There you go, Chapter 28 …finally.

Yeah, I know. I´m sorry for the long waiting times, but I hope it was worth it. I try to be quicker with the next one!

This one is corrected by MrShurukan again! Big thanks for your help, buddy!

Hope you enjoy!

Zootopia – Springtime Circumstances

Chapter 28 – All I ever need (POV Judy)

Slowly but surely, I noticed the first rays of sunlight that flooded my eyelids. I began to hear the sound of a pencil running over a piece of paper and I heard some low but steady beeping noises.

The last thing I remembered was the dark building I entered with Nick, and something very painful. It felt like I was asleep for a long night, maybe a couple of hours more, but I obviously was not in a common surrounding. I had a weird mask placed on my face which was connected to some sort of tube or cable, but I couldn´t see very much apart from that. I was pretty sure I was in a hospital though, it would make the most sense.

I tried moving my arms a little, but it wasn´t easy. It felt a little stiff and I had a lot more equipment on me than I though initially. At least I got noticed that way. Just a few moments later somebody came towards me.

"Miss Hopps?" I was asked in a friendly way, before he began removing the mask slowly, I wanted to help him with that to get it off more quickly.

"Careful" he advised me, before he lifted it off my face with everything that was connected to it.

I opened my eyes once again and now I could see much more clearly. There was an oryx antler in hospital clothing standing beside my bed, and he was the only one not asleep in this room, apparently.

"Hi" I greeted him sleepily, "Where am I?"

"You´re in a hospital" he chuckled, "You´ve been in an induced coma for nearly a week…"
"A week?" I asked in shock, "What happened?"

"You´ve been hit by a tranquilizer dart while saving your partner from it, and then you were swiped off your feet by a polar bear, as the story goes…" he explained.

"Yeah right, I remember that!" I confessed in shock, "What happened to Nick, is he alright!?"

"He is fine, don´t worry!" he calmed me down, "He knocked out the Polar Bears with his bare fists and finished off the other prisoners as well afterwards. At least that's what I was told before they brought him here…"

"Really?" I asked, grinning a little while hearing it.

"He got injured as well, but he´s doing much better from that already."

"Where is he?"

"His room is right besides this one, I guess he´s still waiting patiently…" he told me with a little smile, "…he has been visiting you every day, multiple times. He must be very happy to hear that you´re awake finally!"

I giggled a little about hearing it, but I also felt a little sorry for him suddenly, because I´ve left him alone for so long.

"And he did the job all by himself afterwards?"

"Yeah, the media was full of it! He is quite popular because of that all over sudden. They even nominated him for some girly TV-show I´ve never heard of before…SMA or something like that I believe?"

"The SMA show? Really? The one with Gazelle?" I asked in excitement, really having fun hearing all that as well.

"Yeah! I believe it was something like that" he affirmed, "But he didn´t seem like he enjoyed all that attention…"

"He was annoyed at that press conference already, I can imagine very well that he didn´t enjoy that very much…"

"He´s a very cool and friendly fellow though" he let me know with a warm little smile, "He didn´t brag about anything, he just always wanted to know how you are…"

"What would he brag about? Has he won that show?" I asked with great interest. He just shrugged his shoulders, sadly. But Nick would hear that later from me anyways. At least it was more exciting that way.

"Can I see him?" I wanted to know then.

"Are you feeling fine right now, do you feel dizzy or anything?" he wanted to get sure, but I just waved it off. I felt totally fine.

Just as he said it, the door to our room was opened and a red fox came in. She wasn´t Nick though, and she wore a white hospital uniform as well. Just a moment later I realized that she looked quite similar to Cammy´s best friend and co-seller Suzanne, who was helping out in her coffee shop sometimes, and when she greeted me another second later, I was sure it was her.

"Hey!" she said in a friendly tone, "You´re awake! How are you?"

"I´m good, thanks for asking! Hi Suzy!" I greeted back with the same enthusiasm.

"Oh, someone will be happy to hear that!" she told me with a little wink. I immediately sensed that she seemed to be a little nervous about something, but I didn´t say anything, naturally.

