THE NOCTURNAL MISSION

It was very late at night, the darkness had already covered Zootopia, most of the streets were empty and almost everybody had already went home, except for Nick and Judy.

The fox and the bunny had been working on a case all day and were so close to solving it that Judy didn't even want to sleep. So now they both were driving to the outskirts of the city.

A FEW MINUTES LATER...

"There it is..." the bunny parked the car in an empty parking lot.

"There?" Nick looked at a factory in the distance.

"Yes, it's supposed to be an ice factory..." Judy read the report one more time.

"Weird a place to hide drugs" the fox took the last sip of his fourth coffee.

"Mmm...far from the city...not very suspicious...perfect for a bunch of drug dealers"

"Should we go then?" Nick opened the door.

"Yeah..." she got out of the car too.

They sneaked up a little stall that was in front of the entrance, the whole factory was surrounded by a large fence and a few guards.

"There are two guards and a camera inside the stall" said Judy after having a look at the entrance.

"Hmm...are they wolves?" whispered Nick before the bunny grabbed his arm.

"C'mon...we have to find another way to get in..." they kept walking around the fence until finding a dark spot.

"I think there are no cameras around here..." the fox looked around "...it should be easy to jump"

"What if it's electric?" Judy stopped Nick's paw from touching it.

"Oh c'mon Carrots, don't be-" he got to say before touching the fence and tensing his ears and his tail.

"Nick!"

"Don't worry, Fluff..." giggled the fox "...I was joking"

"Shut up...it's not funny..." Judy dodged Nick's hug "...they could have discovered us" she looked away.

"I'm sorry...now, let's keep going" he rested both of his paws on her shoulders before getting a good grip on the fence.

The fox took advantage of the darkness to climb up the fence, once he was in, Judy did the same and dropped into Nick's arms, who was waiting for her.

"Are you still mad?" he got his muzzle closer to her face.

"Let me down..." the bunny pushed him away.

"Okey, okey..." Nick let her feet touch the ground.

Judy was about to take a step, but the fox's arms were still surrounding her.

"You didn't answered my question..." he dragged the bunny towards his chest.

"I-it's fine..." she stirred.

The fox smiled before letting her go, they walked between the containers outside the factory, following the bright blue light of a snowflake sign. After a few more steps, they stopped on the back of a truck to observe another two guards on the main door.

"Is there a back entrance or something like that?" said Nick while looking around.

"I don't know...but maybe we can access by the roof" Judy spotted a ladder on the wall.

"Smart Bunny..." they went around they truck.

Nick and Judy were about to walked up to the ladder, but a flashlight made them back up and get under the vehicle.

"Auch-" complained the bunny when she hurt her leg with a piece of metal before she could cover her mouth with her paw.

She tried to hold her breath but the guard stood in front of the truck and began to move the flashlight around. Judy's breathing began to accelerate and the guard's paw leaned on the ground right before Nick could distract him by throwing a rock away. The guard walked away so they could get out of there, the fox had to help Judy reach another container so she could rest her leg.

"Are you okey?" he checked her wound.

"What do you think?" she mourned.

"Don't worry...let me...just" he untied his tie before cleaning her wound with his tongue.

"Ngh..." she felt the fox wrapping her leg with his tie.

"Better?" whispered the fox as he noticed her slightly blushed cheeks.

"Y-yeah" Judy let Nick help her up.

"I think we should leave..." said the fox while looking around him.

"N-no...don't worry...I'm fine" she rested her paws on his shoulders.

"Judy, I don't want you to get worse..." her paws settled on her hips.

"I know..." she caressed his cheek "...but trying to leave now would be very risky"

"Hmm...let's go up to the roof" said the fox before lifting Judy and hugging her.

Nick was able to sneak up to the wall of the factory and take refuge in the shade next to the ladder, he looked a few times around before throwing another rock across the trucks, hitting one so it makes some noise.

"Hold on tight" he whispered before quickly climbing up the stairs.

