8 more hours of this."
"It's not that bad slick, besides we have each other right?" He turned and gaped his eyes at what he thought had sexual undertones until she noticed his gawp and quickly corrected herself. "Not like that you filthy fox!" He sighed with relief and pulled out his phone. When he pulled it out he immediately grasped the attention of Judy as she caught sight of the wallpaper he had set on his phone. "You still have that picture?"
He blushed at the sudden realisation she'd seen the photo. The picture he'd taken was from the first day he went to the academy with both their ebullient attitudes on full display as she wouldn't get to see him for the next 3 months until he had a week and then another sustained period of desperation for her started. In that week he had time to spend with her he confronted her about his true feelings towards her and what he wanted for them both. Unfortunately, that feeling of them being a couple didn't last long as he darted back to the academy a couple of days afterwards. "Oh yeah, I thought it was nice."
"Awww, Nick you really do have a heart!" He tutted at their banter they would have every so often, both obviously taking it lightly as the couple they were, joking about everything from a passer-by to a corpse they had to examine for work.
He sighed whilst pulling a straight face and gazing at that picture of him with his 'ZPD' t-shirt and her appearing underneath his shoulder. She rested her paw on his arm as she had done on the sky trams and reminding him of that moment, inducing him into a state where his tears were only being held back by his own dignity. He hadn't broken down in front of her yet and he felt as though he had a role not to, she'd always looked up to him for his hardiness and his robust persona, however, he looked up to her due to her optimism consistently beaming through everything in its way. That hardiness he thought, made her feel safe and that he would always be there for her even in hard times, but if he broke now, in front of her, that dignity and duty he fulfilled would be engulfed whole.
Don't do it you dumb fox! She's only turned your life around…
At that thought, he exponentially felt himself trying to resist the tears from brimming his eyes but eventually, they came and she was there to comfort him, not the other way round that it frequently appeared.
She stroked his ears down to his neck and hushed him as he sniffed and hugged her tighter into his chest. She hugged him back with her dearest heart, despite the fact she didn't understand what he was weeping about or why he was so inclined to wrap her in his arms. In amongst the sniffs he every so often did, he managed to utter some words that helped Judy comprehend why he was in such a state, but still why he'd never been in such a venerable position before. "I love you, Judy. So much."
Judy had been in this predicament before, having to comfort someone in tears and in a burrow always full of breakups and stress, she soon came around to the predictable behaviour of every new bunny in the burrow, especially after two decades of living there. She smiled as she guided his head to face her with her paw. "Tell me what's up." She placed her paw on his arm again, this time he accepted and didn't shrug her off in a contemptuous manner.
He still didn't answer in the fits of sniffing he continued to endure, endeavouring not to tremble every time he took a breath. She buried her head into his chest as he cuddled her like a teddy bear in his arms.
After Nick had calmed himself down and composed himself enough to be articulate, he finally managed to express his thoughts to her. He sniggered before scoffing, almost disgusted with his own actions before she raised her finger. "Nick I'm a bit stuck."
He released his grip on her unaware of how hard he was holding onto her, resentful to let her go. The academy was a gym for Nick and every day when Judy would drag him out for a jog he maintained the strength he'd piled up at the academy. He managed to wipe away the tears from his ears and the glistening stripes that streaked his face were pried from his fur. "I'm sorry carrots."
She was completely staggered at how he could be blaming himself for what he just did if she knew Nick the way she did, he was never broken by anything and that flow of tears just helped to reassure he wasn't an insensitive mammal who only cares about themselves. It made him even feel like a mammal, not just a stuck up con who doesn't even buy his food. "It's not your fault slick, besides it doesn't hurt to cry every now and then."
He continued to wipe the remnants of his tears away from his eyes whilst sniffing but nevertheless replied to her intendedly comforting remark. "It's embarrassing carrots, I mean what if I did that in the precinct or where Bogo could have seen it."
"If you did then I would pound anyone who tried to mock you."
He sat up in shock with his ears erect at the sound of a threat from such a small bunny to wolves and rhinos. "I can assure there is no need for that, anyway I'm worse when I'm drunk so just keep me away from them when I'm drunk because according to Finnick I'm 'emotionally unstable'."
"I know Nick."
"What? How?"
"In the morning when I walked in the toilets, you were sat on the floor drinking beer nude." She reminisced the memory as he groaned also remembering it vividly, not too happy to do so though.
"Just to clarify I'm unaware of what I do or say drunk."
"Do you at least remember what happened at the office Christmas party?" He placed his paw on his forehead whilst shaking it ever so slightly and predicted what she was going to say would be negative.
"Nope, like I said-"
"Clawhauser saw us, Nick, that's why everyone has been on our case for the past few days."
"Oh wow, he saw us drunk together that must mean that we're a couple!"
"No, hang on…" she rapidly scrolled through her phone in an attempt to find the picture that now was the vital evidence to support the fact that they're partners (in more ways than one)... Judy assumed Nick knew and thought he wouldn't want to talk about it, so didn't say anything to him. Upon sight of the wicked picture she wished never existed, she pushed it in his face. "Look!"
