Just to let you all know-I'm still updating the chapters-AS OF NOW They have not all been fixed until chapter 12 says so.

It is almost midnight, as I'm writing this, got off of work, not too long ago-getting tired-so again I'm replacing each chapter as I finish.

I also did some research on foxes and kits (baby foxes) and turns out they can have a litter of 4-6, (look them up! They are so adorable! They look like puppies!) and get this! The mother fox takes care of the kits while the dad goes and hunts for food and protects them. If the mother were to die at any time, the dad takes over, and is really overprotective!

Overwhelmed

The two ZPD officers were only 20 mins away from the coroner that Thursday. Nick finally calmed down after the first 10 mins of driving, but the 2 mammals haven't spoken a word the whole way. Nick looked out his window completely still. He didn't dare say anything, mainly because of how stupid he felt. He always tried so hard to keep his true feelings hidden. He takes a quick glance at Judy, only to see her concentrate on her driving, looking stright ahead and taking glances in the mirror every now and then.

By habit, he went to grab his tie, to loosen and adjust it; It was something that helped calm him down, only to find empty and disappointed paws. He looked down and noticed that his shirt was still unbuttoned, so one by one, he slowly put his shirt back together.

"So, uh…" Nick coughed a little to clear his throat, his eyes were half-open, back to his cool manner, tried to relax himself a bit. "Bogo told me that I could have the rest of the week off, to sort this all out. He said to come back on Monday and discuss any other future plans." That gives him four days. Judy glanced at Nick, who kept undoing his shirt only to put it together again. It was silent for almost a minute before the fox spoke. "sorry…" He whispered.

Judy looked at him in disbelief, "For what?"

"I shouldn't have acted that way. It was totally out of line and completely-"

"Appropriate." She reassured, Nick stopped messing with his buttons (which were all in the wrong holes anyway) and looked at Judy in disgust. "Nick. It's perfectly fine how you acted!"

"No," he scoffed

"And why not?"

"Because," he shrugged, trying to look calm and laid back, "us foxes aren't supposed to be as emotional as you bunnies." Without moving his head, he looks at Judy before cracking a grin on his face.

The bunny couldn't help but smile, it was nice to see her friend take a break from all the crazy things that happened today. "Shut up." She then playfully punched her partner on the shoulder.

"OWW!" He whined dramatically, "See! That's what I'm talking about! You need to learn to brush things off when they get to you." He said sarcastically while rubbing his shoulder. Judy sighed as her ears started to relax. Nick noticed that her ears lowered and grew concerned. "Did I say something wrong?"

"Not that I like to SEE you hurt, but… Nick, it's not good for you to keep things bottled up!" The canine quickly turned away. "Look, I know it's hard, and I know you don't like people to see you vulnerable, but that's part of being a mammal. I-"

"We're getting close." He interrupted with his voice heavy and serious. He went to pull out his phone, to look for directions, only to realize it wasn't with him. He quickly patted himself before groaning "Great. Just great. I left my phone on my bed." He slapped his face with his left paw in frustration and slowly pulled it down.

"Do you have your wallet?" Judy asked, only to be answered by a muffled growl. 'I'm guessing that's a no." she thought.

"Wait!" Nick's ears perked up and quickly he started looking around the car, "Please please please please please…" he repeated over and over again. With a slam, he closed the glove box before looking underneath the seat of the car. His paw got ahold of something thin and smooth. "YES!" he happily pulled out a small card. Judy raised her eyebrow before asking,

"Why is your ID in the car and not in your wallet?" Especially the ZPD cop car of all places.

"Doesn't matter. The only important thing is that I have it." Judy was going to ask again before stopping herself and not pushing her luck.

"Here," she pulled out her phone and handed it over to him, "You can use mine." With that, he put in where they needed to go.

Now that they were in Yelp City, they could really see why it was one of the most dangerous places to be in. Everywhere you looked you could see all the damage from vandalism to theft and everything in between. Every animal they saw had their heads down and rushed to get to their designation without any trouble. Neither one of them could think of a reason why any animal would want to stay there other than the fact that they had nowhere else to go. "TURN RIGHT ON L STREET." Zoogle instructed on her Ipaw. Judy could now see exactly why Nick was so worked up, that and the fact that this was known for being the number 1 crime city.

