AN:/ Man, sorry about last chapter. It wasn't exactly my best work. I have no excuses besides lack of sleep. :D So, I give you a hopefully better new chapter! Its looooonnnnggg.. Over 8,000 words. :DI AM UPDATING EARLY! I wanted to post this at 1:00, but... EEEEE! I like this one too much!

This is the chapter I have worked up to, certain parts are just... Dang. Like, -gets slapped with the fish of feels- It's not as feely now, but... It's getting there.

Prepare yourself, cause' if you read my About Me, then you know... You know my love to make people feel human, and endure EMOTIONAL PAIN.

So, just a hint. BEWARE THE ONCOMING CHAPTERS. I have plans... So many plans... -evil chuckle- How about you think of some, and give me a guess? :3

Also, FLUFF WARNING! YOU'LL KNOW IT WHEN YOU READ IT!~ ;)

Last Chapter:

After contacting Chief Bogo through Clawhauser at the front desk, Judy and Nick await backup and the arrest of every single mammal a part of the containment of the 14 missing savaged animals. When the ZPD do arrive, they send batches of Officers to check the building a few times more. Though when they search through the cells and floors, the team of police officers sent to retrieve any remaining mammals inside the building, find nothing whatsoever.

When Suzanne is eventually found, freed, and exit the building, she is arrested and sent away unexpectedly. After everything that went down only hours ago, she will go through one of the toughest decisions of her life. Completely forgetting the oncoming scene in the movie, Judy's words still sting her heart.

What will she decide?

Comforting Nick as well as herself and walk away, or stay with Judy and have Nick storm out, and help Judy with her oncoming problems. The choice she makes was difficult, but wasn't entirely on her own.

(Humorous 3rd POV that changes unexpectedly)

In the Zootopia Police Department, one might assume that serious business was going on inside the building.

HAH. Nope. Chief Bogo was playing on his phone, and was specifically getting into the new app everyone had. The one for Gazelle. So of course, he had to check it out too. He didn't regret it.

Well, that is until Benjamin Clawhauser decided to burst though the door.

"Chief Bogo!" The chubby cheetah called, paw over the door, a serious look on his face. The water buffalo slammed his cellphone down onto his desk, scowling as usual. "Not now!"

A look of realization dawns on the cheetahs face. "Wait, is that Gazelle?" He asks, almost incredulous. He tries to cover his phone. "No!"

"I'm Gazelle, and you are one hot dancer."

Ben gasps. "You have the app too?" He smiles, pressing his paws to his cheeks, grin growing. "Aww, Chief!"

"Clawhauser! Cant you see I'm working on the missing mammal cases?" Bogo said with a orderly tone, gesturing to the map to his right, with photos of all the mammals lost.

"Oh, oh, oh, yes, of course, about that sir. Officer Hopps just called - she found all of them." Clawhauser explains his reasoning for coming here. Chief Bogo has a stunned look.

The Gazelle app blares out, "Wow, I'm impressed!"

The ZPD are sent to the Asylum, and swarm it. Chief Bogo is seen exiting the building, bringing Mayor Lionheart with him in handcuffs. Judy walks beside them.

"You don't understand! I was trying to protect the city!" Mayor Lionheart tried to explain. Judy held a stern look. "You were just trying to protect your job." Lionheart sighs in exasperation. "No! Listen, we still don't know why this is happening. It could destroy Zootopia!"

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you..." Judy says, walking along as Lionheart is sent to a police car.

Chief Bogo is talking towards other officers. "Search the place from top to bottom. Make sure you open every door. Leave nothing unchecked. Is that understood?" He orders, scowling down at the police officers. An elephant, lion, polar bear, and wolf. They all nod in determination and respect towards their superior. "Head out then!"

The officers storm into the building, looking for any hidden or missed crucial clue, or even an animal.

"Ah! Chief Bogo! Are they scanning the building again?" Judy asks through the roar of the sirens and helicopter winds as she walks up to the intimidating water buffalo. He nods. "Yes, and they are to retrieve anything from an important document on the missing mammals, to a mammal itself." He said, glancing down to the rabbit that solved all the cases in one area.

"Sir, may I go with them?" She asks, hopeful. Maybe she could find Suzanne!

Chief Bogo thought for a moment. "Alright. But when the other officers are finished, you do not stay behind. Understood?" He says, looking down at her, the scowl practically frozen onto his face. Judy nods, determined. Chief Bogo turns and walks towards Dr. Madge, as she was being shortly questioned.

Judy then turned and walked to Nick, who was wearing sunglasses and holding a Starbucks cup. She chuckled at his antics when he showed the officers on both sides of him his 'police badge', then walks off towards her drinking his coffee. "So, Fluff. You ready?" He asks, smirking down at her, eyes concealed with the sunglasses. Judy sighed, and nodded. "As ready as I'll ever be."