The ears that stood elevated on the back of his head sagged down in instant shock. He felt like throwing the phone out the window and onto the blissful snow that coated the pavement in an attempt to rid himself of the emanates same thing he was induced into by the bunny sitting beside him. "Oh god…" he was speechless at the picture Clawhauser had taken of them whilst they were both drunk off their heads and even though it wasn't the best of quality, his bright fur clearly symbolised him kneeling over Judy and keeping her restrained as they gazed into each other's eyes.
In actual fact, they'd decided to get 'down to business', as Judy called it, in the evidence room. This was of course out of eyeshot or even earshot for that matter fact, due to some coital acts that happened in the room.
Unfortunately halfway through their 'getting down to business' the door clicked open. The chief strode in saw Nick's tail peering out behind some boxes and the very strong smell of musk told him exactly what was going on. Nick and Judy wondered why he was so resentful let them on the stakeout and now they'd never know. The chief tried to put that behind him and just continue with the job as normal but all he could he think of was his best cop doing it with the fox on their stakeout.
But in reality it was the farthest thing from that, they were having a laugh, chatting about embarrassing things in an attempt to pass the hours that crawled by, and as Nick wanted to just pick Judy up and put her in his lap, he knew she would scarper and get back to the job as that was her, my bunny, he thought.
"Where did you go after the party, all I remember doing is picking a half eaten burrito of the floor and throwing it at an ATM."
"Well I didn't go home, I think I fell asleep and I woke up to a woman flicking a nickel in front of me." Judy laughed and glanced from his head to toe.
"I don't blame her." She chuckled whilst he found it vexing, he, in turn, flailed his arms over the gear-stick at her.
She pulled out a couple of handcuffs, Nick instantly reminisced some moments of their 'role play' from them, so did Judy. However she was more conservative of her emotions and feelings towards that pair of metal rings. "I wouldn't slick." He huffed and crossed his arms in defeat until she sensed the tension that dwelled in the small sedan Nick owned. "Besides I knew you were completely wasted that night and what we did as one; my hips were killing and two; you strolled in with a burning headache and flopped on the floor in bullpen. But mainly because you weren't there when I woke up." He felt touched as she had become a real detective, her dream, over the past months: learning the city's streets, knowing the typical locations of deals, and listening to Nick's advice. He felt proud at what she'd become; an inspiration to so many mammals, fuelling them to peruse their aspirations.
As Nick shook his head to snap him out the daze he dwelled in, he smiled at her and shook her paw off his shoulder that she'd placed in curiosity and perturbation at his silence that persisted, engrossed in his own thoughts. "I bet you've done something worse, with all that strong country ale." She rolled her eyes as his always stereotypical outlook on how she lived her life as a child and teenager, and in fact, he wasn't too far off the reality, of course, the major difference between his imagination and reality was that there was electricity. When he visited, even though that opinion was corrected some still remained engraved into his mind such as the alcohol.
"We don't have any different drinks to what you have." He gave her a sarcastic nod as she sighed and proceeded to answer his original question in an attempt to make conversation. "Well there was this one time…" gaining his interest, he ceased to gaze at the flocking flakes migrating to the already encrusted asphalt. "…I got drunk with my sisters the day before I went to Zootopia. It was only supposed to be a leaving party but the next morning I ended up with my ears in the toilet." He tried to hold back the outright laughter by sniggering until he cracked into a fit of howling laughter that Judy had come to know so well due to his unique and rather hug pitch laugh but maybe that was because she'd rarely come across another fox who wasn't a chain-smoker. She laughed reminiscing the memory excluding the fact that Gideon had taken a picture of her in the appalling state she was in: toilet roll on her foot, drool down the side of her face and the absence of pants. It very much destroyed her reputation but she didn't care as she was leaving in a couple of hours anyway, to meet another fox. "Anyway, you don't have any right to laugh, you probably had it worse as a con mammal."
He didn't like the fact that the topic had been flipped round to his past and his far from sober states that he occasionally delved into. "Well I usually am fine but this one time with Finnic…" she could already tell it was going to be bad as the small but snappy fennec was involved. "My worst ever time I got drunk was in high school. This kid brought in some vodka, and I drunk at least two-thirds of it." She raised her eyebrows high enough for them to fly off her head until he reassured her he wasn't lying and that this actually happened. "Then I got rushed off to the hospital and I had to get my stomach pumped, I have to say, I looked real badass when I came out."
Just from that small snippet of his childhood she automatically predicted what his youth could have been like without even having a single clue what he was like academically. "So you were a rebel?" She contrasted her stress-free country life with his drunk urban streets and eventually found nothing in common except the fact they were both mammals.
"What makes you think that?"
"Gee, I don't know! Maybe getting drunk at 14 might hit the list."
