And in record time, TheConcernedF0X releases a new chapter! And the crowd goes Wilde! *mimes cheering*

So surprise here's chapter two of a true brother! This chapter is the combination of old ATBs chapters 3 and 4, 3 needed serious amending but 4 I didn't have to tweak at all. So tada a fresh chapter in a day!

If you're confused by my statement old ATB I'll clarify. Awhile back I posted this story before….but I massively screwed it up. So bad that I clean slated it to do some massive work arounds to solve the issues it had. That includes the prequel/prologue for the story.

Which by the way! If you haven't read it's prologue I recommend you do! It's not required per se but it gives a deep insight on Jameson and the events that took place three years ago.

Vince: glad to see you like it my friend! I made sure to be extra careful with its relaunch. As to your question about Nick and mom knowing about Sarah and Rachel the answer is no they did not know of their existence. Why Nick doesn't know is explained briefly in the prologue as well as his mother. But in the next chapter you will get an in depth reasoning for his mom not knowing.

Imjustlikehumphery: well hello there! You are someone new to my stories so welcome! Yes Jameson is going to drastically alter how Nick acts during the case as well as being a tool to amend things in the movie that I found to far fetched and to ridiculous. He will be the voice of common sense per se bringing in a much larger scope of actual police procedural measures. The story though will still hold the same plot and direction as the movie though. P.s. didn't have to wait very long did ya? Hehe.

Thank you to BrutusDeagon for cleaning this chapter up from my mishaps!

The cover art for this story is done by WastedTimeEE and if you need some commission work done including NSFW look him up!

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Apologies for the long AN, I'm ending it now. So story time!

Chapter 2

Jameson turned and headed towards the kitchen…and only made it about three steps before his left leg gave out and he collapsed with a grunt of surprise and a little yip of pain. Judy watched him go down and quickly ran to his side.

Once she was there she put a paw on his back as he got onto his hands and knees, thinking he was going to try and stand Judy said with concern in her tone "Jameson! Are you alright!? Stay down!"

Jameson waved his left paw and then grabbed the left side of his left leg and replied with some pain laced in his tone "Ah I'm fine, this damn left actuator failed again for the third damn time this week..and friends call me James so you might as well."

Judy lifted her paw a few inches off James back and tilted her head a little, confusion replaced concern. "Huh?"

Hearing that James looked at her and replied "ah, right. That probably needs some explanation doesn't it? Right, well first can you grab my cane? It's in the umbrella bin by the door."

Judy just nodded and walked briskly over to the bin and grabbed the cane, the cane was straight and silver (actual silver) with black inlays twisting down it. Cane in paw she started to walk back towards James, who was now sitting on the floor massaging his left leg. Back at his side she handed it to him and he muttered out a "thanks" before taking it in his left paw and taking a deep breath.

"Now comes the hard part, standing."

Judy was quick to reply. "here let me help you, give me your paw."

James nodded gratefully and took his right paw in both of her and she counted it down. "okay, one, two, three!" pulling him with all her strength Judy helped haul James to his feet and he immediately leaned on the cane heavily.

Looking down at Judy he said "thanks Judy."

Jameson let out a sigh and looked down at his leg in annoyance. "Just had to give out now did you? Bastard."

Jameson shook his head and strode over to his kitchen now intent on making his drink a double down. He could feel Judy's eyes on his back and burning questions on her tongue so as he poured his drink he said "I'll explain everything in just a minute, and I'm fine really. This sort of thing happens to me sometimes."

Judy, still confused and concerned could only let out a slow, "okay."

Jameson finished pouring his drink and took a sip letting another sigh. After that James turned and walked brushed by Judy again to go sit on his couch, saying over his shoulder "You're welcome to join me, need to get this damned thing off my leg."

Judy's curiosity peaked so she went to join him on the couch. Taking a seat on his right he shifted to face her and put his glass on the table. Judy started it off. "So, what's with you walking fine one minute and needing a cane the next? And left the actuator?"

"Ok so as you've probably noticed by observing me, my left leg is crippled. I can put absolutely no weight on it or I'll collapse as you witnessed earlier, so I have to use a cane."

Judy adopted a surprised look. "But you were walking fine earlier, and that still doesn't explain what you said about your left actuator failing."

James nodded and replied "right, I was walking fine because of this.." James then shifted to face her more and leaned down to start pulling up his left slack leg, pausing, he said "bare fur incoming."

That caused Judy to let out a little giggle, it didn't last long. One the pant leg passed the ankle Judy noticed two things, one was the strange contraption on his leg, it looked like an advanced mechanical brace. Second was the super jagged scar running up his leg, being the worst at his knee.

"This is what it looks like, a brace on steroids. Notice how it looks loose?"

Judy nodded.

"Well if its functioning correctly it should be tight, making the thing flush to my leg. It adds support and allows me to walk on it without collapsing. This part here" he taps on the left mechanism of the brace set on the side of his knee, "this is the left actuator I was talking about. For the brace to work right I need both the left and right actuators working or you get what happened to me earlier. That's why I collapsed."

