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Zootopia – Springtime Circumstances
Chapter 61 – His dark side
POV Daniel Fangmeyer
I wasn´t quite sure what had happened exactly, but suddenly there were just a few people left in the backstage area. Hazel was still by my side, Max and Jenny were still here, a few of Rico´s band-members, Gazelle and last but not least, our Boss, the Chief. I´ve rarely seen the buffalo so excited and well-spirited at the same time. He was so deep into his conversation with Gazelle, he didn´t even notice Nick and Judy rushing out of the building.
I was chilling on the couch with Hazel, Max and Jenny, drinking all different sorts of alcohol and talking about really primitive stuff in the meanwhile, but I wouldn´t have traded it for anything else at the moment. Bogo and Gazelle still stood near the buffet, and she didn´t even look like she was bored or annoyed talking to him. She seemed to be genuinely interested.
Tonight, I had almost as much fun as on that night of the SMA show back then. But I was wondering where they all went all over sudden. I really hoped they were alright, because Max, Bogo and I weren´t really useful for anything at this point.
POV Sarah
I knew exactly why Nick did this. I was pretty sure there would have been a way to get home tonight, but he did that with the hotel-room on purpose. Now he was alone with him and able to talk to him under four eyes. I was pretty sure Ivonne had figured that out as well. Pretty soon, it wouldn't be a secret anymore anyway, I was pretty confident in the meanwhile.
I wasn´t totally sure, but I thought we also had a pretty good group-setup for that discussion right now. But Ivonne had to decide that for herself of course.
I knew how unsure she still felt about it, but nevertheless I winked her shortly when nobody else noticed it. At least she knew she could count on me that way.
She just nodded very slightly, and then I noticed a few tears forming at the corners of her eyes already.
POV Rico
I was nervous somehow. Nick´s slightly odd behavior and his decision to stay the night at a random hotel-room confused me even more than the fact that Ivonne got followed and chased by some paid gangsters just out of nowhere. Originally, I had expected this night to end in a giant orgy at our place, like it always did, but now I was here, just with Nick by my side.
"You wanted to tell me something?" I asked him, after he came back from the bathroom just in his boxers. He had asked me if I wanted to take a shower first, but I had declined that offer and just rested myself on the bed for the last few minutes.
He just nodded very slightly, before he grabbed himself one of the chairs and took a seat in a comfortable pose, looking me right in the eyes a moment later.
"Yes…" he told me, "…and it is very important."
"What is it about?"
"About the two of us…about all of us, actually…"
I was pretty sure I knew what he was talking about at this point. It was about the way to big attention we were getting right now. It was about his and Judy´s job as police detectives and that they couldn´t keep that lifestyle up like that any longer. It wasn´t that. Not at all.
"Rico…" he began again, "…I´ve gotten to know you as a very reasonable, understanding and caring, just overall a very nice guy…" he began hesitantly.
That was way different from what I expected. I found it a little odd even, because we were talking in private and nobody else was listening, but I didn´t interrupt him for now.
"…but I would understand if what I tell you now changes that for a moment…"
"Now I´m really curious…" I told him with a little smirk, "Is that why you wanted us to stay the night alone?"
"No…" he sighed with a very little smirk, "Yes, I know, we could have made our way home somehow, but I´ve promised her to tell you about it as soon as possible."
"Her?"
"Ivonne…" he said, leaving a little pause, "…there is a reason why she wasn´t feeling to well and wanted to get home early tonight, and it´s quite understandable."
That was everything he told me for now, and when I realized what the only possible conclusion of that could be, my pulse suddenly began racing.
That shocked me on so many levels, I got a real rush of adrenaline.
"W-what?" I asked, nearly screamed, "Are you serious?!"
He just nodded calmly but with a serious expression. I didn´t believe it to be possible, but I almost lost my mind a little right now. I wasn't expecting that at all, even less to hear about it tonight. My just wonderful and perfect little world had sort of shattered in just this one moment.
"B-but she said she…she said she was taking the…"
"She was!" he tried to calm me down, "And she did. But you surely know about her antibiotics she had to take a couple of times lately…"
I did know about that, but I never figured that could have an impact on birth control.
"Point is: she´s pregnant and she can´t bring it over her heart to get an abortion."
I just didn´t know how to react to that piece of information. I just remained sitting there. I took another look at Nick once again, apparently expecting him to start grinning all over sudden and telling me it was just a joke, but it didn´t happen.
"She´s just as shocked about that as you are" Nick continued, "…she even thought about moving out of the city without us knowing about it…"
I was hearing what he said, but I wasn´t thinking about that at the moment. I had the former expectations of my future with Anita rushing through my head, and how that all might never would happen now.
"…she is not sure who of us the father is, but it´s either you or I…"
"Oh really?" I asked sarcastically.
"Well, we can´t just blame her for it…" he sighed.
"Well of course it´s fucking me!" I yelled, totally out of my mind.
"Come on, nobody said that…"
"Oh stop acting stupid! You know it too!"
Just hearing him talk filled me with a rage I´ve never experienced before. My body had started shaking a little and my head began hurting. This was all just too much for one night. I just hated everything at this point. I hated all the reporters and fans which followed me everywhere, I hated all of my fake-ass friends and most of all I hated the red fox in boxer-shorts sitting in front of me. Why must that happen to me? Why couldn´t I just life my life with her in peace? Why did all of this ever happen? Why only why had they rung at our doorbell while the snowstorm?
