"Break" Zootopia Fanfiction #4

There comes a time in the day when officers at ZPD get to take breaks, where they are free from doing any work while resting in the break room. Although she enjoyed having a break every now and then, Judy was determined to finish whatever needed to be done. If that meant staying behind to finish filing police reports or paperwork, she would do it. Her partner, Nick Wilde, would often beg her to come and join him in the break room instead of just sitting in her office, continuing to work. Usually, she would refuse to go but not today.

Today, they didn't have patrol duty, but they had a lot of paperwork to go through. Both Nick and Judy were working together, which was a rare thing to see since Nick was usually sleeping on the couch, looking at his phone, or flirting with Judy while she worked. Judy was sitting at her desk while Nick was in his rolly-chair next to an open filing cabinet. She stacked some papers together before handing them to Nick, where he quickly looked at the label on the stack before placing them in the correct folder. Earlier, they had sorted through the papers to make sure they were in order and filled out correctly. Originally, they had started out with 6 full stacks, with each containing at least 200 pieces of paper. They were now down to 1.

Nick was handed the last stack of paper. "Is this the last one?"

"Yeah," Judy sighed out as she leaned back in her chair. She watched as Nick placed the papers in the 'Z' folder and closed the cabinet door before wiping his brow and also leaning back in his chair. He raised his arms, stretching them before lowering both on his closed eyes.

"Finally!"

Judy giggled. "Now you know how I feel when you don't help!"

He lifted one arm to reveal both of his tired eyes. "Cottontail. I'm pretty sure I slowed you down on this so you're better off without me helping anyways." He smirked.

She rolled her eyes and shook her head, "Oh yeah, sure. Nice excuse to be lazy."

"Isn't it, though?" He chuckled before looking up at her wall clock. It was almost breaktime. He rolled towards her desk.

"Sooo," he started, "are you going to take a break?" His suave expression was replaced by the puppy-dog face. He knew she would say no so begging was his only option.

"Yeah, let's go!"

"Please go! Who will I anno—wait, what?...you're going?" he said, slightly confused and surprised.

She hopped out of her chair and looked back up at him with a smile. "Yes, I think we deserve a break. So, let's go!" She opened the door and walked towards the break room.

Nick stood there for a second before following her.

Judy took in the great atmosphere of the room as she arrived. Officers were all around, no doubt sharing crazy patrol stories or talking about something on the news. Nick soon entered the room to join Judy.

"Where do you want to sit?"

"Um... There!" Judy pointed to an empty table that was next to a snack machine and hopped over to it. However, before she could reach the chair, Nick cut her off. At this point, some officers began to watch the two. Her ears lowered as she gave him a confused look. Nick suddenly stood aside and gently grabbed the chair before pulling it away from the table and motioning her to sit down. He gave her a sweet, innocent smile which made her suspicious.

"Oh... Thank you Nick." Judy was about to sit down when she felt the chair disappear from underneath her. She let out a little squeak in fear of falling over, but she quickly regained her balance before it could happen. A couple officers let out a laugh. She turned her attention to the grinning fox behind her and the chair that was now about 6 inches behind were it should've been. A look of fake concern washed over his face as he saw she caught him grinning.

"Wow... You okay there, Cottontail? Looked like you tripped or something." He gave her a wry smile as she scowled at him. If it weren't for the other officers in the room, he would already have been tranquilized... or maybe he would just be given a severe scolding from her. He laughed.

"Yeah, hahaha. Very funny," she harshly pushed him aside and grabbed her chair from his paws before dragging it towards the table and sitting down in it. He snickered as he walked over to his own chair and sat down. He propped his head up on the table with both arms while giving her a charming smile. When he noticed that she was still scowling at him, he began to wiggle his eyebrows. Judy tried to stay angry at him but couldn't. Letting out a sigh, she rolled her eyes before giving out a small giggle. She had to admit, that was a very sneaky move that she should've expected from Nick.

"Break time? More like prank time for you Nick." Feeling clever about her own joke, Judy gave him a smirk.

"You got me! Haha! I see what you did there!" He laughed. "Hey, how about I go get us some coffee?"

"Yeah!"

"Okay, be right back." She watched as Nick casually walked over to the coffee station and grabbed two styrofoam cups before turning the machine on and waiting for the coffee to heat up.

She brought one of her arms onto the table and propped her head up on it. This was definitely more fun than staying in her office to work.

Author's note:

Thanks for reading and thank you so much for the support! I really do appreciate it! And of course I will write more Fanfictions for Zootopia. :) I plan on going for 10 chapters if not more, so don't worry! For the future, I was thinking about maybe doing a 2 part Fanfiction with a more serious/dramatic tone to strengthen the bond between Nick and Judy. It takes some time for me actually start writing so expect me to upload a new story every two weeks if not weekly. Again, thanks for reading!