"I never knew you were working here…" I told her then.

"Since quite a while already" she waved it off, "This used to be my second job after…well…you know what happened."

I nodded with a warm little smile.

"…but it really was interesting in the last few days" she lightheartedly changed the topic again.

I obviously knew what she was referring to, but I wasn´t mad at her of course, even less after what happened with Cammy already. it was quite obvious that she must have been going crazy over him.

"Have you seen him lately?" I asked her then.

"He´s over there in his room, should I tell him you´re awake?" she offered.

I nodded thankfully, "Yes, please! That´d be very nice of you!"

Suzanne turned around already and went on her way. "Alright, I´ll tell him!" she stated enthusiastically, before she closed the door behind her.

The oryx antler besides me chuckled a little when she was out of earshot.

"She didn´t even try to deny it…" he said, "She was totally excited when she met him here the first time…"

I still was highly amused about all this. My anesthetist was still taking notes on the paper on his clipboard, and I tried to listen to my surroundings very carefully in the meanwhile. There was a lot going on actually.

POV Suzanne

I carefully knocked on his door once again. He told me to come in without asking who it was and I entered the room carefully.

"Nick?" I asked him carefully, because he was reading something on his phone.

"Yes?" he sighed.

"She´s awake" I let him know quite plainly, and that was all he needed.

That changed things a lot suddenly. He just dropped his phone onto the matrass and left it there, before he got out of his bed in just a matter of seconds and went on his way out of the room. I still didn´t know how to feel about it though. I was a little scared of her, because of what happened the first day I met him here.

"Wait" I tried stopping him, stepping into his way quickly, "What about the…?" I wanted to ask, but he wasn´t letting me stop him.

Quicker than I could react, he picked me up with his strong arms and threw me over his head like I had the weight of a feather. It shocked the hell out of me.

I got a lot of air and it felt like I was flying across the whole room. I knew very well that he was strong, but that was just immense.

I landed very comfortably though, because he threw me exactly onto his bed as it turned out, but before I even could find my orientation again, he was out of sight already. I literally had no chance to stop him anymore. I got the meaning of that action though: He was the only one to decide if he should tell her or not. He could have stopped me back then, but he didn´t, so the blame was on him, technically. I believed that was what he tried telling me with that.

I couldn´t help myself but giggle a little suddenly. It was too late now anyways.

POV Judy

I heard a little surprised yelp from the room besides mine, and then the sound of something landing on a matrass quite vigorously. She tried telling him something I believed to hear, but he seemed to be not listening. Probably because he knew that I could hear them. Interesting.

Or maybe he was just annoyed by her already and wanted to see me as soon as possible. He opened the door to my room very soon afterwards.

"Carrots!" he greeted me happily, before he immediately went towards me.

"Hey Nicky!" I greeted him excitedly, just before he hugged me very tightly.

"Thank god you´re back!" he sighed with great tension.

I could actually feel how excited he was. It seemed like he has been waiting only for me, and that for an eternity. My little doubts where gone as quickly as they came, he was not having something with Suzanne, nothing permanent.

"I´m sorry for leaving you alone that long!" I giggled, because he still wouldn't stop hugging me.

"I´m sorry I didn´t react sooner!" he cut me off, "This would have ended much worse if you didn´t save me from that tranquilizer!"

"I´ve just heard that you finished the job for yourself afterwards…" I grinned proudly.

"You should have seen that! Those guys still start sweating when they see me!"

I couldn´t help but giggle happily at his sight. He still looked good, and I barely have seen him this happy before.

"And then they nominated you for the SMA show?" I kept on asking.

That surprised him a little.

"Where do you know that from?"

I simply pointed at the oryx antler in the hospital uniform, who still was watching silently.

"Yeah" Nick sighed finally, "Yeah, they did."

"You seem a little annoyed about that…" I teased him with a big smile.

"I can´t even get to my police car anymore without getting noticed. Even the staff from Tundratown stared at me while the interrogations…" he told me, sounding like that cost him a lot of nerves already.

"Really?" I asked, "Which place did you get? …I thought the voting was nearly over just a week ago?"

