B-b-but Furrwolf? Where is the Chapter 8/8.3 you promised to write?
Don't worry, its finished already, and I´m going to upload that pretty soon as well! But, I need to replace some bad, bad words and phrases of that with some unicorn-dust, butterflies, pink fluffy clouds and rainbows before that, to make it suitable for the regular "M" rating! Because I´m the savior of the Internet and the bad, bad and evil MA stuff is not allowed on this site! Yeeey!
(...Just kidding, it just needs one last correction)
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Big thanks to MrShurukan for helping me with the corrections, love you buddy!
Zootopia – Springtime Circumstances
Chapter 9 – Stronger than ever (POV Bogo)
We had every officer on patrol there was right now, twice as much around the electric power split and a lot of them had a double shift also, it was absolutely mental. I was sitting in my office since six in the morning, had been talking to about a hundred people already and I still didn´t have a clue where to even start searching. Nobody could tell me anything, nothing important at least. Last evening, they were cutting the wires in three different places, and no one of them got caught or could be traced. It took until morning to fix it, and the amount of stealing and other little casualties was absurd. It seemed like every thief in the whole city was prepared for that. The citizens where frightened, stayed at home from work in fear of getting attacked or robbed, and the ZPD received lots and lots of complaints about that.
At about half past three this afternoon, I must have fallen into a little slumber on my desk for a while, because I suddenly got woken up by someone who knocking on my door.
„Who is there? …I mean…come in please!" I answered, a little surprised of course.
Although I never thought I would admit it one day, he was one of the few people I really wanted to see right now. It was the one and only ZPD Fox Officer himself, clothed in his uniform like usually, and he was full of energy and motivation as it seemed. I could really use that right now.
„Wilde! Good to see you!"
„What´s up, Chief?" he asked back with a chummy smile. He seemed to be happier than ever.
„Nothing is up! We need a great and helpful idea on how to even approach this nightmare…"
„That´s why I´m here!" he chuckled, sounding a little self-ironic.
„Better keep that promise!" I warned, but still being a little cheered up now, „You´re like a thunderbolt! What happened to you?"
„I´m just happy to see you again!" he joked with a bemused smile.
„Yeah…right… Where is Judy, is she here too?"
„She´s in our office already, she had a great idea to start with and didn´t want to waste any more time. You have some new info for us?"
I decided to not ask for more details about the sudden cure of his sickness and used the verve he brought with him.
„According to the camera footage we got from one of the places of the incident, from what Fangmeyer told me, it must have been done by somebody with good night vision. There hardly was any light and they didn´t use a flashlight either. Probably a wolf, a dog, maybe some feline, I won´t cross a fox out of the list as well…"
After those words Nick just stuck in a weird thinking pose with his hands brought to his chin for a little while. After a brief pause he started talking, „It took them longer to fix it this time…" he began thinking loudly, „So, probably the first time they´ve done it, it wasn´t working long enough for what they had planned…. For what they needed the distraction for, I mean…"
„Good point!" I told him, rather impressed by his way of thinking once again, „But what could that be?"
Nick kept on thinking for another little while, still standing beside the chair on the other side of my table. He seemed to be too impatient to take a seat. That was exactly the spirit I needed. But before he could say something again, somebody else knocked on the door.
"Chief, I found something pretty interesting!" a dark and rough, but also friendly male voice told me from outside, and I was pretty sure it was Wolfheart´s.
"Come in!" I told him dryly.
It was him indeed.
"Chief! I was talking to my Sister on the phone a minute ago, and she told me something pretty interesting!" he began explaining excitedly, before he noticed Nick.
"Oh, hey Nicky! You better now?" he asked.
"Yeah, I´m healed" he replied, not bothered about it at all.
"Glad to hear! …Who saved you?"
"Have a guess who did" he chuckled.
Wolfheart´s grin widened a tiny little bit. Nick surely noticed, but was totally relaxed about it. It really wasn´t easy to bring him out of his calm.
"You´re looking good though!" Wolfheart changed the topic, obviously knowing about it as well, "I looked like a monster when I had it the last time, because I scratched and punched myself because of…"
"My back and stomach isn´t looking much better…" Nick waved it off, "But I´m full of energy now!"
"That´s good to hear!" I took that catch-word and ended their chit chat, "What was your sister talking about, Max?"
"Yeah, right! She told me about a big Mafia-boss meeting or something like that. Some really serious people as the rumors go. It´s this evening, in the sex bar she is working at…"
"Why do they do that in a sex bar?" Nick asked, "What does your sister do in a sex bar?"
