Judy stood in front of her open closet, debating what to wear on her first day of classes. Whilst she was deciding between a more serious or a casual look, she remembered that there were no classes today. She let out a small sigh and fell backwards onto her bed. She spent a few moments glancing about her room, thoughts drifting from her attire to how she'd gotten lucky with her dorm. She was among the last few to register for a room, and wound up with a dorm all to herself.

Her gaze eventually fell into her bedside clock. "Oh shit!" She exclaimed, immediately jumping back up and resuming her plunder of her closet.

After she and Nick departed last night the two exchanged some messages. At first they were continuing their previous conversation, but eventually wound up making plans for the next day. They had agreed on meeting at 9:00 by the cherry tree. It was now 9:30.

Judy scrambled to get dressed as quick as she could without hurting herself. Of all the days for her to oversleep this had to be one of the worst. In the middle of her rush to get ready she heard her phone go off, indicating she got a message. Judy groaned.

"That's probably Nick," Judy groaned. As she walked over to the game phone, it rang twice more. "Jeez nick I know I overslept but calm down," she muttered to herself as she picked it up.

As she read over the list of new messages, she found that one of the three was from her mother. She chose to ignore it for the moment and opened the messages from Nick. They had both been sent recently; from around nine and 9:30. the first one read:

"hey hey! Carrots you awake yet?"

that one was sent around 9:10. the second one read:

"so judging from the silence and no bunny currently running towards me screaming 'oh my gosh I'm so sorry nick please forgive me I'm such a lazy bunny'-" Judy rolled her eyes and let a small smile split her lips "-I'm gonna guess you're still asleep. So, whenever you wake up and read these, I'm waiting at the cherry tree you told me about. Haven't been here long though, so don't worry that cute little tail of yours over making me wait.

"cute?" she stared at the text dumbfounded "does he really think my tail's cute?" she blushed as she thought of nick staring at her tail. banishing the thought, she quickly typed her reply.

"Hey there Nick. Just got up and read your texts. You still at that tree?"

He took a while to answer, during which Judy finished dressing herself, slipping her shirt over her head just in time to read his response.

"Of course I'm still here cotton tail I might as well be. I have nothing else to do today except wait for you so why not?"

"Whatever you say slick ill be there as soon as I can"

"Nah its fine Jude take your time we got all day to hang out and explore besides your gonna be spending all day with me you got to look your best"

"Why do you say that?"

"Cause like I said your spendin the entire day with ME. If you want to look the sexiest out of the two of us, you're gonna have to make sure everyone thinks you're a living goddess. Although knowing how you look you won't have to try very hard."

Judy stared at her phone stunned at the outright flirtatious nature of Nick's message. She stared at her screen for a long while before Nick sent another message.

"You still their fluff? You didn't die of embarrassment did you?"

Snapping out of her stupor Judy quickly typed, "If you'll excuse me Nick, I need to get ready for the day." With a bemused smile she added, "looking like a goddess takes time and effort you know."

With that she set her phone too silent and went back to preparing for the day. as she was in the middle of choosing which pair of pants to wear her phone started to make long vibrating sounds. indicating that someone was trying to call her.

"Sorry Nick," she said to herself, "but I'm officially going radio silent." Her phone eventually stopped vibrating but then started vibrating again.

"I swear to god nick" she growled as she stomped over to her phone again, picking it up and answering it without looking at the name on the screen. "God dammit Nick what part of 'I'm getting ready' do you not understand?"

"Uhhh sweetie?" her mother's voice responded, "who's Nick?"

"OH," Judy exclaimed jumping slightly, "h-hi mom!" Judy stuttered, she had to think fast to recover from mentioning nick "Oh Nick? He's uhh... oh he's nobody really just some guy I met yesterday at orientation who's gonna need some help in math. Nobody important I swear." Judy could feel the smirk that she knew was spreading its self on her mother's lips.

"heh heh, whatever you say dear." She would definitely be hearing about this later.

