Episode 2 "Morning with Oliver"
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HAPPENING DURING TATW CHAPTER : SEASON 2 EPISODE 4 PART 1 ...
OLIVER IN THE STATION BEFORE HAILIE'S ARRIVAL ...
The brown wolf sighed as he was staring at the vending machine next to the elevators of the ZPD. The brown wolf yawned, brushing his other eye and feeling tired this morning.
Soda can. Come to daddy. That's it. Orange is my favorite. Need to have one. Need sugar. A little more. Aaaand
CLUNCK!
The soda pop fell down, ready for taking. Oliver gave pleased smile and swished his tail as he crouched down to take the soda can from the machine, showing his paw in.
He bit his tongue as he was reaching for the can, mumbling by himself.
"Are you freaking kidding me.. Almost thousand years on this planet and we haven't even made vending machine that isn't a dumb and unpractical and... No." Oliver finished, realizing his paw was stuck.
"Great. Just great. Amazing. I love it." Oliver cursed, looking around himself. Many were too busy to realize the trouble this clumsy brown wolf had gotten himself into, carrying paperwork all around.
Oliver gave another sigh, scratching behind his ear. There as he was kneel'd, the blue neon lights of the machine making him zone out, he started to fall in to his thoughts. Sigh... Why does everything have to be so hard..
Hailie... Why can't I just ask her out? On the other paw, why would she even date me? There is nothing special about me. I am boring. Clumsy. My jokes are bad. Im over shy. I am bad at talking with females.
I don't have any self confidence. I snore in my sleep. I am a bad driver. The moment I come home, I read books or jack off and watch porn. I have laid with only two females in my life and it was so awkward that I want to forget. There is nothing I can offer to someone like her. She is amazing, beautiful, kind... I am just a loser. Yeah, Oliver from great and famous Howlton family. What a great cop I am. Boring life and full of insecurities.
No girlfriend.. Or boyfriend... Damn how much I wish I had either one. I'm so damn lonely. I just... I want to have someone that looks at me like Judy looks at Nick.
Oliver blushed by himself, being quiet and trying to reach for the soda can again, cursing by himself again.
"Come here you stupid little..." The brown wolf cursed, only getting more stuck inside the vending machine with his arm.
Sigh... Somehow I just feel like it won't work out with me and Hailie... I just... Even if I manage to ask her out, what then? How would that even go? What cringy lines could I come up with?
I bet Nicholas never had this trouble. I have heard things he told me during the academy. The things I had to come up with two match his stories. He saw right through them. He knew I lied. He was too kind to just call my bullshit.
I am so damn pathetic... He on the other paw is just so... So damn attractive. That damn grin... I bet he is so damn good in bed. Why wouldn't I just ask him for tips? Ask how he handles females?
Because he would make fun of me. He expects me to have wild life or something. When in truth I am twenty-nine year old wolf who just moved out of his brothers place. I have shitty car. I have trouble with talking to females.
My life is boring. It's been three years since I got laid. Also I CAN'T EVEN GET A FREAKING SODA CAN OUT OF THIS STUPID MACHINE!
The wolf started to pull harder reaching for the can and making it move a little bit with his fingertips. Just a little bit more. Nononono-
The damn soda can started to roll even further, Oliver accidentally tackling the machine and making the can move further. Oliver sighed with tired eyes, looking around himself. Still no one paid attention.
Everyone were so damn busy. Oliver saw Delgato talking with Lily Fangmeyer on the far corner, both heading to tranquilizer range. I wonder when others are going to come for work. Maybe I will get myself together this time.
I will ask Hailie out this time. I have to do it. Sooner better than later. You want a girlfriend right? Or maybe you just want to prove to everyone that you don't like Nick that way. I know they are joking about it.
All the time. Many in the whole station are. They keep laughing at that damn picture in our zpd group chat.
Freaking Delgato and others... So what if I like him a little bit? .. Okay maybe more than I want to admit. He is funny, charming... And taken. By most famous bunny in the city.
Oliver was quiet for a while, staring at the neon lights and falling into deep thoughts by himself. Judy Hopps. Now there was a female alright. He remembered when she came to the city. First rabbit officer. It was something Oliver had read about and followed in the news as he was working out in the gym, wondering how odd it sounded. He was really interested to see how that was going to go. He didn't judge. He had never even talked with bunnies. Seen them,
yes. But all his friends were predators. There was very little bunnies in Savannah. Judy was the first one he truly knew. He remembered the day he was told that he was going to be in team with Judy. The shaking paws and disbelief.
She was a legend. Hero of the city. And someone like him would be in his team... Getting this chance.. It was still just something he hadn't really soaked in. He had worked with her on the field, yes... But he still wondered why they had chosen him. Just because of his family name was his biggest guess. Good physique. Amazing at sports. Very combat trained and great boxer. Still... He didn't have list of heroics like Judy. He was just as new as Nick.