"…look, Rico-"
"No! Shut up!" I snarled at him. I didn´t want to hear any further word.
He just sighed once again while raising his paws a little. I was not quite sure where all that rage came from all over sudden, but it made a real asshole out of me. I couldn't help myself though, just everything made me more aggressive right now.
"I´m sorry I had to tell you this tonight, but I promised her to…"
I had enough at this point. I didn´t care about any further word, I didn´t care about excuses, I just wanted him to shut the fuck up already.
Faster than I expected from myself, I got onto my feet and repelled myself off the edge of the bed right towards him. In mid-air I slammed my right fist into his face and swiped him right off the chair.
"Stop talking you fucking dick!" I yelled at him, "Just shut the fuck up for once!"
We both ended up on the floor and I sort of landed on top of him.
"Rico!" he told me, loud but still rather calmly, "Rico!"
But I wasn´t done yet. I still didn´t want to accept it. While I kept on pushing him down with my body weight, I pulled my arm back to take another swing at him.
"This is all your fault!" I yelled, "This would never have happened without you!"
Then I went for a second punch into his face. But my arm got just stopped this time. He had grabbed my wrist and just brought it to a dead stop.
"You just made a monster out of me as well! Why can´t you just shut up for once?"
I tried hitting him with my left arm but I didn´t come very far with that either.
"Rico! Please, calm down!" he whispered, "I know it wouldn´t have happened without me! I´m sorry, I´m sorry!"
I tried to free myself from his grip, but I wasn´t able to move for a single inch. He was just so much stronger than I.
"I…I…" I panted, as I felt the first tears forming in my eyes, "I don´t want to…"
I took another look at him and noticed that he totally understood me. He wasn´t even mad that I hit him. He was just lying there and looking at me with sad eyes. Was I just completely over-reacting right now?
My wrists really began hurting because of his tight grip, and it also weakened my aggression by quite a lot. Now my jaw really began hurting because of the urge to cry and then realization hit me, finally.
"I don´t want to lose her! I-I love her so much…" I cried.
"I know" he whispered, now releasing the grip on my wrists. I just sort of collapsed on top of him, but instead of pushing me off of him, he wrapped his arms around me and hugged me gently.
"…and…and she´s really struggling because of all the stupid stuff already! She is really suffering from that I think…"
"I know" he said while patting my back, "I know you´re scared! So am I."
"W-what did Judy say?"
"She doesn´t know it yet" he told me with a deep sigh. At least I was not alone in that situation.
"She doesn´t?"
He just shook his head very slightly, looking me right in the eyes, "Ivonne has just told me about it before she went off to get home on her own…"
"How do you think she will react when she finds out?" I wanted to know.
"I think she´ll…"
Just before he could answer, somebody knocked at our door. "Excuse me!" they said, "Room service! You would like to have a second bed for the night?"
I just noticed that I still was lying on top him and the knocked over chair still rested against the wooden TV-stand.
"Uhm…yeah!" Nick answered with a tired little chuckle, "Just a second."
I climbed off of him and then he went towards the door, not bothered about being just in boxer-shorts, just like the regular Nick.
I picked up the chair in the meanwhile and brought it back into its original position.
"Oh, thank you very much!" Nick greeted when he opened the door and a foldable bed on rolls was pushed into our room.
"That´s no problem, Mister…" the young jaguar service-member told him while waving it off, "…wait…what the hell? Am I high right now?"
"Probably" Nick chuckled with a little wink, "Thank you very much for the bed though…"
"Is…is this real? Is that Nick Wilde just in boxer short´s in front of me?"
"Yes, it is" Nick chuckled, while the man unfolded the bed right next to the bigger one that was already in the room.
"Oh wow…" he continued, "…and Mr. Capaldi is here too…"
"Hey" I replied lazily, but I forced myself to a friendly little smirk, "How are you?"
"Is that why there were so many people in the lobby at this time of night?" the guy asked with a chuckle.
"Probably, yeah…" Nick sighed, "…sorry about that by the way."
"Oh don't worry, we´ve already called the security guys to bring them out savely…" he chuckled while putting the blanked and pillow on the mobile in place.
I found it a little odd that he was fiddling with the bed for so long, but I didn´t say anything. I just wanted him gone as soon as possible.
"Hope they didn´t cause too much trouble…"
"It´s all good Mr. Wilde…" the jaguar told him while leaving the room slowly, "…I´m sorry we didn´t have a better room left for you guys…"
"Nothing to worry about" Nick told him while waving it off, "Sort of saved our lives tonight nevertheless…"
"Alright then…I won´t bother you any longer…Have a good stay!"
"Thank you!" Nick told him, "Good night!"
The jaguar nodded with a little smile and then he finally closed the door behind him.
Nick just waited for a couple more moments, not making a sound, then he opened the cover of the cushion on the mobile bed and pulled something very strange out of it.
"What an Idiot" he chuckled then while presenting it to me.
It looked like a regular watch at first glance, but it had a touchscreen instead of just a clock. It was a smart-watch I figured.
"…he couldn´t have done that any more obvious, really…"
"Why would he put a smartwatch…?"
"It´s recording…" he told me with a little sigh.
"Oh…"
"Yeah, I guess a few of those reporters and magazines would pay quite a lot for any word we discuss in private…"
"Fuck my life…" I sighed lowly.
Nick just nodded while fiddling around with the watch in his paws.