Based on the overall sturdiness of the contraption he must also be able to run with it, when it's working properly. Judy nodded in understanding at James' explanation about his brace, but now she had questions about the scar.

Pointing at it she said "and I take it that's why you need a brace or a cane?"

James traced it a little and replied "Yes it is. When my daughter was four I was on the way home from work, stopped at a red light when a semi's brakes failed doing 60 behind me and eight other cars. It plowed into our vehicles and pushed us into the intersection where six more cars impacted into our eight causing a huge pile up. I was knocked unconscious during the initial impact. Well a truck in the pile up was carrying scrap metal and flipped on top of my car, it propelled a large piece through my door and into my leg, destroying tendons, ligaments, and muscle; as well as severing arteries. I should have bled out, but something staunched the bleeding long enough for me to be rescued."

Judy tilted her head intrigued and asked "so what staunched the wound?"

Jameson nodded once and replied "flowers, specifically one called Gardenia. Which I smell like now thanks to that. Among the pile up was a flower truck that flipped over on top of the pile and it poured out flowers and flower petals all over the wreck. Gardenia petals rained down through my shattered window and into my wound, the petals got ground up all in my wound and filled it. Flowers saved me, and I planted a garden of them in thanks."

Judy sat there for a minute, taking in all the new information. A quick question formed in her mind that she voiced. "so is that car accident the cause of your eye and muzzle?"

After the words left her mouth she immediately felt like that was over stepping a bit and quickly apologized. "Ah, sorry, I shouldn't have asked that."

James was quick to wave her concerns away. "Eh don't worry about it, natural curiosity. I mean I said I was in a terrible car accident, you just assumed I wasn't unlucky enough to get these injuries at a different time. Well sadly I was unlucky enough to get these at a different time, two years later. It was a normal day at the farm, we lived on a farm obviously, a small one. I had just got back from the fields and Sarah told me that the water heater was acting up, so being the fix it husband I was I went down to the basement. Made it about three steps down the six when it exploded. Shrapnel hit me in the muzzle first giving me this nice blemish (he gestures at the scar on his muzzle). My split second natural and instinctual reaction after taking that hit was to turn my head away from the blast and brace my arm in front of my throat. That saved my life but another much tinier piece of shrapnel grazed my arm as I was bringing it up and hit my left eye. Tore the eyelid, grazed my left eye and got buried in my eye socket."

Judy's eyes widened as he continued with his story her curiosity had long since replaced the shame and anger she had been feeling.

James paused to take a sip of whiskey before continuing. "the piece is actually still there, makes going through metal detectors a hassle. Anyways, little pieces of shrapnel also peppered my chest, nothing serious. But, the worst was when the scalding water hit me. (he shudders) ugh I still cant take hot showers. That put me in the hospital for a month. Now here's the thing, my eye lost its ability to hold color, not the ability to see. I got so incredibly lucky that I didn't get blinded by that piece of shrapnel, and gained only the illusion of not being able to see out my left eye."

Judy couldn't help letting out a jab at that. "You know, I don't think a mammal could be both so unlucky and lucky at the same time. I don't know if you should go buy lottery tickets or not go out during a storm."

That got James to let out a bark of laughter and to reply "actually I do both on principle!"

Judy giggled at that and James took another sip before adding "of course the first time I bought a ticket, which was after I left the hospital, I won two million. So I risk going out in storms on occasion."

Judy's eyes widened and she leaned back "wait, seriously?"

James nodded and replied "yep, used the money and started up a new business. Here I'll show you."

Standing James limped over to the kitchen, calling behind him "reach into that left drawer grab the blacklight marker."

Judy though now thoroughly confused did what was asked and pulled out the marker from the left drawer and placed on top of the coffee table. As she did James returned Wild Whiskey bottle in paw, placing it down next to the marker and then sitting back down. Judy looked at the bottle and the marker and after a few moments put it together.

"you want me to use the marker and color after the d don't you?"

James gave her a look of approval. "Clever bunny."

Judy took off the marker cap and picked up the bottle. She quickly colored the spot where she knew the 'e' would be and after about a minute the e showed up revealing the brand to be truly be Wilde Whiskey.

Judy nodded, satisfied that she was right and asked "so why hide the 'e'?"

"Well at the time it wasn't a smart move to have my last name plastered on the bottle for personal reasons. Also I am mostly a silent partner, my good friend James Sparrowtail runs the business."

Judy nodded content with his answer. Before anything further could be said James stood again and said "excuse me for a moment, I have an appointment with the bathroom."

Judy watched him go before looking around the apartment once her and mouthing a "wow".

Today had started out with her being so excited for the day, to being down in the dumps. Now here she was in a good mood again because of the company of a fox. Just thinking out her host she couldn't help but shake her head, he was an intricate and interesting mammal who of course through an interesting turn of fate turned out to be the older brother of Nick Wilde. The universe really did love messing with her, but luckily so far it seemed that James was nothing like Nick.

Judy debates whether she should mention this interaction with the Wilde foxes when her heart dropped and she let out an "oh no."