"Why do you even know about that show?" he asked back.

"I´m also a girl you know?"

"Yeah, right…"

"Come on, tell me, where did you get?"

"Do you really need that information right now?"

"Should I look it up for myself?" I giggled.

He shook his head with a little sigh, but then he began grinning a little. "I won it. By miles."

"Haha, really?"

I was even more happily than before all over sudden. He nodded a little, and I really enjoyed hearing that. I couldn´t stop myself from laughing about his annoyed gaze either, it was just such a great moment.

"And there she is, Judy Hopps!" he commented ironically, "Just woken up from a coma, and already she is being mean again!"

I rubbed his ears gently to calm him down a little, but I couldn´t stop grinning at him.

"I bet you had a lot of fun with Suzanne in the last few days as well, didn´t you?" I asked.

"Come on, Carrots!" he sighed, "That´s not fair! You know she´s Cammy´s best friend, of course she was going on my nerves! Even more after that stupid show…"

"I´m sorry" I smiled at him, "I know that she probably has tried to rip you apart!" I giggled.

"Yeah…"

"But you know that I´m going to watch the recording of that show!" I changed that topic for now.

"I´ve anticipated that" he told me with a little chuckle, "But you really should watch it, what Max and Daniel did was the best thing ever!"

"I´m excited! I must have missed so much! There is so much you need to tell me…I want to know everything!"

POV Nick

I still felt bad, no matter how I was turning it. I actually really wanted to tell her about it right now. I wanted to tell her as soon as possible, but I wanted to be alone with her for that. And I didn´t want to crush her mood just jet, I was so happy to see her again. She really was doing good for just waking up from a coma, she was full of energy as it seemed…

"How long do I have to stay here?" she asked the anesthetist when I finally released her from that hug a little.

"You probably can leave tomorrow, but you really should be careful for today! The doctor will do another quick check with you next morning, and if she says you´re good, you can go home if you want…"

"Can Judy come to my room for the night?" I asked the oryx.

"We need this room for the coma-patients anyways, I´ll ask the colleagues later if we can get a second bed into your room…" he told us with a little nod.

"Why do you even have a room here?" Judy asked me, "Did you get hurt as well? What happened to you" she asked with a concerned voice.

I just realized that she hasn't even heard of it yet.

I just waved it off for now, it was not really important for me right now, "Just a little scratch on my back and a fractured rib…" I told her.

It maybe was not important for me, but it eventually was really important for her. I wasn't getting away with that.

"Show me that ´little scratch`" she ordered with an unforgiving smirk.

"Really? Right now?"
"I want to see it!" she ordered again, "Stop resisting!"

"Alright" I chuckled with a little sigh, before I began unbuttoning my shirt. The wound was not plastered anymore, because it has grown together again in the meanwhile, but it still was a quite visible scar across my whole back.

"Yeah, yeah…" she chuckled, "Just a little scratch! What did they do to you, did they use a saber?"

I nodded, "A bayonet."

"Damn, I´m going to enjoy the interrogations!" she announced, "Nobody does that to my fox! That is dangerous!"

"I´ve already talked to them, but it was completely pointless…it seems like they´re all trying to save somebody…"

"…we´ll find a weak point eventually, don´t worry about it" she waved it off, "I´m happy you´re fine, and they are in prison anyways!"

"Officer Wilde?" we were suddenly interrupted by the doctor which the anesthetist was talking about a minute ago.

"Yeah?"

"I´m sorry to interrupt you, but we need to do a medical check-up with her now!" she explained, "I must ask you to leave this room for a few minutes please…"

I nodded understandingly, before I gave Judy one more quick kiss on her cheeks.

"See you in a minute!" she told me with a little giggle, "Prepare for a lot of stupid questions!"

"Got ya, carrots!" I waved it off, before I started leaving the room slowly, "I got used to that in the meantime!" I grinned.

When I got back into the hallway, I nearly ran into Suzanne once again.

"…ouch" she greeted me with a big grin, referring to what I did to her earlier. Like she probably had expected it, I just sighed a little, but I was not in a bad mood. How could I be in a bad mood?