"Oh, that probably sounded a little wrong…" Max chuckled back, "She´s a waitress and barkeeper there, and she knows a lot about what´s going on therefore…" he clarified.
"Do you think we could find something out about the power cut that way?" I wanted to know, why he was telling us about it in the first place.
Wolfheart just shrugged his shoulders, Nick nodded with great interest.
"I wouldn´t miss that chance, chief!" the red fox told me, being very convinced about it, "Max, can your sister get us in there somehow?"
"Yeah, probably! I´m going to ask her quickly!" he announced, already pulling his phone out of his pocked.
"Good idea!" Nick told him, as he left my office already.
"Wilde? Any other suggestions?" I wanted to know
"Yeah…I think…" he answered, still thinking, "I´ll need her opinion on this! Send Wolfheart to our office, when he´s done with his phone call!"
"Alright, will do!" I told him, just before he left my office as well.
I leaned on my chair and slightly rolled away from the table.
"She really did it" I whispered to myself, looking at the ceiling still in slights disbelief, "She saved him! And he is stronger than ever now…"
POV Judy
"Oh, hey Nick, there you are!" I greeted him happily, as he opened the door to our office.
I was talking to Daniel in the meanwhile, who was standing in the middle of the room and still holding his clip board in his hands.
"Fangmeyer!" he greeted the always friendly but today really tired lion shortly, while making his way to my desk, "How is my favorite Interrogator doing?"
"Nicky, you´re good again?"
Nick just nodded with a little smile and pointed at me silently. I just couldn´t hide a little smile because of his gesture. It made me so proud that he was not even slightly ashamed about it.
"Daniel just told me about the video footage we captured while the second power cut yesterday…" I informed him, before I showed him the video footage I found in the network, "Obviously someone with good night vision, as you can see…"
"See that guy over there?" he asked me, pointing at one of the masked creatures, who ran away from the detonation at the wires, "That, is a fox!" he pointed out.
"How can you tell? He or she is completely covered in a blanked or something."
"The size, the running speed, the movement, but most importantly the tail…" he explained, "Tell me one other animal with something similar."
I grabbed his tail with my paws, as he was talking about it, and snuggled with it a little. He ignored it completely and let me have it. But he was right, there was nothing as fluffy than a fox tail, and the one of the creature in the video footage had something pretty similar to that.
"Nick is right" Daniel pointed out, "I was thinking so too! But for the others, I have no idea…"
I kept on scrolling through the footage for a while, and Nick was looking closely also. Soon later, the door to our office got opened once again.
"Hey guys!" Max greeted us, before closing the door behind him, "Hey Fangmeyer!" he grinned at him, before punching his shoulder cummily, "You look quite motivated as well!" he joked.
Nick and I chuckled a little, Daniel looked like he was about to kill him.
"Why is it, that this unbearable headache reappears every time I see or hear you?" he asked, covering his tired eyes with his paws.
"That's just because I´m your favorite colleague and enjoy working with me so much!" the Wolf answered him with a cheeky grin, "Nick! I´ve been talking to her! She says she can get you in, but it´s not going to be easy…"
"Into what?" I asked them, since I didn´t know what that was about.
"My sister told me about a mafia-boss meeting of some sort, taking place in the sex bar she is working at…" Wolfheart sighed, foreboding what was about to come.
"So, your Sister is working in a strip club?" Daniel asked with great interest, just to tease him probably.
"As a barkeeper!" Max added in annoyance.
"Okay" I chuckled, "And that meeting could be important?"
"Yeah, probably…"
"Why the hell do they do that in a strip club?" I wondered, "Aren´t there better places to organize something like this?"
"Would you expect a strip club?" Nick asked me, surely having a point,
"And why is that difficult?"
"First of all, this is a club for canine and feline customers only…"
"Sounds good to me!" Fangmeyer commented.
"Oh, shut up, kitty!" Max snickered, "…it´s very crowded, busy and loud most of the time, and usually, you don't go there just for the drinks…"
"That´s indeed a problem…" Nick sighed, "Right now even more, because of the mating season…"
"But you´re good on that now, aren´t you?" I asked him, not knowing what his problem was. We often did undercover work, which was getting a little spicier.
"I am, but I won´t be the only one with that problem…and when this is a club for canines only…"
"That is what I meant…" Wolfheart said.
"Can´t your sister just wear a microphone and stay near them?" I wanted to know, but he shook his head.
"She can´t stay at that table all the time, that would be noticed…"
POV Nick
"Half past four" Judy sighed, "When does that meeting start?"
