Disclaimer: i do not own zootopia or its characters, but i do own the OC's and this story
Chapter 7: getting a lead
A full hour and a half of Nick and Judy chatting away and Leo's silence has went by inside the car, Leo just laid there not moving a inch. Judy was driving around Sahara Square when she saw a black figure go into a alley, Judy became suspicious of the situation so she stopped the car to go and check, whilst jerking to stop, Leo went flying forward into their seats "Ah!" he shouted, holding his head with one paw and the other trying to get himself up, "oh God, I'm so sorry, i didn-" she was stopped by the site of Leo's head, his right side of his forehead was bleeding and the blood was rolling down his face slowly, "Shit, umm, take this and put it on your head whilst me and Nick go check this thing out, ok?" Judy said very fast but was hearable. "Ok, just come back once you're done, if your not back in 10 minutes, I'm coming" Leo remarked trying to ease his bleeding with a cloth. Judy and Nick set out from the car and into the alley way with tasers drawn, "what exactly did you see Carrots" Nick asked, "i seen a black figure walk into this alley way, so i became suspicious" Judy said trying to make it look like a fair reason. Nick sighed and proceeded into the alley way, there was nothing there, "Hey, there's nobody here, i think your rabbit sense are going coo coo" Nick shouted from down the alley way to Judy, "i swear he went here!" Judy shouted back. Nick looked around the alleyway until he stopped looking and picked something up, it was a ripped black piece of a coat with some fur on it, "if you were looking for a black figure, this is as close as we are getting to him right now."
They continued on with the patrol whilst Leo slept in the back seats, taking up all the seats with his legs. He was still holding the cloth to his head which was now covered in blood, Judy could hear little grunts from Leo every time they accelerated the car or stopped, "Leo? Are you gonna be ok?" Judy called back to the resting fox in concern, she just about manage to hear him go 'hmm hm', "lunch break starts soon and after, we need Wolford to exam it and tell Bogo on our finding" Nick said "we might even get the rest of the day off" he said smiling, "i swear you are the most laziest fox ever, but guess what?" Judy said with a smirk on her face "you're my lazy fox" she said with a seductive tone and a kiss, Nick was now trying to not show his blush. Leo looked just smiled and closed his slowly eyes slowly like he was passing out or something, he felt his arms and legs go numb 'this will all be over soon' he thought. His sleeping was soon awoken a sudden shake, he opened his eyes slightly to only see a ray of light hit his eyes, making them sting, he could also just about make out a Fox, a rabbit and a buffalo, he finally realised who they were, they were arguing about something, he could tell by the hand gestures. "Hopps this wouldn't of happened if you wouldn't of stopped aggressively" Chief explained to Judy, "Well what do you expect, I'm obviously not gonna let a shady mammal go by am I?" Judy replied in defense. "Well you better had have any leads on who might be and wh-" he was cut off by Judy lifting up a ripped piece of a coat and some fur on it. Bogo just stood back up straight "take it too Wolford, and then meet me in my office, I'll carry...what's his name again?" questioned Bogo, "Leo, Leo Smith" Judy answered. "Ok, I will carry Leo here to my office and try wake him up." and with that Bogo walked over to Leo, picked him up and put him over his shoulders and walked into the ZPD.
"you better be praying that Leo is alive after this, because if he's not, Bogo will not be happy" Nick remarked.
"Hey, Leo wake up" he could just about make out the muffles into words, "if you can hear me in there, please wake up, the city needs you, they may be terrified of you but don't let that stop you from being who you want to be" the muffles spoke. He tried to force open his eyes but he was too weak at the moment, it was until a cold feeling went flying his body, firing his body up. "aaaaaaahhhhh! So cold!" he flung up to be only wet and a office, "oh, good, that woke you up" he saw Chief Bogo standing there with a bucket in his hands, Leo looked left to see Judy and Nick sitting there on the same seat, due to their height. "Nick, Judy, i want you to take a week break after all you have done for the force lately, even though we are gonna have postpone the search, and plus, Leo can't go searching in this state, you can bring Leo along with you if you want, if you do, don't let him out of your sight though, even though he doesn't want to escape and wants to help, you never know what he might do." Bogo remarked with a smile, "Yes, we will take him, and, Chief we have something to tell you actually, this is kinda important so can you keep this to yourself?" Judy said shyly "ok, anything for my best officers in the ZPD" Bogo said sitting back, Judy took a huge breath before talking "sir, me and Nick are -" they where interrupted by Leo saying something. "What did you say?" Bogo asked looking at Leo, "i said...They are dating" Leo said with pain in his voice. "Is this true?" both Nick and Judy nodded, but both trembling with fear, fear of losing their jobs. "Well then, I am in no right to stop the inevitable, I will allow this but no lovey Dovey on duty, you got that" Bogo stated, "Yes sir!" both stood up and saluted before going to exit the room, "Hey" Bogo called to them, making them turn around. He was pointing at Leo, he was looking a bit dazy, "aren't you forgetting something, both Nick and Judy scrambled to him, Nick got Leo's arm around his neck and Judy was guiding him.
