A/N: It's interesting to note the divide in reviews received for this story between FFN and AO3. At least, bored people on FFN aren't smart enough to utilize AO3.

Chapter 25: A Nightmare of His Own Making

Nick prepared himself mentally for a confrontation with Judy. He decided to apologize to her. He now regretted the actions he took earlier by telling her to write apologies with her own blood as well as not caring if she lived or died because of that. He said those words, but he didn't really mean them. He should've been blunt with what he wanted instead of expecting her to figure it out on her own.

Before Nick could suggest that they should look for Judy, Jill wanted to put on clothing, at last, having been naked ever since becoming Nick's meal. On the way to the bedroom, they didn't see Janna or Judy anywhere. Nick was thankful that Jill didn't put on anything attractive or seductive. She was wearing a green shirt and grey pants like he usually did.

They searched everywhere in the mansion for Judy and Janna all of which proved fruitless. They went to find Vivian. Maybe, she would've some clue of where Judy and Janna went. They heard a heated argument between Jewel and Vivian.

Vivian shouted, "How can you see NOTHING wrong with your behavior?"

"Because there's nothing wrong with it. Now, 'master' what should I do?" Jewel said. She placed emphasis on the word master in a mocking manner.

Nick saw Jewel and Vivian sitting at a table. "Is everything okay?"

"This, thing here sees nothing wrong with how she's been behaving," Vivian said. Her fur was bristling still from the argument. "She follows my commands as best as she could at least."

"Nick, did you miss me already?" Jewel said. "Come take me away so we can be together." She blinked seductively. She started unbuttoning her white shirt. "You know you want to."

Vivian decided this was too far. She scratched Jewel's right arm, drawing bits of blood. "Be silent, slave." Jewel promptly shut up. Nick saw fear in her eyes as if she was afraid now. She turned towards Nick. "What brings you here? I'm sorry about that."

"I can't find Judy or Janna anywhere. I've searched the entire place. Do you know where she is?" He hoped his mother would know where she was.

"No, I stopped monitoring their activities. She was deemed trustworthy enough to function on her own once again."

"What if I can't find her?" Nick panicked. "I have to apologize to her." He paced around the room walking in circles.

"Then you can have me," Jewel said. "It doesn't matter if she's gone forever. I will be here with you."

"You really want to be tortured, don't you?" Vivian asked.

"Foxes are supposed to mate for life with one mammal. That can be me," Jewel said.

Jill started crying as she heard Jewel's cruel words. "Why would you do this? We are family."

Nick didn't seem to have heard either of those words. He was still pacing around the room. "I know she threatened to cut off my tail, take away my happiness but I shouldn't have said that to her. I must apologize. I should have told her what to write."

Vivian's eye twitched. "Nick!" she yelled. "She threatened to cut off your tail, and you want to apologize to her? What happened?"

Vivian's shout jolted Nick back to his senses. "Forget what you heard okay?" Nick said. He only now realized that he said those words out loud.

"No, Nick, explain tell me what happened."

"Look, I don't want to complicate this anymore, I just want her to understand," Nick pleaded. He desperately hoped that his mother would abide by his wishes.

"Judy and Janna threatened Nick to become a toy for us all or to make a choice between spending a week with Jewel or making her into a slave for a week. It was for his own good. She was extremely specific including cutting off his tail. That was earlier though when he had to make a choice between licking me clean or Jewel," Jill said.

"Why Jill?" Nick said. He didn't expect Jill to blurt out the truth of what happened.

"You will report to me every time something like this happens. There will be no more threats of this kind," Vivian said. "Am I understood?"

Jill cowered under Vivian's intense gaze. "Yes."

"Nick, what did you say to Judy specifically?"

"At first, I told her to write an apology with her own blood, when she kept talking, I told her she had to write two copies. I was about to tell her to write three, but she stopped talking and left. I even told her that I didn't care if she ran out of blood. Now I can't find her at all," Nick sobbed. "What if she actually went through with it?" He curled into a ball on the floor and continued crying.

Jill walked over to him. "Nick, don't blame yourself. I'm sure she isn't stupid enough to do that. Janna's probably with her. They'll be alright." She cuddled with Nick trying to soothe him.

Jewel once again had to make an inappropriate comment. "Now, if you could disappear too. This would be perfect."

Vivian stared at her. "Do you want to lose an arm? You're really testing my patience."

"You wouldn't dare," Jewel said.

Jewel was acting beyond all sense and reason. As badly as Jewel acted, Nick didn't want her maimed. "Why are you doing this?" He desperately wanted an explanation.

"Because I can, nothing's going to happen to me."

Vivian lifted Jewel off the ground. She put an arm in her mouth, ignoring Jewel's futile attempts to get away.

"Mom, no! Please don't," Nick begged. "I know she's acting unreasonably, but I don't want her permanently injured."

Jewel didn't help her own case either. "Go on, I dare you!" she said fearlessly, her voice didn't even quiver.

Vivian took Jewel's arm out of her mouth. "You are very lucky that he cares about you." She raked both of Jewel's arms.

Tears blurred his vision when he looked at her. "Please just act normally. I'll forgive everything you did," he offered. "I just want you back to yourself." He made this offer because he was so desperate for Jewel to act sane again. "I'll even become your toy."

"Not good enough, get rid of Jill, don't find Judy or Janna and I'll be all yours," Jewel said as seductively as she could.