Their conversation was short and unimportant. Her mother simply wished to know how orientation had gone and how the college life was treating Judy thus far. The conversation ended when one of Judy's siblings started making trouble somewhere in the house and her mother had to take care of it. Judy went about and finished getting ready for her date with nick after that.

around thirty minutes later Judy finally had the cherry tree in sight and she could clearly see nick sitting there leaning up against the wood. as she approached she could see was holding something between his two big paws.

"NICK!" she yelled waving as well trying to get his attention. He didn't hear her. in fact he didn't even twitch, he just sat there staring off into nothing. "nick?" she said in a concerned tone as she lightly tapped his shoulder. maybe he'd fallen asleep.

he jumped out of his little stupor. "Huh wha..." He glanced about trying to get a bearing on what was going on. once he noticed Judy he visibly relaxed. "Oh its only you. I thought..." he hesitated, finally taking in her appearance. his eyes widened and he stiffened in shock, his mouth hanging open slightly.

"What?" Judy asked, glancing down at herself. Did she forget something; was she showing too much fur? She looked back up; nicks face hadn't changed. "Hello?" Judy asked loudly snapping her fingers in front of his face, "Hopps central to Wilde station come in."

Nick shook his head, he raised one paw to his head trying to clear his mind. Noticing Judy's concerned and confused look he laughed nervously "It's nothing I promise."

Judy looked at him with a disbelieving look. "After what I just saw? No. You're not getting off the hook that easily Nick Wilde," she gave him a stern glare and put her fists on her hips.

Nick looked twice as nervous at her display. He looked around at anything that wasn't Judy then suddenly got a determined look in his eyes.

"W-well you see" he started then some how the determined look in his eyes grew more intense "well you see now carrots I was just admiring the goddess that's in front of me"

Judy felt she should've felt something like maybe surprise, or anger, or maybe even embarrassment from the comment, but oddly enough, she felt disappointment. She raised an eyebrow. "A goddess? While I thank you for the compliment that's all you got? Recycled compliments from not even an hour ago?"

Nick smiled what Judy guessed at this point was his usual smile "I implied that for you to impress me you'd have to look like a goddess right?"

Judy nodded.

"Well Judy let me tell you something. You didn't just impress me." He gestured towards himself and made a face that was similar to the one earlier "but you left me stunned and no woman has ever been able to do that. So congrats," he finished, taking his hat off and crossing the arm over his stomach and bowing.

Judy crossed her arms and looked down on the fox. He looked back up, a slight twinkle in his eye, and Judy couldn't keep from cracking a small smile.

"Alright I guess I'll take that," she said in an aggravated tone.

"You better," Nick said setting his hat back upon his head, "because your not gonna get it more truthfully from anyone else."

"Whatever," Judy huffed. Beneath her calm, stony exterior, one part of her was wanting to stop and take time to fully comprehend the situation, while the other wanted to just drop it and get on with the day. She sided with the latter.

She shook her head slightly to clear her thoughts. "Where to first?"

Nick shrugged. "I don't know. why don't you bring out the map?" She did so.

The two looked the map over. After some discussion, they both decided on the science hall, since they'd both be spending plenty of time there this term.

A large number of towering trees lined either side of the pathways; spaced just far enough apart to allow easy detours off the path whilst still providing ample shade. Surrounding the base of each tree, there was a small ring of ornamental flowers.

There were several times during the trek to the science hall where Judy would notice other women, all of whom were predators, eyeing Nick like a piece of meat. She couldn't help but feel a slight pang of what she would've sworn was jealousy. She quietly scoffed at the idea. Surely she couldn't be that attached on the first date.

Once The science hall came into view the first thing Judy noticed were the guards. This was the science hall; why would the college put security guards in front of the doors? As they neared the building the nearest guard noticed them and held up a hand.

"Ho there," he called, "did you kids already forget the rules?"

Nick and Judy shared a confused look. Looking back Nick said "rules? Sorry sir but I don't remember any rules regarding the science hall."

"It's not just the science hall kid, it's practically the entire campus. Didn't you two listen to the principal yesterday?"

Judy spoke up "I heard everything he said sir, and he mentioned nothing of this."

The guard brought his hand over his face. "So he forgot to mention it then huh?"

"I guess so sir," Nick said, plenty confused by the situation.

