Chapter 32 is coming someday, don´t worry!
I´m sorry it took me so long again, but I hope that makes it up for it a little. More is coming very soon, I promise!
Big thanks to MrShurukan for the quick grammar check!
Hope you enjoy a little!
Zootopia - Springtime Circumstances
Chapter 33 – The right arguments (Normal POV)
„Pah!" he shouted with his deep smoky voice, before he slammed his fist onto his expensive maple-wood table, "Just look at them, fawning over a little fox…"
With his left paw, the big wolf removed the cigar from his maw and blew some more smoke into the room.
"That fox is a beast, not only a police officer" a female voice answered him, "You know what he did to your brother…"
"That fox is just a little clown who happens to be a police officer…" he replied angrily, "…and my brother is an idiot!"
"This is going to be expensive…" she reminded him with a chuckle.
"I know that! Shut up! I wasn´t asking for clever advices…"
"Ow…did I hit a sore spot?"
"I said shut up! You slut!"
"…that fox is properly, properly dangerous! …and not only because he is so freaking sexy…"
"Stop this childish nonsense!"
"He knocked out two polar bears from the security with his bare fists…" she kept on rubbing it in, "…he lifted a freaking jaguar off his body…he got a twenty-inch scar on his back and could still stand after that!"
He scratched his head a little.
"…I would call that dangerous if you ask me…" she explained, playing around with a big knife in her paws.
He just nodded a little, but he didn´t reply anything for a while. He knew that she was right, basically.
She picked her phone from her pocket in the meanwhile and searched through her latest video files. When she finally found the clip which she wanted to show him, she made her way towards his table, started it and turned the screen towards him.
He watched silently as officer Nick Wilde was climbing around on the ceiling of the new youth activity center like it was a little warm up or something.
Her boss nodded a little referring to what she said earlier, but he still didn´t say anything.
When that video was over, the female wolf got a few steps back from his desk again and continued scrolling through her photo gallery.
"Goddamn, this is so hot…" she sighed with a dirty little grin.
"Stop acting like a little girl. He will be history quite soon anyways…"
"Ow…what a waste…I could have so much fun with him…"
He ignored her once again.
"…no, but seriously: I would fuck the shit out of him If he wasn´t a police officer!"
"You´re far too ugly for that" he replied coldly, "And now shut up."
"Ow, somebody is jealous on my little foxy, isn´t he?" she teased back.
"Fuck off and go tell the other idiots to move their asses…"
"Ouch…somebody is really sore…"
"Shut up! Move already!" he yelled.
"Why don't you move your fat ass and make me? Do you really need an explanation why I would prefer him over you?"
"I don't fucking care about that little fucker! I´m going to end this topic once and for all anyways!"
"Can I suck him off before that?" the female Wolf kept on teasing with her psychotic, dirty smile. There wasn´t really anything that could bring her out of her calm.
"Where did you even get those pictures from?" he sighed after another short little pause of head-shaking from him.
"Oh, from a good friend of mine…she is a reporter, and she was invited to a ZPD surprise party yesterday for some weird reason…no idea what that was about, but it must have been very interesting…"
"A reporter?"
"Really spicy stuff she sent me…"
"That´s good to know…" he thought loudly, "This could be pretty useful…"
"She told me a lot of interesting little things…she also had been in that club where your brother got arrested for the first time for example…" she told him while putting her phone away.
"Bring her to me!" he decided right away, "Tell her I want to know everything she can tell me, I´m not afraid of paying her a good price!"
"But then I got to share with her…" the wolf lady complained ironically, "I want him all for myself when we capture him!"
"You can do whatever you want with him you little slut" he assured, "Just get her here!"
"You could be a little bit nicer to me, fat ass!"
"Come on, fuck off. Get out of my office…" he replied with a mischievous little smile by himself now, "…except you want to earn a few extra dollars…"
POV Nick
"Hello Victoria" Judy greeted the Jaguar in a friendly way, just after she sat down on the other side of the table.
