"Brr!" Judy skipped lightly down one of Tundratown's streets, with Nick to her left. Nick was wearing a faux fur-lined coat, and she had on a sweater and scarf. "One of the many things I love about Zootopia is if you just feel like going for a chilly walk whenever you want, you can!"

"You'd think the novelty would wear off after awhile, but it never really does," Nick nodded. He snickered to himself as they both walked past a particular snowy field.

This didn't escape Judy's notice, and she followed his gaze into the field. "Oh for..." Judy wandered into the snowy field, feeling the icy matter give way pleasantly under her feet. "It was right here, wasn't it?"

"Yup, yup, yup," Nick droned wistfully, walking out into the field with her. "This place is usually never occupied, so it was perfect for my little Pawpsicle-making plot. Ah, the memories."

"It's not exactly something to be proud of," Judy made a derisive huff. "Any moron could do what you did."

"Not just any moron," Nick claimed. "It took dedication, charm, confidence." Nick placed his hand over his heart. "I was proud to be a hustler. Well, maybe not proud, but you get the idea. It was my livelihood, after all, and I didn't really hurt anyone along the way, so no harm no foul, am I right?" He looked to his right and there was no bunny where he expected there to be. "Uh, Carrots?" Nick looked where she should have been, turning slightly and wondering if she fell into a snow bank. "Ju-"

Pff!

Nick suddenly felt an icy sting on the left side of his muzzle and, caught off guard, he tumbled forward to his hands and knees.

"Dee...?" Nick finished.

Judy laughed raucously. "Ha ha! In your face! Literally!" Nick rubbed his cheek and snout of all of the snow on it. "That's for taking advantage of all of those innocent mammals over the years."

"Well, I wouldn't exactly call you innocent," Nick grumbled with a smirk.

"Aw, poor foxy kit fall down?" Judy mocked with her hands behind her back, going over to Nick and bending forward. "Still think I throw like a bunny?"

"No, you've definitely gotten better," Nick shook his head. "I feel like I'm bleeding."

"Oh, you baby!" Judy sucked her teeth, bending down near his muzzle and checking it out. "You are not bleed-EEE!"

Nick grabbed the front of her sweater and yanked forward, and the bunny splatted down face first into the snow.

"Gotcha," Nick grinned.

"NICK!" Judy pushed up from the snow and Nick was delighted at her fury. "I'm going to destroy you!"

"Well, you'd have to catch me, first," Nick saluted, taking off in one direction and kicking up more snow onto Judy as he fled, who shielded herself from the indirect assault.

"This is war, Nicholas!" Judy thrust her finger at his retreating form, bending her head down just a second to craft a snowball. "I will serve up your snowy downfall!" Judy sprang up and forward, snowball at the ready, but Nick was already out of sight. "What the? That fox can really move when he wants to." Judy's brow furrowed and she grinned. "But he can't hide where he's going."

Excitedly, Judy followed his footprints through the snow. Amateur, she thought to herself. He didn't even bother hiding them when he was going around the corner of a building! He couldn't have gotten too far; all she needed to do was round the building.

"Blaapth!" Judy sputtered as she took the corner sharply and ran directly into a snowball Nick was holding out specifically for this purpose. She ran into it so hard she fell onto her back, her own snowball uselessly discarded.

"Aw, Carrots!" Nick mocked, looking over her. "I was saving that to throw at you."

"For fox's sake!" Judy fumed, springing back up with both of her fists full of snow. She wildly slashed both arms at Nick, flinging snow haphazardly at him, which he managed to dodge while chuckling.

"Control you must learn, young Skyhopper," Nick teased in a slightly affected voice.

"I'll show you 'control'!" Judy had a sneering grin, and she crouched down to scoop up a larger snowball that took both of her hands to hold. "I'll control this snowball into your-" When Judy looked up, Nick was gone again. "What!? Seriously!?" Judy carefully and slowly snuck around the corner, giving a wide berth to avoid any surprises, but this time the fox footprints vanished into scuffed snow. "Nuts! He's learning... clever boy." For a few minutes, Judy crept around the building, looking for Nick. "Nick...! Don't keep a girl waiting...!" She cradled her oversized snowball in the crook of her arm and carefully etched "Nick" into the snow with the small claw of her forefinger. "I've got a big snowball here that has your name on it! Really I do...!"

There was still silence. Judy sniffed the air, but she couldn't tell where his scent had gone. "C'mon, Nick, where'd you-?" Judy was interrupted by a cold feeling splatting on her ears and the top of her head. Judy looked up and Nick waved to her from atop the building. "Nick...!"

