***One year ago***

It was 3.00 in the morning, the moment Judy hesitantly waited for. She was pretending to lay asleep to catch her boyfriend.

It was two weeks ago when she found him treating a pretty nasty cut on his own in the bathroom of their apartement. She did rush to his aid but Nick just remarked that he needs to know how to take care on his own and pushed her out of the bathroom, slaming the door shut behind her.

Ever since then their relationship grew kinda colder, at least she thought it did. Nick began to fall asleep at work, more than before at least, and he had a sad look on his face most of the time.

She tried talking to him about it but he always just made a joke about her baybysitting him or completely ignored the subject.

Well today it was going to change, she was going to catch him leaving and confront him when he came back.

She was laying in bed with Nick, his arm holding her in a hug. The evening beforehand wasn't anything special, their usual movie night, but this time Judy picked some Romance movies so she could justify her wanting to sleep with him in one bed.

Suddenly she felt him retract his arm and start mooving on his bed "I have you now dumb fox" she thought to herself. She could hear him get off the bed and walk around a bit, then she would hear him leave out the door.

Judy sat up now, she waited for a few more seconds and then turned on the light in Nick's room, she stood up and began walking to the kitchen, when she realised the odd broken watch Nick once brought home was gone. It also caught her attention that his new backpack was gone too. "What is that fox doing behind my back?" she said to her self.

Two hours passed by rather slowly, with her eating some breakfast, dressing up, and thinking of about 1000 scenarios, some of which incuded: Nick not comig back at all, Nick coming back wounded, Nick coming back with Finnick, Nick comig back with a vixen. Her imagination had no boundaries.

When she finally heard the door lock "cling" She was sobbing on the sofa while considering the 786 possibility once more of him cheating on her.

She was ready to jump off the sofa and scream at him when she heared his calm and gentle voice.

"Judy?" Nick asked when he saw lights in their appartement. Next thing he notticed was the quiet sobbing coming fron the sofa and a pair of bunny ears laying on top of it."Oh no" he thought to himself.

He rushed to the couch dropping his backpack on the floor, to his dismay he saw Judy sitting on the couch, with tear trails on her cheeks and a box of tissues by her side.

"Judy wha..."

"It's ok Nick" she tapped the foxes nose, making him stop talking. "I won't mind if you don't like me after all" she said, her voice shaking, and words being interrupted by sobbing.

"What are you talking about Judy?" He said, his voice soft and a nervous smile on his face.

"Aren't you dating someone else?" Judy asked nearly breaking out into an uncontrollable tear storm.

"No fluff, I love you" he said placing a little kiss on her cheek "why would I date someone else when I already have the best girlfriend in the world?" He continued while grabbing a hold of her paw.

Judy felt a rock fall off of her heart, she fell off the couch into his arms, watering his brown leather coat like a sprinkler watters the grass.

"Here you go" softly stated Nick, petting Judy while she was hugging him, now a smile on his face. "Where did that idea come frome Carrots?"

"You were leaving in the middle of the night, and you were weirdly cold to me and..." she spoke while crying, at some point tuggling into his coat, completely muffling her own words.

"Don't worry Judy, it's over, I won't be leaving any time soon" he said

***present***

Nick wiped away tears with his free hand, his and Judies old apartement in front of him. Nick grabbed the door handle and pushed it open, the inside of the appartement dark and empty.

He entered the appartement, his heavy boot shattering the broken picture frame with a picture of him and Judy together. He looked at his wrist, the watch on it calmly glowing orange in 2 second intervals.

"Safe zone" he sighted relieved and closed the door behind himself.

He took off his gas mask and put his assault rifle on safety. He decided to sit down on the couch he once owned, when he finally sat down, he heard a familiar beep from the scanner attached to his backpack, then a robotic female voice could be heard from the device.

"Echo scanned"

***Half a year ago***

"Open this fucking door you bitch!" Shouted a voice from behind the door

"Step back or I'll shoot"
Judy shouted holding her gun pointed at the door, she already called for backup.

Judy was sitting at home, just minutes ago. Chief Boggo gave her a day off, despite the bad situation in the citty. Normally she would be spending that time with Nick, but he was gone.

It happened last week when Nick just disappeared five days after the outbreak.

Now there was a sick psycho banging at her door, she feared him breaking it.

She put her finger on the trigger, slowly pulling it until she heard a gunshot and something falling to the ground. The screams stopped, she looked at her gun, took her finger off the trigger, and pulled out the magazine, the ammount of bullets in the magazine didn't change.

Her curiosity caused her to walk towards the door, she was about to look through the keyhole when she heard five knocks on the door and a familiar voice.

"Officer Hopps are you okay?"

She swung the door open and threw herself at the fox standing there.

***Present***

The Echo stopped playing, tears rolling from his eyes once more. Nick remembered that day well.

It was his seventh day on the job as a Division agent. It wasn't easy, pretending that you didn't know any of the mammals that you spend more than a year with, he was slowly getting used to it when the local Division dispositor ordered him to follow a help request coming from his old apartement, when he heard the message attached to the coordinates he ran faster than ever before.

When Judy jumped onto him he wanted to hug her, kiss her, he wanted to be the Nick Wilde she knew, but he could not. He was agent 16, Officially Mr. Wilde was gone.

The only thing he could reply with then was a cold "You must have mistaken me for someone"

It broke her, or that's what he felt when he said it, but the training prepeared him for that. Or, so he hoped.

That day was the worst day of his life.

Tears were going in small streams down his cheeks now. He turned off the strategic display revealing a broken TV in front of him. Nick decided to go to the kitchen and eat some food he earlier got from the ZPD station, when he heard the doors opening. He rushed for the gun, instinctinly changing it to single fire mode. He targeted the entrance, moments later a familiar bunny, in the ZPD anti-terrorist uniform, strolled in, and jumped back scarred of the gun.

When he lowered the gun she entered the apartement.

"Agent 16" Said Judy.

"Officer Hopps" Said Nick.

And so they exchanged a cold greeting.