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Here is chapter 42 for you guys! Tell me what you think.

Big thanks to MrShurukan for improving it once again, he even wrote a little part of it himself this time!

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Zootopia – Springtime Circumstances

Chapter 42 – If fury was a person (POV Judy)

One of my worst nightmares ever became reality: Someone had drugged him with night howlers. Not only was that dose way too high in the first place, even half of that would have made an uncontrollable monster out of him already, but also did it have to be exactly him, the most dangerous fox who ever lived probably.

The very deep cuts on Bogo´s face kept on bleeding heavily and it looked like he couldn´t even see straight anymore because of it. I´ve never ever even imagined seeing him scared one day, but that was what happened right now. He feared an animal that was barely a third of his size. But so did everybody, they all stared in pure shock at the scene.

"Max!" I yelled, to get his attention as quickly as possible, "We need a few medics! Also consider Delgato and Jennifer for first aid! I´m getting myself some armory in the meanwhile…"
"What…what do you want to do?" Max asked in shock about hearing what I said.

"I´m trying to get him unconscious…" I sighed, knowing for myself very well how dangerous that was, "That´s all we can do! We need to get him into a hospital as soon as possible!"

"Who even is that little fucker?" Max wanted to know, "Why did he do that to him?"

"I have no idea! I´ve never seen him before…" I replied while shrugging my shoulders stressfully, "But not now! Get moving already, Max! We need help!"

"I´m on it!" he agreed, before he went onto his way quickly.

Bogo finally had managed to lock the doors of the briefing room behind him. Shortly afterwards he sank onto his knees and held his bleeding cheeks once again.

Everybody kept on watching me with big eyes as I went on my way as well and ran off towards the armory chamber. I had quite some distance to cover, and it felt like an eternity until I finally found the right key on my chain to open it. All this took way too long already. I got myself the heaviest protection armor there was available in my size, one of the big dart rifles and two magazines for that. That had to be enough to stop him.

POV Charlie (alias: codename C4)

At first, I felt totally superior over the situation. Like I always did. Everything went as planned beforehand, also like it always did, but then, for the first time in my career, I made a mistake. A fatal mistake. The mission has failed and probably would end in a massive catastrophe. Now I would have to listen to his stupid comments yet once again. Goddamn how much I hated when that happened, but that wasn´t even my biggest issue right now.

I didn´t like the idea of using night howlers when I heard it the first time already. It was his idea on top of that, but since he was the main operator, I had to agree on it and now it ended in this giant mess. Three month of pretended police training at the ZPD academy and all the preparations for nothing. Nothing but trouble.

I´ve had combat situations before on missions, lots of them, but nothing I ever encountered went as quickly and as brutal as this. He threw me against the wall like I had no weight at all, the impact was so massive and painful that I couldn´t see straight for a couple of minutes. I had broken a leg and an arm without a doubt, I had huge bleeding scratches on various places of my body, I was stuck under a whiteboard for a little while, until I finally was able to free myself and take cover under a nearby table, and for the first time ever I actually needed somebody to help me. I wasn´t used to this feeling of pain, panic and pure helplessness, and it definitely wasn´t helping the situation that soon this monster of a fox would be out of things to destroy.

I imagined this mission to be totally different. I imagined that it would take him a little longer to react, that I could just walk away and leave them all behind in the chaos, disappearing completely like I did on many missions before. But it all failed, and now I really was holding on to my life, hoping anybody would arrive soon to help me out of this finally. Never before have I been so scared in my life. This was so embarrassing. I haven´t even been able to warn my backup anymore. I just had to wait until that nightmare was over.

POV Judy

Barely two minutes later I arrived the others once again. Nick was still to be heard in the briefing room.

"I´m so sorry you have to see all this" I apologized to the new ones, "But I´m pretty sure you know what that drug does to you…"

They all nodded with great respect.

"Chief, can you open the door, please?" I asked him, because he was sitting right in front of it.

"Do you really think this is a good idea?" he asked weakly, as I was just about to turn off the safety switch of my rifle, "He lost his mind completely!"

"No, he didn´t" I disagreed in anger, "He even tried to save us! That´s why he started throwing tables first before he attacked somebody! And I´m not watching him die to that drug in there!"

