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"Really what did you find?",came the question from Jessica.

Nick took a good look at the map before answering.

"I found some sort of city map that has been heavily modified. It may have something to do with the location of the bombs or their escape plan, but I cannot be sure."

He heard Jessica sigh in relief, "that is great news! AS for the photographs you mailed, I sent them to central and they confirmed that these are most likely ciphered pages since they do not come from any know magazine out there."

Nick could not help but grin, before a question rose up,"Jess?"

"Yes Nick?"

"Say, does central have any kind of idea if we could use these ciphered pages to determine who these criminals associate with?"

Jessica paused for a moment before answering,"Yes we could but we need to decipher them first and that could take time."

Nick's ears lowered in disappointment, but he had not given up yet.

"I mean, I heard these stories at the precinct about the Guild using similar methods. Could they be involved in all of this?"

The effect of his words were immediate in the form of an audibly sharp inhale from the other side of the line. "Yes, they do use those as well and they could be." This statement was followed by another short pause from Jessica. "Do you have any other evidence that might point in that direction?"

Nick looked once more around the room before his eyes settled on the money.

"I found about thirty grand total in cash next to a handgun and the map I mentioned before, below the floorboards of the apartment. Does that help?"

More silence followed and he was sure he could hear Jessica whispering to someone else before she answered,"No not really. But I told the guys here and they told me that if these guys are affiliated with the guild then they would use guild ciphers. And if they use guild ciphers then we might be able to decipher these pages faster than anticipated since we have a database for that."

Now Nick was a little confused,"wait I thought you said what I said does not really help. So why would they even try that?"

Jessica answered and he could feel her smile even over the distance,"well, I learned to trust your gut feelings a long time ago. And, we kind of were just trying every cipher we could come up with. The most popular choices so to speak. So you just gave us a more specific starting point to work with and that can't really hurt."

Nick had no idea how to decipher those pages and how many ciphers there possibly were so he had no idea if it would actually help. This thought though raised another question for him.

Judy had suggested the whole guild thing. And while he actually believed that she was trying to stop these criminals. He had no reason to believe that they were not, at least to some extent, connected to the FPM. Maybe this was her way to cover that up?

But then again if they received these letters from the FPM then she would not need to find and decipher them, so he realized that his thoughts on the matter made no real sense at all. That did not mean that he could be careless though.

"Alright, I will send you the map as soon as I hang up. Do you need me to do anything else?"

Another pause.

"Finish checking the apartment. And when you are finished there is actually one more thing you can do before we meet up."

This peaked Nick's interest he would have thought that Jessica wanted to meet up right away. Still he replied in his smuggest possible voice. "Sure give me another task. We want this to be done by the best after all."

He heard Jessica chuckle on the other end of the line before answering."Great I will tell my superiors that you don't want the hard jobs because you want us to send better trained mammals to do them instead."

Now it was Nick's turn to chuckle, "wow, that one was mean.", he said in mock defeat.

And Jessica went on. "But for real, you can check up on your theory. If they work with the guild there is only one mammal they would go to for bombs. I will send you the data."

This made Nick's collar feel tight. The Guild meant trouble, especially if confronted directly with the police. "Won't that be really dangerous?,"he asked with slight fear in his voice.

"Not really the guy you will talk to is an ex Guild member. We turned him years ago but he still has his connections which makes him really useful. Just get into some civilian clothes before you go to meet him. I in the meantime will pursue all our other leads while agent Hunter handles the hostage situation."

"I can handle an informant. Just send me the address and I will get there.",he replied dutifully.

"I will," and with those words Jessica hung up on him and only about a minute later she had sent him a small file containing a picture, an address and some code phrases. He meanwhile sent the map over to her and turned back to Judy who dutifully waited for him to finish.

Once he did though he could see that she could barely contain her curiosity.

"So?" She asked in a sing song voice, "what is going to happen now?"

He thought about the situation for a moment before answering,"we need to talk to an informant in order to test your Guild theory. And if it checks out then we will see how we go from there. Maybe we can find out what kind of bombs they use and how many they posses, that would be great."