They both headed towards the building's main entrance, and stepped through the pinned back door. It didn't look as bad as the room they first entered in was.

Both Nick and Judy had planned on searching for their captured partner when the ZPD arrived. They couldn't jeopardize anything by running in to search for one fox inside a large building filled with timber wolves and other mammals. So they waited near the waters edge, as Judy called in to Clawhauser at the front desk.

"You really think she's okay?" Nick had murmured, staring down at his paws in his lap. He was worried, he'll admit. But not to Fluff.

Judy sighed. He had been asking that to himself, and to her for the past 5 minutes. "Yes. I have no doubt she could handle herself. She's a smart fox. We both know that." Judy tried to reassure the fearful fox. He tried to hide it, but she could tell. She was worried too, don't get her wrong, just... She knew that sly vixen could manage on her own, she just knew it.

So she tried her best to help her friend, as he worried over their lost partner. "I just... Have this feeling, you know? Like something's not right.." He sighed, his paws clenched into fists.

Judy let out some air through her nose, making it twitch as she too, felt a sense of foreboding wash over her mind. She shook her head. She had to just be optimistic. "Nick, she'll be fine. I promise." She placed a paw to his shoulder, smiling comfortingly up at him from her spot at his side. She had sent in the call. Now all they had to do was wait.

Nick turned to her, and nodded. "Just wait and see, when the ZPD reinforcements get here, they'll search the place, and I bet have a heart attack at what she had done. I think she hid inside one of the cabinets in the scanning room." Judy tried to distract him. He really does care, she thought. And she's totally oblivious..

Nick chuckled a little. "Maybe even attached herself to the ceiling." Judy thought some more. Nick shook his head at that. "Oh no, she's terrified of heights." Nick argued. Judy scoffed. "It's not heights that scares her,"Judy starts.

"Its falling that does." Both Judy and Nick say in unison. They both chuckled. She smiled over at Nick, just as her radio to HQ went off. "Officer Hopps, we're arriving at Cliffside Asylum,"

She patted his back as both of them got up. "She'll be fine." Judy said one last time.

And Nick believed her.

So here they were, walking around, thinking of any place Suzanne Daniels, the shy, polite, clumsy, yet witty, sly fox would be. "Where could she be?" Judy wondered aloud, no need for her phone light, since the last batch of police officers had turned everything on for it to be easier on the last round to double-check and make sure.

"I mean, wouldn't she of just, I don't know," She tried to find the right wording for how that vixen would've alerted Police Officers, that she was here. "Just pop out and go 'Boogie boo'?" Nick suggested from his spot down the hall leading to more rooms, all the doors opened.

Well, most of them.

Judy snickered. "Yeah. That sounds like something she would do." Nick smiled as he looked through some file cabinets. That was Judy's guess, wasn't it? Even if it would only fit a baby bunny, not a full grown fox. He continued his search as Judy went over to behind a reception desk. They were supposed to locate and follow the remaining group of police officers sent in right before them, but both Judy and Nick wanted to find their friend on their own.

One, because who knew what she would do if she were caught by a lion and polar bear. Judy said a few kicks to the face, Nick said she'd scream something about the "Lion King" and "Canada". Two, she could literally be anywhere. And most likely stay there, and the both of them knew her better than the other police officers did, so they had a better chance with just the two of them.

He sipped his coffee, as he passed by what looked like ransacked rooms, on both sides of the hallway he was walking across. His light steps where halted when he came across a door, like all the others, except it was closed. He set aside his coffee, and took a few steps closer to it, gripping the handle. He turned it, noticing it was unlocked, and pushed it open, creating a stream of light to brighten up a sliver of the dark room inside. Did one of the officers close it? Probably. It was unlocked, after all.

He blinked, and took off his sunglasses, setting them with his Starbucks on the stand outside, beside the door like for all the others. His ears perked at the soft, so very soft sound coming from deep inside the room.

The sound of breathing. He immediately turned to call out for Judy. "Carrots! I think I found her!" He grinned. So she went cliche, eh? He heard Judy's call echo from where ever the heck she was, and soon heard her racing footsteps. His grin broadened, and he pushed the door all the way open, the silver sprayed handle lightly ramming into the wall on the right side of it. The light now flowed freely into the room, the edges were still darkened, but that wasn't what he was thinking about.

No. His mind was racing on the heap at the far end of the room, curled up, seemingly chained to the wall in some sick way, and tight leather straps that was scarred, clawed at, wrapped around that unique, yet familiar peach colored fur covering her head.

Oh, he found her alright. Just not in the way he'd ever imagined.

His ears fell flat against his skull. He saw her shift slightly, most likely at the sudden light. His breathing escalated rapidly, eyes widening.