"8PM, as Sarah told me."
"Alright, I´m gonna get some coffee, as long as she´s still there" Judy proposed, which really was a good idea. Cammy usually closed her shop at 5PM, and some caffeine was just what I needed as well. And it was a good opportunity for a little break and a new approach on that problem afterwards.
"For me too, please!" I asked her, giving her a little kiss on the forehead.
"You guys too?" she asked, pointing at Max and Daniel.
"Yes please!"
Fangmeyer nodded also.
"Alright, be right back!" she told us, before she left the office.
I took a seat at her place and took a closer look at the pictures on the screen again.
"You guys have the long shifts today?" I wanted to know, because both of them looked a little tired and unmotivated already.
"Not only today, buddy" Max sighed.
"And that's not just because our best detectives decided to stay at home because of some little sickness…" Fangmeyer said with a savage grin on his face.
"You don't even want to know what my flat looks like right now" I replied with a chuckle, "And I probably wouldn´t be here for another two weeks, if she hasn't saved me yesterday…"
"I´m just kidding, we´re glad you´re back! The Chief is really going on our nerves already…"
POV Judy
"Oh, hey Judy!" an -a little stressed- looking Cammy greeted me, as I entered her coffee-shop, "What brings you here this late?"
"We just need some caffeine, as always" I greeted her back with a friendly smile.
"We? …is your partner doing better already?"
"Yeah, he´s fine. But now we have to work the whole night…" I sighed, to change that topic quickly, "…could you make me two more cups for the colleagues Wolfheart and Fangmeyer please?" I asked, as she already started preparing everything.
"Of course, I can!" she smiled, "You´re lucky I´m still here, I just wanted to close for today actually…"
I noticed that she scratched herself from time to time. Sometimes on her elbows, a couple of times on her head. I didn´t say it, but it looked very familiar. It seemed to get worse, the longer I was near her, and I had sort of an idea where that came from.
"You look a little stressed" I commented carefully, "You should probably take a few days off…"
"Yeah, probably…" she agreed, as she put the first two paper mugs of coffee in the tray she had prepared for me, "…are you still working on that thing with those unnerving power-cuts?" she asked me suddenly.
She had a point with asking that, since we have been talking about it yesterday already, but it still seemed a little staged to me, a little suspicious somehow. Why did she always begin with that topic and why did she always refer to how annoying it was? Then in remembered what we just had seen in the security footage, and it suddenly seemed even more suspicious. But then I figured, that I was just overhyping it again, and it probably just was a coincidence.
"Yeah, that's basically what we´re trying to solve ever since…" I told her.
She scratched her left arm once more, before she put the other two mugs in the tray and began marking them with a permanent marker. She obviously knew, how every of my colleagues liked his or her coffee, because she drew the letter on the mugs with great confidence and skill.
"That´d be eight dollars!" she told me, just before I reached the buck over to her.
I got two dollars in return and took the tray with me.
"Thanks Cammy! See you!"
"Greet the others from me, bye!" she waved, as I made my way out of her shop and opened the door, careful not to drop the carton tray with the coffee. Then I went for the ZPD building again.
POV Cammy
The moment she left the shop, I nearly started punching the next best thing I found into pieces. My skin was on fire. It had wondered me a little already, that it didn´t hit me a lot sooner this mating season, because I was hopelessly in love, but now she was here it suddenly got unbearable. It was quite normal that she smelled like him a little, since she was working with him every day, but that was a totally different level of smelling like him. It was like he was in the room, like she was in the same bed as him for a whole night. I never had to concentrate on staying calm this hard before in my entire life. With every second that passed, I wanted her to leave me alone more urgently. I never once hated her before, she was friendly, motivated and joy for everybody around her, but now she was this close to him, that had changed. I was jealous at her, madly jealous. It´s been about five days, since I saw him the last time, and since Judy told me about his struggles yesterday, I felt it itching a little already. When I told her, that I probably would get it too, if I saw him once more, I wasn´t lying. Right now it was so bad, I decided to immediately close the shop for today and tell Suzanne about it. She was my best friend ever since, she would understand me, and also would she take care of the shop tomorrow, if I asked her quite kindly. She did that from time to time anyways, to earn some extra money to what she gets from her half-time job, so she knew what she had to do. I really needed a day off, and I must not see any of the officer who worked with Nick in the next few days.
