So here you have chapter 3 have fun reading.
Its been 8 months now since I was born in this World and I'm alone in my room at the moment. The energetic Bunny that is my mother just left the room to go downstairs to prepare dinner and my Dad is still at work. Using the chance I pull myself up to the lock of my playpen, its basic with just a pin connecting the door to the rest of the playpen. I pull the pin out and open the door to freedom. I finally reached the point where I can move around on my own about two months ago and I'm so glad about that.
I officially started to crawl about 3 weeks ago and when my Mom caught me doing so I noticed I have a huge problem. I don't have any basic knowledge or common sense about babies! When should I start to crawl? Walk? or even start to talk?! If I wanted to I could already walk around the house and hold a conversation with my parents about the multiverse theory! But that would totally freak them out and they might really see me as a monster. That's what I fear the most, scaring off the only two mammals that unconditionally love me.
Luckily for me Mom and Dads home office in so cramped full with case files and Law theory Books that the common Bookshelf with the picture and normal books was moved into my room, so I can read up on some common sense. And that's where I'm currently heading to. I guess I got lucky to be reincarnated into a parallel world as they seem to use English as main language here. I might have mostly used Japanese in my old life but the old man insisted that I should be able to speak English as well as my native language to not make target suspicious and I really have to thank him for that.
First thing I grab is one of the picture books and open it as distraction in case Mom walks in on me and then take out the Book labeled "Short History of Zootopia" and continue reading where I left off reading yesterday. Its one of the only book in reach thin enough for me to move and put back, I could pull out one of the bigger books but then I couldn't hide that I can get out of my playpen and might end up with a different lock.
Zootopia's History reads like a bad flick in itself. When the City was founded about 250 Years ago things weren't as Fluffy as they currently are. Predators were forced to wear shock-collars cause the Prey population feared that they might attack them. It took over a hundred years of this kind of discrimination until this practise was stopped by a Moose named Henry Carthan , he fought almost 40 Years for Predator rights. Apparently he was he was befriended to a wolf cub in his childhood and the sight of his Friend spasming on the ground getting shocked due to having too much fun playing outside scarred him for life. There is a stature of him spreading his arms out like he's waiting for a hug in the Park nearby.
Its been about 30 minutes since Mom left for the kitchen and I decided to put things back and get back in the playpen as I don't want to be caught if possible. After putting the pin back in place I start my regular physical training. I started to train my body as the the last months trapped in an unmoving body almost driven me insane. Its nothing too serious through, just lifting my arm up and down and doing some light squats while holding onto the bars of my pen.
Well back to my initial problem. I decided that I will take it slow as I don't know when it would be strange to start doing things and none of the books here helped. I will start to walk and and say my first word some time after my first birthday.
I had my first Birthday 4 weeks ago and oh boy was that an adventure! We went out to my Grandparents farm again and just like the first time I was drowned in Bunnies. One of my rather young Aunts named Trisha asked my Mom if she could watch over me while she is busy and I don't really know how but we ended up with two other Bunnies on a Truck filled with hay driving out of town. I swear I have never seen my Mother this as angry as when she finally found us. If Dad wouldn't have calmed her down I fear I would have had 3 relatives less.
I'm currently sitting in the daycare playing with some blocks. Mom started working again two weeks ago and since then I'm in daycare for most of the day. If she could she would take me to work as she doesn't really trust anyone to to take care of me since the birthday incident but the buffalo Chief gave her one big scolding when she asked him about it.
Pretty devastated she and Dad searched around for a good daycare that wouldn't be prejudiced about me being a hybrid. They call me a Funny as I'm mostly Bunny but I'm not really a fan of it. After 3 days of searching Dad found a small daycare 30 minutes away from Precinct 1 that has already a couple of hybrids. Mom started to get really happy since she started working again, she must really love her work. I'm usually the first of the kits that arrives at the daycare and one of the last to leave due to the long working hours as a police officer.
