Hey guys, how are you?

Yeah, I´m finally back with new stuff and no, I haven´t forgotten about the 22.5, that stuff just takes a while to write, naturally. It´s going to be good though, promise! ;)

Anyways, hope you enjoy this one a little too, have fun reading!

Big thanks to all the pre-readers and especially to MrShurukan for correcting it again!

Zootopia – Springtime Circumstances

Chapter 23 – The SMA

"Officer Wilde!" I was yelled at as soon as I left the elevator in the lobby. A few seconds later, I was completely surrounded by cameras and microphones.

"Officer Wilde!" somebody else repeated, "How are you? What is your medical condition?"

"What happens to those prisoners?"

"How is Officer Hopps doing?"

I had to raise my paws to calm them down a little, and I just kept on shaking my head until I had some silence finally. Naturally, I was as relaxed as I could be, on a physical level. I my head, everything went up and down. I really had to concentrate because of it. But I still had a self-confident smile on my face and I didn´t let them stress me. I had all the time in the world.

"One by one" I instructed them, "Thank you."

Then I picked the first one to ask me a question.

"Officer Wilde, what exactly happened while arresting the other officers yesterday?"

"They tried hiding from us very cowardly, and as we passed the pillars they used to stay out of sight, they stepped out and attacked us. Judy saved me from the tranquilizer darts by pushing me out of their way, but she got hit by that dart herself therefore, sadly, and soon afterwards she got kicked against a wall by one of those polar bears…" I explained.

"That is an unfair move, considering the size difference…how did you get out of the situation?"

"I knocked them out."

"How?"

"With my fists."

That left them speechless for a second.

"Didn´t you have tranquilizers with you?"

"We did, how do you think we knocked the other four bastards out?"

"The colleagues told us that you two got heavily injured during that fight yesterday…" somebody else asked passively.

"Officer Hopps will stay in an induced coma for about a week" I explained sadly, "But she will be fine, I´m pretty sure she´ll get back onto her feet pretty soon!"

"You got attacked by one of the prisoners with a knife, as the rumors go…is that true?"

"It is true, I have a twenty-inch wound across my back and a fractured rib, but that will heal as well."

I immediately picked the next one to ask something.

"What will happen to those prisoners?"

"A few years of jailtime in any case, but miss Camilla May will receive a much smaller punishment than the others."

There was a long silence after I said that, and I knew that of course. No wonder they were reacting like that. I did it on purpose and showed them with a little chuckle.

"No! Not because I saved her from her heat, because she handed herself in and told us everything she knew yesterday. We got the rest because she handed herself in. And unlike the others didn´t she harm anybody, that is the reason!"

That seemed to answer the last question, nobody had to say something about that. At least it was over pretty soon this time.

"Anything else you want to know?" I asked, "Like my hobbies or my credit card number?"

A few chuckles here and there, but everybody was happy, as it seemed. Nearly everybody.

"You have been nominated for the title of ´sexiest man alive´ yesterday evening, what are your thoughts about that?" I was asked suddenly, which I didn´t expect anymore. I had no idea what she was talking about.

"I was nominated for what?" I asked in disbelief that something like that even existed, "Is that a joke? There is something like that?" I asked with a chuckle.

A few of the reporters chuckled a little, but the vixen who asked me that was not bothered to explain it, she was seemed to be a little ashamed and cross about my reaction. I took a second quick look at her, and then I remembered her suddenly. She was the one in the club who was flirting with me at my table, she had her friend with her, and then it turned out that she was a reporter. She was taking that photo of me and wrote the article which the chief showed us in the office. I immediately decided to not get any further into that topic, I had enough already.

"I´m sorry my dear, I have no idea what that is" I ended the little press-conference with another little chuckle, "I´ll check it out later, I promise!" I stated with a last little ironic smile. Then I waved the reporters one last time.

"I think that´s all you got to know, I´m going back to bed!"