After a few more instructions, they finally made it to their stop. They walked in only to see it packed with so many different types of animals. In all truths, they were shocked, even at a town like this. Nevertheless, they got in line with the others and impatiently waited their turn. Nick looked around and started to get claustrophobic with all the commotion around him. Mammals from all shapes and sizes were making so many noises that he didn't know even existed. Not too far from them, they would hear a grizzly screaming "NO!" while falling to her knees. 2 wolves came to her and helped her to her feet "LET GO OF ME." She snarled.

Nick turned away not wanting to see anymore. His heart started to speed up, ears flattening and eyes wide, but he tried his best to keep cool and calm. He reached for his empty neck in disappointment, before playing with his buttons. All this for a brother he didn't know he even had, until about 3 hours ago. He swallows nervously while thinking about that young kit. "I have to do this.' He thought, "I have to do this for her…' Suddenly he felt something grab his arm and started to squeeze, he jumped in surprise making a yelping sound before realizing that it was from Judy. She looked up and smiled warmly at him as if to say that everything was going to be ok and that she was going to be by his side the whole time. Faster than they thought it would be, they reached a desk, waiting for further instructions.

"NEXT." A Hippo yelled.

"Ummmm Hi-" Nick nervously said as he walked up to the counter.

"Name."

"Wilde, uh, Nick Wilde." The hippo started to type things into his computer.

"Your late." He spitted without looking away from his computer.

"Ya, well we live in Zootopia and-"

"The fox is here Ms. Jungle." The large animal sighed into his walky-talky.

"Now?"

"Yes."

"Ok fine!" the stressed famine said over the device, "Just, let me finish with the Purrtersons and I'll be over in a few minutes."

"Take a seat on your right, NEXT." He bellowed.

"Wait!" Nick plead, "I was told that my niece is here somewhere, where is she!"

"Take a seat on your right sir." The hippo hissed, the look that he gave Wilde was something you didn't want to argue with. "NEXT."

"Come on Nick." Judy took his paw and led him to the waiting area, only to find not one seat left to sit on. As they stood, Nick fiddled with his shirt again until they heard doors opening. They saw a family of cheetahs being extorted by a lioness. She was wearing an all-black business suit, with a shirt and narrow glasses.

"I am so sorry." The large cat said without any empathy in her voice, before looking around and found what she was looking for. "YOU!" she pointed at Nick with anger. "Fox. Get over here. Now." Nick looked at Judy before they both rushed to the cat. "Your lat-" She looked over at Judy who was following right beside Nick, "Who is this?" She pointed her finger at the grey rabbit, right before Nick could answer she moved her paw up at his face to signal him to stop. "Don't care. Don't have time. Follow me, quickly please."

"Excuse me? Jungle was it? Ya, ummm, where can I find my n-" Nick staggered.

"Right now I need you to confirm the identity of your brother." Ms. Jungle interrupted.

"Whoa, whoa, confirm?" Nick's nervousness burned away and was replaced with anger, "You guys told me it was a match from a DNA sample." Quite frankly he was getting fed up with how he was getting treated here.

"It is by law, in this city that a family member must look upon their love one." Her voice was soaked with venom and boredom as if she has said this 1,000 times before. "Too many regrets of family members not taking the chance to look them over, and way too many sued." They reached a very large steel door, before entering. Judy gasped at the number of bodies they saw in one room, in and out went the families of their loved ones. "Right this way Mr. Wilde." Soon they made it to their destination. The lioness went to a white body bag and started to unzip it.

Nick looked in horror as he saw a spitting image of himself, dead right before his eyes. His brother's eyes were closed, there was a nasty gash on his forehead, and a stream of blood coming out of his opened mouth. Other than that he looked fine. It was as if Nick has died and his own spirit was looking at his own body. "Would you like to see your sister-in-law?" Ms. Jungle asked, Nick simply closed his mouth frowned while swallowing, and shook his head. Honestly, he wanted to look away, but for some reason, he couldn't. Judy quickly turned to the lioness

"Excuse me, but can we talk in private?" She whispered. Ms. Jungle glared at Judy, but before she could answer Judy spoke again. "At least so he has time to be alone?"

"Fine. But we really must hurry, there are a lot of other animals I need to attend to." After moving out of hearing range for a shocked fox, Judy gives the lioness a piece of her mind.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" the young rabbit hissed, "There are animals here who just lost a part of their family, and you act as if it's no big deal. You can't just rush these things and play with others' emotions."

"Miss,"

"Hopps."

