Unfit for Duty Part 2
"Carrots? What now… fox got your tongue?" quipped Nick and that made Judy smile because that was what she actually needed, someone to talk to, someone to distract her from her bad morning adventure that had just started, which she didn't know when and how it was going to end. His sarcasm was something that she really liked, even if it was getting under her skin most of the time. Right now being rather appealing to her.
"Hellllooooo?... What the—did I get the wrong numb-"
"NICK!" she yelled from excitement at last into the mic and heard a groan from the other side as well as a chuckle afterwards.
"Heh-h, did you manage to turn into a sloth? I'm impressed," he teased her slow reaction but she didn't care about that, there were more important questions to be asked, lest she didn't know how much time she had until she wasn't alone, knowing full well that she shouldn't talk on the phone, especially with Nick in front of the two corrupt cops.
"Wait—how did you get my number?" she asked in genuine surprise and started searching for an answer within her mind but apparently was finding none.
The tod laughed fruitily and answered, "I guessed it. Didn't you know? I used to be a magician."
Judy scoffed in irritation, since she didn't want to play his game as time was running out, therefor she needed to cut to the chase. "You took it without my permission!" she scolded and scrunched her face in distaste, while occasionally looking out of the window to see if anyone was coming back.
The heavy sigh was very audible from the other side. "Was I supposed to not?" he nagged cheekily and that made her to huff in agitation.
"Of course!" she exclaimed and stood on the seat as quickly as lightning, not liking the fact that she couldn't see the reynard in front of her, since she could feel his wide smirk through the phone.
"… Tck, tck, Fluff. What about that picture you took of me"-the doe quickly closed her mouth and sat on her rump, while her heart started beating harder-" did you ask me for my permission?" he probed sleekly, and she didn't have anything to say about that in her defense, nothing good. He hadn't forgotten and it was expected of him not to. If she only had just started with something else. Now… now she had checkmated herself pretty badly.
The doe started looking anywhere but at the phone even if he couldn't see her, and with her free paw began touching her drooped ear. "It was supposed to—tobeonlymeinit!" she sputtered the obvious lie and heard a hard laugh from the red fox, which got her nervously to do the same but it sounded more like hiccups than anything else.
After several moments, the tod stopped the ruckus he was creating and began playfully. "As you wish, Fluff. I'll get you to admit it to me someday—did you find my gift?" he asked and her brows went up quickly in confusion but then, she understood what he had meant, which brought up instantaneously the question, the question she had reserved patiently aside for him since reading that note. Had he touched her tail? But if she asked now without seeing his face, he could lie to her and she wouldn't notice, and that was very unacceptable. She needed to know and an idea popped in her little but bright head, a very good idea that was going to solve her problem. She hoped that he had it, after all, he could afford at least a good phone after making so much illegal money.
"Nick, can you put muzzletime on?" she asked with hints of pleadingness but didn't hear anything from his part for some time, and that made her think that the phone had lost the connection but then came a very slow and labored sigh, a sigh which attracted her utmost attention.
"Not now, Ju—Fluff…" babbled the vulpine somewhat gloomily, and she registered his change of demeanor easily, making her to start questioning why he wasn't willing to do so and what was wrong.
"Please, Nick. I want to see you!" she begged beatifically and the tod groaned from frustration at the doe's wish, which seemed to be strongly holding the conversation off. She heard rustling sounds and at last, on the screen of her phone appeared an image, an image that only showed Nick's maw. She could see his purple nose and it seemed that his fur was pretty ruffled under his creamy neck, and very surprisingly, he had forgotten to remove his whiskers, which had grown a bit. She waited with anticipation the camera to move towards his face but nothing like that happened, and she saw him to start smirking at the lens.
"Nothing can satisfy you, can it?" he teased and licked the side of his maw, making Judy remember that he could see her as well, her dissatisfaction being clearly visible to the reynard. She scowled slightly and tilted her head to the side.
"Don't act dumb, Slick. Unlike my parents, you know very well how to use a camera. Move it up!" she ordered but saw the tod's smirk to fall slowly and turn into a frown, his nose twitching a few times in the process, something she had never ever seen, which made her to snort.
"You don't want to se—"
She interrupted him, knowing full well that he was about to try and persuade her to stop pushing. "I do!" She sensed that something was wrong because he was acting rather funnily, like he was hiding something, something that may have happened to him, thus she developed a dead-serious look that got the vulpine to sigh in surrender and get her tail to wiggle in excitement.
"Fine…" he mumbled and started moving the camera towards his face and when he did, she was stricken with shock. What she could clearly see was the fatigue in his emerald-tired eyes as well as the gruesome black eye on his left that was half closed as well, which made her to gasp loudly and eyes to widen. Nick only rolled his peepers from dissatisfaction of having to talk about his misadventure, while the doe was starting to get to conclusions.
Nick, th—what happened… why? Did—how did they find out"-she looked again through the window as to be sure-"who… from what—who did this to—"she stuttered half sentences but Nick managed to stop her hysteria.
"Tut-tut-tut. With the speed you were going, you could have written a whole book, Fluff," he quipped and chuckled at his own joke but the doe wasn't at all in the mood for that, as she was worried immeasurably about her friend, about what and why that had happened to him. It seemed that he wasn't willingly going to talk about it without her asking, so she calmed herself from the panic and re-ordered her thoughts and questions. Maybe she was being dramatic. Maybe he had an accident and fell or hit himself on something. But she didn't believe that Nick Wilde was such a clumsy mammal, a mammal that had almost slipped away from her, when she confronted him for the first time, his agility being probably even better than hers. No… someone had done that to him and she was going to find out who that individual was.
The glare she was sending him managed to get his ears to go flat against his skull and at last, he groaned and started explaining, "Look, it was just an accident"-Judy huffed in disbelief and the tod scratched the fur on top of his head-"no, really! Finnick isn't to blame!"
When she heard who had done that to him, she jumped from her seat and anger started boiling inside of her, getting her energy to amplify but she didn't have anywhere to fume it onto, so she started talking more to herself than anyone else, "That little fox… when I catch him. Oh, is he going to pay for what he has done… I'll give him two!" she yelled and bashed the seat she was standing on with her tough foot, getting air to escape underneath it. She wasn't looking at Nick's reactions at that very moment because she was thinking on how she can get the fennec fox back for what he had done. "Then… I'll bring him to jail, so he can sleep on the cold concrete floor…"
"Judy!" exclaimed the tod soundly, which broke her stupor, and she could now see the seriousness that was etched on his face, and she couldn't believe it. Why was he doing that, why did he have to endure such abuse. She didn't like that one bit, so she sat sharply and started grumpily.