That got a few chuckles as well, but nobody stopped or followed me anymore. They respected me totally. I simply went back to the elevator and pushed the button for my level.

Now that I was alone again, the other topic was on my mind again immediately.

Now I couldn´t distract myself from it anymore and I couldn´t deny it either. It was bothering me a lot now: "I´ve been practically cheating on her" I realized it again. It wasn´t just theoretically, I really did it. It has only been one single night, it was the first day I´ve been here and I just went back to some old traditions? "The fuck, Nick?" I asked myself, "because you thought you wouldn´t do it for a week anyways? Really?"

I felt horrible all over sudden. The doors of the elevators opened and I walked towards my room slowly.

"Nick" I thought to myself, "You have a problem, you have a serious problem! The fame isn´t good for you!" I told myself, without even really thinking about it. It just came to me like that. But I sort of had a point: I felt stronger and more powerful since the media people made such a big thing out of me. A little did it make me feel like I could do whatever I want, like I was invincible.

"I just wanted to be fair to her…" I had the thought in my head a second later, "Maybe it is not so bad…it was just a blowjob, nothing I would call love…it wasn´t love anyways…"

"NO! Nick! Wake up you idiot! You just used her because you can! Never ever think like that again!"

The wound on my back started hurting a little when I was just about to reach the door to my room. It itched in a very bad spot which I couldn´t reach that easily without stretching my back muscles, and that stressed me even more. "That must be the famous karma" I guessed. But I´ve earned it without a doubt.

"Who do you think you are?" I asked myself again, "You would still be selling popsicles if that bunny didn´t happen! Fucking show her some respect!"

I really was enraged about myself, I should have never let that happen! I closed the door behind me quite harshly and felt the first tear running down from my eyes. The first tear in years. I really loved her, she is and will forever be the only one for me. And I just did that.

"You have to stop this! Never ever think about it again!" I told myself. That was a stupid excuse!"

I climbed onto my bed carefully and tried to think of something else as soon as possible. I couldn´t change it anymore anyways. I couldn´t deny what I did.

I kept on staring at the ceiling for a couple of seconds, but I couldn´t think of something else than that. I decided to grab my phone again. Now the thing the reporter had asked me about came back into my mind. I opened a browser and stated searching for that.

She has not been joking, there was even a website called like that: "The sexiest man alive", was the title of it, and below that there was a banner with: "This year´s voting". There was a countdown on the top as well, it had a little over thirty hours left and was ticking down constantly. Below that I found a top ten-list of the nominees, each of the guys with a few pictures and their names besides it, and most of them were celebrities. Famous Actors, a TV-presenter, a few singers and on the 9th place, me. It also showed the number of votes for everybody, and they were constantly rising. I just shook my head in pure disbelief. I found it sort of charming and also a little funny to be mentioned in that list, but I was no celebrity and I didn´t feel like one either. I had no chance against those guys anyways. At least that lifted my mood a little bit right now.

Nevertheless, I began reading the description of every nominee to maybe find out what this was all about exactly. When I arrived at myself in the top ten-list and read what they wrote about me:

A very late entry this year but worth to be mentioned here nevertheless. The charismatic fox, the first one ever in history to join the ZPD forces, gained a lot of attention recently with arresting a handful of drug-dealers in a sex bar of Zootopia, being half naked and recolored for undercover purposes.

Below that was that picture of the newspapers.

Besides his career at the ZPD, he seems to be very sporty and not afraid to show it, no wonder all the canine girls are going crazy over him and he got nominated for this award as well. Click here to vote.

"What a bunch of bullshit" I thought to myself, "I´m just a little piece of shit. A monster who can´t control himself!"

I was still angry about myself, and reading that didn´t make it better. It just showed me how weak I was even more.

"I´m going to tell her! And even if she leaves me for that, she deserves to know about it! Be a man and say sorry you little pussy!" I told myself, and the thought of her leaving actually made my cry a little. I didn´t want her to leave me. She was everything I had. How could I be that stupid?