"Be careful, officer Hopps!" he told me weakly, before he reached me the key finally. He moved away from the door as quickly as possible and I didn´t lose a single second anymore.

"Don't worry about me" I told him, "I´ll be fine."

With those words I had unlocked the door and listened closely once more before I opened it. Nick seemed to be on the other side of the room right now, so that was a pretty good chance for me. I went in and closed the door behind me quickly, my dart rifle was pointed at him this whole time. Then I heard somebody crying for help suddenly. I took a look and saw him hiding under a couple of stacked tables. The red fox who had drugged Nick with that night howlers-serum just a few minutes ago.

"Help me…" he cried in pain and pure fear, "Please!"

Nick was on the other wall and ripped everything he found off of it.

"Pah" I thought to myself, "And now you want me to help you?!"

For a moment I even considered tranquilizing him as well, but I wouldn´t do him the favor just yet. I wanted him to see what he did and I wanted him to suffer for himself just as much as Nick suffered right now.

"Please!" he begged once again, "I can´t move…"

I just noticed that he was heavily bleeding and trying to get away from where he was in total panic, but he couldn´t. Probably he had broken a few bones when Nick threw him against the wall earlier.

"Stop crying like a little kid" I told him harshly, "You´re going to be fine. Just look at what you did to him!"

Now Nick noticed me and released the walls with his claws, growling at me aggressively. He slowly but surely began walking towards me, although I could see him shaking his head. He wasn´t able to stop himself. In his eyes I saw him begging for help, and I knew that there was only one way right now.

"I´m sorry, Nick" I told him, as I pointed my tranquilizer rifle onto him again, "I need to bring you to a hospital as soon as possible…"

I began firing a few darts and hit him on three different places on his stomach. But that wasn´t doing the trick. Nothing happened so far. Normally, just one of these darts was enough to make him unconscious immediately, but right now he didn´t seem too bothered about it. Another wave of rage hit him and he began moving towards me a lot faster now.

"Shit" I yelled in panic, as I began running away. Just by an inch or two his sharp teeth missed my legs and he hit the ground behind me very uncomfortably. But he came back onto his feet just a moment later and began chasing after me again. I kept on firing darts at him in the meanwhile. He shook himself in pain vigorously, but the tranquilizers finally showed their effect on his body. He began tumbling on his way towards me, I looked into his eyes one last time, and then he collapsed onto the floor finally. He wasn´t standing up after that anymore either, so I finally managed to stop his drug induced rampage. I dropped my gun onto the floor and went towards him immediately.

"I´m so sorry" I whispered into his ears while I was trying to turn him onto his back. When I finally managed to turn him over, I began pulling the darts out of his skin one by one. I felt his heart beating in a pace that way much to high to be healthy and his muscles were still shaking a little. He wasn´t even completely unconscious as I just noticed, he still had his eyes opened a little and he was trying to catch his breath in pure panic.

"Everything will be fine!" I told him, "…can you hear me?"

I wasn´t entirely sure if the blink of his eyelids was a yes or just a normal reaction of his body, but I needed to get him to a hospital as soon as possible in any case.

I quickly took one more look at the other fox who was still hiding himself under that stack of tables. He hadn´t moved an inch since the last time I saw him. He still wasn´t able to move his body anyways I figured. Nevertheless did I grab my rifle once again and went for the door quickly.

"Are you alright?" Max asked, being totally out of breath as well, "What happened?"

"Come quickly" I told him, "We need to get him to hospital! The other bloke is in there as well, got a few broken bones as it looks like…"

"I already informed the medics, they should be here in a few minutes" Max told me hastily, before he followed me in into the briefing room once again.

"Holy shit" he panted, as he saw how it had changed in just a few minutes, and just now I realized the damage which all that had caused. Nearly all of the big glass windows were destroyed, the tables and chairs had stacked on piles everywhere, there were huge claw-marks on every wall and the whiteboard was laying on the floor as well.

I put the dart riffle on the holster on my back for now and picked up the injector I just found on the floor. Max was going towards Nick and examined his unconscious body for a moment. Bogo and Jennifer had arrived at us as well in the meanwhile. The other fox was still hissing and crying in pain lowly, but he was completely ignored by them as well at first.