"Why are you defending him"-she pointed a finger towards the camera, her short beige claw being very visible to the red vulpine-"look at what he has done to you? How can you—"
She saw his sad smile, which managed to stop her from continuing, and she submitted temporary, giving him a small chance to explain further. "I am touched, Fluff. My knight in grey armor"-he winked at her but she didn't even twitch-"okay. As I said, it was an accident. You can remember that we actually borrowed his van in a very untraditional way"-the doe scoffed-"… After I drove you to your humble home"-he snorted and the doe narrowed her eyes with a small frown-"I drove back to return it. But when I parked it in front of his home and exited the van. Well…"-Nick pointed towards his left half-shut black eye-"I was greeted by his metal bat right off the bat,"-he started snickering but it seemed that he was the only one feeling as such-"not in the spirits, huh?"
Judy didn't give him the opportunity to stray away from his explanation and just stayed silent with a very unsatisfied expression, an expression that was telling him to continue. "Hmm… So he hits me pretty hard. As you can see. And then started swinging again but managed to recognize me and didn't hit me again. Thank the Blueberry Lord for that. It appeared that he didn't know that it was me that took it, so I just expressed my apologies and went on my way with a small bump on my poor eye."
She could see Nick's attempt to make the situation seem less severe as well as his nervous smirk, which was easily detectable, and she guessed that it was because he was pretty tired, remembering very well how he had woken up earlier to get her refreshments and drive her home. She couldn't yet feel the fatigue from not sleeping enough, and she knew that it was going to appear at some time throughout the day but there were more important matters right now to attend to other than her personal ones.
"Did he at least apologize?" she asked without scorn and received a wholehearted laugh from the reynard, which got her perplexed and her ears went up as well as one of her eyebrows. The tod was shaking from laughter so hard that he almost dropped his phone.
After he managed to get himself in control, which took some time, he at last started, "Finnick to say that he is sorry? Ha! I would rather believe that you don't like meat than him saying that," the vulpine added and Judy's brows went up in surprise. Why would he say that?
"But… I don't like to eat meat, Nick…" she clarified oddly and got a doubtful look from the reynard.
"Of course you don't," he reassured doubtfully with a mocking tone and snickered but didn't give her time to react and added, "The things I do for you, Fluff." That comment managed to get her nose to twitch because his words were devoid of any sarcasm or other hidden meaning. He had said them seriously even if he had tried to fake that seriousness with a smirk. She reflected upon what he had done for her and it indeed wasn't little.
Why was he doing that? He had told her that she was a dumb bunny and then said that he was lying just to make her quit. He acted as if he didn't care yet comforted her, nevertheless. He didn't leave when he could, he was beaten because of her. All of that made her feel appreciated, cared for… loved? She wasn't sure but just the idea made her body to flush, and she didn't want that to happen at that very moment because what she wanted to find out was the truth.
She exhaled slowly, trying to lower her body temperature, sent him an angry glare and then remembered why she had asked him to put muzzletime. Not wasting any more time in asking the next question, a question that was going to be direct, so she could see his genuine reaction. "Nick, did you touch my tail?" she probed very hard and the question got the fox taken aback very quickly but realization quickly entered his mind and he grinned madly, which wasn't good news for her, since her plan was to make him speechless and not the opposite.
"I don't know… Did you touch mine?" he retorted and all his teeth were visible, with his long white canines in front that she swore she saw to shine for a second. The question managed to bring down the doe's courage quite a bit, and she felt cornered but not yet without an exit.
"It's different!" she returned soundly and the vulpine started snickering from her reaction, to which she looked away from the camera, while feeling her right foot start thumping the air from her newly arisen agitation that was starting to take over her.
"Don't worry—I haven't, but if I did in the future, you will know for sure," he sent her a wink and she blushed from his words, feeling somewhat greatly flattered and a bit aroused from the suggestion… or was it a promise? She wanted to aim the conversation at something else now, having received her answer and seeing no deception in his eyes and just then, she registered his surroundings. He was sitting in what looked like a yard with overgrown grass, more like weeds, and a few trees; as well as a wall on one side; and a back of a warehouse, a warehouse that seemed quite familiar to her memory.
"Nick, where are you at," she beamed with curiosity and leaned closer to the thin screen.
"Uh"-he looked around himself-"I'm at the airfield," he answered leerily with one brow up.
That made her scowl because she didn't understand why he was living like a homeless mammal when he had the means not to. "Why don't you get a proper home, Nick. You have the money!" she asked frustratingly and saw him to motion with his head his disapproval.
"And miss all this beauty and calm? Not a chance, Carrots"-she huffed in defeat and saw Nick's sarcastic expression turn into a curious one-"where are you at?"
She rolled her eyes because of the silly situation she was in but at the same time was relieved that she could speak with Nick about the problem she was experiencing and was in. "I'm inside the cage of a police cruiser…" She saw his straight-face, and then he just burst out laughing like a madmammal, so she decided to add, "In Thane's cruiser." That managed to kill all the laughter in the red fox, and she could now see… worry? She saw him stand up from the chair or ground, she couldn't tell, with his worry turning into outright panic.
"They know? Where are you?! I'm coming to get you, just tell me—"
"Nick!" she interrupted abruptly and that made him stop his sprint towards the warehouse. "No one but us knows. It's just that they want to mock me all day and have fun on my behalf. That's it," she explained calmly and saw the worry in the vulpine's initials to dissipate but not entirely, which made her feel again appreciated and cared for, stirring that same feeling inside of her. "They can't because I didn't tell anyone. Only if you did. Then it's probably possible," she reassured and saw the bemused look Nick was sending her.
"I wouldn't ever do that, Fluff"-he exhaled slowly and she could see the stress that had manifested upon his body starting to fade away, and she almost called him cute because of his behavior and worried appearance-"so what did you do today with those two role model cops?" he mocked sardonically and Judy managed to detect that, smiling in response but then scowling because of her recent unwelcomed memories.
"Duke investigated his own crime scene and destroyed the rest of the evidence"-she started caressing one of her ears with her free paw-"after that, he snapped on me but I managed to find out that he works for a gang," she summarized neatly and saw the look of guilt on the reynard's face.
