I watched as Dennis tried to start a fire but having a hard with it making him very frustrated, it didn't help that his arm was broken and he was already irritated with the fact that we where lost now that part made me face balm my head, what kind of goon doesn't even know his way around his own boss property. He tied me up with one of my own zip ties from the gear that Chloe had gave me, sadly my gun had washed away down stream which made it easier for him to restrain me in his condition but I guess my condition also helped with that. I just stared at him and the not yet lit fire pit with tired eyes while secretly trying to figure out escape.
We really needed this fire since we where both wet and the cold air of the night made it much worse for us and with me bring pregnant I couldn't afford to catch hypothermia.
When the warmth hit my fur and my face making me close me eyes I let out a moan of relief, the light also allowed me to get a better look at the hyena haven't done so before obiviously trying to escape. I could see that he was shirtless exposing his muscular chest to the brightness of the flame, it made me quite basful to look at so I averted my eyes away from him,thank god he still wore his brown pants and boot . I had to get rid of my chest armor and my long sleeve dark blue shirt so no I was only wear my whit under shirt and black pants.
"I can't wait to get back so I can get away from you" he spat keeping the fire lit as best he could.
I only rolled my eyes at him, it reminded me of when my younger teenage brothers were threw a tantrum.
"Luckily for you I won't kick your teeth in because the Don still needs you" he growled.
"You said you were a lawyer?" I asked him softly ignoring his comments"What happened?...how did you you come to be a Capo for the Don?" I asked.
Dennis grabbed a fistful of mud throwing across my face "That's for my arm" he sneered "But...do you really want to know? Bunny" he mocked.
The dirt did caught me off guard making me flinch slightly but I remained calm as I wiped it off my face to look at him.
" I wasn't the one to shoot you..." I cleaned my face" but I am sorry about that...I don't like guns with bullets...and yes I do" I said now looking at him seriously.
"Ever heard of Dennis Callwell the Lawyer of every city's hope, I was in that job when you were in the police academy...I was busy cleaning the streets of Crime, Pollution, Prostitution, Drugs and Gangs and fighting for mammels civil right... I was famous and had many enemies.."
My eyes widen at this of course I heard of him " Your the reason I was able to go into the academy" I said plainly still staring him wide eyed remebering seeing him in paper as this clean cut handome smart mammal, but this mammal sitting in front of me right I didn't regonize at all, his hair once brush back was wild and long, he wore cloths that looked like from the movie Mad Pax, and his once calm collected eyes look crazed.
He smiled ironically at me when I said this"Funny isn't it" he chuckled "I was hailed as the savior of the city and now I became the city's worst enemy..."
" I-I don't understand..." I stuttered in disbelief" You fought so hard to stop crime and death in the streets...You proved to everyone that just because you where a hyena that doesn't mean you were a back stabber or a fiend...You did...so much good why would you become the ones that disgusted you so much" I said as I tried to keep my voice calm to find out why one of the mammels I looked up to so much and one my inspiration to fight for I believe inhad fallen so low.
" Of course I did...your one of the reasons why I didn't stop trying to be a cop because you didn't stop trying to fight what's right while dealing with predujice for your species" I said with somewhat praising him.
"Of course my species have been falling into that stereotype being lying mischief laughing buffoons."
"I had many enemy's but I worked hard to have Allie's and friends, but it all started with my mother...but.. I admit it's nice that a citizen of the city recognized my efforts to fix Zootopia."
"Y-you mother?" I asked in confusion still trying to process everything.
"She was diagnosed with Crippling depression when she got all older I tried to schedule time off with her...The less time I spent with her the more depressed she had gotten, my sister tried to spend time with her but with her being pregnant made it more difficult."
I could feel tears of fustration fall down my eyes" Then how could you become!...THIS!" I over dramatically gestured" Why did you..." I could feel my voice about to break and my vision clouded.
"My mother committed suicide...she bled out in her bathtub that's how I found out, I called my sister and the hospital but it was too late. She didn't get to see my sister's son being born..." "
I froze at this as I stared at him wide -eyed while he just stared at me with dead emotionless eyes. I could only imange watching you mother battle with mental illness for so many years till finally it brought her to kill herself...I...I don't know know what I what have done if my own mother ever died.I gripped the dirt tightly in my paws "I'm so sorry..." I said softly.
