A night out

by Zero2o1o

Judy is shot while on duty and it forces Nick to consider how he feels for his rabbit partner. I want to thank BrutusDeagon for all his proof reeding.

1. Chapter 1

A night out

Zootopia fanfiction

By Zero2o1o

Chapter one: opening up

By the time Lt. Judy Hopps walked into Zootopia central police department's bullpen it was six o'clock and every police officer on the morning shift including Judy's predator partner officer Nick Wilde was there "you're here early?" the female rabbit said with surprise expecting the fox to be one of the last cops to come in.

"Yeah well I knew if I was late again Bogo would use that to put us on meter maid duty and I know you don't want to go back to that" officer Wilde shot back not wanting his partner to suffer cause of him.

"I appreciate that" Lt. Hopps smiled glad to see that her partner was finally considering what he did effected Judy as well.

"No problem carrots" Nick replied giving the rabbit his trademark lopsided smile while using the nickname only he seemed to be allowed to use.

"By the way how was that date you went on the other night?" the male red fox inquired seeing his partner's long ears flattened against the back of her head and her violet eyes narrowed in annoyance as she got into her chair.

"It was that bad eh?" Nick frowned not sure if he wanted to ask what had gone wrong cause it might sent his partner off.

"You have no idea that guy wasn't what I was hoping he'd be instead he was just another farmer like the guys from Bunnyborrow and he wanted me to quit my job so I could be a stay at home mom" Judy bitched refusing to end up like her mother, sisters, aunts and female cousins all of them doing nothing but care for they're children and work on their farms.

"Yeah I can't see you of all mammals be a stay at home mom" officer Wilde joked asking the female rabbit if she ever planned to start a family once she had a good career going.

"I don't know maybe in a few years" Judy remarked blushing at the idea of meeting a male she would actually want to marry and have children with.

"Sorry to say this Hopps but you belong with the ZPD not in some house in the suburbs taking care of a bunch of little kids " officer McHorn a rhino who towered over Judy and Nick stated flatly looking down at the bunny and actually smiled at her.

"Instead of wasting your time looking for some worthless loser you could just date me" Nick smirked leaning towards his partner and gave the rabbit a lectures smile.

"If chief Bogo hears you talking like that he'll send you to MR (mammal resource) for sexually harassing me" Judy warned her partner who straightened up and then dropped his chin onto the tabletop.

"Jeez carrots there's no need to threaten me like that I was only joking" the red fox complained a frown replacing his trademark smile.

"Besides you know I wasn't purposely trying to sexually harass you" the male fox grumbled just as chief Bogo entered the bullpen.

"It sure seemed like it and even if Bogo doesn't get after you I'll put you down myself" Hopps argued in a whisper so their boss didn't hear their argument

"Bet it's the first time a guy ever sexually harassed you in your entire life" officer Wilde gloated before finding himself lying on the bullpen floor his side feeling like he been hit by a brick.

"Wilde what are you doing down there?" chief Bogo asked in a annoyed tone staring angrily at his only fox police officer.

"(Cough) leaking spinal (cough) fluid out my (cough) ear sir" Nick moaned holding his side but didn't get up.

"I don't care get in your chair" the cape buffalo stated unsympathetically ordering McHorn to help Nick back into his seat.

Nick slumped forward in his chair holding his side and wheezed "I'm pretty sure you crack and or broke one to three of my ribs" Nick groaned thinking he should go to the hospital after the debriefing.

"Well that's what you get for your lewd comment" Judy replied a hint of pride in her voice for teaching her partner a lesson he needed to learn.

"seriously just because I made one little joke you break my ribs?" Nick asked with clear sarcasm mad his partner didn't feel any regret for causing him injury.

"Eeyep" was all Judy said before telling her partner to hush cause Bogo was starting the briefing and Judy knew the cape buffalo didn't like to be interrupted.

Bogo assigned Nick and Judy to continue to work on the B&E case they had been working for the last couple of weeks "before we go and work on our case I think you should take me to the hospital for the ribs you broke with your ungodly huge ass feet" Nick told his partner as they were walking to the gun clerk to pick up their mossberg 590A1 shotgun and AR-15.

"Excuse me my feet are as big as any other rabbit you pointy eared asshole" Judy replied in a angry growled unconsciously tapping her foot.

"Sorry but no their not your feet are freaking humongous" the fox argued rubbing his side and hoped Judy wasn't going to kick him again.

"Fuck you you fucking prick" Lt. Hopps shouted storming off to the female only bathroom with tears starting to roll down her cheeks.

The gun locker was manned by a large male grizzly bear that stood at two and a half meters tall and weighed a massive thirteen thousand pounds all of which was muscle that could take down any mammal he went up against "sup Wilde where's that bunny partner of yours?" the male bear greeted his fellow predator a little surprise Nick wasn't with Judy.

"Oh she went to the bathroom to probably laugh at the fact she shattered half my rib cage" Nick frowned rubbing his side while the grizzly bear just started laughing.

"How the hell is that funny Carl?" the small predator growled figuring the only reason Carl was laughing at him was because the grizzly bear knew the only mammal who could hurt him or say any shit about him were the ones his own size.

"Come on Nick you have to admit it's hilarious that such a kind hearted and sweet girl as Judy would kick you in the ribs, what did you say or do to piss her off so badly?" Carl commented recalling how nice and caring Lt. Hopps was and wanted to know what Nick did to anger the rabbit to the point she would hit the red fox.

"All I did was suggest Judy stop dating those losers she had been seeing and just get with me then I made fun of her feet" Nick told the large predator who just started laughing even harder.

"What you got something against a fox dating a rabbit?" officer Wilde asked willing to go against tradition and date a rabbit.

"Hey you and Judy are consenting adults whatever you two do behind close doors is none of my business" Carl disagreed going to get Nick his and Judy's guns.

"Whoa time out Carl I an't planning on sleeping with Judy I just said we should date" Nick tried to tell the grizzly bear who said it wasn't his business once again.

A little while later Judy opened the driver's side door and got into the patrol car her violet eyes were now red and puffy telling Nick his partner had been crying in the bathroom "listen carrots I'm sorry about what I said about your feet that wasn't cool" Nick apologized feeling horrible for making his partner cry.

"I was just mad you most likely broke my ribs and drop kicked me like a baby" the fox continued wanting Judy to know why he had said what he did.

"Who the hell would drop kick a baby?" Lt. Hopps gasped horrified by the metaphor and started wondering who came up with it.

"Hopefully no one would but we both no there are some seriously fucked up mammals who live in Zootopia" Nick replied having seen some twisted things mammals had done in the time he had been part of the ZPD.

"Ok yeah you have a point partner" Judy frowned disappointed by the poor way mammals treated one another.

"By the way there's no way I broke your ribs with one kick I didn't even hit you that hard you're just being a big baby" the gray rabbit told the male fox laughing as she turned on the patrol car.

"Bullshit I bet you shattered half my rib cage Carrots" Wilde playfully argued all his pain was gone by now but he wanted to be dramatic about it anyways.

Lt. Hopps just scoffed putting the car into reverse and headed for the garage's exit "you miss Hopps are the most heartless female to ever exist" officer Wilde said as he buckled himself in.

"If that was true I would of let Mr. Manchas rip you apart while I escaped" Judy replied matter of factually not even giving her partner a sideways glance"

"You would never do that to me you know you love me to much to leave me to die" Wilde smirked purposely giving the rabbit his trademark lopsided smile.

Judy did care deeply for Nick but she wasn't sure if she was actually in love with the fox and she wasn't sure if Nick really loved her "so don't you love me?" Nick asked when Judy didn't answer instead she just stared out the front window carefully keeping her face emotionless.

"Oh I get it playing I love you but I just don't have the courage to admitted" the green eyed red fox said remembering that Judy had kind of agreed with him just before they had chased and pulled over Flash the sloth.

"Now isn't really the time we have work to do" Judy told her partner not wanting to talk about how she felt about him.

"You just don't want to admit your madly in love with me" Nick laughed but Judy rolled her violet eyes before pulling into traffic.

"Come on carrots just say that you love me and I'll stop bugging you" the fox continued to try and convince Judy to say that she was in love with him.

"Shut up Nick I'm trying to drive" Judy ordered slamming on the breaks causing Nick to whiplash in his chair.

Judy's mood didn't improve over the day thanks to not finding any clues or leads to their case and by lunchtime the gray female rabbit was in a very sour mood "if you frown any harder carrots your face might implode" Nick joke pointing the fry that was in his paw at his partner's face.

"If you don't get that fry out of my face I'll stab you in the eye with it" Judy growled taking a big bite out of her black bean burger and chewed.

Nick quickly stopped pointing his fry in Judy's face putting the fried potato in his mouth and ate it seeing that his provoking was getting on his rabbit partner's last nerve "why don't you say that a little louder so everyone can hear you" officer Wilde stated looking around the restaurant he and Judy were eating at. "Or I can tell everyone you were coming onto me saying all kinds of lewd things" Hopps shot back swallowing the black bean burger she had been chewing.

"No one gonna believe that bullshit" Nick remarked picking up his cheeseburger and took a bite enjoying the flavor of the meat.

"Sure they will all I have to do is pretend to cry a little bit and whoever I tell will eat it up" Judy grinned evilly never actually gonna to do such a awful thing to her best friend.

"So basically you use your gender to turn me into a criminal" officer Wilde inquired not that surprised that Judy would use her sex as a tool in order to get what she wanted or bring Nick down if he ever crossed the rabbit.

"Exactly it's something every female does when she has too" Lt. Hopps replied smiling at her predator partner.

"Well it's a horrible skill to have and I don't think you'd ever do something that messed up to me" Nick told the gray female rabbit sitting across from him straightening up and crossed his arms across his chest.

Judy also straightened up, crossed her own arms and stared into her partner's green eyes "are you a hundred percent sure of that?" the police lieutenant asked tilting her head to one side slightly.

"Yeah I am your not the kind of mammal who would screw over a friend for no good reason specially when it comes to me" the red fox answered showing his partner a small smile even though he was trying to keep his face stony.

"Why because you have a crazy notion that I'm madly in love with you?" Judy replied in a heartless and uncaring tone Nick had never heard before.

"Well there's that and the fact I'm your friend and partner which means you can't afford to screw me over without being hit by the backlash" the small predator stated his green eyes narrowing into slits.

"You don't think I know that" Judy told her partner shuffling her sweet potato fries with her pointer finger.

"I would hope so" Nick stated unsure if his partner was flirting with him or was just trying to come off as a bitch but didn't know how to do it correctly.

"Don't wanna end up like Bellwether do you?" the fox continued sometimes wondering what that crazy sheep was up to in prison and weather or not she was planning to get revenge against him and Judy for ruining her plans and sending her to jail.

"First of all Dawn Bellwether was two faced, bitter, selfish, cold hearted, power hungry, sadistic, prejudiced, fraudulent, scheming, paranoid, deluded and completely sociopathic" Judy frowned believing that she was nothing like the former mayor of Zootopia.

"You're just butt hurt Bellwether tricked you into thinking she was a good guy and you just reed Bellwether's prison psych profile off your phone" Nick commented finishing off his cheeseburger.

"I'm not butt hurt that Bellwether made me think she was trying to help us and I memorize what was in Bellwether's psych profile cause I needed to remember it while I filled out some of the reports for the savage predator case" Lt. Hopps said telling the fox that it had taken her weeks to fill out all the reports and paperwork.

"See carrots that was the great thing about being a con artist I never had to fill out any reports or paperwork" Wilde grinned missing the days when he didn't spend most of his day filling out forms and logs.

"You mean before you started paying your income tax?" Judy said smugly picking up one of her sweet potato fries and wagged it in her partner's face only to have it eaten by Nick.

"Hey" the female rabbit snapped annoyingly seeing that there was less then a centimeter of her fry left.

