Another day behind and still no sight of Nick during the whole day.
Judy had been today a very tough day in the work... without Nick.
Although Judy had managed to finish all the paperwork for both obligation regions of her and Nick yesterday and had rested well and get ready for today's work, Chief Bogo had granted to her the very same old and death boring parking duty for this day, but Bogo did confirm, as a small comfort for the bunny who greatly disliked this job and he knew it and saw it well, that this time he did not grant the parking duty to Judy deliberately like he had – kind of – done to her back in her first day in the force, but more likely because he was forced to grant such of dead boring task for one of his best cops in the force.
And, Judy had to face the whole day all fo those unpleasant adversities with from the fines angrily protesting civilians like she had back in her second day in the force... and it was this time five times worse despite her popular influence among the citizens all around of Zootopia for saving the city from the ultimate chaos Bellwether nearly caused with her twisted and with hatred among the predators known Night Howler plan to rid the city from the predators.
Even Bogo hmself was more than reluctant to grant to Judy such of task for this day, as he had honestly planned to grant to Judy something else that parking duty... something like the patrol duty, which wasn't as boring as the task of meter maid. Or a new case to solve or to catch some criminals with someone else officer as her temporary partner now when Nick wasn't still in the presence.
However, even Chief Bogo could not explain why there were no other tasks left here except the parking duty and he deeply apologized from Judy that this ended up like this.
But even having tasked to the parking duty wasn't enough to make her day more worse already.
It has already gone worse... now when Nick wasn't at her side to help her in it.
Nick had promised for Judy to arrive tonight morning to her apartment.
But something was wrong, Nick didn't appear in front of her apartment.
In fact, He was not even seen all day.
It wasn't like Nick. Judy knew him better than anyone... with the exception of Finnick.
Despite being the fox, Nick would never break up his promise once he had made the one to her.
Judy at least hoped that whatever was halting Nick back wherever he was at the moment, he hoped that her fox was okay.
Just in case to make sure that Nick was okay, Judy decided to pay the visit of Finnick's van to ask from him that was Nick with him... only to receive from quite early abruptly awakened and for it a bit grumpy fennec fox the negative answer, before Judy hurried to ZPD.
And to make things feel worse, Nick didn't even responded to the phone calls during of Judy's breaks.
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After the end of the working day... and it was emotionally terrible day for her.
Every officer in ZPD force felt pity for her – even Chief Bogo did – as her working day ended and she departed for her home when the sun is falling behind of the horizon.
As Exhausted Judy arrived in front of the door of her apartment, she lazily opened it and entered to the dark room.
She was even able to hear all of those angry cries in her head.
She lazily took the shower to wash the sweat off her fur... as well as the stains from the rotten tomato, which from the fine angered chamel had thrown at her earlier today after having the fine from her for the poor parking, and the chamel was even about to attack her until Judy caught reinforcements and the chamel got arrested for assault to a police officer... even if police officer like her was meter maid.
However, though it was a quite shocking moment, Judy kind of didn't paid any attention to it.
She was more worried about Nick while working.
After of which, Judy dressed into her pink pyjama shirt and without eating anything, the exhausted bunny went limp and fell on her bed.
She was so exhausted that she wasn't able to even raise her arm up.
And when she settled in a comfortable position and was about to fall asleep...
She suddenly felt that mattress under of her was pressing down... like there was someone in the bed with her and right behind of her.
Out of her instincts, Judy quickly jumped up on her knees on her bed despite being exhausted and near-limp... until her eyes were suddenly covered from behind with the paws fingers.
"Guess, who?" Nick whispering to Judy's right ear.
"Nick?" Judy exclaimed, surprised after hearing Nick's voice behind of her
"The one and only, Carrots." Nicck said, with the smug grin and chuckling
Judy shook Nick's paws off her eyes and turns around to look at the fox sitting on his knees on her bed right behind of her, with the scolding and angered look in her face.