He understood where she was coming from, he hadn't told her anything about his teenage years in the streets or his academic life. "How do you think I got accepted into this job? Let alone this precinct to be partners with this bunny." Due to his increased discourteous and derogatory manner towards the buffalo that governed him. He had to put in extra effort in the interview as he had to try and clear the pique off the stern sharp buffalo's face, then he had to sort out his physical state, then his mental knowledge of the force, all coming down to the fact that he was valedictorian. That was the happiest moment of his life, he was finally gonna do something right with his life rather than pull cons 24/7 and intensely infuriate rookie cops that were often Hicks in his spare time.
She felt as though she'd been caught in a catch 22, everything she said would have a negative impact, she knew herself how hard the interview was with Bogo, and thinking of how it would go if he despises your guts gave her chills. "Touché."
He couldn't help but feel the need to boast about his grades in school, and when he did he shocked her; big time. "I got As in my exams."
"Yeah right!" Nick took a bit of offence to her demeaning swift remark but shrugged it off as he elaborated on his reasons.
"Well, I'll have you know Miss Hopps; I got grade As because I wanted to help my family when I was young, I finished school and I soon found that just because I'm a fox I can't work in places with valuable items because foxes are prone to steal things. How discriminative is that?!" Judy pitied Nick, he had it hard, really hard just because he was a fox. Judy wanted to just wrap him in her arms but he wasn't even done. "So because my parents are obviously foxes, they couldn't get a great job either so just to rear me, they had to work overtime. That left me with tons of free time and whenever I got home from school I would go out with big ears."
Judy had caught on to all of Nick's nicknames and could at least match them with a face, she even used them herself sometimes which really did show that Nick was rubbing off on her. "Awww!" He was annoyed at her sympathetic remark but he just let her do it, because that's what 'good' foxes do, according to his mum.
He hastily changed the topic to one that could burn his ears with a potent inferno. "Do you think anyone at work would do something as bad as what we've done?"
"Well everyone's got their tale. Some weirder than others but everyone's done something they regret." He nodded in agreement before breaking the silence that Judy endeavoured to have for the what seemed like millionth time.
"Wolford's a massive lightweight though, at the party he apparently jumped in a lake because someone told him to."
"I don't know which is worse: Ben's drunk dancing or Fred's drunk speech." The memories of Clawhauser's dancing caused him to suffer from similar symptoms to PTSD, it was horrid and embarrassing. Going to a bar with him would usually result in the flabby cheetah performing some disgraceful dance moves. "I thought your dance moves were bad, but jeez."
"Hey carrots, at least I'm not as bad as the chief's."
She held her paw to her mouth as she performed the biggest gasp Nick had ever seen. "YES! The chief! And them horns…" They both started coughing in an intense burst of euphoria causing Nick to start crying he was laughing so much and Judy barely controlling her bladder after being sat in the car for what seemed like hours without a bathroom break.
Nick slammed his fist against the centre of the steering wheel, igniting the horn into a drone of the deafening sound. Judy quickly reclaimed her senses and pushed the seemingly dying fox off the horn to prevent their cover being blown. Nick started to ease his laughter and Judy needed him to stop laughing before someone noticed the hysterical fox's laugh from within. And what better way to do that than kiss him to soundlessness, after all, they were a couple.
He was speechless at her new found secret weapon; the power of passion. Judy cleared her thirst trying to rid them of the sombre atmosphere. "So, about the chief huh…"
Nick hasn't really had a passionate kiss with Judy before and even though she only used it as an excuse to shut him up, he felt like she really meant it, not just the mindless lip smashing to satisfy their sexual needs. He was in a daze, lavishing in that small amount of affection he received. She waved her paw in his face until he mindlessly grabbed her and pushed his lips into hers.
They relived the moment, only elongated and more meaningful, not just to silence him. They both continued to feel around in each other's mouths and even though Judy couldn't read Nick's thoughts, she could read his actions. She assumed he wanted to drag her to bed or do something carnal right there, but much to her dismay he didn't even grab her in explicit places he just treasured the moment.
Eventually pulling away for a breath, he silenced her. "What was that, carrots?" Attempting not to let him see that he was getting to her she prevailed past emotion and pushed into a frenzy of words.
Unfortunately, a stutter implanted in her speech was present at the time she tried to speak nonchalantly, therefore denouncing any type of serious or casual appearance she tried to pull on Nick. "W-what do y-you think about the c-chief's addiction to G-Gazelle?" A lifetime later after she'd spluttered out the sentence whilst drowning in waves of blush.
As much as Nick wanted to point out her blush to make it deeper and more concentrated, he restrained himself and proceeded with an answer to her rather random question. "I think it's cute…" she was expecting a tease at any moment: 3, 2, 1-"…and so are you." She smiled at him and his pathetic excuse of flirting.
She had an idea that would up the ante and could go one of two, very different, ways. She leant across and grasped his tie pulling him closer to her. "Well, I wouldn't be so sure if I were you." She released her grasp on his tie as he leant back into his seat, unsure how to interpret what she just said. However, he did know that he felt some heat from his loins and took everything he had to resist pulling something seductive on her right then.
