Nick and Judy spent the rest of the day in bed together, only having onemore visit from Mrs. Gruffmyer who brought in their dinner along with some new clothes and a pair of color contacts for each of them. they woke up around 10 the next morning and reluctantly pulled themselves from eachothers arms.

they each got dressed and put in the contacts, Nick in a pair of blue jeans, a white shirt and the green plaid button up for the jacket now had dark velvet purple eyes and Judy now with pale pastel green eyes was in a black tea length skirt and tank top with a red plaid buttonup of her own tied in a knot at the bottom.

after breakfast Nick went to the duffle bag and pulled out a little black purse with a line of white flowers accross the top and handed it to Judy. Judy sat down on the bed and emptied it, inspecting it and its contents. Nick took a plain black wallet from the duffle and after counting the money inside it put it in his back pocket.

he looked up at Judy who was putting things back into her purse. she had never worn contacts before, and she kept rubbing her eyes.

"why do I need to wear these stupid things again?" she asked finally having had enough, and taking them out of her eyes. Nick went over to her with eyedrops in hand.

"So that noone recognizes those beautiful eyes of yours" he said pulling up a chair behind Judy making her blush. "Look at me" he said leaning her head back. he put a few eye drops in her eyes and replaced the contacts. "better?" he asked

"Yeah" judy said blinking twice. she took advantage of their closeness and kissed him on the nose. "Thanks" she said and she quickly went back to putting things away.

A smile crept over nicks face and he tilted Judy's head back again. he kissed her gently upsidown and as the kiss deepened Judy dropped the lipstick she had in hand and turned herself around. she was now facing Nick and their kisses were about to lead to something else when there was a knock at the door. Judy jumped slightly and went back to her work blushing furiously. Nick shook his head and smiled adoring Judy's embarassment.

"it's open!" He hollard at the door. Mrs. gruffmyer walked in carrying an envelope and a tray of sandwhiches.

"I have your temporary ID's" she said setting the sandwiches on the table and handing the envelope to Nick. "It took a little longer to get them than usual"

"Why? you didn't tell Flash a joke did you?" Nick said laughing at his own sense of humor. this earned him an elbow to his ribbs from judy.

"No, we had to be inventive with the name." Mrs. Gruffmyer said as nick handed Judy her new ID "you pulled too many scams." then Mrs. Gruffmyer turned to Judy

"I think you are really going to like what we came up with." sh said with a wink. Judy looked at her ID. "Dear Esther and I thought she was really quite something"

Tears welled up in judy's eyes and nick looked over her soulder.

"Jenna Elenor Hopkins?" Nick said thoughtfully "Who was she?"

"Jenna was our best friend growing up," Mrs. Gruffmyer said

"She was my great grandmother." Judy said looking up at the great polar bear "Thank you"

Nick looked down at his own ID and chuckled "Oh the Irony" he said showing the card to Judy whose eyes went wide.

"You have no idea" Mrs. Gruffmyer said with a smile. Judy kept staring and a tear rolled down her cheek hitting the peice of plastic before her.

"What do you mean?" Nick ased looking from one to the other "Judy? what is it?"

"Jack Savage was my great grandfather" Judy said looking at nick with a small but very overjoyus smile.

"He was Jenna's husband." Mrs. gruffmyer added with an equally proud grin.

"See, not even time can seperate us!" he said triumphantly.

"I must go," Mrs. gruffmyer said heading toward the door "I'll come back with the keys after the funeral" she said closing the door and walking down the hall.

"Nothing to do now but wait" Nick said pulling some papers from the envelope.

"We can watch the funeral on the news if you like" Judy suggested half heartedly scooting over so she could look up at him from time to time while putting things away into her purse. she didn't really want to but it sounded like something Nick would want to do. it's not everyday you get a chance to live through your own funeral.

"Actually, i thought we could use this time wisely" Nick said reading over the papers.

"What do you mean?" Judy reached over and fealt his forhead to see if he had a fever "Are you feeling OK?" she had never seen him take things so seriously

"Yeah" he said playfully swatting her paw away "But we need to get our stories straight."

"stories?" she repeted unsure what he meant.

"Have you ever worked undercover?" Nick asked not looking up at her.

"Well, No, Not really" she admitted rather embarrassedly.

"that's okay, it looks like Mrs. Gruffmyer knew that." Nick said emptying the remaining contents from the envelope. he handed Judy another ID card, this time for some library in the Rainforest district "Does anybody from bunny burrows remember your great grandparents?"

"No, Just Mom. Why?" Judy asked as nick put a few buisiness cards in his wallet.

"Because we can't have anybody recognize our names and realize this is a con." Nick said moving from the chair to the bed. he leaned against the headboard and put his feet up. Judy zipped up her purse and leaned in the curve of nicks right side.

"OK. so am i just supposed to act like my great grandmother?" Judy asked "because i never learned how to knit and i'm not good at baking pies."

