Morning couldn't come sooner, all Nick wanted to do was tell Judy what had happened but the words he was told rang in his head all night.

"You work for me now…" what did they want with him. 'They didn't necessarily say that I couldn't tell her though' he thought.

His alarm going off was his cue to get up out of bed although he had been awake for a long time before it went off. The bad part about living in a cave was that he could never naturally tell what time it was, but either way, Nick knew he had to get up and make his move otherwise he would just stay there all day. So reluctantly he got up from his bed, cleaned himself and prepared himself for the day that was about to come.

Lucky him he wasn't late for the bus, taking his seat where it always was right next to the fennec fox although now Nick just knew him as Finnick. The short tod didn't pay Nick any mind when Nick took his seat simply sitting with headphones in and looking out the window. Nick felt somewhat indebted to him considering how helpful he was in the arena the other day. He nudged him slightly catching the foxes attention as he turned around and took a headphone out.

"Hey, I just wanted to say thanks for helping me out in that arena" Nick said sincerely, the fox simply nodded in response. Nick hadn't yet heard the fox say a word so he expected that was all he was gonna get.

"I did it for the grade" Finnick said, his voice so deep it surprised Nick leaving him in awe that such a small mammal could have that deep of a voice. He quickly realized that he was staring,

"Well still thanks" He quickly added putting his classic smirk back on.

The bus eventually landed in front of the school right where it always did. Even though it had only been a day since he was last here it felt like it had been months. 'Almost like someone's inability to write a story was holding us in place' Nick thought.

Right on the steps where they had met the last few days was the sight he had been waiting to see all night, his bunny was standing talking to some other prey but as soon as Nick came walking closer to them they all scurried away. 'Oh right my aura' he thought, Judy looked confused as to why they suddenly left until she turned and saw her fox coming up the steps.

"Great so now you're scaring off my friends?" She asked sarcastically,

Nick made a face of mock offense, putting his paw to his chest. "Pardon me but I thought I was the only friend this bunny could have."

"No I'm allowed to have other friends but I am only allowed one boyfriend so there you go" She said with a sly grin,

"Oh well that's a relief" Nick said as they walked up the stairs looking around for anything out of the ordinary.

Judy could tell that something was off with Nick by the way he was scanning the area around them.

"Nick are you okay?" She asked

He seemed to find what he was looking for because he reached down and grabbed Judy's arm, dragging her towards the janitors closet.

They stepped in, Nick shutting the door behind him. He turned to face her but his breath caught in his throat when he saw a symbol behind Judy. It was small, the average mammal probably wouldn't see it but Nicks heightened senses picked it up almost immediately. It was clear as day what the symbol was, two M's together on the wall behind bottles of cleaning sprays.

"Nick whats going on with you?" Judy asked concern lacing her voice.

'How do they know, what is happening?' Was all Nick could think. He shook his head realizing that he had been staring for a while and Judy was now trying to track whatever he was looking at.

"I-I'm fine" he said quickly grabbing her arms to get his attention back to him.

"I… just wanted some private time with my favorite bunny" he said pulling her in close. Nick could feel the heat coming off of her.

"Well gee if you wanted to be alone with me so much then you should have just asked" she said, her voice muffled by Nicks.

"Yeah I guess I'm just shy." Nick said trying to ignore the fear ebbing away at his mind. Judy pulled away and looked up even more shy,

"The Nick Wilde, being shy are you sure you're ok?" She asked again. The fox couldn't help but let out a chuckle at that, 'only she would notice something like that'.

"Yeah I- I guess it- you're just the first real relationship I've ever had sooo" That wasn't a complete lie, Nick did have other relationships in the past but they weren't anything as serious as this.

"Awe Nick that's really cute now I see why you're so shy, it's okay you are my first too"

Now it was Nick's turn to be surprised, "really a fetching bunny like yourself has never been in a relationship?"

Now it was Judy's turn to feel shy, she could feel her ears heat up. "Now I know I'm being a stereotypical fox making a stereotypical assumption of a bunny, but don't bunnies you know…"

Nick then pointed one finger and then made a whole with his other hand trying to demonstrate.

"Yes we are good at multiplying now quit being a child" Judy said punching Nick in the arm playfully. Nick was now laughing whole heartedly, and of course right on time the bell rang.

The two separated and left for their classes, of course Nick went to his first class with Mrs. Rollae, sat in the same seat next to Wolford, except something was new now. The other students around him weren't looking at him with hate, they were looking at him with respect instead.

All the attention was making Nick feel uncomfortable, he was the kind of guy that liked to stay under the radar and this was definitely not working for him.

"Hey Wolfie, why are they all looking at me?" Nick asked leaning over to whisper to his friend.

Wolford looked confused for a second before realizing why the fox was reacting.

"Oh its becau-"

"Good Morning class!" Mrs. Roleo screamed extremely loud scaring a majority of the class and interrupting Wolford.

