An:
So for the sake of not rushing this ai decided to not include the Sky performance in this chapter, instead I chose to add more character development to Nick and Sky.
Jumper fun fact #2
Initially jumper was going to be way more dark and depressing. The original Idea was for Sky to be a suicidal maniac who was tired of being ripped away from anyone he cared about. The current story still shows hints of this but nowhere near as brutal and depressing as the original.
Sky's pov:
So Bugaburger wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Though I think that's because I was starving at that point. Anyway it didn't matter, the detour and food gave me time to think without talking. It seemed like both Judy and Nick seemed to understand that I didn't want to talk for a while so they just made small idle chatter to each other as we ate and drove towards the station. It was nice, relaxing, it allowed me to formulate a plan on how to get more information about the Wolf Pack.
If I was made to be a distinct looking canid and the gang exclusively was comprised of those then there's a connection. I just had to find one of their drug dealers and I could go from there. Only question is how do I do all this without Nick noticing. It would be hard since I'm crashing at his place for the moment, and for some reason I didn't want to disappoint him.
"You like him." Balor whispered.
"I most certainly do not like him. He's kind of cute but I don't know him and I don't want to get to know him either. Besides I'll just get yanked away from him anyway." I thought back, malice dripping in my internal response.
Balor just chuckled at me though. "Kit you broke down crying into his chest. You've never done that before."
I gave a mental groan of defeat. "Okay maybe I like him, but the crying was just because they touched a sore subject." I rebutted.
"Bullshit, you only cried about that because he made you comfortable enough to do so. If it was the rabbit you would have just held it in." The grumpy demon shot back.
"Why do you care so much about this? You have never cared on if I had a stupid crush on someone before so why now?" I thought in confusion. What did Balor know that I didn't?
"I care because I'm tired of seeing you so broken. Yes we both know that you will jump again, but that doesn't mean you have to be alone forever." he responded with more emotion than I had heard from him in a long time.
"I don't want to talk about this anymore."
"Coward" he muttered then withdrew to the recesses of my mind blocking communication with me.
It made me angry, angry at myself because I knew what he said was right, angry at Balor because he brought up the conversation, and angry at Nick for worming his way into my mind. That dumb fox, how dare he be so likeable and sexy."Sky." With his stupid kissable smile, and his piercing emerald green eyes. "Sky!"His cute tail, and his ass my god its lik-."SKY!"
"Huh what whats going on?" I say in a daze as my vision comes into focus showing me that Nick and Judy were just staring at me with concerned looks on their faces.
"We're here at the station. You okay?" asked Nick
"Uh yeah totally fine why?" I say trying to save face.
"You were staring off into nothing for like the past 10 minutes dude." Nick said raising a brow at my nonchalant answer.
"Totally fine, was lost in thought that's all." I said waving him off with a paw as I quickly hopped out of the suv.
Nick and Judy both got out aswell but Nick gave me a sly grin. " is that drool on you muzzle?" he asked teasingly.
"What! No!" I yelped in panic as I wiped my muzzle dry in embarrassment. He just laughed as my face felt like it was boiling from how much I was blushing.
"Nick stop teasing and let's go get see the chief like we are suppose too." Judy said as she grabbed my paw and lead me into the building, the whole time Nick was snickering like a child. Jerk.
As we entered I was in awe as I looked over the lobby seeing so many different types of mammals who were police officers. There were lions, wolves, hippos, tigers, an elephant, a raccoon, snow leopards, rhinos, and my god that was a big cheetah.
"Hey Clawhauser, how ya doin?" Nick stated loudly as Judy dragged me along.
The big lug of a cheetah just giggled a little at Nick's question. "Oh little old me? I've been busy scoring tickets to the Gazelle concert for next friday." he said with a squeal of excitement ending his sentence.
"Shouldn't you be doing your job Ben?" Judy asked with a mirthful look adorning her face. "Would be a shame if the chief chewed you out considering your relationship with him."
Clawhauser just waved us off dismissively. "Please bunny buns, who do you think told me to spend the cash to get them?" he said chuckling at his own little inside joke. "Besides that's not important right now, what is important is you tell me who this hot stack of mammal is." he said leaning over his cluttered desk to get a closer look at me.