Once Judy had stopped laughing at Nick fidgeting in discomfort from the excessive warmth from his loins, she sparked up a conversation. "Do you think Gazelle is sort of like us with the tigers?" Nick gaped his jaw nearly hitting the floor at how such an indecent question came from such a usually innocent bunny.
"What do you mean by that?" He just wanted to clarify what she meant by the unprecedented comment.
"Well, I mean like- you know, things." She started to blush for what seemed like the hundredth time that night.
Nick knew exactly what she was talking and decided to be the jerk he was and play on it. "So, by things you mean..."
After having that war for five straight minutes where it just looped around Judy started to wish she had said nothing in the first place as Nick started to guess was she was on about even though he knew what she was on about as she had spelled it out as much as she could, her country attitude towards sex was present and Nick tried to bring her out of her shell about it. "You mean sex, don't you?" She shook her head in a rather unsure manner, more unsure about saying no than all the other purposefully wrong guesses he made. "It is isn't it, you now you don't have to be all secret about sex with me, I mean how can you be when we've done it ourselves?"
Judy didn't appreciate Nick trying to confront her about her own reluctant point of view on the saw subject in her mind. She was looking for any way to get out of what he was saying and glancing over the dashboard she spotted a hooded figure walking down the street. "Mammal at six o'clock." Nick still continued to drone on about how country bunnies don't know what life was like in the city and that it wasn't such a saw topic and Judy picked up a pair of binoculars. Unfortunately, it was too dark for Judy to see anything so instead slapped Nick back into a work frame of mind which seemed to do its job perfectly. "I can't believe you! Look!" She was livid with him for his insufferable ignorance that Judy proclaimed no other mammal would be able to put up with, so he was lucky to have her. Nick rolled his eyes as Judy almost winded him by pushing the binoculars into his chest for him to use.
He put them up to his face scanning the area with his excelled vision that seemed to do its job of detecting an old woman holding a bag of shopping. Nick reported what he saw and tossed them to Judy before sighing as he reclined in his chair, something Judy had prevented him from doing at the start of their stakeout but 30 minutes in and still without any action, she began to realise the dullness of their job.
Judy looked up at Nick in hopes that the plan she'd devised had worked and sure enough it did. She burst out laughing causing Nick feel extraordinarily confused by her sudden uproar of laughter. "What carrots?"
"Oh, nothing."
"No there has to be something otherwise you wouldn't be laughing."
"No seriously Nick, it's nothing."
Nick was starting to get peeved by her adamant attitude to not telling him what she was laughing at. "You can tell me." She started to calm down and pointed to her eyes and when Nick pulled the sun visor down and flicked open the mirror he sighed. "Really?" He rolled his eyes and wiped his paws around his eyes in an attempt to get the black rings off. "How did you even do that?"
Judy flashed stick of mascara in hi face before he groaned. "I remember you saying that make-up really can do wonderful things." She sniggered as he regretted saying that as now she had his word against himself and she didn't need the pen to prove that. "Here." She passed him a bottle of water and he took it with a smile drawn across his face thankful that his mate was actually considerate and he was kind of thankful for her sake as well, as he had already thought of a plan to torture her with his own black-ringed eyes.
The car was silent for a little while after that, they were bored and there was nothing to do except glare at the snow as it fell. "What do you think the chief would have said if he saw us in the evidence room at the office Christmas party?"
"Oh he definitely saw us, didn't you see him the day after, he looked like he saw a ghost. But instead of the ghost us two having a good time, you know with us having se-"
"Yeah, I get it!" She was inclined on preventing him from getting back on the topic she'd just about managed to get him off of. "We need to apologise to the chief if he saw us, it's the only way he'll look at us the same way he used to."
Nick looked like he had seen a ghost when she suggested the thought of apologising to the Buffalo who had seen the unthinkable. "Why don't we just forget about it then he will, how does that sound?" He started to regret telling her the truth about that night when the thought of apologising to the oversized mammal dawned on him.
"No, we need to tell him or he'll just avoid us."
Nick had had enough of suppressing his sarcasm and became the less compassionate and considerate Nick that Judy had first met. "What are we gonna tell him? Oh sorry we had a quick fuck in the evidence room, sir, didn't intend for that to happen!" Nick was piqued by the fact she was following her trait of honesty to the point of telling their boss they were pleasuring each other in the work place. Nick hated the idea, for two reasons: One, Bogo would flip out and probably separate them as being partners and two, he was fine as he was, he didn't need consolidation for what he saw. Then again how were they supposed to know for sure, they just be creating problems for themselves if they approached the chief about it or the sergeant, or anyone for that fact.
"Stop it with the language, what is wrong with you today?"
"Me?! You're the one set on telling our boss that we had drunk sex in the evidence room."
"Hang on, you said the evidence room."
"Yeah..."