Nick just gave his partner his trademark lopsided smile acting as if he hadn't just nearly bit Judy's fingers off "what I thought you were offering me the fry?" the fox police officer smiled chewing the piece of sweet potato fry and swallowed it.

"You almost bit off my god damn fingers you dick!" Judy screamed in protest holding up the fingers that had been holding the sweet potato fry seconds earlier.

"From where I'm sitting it looks like you still got all your fingers so stop being such a drama queen" Wilde replied his lopsided smile still on his muzzle even though his partner was glaring furiously at him.

"I'm not being a drama queen asshole" Judy barked but all that did was make Nick laugh a little and that annoyed the hell out of the bunny cop.

"Ok I'm sorry Judy how about as a apology I take you out for a beer after work" the male red fox suggested wanting to make peace with his friend and partner.

"Is this another attend to get me to date you?" Lt. Hopps asked with some amusement considering weather or not to take Nick up on his offer.

"No I was trying to apologize for nearly biting off your fingers (mumbles to himself) according to you" Nick answered chuckling inside his head.

Judy was somewhat skeptic of her friend's tensions not because he was a fox or a former con artist but because she knew that Nick was up to something she just didn't know what it was "you better not be hustling me Wilde" the violet eyed rabbit warned the small predator sitting across from her giving him a very stern look.

"Carrots I'm hurt you would think I would do such a thing to my own partner" Nick said pretending to be hurt by Judy's accusation.

Just as Judy was about to reply a lovely looking female red fox walked up to them a seductive smile on her muzzle "are you officer Nick Wilde?" the vixen asked acting as if Judy wasn't there.

"I am and this is my partner Lt. Judy Hopps" officer Wilde answered noticing the almost unnoticeable venomous look the vixen was giving Judy.

"It's nice to meet you officer Hopps" the vixen greeted the female rabbit purposely not calling Judy by her proper rank at first pretending to apologize before returning her attention back to Nick.

"Anyways I was wondering if you were free sometime?, I'd love to here how you solved that awful savage predator incident" the vixen stated swooning over the fact Nick had saved every predator in Zootopia.

"To be fair that was mostly Judy as well" Nick informed the vixen not wanting to take the credit for something he had been blackmailed into doing.

"But she couldn't of done it without you" the vixen replied once again giving Judy a dirty look without being obvious about it.

Judy knew just from the vixen's body language that the small predator really didn't like her but the police lieutenant was use to being hated by a sizable amount of Zootopia's population because they believed a rabbit didn't belong in the ZPD and some thought Judy had some part in the savage predator case but decided to stab Bellwether in the back so she could become famous and get her promotion to lieutenant "I don't know about that I helped a little not as much as the news suggested I did" Nick said watching the vixen check the watch on her wrist and then reached into her purse pulling out a business card placing it in front of Nick.

"I have to go I have a board meeting in fifteen minutes" the vixen frowned wanting more time with Nick but she knew she couldn't stay any longer.

"What a fucking cunt, you planning to take her up on her offer?" Judy snarled once she was sure they wouldn't be over heard.

"Nah she an't my type" Nick said flatly picking up the business card and ripped it in half letting the two pieces of paper fall to the table.

"Really why not wasn't she beautiful?" the gray female rabbit asked curious to know why her partner wasn't attracted to the vixen.

"Don't get me wrong carrots she was hot but she only wanted to date me cause of my part in stopping Bellwether plus she was being a total bitch to you" the male fox told Judy who wasn't that surprised he had caught on to how the vixen had been looking at his partner and best friend.

"I figured you'd bang her before getting rid of her" Hopps remarked thinking her partner would use the vixen for one or two booty calls before he stopped seeing her.

"I would but when the hell would I have the time?, specially since I'm so busy with our cases" Wilde replied acting as if he didn't have a social life anymore.

"You mean the cases where I do all the work?" Lt. Hopps scoffed amused that her partner insinuated he actually did as much work as she did.

"You know Judy I'm getting tired of you always implying I'm never pulling my own weight" Nick complained having done the same amount of work Judy did he just whined about it.

"You spend most of the time bitching instead of working" Judy shot back hotly before taking a drink from her cherry coke cola.

Nick's ears flickered back and forth in irritation not believing he bitched all the time while they did they're work like Judy insinuated "I only complained every once in a while cause we're not being paid enough to deal with all the shit we deal with" officer Wilde told Judy who couldn't help but nod in agreement.

"Ok ok yeah you have a point" the violet eyed female rabbit grinned thinking all the members of the ZPD won't being paid enough for all the work they did protecting the citizens of Zootopia.

The fox and rabbit police officers finished they're lunch and went back to work "you finally gonna let me drive or do you plan to continue terrorizing the mammals we swore to protect?" Nick asked with a smug smile as he and Judy were walking to their patrol car.

"I don't terrorize anyone I'm a great driver" Lt. Hopps said knowing her partner was purposely making fun of her driving just to bug her.

"I'm sorry to say this carrots but no you're not your in fact a pretty bad driver cause your always distracted looking for crimes in progress" the male fox replied telling the female rabbit he was always scared she was going to crash the car.

"You're just making fun of my driving cause I'm a female and like every male in Zootopia you think I'm a bad driver just because of my sex" Judy growled angry Nick was using a sexist reason to take away her keys.

"Well those stereotypes exist for a reason carrots" Nick told his partner who just remained silent plotting her revenge against Nick for his sexist comment.

"Are you seriously mad cause I'm making fun of your driving?, cause if you are that's incredibly immature of you" the small predator asked but all he got was the silent treatment.

"For Christ sake Judy I was joking you're driving isn't that bad specially compared to my mom's driving" Nick tried to apologize to his rabbit partner who still refused to speak to him.

Judy suddenly stopped turning around to stare at Nick "what's with that look?" the red fox asked feeling a tend creeped out by the way his partner just seem to be looking at him not saying a thing.

"Why haven't you introduced me to you're mother yet?, we've been partners for little over three months I think that's enough time for you to introduce me to your mom" Judy answered placing her paws on her hips making herself look more serious.

"You're my partner not my girlfriend why would I need to introduce you to my mom?" Nick replied getting kicked in the shin.

"Ow what was that for?" the male fox cried out grabbing his shin and hopped on one foot all the while letting out a long series of cuss words.

"Cause you're acting like your ashamed of being my partner that's why " Judy barked her whole face turning a rosy shade of red.

"What I'm not ashamed that you're my partner I haven't introduced you to my mom cause I don't want her embarrassing me by showing you my baby pictures or telling you embarrassing stories about me" Wilde admitted still holding his shin while standing on one leg.

"Oh" Judy said hanging her head, blushed even harder and let her long ears fall against the back of her head making her look attractive to Nick who felt the tip of his penis poke out of it's sheath.

"Shit not now you son of a bitch!" officer Wilde thought panicking that Judy meant notice his erection and become enraged.

"Godown you little bastard I don't need you causing me any trouble" Nick ordered his dick acting as casual as he could without raising suspicion.

After a few seconds of deep concentration Nick finally got his member to go back into it's sheath to the male fox's relief "ooh thank Christ" Nick said releasing the breath he hadn't realized he had been holding

"Why are you thanking Christ for?" Judy asked confused by her partner's comment "I'm just really happy you're not mad at me" Wilde answered automatically glad with himself that he was able to come up with an answer so quickly.

"Ok?" the gray female rabbit giggled giving her partner a quick hug before getting into they're patrol car leaving Nick to sigh in relief that Judy didn't notice his boner or figured out he had lied to her.

Judy and Nick drove over to Tundra Town where a good amount of the B&Es took place "Mrs. Esposito ZPD can you please open up?" Judy called knocking on a apartment door that was for a mammal Judy and Nick's size.

"You think she's not home?" Nick said using his hearing which wasn't as good as Judy's to listen to the inside of the apartment.

"I just knocked give her a few seconds" Lt. Hopps told her partner also listening for motion inside the apartment.

The apartment door was opened up by a female arctic fox who was twenty or thirty years older then Judy and Nick "are you here to find out who broke into my home?" Mrs. Esposito asked only opening her door enough so she could peak through the crack.

"Yes ma'am" Judy answered making sure the arctic fox could see her and Nick's badges to prove that they were police officers.

"I'm Lt. Judy Hopps and this is my partner officer Nick Wilde" the female rabbit introduced herself and Nick wanting Mrs. Esposito to know who was entering her home.

"Can we please come in ma'am?" Nick asked telling the arctic fox they had some questions they needed to ask.

"Of course sorry I'm still a little shaken up from the break in" Mrs. Esposito apologized opening her apartment door and let Nick and Judy inside her home.

"It's ok Mrs. Esposito having someone break into your home is a traumatic experience" Judy replied pulling her notebook from her utility belt so she could write down everything the arctic fox said.

"I couldn't agree more Lt. Hopps it was a horrible experience" Mrs. Esposito agreed leading the police officers to the living room and offered them tea.

"Thank you Mrs. Esposito" Judy smiled taking one of the arctic vixen's tea cups blowing on the hot liquid to cool it off.

"Please just call me Jennifer Lt. Hopps" Mrs. Esposito told the rabbit cop as she gave Nick the other cup of tea.

"May I ask where your husband is from Jennifer?" Hopps inquired wanting to have a good relationship with the vixen.

"He's from Scicli a small village that's fifteen and a half miles outside of Sicily" Jennifer answered pointing to a photo of a quiet looking small village.

"It looks like a lovely place" Judy told the female arctic vixen asking her if she's had been there which she had a long time ago.

"If you think I'm going with you to Italy you must be crazier then I thought" Nick stated with his trademark lopsided smile.

"Oh are you two a couple?" Jennifer asked not seeming to mind having a predator/prey couple in her apartment.

"No no we're just good friends that's all" Judy quickly denied her whole face turning a bright red color embarrassed at the fact Jennifer thought she and Nick were together.

"But you told me you loved me earlier while we were having lunch" Nick argued letting a deeply upset frown form on his muzzle.

"I said no such thing, I'm sorry Jennifer my partner enjoys playing poor jokes on me even while we're working" Lt. Hopps attempted to explain wanting to taser her partner in his smug face.

Jennifer Esposito watched with amusement as she watched Nick try to convince his partner that she did in fact love him but the gray female rabbit kept telling him she only saw the red fox as a good friend nothing else.

"It was implied" Nick remarked grinning from ear to ear while Hopps scowl deepened wishing there was something she could do to the male fox.

"no it wasn't, Nick now isn't the time to talk about this we need to figure out who broke into Jennifer's apartment" Judy growled not wanting to have this argument in front of they're witness.

"I'm sorry Jennifer you shouldn't have seen that" Lt. Hopps apologized to the arctic fox shaking her head embarrassed she had been pulled into a argument in front of a civilian they were supposed to be helping find out who stole her property.

"Don't worry about it Lt. Hopps you and officer Wilde make a interesting team and maybe one day you two might admit how you feel about each other" Jennifer smiled this time making both Nick and Judy blush.

"See carrots even Jennifer thinks we should be together" Nick told his partner who just growled her disagreement.

Even though she was extremely annoyed with her partner Judy questioned Jennifer Esposito trying to figure out who would want to break into the arctic vixen's apartment "mmmmm" Judy hummed as she and Nick rode the elevator back down to the ground floor.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" the red fox asked hopefully having made the same connection as his prey partner.

"Yeah it looks like most of the victims of the B&Es were mostly small predator and prey mammals who may work for Mr. Big and I think we should have a talk with Duke Weaselton" Lt. Hopps replied knowing the weasel wanted revenge against her, Nick and especially the infamous mob boss Mr. Big.

"You really think Weaselton would be dumb enough to not only come back to Tundra town but start breaking into mammals home some of whom work for Mr. Big in one way or another?" Nick commented pretty sure not even Duke Weaselton was dumb enough to cross the mob boss even Nick knew was a bad idea.