I stopped besides her for a second, but I didn´t really have anything to say.

"Do you think she will find out about it?" she whispered.

"I think she has already. She is clever and her hearing is beyond believe, that´s why I had to stop you from talking…" I answered lowly.

She covered her mouth with her paws in shock of hearing that.

"And even if she didn´t find out about it, I´m going to tell her. She deserves to know about it. But this is my fault, so don´t worry" I told her, before I went on my way towards my room again, "Just forget about it. Wasn´t that great anyways, was it?" I joked dryly.

"But Nick!" she tried stopping me again, "I don´t want this to be the reason she breaks up with you! I would feel so bad about that!" she confessed.

"It´s too late now anyways. And I think I´ll be fine in the end" I told her, before I grabbed the door-handle of my room, "But please don´t tell everybody about it, okay?"

She nodded, noticeably still feeling uncomfortable about it a little. I just smirked at her one last time, then I went into my room and shut the door behind me.

Twenty minutes later (POV Judy):

When the doctor finally was done with her check-up, she asked me if I wanted to try to walk already, and I really liked that idea of course, I was happy that my bones have been healing so fast. It seemed to be a little shaky at first, but pretty soon I found out how I had to shift my weight onto my legs and I got used to it again. It was not perfect right now but it didn´t hurt that bad and I was able to move without any help. It got noticeably better with every further step I took. It still felt a little stiff, but that would get better pretty soon, as the doctor told me.

"How does it feel?" she wanted to know, "Is there pain?"

„No, its alright! It feels good!"

The friendly but certainly a little strict badger lady noted that onto her clipboard as well and then she nodded with a confident look.

"Alright. I think we can send you home tomorrow" she told me with a little smile, "But you should still get some rest today, take it easy!" she advised me once more, before she already attempted to leave the room again. She seemed to be busy in here today.

"One second please!" I stopped her, following her towards the door carefully, while she opened it.

"Yes?"

"Did Suzanne talk about him?" I asked with a warm little smile. I didn´t want her to feel uncomfortable because of it, but it just was so interesting. I was aware that Nick was used to have a lot of sex, but I couldn´t quite tell what she really has been up to. I couldn´t tell if he let her get that far. I just asked myself what she tried to say to him earlier, before he stopped her, but I wouldn´t even be that mad about it. I just wanted to know it before confronting Nick with that again. I didn´t want to waste that little piece of fun I could have with that.

"Well…she was going totally crazy about him, which was predictable beforehand…" she grinned, "…but who could be mad at her for that? Even more after the SMA-show…"

She understood quite well what I tried to find out, but she was equally amused about it as I was.

"Did she sound a little sore once?" I wanted to know with a dirty little grin, which I wasn´t even ashamed for. That question surprised her a tiny little bit, which was predictable as well.

"N-not that I witnessed…but I wasn´t here every day…"

"Alright…" I chuckled.

"Why would somebody ask something like that?" she wondered, "Do you think he…?"

"I was just a little curious. But I guess I have to find it out by myself…" I clarified, "I know their reaction about him in the meanwhile"

"You seem to be pretty cool with it though…" she stated.

"Nah…only sometimes" I grinned, "…thanks for the info anyways!"

"You´re welcome" she chuckled unsurely, holding the door open for me, "I´ll tell the colleagues to bring one more bed into his room, if that is fine for you…" she announced, making her way down the hallway already.

"Yes, thank you very much!" I yelled behind her, before I turned into the other direction and slowly went towards the next door on my right, where I heard them talking earlier. Then I knocked carefully, I couldn´t wait to talk to him again.

When I told him it was me, he personally came to the door and opened it for me, before he lifted me up carefully and carried me towards his bed.

"Hey Nicky!" I greeted him happily once again.

He just continued kissing me smoothly over and over again. He really seemed to have missed me.

"I´m so happy you´re back!" he told me, "The last week was close to being completely unbearable without you!"

"It couldn´t have been that bad" I told him with a little chuckle, "I bet you had a lot of fun at the SMA show! I wish I was there!"