"Hi" she greeted back lazily, but still with that mischievous little smile on her face.
I had told Judy before that there was no point in talking to them, but she was convinced that she would probably have more success with that than I had.
It was about noon when we got into our police car and drove over to the Tundratown-prison. I was watching the interrogation from outside obviously, and I was joined by half of the staff from this place once again, just as I predicted before.
"Since Nick didn´t have much success last time, would you like to talk to me about what happened?" Judy asked her plainly.
"I couldn´t help myself, it was just so fascinating to have him this close to me…" she fawned with a girly giggle, "The SMA himself…"
"Understandable" Judy chuckled, "That´s why I´m here this time…"
"Be honest, what´s it like to be with him?" the Jaguar asked her with a little wink.
"Is it that important to you?" Judy asked back, not wanting this to be a hen party either.
"Was he lying in the show?" Victoria continued, not bothered at all, "…I forgot to ask that little slut personally, before she stabbed us in the back…"
"I actually find it much more interesting what Cammy told us about you" Judy began with her topic again, totally ignoring the other bullshit, "She told me that you blamed her for everything that happened…"
That shut her up for now, she knew that she couldn´t deny it.
"…the only reason we caught you was a hint we got from somebody else by the way. I didn´t even paint him in black and grey because of Cammy, although we knew that she was in heat because of him, we just did undercover work…"
"Do I look like I care about that?"
"No…you rather look like you want me to describe our private life to you in every single detail…" she told her the truth quite plainly, "…but I doubt that that will help me very much…"
"Wanna trade info then?" Victoria asked back with a sheepish grin.
"Not sure if that will make you any happier in the end, but yeah, sure, why not?" Judy agreed.
I shook my head in disbelief a little. I wasn´t sure why Judy had started that game in the first place, but nevertheless I was very interested in the result of it. It may seem to be a little odd for an interrogation, but that must not mean that it´s stupid sometimes.
"We had set up that meeting in the sex bar so we could discuss prices and delivery of the latest shipment…" Victoria began explaining what we already knew.
"Alright…" Judy cut her off quickly, "Why don't we skip all that and get to the interesting stuff right away?"
"What do you have to offer that is interesting for me?" Victoria wanted to know.
"Nick is standing outside of this room right now and he is listening to every single word we exchange. He can see us through the one-way-glass up there and he´s probably shaking his head most of the time…" Judy guessed with a little chuckle.
Victoria made a little gesture with her paws that should signalize a phone call, while winking me through the window that was a mirror on her side, "Let me know if you want to release some stress or something, I would volunteer for almost anything!" she told me with a mischievous grin.
Even Judy couldn´t hide a little chuckle because of this.
"No matter if you were lying about it or not" one of the other blokes from the prison department chuckled, "It surely worked!"
"Yeah! Detective Wilde, even the prisoners want to sleep with you…" somebody else agreed laughing.
I just shrugged my shoulders a little, ignored them and continued on listening.
"I think that was enough info from my side for now…" Judy continued, "Anything else you want to trade?"
"I´ve never seen somebody knock out two of those polar bears like this…that was so freaking hot!" the Jaguar told her.
"Oh, I wish I had seen that for myself…" Judy grinned, "…but I have heard that before as well…"
"I can hardly tell you anything you didn´t know before" the Jaguar sighed suddenly, "The first deal I had with Chester went absolutely smooth and profitable…the second one ended up in this mess" Victoria told her, "That´s all I know about this clan…"
"Clan?" Judy asked, "That´s the first interesting thing you tell me…"
"Oops…" she whispered in shock of what she just told us, covering her mouth with her paws now, "…did I say clan?"
"I think I just heard you saying that, yeah…" Judy affirmed.
Victoria kept her quiet for a little while now. That obviously was a mistake from her.
"Alright, yeah…fine, whatever!" she opened up finally.
"I just know the name of the family, they must be a rather big name in the business…"
"That sort of info is worth a lot to me…" Judy told her.