"That room has cameras on 24/7, and they review the footage for the past week today. Oh god." Nick looked like he'd just seen a ghost as he solemnly stared into the snow that littered the streets, what did they expect? It was new years eve. However, both of the inquisitive officers thought of different things as the snow flocked to the sidewalk and onto the road, Judy more inclined of knowing if there was a dead body beneath the snow, to Nick, who reminisced memories with his family. Even though they held contrasting frames of thought, they shared a love for one another, extremely confidentially.
"So you're telling me that my c-" Nick abruptly stopped his sentence to prevent himself from cursing and trying to think of an alternative, he set on point down to the bulge in between his legs which just annoyed Judy even more than the strong language did. "…this will be caught on camera?"
Judy nodded and placed her fingers on either side of her nose whilst shaking her head in disbelief of what she'd done. That didn't just mean the lascivious act in the precinct, it defined as the tod who hustled her evolving into a mammal following her into the force (which he was formerly against) and becoming more than just a fox, he became her partner in more ways than one… Also, the fact how no one knew except them just questioned why they were in a relationship in the first place. Nick was questioning all the same topics in his head as well. "How long have we got to go?"
"I don't know fluff, probably between 7 and 8 hours."
"Oh, right."
Silence. It was completely silent, the only noise being the motor of the car that Nick ran to keep the heater on to prevent them dying from the sub-zero temperatures the surrounded the car. That was also a negative to Nick using his personal car for the winter stakeout, it would cost him hundreds of dollars in petrol. If he was willing to pay that price to keep his bunny warm, then so be it. Nick would be fine, he had his tail which entire point was to keep him warm. He wanted to wrap his tail around Judy to maintain her warmth however, he wouldn't be able to control himself around her, whether the ending was due to be him having an accident in his pants or her pushed against the window of the car with Nick's tongue being the main focus.
To shut out them salacious thoughts for what seemed like the millionth time that night, he started yet another conversation this time to be one that was impulsed by his mindset at that time. "So, had you had sex before you met me?" He knew the answer to the question was no but, he was willing to see whether she would act like she had or whether she would tell him the truth.
Judy frowned, and when she was about to scold him she just remembered what he mentioned about the morals in Zootopia contrasting to her home beliefs so she just answered affirmatively surprising Nick who thought she was going to have another rant towards him about how he isn't aware of other peoples' privacy but, to that he just replied that they should trust each other as they're mates and nothing should stand in between them which got Judy every single time. "Nick, I'm 25, of course, I have."
"Really? Because when we first did it, a little something was still there..."
By this point in the conversation Judy's blush had elevated up to her ears, she was confused by what he meant by 'a little something' however when Nick of all people censored a word it was obviously something, not even he was comfortable talking about. "Why what was still there?"
Nick felt like laughing at her naivety on the topic at hand but it wasn't too much brought up in conversations whilst in the burrows, disregarding the matter instantly. "When a female does it for the first time, they have 'a little something' still there and therefore when the male does 'it' with her, it breaks and it's not there any more. And it also hurts you… a lot." Nick had censored the terms just for Judy as she would have more than likely slapped him if he used the real words but, she didn't care any more, she wasn't in the burrows any more and she wasn't with country bunnies any more. She was in Zootopia; as a police officer; with her fox, that's all that mattered to her at the minute: the inseparable combination that caused a smile to dawn across her face every time she awoke. She still felt dumb for not knowing something that had even happened to her in the past. "I'm guessing you didn't learn about from school, so how the hell were you supposed to know that? It's fine to not know some things you know." At least he knew what she was feeling but when did he not know what she thinking, he was the closest thing to being telepathic. It was a skill he'd developed over the years, from gambling and many other situations where it was a benefit to know what someone was thinking. Yet Judy was still trying to get her head around it.
"At least I know why it hurt the first time now, huh." Judy sniggered at her own remark before quickly turning it over to Nick who smiled at his bunny taking it lightly. Just because she was a bunny, seemingly innocent and harmless (Nick knew these were NOT true in any way), it didn't mean she couldn't handle things that would scar most bears and big cats. "So, when was your first time?"
Nick tried to pinpoint the exact situation he was in when he first did it and his answer was a literal hyperbole of what Judy was expecting. "Probably when I was 13 and we had a frat party, apparently I was one of the only people to actually come out successful from the party in the morning." Nick felt as though he had to include that bit at the end just to boast and display his achievement. Judy sighed as that was just her tod, 13 and already rolling around in bed.
"Didn't your parents find out?"
Nick almost cried just from them five words, it was one hell of a story that he wasn't willing to share with anyone else except Judy. And it was one long story, but they had the time to discuss it, with Nick explaining exactly what happened in full detail.