"I'm sorry that you have to go through this. I know it must be hard on you b—you have to remain strong. You will do that, okay?" he more like demanded, and she felt her eyes to quiver from her raging emotions, and if he was in front of her, she would've hugged him with all her might, maybe even do something else if she was to be truthful to herself. It seemed that the vulpine saw her want and chuckled because of it. "Good thing I'm not there or you would've suffocated me with your endless affection," he teased her jovial nature and made a small smile, to which Judy giggled and bit one of her fingers sultrily.
"Why do you act as if you don't like it, Slick? Don't tell me you are shy?" she tried to find out and saw his hesitation but just before he would answer, she heard footsteps coming closer to the car, her ears going up immediately, and she felt a rush of energy as well as fear. "Nick, I have to hang up, they are coming! I'll call you when I can," she blurted and quickly hanged up before the tod had a chance to respond.
She pushed the phone in her pocket and readjusted herself on the comfortable seat, trying to look like she wasn't doing anything nor had done even if she actually did. She felt very sweaty as well as nervous, and all of a sudden the temperature in the car started to seem unbearable to her, which made her start pulling her uniform's collar and play with her restless paws.
She heard and saw both mammals to enter but they didn't even bother to look at her and just stayed silent. The weasel was rubbing his rib cage on the left for an unknown reason while looking away from his partner and her. It was quite the sight but she didn't dare ask what they had done or have been doing, so she just stayed quiet. She heard the engine to roar to life and felt the car to start moving.
The air inside became even more suffocating, and she could see the tension between the two mammals in front of her, which made her very curious. But her curiosity died down after a few minutes of uncomfortable silence. She understood that the day was going to be long, boring, and unproductive… but there was nothing to be done about it, nothing at all.
It was almost early eve and Judy felt like crap. She had stayed inside the damn cage for the whole day, even when she pleaded to be let out, she was met with a heavy wall of resistance every single time. They had done nothing but patrol around, stop a few mammals for traffic violations and talking being almost non-existent. She felt like she didn't belong there because the only thing she had done was sit, listen, and just stay silent. When she had at last tried to initiate a conversation, she was met with a very vile curse from the weasel who throughout the whole day painfully groaned from time to time and touched the side of his rib cage. It was a very uncomfortable place to be at, with very uninteresting and dangerous mammals.
Judy just wanted to go home and sleep because the boredom and lack of rest was getting to her, as well the hunger that was eating away at her stomach but she didn't want to complain, knowing full well what would happen if she did, and she just didn't want to listen to any hostile words aimed at her direction, her temper starting to thin out, and knowing that she was losing control over herself because of that. The good thing about being tired was that it was dulling her senses and the effect wasn't that bad because of that fact.
The car stopped for who knows what time and Thane exited shortly after, which made her wide-eyed because Duke didn't follow suit. The whole day, Thane had kept the weasel on a leash, making him follow him around all the time, and she guessed that the coyote had heard when she had asked the weasel about information. Nevertheless, he was leaving the predator alone with her.
It was an opportunity, an opportunity she had to be careful with or it could be ruined entirely and get her into their sights. She knew that she couldn't just ask him straight away, it would arouse suspicion in him rather quickly, so she waited for the moment, the moment she didn't know if it would appear but still hoping deep inside that it would.
The weasel grunted, supposable from pain, hit the door with his fist, and mumbled curses she couldn't hear very well. He then reached and changed the frequency of the radio to another one, as he seemed bored as well. He found one he probably liked and leaned into his seat, while playing with his worn out claws and moving his bent whiskers. Her ears moved towards the radio and she started listening with utmost clarity.
"-es but what else can you tell us Fabienne?" asked a male voice that came from the radio.
"From our reliable sources, we found out that the key supporters for the rebels in the east are the countries of Tanami and North Odo. Embargoes and economical sanctions have been put upon those two major supporters and the president declared that… 'There won't be mercy for anyone who decides to fund this act of genocide'. Those are his words but it seems that the actions our government is undertaking aren't doing much because the rebels are starting to take ground and it seems that a ground invasion is inevitable…" Duke changed the channel to one with some random music and reduced the volume, while growling with increased ferocity and making Judy's fur to stand up.
"Fucking pieces of shits," he spat with anger and grabbed his head with both his paws. He looked psychotic to the doe, and she was glad that there was a barrier between them but at the same time, she saw her opportunity as the weasel seemed vulnerable at that very moment, thus she plunged into her dangerous quest and attempt to find out more information.
"Sir, are you okay?" she probed carefully and moved closer, her ears starting to register his erratic breathing, and she could see his body to be slightly shivering.
The weasel quickly turned to look at her, and she could see fear in his red eyes. Why was she seeing fear? "Do I look like I'm okay you stupid bitch?"-he sat up and grabbed the cage with one of his paws while moving his face closer to it-"do you have any idea. ANY IDEA? What this means for me? Fuck no. You don't know SHIT!" he yelled desperately and turned away from her. But he didn't sound terrifying like before. He sounded tensed and horrified as well as scared. It probably had to do something with the news, she took a guess.
Judy couldn't just ask what that meant for him because he wasn't that empty-headed. It would have been so easy if he was.
So she decided to act upon empathy and try to steer a conversation at another direction, as to make him forget about the news and probably learn something about him, not that she actually was interested but because she needed to know with who she was dealing with even if Nick had told her plenty. So she went with the flow and asked what first came up to her mind, "Sir"-she heard the weasel to scoff in annoyance-"I wanted to ask… why did you became a police officer?" She could see the weasel to relax and heard him to… chuckle? There was some silence and at last, the weasel started speaking.
"I actually can't fucking remember… I have been an officer for 16 years… I think…"-he scratched his ungroomed fur between his ears-"I joined at 24 or 25… bah who fucking cares," he revealed and played with his bent whiskers for a bit and then continued, "It was so fucking shitty when I joined. You think this is bad for you now?" he grumbled and looked at her but without malice but with pity, which surprised her immensely and managed to confuse her terribly.
"Ha! Fuckity-hop, you are in paradise… How many cunts tried to bring me down then… How many fuckers… But wait, you asked why I joined? I think it—no… meh it was sort of… what did you say in that corridor, Flopsy?" he asked with small hints of interest in his voice, and she was quick to answer, not wanting to get him to stop talking or change his mood.
"To make the world a better place. Sir," she blissfully repeated her words from back then.