Her parents had planned to call her after work, but she had completely forgotten and put her phone on silent for the dinner. As much as she didn't want to, she slowly took her phone out and hit the home button, lighting up the screen and showing her 27 missed muzzletime calls, 10 phone calls, and 149 texts from both siblings and her parents, mostly her parents.

Her parents were probably packing their bags and going ballistic. Judy closed her eyes and quietly said "sweet cheese and crackers."

At that exact moment James' muzzle appeared next to her and he said "well that was an adorable expression, and that doesn't look good."

Judy lept several feet in the air. "GAHH!" Landing on the couch on her two feet she whirled on James who had a very satisfied look on his muzzle. Pointing an accusing finger at him she said "you did that on purpose, didn't you?"

James, satisfied look still in place, calmly replied "yes, absolutely, one hundred percent. I'm a sneaky cripple."

Judy was getting ready to retort, and possibly kick him, when her phone lit up for another Muzzletime call from her parents.

James looked down at the phone and said "you should probably answer that before they call the precinct demanding to know where you are. I'll give you some privacy, gotta replace this left actuator anyways."

Judy nodded her head several times and replied "right, I definitely should. thanks. You might want to put in some earbuds, this is probably gonna be panicky and loud."

James just raised his glass to her and said "noted, good luck officer. I think you're going to need it."

After that Jameson lipped to his room and went in and shut his door. Judy slowly sat back down and took the phone into both her paws and tried to mentally prepare herself for what was about to come. waiting until she heard James open and close the door to his bedroom she finally clicked the green answer button and put on a smile. The call connected to show just her mother in the kitchen moving the phone around in her paw. There was instant shouting, just not at her.

"Stu! Make sure you get everything packed! we are leaving in fifteen minutes Judy's still not answering! I'm calling her boss next, I knew we shouldn't have let her go to the city and be a cop, she's just a bunny!"

Judy tried to get her mother's attention. "Mom"

Bonnie did not hear her daughter and continued, "Julie!"

That yell was addressed to Judy's littermate who had just padded into the kitchen, Julie was a cream colored bunny with brown eyes, a light grey splotch on her right eye, brown muzzle, and brown ears. Among Judy's littermates Julie was the one she was closest to and one of her biggest supporters for her becoming a police officer. She would have said hi but mom was on a roll.

"Julie, you will be in charge while me and your father go and collect your unruly sister!"

Julie stuck out her right hip and put a paw on it and gave her mother a 'seriously?' look before replying "Mom, you can't expect me to be in charge of over 60 adolescent bunnies on top of my own two do you? I don't have an iron fist like you do."

Judy wanted to laugh at that and the expression her mother gave Julie, but she was too busy getting mad at her mom. "unruly? Oh that's it." Judy quickly adopted an angry look.

"Of course not, you are in charge of the ones in charge of the kerfuffle, and the farm as a whole."

If she was about to continue Judy didn't allow her too. "MOM!"

That got both does on the other line to freeze and the phone to stop shaking. Bonnie brought the phone to her face to take in the irritated expression. Before Judy could get a word in edgewise now having their attention her mother yelled out "Stu! I got Judy on the phone!"

Somewhere out of view Judy heard her dad yell out "thank the gods!" followed by 15 seconds of bumping, muffled "heys," and a crash or two before her father came blundering into view.

Coming to a stop next to his wife and slightly out of breath he took in his most headstrong daughter, although just barely passing Julie's.

"Jude! Thank the gods you're okay! You are okay right!?"

Judy tried to reply but was once again cut off, her mother this time. "of course I'm..."

"We've been trying to reach you for over two hours!"

Julie, who had stayed in view of the phone took the opportunity to say hi to her favorite sister before her parents could continue their overreacting. She was calm enough to observe that Judy wasn't in her own apartment and some other mammals, maybe even in some males apartment, but that was highly unlikely.

Her sister was nicknamed Jude the Prude among the sisters for a reason after all. "Hey sis."

Judy broke off the mad and irritated expression that was on her face long enough to smile and wave at her sister before her parents continued their freaking out, her mom picked it back up after looking at her daughter to see if she was fine.

"Fine or not we're still coming to get you! You couldn't answer your phone when we said we would call and made us worry sick! The city is too dangerous and so is your job!"

Stu, who unlike his wife, actually was a supporter of Judy's decision to go to the city and become a cop. He may get overly emotional and over react from time to time, but he was also quick to calm when the situation really called for it, well...most of the time at least. Well he was in her corner once he realized there was absolutely no stopping her, sure it was absolutely terrifying that his little Jude was in a huge city hundreds of miles away doing it's arguably most dangerous job as a bunny. But if any of his 275 children could pull it off it was his little trier. So he was quick to go to her defense, he may be upset still that she didn't answer her phone after her first day on the force, but Bonnie was going a little overboard. Before he could jump to it though, Judy did it herself.