"The way he was talking to me…it already showed that he is not quite such a big fan of us. He wouldn´t be that self-confident if he was…"
"Makes sense, yeah…"
"I guess he either wanted to sell it to the media or to the last clan Judy and I are trying to get down…"
"Or he just tried his luck and wanted to decide afterwards what to do with it…" I suggested. It really was alarming what people were coming up with in the meanwhile.
"Should have been born a fox that guy, shouldn´t he?" Nick asked with a little chuckle.
"What are we going to do with it now?"
"I´m going to put it in the safe and keep it locked until we leave. Maybe I won´t unlock it at all…"
I nodded in agreement. Then I watched as he put the devise into the safe, closed it and put in the number "123456". Then he ripped a piece of paper from the magazine besides the TV and wrote "Nice try" and "123456" on it. Then he signed it with his autograph just like he signed things fans asked him to sign all the time, brought it to the bed and put it in the same place the Jaguar put the Smartwatch in earlier.
"At least his try gets worshipped" I commented with a chuckle.
"At least he feels like an idiot when he finds it" Nick corrected.
"Yeah…right…"
Nick threw himself on the little bed and spread arms and legs like he wanted to make a snow-angel. That was followed by silence. A long silence.
We were just lying there with the lights turned on, staring at the ceiling, and nobody said a thing. Right now, that was even more uncomfortable than anything that happened before tonight.
I wanted to talk about it at this point, I couldn´t deny it. I couldn´t even think about going to bed right now. I was by far to jittery and loaded for that.
I really thought I could beat him at this, but then I couldn´t stand the silence anymore. And I had to do this anyway, so I just went for it.
"I´m sorry I hit you…" I apologized for what happened earlier, "Seems like that all was a little too much for me tonight…"
"Not a bad punch I must say" Nick answered calmly, "But I don't blame you, I would have preferred if she hadn´t told me about this tonight too…"
"It must have been a hard decision for her too, I bet she was scared as hell to tell you about it…"
"Of course it was" he affirmed, "And I won't leave her alone to it, no matter what all the others think. I don´t want her to move out of the city because of it, I don't want her to lose all her friends and I don't want to lose her as a friend."
I just nodded in agreement. He was totally right, I could never bring that over my heart either. I didn´t want to lose Ivonne either, no matter what.
Now he took another deep breath, then he began nodding slightly. "You were right earlier…" he confessed, "She is pretty sure too that it´s going to be you…"
That wasn´t too much of a surprise for me.
"Yeah…" I sighed, "…of course it´s me. We had sex every day before I got to know Anita. And even since…"
"Yeah…" he sighed, "We really can't say we have been careful enough…"
POV Anita
The energy among us really was low at this point. We all just kept laying back against the couches and sipped on our hot cups of tea from time to time, but there wasn´t a whole lot to talk about.
But something still seemed to be a little odd to me, and that was the mood Ivonne was in. She seemed to be fighting tears since quite a while, but I wasn´t quite sure why. Was it still because she got followed? Maybe it was just her nerves in the end, maybe she was just tired.
But soon later it turned out that something was really worrying her, because she couldn´t really hide it anymore.
"Ivonne?" Judy asked her, "Are you alright?"
"Y-yeah…" she stuttered under tears. She obviously was not alright.
That didn´t sound believable on any level.
"Come on, Honey!" Judy said getting a little closer towards her, "Talk to us!"
"I-I…can´t" she cried lowly, barely being able to talk, "…I´m so…I-m so sorry!"
That left all of us a little confused at first, but nevertheless Judy went even closer towards her and gently hugged her to calm her down a little bit.
"Come on…" Judy told her in a comforting way, "Can´t be too bad?"
She hesitated for quite a while, and now Sarah patted her shoulders a little as well, nodding towards her with an encouraging little smile.
"I…I…the…" she stuttered, "…the antibiotics I had to take a few weeks ago…b-because of the infection I had…it must have…it must have neutralized the effect of the b-birth control…and…and…"
So now that was the reason she was so tense. That cleared up a lot all over sudden. Judy surely was surprised as well about hearing it, but she didn´t stop hugging her, she rather tightened her grip even more.
"Really?" she then asked excitedly.
"Y-yeah…" Ivonne stuttered while more tears came running down her eyes, "…but I could never b-bring it over my heart to get an abortion! I-I´m so sorry!" she cried, "…I love you all so much, but I don´t want to ruin your lives…so I might move out of the city because of it…"
"What?!" Judy asked her a little louder, and I couldn´t really understand that statement either at first.
But then, a moment later, realization hit me, just before she clarified it for herself.
"It… it´s either going to be N-nick or Rico."
Now that was even more scary when she said it herself. It hit me like a punch in the face, and not in a good way sadly. She was pregnant, and that very likely because of Rico. It was not a secret that we all had sex with each other.
Now I finally understood why she was so scared of telling us. The reason was kind of obvious. But finding it out didn´t at all make it better for me. Just thinking about it felt horrible. My eyes began watering up as well now, enforced by a mixture of sadness and disappointment. The feeling got worse with every second that passed.
"Oh Ivy" Judy told her while staring right into her eyes, "…you won´t go anywhere! At least I´ll be there for you whenever you need me…"
"But…but…"
She looked just at me with sad eyes now. "I-I…" she cried because of my equally terrified expression, "I know. Nick said that too, but…but…Ani…I´m…I´m so sorry!"