"Do you know that guy?" Bogo asked, still holding the bleeding scratches on his face.

I just shook my head a little, before I passed him the empty injector.

"That is a high dose" the Chief agreed with what I said earlier, "That really is alarming…"

"We are not safe anymore" I spoke out my first feeling without any doubts, "I mean Nick and I…we really need to be forgotten for a little while…all that popularity will get us killed…"

Contrary to what I what I was expecting, he just nodded a little about that.

"You should try to avoid the press for a while" he agreed, "They will rip us apart for that anyways…"

"I´ll just tell them what happened so they can´t make anything up" I suggested.

Max and Jennifer also nodded to what I said. Just a few seconds later the first medics arrived the scene and we made room for them. Jennifer stayed at my side and watched as they lifted Nick onto a stretcher carefully. Before they carried him out of the building they already gave him a dose of the antidote to the night howlers via another injector, and that relaxed me a lot for now. That had been the most important thing right now.

Max and Bogo went over towards the other fox and began freeing him from under the stacked tables and Chairs he had on top of him.

"You really picked the wrong officer to drug with freaking night howlers my friend" Max commented mercilessly, as he saw how much pain that other red fox was in right now.

"Whatever you were up to" the Chief told him coldly, "You´re not ever going to become a police officer after that…"

"I nev…never planned to become a police officer" he screeched in pain.

"You came pretty far considering that" Max commented.

"Not bad, huh?" the fox asked back, just as Bogo pushed the last table away.

"Spare us that bullshit, please" I sighed, as I watched the medics taking care of him as well, "…and just to let you know: I wouldn´t want to be you when Nick is back to normal again. So, I recommend to shut the fuck up right now, are we clear?" I asked dryly.

He just nodded weakly and with a little sigh while he was lifted onto a stretcher for himself. He really had enough of it right now as it seemed.

"Yeah…I would speak up if I were you" Max agreed, "You don´t drug Nick Wilde with night howlers just for fun…"

"This…" he sighed, just before passing out, "This is way bigger than you think…this is just the beginning…"

POV codename JS1

"I…I was standing outside of the ZPD building, just strolling through the park with my kids" the otter-lady in the TV-interview told the reporter, "…and suddenly we heard the sound of glass shattering above our heads. A table had crashed through a window on the first floor and we really were lucky that it didn´t hit us!"

While we were watching that TV-interview, I noticed that she was shaking her head in disbelieve.

"…we heard a lot of terrifying noises and it kept on raining glass, tables and chairs from up there" she told the reporter, "I´ve never seen something like this before…" was the last thing she added, before the shot cut back to the reporter in the TV-studio once again. "So" he concluded, "We´ve just heard from the witnesses how it looked from the outside, after we had seen an unconscious officer Wilde being carried out of the building just half an hour ago. But just now I´ve been told that officer Judy Hopps gave us a quick interview on what happened…"

It cut away once again and showed a shot of officer Hopps standing in front of the entrance to the hospital. She quickly explained how he got the night howlers serum injected by "one of the new police cadets" and how it all ended, but that was nothing new to us anymore. We had seen it live from our little hideout when they carried C4 out of the building as well and transported him off to the same hospital.

"Shit" I cursed, before I turned off the TV.

"Told you it was a bad idea" she sighed, "You´ve seen for yourself how dangerous he is…"

"I should have done this for myself" I muttered, "I told you he would fuck it up."

"He has proven quite effective for the last few missions" she disagreed harshly, "And you have seen for yourself how good they are…"

"He could have at least tried to get out of there during all that chaos!" I complained.

"Ever considered that he might really got hurt?" she asked.

"He´s such a freaking pussy! Every time he gets into a little fight he cries about how painful it was and how he nearly got killed or something…"

"Don´t talk about my brother like that!" she growled.

"He´s not even your real brother" I replied coldly, "And now I have to fix all that myself once again, don´t I?"

"Oh, really?" she asked, as she suddenly grabbed me by my sides, threw me onto the little bed in our hideout and climbed on top of me quickly, grinning down on me from above, "Oh yeah, Mr. Savage?" she asked, "And what did you do else than playing volleyball with them so far?"

