Well hello all! Sorry it took so long for this chapter! Ahh, what am I saying? I crank out a chapter in about 3-5 hours, that is, if I have the smallest inkling of the direction I wanna go with the chapter hahaha. So I was stuck between continuing the flash back until it caught up with the first 2 chapters or just end it here then make a couple extra chapters if enough people are interested in the time between them marking each other and Gazelle meeting them at Precinct 1 during the drama of their relationship being brought to light by the media. I think I'll just end the flash back where I left it and start up with the wedding plans, ceremony, honeymoon, and then the real story. Also I finally feel like typing up my actual first fic idea, I didn't want to because I saw it in a dream and what happened made me hate Judy, and I do not want that. Bottom line of the idea is Nick, Judy, Finnick and some friends are drinking and having fun; but, Nick has to take home the super intoxicated visitors home, and upon his return he witnesses something that will forever change his thoughts about Judy and Finnick: He catches them together in HIS bed(granted the actual scene may be just an orgy happening and Nick catching the two of them in said act, depends on if I actually feel like trying to let Judy have another chance). Twisted, I know. I'm not sure I could go through with that story without killing one of them off for hurting Nick, but oh well, another story for a possibly other time. Well enjoy the chapter, pm me or leave a review on the thoughts above.
Nick and Judy's Apartment, New years
Nick's POV
"Judy Hopps. Will you give me the honor of being yours forever?"
"Oh NICK YES! A THOUSAND TIMES, YES!" She cries as I slip the ring onto her finger. Then in a fiery embrace we kiss as an extra-large firework goes off over head. But it doesn't drown out the barking, howling, cheering and yipping I hear from the fire escape, but I don't care, because the rabbit is mine forever. Our muzzles locked for what seemed like an eternity, a moment that I wished would last forever. I could feel the passion, the happiness, and the relief ooze from her body as we embraced each other. It was as if a great weight had disappeared from her mind as she tenderly, yet roughly, pulled herself into the embrace. As much as I wanted the moment to not stop, I pulled my head away slowly, opening my eyes to stare at her as she tried to close the distance to yet another kiss. Chuckling to myself, I bring my paw to her muzzle to stop her. "Carrots, I know how much you want to keep going, believe me if I had the choice we'd probably be clothe less right now, but we have some guests to attend to." I say reluctantly.
"Wha-?" Judy says, confused "Why?" she asks as she stares into my eyes with a little pout.
"Because" I wryly chuckle, "I'm sure our parents have somethings they want to say." As I say motioning to our guests standing on the fire escape, watching us with amusement, shock, happiness and… acceptance plastered all over their faces with ear to ear grins. I look over to see My mother, with her paws covering her smile, standing next to Carrot's mom, whose expression is similar to my mother's except she keeps looking to Judy, the ring, then me with tears in her eyes, and Carrot's dad, who has taken off his hat and placed his paws on his wife's shoulders as he sobs with tears strolling down his face.
"Oh…" Judy says sheeply, just loud enough for me to barely hear her, even in our extreme proximity. Even though it's midnight and dark out, I can see her blushing under all of her beautiful grey fur as she recognizes our parents at last. Reluctantly, she separates from our embrace and takes my paw. "Let's go say something, fiancé." She states as she slowly starts making her way over to the trio.
"I've been waiting on you, dear." I reply snarkily, looking at her through a half lidded gaze with a grin on may face.
After making it about halfway to the fire escape, a blur of mixed gray and red whiz at Judy, picking her up as squeals of joy escape from the mouths of the three females who begin chattering in incoherent speech while Judy lifts her paw to let the older females inspect the band around her finger. Stu, Judy's dad, walks up to me calmly with a large smile, wiping the still damp fur around his muzzle. I stick my paw out for a handshake, only to be surprised by the older buck as he wraps me up in a tight hug.
"Come now, son, we're family now! And family doesn't shake hands, we hug!" Stu says, giving a hearty laugh. "Hmm. A fox for a son, who woulda thought that just a couple years ago I wouldn't even acknowledge you. But I see now, how happy you make my daughter and how much you need each other. I happy for the two of you, sincerely." He says looking me in the eyes.