"Weaselton is a greedy and vindictive dipshit not a smart one I'm sure he's our suspect or he knows who is" Judy argued using her radio to asked ZPD's central dispatch where Duke Weaselton was living.

"Man I wonder how fast we could of solved the savage predator case if you had a working radio and a gun" Nick joked only guessing how many predators they could of saved if Judy had the equipment she should have had when she first joined the ZPD.

"There's no point in thinking about it now we stopped Bellwether and her manufacturing of the night howlers" Judy remarked sometimes wondering if Bellwether had purposely delayed having Judy added to the Zootopia police department's system in order to slow down her investigation.

Nick told Judy that he had wished she had had a taser when Mr. Manchas had been chasing them cause if she did they wouldn't of had to jump off the sky bridge only to be saved by vines and ended up looking like idiots in front of chief Bogo and the rest of the ZPD "will we didn't and we got through it anyways" Hopps stated just as dispatch gave them Weaselton's address.

"Yeah barely and you nearly lost your job" Wilde sarcastically replied pulling out his phone and started texting someone.

"Stop being such a baby Nick it wasn't that bad" Judy said using her own phone to see how to get to Weaselton's place.

"I nearly lost you at the museum" Wilde replied with clear worry that showed just how much she really meant to the small predator.

"Yeah the museum was a close call" Hopps agreed remembering how she had cut her leg badly enough that she couldn't walk so she had decided to allow them to get caught so she could use her recording pen to entrap Bellwether by letting her monologue about her entire plan.

"Damn right it was we're just lucky I switched the Night Hollower dart for one of the blueberries you brought me and that Bellwether was stupid enough to actually start monologuing like some kind of Bond villain" Nick remarked finding it a little surprising that someone who thought she was so clever as Bellwether claimed to be got caught monologuing.

"Tell you the truth you can't be that surprised that Bellwether decided then to tell us her plan specially when she thought she had turned you savage and I was to hurt to run away to tell anyone what she was up too" the gray female rabbit smiled glad that the crazy sheep had fallen for their ruse.

"But still I didn't think she would do something that dumb" Nick countered putting his phone back into his pocket and leaned up against one of the elevator's four walls.

"Like every Bond villain Bellwether got cocky and full of herself" Hopps jested reminding her partner of how even though Dr. No had James Bond tied to a table and was about to cut him in half with a laser Dr. No not only monologued but left Bond alone allowing the spy to escape.

"I'm guessing between working for Mayor Lionhearted and plotting to turn every predator in Zootopia into savage animals she didn't have anytime to watch any spy movies " the male red fox lightly chuckled joking if Bellwether had seen those movies she may not of told them what she was planning.

"She worked sixty hours or more a week I'm amazed Bellwether was able to plan turning all the predators savage in the first place" Judy informed her partner having back tracked everything Dawn Bellwether had done over the last five years before she started attacking predators so she could bring in all of the sheep's contacts and have them arrested.

"Christ and I thought we were worked to much" the small predator scoffed unable to imagine working as much as Bellwether did.

As Nick and Judy exited Jennifer Esposito's apartment building a male fox and female rabbit walked passed them holding each other's paw and they seemed very happy together "don't say a work" Judy ordered with a scowl her violet eyes following the predator/prey couple as they walked away.

"I wasn't going too Carrots" Nick replied clearly doing his best not to crack a smile or make a smartass comment.

While Judy watched the predator/prey couple turn the corner she couldn't help but imagine herself in the same position holding Nick's paw being as happy as that other female rabbit was but Judy knew it wasn't going to be that simple Judy was sure her parents and her entire family would be against her dating a fox they were already worried that Nick was her partner "I know that look you're thinking if only my parents didn't hate foxes I could be with my handsome wonderful fox partner" Nick said wishfully giving Judy his lopsided smile.

"It doesn't matter to me weather or not my parents hate foxes I'm an adult and who I choose to date is none of my family's business" Judy replied telling her partner her family didn't control her love life.

"So that means I have a chance?" Nick smiled bending down enough that his face was next to Judy's "I don't think it's a good idea for us to date specially since we work together so closely and I don't think I could live with myself if I lost you" Hopps told Nick not making eye contact with the fox.

"You don't need to worry about me carrots that's why the ZPD gave me this vest" Nick tried to comfort his prey partner rapping his knuckles against his kevlar vest that had a metal chest plate protecting his heart, lungs and other vital organs.

"It doesn't protect everything Nick you know that" the light gray female rabbit shot back her voice cracking just a little.

Nick stepped in front of Judy bending down to one knee so he was face to face with the gray female rabbit "don't you worry about me carrots I knew what I was getting into when I agreed to join you and the ZPD besides if Mr. Big couldn't kill me I doubt any lowlife criminal could" the male red fox told Judy giving her a hug.

"Don't…..make a girl a promise you can't keep" Judy shot back returning the hug not caring if other mammals watched them.

"plagiarizing Halo for shame cottontail" Nick smiled finding it both funny and surprising that his no time for fun partner actually knew a line from the first person shooter game.

"It was actually halo 2" Judy said reminding the male fox that the halo series came out while they both were growing up and that she had over two hundred and seventy five siblings who had to be kept busy otherwise they'd get into trouble with the law or with other families who lived near the Hopps's farm

"Christ Hopps haven't your parents ever heard of something called condoms or birth control?" officer Wilde commented knowing that rabbit families had lots of children but he didn't know it was that many.

"They have but given the fact a large percentage of my family are Roman Catholic I doubt they'd ever use them" Judy replied really not wanting to think about her parents having sex cause it made her skin crawl.

"I didn't know you were a Catholic kind of makes me feel bad for taking god and Christ's name in vein in front of you so many times" Wilde stated apologizing if he had offended his partner.

"You don't have to apologize Nick you didn't know my family is Catholic" Judy told her partner saying that even though she had seen a lot of awful things while working for the ZPD she still went to church each Sunday.

"And what believe system do you follow Mr. Wilde?" Hopps inquired wanting to know what religion Nick was.

"Me I'm a combination of a protestant and a Jew so going to church is a little more tricky for me" the male red fox answered letting the rabbit out of his hug then stood up scratching the back of his head with a smile.

"Sounds like a interesting religious up bringing" the bunny remarked understanding now why Nick never asked for a certain day off so he could go to church.

"You can say that again I never knew who I really was growing up was I a Protestant which was what my mom wanted or was I a Jew something I knew nothing about cause my old man died back when I was just three years old, now it doesn't really matter what my religious background is I'm a cop now and all I should be thinking about is protecting those I care about" Nick remarked showing that he truly didn't care about which religion he was.

"Am I someone you care about?" Judy inquired turning around and blushed very lightly knowing her partner cared deeply for her.

Nick took hold of Judy's chin making it so she couldn't look away from him "you know I do" the red fox smirked locking his lips with Judy's but only for a few seconds not wanting to push his luck.

"Uh did I take it to far?" Nick asked realizing what he had done may have been the wrong choice and Judy might plant her knee in his balls.

"I….mean no not really" Judy replied her cheeks glowing red from the fact her partner had actually kissed her.

"Well that's good" the male fox grinned trying to kiss Judy again but was stopped by the rabbit's pointer finger.

"Don't push your luck Wilde I like you but we should go talk to Weaselton first before we decide how we proceed with this relationship" Hopps said pushing Nick's paw from her chin then got into they're patrol car.

"I think I'm finally getting to her" Nick thought with his trademark lopsided smile on his muzzle figuring it wouldn't be long till Judy wanted to kiss him again.

Duke Weaselton lived in the poorer part of central Zootopia in an apartment building that looked like it should have been torn down years ago "holy fuck what a shit hole" Nick stated plugging his nose when a strong pungent smell hit him.

"Weaselton doesn't make as much as you did back when you were a con artist" Lt. Hopps remarked saying that Duke Weaselton barely made a hundred and fifty bucks selling his bootleg dvds and made who knew how much with his other criminal enterprises.

"I made two hundred bucks a day, three sixty five days a year that means I made nine forty nine thousand dollars between the time I was twelve till I was twenty five you bet your sweet fluffy ass I made more then Weaselton" Nick shot back wanting to grab his partner's butt cheek but knew if he did Judy would break his paw off and shove it up his asshole.

"How long have you been staring at my butt?" Hopps asked indignantly pushing her lips together and glared at her partner.

"What day is it?...since the day we met" Wilde admitted pretending to think of how long he had been staring at his partner's ass before telling her.

As much as Judy wanted to punch Nick for his inappropriate behavior she knew the fox hadn't been the only male to check out her ass in fact a lot of males back in her school days would often make some kind of rude comment about how they'd like to tap her ass and a few tried to grab her ass more then once having all the bones in they're paws broken by Judy or by several of her brothers who were always up for defending they're sister's honor well that and the Hopps boys loved a good fight "put you're paw on my butt I'll make sure no one ever finds you're body and given the fact my family owes a huge swath of land I have plenty of places to put your miserable corpse" Judy threatened causing Nick to take a step away from the female rabbit.

"That's a good boy" Judy smiled heading up the stairs which looked questionable on weather or not they'd hold her and Nick.

"Carrots I'm less scared of you then I am of your dad, your brothers and all the guns they have" Nick stated as they were climbing the stairs.

"Yeah my dad and brothers do have a whole lot of guns" the gray female rabbit commented acting as if it was normal for mammals to have as many guns as the Hopps family did.

"Is that why you decided on using the mossberg cause your use to using shotguns? Nick asked looking up pass the stairs's banners to see how much farther they had to go.

"That was one reason the other was I wanted a weapon powerful enough to take down a large suspect my glock couldn't" Hopps said not stopping which meant Nick had to lightly jog to catch up.

"You know hunting other mammals is not only super illegal but fucking psychotic" Wilde joked knowing full well his sweet natured partner would never hurt anyone unless she absolutely had too.

"Aaaah god it smells even worse up here then it did down stairs" Nick cried horrified by the ranted smell coming from somewhere on this floor.

"Dispatch we may have a meth lab at Carpenter Boulevard and Blackburn" Judy said into her radio on her shoulder letting dispatch know what floor the meth lab might be on.

"Oh goody we always find the best things" officer Wilde frowned pulling out his glock and switched off it's safety "I know right" Hopps agreed also pulling out her sidearm and aimed it ahead of herself.

"Duke Weaselton this is the ZPD open up immediately" Lt. Hopps ordered in a loud shout stepping in front of the apartment door only to feel a horrible pain as she was sent flying backwards.

"Judy" Nick screamed stopping himself from running after his partner knowing if he did he'd get shot himself.

"That's it Weaselton your dead your fucking dead" the male fox bellowed furiously firing off three quick shots before hiding again.

"You still alive you motherfucker cause if you are I'm gonna make you suffer" Nick asked doing a super fast check seeing the weasel ducking behind a up turned table.

Duke replied by shooting six shots but missed everyone of them "suck a dick fox you and that cunt can both go to fucking hell" Weaselton said laughing at the fact he may of killed Judy.

"I'm sending you there in a few seconds you son of a whore" Wilde growled looking over at his partner and saw that she was still breathing which was a promising site..

"Judy hold on I'm gonna get you help" the red fox told his partner calling dispatch to let them know a officer was down and shots had been fired.

"Give up you sack of shit my backup will be here in less then two minutes and when they get here they're going to rip you to fucking pieces!" Nick informed his suspect shooting at him which was followed by Weaselton screaming in pain letting Nick know he hit his target.

"Alright I give up don't shoot" Duke cried the sound of a gun being thrown across the apartment could be heard.

"Get on the fucking ground if you fucking move I swear to god I will empty my glock into your god damn head" officer Wilde ordered doing a quick check to make sure it wasn't a trap then he kicked the apartment door open and rushed Weaselton and cuffed the weasel making sure he wasn't gentle about it.