I knew there was more the story then that"A-and what happened after she died?..." I asked carefully.
"After the funeral It gotten hard to support my sister and her son, work was becoming hard I would work sleepless nights succeeding more cases, and putting criminals in their cells, after 3 years we thought everything was gonna work out, when my Nephew turned 3 on his birthday."
"Something happened...didn't it" I asked quietly.
"I finally got a day off to help him celebrate his 3rd birthday, my sister went to buy him his cake and I already bought him his present's, Me and him were excited to see his mother come home til I got a phone call...Chief Bogo who was Seargant Bogo back than found my sister murdered in an alleyway with her possession's stolen..."
I could feel tears run down my eyes at this silently" D-did he ever find out who did it?" I asked trying to talk calm.
"A Reptile jumped her, sexually assaulted her and shot her when she tried to defend herself."
I froze at this, I've heard of reptiles another race of animals but much different then mammals due to being cold blooded and leathery skinned, they were the suspose natives of Zootopia before there was even Zootopia, when our ancestors had settled here but in doing so butched and kicked out most reptiles from there own homes...it one of the darkest parts of Zootopian history including the slavery of predators and the shock collars.
"I spent most of that day crying and my Nephew didn't know what was going on."
Sorrow fell upon my face as I watched his express grief. I could only imange how much it destroyed the little hyena toddler to find out his mother was never coming home...on his birthday no less. " What happened to your nephew?" I asked.
"I...gave him to family, I couldn't take care of him..."
"Why not his father?..." I asked him.
"He didn't want him..."
It broke my heart to hear this...a small child to lose a mother so horribly and to be rejected by his own father it made me wonder how Nick would react to me being pregnant with Julian's along with his own baby.
" Wouldn't that have made you try to fight the war on crime harder...so no one else could go through that" I asked him trying to understand him.
"Turned out people inside that worked for us were crooked too.."
" W-what do you mean?" I askedbut dreaded the answer.
"Some slandered me, other's had ruined me, I went to a bar, drunk and I didn't care, I wanted to drown my sorrows away, then..I gambled lost everything even all of my money, than I got shanked and beaten to shit, I stumbled for who knew how long I felt my insides hurt and ribs were broken than I saw my reflection in the water on a pier...I didn't look like that famous hyena that wore a respectful suit, nicely groomed hair that was the defender of the people who saved lives and fixed poverty, I didn't look like that he that loves his family, I saw a washout drunk that is less than nothing..."
Sypmpathy fell a up in my face when he told my of his down fall, he worked so hard to make the world a better place but in the end he lost everything and it destroyed him changing a good mammal into what she saw now" How and why did you start working For Castor" I asked weakly.
"He saved me, pulling me out from the water, I asked him why he would save a failure like me he said"You are worth saving, mammels like you don't deserve this fate I can help you l"...That's when I knew this was my fate and I accepted it..."
I was surprised to hear this about the Don, not really showing or if any compassion to others the small hint of it that I've seen is of him letting me take Annie...but in the end he still tried to take me back to be his little drug product.
He rose up from his position looking at the forest "That's when he convinced me that everything is corrupted, even Police, City officials, politicians, the mayor's even the fucking President can be corrupt!" He snapped, "Thus then on I became Zootopia's worst enemy I am the Ravager of Zootopia I am the terrorist that will disrupt their joke of a system, I run the Slaving group my job is to sell healthy specimens to be slaves or black markets!"
My heart nearly shattered when I heard this I couldn't comprehend how once good rightous mammal good become a cruel physicotic criminal and almost likely killer"You...you were trying to stop mammal trafficking though...it disgusted you the most...speacily when it was childern..." I said under my breath.
"I am Zootopia's modern Pirate, and the whole city will learn not to throw me away like trash when I had done so much for them, this is Zootopia's lesson and I will show the city official's what happens when you mess with me" he smiled in Insanity.
" I understand that there are corrup mammals...I've met Lionhart...I've met Bellweather...she tried to get Nick to kill me savagly...there's so many times when others wanted me to give up and when I lost my faith but I kept fighting cause I knew not everyone is evil...there is good" I told him but it seemed like I was trying to convince myself more then him.