By the time Nick was 14, he'd already slept with another dozen vixens, he didn't know how he managed to pull it off, but somehow he did. One summer night when he presumed his parents would be out for the night he brought a home and to his room, where they took their clothes off in a frenzy and immediately started to have sex, unfortunately for Nick, his prediction about his parents being out for the night was wrong and they got the shock of their life when they stepped through the front door, screaming, grunts and creaks were the only sound they heard from upstairs, so Nick's parents, being parents, darted upstairs to see Nick in the middle of his knot thrusting the life out of the vixen beneath him, he was caught red handed. That one second turned what they were doing from intense pleasure to the worst nightmare for both Nick and the vixen, Nick for obvious reasons but the vixen for the fact she had to sit there with a knot inside her for another 20 minutes. Nick had got caught sending nudes before but never got caught having sex before so this was far off the charts for doing something sexual. Nick just chuckled to himself before awkwardly uttering the word sorry to the vixen.
After she'd left and Nick had disposed of the condom he used along with wiping some off his fur and some off the bed he started to walk down the stairs, he was a horny 14-year-old, he got what most didn't, but it didn't exclude him from the scolds his parents would set upon him and he was gonna get the worst in his life. He walked slowly down the stairs with his head locked to the ground, he knew there was no excuse for what he had done, but he was more kicking himself for what he had done, what was he thinking? Brining a vixen home for a one night stand at the age of 14 was not the best of ideas but once he'd experienced it once he felt the urge to do it again whatever the consequences, it was turning into an addictive drug and he knew that, yet he still couldn't say no to anyone who asked him for 'a quicky out back' or some 'happy time'. His money sense was the only sense that prevailed over his urges, so he just let people come to him or use a frat party to his advantage.
His dad was seriously concerned about him, but he displayed it through anger and pique, rather than his mother who sat trying to get over what she just saw her son do. "What do you think you're doing? Rolling around up there whilst we were out! I thought you were better than this Nick! You're lucky our neighbours were out, the noise you two were making could have been heard from the street! Have you slept with anyone else? Tell me, now." His dad's glare was enough to pierce through his skull and delve deep into his mind and like any child, he lied, why would he tell the truth? He would just get scolded more. "Did you use protection, because I swear if I'm not even 35 and I have a grand-"
"Yes dad, I did."
Nick felt as though he was being interrogated, then all the attention was drawn towards the vixen who left mere minute ago. "Who is she then? Your girlfriend? A slag? A prostitute?"
Nick was in a catch 22 as whatever he said would put him in a position that he couldn't articulately respond to. He went with the option that would most likely get him the lightest scold there was to offer. "She's my girlfriend." Nick's dad didn't look convinced in the slightest by his son's mumbled answer.
"You're not seeing her again."
"But that's unfai-"
"Life's unfair, you have to wait like everyone else! You can't go storming off fucking whoever you want! It's illegal! Imagine if you got taken by social services and we never saw again?! What would you do then, come crying to us, or go to a nightclub and bag a woman for the night? Answer it!" His tone was now starting to transform into one of a more threatening manner and Nick's sudden introduction of answering back was only a catalyst to raising his ire.
"I don't wanna wait anymore! I want to be able to be with who I want to be with, I love her and I want to be with her, I could get married or have kits with her i-"
"Don't you dare answer back to me. Boy."
Nick took one big pluck of courage and got right up in his own father's face and said: "Make me."
His dad looked as though he was a bomb ready to blow and before he did something he would regret Nick's mum told him to go outside and cool down. Nick was ready for round 2 with his mum until she calmly and collectedly asked him to sit beside her.
"I know you want to do it this early and all you friends are probably doing it right now, but you know I did find another condom in the trash a couple of weeks ago and I just thought a kid might have thrown it in there, but I just want to know if you've done it more than once. Have you?"
Nick sat, unsure whether to tell the truth to his mum or whether to lie like he did to his dad but knowing his dad if he found what his mum was talking about he'd probably find out who's DNA it was, of course the only result it could have been was the conclusion that it belonged to Nick. His mother seemed more gentle towards him at the situation which just encouraged Nick to tell the truth, by this point though, he'd already lived through life nonchalantly blurting out lies to people just to get his own way. As he grew up he started to realise that the world didn't revolve around him and he became more acceptant of other people's opinions, still using the trait of being able to lie about anything so casually, for example, he could have easily kept quiet about stealing a dozen grand from a charity box, not like he would, but that was how capable he was. That's why he hardly ever got charged with anything as he managed to make his side of the story so believable that the judge couldn't say no. However, that moment with his mum on the couch was the time he decided to stop being know as a compulsive liar and actually tell the truth for once in his life. Mainly because he'd feared that he may follow the same ideologies portrayed in 'the boy who cried wolf' (That book was obviously wrote before predators and prey lived in 'harmony' as Judy believed Zootopia was like as a child, but by now she knew that was completely false).
"I have, a few times before this." Nick's mum knew he had by the look of regret on his face after she brought up the topic at hand. "She wasn't my girlfriend either." His mum shook her head as she took his paw in hers.
"This'll be our little secret, how about that? You know what dad will do if he finds out so promise me you won't do this again until you're old enough, promise me that." Nick loved his mum for the fact she was understanding of his situation rather than his dad who stormed out for a fag in an attempt to calm himself down.
