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Judy awoke to strange noises.
It sounded like someone was squeezing the inside of a grapefruit repeatedly while breathing really hard.
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She felt tugging on her abdominal region.
Her vision was still blurred, but after a few hard blinks she managed to regain some clarity.
Slowly she looked down. Her eyes widened as her mouth gaped.
A red fox has his snout buried inside her stomach. She saw him pulling out her insides with his blood stained teeth. His fur was also covered with her blood.
She gasped in horror and suddenly her body felt a great discomfort, a pain not sharp nor dull… something terrible she's never felt before.
Am I dying?
She choked a little as she watched helplessly as the fox kept tearing her further and further apart.
For some reason she couldn't scream, nor could she move. She was just stuck there forced to watch this horror unfold.
Suddenly the fox's green eyes fixed onto hers. A piece of her flesh still hanging from his mouth.
His feral gaze locked deeply onto hers. The red vulpine bared his teeth before making a deep guttural growl.
Judy's eyes widened even further using everything in her power to move her body, but it just wouldn't budge.
The fox leaned in slowly still growling…
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Suddenly, his jaws clamp down on her neck she felt the canine teeth pierce right through. She let out a blood curdling scream.
Her eyes shot open as her body jolted.
Judy was covered in sweat. She looked around franticly panting in fear and borderline panic.
Quickly, she checked herself for any wounds. She immediately lifted her shirt to expose her light gray stomach. Still there, oh thank heavens… She sighed in relief. Her body relaxed as she settled back in the nice king sized bed, she shut her eyes….
King sized bed?
Her eyes opened again. Where am I?!
She quickly sat up and looked around. The apartment was definitely not hers, it was much larger and poorly organized.
Suddenly she felt a large wave of pain shoot into her head and side. It hurt so bad she had to lie back down.
Click-clack
She turned her attention to her left paw. Judy saw she was pawcuffed to the metal frame of the bed. She pulled at it to confirm this was real. Yep. That's real. She searched around for the keys.
Someone seemed to have relieved her of all her gear, she only had the blue police uniform on but her vest and belt were gone.
Her heart raced a bit in anticipation of what's to come. She sat up slowly to scan the details of the room and hopefully find the key to the cuffs.
A bedroom mirror. A wardrobe closet filled with light green aloha shirts and khaki pant-
The fox.
Now she was worried as she slowly recalled the events in the alleyway. Wait… I only have 48 hours to find Otterton. It's already been a day!
Judy tried tugging at her cuffs again hoping to find a way to slip out of them, but Nick had secured them on good.
After she cuffed him in the van and he brought them here, he simply took her keys and liberated himself and secured her onto the bedframe.
There's gotta be a way out.
She tried to calm herself, and began to analyze the room carefully.
The pain was really starting to set in though as that raging headache seemed to get worse the longer she stays conscious.
Her paws fiddled through the contents in the nightstand. Nothing.
It seemed like there were things inside, but Nick must have taken the precaution to not leave any articles of interest for her.
She persevered for as long as she could, but the pain was too incapacitating. Finally, she surrendered and lied back down into the bed moaning in pain clasping her head.
She curled into a ball hoping to suppress the pain through finding physical comfort. It proved to be of no help.
For about 30 minutes, she rolled around incessantly in the bed trying to find ways to quell the endless torrents of agony.
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Judy's ears suddenly sprang up. She heard someone unlock the door outside.
Someone's coming. Quickly she tried to fake sleep.
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She could hear some paper bags crunching and folding outside as it was set down on a chair or table.
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After a couple of minutes…
Nick walks into the room to check up on his "hostage."
For a few minutes, he just stared at her.
She tried her best to ignore the horrible headache and body aches, and maintained a sleeping appearance.
She heard Nick pull up a chair next to her bed as he placed a bundle of keys near the nightstand.
One of her ears twitched up slightly.
Darn it. I hope that didn't give it awa-
She suddenly felt his paw on her forehead. He gave it a gentle rub as if checking on her temperature like how her mother used to do when her siblings got sick.
She heard him sigh as he got up from the seat and slowly made his way over to the door.
Judy kept quiet and calm. She waited patiently for his to exit the room.
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"Ya know…" she heard his voice suddenly which startled her a bit. "The key's under your pillow."
Her eyes opened. He knew. But how?!
She slowly turned to face him. Part of her wanted to burrow into the bed in fear, but she would never allow herself to do that.
She reached her paw under the pillow and sure enough… the key was there. She quickly grabbed it and unlocked the pawcuffs.
Nick let out a small chuckle, "For what it's worth… you're a pretty decent actor. You just gotta work on that silly little nose twitch."
Her eyes quickly narrowed to check her nose. It was twitching away. Nose twitching was something very few bunnies in the world had control over. They were a sensitive and emotional bunch, couldn't help it…
Judy cursed her genetics under breath before glaring at Nick. She tried to stand up, but her body would not permit it, so she remained sitting in bed but distancing herself as far as possible from him.
She pointed at him in a threatening gesture.
"You… are in serious trouble, I hope you know that." She spoke angrily. "You will be getting at least 10 life sentences for assaulting and kidnapping an officer of the law. If you let me go now, they might go easy on you and give you two life sentences with chance of paro-"
She winced and let out a small yelp as she felt his paw suddenly on her cheek, he gave it a gentle rub. Her eyes were squinted and her paws up in anticipation of an attack. Her face heated up from this interaction. His eyes were focused on something on her face.
