30 EPILOGUE
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Well, here it is …. The final chapter of KARMA. Please drop a review and let me know how you like the story, good bad or indifferent.
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After a few months, life at the Wilde home began to fall into a bit of a normal routine. Both Sarah and Rose exceled in school, along with their significant others, with no major fall-outs with other students thanks to Nick's insistence in marking the girls and the attentiveness of their ever-faithful boyfriends.
The girls eventually got their learners permits and so were allowed to take the little Falcon to school rather than being chauffeured by their parents or needing to ride the bus. Teaching the overly thrilled does was a test of patience for both Nick and Judy, but eventually they were both deemed experienced enough to get their permits.
Nick and Judy finally got to take their long overdue honeymoon after a proper wedding which was held at the Hopps main burrow, with Skye and Nickie absolutely thrilled to watch the three kits for the two weeks that Nick and Judy were at the Bearhama Islands.
Upon their return from the Islands, Nick and Judy were amazed to find out that Skye and Nickie had made arrangements to adopt a special needs pup from the same orphanage that Aja and Rose came from.
The very young male coyote whose name was Stephen had issues with development of his hindquarters, issues that were quickly resolved with some much needed but expensive surgery and proper hormonal treatments that the vixens were more than able to afford.
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Sarah and Tanner completed high school as Valedictorian and Salutorian respectively, with mere tenths of a percentage point in total grades separating the two.
After graduation, Sarah took an advanced course in graphic design and throughout both high school and design school, continued to design paint schemes for not only custom motorcycles but cars as well.
Tanner on the other paw took advanced courses in music appreciation in high school, and attended a highly accredited performing arts school, only a few blocks from where Sarah studied her designs, to round out his education.
Between semesters and during other breaks in education, Sarah and Tanner played short gigs in local coffee houses (both being musically inclined) for spending money and to relieve the stress of school.
After both were finished with high school, the young couple were soon married, but Sarah decided to only reduce her intake of suppressants and continue steadfastly with the birth control. After they were both well established in their chosen fields, several attempts were made to have kits of their own with no success, even though it was determined midway through their junior years in high school that they were biologically compatible. Although highly disappointed, the young couple followed Sarah's parents and her aunties examples and adopted three kits, also from the Deerbrook orphanage.
A young red fox kit named Samuel with deformed ears was the first to be adopted. The next was a darling bunny doe by the name of Lucille with asthma and juvenile diabetes followed by a three-week-old female lynx who had been abandoned on the orphanage steps. Never one to forget her past, Sarah insisted on naming the young kitten Rose, in honor of her sister.
With their careers well established, Sarah (with the blessing of Skye and Nickie) moved the entire automotive and motorcycle paint design and application operation from Aweston to their home, which was located just down the road from Nick and Judy's just outside of Aurora. Aptly named 'The Studio' because it accommodated both her graphic design operation and Tanner's music production studio, the income was more than enough to be sure that they and their kits were able to live a comfortable lifestyle.
But no matter how busy they got with their work, there was always time to visit both sets of parents and show off their kits.
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Although not quite as scholastically inclined as Sarah and Tanner, Rose and Randy still graduated from high school in the upper one third of their class.
Like Sarah and Tanner, after graduation Rose and Randy were soon married, and like Sarah, Rose reduced her suppressants somewhat but remained on birth control for the obvious reason that both were bunnies and her education was more important at the time than a litter or two of kits.
Because of her outstanding grades in horticulture, Rose obtained a scholarship to the top agricultural college in the Tri-Burrow area. At Judy's suggestion, and because she could actually afford the college on her own with the help of Nick and Judy, Rose declined the scholarship and at her request, the scholarship was awarded to a student that had worked very hard but hadn't quite gotten the grades that Rose had.
While Rose was attending classes, Randy was busy taking business management classes at the local vocational school.
With both Rose and Randy finally finished with school, Nick and Judy turned over the berry field to the young couple, who immediately began upgrading and improving the output of the various berry crops.
In the beginning, the major purchaser of the various berry's was Gideon Grey and his son Thomas, who was roughly Sarah and Rose's age, for use in Gideon's steadily growing bakery business.
With the berry field finally being in such great shape, and with the demand for the fruit overwhelming, Rose and Randy purchased and cultivated several more sections of land next to the one they already managed. With the astonishing comeback of the once neglected field and the success of the newly purchased and managed plots, Georgette suggested that the couple apply to the board of directors for Hopps Family Farms LLC®.