"Oh this is-" "Sky Farron pleasure to meet you Ben." I said interrupting Judy who just shot me a half hearted glare as I offered a paw to the cheetah who happily shook it.
"Well can I just say that your fur job is absolutely stunning. Getting that vibrant of a color into your fur is hard enough on small areas let alone your whole body." Clawhauser purred but his soft smile turned into a repulsed look.
"No offense cutey but you need to get a new wardrobe, because what you're wearing is on its last legs. Is that dried blood?" he asked in concern.
"Heh yeah I kind of got into a fight. I swear the other guys got off worse than I did." I said rubbing the back of my head in embarrassment of the condition of my clothes. "Note to self, get more clothes." I said out loud which made nick laugh softly.
"Dont worry we'll go get you some clothes before your gig tomorrow. Wouldn't want mister "im better than Gazelle" to look like a bum now would we." Nick joked as Clawhauser gave a gasp of shock at what Nick just said.
"HE SAID WHAT!" he shouted making all of the aforementioned mammals that I saw earlier look up at us.
I just groaned "oh my god why do you mammals get so crazy about her?"
"Because she is a god."
"Because she is the most talented singer out there."
"Because she's hot."
All three stated, I'll let you guess which one Nick said. Dammit, it's always the cute ones that are straight. I thought in mental anguish. Wait, why is Judy looking at Nick with sad eyes? Does she like Nick?
"WILDE IN MY OFFICE NOW!" a booming voice shouted over Ben's intercom.
"Welp you three better get going. Don't want him getting too riled up." Clawhauser said pointing to the stairway that led to the chief's office.
Nick gave Ben a big grin as he grabbed my paw. "thanks Ben." he said as he dragged me to the chief's office with Judy in tow. He didn't even bother to knock as we barged into the cluttered office with what looked like the most pissed off buffalo to ever grace god's green earth….err...zootopia.
"Hey chief, how ya doin on this wonderful day?" Nick said as he took a seat on one of the chairs and propped his legs up onto the buffaloes desk.
"Can it Wilde!" the gruff mammal snorted as he casually reached over the desk to grab onto Nick's legs and proceeded to flip Nick backwards causing him to tumble off of his chair and onto the floor.
Judy just sighed as she helped nick up. "Sorry for being so late chief. Sky was hungry so we stopped for food on the way here."
As judy kept trying to explain the Buffalo whose name plate said Bogo just held up his hoof to silence her. All while staring a hole into my head. "I don't need to hear your excuses officer Hopps." He said with a noticeable change in tone towards Judy. It was obvious he liked her better
"What I need to know is why Officer Wilde thought that he could just have a victim of an assault just live with him while the case is still being decided." he said in a tone that screamed fatigue.
Well I wasn't about to let him bad mouth my eye candy so I decided to open my stupid mouth. "Wait, Nick has done nothing wrong. All he is doing is providing a safe place to a homeless assault victim while the attackers are tried and sentenced in court. Nicks a hero." I say angrily, ignoring Judy's elbows into my side trying to get me to stay quiet.
"Yes he is providing a home to a homeless mammal who has no sort of identification to speak of, a homeless mammal that just so happens to not have matching pawprints in any government database on the planet. We know we checked while you were unconscious." he said now standing up from his chair. His gaze challenging my own but I didn't falter, I wasn't scared of him.
Shit they know i'm not from here. I thought in concealed panic.
"So tell me fox, why should I trust the safety of my officer when he has invited a literal nobody into his home who has admitted to brutally beating down three full grown bears in self defence?" he stated with a growl, his muscles taut with barely contained rage.
"Because Bogo, if you didn't trust the safety of your officer you're admitting to having no faith in the judgment skills of your officer." I said digging in the verbal knife knowing I just won our little verbal spar when the buffalo deflated at my comment.
He sighed sitting back down causing both Judy and Nick to give a vocal breath of relief. "You would be correct Mr. Farron." he said softly turning his gaze to Nick. "Be careful Wilde. I trust you but I don't trust him." He said pointing a hoofed finger at me to emphasize his statement.
Nick gave a nod in response. "Don't worry chief, I've got this." he stated giving me a playful slap on the arm.
"For your sake Wilde I hope you do. Make sure you both file your report to me by the end of the day. Dismissed!" he said going back to his own paperwork, Nick's comment not seeming to ease his anxiety what so ever.