I was loudly awoken from my self-doubt-inflicted thoughts by someone knocking on my door.

"Lunch!" they yelled, "Can I come in?"

"Yes, please!" I answered "Come in!"

The rhino lady who came in had a tablet on her hands and was carrying it into my room carefully.

"Good afternoon, officer Wilde!" she giggled happily.

"Hi" I greeted back lazily.

She placed the tablet on the little table besides my bed carefully and then she nodded at me in a friendly way.

"Thank you very much! Good timing!"

"Not the best food in the world but it works against the hunger hopefully…"

I really was happy that it wasn´t Suzanne, who was bringing me the food right now. At least I could avoid that awkward situation for now, but this lady was quite flattered by my presence as well, as it seemed.

"Is something wrong?" I asked her carefully and in a friendly way, because she kept on smiling happily for a little while.

"No, everything is fine!" she waved it off, "…I was just thinking about something funny…"

"Suzanne?" I guessed shamelessly.

That made her laugh loudly. I hit it on the spot.

"You should have seen her face when I met her in the hallway…"

"I really don't understand all of this hype…" I told her plainly, "what is that all about?" I acted to be stupid.

"There is a vote online, you know, about the ´SMA´ of this year…it´s really a big topic among the colleagues…"

"And?"

"And we have one of them here, and he is a fox for that matter" she chuckled, "That´s probably why she is that excited!"

"Yeah…because of that" I thought to myself, "Surely…because of that."

I just shrugged my shoulders a little because I didn´t want to be suspicious about it, naturally.

"As long as I don´t have to understand it…" I chuckled, to end the topic as quickly as it came. I really was hungry and wanted to eat.

"Oh, you will understand it later" she grinned, as she began making her way out of the door again.

"Yeah, I´ll search the web for it!" I chuckled, "Never too late to learn something new!"

"Good idea, enjoy your meal!" she said, before she attempted to leave my room again.

"Thank you!" I yelled behind her. Then I began eating.

POV Suzanne

I still couldn´t believe it. After I was done with him, I just realized what he did. It was practically cheating what he did to her. When I checked her room soon afterwards, I really felt bad for it suddenly. She was just lying there and couldn´t do anything about it. She didn´t even knew about it.

I still had his taste in my mouth, lots of it, and considering that it was quite a weird situation right now. As much as I enjoyed it when it happened, now I somehow wished that it didn´t happen. He really was just saving Cammy from the heat she was in, but I had no allowance from her to do that to him just because I wanted to. I couldn´t tell why he was giving me the chance in the first place. "Maybe to get it over with? Maybe really just to make me shut up?" I asked myself, but I couldn´t explain it. I just knew that I wouldn´t do it again. I really had a bad conscience about it already.

Still, when somebody saw me, all I did was grin stupidly. Every of my colleagues knew how excited I was of having him here. It got even better, when we found out that they nominated him for the ´SMA´ this year. He would be the first police officer to win the title, and although he was just added to the competition yesterday, he would win it without any doubts. The vote would end tomorrow evening and he was on 7th place already, climbing the board with every hour that passed.

"He just shrugged his shoulders about it" Rebecca told me with a wide grin, when I met her in the hallway again. She was in charge of serving the lunch today, and that's why she met him just a few minutes earlier.

"Really?" I asked back.

"He said he would find out more about it in the internet later" she explained with an amused smile.

I just kept on grinning about it.

"He looks good, doesn´t he?" she asked me teasingly.

"Too good" I commented.

"You think he got a chance?"

"Of winning this year? No doubt about it."

"Ha! You say that because you like him…" she continued teasing me.

"Don´t tell me he doesn´t deserve to win it" I chuckled.

"He is quite a looker" she confessed, "And he is friendly too, and a police officer…but he is not alone on that list!" she reminded me.

"If he does not stop rushing through the ranks like he does right now, he will be on the first place by tomorrow morning…"

"We´ll see" she smiled, as she began pushing her cart further down the hallway again.