Because the Hopps holdings were in dire straits at the time, and with Randy's now expert guidance, the merging of the Hopps farms and the holdings of the Leaps clan, a newly created corporation, aptly named 'Hopps and Leaps Family Farms LLC' was formed. Understandably, the venture was an overwhelming success.
Once the dust settled so to speak, Rose decided it was finally time for her first litter.
When the kits were finally born, the first doe was amazingly grey and white with black tipped ears. Of course, she was named Judith, after the only real mother Rose ever had … Judy.
The first buck born was, of course, named Nicholas after Nick, the only father figure that Rose had (even though the kit's fur was more of an off-color medium brown rather than Nick's signature red). Neither name got any pushback from Randy, who was as appreciative of Nick and Judy as Rose was.
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Georgette had made sure that Cotton understood the importance of the suppressants and of birth control when she started puberty, so birth control was a must.
Like their siblings, both Aja and Cotton had career paths mapped out and stuck to the 'celibacy first' routine until they were married, much to the delight of their parents.
Aja and Cotton both graduated from high school summa cum laude, and like the rest, were married shortly thereafter.
Accepted into a creative writing academy, Aja was able to continue and refine his skills in writing. With fiction and science fiction being his forte, Aja was quickly apprenticed at a major corporation in Zootopia motion picture company.
Using her natural talent at art, Cotton aided Aja with his writing by creating storyboards to help illustrate his ideas.
After a very short time, Aja was offered a job by a major production company called Dreamwerks, writing a script of an advanced science fiction movie.
The computer generated (CG) movie, which was named '3 Below', was about a family from a planet named Akiridion-5. The mother and father, who were rulers of Akiridion-5, were violently overthrown by a power-hungry military leader. Their bodies were destroyed but their life force was stored in crystal like objects, which could be converted back into their bodies at a later date. Their two children were sent into space out of harms way, to land on a distant planet called Earth. Of course Cotton created the storyboards at home for Aja while he worked out the details of the script.
Given free reign in creativity as long as the story line was followed, Aja naturally named the children Princess Aja and Prince Krel of House Tarron.
With the movie being a huge success, and their careers solidly in place, it was agreed that it was time to raise a litter of kits.
Being able to do the majority of his work at home, Aja decided that it would be best to raise their kits in the comfortable surroundings that he and Cotton had grown up in - Aurora, with Cotton agreeing wholeheartedly.
Moving back to Aurora was a simple affair, since the couple had been living in a studio apartment on the foothills of Howllywood at the time.
When the small litter of two kits finally arrived, the names that the couple agreed on beforepaw fell right into place.
The light furred silver fox kit with overly long fox type ears, shorter tail and shorter snout was aptly named Nick, while the dark grey furred, mostly bunny looking kit with longish, fox like pointed ears, short fluffy tail and longer snout was named Judy.
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After Jack Savage senior was killed in Eurasia during a particularly dangerous mission, Jack junior joined the ZIA and became one of their top agents, and was almost as ruthless as his father.
Jill on the other paw, used her experience with Gerald to go in an entirely different direction. Becoming a social worker that specialized in kit abuse cases, particularly those dealing with rape and attempted rape, Jill led a busy but rewarding life.
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As fate would have it, Nick's advanced age, injuries obtained in the military and a foxes naturally poor immune system would end up taking his life.
At the age of 79, while working on a small project in his shop, Nick accidentally injured himself, and an infection managed to set in.
Three days later, regardless of the intense medical care that he received, Nicholas Wilde passed away.
Distraught that she had once again lost her fox and would never be able to see, smell or touch her beloved mate ever again, Judith Wilde joined her husband in death less than one day later.
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The funerals were widely attended not only by the entire Hopps and Leaps clans, but Nickie and Skye and their kit as well. The entire shop crew from Aweston was also in attendance to see loved ones off on their final journey.
Following a slightly unusual request of Judy's, she and Nick were both cremated and their ashes were placed together in two separate urns. One urn containing the couple's combined ashes was placed in the Hopps family cemetery next to Judy's parents, while the other was placed in Zootopia, next to Nick's mother.
The inscription on each urn was the same:
Nicholas and Judith Wilde
Two spirits, once lost then found,
Together forever.
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AN: This epilogue was inspired in part by one that I read several years ago. The name of the story is 'A Bunny Can Go Savage' written by Fox in the henhouse. I highly recommend this story.
I'm aware that rabbits are born furless, this just fits the story … deal with it.