"That´s called analysis, sweetheart" he chuckled, staring right into her beautiful blue eyes, "And don´t tell me you didn´t enjoy that…"

"And even if…don´t tell me you didn´t enjoy that as well" she replied, still pinning me down onto the matrass.

"You mean officer Hopps?" I asked with a little smirk, "Can you blame me?"

She just shook her head a little, still with that seductive, irresistible dirty little smile.

"…you better shut your mouth already, little bunny" she told me teasingly, "You better think of a way to get my brother out of that hospital before they put him in jail…"

"Stepbrother…"

"Whatever."

"I´m trying" I grinned, "But I think you have to motivate me a little first of all…"

"Oh really, do I?"

"You better" I smiled, as she already began to unbutton my shirt with her smooth white paws.

"Yeah?" she asked, "I´m curious what you come up with…"

"Depends on how much you motivate me" I grinned, as she kissed me smoothly, "…but that´s a good start already…"

POV Judy

Although Nick´s condition was quite stable right now, my mood wasn't. I was stressed, I was pissed and I couldn´t calm down if my life depended on it. I also wanted to talk to that other fox as soon as possible, Charlie was his name I´ve just found out, but he was still being under narcosis hours after he had arrived at the hospital. He had a broken arm and a broken leg, huge scratches and a mild concussion as the medics told me, and I would have to wait at least until tomorrow if I wanted to talk to him.

Nick was still asleep because of the seven darts I hit him with and that would take quite a while as well. As much as I wanted to stay at his side, I couldn´t stand staring at this depressing room any longer. I gave him a last little kiss on his cheek and left him to the doctors.

Half an hour later I arrived at the main building of the ZPD again. They had blocked off everything below the shattered windows of our briefing room in the meanwhile and the repair-works were running already. Just as I expected, the people were still standing there, pointed at and discussed it loudly and wondered about what had been happening exactly. I knew already that I wasn´t getting inside without at least getting noticed by every single one of them. Right in front of the entrance I spotted Max, who was talking to about five people who held microphone into his face. I decided to head towards him as quickly as possible, ignoring everything else for now.

POV Max Wolfheart

"Did Officer Wilde have something like that before?" I was asked, and it took me a few moments to even get over the stupidity of this question. I just shook my head about it, I didn´t even think I needed to answer that. But it didn´t stop there, the bullshit kept on raining down on me.

"Did he harm that other fox on purpose?" I was asked right afterwards, and that was the point where I stopped them.

"I´m sorry…" I told them, after taking a deep breath, "…but that is the most stupid question I´ve ever heard in my life, considering that you all know what has been happening!"

I showed them the rough size of the injector with my fingers.

"That was the dose of that stuff he got injected. He couldn´t do anything about it, we all got totally surprised by that, him especially. We can´t tell you what that other bloke has been up to, but I don´t think that any of you would have been less aggressive in that case, you all should know what those night howlers does to you in the meanwhile. It´s a wonder that not more people got harmed, because there is not much left of our briefing room…"

"Yeah!" a female voice suddenly agreed from below, "And you all know what that fox is capable of" Judy added, who just had joined me, "I had to hit him with seven tranquilizer darts to stop him, and trust me, I didn´t have fun with that either" she explained lowly, as all the cameras and microphones were pointed at her now.

"What if that happens again?" somebody asked dumbly, "Will we still be safe in the future?"

That question was too much. I expected Judy to totally get out of her mind hearing that, but what she did instead was way better actually.

"Max?" she asked me calmly, "Do you feel that too? …I think we have answered everything that was important already, didn´t we?"
"Yeah" I agreed coldly, turning my back towards the press as well now and following her towards the entrance of the building, "I didn´t hear any relevant questions or those which are worth to answer anymore either…"

She opened the door already and held it open for me afterwards. Without a single further word we left them standing there and didn´t stop on our way deeper into the building.

"Thank you" I told her.

"Unbelievable, isn´t it? Not a hint of respect or thinking you get from those assholes!" she frowned in disbelief.

"Are we safe in the future?" I repeated ironically, "As if everything he did was forgotten because he got drugged with freaking night howlers!"