No. It isn't her, why would it be her? It can't be. Judy said she would be just fine. The obvious female fox not 10 feet away slowly turned the top half of her body, facing towards the sudden light. Judy said she would be fine.

"N..Nick?" The broken, familiar voice that emitted from the mess of fur hit him hard, the way it was muffled, the painfully familiar contraption holding her jaw closed smacked him in the face, the beautiful golden-brown eye's that fit her so well, watering and red, broke his heart.

"P-..Peach?" He called, voice soft, as he took in a quick breath at the end. He was afraid if he said anything too loud, even breathed too loud, it would break her. He didn't want it to be real. The perk of her ears told him she heard him. He could see her try to say something back, but only a whimper came out, before she was full-on sobbing.

He took a few shaky steps towards her, now in an even tighter fetal position. Before he stumbled closer, running and tipping over what he could barely make out as a chair, and landed in front of her, gently picking her up, and sat on his calves, carefully holding her to his chest.

Her eyes were closed, as anger boiled inside him. After all these years, nothing got to him. After so many years, used to the obvious distrust, caution, and rudeness sent towards him, towards any fox. He finally felt something. She then looked up at him, and smiled. "Y-You know, this isn't a first for me.." She said, though her voice was muffled, obviously. That made his heart freeze. What?

But now her eyes were closed again, as silent tears that in her mind, weren't her own slid down her face. He wiped one away with his thumb, and that made her chuckle albeit sadly. "S-So cliche, Wilde..." She murmured. He didn't even crack a grin.

Through sadness, confusion, and being fed up. He was mostly pissed off. He wrapped his arms around her still shaking form, and hugged her tightly to his body. If anything infuriated him more, is the fact that he knew she didn't deserve something like this. No one did. But especially someone like Suzanne. She was kind, and polite, and understanding. Even if she was a fox, knew of people's thoughts on her kind, the stereotype. The distrust. She was still herself, and tried to show that to anyone she came across. She didn't change.

He heard a gasp from the doorway. So Judy finally made it.

He didn't even glance in her direction, as she hurriedly ran across the expanse of the room, and to the two foxes at the far end of it. "N-Nick? What happened? Is that-" Judy started to question.

"Yes. Now help me get this thing off." He muttered, interrupting her, his eyes glazed over. Judy paused, then nodded. She scooted closer, and sat in front of Nick, leaning over Suzanne's slightly shaking form.

It wasn't as bad as when Nick found her. Judy then reached over and put her paws against the small, steel key hole on the back of her head. She looked up at Nick when she tried to lift one of the leather straps off of the vixens head. It wouldn't even let her slide her paw under, let alone pull it off.

Judy shook her head. "How can she even breathe with this thing so tight?" She muttered, narrowing her eyes. Suzanne only groaned and shook her head. Judy bit her lip in thought.

"We have to cut it off her." She said, searching along her belt, and luckily found a box cutter she had stored for not exactly something like this, but more of a 'Cut the rope' situation. She lifted it, and flicked the tab on the side, pushing up the blade. "Okay, hold still. The straps are really tight, so this is going to be close." Judy explained, and Suzanne laid completely still. Judy then proceeded to carefully saw through the straps.

When it was finally off, they could see the bruises already formed through her light, and now matted fur. She took in a deep, shaky breath. And sighed.

She smiled, and hugged Judy. "Thanks Jud's. That thing really was bugging the crap out of me." She then stood up, and looked to her wrists. "Oh, you think you can, I don't know, bunny kick these off?" She said, trying to lighten the mood. Her smile seemed only a little forced, and even that was surprising enough for the other fox and bunny.

They only stared at her. Her ears lowered in embarrassment. "Uh..." She looked behind her, then pointed to herself. "Sorry?.. Okay, what did I do." She ends up slumping her shoulders, glaring defeated and frustrated.

It only made Judy run up and hug her waist. She raised her arms, still bound together, and she lifted both eyebrows. She then looked up to the male fox a few away, not moving an inch. He met her gaze, and smiled softly, going to wrap an arm around her shoulder, pulling her as close as he could without making Fluff suspicious. It was difficult.

"Glad you're still yourself Peach." Nick said, ruffling the fur atop her head, wincing at having to be careful for the bruises. Judy then giggled, and nodded in relief.

After something like that, only someone like her could be fine after having a couple friends save her. She still didn't change.

"So... What I miss?"

When the exit was in view, I was fully informed on everything that went on while I was away. Well, I kind of already knew, but didn't want to bust Judy's excited bubble halfway through her explanation.