"Ow that fucking hurt" the weasel complained but Nick didn't listen cause he wanted to check Judy as soon as he could.

No more then a minute later a group of fellow ZPD officers and a team of EMTs came rushing up to Duke Weaselton's apartment the EMTs stopping to check on Judy "carrots please wake up come on this isn't funny" Nick said his voice full of fear and worry rushing to his partner's side once the other cops had Weaselton in custody.

"come on Judy open your eyes you got to open your eyes" the male fox continued watching the EMTs removing his partner's vest and to his horror he saw that she was bleeding.

"You can help her right?" Nick asked being told that the bullet didn't go that far inside Judy so the injury wasn't that bad.

"You don't have to worry Wilde she'll be ok" one of the other officers said placing a paw on Nick's shoulder so he could move out of the way allowing the EMTs to do they're work.

To Nick's irritation he had to stay behind to give his report to his shift's sergeant while Judy was taken to the hospital to be treated for her gunshot wound "you hurt Wilde?" the sergeant who was named Jack Statham a large dark silver colored wolf asked putting one of his paws on Nick's shoulder always concern for the safety of all the officers on his shift.

"I'm alright Jack but it's all my fault Judy got shot" Nick replied clutching his paws into fists and his body was shaking with rage.

"It wasn't your fault Nick these kinds of things happen and I was told the vest stopped the bullet most of the way keeping it from doing any serious damage" sergeant Statham told the smaller predator understanding why he was so upset by what had happened.

"That doesn't really make me feel any better Jack" Wilde growled wishing he had blown Weaselton's head off when he had the chance.

"I know it doesn't but hopefully you can go see Judy before you have to talk to IA" the dark silver wolf stated knowing Nick wanted to get to the hospital as soon as he could to check on his partner.

"Why the fuck do I need to talk to fucking IA it was a clean shoot that stupid motherfucker shot my partner?" Nick argued seeing no point in talking with internal affairs cause he was defending Judy.

"I'm with you Nick but you know how it is if you fire off your piece IA has to come in and make sure you had a damn good reason to do so" the sergeant agreed like every cop he wasn't a big fan of internal affairs.

Cause he had been a fire fight Nick handed sergeant Jack his glock knowing he wouldn't get it back till the investigation was over and IA got the answers they wanted "please tell me there was something serious here that explains why Weaselton shot my partner" Nick frowned as he put his glock in Jack's larger paw.

"I'd say we found a fully functional meth lab and a record book listing of his buyers, suppliers, dealers and client" Jack replied telling Nick that there was also thousands of dollars of meth ready to be sold and several other drugs along with a arsenal of weapons including quite a few automatic assault rifles.

"Hell your gonna get a commendation for busting Weaselton and saving Judy" the dark silver wolf continued knowing that Nick didn't give a shit about the commendation he was saving Judy cause it was his job and because he loved her.

Jack did a quick scan of the cops around him and Nick making sure they were busy with securing the area for the clean up crew who had to break down the extremely dangerous meth lab "so am I the only one who sees how obvious it is that you're in love with Judy?" Jack stated with a rye grinned seeing that his presumption was right when Nick's whole head turned as red as a tomato.

"I'm not in love with Hopps I mean she's my partner I'm suppose to care about her well being" Nick attempted to lie but it was way to obvious he wasn't telling the truth.

"Aaaaahhh come on Wilde everyone in the department knows or thinks you two are in love with one another so either fucking tell Judy or I'm going too" Jack scoffed laughing at how pathetic the red fox's lie was.

"I can't just tell Judy how I feel her family totally hates foxes and would never be ok with her dating a fox specially when that fox has a checkered past like mine" Wilde explained more terrified that Judy wouldn't return his feelings then anything else.

"Bull fucking shit you're just being a fucking chicken" Jack shot back making sure he had a firm grip on Nick's sidearm while mocking Nick for his piss poor excuses.

Nick's fur bristled angry that his superior was basically forcing him into confessing how he felt about his partner "fuck you jack I'm not being a chicken I just don't know how I'm gonna tell her" Nick snapped louder then he meant to say.

"Oh my god it's not that hard you just go up to Judy take her paw into your own, stare into those lovely violet eyes of her's and say you love her" Jack groaned in annoyance confused to why Nick seem so oblivious when it came to admitting how he felt for Judy.

"Seriously Wilde?, have you never seen a romantic movie in you're entire life?" officer McHorn put in his opinion joining Jack and Nick's conversation.

"For god sake Wilde everyone in the department knows you and Judy have a thing for each other so either grow some balls and tell Hopps you love her or wait and lose her to a prick you gets lucky and knocks her up" the rhino continued clearly wanting to see Nick and Judy become a couple.

"Hey McHorn how about you mind your own business and stay out of my love life" Nick snarled hating to admit it but the rhino had a point he had to tell Judy or risk losing her to another male.

Soon a number of the other police officers were around Nick, Jack and McHorn started telling the male fox that he needed to tell Judy that he loved her and some of the cops even gave Wilde advice on how to do it "why the hell are you idiots just standing around instead of doing y'all damn jobs" chief Bogo barked causing many of the police officers to scattering like cockroaches when a light was switched on.

"I was getting Wilde's report and his gun sir" Jack told the chief of the ZPD deciding that he didn't need to tell the cape buffalo that he was also trying to convince Nick to tell Judy he was in love with her.

"And where is Hopps?" Bogo asked noticing that the female rabbit wasn't around helping take stock of the illegal stuff in the apartment.

"Judy was hit and was taken to the hospital" Nick answered his green eyes down cast still mad that he allowed his partner to get shot..

A dark shadow fell across Bogo's face when he heard that one of his best officers had been injured but Nick could tell the cape buffalo wasn't mad with him or Judy instead he was furious that some worthless criminal like Weaselton had the balls to open fire on one of his officers "how badly was she hurt?" the chief of the police asked darkly seeing the weasel being carted off in one of the ambulances under heavy guard.

"the EMTs said the Judy's vest stopped the bullet enough that it didn't do any real damage" Jack said all their faces showing relief that Judy wasn't hurt to badly.

"That's good…Wilde go to the hospital and find out what Hopps's condition is" Bogo ordered the red fox to go to find out how Judy was doing.

"Yes sir I'll call you as soon as I find something out" Nick smiled rushing down to his patrol car and drove off as fast as he could.

"You think he's finally going to tell Hopps that he loves her?" Jack asked sarcastically offering his boss a twenty five dollar bet.

"I'll take that bet Jack" Chief Bogo chuckled betting that Nick wouldn't have the guts to tell Judy how he felt.

Nick Wilde turned on his lights and siren so he could get to the hospital making it there in a solid eleven minutes "I'm here to see Lt. Judith Laverne Hopps I'm her partner officer Nick Wilde" the male fox told the nurse sitting at the front desk.

"I'm sorry officer Wilde but Lt. Hopps is still in the E.R and she won't be out for a while" the nurse replied after typing Judy's name in her computer to see what the rabbit's condition was.

"Crap ok can you let me know when she comes out" Nick sighed thanking the nurse before going to find himself a seat.

"God I hope they don't take to long" the male red fox thought pulling out his phone and dialed Mr. and Mrs. Hopps's number knowing this call was going to seriously suck.

Mrs. Hopps: hello this is the Hopps residence

Nick: hi Mrs. Hopps it's Nick Wilde I'm your daughter Judy's partner.

Mrs. Hopps: oh hello Nick yes Judy has told me all about you in fact I'm pretty sure my daughter fancies you Mr. Wilde.

Nick: please don't say that I'm pretty sure if you're husband hears that he'll shoot me.

Mrs. Hopps: don't worry about my husband Nick I'll talk to him about not getting involved with our daughter's love life.

Nick: Mrs. Hopps I'm not here to talk about Judy's love life…there was an incident and Judy was hurt.

Mrs. Hopps: WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BABY!

After reeling in pain from being yelled at right in the ear Nick explained what had happened when he and Judy went to Duke Weaselton's and how the weasel had opened fired on them and hit Judy but Nick assured his partner's mother that the bullet didn't go in to far thanks to Judy's bullet proof vest and told the mother rabbit he had arrested Weaselton who would spend the rest of his life rotting in a cell.

Mrs. Hopps: I'll get my husband and we're be n Zootopia as soon as we can.

Nick: Judy's at the Zootopia Metro hospital, I'll keep you posted on your daughter's condition as soon as I hear it.

Mrs. Hopps: thank you Nick I'll see you as soon as we get there.

A few hours later

Between the time Nick had gotten off the phone with Bonnie Hopps and letting Bogo know what Judy's condition was the red fox had fallen asleep having horrible nightmares about watching Judy dying in his arms asking the fox why he didn't save her "Hopps" the fox cried sitting up with a start a cold sweat running down his face.

"you ok buddy?" a elderly male otter asked from beside Nick who turned and faced him the fox's face coated in sweat.

"Ah uh yeah just a bad dream is all" Nick answered wiping the sweat from his face and then buried it in the palms of his paws sighing deeply.

"Did someone you care about get hurt?" the otter inquired figuring that was the only reason Nick was at the hospital.

"Yeah my partner got shot" officer Wilde frowned not seeing any hospital staff coming up to him to tell Nick how Judy was doing.

"I hope you're partner is gonna be ok" the otter remarked asking Nick how long he had been working with his Judy.

"We've been working together for about three or four months but I've known her for almost a year" Nick replied a little taken back that he had known Judy for that long.

Nick could see something cross the elderly otter's face telling the fox that this older predator didn't like the idea of females being on the police force "if you ask me females should stay out of the work force and stay where they can do what god made them for and that's raise children and clean the house" the otter growled but before he could continue his sexist comments Nick told the otter to stop cause what he was saying was stupid and outdated.

"wow just wow that has to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my entire life, I thought cause you were old you'd have a clearer understanding of why what you just said had to be a completely outdated idea but wow did you prove me wrong" Nick told the other small predator not caring if he offended the otter.

Before the elderly otter could argue with Nick the red fox got up and walked over to the nurse's front desk finding out Judy was just brought out of the E.R and was now in recovery "can I please go and see her?" Nick requested wanting to see his partner now instead of waiting.

"You're have to wait a little longer sir I'm sorry for the inconvenience" the same nurse from before smiled picking up a file and handed it to a doctor who opened it looking it over and then thanked the nurse before heading off to check on a patient.

Nick figured if he wanted to he could use his ZPD credentials to get into the recovery area but he didn't want to over step his boundaries "could I talk with the doctor to find out how the operation went?" Nick asked wanting to be able to tell Judy's parents how they're daughter was doing when they got to the hospital.

"Of course she's probably just washing up" the nurse smiled picking up the phone that was next to her and dialed a number.

The doctor who had operated on Judy was a amber colored female otter with black ears and golden colored eyes "officer Wilde I'm Dr. Diana Prince how can I help you?" the doctor greeted Nick holding her paw out for the male fox to shake.

"I was just wanting to know how my partner was doing?" Wilde said wanting to hear that the rabbit he had fallen for was going to pull through with no problems what so ever.

"I'm very glad to say that miss Hopps pulled through very well and will recover in no time" Dr. Prince grinned happy she had saved the rabbit cop's life.

Nick pulled Dr. Prince into a sudden hug and the rabbit returned the act clearly use to being hugged by family and friends of her patients "thank you for saving my partner" Nick told the doctor who let out a light laugh.

"It was nothing officer Wilde I'm happy I could help, Lt. Hopps won't wake for a while but your welcome to stay with her till she wakes " Diane said finally being let out of Nick's hug and decided to let Nick stay with his rabbit partner.

"Hey carrots how you doing?" the male red fox said just as he stepped into a small room that had the single bed a chair next to the bed and a tv that was hooked up to the wall.