"So, was he lying about it or not?" she asked back, probably to get rid of that topic as quickly as possible. I couldn't believe that she was still going on about that, but Judy knew what to do as well, naturally.
"What´s the name of that clan?" she wanted to know.
"He lied anyways, didn´t he?"
"Is that really everything that bothers you right now? What is the problem with telling us about that clan?" Judy wanted to know, looking her right in the eyes with that.
"… …they told us they will kill our loved ones if we tell anything…" she finally confessed, and she really seemed to be a little out of her cool for the first time.
"…they are by far more powerful than you might think…" she added with a broken voice, "I can´t tell you more, I don´t want trouble with them…"
"Who has the connection towards that clan? Is it Chester?"
She just nodded very slowly. Judy looked her deeply into the eyes for a few seconds. "Richards is not his real surname, is it?"
Victoria hesitated once again before she answered, then she shook her head very slightly, "I just heard rumors about it, I´m not quite sure if it´s true or not…"
"They won´t hurt anyone!" Judy assured her in all honesty, "And we won´t tell anyone that you told us! …Nick and I aren´t here just for fun, we are on a mission and we are serious! If you help us to find them, that will only be very helpful for you as well. It will reduce the punishment you get for the drug dealing by a lot, and I mean that!" Judy explained, still very focused on her.
I couldn´t quite believe it, but that worked. She was right, there was a difference in who of us was talking to her, and her good-cop approach worked by far better than mine. Victoria obviously was still a little unsure if she could tell us and she really was out of her comfort zone right now. That alone was a huge step forwards.
"Alright, fine…I´ve heard that he is part of the Nox-family. His real name is Chester Nox, not Chester Richards…" she whispered, "But I can´t guarantee for anything, those are just rumors."
Judy noted that down and nodded thankfully, "Rumors or not, it is a lead! That was probably a giant help to us already!" she told her, while already standing up from her chair again, "You have my word, nobody will hurt anyone from your family or loved ones! Thank you for your help!"
Victoria nodded very slowly. She still felt unsure about it, but that was not our problem. She seemed to have totally forgot about that other topic now. Judy got up from her chair and took her clipboard with her. "Oh, and about Nick: He is an angel of a boyfriend. I´m glad that I made a good guy out of him, because it suits him so much better than his past" she let her know while walking towards the door, "And I never witnessed him lying since then either" she added with a little wink.
POV Judy
I slowly walked up the stairs and they opened the door for me straight away. Nick nodded proudly and with an impressed expression, the other colleagues rather just stared at us in pure disbelief.
"Well done, Carrots" I greeted me, "I never thought it was possible to make her talk…"
"Well, I had a little more arguments that you probably" I grinned back, before I handed him the clipboard so he could take a look at it. He read it carefully and totally ignored the colleagues from Tundratown, who still couldn´t quite believe what they just heard.
"So…you really weren´t lying?" someone repeated what I had just affirmed Victoria, and I slowly understood why he was so annoyed by that topic already. Nick ignored it once more and began noting down some of his thoughts onto the sheet of paper I was using on the clipboard.
"I have heard of that Nox-Clan before…" he thought out loudly, "This might be bigger than we first though initially…"
"Any ideas where to start?"
"I want to know how Chester reacts when we confront him with this…" he suggested straight away.
"I doubt that he would give us any info on that…" I disagreed while shaking my head.
"I doubt that also, but at least that would give us a clue if he really belongs to them or not…" he explained. That really made sense, I wasn´t thinking about that.
"Should I talk to him?" I offered, nodding in agreement now.
"Yeah, that´s probably more effective. He was totally ignoring me the last time as well…" he sighed.
"I´ll get him in for you" the interrogation supervisor told us immediately, before she went on her way with great excitement once again.
"Alright, thank you" Nick yelled after her.
"Just one second!" she let us know, before she disappeared out of sight.
Nick and I waited outside the window until Chester was finally was brought into the interrogation room. We were watching as Victoria was leaving the room with another officer and the wolf was brought in a few moments later.