"...And that's why we're going back to the ZPD in the morning, and explain everything there." Judy finishes. I only tap my chin in thought. "So that means I'm going to have to endure another full-length explanation by you again?" I say in a fearful voice nearing the end. Judy glared playfully at me, but didn't elbow me like I expected. Nick, who hadn't unwrapped his arm from my shoulder, chuckled. I could feel the vibrations from his arm. I lowered my ears and squirmed as discreetly as possible. No touchy.

When we stepped out, we were bombarded by an angry water buffalo.

"Officer Hopps! Where were you!" He yelled, scowling, storming over."Sir, we were trying to find our friend, who was inside the building. None of your 4 search teams found her, so we decided to look ourselves." Judy began, placing herself in front of her superior. "You should have located, and contacted the last search group, like you were ordered to." Chief Bogo said in a strong tone, glaring down at the bunny.

Judy sighed and shook her head. "Yes, I know sir, but we would never have been able to find her if we stayed with the group, it would've taken too long, and eventually have left the area, as well as her," Judy gestured to me, and I finally escape Nicks arm, and walk over, waving a bit, smiling. "Hey."

Judy continued to explain, but when Chief Bogo saw me, he huffed. "No matter. You should have followed your instructions in the first place. And you," He pointed to me, "Are going to be sent back to Headquarters and arrested like you should have been 2 days ago." He said, scowling down at me. My ears lower, and I frown. Nick then steps in front of me, glaring up at Chief Bogo. "And what would be the charges?" Nick asks, practically challenging the buffalo, and Chief Bogo pulls out a file, and flips it open, and begins to read after pulling out his specs.

"24 cases of pick-pocketing, 3 destroyed small cabbage sales marketplaces, 2 stolen vehicles, and 1 bank robbery." He read, looking down to Judy after closing the red file, then handing it to her. She opens it, and her eyes widen. Nick looks to me now, and I only can stare at the ground. He wasn't a hypocrite, but still, he didn't know the peach furred fox had a record.

"Signed by you for conformation, since she was under your custody three and a half days ago. On your first day of work." He further explained. Judy re-read the charges, and then looked the side, and her eyes widened. "You had given her time for a proper consequence, and we hadn't received any notification of passing her off to Juvy for her young age." He finished, taking off his specs and sliding them in his shirt pocket.

I looked down at her with a look of hurt and betrayal.

"Y..You were planning on actually arresting me? After all that you told me?" I say, looking to her then to the fountain a few feet away. "When you believed it wasn't me?"

"N-No... Listen, Suzanne, I didn't-" Judy began, but I only glared at her, a sad, angry smile on my face."You could have canceled it. I understand in the beginning, but now? Now?" Judy only grimaced, hugging the file to her chest. "You didn't even tell me? And you even had time to call it off..." I ask, furrowing my eyebrows in pure miff, and in sadness.

I sighed, and as Bogo walked over, his hands behind his back, he then guided be to an awaiting Police Car, the door already open. "N-No.. Wait! Chief Bogo!" Judy called. He looked over, and had some other animal attend to me. I was then cuffed by a lion, and I stepped inside the large vehicle. I turn and stare out the window, seeing a seething Nick, and a pained Judy. She was frantically talking, shaking the file in her paws, ears lowered. Nick was still at her side, but his eyes were on the car I was in.

I turned away, and closed my eyes, sighing.

The busy animals and open shops greeted me in a fast past, as it was dark, early morning. People were still up. Well, there are nocturnal mammals in Zootopia.

I looked away, and to the back of the large drivers seat in front of me. I leaned back, and wondered what jail was like. There was a half of me that screamed to break out, and escape. The other was calm, and logical. The feelings of someone who hadn't done a thing wrong. Where had that come from?

"Y..You were planning on actually arresting me? After all that you told me?"

It was as if I had actually done something for her to arrest me for, as if I had trusted her, and that was a rare, earned thing. I trust a lot of people, and haven't stolen a thingin my life!

But... There was the one time, when this.. Dream... Began. The time where I had that money in my pocket, when I first met Judy Hopps, still in her meter-maid outfit.

With that damn fox spray.

My eyes widened, and my heart pounded. What?... Y.. Yeah, that.. She had that. Where... Had that thought come from? It.. It didn't sound like.. Me...

I shook my head, trying to ignore the pestering thoughts I have pushed away for too long. I sighed, and pressed my head against the window of the car. The coolness relaxing my racing heart. How was I gonna get out of this? It wasn't going to be easy.

(Hah! Did you think that was serious? XD)

The cuffs clanked onto the desk, as the cheetah upfront set them aside, as well as the key given to him by Judy.

"Well that was easy." I muttered, with the most done face. "And here I thought I was going to go to jail, and miss that speech of yours.. " I said, looking down at her. She didn't meet my gaze. I had a few bandages on my head for the worst bruises from the muzzle but I tried not to think about that.