The bunny enjoyed hugging the fox's chest as he finished climbing up the stairs.

"Mmm...you can let go now, Fluff..." Nick sat on the roof and waited for Judy to open her eyes.

"Oh...right..." she stepped back while holding Nick's paws "...there's a lot of people down there" the bunny peeked over the edge of the roof.

"Careful with those ears..." the fox hid her ears "...hmm...I didn't know they were so fluffy" he started to massage them.

"Nick..." Judy felt chills down her spine "...focus" her voice trembled.

"Okey..." he whispered "...we should find an entrance..." they walked through the roof stepping over the ventilation ducts "...how's your leg?"

"Good..."

"Hmm...what about this?" Nick stood in front of the ventilation duct entrance.

"What?"

"Yeah...I don't see any skylight and...*clack*...this seems like the only way in" the fox removed the grating.

"Isn't it dangerous?" the bunny got closer to it.

"There's only one way to check it..." Nick got in the duct, falling down like a slide.

"Nick!"

"C'mon, Carrots..." said the fox after a few seconds "...it's cool in here"

"Argh...Dumb Fox..." she got in too "Ahhh" the bunny slipped under the fox when she fell.

"Hmm...I think you should go first" they stirred until Judy sat in front of her crouched partner.

"Whatever..." the bunny turned her phone's flashlight on and started crawling through the vent.

The fox just followed her enjoying a good look of her tail.

"Look" Judy saw the interior of the factory through a grating.

"It is an ice factory after all" they observed several huge blocks of ice on conveyor belts.

"Phew...is it just me or this is getting colder?" the bunny felt a cool breeze traveling trough the vents.

"We should hurry then..." Nick caressed one of her cheeks to check her body temperature "...c'mon"

After a few more minutes crawling, they found two possible ways.

"Left or right?" asked the bunny.

"Why don't we separate?"

"Do not even think about it"

"Fine..." giggled the fox "...right then?"

Judy growled and kept crawling until her phone started to beep.

"No, no, no, no...*sigh*...fuck" her phone died.

"Shhh...keep it down..." Nick patted one of her feet "...just keep going straight" he whispered as he got closer to her.

"That's easy to say when you have night vision" they crawled as the breeze started to get colder.

A FEW MINUTES LATER...

Nick began to feel how the bunny slowly turned her pace down and her legs shivered.

"Carrots, are you okey?" the fox rested his paw on Judy's leg.

"Nick..." she could whisper before running out of strength.

"Judy!..." he got in top of her "...you're freezing" Nick covered her back with his chest and locked her with a warm hug.

"Mmm..." the bunny felt the fox's breathing on her neck "...ngh" she tried to wiggle.

"Quiet, Fluff..." he surrounded her with his arms and turned her around "...I'm just trying to keep you warm" their paws intertwined and his snout smooched her neck while they both pressed their chests.

"Ahh..." she felt a warm sensation mixed with a few chills running through her body.

Judy wrapped her arms around the fox's neck and her leg as around his waist before hungrily kissing him. A burning sensation took over the bunny's body as she felt Nick's tongue interlacing with hers and his paws softly caressing her body. They separated their lips, Judy looked at the fox's eyes looking down he chest before hugging her again, the bunny was about to ask for another kiss, but suddenly there was a loud noise before the breeze stopped.

Nick panted before falling on the bunny that cuddled with him.

"Better?" the fox got up.

"I wanna get out..." she hung on his neck.

"Don't worry about that, Carrots..." he caressed her cheek before starting to crawl again.

The bunny hold him tight as they looked for an entrance.

"Light" Nick spotted another grating on the floor of the duct.

Judy just kept hugging the fox as he pulled the grating out and slowly tried to fall into the room underneath the ventilation duct.

Once they were in, the fox just lay down and panted with the bunny on his chest.

"You know you can let go now, right?" Nick noticed the bunny snuggled upon his neck.

"The way you saved me..."the bunny didn't wanna release him.