"Nick is going to explode again when he hears this" Judy chuckled tiredly, "…but I´m the last one to stop him when the press asks him something like that…"

I nodded with a little smile. "I so want to see that when it happens…"

"How´s the chief?" she wanted to know then, as I followed her towards her office for a few more steps.

"I haven´t seen him since he left the hospital…"

"Alright" she sighed, "See you later, Max!"

"Yeah" I agreed, before I went onto my way towards the prison surveillance room, "Later, Judy!"

POV Skye (alias: codename SY7):

God that was easy. The simplest idea proved to be the best one yet once again. Since I was a fox as well, and when I argued that I was his sister, they simply let me visit him for a few minutes. He was still asleep sadly, but the doctor told me everything I needed to know. He had a few bruises, a broken leg and a broken arm, so he would be useless for the next few weeks anyways. I took a few pictures and then I went to leave the building again. But then, when I was walking down the hallway, I suddenly got another idea.

"Excuse me" I asked the elderly zebra lady in the hospital uniform I met on the hallway, "Where do I find the room of Nick Wilde please?"

"Officer Wilde is asleep and doesn´t need It to be bothered…" she replied coldly, "Can I tell him something?"

"He´s like a brother to me" I lied, "I just wanted to see if he´s alright. I…I knew Charlie as well, the other fox who got hurt…and Nick…I know him since I was a kid, his mom really is the sister of my dad, he´s my cousin so to say…"

She looked at me suspiciously for a moment, and then asked:

"May I see your ID, please?"

"Oh, sure thing! Here, take a look, please!", I said, giving her the papers of my second ID and casually taking my smartphone at the same time.

She took them and stared at them for a second.

"Damn, where the hell are my glasses?" she wondered, searching for them in her hospital uniform, "…Excuse me, miss, I must have them in here somewhere, give me a second…"

I just nodded and waved it off patiently. This was the perfect moment for me anyways, I was nearly done with editing the article about Nick Wilde on Wikipedia in the meanwhile.

"Oh, there they are!" elderly zebra said, "Soo… Your name is…Jenifer Jones?"
"Yes, that is correct. Oh, and here you can take a look at his Wikipedia article! There, it says that he's my cousin…" I pointed out for her.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" she excused herself, "…you know, he´s quite a popular person these days, they told me to check people… a lot of them claim to know him… "

I just nodded with a friendly little smile.

"Follow me!" she said, waving with her hand and taking the lead.

We literally went just two doors further and then we entered his room already.

"Take a quick look" she told me, as she pointed at his bed.

He was asleep as well right now, but he didn´t really seemed to be harmed physically. That was everything I needed to know.

"Oh Charlie…" I sighed lowly, "What only is going on in your head?"

"That police officer had to stand through quite a rough time if you ask me…" The Zebra lady told me while we left the room again.

"You bet he had" I answered, "It really is time they get some rest already…"

She just nodded a little, before she went on her way deeper into the building. I had to go into the other direction, luckily.

"Thank you very much" I told her quickly, before I went onto my way as well.

"No problem…have a good day!"

Outside of the hospital doors, the black limousine waited in the driveway for me already.

"How bad is it?" he asked when I closed the door behind me quickly and he selected the drive gear almost immediately.

"C4 will be useless for a few weeks…" I told him the most important news in one sentence.

He just shook his head in disappointment and sighed a little.

"There is no other way" he said soon afterwards, "We need them as soon as possible."

"Jacky" I sighed, "You know very well what happened to the last people who´ve tried to abduct them…"

"You mean those clowns from the Nox-clan?" he chuckled, "They tied him to the ceiling with just some flimsy strings…It´s no wonder they escaped that easily…"

"Isn´t there a better way to get them to help us?" I asked him, "Do we really have to force them? Why don´t we try to explain it and make them help us voluntarily?"

"And how do you want to get their attention?"

"Turn left over there!" I pointed out after thinking about it quickly, "I have an idea."

POV Judy (two hours later)

It was quite late already when I went on my way home. At least nobody was stopping me on my way. I slowly went down the street where Nick and I had our apartments and thought about where I would spend the night at. It has been quite a while by now since I´ve been all alone for a whole night, and I wasn´t really used to it anymore. For a moment I even thought about getting back to the hospital and staying the night at his side, but I figured that that just would stress the medics even more.

