Authors note: someone noticed that English was not my first language, he is correct, i am not used to English language but I will try my best to improve spelling and grammar, by the way, my first language was Gaelic
Disclaimer: I do not own zootopia or its characters, but i do own the OC's and this story
Chapter 4: always a criminal
Nick and Judy let the Fox rest for 3 days since he has been through alot, Judy felt deep sorrow for him, 'must be horrible losing your parents huh' she thought as they walked out of the holding cell area of the department. Chief Bogo stood there waiting for them, expecting to hear good news on recruiting him to take down the Shadow clan.
The Shadow clan have convicted crimes above any order of jail sentence, from stealing military weapons to Stealing extremely valuable data, since they knew Leo was the only one who knew enough about the Shadow clan, they thought he could help.
"So? did he agree or decline" Chief Bogo said with a huff, he didn't sound pleased about the current situation of the Shadow clan, it was obvious that he wanted them brought to justice. "He did accept sir" the result made Bogo smile… "but" as soon as Judy said that, the smile was quickly erased, "he wants 3 days in there to regain strength and confidence. You can't blame him sir, he has had a tough time." Judy added in defense of Leo's requested rest.
"Is he still awake?" Chief asked in curiosity, he sounded like he was gonna hurt him, Judy quickly responded with a no, the fact was, she didn't know if he was or not so their was no guessing.
"Oh, ok, I was gonna ask them what are these" he pulled out two carbon fiber sword sheaths, "sir, those are katana sheaths, used for storing weapons like katanas, or something in the same model as it, but what exact model are they?" Nick responded. "How about be find out, let him open them" Bogo said "Since they are his property" Nick was surprised to see Chief respecting a criminals weapons and property, and with that, they agreed.
They walked into the holding cell area were Leo was and walked straight up to bars, the first thing they saw was Leo snoring on the floor wrapped in his hoodie 'i wonder what's in his head' Judy thought, 'what a odd fox' Bogo thoughts said, 'at least I'm not the only lazy one' Nick's thoughts spoke. Judy eventually noticed something, he had headphones in, she entered the cell very quietly and took his phone to see what he was listening to
'DJ snake - middle' is said, she took one headphone out of his ear and started to listen, and to her surprise, it was nothing she has ever heard in life, but she liked it...she liked it alot. She nodded her to the beat, a couple of other songs came on so she decided to continue listening, "you think we should tell her to get out" Nick asked Bogo, "nah, she will realise eventually, and with that, they both left Judy and Leo in the holding room. Judy was still listening to the music when finally realised the time also noticing both Nick and Bogo were gone, it was 9 at night, she sighed but thought she needed to comfort him, so she got 2 spare blankets from the storage rooms, 1 for Leo and one for her, she got back into the cell holding room and put one on Leo, she then sat on the metal bench and put one over her. Her eyes slowly drifted off until she was in a deep sleep
Few hours into the Night
She woke up to Leo panting heavily, sweating, crying and hitting a wall, this scared it but she then realised what made him like this 'no parents, no family left, must be terrified'. She quickly got up and put her hand on his back "Leo? Are you ok?" this made no difference, it only made him he still continued to sob and growl until she found finally spoke out "breathe in and out, try and relax yourself, breathe in and out slowly,
She stopped to let Leo breathe, she was at no clue of what might happen next so she took a few steps back away from him. He finally calmed down. He stood up with a depressed look on his face and walked over to the cell bed,rubbing his face in frustration 'everything will be ok Leo, your parents would be proud of who you are, no matter who you become, they love you because you're their son' she thought, "Thank you" he replied…she suddenly realised that she said that out loud.
"Thank you for everything Judy, but you don't have to be that nice to me, I'm a criminal...in the eyes of everyone" the last words Judy took notice to, he honestly seemed like one of the most nicest mammal in zoo "Don't say that, you are really nice guy, it's just the way you hurt those animals, it scared the rest" she said trying to reassure Leo, which actually worked "Yeah...I guess you're right Judy, but anyway, you have a long hard day at work tomorrow, sorry for waking you up, but try and get as much rest you can, ok?" he said lying back down on the bed and falling asleep almost instantly "ok Leo, and it's ok, everyone has nightmares once in awhile, goodnight Leo, sleep well" she spoke to the relaxed black and silver fur fox before falling asleep as well.
Morning - 6pm
Judy woke up on the bed with two blankets on top of her and...Leo's hoodie? She looked to the right of her to find Leo stretching and doing push ups, she stared at him for a good 5 minutes until he realised she was there, "good morning, I suggest you should get out of the cell before someone finds you here, won't want you trying comfort me to affect your job, I mean I do appreciate it, i really do, but your colleagues or your boss or your partner might disagree, don't worry I'll take care of the blankets for you" he said before throwing then under the cell bed. Judy quickly shot up of the cell bed and quickly closed the cell door again and locking it. With that she sat down at the chair right next to the cell so it looked like she was looking over him. It only took a few minutes before someone walked in, it was Clawhauser, he walked over to Judy with all joy "Hey Judy! Look what Chief got me yesterday, it's so cool!" it was gazelle mug saying 'gazelles no.1 fan' with his face on it, Leo stared at it until Clawhauser saw him staring at it, "what you staring at criminal scum, your disgraceful to zootopia" the cheetah aggressive spoke, " i...that...I'm...nevermind" Leo tried to defend himself but failed, all he could do was get up, get his hoodie back on and lie down on the bed. "Clawhauser! That was mean! All the things he's done to those mammals is because they were the people behind…" she stopped herself, realised that this could hurt Leo within seconds, she thought about his feelings and his parents, she could hear fate echos "Judy" it called…"Judy, you there? Helloooo?" she sooned realise Clawhauser was speaking to her " because of what?" Ben questioned Judy, all should could reply with was "it's private" " Oh, I understand... anyway, chief Bogo wants you take the day off with Nick after what you have done for the force lately" Clawhauser announced to Judy.