" This drug he's trying to make is dangerous...it won't just hurt the city but your nephew too" I tried to get through to him with pleading eyes.
Before Dennis could open his maw his ear flinched of a cocked gun "Hello Dennis" Julian gritted his teeth.
Fear instantly overcame me once I caught sight of my rapist and the father of one my babies making me backing up tremendously.
Dennis hurried grabbing me by the throat "Your not going anywhere!" He seethed.
The Hyena turned his head to the Panther as choked against his grip while trying to claw his paw to let go of my neck.
"Julian, I did as the Boss ask got this bitch wrapped in my fingers" he smiled walking a few steps to the Black Panther.
I winched and groaned in pain as he dangled me in the air.
"Here" he grunted handing me to Julian.
Julian pointed his pistol shooting Dennis's toe making the Hyena scream "Jesus! Christ!"
"No one touches my Judy"
He droppec me to the ground while holding my throat as I tried to catch my breath, once I did looked upon in horror at Dennis's bloodied foot and quickly to see that Julian's gun had been the cause of it, seeing the blood along with my hormones made me vomit no longer being able to hold it in.
Julian leaned down "Your coming with me Darling" he bared his teeth at me.
I was beginging to have flashbacks of Gideon, Travis, the mammal from the motel and when Julian raped me...the only thing I could think of at that moment of terror was flight. I kicked hard into his throat winding him badly and took my chance to ran as fast and far I can away from both of them.
"You let her slip Dumbass!" Dennis screeched Julian pointed his gun at him "Get her now" he manage to say while trying to sooth his neck.
"Come here bitch!" Dennis tripped attempting to chase after me.
I didn't know were I was going as ran blindly through the vast trees and bushes with the moon serving as my only light but I knew I had to get far far away, I managed to chew off my zip tie which was hard to do with how thick the plastic was but was happy when I did cause it allowed me to run faster.
I could feel my heart pound in my ears while fear went through my body reminding me if I stopped what my fate will be, I didn't look back... I knew it would slow me down if I did I just kept running with adrenaline in my blood stream while thorns, branches and leaves often hit, scratch or stab me but I still didn't let it stop me I survived my police boot camp so this was nothing compared to that...I honestly didn't know how long I had been running.
My ear twitched when it caught the sound of cars driving on the road making me run towards it hoping to find civilization, I eventually caught sight of light from street lamps making me run faster and smile in joy at the sight of it. I litterly leaped out of the trees only to collapse at the side of the road my adrenaline completely used and painted hard with my lungs on fire and my whole body sore as I looked at the night sky.
held my chest as it felt like my heart was about beat out but just then my eyes were blinded by head lights of a black car who was quickly pulling over to the side of the road I was on.
"Quick get in!" A voice called as the car door opened.
He didn't have to tell me twice as I stumbled my way over to the car and shut the door quickly"Drive! just drive!" I told him curtly between my breaths.
With that he preshed on the gas as drove off down the road just as Dennis popped out of the trees. He
Dennis howled in rage knowing he couldn't catch us. I looked behind to see Dennis get smaller and smaller until I couldn't even see him anymore making cry in relief as I turned around to face the front " thank you"I said hoarsly to the male in the car and I froze in surprise when I saw who it was.
"I knew I could find you Judy" Sam smiled.
Tears of joy began to fill my eyes as I jumped over to hug my childhood jaguar friend "Sam! Oh Sam! I'm so happy to see you" I cried into his chest and held as tight as my arms allowed.
"Judy I gotta drive first we'll hug when we get there."
" Get where?.." I asked weakly as I fell and curled on his lap exhausted.
"My home Rain Forest District"
When I woke up I was in a bed in a room that looked like it was inside a tree.
"Oh your awake Judy" someone smiled hugging me.
I was a taken back at first but once my vision became more clear I saw it was Sam making me hug him back right as I buried my face into his neck. "Sam..." I said as I choked back a sob" How did you find me?...how did you even know?" I asked.
"I got a call from an old friend, I found you in the nick of time "Here I made some stew with carrots" he said picking a bowl up from the table.
He placed a tray on my lap, the aroma of the filled my nose it smelled really good making me hum. "Let me geuss..Bobby told you right"I said straight to the point.
