[DISCLAIMER] All story assets used from the original source (Zootopia) (characters, places, environments, background, etc.) in the creation of this free fan made story belong to Disney and any appropriate associates connected to the making of the movie: Zootopia. The author makes no claim on any of the assets used, only a claim to the story constructed using said assets.
A/N: It has been a long time since I've felt the need to make a fanfiction… I also had another profile on this site but I'm never looking back on that one. So, I don't know how good this will be if at all. I do hope you enjoy the story though. Updated 13-12-2016
Judy sat at her parents produce stall in front of their carrot fields in the wee hours of early dawn. She had been there for about five months now. Her mood was sour to say the least and her mind preoccupied by thoughts of Nick and the look of hurt Nick had when she made the mistake of almost going for her fox repellant when he tried to scare her at that press conference.
"Nick… why'd I… I'm so stupid…" she moaned in her own self pity.
She looked down the long road between carrot fields that lead to Zootopia. She saw something a bit odd, a cloud of dirt that bellowed up from the center of the dirt road. It was a thin cloud, so perhaps it was someone on a motorcycle or dirt bike. She stopped paying the rider any mind and returned to her self wallowing and thoughts about Nick. Judy rested her head upon her crossed arms on the flat surface of the stand. Her hand ventured forward to a lonely deformed carrot, she picked it up and looked at this small carrot with lonely violet eyes.
"I wanted to help the world become a better place only to, tear it apart… and the only real friend I made in Zootopia… and I fucked that up too… can't I just do something right for once…" she said under her breath and lazily dropped the carrot back into the carrot basket on the front of the stand.
The sound of a violently loud engine came within earshot of Judy and she looked up to the dirt road to see that her suspicion was nearly correct, it was someone on a police bike. Judy simply didn't care enough to continued to watch the rider. The roar of the loud engine grew closer and closer until it had stopped right in front of the stand. The bike's engine sat and sputtered for a moment before its rider killed the engine. She heard the dirt on the side of the paved road shuffle beneath the feet of the rider as the stepped off the bike then proceeded to walk up to the stand. The equipment that hung onto his belt rattled while he walked.
"Ahem," the person said to get her attention, the voice was somewhat muffled by the helmet but it was obviously a male from the tone of his voice.
"Hello would you like to purchase anything today… all produce for sale was grown and harvested right here…" Judy said in a melancholy and monotone voice.
"Um, yes I think I'd like to have my Carrots back if you wouldn't mind?" he asked and gained a confused and bewildered look from Judy.
"Excuse me?" she questioned with an eyebrow raised and an eye half lidded, she noticed the long bushy tailed on this male, it was one of a fox.
He wore a black police leather jacket a set of police blues and a white and blue helmet marked with ZPD. Judy's heart jumped into her throat at this observation and the male grasped the bottom of his helmet then proceeded to push the helmet off, above his head. Judy's eyes enlarged at the realization of who stood before her.
"N-Nick… Nick I'm so sorry I didn't mean to say all those things in front of the press…" Judy rushed around the stand to be closer to Nick who was smiling and seemed to be slightly chuckling to himself, "I-I didn't mean to hurt you I'm so so sorry please, I'm, I'm…"
"Carrots," Nick put his hand on Judy's shoulder and she just hugged him.
Judy sobbed uncontrollably into Nick's chest, "Carrots, Carrots, hey, hey, look at me," Nick backed up slightly took his paw under Judy's chin and lifted her head to where she looked right into his eyes.
"Nick…" she said with a sniffle.
"Hey, there's my fluffy bunny," he said with a faint smile.
"I'm-I'm sorry…" Judy sobbed with her head buried into Nick's chest
"I know Carrots, I know, shh it's okay… I may have been pissed but I didn't want to make you hippity hop all the way back here, away from me… I-I lov…" Nick's ears pinned themselves back as he tried to spit out the word love.
Judy perked up hearing Nick's almost confession of love, "what?"
"I, uh I love, you Judy… I just I didn't know what to feel it what else to do, when you… but after just this past week of you being gone… I just… I just can't stand it anymore, I need you, I just…" Nick let out an exasperated sigh and had a look of defeat plastered to his face while he looked to the ground.
Judy didn't know if it was the right thing to do, but she jumped up, took hold of Nick's head and quickly pulled him into a kiss before he had any chance to object, not that she thought he would. Nick's eyes widened, full of surprise, shock, and pure happiness that he wasn't rejected on the spot. Nick slowly closed his eyes and took in every precious moment. Judy peaked at Nick to see if he was enjoying her and he was. Someone called for Judy off in the distance but both her and Nick were off in their own bliss engulfed world together.
Nick's hands slowly found themselves on Judy's hips and her hands found the collar of Nick's fake leather jacket and gave a slight pull to keep him close to her. They broke their kids for only a moment to get some air then she kissed him again. For the first time during the week her feelings of self doubt and hatred were lifted from her shoulders and replaced with a tingly happiness. Judy finally noticed someone next to them and turned to see who it was.
"Oh… hey dad… heh, heh…" Judy's ears flopped down at his appearance she also gave him a nervous smile.
"Who the- what the hell?!" Stu yelled with the most surprised look his face could conceive.
"Oh, he's your father?" Nick asked to which Judy nodded, "shit... nice to meet you sir." Nick said with a nervous smile forced onto his face.
