Hey guys! Here's your chapter 9! Remembering that last one was a cliffhanger, I'm pretty sure that you're excited for an update! So I hope that you guys really like this one! It was fun to write!
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9
Confusion
Nick jumped back. What was he doing? Why were his claws unsheathed as if they were ready to strike something or someone…? No, no, not again! Nick whined to himself. Again, he lost control and leapt for Judy. Judy let out a scream and jumped back. She watched as Nick fought against himself to keep his own control. For a second, Nick returned back to himself and he panted heavily.
"N-Nick?" Judy stuttered, obviously confused by what was going on. Nick looked at her with pleading eyes before his savageness took over him again. He began to growl lowly as he stretched his paw out and swiped. His claws were meant to meet Judy's skin, but she stumbled backwards, landing on her butt. Her nose twitched wildly as she watched Nick fight against himself. She was surprised that nobody heard what was going on. It was probably good too.
"Nick! It's okay!" Judy whimpered, a few tear drops spilling out of her eyes. "Nobody is going to hurt you. Come back to me."
Nick grabbed his head in his paws and shook his head. His growls were soon replaced with confused grunts and whimpers. He looked at Judy with his beautiful, warm green eyes. Judy felt relieved. She knew that Nick was back, but this was almost like her nightmare! It frightened her terrible. She began shaking nonstop as she looked at Nick (who was terribly confused with himself.)
"C-Carrots?" Nick asked. He looked at his paws and he saw his claws sticking out. He gasped and slowly looked up at Judy.
"Ju-"
"Nick, d-don't say anything," Judy replied. "You didn't hurt me."
"But I could have," Nick said, his voice faltering.
"But you didn't!" Judy snapped, realizing that now wasn't the best time to argue with Nick. She didn't want to upset him and cause what had happened just moments ago.
"What happened to me?" Nick asked. "I felt something change within me, but…"
"I-I don't know, Nick," Judy said. "But I'm sure that it's nothing…"
"Nothing? Nothing?!" Nick growled. "I could've killed you!"
"Nick, stay calm," Judy whispered. "You didn't even touch me. I'm okay. You're okay."
"I'm not so sure about that," Nick muttered. He walked over to Judy and held out his paw for her to take. Judy flinched back when seeing Nick's claws. She still felt an after effect of fear in her. She really didn't feel safe around Nick.
"Hmm? Oh," Nick grunted, sheathing his claws. He held out his paw again and gave Judy a nervous smile. Judy didn't know if she should take his paw or not. She didn't want him to attack or go crazy again. Reluctantly, she gave in and took his paw. It was sweaty and sticky. Or maybe that was just her paw…
"You don't trust me?" Nick asked. Judy looked into his eyes. They weren't cold…They were almost pleading. Judy had to be honest.
"No, not right now," Judy admitted. "You scared me really badly. I don't know what happened to you. You scared the living daylight out of me."
"Is there any daylight in you anyways?" Nick smirked. Judy didn't feel amused, instead she shivered. "Judy, we should go to the hospital. Something has been upsetting me for a while and this attack might have to do something with it."
"Okay, Nick," Judy replied, giving him a real smile. "I think that that'd be best for you."
"I do to," Nick said. "Just…you have to drive. I don't want to…you know…"
"I know," Judy smiled. "Should I call Chief Bogo and tell him?"
"Yeah," Nick replied. "You can do that while I purchase our water."
"I forgot about the water."
"I bet that you're thirsty now since I've mentioned it," Nick winked. Judy gave a little giggle.
"Okay, Nick," Judy said. "You do that. But…"
"Be safe?" Nick finished for her, shrugging his shoulders. Judy nodded.
"I guess that's how you'd say it," she spoke. "I'll be right back. You find me when you're done buying our water."
"Okee-dokee," Nick barked.
Judy pushed through the front doors of the little market and made her way to the police car. She unlocked the car and opened the driver's-seat door. She set herself down on the leather seat. It was hot from the heat outside. She breathed heavily. It was very humid out there in the desert district.
Judy grabbed her phone (which was roasting in the car) and dialed down Chief Bogo's number. She put the phone to her ear as she listened to her phone ring. Finally, Chief Bogo picked up.
"Officer Hopps?" came the voice.
"Er, yes sir," Judy spoke. "I thought it'd be best to tell you that I have to run Nick up to the hospital."
"Why? Did he get hurt on the job? Is he wounded terribly?" Chief Bogo tried his hardest to NOT show concern in his voice, but Judy could sense it in there.
"No sir," she said. "He's not necessarily hurt…Something has been bothering him for a while and he just had an incident. He said that he should have a checkup."
"Alright then," Chief Bogo grunted. "Just try to make it back to headquarters for lunch."
"Yes sir. Thank you, Chief."
Judy sighed and hung up her phone. She glanced out her window and saw Nick walking towards the car with water in his paws. Judy rolled down the window and shouted out to him, "Hurry up! I'm baking in here!"
Nick set on his sly smile—as if nothing ever happened—and he pulled upon the car door. He climbed into the passenger seat and handed Judy a water bottle. She twisted off the lid and gulped down the cool liquid.