Nick grabbed my paw again and led me out of the room. As soon as the three of us were out and the door to the office shut Nick spun around looking absolutely livid.
"What the hell was that?" he snarled waving his paw towards the office.
"Me not taking his shit Nick." I snarl right back. How dare he get angry at me for defending him.
"You idiot! That's the chief of police, my boss. Do you know what he could have done to you if he wanted?" Nick said taking a step towards me.
"I don't give a flying fuck who he is. Do you know what I could have done to him, to you?" I say baring my teeth as I felt Balor's demonic influence start to swirl around the front of my mind.
"Is that a threat Farron?"
"Maybe it is, want to find out?"
"Both of you knock it off. Nick take a walk I'll talk to him." Judy said stepping between us putting a paw on Nick's chest pushing him back.
Nick just snorted as he turned tail and walked away from us throwing his paws up in the air in exasperation. "Fine carrots. I'll be back in 20. I'm going to go file my report, you drop him off at my apartment. You have the key."
This only served to fuel my anger. "Get back here you son of a bi-"
"Sky calm down." Judy said pleadingly.
"kit, Judy is right. You need to calm down. You're drawing on my power without realizing it." Balor rumbled.
Dammit I didn't even realize. Taking a shaking breath I felt my body relax as Balors presence ebbed away. Finally calmed I felt like I needed some room to breath so I turned around and headed down the staircase to the lobby all while Judy was asking me if I was okay, I wasn't.
Finally pushing my way outside I saw a park bench and practically slammed myself down onto it. How could I let myself get so worked up about that? It was stupid and careless. I could have hurt Nick, oh god I threatened Nick. He probably hates me now, maybe he's even scared of me.
As my head finally calmed down to the sobering thought of Nick being afraid of me I noticed that the sun was setting. "Huh guess today passed by real quick." I grunted wondering how long I was unconscious at the hospital.
"Sky are you okay?" Judy asked tentatively as she sat down next to me on the bench
Snapping me out of my own head I glanced over a judy with a pathetic look on my face. "I didn't mean to get so angry Judy. I'm so sorry."
"Oh sweetie it's okay, you both got a little heated but Nick will get over it." she said softly putting a paw on my shoulder.
"I threatened him." I said, my voice barely above a whisper.
"Yeah that wasn't the brightest idea now was it?"she chuckled. Weird bunny, I threatened your partner how can you laugh?
"Why aren't you mad at me like Nick?"
"Because you defended him against someone who often isn't talked back to." she said causing me to perk up in surprise.
"Really?" I ask in surprise. "Does nobody defend Nick?"
The question made Judy's ears droop as she sighed. "I try my best but Chief doesn't listen to me sometimes because he knows that I'm always on Nick's side, even when he messes up. Besides Clawhauser and me nobody will back him up, I mean none of the officers would let Nick get hurt on the job but besides that nobody would lift a finger to save him." she said, anger lacing her voice.
I just gaped at her in astonishment. "But why? Nick such a nice guy."
"Because Sky, he's a fox."
If one sentence could shatter all of my respect for a group of mammals I guess I found it. My fists tightened with renewed rage. "Thats unforgivable, so what if he's a fox?"
Judy just gave me a surprised look. " Sky you're a fox, haven't you ever been discriminated against?"
"No I never stay in one place long enough to notice." I said giving her a shrug.
"Well here in Zootopia foxes aren't allowed to be anything, mammals are too busy seeing them as sneaky, dirty lowlifes." she said sounding as if uttering the words alone broke her heart.
How could this place hate Foxes so much. Was prejudice like this so widely accepted here? It's at that moment that I decided what my secondary goal is while I was here. I would make them see how wrong they were.
"I won't fuckin have it! If it's the last thing I do here, I will make them all see that foxes aren't what they think." I said vehemently. This caused Judy to smile as she gave me a hug which caught me off guard.
"I hope you do Sky, I believe in you." she said as I finally returned the hug.
"Well isn't this a sweet moment." said a familiar voice.