"Yeah, well see!" I chuckled. Then I went on my way again as well.

POV Daniel Fangmeyer

It was about 3PM in the afternoon, when I entered the hospital Lobby with Max and Jennifer. We met up in front of the entrance to visit them together in order to not bother them for too long. I really was excited to see them after what happened yesterday, and my colleagues where too, noticeably.

"Did you know they nominated him for the ´SMA´ this year?" Jennifer asked in amusement after we had entered the elevator and selected the level.

"The what?" Max asked with a chuckle, and I didn´t know what she meant either.

"The sexiest man alive" she cleared up, "He´s in the top ten already!"

"There is something like that?" I wondered with a chuckle.

"Yeah, it's a big thing among the girls! And there never was a police officer on that list before!"

Max and I just shook our heads in unison and she couldn't hide a little chuckle because of this.

"You don't have to understand it" she cleared up, "That's a girly thing…"

"What do you have to do to be on that list?" I asked curiously.

"You have to be famous and you have to be sexy" she clarified with a dry chuckle.

"Well…that crosses Dan out of the list immediately" Max teased me with a wide grin.

"Yeah, yeah…as if you´re that famous, you handsome little fucker" I answered with an ironic grin. Jennifer just grinned a little and shook her head because of our bullshit.

When the doors of the elevator opened finally, we began searching for the hallway the lady at the reception had described us. Luckily, we found a nurse pretty soon. I couldn´t help but grin widely as I noticed her, and Max had the same problem. We didn´t want to, but we just couldn´t stop ourselves. She was a vixen, and she looked as excited as you just could look. As if she had won the lottery. Jennifer luckily was able to behave herself and ask her for the way kindly. "We´re from the ZPD" she cleared up, "We would like to visit the colleagues Hopps and Wilde please!"

"Oh, yeah! Just go down that hallway and turn right over there!" she explained, "Rooms 32.4.1 and 32.4.3!"

"Thank you very much!"

"No problem!"

With that she went on her way again and we followed Jennifer, still not able to stop grinning.

"You two are such douchebags" she chuckled ironically, "Unbelievable!"

"What?"

"As if she didn´t notice it you idiots!" she said, before punching his shoulders a little. We still giggled happily about it.

We found the first room she named us quite quickly, and I didn´t hesitate to knock on the door as soon as we arrived.

"Yeah, come in!" we heard him answering a second later, and since we knew she was in a coma, we wanted to see him first anyways.

I opened the door and the others followed me inside before closing it again.

"Nick! How are you?" I greeted him with a fist bump, as we arrived on his bed.

"I´m happy you´re here! This is boring me to death already!" he chuckled happily, as he greeted the others as well.

"Still not failing to surprise us…" Max pointed out, "beating up two polar bears and four criminals all by himself."
"Don´t do that to her, bad mistake!" he chuckled.

"Oh, you should have heard Snarlov and Higgins talking about you!" I explained, before I quoted them, "Even the words he used on that wolf hurt like hell, before he knocked him out and sent him to sleep."

His grin widened a little. "Yeah, I was a little enraged I would say…"

"You are a beast!" Max pointed out, "I will never ever try to piss you off!"

"Don´t worry, you won´t get me that far anyways" he waved it off.

"How bad is your back, does it hurt?" I asked with great interest.

"Yeah, I got a new load of painkillers after lunch, it´s quite a cut. But right now, its fine…"

"Can we see it?" Jennifer asked with an innocent expression.

He just ignored it with a little grin and began pulling his white T-Shirt over his head.

"Ouch!" Max commented.

"I also have a fractured rib, as it turned out" he explained with a shrug of his shoulders, "But Judy´s condition is much worse than mine."

"Yeah, we´ve heard about that…" Jennifer told him lowly, "That must be a hard time for you…"

He nodded a little. He noticeably wasn´t as enthusiastic as he was normally right now, but who could blame him.

