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Zootopia – Springtime Circumstances

Chapter 27 – Just one topic

POV Nick

„Hello, Chester" I greeted him dryly, as I calmly took a seat on the other side of the table. The gray wolf didn´t exactly look like he was anticipating for this interrogation with me, but that was not the point anyways. I was anticipating it though. I was bored to death in my hospital room, it would still take Judy two more days to wake up, and therefore I decided to head for Tundratown and start with the interrogations already.

"Look who came to say hello" he joked, "How nice of you, what an honor to have you here, officer Wilde!"

I knew I would hear something like this today, and that was why I totally kept my cool about it. I didn´t even react, not even my expression changed, not for a tiny little but.

I opened the case file I had put down onto the table and checked the first page shortly.

"What was your plan? Why were you hiding in the place we´d expected you to be in? Was there a tactic in that?"

He didn´t know an answer to that, or he didn´t want to tell me, so I continued.

"If you knew that Cammy would hand herself in and tell us about this place, why didn´t you leave the city?" I continued with my questions.

"Where is she by the way? Did you set her free because of that?" he asked, totally ignoring the other topic.

"I´m the one to ask about the details."
"Ah, I bet she´s not in jail because you´ve fucked her and quite enjoyed it, am I right?" he teased me, and he really thought he could annoy me with that.

I just shook my head with a calm little sigh.

"You have a pretty big mouth for someone who nearly lost his balls by a bayonet a few days ago…" I told him, and that on the other hand did annoy him a lot. Now he was silent all over sudden.

"Let me tell you a few more things, before you make yourself look even more like an idiot. Cammy is not in Tundratown, because she is save from you idiots that way. She stayed in the city center and she will also be punished for what she did, although that´s by far less then what you guys get. She told us where you were hiding, and that made it much easier to find you."
He didn´t like to hear that, obviously, but I just ignored it.

"Next thing" I continued, "This isn´t about Cammy. It´s also not about me or my appearance, it´s not about your pathetic gangster image or your extraordinarily bad shootings skills, it´s about your coward action of hiding in the dark and attacking a bunny with tranquilizer darts and then hurting her like that. I´m aware that you´re not the one who physically did it, but nevertheless, I want to know the reason for all this."

He still didn´t want to answer me that question as it looked like. Instead he though it was a good idea to annoy me a little more.

"Are you mad because of the little cut on your back?" he asked with a faked concerned voice.

"You know that you can´t tease me with that?" I asked him dryly, "It doesn´t make your situation any better either, I´ve seen how tough and manly you were on that evening, there is no need to prove anything with cool patters right now. Why don't you save the last bit of honor I have left for you?"

"You think it impresses me when you keep on showing off?" he asked back, feeling like an adult talking to a child. He looked just pathetic.

"I´m not showing off. Tell me what I want to know and you can get back to your cell."

"I have all the time in the world. How´s your back?"

"Good enough to humble you even more. But that´s still not the point. You´re completely delusional as it seems…you don´t even remember it, do you?"

"You have no idea about the people I have to do with, that´s far out of your league" he chuckled, "Yeah, you maybe are the big hero now, but that doesn´t really bother me, pal…"

"What a bunch of bullshit" I told him with a deep sigh, because he really was believing that, "You´re a little clown, acting like a big name, and it´s properly, properly embarrassing."

"Talking about bullshit…what´s it like being endowed like that?" he changed the topic once again.

That made even me smile a little right now.

"Interesting…very interesting. If that´s all you´re concerned about…" I chuckled, without another word about it.

"No, but really! How does that work between you and…"

"You want to see how that works?" I asked, "You want a demonstration of that?" I asked him with a very intriguing look.

"No, not really."

"Then shut up and answer my questions, because I´m not the one who is tied onto a metal table. I can move freely in the whole room."

"I guess that´s not even allowed, you´re not allowed to threaten me with something like that" he told me dogmatically.

"Why don´t you ask that coyote if that is allowed or not?" I asked him in return, just to find out about his reaction, "Why don't you ask him what happened when he told me that? Because he cried like a little bitch afterwards" I told him calmly, but with still a lot of meaning and power in my voice, "Pretty much like I would expect him from a mental teenager like you…" I finished him off.