"Right… I think that was my idea back then as well"-he started snickering-"so fucking idiotic and shittery-fetched," he mocked her moto and started laughing but stopped sharply and groaned from pain. "A-and… Fucking shit…"-he grinded his teeth-"I just started climbing up the ladder but at a certain point they just didn't want to promote me anymore. Those fucking cum stains." She could see that he was becoming uncontrollable again but she didn't care, so she pressed on.
"What happened after that, Sir?" she kept digging with narrowed eyes and ears that were facing the weasel's direction.
"What happened?"-he turned to look at her, and she could see the hatred in his red eyes, which looked like burning hot embers-"You want to know you fucking hick? You want to know so fucking much don't you?"-steps could be heard on her left, which sounded fast and heavy to the doe, thus she started reaching for her carrot pen-"Do you know how satisfying it is when they squeal and beg you not t—" The driver's door flung open and Thane jumped in with incredible speed, grabbing the weasel's collar and starting to shake him violently, and making Judy to jump back from unwanted surprise, hugging the seat with her back, while her nose went crazy as well as her breathing.
"Shut the fuck up you old fool!" shouted Thane dreadfully, and she was stricken with bewilderment because for the first time, for the first time she saw the coyote to lose his temper, and he looked frightened to the bone, with his bushy brown-tipped tail between his legs.
The weasel squirmed in the uncomfortable hold, and started groaning and holding the spot on his ribs. The doe figured that something must have hit him very hard for him to act like that all day. "Why? What's the fucking point"-his ever-present toothpick fell off his mouth and he looked desperate, he looked like he had surrendered-"who gives a shit if this naïve hick hears it? She doesn't understand most of it anyways!" he yelled despondently, and she could see spit flying out of his mouth and hitting the coyote's face but he didn't even flinch, just stared murderously at the weasel without even blinking.
"I don't care what you believe. Behave yourself or you'll get us into trouble again," warned the coyote, and she could feel the same aura of authority around him again. It made her afraid and managed to fire up her instincts, those instincts that were extinguished since she started hanging around Nick. It was a very unsavory experience.
"SO? I'm dead any-fucking way," deadpanned the weasel and Thane developed a surprised look, while Judy's ears tried to get out of the trap she had put them in.
"What are you—you'll tell me later. Shut your mouth. Now!" Thane ordered and turned to look at Judy, who was pushing herself against the seat, with her paw in her pocket, while holding her carrot pen but it seemed that nothing good was said, thus she didn't overwrite the previous recording, a recording she didn't know if she should keep, and she spent a lot of time trying to decide but never managing to do so.
She could see that the coyote was looking at her with disdain and major displeasure, and after a few moments, he let go of Duke but didn't move away his unblinking stare, which was piercing the doe like an arrow, and she could feel her racing heart in her ears.
"If you keep digging, you are going to burry yourself, Hopps," he threatened her, with a low but hoarse voice and turned away. She knew what he meant and that managed to send chills everywhere around her body, getting her to gulp and look at the rear-view mirror, and she managed, for the first time since she entered the car, to spot Thane eyeing her, so she quickly looked away, starting to feel uncomfortable and scared at the same time, while slowly touching her weapons, wanting to know if they were still there, and it seemed that they indeed were, which managed to reassure her that she had a chance.
She almost had the weasel recorded. He had almost told her what he had done but Thane showed up and ruined everything. The coyote caught up to her plan and had reacted quickly. And now… now she was in his sights. The weasel seemed to not give a crap about her but she would've preferred to be the other way around. Now… now, everything was going to be harder and more dangerous. The ice was becoming thinner and deadlier, which was very bad news for her.
What did I get myself into…
The car rumbled to life and started moving. From her observations, as she looked through the window, they were heading towards the southeast part of Savanna Central. They seemed to be close to the docks but she didn't know where exactly they were heading. She contemplated in the meantime upon what the weasel had told her, and for a second, for a second she felt empathy for him, but just for a second, as she remembered his malicious words and how he had mentioned torture.
She knew that he probably wasn't as he is right now, figuring from his re-collection of his past and how he said that it was way worse for him than it is for her now. She couldn't picture anything worse than what she was in but at the same time, anything was possible, and she understood that Duke was molded by the evniroment he was in. For a moment, for a moment he had showed a side she didn't believe existed, just like Nick.
But unlike Nick, the weasel was just too far gone in her opinion, and he needed to be stopped from inflicting more pain upon others. That was the decision she came to and it was going to be final.
Looking through the window again, she could see that they were on a bridge and were heading towards what looked like a medium-sized island, with a very old residential area.
In front of the entrance of the island, there were very tall fences with barbed wire but it seemed that they were very rusty and non-consistent as there were some missing or broken in some spots around the entrance. She could see an old sign which said 'Welcome to Happytown!'. She didn't know much about this area of Zoootopia but it seemed to look very poor and abandoned, judging just from the entrance, and she wasn't about to be proven wrong.
They passed under the old welcoming sign, which wasn't welcoming at all, and Thane kept driving them further in. Judy could see the buildings that were pretty old and very stale with most of the buildings being blocks. They were hugging each other and facing the street on both sides. It was like Savanna Central's residential areas but way more unserviced and abandoned because the trash wasn't inside the trash containers but all around them, and even when there weren't ones in some places, there were piles of rubbish, nevertheless.
The street seemed in a very poor condition with its many holes, dirt, and debris, and she could see that Thane had lowered the speed and was very focused with his driving, which almost made her to snort from amusement of seeing him like that but she was wary, knowing that he may hear or see. There weren't that many citizens outside as well and when she would see some, they were mainly predators of different sizes, which was rather peculiar to her.
They started passing by what must've been a park sometime in the past that didn't have any trees anymore because it seemed that they were cut down, and it was filled with giant weeds, bushes, and junk. The doe could see thick black smoke coming from deep inside the field, which was illegal to do so while in Zootopia and everywhere else in the state as well. But she could see the uninterest in both cops in front of her and just kept quiet, having already gone through her struggle with upholding the law with Nick but that didn't mean that the scowl didn't appear on her part.
They kept going further into the area and surprisingly, it was becoming less sleazy but that didn't mean that it looked alright, just not as bad as the entrance or the so called park. Just as she was about to look out of the window again, she heard a thud and quickly moved her head and ears towards the sound, thus saw the windshield that was now covered in trash and feces, which was instantly accompanied with the squeal of brakes, curses from the coyote, and a very quick exit on his part. She could see him looking at the buildings' tops, seemingly searching for something or someone.
