After a few minutes making up her mind with help of a cold breeze that came from the opened window, Judy's body temperature cooled down. She stirred under the blanket before getting out of the bed.

"*sigh*...what am I even doing?...he's surely mad at me from running away...and he probably didn't notice the key" thought the bunny as she grabbed her phone to look at the time.

18:04

"I should clean this up..." she whispered before changing her bedsheets and preparing to go to bed earlier than she was used to.

Meanwhile, Nick slowly walked back to his apartment, he obviously was upset, but mostly confused. He spent the most of the walk looking at the key and its little tag.

When he arrived to his street he couldn't avoid looking at Maggie's shop sign illuminating half of the street.

A little bell ring made the vixen stop focusing on the magazine she was reading.

"Hi Mag, do you have a moment?" said the fox with a sad tone of voice that worried the vixen.

"Of course...you wanna go to the back shop?"

"Whatever..." he followed her to a little room with some couches and a refrigerator.

Maggie sat down while Nick lay down before covering his eyes.

"I...thought you were on a date" she tried to settle a conversation.

"I thought too..."

"Ow...you want to tell me what happened?"

"What would that do?"

"Oh come on..." she stood up and grabbed a pair of beer cans "...I guarantee you'll feel better" she offered one to him before sitting next to the fox.

"Guess there's no other way" he accepted.

"Hmm..." she smiled "go ahead...I'm listening" she patted his knee.

"*sigh*...so...puf...I booked a table at Tony's, everything was going well, she wanted to have a small talk, so we did...but suddenly she...vanished"

"Did you...tried to call her?"

"Nah..." he took a sip of beer.

"Did she call you?"

"Yes..."

"But I guess you didn't answer...right?"

"Yep"

"So you don't know nothing from her since a couple of hours ago?"

"Hmmmm...well she left this...key...from her apartment apparently" she got them out.

"*glups*...cof...cof...what!?" the vixen almost chocked with the beer.

"Yeah...she left it on the ta-" Maggie snatched it.

"It's true!" she read the tag.

"Why would I lie?"

"The question is...why are you still here?" she made the fox raise one of his eyebrows.

"What?" she turned to the vixen.

"Oh you dumb fox...don't you know what this means?" she shook the key.

"Do you?"

"Oh god!...a female doesn't give you her key except she wants to have a 'fun night'..."

"I don't think she left it because she wanted that...she has been having some sleeping problems you know?"

"There's nothing better than get some sleep after a good and 'wilde' fuck" she slipped her legs through the fox's legs.

"Shut up..." he turned away and hide his blush.

"I'm serious, Nick...the warm and pleasant sensation of hugging your mate after a frantic night of action immediately knocks you out" she got closer to him.

"And what do you want me to do?...we're only...partners yet"

"Change that...go to her apartment and make her fall for you with all of that charm that you overflow"

"But-"

"Oh come on Nick!" she dragged his arm and carried him to the counter "where's your confidence?"

"You're taking this too seriously aren't you?"

"You still have the wine and the condoms, right?"

"Do I look like I used any of those things?" he finished his beer.

"We'll then get out of my store and go for her!" she pushed him.

"Hey!...Careful!"

"And another little gift..." she rummaged in one of her drawers "here..."

"Sleepills?" he read the little pill box name.

"Yep...a little help if sex fails..."

"Okey?...well, thanks Maggie...y-you really cheered me up..."

"We're friends..." she smiled.

The bell ring sounded again when the fox left the store, leaving the vixen alone while she started humming a song while sweeping.

Judy finally finished tidying her little apartment, the bedsheets were changed, her alarm was turned off and the curtain were shut. She was ready to lay down and try to sleep for at least a few hours. The bunny snuggled up with her plush and closed her eyes.

*Toc* *Toc* *Toc*

"Argh..." she left her comfy position to reach the door.

She opened it without thinking at all, she just wanted to get back to her soft and comfortable bed.

"Nick!" all of her sleepiness vanished before she slammed the door.

"I'm glad to see you too, Carrots" the fox's voice filled her ears.

The bunny slowly opened the door again, letting Nick saw her purple eyes.

"I'm sorry...it's just that...I wasn't expecting you"

"So you gave this?" he showed her the key.

"I...thought you would use it...instead of knocking"

"I wanted to surprise you...and it seems like it worked" he smirked.

"You wanna come in?" she opened the door entirely.

"Sure..."

