Hi guys, I know I promised that I would upload it before but first weeks of school are hard to adapt too, especially if the school suddenly decides to make a whole different schedule that mixes up how I organize myself. I also have taken my sleep time to finish this chapter so please do enjoy! : )

(8:35 am, The Bridge, P.O.V. Forrest)

The morning sun burned my shoes causing for the heat to get to my socks and then to my feet, I stepped back from the sun's light and touched the burned part of my shoe. "Seems like it might be summer right about now." I told myself. I looked up again at the shining city, the sunlight reflecting and harming my eyes causing me to cover them with my arm, but then I notice someone was coming. I couldn't quite make up who it was but knowing that no one must see me I quickly hid behind the bridge. Hoping that the mammal would go away I hold my breath, but I only heard a sigh coming from the other side, followed by the sound of Nick's chair screeching. I peeked a bit past my hiding spot still holding my breath but I released it once I noticed it was Nick. He did not seem like his normal self, he seemed broken, his face reflected it fully, so I walked up to him and asked. "You okay?"

Nick sighed again before answering, "No, the press conference went completely wrong the moment that traitor spoke."

"Who?" I asked curious.

"Carrots, she told the press that predators could out of nowhere start to attack anyone in sight like thousands of years ago. She made the prey fear predators and even still felt scared of me herself, at least I've got you to trust to understand my point." He said raising his head towards me.

"I do," I answered "but I am sure she didn't mean it." I acknowledge knowing how Todd seemed to trust her.

"Oh, but she did, I was just another fox to her, nothing more than a simple sly conning fox, and is all I will ever be." He said closing his eyes and covering his face with his left paw.

He seemed completely devastated like when I lost my family, those memories would make me cry all of a sudden but instead it made me talk in my father's words. "You know Nick, every time I felt as bad as you do right now, my father would remind me, 'Life will always punch you down, what's important is not how many times we are taken down, but how we stand up again.' Don't let a single moment define you Nick, because that is a dangerous gamble." I sit beside him in the dirt grabbing some rocks and pressing them hard "And you will truly know what it is to lose everything, your dignity, your kindness, and yourself." Nick lifted his head from his paw and looked forward as he had actually gambled everything on one special moment. "You are not lost yet, for that self that you have contained in a chest, Judy might just have the key to open it."

Completely ignoring me he came back to his senseless talking. "NO! I should have never trusted her! And I will never trust anyone else!" He looked at me with watery eyes, a claw from his finger in my direction, and an angered face.

I tried reasoning him with more famous phrases that I have read in my life "Isolation is the worst kind of sickness Nick, and it seems like you are infected." He stayed still for a while, he did not know how to react to my comments, I thought I succeeded but then he grabbed me by the collar of my shirt and was ready to swing his claws on my face but remained still. I could hear his breath and my heart beat, I maintained a normal face looking at him as I remained still waiting for him. "Go on, do what others say you are, let's see how happy you are then." He remained hesitant, his breath becoming louder and more intense as well as the beat of my heart, but not my face still looking deep into his eyes.

"Why are you not afraid of me? I could end your life right now!" Shouted Nick

"Because I know that you don't want to do it, I know that it is not you who is going to hurt me." Nick stopped breathing his eyes now flashing hate as his grip grew in my shirt he formed a fist from his paw and punched me. His punch turned my face but after he retreated his arm I did so with my face now with a black eye.

"How about now!" He shouted spitting in my face.

"The only one getting hurt here is you." He punched me again, but this time it was two punches, blood began to drop from my mouth, "I must've bitten my tongue."

"FEAR ME! Fear this fox!" He said throwing me to the ground, I lifted myself with my arms spitting some blood and just as I was going to turn around Nick kicked me in the face causing me to face the sky with a grunt of pain. "I am a fox! You should be afraid of me!" He forcefully stepped on my stomach taking air out of me and making me gasp for air and curl in a ball. "Run! Run away from me, everyone runs away from a fox!" He shouted before kicking me in the waist.

Half drowning with blood I spited it again and weakly said "Why would I run...from a friend...one of my only friends...I've ever had." With that he stayed still again panting for the effort he made to take me down and returned to his chair. I laid in the uneven surface of the ground catching my breath and looking at the sky trying to make an effort to resist the pain.

Nick came back blocking the sun for my eyes only letting me see his silhouette, and said "Here's your breakfast, friend." before handing me a bag filled with pancakes and a 'sorry' kind of smile. "I'm sorry I acted this way, I don't expect you to forgive me." He continued offering his paw to help me up, which I accepted, as I got up I grabbed my stomach still feeling like the gut was killing me. I opened the bag and began eating the pancakes quietly while Nick looked at his reflection on a puddle.