"Fucking punks!" she heard him shout and saw him get into the car, pull a big towel and then to start cleaning the rotten and disgusting trash, which's smell managed to get inside the car and get the doe's eyes to water and paws to cover her wiggling nose. She could see the weasel who was staying still like a statue, like he didn't even care. She took a guess that he had his fair share of hanging around rotten and that's why it wasn't repulsing for him anymore, probably.
It was very odd that this area was so abandoned and everyone seemed to be doing whatever they wanted to. Making fire, stacking trash on the streets, throwing shit on moving cars, and who knows what more she hadn't yet experienced and didn't want to if it was going to be any worse than what she had gone through already.
After Thane was finished with his cleaning, he threw the now-dirty-towel at the sidewalk, entered and started driving.
But after around a minute, he stopped on the street near the sidewalk and turned off the heated engine.
"We are going on foot," he ordered and Judy heard the click on her door, which managed to stir excitement in her because at last, after many hours of sitting inside and doing nothing, she had a chance to actually move around. But just as she exited, she felt stiffness all around her body, thus she began stretching her muscles and tendons that was accompanied by felt several satisfying pops that made her feel much better, but she could still feel dizzy from the lack of movement during the day.
But that didn't matter, she would cope with it as freedom was now bestowed upon her, which actually made her smile. She saw Thane come over to the sidewalk and continue walking down without even stopping to look at her. Duke opened and closed his door after exiting and followed suit very sluggishly, with a bent back and paws in his pockets.
She did so as well but keeping her distance from the weasel because of his last outburst that she didn't want to experience without a physical barrier between them, or she would have to defend herself with any means necessary. The mammals that came from the opposite direction made way for them but she could see their hostile glares as well as hear comments such as 'fucking pigs', 'murderers' and so forth, thus she chose to stop listening, not liking what she was hearing because they were saying those things to her as well.
It seemed that the population here didn't like cops very much but at least the problem for now was only verbal but the strange thing was that neither Thane nor Duke did anything about that. She expected at least Duke to snap but maybe he couldn't hear those comments, not having such good listening devices like hers, probably. But she wasn't about to tell him, not at all. This was the least she wanted to happen and be a witness to as well as a participant.
Both officers stopped at an intersection and looked at the other side of the street. The doe joined them, still keeping a respectable distance between herself and them and fixated at the direction they were looking at, and saw several mammals; old red-bricked small flats; small piles of trash around the gutter; a few parked cars but pretty much nothing else.
There was this odorful smell that wasn't very pleasant with the air itself filled with dampness, dampness that made it heavy and suffocating because of the hot temperatures that were exactly the opposite during nighttime. She could feel uncomfortableness starting to crawl all around her from the conditions she was in, with sweat starting to form underneath her fitting uniform, a uniform she would've gladly taken off if she wasn't on duty.
Her kevlar vest wasn't helping either as it was stifling her skin and fur from breathing more than ever, which made her to reach for the black polyester straps and pull them up and down from uneasiness. She hated the fact the she was given cheap equipment, equipment that could've been easily replaced or modified but she had to endure, there wasn't an option number two.
"So, Flopsy…" she heard the weasel say and turned to look at him, with one ear pointed at his direction, while the other slept on her back. She could see him grinning but something was missing, something her brain was telling her that should've been there. And what was missing, now was not, as he pulled it out of his pocket and put it in its rightful place. "Tell me. What do you see?" he asked somewhat seriously and pointed at the mammals she was looking at a few moments ago.
She narrowed her eyes and examined the individuals as best as she could. There were 3 mammals that were talking with each other, two of whom were lions and the 3rd one being a badger. They didn't seem to have very good clothing, as she could see some tears here and there as well as their fur being ungroomed with many tufts that were clearly visible even from a distance.
But they were just talking and she didn't see anything suspicious on and about them, thus she moved her examining gaze away from them and onto two other mammals who were near an alley. One of them was a big brown bear and the other a black fox. The bear's shirt's upper buttons weren't present and the upper half of that same shirt was widely spread outwards, exposing his thick chest fur. He had black jeans with a massive brown leather belt to which there were a few big bags attached.
He seemed quite bulky to the doe, and as she couldn't see anything else from the distance, therfor she started studying the pure black fox next to him that looked like the devil. The odd thing about him that he was wearing a white shirt with light grey pants. It didn't seem him having anything else on him, at least from this distance, and she tried to search the environment for more clues but those were the only mammals at the area Duke pointed at. There were two old cars but no one was inside them and nothing of interest could be seen, so she turned her gaze towards the weasel, who was looking at her with satisfaction and a shit-eating grin.
"Very sloppy, Slopsy"-he made her a new nickname but she didn't care anymore about that, so she didn't took offence-"you see that fat-fillet-shitting bear?" he asked and she quickly glanced at the brown bear, who was now leaning on the old dusty-red-bricked wall, while still talking to the black fox.
Fat? Not even close… She mused and then moved her eyes back to the weasel, waiting for his next words.
"He is wanted for theft, arson, and for assaulting a police officer—" the weasel stopped and gloated at the doe with mischief, she could see a hint of taunt in his red eyes. "We could easily take him down but as I remember"-he grinned madly-"you sat all day on your lazy ass and did nothing," he jabbed, and she felt a rush of energy go through her core because it wasn't on her own volition to sit on her butt all day, they had made her do so by not letting her out but she remained calm, for her sake and the weasel's. But mainly for hers.
She glanced over at Thane who was playing with his claws and seemed uniterested in their conversation. "I heard you were top of you class, hickity-hop. So an old fat bear wouldn't be a problem for you, would it now?" he kept probing deeper and surprise flushed through her body, making her excited about his proposition but at the same time reality was suffocating her drive. It was a damn bear, who knows how much she had to multiply her weight to get to his number. He was almost 3 times taller than her and definitely stronger. Without even a bit of doubt.
"Seconds thoughts? I didn't know that rabbits can be pussies as well—" he stopped when she shipped a death stare and almost growled at him because of his challenging tone as well as words, words that were pricking at her honor and ego, an ego that wasn't going to be very beneficial at that very moment. And her nature was just restricting her from not trying to prove herself, something that she did commonly while growing up, something she needed to do in order to persevere and endure, and she wasn't going to back up because of that fact.
