I do not own Zootopia in any capacity. I wanted to start this as soon as possible even though I have a lot of other stuff to do. Sometimes, you have to make time. It's a good thing I finished my first mock resume. This is an idea that I needed to get the ball rolling for. I love the idea of Nick and Judy being together, and I started formulating this idea on that mission trip I was on back in July. I'm rating this T for the sake of later chapters. I won't specify now. Let's start this off on a happy note. Aye, sir! Enjoy!

Chapter 1: First Step into the Future

Nick never thought he would actually be where he was today. The sun was shining brilliantly through the stained glass windows, the trees were in full bloom and his tuxedo looked sharp on him. His paws subtly trembled. Finnick stood behind him. Behind Finnick was Clawhauser. Several members of the Zootopia Police Department filled the pews. Nick's mother, Kristy, was in the front, prepared with a camera and tearful smile. Judy's family filled nearly half of the chapel. One of Judy's younger sisters, 16-year-old Gillian, started playing Gazelle's "Try Everything" on an acoustic guitar as a little bunny, who looked about five or six, strolled down the middle of the aisle, tossing violet petals here and there.

Then, the bridesmaids rolled in… Nick knew that Judy had at least a hundred sisters. What he should have expected of his bride was that she would ask every single one to be in her bridal party. The only two that declined were the music-loving Gillian and the little sister—Nick couldn't remember her name because he already had so many names to keep track of—who was throwing the flower petals.

Nick heard Finnick fidget anxiously behind him. Finnick was in a romantic relationship with Judy's fraternal twin sister, Amber, and it was Finnick's longest relationship by far. Amber had convinced Finnick to find a real place to live instead of living out of his van like he had done for years. She had convinced him to go along with Judy and Chief Bogo's plan to make a black ops unit within the ZPD to stand against the rise of organized crime. Finnick certainly wasn't liable to do any of that otherwise. Nick hoped that their relationship would last, for Finnick's sake if nothing else.

Sister after sister, the rabbits strolled down the aisle in the same white dress with a pale blue sash. Nick wondered of Gillian's paws would cramp up before they got even halfway through the coming of the bridesmaids, but he tried not to think too much about it. Instead of growing impatient, he let himself get lost in thought.

Flashback…

Nick and Judy were on patrol one day in downtown Tundra Town. A café on the side of the road was coming up and Nick asked, "Hey, Carrots, can we stop here? I've got to take a leak."

"Alright, alright," Judy rolled her eyes and pulled into the parking lot. "Make it quick—we've got potential crimes to stop."

"But we don't know that yet. C'mon in with me, it's cold out here. I'll let Winter tell you all my secrets behind my back," Nick offered as he got out of the patrol car. Winter, an arctic fox and Nick's ex-girlfriend, had helped Nick and Judy on a case involving Nick's mother being kidnapped a while back. He had almost Judy on that case, and the very thought of losing her gave him more goosebumps than the viciously cold winds of Tundra Town.

"Winter's a nice girl. I'm glad she's happy with her girlfriend," Judy said pleasantly and got out of the patrol car, trotting over to Nick and grasping his paw. Nick let out a faint, near-inaudible gasp and looked down at her. She gazed up at him and asked, "What's with the face? My paws are cold…"

"Nothing. You just caught me by surprise," Nick informed her.

"I can't believe so much time has passed since we were on the Mad Cows case. And even more time since the Night Howler incident. And…we've been together for some amount of time in between. I guess I know what they mean when they say 'don't blink'," Judy said to Nick, reminiscing.

"You know…I'm excited about how far forward we've gone together. I never thought you'd catch me by the heart," Nick informed Judy as he held the café's door open for her.

"Nick! Judy! Welcome!" Winter the arctic fox greeted excitedly as her big, blue eyes fluttered and her snow-white tail swished excitedly from one side to the other. "Nick, you're finally making due on your word."

"Oh, right!" Nick feigned sudden recollection. "Yeah, remember when I said that the next time we'd be in here was when we were paying customers?"

"Nick, we don't have time—" Judy started to object to the idea.