Judy and I practically leaped out of our fur as we whipped around to see Nick standing there, keys dangling from his paw with an air of calmness about him
N-nick oh god Nick Im so-" I tried to apologize but Nick just put a finder to my lips silencing me
"Ah ah ah, do you regret what you said?" he asked which got me to nod as he wouldn't move his finger from my lips. "Good, I also regret what I said. So let's both just forget about it and go to my apartment, you know that thing I told you guys to do 20 minutes ago." he said teasingly.
Having had enough of being silenced I licked at his finger causing him to pull it back quickly as a blush spread across his face. "Sounds good to me, Judy and I just had to have a little heart to heart." I said brushing off what we were really talking about.
Judy chuckled as she gave me a playful punch to the arm as she grabbed Nick's keys to his car out of his paw. "I'll go get the car, you boys wait here." she said as she walked off to the police parking garage next to the both just nodded dumbly as she didn't leave room to argue.
Now alone with Nick I felt a bit uneasy, I know he had forgiven me but that still didn't take away the guilt. "How much of that conversation did you hear?"
"Enough, I want you to know that I believe in you too." he said with a lazy grin.
"Thanks." I said as a horn honked at us signalling Judy's arrival. I looked up and Judy was sitting in the driver's seat of what looked like this worlds version of a pitch black 69 ss camaro. IT. WAS. BEAUTIFUL.
"You can put your tongue back in your mouth Sky" Nick teased as he opened the door to it and slid into the center of the bench. It looked like he modified it and put a truck bench in it and removed the seats in the back for storage. Huh, nifty.
"Hop in bud." he said patting the spot next to him. It would be a tight fit, I don't see how this will work but oh well. Squeezing my fuzzy ass into the car that was way too small for me I practically had Nick half in my lap and half in the seat. Nick however seemed uncomfortable so I tried to scoot over as much as possible.
"Hold on Sky stop moving." he said as he shifted over onto my lap, his ass pressing into my crotch. Danger Will Robinson danger. I thought as my body froze and my face turned red as a cherry, positive that it could be seen through my pink fur.
"Uh nick, what are you doing?" I stammered out.
"Well you weren't going to fit and I wasn't comfortable so I fixed it. Gotta say your lap is real comfortable." he said giving me a teasing smirk as he buckled us up, which only caused him to press harder into me. Why me?
I heard Judy laugh but I wasn't paying attention to her as she peeled out of the police station. I was focused on not getting hard with nick on my lap, if I did he would feel it and probably freak out.
"Carefull kit, you wouldn't want him to think you're pulling a weapon on him."
SHUT YOUR MOUTH! I practically screeched at Balor in my head, all while I was growling lowly into Nick's ear without meaning to.
"You okay Sky?" Nick asked turning his body enough to look at me.
"Sorry just had my tail pinned awkwardly but I fixed it." I said which he just nodded at swiveled himself to face forward again.
The entire torture session was only 15 minutes. By the end of it I was sporting a semi and I swear he was grinding into me. This jerk didn't make sense. One minute he was talking about how hot Gazelle was and now he's grinding his ass into my crotch. Is he bi? Oh lord please let him atleast be bi, I can handle beating chicks off him with a stick. As long as he's into guys I'll have a chance.
When we reached Nick's apartment complex the sun had set casting zootopia in a blanket of darkness, the only things casting light were the street lamps. It was a bit eerie but that's fine,I work best in the dark.
As soon as Judy was parked Nick swung the car door open and hopped out taking my paw into his and dragged me to his apartment leaving judy behind. I think she was okay with it though because I heard her laughing loudly in the car. As Nick dragged me into the relatively nice building that looked straight out of New York with its red brick exterior. We went up a few flights of stairs and down a few halls and finally stopped at apartment 621.
"Well this is it Sky, welcome to casa de Nick." he said as he jammed his keys into his lock and opened the door revealing the epitome of a bachelor pad.
The living room was huge, it had a brown sectional in the middle of the floor, dark oak coffee table in front of it. With a few random end tables and shelves strewn about the outskirts of the room. The way the items were set up brought my gaze to his far wall on the right of the room, huge flat screen tv bolted to the wall above it was a street sign that said fox den.
His kitchen was also nice, it had a black marble bar counter top that connected to the living room with 4 barstools in a line. All in all Nick's apartment was really nice from what I had seen, a little messy with his clothes and other stuff laying around but besides that it was perfect.
