"Alright, alright everyone sit down, we have a few things to go over today", steam spewing from Chief Bogo's nostrils with every exhale as he waited for the rowdy officers of Precinct One to settle, "First off, congratulations to Officer Wilde, he made through the academy and the one month of being a lowly recruit becoming a fully fledged officer and he still hasn't quit, yet."

"Thanks for the confidence Chief", Nick spoke gruffly with his arms crossed, the fame of the Howler case wore off a while ago, while nobody outright hated nick at work there were still some mammals who still only saw a sly fox, a con. Luckily the Chief wasn't one of those mammals, instead Bogo pushed Nick to find his limits, to see if Nick was worth the trouble of an expunged criminal record to show the officers who did think the latter.

"Now this is some bad news for all of us, sympathizers for bellwethers cause have significantly increased over the past few months, doing so has caused all precincts to adopt a new policy"

"Whats going on Chief?"

"Yeah what'chu talkin bout?"

"Some of you will be re-assigned new partners,*sigh* due to the stress of the city and the protests against predators in 'power' positions it was deemed a suitable plan to team all predators with a prey to help level the situation" , hand on his lowered head as he paced the podium. "Look I know this isn't anything close to pleasant but know that I tried to fight this,the policy came from higher up". Standing back in front of the podium looking at the room of of faces before him, the looks on every officer showing emotion from worry all the way to backstabbing betrayal. "You'll get your assignments and partners from Clawhauser today, dismissed", all anyone could hear was grumbling from the officers as they filed out.

"Hey guys! Hows your morning go… ah Nick, what happened to your face?", Clawhauser called.
"Family reunion, what you got for us today buddy?"

"Alright.. Well it's either patrol in Sahara square or parking duty and i'm pretty sure i know what one you want, like who in their right mind wants parking duty right!" laughing hard enough to jiggle his chubby cheeks.

"Me", Nick flatly says before grabbing a vest and ticket machine ands walking out, startled Clawhauser just looks at Judy with a worried face that said wordlessly 'is he okay?'. Judy quickly turns to the doors to catch up with him, today was not starting well for either of them and it was beginning to show. After catching up with Nick but before Judy could try to bring up any words she's interrupted.

"Look, you have no need to feel bad about this morning Fluff, bound to happen so don't beat yourself up about it", smirk visible on his snout, "Just give me today alright? I'll be fine in no time at all, just need time to think and what better way than pissing mammals off while getting paid'. He was right, Judy knew that this sorta thing was just what Nick needed, though she might hate parking duty and the even idea of doing it Nick loved it, the ability to aggravate mammals much bigger than him with little fear of being crushed after, and for Nick she'd hold all qualms about the situation.

They've been friends for a little over a year now, best friends even and from that a lot was learned of each other, Judy even managed to get Nick to open up about some of his past, though cringing at some of the things his younger self did, she still didn't know a few things about him but just little things to her. For one, she still hasn't seen Nick's place or talk about any other friends he has, if he even had any before they met each other that fateful day, Nick always brought up excuses about how Judy wouldn't like his friends, his place was a mess and with a silver tongue like his Judy wouldn't argue. Now Judy could learn so much more without having to go through the walls Nick has put up, instead she can just go around and ask the newly acquainted family of his on what he was like before but was going behind Nick's back something she was willing to do? Thought like this ran through Judy's head the rest of the day, occasionally covered by a different thought, but always remaining in the back of her mind making herself ask another question, how well did she she know her closest friend if he's hidden so much as it is?

Author bit: Hey, sorry to anyone who actually like this and waited for a new chapter or anything about this in general, I'm not very good at keeping at anything in a general sense and a full time and stressful job kinda keeps me from doing much of anything, the other side is that i'm not good at getting anything written down so I may come up with ideas and bits for the story but it may be for later parts and not what is needed at the current point so I just won't write anything at all.

Also thank you to the fellow who liked this enough to say they couldn't wait for more, it was kinda a point for me write more due to that little review bit, it meant a lot.*

-Dinkbutt