I just couldn´t stand this situation anymore for tonight. All that was just too much for me. I just got off the couch quickly and made my way out of the room.
"Annie, please" Ivonne cried behind me, and it really hurt me as well to leave her like that right now, but I just couldn´t stay.
"I´m sorry" I told them before I left, "Got to go…"
"No, Annie!" Ivonne cried behind me, "You know I would never have done this on purpose! Please don´t go, you know I love you! Don't do this to me! Please!" she begged, crying even more now.
I wasn´t stopping on my way though. It was like my senses were completely blurred. I had just this one lead, and that lead was getting out of here, being alone.
I knew she would never have done it, and I knew about her antibiotic issues and I didn't want her to suffer right now either, but I just needed to be alone. I couldn´t stand this situation right now. There were so many things that messed with my head.
I just went out of the flat and let the door fall into its lock behind me. I quickly left the cold staircase behind me and went outside onto the even colder streets of Tundratown.
While on my way, just this one thought was left on my mind, a thought I didn´t have for the first time, sadly: "Could I live on with him, or should I just leave him before I´d collapse? I loved him with all my heart, and I loved all my new friends and the nights we spent together, but it just couldn´t go on like this. The whole city seemed to hate me already, and now that. Of all the women who had encountered this situation before, it hit me the hardest by miles. There was another thing about this which made it ten times worse than it was already. The only one who knew about this was Nick I believed. I was scared to tell Rico about this all along, but I figured since Nick was alone with him right now, he would tell him about this as well tonight. I couldn't even imagine how he would react to that. I just wanted to cry right now.
Maybe it really was best if I left him for good.
POV Nick
The longer we were laying here in this hotel room, the more I felt how much he really hurt me tonight. It didn´t hurt when he punched me in the face or threw me off the chair, I´ve been hit worse before, what really hurt were his words in that very moment: "It´s all your fault! It would never had happened without you!"
That sentences kept on ringing through my head over and over again.
The reason those words hurt so much were simple: They were just true. I never asked him if he really wanted this life. It felt like I kinda forced him into it. It felt like I just used him to push my own ego a little more. He just was too polite to tell me all this time. It was about time to talk about that, finally.
"Rico, I just noticed something…" I picked up our discussion once again. It´s been quiet between us again for quite a while by now.
"Huh?"
"You got me thinking with what you said earlier. You were right, it was all my fault in the end…"
"It wasn´t."
"No, but listen: I never asked you if you wanted to turn your life into this. I never asked you if you wanted to be famous, I never asked you if you really wanted all that attention. Heck I never even asked you if you wanted to stay at this hotel for the night! I just sort of pushed you into doing it all the time…"
"You didn´t ask me, that´s true. But you offered me chances. And I´m very grateful about it..." he explained, "…what I said earlier was just my blind rage boiling over. I´m sorry for saying that. I…I needed somebody to blame for it in that moment, and I didn´t have a lot of alternatives. But you never forced me into anything. You never forced me to record Pyro Heart, you never forced me to upload it to YouTube or to even show you my music. And you sure as hell didn´t force me to have sex with Ivonne. It was my own decision."
"Yeah…" I sighed, not being able to argue against any of that.
"Goddamn, Nick…what am I going to do?" he asked, still covering his eyes with his paws, "How could I mess this up so badly? I…I couldn´t even be mad at her when she leaves me because of that…"
I was still ringing with myself if I should tell him about it tonight or not, or if I should even tell him about it at all. Maybe it was a little early to confront him with that as well tonight.
"Rico…" I said, trying to calm him down a little more, "Just don't even think about that right now, okay?"
"But…b-but…I already felt like all this was getting too much for her already…you know, because we can´t even walk through Tundratown anymore because I get noticed everywhere…and apparently she´s hated by every vixen in the city, except for Ivonne and Sarah, because they´re jealous of her…you know how freaking awful that feels? It just feels like I´ve ruined her life…and now that…she probably thinks I betrayed her…she probably won´t ever have kids with me because of that…"
"Rico…I think I need to tell you something else-"
"I…I would give up all of that just to stay with her!" he cried, "I liked my life before they made such a big thing out of me!"
"Rico" I told him once again, getting off my matrass slowly. Then I got onto the bed he was laying on, laid down onto my stomach besides him and then hugged him gently, "Listen, I have to tell you something very important about Anita. I know it´s hard now, but you would have found out someday anyway…"
"Huh?" he asked, turning his head towards me.
"Have you ever thought about having kids with Anita one day?" I asked him first of all, "I mean like…for real…"
"Yeah…I have…" he confessed after hesitating for a little while, that question made him extremely nervous already, but now I had to tell him anyway, "I want to get old with her. And I was thinking about having kids with her one day…"
I still hesitated if I really should tell him about it, but now he looked me right in the eyes once more and noticed that I struggled a little.
"I´m pretty sure you can and will spend the rest of your life with her…" I told him slowly, but then I hesitated once again.
"But…?" Rico asked impatiently.
"…but you´re not going to have kids with her" I finally brought it over my heart to tell him.
He just looked at me with a confused expression.
"She´s had a very severe endometriosis a couple of years ago, and now she´s unable to get pregnant as the doctors told her…"
"What?" he asked in total shock, "No!"
I just nodded with a sad expression. "I have no reason to lie to you, this has nothing to do with Ivonne or anything."
Now his lips began shaking once again and more tears came running down his face.
"I´m sorry, Rico. I figured you should know it."