"Still looking good though" Max chuckled.

"Yeah" I agreed, "no wonder you got nominated for …whatever that is…" I explained with a little grin, just to tease Jennifer a little. Nick knew what we were talking about, he sighed with an unsure hand gesture and a little disinterested smile.

"I was even told that in the interview I gave in the lobby this morning, but I had no idea what that is, I had to check it out on the web afterwards…" he explained while he put his T-Shirt back on.

"See?" Max chuckled, "Even he shrugs it off!" he told Jennifer.

She just shook her head in amusement.

"That is a girly thing, isn´t it?" Nick asked her, being quite interested right now actually.

"Yeah…" she sighed, nevertheless amused about it.

"See!" I agreed with Max, laughing as well now, "we asked that too!" I cleared up for Nick.

"Are you not proud about that?" she wanted to know.

"Should I?"

"Yeah!" she confirmed, even sounding a little offended right now, "You´re even in the top ten!"

"Those other guys are TV stars, famous singers and actors…what do I have to do with that?"

"Ever seen that photo of yourself in the Newspaper?"

"…well" he sighed, "If I don´t have to do something for that in the end…"

"There is a great show every year where they pick and interview the top five people on that list and the winner gets an article in a big magazine!" she explained, "You are the topic of the whole city, Nick!" she chuckled.

"Oh, please no!" he sighed. Then he waved it off confidently, "Nah, I´m not that high up anyways…"

"Have you seen that one nurse already?" I asked him to tease him even more, and obviously he knew who I was talking about as well.

"You mean Suzanne, just by chance the best friend of Cammy, helped out in the Coffee shop every once in a while?"

"No fucking way!" Max laughed out.

Nick simply nodded.

"Okay" I grinned widely, "That explains a lot!"

"Bet she wanted to know everything about ´that evening´ you had with her…" Max continued being mean to him.

"Talking about Cammy…" Nick changed the topic, "Did you move her over to Tundratown already?"

"Nope, she wanted to stay here. But the other four guys were transported there this morning" I pointed out for him, "That´s the better solution anyways…but don´t worry, she´s fine!"

"Alright, thanks."

"…but really" Max picked up the topic again, "Did she go on your nerves already? I mean that nurse who showed us the way to your room?"

He got a very evil look from the red fox for that.

"I´d be glad to trade with you" he told him then.

"I´d be too!" he laughed, "Must be quite amazing to be you right now!"

"It is pretty lame to be me right now! I´m just sitting around all day" Nick chuckled, "…what´s cool about that?"

"Well, better than hanging from a building, I suppose" I suggested lightheartedly.

"Yeah… I guess… you´re better from that again? It Sounds like it, if I´m allowed to say that!" he chuckled.

"My stomach calmed down a little until yesterday evening…" I explained, "But otherwise it's a lot better again, yeah…"

"Good to hear."

I noticed that Jennifer had her phone in her hands for some reason, rested her paws on Wolfheart´s shoulders and was searching for something for about half a minute already.

"Wanna visit Judy with me?" Nick asked us after a little pause and we instantly agreed with him of course.

"Sure! Let´s go!"

Nick got out of his bed very carefully and took the lead out of the room soon afterwards. Two doors further we stopped again and he knocked a few times. Then he opened the door and waved us to follow him silently. We passed an anesthetist who stopped us a few feet away from her. Only Nick was allowed to get closer as it seemed, but we had no problem with that of course.

There she was, lying on the bed in what seems to be just a very peaceful slumber, having a mask on her face and a few other things connected to her body. Nick kissed her quickly, caressed her paws with his very carefully and then he slowly went a few steps backwards again.

"How long does she have to stay like that?" I asked the oryx antler in the white uniform lowly.

"About five or six days from now, but her healing-process looks really promising!" he told me.

"Good to hear, thank you!"