"You guys are strangely quiet all over sudden" Nick remarked with an ironic little smirk.
I couldn´t help but giggle a little about this. He certainly was not wrong about that.
"I´ve heard about the Nox-Clan" one of them switched that somewhat uncomfortable topic for them pretty soon, "They must be pretty powerful in the meanwhile…"
"Like?"
"From what I´ve heard they have enough men and guns to overpower an entire police department…" the panther told us lowly.
"Any idea where they could be hiding?" Nick continued on asking, not at all sounding scared by that.
"I live in the jungle district for myself, and as the rumors go, they should be located not too far away from there…but I wouldn´t cross the ice-district off the list either…"
Nick was noting all of that down onto our mind map, just as Chester was cuffed onto the metal table in the interrogation room.
"I´ll have a word with him" I announced, and Nick gave me back the clipboard once again.
"Yes, boss!" he told me with a little smirk, "Go for it!"
POV Nick
Judy made her way down the stairs once again and we all looked through the window to see what was happening. Almost immediately, the silence was interrupted by some bullshit once again.
"What does it feel like to be as blessed as you are?" somebody snickered, referring to that old topic once again.
"Can´t complain" I dryly retorted.
"No, but seriously! Doesn't that feel totally awesome…being fawned over by every girl of this city?"
"Can´t tell you how great that feels…" I sighed ironically, still watching Judy who had climbed onto the chair in the meanwhile.
"Pah, such a show off!" somebody else chuckled. I kept on ignoring them and listened to Judy´s conversation.
"Chester" she greeted him, "Chester Nox."
I kept on watching him very closely, and just like Judy, I noticed that tiny little surprised gasp escaping his lips, before he caught himself.
"Judy" he then greeted back, "Officer Judy Hopps" he corrected himself, "I´m not quite sure if you confused my surname with somebody else's, but mine is Richards, milady" he tried assuring her in his deep, smoky voice.
"You are not trying to make me believe that, are you?" she chuckled, showing him that there was no point in denying it anymore. His stupid stage play wasn´t having any effect on her at all.
"Where do you know that from?" he sighed in defeat, which surprised me a little. I thought he would try to deny it a little longer.
"Let´s say… I traded a few little secrets without any importance against some little secrets which are pretty useful to me…" she explained.
"Talking about little secrets, how´s your boyfriend? Is his back a little better by now?"
"Yes, he´s fine. And no, he was not lying in that show, if this was the next thing you were going to ask" she got it over with quickly. That shut him up immediately, I couldn´t believe it.
"Is there anything you want to tell us before we send you back to your cell?" Judy wanted to know while looking him into the eyes.
"Any last words of defense?" she asked him, because nothing was coming out of his mouth. He just shook his head quietly.
"Alright" she concluded, before she picked up the clipboard once again, "Sorry for leaving you this quickly, but I think we´ve got to clean up your family´s home a little…"
Hearing that shocked him even more. He clearly was uncomfortable with that, and that told us everything we needed do know. Those rumors couldn´t be that wrong.
Oh, how much I loved that bunny for that kind of cleverness. She never was unfriendly if it wasn´t necessary, and she always kept her cool. It made me forget anything else around me just listening to her. I was falling in love with her every single day.
Before I even noticed it, she already had made her way up to the stairs and one of the colleagues had opened the door for her.
"Good idea" she remarked, "He really belongs to them as it seems…"
I nodded thoughtfully. The others still kept on staring, but she wasn´t letting that distract her.
"Wanna get something to eat first?" she asked, as I carefully took the clipboard from her once again.
"Yeah…it´s been a while since breakfast, hasn´t it?" I asked, taking a quick look at the clock on my phone.
"Are you done with the interrogations, detectives?" we were asked by the interrogation supervisor.
"Yes, we´re done. Thank you very much!" Judy smiled back at her thankfully.
I looked at the facts on our sheet once again and shook my head a little.