She wanted to prove herself. What if the bear was bigger and stronger? She knew how to handle him even if it was going to break regulations, knowing full well that she was going in alone. But that didn't matter, she was going to show this murderer that she wasn't just a token bunny. Maybe if she earned both of their respect by showing them that she could handle herself, they would let her on with more information as well as trust.
That was a possibility but there was the other one the other way around, which meant more attention onto herself. But that wasn't the issue right now. She was challenged and mocked. That was the problem now she needed to solve, so she began crossing the street and headed towards the small group of mammals. "Be rea—, we don't –nt her to –ie on our wa—h s—"she managed to faintly overhear Duke whisper probably to Thane but she was getting further away from them and the rest wasn't even slightly audible.
Getting over the other side, she neared the group of three mammals, who after seeing her started laughing hysterically for an unknown reason, and that made her to take a look at herself but didn't spot anything out of place, so she blocked them off and kept walking towards the two mammals near the alley.
Arriving at her destination but definitely not being noticed, she positioned herself between the big bear and charcoal fox that seemed to be her size, while keeping a respectable distance. She examined them again because now she could see details. The black fox's eyes were sky-blue and his left ear had a medium-sized hole, probably from a gunshot wound and he had very long white whiskers, which was peculiar.
She could see the bear's chest fur that was exposed because of his torn off top of the shirt that he was wearing but it didn't have the vibrant brown color his face had. It seemed that it was losing its color and turning white, and she figured that the bear really was old as the weasel had said. She looked at his big bags around his wide waist and could see that there was something in them, something that was poking the sides of those same bags but she couldn't recognize the form and couldn't see inside as they were closed.
She huffed quietly but that managed to attract the attention of the black fox, who stopped listening to the black bear that was talking about a relative in Tundratown, and looked at Judy with a scowl, which shortly after turned into a smirk. "Nice costume," shot the the black vulpine, which got the bear to stop talking and inspect the grey doe with a raised bushy eyebrow. She was taken aback by the words, but hey, she hadn't heard them for the first time, thus the shock was quickly drained from her system.
With a professional stance and voice, she began, "It's not a costume. I'm an officer of the ZPD and m—"
She was interrupted by the bear's friendly and deep voice, "Has the circus arrived in town, little bunny?"-he didn't have any malice or sarcasm in his voice, his question actually sounded serious-" Oh… I used to be a performer back in my days, little bunny. Those were the times…" the bear trailed off and zoned out, while the fox was snickering and had put one paw over his black muzzle.
"I am not a performer," she contradicted strongly and glared at both mammals but the bear was still high up in the clouds, while the fox was gloating at her devilishly.
"And I am not a fox," he returned, started laughing, and she could see that she was losing her authority, as both mammals weren't taking her seriously, and she knew that if she lost her authority, then brute force was going to be needed. It seemed that indeed she had to resort to that, and she had had enough, thus pulling out her taser from her holster, aiming it at the bear, while looking at the black fox who took a step back but didn't start running and only raised his eyebrows while looking around frantically.
"Sir, I want you to step back and get on the ground," she shouted soundly and could see the fox to take a defensive stance and the bear to come back to Earth. But the brown giant didn't seem to be scared or moved by the small taser and just chuckled. Judy was starting to feel the adrenaline, which was coursing through her whole body as well as her heart that was beating crazily.
She didn't have a partner to cover her back, and she was against two mammals, one very big and one that had almost the same agility as her. The bear didn't seem to believe her that he was being arrested, and she was feeling very rushed by any movement from the two mammals, which got her finger to twitch against the trigger of the weapon in her paws, and eyes to move from mammal to mammal every second.
"What's that?" asked the bear with curiosity and took a step closer to the doe, making her to take one back. That managed to show her fear in her unconfident retreat, which made the fox to snort gloatingly. "That looks very real, little rabbit. Where you find it?" the bear persistently persisted, and she could see that the fox was starting to move out of her field of view, therefor she needed to control the situation fast or she would get into trouble.
"Last warning, sir! Step back. Now!" she yelled boldly but the bear only did the opposite and started reaching towards her with his big paw and long claws. She couldn't take the stress anymore and aimed at his exposed furry chest, feeling sweat all around her body, and her heat being intolerable as well as her fear. She didn't want to hurt the mammal but this was the only thing she could do right now, wrestling with the big individual being completely out of the question. She readied herself to draw her tranquilizer for the fox after downing the brown bear, and she could hear him scraping the ground with his claws on his feet but still being at a considerable distance, which was good for her, for now.
"Come now. Give it to me, little rabbit"-he just kept coming closer, being now just a meter away from her-"befor—" A zap was heard as well the sound of electricity and smell of burnt fur. She had hit her mark and the probes of the taser were now in the chest-skin of the big brown bear, who roared in pain and stumbled back, hitting the brick wall with his back very harshly.
She quickly, with one paw, reached for her tranquilizer, while still holding the taser and sending painful impulses towards the big mammal, who seemed to not be going down, and aimed it at the fox who charged at her but stopped when he saw her holding her tranquilizer pistol. But he wasn't stepping back, just looking at her with disgust, exposed teeth and claws, while his growls were sending chills down the doe's spine and getting her to feel tightness in her lungs.
Judy saw the bear hit his head at the wall from the pain but he wasn't going down, and he visibly still had control over his body, which managed to get the doe's heart to beat even faster from fear and uncertainty. She could see him looking at the other side of the street and then he became slack-jawed, visibly the electricity not affecting him as it was.
The doe noticed primal fear in him as well as his paws reaching for the cables that were connected to the probes in his skin and he just pulled them out like they were nothing, getting her to jump back and aim the tranquilizer at the bear who stumbled because of his shocked state, while the fox remained vigilant but didn't press on.
"GET ON THE GROUND!" she yelled, but without any of that aura of boldness she previously had, but the bear didn't care for her being there anymore and began stumbling backwards with wobbly steps and strange gait.
"They… RUN… they are HERE!" yelled the bear desperately and sent the black fox a very panicked glance that made the vulpine to tuck his tail between his legs and run for his life. The bear started attempting to run away from the grey doe as well but with very slow steps, as he probably still didn't have his full body functions as well as energy. Judy wasn't going to let him get away and immediately shot an arrow her tranquilizer, hitting the bear at the back of the neck thus getting him to groan and pull the needle out quickly.