They managed to get him to the car and put a blanket over him in the back seat, letting him sleep to recover. They put a bandage over his head to stop the bleeding, Nick and Judy sat in the front seat of their squad car ready to go home " Hey Nick, can i Stay at your place for the week? Can't stand that shitty apartment with that annoying neighbour" Judy said crossly, Nick just smiled and rubbed her ear, he knew that what cheered her up "sure, but please don't make the place look like a shit stain" Nick chuckled, even though Judy took that to. Offense, she laughed with Nick. He dropped waited outside her apartment so she could get clothes and such, 15 mins later, she came out with a huge suitcase of clothes.
They finally reached Nick's apartment and helped Leo inside, they managed to get him inside the elevator before he blacked out due to the loss of blood before, he woke up on a huge white couch, at the end of it he seen Nick and Judy cuddled together who seemed to be watching a movie, and by the looks of it, a romance movie, he seen two mammals kissing each other under the moonlight in the movie 'i wish that was me and clara' he thought, "clara" he sighed quietly. Nick looked over him and realised he had shifted
Positions "Hey Carrots, I think Leo's recovered, he's shifted positions" Nick whispered to the tired Judy in his arms "Nick, sweetie, go wake him up, see if he's ok, I'm going to bed now anyway, when you're done, come to bed as well." Nick got up and walked over to Leo shaking him, "Hey, Leo, wake up" Nick continued to shake him before he opened his eyes staring at Nick, "what you need Nick?" Leo spoke rubbing his eyes and standing up "i was just checking if you were alright" Nick replied kindly, Leo decided to go get a drink but as soon as he walked one step his left leg went numb, luckily Nick caught him. "Ok, just use this, you are lucky are keep one of them just in case" Nick gave Leo a crutch, "thanks man" Leo replied whilst making his way to the kitchen to grab himself a bottle of water, when he got to the fridge, he could hear Judy speaking, but it sounded like she was talking to someone else, so he grab a bottle and made his way over to the bedroom door and listened, "mom?hey mom, you mind if me and Nick come down to bunny burrow?...yeah...yeah one more person….he's a friend, close friend...yes he's a Fox...my boss told me to take him everywhere I go until this case is solved...i have to otherwise I'll probably be fired, and plus I want to show you how cool he is...ok...tomorrow sound good?...ok...love you, bye" Judy ended the phone call and sighed, "we go to bunny burrow for 2 night because i have a feeling Leo might feel pressure, i don't want him to be in that position" Judy explained to Nick who was getting undress "Well, are you gonna tell him now or later?" Nick asked Judy, "Don't worry, I overheard you" Leo called from the living room, "Well, that was easy" Judy remarked.
"You think we trust you because of who you are, no we don't, we don't trust Fox's, nor predators" a prey exclaimed pointing down upon the young black fox and the grey wolf "leave us alone, have you got nothing better to do?" Clara exclaimed in defense. "we do but the world needs to be freed from disgusting mammals like you." Before she knew it two sheep pinned her against a wall whilst 3 more prey species come up in front of her, the pig pulled out a metal strap thing and put it on clara, she squealed and squirmed but they wouldn't back off. For the first time in forever, he felt so much rage...anger...sadness all stuffed into one ball, the young fox rose upon the prey, and with one swing, cutting the pig deeply making cry, he slashed and punched his way through them, making every hit count. After they had ran off in sheer terror, Leo freed Clara, but not with the expected response, she ran away from him...screaming...she was scared...of him...a monster was all he ever was.
"aaaaaaahhhhh!" Leo shot up from the dream drenched in sweat, "get out of my fucking head!" he said hitting his head with his paw. He hated to dream about that day, the day he became himself but lost his friend, his greatest friend. He looked at the wall clock '7am' it said, he sighed and got up, he looked at the table to find painkillers, bandages and a relief tablets with a note next to it, it read: 'just thought u might need these for when we go to Judy's home town, please wake us up if you read this when you're awake, we are both heavy sleepers - Nick' he sighed before going to walk there but as soon as he did his left leg went numb again, the table managed to save his face, with finding out that his leg his useless right now, he got the crutch and making is way to there door.