It was obvious why Nick got picked into the team. He just didn't see why he was the choice among others. Hailie was best driver Zpd had and good at self defense. Rasheed was best shot ZPD had when it came to marksman skills, also showing amazing bravery and known from being still very tactical under pressure. Luke was fastest runner ZPD had, also the lynx having very optimistic attitude and very friendly team player. Just like Judy... I never asked to be part of this team. But of course I took it. Because I wanted to impress one of the most famous mammals in the city... And my family. Also make sure nothing would happen to Nick and Judy, considering who they were.
I am really starting to see him as my best friend... Part of me just.. Ugh I hate myself of being like this... Why does he have to be so damn handsome and sexy...
He would probably be ten feet away from me after he knew that I have these thoughts about him that I don't even want to have.. He has Judy. I feel really happy for her. She deserves someone good. I just never imagined her being interested in... Predators... It just sounds so odd. I saw them on that balcony before the press congress... I saw how she cried in Nick's arms at that moment. The way Nick looked at her at that moment as he calmed her down. Neither of them noticing as I watched from behind the corner... The way they looked at each other... I can only wish to have someone looking at me like that someday. Just... I want someone like Judy as my girlfriend. I can't help but to see her as one of the most amazing females I have ever met. She is kind, brave, optimistic, and very... I think the more I see her day after day I have realized... That in part i see why Nick likes her. She is pretty. Well, it's hard for me to determine how attractive she would be in bunny standards. Don't know many bunnies. Sigh... Still... I wonder what she is like. Truly like once out of uniform and on her free time. I haven't ever hanged out with Nick or Judy on my free time. It would be interesting to see how they are out of work. Nick I can already imagine. Judy is different case.
I wonder what she likes. What kind of music. I heard she is huge Gazelle fan. Hmmm.. I wonder what kind of food she likes. Don't bunnies only eat carrots? Is that speciest? I don't know. She is just so interesting mammal in general.
I wonder if Nick would be okay truly with me hanging out with them sometime like he suggested. Yeah. I have trained cooking. I could sometimes come over to spend a time with them. Watch a movie. Maybe drink few beers and just talk.
I really want to know them both better. They are both such interesting mammals... While I am boring as one can be. Everyone must think "Oliver of the great family of Howlton's! His life must be so exciting!"... Yeah, nailed it.
Oliver sighed, trying to get the sodacan from the machine, hit fingers getting closer to the can again. ALMOST... Just a..
Oliver then again started to get quiet, wondering by himself in blush how it would look when Nick and Judy would... Mate. How it would even go. It is not... How would it even be possible. There is no way. I'm sure as hell not going to ask... I wonder if Nick would tell. NA AH. Oliver, you are thinking of things that you shouldn't think about. Your mother and father raised you to be civil. You can't think things like that... Yet I am bit of a pervert and can't get the idea out of my head now. Just great. Sigh... Why are you even thinking anything at all. Right now you have one mission. Get that FREAKING STUPID SODA-
"KHrmm... Officer Howlton."
The strong voice asked for him, making Oliver turn around to look who the talked was, not able to raise up as his hand was stuck in the machine.
".. Morning, Chief." Oliver just said calmly with goofy smile, seeing the buffalo look at the show with his hands on akimbo.
"... Having problems with the machine?" He asked bluntly.
"YYyyyeaaah, you could say that." Oliver said with a bit embarrassed tone.
"Mhhhm... Let me guess, you decided to kneel down, shove your hand inside, get it stuck and try to act like nothing is wrong?" The buffalo asked knowingly.
"... Uhh... That... Sounds oddly familiar." Oliver said, shrugging his shoulders and giving apologizing smile to his chief.
Bogo was serious for a while, until he sighed and had a small smile on him as he shook his head, starting to walk closer to him.
"Just a second." He said in fatherly tone, kneeling down. He took his hoof under the machine, raising himself just a little bit, making the machine go up as well.
The sodacan rolled right onto Oliver's paw, making Oliver's eyes scream victory.
"Got it?"
"Yis!" Oliver hissed with smile, making Bogo snort as he showed thumbs up. Bogo slowly lower the vending machine down.
"... Can officer from great family of Howlton's get his hand out without me having to call someone with a blowtorch?" Bogo asked with amused smile.
"I think I got it... Wait." Oliver chuckled, pulling his paw out of the machine as hard as he could. He managed to get his hand out with small sting of pain along with it, making him wince a bit.
"Ow."
"Next time, just rattle the damn machine to get your drink." Bogo said, shaking his head and turning around to walk away.
"Thanks, Chief." Oliver said in gratitude.
"Hmmph." Bogo just grunted back.