She didn't have to worry about the fox no more because the mammal was nowhere in sight, therefor the fear inside began diminishing, and she knew that now the dices were on her side. But she wasn't out of deep waters yet, the bear was still standing on his legs and she holstered her taser into her strap, not having time to recharge as the mammal on the run could escape her.
The doe began chasing after him, entered the darker alley, and started reloading her small weapon with another needle, while cursing inwardly for being issued a single-shot tranquilizer. She managed to gain on the brown bear, who seemed to be losing his energy very visibly, the tranquilizer beginning to kick in but not enough to get him to collapse.
She fired another one at him and managed to hit his lower back, the arrow being sharp enough to go through his shirt, and getting him to groan loudly, hit some metal trash bins in the process, and she knew that it was a matter of time until he fell, but what she didn't expect was for him to stop, grab a metal trash bin and hurl it at her direction with a lot of force, which would've almost hit her if she handn't dashed to the side.
The bear's fear was turned into boiling anger now, and she could see saliva falling off his mouth, probably because he was losing control over most of his body, and she could predict that he was going to charge her any second now, as well as that she didn't have any time to reload another needle, so she quickly holstered her weapon and readied herself for the inevitable.
The bear grabbed a big brick and threw it at her with all his might but she dodged it easily as his aim was very bad due to the toxins inside his system, which were starting to get him sleepy. He roared fiercely, charged at her, and she knew that this was a life and death situation, seeing the burning hatred inside the bear's eyes. She had little room to maneuver but had been trained well and knew what to do.
The bear was extremely close to her and swiped with his claws but missed, and she used that as an opportunity, jumping between his legs and hitting him with her shin in the tendons behind his knee, getting him to roar in pain and fall on his knees heavily, as the tranquilizer and the brutal kick had made it impossible for him to keep his stability. The hit appeared to have done its job and it seemed that she had managed to do so without injuring herself, which was great news but the fight wasn't over yet.
Judy saw that as an opportunity to reload and started doing so, but during the process, she made the mistake and stopped looking at the perp for a second, a second that was all the bear needed, and after which she felt something blunt and hard hit her paw, getting her to cry out in sharp pain and drop her weapon to the ground.
Her ears detected movement in front of her, she quickly moved her sight away from her injured pawn, and saw the bear charging at her again, but this time, this time she was taken by surprise and his swipe was just centimeters away from her widely-opened eyes, yet she managed to get out of the way and circled around the half-conscious bear that stumbled forward and supported his arms on his knees, while breathing sporadically and heavily.
He seemed drained and she knew what would bring him down, so she sprinted towards the wall on his right, distracting the bear with her move and jumped at it, using it as support to fire herself as a projectile at the brown giant, who didn't expect her to do that, and she managed, with her tough legs, to strike his kneecap with incredible speed and force, thus making the bear to at last lose all strength and fall flat on the ground, with a loud crash, which managed to blow a lot of dust around the alley, dust that managed to invade her nostrils and make her cough.
But this time, this time he didn't get up nor tried to move at all.
She took that as an opportunity to cuff him before he would start moving again, knowing full well that she wouldn't be able to hold his meaty paws if he resisted. She got her cuffs off her belt, cuffs that were made for mammals of all sizes and jumped on top of the bear's back, pulled both his paws, with some uffs and huffs, close to each other and snapped both cuffs to his wrists very quickly and professionally.
Judy quickly searched for her tranquilizer and after finding it, reloaded it quickly, as she didn't want any more surprises or fights with the giant mammal. She went up to him and checked if he was alright and it seemed that he was breathing and still was holding himself awake but without much energy present in his half-closed eyes.
"Do—Don't…" The doe went closer to him because he was trying to tell her something. She knew that she had to tell him his rights but that could wait. "D-d-don't kill m-m-me… pleaseeee…" he begged and her eyes became wide in surprise. She couldn't believe that the bear thought that she would kill him.
"Sir, I am not here to hurt you. Just don't resist, comply and everything will be alright," she reassured but saw the doubt in the bear's face which was still flat on the filthy ground. She was just going to radio it in when she heard Weaselton from the way they entered the alley.
"The little hippity-hop brings down the fucking fat bear. I couldn't believe my shitty eyes"-the weasel widely opened both his arms-"good fucking job forgetting to increase the charge on your taser, country girl," mocked the weasel who was now next to her, while grinning madly, and he patted her on the shoulder but she didn't even flinch, just stared at him with dissatisfaction as indeed she had forgotten to increase the charge, therefor she had to resort to chasing.
She saw Thane to pass by shortly after, and he was looking at her somehow… with interest? But he quickly moved his gaze away from her and onto the fallen giant. She wanted to retort to Duke's comments but felt stinging pain in her right paw from the hit she had received and just rubbed it lightly, while attempting to control her breathing from the quick expense of energy.
The weasel went to the bear's head and she could hear whimpers from the giant's side as well as his visible attempts to crawl away from the scruffy weasel, which was something rather strange. "You think we forgot about you M—"
She didn't hear the rest as Thane got in her view and began, "Hopps, go bring the car here so we can take him in," he ordered and threw her the keys, which she almost missed to catch as the pain in her paw was a tad bad, the swelling spot pulsing with her every beat of her healthy heart.
"Yes, Sergeant," she replied and tried walking away but something managed to stop her, something that made her heart to stop beating entirely, something that she dreaded and feared that could happen.
The only thing she wanted now was the day to be over and she to be in her comfortable bed, a bed that wasn't actually comfortable as it was very sturdy, and after having slept in it for the first time, she felt as if she had slept on the ground, but now, now there was nothing else she wanted more than that.
But the bed could wait as what she was hearing were the sounds of a beating, a beating which made her to turn around and see something horrifying. Duke was stomping the bear's head as well as kicking him ferociously, making the poor cuffed mammal to whimper and cry out in pain, cries that were piercing her ears and making her eyes to sting.
"You think you can run away from US?" the weasel shouted with hate and kicked even harder. The sound of bone meeting bone being very audible and making the doe to grimace in disgust, and she actually felt hesitation on her part, hesitation that was coming from Nick's warnings and pleas. She could just turn a blind eye and walk away, like nothing had happened. Then, then she wouldn't have any problems at all and she could continue as she was.
She grabbed the spot where her bruise was on her paw, a bruise that was made from the same bear that was on the ground. Maybe he did deserve that, maybe this was justifiable? She began squeezing that same bruise very hard, making excruciating pain jolt through her whole body.