He simply nodded as Nick came back towards us slowly and thanked the anesthetist for the opportunity. Just as quickly, we left the room again.

We followed Nick back into his room and closed the door behind us one more time. Jennifer had her phone out once again.

"She´ll get up again pretty quickly!" Max said to Nick with a motivating smile, "You´ll see, nothing can get her down!"

"I know" he agreed with a confident smile, "And I´ll wait for her!"

"Looks like you probably have quite a lot to do in the next few days anyways" Jennifer suddenly told him with a wide grin, "At least something you can fill the time with!" she added. Then she pointed at the screen of her phone, which Nick couldn´t see from his perspective.

"Haha, nice try!" he waved it off, "I was in 9th place when I checked it…"

I couldn´t hide a wide grin as well all over sudden, I´ve checked out her screen.

"You´re in 4th in the meanwhile, and you´re still climbing fast" she chuckled at him, before she turned her phone towards him. He nearly fell out of his bed because of that.

"You´re joking, aren't you? That is a fake, isn´t it?" he asked in disbelief.

"Nope."

He still didn´t believe her and grabbed his own phone to double check it.

"Oh come on! Really?" he complained loudly, "I don´t want to go to a TV show or something like that!"

"Has the ZPD ever been this sexy before?"

"Shut up Max!" he growled, "One more time and I´ll show you something sexy!"

We couldn´t stop laughing loudly about his reaction.

"I want to see that!" Max continued happily.

"Be careful" Jennifer warned him, "He did that already, he ran through the whole ZPD…"

Nick just sighed once again, but he was not too mad about it really. His mood was quite good right now actually.

"I´m going to pay you back for that one day, you will see! For that and for laughing at the colored-fur undercover-bullshit!"

"I liked that!" Jennifer pointed out, "you looked good in that!"

"Yeah, yeah…"

"No, really!" she giggled.

"Alright. Thank you, guys! Thanks for visiting me, but now make sure to get out of my room!" he ordered ironically.

"Just to let you know, I´m going to watch that show!" Max told him excitedly, and Jennifer instantly agreed with him.

"Great idea, we can watch that all together!"

"I´m in!" I agreed with a wide grin at Nick.

"You know what!" I shared the idea I just got, "There just spawned a brilliant idea in my head…" I let them wait for it a moment before I continued, "I´ll check out the ZPD camera footage later…"

"No, you´re not!" Nick stopped me, laughing loudly, "Forget it!"

"…I´m sure they would be glad to have that footage, or at least a censored version…"
"I swear, I´m going to kill you!" he warned me ironically, "And you don´t want that written on your grave!"

"Okay, Nicky…I won´t do that…" I told him with a little wink towards the others.

"I´ve seen that you idiot!"

"Time to go…" I suggested towards innocently, "See you Nicholas!"

"Bye Nicky!" Jennifer said with a little giggle, waving him shortly as she followed me out of the room slowly.

"Goodbye my love!" Max waved with a teasing little grin, "See you on TV!"

"Yeah, yeah…love you guys too…" Nick chuckled, waving for the farewell "…greet the chief from me!"

"Will do!" I told him, before I closed his door slowly, "Bye Nicky!"

"Hahaha, that idea is brilliant!" Max told me, grinning widely while boxing my shoulders in excitement.

"You´re not serious, are you?" Jennifer asked him with another little chuckle about our childish behavior.

"Why not, Jenny?" he asked, rattling her shoulders from behind just a little.

"It´s a little unfair that only you gotten to see him like that, isn´t it?" he chuckled, as the elevator-doors opened for us.

I just couldn´t stop grinning while thinking about that, just like Max did.

"We are police officers goddammit!" she reminded us.

"What a great fucking time to be alive" Max concluded it in one sentence.

"Yeah" I agreed, "That's worth it!"

"I´m sorry, Nick" I thought to myself, "But this is going to be awesome!"

That´s it for now, more is coming soon. Tell me what you think please!

Have a great time, see you later!

~furrwolf