Then I noticed something very odd. There was light shining through the windows of Nick´s apartment. It was exactly on his floor and I was a hundred percent sure that it was his apartment as well. But I was pretty sure that he would have told me if he was released from the hospital already.

I stood in front of the entrance door and thought about it for another moment, then I decided to use the key Nick gave me and open up the door for myself instead of ringing at the door-bell. I went up the staircase and listened through the wooden door carefully. There was music to be heard and voices as well. Weird. None of them sounded like Nick and I didn´t know anybody who had access to his flat either. But who would break into somebody´s flat and make themselves comfortable in there?

I opened the door as lowly as possible and sneaked in. The lights in the living room were all activated and Nick´s stereo was running lowly as well. What I saw were a male bunny who I was pretty sure I had seen before and white fox-paws hanging over the edge of the couch.

I took the tranquilizer-pistol from my belt, sneaked a little closer towards them, and when I saw her as well finally, I was pretty sure I knew who they were. We had first encountered them in the mystical springs oasis, but right now they both wore quite fancy black suits instead of being all naked.

"Oh hey!" the vixen greeted me in a friendly voice, before she turned off Nick´s stereo with the remote she had in her paws. I pointed my tranquilizer at her now, although she wasn´t armored either, but that still didn´t seem to scare them.

"Who the hell are you?" I asked lowly.

"Don´t you remember us?" the white-furred vixen asked.
I remembered them. Her name was Skye and he had introduced himself as Jack to us. He was the bunny who joined our team when we were playing volleyball in the mystic springs oasis. I remembered the black stripes in his fur, and we had gotten to know her as well on that evening. It was not a bad experience I´ve had the first time I´ve met them, but I didn´t like seeing them inside Nick´s flat without asking for anyone´s permission.

"No…more like: What the hell are you doing here?" I corrected myself, "How did you get in here? This is his private living space! How can you think that that´s ok?" I asked suspiciously.

"We need to talk to you two, urgently" he told me plainly, "We´re not housebreakers, at least we´re not here to steal something…if that´s what it looks like…" he told me with a little smirk.

I didn't find that too funny right now actually. I just gave him an empty look that told him to get to the point already.

"…we´re licensed agents."

POV Skye

She still looked a little suspicious as he told her, but she didn´t move an inch from her position either.

"Agents?" she asked with a little sigh.

"Yes" he affirmed.

"So, you were just spying on us in the mystical springs oasis?" she asked curiously.

"Yeah, kind off…" he confessed, "We wanted to talk to you about it back then already, but we didn´t have a chance to. You´ve always had your friends around you and we didn´t want to bother you on one of your few days off with something that important…"

"And you thought it would be a good idea to break into one of our few spots where we have our privacy in this city?" she asked, "On a day like this?"

She surely had a point with what she said, but that didn´t bring Jack out of his confidence either.

"Yeah…I know…we´re sorry about that… but we really needed to talk to you…it´s getting out of hand already…"

"Oh yeah? It´s getting out of hand? Tell me more!" she sighed cynically.

"We´re not talking about that, sweetheart" I told her, as Jack went towards the stereo and turned it off by the main switch.

"So what are you talking about? Can we get to the point already?" she wanted to know impatiently, "Because you still don´t belong here and…"

"First of all…" Jack cut her off smoothly, "You guys are such wasted potential as simple police officers…you´re easily good enough to become top agents as well…and secondly, there is a massive problem growing in your own rows."

"Where did you get that from?" she asked while cocking an eyebrow.

"We´re working on this case for quite a while already. But it´s not easy to prove anything, because they´ve created a quite clever system in the meanwhile."
"What are you talking about?"

"There is a criminal organization which is working together with nearly a fifth of all the ZPD officers. Many of them are massively misusing their powers in numerous districts of this city, and close to nothing of the evidence -such as drugs and weapons- are really destroyed after being confiscated from imprisoned criminals. Most of it is getting shipped right back towards the clans for quite a lot of money…" he explained the main problem plainly.

"What?" she asked in disbelief, "How do you know that?"