The wolf had to lean in now so that they wouldn't get caught like last time.

"It's because of your battle in the arena yesterday, you really impressed a lot of mammals here Nick" He whispered patting Nick on the back.

"Really" Nick was shocked that anyone was actually paying attention to the event considering how long it had been going for before they even got in there.

"Yeah and I don't mean to alarm you or anything but you have this feeling that mammals get when they are around you, you really attract attention somehow" Wolford continued. Nick already knew this because of Judy but wanted to act confused just so people didn't think anything was happening to him.

"I had no idea" Nick.

"Excuse me" came a voice from the front of the classroom. The two looked to the front as well as the rest of the class to see Mrs. Rollae standing there tapping her foot.

"Thank you, now we continue with our discussion of…" The class went on smoothly from there, Nick feeling a bit better now that he wasn't the target of everyone's hatred. And soon enough the bell rang signaling the end of the period. As soon as Nick stood up a tiger stepped towards him blocking his path out of the class room.

"Hey fox, I saw what you did yesterday in the arena, it was pretty impressive. You know even if you don't have powers you got some good things going for you" the tiger said reaching out his paw, Nick took his paw shaking it.

"I appreciate it Fangmeyer that really means a lot" Nick said. The tiger seemed shocked that he knew his name. It had been years since the two had last talked, and its not like they were friends or anything.

"Um yeah, sure thing. You know we can use someone like you on the competitive arena team" Fangmeyer said.

"What?" Nick knew there were sports teams at Sky High but he hadn't ever heard of competitive arena.

"It's the same thing that was in the arena you did yesterday except there are teams that do it and compete with different objectives. You and your partner could make a pretty good team."

"Ok sorry for the twenty questions but what partner are you talking about." Nick hadn't shared his relationship with Judy and he knew she didn't either.

"Oh that finnick fox, isn't he your friend?"

"What no, we were just teamed up at random" Nick said with a breath of relief, 'wait he thinks just because finnick is a fox that he is my friend, very interesting' Nick thought.

"Oh well, you two worked well together, you should think about joining."

"Yeah maybe, I gotta get going though I will look into it later" Nick said pushing past the tiger and out into the hallway.

The hallway was much calmer than normal because of how long he talked to Fangmeyer, he quickly went to his locker before heading to his next class. The classes went on until finally the bell rang signaling for lunch to start. Nick didn't want to seem like he was in a rush even though he very much was, he wanted to be sure he could see his bunny. He walked through the halls at a slightly quicker pace than normal and made it to the lunch room in record time. The sight of Judy sitting alone at the lunch table made him release a breath he didn't know he was holding. 'Why am I so nervous, she can easily take care of herself' he thought to himself.

"Wow Mr. Popular decided to sit with the meek little rabbit at lunch, I feel blessed" she said with a teasing face when she saw him.

"Ugh so I guess you've heard about that too" Nick said taking a seat next to her. The fox could sense the eyes of other mammals on the pair, he wanted nothing more than to grab the bunny and run to a place where they could enjoy just being with each other. The sound of footsteps approaching shook him out of his thoughts. He looked up to see Wolford walking up,

"Hey Judy, Hey Nick" He said taking a seat across from the pair. The table they sat at had a total of eight seats, three of them being full with the mammals sitting there. A large cheetah approached the table, Nick noticed him easily. As soon as his eyes locked with the cheetah he could see the large mammal flinch. 'Oh great here we go' he thought.

"Uh, hi could I possibly sit with you guys? There's not really much room for me anywhere else" he asked.

Nick was about to say no when Judy spoke up before him, "Yes of course there's plenty of room here", he looked over at Judy with a pouting face on. She grabbed his paw creating a link,

'Be nice and I'll be nice to you, he clearly needs a place to sit' she thought. Nick smirked at her,

"Yeah, sure that shouldn't be a problem" Nick said

"Thank you so much" the cheetah said taking one of the open seats, "my name is Benjamin Clawhauser"

"I'm Judy Hopps"

"Just call me Wolford"

"And I'm Nick Wilde" they all introduced themselves. The cheetah looked around at the group with a smile on his face,

"Nick, oh sorry can I call you Nick?" The cheetah asked as if he had just sinned.

"Uh yeah that is my name" Nick responded, "look I don't know what everyone is talking about but I'm just a normal fox, this aura coming off of me it's nothing, I promise"

The cheetah sighed with relief, "oh thank goodness, I thought I was going crazy. But that's incredible that you don't have any powers but you still seem like one of the most powerful mammals I've ever seen. Not to mention the display you put on yesterday with that fennec fox was quite impressive"

"Thanks, but I really just want to be treated as normal because that's what I am okay?" Nick said starting to get flustered.

Everyone could feel the energy coming off the fox intensify as he got upset, Judy could start to feel it too and noticed that lots of others were starting to turn meaning that they could feel it too. She reached out and put her paw onto his leg, out of view of anyone around them, but Nick could feel it.