I finally had a moment of silence after that.

"…where is the gangster gone all over sudden?" I asked ironically, "Where are the clever words now?"

"You´re one fucked up police officer" he commented while shaking his head a little.

"And you´re a giant idiot" I let him know while ironically shaking my head, before I closed the case file I had laying in front of me. I stood up from my chair and left him there.

"You still feel like a winner here, don't you?"

"And you are really proud of yourself, aren't you?"

"First of all: No, I´m not. Secondly: that has nothing to do with anything. I´ll tell you this fact one last time: You get at least ten years of jailtime for what you did. Not talking about it does not make it any better, just the opposite is the case. To make it clear: You already lost this! You already lost when you threatened Cammy to stay in the old youth club where I wrecked you. Wake the fuck up and start talking about it, otherwise I´ll just leave you here right now and watch you crying for half an hour."

"I´d be grateful if you would leave already" he told me with an annoyed and slightly crackling voice.

"You know…" I asked, before I went on my way again, "Nothing is more embarrassing than a looser who can´t see that he lost already."

He didn't have anything clever to reply on that anymore.

"Have fun in the prison showers" I wished him finally, before the door of the interrogation room was opened for me and I left him sitting there.

There were standing nearly ten officers from Tundratown on the other side of the window and watched me very carefully. When I closed the door behind me, I even got applause from them.

"Wow" the Zebra lady, who was responsible for the interrogation rooms here, told me with an amazed grin, "That was impressive!"

"Thank you."

The others also were looking at me like I just had invented the fire. I felt like I was their great teacher or something.

"You call a spade a spade if you have to, don´t you?" somebody else joked.

"Makes things a lot shorter and easier" I chuckled, "…but I see no point in talking to him any longer…"

"He is crying by the way" somebody else pointed out for me, pointing at the windows with his head. He was right, the wolf looked quite depressive all over sudden.

"Was I too mean to him?" I asked ironically, "Oh wait, no, I was not…why isn´t he laying on the table with his head?"

"You´ve destroyed him completely with that" somebody else chuckled.

"He nearly destroyed me…or they did, to be more accurately" I explained, "And I even offered him twice to tell me about the details already…"

I picked up the case-file of the next prisoners and checked their name quickly. It was Victoria, and I signalized to the chief of this department that he could bring her in when she was ready.

"Officer Wilde?" I was asked by one of the colleagues suddenly. She was a lioness, and she also belonged to the staff of this department.

"Yeah?"

She showed me a freshly printed picture from the security cameras of the interrogation room. It showed me reading his case file with a quite unbothered expression. Her pleading face made me smile a little already.

"Could I get an autograph from you please? Nobody will ever believe me that!" she explained herself.

Since I had a pencil sticking on my clipboard anyways, that was not a big deal for me, obviously.

"Oh my god, this is so hot! Thank you so much!"

I wasn´t the only one who chuckled a little about that.

"I´m very sorry for bothering you!"

"Don't worry" I smiled back, "Nothing to be sorry for."

The all kept on watching me with big eyes, but I didn´t let that stress me. I enjoyed their attention a little bit, certainly.

"Am I allowed to ask another little question?" she asked then, because she had realized just how normal I was.

"Yeah, why not?" I asked, still reading the details on Victoria´s front page of the case-file.

"Did you really say ´That´ to the Wolf, before you knocked him out?"

"You mean what Officer Higgins said in the video two days ago?"

The all nodded.

"Yeah…I probably did" I chuckled, "I really was infuriated…which doesn´t happen too often. But when it does, that is what it looks like…"

"And you really knocked out two polar bears with your bare firsts?"

"Believe me or not, I did."

"How?"

"The place was not lit very well. I was angry, and I am training with a bunny that could easily outrun me anytime she likes to…that paid of a little as it seems."

"And how did you ignore the pain in your back?"

"Adrenaline…I guess?"