"MOM ENOUGH! As you can see I am perfectly fine, and I have been perfectly fine all day! I thought we were past this! This is my career! This is my life now! Everywhere is dangerous! All I have ever wanted was to be a cop and now I am one, it is far past time you accepted that! And this 'just a bunny' graduated Valedictorian at the academy filled with mammals at least twice my size! And for that achievement earned my place in the ZPD at Precinct One! Also, unruly?! Really!?"

Judy's outburst cowed her mother and caused her father and sister to have wide eyes and twitching noses. If Judy was honest with herself that had been a long time coming, her dad had finally accepted her dream when she left for the academy. Her mother on the other paw had constantly tried to convince her or drop little hints that it wouldn't work out. Her dad did too on occasion but mostly because he was worried instead of wanting her to do what all of his other daughters did, with the exception of a few including Julie.

It had been silent for about a minute now, Judy still giving an angry look at Bonnie who was cowed into a surprised silence at her daughters outburst and Stu was too shocked to say anything. Julie had quickly gotten over her surprise at her sisters outburst, and quite frankly she didn't blame her for it. But the silence and the staring wasn't going to get the conversation going again and over with, so Julie decided to nudge it along.

"Well since you're okay. Why did you not answer any of the calls or texts?"

Everyone's heads snapped over to Julie, her parents momentarily forgetting she was still there with them, and Judy shooting her a appreciative smile. Bonnie quickly took it as a chance to recover a little bit.

"Julie has got a point there bunbun. Why didn't you answer then?"

Judy let out a little sigh before replying, "A neighbor decided to show some hospitality and invited me to dine with them, so I silenced my phone, that's why I..."

At that exact moment Jameson let out a piercing "YEOWCH!" and Judy actually heard the electric discharge that caused him to yell out in pain. Judy lowered the phone slightly and swiveled her eyes and ears towards Jameson's door. Next they all heard him yell out "AH pancakes with blueberries on top that hurt!"

Judy immediately became concerned due to the fact she actually heard the shock that made him yell out. On the other end of the phone everyone was surprised at her explanation, and the fact that it was a male that yelled out. Not to mention he yelled out a bunny alternative to cursing, so everyone on that end immediately assumed it was a male bunny. A male bunny that she met and was having dinner with in his apartment, during her second day in the city.

Before any questions could be asked Judy quickly said "Ah i'll be right back I need to check and see if he's okay."

After she finished saying that she promptly put the phone down on the table without hanging up and quickly stood to go check on Jameson. This left Bonnie, Stu, and Julie all staring at Jameson's ceiling; all of them mouths agape in various forms of shock. After a moment the three bunnies looked back and forth at each other, Julie started the conversation.

"Well, I didn't see that coming. She had me thinking she might have been a lesbian for awhile."

Stu was the next to speak, "you're telling me punk, we tried to set her up with so many bucks here. She's been in the city for two days and she's already eating dinner in a buck's apartment."

Bonnie spoke last in a thoughtful tone, "maybe her going to the city was a good thing after all."

…

Judy quickly walked over to Jameson's bedroom and knocked on the door, calling out "James are you okay?"

James replied through the door "been better, doors unlocked."

At that Judy slid the door open and entered. His bedroom carried the same theme as the rest of the apartment and spotless, it was spacious with his bed set against the right wall with an ancient looking chest in front of it, a nightstand to the left of the bed. Set against the right wall close to the door was a full body mirror, on the left of the room was a bunch of shutter doors hiding what she assumed was a large closet, in the left corner of the room there was oddly a large punching bag.

James was sitting at a tinkering table in the front of the room that had a very nice Les Paul Guitar hanging on the right. James had his left index finger in his mouth. Seeing her he waved with his right paw and took his finger out of his mouth shaking his hand. Judy could see that the once light russet finger the tip's fur was black and singed, Judy quickly walked over to him.

"Sweet cheese and crackers James what happened? I heard the electrical discharge from your living room!"

James turned the chair and gestured to the brace that was on the table and said "this little bastard here apparently doesn't like me very much. After I replaced the actuator I noticed a chip was fried, was replacing it but it didn't want to go without a fight, shocked the living shit out of me."

Judy just gestured to his blackened finger and replied "you don't say. Is there a medical kit somewhere? That needs a bandage on it."

James started shaking his hand again and said "yeah under the bathroom sink, but I'll get it, the chip got replaced and the brace should be working again; and I believe you left your family waiting to come check and see if I was alright. Which I appreciate, but I do believe that they heard me and I said a bunny alternative to cursing. So, they probably believe you've been missing their calls because you were dining with a buck, at his house."

Judy's eyes widened and she immediately became mortified. She started walking backwards and quickly said "sweet cheese and crackers you're right! I need to try and salvage this before word gets to my 275 siblings!"

After that she turned and ran out of the room. James eyes now wide called out after her, his voice distant as she grew further away. "275 siblings!? You're kidding right!?"

Bonnie, Stu, and Julie were all looking back and forth at each other, occasionally looking at the phone and Jameson's ceiling. After the startling revelation that Judy was in a buck's apartment and their initial gossip they wanted to see if they could hear the conversation they were having.