"Anything wrong, Officer Wilde?" one of the other blokes asked with great interest.
"…its just that…that he seems to be pretty stupid if he is part of such a big, powerful clan…"
"I was wondering about that too" Judy agreed, "I figured that it had to be pretty expensive as well to set up a hostage taking of two police officers, just to get a few drug dealers out of jail…"
"We should be careful in any case" Nick shared his thoughts, "We surely must have pissed them off already…"
"I think they are more scared of you as you are of them…" somebody chuckled, "The way you wrecked those polar bears surely brought you some respect…"
I just shook my head with a little smile, "I can´t do anything either when they are armored and have a bit of fighting experience…and I´m still not a god or something, I´m just a little fox" I chuckled, "The guys who I fought against were just big, clumsy idiots…that's how that was possible" I clarified.
Judy already made her way outside of this room and waved me to follow her with a little smirk. She wasn´t really bothered in hearing all that once again either. She knew that I was tired of telling the story.
"Come on, Nicky! We´ll get the bad guys later!" she told me.
POV Judy
He followed me gladly and just left the gazing colleagues standing where they were. After we waved them goodbye shortly, we straightly got out of the building and into our car.
"Sorry, Nicky" I grinned at him, "Sorry for hinting that again…"
"I was about to mention it already", he chuckled, "But it worked out pretty well I have to admit…"
"Has it´s benefits to be interesting…"
"But it is unnerving sometimes also" he sighed, as he closed the driver´s door behind him, "I sort of want my old life back, where nobody knew me and I was treated just like a normal person" he explained.
"I can understand you" I told him with a little nod, "…I just noticed for myself how annoying that can be…"
Nick had started the engine in the meanwhile and maneuvered the car over the parking lot carefully.
"Any idea where we could start searching?" he asked, as we accelerated onto the sun bathed main road of Tundratown. The roads where clear from the snow right now, but otherwise this place was coated in white completely. Apart from the rooftops, there was snow everywhere. I´ve never witnessed this place on a sunny day before. Every time I was here, there either was a snowstorm or some other cloudy, depressive weather going on. Today that was different, it seemed so peaceful and quiet here all over sudden. A little too quiet even.
I took a look around while Nick was driving to get to know this place a little better, and when I looked to my left I saw it coming. I couldn´t even warn him anymore. When we passed the next crossing at the green lights, suddenly there rushed a giant truck towards us from the road to our left and it was going way over the speed limit. It was not slowing down because of the red light whatsoever. It violently crashed into the back of our car and we spun off the crossing very fast and very hardly. Luckily for us, these police cars had pretty good safety regulations and a very solid chassis, because we surely were rolling over three our four times before it finally came to a halt on its roof. The car was ruined completely, that was for sure, but at least we didn´t seem to have suffered from any injuries. When my head had stopped spinning finally, I immediately looked over to Nick, who also was hanging in the seatbelts quite in shock.
"Holy shit" he panted, "Carrots, you alright?" he asked.
"Yeah, I´m fine…but" I whispered, just as I heard steps coming closer to us. Cold air was coming in through the shattered windows of the car, the steps where coming closer quickly.
"Who is that?" I asked him in fear, while we both tried to untangle ourselves from the seatbelts.
"I have no idea…" he answered lowly.
"We need to get them" somebody yelled from outside the car suddenly, "Use the chloroform, we need them unconscious!"
Panic broke lose between the two of us. Whoever that was, they were not on our side. But we couldn´t get out of the car quickly enough, and we couldn´t reach out for our guns either. We were trapped.
They sprayed the gas into the car from all angles and very soon I could smell it stitching in my nose. That was the last thing I remembered before everything turned black.
Yeah, I know, Chapter 32 is missing and it took me forever! …but now I´m motivated again, I´m already working on the next two chapters! About chapter 32: Don´t know when that's coming, I already started it, but there is still so much work left to do…someday, ok?
Anyways, what do you think of this one? I´d be glad if you let me know!
See you soon, love you!
-furrwolf