"No," Nick said with a laugh, "it says that Jenna Hopkins was a childrens librarian in the rainforest district"

"That's right, she was." Judy said remembering what her mother had told her "She retired early to raise a family"

"Apearently, Jack was a freelance business man from savana square," nick said smirking "Sounds like a he was a conartist to me"

"He was not" Judy said playfully elbowing Nick.

"Okay, he wasn't" Nick agreed noncommitedly "How did we meet?" Nick said changing the subject.

"You know how we met," Judy said a little hurt that he could forget.

"No not us us, Jenna and Jack us" nick said feeling Judy cross her arms.

"Oh, um. i don't know" Judy said looking down thoughtfully

"the business cards advertise a tailoring shop, we can use that as part of the story." he began

"Ok, we met at your shop." Judy said with an air of pride and finality.

"really carrots? thats it?" Nick said

"What's wrong with it?" she asked

"it's a love story, you cant just say we met at a shop." Nick said with authority

"Why not, whats missing?" Judy asked feigning a wounded ego

"the juicy details," Nick said "One thing everyone loves is a fine romance"

"ok you think you can do better?"

"as a matter of fact, i know i can."

"alright, how did we meet?" Judy asked waiting for it to be some silly answer

"we met on a warm spring day in late april 2 years ago. you were out with your friends and your lavender blue dress tore while you were walking past the rose bush outside my shop. your friends brought you in to assess the damage. when they couldnt fix it, they rang the bell on the counter and thats where i come in." Nick began

"Do you even know how to mend clothes?" Judy asked suspiciously

"Yes, actually" Nick replied "My dad owned a shop down the road from here before he died"

"Wow, that's amazing nick," Judy said in awe of the fox she was falling in love with all over again.

"Yeah, any way. i came in and saw you and your friends in a panic over what to do about the tear in your dress. I offered you a loaner dress, one to match your eyes," he looked at judy's now pale green eyes "A faded pastel blue dress with sunflowers growing in an emerald field along the bottom hem, i think. i offered to mend your dress since it was my rose bush that tore it, and you could come back and pick it up in a few days. when you came back to pick up you dress and return the loaner, you asked how much you owed me and i told you nothing. i told you to keep both dresses."

"Why?" Judy interupted

"Because they both looked good on you." nick replied

"But that's bad for business"Judy added

"and that's why i don't have the shop anymore. you left your purse at my shop and that's when i decided to find you again and learn more about you. after 2 days i finally found you doing story time at the library."

Judy was smiling at how simple Nick made it sound.

"Let me guess, you found me at my work and waited for the children to leave. then you gave me my purse and we went to the coffee shop down the road. we sat and talked for hours. after you left i found a hand embroidered note from you saying that you wanted to see me again and if i wanted to see you and i didn't have a boyfriend to meet you in the resturant of the palm hotel the next night?" Judy said

"I think you're getting it now." Nick said kissing her head

"are there any other questions we should prepare for?"

"What are we doing in bunny burrow?"

"Vacation, we needed to get out of the city to relax" Judy said without thinking

"Borring, but not bad." Nick looked at the clock. it was a quarter to 4, Mrs. Gruffmyer would be back soon

"What are we going to tell my family?"

"About what?"

"Why we're staying there, why we look like us?" judy begain "How we made it through alive?"

"Well i can't say any thing about that, but all you have to do is follow my lead" Nick said "I've been pulling schemes like this for a a long time."

"Are you sure this will work?" Judy asked

"yes, and this time it will go a lot smoother, because now i have someone to help me pull it off" nick squeezed her tightly. judy decided against bringing up the fact that they were about to do so many illegal things and they were officers of the law. instead she closed her eyes and nuzzled into nicks side. the knock at the door no more than 20 minutes later brought her out of her day dreaming.

"Come on in" Nick said getting up.

"Here are the keys" Mrs. Gruffmyer said handing them to nick "the car is packed and ready to go"

"Thank you for everything" Judy said sweetly hugging the polar bear before her

"I have one last thing for you dear," Mrs. Gruffmyer said pulling out a dusty old hat with a faded red ribbon around it tied in a bow at the back. "Jenna let me borrow it when we were young, i never got it back to her" tears threatened to stain her white cheeks.

"well now you have." Judy said putting the hat on

"Comeon carrots, we should go now if we are going to get there before it gets dark." Nick said handing Judy her purse and leading her down the hall to the garage

"Drive safe" Mrs. gruffmyer called after them.

"we will" Nick called back. they made it to the car and found that it was a buick secada convertable. Nick opened the door for judy and then went around to the other side and got in.

"Everything will be alright, you'll see" Nick said after he noticed Judy's droopy ears and sorrowful face staring out the window.

"you promise?" judy asked not looking at him. he took her paw in his causing her to turn toward him.

"I promise" Nick said. then he started the car and drove toward bunny burrows.