Judy's Nostalgia
Chapter 4: Heroes and Role models
Nick finds himself in Livingroom and couldn't help but notice that the closet that the guessturs game was stored in was open so he walks over there to close it but a box catches the corner of his eye so he investigates, the box reads "Judy's Nostalgia", he was tempted to look in the box, but restrained himself and put it back on the self, as he turned around he saw Bonny looking at him with a smile on her face "I see you found Judy's box" Nick just nods "don't worry I wasn't going to look in the box" with that Bonny tells Nick to bring it out with him and they could look in the box together. When Nick opened the box he expected to find things like old dairies, maybe some princess toys and things that he imagine a young girl of the late 90's would be into, but instead found items that belonged to a tom boy, toy cops and robbers, some toy soldiers, airplanes and cars and some comic books of a tiger detective named Rick Macy and his Bunny companion Skippy vol.1 a scandal in Zootopia, vol.2 the case of miss-identity, vol.3 where the bird sings, and vol.4 the King without a crown, "so she was a real tom boy in her childhood." Nick said in amusement but got Nick to ask "so what made Judy want to be a police officer in the first place?" and Bonny starts "it started about 15 years ago at Bunny burrow elementary school…"
Fifteen years earlier
Judy was nervous about going to school today, not that she hated school well all children her age had a natural dislike for school but today was different today was the career play where all the children sing about what they want to be when they grow up, and that's the problem she had no clue on what she wanted to do with her life, her dad was a carrot farmer, her mom was a pediatrician/Midwife or whatever that was, but none of them seemed right for her but she said to herself to think of it later because she had classes to attend. About 5 or so hours passed and time for the play and she felt even farther from having an answer than before, and the teacher was herding the kids (both predator and prey) on to the stage and before she realized it the play had started and the kids where singing their parts "I want to be a builder" the beaver said, "I want to be a banker" said the squirrel said. As the play was going on a Tiger was in the audience, this Tiger was visiting a friend in this Bunny Burrow but had to sit through this play and visit them after wards and was always annoyed at the stereo typing that these people put their children through but sit through tis none the less. It was time for Judy to say what she wanted to be but every time she would try to say something her mouth would tighten shut and would never open beyond a soundless whisper, the next 10 seconds seemed to be an eternity to her and she stepped back, this intrigued the tiger he expected her to say carrot farmer or Midwife, but nothing that's interesting. Now Judy was about to cry or sob, she knew because she could feel the tears forming behind her eyes and her nose was twitching uncontrollably and the more she tried to hold it back the more came out and the more she wiped her eyes the more embarrassed she felt. The play was almost wrapped up but someone ran in to tell the teacher that Bobby Cat a Cougar cub climbed a tree on a dare and can't come down so she and the whole class came running out, the teacher who was an armadillo who panics easily (even for armadillo standards) curls up in a ball while she was curled up in a ball. Judy noticed a laser pen on the ground next to Mrs. Armodillio so she wiped her eyes, grabbed it and pointed it next to Bobby Cat who couldn't help but chase it and Judy used this to guide him down to the ground and everyone cheered the little rabbit for helping then the tiger walks up to her "that was some quick and clever thinking young lady , what is your name?", "um Judy Hopps sir" she said nervously " well Judy Hopps you are a hero, you should consider becoming police officer" and with that he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a Junior ZPD badge sticker and puts it on Judy. Some of her fellow schoolmates scoffed at the idea of a bunny cop but the Tiger corrects them by saying "anyone can be anything as long as they put in their best effort" with that he walked off, and Judy couldn't keep the smile off of her face for she finally knew what she wanted to be "a police officer".
Back to the present
"and that's the end of that" Bonny concluded, Nick was intrigued by this story but had to ask "so who was that Tiger?", "oh who knows, at the time we really didn't want Judy to pursue the idea of becoming a cop so we really didn't pay too much attention to this Tiger, its only now that we realize that he was more than a Tiger, he was an angel" bonny began to tear up and Nick just looks at her "my little Judy was so sad and unsure of herself, and we didn't exactly help her on this, but he comes along and all that happens and he gave her that badge witch gave her comfort and direction. I would like to see him just to thank him for what he had done", "well if he had some unused ZPD Junior badges than he is probably on the ZPD employment records" Nick said, Bonny smiled, then Nick asked how do you feel about Jessie and this whole Cape Suzette thing? With that Bonny looked down and said "well it is a great opportunity, no doubt about that, but it's over 2,000 miles away and twice the population of Zootopia, so yea there's a lot to take in" Nick just sighed, "well what is left on the bucket list of activities of this Harvest Festival?" well it looks like the dance is the last thing oh and theirs church in the morning than that's it…" "Then Judy and I are back to Zootopia and back to work… what kind of dance is this? "Bonny looks up at nick in confusion than says "It's a dance, it's a nice dance but still a dance none the less" so Nick gets his night bag and opens it to get his nicer clothes, not quite his Sunday vest but nicer than what he had on, considering that he was at the festival all day and got socked, ran in some mud and many other things that makes one less than desirable to dance with.
