Adrian Bogo had been called many things throughout his adult life. Gruff being the most popular, routine, demanding, stubborn, and short tempered had been used in that order to describe the large cape buffalo who led the Hopps family security team. A former captain of the Zootopian army, he had opted for early retirement rather then promotion as a change of pace and chance to search for what he felt was missing from his ridged life. He came upon the Hopps family in a way similar to the Wilde family.

What should have been a short stay in Bunnyburrow, resulted in a answering the curious advertisement he found pinned to the boarding house bulletin board.

Lord Stewart Hopps, with his new bride pregnant with their first litter, had awoken one morning to find his land had been ransacked during the night, with two sheds still smoldering and several pieces of expensive farming equipment unaccounted for. Bogo's tour of the grounds and introduction of the team he would lead, should he accept the position, had left him with a migraine at the lackadaisical approach to protection of a very important family.

He decided to accept the position with the desire to whip the detail into shape and train a permanent replacement before moving on to… well, wherever was calling him. But the party the Hopps family had held changed his plans.

The Lord had absorbed the losses he had sustained and proved how easily a bunny could bounce back from unsavory situations. The harvest that year had been splendid and the newly trained security team became quite the envy of the Bunnyburrow aristocrates. Obviously that called for a party. With Bogo and his mammals the guests of honor, the Lord and Lady Hopps gave them a rare taste of their wealth and a more common sample of their respect and gratitude.

The most notable in the form of the lovely Esperanza Gazelle, with her sweet voice enchanting and softening the famously gruff buffalo and whose dexterous hooves convinced the piano it was just another element in her mesmerizing presence.

And presence she had. Bogo could not remember his name, title, location, or even the simple word "Hello", when she had taken a break to introduce herself to him. The Lady Hopps being an old friend, and being godmother to the newly born litter, she thanked him for his service with a kiss on the cheek and had asked him to the balcony to enjoy a glass of champagne and conversation. He listened raptly about her travels, she listened with great interest about his military service.

Though she had to return to the piano all too soon, her lovely light brown eyes easily found his and she felt as though she finally understood the subject love she had been singing about. The after party the two had was infinitely more satisfying than any other they had ever been present for or would ever attend again.

A year after, they had married and lived happily together for many years in peace, Essi entertaining Zootopia and Bunnyburrow with her beautiful voice and piano and Adrian Bogo ensuring the Hopps family had a peaceful environment for their kits.

And peaceful it was. Until Judy Hopps learned how to crawl. He had at first chuckled at the Lady Hopps exclamations of "Oh, no, not again, Judith!" which could be heard from his usual post at the entry hall desk. But all too soon, she was toddling, though running might be a better adjective. Thanks to his daunting form and imposing presence, Bogo had not needed to work too hard to convince the other kits that outside the front doors and over the walls was off limits.

Judy, however, had toddled up to him cautiously and gave him a face he could only describe as "meh", before darting past him towards the open front door. He had only wanted to enjoy the mid morning breeze, but after catching her by the back of her pretty white dress, felt slightly guilty for tempting the kit.

Holding her up to shoulder level, Bogo walked to close the door, meeting the pretty amethysts eyes with his own and felt more remorse then should've been allowed. Especially when Judy pointed to the door and said the only word she could say, "out".

After the it was latched, the kit was set back down, and she toddled slowly to the now closed door. Both of her tiny paws upon it she looked back up at Bogo and repeated, "Out?".

Bogo slowly shook his head and felt uncomfortable as the kit sat in front of it with a small sigh. He went back to his desk and considered the small stack of paperwork as he tried to ignore the kit watching him. Thankfully she was gone when he turned back around, having toddled towards the voices of her brothers and sisters out on the patio. Not knowing she had just wished to test him.

Adrian Bogo had an impressive military career. With his many medals for bravery and valor, strategy and combat, he had fought with and lead impressive teams to many victories. Sometimes, Essi would have to soothe her husband while he slept and dreamed of the worse of it. That was preferable to the little hellion Judy. Though Fredrick was the voice of most complaints, Bogo took to patrolling the grounds around the wall, inhaling deeply to pin point where Judy would be climbing to make her latest daring escape.

He, along with ever other adult in her life, spent half of his trying to keep her from the one thing she wanted: to breath air outside of the gilded cage she was born into. He had a job to do, which included keeping her where her parents wished her to be. Even if it killed him to do it.

He wished he could allow the young doe a taste of what she obviously wanted more then anything else. He had heard her sword play and her cries for foes to stand down and had seen her excitedly turn the pages of every adventure book she could get her hands on. He started thinking of her escape attempts and captures as a game. He didn't mask his disappointment whenever he caught her, and found himself happy that she took each catch as a challenge accepted.

But of course, not long after his wife had given birth to their first child (a female), Judy Hopps had truly made an impressive escape. Though he would later be impressed at her ingenuity and cleverness. He was pulled out of his exhausted doze with his calf finally resting on his chest to search for the missing doe, and had felt a mixture of fury, panic, and fear of what he would find when she turned up.

The relief that came over him when Lady Hopps had informed him of her safe return felt like soaking into a hot bath, with offers to think up a suitable punishment for her feeling like smooth whiskey to go with it. He had to stop himself from scooping up the little bunny and hugging her, before throttling her. He had limited his words and appearance in their company, noting the bright eyed fox kit trying not to stare at the hulking mammal, before the answer became clear on how to punish her.

He had left them to find Lord Hopps, who paced the docks while a group of servants prepared to push out rowboats to dredge the lake. Bogo halted them, making the group aware of Miss Judy's return. Lord Hopps had given him a shaky thank you before dismissing them all and rushing back to the estate. Bogo, too, had gone home, where Essi had been smoothing their sleeping newborn daughter's silky fur waiting for his return.

"Mi amore! Has the little one been found? Is she safe? Where had she gone? What will happen to her?" Bogo tenderly kissed her lips to silence the questions and felt the rush of passion as she responded with carnal need of her own. Breaking the kiss before it became overwhelming, Bogo looked into his wife's eyes and smiled. He then turned to his sword hanging over the mantle, then to three framed medals on one side of it.

One on the left was a purple heart; the right, for services rendered. But the middle was the most intriguing. Silver with a white and blue striped ribbon, the medal bore two silhouettes, one of a rabbit, one of a badger, with a mountain in between.

"Everything is as it should be, my beloved." He smiled at her and resumed the kiss that quickly made him question what an angel with horns was doing married to a mere mortal.