"Look, I'm sorry... Suzanne, if I.. I'm sorry.." She sighed out in defeat, and her ears drooped. I then looked above her, and to Nick who was smirking on the other side of the ZPD lobby, leaning against a part of the buildings interior decorations.(a.k.a "The Author has literally no idea what the heck he was leaning against")

He shrugged. My call I guess. Okay.

I then crouched down to her level, and grabbed her ears, and lifted them up, smiling at her. "Hey.. C'mon, cottontail. Show me them buck teeth and get that game face on. Cause' the podium is up, and the reporters are coming in." Judy couldn't hide her smile, and nodded, before I let go of her ears, as they stayed up. I stood straight, and nodded at her, putting a hand to my hip.

"Well lets get you ready!" I say, shooing her off, and she bounded over to Nick, and I quickly followed, and stood beside him, hands behind my back, grinning. That was as 'apology accepted' as Judy was going to get, and she knew it.

We soon see Chief Bogo walks over to the podium, and steps up to it. Before he starts his speech, we lock eyes, and he glares at me. I take a step and hide behind Nick. He looks to me, and smirks. I glare and stick my tongue out. "If you had a water buffalo after your tail you'd be hiding behind things too." I whispered, and his ear flicked. He chuckled, and turned back, but not before he casually puts a paw behind his back, and starts tickling my belly. I choke on air, and splutter, trying to move away as fast as I could, as silently as I could.

Judy ends up catching me, and setting me upright. I let out a breath, and rub my eyes, rubbing my assaulted torso. Nick stifles his laughter, and I step on his foot. Before anything got too out of hand, Judy stopped our teasing. Quit it! The both of you!"

We both stopped at the sound of Chief Bogo's voice. ".. who will speak to you in a moment." I can now see why she wanted us to stop. It was her turn to step up and talk about the case.

"Ohh, I'm so nervous." She admits, biting her thumb, eyebrows furrowed. Nick and I share a look. "Okay. Press conference 101. You wanna look smart, answer their question with your own question and then answer that question." Nick explains. At Judy's slightly confused look, he then turns to me, and pushes himself off what he was leaning on.

I took that as my cue, and return his casual sly smirk, and cough into my hand, then look like I hand a microphone in my paw, and spoke into it, "Excuse me, Officer Hopps, uh, what can you tell us about the case?" I ask in a comical deep reporter man voice, as I move my imaginary microphone-thing near his face. "Well, was this a tough case? Yes, yes it was." He finishes, and he goes back to leaning against the thing, while I cross my arms and jut out my hip. "You see?" We both say, smirking.

"But don't forget your own question. That happens to me all the time." I admit, without a face change. Judy smiles. Nick scoffs. "Yeah, please don't do that." He smirks at me, I close my eyes and stick my tongue out.

I then look back to Judy but speak towards Nicks idea.

"I always thought answering questions with questions then answering my own question was always a bit annoying." I tell Nick, raising a brow."And redundant." I add.

"It's honestly a lot easier to just explain everything through your own point of view." I say, then turn to Judy. "But they will ask you questions, you will be put on the spot, they are needing information, and will get as much out of you as possible so..." I give her at thumbs up. "Follow his idea, not mine. After all, I went along with his improv, so that has to mean something." I finish, and Judy shakes her head.

"You both should be up there with me. We did this together." She says, and I lean against Nick like he's a wall. "Are we cops?" I ask out loud, and lean my head on his shoulder, looking at him, playfully batting my eyelashes. He shoves me away, and rolls his eyes, but answers anyway, "No, no we are not." He smirks still, as I go back to crossing my arms at his side.

"Hm.. Funny you guys should say that. Because, well, I've been thinking... " She starts to take out a ZPD application. "It would be nice to have a partner..." She unfolds it, and slides apart another one. "Or two... " She smiles up at us, taking out her pen.

"Here, in case you guys need something to write with." Judy hands Nick the carrot pen, and looks to me. I nod, smiling warmly. Nick takes the pen, and she returns her gaze to his touched one. He was smiling as well.

"Officer Hopps! Its time!" We hear Assistant Mayor Bellwether call out, and Judy glances between the two of us, and crosses her fingers, then walks up to the podium.

I look to Nick, and hold the ZPD application. "Wow. This thing is a lot more simpler than I imagined." I muttered. He hummed. "Yeah, but I think the physical tests are the real challenge." I nod, and try to snatch the pen to work on mine. "C'mon! You're already halfway through!" I whined, as he tried to hold me back.

It didn't even occur to me, what was about to happen. I didn't even think.

And it made it hurt so much more.

(POV changes repeatedly and randomly, beware)

"They appear to be in good health, physically, if not emotionally. So now, I'll turn things over to the officer who cracked the case, Officer Judy Hopps."

Judy walks up to the podium, and the reporters begin to talk trying to get Judy's answers. Through all the questions, she points to a beaver. "Uh, yes?"