"Thanks Stu, I kno-" I start,
"Dad. Call me dad, Nick." Stu interrupts. "I know, now, that your own father went missing when you were young. Just tonight I learned a whole lot about you, son, and I'd say that your father would be proud of the way you turned out, with the way you grew up and all. And now I know why you reacted the way you did when you saw the muzzle on the table the first time Judy brought you over. I'm so.. so sorry." He chokes, looking at me with sadness and regret written all over his face. "You're a good mammal, Nick. I don't know any other mammal that would have made it out of what you have. And I consider myself lucky to call you my son."
"How? Who?" I say as a mix of anger, embarrassment, and hurt begin to bubble up within me as a small growl escapes my throat. Stu reflexively lets me go and jumps back in shock.
"Nicky, calm down. I told them." I sharply turn to the voice behind me with a glare that could burn out the sun itself to see my mom holding her paws as she looks at the ground.
"Now don't give your mother that look, Nicolas Piberius Wilde!" I snap my head towards Bonnie in shock as she walks over to me, pointing at my chest in a huff of anger. "She told us in confidence, as we're all family now, and there are never secrets between family."
"Nick, my mom's right, and you know it. And I know that there are somethings that you'll hold in to the day you wither away. But now you're surrounded by family and friends who love you." Judy says as she walks over and talks my paw in hers, giving it an assuring squeeze. "They also won't judge you as the world has, well, other than your poor choice in wear." She jokes.
*sigh*.. "No you're right Fluff." I turn my head to Vivian, "Sorry ma, it's just… I'm touchy about that stuff still. I hate people knowing about my past. I feel vulnerable all over again when people know." I say self depreciatingly.
"No, I'm sorry Nick. I shouldn't have been the one to open my mouth." Vivian says, looking at me with tears welling up in her eyes. "It's just that, after the muzzle incident, you closed yourself off to everyone. You no longer trusted the world, then when you were leaving that night and said 'Never let them see that they get to you', I knew I lost my little kit. I even tried to run after you that night, but getting anywhere with a broken leg with a cast up to the thigh is almost impossible. I thought that I would never see you again, I tried to ask around, look for you, but no one cared enough to help." She says as tears fall down her face, dampening her fur. "For years I thought that you were in jail or worse, until a bunny came to my door wearing a police uniform asking for me. At first I thought she was just there to harass me as most cops do." At hearing this Judy looked appalled but stayed silent to let Vivian continue. "I tried to close the door on her, she only said 3 words , but those 3 words were enough for me to freeze. Do you know what she said?" She asks looking me in the eyes, I shake my head side to side in an attempt to reply. "She said 'Nicholas Piberius Wilde'. Your name. That's all it took for me to break down right there, I thought she was there to tell me you had been killed in some horrible way. But, that obviously wasn't the case, she told me about herself, and how she was now the partner of the first and currently only fox in Zootopia, my son. I was so happy and proud that you made something of yourself that I cried for ten whole minutes as the bunny held me and told me everything she knew about you." She says with a wry smile, "It was then that I was sure that she was your M.M." she chuckled.
"M.M.?" Judy asked apprehensively.
"My maiden Marian." I say softly grasping Judy's paw.
"Maid Marian? As in Robin Hoods wife?" Bonnie asks slightly shocked.
"The one and only." Vivian states matter of factly. "Nick and I are direct descendants of those two." She states proudly. "To this day, many foxes hold the tales of Robin Hood dearly, as it's one of the few good stories about foxes." She says with a tone of hurt and disappointment.
"Okay, I think that's enough of the sap show for now!" A deep voice barks, while clapping his paws once to get everyone's attention. We look over to see Finnick walking up with a small grin on his face. "I told you guys what was happening so you all could be happy together, but what do I see when I check on you all? A vixen crying, a buck looking shocked, a mad doe pointing at a tod who looks like someone stole his favorite plushy doll, and another doe trying to comfort him. Man, what.A. Train. Wreck." The fennec fox chided, "How about we get back to the happy new engaged couple and everyone celebrating them, hmm?" He says smirking.
*Cough**Cough* "You know, he's right, this is supposed to be a happy moment, I'm sorry I ruined it" I say dryly, apologizing in embarrassment. "But this is a conversation for another time, or never again would be good for me." I joke, receiving a few chuckles from the does next to me.
"Oh you foxes, so emotional." Judy jokes, lightly jabbing me in the ribs.
"Actually, I think it's just him." Vivian laughs.