"There is quite a lot more that we know about. But I think it makes more sense if your partner is back up on his feet as well…"

"You´re saying that you want us to spy on our own colleagues?" she asked in an overacted tone.

"I´m just telling you the facts as they are. We´ve not been breaking in here just for fun, we had quite a few problems with that already. It got even worse today…we really need to do something!"

"So that other fox guy who wanted to become a police officer was one of those criminals as well?"

"No" I answered her calmly, "Charlie is one of us. He did all of this just to gain your attention and bring down your way too positive image a little…"

"Our way too positive Image?" She repeated my words in disbelief, "And there is no other way than freaking night howlers?" I asked in anger, "You even witnessed for yourself how dangerous that fox can get! And that dose could have killed him!" she yelled, before she calmed down a little once again. She still wasn´t quite able to believe it though.

"…there probably wouldn´t ever be a better chance to find something out about us than when you were spying on us on that day at the mystical springs…" she explained, "…and you thought it was a good idea to drug him with freaking night howlers?!" she wanted to know, "…and you want to tell me you´re licensed agents?"

"That was a big mistake" Jack confessed.

I hadn´t expected to hear that from her either.

"…we have to apologize for that as well, that was not a good idea…"

"Goddammit" Judy sighed while shaking her head, "I can´t believe it…this fucking day!"

"Understandable" Jack told her, "I can imagine that we´re the last thing you wanted to see here probably, and we´ll leave you in just a second anyways, but I beg you to give us a chance to explain it to the both of you when he´s back in business…"

She just sighed a little while still shaking her head, but at least she lowered her tranquilizer a little now.

"We really need your help for this."

"Yeah, fine" Judy sighed finally, "But certainly not when he´s still in hospital and for sure not today either."

"We understand you very well. We´ll contact you in the near future…" Jack told her, as he waved me to get off the couch and follow him out of his flat.

"We´ll consider it" she told us, still not moving from where she was standing.

"I´m sorry for everything" Jack told her once again, "…we´ll tell him that personally as well, naturally."

She just nodded a tiny little bit.

"So long" Jack told her, reaching out for her paw smoothly, "Allow me to introduce myself properly. My name is Jack Savage, nice to meet you…"

"Skye…" I introduced while doing the same, after Jack has shaken her paw quickly.

"Judy" she sighed tiredly, "…nice to meet you. But now get the hell out of here already!"

Jack just nodded with an ironic little smirk, I gave her another friendly little smile. Then we went on our way and closed the door behind us smoothly.

We didn´t exchange a single further word until we left the main entrance of the house and went towards our car quickly. Jack was sure she could still hear us in the staircase, and since he was a bunny as well he must know best what he was talking about.

"That went better than expected…" he confessed, as we finally were out of earshot.

"Told you she´d be cool" I replied.

"I imagined to get kicked out if there to be honest" he chuckled, "And I wouldn´t even have been mad at her…I think I would have been very honored by that…"

"You like getting your butt kicked by the girls, don´t you?" I snickered, after I had closed the door of the car behind me, "Don´t you?"

"Anytime, sweetheart" he grinned, "Anytime."

"That´s nice to know…and I know exactly who I´ll tell about that…"

"Oh really?" he chuckled, just after he was done with his U-turn.

"That´d be quite interesting to watch in any case…"

"You think she is able to keep up with me?" he asked boldly.

"I mean…you´ve seen what she had done to that steroid-pumped fox on the volleyball court…"

"That guy was a joke, come on!"

I just nodded in agreement with a little smile.

"…I still wonder what happened after they carried him into that massage room and locked the door for such a long time…"

"Nah…" he chuckled, shaking his head a little, "…I doubt that I would really want to know more about that..."

"Oh come on, mister!" I giggled, "As if you wouldn´t want to know…"

"You really have some messed up fantasies sometimes" he laughed.

"Just confess it" I grinned back.

He just shook his head with an ironic little smile.

"Liar! Liar, liar!" I kept on teasing, "…and you even liked watching the SMA show! Confess it already!"

"You know" he smiled, accompanied with a little sigh, "…I doubt that I will ever be to tame you a little…and that…Sweetheart, that is why I love you so much."