"What can you tell us about the animals going savage?" He asks, looking up to her. "Well the... the animals in question..." She breaks off, and looks to Nick and Suzanne. Nick was encouraging her, while Suzanne was trying to steal the pen he held too high for her to reach. The vixen then turned and saw her looking at them, and grinned crookedly, nodding in her direction, before pinching Nick's ear, making him let go of the pen. She smiled in amusement, and in newfound determination. "Are they all different species? Yes, yes they are." She says, looking back to the reporters. They take note, and Nick does the weird gesture thing.

"I cant believe that worked." I mumbled, and Nick smirks. "You better believe it did. Stop your doubting, Peach." Rolling my eyes, I bump him with my hip as Judy continues answering her own questions. "Call me Prunus persica." I say in an overly-fluent accent, rolling the R's so many times it became near impossible to understand what I said as I wiggled my fingers for effect.

Nick only gave me a disbelieving look. "What?" He asks, in an almost mockingly confused manner. "Oh shut up and just listen to her explain everything we already know in a redundant method." I say in exasperation, now finishing the ZPD application. Before my heart drops in my stomach. Oh, my God.

"...Why is this happening?" A pig reporter asks.

"We still don't know. But it may have something to do with biology." Judy tries to explain, and answer the question. I see Nick look up from his application, and my heart if possible sinks lower, and my heart begins to ache in something other than the pain from the movie.

It felt too real.

"What do you mean by that?" Another pig asks.

"A biological component. You know, something in their DNA." Judy again, continues to try and explain. "In there DNA, can you elaborate on that please?" Another reporter asks. "Yes. What I mean is, thousands of years ago, uh, predators survived through their... aggressive hunting instincts." Judy says, and Nick looks shocked. I didn't want to look up at the screen, but something told me I needed to.

I stared up at the screen, and my eyes widen, carrot pen in hand, and the pictures reflect in my eyes. "For whatever reason, they seem to be reverting back to their primitive, savage ways."

I already knew what was up there, so why did it break my heart, shatter it, and who would pick up the pieces?

"Officer Hopps, could it happen again?"

"It is possible, so we must be vigilant, and we at the ZPD are prepared and are here to protect you."

"Will more mammals go savage?" "What is being done to protect us?" "Have you considered a mandatory quarantine on predators?"

I ignored everything after that. Quarantine? I already knew that everything would be alright in the end, and that it was a stupid purple flower, but it still hurt. I could have said something, ran up and told something, told Judy, or hinted at something. Given her a reason to doubt the Night Howlers being Timber Wolves.

Something. I could have done something, but I didn't. Why?

"Okay, thank you Officer Hopps. Uh, that's all the time we have. No more questions." Bellwether walks Judy away from the reporters. "Was I okay?" Judy asks the sheep, and she nods. "Oh, you did just fine!" Bellwether turns away after the rabbit is far from the crowd, and the Judy walks up to Nick.

"Oh, that went so fast. I didn't get a chance to mention you guys, or say anything about how we..."Judy started, sounding relieved. I looked at the ground. "Oh, I think you said plenty." Nick said, clearly upset, as he stared down at Judy. "What do you mean?"

I opened up the folded ZPD application. I was behind Nick, and was sitting on the thing Nick had leaned against, elbows on my knees, as I stared down at the piece of paper. How could I forget? How did I forget. Of all the things to recall, this should have been one of the most important. "Clearly there's a biological component?","These predators may be reverting back to their primitive, savage ways"? Are you serious?"

I felt my eyes begin to sting. My heart ached. I wanted to understand Judy's situation, but it just pained me to even think of forgiving her right now. "I just stated the facts of the case. I mean, it's not like a bunny could go savage." I looked over to Judy, and hopped down from my spot, tears threatening to spill over.

It was like I had experienced this before. And I felt blame for myself, blame that I trusted someone. Why? It hurt.

"Right. But a fox could, huh?" Judy furrows her brows at his tone. "Nick, stop it! You're not like them." He raised a brow. "Oh, there's a them now?!" He questions, angered. I walked over to Nick and Judy.

Nick saw me out of the corner of his eyes, because he glanced at me. "You did not just say that." I mumble, and took a breath. "Is it the sharper teeth? Or the claws?" I ask, turning my head, glaring down at her, eyes watery. "Or is it because apparently after years of evolving, you rabbits still don't trust us. It's obvious, it always has been. I thought you were different," I gestured to Nick and myself. "We, thought you were different." I say, looking down at her, my voice was wavering, lowering in pitch, and rising at the end of a sentence where what I said hurt the most. "We were wrong, You're just like all the others." Judy looked up at me. "Others?" She starts, confused and slightly offended.