Sam nodded "I know I haven't been there but I'm truly sorry about what happened to you..."
I could feel tears run down my eyes"Sam...I'm pregnant" I told him before sobbing into my hands.
"I know and it's hard, please eat some stew I'll get you a drink" he spoke as he headed towards the kitchen leaving the door open.
"A girl he talked about smuggled a sonogram I think her name is Allison" he wondered grabbing a cup.
"Spider..." I said I nodded in understandment.
I rested against the head board.
Sam hummed as he opened his fridge door grabbing ice cubes, Sam came back with what appeared to be lemonade and gave it to me"Thanks..." I replied weakly as I took a drink.
"Your welcome" he smiled sitting next to me.
I took a couple bites of of the stew which was really good
"Its been a long time Sam...3 years right " Isaid as I smiled weakly at him. Sam has been my friend since grade school, his father was the manager at the tire plant in bunny burrow, him and his family are one of the few predators in bunny up Sam was easily picked on by others mostly prey because while he was a predator he was very shy, sweet, smart and he didn't know how to stand up for himself until one day I did for him against five bucks who were throwing rocks at him I scared them away with my dads pitch fork, I introduced the lonely little cub to my friends and we began to hang out, been we've friends ever since.
"Soon we'll get back to the police and shut the Don and his crazy mad science down and no one will hurt you or your children" Sam said.
I choked on my stew at this and turned to look at Sam in panic. "Sam nonono! I they can't help me right now, the Don has mammels in high places he will just take me back and won't care who's in the way..." I clutched into his white button down shirt as I looked at him in fear"You saw the news of the massacre at the concert...I bet it's a different story then what Bobby and Allison told you..."
Sam was bewildered but attempted to calm the rabbit down he laid her gently down on the bed before speaking "Would you like to lookbar my pictures while I get you a drink?"
I could only nodded while my arm was over my eyes, I could feel him take away the tray away from me and went back into the kitchen.
He resumed his humming grabbing more ice.
I became quiet restless making me get up and walk out of his room and down the hall to look around to see the the hallowed out house inside the tree. I eventually made my way to kitchen and my eyes caught sight of the mutiple pictures on the fridge.
I saw a couple of Sam with his parents and little sister past and present, a couple of our group of friends various from grade school to high school , and even a picture of the play we did it made me laugh. I saw more pictures of him in different places he explored with different people, Sam is shy but it's nice he wants to see more of Zootopia.
I even found the picture of him and me at prom which we want to together as dates, I wore a peach spaghetti dress while he wore a Black suit and tie, I remembering my father telling us to have a good time with a big smile but only to change it to glare just as quickly and threatening him that if he tried anything with me he would face the barrel of his shot gun and honestly it scared Sam to point the he just stared at my dad frozen making me have him to drag him to the limo with ours friend's. I laughed at this memory of only he knew Sam was gay back then.
I looked lower to see a folded picture pinned, It made raise a brow in curiousness as I brought my hand over, pulled it off the fridge and opened it up to look at it I smiled to think it was something silly Sam did that I could tease him about but once I got a look at my heart stopped and my blood ran cold...it was Sam with Julian both were drinking smoothies and Sam was sitting on Julian's lap.
Julian looked so much different I mean he still looked like his flamboyent self but...happy and no trace of psychosis. Both were smiling, Julian was wearing a purple sports shirt and blue shorts, Sam was wearing an orange sleeve shirt with camo pants. Two other photos then dropped from the folded one.
"Judy what's wrong? You look like you seen a ghost"
"Y-you know...Julian Star?" my voice trembled as my ears drooped yet I didn't turn around to face him.
Sam looked distraught picking up the 2 photos "I didn't want to show because I knew something like this would happen" he sat on a chair looking at the 2 photos "I don't know why I kept them..."
I put a paw over my heart feeling it beat fast as I turned my gaze to jaguar sitting at the table looking at the photos intensely and with some fondness, The second photo showed Julian wrapping his arms around Sam at a Beach Sam wore blue trunks, Julian wore bathing shorts with sunglasses. The third photo showed the two at a concert with Gazelle hugging the two in the background were cheering fans.
Sam sighed deeply and turned his gaze back to me. "He was Your Boyfriend...wasn't he..." I said putting everything together.