"Oh my god, no!" he cried out, gasping for air in panic "She won´t take that even less when she finds out about it!"
"I´m sure she´ll-"
"I need to get to her!" he suddenly announced before pushing my arm off of him and getting off the bed, "They must not tell her about it just yet!"
"Rico, wait" I tried stopping him, but I reacted not quickly enough.
He was getting on his way out of the hotel room already when I got off the bed yelled behind him again: "No, Rico! You´re never going to get home through the city!"
"I don't care! I need to…"
I got on my way as well and hurried to catch him before he could leave, but he had the doorknob in his paws already.
"You´re probably getting abducted!" I then told him, "You not save out there!"
It was like he didn't hear me at all.
"Hey!" I yelled after him, "Wait!"
But he didn´t stop. At first I hesitated a little because I still was just in boxer-shorts, but then I figured it was more important to stop him right now. I went after him through the hallway of the hotel quickly, but it was too late. He had already gotten into the elevator.
I hesitated for another moment, then I went into the staircase as quickly as possible. I had to catch him before he could leave the building.
"Of course they had to give us a room in the 6th floor" I sighed lowly as I began running down the stairs.
When I finally arrived at the level of the Lobby, the doors of the elevator were already closing again and Rico had made it halfway through the lobby. There was no way I could catch him before he would be through the door and on the street. I was just too late. There were a lot of things I would have done to stop him right now, but I wouldn´t run through the streets of Zootopia just in underwear. That would look very weird in this busy part of town. It already looked very weird here in the lobby apparently, because the Zebra-Lady behind the reception covered her mouth with her hands in total shock when I walked past her again.
"Seriously" I told her, "It´s not what it looks like."
I didn´t even wait for her reaction anymore and just went towards the elevators once again. There was no way I would catch up with him anyway, I had no clue where he went.
"At least he knows about it now" I thought to myself, as I selected the 6th floor on the elevator-button.
When I went out of the elevator and into the hallway again, I heard very loud female voices giggling and shouting from one of the rooms. At this time of the night I guessed that a lot of other hotel guests must be very annoyed by that racket as well. I hadn't even noticed that earlier, maybe they just came back from a night club or something.
"…down the hallway is an ice-machine!" one of the voices yelled, just as I was about to pass the door of the room, "Go get some, okay?"
"Yeah, I´m on my way" another female voice agreed and opened the door in exactly the same moment.
She nearly ran into me when she stormed out of the door, but she was by far too drunk or overexcited to apologize.
"Hey!" she greeted me excitedly, "Oh my god!" she yelled then.
I sighed a little but stopped for a second in the end. Maybe not my best idea ever.
"Hey Sammy!" the young otter-lady in the purple dress yelled, "What were those pills again? I think I see a naked Nick Wilde in the hallway!"
Just seconds later another otter-lady arrived at the door and folded her hands in front of her mouth. She was in the same age as her friend, I guessed about 25, she wore a black skirt and red top, and she was just as excited as it seemed. I still remained silent with another little sigh.
"No, you´re right!" she laughed out then, "I see it too!"
Now I decided to better get moving again before this would end up in yet another unnerving ordeal. "Have a good night, ladies!" I told them while slowly getting on my way once again.
"No, wait!" they stopped me, "Are you real?"
"No, I don't think it´s really him…" her friend said.
"But he´s hot as hell though, isn´t he?" she asked back with a dirty grin, "Should we invite him into our room for the night?" she asked with a giggle.
"I´m sorry, I…"
"You´re right, why not?" she agreed with her friend, "But…how good is your stamina, sexy fox boy?" she asked me then.
"Just look at all those muscles, I bet he fucks like a rock-star!"
"Fuck my life" I thought to myself, "Why me? Why always me?"
"Just for your information" I sighed, "You are indeed talking to the real Nick Wilde."
"Oh, really?" one of them asked with a challenging grin, "Can you prove it, mister?"
I just turned my back towards them for a second and showed them the scar that decorated it.
"Oh fuck…" one of them gasped, "It really is him!"
"Putting that aside…" I told them tiredly, "…you´d be begging me to stop after two minutes."
"Oh yeah?" the other one continued on being cocky, "…gotta prove that as well?"
"No, thank you" I told them with a polite smile, "Have a good night, ladies. Do me and the other guests here a favor and keep it down a little. See you."
And with that I went towards my room finally. I wanted to get out of this hotel right now. I didn´t feel save here at all.
"Oh that´s so lame" one of them now snickered behind me, "Bet he was just lying about his seven inches as well…"
"For fucks sake" I thought to myself as I reached my door finally. How much worse could this night get? I was so annoyed that I got a little aggressive in the meanwhile.
Now I was coming up to that same old problem I had with Suzanne already. I didn´t really want to have sex with them, but I really could use it right now if I was totally honest. When this evening began I expected it to end in a giant orgy at Sarah´s flat once again, but now I was in this stupid hotel, I had no idea where Rico went and if he would even make it there.
Luckily, before I could make yet another bad decision, something else happened.
I heard the Elevator doors opening once again and quite a few hastily footsteps and voices.
"…this is the right floor! Come on, room 621!"
"Don´t mess this up again, we already lost the grey motherfucker in that crowd!" another one panted.
I quickly unlocked the door of my room and went inside. I wasn´t sure if the wolves and polar-bears had seen me or not, but there was no doubt they would be here soon anyway. I quickly went towards the chair I had put my clothing on earlier and searched the pocket of my shirt for the set of tranquilizer darts I had with me.