"Yeah kind of a stupid question uh?" Nick weakly chuckled dropping into the chair next to Judy's bed and took the unconscious bunny's paw into his own squeezing it tightly.

"I'm sorry Judy this was all my fault I should have been the one who got shot instead of you" the small predator apologized letting out the tears he had been holding back for the last few hours

"I'm….a….shitty partner…..and…...even shittier friend" Wilde started sobbing hanging his head in of shame.

Nick allowed his tears to run freely angry with himself for not protecting the mammal who he truly felt real love for "I….was…..supposed….to protect you…..and….I…fucking…failed at it" Nick cried his words being cut off by his heaving and sobbing.

"Look…...at me crying….like a baby….bet if you were awake….I bet you'd call me a big pussy" Nick sniffed very lightly chuckling as he wiped his tears from his eyes.

Some while later

Judy felt very groggy and she wasn't sure where she was but she did remember knocking on Duke Weaselton's apartment door then what Judy was drawing a blank for some reason the little bunny couldn't remember what had happened after she knocked but the female rabbit did recall hearing Nick yelling her name "what's going on?" Hopps thought wanting to open her eyes but they were to heavy to lift them but suddenly she heard someone talking to her then that person started singing.

If I had you at my mercy

There's no telling what I'd do

But I'd sit and make you listen

For an hour, maybe two

And then you'd know I need you

Judy knew the song she was hearing it was Brad Paisley's Gold all over the ground and the only reason she knew that was because several of her sisters, aunts and female cousins all had a crush on the country music star but what was bothering Judy was she wasn't sure who was singing next to her but she did think whoever it was knew what they were doing.

Every day that rolls around

And your feet would walk on velvet

With gold all over the ground

The voice singing wasn't Judy's father Stu Hopps who had a deep singing voice more suited for Johnny Cash songs this voice was a higher pitch still male but definitely not any of her family members so it had to be Nick but Judy couldn't believe that her partner of all mammals could actually sing Judy didn't even think the red fox could even hum.

You're trails would be downhill

A soft breeze at your back

A sky full of diamonds

And your nights would not be black

Yes, you would really love it

And if you're ever down

I'd give you rows of roses

And gold all over the ground

I'd pick you up and carry you 'cross every stream I see

And I'd bundle you in kindness

Until you cling to me

We'd sit beneath strong branches

My arms would twine around

I'd turn your green to emerald

And give you gold all over the ground

Judy scoffed at the very idea of Nick Wilde the fox with the smartass mouth actually singing lit alone a country song "ha yeah right not in a million years" Judy laughed using all her will power to crack her violet eyes open into narrow slits surprised to see that it was Nick who was in fact singing but the female rabbit's eyes couldn't stay open so they closed and Judy fell asleep again.

I'd pick you up and carry you 'cross every stream I see

And I'd bundle you in kindness

Until you cling to me

We'd sit beneath strong branches

My arms would twine around

I'd turn your green to emerald

And your skies full diamonds

And give you gold all over the ground

Unknown to either Nick or Judy Mr. and Mrs. Hopps had been outside they're daughter's room and had heard three quarters of the song the small predator had sang for Judy seeing that Nick did truly care about their little girl "see Stu it's like I told you Nick really loves Judy" Bonnie tried to convince her husband who still didn't seem to believe that a fox actually loved his baby girl.

"I don't know Bonnie he could be just playing possum" Stu disagreed his prejudice against foxes making the middle aged male rabbit unable to see that Nick loved Judy.

"Damnit Steward Jonas Hopps our daughter may of found that special someone but you won't let her be happy because that mammal she loves is a fox!" Bonnie growled poking her husband in the chest and glared angrily at him.

"He doesn't love Judy he just wants to deflower her and then he'll move on to his next con it's what his kind does" Stu argued refusing to let a fox take one of his daughter's virginity.

"I can't believe you would say something like that Stu, did you not hear that beautiful song Nick just sang for our daughter?" Mrs. Hopps snapped having use to think the same way as her husband but her opinion changed when she heard how far Nick went to save Judy during the ending part of the savage predator case.

Stu's frown just deepened unwilling to change his mind "are you seriously going to allow your petty prejudices to stop our daughter from happiness all because the male she likes just so happens to be a predator who hunted us millions of years ago?" Bonnie complained hating she had to repeat herself and that her husband was being so damn stubborn.

"Y'all damn right what kind of life can Judy have with that fox?, even if I let them marry which will only happen over my cold dead body they wouldn't be able to have children and if they'd did they be abominations, do you really want those kinds of monsters as your grandchildren?, and think what everyone in Bunnyborrow would say if we let one of our daughters have children with a fox" the carrot farmer snapped raising his voice not caring if the mammals around him and his wife heard him or if Nick came out to see who was yelling.

Before Stu Hopps knew what had happened Bonnie had slapped him across the face hard enough that the male rabbit had to take a step backwards out of shock "if you were half the male Nick was you'd go in that room and tell Judy that we're perfectly okay with her dating Nick and if you can't then don't bother coming home cause you won't be welcome" Bonnie screamed pushing her husband out of her way and entered Judy's hospital room leaving the light brown male rabbit standing where he had been pushed stunned by what had just happened.

Nick heard a couple arguing just outside the room and by the sound of it the female was now yelling angrily screaming that her significant other wasn't half the mammal Nick was and that if he couldn't except the fact Judy wanted to date him the male wasn't welcome home and immediately the male fox realized the couple was Mr. and Mrs. Hopps "looks like I've gone caused a rift between your mom and dad without being in the same room" the green eyed fox told his still unconscious partner getting out of his chair just as the room door was opened and closed.

"hello Nick?" Mrs. Hopps called seeing the small predator standing next to Judy who hadn't woken up yet.

"It's nice to finally meet you, I'm sorry if you heard that fight I just had with my racist husband" Bonnie greeted the male fox that loved her daughter.

"It's great to meet you too Mrs. Hopps and don't worry about that argument I didn't hear that much of it" officer Wilde smiled getting a friendly hug from the middle aged female rabbit.

Once Bonnie let Nick go the mother rabbit walked over to Judy bending down and pulled one of her many daughters into a loving embrace falling into tears just as Nick had "I talked to the doctor who operated on Judy and she told me that she's gonna make a full recovery" Nick informed Bonnie who kissed Judy's forehead.

"Thank god I spent the entire drive to Zootopia praying to god to save my little girl" the middle aged gray female rabbit cheered giving Judy's forehead another kiss.

"Too tell you the truth while I was waiting to hear how Judy's operation went I found myself praying too and that's something I haven't done in a very very long time" Wilde admitted telling Bonnie how he had lost his faith after the Junior Ranger Scouts had put a muzzle on him as a way to scare him away and how she was the only mammal he had ever told about that incident besides Judy.

"Oh my god that's horrible I can't believe the Junior Ranger Scouts leaders would allow such terrible things to happen" Bonnie gasped asking why those who had tormented Nick won't punished.

"No one was punished cause the scout leaders probably looked the other way because they didn't want a predator in their group" Nick said wishing he could sue the Junior Ranger Scouts for the way they had treated him.

"That's the most horrible thing I've ever heard hopefully they fired the scout leaders who allowed they're scouts to torture you, anyways you call my Judy Carrots how did that come about Nick?" Bonnie replied deciding to find out how her daughter's predator partner came up with her nickname.

"I started calling Judy Carrots right after we met" the male fox blushed looking over at his partner who hadn't moved.

Bonnie giggled now she understood why Judy loved Nick "I see why my daughter has such strong feelings for you you're quite cute when you blush like that" Mrs. Hopps chuckled only causing Nick to blush even harder.

"Mrs. Hopps I don't think it's a good idea for you to talk like that what with your husband already pissed as all hell cause he thinks all I want to do is bang your daughter which I don't I just want to date Judy and that other thing if it comes up me and carrots will cross that bridge when we come to it hopefully before the head of the Hopps family removes my head with a freaking twelve gage buckshot" Nick exclaimed listening carefully to figure out weather or not Stu Hopps was still outside the room listening to they're conversation.

"Nick you don't have to be so formal you can just call me Bonnie I mean your practically family already all you need to do is propose to Judy and you two can give me some beautiful hybrid grandchildren" the middle aged female rabbit joked being told by Nick that if he ever step foot in Bunnyborrow Stu Hopps would round up a lynch mob and hang him from a tree.

"I know my husband is a racist prick at times but I doubt very much that he take it that far" Bonnie corrected the fox knowing that even her husband wouldn't murder someone in cold blood just to keep that guy away from his daughter.

"Yeah well Judy told me how the Hopps have plenty of land to hide one dead fox's miserable corpse" Nick laughed nervously imagining Stu and some of his sons digging a shallow grave to dump his body.

"Oh come now I'm sure Judy was only joking about my husband burying you somewhere on our farm" Bonnie tried to assure the small predator but it clearly wasn't working.

Nick and Bonnie shared a short uncomfortable laugh but it was cut off when they heard movement coming from the hospital bed causing the two to turn in time to see Judy waking up "oh my god Judy you're up" Bonnie cheered joyfully rushing over to the bed and hugged Judy who returned the hug the best she could in her weaken state.

"Mom where the heck am I? What are you doing here?" the younger female rabbit asked weakly looking over her mother's shoulder to see Nick standing behind her mom giving Judy his trademark lopsided smile.

"Your in the hospital sweet heart" Mrs. Hopps exploded with joy tightening her hug cause she was so happy.

Nick stood where he was unsure if he should tried to hug Judy as well because he also wanted to kiss his partner and tell her how in love he was with her but he didn't want to do that in front of Bonnie "hey Carrots how you feeling?" the first fox police officer asked putting his paws on his hips and smiled.

"I'm okay but I can't remember what happened after I knocked on Duke Weaselton's front door" Judy answered rubbing the side of her head with one paw.

Bonnie let her daughter out of her hug and held the younger female rabbit at arm's length "you got shot sweetie" Mrs. Hopps told her daughter who looked surprised at this news.

"I was?" Judy gasped removing her mother's paws off her shoulders and lifted her hospital gown she was wearing just enough to see a small bandage covering her upper right abdomen accidentally giving Nick a sneak peek to the underside of her boob.

"Judy stop that" Bonnie ordered her daughter pulling Judy's gown down not wanting her daughter to flash Nick.

"Mom stop I just wanted to see what you were talking about" Judy frowned telling her mother that Nick had turned around to look away "I know but your flashing her partner" Bonnie barked turning her head to look at Nick who's back was facing them.

"Are you ok Nick?" Bonnie asked noticing that the fox's breathing had quicken and he seemed to be holding a paw to his nose.

"Yeah I just got a little nose bleed don't worry about it" Nick answered tilting his head backwards to stop his bloody nose.

Nick left the hospital room leaving Bonnie and Judy alone "poor boy I hope he'll be ok" Mrs. Hopps said worried about Nick's health.

"Don't worry mom he'll be fine" Judy ensured her mother a little surprised that Nick would get a bloody nose just after seeing her upper right abdomen.

"You shouldn't be so callus Judy your partner stayed by your side ever since you were brought to the hospital" Bonnie commented telling her daughter how Nick had called her as soon as Judy had been brought to the hospital but decided not to tell Judy that Nick had been singing for her just before she woke up.

After Nick was able to stop his bloody nose he exited the bathroom coming face to face with a light brown middle aged male rabbit wearing what looked like farmer's clothing "sooo you must be Nick Wilde" the farmer said introducing himself as Stu Hopps but he didn't hold his paw out for Nick to shake instead he just had his arms across his chest.

"Yeah I am and you must be Mr. Hopps it's nice to meet you" Nick replied feeling awkward cause he knew the older male didn't like the idea of him dating Judy.