"It was fun, partly, but it also was exhausting, afterwards especially" he explained, "It seems like I was the only topic in the city…"
"You got to talk to Gazelle, didn´t you?"

"Yeah…I did. But I didn´t like the topics very much…"

I grinned widely while hearing that, "That´s the point of the show" I told him with a cheeky grin.

"I was told so too. But I regret it a little afterwards."
"Did Suzanne regret it as well afterwards?" I asked him dryly, but trying not so sound mad about it. His reaction to that was quite funny to watch nevertheless, but it told me everything I needed to know. I´ve used his own technique against him.

"Dammit…carrots" he sighed, "It didn´t even take you three minutes! And I´m very sorry for that by the way, I was just out of my mind", he told me lowly, really sounding ashamed about it.

"Guess who I learned that from?" I chuckled.

He shook his head vigorously, before he hugged me even tighter now, cuddling his cheeks against mine, "I still feel horrible about it" he whispered, "I never should have let it come that far! It feels just so wrong now, and it was wrong!"

"Don't worry" I said jokingly, "…we can still be friends after all!" I suggested with an evil smirk.

I just wanted to shock him a little with that, and it worked by far better than I had anticipated. He really felt bad for whatever he did, he really was crying a little. But very soon I couldn´t stand the destroyed look on his face any longer, and then I hugged him back tightly to calm him down a little.

For quite a few minutes we just kept on laying there, hugging and cuddling each other, enjoying each other´s company. Nick had wrapped his tail around me and I had dried the tears which came running down his face with my paws. He really seemed to be a little tense after everything that he had to stand through without me.

"I love you so much!" he whispered once more, "Never ever leave me alone again!"

"I won´t leave you alone again, I promise!" I chuckled into his ears, "You´re the most important thing in my life!"

"You are too, I couldn't live without you anymore."

I was quite proud that he was this honest about it, and somehow it even turned me on a little thinking about what she probably has done to him, but right now I wanted to change the topic to something more comfortable for him. I had a good idea for that anyways, "So…Mr. SMA…when do I get to know Gazelle?"

POV Max Wolfheart

"Alright, listen up!" the Chief told us quickly, being late to the briefing for nearly fifteen minutes already, "Word has just reached me that Judy woke up this morning and that her condition is very good!" he told us, and he immediately started a short, cheerful little applause with that.

"…they told me she was as alive and joyful as ever, she is able to walk already, and have a guess who was more than just happy about that…"

"Nicky!" somebody in the last row shouted in excitement.

"Yeah…" Bogo chuckled, "The SMA himself was in Tundratown three days ago by the way, and he was talking to those prisoners already" he told us casually, maybe to motivate us, "…and when I say talking, I mean absolutely ripping them apart. The way our colleagues from Tundratown talked about it, he must have invented a totally new way of interrogating, that´s how fascinated they were just by watching him. Probably he didn´t exactly use the finest language for that, but it was impressive in any case…you probably shouldn´t try to anger him like that…" he joked, "But I want you all to work with that much commitment and cleverness!" he told us with another little smirk, "Apart from that, there is nothing special going on today. Now get out there and do your job you freaks!" he finished his motivational speech.

He got a few chuckles for that, but shortly afterwards he grabbed his clipboard once again and left the room as quickly as he came.

Just a few seconds later, Daniel and I where surrounded at our table again.

"So…you guys were talking to Gazelle the whole night, and…?" they started again where they were stopped by the chief just a few minutes ago, "…what happened then?"

I wouldn´t say that I didn´t enjoy the situation I was in, because all the attention still felt utterly fantastic, but I had a deal with Daniel about that in particular. We would just hint it a little, but we wouldn't confirm it clearly. We wanted them to wonder about it for a while, and we also wanted to find out if Nick would guess it or not. We knew he was smart, dangerously smart, but we wouldn´t spare him that nevertheless. He was the master of all this.

"…and...we had a pretty good time I would say" Daniel smiled in amusement.

"And lot´s of good drinks, alongside with all the beautiful girls around us" I added.

"Look at those two smug bastards!" Rhinowiz grinned.