Judy and I had decided to carry a few of those each whenever we were in public, and right now I really was thankful for it. I took a few of them out of the casing before went back to the door immediately and listened to what was happening outside. The footsteps where coming closer already.
"Remember to not mess about! Even if he is sleepy, that guy is really dangerous!"
"Oh, don´t worry, I show him dangerous!" a much deeper, growly voice told him, just when they arrived before our door.
"When does the backup arrive?" another once wanted to know very lowly.
"They´re on their way. They better not mess this up as well!"
"Alright! Masks on, let´s go!"
That sentence made me change tactics immediately. They probably wanted to use chloroform again. That had worked out for them quite well before.
I went towards the window of the room as quickly as possible and checked if I had any chances climbing out of it. It was hopeless. The windows couldn´t be opened at all and there was no ledge or anything else to hold on to on the facade of the building.
Just like that I changed tactics yet once again and went back towards the door, still having the five tranquilizers ready in my paws. Then I just waited for them.
One of them knocked at the door finally, yelling "Room Service" through the wood.
"I doubt it" I sighed back loudly.
"Mr. Wilde?" the voice asked, "There has been an error with the booking of your room and we need your signat…"
"You´ll get my signature into your face sooner than you want to" I interrupted him, "Come on, cut the bullshit. You little bitches are here to abduct me, make it easier yourself and confess it already."
The long silence on the other side of the door told me everything I needed to know.
"Told you he would notice…" somebody behind the door muttered lowly.
"Of course I noticed" I told them loudly, "How much did you pay him by the way?"
"Paid who what?" the voice retorted.
"The jaguar service boy who thought he could outsmart a fox."
That was followed another awkward silence.
"The fuck?"
"Come on, who cares about that little fucker?" the other voice told his mate, "He´s just trying to win time! Break open the fucking door already!"
Just a second later I heard the first crack they got into the wood by checking against it with their whole body weight.
"Have you guys not learned anything?" I asked them back.
I didn´t get a reply to that, they just tried smashing in the door with more and more force.
"Just letting you know, I´m just in boxers right now" I told them, "Better close your eyes when you come in. Oh, and be careful, maybe I´ve spilled some oil on the floor…"
Not being sure if any of that bullshit would work, I quickly tried to think of another distraction and got an Idea just in time. I went into the bathroom quickly, turned on the tap water and the shower on its maximum setting and went back behind the door of the hotel room again.
I was just in time before they finally had broken through the door.
The next thing I didn´t expect though. They didn´t just rush the room like I was hoping for, but they rather sprayed lots and lots of chloroform-gas into it. I quickly took a deep breath of clean air and held it for as long as possible. With my left paw I covered my nose and with the right one I still held onto the tranquilizers.
They waited for almost half a minute until they went in finally. I was still holding my breath and my eyes began tearing up because of the sting from the chloroform when they began searching for me.
"Search in the bathroom!" one of them yelled as he heard the water from the shower. Two of them immediately followed him and a big polar bear went into the room itself and began looking under the beds.
This was my only chance. I went around the door I was hiding behind and tried leaving the room as quickly as possible.
"There he is!" the polar bear who still had waited in the hallway yelled, just as I dodged the swing he took at me. I ran a few more steps away and finally took a breath of air again.
The polar bear now grabbed a big pressurized gas tank with his paws and sprayed another huge wave of chloroform into my direction. Considering that he nearly had pushed me all the way into the dead end behind me, I threw all the darts I had at him at once, hoping that at least one of them would pierce through his armor or hit a spot that wasn´t covered. Although quite a few darts hit him, he still remained conscious. The darts just barely stuck to his clothing and fell off of it pretty soon afterwards. I would have needed a gun for this to work.
Now I really was out of options. The entire hallway was filled with the gas in the meanwhile, all my enemies had gas masks and gathered right before me now and I was in a dead end. The chance of getting past them without being able to breathe was not very high.
"At least I would be going down fighting" I thought to myself, as I started running towards them with everything I got left.
"You little pussies" I yelled at them while attacking, feeling the gas filling my lungs already. The last thing I remembered were the wolf and the sound of his nose breaking when he got my feet smashed into his face. We both ended up on the floor very uncomfortably and then everything went dark around me.
POV Rico
I should have listened to him. Since they noticed me at the train station, I was just as stuck as we had been before. People were screaming and holding things into my face, made pictures of me with their phones and it just wasn´t stopping, no matter what I tried. I asked, nearly begged them to calm down a little, but it just didn't matter. They still wanted their autographs and their photos. It just drove me to the edge of my sanity once again.
I realized that I simply had to accept all the news he told me tonight. Running away from them wouldn't help me either. And If anything, I wouldn´t solve the problem with Anita tonight, that was for sure.
I noticed that a little too late, sadly.
But nevertheless, instead of waiting another 15 Minutes for that stupid train to arrive, I decided to get back to the hotel as quickly as possible.
By the time I finally got back through the double doors at the entrance of the lobby, not even the concierge was here anymore. It was quarter past three in the morning already.
I didn´t expect Nick to be awake at this point, but he would understand if I said sorry for waking him up again.
When I arrived on the 6th floor with the elevator, things already were a little odd though.
There was a biting, almost intoxicating smell in the entire hallway which I was pretty sure hadn´t been there before. I immediately had a bad foreboding about this, but I went on my way towards our room anyway.
