"It's been a two weeks and still nothing," dark huffed as he collapsed back into his seat at his office. It had been two weeks since the last sighting of the pesky bunny who had ruined so much business. They still hadn't found Harold but he had probably skipped town the moment word got out that they were tying up loose ends. They would have found a body by know if the rabbit got to him anyway. Toying around with the idea of another exchange failed, she wouldn't let him leave where ever they met alive. From the little she had spoken to him, she made his imminent death explicitly clear. The phone on his desk started to buzz. It was josh. Picking up the phone, Dark turned in his chair to look outside at the clear night.

"What is it Josh?"

"Hey boss, I was wondering if I could let Nick out of the room for a bit."

"What! Why?"

On the other side Josh cringed and the rest of the buildings inhabitants gave him a incredulous glances. He didn't listen when they told him asking Dark was a bad idea. " The guy has been stuck in a room for over a month without being able to look outside. I think it would be fine if I let him walk around and look out the window. We are three stories up after all and everyone here but me has a gun."

Dark shrugged, " If he escapes it's on you."

"Thanks boss," Josh said enthusiastically while some mammals exchanged money behind him. Apparently they were betting on his chance of success. It eased his conscious that only two mammals sided with him. It made what came next easier.

Nick POV

The last two weeks had been the hardest and most painful of his very short life. Sure, having his arm set on fire hurt but it was over quickly, unlike what he did now. Always hearing stories of war veterans and accident workers needing to learn how to walk again and actually doing it were two very, very different things. Despite of the grueling pain he felt, he was glad to see some positive progress. He still had a limp but he would be able to run if necessary.

The door opened and Josh poked his head in. "Hey Nick, you're getting that walk you asked for. "

He pushed himself off the floor and limped over to the door. The entire way Josh inspected his movements to ensure he was healthy enough. He pushed past the door and got the first look around the building he was staying in.

The room was one of many that lined the drab, dark hallway. When he pushed himself out of the hallway into a large open floor. A group of mammals eyed him carefully from the couch they sat on while they watched something on the large TV attached to the wall. He didn't let their uneasy stares bother him. Glancing around the room he noticed what he was looking for and painfully ran over to it, josh chasing closely behind. He fell to his knees in front of the window and just admired the sight. After a few seconds he felt the soft hand of his friend land on his shoulder. Then he did something he hadn't done since Judy first told him she loved him. He wept.

Trough the dirty industrial window he saw the shimmering buildings that always littered the city no matter where you were. He saw the brilliant skyscrapers of the city central reflect the brilliant moonlight in the clear night and the beautiful noise that existed everywhere outside that hellish room. Seeing the stars in the clear night did more to him then he thought they would. Even though he didn't normally stargaze he kept weeping as his eyes found Polaris. His eyes glanced down to the street, examining every detail he could and, even though he thought it not possible, his gin grew wider. Sorely pushing himself up from the floor, he launched himself at his friend and clung to his torso. It was painful and the jump had put immense strain on but clutching the deer's slim torso wasn't nearly enough to thank him.

"So what now," nick whispered with a unbreakable grin on his face.

Josh met the foxes smile with his own but something was off in the shimmering brown eyes. "Hold on," he whispered a split second before he jumped through the window, shattering it into a million pieces. For some reason they both laughed as they fell. It might have been the relief of staring at the sky again or the surprising sight of the truck below them carrying a trailer of nothing but soft foam padding but he doubted that. But what actually caused his outburst of laughter was glimpse at the small bunny driver who's brilliant purple eyes assessed the building.

he landed with a thud against Josh's torso and watched the stars with a smile as they sped away from the building. The frantic shouting and gunshots faded behind him and his mind felt relaxed for the first time in forever. He drifted into sleep.

Judy's pov

"Shift up. accelerate. drift around corner. punch it," an determined Judy Hopps mumbled to herself. She didn't notice the wolf or the deer holding on for dear life as she rocketed around corners, her attention was elsewhere. They were lucky that the streets were basically abandoned at that time of night because the alternative would have ended messily. The Car ride went on for another ten minutes and Judy slammed the car to a halt in front of the hospital where half the force was waiting. The large intimidating building was crawling with ZPD officers, each and every one taken aback when they locked eyes with the rabbit who was helping an asleep fox out of the back. Nick began to wake up as Judy carried him over to the back doors.

"Hey carrots," he said as if not a single moment had passed since they last saw each other. Her only response was turning the dazed and wounded fox around to meet her gaze before speaking.