"Bet they´re just talking rubbish!" somebody else threw in, "…they haven´t met her after the show anyways!"

"Believe what you want" Daniel chuckled, "I wanna see Nicks reaction when he meets us again!"
"Nick is the only one who I would believe that from!"

"Oh, that little fucker is getting his payback someday" I said jokingly, and Daniel grinned pretty widely because of that suddenly. I probably should stop talking about it now, but they didn´t know what he was laughing about anyways. We weren´t necessarily bothered to explain it to them either, we rather just continued smiling at them for a little while and then we got up from our chairs finally. We just left them staring stupidly and went for the hallway, and that was the best feeling ever. I never was looking forward to go to work as much before as I was this morning. Now we went for our usual patrol shift, and not even that seemed to be bad today. I was in a good mood no matter what happened.

Before we could even get further into the hallway, we got stopped by the chief suddenly. He just told us to follow him into his office and that it was important. That was all we got to know.

POV Nick

I was so happy to have her back. She was still lying in my arms when I reached out for my phone to show her the recording of that stupid SMA show, and seeing her laugh and smile about it would have cured cancer if I had it. It gave me back so much power and energy, it was breathtaking. I still felt a little bad for doing that with Suzanne, but she wasn´t even mad at me for a single second. She kind of enjoyed it actually, seeing me so deeply embarrassed and ashamed about it. I didn´t know why she was able to forgive me for that this quickly, but it felt alright for now. I was relieved it was like that, but I still felt bad.

She clearly was excited about the video though. She loved what Max and Daniel did, she loved how they were talking about us and she really enjoyed seeing me on the stage as well. She was like addicted to watch it. The intro I did already made her grin in big amusement.

"You´re such a show off!" she told me, as I was undressing my shirt later in the show to present the wound on my back, "…but that really is a deep cut…I´m surprised they even let you out on that day", she added.

"They didn´t really like the idea, yeah…but it was alright because of the painkillers. It´s fine now, carrots!" I chuckled back at her teasing, "And I´m not a show off!"

She paused the video shortly, before she kissed me again and patted my shoulders with a sly little grin.

"So, Nicky…" she asked suddenly, "…I want to ask that before I see it: did she ask you ´that´ question as well?"

She noticed my slightly annoyed expression of course, but there was no point in stopping it anyways.

"Yes, she did" I confessed with another little sigh.

She just grinned widely at hearing that, "Bet I see you showing off in just a few minutes…" she told me, before she resumed the video.

"I doubt it."

"This is going to be fun" she added in excitement.

"Yeah, yeah…"

POV Max

"So, what is that important, Chief?" I asked him, as Daniel and I took a seat on the opposite site of his desk.

"It´s nothing bad, don´t worry" he clarified right away, "I just wanted to discuss something rather important with you two…" he announced, before he took a little sip from his fresh coffee mug. His mood was quite good today, but we noticed that in the meeting already.

"Our reputation has been crashing through the ceiling after that thing with the prisoners and the SMA show…" he began.

"Really?" Daniel asked.

"…It´s discussed in the whole town, the people trust us more than ever! We also seem to be more humane and closer to the citizens than ever. You guys made us look like -and I quote- the guardians of the people. The press is loving it and the crime rate dropped immensely as well. Hell, we even got a rise in applications which didn´t happen in the last fifteen years!" he listed up excitedly.

"Damn, this sounds awesome!" Daniel chuckled, "The guardians of the people!" he repeated proudly.

"Yeah…that sounds a lot better than just ´cops´" I agreed.

"…If we´re honest, there are just two individuals in the city center who made all of that possible…" Chief Bogo concluded.
We both instantly agreed by nodding.

"…I know this sounds a little strange out of my mouth, but I want to throw a little party dedicated to both of them. Sort of a surprise party when they come back to work, you know?" he told us with an unsure expression.

"Yes Chief! That sounds fantastic!" I supported the idea right away, "I´m into that!"

"Yeah?"
"Totally!" Daniel agreed as well, "…but this needs to be big! We have to do something that makes him look not so smart anymore" he added with a chuckle.