When I finished eating my pancakes I noticed that my face no longer cause me pain while munching so I touched all over it noticing that it seemed cured except for a simple epic scare crossing diagonally through my left eye. I lifted under my shirt and under my bandages, my back and arm injuries were gone, but a scar was left in my chest still unhealed. Instead of wondering how I suddenly became cured, I just walked towards Nick to talk with him, and try to make him feel better knowing that I was not going to leave him behind. Before I got near him he splashed his own reflection and upon the water calming down he noticed me and turned around. "Wow, how did you heal so fast?" he asked surprised.

"I have no idea myself, so I'll just leave my body as it is so I don't lose this thing. Changing topics, will you apologize to Judy?" I asked, he turned back to the puddle and sighed.

"It's not going to be easy." He replied

"I know, it will be hard to apologize a friend after doing things you didn't want to do, assuming that's what happened."

"No, it's not that kind of hard," he sighed again "would you keep a secret?" he asked.

"With my life." I answered making a cross on my heart and lifting my other hand with palm forward. (Can anyone guess where that is from?)

"I...love her." he finally said.

Although surprised and confused at the same time, I decided to compliment his decision knowing he was fragile at the moment. "Congrats buddy, you found your soulmate."

"Aren't you mad or disgusted?" asked Nick

"A bit, yes, but it is after all your decision." I said trying to gain his confidence on his own feelings.

"And also her's, I think she would respect me as a friend, but if she were to know that I love her, she might reject me, then I am left alone." Before I could answer Nick's phone began to ring and he answered it. "Hello?...How did you get this number?...Finnick?...yes he is right here…" he said before passing the phone to me telling me "It's Judy she wants to tell you something."

"Hello?" I asked

"Forrest, you need to go to the Savanna Central Main Hospital!" she shouted with panic.

"What happened?" I panicked as well.

"Todd turned savage!" The world seemed to go in slow motion, I began to feel dizzy as the shock did not let me move, my heart stopped as well as my breath but the sound of Judy's voice brought me back to reality. "Forrest, are you there!"

"Yes, I'm here, I'll be there in a second. Make sure he doesn't get harmed." I answered quickly hanging up the phone.

"What happened?" asked Nick

"Todd has gone savage like the others, we need to get to Savanna Central Main Hospital ASAP!"

"I know a guy that can take us there in a flash." he said grabbing his chin thinking.

"Yeah, Flash does have my wheelchair which I need for cover." I added

"You met him?"

"Yeah, that's how I found you in 's mansion." I answered "Just call him and tell him to come get us quick." I said giving Nick back his phone before he called Flash.]

Ten minutes later Flash arrived in the same car he had taken me he lowered the window and said "Hey...Nick."

"No time for greetings buddy we need to get to the Savanna Central Main Hospital, do you also get the jacket I told you to get?"

"In the...back." he answered as I got to the back seat

"Why did you ask for a jacket?" I asked for wasting time on that.

"You are definitely going to get discovered without a jacket." I facepalmed myself in my own idiocy for not seeing the crucial part of me hiding my appearance. After a short drive and my mind spinning in horrible things about Todd, we finally made it. Nick quickly took out the Wheelchair and the blanket so that I could be hidden, he rushingly took me to the reception and asked where Todd was. The nurse gave us the number of the room and took us there claiming that a bunny, probably Judy, was waiting for us.

Once we arrived the nurse left the room and I nodded at Nick, which he nodded back and proceeded to lock the door so that no one would see me standing. I did stand up and picked a chair right beside Judy looking nervously at Todd's unconscious body. I noticed he was also connected to a supply of water and fluid food to keep him fed for the time he was unconscious. "How did this happen?" I asked Judy still looking at Todd.

"I-I don't know, one moment he ran away from the station and the next moment I found him shouting sheep before he turned savage." she answered

I turned to her and asked confused "Okay, first, why did he run away from the station? Second, why was he shouting sheep? And third, how come he is knocked out?"

"He ran away from the station after some reporters just surrounded me asking me questions, I also do not know why he started to shout sheep, and third I tranquilized him, he should be conscious in a couple hours."

"Why did you have a tranquilizer for foxes?" I asked a bit concerned over the fact.

"I didn't, this works on every mammal in zootopia." she answered calmly

"Even...elephants?" I asked hesitantly

"Yeah why?" she asked

I quickly stood up dropping the chair and place my ear in his chest, nothing, then I noticed I couldn't hear him breath, nor was his stomach reacting to such thing. "Call in the doctors! HE'S NOT BREATHING!" Nick quickly unlocked the doors and went out for help, I in the other hand sat down back at the wheelchair hoping that the doctors could do their work right. The doctors gave him a breathing mask and gave him the electric treatment as well as installing those heart beat detecting machines until he was breathing and beating again. With nothing else to do they just made some short medical tests to see if it was enough and quickly got out of the room to probably attended other patients. "Are you fucking insane?!" I managed to say to judy in between my teeth.