"You know who! Everyone, anywhere, everywhere. Who knows right from wrong, when they look at a fox and find themselves hiding away their children, or keeping a stronger eye on their wallet in their back pocket." I shut her up with my obvious pained words. It hurt.

"No matter how much we evolve, it will never go away. There may be a few who understand, but it will always be there."

Judy looks to Nick. "No matter how hard we try, they will only see a sly, untrustworthy fox." I said, in barely above a whisper. She sees his pained eyes as what I said got to him. She then looked to me.

I never once broke my gaze. "I tried, Judy. I really did. But congratulations, you just ruined any hope I had for anyone." I ended, voice breaking, before walking around her, application floating down onto the polished floor as the wind I created blew it off its original surface.

I heard Nick call out my name, but I only storm through the reporters, and out the door into the sun and city.

It hurt.

Judy looks after the fox's fading form. She turned back to Nick, who looked down at her. He shook his head. "You broke her. You actually, broke her." He laughed dryly. "So, l-let me ask you a question: Are you afraid of me? Afraid of her? Do you think we might go nuts? Do you think I might go savage?" He claws the air. "Do you think we might try to..." He jumps forward, "Eat you?"

Judy steps back, hovering her paw over the repellent. Nick looks to her, hurt. "I knew it. And even after all that she told you, just now, you do something like that?" He scoffs. Judy realizes what she's doing, and moves her paw away, looking up to Nick. "Just when we thought somebody actually believed in us, huh?" He gives Judy the application back, and as he begins to leave, her eyes land on the remaining application, lying face first on the floor. "Probably best if you don't have a couple predators as partners." She looks at his application, and then Suzanne's. They were filled out.

She turns to see Nick halfway across the room, and he tears off his sticker and throws it away. She tries to follow him, but is swarmed by reporters. "No, Nick! Nick!"

"Officer Hopps, were you just threatened by those two predators?" They remembered Suzanne too? Judy narrowed her eyes. "No, they are my friends." She tells them. "We can't even trust our own friends?" Another reporter, a rabbit, asks her. "That is not what I said. Please-" She answers sternly, trying to get through to Nick. "Are we safe?" "Have any other foxes gone savage?"

I don't know where I am. All I know is that it's where Nick was when Judy followed Finnick's directions, and I somehow found it in my storm of Rage and Self Pity. I was humming the beginning of "Take A Walk" By Peach Pit, which I found apparently very funny, because I started cackling and was thankful I was under a bridge.

I walked out into the sun, and yelped, when I saw Nick right in front of me. It was like he, spawned there or something. He was sipping a drink, and had his sunglasses on, feet propped up on something I honestly couldn't identify,(because Author-chan is too lazy to put in Zootopia and watch it to see). I put my hands on my hips, now emotionally balanced, and ready to forgive a crying bunny.

It stayed like that for a few moments. Him sipping his drink, me standing there like a disapproving Mother.

"So, when do you think she'll come crying back to us?" He asks, setting aside his drink, and lifting his glasses to look at me. "Oh, in about an hour or two." I say, counting on my fingers. He hummed and smirked, and I walked over, staring down at him. "What?" I ask, frowning in confusion. He was getting that look on his face...

"Oh, nothing." He then grabbed his drink again, and took a sip. "Oh, no you don't mister, there is definitely something. And I'll figure out what it is, even if it means end up doing whatever it is that you wanted me to do." I say, grabbing his drink. He raised a brow at my words and actions, lifting up his sunglasses again. " I'll take those shades of yours too if you're not careful!" I add, shaking the drink for emphasis.

"Did you really just do that?" He asks, smirk growing. I pout, and nod, before smirking myself, and taking a sip, winking. "Hah! Course' I did!" I held my head high. "And what are you gonna do about it?" I ask, leaning towards him.

"This." He shot out of his chair, and reached to grab me, but I squealed, and ran around it, with him on the other side, worried he would either jump over it or turn it over. "So that's how it's going to be, huh?" I say, as he tries to run around on my right, and I quickly speed out of range, and to the other side where he was not moments ago. "Two foxes, out in 90 degree weather, one chasing the other for a drink?" I ask him, taking another sip, smirking at him again. He kept a smirk of his own, except this time, his looked more dangerous.

"Oh, I'm not chasing you for the drink." His smirk grew at my startled expression. I looked down to the drink, then to his pounce-like position. Then to his covered eyes. I paused for a moment, then screamed, pointing at him.

"CANNIBALISM!" I screech, just as he runs around the chair in a burst of speed, and as I try to out run his approach, he wraps his arms around my waist, and pulls me back, leaving the drink and all chances of escape out of my grasp and all over the ground.

He spins me around, as I laugh, grabbing his arms tightly wrapped over my stomach, and try to wiggle my way out, but he only steps back and lands in the chair again, arms securing me in place, and he laughed out loud. I huffed, but smiled nonetheless.