"Damn…what a story…"

"That all sounds a little too good to be true if you ask" some other male colleague said suddenly, "No offense, but it just does" he chuckled.

"I have no need to make up anything…" I told them while going for the interrogation room once again. Victoria was already sitting at the table where Chester was a few minutes ago, "…and I´m not here to brag either. I want answers."

With that I went into the interrogation room and took a seat at the table again.

I was greeted by a widely grinning and amused Jaguar.

"Victoria" I greeted her, equally dryly as I did with her ancestor.

"Hi sexy!" she greeted back with a girly giggle.

"If you take me seriously right now, I´m going to do that too" I explained without changing my expression, staring right into her eyes, "Let´s see if you´re smarter than Chester…"

"How is your back, Mr. SMA?" she asked, totally missing the point already.

"My back is fine, don´t worry. Do you want to tell me something about your plans on that evening? I don´t know, maybe just for the sake of getting a milder punishment from the judges?"

"What do I get if I tell you about that?" she asked with a big smile, teasingly licking her lips afterwards.

I just sighed a little, "I did just tell you what you could get: Maybe a few years off of your prison time."

"Isn´t there anything better you have to offer?" she wanted to know.

"There is no point in talking to any of you, is there?" I asked, to end it as quickly as it had begun, "You have a deal with somebody…?"

"Honestly, where you serious when Gazelle asked you about your length?" she grinned, "Because that´d be a lot for a fox! I´m really curious!"

"I wish you a nice stay here" I told her with a dry little smirk, just before I stood up again, took my clipboard with me and left the room without another word.

When I got up the stairs again, I was stared at once more from all sides. It slowly but surely began to annoy me. I already regret talking about it in that stupid show. They all looked like that was the last thing they wanted to know in their lives. I really want that to go away right now.

"Come on, really!?" I asked.

A few of them began chuckling a little.

"Told you it sounds a little unbelievable…" the bloke from earlier stated.

I sighed once again. "Once and for all: I didn´t tell a single word of a lie in that show! I know I´m a physical monster of my species, it just is like that! Can we all forget about it now, please?" I asked, before I took a quick look at the other clipboards in front of me.

"Seriously?" somebody asked, still not believing it.

"Don´t tell me you want me to prove you that!"

"Yes please" one of the other female colleagues giggled.

I just shook my head with a little sigh and picked up all the other case files. I had enough of the interrogations for today and I didn´t want to stand through all that other bullshit any longer either. My back was still stressing, and that was not the only thing that was getting on my nerves.

"Are you leaving already?" the chief inspector asked me a little puzzled.

"Yeah, that´s pretty much a dead end" I let him know, "But thank you very much for your help with the prisoners!"

He shook my paw shortly.

"It was an honor, detective!" he told me then.

"Have a good day, guy´s" I quickly wished the other officers, before I straightly went on my way again so nobody could follow me. That worked quite well actually, because not even two minutes later I was standing outside of the building once again. I got into our police-car and drove straight back to the hospital.

The healing process of my back went on slowly, but it still was a little stressful without the painkillers. The life outside was pretty exhausting as well all over sudden, I was recognized everywhere I was going. And there was the lack of love, which I always got from her. Everything felt just boring and pointless without her. The only thing I wanted right now was Judy to wake up again, that would make anything else completely irrelevant.

Just when I arrived at the hospital again, I saw the next reporter who probably was waiting only for me outside the building. She was that vixen who I met in that sex bar the first time, I recognized her immediately, and it was pretty obvious what she wanted.

After I had parked the car, I simply went for the entrance again, I had no alternatives anyways.

"Officer Wilde" she stopped me, which was predictable.

"Yeah" I sighed, stopping besides her and turning my head towards her slowly.

"Have you got a few spare minutes to answer some questions for the SMA-conclusion of this year?"

"Conclusion?" I asked with a tired little smirk, "I wonder what that will be about…"

"Just your thoughts about the show…"

"Well…Yeah! I am so proud of myself!" I told her sarcastically.

She didn´t quite know how she should react to that, but I didn´t care about it at all. I was so sick of it already.