"Hopps." Ms. Jungle said coldly, "I am truly sorry if you feel this way, but look around. As you can see we are completely busy, we don't have time to baby every single mammal. If we do, we wouldn't get through half of everyone here. Yelp City is one of the largest populated cities around, not to mention, one of the most dangerous. Which means a lot of deaths to keep track of. This is how it looks every day if not worst, so I think I know what I'm doing." She looked at Judy's outfit, "If you don't like how things are run around here, then maybe you should do a better job by keeping their loved ones from checking into this corner. Officer." Judy's ears lowered, even though none of this was from her, she still felt guilty. She wanted to be a cop to make a better place, but from the looks of it, all she saw was death and sorrow. "Now if you excuse me. I have a job to do." she walked to Nick, "If you could Mr. Wilde, we have papers to sign." Without giving him a chance to say any 'goodbyes' she quickly zipped up the body bag, covering the dead fox once more.

"You ok?" Judy grabbed Nick's arm and squeezed it a little as they walked by. The fox only looked forward wide-eyed, and ears laying over his head with a frown. It broke her heart. Later in Ms. Jungle's office, she explained as much as she could off of what the babysitter said.

"Apparently John and Alice had to do something very argent. They didn't tell the babysitter what was going on, but needed someone to look over Lynn." Nick's ears perked it was the first time he heard his little niece's name. "But after many attempts by the babysitter, she called her parents, who contacted the police. Of course, they were of no help." She looked straight into the fox's eyes as if to say it was all his fault. Both cops could tell she wasn't a fan of the police.

"How did they find the bodies then?" Nick cleared his throat.

"A hitchhiker saw the car, on the side of the road. That's really all that I know." The big cat started to pull out her paperwork. "Now then, from the looks of it Wilde," she looked up and down at the state he was in. "I hope you brought an ID."

"Yes!" The fox said a little too excitedly. He grinned ear to ear all proud of himself as he pulled it out of his PJ's. Ms. Jungle raised an eyebrow before getting down to business. After all the legal paperwork and questions, they finally were able to talk about the arrangements of the Kit.

"So Nick Wilde," The lioness looked through her notes. "I understand that you're a well-respected cop." Nick nodded, "What are your living arrangements? We will need to know; we will be having the social services check in on you to make sure that you are fit to take care of this pup." If it wasn't for his red fur covering his whole body, you would see him turn completely white. How was he going cover up the shit hole that he's been living in for years? before he could explain, Judy responded instead.

"Actually, he's moving in with me." Nick looked at her with disbelief. Ms. Jungle looked up.

"And why is that? Is something wong-"

"No no, nothing wrong!" Judy said a little too urgent. "We've been together for almost a year now, and we have been discussing living arrangements. And well after the events that happened today, WE" she looked at the wide-eyed fox "thought it would be now or never." Nick couldn't believe that his best friend lied, a cop I mind you, Judy, just for him. Of course, they really went a couple. They were just really close friends… Right? The lioness just looked at them in disbelief.

"Really. You two? Well, I've seen worst. An elephant had to confirm his mouse partner a few months back. That was fun." Her voice was full of annoyment. Before the cat could question them anymore the same hippo came on the walky-talky explaining someone else is here that she needs to deal with. "Give me 2 minutes!" She then quickly scribbled in her last notes and gathered up her papers. "Follow me." Nick and Judy quickly got up and followed the big cat out the door and through the hallway. "PLEASE tell me that one of you has ANY experience with Kits."

"Actually I have over 300 siblings," Her family was still growing by the way "granted that they are no foxes but-"

"Splendid." Ms. Jungle said unimpressed. They reached a door, they were instructed to stay outside while Ms. Jungle quickly walked inside. A few seconds later she came back with what looked like a bunched-up blanket. She quickly shoved it into the poor fox's arms while hurrying them to the exit and telling them other important things. "Again," she said finishing up the whole conversation, "Social Services should contact you on Monday about your bundle of joy. Congratulations, and so sorry about your loss." Once out in the waiting room, she looked around and found her next subject.

Nick and Judy were both shocked as they tried to possess everything all at once. Nick quickly snapped out of it when he felt something very tiny move from within the blanket.

Since one of the directors said Nick was based on Robin Hood, I maid his brother John and his wife Alice for the same reason :)

But PLEASE! If you have any ideas or want to story to turn out some other way please tell me! It helps me think and get ideas flowing, I can't say I will use ALL of it, but I'll try to fit it in with whatever I'm working with.