"Nicholas Piberius Wilde! What are you doing in my apartment in this time of the evening?! How did you even get here?! Where the sweet cheese and crackers you have been the whole day?! Do you have any idea how worried about you I've been the whole day?! Why you didn't respond to your phone calls when I tried to call you so many times?! Why you..."
Nick quickly interrupting Judy.
"Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah! Slow down, slow down, Cottontail! Don't you dare to overload already exhausted teapot before you boil yourself to the death."
Judy lets out the snort out of the annoyance at Nick's joke as she looks at Nick's eyes with the annoyed look on her face.
Nick gives to Judy his common sly and smug grin as he looks at Judy's big and amethyst eyes.
Nick then broke the silence
"So, how was my little cute fluff's day? Had the good day as a cutie meter maid?" Nick said, with politive tone.
Judy, unexpectedly to Nick, suddenly punched Nicj to under of his chin.
"Don't call me cute, Nick."
"Oh, come on, cottontail! I though that we have already been through of this "calling-you-cute-thing" in my case during the last night's phone call. If I am now the outcasted from those ones who has the right to call you cute, then shall I go to buy you resembling stuffed bunny-doll and start to call it cute instead of my cute sweetheart?" Nick said, pretending surprised while rubbing his chin with his paw.
Judy responds to this with the punch to under of Nick's chin yet again.
"Don't you even try to change the subject, Nick. And one more time, don't call me cute! I denny the right to call me with the c-word completely from you!" Judy said, with Demanding toned.
"Are you... are you going to break up with me? Just because I... Hwurted your fweewings... with the c-word as I just tried to be honest for my little sweet sweetyheart?" Nick said, pretending to be shocked and hurted and making the fake-gasps.
Nick started to pretend to mourning and emotionally suffering from deep in his heart.
"Ooooooooo'oooooo! You evil rabbit! You broke my heart! My heart is stabbed with the hurtful emotion and rejection at the mercy of the evil world like the knife by the one I truly loved! My heart cries lood! I'm dying to my heart poisoning deep emotional grief! Such of pain! I'm dying! Farewell, you evil world! Farewell my love! I'm dying! (Rising his paw over his forehead and falling on the bed fake-supposedly dead) Blood! Blood! So much blood! And I'm death!"
"Knock it of, Nick, I'm not on that mood." Judy said, rolling her eyes.
"I have still right to call you with c-word, Carrots?" Nick said, still pretending dead.
Nick then jumped up to sit.
"BACK TO LIFE!"
"NO, YOU HAVE NOT! You're outcasted from those who has the right to call me cute for a while until you're gonna tell me honestly that where the sweet cheese and crackers you have been the whole day and why you didn't respond to your phone calls when I tried to call you so many times? You have five minutes time to tell me enough reasonable reason for not showing yourself this morning or later during this day or else, I'll kick you out of my apartment!" Judy exclaimed, annoyed and with demanding tone.
Nick lets out a another chuckle.
"Woah, someone's pretty cranky at the moment that the she-someone threatens to kick her favorite and sexy-smelling fox out of her apartment." Nick said smugly.
"Nick, seriously! I mean it! Knock it of, the sweet cheese and crackers!"
"Language, Carrots. Remember, have sweet language. Such of language isn't good for the sweet little bunny like you." Nick joked.
Judy then snapped at this and started to shout at Niock very loud and extremely annoyed by his jokes.
"AAARGH! PLEASE NICK! I'M ALREADY TOO TIRED FOR YOUR JOKES AT THE MOMENT, SO DON'T BOTHER TO BURDEN ME EVEN MORE THAN I ALREADY HAVE FOR ONE DAY, OKAY?!"
Nick immediately backed off, impressed by Judy's outburst.
"Okay, okay. Sorry for that, fluff. Your dumb fox milked it a bit too far gone, did he?"
Judy falls on her back to her bed and kets out the deep sigh.
"Yes, some dumb fox indeed did." Judy said lazily.
Nick leans on his side to the bed, next to Judy and gently places his paw over of Judy's chest. Judy doesn't shook his paw off because she either was too tired for it or didn't even care about it. She just remaining lying on her back against her bed's mattress.
