2016, September 3

Zootopia General

9:52 AM

Tim couldn't remember much of what happened yesterday. All he remembered was that his parents were fighting in the car, then everything went black. As starts to come to, the first thing he notices is that he wasn't alone in the room. In fact, it sounded like 2 other mammals were in the room, because he could hear them talking. The voices were fazed out, so Tim could barely hear what they were saying.

"...awake yet?", Tim heard a male voice say.

"...-ot yet." a feminine voice responded.

"...-ong... think he's g-...out for?"

Silence.

"...all my fault. If I hadn't...his parents wouldn't-"

"Hey!...-ing you could done."

"My parents?", Tim thought to himself, "What happened to my parents!?"

Tim wanted to... -needed to get up. With all the strength he could muster, he willed his body to brush off his fatigue and get up. As he did so, he started to regain feeling in his body parts, some of it was pain, but he bared it as he opened his eyes.

"Hey, he's coming to!", the male stranger pointed out.

Tim grunted slightly from the pain in his body and from the bright light shinning in his sensitive eyes. They slowly adjusted enough to get his bearings. Right now, he was sitting-up on a bed with white sheets with Tim's arms proving him upright. He was wearing a teal gown with wires, that lead to monitors, on his chest, what Tim assumed was an iv tube (since it was attached to a bag with clear fluids inside) in his wrist, and his underwear. There were also bandages in various places that wrapped around his body. The room he was in was teal-ish white, almost like... a doctors office.

"Were we in an accident?", Tim thought. If he and his parents were in an accident, it would explain why he blacked out and woke up with these bandages...

...he wondered if his mom survived.

The female voice he heard from before, spoke to him.

"Hey carrot cake.", she said in a soft, sing-song tone.

Tim looked to his right and saw who was talking to him.

There was a bunny sitting on the edge of the bed adjacent to him. She wore an unbuttoned pink flannel with a grey shirt underneath. She also had a grey pair of pants on. Her most defining feature was her lavender-colored eyes. Tim thought she was pretty. "Uh -Hey,uh...," Tim started still waking up, "w-what's going on? Who are you?"

"My name is Judy Hopps. You may have heard of me before on the news," the bunny responded. "As for what's going on? Well, I'll let Nick take take over."

A fox then suddenly appeared from behind the bunny, and walked over to the left side of Tim's bed. The fox clearly wasn't his dad, since this one has a leaner build than his father. He wore a green pawaiian shirt with an orange tie and had a pair of khaki shorts. The strange fox's smirk would have almost made Tim think he was a international spy or something. "Well then Mr... 'Zoloman' was it?", the fox named Nick asked, "We have good news and bad news. The good news is that you get to check out of here in no time! The bad news though..."

He suddenly became serious. Tim was starting to worry.

"... is that your pregnant."

Tims expression of worry swiftly changed into one of confusion.

Judy glared at Nick as he laughed like a joker.

"Hahaha! The look on his f-ahaha!" the fox managed to say before having another laughing fit.

Tim started to join Nick in laughter.

"Hahaheh! C'mon miss Hopps," Tim defended Nick, "I thought it was kind of funny."

Judy just gagged on her words for a second before huffing and face palming herself.

Nick was now out of breath from laughing so hard, so he took a moment or 2 to fully calm down.

"In all seriousness though," Nick said in a calm manor, "you'll make a full recovery by Monday."

"That's great!", Tim commented. Then he remembered his parents were in the accident too and not just him. "Wait, what about my parents? Are they ok?"

The bunny and fox looked at each other with grim expressions before looking back at Tim.

"Want me to say it Judy?", Nick asked delicately.

Judy's ears went up for a second before they relaxed.

"No," Judy replied to Nick, "I'll say it."

"Say what?", Tim said. The way their tones sounded when he brought up the question about his parents safety was a worrying one.

"Tim," Judy began with watery eyes, "the truth is is that me and Nick were the first officers on the scene of the accident. We were in the middle of chasing some bad guys in a car chase when it happened. These bad guys were the ones who crashed into your car. I went to check to see if they were ok, but... but... *sniffle*"

Tim was more confused than sad. If his parents were killed, then why did she bother coming all the way here just to say that?

"So she was the first one on the scene, but why is she here?" Tim thought.

...

"There ware tears in her eyes. This isn't some apology that's scripted by the ZPD. She's genuinely sorry! If it was official ZPD business, then they should at least be in uniform, no? It must have been eating her from the inside-out, so that's why she's here.", Tim realized in his head.

Tim snapped back to reality as when he realized that Judy was on her side, her head on his lap facing him, crying.

"*sniffle*, I really am just a d-dumb bunny! *sob*," she sobbed out.

"She doesn't need to suffer this," Tim thought, his eyes becoming watery too.

Tim picked up Judy by her sides.

"T-Tim, wha-"

Judy couldn't finish her sentence when Tim hugged her. After a couple seconds, Judy, hesitantly hugged the younger fox back. After she hugged back, all her boxed-up feelings just came pouring out. They stayed like this for what felt like hours. Judy crying up a waterfall that made Tim's shoulder wet, while he just gently rubbed her back.

Eventually, Judy's sobs receded into sniffles.

"I don't understand *sniffle*," she croaked out.

Tim's voice was unsteady as he spoke.

"You obviously show a lot of compassion for how I ended up in this situation. I can respect that. You were just doing your job. There was no way You could have known that those bad guys would crash. It's not your fault, so please stop crying," Tim implored as a stray tear ran down his cheek.

"Ok. *sniffle* Ok..."