"Sorry it's a bit of a mess, didn't expect company today." Nick chuckled shyly as he closed the door behind us, leaving it unlocked so Judy could let herself in.
"It's perfect Nick, I haven't had a place to stay in a long time so this is more than enough." I said now noticing how much this place smelled of Nick. It was comforting in a way.
Scanning my eyes over the apartment one more time I spotted the tv remote at the bar counter. I sat down at one of the stools and grabbed the tv turning the power, the tv flicked to life and two newscasters popped onto the screen.
"You watch the news a lot?" I question wanting to know why the last thing Nick watched was a 24/7 news station called ZNN.
"Yeah it helps me keep an eye on everything going on in the city, when you're a police officer sometimes the job creates blinders to things you wouldn't notice on the job." Nick said shrugging as he plopped himself onto his sectional, his legs laying lazily off of the arm of it.
We stayed silent for a few minutes neither of us knowing what to talk about, thankfully Judy chose that moment to appear. "Sup boys?"the rabbit said gleefully as she swung open the door and stormed into the apartment.
"Hey Carrots what took you so long?" Nick asked as I moved from the bar stool to the other side of the sectional.
Judy just gave a wry grin. "Oh you know, dumb rabbit like me got lost. Thought your apartment was on the 5th floor, silly me." She rambled but Nick didn't look convinced.
"Sly bunny." he muttered so softly that I barely caught it.
"Anyways what are you guys doing?" she asked flopping herself in between me and Nick.
"The news." I answered as the newscaster who both seemed ready to pass out, guess they had a long day.
"Thats boring, what's wrong with you two?" she asked disgusted with the choice of entertainment.
" Carrots I'll have you know that the news is very ent-"
"Shhhh guys turn it up, something happened." I said as both tired newscaster perked up in alarm as the words "breaking news" flew across the bottom of the screen.
"-just in, the popular Night club by the name of Lone Digger was the victim of the latest gang to hit the streets. This gang calls themselves the Wolf Pack and the members are exclusively canines with distinct features" the snow leopard said professionally.
"That's the gang that those bears thought you were apart of right Sky?" Judy asked. I just nodded, my eyes glued to the screen.
"Tonight at 9:45 three canines entered the club and began to viciously maul any mammal they could get in contact with injuring a total of 8 mammals and killing 12 others."
Nick gasped as I heard "oh my god" escape his lips. I couldn't help but agree, no matter how many times I jump and see more and more death, I could never understand killing innocents. It was just wrong.
"As of right now, police have no clue as to where the suspects are but are looking for them. Tomorrow Precinct 1 will be on the case, but for now the boys in blue who inhabit tundra town are working diligently to find these heinous criminals." The male moose newscaster said.
This gang needs to be stopped, I can't allow this to continue. I need to head to that club. Maybe I can find some clues there that will point me to this gang. The only problem is that killing the pawns won't solve anything, I need to find the king and queen to stop this. First things first, I need to get out of here without Nick noticing.
I yawned loudly and grabbed the remote clicking the power button to turn off the tv. "Nick can I just go to bed? My head is throbbing and I want to go to sleep."
My question snapped both of the mortified mammals out of their trance. "Um yeah Sky here you can sleep in my room for the night, me and Judy need to head back to the precinct so we can get briefed on this tragedy anyway." Nick said getting up and taking me to his bedroom that was just down the hallway that connected to his living room.
"Here if you get cold blankets are in the closet, sleep tight we have to go now, Chief is blowing up my phone." Nick said turning tail and quickly leaving the apartment, suddenly my job just got easier. Now to just wait long enough to be sure he's gone.
In the meantime I wanted to appreciate the fact that Nick's room was nice. Had the same dark oak style dressers and night stands. It also smelled of Nick the strongest, it made me shiver with unintended excitement, damn fox, why did he have to smell so good?
"Focus kit."
"Oh shit, sorry." I squeaked out as I realized I had to look like a psycho just staring off like that.
"Nick's been gone long enough, you ready to go clubbin Balor?"
"Always kit"
Balor's power rippled over me and just like that black tendrils whisked me away in a long range blink sending me to the edge of Tundra town. One thing was for sure, I would be busy tonight.
AN:
Aaaaannnnddd cut, another chapter down. Next chapter will have more action as Sky gets answers from an unwilling participant.