They heard Judy's question of "are you okay?" to the buck they now knew was named James. Julie commented "Judy and James, decent ring to it I guess, but I always imagined her getting with a mammal with a name starting with N for some reason."

That earned a look of confusion from her parents. "what? Honest opinion."

Next they all heard Judy's yell of concern, Stu was the first to comment. "Well it seems Jude the Dude cares about him."

Bonnie nodded to her husband and replied, "yes it seems that much is true. I think I stand by my earlier statement, maybe it was a good idea for her to go to the city...Wonder if we'll meet him."

The next thing they heard was Judy screaming out "sweet cheese and crackers you're right! I need to try and salvage this before word gets to my 275 siblings!"

Followed by James "275 siblings!? You're kidding right!?"

Stu chuckled at what James shouted out and said, but was confused at what his daughter said. "heh, city bunny for sure."

Now with everyone confused, Julie spoke up. "uh, what? What would she have to salvage?"

Before she could contemplate on the matter though her phone pinged, taking it out she read the message that was on it, cringing at its content. "Well I would question this more but Anna can't handle my twins on her own apparently."

…

Julie started to leave the kitchen when Judy came leaping back into the phones view, literally. "Julie wait! Don't let this slip to anyone!"

Julie paused to look back at the phone and her sister and gave her a raised eyebrow and opened her mouth, a question on her tongue when her phone pinged again.

She glanced at it and said, "While I would normally have a lot of questions about this, Sarah and Rachel are terrorizing Anna and she's calling for reinforcements from their mother, so whatever. See ya sis i'll call you later to get the details." At that she waved and quickly padded out of the room.

Stu was the first to question his daughter. "Jude, what's this about you dining in a bucks apartment? What does he do? Who is he? Can we see him? Is he okay?"

Before Judy could answer his barrage of questions Bonnie added one of her own. "and what's this about you trying to salvage this?"

Judy didn't know what she wanted to do more, bang her head on the coffee table, or scream in frustration. "leave it to my parents to blow me dining with a male in his apartment out of proportions without knowing even the basic details. And jump to conclusions."

….

James sat in the chair just staring at the open door mouth agape.

"275 siblings...how..how is that even physically possible? Just...how?..she had to have been pulling my leg, my crippled one at that...Speaking of which, I need to get my brace back on and put a bandage on my finger."

James turned the chair back towards the table and grabbed his mechanical brace and turned the chair back towards the door. He had left his pant leg rolled up so he simply strapped the brace on. Once he was sure it was secured he then pressed the buttons on the left and right of his knee causing the brace to activate and tighten. As it tightened James let out a grunt of pain, it wasn't the most pleasant of experiences but the thing let him walk so the pain was worth it.

He tepidly stood up and took a few experimental steps, then turned and walked back to the table. Satisfied with that test he turned back around and shot out three lightning fast kicks to see if the brace let him move his leg properly with no sort of delay or issue. Satisfied when there was none he turned halfway and grabbed his cane that was leaning against the right table leg in his left paw. Turning back he pulled out his phone and shot out a quick text to his work telling them he'd be on desk duty tomorrow due to his brace failing.

Text sent he pocketed his phone and said out loud "Now let's go see how Officer Hopps is faring."

…

Judy let out an exasperated sigh at her parents' antics and tried to answer the barrage of questions they had shot at her, unaware that James had strolled by her and gone into the kitchen.

"Okay, first of all, I am not dating him nor do I plan on dating him, ever."

James a new drink in paw half turned and said in a mock offended tone, "Ever? Well that's harsh."

Judy mirrored her actions from earlier and leaped into the air several feet, the phone in her paws falling to the couch and her screaming out "GAH!"

She landed facing James who was still out of the phone's view. He had a satisfied smirk on his muzzle as he took in Judy's startled/furious expression, he hadn't had a chance to do something like that since Sarah.

Judy yelled out at him, "Would you stop doing that! How are you even doing that!? I'm a bunny! You shouldn't be able to do that!"

That only caused his smirk to grow into a half smile and he simply took a sip of his drink and gestured with glass and said "I believe you left your parents hanging, again."

Judy narrowed her eyes at him and said "the urge to kick you is growing steadily."

James just raised his glass and replied "noted." he then turned and strolled back into his bedroom. Judy watched him go and when he disappeared from sight she turned back and picked up her phone, sitting as she did so.

Bonnie and Stu the entire time her and James were having their conversation they mouthed a very confused conversation to each other. They honestly had zero clue what was happening, so they decided to just get the answers to the questions they already had and go from there. Judy smiled at her parents who still had confused looks on their faces and said "Sorry about that Jameson has a habit of sneaking up behind me. Now I will go back to answering your questions. As I said I am not dating him, I literally met him tonight. He heard me throwing my microwaved carrot dinner away and... "

When Bonnie and Stu heard what their daughter had been trying to eat before and both crinkled their noses in distaste, Bonnie saying, "Bunbun, we told you those were terrible! You could have just asked and we would have sent you a care package of food!"

Judy slapped a paw to her face and replied "yes mom I know but I am trying to be an independent doe, okay, that's why. Now we are getting off track again, so please no more interruptions, okay?"