Nick and Judy flung up from the bed when they heard a sudden loud banging noise on there door "that would be Leo" Nick stated whilst kissing Judy on the cheek and then shouting back at Leo "we are awake, you can stop knocking" as soon as Nick said that it stopped "gosh what time is?" Nick asked himself, "7am, I don't know when we are supposed to leave but I'm guessing early" Leo shouted in, "Thank you" Judy shouted back, "sweetheart, the train arrives at 8:30am" she said quietly to Nick, he nodded, got up and walked to his wardrobe to pick out a piece of clothing. "Will Leo have any clothes?" Nick asked Judy, "well, telling by the size of his backpack, he's gotta have something" Judy replied, they looked at the time again 7:30am "we are gonna have to skip breakfast otherwise we will never make it" They walked into the living room to find Leo in a different set of clothes, a white skinny hoodie with a black wolf symbol on the arms, with a black t-shirt and black cargo pants. "what you guys staring at?" he said with a smile "are we gonna go or what?" and with that, he opened the door and pushed him out with the one crutch out, Nick and Judy tagged along with suitcases.
They finally arrived at the station 15 minutes early, and in that 15 minutes, they told their past stories, "you wanted to be a scout? Cool, i did want to join but knowing my lazy ass I would probably be late all the time" he chuckled at his comment, so did Nick and Judy.
"THE TRAIN TO BUNNY BURROW IS ABOUT TO LEAVE, BOARD NOW AND DON'T FORGET ANY LUGGAGE" the train announcer said before a few mammals headed towards the train, and in that crowd of a few mammals, there was Nick, Judy and Leo. They boarded the train and sat in the glass dome part of the train, Judy could remember when she was coming to zootopia whilst inside the glass dome, the memories flooded back to her. She decided to listen to the song that she listened to whilst coming to zootopia, try everything by Gazelle. Judy was leaning on Nick's shoulder on the train, they had kissed each other a few times since they departed zootopia, "You don't realise how much I love you, Nick" Judy said softly, "you will never realise how much I love you back, and mind if I change that Judy Hopps to a Judy Wilde?" he said with a smirk. "You can do whatever you want Nick, just as long as I get to keep you" Judy whispered in his ear, whilst kissing him on the cheek, "you spoil me with kisses you know that?" Nick stated with a laugh, "anything for my favourite fox" she said with a seductive tone, messing with the fur on his head.
They finally arrived at their destination, Leo struggled to get up so to Nick had to help him get up. They were about to exit the train when Judy put her paw in his "hopefully this will show them that we are together." The doors of the train opened and Nick and Judy came out hand in hand, Judy's paw let go of Nick's when she went to hug her parents, "i missed you guys so much" Judy said snuggling her face in her parents shoulders, "you do know you can come down to home anytime and we would still treat you the same Judy" Bonnie, Judy's mother, spoke, "your mother's right Judy" Stu, Judy's dad,added. "Oh, Nick, how have you been, you have grown since the last time I saw you" Bonnie said walking over to Nick and giving and hug "it's been a year Mr and Mrs Hopps" Nick said with a smile, "it sure has been busy" said Stu patting his back. They all suddenly turned their eyes to the black fox, only wind breaking silence, the army of little bunny's ran at him touching his tail and climbing ontop of him, his face showed no amusement though, "kids off the Fox, please" Bonnie shouted nicely, as soon as they heard her they all got off him and ran behind her to continue playing. Stu walked up the Fox and looked at him, "I've never seen a Fox like you before" Stu said looking at him with a chuckle, "that's because I am the only Silver fox in the world sir" Leo stated looking at him, "Stu, give the boy some space" Bonnie said calling over her husband "Mom, dad, i have to tell you something really important, promise me that you won't overreact, because 2 reasons, 1) because it is really important to me, 2) it will kick of Leo. Her parents looked at the black fox behind them, "oh so his name's Leo, Leo what?" Stu asked "Smith" Leo said from behind them, he was more closer now, "anyway moving on to the thing we need to tell you" Judy said changing topics,she was nervous. "Ok Judy, we promise we won't overreact" Bonnie stated. 'well here goes nothing' Judy thought, "mom, dad, me and Nick are dating" Said with a serious tone and then hugging Nick.
Her parents just looked at her, and smiled "Judy, we are happy for you, we know Nick is a good fox, and this is your life so we have no right to stand in your way" this made Judy smile and hug her parents, Leo just sat on the bench on his phone waiting till they go, "Mr Fox?" a young voice called, he looked at the other side of the bench to see a little bunny girl, "why is your fur different from Nick" the girl asked, Leo just ruffled her head fluff and spoke, "because my father was a Russian domesticated red fox and my mother was a white wolf" Leo explained with a smile, "So they weren't the same species Mr Fox?" The girl questioned, "No, they weren't, that's what made them unique, that's what made me Unique, you are unique in your own way, don't let anyone take it from you. "Leo, Bethany time to go" Judy called out, and with that Leo got up and followed the bunny crowd 'this is gonna be a long two days' he thought...
