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Chapter 3 – After the shift
The sun already begins to set at the horizon. Judy's and Nick's shift is now over. But they were called by Chief Bogo to go to his office.
As soon as they arrived at his office, they knock at the door until they hear the buffalo say: "Come in!"
Judy and Nick are stepping inside the office and they were greeted by Bogo: "Officer Hopps, officer Wilde. You made a pretty good job out there today. You together caught five criminals just today!" he said until he continues:
"Anyway, I need you two already at 6 AM."
Judy's POV
I stood there a bit surprised. Wait, why do we need to be at the police station already at 6 AM? But before I could ask the chief, I hear Nick groaning:
"Oww, come on chief! We already had a long and tiring day today! Why do we need to get here so early?"
"Well, Wilde, you and Hopps are being chosen to interrogate the weird looking guy you brought in just a few moments ago. So be there at time and don't be late!" said the chief. Nick responded:
"Well, can't I just go now and somebody else can do it?"
"Alright, you can do it if you want to, but one thing: Drop you're badge while you're walking out."
At this moment, Nick decides to just accept his fate: "Fine, I'll be here at 6 AM."
"Good, now, leave. I would suggest that you should take as much rest as possible" the chief said to both of us and then him let us walking outside. I proceed to walk with Nick to his car that is parked in the parking lot. He brings me home, like usual. We quickly step inside the car and Nick then drives it out of the parking lot into the streets. The drive is silent for like 2 minutes, until Nick has asked something:
"Well, what do you think this guy is?"
"To be honest, I don't know" I replied.
"Yeah, I never saw anything like him here before or anywhere else."
"Me too. Well, we will find out tomorrow. We shouldn't get too much excited about it already"
"Yeah… Wait! Why I should be excited about it?" Nick asked, "It's just one of these interrogations"
"I know, but I'm already curious about tomorrow, that's all"
"Uhm, why? Because of interrogating a freak? Is that what makes it so exciting?" Nick asked tiredly.
"Stop saying that he's a freak! He isn't automatically a freak because of how he just looks like! Maybe he's a nice animal; at least he didn't seem to be rude or such." I almost yelled at him with anger.
"Wait, hold on, Judy! Are you defending this guy?" Nick asked curiously.
"Yes. I mean, how must he feel being seen as a freak?"
Nick seems to think of an answer; at least it takes him a little bit until he turns his head to me and begins to say: "Well, I don't know. But still, why are you defending -. WAIT! Is it really what I think it is?" he suddenly asked, I don't know what he meant. I just reply:
"What are you thinking right now?" I asked, with curious in my voice.
"Don't play the dumb bunny, Carrots! You know EXACTLY what I'm thinking." He said with a large smirk on his face.
"Uhm… I really don't know" I still said. But then, I realized what he was thinking:
"NO! Why are you even thinking that? I don't even know this guy!" I replied practically yelling at him. I fell a bit embarrassed right now. I mean, I just want to be helpful to another animal and then, he thinks I would already like him in a full extend. Wait, I never thought of that. What if… No, no no no! And then I just shook this thought out of my head. The rest of the drive is very silent right now. I don't want to talk to Nick right now; he's just very annoying today. I mean, I have nothing against him, but at some points (like this one), he's just getting too annoying and then I simply want to avoid him.
As soon as we arrived at my place, I open the door and walk out. I hear Nick say: "Bye Carrots, we see us tomorrow!" I just replied with: "Bye" and then, he drives off.
Well, here we are, home sweet home. I proceed to walk into the apartment building and into my room. I take the elevator to the third floor where my apartment is. It has the number "382". I go to the door with this number, open it and walk inside turning the lights on while doing so.
I'm glad that I have an apartment that isn't small like the one I had when I first arrived here in Zootopia. I feel way more comfortable in this one than in my old one. I have a living room area, a kitchen, a bathroom and two rooms: One for me and another one is the guest's room. Everything is still nice and clean looking like when I left.
