Story Title-Can a Fox Love a Bunny?

Act II-The Burrows

Chapter VII-Secret Snuggles

(Author's Notes) Hello all you lovely people! I have some things to say about this chapter, some of which may not be very pleasing. Firstly, this chapter is shorter and filled with literally just fluff. The reason being that I simply didn't have enough time to write a normal chapter in the time between Monday (when I finished the last chapter) and today while also doing soccer on those days. I have been trying to do it since chapter five came out late but it's just not working. Hopefully this will let me get chapter eight out on time and everything will be back on schedule.

This means that the big reveal to the Hopps will actually be coming next Saturday and I'm very upset that this is what happened but that's just the way things turned out. Given that this chapter is basically just filler it is completely unnecessary for you to read this chapter. It won't be important for anything in the future so feel free to skip it if you want.

Also, I am going on vacation for the week and I'm not sure what time I'll have for writing while I'm away. I'll do my best to write what I can but I'll be restricted to using my phone only so it will be a little harder. I already have the chapter outlined so it should take me less time than normal. Fingers crossed that I'm able to get the chapter finished by next Saturday. If I don't get it out on Saturday or Sunday, I'm probably going to wait until the week after and begin work on the next chapter so I'll have a head start and I can get a little ahead of the game.

Finally, something was brought to my attention that has me mentally beating myself up. In the comments, Bagnome pointed out that it appears all the characters only receive their news from the newspaper as if all other forms of media (radio, TV, phones, etc.) don't exist. I have absolutely no idea what was going through my head as I was writing this story that made me miss such an obvious flaw in the story's plot. Sadly, I can't really see any way to solve this problem unless, as Bagnome said, the Hopps don't use any other form of media, which seems highly improbable. The Hopps not knowing about Nick and Judy's relationship is very important to the story as it is what causes Nick and Judy to go to the Burrows in the first place. As such, I can't very well change it to fix the flaw without drastically changing half of everything else that happens. If anyone knows of a way this problem can be solved without causing the rest of the story to change too much please send me a PM detailing how. Until a way is found to correct my error, I can only say to pretend that the Hopps have somehow missed the news of Nick and Judy's relationship in all other forms of media. It's a horrible solution, I know, but it's the best I got for now. Hopefully you can look past the plot hole and enjoy the rest of the story.

Ok, rant over, enjoy this fluffy chapter


I don't really have a quote specific for this chapter so I'm just putting a random one in instead.

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." — J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


(I've decided that since this chapter is unimportant to everything else I would write it in 3rd person instead. Tell me how I did in the comments and give any suggestions you have.)

11:23 p.m. Monday

Nick lay awake in his bed, unable to find it in himself to sleep. His thoughts lingered on the inevitable talk with Judy's parents that the morning would bring.

He wished that Judy were here with him but sadly she was sleeping in the room next door. He wanted to be able to hold her and forget about all of their worries but alas, he would have to brave it alone tonight.

Suddenly, he heard a very light knock on his door. "Nick," he heard someone say in a loud whisper, "Are you awake?"

Nick's heart soared at the sound of the voice. He rushed to throw off his covers, not bothering to put clothes into his currently naked body, and throw open the door. A grin split his face when he set his eyes upon his bunny mate, Judy. "I can't sleep while I'm busy missing you," he responded in an equally hushed voice.

"You're so corny you know that," she said before pushing her Nick back into the room. Closing and locking the door, she turned to face Nick who had sat back on the bed. "I would've come sooner but I wanted to make sure everyone was asleep first."

"I don't care. I'm glad you came at all. Do we have to worry about anyone?"

In answer, Judy lunged into Nick's lap and began to passionately kiss him with reckless abandon. Nick wasted no time in returning her affection and placed both his paws on the back of her head, mashing her face as far into his as possible.

Without breaking the kiss, Nick moved his paws to grasp Judy by the waist and lifted her off his lap. He twisted his body to place her down on the bed but doing so sent a sharp pain to run through his back. Against his will, a cry of pain made its way through the kiss. Judy broke the kiss at the sound and placed both of her paws on Nick's chest. "What's wrong?" She asked, worry evident in her voice.

Nick knew that avoiding the truth would be a futile goal and decided to just let it out, "My back," he told her.

Judy stifled a small giggle, "You make it sound like your old and have back pains."

"Well I am older than you by 8 years and I do have back pains," he jokingly pointed out.

She giggled again, but her face became slightly more serious, "I guess we'll have to keep things take until your back heals up, huh."

"Yeah...we can still cuddle though," he said hopefully.

"Maybe for a little, but I'll have to leave before we go to sleep. My parents can't find us together in the morning before we tell them about us."

"Awww, come on," Nick whined, "please." He widened his eyes and let his lower lip quiver in his best attempt at a puppy dog face.

His begging seemed to have its desired effect as Judy quickly caved, "Ok, fine, dumb fox. We can sleep together, but we'll have to wake up really early tomorrow so I can sneak out without anyone noticing." Nick instantly became much happier and his tail wagged enthusiastically in the air behind him.

Nick and Judy got into the bed together and Judy nestled herself in Nick's chest fur while Nick wrapped his arms around her.

As the two settled down for the night they were almost able to forget about what they would have to do tomorrow. Almost. But for the time being, in the arms of the mammal they cared about most, they both fell into a deep, relaxing sleep. They would need it for tomorrow.


(Author's Notes) Aaaaand, cut! Was that a little bit of foreshadowing at the end there? Hmm. Well, you'll all see when the next chapter comes out. I hope you all enjoyed this fluffy little short despite it not holding much importance to the story.

Like I said, I'm going on vacation for the week so I'll see what I can do in terms of writing. In the meantime, if you could all leave anything you have to say, especially advice/criticism, please tell me either by PM or in the comments, both work.

This is Jay, signing off.