"I promise." Nick's mum knew exactly how Nick felt as she was in the same situation when she was young and she knew how it felt to have your parents shouting at you for that reason, however, her parents caught her when she was 15 rather than 14 let alone the 13 Nick had explained to her.
She glanced out the front window at her husband before urging Nick to say something to him. Nick reluctantly got up after he'd hugged his mum and strode to the door, unsure whether to speak to his dad or not. Plucking up the courage to go outside and confront his dad about the situation he let the door close behind him as he leant against the house next to his dad with hi paw in his hoodie pocket. "I'm sorry dad, I didn't-"
"Why." It wasn't a question it was a statement that Nick's dad didn't expect an answer to so, he finished it himself. "You're just gonna throw your life away like that, get known as the guy who fucks anyone. I know that wasn't your girlfriend, just don't do it again before it's too late, I mean look at me, where I am. I'm a shit parent, with a shit house, in a shit job and I let my son get into the same place I was in when I was his age. I guess she's already told that's how I and your mum met, the same way you and your 'girlfriend' met. Underage sex. Just wait son, just wait to drink, just wait to smoke, just wait for me and your mum, we love you, just know that I will always be here for you." That's where Nick's memory went blank, that's all he could remember from that conversation.
But of course it doesn't stop there, there was more to this tale than that. Nick had bagged an actual girlfriend a couple of months later and when they were both hanging out in Nick's room alone without Nick's parents home, after a lot of persuasion that no ordinary mammal would be able to pull off, they felt they could trust him and left to go for a romantic night out for the first time in years. By this time Nick was 15 as his birthday had recently passed, just reminding him he had to wait another year to do what he wanted to physically show she was his girlfriend. Unfortunately both of them had made the critical mistake of upping the ante, that led to Nick's girlfriend being in the same position the vixen that Nick's parents found him in a couple of months prior to that moment. But like everything in the poor tod's life, it soon came to an abrupt end. There was a very deafening knock on the door and with his knot still very much present he had to ignore it, then for the fist time in years he rolled his eyes back and let his tongue roll and then something both of them didn't expect would happen, happened. Apparently someone had called the cops, concerned that a rape was taking place next door due to the carnal sounds from the semi-detached house Nick dwelled in. Obviously unaware it was the cops, Nick just continued, that was until the familiar sound of the police force's name was shouted through the walls.
"ZPD, open up!" Nick almost crapped himself at the realisation police were waiting outside his house.
"Just give me a couple of minutes!" Nick felt compelled to say something as if he didn't say anything they would probably barge down the door without notice and be the third person to catch him having sex, including the time Finnick barged in on him at a party, but that was a story for a different day.
After running them both under cold water by the hips, Nick chucked on some clothes and answered the door with confidence which contradicted his face after the police confronted him about the noises and, when he answered to his age, it was soon used against him, he couldn't walk straight neither could his girlfriend, both being drunk and underage they got taken down to the station for their parents to pick them up.
Nick's girlfriend's parents were livid whilst Nick's parents were just silent. He and his mum were speechless, he didn't know whether it was down to the fact he'd sworn not to do it until he was of age, or whether it was because their parents now knew, or whether it was because he didn't listen to either of them.
He could see they were both piqued, there was no doubt in that, but they were portraying it in an abnormal way. The drive home was just Nick sat head down in the back seat, then his mum spoke up. "I thought we promised you wouldn't do this anymore, but like everyone, every time I get lied to."
Nick's dad caught on which wasn't great for both his mum or Nick. They all pulled up on their drive. "What do you mean anymore? And what promise?"
"It's nothing dad."
"You don't have a say in this after the shit you pulled."
"It's nothing." He was now at a lost at who he could trust, he did it before and his own wife kept that a secret from him, he thought that was out of order, they were supposed to be a team of parents raising their child to do the right thing. Nick's dad was tired of dancing around his son, forgiving him for his mistakes, shouting at him if he did them again, grounding him in any instance so, his dad decided that this time, he wasn't going to do that. He was going to teach him the same way his parents taught him.
He hit Nick in the gut.
Nick never got hit, mainly because his mum wouldn't let him get hit, Nick was precious to her after her infertility and sworn to not let a single finger be laid upon him. Of course, that was completely irrelevant by Buck irreverent towards people who threatened him. Whether that be a simple curse in a street or a death threat. Anyhow, Nick had never had it done to him, he was a happy little cub and the transition to adolescence was just too much for his dad to handle. So he hit him. Really hard. In the gut. Nick was now livid towards his dad and winded worse than he'd ever been. "At least you were right about one thing…" His dad stopped and loosened the stern face that drew over him almost snapping him out of the violent trance he was currently stated in before Nick finished his sentence. "You are a shit parent." Nick's dad without hesitation, punched him again with the same brute force in the head, knocking him unconscious for a few seconds. Meanwhile his mum was screaming at him in the background, one of both angst and anger. A feeling that was smeared all over the walls of the house.
"This is all your fault, if you hadn't have been so soft on him from the start we wouldn't be in this mess! At least now he'll learn."
