Judy found herself yet again staring in at the savage form of Nick, but this time something was different about him... He was prowling the surface of his prison, bloodcurdling snarls filling in the silence. She noticed he seemed... different, from the previous nightmare she had endured the last time she slept. He wasn't ramming into the glass, and he wasn't making any form of eye contact with her... He seemed... Uninterested in her presence... She watched as the fox walked in circles around his pen, his claws tapping the metal ground with a light clink.
The pen seemed much darker now as well, and more spacious and open... She looked around his pen, and noticed a trail of blood that ran into a dark corner - in which nothing could be seen. She turned back to face Nick, jumping backwards out of complete fear when she noticed he was right up against the window, staring her down with a gaze that could give even Mayor Lionheart chills to the bone. As soon as she steeled herself enough to meet his gaze, he quickly retreated away into the shadows near the back of the pen. She approached the pen, and used the flashlight on her phone to light up the area where Nick was hiding. She saw him with his back turned, and he appeared hunched over something, yet as soon as he realised the light was on him, he quickly dashed into the shadows behind some of the few plants and bushes inside his cell, safe from the light of her phone. She noticed on the ground yet another spot of blood, and it trailed into the darkness where Nick had retreated to.
She could hear harsh growling and snarling coming from the corner, but soon the sounds ceased. Judy readied herself to enter his pen and investigate, but quickly thought against it as she remembered the horrible nightmare from before... How crafty he was... She wasn't going to fall for his tricks again.
The door opened, and one of the doctors working on the antidote entered, his expression bearing nothing but pure despair. "There's little hope... We can't save them... We've developed a way to combat the effects of the Night Howler, but no matter the quantity of the treatment we provide... They just seem to be...unaffected a great deal.. And... T Well, we've just finished running the scans on Nick Wilde, to see what stage the Night Howlers effects are at... It's...it's not good..." The doctor couldn't bring himself to finish his sentence as he saw the overwhelming heart break in her eyes, but she begged him to continue. "A large portion of the toxin has gotten into his bloodstream... And it's poisonous... Judy... I'm sorry, but Nick... He's slowly dying, and he doesn't even know it... Even if we managed to revert them back to normal, we can't save him... There's just... Too much of it..."
Judy couldn't bring herself to look the doctor in the eyes as she broke down into tears, unable to believe any of what she was hearing. They couldn't save him... No... No No NO NO! She wouldn't believe that to be the truth... She just...wouldn't accept it. The doctor left Judy alone to her thoughts, and the young lapin was sticking to denail. She wouldn't accept that... They made a mistake... He could be saved... He had to be saved... However the more she denied it, the more she egan to realise how heart-breakingly true it was. Without thinking, she rushed into Nick's pen, running around the corner to which Nick had retreated... She lit the area up, leaving her phone laying on the ground as a source of light. She saw him, his crimson fur was fading, and his eyes looked empty... His breathing was slow and raspy, and it sounded as though each breath was taking more energy to perform.
A trail of blood down his maw connected with that on the floor of the pen, and the fox appeared completely unresponsive, his ears not even twitching when she cried out his name. She put her ears to his chest, feeling the rise and fall with every painful breath, and listened for a beat, to which she found one, but it was weak and slow... She could feel the heat his body gave off slowly begin to decrease, as his breathing and heart beat slowed to a complete stop... His eyes were closed, and his form now unmoving, but free of pain and suffering. She chose not to accept what she had just witnessed... The fox she cared for... The fox she...she loved... Had just died before her very eyes.
"Nick...Nick please don't go" she whispered... "Nick... Please, wake up... Don't go... Please... Wake up...wake up" she pleaded his unmoving body, her eyes welling with tears... "Please... Don't leave me... Don't go... Please...please please come back... Don't...go.." Judy ceased in het efforts, knowing they were all for naught... He was gone - and nothing they could do could ever change that...
She fell asleep next to him, hoping and prayin that when she awoke, she would find herself back in the hospitle bed... That it was all another nightmare... "Don't go"
AN: I know this was a rather short chapter... But I was really stuck as to what to put in this one as I was typing this quite late... And I was very tired... Anyway... Anyone thanks to anyones who actually still reading this short... It may end there... Or there may be more to come... But *chuckles evilly* that's for me to know... And you guys to wait and find out. Hehehehahaha