The daycare belongs to an middle aged female Horse. She and a female deer are the only ones watching over us. As for "us", the group of kits consist out of a arctic Fox named Lilia, a Ligress called Tina (Her mother is a lioness and her father a tiger), an Otter named Steven, a Cacoon with the name Alice (Her father is a Racoon and her mother a Cat) a pair of Lynx twins called Rachel and Richard. Tina doesn't look weird a all, just like a Lion with stripes and Alice looks mostly like a kitten with vivid brown fur. The tips of her ears are black and she has the fluffy two coloured tail of a raccoon. And then there is myself the Funny with the mind of a 27 year old in the body of a 1 year old.
The first week I tried to blend in and play with the other kits but it seems they can notice something is off. I don't know, they seem to be uncomfortable around me. So I'm now sitting a little bit away from the others playing with some wooden blocks, for the most part at least. I keep picking up the Blocks and swing them up and down to train my arms further. With all the attention I got over the last weeks I didn't have any chance to train at all. Actually I have been thinking about why I train at all and came to the conclusion that I want to be able to protect what was given to me in this life … a Family and it calms me down.
But if my training taught me one thing then its that this body is amazing! My legs are very powerful for a one year old and my long fox tail helps immensely with keeping balance, my big ears hear about everything around me and the best of all? I got freaking night-vision! At first I thought it never really gotten dark in this world until I saw my mother stumble into my room during a blackout, falling over about every toy spread around complaining that she cant see in the dark like my father.
Its getting pretty late again, only Alice is still here. Her Parents also have late working hours but she arrives usually way after me. I take a look at the old Clock in the room and its 6:26 pm. My parents stop working at 6:00pm, so they should be here any minute now. I've been searching for a good moment to say my first word the last couple of days but somehow I just couldn't find the right moment.
The door to the daycare opens and I can hear the familiar movements of my Mother.
"Hello, Ms. Klarksen I'm here to pick up my little Jack" I hear my Mom say with a very exhausted and depressed voice. I spin my head around to look at her and find a very depressed looking Bunny.
Something must have happened at work today for her to look this bad.
'Okay Its now or never!' I turn around, put on a bright smile and stand up. One step at a time I'm closing in on my Mother making sure it looks a bit wobbly. Her purple eyes grow wide and start to glow.
'Good! That's the face I want to see but its not enough yet!' I put my arms up while stumbling towards her and she extends her arms as well. I'm almost in her arms. "Ma Ma!" I force myself to trip and fall into her arms. She hugs me and starts crying, from happiness I hope.
"You're right Jack I'm your Mama, you did great!"
The rest of the evening she couldn't stop bragging about me to dad and later to my Grandparents over the Phone. Dad tried all evening to get me to say Papa and at some point I just did him the favour. I didn't know he can get a smile that wide.
*POV Judy
Urgh Today was just the worst! It started out like any other day. Nick and I got up just like we used to before Jack was born and gotten ourselves ready for another day on the Force. Then I woke up my little Jackie and got him ready for the Daycare. It really hurts me that I have to give him into a Daycare but with our Job I just don't have any other choice. Chief Bogo almost burst a bloodvessel when I asked him if I could take Jack with me to work. Sadly my Parents are also out of question to take care of him as they life too far away. Frufru is also out due to her Family occupation, as much as I like her as a close friend I don't want to expose jack to the risk out of my own selfishness. And Nick still refuses to tell me anything about his Mother he wont even tell me her name, probably because he thinks I would look her up. I just don't know why he fears that part of his past so much that he wont even tell me about it.
But Jack is really a little Angel! The other mothers keep complaining that they got barely any sleep due to their kits crying at night. Jack has not once cried in the night, he doesn't cry much in general. The only times I hear him cry is when he's hungry or needs a new diaper and even then he stops as soon as he hears either me or Nick come his way. The other Mothers got really jealous when I told them about it but it also seem Jack is bit behind the other kits. All of the other kits in the daycare already started to stand or walk and all have started to say their first words. I'm a bit worried that the contact with my big family scared him a bit but I think it will be alright. Jack is always very eager to listen to all conversations around him and his eyes always radiate a certain curiosity and wisdom that I just cant explain. I have the feeling that he will grow up to be someone special one day.
After we dropped Jack off the day started to take a turn for the worse. First we got into a traffic jam caused by an old Lemur. This got us late to roll call and of course Nick had to take the chance to make a stupid joke instead to apologise. This got us the express ticket for a whole week of parking duty. 'Nick is definitely sleeping on the sofa for that today, that stupid Fox!'