"I-I didn't know, it doesn't make any sense, it is supposed to able to just put anyone to sleep for a couple hours-"

"That may work for your biology," I started "but where we come from, if you put too much he could die, and almost did!"

"Forrest, I really did not mean to."

"Oh really? Because I am sure that your intention was to shoot him!" I replied

"Well, yes, but I didn't and couldn't have known that it could kill him." She tried defending herself

"Out." I order her pointing at the door with a death glare.

"What?" she asked hesitantly

"You heard me, I said out!" I repeat still pointing at the door.

"Forrest, I am not responsible for him turning savage."

"But you are, when I asked you if it would be fine to give Todd a place to sleep in, I also trusted you the responsibility of taking care of him. But it seems he would have been better of with me, so out." First silence expands throughout the room, Judy still there frightened of me, but then she turns and leaves and Nick goes after her. I turn around and go back to my seat watching Todd lay in his bed still asleep as the heart monitor beep echoes throughout the room, and I was left alone in this world.

(P.O.V. Nick)

"Judy wait." I call out

"Why aren't you mad at me?" she asked still walking forward without facing back

"I shouldn't have reacted like that," I start as she turns around "I am sorry for what I said, and I do not expect you to forgive me as well, because what I did was wrong."

Judy just stood there for a moment before replying "It should be me who is sorry, I shouldn't have said that about predators."

"So are we friends again?" I asked

"No." she simply answered to my surprise "We're the best of friends now!"

"Sly bunny."

"Dumb fox."

"Come on," I offered "let's go get something, my treat."

"Shouldn't we try to reason with Forrest?"

"Um, I guess we should first just let him reflect for a while because I needed that after getting mad. Plus, I may have beaten him up in my anger so I might also not want him to turn on me as well."

"How exactly did you manage that considering he beat everyone in the cliffside asylum?"

"He kind of let me do it." I said trying my best to defend myself, but with no success.

"Oh well, let's leave him alone for a while."

(P.O.V. Forrest, two days later 3:19 am)

I have not slept in two days, my eyes were praying for me to rest but I kept them open watching at Todd, waiting. He had not moved at all, nor made a sound, his heart has stopped beating from time to time but the doctors could solve it, and it was becoming less often for it to happen. I have also not heard a single thing from Judy not even a word from Nick as if she were sorry for what she did to Todd, I was ready to forgive, as long as she came asking for it. Although Nick and the doctors have asked me to sleep I have still stayed and kept an eye on him. I have not eaten or drank anything either since the hospital only serves the sick and injured, not the victim's family and friends. A nurse came in and I quickly placed my hood back on still looking at Todd, with the corner of my eye I watched as the nurse got close to me before handing me a glass of water. I slightly turn my head trying to still hide my face and weakly try to take the glass slowly reaching out with my shaking hands. I tried to pull it away but the nurse kept strong hold of it and told me "I will give it to you if you promise to get some rest, your health is as important as the one of your friend's." I slowly let go of the glass and continued watching Todd after turning my head back into position. "Sir, you can't just stay here, you will die before your friend gets up in his feet again."

"But (cough) if I sleep," I said with a dry, hurting and coughing voice. "he might die (cough) and no one would notice until it's too late. (cough) (cough)"

"I can't watch over him since I also need to attend other patients, but don't you have another friend to help you with that?" Asked the nurse sounding very concerned.

"I have two friends (cough), one is in that bed, and the other one (cough) I cannot reach" Then the door opened the nurse turned around surprised at first and asked who that mammal was.

"I am Nick Wilde, I just came in here to check on both my friends." The nurse then walked up to him and they started a whispering conversation but after a while she left and Nick sat on a chair beside me. "The nurse told me the situation, you can't just stay here like this."

"(cough) I have to, there Todd could die at any second that I (cough) lose concentration." Nick and I sat there silent, he was probably thinking of a way to get me out of this state, but the only way he could do that is by force considering that I am weak at the moment.

"How about if I look after him while you eat something, drink water and sleep." He proposed handing me the glass of water the nurse had earlier and a sandwich.

"Fine." I said before drinking the whole cup in 5 seconds and the sandwich in 20

"Weren't you a slow eater?" He asks with his signature grin

"Depends on how concentrated I am and how hungry." I answer before I lean my head by the side of the bed and slowly but swiftly drift to sleep.