"Wilde?" the buffalo asked.

"Yes, Chief."

"Good idea!" the Chief nodded with a tiny little evil grin, "He´s a brilliant detective, just like the bunny who brought him here, but I need to get him back for all the patters and jokes he annoys me with all the time!"

"Not that easy to get him though…" Daniel thought loudly.

"Anyways, we´ll think of something, we have a few days left before the come back to work... I just wanted to make sure you´re helping me with that."

"We´re so on it, Chief!"

"We could ask Gazelle if she would join in, just for the sake of fun…" Daniel supposed.

"Are you out of your mind, Fangmeyer? You know how expensive that is?" the Chief chuckled, not taking him seriously anyways.

"Not if you´re good friends with her…" I grinned to support Daniel´s idea, "…and Nick honestly made her show a brilliant success…so why would she not?"

"And how do you want to ask her? Call her management?"

"No" I chuckled "…I would just call her."

The Chief´s stunned look was just priceless.

"I bet she would love to do that" Daniel agreed with me, "She really liked the party-life as well backstage, didn´t she?" he grinned at me mischievously.

When we both looked at the Chief again, we looked at somebody who couldn´t be more dumbfounded than by what he just heard.

I loved my new life right now, there was no doubt about it. And the Chief was right, we had to give them a big ´Thank you´ for all that. This had to be big, and it would be.

"Are you serious?" Bogo asked, "Like, she gave you her phone number?"

"Maybe…" I grinned at him, just to tease him a little.

He just shook his head in disbelieve.

"Unbelievable!" he sighed with a little grin, "Now get out of my office and get to work you clowns!" he chuckled, "And you better keep that promise!"

POV Judy

I was in Nick´s room with him the whole day. They really brought us another bed after a little while, but I wasn´t sure if we would need it anyways. I have never witnessed Nick being that tender, cuddly and attached to me before, but I absolutely adored it. I loved this site of him as well, just as much I loved the rest of him. I could lay here for days with him, although It didn´t really feel like I was still injured or handicapped in any way. I was full of energy. I was full of joy and full of love. I was proud of him too. I was proud that he told me about it as soon as possible, and I was proud that he was not sparing himself to tell me everything I´ve been missing. He was honest with me, he was crying and he was regretting it, and that was all that I needed. It really was amusing hearing it, actually. I knew that Suzanne was Cammy´s best friend, and I also knew that she must have been talking to her about it earlier. I really wanted to talk to them again one day, as bizarre as it might sound out of my mouth, but I still found that very interesting. She didn´t visit our room anymore today though, probably because she still felt a little ashamed about it as well. At least I wanted to tease him with that a little more.

"Did she annoy you with that?" I asked him once again later, "I mean after she first met you here…"

"She wanted to know every little detail…" he sighed with a tired little chuckle, "…and she obviously has been talking to Cammy."
"You´re going to hear that for a while" I told him again, "And you probably shouldn´t have answered that question in the show either…"
"Oh really?" he snickered back, "Glad you tell me that now!"

"Have you heard that on the street already?"

"I´ve even heard that in the interrogations, Carrots!" he sighed.

"Oh, I can´t wait to get out of this hospital and back to work again!" I told him excitedly, before I laid myself down onto his body and cuddled into his smooth chest fur once again.

"I don't care about all that as long as you stay with me!" he mumbled happily, as he laid his arms around me tightly, "They can tell me whatever they want, I don't care."

"I don´t care either" I whispered, "I just love you as you are!"

"I love you too."

I wouldn´t need a bed for that night, that was for sure. I just would lay on top of him and listen to his heartbeat. That was the only thing I wanted.

I felt fantastic, I wasn´t even sure if I really needed to be in this hospital any longer, but it was fine as it was right now. This fox was mine forever, and he was all I ever needed.

...

yeah, that´s it for now. Should be enough, that was a lot of work already. So...What do you think?

Excited for the next chapter? …because I certainly am! :D This is going to be fun!

Anyways, I hope you guys are enjoying your holidays and had a nice Christmas as well!

See you soon!

~furrwolf