I walked inside and the first thing I decided to do is to make myself some dinner. Well, why not? I mean it makes somebody very hungry to chase criminals. So I looked into the fridge to see that I still have a lot of carrots stored in it. So I guess I make a Carrot soup for me. I begin to take some carrots and a little bit of other vegetables and prepare them for the soup. Once that is done, I grab a pot and add some water in it. Now I put the vegetables into the pot and cook them.
After some minutes, the soup is ready and I proceed to put the pot onto the dining table filled with the soup ready to be eaten.
Hmm, that smells nice! I'm very hungry, can't wait to eat it! But before I could even start to eat, I heard my phone ringing. I look at it to see that Nick is calling me. So I decide to pick up.
"Hello?" I answered.
"Oh hello Carrots! I just wanted to ask you if you could make me some breakfast and bring it to me tomorrow."
Well that's him. He just calls me for something like that. He probably doesn't want to do it tomorrow in the morning because he wants to get as much sleep as he can. But after what we have been through, I'm not sure if I would like to do that for him… But we are best friends! Ugh, well:
"Fine, I'll do it." I said, but a bit annoyed.
"Alright, thank you! But, why do you sound annoyed?"
Hmm, I wonder why… But I didn't want to hurt him, so I lied to him: "Nothing, it's just that this day was pretty tiring for me. I think I'll go to bed soon."
"Ah, ok. I first thought it has something to do with me, but I'm glad that it doesn't. Anyway, see you tomorrow!" He said and ending the call before I could say something else. But now, I just put the phone back and go back on eating my soup.
Some minutes later
I finished my soup and it was delicious. It wasn't that much of a meal, but I just needed something to saturate me. After that, I decide to take a shower. I go to the bathroom and then putting my clothes off. I go into the shower and turn it on.
That was something I needed too: A nice and warm shower.
After I showered, I put a towel around my body and headed to my room. I then put my pajama on and get into my bed. Man, I'm really tired right now. But before I could go to sleep, I first need to set my alarm clock to a proper time.
Well, let's see… I need to make myself ready in the morning and I also need to do some breakfast for Nick. He should be there at time, so that he can pick me up. I would say I set it to 4:30 AM. I know it's pretty early, but hey, I just want to be on the safe side. So I set my alarm clock and then I drift into sleep.
The next morning
I wake up by the sound of my alarm clock. I look at the time to see it is 4:30 AM. So I get myself ready by first, showering. After I took my shower, I put on my uniform and head to the kitchen to make me some breakfast. I also didn't forget to make some breakfast for Nick too. He probably isn't even awake yet. I really hope that he doesn't come too late. He only came too late once, so I wouldn't doubt in him, but this time, it's an exception.
I know that Nick doesn't like it to get up too early, so I also might have some doubt that he doesn't get up early enough to be on time. Anyway, I made myself ready and packed Nick's breakfast and then proceed to go outside my apartment. It is still very quite in the hallways. Right now, it is already 5:30, so Nick should come soon.
I head to the elevator and take it down to the bottom floor. I go outside the apartment building to see the streets of Zootopia to be still pretty empty. So it wouldn't be hard to spot Nick here. I look around to see if I can already see him, but to no avail.
I looked and looked and looked. I still can't see him.
I should just wait a bit, I'm sure he will be here anytime soon, at least I hope so.
5 minutes later
Come on Nick, hurry up! Where are you? I literally stand there on the streets like I would be somebody that needs to be picked up, but that was forgotten about. I look around once more to see if I could find Nick's car anywhere. Still nothing…
5 more minutes
Oh man, you can't be serious about this! I hope he didn't forget that he needed to pick me up! I mean, I just made some breakfast for him, even if I was angry at him yesterday. And now, he doesn't come on time! I think I'm already getting mad at him, AGAIN!
But then, I saw Nick's car in the distance approaching me.
Finally, it was about time that he shows up. Some seconds later, he stops his car next to me, so I could enter. I hopped in quickly and told him to drive off immediately. I give him his breakfast I made him and he said: "Thanks, Carrots. I really appreciate that!" he said with a smile.
