Where the heck have I been?! How dare I leave you guys hanging! Well, this should never happen again. I do apologize but school was hectic and to top it all off the dinosaur of a computer I was using exploded. Not literally, but it did blue screen. Thankfully, all of my stories were on a flash drive!^^ I hope you all enjoy this one and want to thank owen9fox for the idea.
Muzzled
Nick and Judy were out patrolling Savannah Central as they usually do. The chief had given them parking duty due to a prank Nick decided to pull on the chief, Judy was not happy about it. It was an extremely hot day and Nick was complaining about being hot, this irritated Judy even more.
"Nick, stop complaining!" she screamed at him. "We wouldn't even be here if you hadn't replaced the chiefs ink pen with one of those fake pens that shock you."
"You have to admit that it was kind of funny hearing the chief scream like that," Nick said with a smirk.
"Nick, you're going to have to learn some responsibility. You can't keep acting like a child."
"Calm down Carrots, it was just some harmless fun."
"Well, your harmless fun just raised the dry cleaning bill."
"What do you mean?"
Judy giggled, "Look under your arms."
The heat had caused Nick to sweat because there were two dark stains under his arms.
"Now how did my prank cause this?" Nick asked.
"Your prank got us parking duty out here in the heat," Judy said.
"You win, how's about I buy us some ice cream?"
"That sounds like heaven."
The duo walked up to an ice cream stand and placed their orders. Judy got chocolate and Nick got vanilla. The two sat down at a picnic table to enjoy their treats when Judy's ears suddenly twitched, indicating that she had heard something.
"What pounded ya drums Carrots?" Nick said.
"Shut up Nick, I'm listening," Judy said.
Leaving her ice cream on the table, Judy stood up and began to walk toward an alley. Nick jumped up and followed her.
"I thought I heard crying," Judy said.
"Someone was probably just playing the intro to Pig Floyd's 'The Thin Ice'," Nick said.
"No, it didn't sound like the crying on that song. That was an infant and this sounded more like a child."
Judy walked into the alley and searched it. At first glance, she didn't see anything. She gave a harder search and noticed something behind a cardboard box. She walked over to the box and that something turned out to be a someone-a small fox. It was bruised, bleeding, and clearly scared, but what broke Judy's heart the most was the muzzle around its face.
"Please don't hurt me!" it spoke the best it could through the muzzle.
"It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you," Judy spoke with a soothing tone.
Nick came in to investigate and saw the little fox; he nearly broke down in tears when he saw the muzzle.
"Nick, I need you to call this in," Judy said.
Nick nodded and grabbed his police radio.
"Officer Wilde to dispatch," Nick said into the mic, "We have an 11-47 and it's a child."
"10-4 Officer Wilde, do you need a bus?" Dispatch said.
"Negative, we'll be bringing the subject in."
"10-4 Wilde"
Judy walked out with the little fox in tow. Judy had removed the muzzle, but he still hadn't said anything.
"I think he is in shock," Judy said.
"He may be," Nick said in a quivering voice as he tried to hold back the tears.
Nick kneeled down and looked the small fox in the eye. Suddenly, Nick scooped the fox up into an embrace and they both cried with each other. Seeing this, Judy also began to cry. Nick wiped a tear away and began talking to the little fox.
"Hey buddy, I'm Officer Wilde. What's your name?" Nick asked.
"Owen," he said.
"Well Owen, Officer Hopps and I are going to take you back to the station so you can answer some questions. Do you think you're up to that?"
Owen nodded.
"Alright, let's go!"
To Be Continued…
You've got to be kidding me! A cliff hanger? Yup, a cliff hanger. I figured I would make this a mini series in my one-shots. God Bless!