"Jeffy and I were together for 3 year's before he became a successful singer" Sam stared at the photos deeply"But I didn't understand why he changed so much, Why Jeffy" he said sorrowful.
"Jeffy?" I said in confusion.
"That's his real name if you can believe it, he only revealed his name to those he trusted Jeffery Dalson is his full name."
I could see sorrow in Sam's eyes I could tell he really loved him, if someone as sweet as Sam loved him so dearly it was proof he once was a good mammal.
"He and I were scraping by with little money but Julian took most of the work for me."
"Yea I think I remember 3 years ago you were just starting low rank in the stock market..." Guilt filled me that I didn't know the struggles my good friend was going through 3 years ago due to being so caught up achieving my own dream.
" Sam why didn't you tell me you were having trouble back then?" I asked him with sad eyes.
"You were focused on succeeding to become a cop I didn't want to add my problems into your's" he rubbed his arm.
That was Sam always never wanting to burden others " What happen Sam...why did you two break up?" I asked softly.
"He started pursuing Gazelle when we met her at her concert, we were slowly getting distant but we both slept in the same bed and we still...um had sex" Sam blushed.
"Than Jeffy had become even more distant he started going out and not coming back in the next 12 hours..."
My eyes turn to sympathy as he told his story "I'm really sorry Sam..." I looked at the photos on the table"did you leave him or did he leave you?..." I asked carefully bringing my gaze back to him.
"He left me when he told me he got an emmy...and he said that he didn't feel that connection we had year's ago and said to stop calling him Jeffy" he sniffeled.
I saw Sam start to cry and it broke my heart making me go over to him, climbed into his lap and wrapped my arms around his neck to hug him tightly. I don't know how anyone could do that to Sam, he was so sweet and smart and not to mention good looking" Any guy would die to have you Sammy " I called him by his childhood nick name " He shouldn't have hurt you like that..."I stroked his head with my paw.
" Sam...there's...something wrong with him...I think he's mentally ill" I told him softly.
"I saw some signs but I thought he was thinking too much...we both fought when I found a bag of Molly and Ecstasy in his pants..."
I wasn't surprise to hear this do seeing him drug use first hand" Sam..." I could feel myself about to sob" he's the father of one of my babies..." I said while I shut my eyes tightly and I clutched on him hard.
"He's obsessed with me...apparently had been for a long time now...not to mention his boss's wants to use my blood for his new drug.." I cried softly I slide down his chest.
"I said to him at least Judy has my back and suppor your nothing but selfish..."
" So...so he's known about me for at least 3 years" I said weakly as I got up from his lap and began to pace around the kitchen slowly.
" I-I can't stay here Sam" I told him as stroked my stomach lightly" I leave in the morning...I don't want you to get hurt because of me"I told with a look of depression on my face" I have to leave Zootopia" I said as I felt myself sob.
"No they'll just keep following you" Sam almost half yelled.
"And if I stay here I'm a sitting duck..." I sobbed to him"Sam they have already hurt my partner Nick, they hurt Gideon, they even where able to nab Allison...Castor has threatened my sisters and he wants to cut open Nick's baby...I have to keep them safe" I nearly broke down as said this.
"No!" Sam grabbed me clutching me to his chest but not to tight to hurt my babies.
"Judy they'll go after your friends, and possibly kill more citizens til you stop hiding, how long are you gonna keep suffering like this?"
I just cried into his chest, having flashbacks of Annie being taken, me being raped, Nick being raped by Julian, the Don slaughtering innocent mammals at the concert, the Don threatening my sisters and to turn Allison, Gideon and Nick savage, and to dissect one of my babies. All of it came out of me in a complete breakdown as I sobbed hard into the jauger's chest hard.
I knew it broke Sam heart to hear this...I don't think he ever saw me this broken...not since what Travis did to me. I felt him carry me back to his room and place me in his bed.
" C-can...can you sleep with me...I..I don't want to be alone right now" I said as I whimperd into the pillow.
"Sure Judy" Sam nodded.
I felt Sam climb into the huge bed with me and wrapped his arms around me, bunnies where very social and affectionate mammals who saught comfort when ever they were distress or sad, I wasn't going to lie some did try to have sex when they felt like this but most of the time is was just for platonic comfort, it was partly why I had so many plushies of them at my apartment cause when I got homesick at night or sad.