The guard sighed. "Alright well listen; I'm sorry you weren't told ahead of time, but we were told not to let any students inside certain buildings on campus."

"why?" Judy asked.

"Security reasons," the guard answered flatly. Upon seeing that his answer wasn't sufficient for Judy, he shrugged and added, "college staff don't want students damaging or swiping anything from their classrooms. It's happened in the past."

"So which buildings are available for students to use?" Judy asked.

He thought for a moment. "Well, as far as I know, the main office, the cafeteria, the fitness center, and the club hall are available to students."

Without a word of thanks, Judy turned and stomped off. Only a few moments later did she realize that she'd left Nick in the dust back at the hall, and she decided to sit in a gap between the trees and wait for him to catch up.

"H-hold on the f-fluff," Nick panted, he wasn't in the best of shape. "What was that all about?" he asked as he sat down beside her.

"I'm just... I was so excited to get to explore the different buildings with you today; finding out that we won't be able to is just really frustrating to me." She let out a long sigh and lay down on the grass.

Nick nodded and lay back taking his hat and setting it beside him. "Honestly I feel the same way. I mean there ARE other places to go and check out other than the halls but they're just not... As exciting I guess as the halls you get what I'm sayin?" Judy looked up and nodded. "But hey," Nick said standing up, "think of it this way; we got two-three years to memorize this place. What's the rush? We got plenty of time."

"Soooo what..now.." Judy asked as she stood up.

"Well," Nick said enthusiastically reaching down and picking up his hat, "since that run you made me do to catch up to you I've realized that I'm starving. Wanna go get a bite to eat?"

Judy smiled. "Sure why not. I'm a bit hungry myself." With that they made their way to the cafeteria.

Almost immediately Judy thought of something. "Wait," she said but continued walking. "What do you mean 'that run I made you do'?"

"You stormed away from that guard you without saying a word! By the time I finished apologizing for you, you were practically on the other side of campus!"

She was about to retort, but was cut off when something pulled on her belt buckle and started to drag her away from Nick.

"JUDY!" Nick screamed dashing after her.

Judy tried to scream but every time she opened her mouth it was filled with either leaves or bugs, so she just kept her mouth shut. She looked down at her belt buckle; it was being pulled to some unknown source and she did not wish to find out why. So she hurriedly reached down and undid her belt. When it was loose, it shot off into the distance. She turned and looked behind her, Nick was no where in sight. Turning back around she looked down at her pants where her belt used to be.

"What the hell was that?" Judy thought, still trying to wrap her head around what just happened.

"Well now," an unfamiliar voice said, "what do we have here; a cute little bunny?"

Judy looked up to see a gazelle along with a tiger and a pig. The gazelle gave a smirk, and Judy's stomach instantly dropped. It was a hungry, predatory look the gazelle was giving her; his eyes lingered on certain areas of her form for longer than she was comfortable with.

"Judy!" Nicks voice called.

The gazelles face darkened and he turned toward the tiger. "Tony, keep him busy," the gazelle said in a low threatening tone. Tony smiled and looked at Nick. Judy also turned to look at him but only to see him get shot backwards, like the invisible tether that pulled Judy but opposite.

"Now" the gazelle said still advancing on Judy. She quickly got to her feet and started to slowly back away. She kept backing up until that invisible tether caught her again but only this time it was by the buttons on her coat. She was pulled right into the gazelle's chest, once she hit him he trapped her by wrapping his arms around her. One was dangerously close to her rump.

"What's a cute thing like you doing with trash like him?" Judy didn't respond instead she tried to pull back but his grip was too strong. The gazelle saw this and tightened his grip on her. An idea popped into her mind.

Not knowing if it would work or not she buried her face in his chest and wrapped her arms around the buck. The gazelle let out a small chuckle. Suddenly, Judy reached over and pulled on the gazelles tail with all her might. He yelped, releasing his grip on her and reached back to comfort his tail. Before him or the other two could act, Judy reached up and grabbed the top of his pants and pulled them down towards her. While she did that she brought her knee up, right into his groin.

Judy stepped back in satisfaction as she watched the gazelle fall to his knees, both his hand cupping his groin. His two companions behind him stood there in shock at what they just witnessed. Every part of her wanted to repeatedly strike him.