"…well, that answer was a little unexpected" she confessed with an unsure chuckle.

"Really? Didn´t you witness for yourself how much of a show off I was in the night club already? I was bragging all the time basically, I couldn´t wait to get my shirt off, didn´t you notice?"

"N-no…" she stammered, "I mean…"

I knew it wasn´t quite fair to be so mean on her, but I couldn´t help myself, I enjoyed that far too much right now.

But then she surprised me a little.

"No, I was busy flirting with you, not knowing it was you. There is no point in denying it, is there?" she asked, a little sore as well right now.

I shook my head with a little chuckle.

"It´s quite obvious what you want, yeah."

"So, what do I want?" she asked dogmatically.

"You obviously want to ask me about my work routine at the ZPD, about what it feels like when your partner is in an induced coma and what I thought of Max´s and Daniel´s great performance in the show" I acted with faked enthusiasm, "Just the normal things the people want to know in a show like that…"

She got it, obviously, and now she felt even more stupid.

"Damn…this police officer really can be a mean bastard!" I spoke out loudly what her thoughts must be right now, but her mad looking face wasn´t stopping me, "But let me tell you, what you really want: You want the same treatment which Cammy got, probably also to find out if I was lying about my dick or not, but mostly to brag about it later" I told her the truth in words, looking her right in the eyes while saying it, "…did you really think I don´t know about that? You wanted that in the sex bar already, even when you didn´t know it was me. To make it simple: Forget it, it´s not going to happen. No matter what else you will say or do. I just tell you one thing: I didn´t say a single word of a lie in the show. Why would I? And I´m sure you saw that video too. It just is like that, the end."

She looked quite dumbfounded now, but that was exactly what I wanted.

"What happened in the sex bar was the closest you will ever get to me, no matter what else you try. Any more questions for your important conclusion?"

That was followed by a little pause, in which I just began grinning a tiny little bit, just to take away every tiny bit of hope she had left.

"No more questions? Good! …Now excuse me, I need some more painkillers. Have a good day."

With that, I left her where she was and entered the building through the spinning doors. Through the entrance hall I went towards the elevators, got onto my level of the building and headed straight for the room Judy was still sleeping in. She was the only thing I wanted to see right now.

Before I even reached the door, I nearly ran into Suzanne, who I haven´t seen anymore since a few days already. In fact, I haven't seen her since the day before the SMA show, and therefore her reaction was quite predictable. But I couldn´t stand it any longer, so I just greeted her with a short "hi", and then I ignored her.

I closed the door of the anesthetist´s room behind me and left her alone in the hallway.

I also greeted the oryx antler shortly, before I went towards her bed and caressed her soft paw with mine, releasing a long sigh of joy with it. Although she was still deeply asleep, simply holding her hands relaxed me a lot, it felt like I was at home and it gave me back lots of energy and good spirit. For a couple of minutes, I just stood beside her and held her hands. There were still slight bruises to be seen on her face and she still had a bandage around her left leg, but her broken arm seemed to be a lot better already than it was just a few days ago.

But it still wasn´t going quickly enough for me. The only thing I wanted was having her back. I and her against the world. That would make me forget about all the other stupid shit that was going on right now.

A few moments later, the anesthetist joined me besides her bed carefully.

"She is doing very well. She probably will even be able to walk when she wakes up in a few days" he told me, "She´s quite tough for a bunny…"

"I know that" I told him with a warm smile, "And I´m still confident."

The antler looked at me shortly, but he didn´t say anything. I believed he still was a little shy talking to me. I didn´t know why though.

"Have you heard anything from Suzanne?" I asked him then, just because I was curious about it.

He just shook his head a little, "Haven´t seen her in three days or so…"

"Alright…so I didn´t miss anything?"

"Nothing you don´t already know about…I believe" he chuckled shyly.

I just gave him an amused little smirk for that, it lifted my mood a little nevertheless.

"Take good care of her" I told him then, before I slowly went back towards the door of the room.

"I will" he assured with a little smile, "Don´t worry, she will be fine!"

"Thanks buddy, see you later!"


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