"Uh ha" the carrot farmer grunted clearly refusing to get to know his daughter's partner and potential boyfriend.

"So you guys got here pretty fast you must have been really hauling ass" Wilde half smiled unsure how to get through to Stu.

"Yeah well I had just found out my daughter had been shot so I wanted to get here as fast as I could" the light brown rabbit stated clearly keeping his distance from the red fox across from him.

"That makes sense" officer Wilde agreed shifting uncomfortably in the spot where he was standing not sure what to say to Judy's father.

"How have your family been doing?" Nick asked trying to open some kind of dialogue with the older male.

"They've been doing fine" Stu answered flatly letting mammals walk between him and Nick "well that's good" Nick replied thinking of something that would get Stu Hopps to like him.

"Christ what do I have to do to get this guy to warm up to me?" the male red fox thought knowing Stu was being cold and distant cause he didn't want Judy dating a predator let alone a fox.

Nick asked Stu if his family was still using Night Howlers even after the savage predator case and how the plant was now being watched and regulated very very closely "yeah we are but not as much as we use too but I an't mad at Judy for making it hard for us to use Night Howlers in fact I was talking to my wife about using some plant less dangerous" Mr. Hopps said telling Nick he didn't want someone stealing the Night Howlers to poison one or many of the predators who lived in Bunnyborrow cause that would put his family in harm's way.

"That shouldn't be that hard right?" officer Wilde replied but Stu told him that there weren't that many plants that stopped bugs like the Night Howlers did.

It wasn't a big break through but for Nick it was a good start specially if he wanted to date Judy and maybe someday they could take they're relationship to the next level even get married that's if Stu didn't kill him first or found a suitable rabbit husband he approved of.

"Surely there's pesticides or chemicals you can use to keep those damn bugs off your crops" Nick remarked having only a basic knowledge of farming thanks to Judy.

"There are but the Hopps family's crops are completely chemical free and they've been that way for the last seventy five years" the farmer explained filled with pride that his crops were totally organic.

"Wow that's impressive being able to keep your crops organic for three quarters of a century not many mammals in Bunnyborrow can say the same thing can they" Nick grinned seeing a way to get on Stu's good side by boosting his ego.

"Your damn right my family is one of only a few who refuses to put any kind of chemicals on they're crops" Mr. Hopps agreed seeming to have forgotten for now how he didn't like Nick very much.

Nick asked Stu if he would like to have a coffee with him in the hospital's cafeteria which the male rabbit accepted "how big is your farm?, Judy never told me" the fox commented as he and Stu were walking towards the stairs so they could go to the ground floor where the cafeteria was located.

"The Hopps farm is two hundred and fifty acres of the best land in all of Bunnyborrow but you have to remember that's only my farm if you tried to count how much land all my family owed well that would be a whole lot of property" the proud farm owner told the male fox a huge smile across his much shorter muzzle.

"that's a lot of land, is that why you had so many kids?" the small predator chuckled hoping Stu wouldn't be offended by the joke.

"I an't gonna lie it sure does help to have two hundred and seventy five kids and that doesn't include my numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren" Stu answered clearly not ashamed of the fact he had such a large family.

"You have great grandkids?, come on your only like in you're early fifties" Nick scoffed knowing that saying Stu was to young to have great grandchildren was a good way to get on the farmer's good side.

Stu Hopps raised a credulous eye brow as he and Nick started making they're way down the stairs "did you forget what species I am?" the light brown male rabbit asked with sarcasm knowing full well that Nick was flattering him to get on his good side.

"I didn't forget I just know better then to make a racist joke with the guy who's daughter I want to date" Nick answered causing Stu to stop a step above the male fox his smile quickly turning back into a frown.

"aaaaahhh god damnit" Nick chastised himself wishing he had waited till he and Stu were on better terms before talking about dating Judy.

The two males stared at one another for a short while "so that was your plan con me into allowing you to date my Judy?" Stu growled unsurprised that a fox was trying to pull a con on him.

"I was trying to get to know you and make you see that I'm not such a bad guy even though I'm a freaking fox" officer Wilde replied attempting to get the male rabbit to say he was worthy to be with Judy.

The male rabbit's face remained cold his green eyes narrowing in suspicion but Nick refused to give up he wanted Judy's father to be ok with her dating a fox and be sure Stu wouldn't show up with a shotgun to blast Nick if he and Judy ever did have sex "says the guy who use to be a con artist that tricked my daughter into buying him and his fake son a jumbo pop which you melted down and sold to gerbils for two dollars each" Stu argued leaning on the stairwell's rail.

"The day after that Judy hustled me into helping her solve a missing otter case which led to us stopping Bellwether" officer Wilde smiled remembering how sexy his partner had looked when she hustled him but he wasn't going to tell Stu that.

Stu Hopps opened his mouth to replied but he just closed it cause he couldn't come up with a good enough comeback cause he was way to proud of Judy for stopping the former mayor and he couldn't help but feel appreciation for Nick for saving Judy "ok I'll give you that one" the carrot farmer grudgingly agreed restarting down the stairs followed by Nick.

"So does that mean I can count your Judy?" the male red fox asked hoping Stu would agree "don't push you're luck Wilde" Hopps half smiled making sure Nick didn't see it.

Back in Judy's hospital room

"Mom why hasn't dad shown up to see me?" Judy asked her mother wondering why her dad wasn't here.

"You're father is being a racist asshole and refuses to see why you and Nick would make a wonderful couple" Bonnie frowned while her daughter blushed and covered her face with one of her paws.

"Oh god not you too" Lt. Hopps groaned shaking her head guessing Nick and her mother had agreed that they should be together.

"Come on Judy why don't you want to date Nick?, he seems like a very nice young male" the older female rabbit said putting one paw on Judy's lap.

"Yeah Nick's a nice guy but he can be so damn immature that sometimes I want to punch him up side his head" Judy told her mother but Bonnie Hopps just giggled.

"That might be but he loves you very much" Bonnie Hopps replied telling her daughter that she had never seen someone in more love then Nick was with Judy.

"Come on mom Nick can't be that in love with me" the young bunny disagreed her violet eyes staring at her blanket.

"You kidding?, if he could I'm sure Nick would put a ring on your finger" Bonnie insisted not minding having a fox as a son in law.

"Mom you shouldn't joke like that you know if dad hears you he'll flip out" Judy warned her mother praying her dad wasn't in ear shot.

Bonnie didn't seem that concern with what her husband did or didn't hear "you let me worry about your dad you just concentrate on getting better and gathering the courage to admit to yourself and Nick that you love him just as much as he loves you" Bonnie remarked and as much as Judy tried to protest the truth she did love Nick she just wasn't sure how to tell him.

"What about the rest of our family I'm pretty sure they're not gonna like me dating a fox" Judy replied sure that most of her family would be angry she decided to be with a fox instead of her own species

"Forget about them you need to be thinking about what's gonna make you happy" Mrs. Hopps insisted only wanting the best for her daughter.

Judy wanted nothing more then to be truly happy even if that meant she would have to cut all her ties with her family but she also knew there were mammals out there that thought that predators and prey mammals should stay to they're own kind and they had attacked predator/prey couples "if I tell Nick I'll never hear the end of it" Judy said allowing a soft smile crack her lips.

"Come on I don't think Nick would do that" Bonnie replied this time it was Judy's turn to give her mother a credulous stare.

Bonnie and Judy talked about the pros and cons of being in a predator/prey couple only stopping when Nick and Stu returned seeming to be on better terms then when they left "he's had the same dream, too then the guy in the middle wakes up and says, that's funny, I dreamed I was skiing!" Nick said finishing what had to be a dirty joke making Stu laugh very hard.

"Oh wow that was one hell of a good joke no one in Bunnyborrow knows a joke that can make me laugh this hard" the light brown male rabbit chuckled giving Nick a pat on the back "you two seem to be getting along, what were you two talking about for the half an hour?" Bonnie inquired wanting to know why her husband wasn't yelling at Nick to stay away from Judy

"I've been telling Stu here a crap load of hilarious jokes and convincing him that" but for some reason those last few words Nick was going to say got stuck in his throat.

Stu cleared his throat and softly elbowed the young fox in the side to get him to finally say how he felt for Judy "go on boy tell Judy or don't bother telling her at all" Stu insisted giving Nick another soft elbowing.

"I would if you give me a minute" the green eyed fox snapped impatiently his face beginning to turn red "what do you wanna tell me Nick?" Judy asked putting on the cutest face she could.

Bonnie could see that Nick was to nervous to tell Judy how he felt for her while she and Stu were in the room so the older female rabbit told her husband that she wanted him to take her to the cafeteria so she could get something to eat finally leaving Nick and Judy alone "so you wanted to tell me something Nick?" Judy asked in a seductive voice not helping the male fox's nervousness that he hadn't had earlier that day.

Judy found it absolutely adorable that all the earlier swagger and boasting had simmered out like a dying fire and the usually confident fox was stammering and couldn't complete his sentence "I failed you Judy…..I failed you" Nick repeated hanging his head and to Judy's surprise Nick started crying he was actually crying all because he felt ashamed of the fact he didn't protect Judy.

"Nick" Hopps said unsure what to say besides telling her partner that it wasn't his fault but wouldn't of done much.

Wanting to do something other then just sitting in her bed Judy lowered the bed's divider and very carefully climbed out of her bed "Nick please stop" Judy cooed making the fox look up at her so she could kiss him.

"If you start crying you're gonna get me crying too" the bunny cop smiled kissing her partner again but this time it was more passionate and Nick returned the kiss.

"Sorry carrots I just feel so angry that Weaselton shot you and I didn't kill that piece of shit" Nick apologized now staring into his partner's beautiful violet eye.

"I'm glad you didn't kill him these paws aren't made for taking lives they're made for saving lives and if you had taken Weaselton's life I don't think I could love you anymore" Judy replied putting the palm of one of Nick's paws up against her cheek smiling as she did this cause she finally admitted her feelings "I know it" Wilde smiled telling the rabbit he loved her as well.

A months later

"Kind of wish your mom would leave you're place so we can have an actual date" Nick whispered into his new girlfriend's ear so Bonnie who was in the bathroom didn't hear him.

"Instead of us having a date here why don't we go out like normal couples?" Judy suggested on the fast track to a full recovery and wanted to go out in public with her predator boyfriend.

"You sure you're okay enough to go out on a date?" Wilde asked not wanting to risk Judy reopening her wound.

"Yeah I'll be fine my gunshot wound is completely closed and I want to get out of my freaking apartment" Hopps answered having been cooped up in her place for the whole month.

"If we did go out what would you want to do?" Nick inquired wanting some ideas so he didn't make the choice and have Judy not have a good time.

"I heard Ready player one is a really good movie let's go see that" Judy told her boyfriend using her phone to look up movie times at a theater called the Alamo draft house which served actual meals while you watched the movie.

"Oh yeah Finnick and Clawhauser have been telling me how good that movie was" Wilde smiled wanting to see Ready player one but hadn't because he wanted to see it with Judy.

A minute later Bonnie exited the bathroom sitting next to Judy not wanting to get between the new couple or tried to be a third wheel "what do you guys plan on watching on tv tonight?" the gray middle aged female rabbit asked the predator/prey couple offering to go out for a little while so Nick and Judy could have some privacy.

"Actually mom Nick and me decided that we're gonna go see a movie and before you start my injury is totally healed so you don't have to worry" Judy told her mother who was actually fine with her going out.

"Good for you guys it's about time you go on a real date" Bonnie smiled letting her daughter know that she would head back to Bunnyborrow now that Judy was healed.

"Come on Bonnie you don't gotta go so soon, I mean now that Judy's better we can show you Zootopia" Nick insisted not wanting Mrs. Hopps to think she had to go home just because Judy was better.