"You alright, Judy" Nicks voice said behind her. She turned and was met with surprised to see him standing there unscathed. She didn't get it; she'd seen him get flung into a batch a trees a few hundred feet away. How had he gotten back here so quickly and without a scratch?

forgetting the question because it didn't matter at the moment she noticed nick gesturing to their right. She turned to see a group of security guards headed towards them. Nick nudged her with something, she glanced at his paw to see her belt. How had he gotten it?

"Questions for later," Judy thought to herself as she quickly fastened the belt onto her pants. Nick being the gentleman that he was turned the other way as she did this. By the time Nick could turn back around the batch of security guards arrived.

The leader, a rhino stepped up and yelled, "what's going on here?!" He looked from Judy and Nick to the three musketeers. "Well?!" he barked again.

"He's a Lurcher," she heard nicks voice say. She turned to see him pointing at the gazelle. "He's a Lurcher and that tiger's a Coinshot. They were using Allomancy sir."

the rhino looked thoughtful, then looked to Judy. "Can you confirm this young lady?"

"say yes." She could barely hear nicks mumble, but she heard it non the less.

"Yes sir Nick's story is accurate."

The rhino turned towards one of his companions "did you sense anything over here Pharah?" The one he was talking to was a female wolf who nodded. "Steel and iron?" She nodded again.

"Well now," the rhino said gesturing for his companions to take the three away, "using Allomancy on campus grounds. You three are in serious trouble. Take them to the office." He glanced at Judy and Nick "good job you two, now be safe; never know if there's another asshole out there" with that he walked away.

"Well," Nick said back in his cheery tone of voice, "I'd say that went down pretty well"

"yeah, I guess you can say that," Judy grumbled. "What was all of that with... That Allomancy stuff?"

"ahh see now I was right. You don't know anything about Allomancy."

Judy pouted. "I know the basics," she complained

"Coinshots and Lurchers are part of the basics carrots." Nick said continuing down the path. "Now c'mon, we still got to get some food in us; and don't worry you'll learn all about Allomancy very soon."

Hours later they were back at the cherry tree where they first met up. They had barely spoken since the incident with the gazelle, and whatever conversation there was just small talk.

The temperature had gone down a great deal by that point, and Judy was starting to regret her choice of lighter attire. Suddenly Nick draped his coat over her shoulders.

"You looked cold," he said with a smile when he noticed the quizzical look she was giving him. After another minute of silence, Nick said, "ya know, I think that this is now my favorite spot on the entire campus."

"What happened to 'what's the rush'?"

"Because I know for a fact that there's no place like on campus that's like this." He said "it's nice and quiet back here. Not a lot of people either."

"I don't mind them," Judy said softly. Nick looked down at her in amusement. "but I don't prefer them either." Nick chuckled softly at that and sat back again. They sat there for quite some time, enjoying the peace and quiet and the feeling of being so close to the other.

Just like everything else in life this moment had to end. They both got up and Judy thought she was gonna walk back to her dorm alone again but Nick insisted on escorting her. On the way back Judy still hadn't had enough of what they'd shared back at the tree; that silence and calm. Once they reached the entry to the girl's dorm room she tried to give Nick back his jacket but he refused.

"Why not? We're right here Nick there's no more point in me keeping it."

"Believe me in the long run you're gonna need that coat more than I will."

Judy was about to voice a response when something caught her eyes. Four more metal bracers encircled nicks upper arms. Suddenly feeling to tired to say anything about them Judy just waved goodbye to Nick and entered her dorm room.

She readied herself for bed, a warm feeling welling within as she thought back to the time she and Nick spent together that day, scoffing at herself for being such a damn romantic.

Still, she hoped she'd have more days like today with Nick. Hopefully without the attempts at sexual assault.

authors note: don't worry everybody I'm still alive my excuse for this taking to long is because that 1: I have two other stories to write and 2: my editor had a difficult time editing this one. It might be some time till ch3 because I got another chapter for another story after this one but thankfully I'm almost done with that third story just one more chapter for it then it'll just be this beauty and fall of a king