"who's gonna take care of him though" Judy asked, "No one, Bogo said he seems like he doesn't want to escape so their gonna let him be alone" Clawhauser replied
"Ok, I will take the day off" she quickly grabbed her phone from the seat and ran out shouting back "i don't deserve this but I'll take it!" Then she was gone.
Bogo walked into the holding cells right after Judy left and talked to Clawhauser " i'm assigning the new recruit to watch over him and I've also assigned her with a stress reliever guide, since he is a very stressful Fox." the new recruit walked in behind Bogo shyly, Bogo handed her the book, "when he starts to get angry, cry or growl loudly, the book should tell you what to do put this, this should tell you how to calm him down, ok?" "Ok boss" the girl's voice announced. Leo did not dare look back, he was going to wait until tomorrow, no matter the cost…or unless he got bored.
Nick's apartment
Nick asked her to come over to hangout at his apartment since it was there day off. she was excited due to the fact that Nick was the Fox she secretly loved also her partner in crime...and best friend, but was scared to confess incase he might hate her, but it had to be done, she was gonna confess tonight...no backing out now, all or nothing.
Nick had invited Judy over to hang out with her more, he truly loved that rabbit, her eyes, her smile, positive attitude...everything, he was planning on confessing to her tonight when walking in the park, however, fear overcame him, he was thinking of what if she pushed him away, what will they be anymore, still partners? friends even? All he knew is that he had to confess, this couldn't go on forever.
ZPD station holding cells
It had been 30 minutes of pure silence from the two, she was busy playing on her phone whilst Leo was napping. The sound of a blade scratching against something woke him up, as he looked back to find the female cop, who was a female white wolf, pulling out the sword out of carbon fiber katana sheaths "Hey! Stop! Don't touch them!" he shouted and she immediately slipped it back in and put them down in surprise and fear of Leo, she breathed heavily whilst looking at him "look...i...I didn't mean to make you scared...just...just calm down, sometimes we all just gotta calm...it's just some that i can't do" he spoke. "i...i...I forgive you" he smiled and just went back to relaxing himself, all he wanted was for people to forget who he was and what he was...a monster…that's all he will ever be in the eyes of people.
Leo decided to listen to music, 'This is my own stress reliever' he whispered whilst putting them in and playing a calm song to ease his mind. There was a full hour of just silence in the room until the female wolf cop spoke "what you did to those mammals was a bit overboard, but atleast you didn't kill them" she spoke, he sighed heavily, 'there's nothing else to do so why not talk' he thought, so he took his headphones out and replied "it's not my intention to kill, and those mammals, are not innocent, they should be thanking i didn't kill them". The thoughts of his mother and father coming back increased his stress slowly every second, "but those mammals have families, do you not care about them?" she asked quietly, "No, no I don't, they...they don't care about my family and what they done, I don't give a shit about them" Leo replied with anger in his voice, he tried to remain calm but the more she mentioned families and 'those mammals', it felt like he wanted to punch something. "what have the-" she was cut off by Leo shouting at her.
"Shut up! Shut up about families! Shut up about those mammals! I should of killed those mammals on the spot! but I didn't because they have a life! Who am i too take one! But they think they have the right to murder my mother and father on the fucking spot! IN OUR HOUSE! I tried to track them down one by one, but every time it just seems to be either a person who knows about them or a random pedestrian," he was right against the bar shouting, his voice could be heard across the entire ZPD. The female wolf cop had a taser drawn and aiming. "So tell me wolf! Whose innocent?! Who's the fucking innocent one huh?!"
He saw Bogo rush in the room "what the hell is going on here" he said with a annoyed tone. Leo instantly backed down, he just walked over to a wall and punched it, he punched it with such rage it brake a bit of it. "Leo? What happened" Bogo asked through the bars whilst the other cop was behind him breathing hard, he didn't want her to get in trouble, so he changed up the story a bit. "it was my fault, we were talking about the mammals who i attacked and i just got abit stress over the thought of family, then I just flipped at her, please do not blame her" Leo told to Bogo, trying to make it look like his fault "next time, try and stay calm, remember, there in better place." and with that, he left, the female wolf sat back down on the seat next to cell.
"Thank you, for not getting me shouted at by bogo" the Wolf quickly announced, "No problem" Leo reply was basic. "So your name is Leo, kinda cute" she said giving off a little smile and looking back down at the floor, that made Leo feel better a bit 'haven't heard that word in a while' he thought with a smile before relaxing again, "what's your name" Leo asked with interest, "Sophie, Sophie Spencer" The last name made his ears rise, but just remembered that there is a lot of Spencer's in Zootopia, he brushed it off without any care, and with that, he closed his eyes and drifted off
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For any of you who are wondering, Leo is a Silver fox in this story, he is around the same height as Nick, but is a bit taller, has natural Sky blue eyes but when angry, they turn red (i will be explaining why next chapter, thank you Jamdea for the suggestion) his personality is a charming, helpful, sensitive and jokey personality (i will be showing the jokey side of him later) and has abs and a six pack, also I will be explaining why Judy comforts him in the next chapter aswell