"I heard from the police scanner that you were nearly attacked by the angry chamel... and only because of one simple fine my sweety meter maid gave to him. Is my sweet honey bunny alright? Did that evil chamel cause to my sweety bunny any physical or mental harm?"
"No, slick. I'm fine. I didn't even paid any attention to it." Judy said tiredly.
Judy then rolled on her right side to get face-to-face with her beloved fox
"I was more worried about you that there was no room for thinking about that sudden assault."
Nick let out the deep growl, slightly angered that some one tried to assault his bunny, but quickly relaxed himself.
Judy, looking tiredly at Rick's eyes as she placed her paw over his right cheek, decided to ask her questions again from Nick. Only more gently this time.
"Nick, why didn't you showed up this morning at my apartment's door? Why didn't you respond to my phone calls no matter how many times I tried to catch you? Why didn't you showed up during the whole damn day? What happened?"
"I'm heartly sorry for that, Judy. But I... I... I was kind of delayed." Nick said apologetically.
Judy took the tired but questioning grin on her face as she looked at Nick's eyes.
"Awww, my foxy fox. Always trying to sneak his way out of the trouble like from this one. Sorry, slick, but that's not gonna work on me. You maybe can fool the others cunningly but you can't fool me... not anymore like back in the day when we two first met. Living so long with the such of handsome fox can learn a thing or two."
"No, seriously, honestly. I'm not tryimg to fool you in any way. As I promised to you last night after our heartful phone call that I will arrive to front of your apartment this morning. I really did, I tried. I didn't ate my word nor kept my fingers crossed in X-position behind of my back while we discussed eith each others through of our mobile phones. I really tried to keep my word, but... (Sigh)... I don't even know do you believe me if I say that in the middle way - or more likely in the middle of the Tundratown of my home trip back to your arms, something went wrong with the train and it stopped in middle of the snowy area. And after we were informed that that the train had went completely out of order and that its repair would take too long for us to wait and that the avalance appeared out of nowhere in the border between Tundratown and Sahara Square happened to block all ways to Sahara Square and to the Midtown, I had to walk the long, hot and wet way through of the Rainforest District to get back to Savanna Central. I would have been able to come earlier, but I did not have much money left from this unfortunately poorly ended comforting train ride so I couldn't call for taxi to pick me up and take me back to apartment for the rest of my long walk trip against the payment for the taxi driver... and because of being police officer and because of you, I couldn't drive myself to hustle money from some passing mammal to have something to pay my taxi trip from Rainforest District. It took me the whole day to walk - and drag the heavy suitcase with me - around of the entire city until I reached to here... about thirty minutes before you."
"And before you ask again that why didn't I respond to your phone calls - it was not about the low battery power or a worse internet connection - but I accidentally dropped it, while I was about to call to you, through of the open window next to my seat and it fell to the frozen lake when we were about the cross the lake on the bridge and at the moment when the problem in the train took the action."
Judy listened from the beginning to the end Nick's story/reason for him being gone the whole day, and looking deeper into her beloved, sensitive and sweet fox eyes, Judy found not any sign of the pure lie but instead the truth.
"I know that that mobile phone costed to you two hundred bucks when you wanted to buy me one as the birthday gift from you to me, and I should have be more careful with that. But honestly, I had no idea about the upcoming problem in the train." Nick said apologetically.
Judy moved then a bit closer to his faces to whisper him something.
"I believe you, Nick."
Judy then took remoseful look on her faace for yelling at him a second ago.
"And I'm sorry that I yelled like that to you. I was just ... frustrated with the stress of today in the work and deeply worried about you. Because you didn't responded to my phone calls, I was so worried about that what could have happened to you without me knowing about it. I just can't imagine the life without you, Nick. I also feared that whatever had happened to you, maybe you having fallen to victim of the terrible train accident on your way back to me, I would never see you again... and feel your warm and protective arms around of my form."