POV Kirstin (Nurse, elderly Zebra-lady, colleague of Suzanne):

I´ve never seen something like this before. It was about 10PM when he woke up finally, and what I encountered was anything but the calm and charismatic Nick Wilde I knew. His partner had told me that the dose had been very high, but it turned out that we still didn´t give enough of the antidote to cure him completely. He woke up and tried moving around immediately. We were lucky that we kept him tied down onto his matrass, because he was trying to free himself vigorously, growling like a savage and not at all ready to calm down when I asked him to. I really felt sorry for him, but there were no alternatives. I called an anesthetist to help me immediately, and soon later we sent him back to sleep once again, before we gave him even more of the antidote. It really was a worrying situation for us. His pulse hasn´t been very high before, it was pretty low for a fox actually, and now it was dropping even more. We knew about his physique and his sporty attitude, but that heartrate really shouldn´t drop any further.

"…We can´t keep him unconscious forever" the anesthetist agreed, "…and that antidote isn´t good for him either, it makes him really dizzy for quite a while if he gets too much of it into his blood…"

"How long can we keep him unconscious?" I wanted to know, thinking about an alternative already.

"I wouldn´t go any longer than tomorrow morning. And I wouldn´t use more antidote on him either…"

"You think putting him in a patted room is a good idea?" I asked him then, just sharing my thoughts with him, "…I mean…at some point he must be out of energy anyways…"

"I was thinking about that too" he agreed, "But we should really talk to the doctor about it…"

"I´m still a little scared to be honest" I chuckled, "Have you seen that video on the news?" I asked him.

"Yeah, I still can´t quite believe he has done all that by himself…" he agreed, "It´s a wonder nobody got hurt by that rain of chairs and tables…"

"Maybe the "S" in "SMA" stands for "scariest" as well" I chuckled lightheartedly.

"Yeah…not that wrong actually…"

I just shrugged my shoulders once more and went on my way to leave his room for now and head for the next patients I had to take care of.

"And now you´re leaving me alone with him?" the oryx asked with an ironic little chuckle.

"Have to, I´m sorry" I told him, "But Suzanne´s nightshift starts in twenty minutes…" I let him know, "I think she´ll be glad to give you some company…" I grinned.

"Oh great" he sighed ironically, just as I was about to close the door gently, "Thanks Kirstin…"

"You´re always welcome, sweetheart" I smiled at him, "See you later…"

POV Suzanne (30 minutes later)

We had him here once again, just a few weeks after he was released. He had been on the news once again as well, and there was no denying that I nearly couldn´t hold myself back once again either. After everything that Cammy had told me today, I was even more hyped for my nightshift. But I couldn´t be alone with him this time, and I doubted that he would let me get closer towards him once again anyways, especially in his current state. He was tied onto his bed at his stomach, wrists and ankles, and even in his sleep he flexed his beautiful muscles from time to time.

I had heard what happened in the ZPD today of course, the news had been full of it.

When Kirstin had showed me the list for tonight, she also told me about the other fox they brought here. He was the one who poisoned Nick with the night howler´s serum in the first place as the story went. I wanted to check that out as soon as possible. I went into his room and closed the door behind me. Just like Nick he didn´t wear anything except from some white boxer shorts right now, so I was able to take a pretty good look at what they had done to him. He had a few scratches on his torso and on his back, his broken leg was being held up by a string, his broken arm was covered in a cast and laying right besides him. He also was quite well in shape I just noticed, he looked better than most other males I had here before, but it still was not comparable to Nick in any way.

I liked the color of his fur though. The elegant mix of brown and red made him look pretty interesting already. But I found myself thinking like that about males far too often anyways.

"Dammit, Suzy" I told myself, "Why are you even thinking about that again? What´s wrong with your freaking sex-drive?" I asked myself, "He almost killed him, he´s a criminal! Don´t even think about it!"

I took another look when Charlie moved a little in his unsteady sleep.

"Why would he do something like that? Is he jealous on him? Nick must have had that problem before…"

Then another dirty grin went across my face, "This could get quite interesting" it suddenly came into my mind, "I´m just the nurse…they can´t blame me for anything…can they?"

I shook myself in anticipation once again, I couldn´t get that evil little smirk of my face. "He might be a criminal…" I told myself, "But a pretty sexy one."

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