Nick got assigned to sahara square and I got city central. And there I made a mistake and thought it couldn't get any worse and it did. Morning till noon it was just like any other day of parking duty, all kind of grumpy mammal complaining that they just left the car "to get something" and I couldn't just give them a ticket for that. Seriously how often do these guys think I have heard the same excuses over and over and over.
At noon me and Nick met up for our break to eat something but our usual Snarlbucks was closed due to a busted water pipe so we had to get some bad coffee at some shady Shop. We separated again and got back to work. I don't know who I stepped on to have such bad karma today but shortly after going back to work the "United Organisation against unnatural mammal relationships" decided to hold a surprise protest in city central, where else right? As soon as they spotted the poster mammal for interspecies relationship in the bright orange west they kept following me around and continued to throw insults at me and spit at my feet.
I called for backup but due to the busted water pipe the main street is closed so it would take them almost an hour to get to me. The insults and curses weren't just about me and Nick through. At some point they started calling my little Angel a monster and freak, it took all my willpower not to tase every single one of them until I run out of charges or batteries. What do they know? My boy is just a little baby and probably the most well behaved 1 year old in the whole of Zootopia. Right when my patience was about to run out Mchorn and 5 Officers of the SWAT Team showed up and dispersed the crowd and arrested some of the more annoying ones.
I drove back to the Precinct with the others as my shift would end in 45 min anyway. After finishing my reports I waited for Nick. Just when I thought he would run late he walked through the main entrance totally exhausted and sweating dragging a cuffed Badger behind him. Turns out that idiot tried to steal some sports car right in front of Nick, it then turned into a 6 Block chase on foot and this guy of course had to be part of a car lift ring were after for a couple of weeks now so Nick has to stay behind longer.
Utterly annoyed and exhausted I decide to check out a bit early and drive to pick up Jack before some other catastrophe happens. By some miracle nothing happens on my way to the Daycare.
I open the door and say "Hello, Ms. Klarksen I'm here to pick up my little Jack"
When I get a look at the play room I can see Jack sitting alone again playing with some Blocks. Ms. Klarksen mentioned it to me last week that Jack doesn't really play with the other kits he just keeps lifting the toys around alone.
'Did the other kits not want to play with him? Did they do something to cause Jack to want to play alone? Have I done something wrong?'
Jack turns around and looks at me with those calculating eyes again, the next second those beautiful twin coloured eyes start to shine and he throws a bright smile at me. Suddenly he pushes himself up while my eye grow wide with shock and he starts stumbling into my direction. Jack extends his arms out to me and I crouch down and do the same. 'My little boy can walk!'
He has almost reached me when his mouth starts to open and close "Ma Ma!". One word of my little Angel and all the exhaustion and frustration that this horrible day caused me is washed away like it never happened. The last half metre Jack trips and falls into my arms where I just start hugging him.
'Where is this bright little kit anything like a monster?!' The happiness of the moment quickly overwhelms me and flushes away all negative thoughts I have and I start to cry.
"You're right Jack I'm your Mama, you did great!"
The first thing I did after getting into the car with Jack is to call Nick.
It rings twice before he picks up.
"Hey Carrots did something happen when you picked up Jack?
"Nick! Nick guess what just happened?" I asked him in a very excited tone
"Wow Sweetheart someone sound really happy for having had an awful day from what I heard."
"Who cares about that Nick, Jack can walk!"
"What?!"
"And he called me Mama!"
"WHAT!? No fair! I was sure he would say Papa first"
*POV Jack
'You wish! No way I would waste a chance like that to earn some positive points with Mom. She can get way scarier than any Hitman I've met in my last life!'
A/N: Again i didn't have any realy idea for this Chapter. I had some things planned for Chapter 4 so i had to fill the space inbetween. Also what do you guys think about the POV change? I'm not sure if i should keep it stricly Jacks POV but ch4 will have at least 1 short POV change. Lastly there will be a time skip starting next chapter im just not sure if Jack will be 5, 8 or 10Year old yet.