Judy then crawled completely against Nick, wrapped her arms around of his waist and pressed her head against his chest, even though Nick wasn't... yet... toppless. However, Judy didn't care but instead nuzzled against Nick's hawaiian shirt.
Nick Chuckled at Judy and wrapped his own arms around of her small form, gently and thus comfortingly running his left open paws along the back of her head and her ears.
"Oh, you bunnies. You really are so emotional."
Nick looked down at Judy as she nuzzled against him in half-sleep state and sighed out of emotion.
"Awww, and even so cute when you're in sleep-like state."
Judy raised her other paw up and squeezed her ffingers into the fist in order to punch her fox again for calling her with that c-word, but Nick had already prepared for this and grabbed Judy's fist inside of his bigger paw.
"Save your strength. Even I can see how burned out you're tonight, fluff. You feel so limp, barely even able to raise your limbs... except if you had, of course, some reason for it like c-word. - I also bet that the level of your exhaustion has raised as many times as a one week has working days from its normal level. So, what do you say if I request the Big, Bad, Chief Buffalo Butt to grant to you three days off work after the weekend... so that you can have a time for rest?"
"Oh, Nick, my love. You're so sweet, but you do not need to."
"Of course I need to, fluff. Look at you. You're so exhausted that you can hardly keep your eyes open. And I think that Big, Bad, Cief Buffalo Butt has exhausted you enough for one week."
"Oh, Nick." Judy whispered and contiuned nuzzling her head against Nick's shirt again.
"I love you, my handsome fox." Judy whispered.
"I love you too, my little sweet honey-bunny." Nick whispered to Judy's ear.
As Judy started to nuzzle her head against Nick's shirt a bit harder, Nick decided to remove her shirt off and allow Judy to nuzzle her head against his furry chest. As Judy felt Nick's fluffy fur on her cheeck, the heat of his body, and Nick's "sexy handsome fox's scent" in her nose, she let out the moaned out of comfort.
Toppless Nick couldn't help but smile warmly as he looked at his cute little bunny nuzzling his fur in near sleeping state.
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The fox and bunny remained embracing against each others on the bed for less than thirty minutes, until Nick paid the look towards the window and saw that the sun was almost behind of the horizon and had less than one hour to live above of Zootopia.
As Nick get up to sit on the bed, Judy, hanged on him, still nuzzling his shirt and chest like the pillow under of her head, not willing to let go of him, even though she was in half-sleeping state and barely and barely conscious.
"Hey, carrots. I have something very special for tonight. Wanna join with me to enjoy it?"
"To where you have planned to go? Make visit at night bar? Have a pizza? Romantic night at the beach next to campfire, including the romantic night swim? Night driving by car? You wanna go and take me to the Central-Savanna-Park, play quitar and sing some sweet song? Whatever it is, it is better to be good enough to arouse my interest." Judy moaned in half-sleep.
Nick chuckled at this.
"No, Carrots. It's this time something very special... It is surprise... which I have prepared just for you alone."
"Can't it wait for the another night, slick? Tommorrow is the weekend's first day and, as you said, I need to rest."
"I know, Carrots, but this is for what I've been working for a week while I was off work in Sahara's Square. I'm not going to throw away something, with which I've been working for over six hours from all seven half sleepless night of this week, like it was all for nothing. Besides, this is the only perfect opportunity to take it into action now when you're both exhausted and barely conscious. And trust me, cottontail, you're gonna enjoy it, you were in conscious or not."
"Fine, but you gotta then carry me, Slick, I'm so exhausted that I can't even open my eyes." Judy whispered, before she let out one last yawn and closed her eyes again.
Nick looked at her with satisfied and smug grin.
"Good thing, though so exhausted bunny like you is in her exhausted state five times much heavier than normally... for the bunny like you, who usually weighs as much as a feather!"
"Har, har, slick."
Trivia.
- I didn't originally planned to do more chapters for this fanfic than just one and the first one, but because the first one chapter received some followers, I decided to make the another chapter after all.
- I'm also gonna make the third and the last one chapter for this fanfic.
- Anyway, I hoped that you liked this.
- See ya!