I roll my eyes at the two mammals comments, "Har Har" I mock snidely.
"C'mon now folks, our new quest is quite right, this should be a momentous occasion! And tonight's hosts need to tend to their guests properly." Stu states, urging everyone towards the fire escape.
Judy's POV
I'm glad that's over with, I sigh, it definitely could have been handled better, that's for sure. As we walk back towards the fire escape I hear hushed voices whispering amongst themselves. They begin to hurriedly rush down, only to fail as a certain cheetah seems to have tripped while running and fell down the steps, taking a few other mammals down with him. I giggle as I hear them scramble to get back up and continue running down the stairs before we see them. I look over to see everyone else laughing as well.
"Well, our eavesdroppers are likely to spoil our little happening up here." Nick chuckles.
"Oh well." I say "Not like anyone is going to miss this beautiful gold band on my gray fur." I say staring at the ring. "Nick it's perfect." I wrap my arms around one of Nick's and lean my head against him.
He looks at me and smiles, "Well yeah, I picked it." He laughs "The stones represent our eyes seeing each other for what the other is on the inside." He states, then starts to rub my head and ears as we walk down the stairs. He knows how much I enjoy him rubbing my ears, it feel like I could melt at his slightest touch, I coo inwardly. As we finally get back to the apartment, all of our friends are trying to act like nothing happened. Every mammal is trying to make up a conversation and act normal, but they're trying too hard to not look at us. I see Clawhauser in the far corner of the room trying to talk about Gazelle like he normally does, but he keeps looking over at Nick and I then snapping his head back.
I sigh seeing this, "Okay everyone, you guys don't have to act like you don't know what happened. Especially you Ben." I chided
"Wha- What do you mean Hopps? What happened?" He tried to ask innocently but stuttered.
"Okay, first she is a bunny, she heard you guys talking on the fire escape." Nick says while wiggling my ears.
"Second, you guys were upwind and he's a pred, with a pretty good sense of smell." I chide, pointing at Nick's muzzle. "Third, I'm just going to show you all the perfect ring Nick chose." I saw while holding my paw out for all to see.
Instantly, Clawhauser is holding my paw and squealing. Whoa! I've never seen him move that fast! I think shocked, looking around the room to see everyone just as shocked as I am. After the brief moment of shock, other mammals start heading towards Nick and I, giving heartfelt congratulations. All of the males are surrounding Nick, joking and patting him on the back. I can hear them saying things like, 'Finally grew a set Wilde?' 'Bout damn time? I was beginning to think you we a sloth. No offense Flash' 'None…..Taken…Fangmeyer…I..started to think…I…was faster…than….him.' then a ruckus of laughter after the joke Flash, Nick's closest sloth friend, made. I turn my attention to the 'oohs' 'ahhhs' and 'awwws' as I see Clawhauser getting ready to explode from trying to hold in his comment that I knew he reaaaaly wants to say.
"Alright Clawhauser, go ahead and say it." I confirm with the cheetah.
"OH! EM! GOODNESS! Judy, it's soooo cute! It's absolutely, positively, adorably, breath-takingly CUTE!" He explodes "Are the gems supposed to be your guys' eyes? When is the wedding? Where is the wedding? What's the theme going to be? Is it going to be a mix of fox and bunny weddings? Can I be your maid of honor? Oh wait only females can do that, duhhh. Do you think Nick will let me be his best man then? I wonder what Chief Bogo is going to say?" He asks, firing the questions of like an automatic sub machine gun.
The other females and I can only laugh wryly. "Ben, it sounds like you're more excited about this than I am." I joke.
"Oh I am!" He states seriously. "I've been waiting for this since Nick joined the force and I saw the way you two looked at each other 3 years ago."
"Ben, we weren't even dating at that point, just really good friends!"
"Yeah, but look where we are now!" He points out, causing all the females to start laughing, myself included. "Oh speaking of which, I need to collect the pool." He mutters.
"Pool?" I ask curiously
"Oh yeah, we had a betting pool at the precinct. First it started as Nick kissing you, then changed to you two dating, and now it's at, or was at this point, Nick popping the question." He states looking straight at me.
"What!? You guys were betting on us the whole time!?" I yell in shock and embarrassment.