'You need to relax' was all that he had heard in his head. Nick closed his eyes taking a deep breath, he could sense all the eyes on him again. 'This is the worst' he said in his head.

'It's alright I'm here for you Nick' she said back to him.

He opened his eyes and looked over at Clawhauser who looked more than a little stressed.

"Sorry, I'm not used to the whole 'being famous' thing" Nick said trying his hardest to bring in his powers under his control.

"It's okay, I know I'm probably not helping" Clawhauser said. Nick could feel the eyes begin to turn away as everyone returned to their own business.

"No really its okay I'm just having a rough day" Nick said. The rest of lunch seemed to crawl by as Judy would try to start a conversation with the cheetah which would end in awkward silence. Nick felt bad, he didn't mean to go off on the cheetah like he did but the stress of all that was happening to him was just weighing down on him. Finally the bell rang calling for the end of lunch, Nick wanted nothing more than this day to be over but sadly he had more classes.

The rest of the classes went on similar to how the others did, people would look at him and he would get annoyed. There was no way of hiding because most of the mammals were bigger than him. Eventually the last class ended and they were finally sent home. Nick and Judy stuck together until they were finally at her apartment. As soon as they were inside Nick collapsed on the bed.

"Why did this have to happen to me?" Nick said out loud, "I probably seem like a pouty baby for hating all this attention but I'm just not used to it." Judy sat down on the bed scooting up to Nicks head and putting it in her lap, once she was comfortable she started to rub his head.

"It's ok Nick I know you're not one for getting attention, but you didn't have to go off on Clawhauser like you did" she said stroking the top of his head, the feeling of her soft paw on his head made Nick relax even more into the bed. He let out a deep sigh letting all the day escape his mind,

"Yeah you're right I shouldn't have but I just couldn't control myself at that point, controlling all of this is honestly the hardest part of this whole thing" Nick said

Judy sat in thought for a bit looking at Nicks face, "When I first got my powers, well first off my parents were really confused because of how rare it is for a prey of my size to have powers, but when I first got them I couldn't really control them either" Judy chuckled as a memory flashed through her head, "this one time I controlled one of my brothers to steal a slice of blueberry pie"

Nick opened his eyes and looked up at her, "Wait, you're telling me that the super bunny Judy Hopps stole something?" He said in a teasing voice.

"Har har very funny, but yes and it was when I was 7. Anyways the point I'm trying to make is that it takes time to learn the control over your powers, kids have to learn it but now you have to as well."

"Great so I'm the level of kids hmm?" Nick said sarcastically

"Yes and they are taught by their parents, but you get me"

Nick once again looked up and smirked, "boy then I guess I'm lucky compared to all those kids"

"Yes very lucky"

Before she could even react Nick flipped up and grabbed Judy by the arms holding her down on the bed, "hmm and I seem to have myself a rabbit here so lets see just how lucky I am" he said bringing his face as close as possible so that their muzzles were almost touching. Nick could feel the heat coming off her face, and after a bit more waiting he went in for the kill, he smashed their lips together in a passionate kiss. Judy clutched onto Nick chest as he rolled over onto his back taking her with him. She straddled his legs around his waist. The kiss went on while Nick slid his hand down Judy's back until he hit her tail causing her to jump up with a squeak. Nick looked at her confused and then looked at his hand as if he had just shocked her.

"Sorry my tail is just really sensitive" she said. Nick stared at her for a moment before bursting into laughter. Eventually Judy joined in on the laughter. Judy leaned in and started laughing into Nicks side while he started to have tears come out of his eyes because he was laughing so hard.

They're laughter continued as if there was not a care in the world, but what they didn't know is that they were being watched, there were eyes on them consistently yet they never knew. A certain masked mammal watched them waiting for the right moment to strike.

"Scrat", the Magnum Mortus called out to their assistant.

"Yes Magnum?" Scrat said waiting at her side like normal,

"Tell our friends that the package is ready for pick up" the masked figure said turning to look at the small mammal,

"Of course" Scrat ran off leaving Magnum alone to continue watching the one mammal they needed.

'Soon Nick, Soon'

Boy was that a chapter, I know months of waiting for that, sheesh this blows. I'm sorry this part of the story was already lulling in my head and I just sort of wrote what I thought. I promise you the story is gonna start picking up soon. Anyways how are you all doing? I hope everyone is doing well in these scary times with the whole COVID-19 thing going on. I should have a lot more time to write considering all my classes have gone remote and I'm gonna be staying at home for the next 5 months. I know we are all out there searching for stuff to do or anything to read or watch. I personally have been reading a lot of stories, I just finished The Growler Incident which is a fantastic story that I do recommend. But I will try to be updating this story much more consistently so that any of you who really want to enjoy this story has the ability to at this time when entertainment is as important as toilet paper. Now stay safe, relax, and wash your hands!