No. She couldn't turn a blind eye, not to this, never to this. How could she even let herself to think like that, it was disgusting, it was repulsing, it was sickening. She didn't care what would happen anymore after what she was about to do, her sense of justice eating away the corrupted thoughts that were trying to control her, to make her like them, to destroy who she was.
That made her angry, angry like never before, and she felt a wave of energy to go through her whole body, making her feel incredible power and she was going to fume all that into the mammal she hated with all her might. Weaselton. She dropped the keys to the ground with a clink and sprinted towards the weasel who was beating relentlessly the detained mammal, who seemed to be losing consciousness because of that and not the toxins that were inside his system.
She was like a grey bullet and Duke had no idea what was coming for him at all, thus he leaned towards the bear's head, which was shortly after met with hard bone against his snout and throat. She hit him with her shin so hard, that she actually felt searing pain inside her bone as well as a loud crunching sound. That made the weasel to go flying back and fall on his back while grinding the dirty concrete ground with his not so clean-anymore uniform.
The doe agilely went over to the semi-conscious weasel, the adrenaline managing to suppress the pain that was going to bite her soon, and rolled him over, quickly grabbing his cuffs and putting them on both his wrists without any complications because the weasel didn't even try to resist, his state of shock and probably dazed brain not giving the opportunity to do so. She could hear his hard groans as well as the pulsing pain in her left shin that she was trying suppress but failing to do so anymore.
She moved back and glared at the pathetic weasel, who had tried again to do as he pleased in front of her, with satisfaction that she had given justice in the form of a teeth-breaking kick. She had made herself a promise and she wasn't going to let him continue his self-will. But she thought that something was amiss, that she had forgotten about something, something important.
Judy heard steps towards her and quickly turned her head but all she saw was a blur, and she felt a hard shove on her side, which made her to fall on the ground flat on her face, hitting her cheek in the process. She tried to quickly stand up but firm pressure was put on her back and her paws were grabbed, so she lost the ability to move, only her legs being somewhat free but the pressure was too much for her to get them angled and hit the mammal that was holding her down.
Who had she forgotten about, her adrenaline and shock were making her memory clouded and she just couldn't remember, until she felt cold steel on her wrists and then tightness.
Judy couldn't breathe very well as there was too much dust on the cold ground that was now freely entering her nostrils and making her cough even harder than before but it didn't last long, as she felt someone pull her up and set her to sit against the dirty red-brick wall, and she at last saw who it was.
Thane. No, how could I have… He was so good at making himself invisible that she had forgotten about him. Fear gripped her body and her nose started wiggling, her amethyst eyes began moving around frantically, searching for an exit but what was the point. She was cuffed and there was no escape anymore. The tightness on her wrist was hurting her because of the bruise but she gritted her teeth and tried to search for an escape, nevertheless.
The doe saw the coyote to go to Duke, remove the cuffs from him and help him up. She tried to get up as well but saw the hostile glare from Thane and slumped back into her position of shame. Were they going to kill her? Were they going to beat her up? No, they couldn't as the Chief knew that she was with them, yet the doubt was present and she saw the weasel, who was holding his ankles and breathing heavily, her kick having managed to get his brain to smack against the inside of his skull and greatly injure him. It was actually him of whom she was afraid of. She wasn't armed anymore, she was cuffed, and she remembered what he had done to the bear who was now visibly and undeniably unconscious.
Judy saw the weasel to look at her with hatred that burned like the sun, hatred that sent sharp needles with fear throughout her nerves, getting her to shake violently, squirm in her position, and groan from agony. She could see his intention of beating her up, as he reached for his steel expandable baton and began walking towards her, while having trouble doing so in a straight line because of the dizziness and pain she had caused upon his temple.
She wanted to yell, she wanted to scream, she wanted to run… but what was the point? She was in a dark alley, in a very bad area of Zootopia, with two corrupt cops of whom one was a cold-blooded murderer, who liked to hear his victims to squeal. No, she wasn't going to surrender, she wasn't going to die without a fight, so she stood up and took a battle stance with her cuffed paws behind her back but it wasn't an easy feat to do, as with every heartbeat, she could feel the scorching pain in her leg.
"I'm g-gonna f-f-fuck"-he began convulsing in pain but regained control of himself, surprisingly-"… y-you up," he spat hoarsely with incredible strain, while holding his neck with his free paw and coughing anguishedly and tightly as well. He got close to her and swung his baton at her but missed, as she dashed to her left and dodged his strike but by doing that, the pain in her shin got her to cry out in agony and fall instantaniously to the ground on her knees and almost on her already bruised face.
She quickly tried to stand up, and while attempting to do so, she glanced in front of her but that was accompanied by a brutally-piercing sharp pain on her cheek that she had fallen on as well, when Thane had pushed her to the ground and cuffed her. The hit managed to send her rocking back towards the old wall that she was leaning against a few moments ago but she didn't hit it by some chance and fell just before it.
Then she felt her brain start pulsing hard and feverish, her eyesight to lose its focus and loud ringing started resonating in both her drooped ears. The pain was excruciating and she began whimpering from it, not feeling well at all, and she just couldn't find any more energy within herself, yet she attempted to stand up again but was met by the force of a foot as well as words she couldn't understand, therefor she tried to get ready for another blow that would probably send more dreaded pain through her body, thus she closed her moist amethyst eyes and curled herself, as best she could, into a ball and waited for the inevitable, for the inescapable, for the unavoidable.
But nothing happened, nothing struck her, nothing increased her torment, the only thing she could sense was the throbbing inside her head, her shin, wrist, and cheek. But because nothing else happened, she slowly and painfully opened her terrified moist eyes that were filled with tears from the searing pain, while her brain pounded inside her skull.
She could blurrily see Thane shaking Weaselton cruelly by the scruff of his neck and probably yelling something at him, but she couldn't tell, the ringing only intensifying and making her deaf for the moment. She felt sleepy and just wanted the misery to go away, so she finally accepted defeat and closed her eyes, falling into slumber with the great pain finally going away, thus she slowly plopped onto the cold and dirty concrete.
She didn't know if she was going to wake up and what was going to happen next but she didn't care, she had done whatever she could, she hadn't stood idle and turned a blind eye. That's what gave her the ability to accept her fate, that's what got her heart to stop squeezing painfully inside of her. She knew what would've happened, she was warned many times. But the choice was made.
She had tried…
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