"How could you say that!? You're the one who knocked him unconscious you psycho!" At that point, Nick started to regain his consciousness and when he did all that he could hear were the words that would lead to his dad having a scar across his face for the rest of his life.
"I'm the psycho? I'm the one who puts food on the table for the sack of shit son you raised to eat."
Nick's mum scratched him from the top of his cheek, down across his lip, he was bleeding whilst Nick was bruising. She grabbed him by the collar and glared deep into his eyes with here's that we're filled with fire. "If you ever, EVER, call Nick a sack of shit again, you will get worse than this and if you are blaming me for our son feeling as though he can't trust you with a secret then why don't you hit me, because it's all my fault!" She was being extremely aggressive with a sarcastic undertone that just somewhat managed to ease his dad's antisocial behaviour, but that soon vanished as he now started to destroy almost everything they owned together, that meaning from smashing the wedding pictures to tearing up his mum's wedding dress. He eventually went downstairs and Nick's mum after a gruesome battle on the floor in the living room managed to push him out the front door, her fur coated in blood, both his and her own. "Don't come back you disrespectful, abusive, pathetic excuse of a mammal." She spat on him and slammed the door before she realised one, she'd have another car to pay tax for and two, she still had her wedding ring on. Through the front window, she chucked his car keys and wedding ring at him before exclaiming "WE'RE DONE."
"..and that's the story of how my parents got divorced because I was so impulsive when it came to sex." Judy was surprised at the amount of information he'd told about his past life, even if it was just one thing, he never spoke about it, he preferred to live in the present and when he spoke about his experiences, it was interesting, it drove Judy's curiosity over the edge and this time in Nick's car was the way to take advantage of it. There wasn't much going on in the present, so why both think about the past, as you can only make the future from you past events and experience.
There were still thousands of things he hadn't told her, simply because he didn't have time and yet here they were in the land of opportunity, and this was his opportunity. However, he was still resentful as to actually telling his past to anyone. Either because it was too dark, too long, too insignificant or just plain boring.
Judy wanted to hear more. Life in the city sounded so much more fun than life back at home, it mostly consisted of running and riding around in the fields and around the village, but since technology boosted in popularity and made in way into mass culture, less and less citizens of the burrows were seen playing out yet, more and more were found inside on their phones or whatever electronic device they would hold in their paws. Before she asked if she had any more tales to share she needed to get a thought off her mind. "So did your dad ever try to contact you after that?"
"Nope, not one incy wincy little bit of effort was put into finding me, I could easily track him down as I have some friends in the hacking business, but I want him to come to me." He sighed before leaning forward and asking himself a question. "Doesn't he want to know what I have grown up to become? A cop with a sustainable relationship not purely based on sex. I'm 32 and he's only 50. There's no reason why he shouldn't have come to visit me now unless he's scared of my mom." He should be able to find me in the phone book." The motor to Nick's curiosity sparked into action as he questioned questions.
Jeez, I really am a cop, questioning questions, Judy really haschanged me.
Nick snapped himself out of it and discarded all memories that he had with his dad as a kit, before the incident. It felt good to actually speak to someone about it and when they're so understanding, it improves the situation by tonnes. He couldn't speak to his mum about it as it was a saw subject and could not be touched with a hundred foot barge pole let alone a ten foot one. He still regretted bringing up the subject as now he reminisced the memories he had when he was young with his father. "You know, I shouldn't have said anything, I don't care whether he finds me or not."
"You can't just shrug it off like that Nick, this is huge, this is your dad. Don't you care about that?" He shook his head.
"He had it coming anyway, he wasn't all too nice in the months leading up to it in the first place, so can we just drop it now. Please?"
"But Ni-"
"Drop it."
"N-"
"I said drop it god damn it leave me alone, I'm fine." Nick turned to face out the window, looking up at the stars past the flocking flakes as Judy built the courage to use something against Nick that he would really not like, but at least it would snap him out of it and let her speak.
"I bet you're acting like your father right now."
Nick gaped his eyes wide open, ears erect, facing straight at Judy with a horrified look of scorn drawn right across her face from one side to the other. Horrified that she would as cruel enough to use that against him, but it did have the desired effect of snapping him out the sulking mood he was in prior to the aggravated one he presently dwelled in.
All of which happened seconds before the clock switched from 8:59 to 9:00. Judy was concerned for him, something Nick didn't usually receive from many people, but with a mate, that was her responsibility: to fuss over him and worry for him as Nick did over her. Just resentful to confront her with his fears as he treated her how he wanted to be treated.
Nick sighed and changed the topic, reluctant to let her out him on the spot of a topic he wasn't inclined on talking about. "One hour down." He marked a tally down on his leg and Judy laughed at his childish behaviour. Desperate to get out the car they inhabited, but it just prolonged the experience. Especially when you were watching the clock in between his dials, itching for it to reach the number that would signify an eighth of their already eventful night in the car.
Still with 7 hours to spend in each other's company.