(5 days later)

Nick and I have been doing a time shift where he would watch Todd from 10 pm to 6 am while I would do it for the rest of the time. And yet Judy has not come to say she is sorry, but changing into less negative things, the turns have been going well and I have regained my strength and energy over time like if nothing actually happened. Today was a different day though, because instead of arriving at 6:00pm to give me my dinner, he arrived at 8:00pm. "Hey man, why did you take so long?" I asked him as he enters the room looking depressed. "Are you okay?"

"Please don't call me by your human nicknames right now, I don't feel so good at all." he said sitting down beside me with his head leaned on his paws.

"Woah, what happened to you, normally you would be more 'alive' than this."

"It's about Judy," he started "she quitted being a cop."

"No way, she would never do that, she is so determined and optimistic."

"But that's not the worst part," he continued "she did not even say goodbye, the cops at the ZPD told me that she went back home, as if I meant nothing to her." We both stay silent for a moment, me for sudden shock, and Nick probably some flashback related to the situation be cause he seemed gone for a moment. Then he began to cry, at first it was a crying he tried to contain as just one drop that was going down his cheek but then two were coming at a time. I just couldn't help myself seeing him like this so I gave him a one armed hug, but what I didn't expect was the he then jumped out of his seat and hugged me completely clawing my back in the process.

As I tried to sustain the pain I hugged Nick as well telling him "Get it all out, let every single drop out Nick."

As soon as he let me go and calmed down he looked at his paws noticing blood in his claws, he gasped noticing his mistake "Oh geez, sorry, I-I didn't mean to do that."

"It's fine Nick, you just had to let it all out like last time, besides, it's not like it hurts, that bad, how about we start eating?" The meal was just a bunch of small talk mostly based on me telling him about my world and my previous life. Of course he understood when I skipped the touchy subjects, as well as I understood when we brought up something related with Judy. Then we had nothing else to talk about so I purposed to watch the TV and he agreed, I reached for the remote and turned it on suddenly appearing at a CNN newschannel copy called ZNN.

"More bad news in this city gripped by fear. A caribou is in critical condition. The victim of a mauling by a savage polar bear. This, the 27th such attack, comes just one week after ZPD Officer, Judy Hopps connected the violence to traditionally predatory animals. A couple hours ago, a peace rally organized by popstar Gazelle was marred by protest." The scene of the TV changed to a part where Judy was desperately trying to stop a predator and a prey from breaking into a fight.

Then it changed into the mentioned Gazelle "Zootopia is a unique place. It's a crazy, beautiful, diverse city. Where we celebrate our differences. This is not the Zootopia I know. The Zootopia I know is better than this. We don't just blindly assign blame. We don't know why these attacks keep happening. But it's irresponsible to label all predators as savages. We cannot let fear divide us. Please give me back the Zootopia I love."

I turned off the TV and reclined on the chair "Geez, wish I could do something, but gotta keep myself a secret. Say Nick, where do you think I would fit prey or predator?"

"Hm...you don't have any claws or sharp teeth or any kind of super advantage, but you do eat fish, and no prey does that." He thought out loud "I really have no idea, but others might call you out as a predator for fearing you."

"Well shit." My comment made Nick chuckle a bit which meant he was sort of getting over Judy, obviously it was not going to be that easy but it was a start. "Either way," I say taking out my phone and checking the time "It's time to exchange turns, don't sleep on the job." I warn before yawning. At first I couldn't sleep so I tried to close my eyes but it wouldn't work, so I let them loose and they are at the point where others think your eyes are closed but they are actually open enough for you to see. In that moment I saw Nick holding out a carrot shaped pen and looking at it sentimentally before pulling it towards his chest and crying a bit. "Oh this is going to take a big amount of time." I thought before falling asleep.

Next morning I woke up by the sound of someone crying, and the repeated sound of 'I really am just a dumb bunny.' I barely opened my eyes after a while seeing Nick and Judy hugging each other, and having no knowledge of the situation plus a bit of comedy in my mind I sprang out and said before accidentally falling to the floor. "Holy shit, what just happened."

"Forrest are you okay?" asked Nick worried

"Yeah, I'm fine," I grunt while lifting myself up "but how long have I been out, because I swear I just saw you two as some kind of couple." They both looked at each other realising what they were doing and began to laugh, without wanting to be left out I joined in and interrupted a while later. "No seriously, what the heck is going on?"

"Oh right," said Judy "I figured out what is causing the predators to go savage."

"I would love to join but psychics is not my strength." I answer remembering how bad I did in science class.

"No, I mean that there is someone infecting the predators, or at least that is what I believe." I stood there for a second surprised at knowing it was in fact someone's fault and I could actually beat up someone for it instead of holding my anger.

"Let's beat some motherfuckers." I say in a deep voice while cracking my knuckles.