"Don't be silly I'm not needed here anymore and I have to get home anyways" Mrs. Hopps smiled clearly missing all of Judy's siblings and her husband who had called her almost everyday to see how Judy was doing and to hear what Nick had been up to with they're daughter.

"You can stay a few more days mom that way I can show you the Zootopia art museum which has renaissance and Japanese art on display" Judy insisted wanting to repay her mother for taking care of her for the last month.

"Actually that would be nice I've always wanted to go to an art museum" Bonnie agreed knowing that there was no way she could go to any museum with her numerous children cause it would be far to expensive and they would very likely destroy something.

Even though Judy was relieved that her mother was okay with her dating a fox part of Judy knew that her mom didn't trust Nick because of his species but the young rabbit wasn't going to ask weather or not it was true mostly because she didn't want to cause a rift between them.

"When does your movie start?" Bonnie inquired asking what movie Nick and Judy were going to see on their first date.

"We're gonna see Ready player one" the younger of the two rabbits replied letting her mother know the movie was based on a book.

"Isn't that the eleventh movie this year base on a book if you ask me Hollywood should leave books alone they're good the way they are" Bonnie stated saying that Hollywood was running out of ideas by this point so they were buying up the rights to books.

"Well can you blame them after a hundred years I'm not surprised Hollywood is buying up books cause they can't think up any ideas" Nick said buying the movie tickets using his phone.

Nick and Judy left the apartment getting to the Alamo draft house full forty five minutes before their movie started "this place is so cool I can't believe I've never been here before" Judy smiled her violet eyes widening as she took in all the old movie posters framed on the walls.

"Now that you know about this place we can come here more often" Nick grinned putting one arm around his girlfriend pulling the rabbit closer to him.

"Or I can come here by myself or with my girlfriends" Hopps shot back leaning her head on her boyfriend's side not caring if mammals disproved of her relationship.

Wilde gave his girlfriend a suspicious look with a lewd smile on his muzzle "that's not what I meant and you know it" Hopps growled soon realizing her boyfriend thought she was bisexual and had female lovers.

"Well that's a real disappointment" the male fox chuckled his dream of being in a threesome dashed "god males are such pigs" Judy stated not pushing herself away from her boyfriend "that's not fair carrots" Nick playfully protested as he pulled out his debit card so he could pay for the tickets.

"I'm gonna go to the bathroom mind waiting for me here ok?" Nick said stopping in front of the male only bathroom and pointed to it with his thumb.

"Sure you have the tickets after all" Judy replied letting her boyfriend out of her grip with a tiny bit of heart ache even though it wasn't needed.

"You could always sneak in" the fox suggested knowing his girlfriend would never do it cause she believed in the strict word of the law and would never break it.

"So you can just arrest me nice try Mr. Wilde" Judy giggled standing in the same pose she had when she had hustled the fox into helping her.

"Damn you've caught onto my evil plans" officer Wilde smiled giving his girlfriend a quick kiss before going into the bathroom.

As Judy waited for her boyfriend's return she watched a few couples walk by noticing some of them were wearing wedding rings and it made the young female rabbit look at her own left ring finger imagining a ring on it "Mrs. Judith Laverne Wilde" the young female rabbit said to herself thoughtfully knowing it was far to early in her and Nick's relationship to think about marriage even if Nick wanted to marry her Judy doubted her father would give the male fox his blessing.

"Hey baby how it going?" a male voice clearly not Nick's asked breaking Judy from her train of thought and look up coming rye to eye with a incredibly handsome white rabbit with a square jaw and bright sky blue eyes.

"It's going fine just waiting for my boyfriend" Judy replied making sure she put emphasis on the word boyfriend in order to make this new male realize she was no longer available.

"ahhh forget that chump I bet he doesn't have muscles like this" the male rabbit smirked flexing his bicep to show Judy how big it was.

"that's nice and all but muscles aren't everything" Hopps replied with clear disgust having dealt with this kind male before.

"it's the only thing that matters" the muscled rabbit said leaning down to kiss Judy but only ended up on the floor on his back.

"Tried that shit again and you're be spending the rest of the night in a cell you prick" Judy barked having reached into her pocket and pulled out her badge showing it to the male rabbit who had tighten his jaw in rage that he had been humiliated in public by a female who refused to make out with him.

"You bitch I'm gonna" the male rabbit snarled reaching into his pocket and pulled out a large pocket knife but before he could pull the blade out the male rabbit felt Nick's service weapon pressing against his forehead.

"Tsk tsk tsk really carrots can't we go anywhere without you getting into trouble?" Nick asked also showing the rabbit on the ground his badge while giving his girlfriend his trademark lopsided smile.

"Funny I was going to say the same thing to you" Judy smiled looking to her side in time to see a ZDP officer approaching them.

"What's going on here?" the officer who was a male lion inquired his paw on his own service weapon ready for a shootout.

"I'm Lt. Judy Hopps and this is my partner Nick Wilde we were about to arrest this male for threatening me with a concealed weapon" Judy answered showing the lion her badge and asked to borrow his cuffs

"Not even back on active duty yet and your already bringing down the bad guys" the fox told his girlfriend as she slapped the cuffs on the male rabbit who was cussing up a storm.

"Wait what do you mean she's not on active duty?" the lion cop asked finding out Judy was on medical leave after getting shot by a suspect a month earlier.

While the male lion was taking away the male rabbit another officer came to get Nick and Judy's statements before leaving allowing the couple to go see they're movie "well that could of gone better uh Nick?" Judy said feeling like she and her boyfriend were being watched.

"You kidding what kind of date would this be if someone didn't try to attack us?" Nick replied sitting in his assigned seat with his lopsided smile "true" Lt. Hopps agreed taking her seat next to her boyfriend.

Nick and Judy's seats were in a small balcony on the far right side of the theater giving all the small mammals a perfect view of the movie screen "you know what you want?" Nick asked in a whispered so not to disturb the mammals around them.

"No not yet but I'm leaning towards the stir fry" Judy replied also in a whisper amazed by the wide variety of vegetarian meals the Alamo offered.

"The loaded potatoes are really good too" Nick suggested pointing to it on the menu "ooohh yeah that does look really delicious" the female rabbit remarked reeding the description her mouth watering as she read.

"Looks good right?" Wilde grinned wiping away a little saliva that was drooling down his bunny girlfriend's chin.

By the time the credit started rolling Judy couldn't get the grin off her muzzle she had loved Ready player one smiling each time she saw a character or movie reference she recognized and she specially loved the scene about the Shining one of Judy's favorite movies of all times "I'm guessing you liked the movie?" Nick said after downing the rest of his beer then helped his girlfriend out of her seat.

"Of course I did you'd have to be crazy not to like it" Judy agreed making sure she didn't knock over her wine glass which had a little red wine left.

"You aren't drunk are you?" Nick inquired after seeing his girlfriend stumble a little as she tried to walk to the end of the aisle.

"of course not I've haven't had that much to drink" Judy replied looking back at her boyfriend asking the fox if he was ok to drive.

"Yeah I'm fine, you wanna run through the field sobriety test to make sure?" Wilde joked sure that he would pass the test.

"Well that depends on how fast we can get to your place" Judy cooed batting her violet eyes and gave the male fox a lustful look.

Nick felt like this was some kind of test of his integrity and weather or not he truly was an honorable mammal "oh no I an't about to fall into that trap" the male red fox told his girlfriend who continued out of the theater swinging her hips in order to get Nick to stare at her ass which worked perfectly.

"Oh that clever little bunny" Wilde thought biting his lip hoping it would keep his erection down but it didn't do shit.

"So did I pass you're crazy little test?" Nick asked following his prey girlfriend out of the theater his green eyes still looking at Judy's face.

"Maybe" Judy replied being vague about her answer which made Nick very nervous cause he knew what his partner wanted.

"you know sending mix signals like that isn't really helping carrots" Wilde stated pretty sure Judy didn't actually want to have sex with him this soon in their relationship.

"What kind of signal do you think I'm sending?" Judy asked stopping so she could take her boyfriend's paw into her own then continued out of the theater.

"The kind that makes me think you want to take this relationship to the next level" Nick shot back daring himself to grab Judy's ass cheek but decided not to cause he didn't want to end up on the floor like that male rabbit who tried to sexually assault his girlfriend.

Judy stopped in the middle of the hallway mammals walking around her and Nick "oooh and what if I did?" the gray female rabbit cooed letting go of her boyfriend's paw and wrapped her paws around the fox's neck pushing her boobs up against Nick's chest.

"Even if I wanted to the second you're dad finds out he'll come to Zootopia and gun me down" Wilde explained to his prey girlfriend unwilling to break from the narrow path of trust he was on with Stu Hopps.

"That's the same excuse you always use" Judy frowned understanding that her boyfriend didn't wish to cross her father who had told Judy to keep a watchful eye on her predator boyfriend and not to have sex with the fox ever.

"Well given the fact you're dad got a shit load of guns and plenty of places to hide my body crossing him is on the low end of my to do list" the fox argued not wanting to go missing like the fourteen predators Mayor Lionheart had kidnapped in order to hide what was happening to them and save his political career.

"Don't worry my dad is all bark and no bite" Hopps informed her boyfriend who didn't look that convinced.

The predator/prey couple exited the Alamo and started for Nick's car "so what you wanna do now carrots?" Nick asked his prey girlfriend seeing that it was only ten thirty far to early to end his date with Judy.

"I don't know maybe we could go to a club or something" Lt. Hopps answered not wanting to go home yet cause she wanted to have some more fun.

"No way Judith Laverne Hopps actually knows how to have fun?" Nick said with clear sarcasm putting one arm around Judy's mid section so she was close to him letting males around them know to stay away from his girlfriend.

"Of course I know how to have fun Nick, and when did you start using my full name?" Judy remarked following her boyfriend's action and put her arm around the fox's mid section.

"I only use you're full name one other time back when I came to the hospital after you got shot" Nick told his girlfriend who's ears seem to twitch just noticeably.

"Nick why did you sing to me while I was still unconscious?" Judy asked somewhat remembering hearing her boyfriend singing Gold all over the ground by Brad Paisley.

"I did it mostly because I was hoping it would help wake you up" Nick said blushing cause he had never sang for anyone not even his mother who was the only mammal Nick loved more then Judy.

"Well it worked" Hopps cooed pulling her predator boyfriend into a long passionate kiss.

Once the couple broke their kiss they got into Nick's car where the fox used his phone to find the closest dance club.

"You really wanna go to a club on a Saturday night?" the male fox asked his girlfriend while he started up his car and put it in drive.

"Oh yeah I forgot that it's Saturday" Judy replied realizing that every club in Zootopia would be pack with mammals.

"I'm sure we can find a bar where we can get a drink" Nick suggested seeing the disappointment on his girlfriend's face.

"We don't have to go to a bar if you think it'll be to crowded" Hopps commented looking up at Nick who told her that they could go and get some beers and hangout at his apartment so they could get drunk without having to worry about driving.

Nick and Judy drove to a liquor store that was near the Alamo draft house "bet this is the first time you've ever been in a liquor store uh carrots?" Nick asked his girlfriend with a rye smile.

"So what if it is" Judy shot back following the small predator down the aisle "Hey there's nothing wrong with it I was just asking" the fox stated stopping in front of the whiskey bottles and grabbed one that read Kilbeggan.

"And what's that for?" Hopps asked with suspicion suddenly thinking her boyfriend was planning to get her drunk so he could take advantage of her but Judy quickly dismiss that thought and chastised herself for thinking Nick would do such a thing.

"this? I use it for cooking chicken along with drinking it" Nick said licking his lips as he thought of how good his chicken tasted with Kilbeggan.

"Www I can't see how you can enjoy eating other living things Nick" Judy cringed not wanting to imagine eating something that use to be alive and when she did it made Judy sick to her stomach.