We drove off into the empty streets and then I ask: "What took you so long?"
"What do you mean?" he asked with a cocky eyebrow.
"I mean that you took too long to arrive here. We're supposed to be at the station at 6! Did you forget?" I asked him with a bit of anger.
"Well, no, otherwise I would still sleep. Don't worry; we will arrive at the station at the right time. We won't be late"
"Well, I hope that you're right! I don't want to be getting late for work because of you!"
"Woah, why are you so angry again? Is it still because of yesterday?"
"No! It's because I just told you not to be late and you still didn't arrived at time!"
"Well, how do you know, the traffic at this time isn't that full, so we will get through it very easy. Believe me; we will be there on time."
"Yeah, I hope so; otherwise, it is your fault!"
"So, it is my fault because of you getting late? If you think you could do it better, why don't you go to the station alone instead driving with me?!"
"I…" I don't know what to say then. We just started an unnecessary discussion again. I just replied with "I'm sorry, I don't know why I did that! I didn't want to hurt you." I said with sadness in my voice. Nick noticed this and said:
"Woah, woah, alright. It's okay Fluff. It's nothing bad. You don't need to be so emotional about that. Everything is fine, and you see, we are almost there. And we still have five minutes left!"
Nick was right; the traffic was pretty low and easy to pass. We already arrived at the ZPD in almost no time! At least that's what it felt like. We arrive at the ZPD and Nick drives into the parking lot and parking his vehicle. We both get out and go into the ZPD building.
Usually, we would be greeted by Clawhauser, but before we could say anything to him, we already encounter chief Bogo that wants to see us.
"I see that you both made it on time." He said, "Well, we first have to wake the guy up." So we go into the prison area and we walk into it until we find the cell where the guy is that we need to interrogate today.
"Well, let's wake this freak up." Nick said with a light smile. I only looked at him annoyed by this. We unlock his cell door and walking into his cell to wake him up.
Back in Report City (third person POV)
"So, Duke, what happened here?" asked President Jason Wesson angrily.
"Well, Subject 1552 escaped the facility using the teleporter from Doctor Berkley" replied Duke Connor.
"Wait, I thought the machine was destroyed by the prisoner! How can he be teleported to another area then? And how are you sure that he isn't dead?"
"Sir, we searched the whole room for any traces. The only thing we found was Doctor Berkley's body and his blood. We made a DNA test with it and all the blood had the DNA of him. If the subject really died, then he didn't shed any single drip of blood then. But we think it's impossible because if he wouldn't be teleported, he would be squished by the ceiling or would already be shredded into parts by the explosion."
"So, no single trace of where he went?"
"No."
"You're kidding me right?! I want to have him here a.s.a.p.!"
Commander Connor was slightly scared of him, but also a bit annoyed: "Why we need him anyway now, I mean, it's just one guy! He isn't important at all."
"We need EVERYBODY! Every life here is mine, including yours, remember? I run this city on my own. You can be lucky that we come along pretty good; otherwise I would make your life miserable like all the citizens in here. Oh, but just to answer your question: If anybody finds out that there was somebody who managed to escape this city, then most of the people here would do the same and it would happen until no single soul would be left!"
"Yeah, sorry about that Jason. Don't worry, we will soon find out where he went. I heard that Dr. Berkley even had his machine's blueprints saved. And he might even have saved the data of all his teleportations he did in the prison's databank!"
Jason is a bit surprised about this. He replies with a smile: "Oh, that's really good. Then I would suggest that we should start with the rebuilding of this machine. Get me the ten best construction workers we have here. Also, add the two best scientists we have to this project as supervisors. We need our best men for this; we need to bring Subject 1552 back to this city as soon as we can!"
With that said, Jason and Duke walking out of the Jason's office and head into the hallways walking off.
Chapter 3 out now, hope you like this too ;)
Anyway, see you next time :D
BTW: I try to update this daily, but I'm not sure if that will work every time.
And thanks for the support again :D, I didn't knew I would already get that amount of support in only two days XD