"We're not slacking off or anything. We're just taking a lunch break, Carrots," Nick reasoned with Judy.

"Well, you did give your word…" Judy complied.

Nick rushed into the bathroom and started smoothing out his fur in the mirror and held a tiny red box in his right paw. He clutched it to his chest and muttered to himself, "Hey, Dad…whatever strength you had when you proposed to Mom…can you send some my way? Please…" Nick took a deep breath and went out into the main part of the café. Winter had already gotten Judy seated and the two were talking like old friends. They had only met twice now. That was one quality that he loved about Judy and that he had loved about Winter during their time together; they weren't afraid to be friendly.

"Speak of the devil," Winter said when Nick was in her peripheral vision, "and he shall appear."

"Or a very sassy angel, in my case," Judy giggled.

"Sassy? Me? Well, Carrots, I guess we've both got our fair share of sass, but… Anyway, all of that aside…" Nick began speaking, smirking. He got on one knee. "Judith Laverne Hopps, you're the sunshine, even on my darkest days. You're the reason I was able to make more of myself than I've dared to dream in years. You've taught me to love. You've taught me to live. You're the only one who can see past the mask. You see my emotions for what they truly are. You see me for who I am."

"Nick…?" Judy asked, a hurricane of emotions spiraling in her vivid purple eyes.

"Will you marry me?" Nick asked pleadingly as he presented the small velvet box to her. He opened it slowly. A beautiful gold engagement ring with a small diamond embezzled in it sat snugly in the velvety cube.

"Oh, Nick!" Judy threw her arms around him. "Yes, I will! I will!"

End of flashback…

Nick almost didn't notice Amber, Judy's maid of honor, walk onto the altar. Judy was at the end of the aisle, her father holding her arm. Judy couldn't stop smiling. The fox—her dumb fox—was the male of her dreams. It took every ounce of self-control she had not to leap into his arms right then and there.

Judy took her place on the altar with a hundred-some-odd bunnies behind her. Her white dress looked beautiful on her. It wasn't too puffy, but it had its fair share of material. Her veil, breaking traditions like she did, hung on the side of her head. Nick flashed her his signature smile. Judy took his paws. They were beaming into each other's eyes.

Their priest, one surprisingly clothed Yax the yak, began to do the ceremony. He asked the crowd, "You know, mammals have asked for generations what love is and yet we find it all the time. Especially here, man. These two are as tight as the grass and the soil. If each of us was more like the way these two are with our significant other—accepting and full of humor—we'd be a happier society. You guys on my wavelength?"

"I get ya, man," Finnick spoke up.

"It was meant to be rhetorical," Benjamin Clawhauser whispered to Finnick.

"The yak asked a question, so I answered," Finnick muttered back.

"Is anyone really going to try to deny these two of the wedding they deserve?" Yax asked. Judy's grandfather, Pop-Pop, jumped up and was about to say something, but Judy's older brother, Caleb, stopped him from saying anything.

"Alright! Let's hear those vows!" Yax suggested.

"Nick… Nicholas Wilde… When we first met, I wouldn't have thought in a million years that you'd be my best friend and my partner, let alone my lover. Until I took up the case of Mr. Otterton going missing, I didn't think I'd ever see you again. Looking back, I am so glad and thankful to have had everything, both the good and the bad, happen to me because it helped me get to know you and all of what you and I have been through has brought us to where we are today," Judy told Nick, tears hanging in her eyes and her smile unwavering.

"Carrots… Judy… There's so much I could say. You're a little, fluffy ball of energy. You have such a huge soft spot for kids to the point where you managed to save my inner child from being completely shrouded on the darkness of my past. You're not cute; you're adorable. There's so much I should say, but most importantly, I have to tell you this: thank you," Nick said his vows to Judy, who started crying the second he opened his mouth.

The fox and the rabbit exchanged rings and Yax exclaimed, "By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you fox and wife! Go ahead, Nick, kiss your bride!"

Gillian smashed an empty soda bottle and started playing her guitar again. Nick picked Judy up and kissed her on the lips. Judy returned the kiss and the two of them were in synchronized bliss.

"I love you," Judy and Nick told each other simultaneously.