A/N: I need to put this on temporary hiatus in order to finish a novel I have been working on so I can try to get it Published. Ugh I really don't want to abandon this so I will return to it but not sure when that will be.
Chapter 7
Duke finished filling out the form Snarlof had given him. He should have done this long ago. The pain those girls went through was too much for any mammal and what he had done to this point wasn't enough. That's why he came to Precinct one today. To register as a CI(confidential informant). The males that he found drugging girls would get what was coming to them.
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Mars
Jack's plan to stop the riots seemed to be working. Once the announcement that the does were coming home broke the violence stopped. He knew it was temporary but for two weeks he'd actually be able to rest. Of course once the 'accident' happened there would be a period of mourning but he had a plan in place. He always had a plan.
"Chief Savage sir," an officer from technical support barged into his office. "The transponder signal from officer Hopps' cruiser has stopped transmitting."
"Is there any word from Bouncer and Flatfoot?" Jack asked him.
"No sir," the officer said unsteadily, "but their transponder has also shut down."
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Earth
The morning after the party was interesting to say the least. Judy woke up first her head pounding and her fuzzy red blanket had her all tangled up. A strange noise came from her green pillow and she looked up at the source. Nick was sniffing her in his sleep. His arms, legs and tail were wrapped around her. She tried and failed to remember what had happened the night before. The last thing that she remembered was going into the house after spotting her former co-workers. The rest of the night was blank.
"Nick?" She said quietly while she tapped his nose. "Nick. Niiick."
"Mmm. B-b-b."he murmured but didn't wake up.
Judy started shoving him gently. He still didn't budge. The hammock was starting to rock back and forth as she shoved him. Just as his eyes finally opened the hammock's hooks unlatched from the trees. They fell to the ground in a big tangled up mess. Their muzzles were pressed together and Nick was on top of Judy.
"Good morning," he mumbled uncomfortably.
"Hi," Judy said lamely, "care to fill me in about last night? I remember nothing."
"Don't you think we should get out of this thing first?" Nick said grateful that he had red fur to hide his blushing cheeks, but was fully aware that the close proximity would soon make it very obvious how he felt.
Judy's ears went red and she struggled to move but to no effect. Nick tried to get at least a paw free but the only thing he could do was rub up against her with one leg. Too late as her scent combined with her closeness was having the expected effect between his legs.
Shoot! Finnick naked with a hippo. Finnick naked with a hippo. Hey that's working!
As the two tried and failed to get free from the tangled mess their hammock had become the front door to the cabin opened. Ace and Sophie walked out looking like they were trying not to wake the bears inside. Upon looking around they see Nick and Judy all wrapped up and hurry over to see what happened.
"Hey Ace," Nick said sheepishly, "a little help and you don't have to buy me new sheets."
Ace and Sophie both cringed. They then bent to aid the fox and bunny to escape from the tangled hammock. Moments later the hammock was no longer binding them together.
"Don't tell anyone and I won't bring up that you two ruined my sheets." Nick said once he was on his feet again.
"Deal," the new lovers said simultaneously.
Nick and Judy rudely woke up the couch ruining bears. Nick had an air horn in his closest left over from new years. The resultant scramble to get out of Nick's house before hearing it again woke up the other sleeping bears. Soon Nick and Judy were alone with Ace and Sophie.
"Four hungover bears in a car," mused Nick absentmindedly, "sounds like the beginning of a joke."
"How much you get out of Ray and Kev?" Ace asked him.
Nick took out a small roll of twenties that he'd gotten from said bears under threat of releasing the pictures he now had on his phone to the whole store.
"Eighty z-bucks," he told his friends, "this ought to be enough for a decent second hand pullout, right?"
"So Ace according to Nick we have to go to the hospital so I can show them I'm alright," Judy said obviously angling for something, "would you give us a ride?"
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The visit to the hospital turned into an interview with the ZPD. Judy turned out to be quite the actress.
"All I knew for most of my life was the bunker. That is until a few weeks ago when they told me that I was going to be given to one of the elders as his bride. They gave me pills that i had to take. I slipped them under my tongue and spit them out once they left me alone. I faked being asleep and managed to sneak out of the room they left me in. Pried open a vent and climbed the shaft to the surface. I must have left those damned pills in my mouth too long because the next thing I know I'm being helped into a van by Nick and Finnick. They've been taking care of me ever since."
"So do you know where this bunker is?" asked the elephant officer who had identified herself as Francine Trunkaby.
"No clue," Judy replied with a shrug, "Nick told me the next morning they had found me walking along the roadside just inside city limits near where he lives. It could have been hours that I was walking and I would have no idea."
"Officer can I take her home now? After last night I think she's had enough of this Hell for a lifetime." Nick asked looking up at the elephant without having to fake the look of concern that any mammal would have for his friend after such an ordeal.