The fox walked in her apartment before dropping a sports bag on the floor and having a look at Judy's back side, she was wearing only a dark nightgown, but her fluffy tail made part of her panties visible to the fox.

"What's in the...-" the bunny turned around to ask Nick, but she only encountered with the fox having a indiscreet look at her hips, she quickly rolled her nightgown down as she couldn't avoid looking at Nick's bulge growing in his pants.

"Carrots, I...-" the fox tried to explain.

"I-it's okey...just gimme a minute..." she got in the bathroom all flustered.

"Way to go, Dumb Fox..." thought Nick before looking around the bunny's apartment "Ow..." he spotted a picture of Judy and he on her bedside table.

It was a photo that they took on his graduation day, the bunny was smiling as she hugged his neck. Nick couldn't resist grinning at it.

Then he sat down on her bed while she got out of the bathroom, the bed was a little small for him, but he could perfectly fit.

"Hum?" he felt something with his paw.

It was the plush, that fox plush that was almost as big as Judy. He kept admiring it when a sudden twitch in his muzzle wanted to smell the stuffed fox.

"No...you don't wanna creep her out..." he unsuccessfully tried to get it away from his muzzle.

He sniffed the whole plush, sinking his muzzle in the bunny's scent. He stopped as he heard the bathroom's lock. He just stared at Judy, now wearing a thin sweater and some pants.

"Are you gonna explain this to me?" Nick lifted the fox plush.

"Hey!...that mine" she struggled to get it back.

Judy pounced over Nick, making it fall on the bed with her on his top, the bunny quickly got up when the fox hit her with one of his sly smirks.

"So...is this thing your bed buddy?" he approached her.

"What?"

"Do you sleep with it?"

"Oh...well...yeah" she looked away when she felt Nick's arm resting on her shoulder.

"Hmm...it's cute how you chose a fox"

"Are you here to mock me or what?" she separated from him.

"Oh Fluff..." Nick tightly wrapped her in his arms "I would never mock you on purpose...I promised you"

"Ngh...why are you here then?" she wiggled.

"Well...it seems like this fake fox is useless, so it's my turn to help you sleep" he released before standing up and reaching the bag.

"R-really?...how?"

"You'll see..." he dropped the bag on the bed before grieving.

"Oh! Your arms...let me see..." she crawled towards the fox.

"It's okey, Carrots you don't have to..." he could say before Judy started to taking the bandage off.

"Nick!...it's infected!...s-stay here" she ran to the bathroom and desperately started to look for the first aid kit.

When she got it, the bunny ran again to the bed, she opened the kit and got some gauzes and a bottle of ethyl alcohol.

"This could hurt a bit..." she poured some alcohol on a gauze before gently cleaning the wound.

"Really...ahhh-I barely notice nothing..."

"Now let me just..." she took some bandages and roll them around the wound "...This should do it..." she put away all of those thing while the fox looked at her with a heart-warming smile.

"Thank you, Agent Hopps" he made her turn "*smooch*...it's so kind of you to take care of your partner even if you're off duty" he smoothly kissed her forehead.

"I hope you do the same with me..." she surprised the fox by snuggling up his chest.

"There you go...confident and cute" he patted her head.

"Nick, shut up" she said before getting away from him "so...what's in there" she pointed the bag.

"A few things I bought for us..." he unzipped it.

"Ow Nick...you shouldn't have to bought anything..."

"Thirsty?" he pulled out the bottle of wine.

"Do you really think alcohol will make things easier?"

"You're right...it was a dumb idea..." he put it away.

"What else you got?" Judy crawled to the bag.

Nick suddenly felt the plastic texture of the condoms wrapping and tried to dissimulate it by shaking the bag.

"Oh!...right...the pills" he got out a little white can.

"Pills?" Judy bend one of her ears.

"Yep, Sleepills...they should help you relax" he took one and walked to the kitchen for a glass of water "Here..."

The bunny took the pill before awkwardly sitting in front Nick, silent.

"What about a massage?" purposed the fox.

"A massage?" Judy's ears dropped.

"Yeah, I'm very good with my paws..." he cracked his claws.

"You're the expert here..." she laid down the bed.

"But would you...wait until I get comfortable?...I was thinking of changing my clothes"

"Fine...but don't you dare getting out of the bathroom naked"

"Argh...you caught me" said Nick with a little bit of sarcasm.

The bunny just lay down the bed while watching the fox getting in the bathroom with a pair of clothes on his paw. While Nick wasn't in the room, she started wondering how that massage would be...

To Be Continued...