I wanted Nick...
"You...all..failed me" The Don looks at the computer screen with his whole body turned around from facing his goons.
Castor sat in his desk smoking a cigar eyeing his capos very calmy, there was Dennis, Julian, Misha, Felicity, and even Edmund was there due him being more stable right now.
"You all failed me" he spoke dangerously thin taking a deeper huff of his cigar"Where is Dune?" He spoke icy tone.
Most remained calm while others clearly showed nervousness at the Don calmness.
"Don I was kept locked up most of the time the bunny was here..." Edmund responded emotionless, the clouded leopard never really showed emotion not even when he was facing life or death situations it was one of the things the Don admired about him.
"Unless you want to volunteer for the prototype Purple drop, I don't want to hear excuses" the Don stared deep at the clouded lepeord taking another huff of his cigar.
Edmund didn't show any emotion and crossed his arms as he turned his direction towards the hyena and the panther"all I'm saying the rest of us didn't act like childern and became trigger happy with another which let the bunny get away" Edmund raised his eyebrow at Dennis and Julian" I have to admit the rabbit is clever though" Edmund said as he shrugged.
"Dennis how's your toe feeling any better?" The Don asked the hyena with a cast on the arm and foot.
He nodded"Yea...just my arm hurts more.." he hissed under his breath"But if this girly physco hadn't shot me the bitch wouldn't have been able to have run off!" he growled at Julian.
"Julian how's your arm?" Castor asked.
Julian just growled back at Dennis before turning his towards the Don.
The Don pulled his pistol shooting the Panther in the arm "How is your arm Julian?" He asked calmly seeing the Panther collapse on the floor blood seeping out of his arm.
"Well Don I'm surprised" I voice popped up causing everyone to turn their attention towards Hunter Dune"You ask me to handle Edmund's businesses while he's incompasited and I come back a week later to find out eveything gone to Shit" The coyote said amused as he brought himself to sit lazily in a chair.
"Finally. you arrived Hunter" The Don sighed in relief.
Julian seethed in and out through the pain while Dennis just snickered.
"How's your business, anything improved anything we can reap of?" The Elk raised an eyebrow.
Hunter whistled at Julian" Wow I wonder what you did to piss him off this time Julian" Hunter said before turning back to the Don" Despite Edmund's abstance I was able to hold down the fort with out any problems.." Hunter told him as he took off his jacket, it was then he noticed a certain someone was missing"Where's Allison? " he asked curiously.
The Don sighed "Our little Spider has defected joining the police and special forces..."
Hunter raised his eyebrow in disbelief"Your kidding?..." as he scanned the room again"wow things really have been falling apart down here" he said under his breath.
"For what is worth I'm glad your here friend, Dennis almost succeeded getting the bunny than Julian shot him in the foot before Julian arrived Dennis was shot in the arm, by the daughter of the chief of police, Mr. Bogo" The Don updated Dune about the sitsituation"We lost most of the subjects, and a few of our men" Felicity added.
" Well not really surprised Hopps escaped" He turned back around started to pulled a ciggerate out of his pants and put it in his mouth" She took down a fucking black bear at the fight club and from what I heard a rhino at the police academy haha" he chuckled as he lit it.
"I also heard she kicked Julian in the throat! God Dennis I wished you filmed that for me!" Hunter laughed.
Dennis smirked "And I could've had a knife to stick Julian in during that."
"We have one of their team members" Misha commented.
Hunter raised a eyebrow in interest at this "Oh who?" he asked as turned to face Misha.
"A Tiger named Ancel, Felicity disabled his life signs while he and Julian were fighting, he's in the testing chamber right now" Misha smirked.
" Intersting" Hunter said our loud before turning back to back the face the Don his once joking carefree face now serious"Now how do we get back Hopps?... he said as he took a drag.
And here we are another chapter ^^ Hunter and Edmund are back so things are becoming more interesting along with Judy finding about Sam dating Julian" jeffy". I don't know the name of her Javier friend in the movie so I just made it up^^. I would like to thank my good friend Marianof contra for helping me she awesome :).