Once her parents both nodded she continued. "And, he graciously invited me over to dinner, deciding to be a nice neighbor and show some hospitality. He had and has no ulterior motives with it. I am positive. He also wouldn't try anything because I am still in uniform. As to who he is, he is a nice male who decided to show me some hospitality, that's it. As to what he does I don't believe that is of any importance, but if you really want to know he is a silent partner of a whiskey distillery called Wild Whiskey. Also, he is fine, he was tinkering with something and it shocked him really good."

Judy felt satisfied that she sated her parents curiosity and her explanations would prevent them from asking further questions. She should have known better.

Bonnie started it off. "Bunbun he sounds nice, and wealthy. Why wouldn't you date him?"

Bonnie and Stu looked at each other briefly before he picked it up. "Yeah Jude, he sounds like a nice buck, well mannered too. You could at least give him a chance, I am sure he's at least a little bit interested in you."

"Your father's right Bunbun, I mean he sounded hurt when you told us you'd never date him, in his own apartment."

Judy once again slapped a paw to her face. "Here goes my parents playing matchmaker again. I thought they got that out of their system back at home."

Quickly deciding on her next course of action Judy ignored her parents and called out "James could you please come here!?"

James, who may have been eavesdropping on the conversation while he tuned his guitar, quickly stood up and placed it back on the wall and walked out of his bedroom and went over to Judy. He made sure to stay out of the phone's view and said "what's up?"

Judy waved her right paw at him and said "please come here, I want to introduce you to my parents."

James had been listening to the phone conversation and quickly deduced what she was trying to achieve. "Clever bunny."

James simply smirked at her and replied mirth in his tone, "you know I'm going to terrify them right?"

Bonnie and Stu for about the 10th time that night shot each other confused looks. Judy just waved her paw at him more and said "just get over here."

James shrugged and walked behind where Judy was sitting, putting him in view of her parents for the first time. He took in their shell shocked expressions, wide eyes, lower jaws hanging, ears plastered to their backs, and twitching noses. He knew they were expecting a handsome bunny buck, not a disfigured yet roguishly handsome fox tod. Deciding to be a little mischievous he gave them a full toothed smile and a wave claws half extended.

"Hello Mr and Mrs. Hopps, I am Jameson Wilde, Judy's neighbor and the one who decided to show her some hospitality. I will confirm that I have no ulterior motives, and that I was not offended when she said she would never date me, I said that in a mock offended tone."

Just looked up and smiled appreciatively at him and he looked down and gave her a wink. Both after that little exchange looked back at the phone...and Bonnie and Stu's expressions hadn't changed. Now Judy became concerned and James snapped his mouth shut with an audible clack. "Mom? Dad?"

Bonnie had no reaction to her daughter and just kept a thousand yard stare at Jameson. Stu other paw slowly pointed at Jameson and spluttered out, "f f ff ff ff fooox"

After that his eyes rolled into his head and he fell out of view with a thud. This snapped Bonnie out of her stupor and she looked down at her husband out cold on the ground and let out an exasperated "oh Stu."

Judy looked to the ceiling and let out an exasperated "really dad?"

Jameson's ears flattened to his skull and he immediately felt a little guilty. "Ah, I might have overdone it a little, a normal fox grinning would have been enough to shake them; let alone me."

Jameson went to apologize for scaring them and causing Mr. Hopps to faint but before he could, Mrs. Hopps apologized first. "*sighs, Mr. Wilde I apologize for my husband, he does this whenever he is overly frightened."

Judy looked up at Jameson and confirmed it. "It's true my dad's a fainter. Sneak up on him and poof to the floor he goes."

"Yes I can't count the number of times one of my children has snuck up on him and he fainted. Speaking of I should get him off of the kitchen floor."

Looking somewhere out of view Bonnie called out, "Daniel! Blake! Come get your father and put him on a couch!"

Jameson and Judy watched as two of her brothers who both resembled their father walked into frame, Jameson walked out of it when they did to go get his drink that he left in his bedroom. He didn't want to risk them doing the classic bunny freeze at the sight of him.

Daniel spoke up first, "dad fainted again? what was it this time?" He then looked at the phone and noticed his little sister Judy. "Hey sis! How's the city and the job?"

Judy smiled at him and replied "both are great, thanks."

Blake just nodded to the screen, then he put his paws on his hips and looked down at their father saying, "yeah what was it this time?"

Bonnie gestured to the phone and said "your sister is dining with a fox we thought was a bunny."

Blake put his ears down and crinkled his nose at the word fox and Daniel simply said "ah predator decided to say hello, he passes out, nice. Come on Blake lets get him up and out."

Daniel waved to his little sister before bending down and helping Blake lift him up, then they walked out of view Daniel calling out "later little sis!" As they left the frame Jameson strolled back into it retaking his place behind Judy drink in paw.

Bonnie did not notice that Jameson had left and came back and simply continued where she left off their conversation. "So Mr. Wilde while he is a fainter I must apologize nonetheless, it was rude. But, well.."