"Ooooh yeah, big time." He chuckles "The odds were pretty low on Nick popping the question though. No one thought Nick would. Hell there was a side bet that it'd be a shotgun wedding if there even was one." He says, causing my ears to heat up. "The way to win it all was to be the closest scenario to happen, but no one was close so the house won. Meaning all the funds are going to the two of you to use for the wedding, or however you guys want to use it."
Hearing this, Nick walks over to Clawhauser, "Ben, how much money was in the pool?" he asks
"Well the buy in was $150, and the whole precinct was in on it, as well as a few other mammals from the other precinct." He says, trying to as if trying to remember something. "There was about 400 or so mammals involved."
Hearing the numbers, my brain immediately calculates the amount of money, "Nick, that's close to $60,000!" I yell at Nick, who is just standing there with his signature smirk.
"Well that's on hell of a marriage gift Clawhauser!" Nick says incredulously.
"I'd say so!" Vivian says walking over to us. "That's more than enough to cover your wedding, honeymoon, and a vacation." She states merrily.
After a few more hours of congratulations and drinking everyone has gone home for the night. Nick and I walk up to the apartment door after dropping my parents of at the last train back to Bunnyburrow. Earlier Finnick took Nick's mom home, after saying that it was on the way back to his apartment. So now we were alone, walking into our apartment. I began to think about all that Nick and I had been through together over the past few years, and smiled at the times we'll face together in the future, as husband and wife. I walk to bathroom to get ready for bed as Nick walks over and plops himself onto the bed. After brushing my teeth, I walk back into the room to see Nick undressing. Mmmm look at his toned body, I think, starting to rub my paws on my chest.
Nick turns around to see me starting to touch myself, "You like what you see Mrs. Wilde?" He says jokingly.
"Mmm, very much Mr. Wilde." I say walking over to him slowly. I see him watching me as I sway my hips side to side teasingly. "What about you?" I say seductively, rubbing myself against him.
"Never seen anything I like more." He says, picking me up and placing me on the bed, covering me.
I look into his eyes and see the lust reflected in them, knowing that my eyes fare the same. After a few seconds Nick lowers his muzzle towards mine, just millimeters apart. I can feel his hot breath stroking my fur as he hovers over me, just barely touching my lips not moving. Not able to withstand it any longer, I close the distance, locking his muzzle to mine. I push my tongue into his, only to feel his tongue invade mine. I love his taste, I love his scent I think, savoring the taste of his tongue. Breathing through my nose I get full whiffs of his musky scent, filling my lungs. A moan of pleasure escapes my throat as I feel his paws wandering across my body, before stopping on my chest and massaging my bosom. He begins to kiss and nibble down my neck moving to my chest, but stopping at my collarbone.
"Fluff, as much as I want to continue this, it's 0300 hours and we need to be at work in 5 hours, we need our sleep. And I'd rather not be late." He says, placing another kiss onto my collarbone.
I groan in displeasure, "You tease, you get me worked up to stop and say you don't want to be late. Since when have you worried about being late.?" I ask snidely.
"Well, since half of our coworkers know what happened tonight, and by time we get there, everyone will have heard about it, especially Buffalo-Butt. And I'd rather not piss him off and get parking duty." He says.
"Fiiiine." I groan again. "And I'd rather not get a lecture from the Chief either." I say reluctantly.
"Good" Nick laughs laying on his side, pulling me into an embrace as we spoon. He wraps his arms and tail around me. "Good night Carrots." He says kissing between my ears.
"Good night, Nicky." I say , placing a kiss under his chin, snuggling against him as close as our bodies allow. I bring his tail up to my chin and start stroking it slowly, know that is would sooth him the sleep quickly. As I feel the rhythmic rise and feel of his chest as he falls asleep. After a couple of seconds feeling Nick breathe, my eyes start getting heavy as I start falling asleep. I hope tomorrow with you is even more pleasant than the day that have passed. I think as my thoughts cut to black, and I drift off to the land of dreams, content and happy.
Well that's it for this chapter, R&R and all that. Hope you all enjoyed. The wedding is going to be a rather large chapter, so if you have any thoughts and/or ideas, put them in the reviews, or PM me. If your ideas make it, I'll credit it to you. That's it for now as I myself cannot keep my eyes open any longer. *Yaaaawn* Well, signing off. Arrivederci, amici miei! Good night!