"Don't you dare do anything like that ever again."

He chuckled taking a better look at her but his features fell. The characteristic spring in her step was gone, replaced by a paroid jitter that might have also been the reason for the large bags under the normaly alert eyes. Her fur was matted and dirty, covered in blood sweat and dirt and thats when it hit him. "you thought I was dead, didn't you?" he whispered, letting the swarming zpd agents surround them and letting whatever chaos happen. He didn't care about that anymore.

She pushed her body up against the scarred and torn fur of her fox, brining her face within mere inches of his. " If you think your getting out of my sight ever again, you are mistaken," she whispered before pushing her mouth up to his. The world melded into the background as they stood there, lips locked.

"HOPPS, WILDE, INSIDE NOW!"

and their moment of solidarity within the chaos faded as Bogo's shouting jerked them out of their trance. They both looked around to the staring mammals but neither had many regrets about what they had just done. Nick limped with Judy into the hospital.

Dark's office

"What do you mean they escaped?!" dark shouted into the phone.

He didn't hear the answer over the gunfire that filled the room.

Zootopia hospital

"Yeah, their right in here," the small badger doctor said as he lead Bogo, Amanda and Josh to the room. Amanda and Josh had tried to hide the small shard of pride that surfaced when the doctors told bogo that Nick's wounds were treated incredibly well but Bogo noticed it anyway. Josh and Amanda hadn't gotten the tirade Judy had warned them of which unearned both of them more than either of them expected. The doctor recounted the injuries Nick had sustained while they walked through the white, clean hallway. The sound of the police outside echoed throughout the otherwise quiet hall. The doctor approached the door she was looking for. She opened the heavy wooden door a crack and peaked in, quickly closing it and looking up to the other three mammals, red in the face. "Umm.. You might want to wait a bit.." Bogo just sighed and pushed past the doctor walking into the room.

The one bed in the bright room was draped with a light blue sheet and the smell of disinfectant filled the air. The yellow and orange lights of the city filled the room through the window. Bogo's eyes landed immediately on the two small mammals passionately kissing each other from their place in the bed. He might have let it go on for a bit longer but the blue gown that was only just clinging to the red fox. Judy pulled him up to her position on top of him by his fur, the look in both their eyes was not something he could approve of at work. Josh and Amanda stuck their heads in behind him, having the same reaction the doctor had. He cleared his throat loudly. Judy didn't even flinch. Nick came up for air again and glanced at them for a brief second before Judy took his attention back.

"Hopps!" He yelled gaining the desired effect.

She rolled off of him but still didn't move from the bed. Bogo let the pair catch their breath.

"Not anymore," She panted, the smile emblazed on both of their trouble making faces.

"Wha-... Do you know how much trouble you two are?" he asked. "Now I need to do the paperwork for this too..." He gave a dramatic sigh that didn't hide his smile.

"Yep, I said yes," said nick.

"You asked him?" asked josh.

"yeah," she said before turning to look at him again. " I did"

"What now?" Nick asked, his mind and body still reeling from the rabbit besides him.

"I don't know... Guess we will figure that out won't we," Bogo said with a smile. " And good work with Dark."

"What work?"

"You mean that wasn't you and Big?" the incredulous buffalo asked.

" No, what happened?" Judy demanded.

Bogo's smile faltered but he just shrugged it off. "It's nothing you two haven't done before. We can talk more next week when we break the news to the public about you two still kicking."

"Thanks for everything chief."

"It's nothing Hop- Wilde," Bogo said, before grumbling to himself that he would never get used to that. He turned back to the door, stopping himself from pushing through them. Looking back he said one last thing before leaving, " eleven am sharp inspectors."

"I love you, Carrots," he said to the rabbit who was still trying to process the promotion before pulling her in for another kiss.

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*sigh*

Look people. I'm sorry. I could have dragged this on for at least 20,000 more words but i just can't and i can't be one of those authors who leaves a stories for years (I'm looking at you commandocucumber). Even though this isn't the closure I wanted at the beginning have this. Its more than nothing and you can think of the rest. I have already written multiple chapters of a hyttd fic I'm posting soon and a crossover for dark souls and darkest dungeon. I'm sorry for not making this as much as i could and school has been hard on me recently. I'm not stopping writing fan fiction and I'm going to try to apply the lessons I learned from this to my other projects and the amount of people who have read this astounds me.

Till next time

May you stand stalwart and dream onward

Jamestheweesel