His heart broke when she said those words. It was everything he could think of that he could do for her. "I can't deal with her. I don't want her permanently harmed." His voice quivered when as he spoke. He couldn't get rid of everyone just to have her back to herself. He still had to find Judy and apologize before it was too late. "I still need to find Judy."

He felt devoid of any energy as he left the room. He was thankful that Jill was there to support him. He was still clueless about where Judy and Janna went. He decided to check outside. The car was missing. "They can be anywhere," Nick said.

Judy dejectedly left the room after seeing the fury in Nick's eyes. She even offered to apologize and to write whatever Nick wanted her to write. She did nothing wrong as far as she was concerned. She acted like how she always did. Any word she said made Nick angrier. He didn't care if she ran out of blood, how did it come to this? She wanted to make things right but had no idea how. It was so sudden, so unexpected, she thought she and Nick were on good terms and she helped him with that difficult decision.

Nick's fury paled compared to the time she messed up at the press conference long ago. At least, back then she knew what she did wrong. He wouldn't even explain this time of why he was angry. He didn't care if she lived or died but she still felt like she had to apologize but couldn't think of the words to write.

She knew she needed blood to write an apology. She wasn't sure how long it had to be or what Nick wanted. As much as he hated her right now, she wanted to make things right as illogical as it sounded. She was just a dumb bunny that's in love with a charming fox. She went to fetch equipment to prepare her grisly task. Withdrawing blood was something productive she could do.

Bit by bit she watched the bottle fill up. She was starting to feel dizzy, she couldn't think straight, drawing blood was the only thing she felt like she could do. She wanted to make everything right between her and Nick. The only idea she had of what Nick wanted was for Jewel to stop being so obnoxious but that couldn't be what he wanted her to write. She thought if she wrote that, Nick would be furious.

"Judy, what are you doing?" Janna yelled, horrified at having seen the large bottle of blood. The amount within was nearly lethal.

"Must make Nick happy," Judy replied barely coherent. Drawing blood was the only thing she knew how to do to make things better in that moment. Her mind still drew a blank on what to write.

"Stop it, Judy, get a hold of yourself," Janna said. She was amazed that Judy was still conscious after withdrawing so much blood. "If you don't stop, you might kill yourself."

Judy continued drawing blood, it was the only thing she knew she could do. "Maybe, that's what Nick wanted. I've done nothing wrong, but he wants me to apologize. He doesn't care if I run out of blood. Maybe, this is a test to see how far I'm willing to go. That must be it."

Janna resisted the urge to scold Judy for being so oblivious. "No, Judy, that's not it. He wants an apology. He cares about you. Stop this."

"Will you tell me what to write?" She felt weak but enough to try and write something.

Janna didn't want to give Judy the answers so easily. "You know he said you can ask for help."

"Don't you know what I have to write?" she asked.

"I do, but I think you need to hear it from your friends."

Her hopes came crashing down. Janna wasn't willing to tell her what she did wrong. "Why?"

"Because it should be obvious what you did wrong," Janna said without any mercy in her voice. "Call a friend. I'm sure any one can help you once you explain the situation to them."

Judy called Clawhauser. He always seemed supportive of her and Nick's relationship. If anyone was able to help, it was him. "Clawhauser?" she sobbed into the phone. "Nick's mad at me and I don't know why. He doesn't even care if I run out of blood."

Clawhauser said, "Just a moment, Judy, I have to tell Bogo that you're calling me." Judy waited a few minutes before Clawhauser resumed speaking. "There someone else is covering the front desk now. Tell me what happened. Nick wouldn't do that without good reason."

Judy sobbed. "Janna is beside me. She said what I did wrong was obvious and that anyone would be able to realize it if I told them. I just want to know how to make Nick happy again."

"Can you tell me what happened?"

Judy and Janna recounted what happened earlier today. Janna interjected a few times when Judy decided to omit information. "We threatened to cut off his tail if he wouldn't choose between Jewel or Jill. We managed to cure his addiction to rabbit by having him lick one of us clean. That's the only way he can feed right now," Janna said. Her voice held no pride in the fact that they threatened Nick.

"Jewel was acting unreasonably. I told Nick he would become a slave if he didn't choose between Jewel or Jill," Judy said as if there was nothing wrong with that at all. Judy decided to tell that part to Clawhauser even though she thought it was just extraneous information.

At the end of their tale of the day's events, she was certain Clawhauser understood the entire situation completely. He said, "You honestly don't see what you did wrong?" He seemed shocked, but Judy wasn't sure why. It was how she always acted from the first moment she met Nick.

"No," Judy said. "I want to apologize to Nick, but I don't even know what he wants. Janna does but she wouldn't tell me. Can you help me please?" She told everything to Clawhauser in hopes of hearing an answer.

"Can you come over to the precinct? I have this idea that should fix everything."

"Can I drive her? She is my sibling and I care for her," Janna said.

"Of course."

"We'll be leaving right now."

Janna had several ideas of what might happen. She knew it was likely a trap, but she also felt it was something Judy had to experience for herself. She knew what the laws of Zootopia were thus she didn't really fear for her safety. They stored the blood of blood for transport before she drove Judy to the precinct.

A/N: Judy's headed into a trap most likely, still doesn't realize what she did wrong. Jewel continues to be unreasonable.