A few seconds of rubbing. "Hmmm… Hold on, Carrots."
Nick exited the room for a brief moment as he returned with a small metal container, the paint on it was scuffed bad. It looked like an old lunch box.
He opened the box letting out a small squeaking from the old hinges. He searched through it quietly before pulling out a couple of small band-aids with cute little fox faces on them.
He gingerly put the band-aids on her cheek. Her cheeks went flush as her eyes perked up and her eyes widened. His eyes were focused and his lips were pursed as he completed the task.
Judy just watched him do this in total awe and confusion, her finger still pointed at him and her mouth half open in mid sentence.
Finally, after about a minute of awkward silence while he put the bandaids on her, he finished.
Nick leaned back to inspect his work. He gave her a smug smirk clearly proud with how it looked.
"That's got it. I'm sorry. Go on." He sat back in his seat with his hands together on his lap.
Judy just stared at him. Her mind went blank.
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"You were sayin… If I let you go… parole… me assaulting you…" he calmly reminded her.
She blinked many times before regaining her train of thoughts, "Uh…err.. yeah! You… You… assaulted me! Er… I'm an officer and… and that's against the law! So you better let me g-ahhhh….."
The raging headache returns with magnitudes greater pain rendering her unable to complete her threat.
Nick sighed as he searched through his metal box again. He left the room for a short moment once more and returned with a glass of water and two pills in the other paw.
He placed them on the nightstand.
"Take that. It'll ease the pain. And it'll let you sleep."
Judy stared at the pills.
She looked back up at him. "I'm not eating poison! I don't have time for this, Nick! I gotta get out of here, I gotta find Emmit Otterton!"
Nick just stared at her. His expression was cryptic, she couldn't get a read on him at all.
"Please… I'll even let you supervise me the whole time… just let me find the otter so he can get back to his family… and after that… I'll come back to be your hostage… an-"
Nick closed his eyes as he shook his head slowly.
Judy stopped talking not knowing what he meant by this.
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Nick let out a small scoff.
"You're really something else you know that?"
She didn't know what he meant by that, but it felt like a compliment somehow. "Please! Just let me g-"
"Sorry for beating you up." He apologized.
Judy took a moment to absorb this bizarre and random apology.
"S-Sorry?... You're… sorry? What does that even mean? You think being sorry means I'm going to just forgive you for beating me half to death? You think the law is gonn- You're sorry?!" she was so frustrated by him she could hardly speak right.
She thought this fox was shifty and dangerous and weird and evil and charming. Charming?
"No. But I'm sorry…" he apologized again. This time Judy didn't reply. She was speechless.
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"Anyways. I'll find Otterton for you and make sure he returns to his family, ok? I'll leave an anonymous tip saying Officer Judy Hopps found him."
Her ears perked up. She was now staring at him inquisitively. She is utterly confused by Nick's motives, there was something about him that was… different and convoluted. Like he a million layers in that mind of his.
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"Why are you doing this? What do you want from me?" she asked sternly.
Nick exhaled through his nose softly as he averted his gaze toward the wall.
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"To be honest? I don't know… I don't know why I'm doing this. You just… seem… different. And what I want from you is to take those painkillers and get some rest. And I'll take care of your otter problem, deal?" his face was serious. He extended a paw out to her as if to strike a deal.
She was still confused by the mannerisms of this strange fox. Without even knowing it, she extended her paw and shook his.
"Great. See ya." He closed the metal box and exited the room.
"Wait!" she called out.
He stopped in the doorway and peered back.
"…you haven't locked anything." She wasn't sure why she reminded him, like she was helping him keep her bound.
"Are you saying you're going to break the deal and run away?" he asked.
"…" For a moment she didn't know what to say. "…How do I know you're not going to break the deal too? And how do I know these aren't actually poison?" she asked.
Nick sighed as he turned fully to face her.
"It's called trust, sweetheart. And I trust… that you'll be here when I come back. And I know you will. I know you will cuz I'll uphold my end of the deal. Alright? Just don't break any of my stuff thanks."
Before she could reply, he exited the room.
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Suddenly he returned again with one finger raised, "and to answer your other question… Just think about it… I can't eat a rabbit with poison coursing throughout her whole body…"
She stared at him horrified.
Nick stared back in deadpan.
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Suddenly, he broke out laughing loudly.
"Oh boy… you shoulda seen the look on your face! HAHAHHahaha… Classic. No but really, they're not poison. If you don't take it, the headache will just keep pounding away. So really… it's up to you. I'll see ya later."
With that, he finally left the room and the apartment itself.
Judy was still trying to comprehend that whole conversation they just had. He was such an enigmatic character. She was scared of him, but at the same time… she could not help but feel just a bit intrigued as well.
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She turned her attention to the glass of water and the pills.
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Judy thought about it for about a minute. Suddenly that sharp migraine returned like a pickaxe to the skull.
Without hesitation, she ingested the pills with liberal amounts of water.
As she lied down, she let out a tired sigh.
…What the heck is going on?
Within a few minutes, she was fast asleep.
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