Also, had some other business to do this evening. There wouldn´t be a better chance than today anymore. The distraction with the power-cut had worked perfectly, and as the rumors told, the shipping went almost completely successful. The prices would be unbeatable therefore. Luckily, I had connections, and I got invited to that one important meeting too. It was this evening, and I really couldn´t afford to miss it, whatever it costed.
It´s not easy to run a coffee shop in the city center, and a little financial aid wouldn´t hurt anyways. Not, if it was that easy.
"I wish you guys good luck on searching for the guys who did the power cut!" I grinned with an ironical and slightly evil grin, while I closed the glass door of the entrance. Then I scratched me neck once again, before I turned off the lights, "Have fun searching!"
POV Nick
„You know how pissed the chief was, about you not being at the morning meeting yesterday?" Daniel asked me, just as Judy joined us again.
"You mean the chief?" she asked with a little smile, while closing the door behind her, „It just seemed like he missed you!" she added then, handing coffee mugs over to the lion and wolf in police uniforms. They nodded with a big grin.
"I always thought he hated you because of what you do with his authority sometimes…"
"I wasn´t sick a single day, before I joined the force" I pointed out with a shrug of my shoulders.
"There you see how much he missed you" Judy giggled, handing me the paper-mug marked with a hand-drawn ´N´ on it.
"That's odd" I remarked, "Usually she is writing our full names on the cups…"
"She seemed to be a little stressed in my presence" Judy began explaining, finding that topic more interesting than I was expecting, "Also, I´m pretty sure there would be a little heart above the ´i´ instead of the dot, if she had written your name on it", she added with a chuckle.
"No! Not really!?" I yelled in surprise, almost spilling some of the hot coffee over her keyboard, "Don´t tell me she´s…"
Judy just grinned and nodded very slowly.
"Ohhh, Nicky! Damn!" Wolfheart yelled into his paws, „That girl will be in such misery because of you!" he pointed out with a savage grin, "But you can´t blame her…I mean...just look at you! …working out, incredibly charming…" he teased me further, "Who wouldn´t fall in love with you?"
I just ignored it. That really bothered me a little.
"Was she telling you about that explicitly?" I wanted to know.
"No, not exactly. But the itching and scratching got worse every minute I was there, and I guess I smell like you quite a lot…at least for other foxes…"
"Oh god! I feel awful now!"
"Guess we can´t go to her for coffee in the next time", Judy said, shrugging her shoulders, "Then, we have to ask our nice colleagues to get us some, but I´m sure they´ll help us!" she joked.
"Oh, just send Wolfheart!" Daniel supposed, "He surely is good with the ladies, he will take care of that for you with no problems!"
"I bet he will" I laughed out, at Max´ now slightly offended expression.
"Yeah, sure! …I´m like…soooo good at that!" he chuckled ironically.
"Ever seen this guy on the dancefloor in the nightlife?" Daniel continued to annoy him, "He´s like an animal! Hooking up every hot girl there is!"
"Alright, Daniel, we get it! And in a parallel universe, I´m on stage with Gazelle at her concerts and have a hit single on the radio! You know what, I´m probably even her boyfriend and live in her house too!" he continued with the ironic jabbering, "And we meet up there every weekend to do giant orgies and…"
Suddenly, the Chief opened the door and interrupted Wolfhearts bullshit, which made us laughing really good though.
"Wolfheart, Fangmeyer, what the hell are you doing here? Stop messing around and hinder your colleagues!"
"They´re not hindering us, Chief!" I pointed out, still smiling a little, "Looks like we have to do some undercover work tonight!" I told him, pointing at Max for that matter.
"What do we have?" the Chief asked dryly.
"I have to do this alone, I guess" I began, "Since there are only canines and felines allowed…"
"Officer Hopps will be waiting outside, equipped with heavy armor and lots of tranquilizer darts! If something goes terribly wrong, she has to rush that goddamn house and mow them like a lawn!" he explained, without even joking about it, "That club is not known for being calm and organized, we had a lot of casualties in there before!"
"Really?"
"Not before you two joined us, but they often had bar fights and drug problems in that messed up basement down there…"
"I´ll be waiting outside?" Judy asked, sounding a little disappointed.
"You must be ready to start the engine or get in and help him, if there is any trouble!" the Chief pointed out, "Those two blokes, I just decided, will stay near you, in case you need assistance!"
Wolfheart and Fangmeyer noticeably sighed a little, but the Chief just ignored them, predictably.
"Relax, chief" I tried calming him down for good, taking another sip of my coffee, before resting my chin on Judy´s head once again, "We have done that quite often by now. What could possibly go wrong with that?"
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