"You do realize plants are living things too right?" the male red fox throwing his girlfriend an evil little smile

"Smartass" Hopps giggled hating to admit it but she knew her boyfriend was right the vegetables and fruits she ate were living things.

"Even if I am you still love me" Wilde shot back with a wide grin giving the rabbit a wink already knowing his girlfriend's answer.

"Yes yes I do" Judy agreed taking Nick's free paw and put her head on his arm walking with him through the store.

"Don't get a beer that smells or taste like piss" Judy ordered her boyfriend when they entered the beer aisle and started looking over the different brands the liquor store offered.

"No no Corona Extra, Budweiser and Bud Light" Nick remarked running down a list of beers he knew that smelled and tasted like urine.

"You sure know your alcohol Mr. Wilde" Hopps commented not that surprised given the fact her boyfriend had been drinking a lot longer then she had.

"You kidding on my twenty first birthday I drank a whole bottle of Jack Daniels that I couldn't remember the night before and I somehow ended up on a roof bare ass naked with a mattress" Nick answered his whole head turning a deep red cause he had never told anyone that story except his mom who had to come and get him cause he didn't know where his wallet was.

"Your mother must have been so proud when she came to pick you up" the gray female rabbit poked fun of her boyfriend who just frowned at her.

"Actually my mom was so pissed with me that she didn't talk to me for a week" the small predator explained feeling horrible that his mother refused to talk to him for seven whole days.

"So how did your twenty first birthday go?, bet you got just as drunk as I did" Nick replied only to find out that his girlfriend didn't even drink when she turned twenty one.

"Wow carrots your no fun" the red fox continued heading farther down the aisle to look at more beer while Judy called her mother to let her know what she was doing.

Bonnie: hi Judy how was the movie?

Judy: it was really good I really enjoyed it.

Bonnie: good, are you on your way home?

Judy: actually mom I'm going to go over to Nick's and hangout with him and have a few drinks

Bonnie: Judith Laverne Hopps you will do no such thing!

Judy: mom I'm not a child and you can't tell me what to do anymore and I'm just having a few beers with my boyfriend that's all we're not going to do anything else.

Nick gave Judy a curious look wondering what his girlfriend's mother was saying to get Judy to snap at Bonnie telling the older female rabbit to stop ordering Judy around "is everything ok carrots?" the male fox asked concerned that he was stirring up trouble.

"My mom doesn't want me to go over to you're place and drink don't worry about it though I'll handle it" Judy answered placing her phone against her shoulder just as her mother was about to warn her about something.

Judy: mom I thought you trusted Nick?, with the way you're acting you'll making think otherwise.

Bonnie: I do but alcohol changes mammals you know what.

But before Bonnie could finish her warningJudy hung up on her cussing as she did so "I'm guessing that conversation didn't go to well?" Nick stated as he watched his girlfriend shove her phone into one of her pockets.

"My mom is such a fucking hypocrite she doesn't really trust you she thinks if you drink you're try something" Judy growled furious her mother had lied to her.

"Umm I'm sure your mom is only thinking in your best interest even if it is a bit misguided" Wilde said a little hurt that Bonnie didn't actually trust him like she said she did.

The young gray female rabbit scowled at Nick causing the small predator to take a step back which made a armadillo farther up the aisle to let out a short laugh "hasn't anyone ever told you you're terrifying when your angry" Nick told his girlfriend unsure if she was going to lash out on him in a fit of anger.

"Let's just get the beer and go" Judy ordered wishing she hadn't called her mother cause all it did was sour her good time.

Nick brought two cases of Ayinger Brau-Weisse a German beer imported to the United States "well don't you have a fancy taste in beers" Judy said sarcastically still in somewhat of a bad mood after her call with her mother.

"Do you want some of my beer or not?" Nick replied credulously walking up to the counter and placed all his alcohol on top of it.

"If you don't plan to share I swear to god I'll kick you in the dick" the female rabbit threatened not caring if the clerk heard her.

"Seriously what's with you and hitting me in the crotch?" the male fox frowned showing the clerk his I.D and paid for his alcohol.

A little while the predator/prey couple were walking up the last flight of stairs of Nick's apartment "did you clean your place?, cause last time I was there it was disgusting" Judy remarked remembering how her boyfriend's home had dirty dishes and clothes all over the place.

"Yeah jeez your worst the my freaking mom" Nick replied reaching into his pocket and pulled out his apartment's keys..

"Get use to it now that we're a couple we're be spending a lot more time together which means you have to keep your apartment clean" Judy demanded refusing to step foot in her boyfriend's apartment unless it was well kept "Christ we meant as well get married with all the demands you're making" Nick replied wishing he had chosen a different set of words "if that was a marriage proposal it was a seriously shitty one" the gray female rabbit told her boyfriend knowing he hadn't actually been asking her to marry him he had just picked the wrong words "I know you'd never want to marry a guy like me besides your dad would make you a widow before you get to become a bride" Wilde grimaced opening his apartment's front door and went inside.

"Oh my god my dad isn't going to come all the way to Zootopia to murder one of It's officers just because you want to marry me" Judy attempted to convince her predator boyfriend who was putting the cases of Ayinger Brau-Weisse on the kitchen countertop while Judy put the bottle of Kilbeggan into the fridge.

"You do remember your boyfriend is a fox and you're dad along with most of the Hopps family hate foxes" Nick remarked taking the beers out of the plastic bags and handed them to Judy who placed the beers in the fridge next to the whiskey.

"Ok yeah a large amount of my family doesn't like foxes but that doesn't matter to me I love you that should be enough" Hopps told her boyfriend standing behind the fox and hugged his back.

"It is carrots but having your mom around to spy on us and report back to you're dad isn't helping" Wilde shot back continuing by saying that once Bonnie had left he'd feel a lot safer.

"My mom isn't spying on us and she surely isn't reporting back to my dad although after what my mom said back at the liquor store I'm starting to doubt weather or not she is spying on us" Judy frowned tightening her hug and put her forehead against Nick's back.

"Hey Judy you didn't tell your mom where I live did you?" Nick asked concern lacing his voice worried for his safety.

"No why?" Judy replied confused by her boyfriend's question till she realized that if her mother was spying on them she had surely called her husband and told him what Nick and Judy were doing and if he knew where Nick lived the head of the Hopps family would be heading here as fast as he could.

"I guess if my mom is reporting back to my dad he'd be kind of unhappy with the fact we're drinking and he'd assume you'll tried to take advantage of me while I'm drunk which I know you're never do" the bunny voiced sharing her boyfriend's concerns that her father was on his way to Zootopia with the intention of harming Nick.

A short while later Nick and Judy were sitting in the fox's small living room drinking "you know what your right this beer is actually really good" Hopps smiled after she had taken her first hesitated sip of her beer.

"Told you so Carrots" the male red fox stated with a rye smile having already drank one quarter of his first beer.

"You don't need to be smug about it"Judy told her boyfriend throwing him a dirty look for half a second before going back to drinking her beer.

"I'm not being smug" Nick smirked trying to look innocent but he could hide his smile behind the rim of his beer bottle.

A couple hours later Nick and Judy had drunk one and a half of the cases of the Ayinger Brau-Weisse and were feeling a pretty good buzz "you wanna try some of my Kilbeggan?" Nick asked Judy slurring his words a little bit.

"yeah sure" the somewhat drunk female rabbit answered seeing that her bottle was empty and wanted more to drink.

"you ever tried whiskey before cottontails?" the male fox inquired walking over into his kitchen and pulled the Kilbeggan out of the fridge.

"No but like Gazelle says try everything" Hopps told fox boyfriend who was got a couple shot glasses out of the cabinet over the countertop.

"Hahahahaha I don't think us getting drunk off our asses is what Gazelle meant" Nick laughed carrying the bottle of whiskey and the two glasses back over to Judy.

"Bottoms up" the fox continued pouring himself and Judy some whiskey picking up his own glass and held it up in a salute before downing the dark brown liquid.

"Bottoms up" Judy repeated drinking her own glass which made her back straighten as the whiskey burned down her throat and warmed her belly.

"Holy fuck that's strong" the young female rabbit gasped coughing hard enough that she had to doubled over.

"You ok carrots?" Nick chuckled pouring himself and Judy another glass not sure if his prey girlfriend would take the glass.

The second time Judy downed the Kilbeggan it wasn't as bad in fact this time the whiskey felt good going down her throat and warming her stomach "slow down carrots you don't wanna get wasted do you?" Nick chuckled refilling his and Judy's glasses.

"Don't worry about me I can handle myself" Judy argued slurring every second word letting Nick know Judy was hitting her limit.

"you sure?, you seem to be slurring a bit" Nick smiled taking a short drink from his glass keeping an watchful eye on his prey girlfriend who was finishing off her drink and refilled her glass two more times

Judy was feeling great and it was all thanks to Nick "you're a fantastic boyfriend" the drunk bunny slurred putting her glass on the coffee table and moved herself closer to the male fox and gave him a lustful stare.

"You doing alright carrots?" Nick asked worried that Judy was coming on to him "I'm doing good" Judy cooed kissing Nick's neck moving to the predator's jawline "whoa whoa whoa I think you've had enough to drink" the male fox said backing himself to the arm of the couch but Judy quickly closed the gab.

"So that doesn't mean we can't have some fun" Hopps uttered pulling off her shirt revealing her lacy pink bra.

"Oh no I don't think so" Nick stated falling off the couch and tried to crawl away unfortunately but Judy just followed him walking sexily as she went after her predator boyfriend.

As Nick attempted to retreat he watched Judy unbuckle and unbutton her pants watching it fall around the female rabbit's ankles "carrots stop you know this isn't right your drunk" Wilde tried to reason with his girlfriend but it didn't seem to register with the horny bunny.

"Ah fuck" the male fox thought when he bumped into the backside of the countertop now cornered by Judy who reached behind herself and undoing her bra that fell to the ground exposing Nick to her boobs.

Not wanting to be tempted Nick covered his eyes preying that this was all a bad dream that this wasn't happening.

"Nick what are you doing?" Judy growled with annoyance bending over causing her boobs to jiggle a little.

"The right thing, your drunk and you're not thinking correctly " the small predator answered before rolling to one side starting for his bedroom.

"Nick get the fuck back over here right fucking now!" Judy hollered chasing after Nick yelling at him the whole time .

"nope" Nick shot back getting to his feet and took four long steps entering his bedroom and closed the door separating himself from his horny girlfriend.

"Nicholas Piberius Wilde get out here right now or I swear to god I will come in there and skin you alive!" Judy screamed at the top of her voice hitting the bedroom door as hard as she could.

"I think it be best if you didn't come in here due to the fact you're drunk and trying to rape me" Nick said his back up against the door as a extra barrier to keep Judy out.

"It's not rape if you enjoy it and given the fact I've never had sex my pussy is super tight" Hopps argued changing her tone from angry to seductive hoping to lure her boyfriend out of the bathroom.

"Grrrr it's a very tempting offer carrots but I'm pretty sure I can be arrested for raping you cause your drunk and you didn't give me consent" the first fox police officer told his prey girlfriend not falling for her obvious trap, that and he'd feel guilty for having sex with Judy when she wasn't thinking straight.

Judy continued hitting the bedroom door till Nick heard a loud thud and the apartment became unusually silent "uh Judy you okay?" the male fox called moving out of the way of the door and cracked it opened to see that his girlfriend had passed out.

"Well shit I was wondering when she would finally pass out" Nick sighed in relieve stepping over Judy and retrieved her bra putting it back on the pass out bunny while trying not to look after that Nick put Judy in his bed making sure he left the bathroom door open and left the toilet seat up so when Judy woke up she could throw up without any problems.

"night carrots" Wilde cooed kissing his girlfriend good night after that he went to his couch masturbating to deal with his raging erection then he finally went to sleep.

To be continued