"Who the hell are you and why are your paws on my daughter?!" Bonnie caught wind of the yelling coming from Stu.
Judy and Nick let go of each other and stood side by side when Bonnie arrived, "what's wrong Stu?" Bonnie asked in a kind and calm tone.
"Uh, s-sir and madam I-I'm officer Nicholas Wilde of the ZPD… I'm also Judy's boyfriend," Nick said and held out his paw for Stu to shake, but he remained stationary then Nick lowered his paw and turned to Judy, "I hope that wasn't presumptuous of me."
"Nice way to break the news... use a sledgehammer..." Judy said almost silently to herself.
Stu turned to his wife, "T-This fox was feeling up our daughter!" Stu exclaimed with a paw extended in Nick's direction.
"I mean I was really the one feeling him up," just said with a small shrug.
Judy had a smile big enough to threaten to split her face. No one paid much mind to the pink and cream colored bakery van that was about to approach the Hopps Family produce stand until it honked twice.
"Here's Gideon," Bonnie said trying to break the awkward stares between Stu and Nick.
"Whoa, why is Gideon here?" Judy asked with a surprised expression trying to follow her mother's plan.
"Well, we partnered with him after you left for Zootopia. I mean partnering with a fox Baker is one thing, but letting another fox bed my daughter is something else completely!" Stu practically yelled.
"Stu that is enough!" Bonnie told her husband sternly, "if he's an officer of the law then he must be a good mammal." Judy just simply walked away from the two best bickering parents over to Gideon's van with Nick right behind her.
"Gideon Grey, I'll be darned," Judy said in a soft voice.
Gideon stopped right behind the dirt bike and stepped out, "oh h-hi Judy, I just like to say sorry for the way I behaved in my youth, I had a lot of self doubt and it manifested itself in unchecked rage and aggression. I was a major jerk," Gideon apologized with his ears pinned to his head.
"Well, I know a thing or two about being a jerk," Judy said and Nick walked up to them.
"Whoa, wait this guy was a bully?" Nick asked with his thumb pointer over his shoulder at Gideon while he looked at Judy.
"Kinda, yeah I was," Gideon answered for Judy.
Stu turn bed back to the carrot fields at the sound of children's laughter, "hey, kids don't you run through that midnicampum holicithias." He called to them and they stopped dead in their tracks.
"Well, now, there's a $4 word, Mr. H. My family always just called them Night Howlers." Gideon said with a smile.
Judy and Nick both looked at Gideon and spoke in sync, "what did you say?"
"Oh, Gids is talking about the flowers, I use them to keep bugs off the produce… but I don't like the little ones going near'em… on account of what happened to your uncle Terry." Stu explained.
"Yeah, Terry ate one whole when we were kids and went completely nuts." Bonnie added.
"He bit the dickens out of your mother."
"Does that mean-" Nick spoke and Judy finished for him, "the flowers are making the predators go savage?!"
"We have to tell Chief Bogo!" Judy exclaimed and made a gesture toward Nick's bike, "come on!"
Nick simply stood there and gazed toward the ground and his feet. Judy stood next to the bike she turned back. Judy gave Nick a look of confusion and wondered as to why he didn't immediately follow her.
"Nick, come on…" he didn't look at her, "Nick…? What's wrong?"
"Judy it's… Zootopia it's not… it's not the same city you left. It's bad back home… why don't we both just stay here, together, away from that madness…"Nick walked up to her took her paws and held them with his own all the while his ears were pinned back to his head.
"Wha-what do you mean? What's happened?!" Judy asked worry settled into her voice and expression.
"The city… it, it burns…" Nick looked her in the eyes and gazed into the pools of vibrant violet, "it's utter chaos, death has become common throughout the city, the police… we've lost total control of two districts… can't you just, stay here- I-I'll become a farm hand somewhere in the area and stay here with you... just please, please don't go to that city of death and try to fix what's gone, please Judy… I-I can't lose you, I can't…"
Tears fell softly onto the fur on his cheeks and darkened his fur, he fell to his knees. Nick silently wept at the thought of his newly confessed love's death, and begin left on the street where no one could get to her.
"Nicky…" it was Nick's turn to be held while he cried.
Judy held Nick's head to her chest, "please, please… I can't I can't…" his silent sobs slowed as Judy held him.
"We have to try something," Nick pulled his head back and sniffled.
Stu walked up behind Nick, "I think the wet rag is right honey."
"Stu!" Bonnie shouted softly.
"Wha…" Nick turned and looked at Stu.
"Dad!" Judy shouted at Stu and he put up his hands to seen like he did nothing.
"But what can we do? We're just two mammals, small ones at that…" Nick looked to Judy for an answer.
Judy brought her nose level with Nick's and stared into his eyes, "The only way for evil to triumph is for good mammals to do nothing," Judy said with a sorrowful smile.
"So I'm going to go there and try to help them restore some semblance of law and order I want you to stay here, and stay safe, okay," Nick shook his and gained a determined expression.
"If you're going I'm going-" Judy put her hands up and cut him off.
"No, no I could not live with myself if i brought you there just to have you die-" Nick raised his voice to her to really get Judy's attention.
"And what? Do you think it is any different for me just to stand here and watch you ride off into the city of death?! No, I. am. going. And that's final. If the reaper takes you then he'd better dig two graves." Nick said and put his foot down.
I hope whomever read this story enjoyed it. This is still a work in progress but it's the best out of the three stories I started today