Jameson knew what she was trying to say. "I am completely and utterly not what you were expecting? I mean you don't expect your daughter straight from the farm to be dining with a fox, since judging by his reactions stereotypes of my kind are still in place at your household. Which if I am honest I would be more surprised if they weren't. Anyways, you were expecting a handsome buck, mostly because I yelled out at the top of my lungs a bunny alternative to cursing which I picked up living with bunnies. So surprise surprise when instead of a buck you see a disfigured yet roguishly handsome fox tod. Sorry to disappoint."

Bonnie just stared at him mortified and embarrassed. While she was going to say that she wasn't expecting him to be a fox, in her mind she had said as much as he did. For him to bluntly state what she was thinking about him being a fox made her feel like a bad mammal. "erm, um yes that about sums it up. But I am sorry, I shouldn't think ill of you or your intentions just, ehm."

Jameson was quite buzzed, and he hated specism, so his filter to be a little nicer about his next choice of words was off a little. "I think you meant to add 'just because you're a fox' after that. Which means you are still painting my species in a bad light as a whole. Which I totally get by the way, close knit country family, almost zero predators around, stereotypes formed generations ago and passed down. Who would blame you for continuing that outdated tradition? I mean, it is the general opinion of your entire community and probably about 85% of this country's population, maybe 90. It's not your fault that you've instilled a general fear and distaste for predators in your children, especially foxes. Its society that's to blame I am sure. Of course if you wisened up like your daughter here is trying at least to do we'd be in a much better place right about now and you'd be teaching your kits a valuable lesson, but who am I kidding? Like I said, it's tradition. Now if you'll excuse me I need to put away the leftovers, which was veggie casserole. Oh and I can see it in your eyes that you still doubt my intentions, well it's a dish I learned to make because the bunnies I mentioned I lived with was my wife and daughter. They're dead, both of them, I am a 32 year old widower that lost his life mate, Zoogle it if you don't get the significance of that."

After he was finished he downed the rest of his glass and walked out of frame and into the kitchen. Judy leaned up and turned to watch him go noticing his tail was swishing in aggravation, she watched as he began to passive aggressively put away the leftovers. After watching him for a few moments she turned back to face her mother, she didn't know where that outburst came from completely, and it was a little harsh, but Judy couldn't help feeling like he was justified in it.

Also what he said was true about what she was trying to do, grow out of her misguided specism, but Jameson's outburst at her mother was a wake up call that she had a long way to go. She realized that she had followed his brother Nick into that ice cream shop earlier in the day simply because he was a fox and she assumed that because he was a fox he was up to no good. Sure in the end it turned out he was running a hustle, but she tailed him because of his species and not because of his actions. "For carrots sake look at me I am carrying a can of FoxAway spray in a FOXES apartment! I think i'm not specist like the rest of my family and trying to be better but I am just as bad, I haven't changed at all." Judy's ears drooped and she felt so ashamed at the revelation.

Finally focusing on her mother she noticed she wasn't doing any better. Her paw was covering her mouth, her ears were plastered to her back, and she was looking at the ground. It was a pretty huge revelation that Jameson had laid on her, and she realized everything he said had truth and raised questions on how she perceived certain things. This was something that needed some serious thinking on, and discussing with her husband.

And speaking of, Stu walked back into the kitchen rubbing the back of his head and looking at the ground, as he came closer he said "I did it again didn't Iii..." looking up he took in his wife and daughters expressions. "What's going on? What happened?"

…

Jameson when he heard Stu's voice he decided to tune back into the conversation. He sat down at the dining table with a fresh drink content to see and hear what was going to happen next. He was very aware he just gave Mrs. Hopps and Judy a rude wake up call about their behavior, he would have been gentler about it but he was drunk and his filter wasn't up to snuff as it was today as a result. Taking a sip he leaned back and tilted an ear to the couch.

…

Bonnie looked at her husband and removed her paw from her mouth, her ears stayed down though despite her best efforts.

She gave a small smile and replied "Yes, you did do it again, this time when James introduced himself as a fox. Which was very rude Stewart. I would say apologize but he is busy putting away the veggie casserole he had made. As to what's wrong, later Stu, later."

Stu felt embarrassed for passing out at the mere sight of James turning out to be a fox. He was also quite confused, he didn't understand why his wife and daughter looked so glum. Maybe they had gotten into an argument, but he couldn't know, he would just have to wait for his wife to tell him later. So he decided to push along and wrap the call with the subject it was originally supposed to be about.

"Well okay then, well it's getting late so we should start wrapping this up, so last thing. How was your first day on the force Jude?"

Bonnie perked up at that. She had completely forgotten that that was the original reason they had tried to call her in the first place. "Oh yes, BunBun how was your first day? Everything you hoped it would be?"

Judy during her parents little conversation with each other she was still berating herself in her head. But when her dad asked that question it snapped her back to reality and out of her mopey mood, but there was a problem. "There is absolutely no way I am going to tell them how it really went and that Bogo considers me Precinct One's very own meter maid. Especially with what mom said. So lying it is."