Judy was upstairs siting on the bottom bunk of the bunkbed speaking with Jessie as they got ready for the dance, "so what are your thoughts on this Cape Suzette academy thing?" and Jessie replies "well its nice I looked it up on Zoogle, it's a great school I guess" Judy looks it up on her phone "well according to these reviews it is in the top five schools in the world, and anyone who graduates is guaranteed intuition for Sheer Khan University which is in the top 5 post-secondary educational institutions in the world" and Jessie just says "I know but 2000 miles away, that's at least three time zones, so when I call from there at 4 pm, you guys will be getting it at 7 pm plus I'll be living with John and Carine in their apartment with little Rita and Meg if I go to Cape Suzette that is." Judy looks at Jessie and says "you are clearly in a conflict" and gets up to help Jessie with her dress "we'll let us take our minds off of this School thing for now and lets focus on the dance" Judy grabs her night bag and looks through it, than starts to look through it more and more, Jessie asks "what's the matter?", "I think I left my dress at…" Judy ponders for a bit than it snaps "on my bed under a blanket" Judy says in a combination of frustration and anxiety "how could I be so…". Little did the girls know that Papa Hopps was just leaving the bathroom and could hear that Judy was clearly in distress so he knocks on the door, hey are you two descent? He asks, Jessie responds "yea but Judy seems to have misplaced her dress", with that Papa Hopps opens the door and could see that Judy was distressed, looking around franticly and nose twitching. Papa Hopps looks at his granddaughter "honey it's just the Harvest dance just go in that" and Judy looks at him in shock "I can't go in this it's filthy and has my B O all-over it", "This is Bunny burrow, this place reeks of roach urine and B O as you put it at time of year, are you trying to impress someone or something like that?, and Judy just turns away and Papa instructs Jessie to leave the room for a little bit ,so she does. Now their alone Papa Hopps talks some more "common Judy your 25 years old now and you know that behaviour never worked on me, now who is it?" ,Judy swallows her pride and says "I want to impress Nick ok" she closed her eyes waiting for him to ream on her how Foxes are evil and of the Devil, but got something completely different "now was that so bad?" Judy opens her eyes to see her grandpa with a genuinely warm smile on his face "now let's fix your dress issue he takes her hand and leads her to the attic, he sees Jessie next to the washroom and tells her, "Make sure Nick leaves with your mother and father I will take Judy, Judy Just looks at Papa with confusion, some weird fantasy was playing in her head of him locking her up in the attic for all eternity but he opens it and tells her to wait here and he goes up, she could hear some rustling a box open, and a book open but before she knew it he was back down with what looked like a bag for a suit with a hanger and an old box. She could hear the others that were going to the dance leave and now she was in the bathroom having a shower, Papa Hopps was just outside the bathroom reading through an old family album seeing the old pictures of him and his wife or fiancé at the time Judy Debolt (Judy Hopp's paternal Grandmother) who has been dead for 10 years now, but reminiscing will have to wait because Judy just came out of the bathroom with a towel around her chest, so he opens the bag with the hanger but before he pulled the dress out he asked "what does the dress you left behind look like?" Judy goes to the room and grabs her phone and show him a pic of her in a small not too cheap Pink dress that stopped just above the knee and had thin shoulder straps, "well Judy if this was going to impress him then this will blow his nose off" and with that said he pulls out a beautiful turquoise Dress that looked to be made of silk that stopped mid shin and came around the back of the neck so no shoulder straps and covered the chest in a way that allowed a little cleavage but nothing excusive and the slightest movement made it move like flowing water. Judy was stunned by Papa's kindness But Papa Hopps just instructs her to put it on and she does, once she came out of her old room with the dress on holding the chest part up because she didn't know how to put on the neck thing that held up the dress so Papa Hopps goes behind her and fixes it up and looks at her "other than the colour of your fur you are a spitting image of your Grandmother, "but why are you helping me with this I thought you hated Foxes?", "and I do" Papa responded now seating her on a chair, "so why help me impress a fox?", "because I may hate foxes and may hate them for the rest of my days but I'll always love you and the rest of our family more and if impressing this Nick fellow brings you happiness than I'll help in whatever way I can" Judy was about to shed a tear but was stopped by her grandpa, "now none of that while I do your makeup and hold still if you can" so Judy cooperated.