Oliver followed with his gaze as the buffalo walked over to Clawhouser's desk, taking the attention from the cheetah and asking for something.
The brown wolf looked at the soda can in his paw, rubbing his tired eye with his another and looking around himself. This rain outside was clearly taking mood in very different way overall this morning. Everyone were so quiet. So moody. They talked with each other, sure. Still... Just somehow Oliver felt that something was wrong. Like incoming storm. That something really bad was about to happen... Nah, imagination. Ain't nothing bad going to happen. Just rain, grey sky and dark thoughts. Sigh...
"Moooorning, Oliver." The brown wolf suddenly heard someone say.
As he was zoning out with the soda can in his paw, Julia walked by. The white female wolf officer gave him a flirty look, carrying some huge pile of files on her hands.
Oliver looked after her with awkward smile, giving small paw wave as she looked after her shoulder, walking towards offices.
"M-morning, Julia." He said with chuckle.
Julia just winked at him, turning back to walking towards the offices and leaving Oliver stare at her dancing butt... Wow, I never realized how amazing ass she has. WOA. Steady now.
Why are you like this? Remember your raising. Don't sexualise mammals. It is rude and dirty thing to do. Remember what your mother and father told you all these years... I wonder if my dad really was such a modest and civil guy... Why did I have to be born as Howlton... I was raised to be a cop. I wonder if it wasn't our family demand since great relative, Charlie, I wonder what I would be doing right now instead... I always liked swimming. Swimming instructor would have been cool. Maybe I would had actually gotten a bit more exciting life than what I had. No formal dresses and wine parties.
Not all the boring family events and reading. Not all the academy training and all the high expectations. Not constant scolding when I was out just half hour late from home. Not the embarrassing moments before the whole family when dad found porn magazines or beer from my room... I wonder what Nick's or Judy's parents are like. They have to be way laid back compared to mine. Less tense, yelling and always judging. Sigh...
"Morning dude." Oliver suddenly heard Delgato say, the lion walking past him and giving light shoulder pump at him.
"... Morning." Oliver said with grin, watching Delgato walk to the elevators and call it down.
The brown wolf just zoned out at the soda can, listening the sounds of the hall. Talk, laugh, walking, typing of keyboards, incoming calls, tapping of pen, closing and opening of doors.
Just another day at work... Patrolling with Hailie... This time you will have to ask her out. Just do it. You wanted someone like Judy, right? What do you have to lose? Except get rejected,
kill her with boredom, make things awkward with her in the office... Everyone knowing she broke it up before it started. Delgato and Fangmeyer teasing even more. Why is it so hard to talk to females?
Everything in this life is too hard.
"Oliveeeer, what's up man?!" Coonway suddenly came next to him, tapping his shoulder with grin and making Oliver almost jump from sudden attack.
"You scared the shit out of me." Oliver huffed.
"Your fault for zoning out in middle of hall dude. You gonna drink that?" The red raccoon asked, pointing at the can in his paw with grin.
"Yyyyyeah, after the battle I had to go through with it, yes I'm drinking it." Oliver said with bored expression.
"Bad morning?"
"Kinda."
"Aaaaahh, nothing that little practice shooting can't help, right? Little shooting and everything is more bright." Rasheed suggested, giving challenging look at the brown wolf.
"So you can beat me in front of everyone with perfect score and impress Lily Fangmeyer, right?" Oliver asked with knowing face, rolling his eyes.
"Puuusssyyyyy..." The red raccoon sang with evil smile.
"Whatever." Oliver grunted, opening his sodacan with annoyed look. The loud sound of pressure releasing from the can hissed, having shaken in the machine too much.
"Great." Oliver sighed, seeing some of the soda fall to the floor and pouring out of the can. Rasheed gave amused smile at that, talking.
"Okay this really ain't your morning."
"Picked up on that huh?" Oliver sighed, looking at the mess on the floor. He was too bored to even care, taking sip of the sugary orange drink and having satisfied smile for change after long sip.
"Aaaah, that hit the spot."
"You do know what day today is, right?" Coonway asked with a bit worried tone.
"... Blue Lagoon?" Oliver reminded himself, knowing damn well. Part of him didn't want to go.
"You are coming, right?" Coonway asked carefully.
"Thinking about it."
"It would be other chance to get Wilde drunk so you can try to do something even more gay this time." The rad raccoon grinned.
"PFFTTT!" Oliver let out, chocking on his drink and starting to cough up as Coonway laughed next to him, tapping him in the back.
"That reaction was all I needed to make my day, thanks Howler."
"Fuck you. Not funny." Oliver coughed, looking at Rasheed with annoyed look.
"I'm not judging. Our bunny leader might take it a bit personally though."
"Really funny."
"No seriously, when is the wedding with foxtrot?"