"Okay, okay. You got me... You can let go now, Nick." I say, and try to stand up, giggling. His arms only tighten, as I feel his chest press against my back. "Mm, no. No I don't think I will." He says, his voice dripping with a strange emotion I couldn't place.

I laughed a little, and tried to turn and see his face to get a better grip on why the heck he sounds like that, "Uh, Nick?" I suddenly feel his arms loosen, as he moves them to take off his sunglasses, and he dangles them in my face, his right arm returning around my stomach, keeping me there. "You said you were going to take these?" He asks, waving them side to side. I nod, and reach out to grab them, but he pulls them away. "Hey!" I say, glaring, trying to turn and see him.

"Well, I'll let you have them..." I smiled. "If you let me put them on you." I frowned. What? I mean, I don't care, but... I have a feeling he's planning something. "Uh, sure... Alright." I say, hesitant. "Well, get up." I blink. So he's not going to just, put them on me like this? Afraid he's gonna poke an eye out, and I sue him?

I stand up, and cross my arms, raising a brow. "Aren't you gonna stand up too?" I ask, gesturing for him to follow me. He shakes his head. "No, you're going to sit back down, and I'm going to put the sunglasses on for you, like I so generously offered." He said, staring up at me, the weird voice back tenfold. I nod my head.

"Kay'... So... Do you want me to.. Just, sit back down," I start, and he nods. "Like I was before." This time, he shook his head. "No, no." He smirked. He patted his lap.

I gaped down at him. Dude, fox say what? "Excuse me?" I say incredulously. He only continued to smirk. "Well, I'm only doing something nice for you, and apparently you really want to wear my sunglasses. You also spilled my drink," He says, "Your fault." I interrupt. "And this is the least you can do for me. After all, I am only giving you want you want." He says, green eyes shining.

"Yeah, the sunglasses, not you." I mutter. He feigns a hurtful expression. I sigh, and rub my temples. "Will you actually let me wear the shades?" I ask, looking over to him in disbelief. "Of course, Peaches." I slumped my shoulders. Fine. If it gets me the shades.

"Fine, fine!" I edge closer, and wonder how I'm going to do this without actually hurting him. Well, here goes nothing. I then sit on his legs, then turn myself so my right arm is at his chest, and my feet are dangling over the armrests of the chair. "Ah, ah, ah, Peach. No fair. I can't really put these on right with you sitting like that, now can I?" He mockingly asks, and I look at him with a done face. "What? How is this not good enough for.. - ... Oh." I start, confused, then realization dawns on me.

"There ya' go Peach." I frown not looking at him, and grab both sides of the arm rest, turn my body so that we were chest to chest, and place myself down, so that my legs were on either side of the chair. I have no choice but to stare at his smirking face. "Happy now?" I grumble, ears lowering at the situation at hand. Great.

He chuckles, and I can feel the vibrations from his chest. "Very." He replies, smirking down at my flustered state. My frown is border-lining a scowl. "So, put them on." I hiss out, crossing my arms. He nods his head. "Alright, alright." He opens them, and slides them on my face. I smile, happy I finally got what I wanted, and squint at the sudden change of light to semi-dark. "Thank yo-" I start, but was interrupted by something being pressed to my lips. It was like a soft tissue, or cloth. I then realize what he's doing. Oh shi-

"Nmmf!..-M-Mnnfff!" I try to yell out, but the arms that wrap around my body silence me, as he pulls me closer, and my ears start to burn, as well as my face. I could feel him smirking!

He eventually pulls away, leaving me gasping, with a red face. "Wow, you're almost as red as me, Peaches." He chuckles. I glare half heartedly up at him.

"Shut... UP... Don't ever.. Do that.. Again.." I order, jabbing his chest, taking deep breaths to calm myself down, trying to get away from the hormonal fox. His paws trapping my own that were gripping the arms of the chair had me looking back to his green eyes.

"I don't think I can do that..." He mumbled, smirk gone, as he leans in again, now grabbing my paws and picking them up, placing my arms around his neck leaving them there, placing his own paws on my hips. His smirk was back. "I'm beginning to enjoy the flavor peach." He whispered, pressing his lips back onto mine.

Oh Lord, what did I get myself into?

AN:/ Well. That sure was something. ^^''' There was already so much seriousness, I needed to end this on a little funny fluffy note.

I thought about it. This is what I came up with. :3

Hope you liked the fluff. I'm normally not very good at it, but the idea came to me, and I thought, why the heck not? XD

The feels are going to really happen soon, so... YAAYYY! :D

Hope you enjoyed and see you next chapter, where the seriousness may or may not begin! :) And have a good rest of the day/night/afternoon/morning!