4

"Is she going to be OK?" Judy asked worriedly for the umpteenth time.

"She'll be fine, pull yourself together!" Rebecca replied annoyed with how hysterical Judy had become after they had arrived at the hospital. "Now you've got to explain; who is she?"

"She's my sister, I told you!" Judy answered agitated.

"I mean more specific than that." Rebecca clarified solemnly.

"Oh." Judy murmured, starting to feel a little bit like a fool. "Well she's named Elisia, and she's one of my sisters, she was in the same litter as me."

"No offence, but she doesn't look very much like you." Rebecca informed Judy. "I wouldn't have thought you guys are related."

"I don't really know why she's like that, but my mum thinks that she gets her white fur from her grandfather, who also had white fur." Judy explained as best she could "She was one of the smallest of us and... I need to call mum and dad!"

Judy had already got out her phone when Rebecca stopped her. "You sure that's a good idea? What if they ask who shot her? What if they ask why she's been arrested?"

"Which of you did shoot her?" Judy asked accusingly, glaring at Rebecca.

"Boz shot her." Rebecca whispered, unwilling to sell her partner out.

"When I get my paws on that poor excuse of a wolf I'll..." Judy started furiously.

"Don't you even think about it." Rebecca interjected forcefully "Your sister tried to shoot us. If Boz hadn't shot her, I'd probably be dead right now."

Stunned, Judy simply sat back in the chair, and hung her head down so that she was looking at her feet. "I can't believe it..." Judy choked, holding back tears.

Feeling immensely guilty about how cruelly she'd acted, Rebecca pulled Judy toward her and hugged tightly, while consoling Judy in every way she knew how. Eventually after what seemed like hours of sobbing, an old female antelope doctor walked into the room.

"Your sister's condition is now stable and you can see her now." the doctor kindly stated, smiling. "She isn't awake quite yet though!" the doctor called from the room after the grey blur that had darted out of it. Rebecca calmly got up, sheepishly smiled at the gleaming doctor, and darted out after the rabbit which had just left. She entered Elisia's recovery room to see Elisia unconscious on the bed with one leg trapped in a cast and the other handcuffed to the hospital bed. Judy was sitting next to her, resting her head on Elisia's chest, looking happier that she now knew her sister would be alright. Rebecca left them like this for a while (about half an hour) until Elisia started to stir.

"Uhh..." Elisia groaned. "Where am I?"

"A hospital." Judy answered softly, keeping her answers simple and easy to understand. "Do you remember what happened?"

"Yes... I remember what happened." Elisia moaned "A wolf shot me."

"Judy!" Rebecca loudly interrupted, motioning for Judy to come over to her. Judy came over and saw the text that Boz had sent her: 'Found 1/2 billion in gold bars in the house, Bogo's escorting it to the ZPD headquarters now. Is the bunny I shot alright?' Judy's eyes widened, but she stayed silent and simply walked back to her sister to continue her questioning.

"What were you doing in that house?" Judy demanded, annoyed now, while Rebecca busily texted a reply to Boz.

"I was looking after Mr. Horn." Elisia replied, frightened at how angry her sister was. She'd never seen Judy this angry in her life. "I told you I am a medical carer."

"Why did you try to shoot her?" Judy asked, pointing to the still-texting human behind her.

"When they broke through the door, it all just went so quickly." Elisia answered without hesitation "Mr. Horn told me that they were gang members here to kill us, and he gave me a pistol. He told me to hide upstairs and... and... I hid upstairs and then they came upstairs and saw me, I was scared out of my skin. Like what even is that thing?" Elisia wondered aloud, becoming extremely flustered.

"I'm a human." Rebecca stated bluntly, looking up. "And while I'm sorry I scared you, I don't quite think that's a justifiable excuse for trying to shoot someone."

"You guys freaked me out!" Elisia ferociously defended "I thought you were going to kill me!"

"Is there any chance you knew you were caring for a major international criminal?" Rebecca asked with a smirk, having received more information from another of Boz's texts.

"What?" the two sisters disbelievingly cried in unison.

"Yes, Mr. Horn is in fact a criminal who has been on the run from multiple nations for multiple counts of armed robbery, organised crime and homicide." Rebecca continued, her smile widening at Elisia's dumb face "Just a single question; did you ever meet a badger by the name of Mr. Stripe?"

"No, but Mr. Horn did often visit him as he was one of his few friends." she answered after a short pause "I brought him to his house but Mr. Horn insisted that he talked to his friend in private."

Rebecca glanced down to see another text, this time from Benjamin. It read: 'Tazer with Mr. Horn's DNA and hoof-marks on it has been found at the house. No indication that Judy's sister touched it or even knew he had it. She's probably in the clear.' This message caused Rebecca to smile, as it reinforced her initial idea that Elisia was innocent and that Benjamin knew that the white rabbit was Judy's sister already. Boy, did gossip move around the ZPD quickly.

"Alright, I think that's enough to convict her." Rebecca joked before adding "I'm just kidding!" after looking at Elisia's sorrowful face. "From what I can tell, you haven't really done anything wrong, other than, well, trying to shoot me. And while that's really uncool, I sort of forgive you for it. Judy, I'd recommend you call your parents now we know she'll be OK. I'm going to get me a coffee, back in a mo'."