Judy seemed really happy about this as she hopped over towards the door of the room. When she reached it and he still had not moved she turned around and asked somewhat irritated,"why are you still standing there? Come on we got a city to save!"

And he could only grin,"you are right, Carrots! We got no time to spare, let's go."

She frowned when he said Carrots and he just followed her out of the apartment with a smirk on his muzzle. Then they made their way over to his cruiser. And all the way he was watching Judy. The doe was younger than him that was for sure. She seemed to be really cheery too, and she certainly had some reservations about being near him, which was easy to spot by the distance she held to him at all times. But with him being a predator and her being prey he could not really blame her at all. Something else that he realized about the female lagomorph was that she was fast. Like really fast. And he wondered how his ancestors caught rabbits with them being as agile as she apparently was. She was basically running circles around him in excitement all the way to the cruiser. It was totally adorable. But he kept these thoughts to himself and his well trained poker face certainly helped with that.

Once they reached the cruiser though problems naturally arose.

"What do you mean I have to sit in the back?",she asked somewhat infuriated.

Nick had not really expected that much resistance but in hindsight it made sense. She would be at his mercy once she as back there. Even without paw cuffs, since the back of the cruiser was designed to hold all sorts of mammals and make sure that they could not free themselves.

"Come on, if I wanted to arrest you I would have done so in the apartment. Do you really think I would use such underhanded tricks?"

The look he received from Judy was something between, yes of course and do you really think I am this stupid? And he almost laughed. It was just not fair that the small prey mammal just looked so cute regardless of her mood. He just could not take her rage seriously.

Naturally words followed looks and this lead to the following exchange.

"Of course I do not trust you! You said that you would arrest me after we are done yourself!"

"But Carrots. I also said that we got a truce."

"For NOW! Who knows when you will change your mind, officer?",she spat that last word. Almost like it was an insult and from her it certainly felt like one.

"So you are saying that I, and officer that protects the law! Am not trustworthy?"

She nodded, "Of course you are not trustworthy to me. YOU ARE A POLICE OFFICER! Do I need to spell it out to you why I can not trust your kind?"

That one as a solid hit as well.

"Carrots, I promise you that I will not arrest you now, because I am still in need of your help. I believed that this was simple because the FPM was supposed to be involved. But you showed me that things are not this simple and it makes sense to me that the FPM has nothing to gain from doing this. SoI need your help as someone with a different perspective who can help me solve this mess!"

He paused for a moment to catch his breath while Judy looked at him somewhat conflicted. "Will you help me? Carrots, please?"

There was a moment of utter silence and even the city around them seemed to be a little bit quieter than before. And really took a moment before she answered by opening the back door and jumping into the cruiser, "fine. But stop calling me Carrots, it is demeaning."

He closed the door for her and made his way over to the front of the cruiser before entering himself.

"So you want me to call you Fluff again?"

She groaned in defeat,"no! Carrots is fine."

Nick nodded, "alright then Carrots," he tasted the word victoriously on his tongue,"next stop is the precinct since I need to change into my civilian clothes."

She looked at him like she was doubting his explanation but she did not say anything. So he started up the radio and made his way towards the precinct with a terrorists in tow.

Authors Note:

So this took longer than normal and there are 3 reasons for that:
Number 1, I still suck at writing the Nick and Judy bits of my story and it takes really long to write short chapters like this. (If someone wants to be my co author by all means help me out![It can probably only increase the quality of this, whatever this is.])
Number 2, My sister had her birthday this week and I volunteered to take over ehr shifts at her job so she can celebrate and stuff liek that.
And Number 3, Rainbow 6 Siege brought out alpha packs. And while I was not really happy at first. Now I am hooked and on the hunt for those Legendary skins which is time consuming (I have a problem).
I am probably gonna switch perspective from Nick to Judy next chapter but maybe not. If you have any complaints voice them.
And thank you guys for replying so much to my last chapter it is always nice to know that people actually read this and are willing to interact with me and my story.
And we got to 10 follows that is a great even number.(yayx10)