"Pardon me, Miss," Nick called out. "I seem to have dropped my snowball. Would you happen to know where it went?"

Livid, Judy ground her teeth, but managed a pleasant smile up at him. "Why, sure! In fact, this one I have in my hands has your name on it, see?" Judy showed it to him.

"So it does! I'll be right down!" Nick leaped onto the water drain and slid down it, as Judy had seen him do before. She was perilously close to it, though.

"Ack!" Judy quickly scampered away from the drain and just barely missed Nick swiping at her large snowball. "Ruh!" She levied her weight to her advantage and turned around, flinging the large snowball at Nick, where it mostly hit his chest and neck.

"Oof!" Nick dramatically clutched at his shoulder. "You got me. You've given me... the cold shoulder!"

"Nick!" Judy clenched her fists up near her face and hopped up and down twice. "Fight me! C'mon! Mammal to mammal!" She scooped up another snowball.

"As you wish," Nick grinned, following suit. "I'm glad you're so fired up; from that first prank I was afraid you were going to give me a chilly reception."

Snowballs started flying through the air, some hitting, but the majority missing the agile animals.

"And knock it off with the ice puns!" Judy flung a wild throw at him, but missed. "Ice puns are the lowest of the low; the easiest jokes to make!"

"You'd say they're the absolute zero, then?" Nick lobbed a throw at her. Judy growled at him and was almost distracted enough to get hit by the slow shot, but she dodged at the last second.

"I'm going to ice you if you keep this up!" Judy tossed two snowballs stylishly at Nick, both of them finding their mark.

"Oof!" Nick chuckled. "I can stop if you really want, but it's snow problem to keep going, too." Nick snapped a snowball out of the side of his hand and caught Judy in the stomach with it.

"Rgh!" Judy took a step back. "If you don't cut out the smart remarks, I'm going to... to..."

"You can't think of one, can you?" Nick made a few "tsk" sounds. "That just leaves me cold."

"Nick...!" Judy hunched over and tried to violently scoop up a double handful of snow to throw at Nick, but that ended up missing as well. Their snowball fight continued for a good ten minutes before...

"WILDE! HOPPS!"

Nick and Judy both froze, snowballs dropping from their dominant hands and their ears both dropped as well. That was Chief Bogo's voice. Bogo, wearing a smart-looking collared jacket, stormed over to the two.

"Uh, hey Chief!" Judy gave a large, somewhat guilty grin. Though she didn't quite know why she felt guilty, as the two were off duty. He just sort of had that effect.

"Off duty, Mr. Bogo is fine," Bogo said. "But, even though you two are off duty, do you really think a snowball fight is the best use of your time?"

"As we are off duty, Mr. Bogo, I wouldn't see how that matters," Nick smirked and shrugged.

"If anyone here recognizes you as my officers, how would that reflect on our precinct?" Bogo folded his arms and frowned down at them. "Here are my two star officers, behaving like a couple of kits."

"Uh..." Judy twisted her mouth into a frown. "Are you saying... we can't have any fun?"

"Well, either use a little more discretion so no one will see you," Bogo said. "Or, if you must disrupt the beauty of this untouched snow, how about doing something a little more constructive with it?"

Bogo rotated both of his shoulders, then rolled together a rather massive orb of snow. Judy clapped twice in delight, gasping.

"Ooh!" Judy exulted. "Do you want to build a snowmammal?"

Chief Bogo gave a placid smile at the two, which Judy grinned back at, but Nick suddenly felt a burst of alarm. Bogo's thick arms shot out, grabbed the two, hoisted them up, inverted them, and slammed them both into the top of the snow orb, where they remained with their feet and legs visible.

"No, I want you both to chill out," Bogo dusted off his hands and turned away from them. "And be sure you aren't late tomorrow". He smirked and made his way away from them.

"Well, this is humiliating," Judy stated plainly.

"Being mostly engulfed in snow, there's something... oddly familiar about this," Nick mused. "I can't say I mind too much."

"I can feel the blood rushing to my head," Judy said. "What a weird sensation."

"This must be what a Pawpsicle feels like," Nick smirked.

"Nick!" Judy grumbled.

Nick parted the snow separating them and grinned at their upside-down faces. "Ice to see you."

Judy's eyelids fell, or rose, depending on your point of view. "Kiss my ice, Nick." He did; he kissed the snow right next to Judy's face.

She couldn't help but laugh.