"Thanks, Nick," she said, wiping her mouth off with the back of her paw. "Ready to go?"
"Yep, I'm ready," Nick said, taking a sip of his water. "Best be on our way."
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"Mister Nick Wilde."
Judy and Nick looked over at the woman at the desk. They were in the hospital, waiting about half an hour for Nick's appointment. Nick and Judy stood up and walked up to the desk.
"That's me," Nick sighed.
"Doctor Barns is ready to see you," the woman explained. "He's in room 250. It's a door down the hallway on the left."
"Thank you," Nick replied. He looked down at Judy, but she wasn't beside him. She was already walking towards the hallway. Nick slowly followed her. He sure wasn't feeling too well right now. He was dizzy and tired.
"Come on, Nick," Judy said. "We don't want to keep Doctor Barns waiting."
"I'm right behind you, Cottontail."
"Actually, you're a few feet away from me," Judy grinned. Nick managed a little smile despite his exhaustion. He picked up the pace and soon enough he was by Judy's little bunny side. She looked cute below him. Her eyes were taking in everything that she saw, almost as if she was a little toddler who was curious about everything.
They reach room 250. Judy didn't hesitate to knock. They heard a faint, "Come in!" Judy looked up at Nick.
"You ready, partner?" she wondered. Nick shrugged.
"I guess," Nick replied. "I hope that things go well."
"They will, don't you worry, Nick."
Judy pushed open the door and Nick and she walked into the room. Doctor Barns was sitting down at a table, looking at his laptop. He was a Honey Badger. He looked up at Nick and Judy and he gave them a friendly smile.
"Which one of you is Mister Wilde?" Doctor Barns winked. Nick let a smirk grow on his face.
"That would be this little bunny right here," Nick played along. Doctor Barns chuckled.
"I see. That bunny most certainly IS a mister," he teased. Judy blushed and looked up at Nick for help. But he seemed to like this joke a lot.
"Don't let his looks fool ya," Nick said. "He's fooled a lot of animals before."
"Oh, I bet that you're right," Doctor Barns chuckled. "Bring him over here."
Judy smiled. "Sorry to ruin this joke, sir, but this is no time to mess around. I need you to check on my friend here, Nick Wilde."
Doctor Barns nodded. "Of course, dear," he said. "We were only just messing around."
"Please, sit down," Doctor Barns instructed. Judy and Nick set themselves into 2 chairs that we across from Doctor Barns.
"What seems to be the problem, Nick?" Doctor Barns wondered. "Oh, is it okay if I just called you Nick?"
"'Course," Nick replied. "As long as I can call you 'Doc.'"
"Deal."
"Well, sir," Nick began. "A few weeks ago, I was attacked by a bear that I had arrested…"
"Oh, yes, him," Doctor Barns said. "I'm working on him right now."
"Oh, that's nice to know," Nick said. "Anyways, after the attack, I started to feel a little strange. I figured that it wasn't anything that big, but it turned out to maybe cause some incident that I had today."
"What symptoms were you getting?" Doctor Barns asked.
"Well, Doc, I would get dizzy a lot as if I were going to pass out," Nick said. "I actually feel like that right now. I would get moody too, sometimes. Today I seemed to almost go savage."
"Nick, why didn't you tell me about this?" Judy whispered. Nick shrugged and turned his attention back to the doctor.
"Well, Nick. I'll have to run a blood sample on you and test that out. It may take me a few days to get back to you on it—maybe even weeks—but before we do this, I think that the bear has infected you in some way," Doctor Barns spoke. "I don't think that you'll completely catch what he has, but I think that you've been infected in a little way.
"What Mr. Jaws—the bear—has is no Night Howler incident. We've tried the Night Howler antidote on him, but it doesn't seem to be working. This is something new that we haven't ever seen before. We are currently working on the cure and we hope that Jaws returns back to normal soon."
"So, it won't infect me a lot, right?" Nick asked.
"I don't think so," Doctor Barns said. "I think that you may get little attacks like you did earlier today, but I'm pretty sure that it'll go away.
"And Judy."
"Yeah?" Judy wondered.
"Not meaning to make Nick feel helpless, but I want you to look out for him if he's acting strange as if he's about to go into an attack."
"Yes, Doc," Judy replied. "I will certainly do that."
Judy looked up at Nick and smiled at him. Nick gave her a tired smile and yawned.
"Well, I have to prick your finger," Doctor Barns said, standing up.
"Um…Okay…" Nick said. He really didn't like the idea of pricking fingers. Call him a wimp, but it hurt. A lot.
"Over here, Nick," Doctor Barns said, walking over to some of his equipment. Nick rose from his chair and followed the doctor over to that part of the room. Judy decided to watch his finger pricking. She had to urge to video tape this with her phone, so she grabbed it out of her pocket and began the video.
"Okay, Nick," Doctor Barns said, grabbing a needle. "Let me see your finger."
Nick looked at it as if he were never going to see it again. "Well, finger. I guess this is goodbye," Nick mumbled. He looked up at the doctor. "You won't kill it, will you?"