"It was pretty good, everyone was nice. Chief Bogo didn't have proper supplies ready for me yet so he assigned me to parking duty, he also wants me to learn the city in a safe environment without being too focused taking calls to learn the layout, plus I am not in the system yet."

Bonnie looked at her husband with glee at hearing that before looking back at the screen and saying, "well that's great BunBun, it's great that your boss is keeping your safety in mind."

Stu nodded in approval at his wife and said "yeah he sounds like a swell boss."

Judy put on a fake smile and replied with false cheer, "yeaahhh, he's great."

Bonnie and Stu were oblivious to her false cheer but decided it was time to wrap up the call. "Well BunBun we'll let you go now, it's getting late and i'm sure you got a big day tomorrow."

"yeah Jude, but make sure you answer your phone next time alright?"

Judy smiled for real this time and replied "you got it, bye! love you guys!"

Her parents both waved before disconnecting the call.

Jameson was leaned back in the dining table chair, left arm outstretched and resting on the table, his right cradled in front of him so his glass was right in front of his muzzle, his left leg was kicked out while his right was not. He kept his ears slightly lowered in a resting position but still tuned into the conversation Judy was having, but the slowly perked back up when Mr. Hopps had asked how Judy's first day was on the force. That had peaked his interest, other than her telling him about his little brothers entire hustle and what he said to her she didn't go into any other details. But as she started talking his eyes narrowed.

"Doesn't have the proper supplies ready my furry red ass. The Mammal Inclusion Initiative has been active for a full year now. Chief Bogo has had all that time to get proper gear and supplies for smaller mammals coming onto the force, not to mention two weeks to get gear and supplies for Hopps alone. More like he's withholding the proper stuff. No tranq gun or lethal firearm, only one set of cuffs, that vest looks like its only med-large claw proof, maybe stab proof if the knife is dull, and the radio looks like it was 20 Zollars and bought at radio shack. If I had to guess Bogo is some old school cop who doesn't think small mammals can do the job, probably thinks Judy is some token bunny put in his precinct for PR. As a result he wants to make her quit by making her a meter maid and hassaling her at every step, therefore proving small mammals can't do the job. And not in the system? please. He was supposed to enter her in the second she was assigned to his precinct."

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Judy stared at the black screen for a second and her smile faded. She then closed her eyes and took a deep breath, letting it out slowly. She then opened her eyes just in time to hear Jameson say, "I smell bullshit."

Judy's ears perked and she stood and walked around the couch to be facing Jameson, she gave him a confused look and said, "what did you say?"

Jameson leaned forward and put his drink on the table, and while staying leaned forward and said, "I'm sorry, I said, and no offense to Ms. Mathers who lives on the first floor, I smell bullshit."

Now Judy was getting a little mad at him and said "James what are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about the bullshit you just fed to your parents about your job and your chief, now why don't you take a seat and tell me the truth about it."

Judy went from a little mad to surprised and replied, "how did you know I was lying?"

"It was in your delivery and tone, plus your false cheer when your dad said Bogo sounded like a nice boss. So come on sit and tell me what really went down for your first day."

Judy now caught walked over to the table and took her same seat from dinner. Taking a deep breath she began to tell him what really happened for her first day on the force. It took about twenty minutes and when she was done she could tell James wasn't happy about it.

"Well, and no offense to Mrs. Coruthers that lives on the third floor, he sounds like a real jackass. I'm sorry for the predicament you are going through, but I'm sure it'll get better, all it takes is one moment and boom you get your validation."

Judy gave him a little smile at that and said "thanks James, you're probably right, but it's probably gonna be awhile. But I will grin and bear it in the meantime. Now I should get back to my apartment and hit the hay, gotta be up bright and early."

James nodded and stood along with Judy and replied "of course, well let me see you out."

Together they walked over to the door and James opened it. Judy looked at him and said "thanks for inviting me over for dinner James."

James waved a paw and replied "no problem Judy, anytime. Seriously, anytime. Feeling peckish and wanting to save your money just let me know, dinners always the same time at 9. Gives me a chance to challenge myself in the kitchen again."

Judy beamed a smile at him and said "That sounds great, thanks James, have a nice night."

James nodded and gave her a smile. "You to Judy, if you need anything just give me a holler anytime."

Judy just nodded to him and once he was finished he waved and then closed the door. Turning back James set a determined look and mentally said. "That one moment is going to come sooner than you think Judy. Chief Bogo a storm is coming your way tomorrow and it's in the form of a red fox."

His next course of action set he went to go get his laptop. He had some research to do.

And Done! So this chapter was longer than the first since I did it have to change the second half at all. I hope you enjoyed it!

So with this chapter we are now caught up to where the first version was when I clean slated it. That means the next chapter will not come out for weeks at least so prepare yourselves for that.

I have two other stories not tied to this one. A Father Figure and Red Hood: Origins. Feel free to check them out!

Next time on A True Brother! Jameson makes an important phone call!

Well that's all I had to say so until next time this is TheConcernedF0X signing off! See you then!