"Coming from a guy who has clinged into his lynx friend like glue all the time." Oliver shot back with grin, sipping his drink.
"Isn't that normal behavior between best friends?" Coonway said right away in annoyance.
"Nick and Judy were best friends too." Oliver reminded and wiggled his eyebrows.
"That is whole lot different. A female and male can't be just best friends for long time." Coonway said knowingly.
"Does Hailie know about that?" Oliver asked after a while carefully.
Coonway's eyes widened from that, making him look a bit challenged first but he measured Oliver for a while with his gaze. The red raccoon then sighed.
"Well, I guess you got me there. I guess female and male can be just friends."
"So you've never... Thought about Hailie that way. Or has Luke ever thought about her that way?" Oliver asked, testing waters and wondering if he asked too personal questions.
".. I can shut up if you want me to, I don't want to get tranquilized." Oliver said with smile. Coonway looked at Oliver for a while. He then slowly took the drink from Oliver's paw.
The brown wolf looked at the red raccoon quietly, seeing the suddenly smiling officer take a small sip and give the can back to him.
"I love her like a sister. Luke does too. What we have together is... Complicated. We have never seen her in that light. I don't know why. She does not see us as boyfriend material.
We are like family together. We have known each other from very young age and all... I can see why you think either of us would had fallen in love with her... The most simple fact just is that she isn't my type. Or Luke's. She is also very careful about males and dating in general. You have seen how shy she is. She is like that one little sister we both didn't have. Someone we want to protect and see that she isn't getting treated badly. That is just true friendship. Cool shit." Coonway said, shrugging his shoulders.
"... So... What type of girls DO you like then?" Oliver asked with smile, seeing from Rasheed's expression that he was not very comfortable about the subject, already saying more than he should had to guy he has known for two weeks.
"Me?.. If you give another sip of that soda, I'm game." Coonway said with smug grin.
"Nooot that interesting. It cost two dollars." Oliver teased.
"Really dude?" Coonway asked with roll of eyes.
"I'm poor as shit." Oliver smirked.
"Okay fine, I loooove lesbian girls." Coonway gave up straight away.
Oliver blushed at that, his eyes widening as he wondered what to say to that.
"Uhhh... How does that work?" He asked with more interest than he wanted to lay out.
"I have thing for small women. I once had these two weasel girls, both lesbians. Met them in a house party. Both came to my dorm room, Luke being out and Hailie at her parents. Lucky for me.
They were high and in heat. They gave me blowjob together and battled over me, giggling all the time and kissing each other.
I was never the same male after that. Oh baby..." Coonway said with dreamy smile.
Oliver felt his ears burn from image, most of him jealous about someone having something like that. He couldn't even wonder how that must have been.
"Too much info?"
"Too little info." Oliver said with grin, way more interested now.
"I knew we would get along, Howlton. Let me tell you about-"
"Morning, Luke."
Both mammals turned to look at the familiar voice. Hailie had just came to work, looking behind her and towards the slide doors with dreamy smile. Seeing last sight of Marcus's limo.
She turned to see her lynx friend, giving him a kiss on cheek and walking towards Him and Coonway.
"Step your game up now, your crush is coming closer." Coonway smiled.
"Dude, stop making me nervous." Oliver huffed.
"You have to treat her right. I know that you want to date her." Coonway said with serious tone as he looked at Oliver.
"Yeah, I do." Oliver said nervously.
"So far for what I've seen, you are okay dude, Oliver. I got you on this." Coonway said, tapping his shoulder.
"Y-you are saying I should ask her on a date NOW?" Oliver asked with scare.
"Yeah. Why not? Just gather breath and ask. She might say yes. I know her." Coonway said with assuring smile.
"Okay. Okay.. HUuuff.. I can do this."
"Morning, Rasheed." The wet and soaked snow leopard said casually, leaning in to give quick kiss on the red raccoons cheek.
"Morning... Oliver." Hailie said with small blush but a bit nonchalantly.
"Morning... Hailie, I umm... I-" Just when Oliver was about to ask, Hailie interrupted him.
"Where is Bogo?"
Both mammals went quiet, Oliver mumbling a bit as his date request got stuck on his throat. Okay, just tell where Bogo is, so yo can ask again.
"Bogo was with Clawhouser a while ago. Don't know where he is now." Oliver said, looking at counter table.
"Why do you need to see chief for?" Coonway asked with puzzled tone, raising eyebrow.
"I..." Hailie struggled with how to explain it. She then quietly spoke.
".. I... I just got ride by limo.."
"... OOokkaay?" Coonway asked draggingly, wondering what was going on with her right now.
"... By... Marcus Weston."
They all went quiet.
Until Oliver yelled so loud that Coonway and Garnett almost got a heart attack.
"YOU DID WHAT?!"
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