On my way I passed an open door, and when I took a quick look, I saw two otter-ladies standing in the doorframe who both looked scared to death for some reason. Like they just had witnessed something really terrifying. Just out of interest I stopped for a second. They noticed my curiosity, but none of them was able to tell me anything as it seemed.
Not wanting to ask stupidly, I went on my way further down the hallway, until I finally arrived at room 621, only to find the door widely opened and everything around the lock completely destroyed.
Nick was nowhere to be found. First I thought he was in the bathroom, because the water of the Shower and the tap were running at full blast, but he was nowhere to be seen. Just his black suit was still on the chair he laid it on earlier.
That must have something to do with the awful, stinging smell in here. Then it hit me. It could be chloroform. They had told me about this before, and about the stinging smell, when they got abducted for the first time. That must have happened once again. And I wasn´t here to help him.
"Fuck" I growled lowly, "This can´t be true right now…"
Now I really was curious what those two otter ladies had seen that shocked them so much, maybe they could confirm what I was thinking. I was pretty sure it had something to do with Nick.
When I arrived at their door once again, it was still opened. I plainly asked them if they had seen anything.
"T-there were…" one of them stuttered, "There were two wolves and two polar bears with gas masks…and…"
"Yeah…" her friends agreed, "They were fighting with Nick Wilde! F-first in their room and then in the hallway. They sprayed this stinging gas everywhere and then he got unconscious from it."
"Shit" I cursed, "I knew it…"
"A-are you…are you Rico Ca-"
"Yes."
"R-really?"
"No" I sighed cynically, "…I´m his twin brother who also hangs out with him all the time…Of course it´s fucking me!"
"W-we had been at the concert! It was gr-"
"Have you seen where they brought him?" I interrupted.
"Who?"
"Nick! Where did they bring him?"
"I…I don't know…they brought him to the elevators. We were too scared to follow them…I-I´m sorry…"
That was everything I needed to hear. I was on my way back to our hotel room already and just left them standing in their doorframe. They were no real help to me.
"How could those freaking people witness an abduction and still have the nerve to start talking about a fucking concert?" I asked myself, "What the fuck is wrong with them?"
When I arrived in the room, I grabbed myself the white paper bag that contained the hopelessly overpriced hotel bar snacks, emptied it on the floor and put the parts of Nick´s fancy black suit into it. While I did that, a few other items fell out of its pockets and ended up on the floor by accident. Among all that were a few tranquilizer darts in a transparent plastic casing, a set of handcuffs and some car-keys. Some very fancy car-keys.
That was my way out of here. At least for now. I hadn't even been drinking any alcohol tonight. I´d drive home myself.
I took another look across the room and noticed Nick´s wallet, keychain and phone laying on one of the cupboards. I put it all into the paper bag as well, took another look around if I hadn´t forgotten anything, and then I went on my way again.
"Mr. Capaldi!" I got stopped in the hallway, again from the two otter ladies, "C-could we get an autograph from you please?"
I just stopped in my tracks and looked at them in pure disbelief.
"Are you freaking serious?" I enraged myself, louder than I initially intended to, "You´ve just witnessed a freaking abduction! Do you think I´m in any mood for that bullshit right now?"
"I was just asking nicely…" she told me in a sore tone, "No need to get harsh!"
"Listen" I sighed, "I´m sorry for being harsh, but I just got confessed something quite life-changing from a good friend of mine, and then he got freaking abducted by a criminal clan. I can´t even imagine what they´re going to do to him. Excuse me, okay, but I don't have the time, nor the nerves for that right now."
Then I suddenly heard voices and hasty steps coming from the elevators, "…quick! I just saw him entering the lobby again just 3 minutes ago!" one of them said before coming around the corner.
That was everything I needed to hear. They were after me as well now. Without hesitating for another second, I pushed the two otter ladies into their room gently and followed them quickly, before closing the door behind me as smoothly as possible. Then I signalized them to keep their mouths shuts.
"Where are the others?" I heard one of them whispering in the hallway while passing our room.
"They´re watching Wilde in the truck. We don´t want any bad surprises once again. Come on, we got the easy part here, that other guy is famous for singing, not for fighting."
The two otter ladies kept on staring at me with big eyes, but I still was trying to listen what was going on in the hallway. They walked right past the door I was hiding behind, so they hadn´t seen me, luckily.
I just took a deep relaxed breath of relief.
"Want to release some stress, sweetheart?" the otter-lady with the black skirt and red top combination asked me lowly and with a dirty little grin, "Maybe that´ll calm you down a little."
I couldn´t believe how quickly she had completely changed her attitude once again.
"What?" I asked, again in total disbelief, "Are you freaking serious?"
"We´ll be quiet, I promise!" she grinned while coming closer towards me slowly.
I still couldn´t believe a single thing that happened right now. I wasn´t even stopping her in the first moment. I didn´t even know why, but I didn´t move a muscle when she began unbuttoning my shirt with.
"Hey!" I finally found my voice again, pushing her paws away gently, "Do you mind?"
"What´s the matter?" she asked, "Don´t worry, you get that for free…"
"I don´t…"
"I´m good with my tongue, trust me! I´ll suck you off in a way you´ll remember…"
"I don't want you to suck me off!" I told her, "No matter if free or not!"
"Oh what now?" she asked teasingly, "Are you shy of showing it? Don´t worry, we won´t tell a single thing to anyone!" she ensured while continuing where I stopped her earlier.