"Well, it'll be mostly dead," Doctor Barns winked. Nick smiled his casual smile and gave up his finger. Doctor Barns took it in his paws and looked at it.
"It's a good finger," the doctor teased.
"Why, thanks Doc!" Nick joked. "That's why I don't want this one to die."
"Ah, I see. You'll just have to find a new good finger, then."
"I guess so."
Judy watched with amusement as Nick's playful face suddenly dropped as Doctor Barns stuck the needle in his finger.
"OH MY FREAKING GOSH, THAT HURTS!" Nick exclaimed. "WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?!"
Judy began to giggle loudly at Nick's expression. She tried her hardest to not wiggle her phone as she was taping Nick. She was definitely going to keep this video and she wouldn't EVER let Nick delete it. This was too much of a precious memory.
"Gees! Ouch!" Nick exclaimed, flinching back and yanking his finger away from the doctor. He began to suck on the finger and licked it. "You doctors don't help at all! You just make us feel more pain!"
Doctor Barns began to laugh a whole-hearted one—as he was putting Nick's blood in a tube. Nick clearly wasn't kidding, though. He was upset. He growled lowly in irritation.
"What's so funny, Judy?" he snapped. Judy subsided her laughter so she could speak.
"Gosh, I don't know, Nick," she chuckled, sarcastically. "I think the fact that you're scared of finger pricks!"
"I am not!"
"Then why are you freaking out?" Judy wondered.
"Because it hurts!"
"You're overreacting," Judy snorted.
"I am not!" Nick growled. He glared at her, furiously. Judy held in her laughs as she pursed her lips. She watched as a slow smirk formed on his muzzle.
"Hey, doctor," Nick said. "Maybe you should give Judy a finger prick and show her how much it hurts."
"Oh, come on," Judy sniffed. "It can't hurt that bad. Nick, you're just a wimp."
"Then I have the right to call you a wimp too," Nick smirked. "If it doesn't hurt, then do it."
"Okay, fine then. I will," Judy replied. She ended her video on her phone and walked up to Doctor Barns.
"Are you ready, Judy?" Doctor Barns smiled with a mischievous smile on his lips.
"Of course!" Judy said. "It can't hurt like Nick says it does."
Judy gave the doctor one of her fingers as she continued to talk. "I'll show Nick how this does not hurt at all. I mean, really. A tiny little needle going into your skin can't hurt that-OH! OH! OH! OH MY GOSH! STOP IT DOCTOR! STOP! THAT HURTS!"
Now it was Nick's turn to laugh. He laughed like he never laughed before, trying to catch some air in his lungs between each laugh. He fell on the floor, clutching his stomach and laughing so hard that tears fell from the corner of his eyes.
"Judy, you-you-you s-should ssseee your f-face!" Nick cracked up. Judy glared at him as she was sucking on her finger. Now she regretted laughing at him. What a sly fox, Judy growled to herself. Wait a minute! Was that a phone that he was holding up?
"You videotaped me!" Judy exclaimed. Nick nodded, subsiding his laughter a little bit.
"Yep. You videotaped me too!" Nick laughed. He laughed again, and this time Doctor Barns joined in.
"Foxes are sly, Sweetheart," Doctor Barns chuckled. "Especially watch out for this one."
Judy thumped her foot crossly as she watched Doctor Barns help Nick up onto his feet. Nick ended his video and he slipped his phone into his pocket.
"Man, Carrots. You have no sense of humor," Nick said.
"I do! That's why I was laughing at you," Judy snorted.
"Then why weren't you laughing when you got pricked?" Nick wondered.
"Why weren't you laughing when you got pricked?" Judy shot back. Nick stopped for a moment to think about that.
"Good point," Nick replied. "I'd just say that we're both even."
Judy smiled. "Yeah, we are."
Nick gave her his cute smile and turned to the doctor. "So, Doc. Is that all you need from me?"
"Yep, it is," Doctor Barns replied. "I will get back to you as soon as I can. If you still feel dizzy, I'd advise that you'd go and lie down when you get home."
"But sir, I have to get back to the ZPD," Nick replied.
"It's okay, Nick," Judy said. "I can cover for you and explain it to Chief Bogo."
"Thanks, Carrots," Nick said. "Doc, what's your number in case I need to call you again?"
"It's 678-945-0070," Doctor Barns replied. "I realized that I should probably have yours too. What is it?"
"770-896-2245," Nick responded. "Got that? I've got yours."
"Yep, I've got that," the doctor replied. "You're free to go, Nick. I'll get back to you soon.
Then Doctor Barns looked at Judy. "And Judy."
"Yes?"
"Remember what I said."
"Of course, Doc," Judy replied. She opened up the door. "Come on, Nick let's get you home."
"See you, Doc!" Nick called and waved. Doctor Barns waved back before Judy closed the door.
Haha, did you like this chapter? The finger-pricking part reminded me of one of my best friends. It wasn't tribute to her, (she doesn't ever read Fan fictions or see hasn't even see Zootopia) but I'm pretty sure that she would agree with that scene.
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