"For the record...I did it for your own go-" he got interrupted by a little and sweet kiss on the muzzle.

"Thank you" she looked down to hide her blush.

"Hmm..." he let out his dumb smile "...where are we, anyway?" Nick got up an look at a few shelves and boxes around them.

"Argh" Judy fell down again and groaned as she hold her leg.

"C'mere..." the fox lifted her up before carrying her on his arms "...hopefully there's a med kit here or something like that"

"Could you turn the light first?" she caressed herself with Nick's paw pads.

"Of course..." he walked to the door and toggled the switch, forcing Judy to close her eyes so the light won't bother her.

After a few minutes walking around the rooms the couple of officers found everything but some bandages.

"Hmm...wait a minute, Fluff..." Nick softly laid her on the floor "...let me take some evidences" the fox took some plastic bags and collected a few samples of the interior of the boxes.

"I'm starting to get high just with the smell..."

"We have the evidences, let me get some backup so we can leave..." he got his phone out "...Ben?"

15 MINUTES LATER...

The police had already arrived and arrested the few guards that protected the factory before cleaning the inside, so the fox and the bunny could get out. Judy was still in Nick's arms as they walked trough the red and blue lights.

"Miss, could you come with us to check on that wound?" an antelope dressed in white approach them with a stretcher.

"Mmm...no thanks..." she stirred in the fox's arms "...Officer Wilde is gonna take care of all"

"But miss-"

"I said no..." Judy hugged Nick's neck as he walked towards his car.

"You should have gone with them..."

"We have a med kit in the car, everything will be alright"

After getting in the car, the bunny removed the fox's tie from her wound.

"Shit, it's infected..." Nick rummaged in the glove compartment until finding the little med kit.

Then he opened it and got some gauzes and a bottle of ethyl alcohol to clean his partner wound.

"Ahhh-I prefer how you did it before..." complain the bunny.

"That was improvised...this is much better" he pressed the wound while looking for a pomade.

Then, Nick applied it before wrapping half of Judy's leg with a bandage and smoothly kissing it.

"Mmm..." he raised his gaze "...let's go hom-" said before the bunny dragged him by the neck of his shirt and kissed him, her paws caressed his cheeks as they slowly leaned back on the seat.

Some second after they decided to separate their muzzles, between gasps they snuggled on fox's seat.

"Nick..."

"Yeah?"

"Can I stay in your house for tonight?"

"Of course, Carrots...*smooch*" he softly kissed her forehead.

30 MINUTES LATER...

"And here we are..." Nick opened his apartment's door.

"Hmm..." Judy lazily entered "...not fair!...this is bigger than mine"

"C'mon, Fluff..." the fox lifted her up "...let's go to sleep" he carried her to his bedroom and dropped her on the bed.

The bunny began to take her clothes off between yawns while the fox did the same, without looking at her. After a few seconds of silence Nick thought that Judy had already fell asleep, so he turned around, but the only thing that saw is his partner half naked kneeling in front of him, the fox immediately turned around to hide his blush and tried to take a step away, but Judy dragged him by the tail.

"Where're you going?" the bunny wrapped her arms around him.

"To get some...clothes?"

"Hmm...don't worry, sweetheart...your perfect like this" she had a look at the fox's dark boxers.

"Judy, I-" he got interrupted by a kiss that made him fell back, so Judy could get on top of him.

The fox's paws ran down the bunny's hips as her tongue played with his, Nick started to feel some chills that tensed his ears when suddenly Judy fell on top of him, asleep.

"Mmm..." smiled the fox "...c'mon Sleepy Bun" Nick got the bunny under the blanket before getting in too.

"Niiick..." whispered Judy as she snuggled with him "...I love you" she sniffed his fur.

"I love you much more..." he smooch her ears as the bunny enjoyed a warm and tight hug "...goodnight, Foxy Lover" they both fell completely asleep with the smoothness of the blanket and the warm sensation of their bodies.

Fin