"Hey! I said no!" I told her a little more distinctively, "Can you please respect my privacy?"
Tonight really was a test for my nerves. I really was just about to turn completely mad at this point. I was not quite sure if I´d rather get abducted as well at this point or stay in this room with those very pushy otter-ladies.
Once again I tried to find out what was going on in the hallway, so I got a little closer to the door once again and just listened.
"Where the fuck did he go?" one of them asked, just coming back down the hallway as it seemed.
"Don't know. But he can´t have left the building! Come on, maybe the others caught him already!"
I just sighed in relief once again. It wasn´t the wrong decision to hide in here in the end. They would have caught me without a doubt, if I had tried to escape the hotel as quickly as possible. But now I probably was trapped here for a little while.
I rubbed my hurting head with my paws and my vision got blurry for a moment. This was all just too much for one night. My thoughts were tumbling. Now I finally realized what it really meant that they caught Nick. They would torture him, even worse, they might threaten us to kill him. This could probably turn into an even bigger disaster than the bomb in the ZPD city-centre.
But who was I to stop all this right now? I needed help for this. I had to tell Judy about this as soon as possible, but she was on the other end of the city and probably asleep at this time of night.
I reached for my phone nevertheless. Then I remembered I had forgotten it in the safe of the backstage area, because we had no time when Ivonne called Nick for help and we all rushed out to help her.
Then I remembered that I still had Nick´s phone with me, so I searched for it in the paper bag I still held in my left paw.
It still had a few percent of charge left in his batteries, but Nick had a password-encoded lock-screen which I couldn´t get around. I tried a few of the most obvious things I could think of, such as "judy", "carrots" or "cottontail", but they were all wrong and then it told me to "try again in five minutes".
It was hopeless. It seemed like it wouldn´t be that easy to break into the phone of one of the best detectives ever to be alive.
I put the paper-bag on the floor with a little sigh and tossed Nick´s phone right on top of it afterwards. "Goddammit" I cursed then.
"Are…are you alright?" the otter-lady with the jeans and purple top asked me lowly.
"Oh, I don't fucking know" I sighed, "But I´m trapped here for tonight anyway."
"You mean in here?" she asked while pointing at the floor.
I sighed once again, then I nodded. "Yes. Can I please stay in your room for tonight? They´re searching for me as well, and it´s no help to anybody when I get abducted as well."
I pretty much knew what would be coming next, but I also didn't really care anymore. Now that everything else was fucked up as well, this wouldn´t matter anymore either. Does anything still matter at this point?
"Oh, you could stay for the night, Mr. Capaldi" the one in the black skirt told me with a dirty little grin, "On one condition…"
I just nodded with a little sigh, not even thinking about it twice. "Are you aware of what you´re getting yourself into?" I asked while raising an eyebrow.
"Are you suggestion you´re just as much of a beast in bed as you are on the stage?"
"Yes."
Now she was the one who raised an eyebrow.
"That's a lot of self-confidence" her friend chuckled, "Isn´t it?"
"I just gave you a friendly warning" I replied dryly.
"Damn…" she grinned, "That almost sounds like you could satisfy the both of us…"
"I could fuck the both of you to bits if I wanted to" I told them, and I was a little surprised of myself as well in that moment.
But I really was all out of fucks to give at this point.
"Oh yeah?" she asked teasingly, "I would like you to prove that to me, Mister."
"We´ll see…" I told her with a little smirk, before I went into their bathroom without asking for their permission. I wanted to take a shower ever since Nick was done with his, and now I finally got the chance to. I got out of my clothing which I wore the whole day already and tossed it behind me carefully. Just by accident, it landed right on the face of the otter that followed me, but instead of complaining she rather took a closer look at it proudly.
"Is that…is that the same shirt you wore while the show today?" she asked while I was getting into the cabin of the shower.
"Yes, it is."
"God he is so hot as well" her friend giggled lowly.
"As well?" I asked curiously, before I turned on the water.
"We met Officer Wilde in the hallway, just a few minutes before he got abducted…"
"Oh…" I sighed understandingly, "…makes sense…"
"Have you actually seen him completely naked once? I mean having sex…"
"Yes."
"And did he tell the truth about his…"
"Yes."
"What, really?" the other one asked with a shocked giggle.
"Yes."
"And he´s really doing it with…"
"Yes."
"And it really was their idea to make that music video?"
"Yes."
"And Judy really stole your shirts…"
"Yes."
I washed the last bit of shampoo out of my fur and turned off the water. They watched me very closely when I got back out of the shower cabin and couldn´t wipe their horny little grins of their faces after that either.
"Damn" the one with the black skirt giggled, "What sexy creatures those foxes are…"
"And we have him all for ourselves tonight…" her friend agreed.
"So…" I asked them, now much calmer after that cold shower, "…are you guys still serious about this?"
"Why are you asking that like you´re going to kill us?" she asked with another dirty grin.
"I´m not going to kill you" I told her dryly, "…but I´m sure as fuck gonna finish it if you start it now. And you´ll be begging for mercy then, little otter. That´s why I´m warning you."
Then I grabbed myself one of the fresh towels and dried my fur as good as possible.
"Wow" she grinned, "And I always thought you were the romantic type…"
"I am, normally" I told her, throwing the towel in the corner carelessly, "But tonight nothing is normal, so I might not be myself tonight either."
Somebody interested in a chapter 61.9?
~furr